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US09333188B2	Composition and method for improving survival of bee colonies The invention is in the field of bee keeping; in particular the invention relates to a composition and a method for improving winter survival of individual bees and/or bee colonies and/or for preventing colony collapse. Research at Science in Water has led to the discovery that administering iron(II) to bees under certain conditions can reduce instances of winter mortality and CCD.
US09333185B2	Topically administered strontium-containing complexes for treating pain, pruritis and inflammation The present disclosure consists of therapeutically-active compositions that combine strontium with at least one additional molecules that increase the overall therapeutic potency of the combination beyond the potency of any of the separate constituents. Specifically, the combinations described herein perform two important functions; (1) they increase the ability of topically-applied strontium to inhibit both acute sensory irritation (e.g., pruritus and pain), redness, swelling and inflammation (collectively defined for purposes of this description, “irritation”) and the chronic irritation that is characteristic of and contributes to the development and maintenance of painful or pruritic neuropathic conditions; and (2) they decrease the strontium activated pathways that are known to enhance the development and maintenance of pain, pruritis and neuropathic conditions.
US09333182B2	Adhesive patch Provided is an adhesive patch which has excellent rivastigmine storage stability and an increased skin permeability of rivastigmine to such an extent that the amount of percutaneous absorption required for treating Alzheimer's disease is obtained.This adhesive patch includes a backing and an adhesive layer containing rivastigmine and an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based copolymer that does not contain any acrylic monomer component having a carboxy group, the adhesive layer being laid on one side of and integrated with the backing.
US09333181B2	Method for preparing functionalized lipid capsules The present invention relates to a liquid lipid core/solid lipid shell capsule surface-functionalized with at least one compound containing at least one amino function, characterized in that the lipid core/lipid shell architecture is on the nanometric scale and in that said compound is covalently bonded to said solid lipid shell via a transacylation reaction. It also relates to a method for preparing such capsules.
US09333180B2	Nanocapsules with a liquid lipid core charged with water-soluble or water-dispersible active agents The invention relates to nanocapsules with a liquid lipidic core and a solid lipidic shell, the lipidic core being loaded with at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible ingredient, said ingredient being present in the form of a reverse micellar system.
US09333176B2	Calcium carbonate granulation Highly compactable granulations and methods for preparing highly compactable granulations are disclosed. More particularly, highly compactable calcium carbonate granulations are disclosed. The granulations comprise powdered materials such as calcium carbonate that have small median particle sizes. The disclosed granulations are useful in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical tableting and provide smaller tablet sizes upon compression than previously available.
US09333168B2	Topical skin care formulations comprising jaboticaba and cashew fruit pulps and extracts thereof Disclosed are compositions and corresponding methods of their use that include jaboticaba fruit pulp and/or cashew fruit pulp or extracts thereof.
US09333163B2	Particles with multiple functionalized surface domains This disclosure relates to particles (e.g., nanoparticles and microparticles) that display multiple functionalized surface domains in a controlled mosaic pattern. The disclosure also provides simple methods to create various particles that have multiple functionalized surface domains while allowing the use of a wide variety of diverse core structures. The multiple functionalized domains provide controllable particle binding and orientation, and controlled and sustained drug release profiles.
US09333159B2	Topical DNA repair composition Provided herein are topical compositions for repairing sun damaged skin and topical sunscreen compositions for both preventing and repairing sun damage.
US09333155B1	Cleansing compositions A personal care composition including at least one dry emollient and one oily emollient, where the personal care composition is free of silicone or silicone containing materials.
US09333154B2	Dual component oral composition for enhancing remineralization of teeth An dual oral composition is provided having a first peroxide-containing component and a second bicarbonate-containing component having exceptional anti-plaque and antibacterial action with re-mineralization properties.
US09333150B2	Dental restorative materials based on polymerizable azides and alkynes The invention relates to a dental restorative material on the basis of at least one compound of Formula I A-[X-Q-(Y-CG)n]m Formula I, wherein CG represents in each case independently an azide group N3 or an alkyne group selected from the group consisting of —CR1R2—C≡CH, with the proviso that the dental restorative material comprises at least one compound of Formula I comprising an azide group and at least one compound of Formula I comprising an alkyne group. The invention also relates to the use of the dental restorative materials according to the invention for preparing dental composites, preferably composite blanks, which are suitable in particular for mechanical processing by means of computer-aided processing techniques such as milling and grinding processes, and which are suitable above all for preparing dental restoration materials such as inlays, onlays, crowns, bridges or veneering materials.
US09333149B2	Polymerizable dental material The subject matter of the invention is a radically polymerizable dental material comprising at least two components. A first component of the dental material contains the salt of a CH-acidic compound, and an additional component contains an acid with acidity greater than that of the CH-acidic compound of the first component. Both components contain radically polymerizable monomers. When the two components are mixed, the acid of the second component converts the salt of the CH-acidic compound of the first component into a CH-acidic molecule, and the CH-acidic molecule triggers the radical polymerization of the monomers. In addition to the advantages of CH-acidic compounds in dental materials on the basis of a reactive resin, the invention achieves long-term storage stability as a result of an increase in the proportion of the reactive resin matrix in polymerizable dental materials.
US09333148B2	Polymerizable composition and dental material The present invention provides a polymerizable composition that is suitably used as a temporary cement for implant use and a mobile tooth-fixing material. The present invention is a polymerizable composition that includes an acrylic block copolymer (a) having at least one polymer block A that mainly contains a (meth)acrylic acid ester unit and that functions as a hard segment and at least one polymer block B that mainly contains an acrylic acid ester unit and that functions as a soft segment, a polymerizable monomer (b), and a polymerization initiator (c).
US09333143B2	Exercise device and method of use An exercise device for stretching a user's muscles is disclosed. The exercise device includes a pliable substantially non-resilient cord having a length between a first end and a second end, and a plurality of ball shaped handles positioned along the length of the pliable substantially non-resilient cord. Each of the plurality of ball shaped handles is fixedly attached to the pliable substantially non-resilient cord with a plurality of handle fasteners.
US09333142B2	Adjustable-position limb and/or instrument support arm for medical tables An adjustable-position support arm for a medical table, the adjustable-position support arm comprising: a plurality of tubular elements connected to one another in series at a plurality of joints; a locking mechanism disposed at each joint so that a first portion of the locking mechanism is secured to a first tubular element of that joint and a second portion of the locking mechanism is secured to the second tubular element of that same joint, wherein the locking mechanism is normally configured in a locked condition so as to prevent rotation of the first tubular element relative to the second tubular element, and further wherein the locking mechanism may be selectively reconfigured in an unlocked condition so that the first tubular element is rotatable relative to the second tubular element; and an actuator for simultaneously reconfiguring all of the locking mechanisms from their locked condition to their unlocked condition, whereby to permit the plurality of tubular elements to be rotated about the plurality of joints.
US09333141B2	Thermotherapy device A thermotherapy device (1) includes a basic housing (2) with walls (14) with a support for a patient and an especially transparent covering hood (3) for the basic housing (2), which covering hood can be moved between a closed position and an open position, so that the basic housing (2) is closed by the covering hood (3) in the closed position. A guide mechanism (4) is provided for mechanically guiding the motion of the covering hood (3) between the closed position and open position. A heater such as a convection heater with a blower heats the air and/or an air humidifier humidifies the air. The covering hood (3) is moved in a simple manner and access to the support for a patient is essentially not hindered by the covering hood (3) in the open position. The patient is kept warm essentially by a radiant heater when the covering hood (3) is opened and by the convection heater when the covering hood (3) is closed. The covering hood (3) may be irradiated by the radiant heater and protected from condensation. A center of gravity (5) of the covering hood (3) lying in its horizontal direction is at the rear fifth of the basic housing (2) or behind the basic housing (2) in the open position of the covering hood (3).
US09333140B2	Bed apparatus having movable heater assembly An improved bed apparatus (4) includes a bed (12) and a movable heater assembly (16). The bed (72) is movably disposed on a support (8), and the heater assembly (76) is movable to enable alignment between the bed (72) and the heater assembly (76) to promote uniformity of irradiance on a patient situated on the bed (72). In an embodiment, the bed (72) and heater assembly (76) are movable together to maintain alignment between the bed (72) and the heater assembly (76). In another embodiment, the bed (72) and the heater assembly (76) are independent, but one or more indicators (244, 254) are provided to enable manual alignment between the bed (72) and the heater assembly (76).
US09333136B2	Sensors in a mattress cover A patient support apparatus includes a cushion, a cover arranged over a top side of the cushion, and a sensor unit. The sensor unit is coupled to the cover and arranged to underlie a patient supported on the cover. The sensor unit includes a sensor configured to detect conditions near the interface of a patient's skin with the cover.
US09333135B2	Bolster attachment system for an adjustable bed A bed frame with a support structure has a rigid structural frame for carrying an articulating structure for an adjustable bed. The support structure extends substantially to the extents of the articulating structure in an unarticulated position and has a padded bolster. The bolster incorporates a mounting support attached to the structural frame and a resilient foam bumper received on the mounting support with a fabric covering surrounding the bumper and fastened to the mounting support. The articulating structure includes rigid planar supports having edges with a surrounding resilient foam layer having a fabric covering secured to the planar support. The bumper and foam layer are resilient to deform upon contact with an intruding appendage inserted between them. For an exemplary embodiment, an electrical outlet is mounted in a housing which penetrates the support frame, mounting support and bumper.
US09333132B2	Wheelchair lift system and method A wheelchair lift system that allows a wheelchair and a person sitting in the wheelchair to be selectively positioned at a standing height or a sitting height. A lift system that is attachable to wide variety of existing wheelchairs.
US09333131B2	Patient transfer system A system and method for patient transfer, including patient transfer from a bed to a rollable chair and patient transfer from a wheelchair to a bed. A docking assembly can connect a rollable chair to a bed for transfer. The systems and methods can provide a safe, dignified, and comfortable transfer for patients. A transfer bed, a docking assembly, and a wheelchair can be used together as a system and can reduce the physical and psychological burden of bedridden patients and their caregivers. The transfer bed, docking assembly, and wheelchair can be appropriate for use within a patient's home, nursing home, hospital or any location where a patient is transferred between a bed and a wheelchair. The transfer bed, docking assembly, and wheelchair can be controlled such that a patient is transferred from a bed to a wheelchair or from a wheelchair to a bed.
US09333126B2	Composition and method for blood sugar modulation Compositions and methods for modulating blood sugar are provided. The composition comprises gymnema, green coffee, grape seed, hibiscus, cinnamon, holy basil, Russian tarragon, ginger, turmeric, and chromium.
US09333122B2	Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article including a buttocks-covering section having tensile force sufficient to prevent this section from lifting and/or quirking during use of the wearing article and being free from anxiety that the buttocks-covering section might irritate the wearer's skin even if this section comes in contact with the wearer's skin. In this diaper, a rear waist region includes an inner sheet lying on a skin-facing side, an outer sheet lying on a non-skin-facing side, a rear waist main section facing a front waist region and a buttocks-covering section located below the rear waist main section wherein the buttocks-covering section is provided with a plurality of buttocks-covering section elastic elements in the form of strands extending in a transverse direction at a given distance one from another in a longitudinal direction and, in the buttocks-covering section, the inner sheet and the outer sheet are bonded to each other by adhesive applied to peripheral surfaces of the respective buttocks-covering section elastic elements.
US09333115B2	Separation of gas and liquid in membrane valves A drainage device for implantation in an eye of a patient to treat an ocular condition is disclosed. The drainage device includes a housing, a multi-compartment flow control chamber, and a membrane. The housing includes an entrance port and an exit port connected by a fluid flow passageway. The membrane is disposed between the fluid flow passageway and the multi-compartment flow control chamber, which includes a first compartment and a second compartment in fluid communication with each other. The first and second compartments are structurally arranged to limit contact of gas with the membrane, which is disposed between the fluid flow passageway and first compartment. The membrane is configured to affect flow through the fluid flow passageway by deflecting in response to pressure in the flow control chamber.
US09333113B2	System and method for denervation A catheter apparatus for treatment of a human patient is described, the catheter apparatus having a central axis and comprising a shaping structure moveable between a delivery state having a first helical shape, and a deployed state having a second helical shape. The shaping structure is configured to have a reverse taper with a structural diameter that varies over the length of the shaping structure such that the structural diameter of the shaping structure at the proximal end is smaller than the structural diameter of the shaping structure at the distal end.
US09333110B2	Valve for ostomy pouch A valve that is sealable to an associated container having an interior fluid storage region is adapted to permit and stop flow of fluid from the fluid storage region. The valve includes a valve body sealable to the container and a stem mounted to the valve body having a portion in flow communication with the fluid storage region. The stem is movable relative to the valve body between an open position to permit flow from the fluid storage region through the valve, and a closed position to stop flow through the valve. The stem has a grasping region spaced from the valve body. The grasping region is adapted rotate the stem to move the valve between the open and closed positions. The grasping region has first and second sides. One of the sides has a tactile indicator to provide indication of the position of the valve, the other of the side is devoid of the tactile indicator.
US09333109B2	Motion assist apparatus The present invention provides a motion assist apparatus capable of reducing the discomfort of a user that may be caused when a motion is assisted. A motion assist apparatus 1 has actuators 11, which apply a force for controlling the posture of the upper body of a user P through the intermediary of a second frame 14, a posture estimation sensor PS, which detects a posture angle θ of the upper body of the user P, a control unit C, which controls the actuators 11 to reduce a deviation dθ of a posture angle θ from a reference posture angle θ0, and a trigger sensor TS, which detects the occurrence of a trigger event. The control unit C sets the posture angle at the time of the occurrence of the trigger event as the reference posture angle θ0.
US09333104B2	Delivery systems for delivering and deploying stent grafts A delivery system for delivering and deploying a stent graft includes a guidewire catheter, an apex release catheter, an apex capture device, a relatively rigid, hollow catheter, and a distal nose. The apex capture device includes a distal capture portion fixedly connected to the distal end of the guidewire catheter and having a distal portion and a proximal stopper having an exposed side facing distally in a plane approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the guidewire catheter. The apex capture device also includes a proximal capture portion fixedly connected to the distal end of the apex release catheter and has fingers extending toward the distal capture portion in a distal direction that define an interior cavity to receive the proximal stopper. The proximal and distal capture portions of the apex capture device define a stent capture state.
US09333102B2	Stent A stent with at least one cross-section having either a vertex or having first and second contour points where the radius of curvature of the first point is at least 2.5 times the radius of curvature of the second point.
US09333099B2	Magnesium alloy implants with controlled degradation Stents or scaffolds made from magnesium or magnesium alloys including additives or barrier coatings that modify the corrosion rate of the stent are disclosed. Methods of forming barrier coatings that modify the corrosion rate of the stent are disclosed.
US09333097B2	Artificial human limbs and joints employing actuators, springs, and variable-damper elements Biomimetic Hybrid Actuators employed in biologically-inspired musculoskeletal architectures employ an electric motor for supplying positive energy to and storing negative energy from an artificial joint or limb, as well as elastic elements such as springs, and controllable variable damper components, for passively storing and releasing energy and providing adaptive stiffness to accommodate level ground walking as well as movement on stairs and surfaces having different slopes.
US09333096B2	Prosthetic limb A prosthetic limb includes a plurality of extendable segments configured to adjust the length of the prosthetic limb. Also included is a first end assembly operatively coupled to the plurality of extendable segments, wherein the first end assembly is radially adjustable to manipulate the thickness of the prosthetic limb. Further included is a second end assembly operatively coupled to the plurality of extendable segments, wherein the second end assembly is radially adjustable to manipulate the thickness of the prosthetic limb.
US09333088B2	Intervertebral implant An intervertebral implant includes opposing upper and lower endplates that are configured to engage respective vertebral surfaces in an intervertebral space. The implant carries a plurality of bone fixation spikes that extend out from each endplate. The spikes define a plurality of outer surfaces that extend from a base to a tip. The spikes are laterally staggered, and have a height that increases along a longitudinal direction from the front toward the rear of the implant, and a define recess formed in at least one outer surfaces.
US09333087B2	Herniated disc repair Systems for minimally invasive disc augmentation include an anulus augmentation component and a nucleus augmentation component. Both are suited for minimally invasive deployment. The nucleus augmentation component restores disc height and/or replaces missing nucleus pulposus. The anulus augmentation component shields weakened regions of the anulus fibrosis and/or resists escape of natural nucleus pulposus and/or the augmentation component. Methods and deployment devices are also disclosed. Method of supporting and augmenting a nucleus pulposus by inserting a flexible biocompatible material into the disc space using an anchoring means are also provided.
US09333081B2	Hard-tissue implant Hard-tissue implants are provided that include a bulk implant, a face, pillars, and slots. The pillars are for implantation into a hard tissue. The slots are to be occupied by the hard tissue. The hard-tissue implant has a Young's modulus of elasticity of at least 10 GPa, has a ratio of the sum of (i) the volumes of the slots to (ii) the sum of the volumes of the pillars and the volumes of the slots of 0.40:1 to 0.90:1, does not comprise any part that is hollow, and does not comprise any non-pillar part extending to or beyond the distal ends of any of the pillars. Methods of making and using hard-tissue implants are also provided.
US09333080B2	Injectable and moldable bone substitute materials An osteoimplant composite comprising a plurality of particles of an inorganic material, a bone substitute material, a bone-derived material, or any combination thereof; and a polymer material with which the particles are combined. The composite is either naturally moldable or flowable, or it can be made moldable or settable. After implantation, the composite may be set to provide mechanical strength to the implant. The inventive composite have the advantage of being able to fill irregularly shape implantation site while at the same time being settable to provide the mechanical strength required for most orthopedic applications. The invention also provides methods of using and preparing the moldable and flowable composites.
US09333078B2	Heart valve assemblies A heart valve assembly comprises a first prosthesis configured to expand from an unexpanded state to an expanded state at which the first annular prosthesis contacts native tissue of a body lumen. The heart valve assembly also comprises a second prosthesis comprising a valve, and a connection adapter that secures the second prosthesis to the first prosthesis, the connection adapter having a multi-lobed circumference.
US09333075B2	Valve replacement devices, delivery device for a valve replacement device and method of production of a valve replacement device A device for heart valve replacement comprises a valve component having at least two valve leaflets preferably made of pericardium tissue. Each valve leaflet includes at least two tabs. The device further includes a stent component configured to be radially compressible into a compressed state and expandable into a functional state. The stent component comprises a first end, a second end and at least one intermediate section arranged between said first and said second end. The intermediate section has at least two commissural posts generally aligned parallel to an axis spanning from the first end to the second end. The commissural posts are formed in the shape of a wishbone.
US09333071B2	Breast implant with regionalized analyte sensors and internal power source Breast implants including sensor modules and related methods are described herein. Breast implants include those with: a shell configured to be substantially filled with a viscous material; a plurality of projections extending from an external surface of the shell, the projections forming a plurality of compartments adjacent to the external surface of the shell; at least one fluid-permeable cover attached to the projections, the cover completely enveloping the shell and the plurality of projections; a plurality of sensor modules attached to the shell, each of the sensor modules oriented to detect one or more analytes in a fluid within one of the plurality of compartments, wherein each of the plurality of sensor modules includes a unique identifier; and at least one power source operably attached to the plurality of sensor modules.
US09333068B2	Bioerodible wraps and uses therefor A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular tissue and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular tissue. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft comprising depositing a fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a perimeter of a tubular tissue to produce a tubular tissue graft device. A cardiac bypass method comprising bypassing a coronary artery with a tubular tissue graft device comprising a vein and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the vein also is provided.
US09333066B2	Method of making a medical textile from polyhydroxyalkanoate fibers Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties.
US09333063B2	Antimicrobial medical devices According to an aspect of the present invention, medical devices are provided whose surfaces are partially covered with a coating that further comprises silver nanoparticles. Other aspects of the invention pertain to methods of making and using such medical devices.
US09333061B2	Disposable dental valve device A method for forming a disposable dental valve device is disclosed which comprises the steps of injecting a resin into a mold with the melt temperature of the resin being about 201° C. and the mold temperature being about 35° C., filling the resin in the mold for a fill time of about 0.70 seconds, providing a peak first stage fill pressure of about 61.9 Mpa, providing a pack pressure of about 49.5 Mpa, and providing a pack time of about 5 seconds.
US09333058B1	Variable geometry osteotome for ridge expansion A set of Osteotomes used for forming an implant socket during a ridge expansion osteotomy may be specially constructed to reduce crestal alveolar stress and to reduce likelihood of a crestal fracture. Each osteotome includes a conical working tip having a free end and a working base. A first osteotome of the set has a working tip formed with a first diameter, Y, at the free end, and a second diameter, X, at the working base, with the second diameter being larger than the first diameter, X>Y; and wherein for each successive osteotome of the set, the diameter at the free end increases linearly by a constant increment, k, and the diameter at the working base alternately increases by a constant increment, C, as a step function. Other interrelationships between the free end and the working base of the previous and successive osteotomes operate to maintain crestal integrity.
US09333057B2	Screw channel directing device for a dental superstructure and methods for manufacturing a dental superstructure A screw channel directing device for a dental superstructure includes a screw channel part and an implant cooperating part, the former having a screw member seat with an elongated screw hole in the proximal end. The proximal end of the screw channel part is bowl shaped, having a convex outer bottom. The implant cooperating part comprises a collar-shaped lower implant cooperating part to be connected to a dental implant and a collar-shaped upper implant cooperating part. The lower implant cooperating part and said upper implant cooperating part form a first ball joint. The upper implant cooperating part has a distal concave seat with a radius corresponding to the radius of the outer bottom surface of the screw channel part to form a second ball joint.
US09333050B2	Gutta-percha remover A gutta-percha remover suitable for removing a gutta-percha and having flexibility with good compliancy to curvature of a root canal and a superior removing capability for forming a sufficient gap bet the gutta-percha and the root canal wall is provided. The gutta-percha remover includes a shaft, a tapered working portion connected to the shaft, and one, two, or more screw-shaped grooves formed in the working portion. The cross-sections of a base end and a tip of the working portion are such that the tip of the working portion is greater in rate of the area of each cross-section to a corresponding circle circumscribing the cross-section.
US09333049B2	Double ended tweezers The present invention provides a tweezer for dental and other applications. The tweezer including a main body portion (12, 14) extending in a generally longitudinal direction. The main body portion having a first end (20) and a second end (18). A hinge connector (16) is located between the first end and the second end. A first pair of pincers is located at the first end (20). A second pair of pincers is located at the second end (18). A bias mechanism (22) urges the first pair of pincers (20) into a closed position and urging the second pair of pincers (18) in an open position, whereby the user may apply a force to the tweezers to overcome the bias mechanism (22) and urge the first pair of pincers (20) away from the closed position and the second pair of pincers (18) away from the open position.
US09333048B2	Methods, systems, and products for monitoring health Methods, systems, and products monitor a person's regimen for medicinal and dietary restrictions. When the person's regimen requires a liquid medication or supplement, an oral instrument is commanded to dispense a dosage of fluid. The oral instrument stores a reservoir of the fluid. If the oral instrument is a spoon, for example, the spoon may automatically dispense cough syrup or other medicine. A toothbrush, likewise, may automatically dispense mouthwash. A sensor may confirm presence of the oral instrument in the person's mouth, thus ensuring the dosage of fluid is ingested.
US09333041B2	Surgical manipulator The present invention provides a surgical manipulator including a manipulator arm, an end-effector held by the robotic arm, surgical tools held by the end-effector and manipulator joints, particularly right-angle drive devices for transmitting rotational motion in one axis to a perpendicular axis.
US09333038B2	Hyperthermia treatment and probe therefore A method of using a probe that emits energy to coagulate lesions is disclosed. The probe is constructed and arranged to emit light from its distal end, either at an angle to its longitudinal axis, or along its longitudinal axis. Optionally, an end reflector may be used to direct the energy in a beam to one side of the fiber end. A reinforcing sleeve for the fiber is mounted to a shielded, Piezo-electric motor constructed and arranged to move the fiber both longitudinally and rotationally within an optional elongate cannula. An MRI system is arranged to generate a series of output signals indicative of temperature in the targeted area. The application of energy is stopped when the temperature at the boundary of the lesion reaches the required hyperthermic temperature. Cooling of the tip portion of the probe is effected by expansion of a supplied cooling fluid through a restrictive orifice into an expansion zone at the probe end. The fiber is encased in a stiff tubular titanium probe with a relatively small fluid supply duct inside the probe with the interior of the probe acting as a return duct for the expanded liquid. The temperature of the probe end is monitored by a sensor in the probe end and controlled by controlling the pressure in the supplied cooling fluid.
US09333037B2	Method for effective and uniform fat cell lysing and melting of the released fat Lysing of fat cells in adipose tissue beneath the skin and liquefying the released fat is achieved by introducing a side-firing thermal energy device into the tissue to be irradiated, while thermal energy, such as laser energy, is emitted at a selected level for a selected period of time, depending on the volume to tissue to be irradiated. The side firing device is advanced into tissue and withdrawn and, while energy is emitted, is aimed separately at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock and, is repetitively rotated through an arc of about 120°, producing a bowtie-shaped irradiation pattern. The side firing device may be centered and sealingly held in position in a liposuction cannula by ribs extending inwardly from the interior of the liposuction cannula. At least one of the ribs has a channel for infusion of an irrigating liquid. The use of laser energy during lysis of fat cell membranes and the liquefaction of the released fat also produces photomechanical cross-linking of collagen, which shrinks and tightens the skin, reducing sagging of the skin after removal or absorption of the liquefied fat. Nucleus pulposus tissue can be vaporized in a similar manner.
US09333033B2	Detection of ablation electrode contact with tissue A method includes delivering a Radio Frequency (RF) signal having a time-varying power from an intra-body probe to tissue in a vicinity of the probe in order to ablate the tissue. A temperature is measured in the vicinity of the probe. A decision is made as to whether the probe is in contact with the tissue, by comparing the measured temperature to a temperature threshold that varies in time depending on the time-varying power of the RF signal.
US09333029B2	Method and devices for performing minimally invasive surgery A device for use in performing minimally invasive surgery. A system for performing minimally invasive surgery comprising the device according to the present invention. A method for performing minimally invasive surgery.
US09333025B2	Battery initialization clip A medical instrument is disclosed. The medical instrument includes a housing, a control lever rotatably coupled to the housing, at least one electrical contact, a radio frequency (RF) generation circuit coupled to and operated by the battery and operable to generate an RF drive signal and to provide the RF drive signal to the at least one electrical contact and an initialization clip coupled to housing and the control lever to prevent operation of the RF generation circuit and movement of the control lever.
US09333023B2	Balloon catheter with deformable fluid delivery conduit A medical device, including an elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion; a shaft at least partially disposed within the elongate body; an expandable element at the distal portion of the elongate body; and a fluid delivery conduit defining a deflectable segment movably coupled to the shaft, the deflectable segment being transitionable from a substantially linear configuration to a substantially curvilinear configuration.
US09333021B2	Tensioning instrument A bone plate system for securing a plurality of bones is provided including a plate member, a locking device of the bone plate, and a surgical cable having a trailing end for being connected to the bone plate and a leading end for being advanced around the bones and into the locking device. The surgical cable may be tensioned to approximate the bones, urge the bones together, and seat the bone plate against the bones. The locking device may be reconfigured to a locked configuration to fix the bone plate to the surgical cable. The bone plate further includes a plurality of throughbores for receiving bone anchors that rigidly fix the bone plate to the bones. The bone plate system utilizes the tensile strength of the surgical cable and the rigid fixation between the bone anchors and the bone plate to resist relative movement of the bones.
US09333015B2	Apparatus and device for the fixation of osteosynthesis plates Disclosed herein are apparatus, devices and methods for affixing an implant, plate, or the like to body tissue. Preferred embodiments comprise a plate with a pre-defined hole, fasteners configured for secure attachment to body tissue, and a self-centering tool capable of holding and installing multiple fasteners.
US09333013B2	Orthopedic implant in the form of a plate to be fixed between two bone parts The invention relates to a plate fixed between two bone parts by way of screws engaged in holes formed in the thickness of said plate. The plate comprises an angled member or rib which is inclined according to an angle of between about 30° and 60° in relation to the plane defined by the plate. The angled member or rib has a hole for engaging a screw and is located in the central part of the width, over a determined part of the length of the plate, so that the screw brings the two bone parts into a compressive position.
US09333012B2	Spinal implant system and method A spinal implant system includes a first member including at least one wall, which includes a first axial end surface, a second axial end surface and an outer surface including a locking cavity. A second member includes a first extension defining an inner surface and a second extension defining an inner surface, the inner surfaces defining a first cavity therebetween. At least one of the inner surfaces includes a first angled portion and a second angled portion. A third member is disposed in the first cavity, and includes a first arm and a second arm, at least one of the arms includes a protrusion. The third member is configured for axial translation relative between a first orientation and a second orientation. Methods of use are disclosed.
US09333001B2	Articulable laparoscopic instrument A medical device comprises a handle comprises an actuator. A shaft extends distally from the handle. A first shaft segment extends proximally from the handle and has a proximal end and a distal end. A second shaft segment has a proximal end and a distal end and is pivotably supported with respect to the distal end of the first shaft segment at a position offset from a longitudinal axis of the shaft in a first offset direction. A third shaft segment has a proximal end and a distal end and is pivotably supported with respect to the distal end of the second shaft segment at a position offset from the longitudinal axis of the shaft in a second offset direction different from the first offset direction. A first member extends through at least a portion of the first shaft segment and is operatively associated with the actuator. A second member extends through at least a portion of the second shaft segment. The second member has a proximal end pivotably supported with respect to the distal end of the first member and a distal end pivotably supported with respect to the third shaft segment. The actuator is operative to provide substantially simultaneous compound articulation of the second and third shaft segments.
US09332996B2	Chuck for reciprocating surgical instrument Devices are described relating to the retaining of surgical tools within the chuck of a reciprocating surgical instrument, such as a reciprocating saw. A securing chuck is disclosed for securing a surgical tool to a reciprocating surgical instrument that comprises a shaft and a securing member. The shaft defines an axis and has a cylindrical bore extending along the axis. The bore is shaped to receive a substantially rounded tool shank. A pair of transverse slots extends into the shaft along a plane passing through the axis for receiving a substantially flattened tool shank. The transverse slots intersect with the cylindrical bore. The securing member is carried by the shaft and is radially movable relative to the bore both inwardly and outwardly to secure the surgical tool in the chuck.
US09332991B2	Adhesive articles containing a combination of surface micropatterning and reactive chemistry and methods of making and using thereof Adhesive articles containing microtopography, such as microprotrusions, and a coating of adhesive glue, such an adhesive having known toxicity and/or tissue reactive functional groups are described herein. The articles described herein contain a substrate, a plurality of microfeatures, and an adhesive, such as an adhesive glue. The articles described herein exhibit a 90° pull off adhesion of at least about 1.5 N/cm2. The articles described herein can contain less adhesive than when the adhesive is used alone without microtopography and yet exhibit equivalent adhesive strength with little or no toxicity or other adverse side effects (e.g., exothermic reaction).
US09332990B2	Ureter to ileal conduit anastomosis using magnetic compression and related delivery devices and methods Magnetic compression anastomosis can be carried out by placing cooperating magnets, one in the ileal conduit and one in the ureter, to lock together and form the anastomosis. The magnets may be placed to form a side-to-side anastomosis. At least one of the magnets can include radioactive material. Catheters may be used to place the magnets, and the catheters may have at least one deflatable or retractable tissue spacer.
US09332987B2	Control arrangements for a drive member of a surgical instrument A surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument may be operated compensating for the effect of splay in flexible knife bands on transection length of a powered surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes a processor and a memory. A relationship between articulation angle of an end effector and effective transection length distal of an articulation joint is characterized. The characterization data is accessed by the processor from the memory of the surgical instrument. The articulation angle of the end effector is tracked by the processor during use of the surgical instrument. The target transection length is adjusted by the processor based on the known articulation angle and the stored characterization data.
US09332983B2	Absorbable fastener for hernia mesh fixation A method of forming and deploying an improved absorbable fastener for hernia mesh fixation is disclosed. The absorbable fastener of the present invention functions to securely fasten tough, non macro-porous, and relative inelastic mesh to soft tissue. The fastener is formed from co-polymers of lactide and glycolide.
US09332981B2	Closure devices and methods A closure device for closing an opening in tissue is provided. The closure device includes an elongate member through which needles may be deployed. The closure device also includes a closure element having a foot portion and a needle guide portion. The foot portion and the needle guide portion are each movable between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration. The foot portion includes cuffs removably mounted thereon and having sutures connected therebetween. The needle guide portion includes needle guide apertures that guide the needles to the cuffs. The needles securely engage the cuffs and draw the cuffs and suture through the lumen wall so that the opening in the lumen wall can be closed with the sutures.
US09332977B2	Closure device A closure device for closing a bodily passageway is provided. The device includes first and second frames and first and second crossbars. A sheet of biocompatible material is attached to one or more of the frames. The first crossbar extends across the first frame and has terminal crossbar ends connectively linked to separate sites on the first frame; the second crossbar is similarly linked to the second frame. The crossbars are attached to each other at a connection point, and they are each configured to bend away from the connection point when the closure device is deployed to close a bodily passageway. A method of making the closure device is provided, as well as a method for closing a bodily passageway using such a device. Further, a closure device assembly is provided, including a closure device, a delivery catheter housing, and a delivery release member.
US09332974B2	Layered tissue thickness compensator A tissue thickness compensator may generally comprise a first layer comprising a first medicament, a second layer comprising a second medicament, and a third layer comprising a third medicament. The tissue thickness compensator may comprise a first layer comprising a first medicament, a second layer comprising a second medicament, and a reservoir comprising a third medicament disposed within the reservoir. The medicaments may be independently selected from a haemostatic agent, an anti-inflammatory agent, an antibiotic agent, anti-microbial agent, an anti-adhesion agent, an anti-coagulant agent, a pharmaceutically active agent, a matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, and combinations thereof. Articles of manufacture comprising the tissue thickness compensator and methods of making and using the tissue thickness compensator are also described.
US09332968B2	Saliva container with optical volume indicator A device with a vessel for saliva that has one or more optical indicators to show the volume of saliva in the container. The optical indicators use the principle of total internal reflection together with the difference in refractive index between saliva and air. In embodiments, suitable visual indicators are either visible or invisible, when reflecting surfaces are either not immersed or immersed in saliva or vice versa. The device may comprise a vessel with a saliva pathway, a saliva containment region defining a saliva reservoir, the reservoir having a desired fill level, and an optical viewing window adjacent an angled reflective surface for level indication and/or validating a fill level. The device may include patient interface components and chemical test strips.
US09332965B2	Method and apparatus for managing and displaying ultrasound image according to an observation operation A method of managing an ultrasound image, the method including storing a plurality of pieces of setting information to respectively match a plurality of observation operations for diagnosing an object, each of the plurality of pieces of setting information including at least one from among information about an observation plane that splits ultrasound volume data in a predetermined direction, information about a split method of splitting the ultrasound volume data, and information about a reference point; displaying a plurality of plane images for a current observation operation, wherein the plurality of plane images are obtained based on a piece of the setting information matching the current observation operation; storing an image selected from among the plurality of plane images according to an external input signal such that the selected image matches the current observation operation.
US09332954B2	Systems and methods for evaluating a brain scan The present disclosure provides systems and methods for evaluating a brain scan using reference data. Specifically, the systems and methods include a computed tomography (CT) scanner for the purpose of diagnosing concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI). The system includes a multi-energy x-ray source (i.e., spectral CT), a photon counting x-ray detector, and a content-aware computer aided diagnostic (CAD) algorithm designed to detect imperceptible changes indicative of structural and physiological damage caused by a concussive event by comparing raw volumetric datasets of baseline (healthy) reference scan data to patient scan data taken after a concussive event.
US09332952B2	Data-driven optimization of event acceptance/rejection logic In Positron Emission Tomography, a time window (260) and an energy window (225) are dynamically adjusted, based on an attenuation map, count rate, clinical application, discrimination tailoring, and/or offline discrimination tailoring. Detected radiation events are filtered using the dynamically adjusted energy and time windows into scattered events, random events, and true events. The true events are input to image reconstruction, correction, and error analysis.
US09332951B2	Alignment apparatus for dental intraoral radiology An apparatus for obtaining an intraoral x-ray image from a patient has an x-ray source and an intraoral image detector comprising one or more detectable elements. One or more sensors are positionally coupled near the x-ray source and are energizable to sense the location of the one or more detectable elements when the intraoral image detector is within the patient's mouth. A control logic processor is in signal communication with the one or more sensors and is responsive to stored instructions for calculating a detector position of the intraoral image detector. A projector is positionally coupled to the x-ray source and is in signal communication with the control logic processor and is energizable to project an image toward the calculated intraoral image detector position in response to signals from the control logic processor.
US09332950B2	Radiation imaging device with irregular rectangular shape and extraoral dental imaging system therefrom A radiation imaging device includes plural individual detectors defining an irregular rectangular active area responsive to x-rays and with different widths along a length of the active area. The individual detectors may be of different rectangular shapes and mounted on a motherboard. The motherboard may be formed of a first module mounting a first of two individual detectors and a second module detachable connected to the first module and mounting a second of two individual detectors.
US09332949B2	Column height sensing for extra-oral imaging An extra-oral imaging system having a mount supported on a column that is adjustable in height, wherein the mount supports an x-ray source and at least one imaging sensor that are adjustable in height. A column base section remains stationary during height adjustment. A height sensing apparatus has a contact member that contacts a sensor element to provide a signal that is indicative of the height adjustment.
US09332946B2	Adaptive control of sampling frequency for computed tomography A method of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging can include repeatedly scanning a target region at a frequency during a session, the frequency initially being a first rate. After detecting an increase of the attenuation of radiation by a contrast-enhanced first structure within a target region, the frequency can be increased to a second rate. After detecting a subsequent decrease in the attenuation, the frequency can be decreased to a third rate.
US09332945B2	X-ray CT system An X-ray CT system including: a rotator including an X-ray tube installed therein; a gantry, arranged on a floor part, and configured to rotatably support the rotator; a cover configured to cover the rotator and the gantry from the outside; and an elastic member, and mounted along the lower edge of the cover, having restoring force, and configured to elastically be in contact with the floor part against the restoring force. The X-ray CT system can reduce noise from inside of the cover.
US09332943B2	Flexible surface parameter measurement system for the muscular-skeletal system At least one embodiment is directed to an insert for measuring a parameter of the muscular-skeletal system. The insert can be temporary or permanent. In one embodiment, the insert is prosthetic component for a single compartment of the knee. The insert comprises a support structure and a support structure respectively having an articular surface and a load bearing surface. The height of the insert can be less than 10 millimeters. At least one internal cavity is formed when support structures are coupled together for housing electronic circuitry, sensors, and the power source. The insert includes a flexible articular surface. Flexible articular surface transfers loading to sensors internal to the insert.
US09332942B2	Systems, processes and computer-accessible medium for providing hybrid flourescence and optical coherence tomography imaging Apparatus and method can be provided for obtaining information regarding at least one portion of a biological structure. For example, using a first arrangement, it is possible to generate a first electro-magnetic radiation to be forwarded to the portion and receive, from the portion, a second fluorescent radiation associated with the first electro-magnetic radiation Further, using a second arrangement, it is possible to obtain information associated with the second fluorescent radiation, and generate at least one image of the portion as a function of the second fluorescent radiation. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the first arrangement can be inserted into at least one lumen, and the image of the portion may be associated with the at least one lumen.
US09332940B1	Compact wearable biological sensor modules A sensor module can include a battery housing comprising a battery cavity sized and shaped to receive a battery. The battery cavity can be defined at least in part by a wall to be disposed about at least a portion of a periphery of the battery. A package housing can be disposed on the wall of the battery housing, the package housing smaller than the battery housing. An integrated device package can be disposed in or coupled with the package cavity. The integrated device package can include one or more integrated device dies. An interfacing feature can be coupled with the battery housing and extending transverse to the wall. The interfacing feature can be configured to transduce a biological signature into a signal to be processed by the integrated device package. An interconnect assembly can electrically connect the interfacing feature to the integrated device package.
US09332939B2	Detecting, quantifying, and/or classifying seizures using multimodal data Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting an epileptic event, for example, a seizure in a patient using a medical device. The determination is performed by providing an autonomic signal indicative of the patient's autonomic activity; providing a neurologic signal indicative of the patient's neurological activity; and detecting an epileptic event based upon the autonomic signal and the neurologic signal.
US09332935B2	Device having embedded antenna Body-mountable devices and methods for embedding a structure in a body-mountable device are described. A body-mountable device includes a transparent polymer and a structure embedded in the transparent polymer. The transparent polymer defines a posterior side and an anterior side of the body-mountable device. The structure has an outer diameter and an inner diameter and includes a sensor configured to detect an analyte and an antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of conductive loops spaced apart from each other between the outer diameter and the inner diameter.
US09332932B2	Blood collecting puncture device and magazine used for the same Provided are a blood collecting puncture device having high safety which can hygienically maintain the inside of a magazine and prevent infection, and the magazine. A blood collecting puncture device has a blood collecting puncture device body removably incorporating a magazine for housing lancets for puncturing human skin. The blood collecting puncture device body has a first housing section for housing not-yet-used lancets and a second housing section for housing used lancets to be disposed of. When a rotor is rotated, individual lancets are sequentially conveyed on a one-by-one basis to a stock position, a puncture position, and a disposal position, and this causes a not-yet-used lancet to be housed in the first housing section and also causes a used lancet to be housed in the second housing section, so that the lancets are separately housed in spaces isolated from each other.
US09332928B2	Method and apparatus to synchronize a location determination in a structure with a characteristic of the structure An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
US09332926B2	MRI imaging probe A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probe includes a coil section having an imaging coil, and a handle section connected to the coil section. The handle section has a phase shifter circuit with inductors, capacitors, and coax line electrically connected and is configured to provide appropriate phase shift. The handle section further has a coaxial cable winding electrically connected to the imaging coil, and wound cylindrically, and has a slot therethrough between the ends of the cylindrical winding. The handle section further has a pre-amp circuit mounted on a substrate and electrically connected to the cylindrical coax winding.
US09332924B2	Posture detection using thoracic impedance Physiological data, such as thoracic impedance data, can be obtained over a first time window to establish a baseline, or can be used to form one or more data clusters. Additional physiological data, such as thoracic impedance test data acquired over a later time window, can be obtained and compared to the baseline or data clusters to determine an indication of worsening heart failure. In an example, a quantitative attribute of one or more data clusters can be monitored and used to provide an indication of worsening heart failure. A posture discrimination metric can be obtained, such as using the physiological data obtained over the first time window. The additional physiological data, such as can be obtained over a second time window, can be compared to the posture discrimination metric to provide a patient posture status.
US09332922B2	Solution for internal monitoring of body A device, method, and system for monitoring the status of an internal part of a body using an electromagnetic transceiver operating in the microwave regime; a processing unit compares measured data with reference data to determine the status of the internal part. The solution may be arranged to continuously monitor the internal part of the body and the system may be arranged so as to be wearable or portable.
US09332920B2	Rotor identification using sequential pattern matching An anatomical mapping system includes a plurality of mapping electrodes each having an electrode location and configured to detect activation signals of intrinsic physiological activity within an anatomical structure. A mapping processor is associated with the plurality of mapping electrodes and is configured to record the detected activation signals and associate one of the plurality of mapping electrodes with each recorded activation signal. The mapping processor is further configured to analyze the recorded activation signals to identify at least one recurring pattern based on a relationship between a timing of the detected activation signals and the electrode locations of the mapping electrode associated with each detected activation signal.
US09332919B2	Heart monitoring apparatus An electrocardiographic device for sensing cardiac activity in a user, the electrocardiographic device comprising: plurality of electrodes provided at a surface of the device for electrical engagement with a pair of extremities of a user; one or more movement sensors arranged to, in use, detect movement of a user's extremities; and a control unit configured to receive electrical signals from the electrodes and to, in use, process said signals in dependence on the output of the one or more movement sensors so as to filter variations from the signals due to movement of the user's extremities.
US09332918B1	Patient monitoring devices and systems In one embodiment, the invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatus relating to the detection of a neuropathy such as a periopertive neuropathy. In one embodiment, a wristband comprising a plurality of anodes and cathodes is used. The wristband can be a component in a electrode array that includes a plurality of reference or recording electrodes. The electrode array can be configured to stimulate and collect responsive signals from an ulnar, a median, radial and posterior tibial nerve. The simulation and signal collection can be performed on a continuous basis for time periods of interest such as a given perioperative time period using a monitoring device.
US09332916B2	Systems, devices, and methods for determining fractional flow reserve in the presence of a catheter Systems, devices, and methods for obtaining fractional flow reserve in the presence of a catheter. In a method of determining a fractional flow reserve in the presence of a catheter, the method comprises the steps of obtaining measurements of an inner luminal organ diameter proximal to, at, and distal to a stenosis and a length of the stenosis, obtaining a pressure drop measurement at the stenosis, calculating a volumetric flow of fluid through the inner luminal organ at the stenosis, and determining a stenotic pressure drop at the stenosis corresponding to dimensions of the guidewire as a function of the calculated volumetric flow of fluid through the inner luminal organ at the stenosis, wherein the stenotic pressure drop is indicative of a fractional flow reserve at or near the stenosis.
US09332914B2	Coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter A coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter utilizes coaxial construction incorporating a thin wall guiding catheter technology for the outer lumen and using a strong braided diagnostic technology for the central lumen to accommodate high-pressure injections. The catheter includes a manifold body to provide for connection to each of the dual lumens. The distal end of the coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter tapers to a more flexible portion that is perforated by spiral side holes to provide for more undistorted pressure readings in the left ventricle. The coaxial dual lumen pigtail catheter also utilizes proximal straight sideholes at the end of the dual lumen portion and a taper between the dual lumen portion and the single lumen portion.
US09332912B2	Electronic sphygmomanometer for measuring blood pressure based on arterial volume change Every pulse wave, a constant volume control unit performs servo control while updating a servo gain such that a difference between an arterial volume shown by an arterial volume signal that is detected by an arterial volume detection circuit and a control target value of the servo control is less than a control deviation at which a rate of change of the arterial volume relative to a change in cuff pressure is deemed to be constant. Because the control deviation is the difference between the arterial volume shown by the arterial volume signal and the control target value, a blood pressure decision unit decides, as a blood pressure, the cuff pressure sequentially detected in a period during which servo control is performed, by correcting the cuff pressure using the control deviation and the rate of change deemed to be constant.
US09332911B2	System and method for prediction and detection of circulatory shock Systems and methods for prediction and detection of circulatory shock using estimates or measurements of arterial blood pressure, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, cardiac ejection fraction, cardiac contractility and ventricular end-diastolic volume are provided. These estimates and measurements are used to determine a type of circulatory shock. In some embodiments, the type of circulatory shock is determined to be one of septic shock, hypovolemic shock, anaphylactic shock, hemorrhagic shock, and cardiogenic shock.
US09332910B2	Absentminded state determination apparatus An absentminded state determination apparatus includes: a data obtaining element for obtaining a time series data of a physiological characteristic value of a participant, wherein a fluctuation component is overlapped on the time series data, and depends on a state of the participant including normal and absentminded states; a detection element for detecting reflecting portions of the time series data, which reflect on the fluctuation component; a counting element for counting the number of the reflecting portions of the time series data in a determination time period between a determination time and a certain past time; and a determination element for determining according to the number of the reflecting portions at the determination time whether the participant is in the absentminded state. The determination time period has a predetermined time width from the certain past time to the determination time.
US09332906B2	Ophthalmologic imaging apparatus and ophthalmologic imaging method An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that captures an image of a subject's eye is provided. The apparatus includes a focusing unit configured to focus light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of a first wavelength, onto an imaging unit, and a moving unit configured to move the focusing unit based on an optical path length difference between the light of the first wavelength and the light of a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength when light returned from the subject's eye that is illuminated by the light of the second wavelength is focused onto the imaging unit.
US09332905B1	Diagnostic method and system for detecting early age-related macular degeneration, maculopathies and cystoid macular edema post cataract surgery A retinoscopic device, technique and scale for estimating the reflectance of the macula pigment optical density (MPOD) in normal and abnormal eyes in order to detect early pathology of the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors thus screening for macular pathology the most prevalent of which is Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and retinal edema and cystoid macular edema post cataract surgery.
US09332904B2	Quantifying ocular counter roll This document provides methods and materials for quantifying ocular counter roll and detecting vestibular otolith damage. For example, devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, methods of making devices for quantifying ocular counter roll, and methods for using a device to quantify (e.g., quantify indirectly) ocular counter roll are provided.
US09332902B2	Line-field holoscopy A novel imaging method, line-field holoscopy is presented. A line of light is projected across an object to be investigated through an imaging system. The light scattered from the investigated object is combined with reference radiation. The combined light is projected onto a detector providing a confocal restriction in one dimension. Astigmatic optics in the return path transform the light asymmetrically such that at the detector, the line focus is imaged to the confocal restriction, while the orthogonal direction is defocused. Embodiments including a swept source with linear detection array, and spectrometer based systems utilizing a 2D detector array are described. The data may be reconstructed to a B-scan by two-dimensional Fourier transform or other reconstruction method with or without combination of more complex algorithms.
US09332894B2	Endoscope system including a resilient reservoir A system comprising: (a) a sheath configured to receive all or a portion of an endoscope; (b) an irrigation line connecting the sheath to an irrigation source; (c) a suction line connecting the sheath to a suction source; and (d) a control module located between the sheath, and the irrigation source and the suction source and controls flow of irrigation fluid from the irrigation source to the sheath and movement of suction between the suction source and the sheath; wherein the irrigation source is connected to a resilient reservoir that is located within the control module and movement of the control module compresses the resilient reservoir moving irrigation fluid from the resilient reservoir to the sheath so that the irrigation fluid assists in cleaning the endoscope, and wherein the control module includes a valve and compression of the resilient reservoir initiates movement of the valve so that the valve opens and suction from the suction line is applied to the sheath.
US09332890B2	Processor for electronic endoscope and electronic endoscope apparatus A processor for an electronic endoscope includes first and second image storing units and a controller, which in a first mode, image data is converted sequentially into a video signal and is outputted while being stored sequentially in the first and second image storing units. In a second mode, image data stored in the first image storing unit is outputted while generated image data is sequentially stored in the second image storing unit. In a third mode, image data stored in the second image storing unit is outputted while generated image data is sequentially stored in the first image storing unit. In the second and third modes, it is possible to switch between a first playback mode that continuously outputs the multiple stored image data and a second playback mode that repeatedly outputs one of the multiple stored image data.
US09332886B2	Fiducial placement system and splayed stylet A fiducial deployment system may include one or more of a needle including a dimpled retention structure configured to releasably retain a plurality of fiducials, each of which includes a central aperture (which may be embodied as a groove or similar opening); a retention/deployment stylet that traverses through each fiducial's central aperture and releasably engages a distalmost fiducial of the plurality of fiducials with a splayed distal stylet end; a pusher cannula member; and echogenic dimpling and/or other echogenic-enhancing features on at least a distal portion of the needle.
US09332885B1	Toilet deodorizing device A toilet deodorizing device automatically dispenses a deodorizer into a toilet when a person sits on a seat of the toilet. The device includes a housing and a deodorizing substance contained in an interior space of the housing. A dispenser is coupled to the housing. The dispenser is actuated by pressing an upper surface of the dispenser towards the housing. A connector extends from the housing positioning the housing in a toilet bowl. The upper surface of the dispenser is positioned over the opening into the toilet bowl such that the dispenser is configured for contacting a seat coupled to the toilet bowl when the seat is in a nearly fully deployed position whereby pressure on the seat into a fully deployed position actuates the dispenser.
US09332877B2	Cookware and cook-packs for narrowband irradiation cooking and systems and methods thereof A methodology and product or system configurations are provided which allow food to be directly irradiated for cooking applications which involve the impingement of direct radiant energy on food or comestible items. Cooking vessels or cook-packs are used that are optically transmissive in visible or infrared narrow wavelength bands emitted in suitable narrowband cooking or heating systems.
US09332871B1	Double image overprint carpet components and methods of making same Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to carpet components and methods of making the carpet components. In one embodiment, a carpet component is provided. The carpet component includes a carpet substrate having a texture comprising a pattern, wherein the pattern comprises a plurality of adjoining design elements each defining a design and a boundary and wherein the design elements are arranged so that the design of one design element is not predictable from the design of an adjoining design element; and an overprint disposed onto the carpet substrate wherein the overprint comprises a plurality of adjoining design elements each defining a design and a boundary and wherein the design elements are arranged so that the design of at least one design element is predictable from the design of an adjoining design element.
US09332870B1	Double image overprint carpet components and methods of making same Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to carpet components and methods of making the carpet components. In one embodiment, a carpet component is provided. The carpet component includes a carpet substrate having a texture comprising a pattern, wherein the pattern comprises a plurality of adjoining design elements each defining a design and a boundary and wherein the design elements are arranged so that the design of one design element is not predictable from the design of an adjoining design element; and an overprint disposed onto the carpet substrate wherein the overprint comprises a plurality of adjoining design elements each defining a design and a boundary and wherein the design elements are arranged so that the design of at least one design element is predictable from the design of an adjoining design element.
US09332864B2	Reinforced shelves for metal shelving units, for supporting on their front electronic labels and/or other peripherals and related manufacturing process Reinforced shelf for metal shelving unit, particularly for the shelving units whose shelves (B1, Bn) are provided, on the side facing the public, with electronic labels and/or other peripherals, and wherein the shelf on its bottom side has plate reinforcement (T1, Tn), parallel to each other and to the front and rear side (LA, LP) of the shelf itself, characterized in that in correspondence or at the ends of the reinforcements (T1, Tn) there are provided at least a pair of apertures (1, 10) for the passage and support of wiring (D), necessary to connect means (P1) on the rear side of the shelves, to means (P2) on the front side of the shelf (B1, Bn) for supporting and displaying goods. The apertures (1, 10) are sufficiently distant from the angular bent and ribbed areas of the reinforcements (T1, Tn) so as not substantially modify the characteristics of bend strength and torsion resistance of the reinforcements. The apertures (1, 10) are preferably obtained during the manufacture of reinforcements (T1, Tn) and of relative displaying shelves (B1, Bn).
US09332859B2	Bassinet apparatus A bassinet apparatus includes a generally pedestal-shaped main body having a weighted bottom section, and a cradle that is positioned along the top end thereof. The cradle includes a bucket seat configuration having no corners or edges, and a centrally located motion unit imparts a front to back motion, and a side to side motion across in both a linear and angular manner.
US09332853B2	Electrically heated foot canopy for bed top sheets, blankets, quilts or beds and the like A bed top covering, includes a top portion; a second portion; and a bottom portion. The second portion includes a back-folded, electrically heated, foot canopy therein configured to allow the feet of a user to be extended in an upward direction therewithin and providing room and maneuverability and warmth for the feet of the user. The third portion is tucked under the mattress for snugness.
US09332850B2	Reversible orthopedic seat cushion A reversible orthopedic seat cushion can include a right leg support channel, a left leg support channel, a rear cutout, and a front contoured protuberance, which can allow a person sitting in the cushion to experience reduced pressure on the persons coccyx, while having support and guidance to the position of the legs. The seat cushion can also be used in a reversed position. The features of the cushion may promote a healthy sitting posture, and proper spine alignment, and may reduce or prevent back pain. Also disclosed is a method for configuring a support contour of a cushion.
US09332847B2	Powered rocker system assemble A powered rocker system assemble is disclosed that includes a motorized rocking mechanism with a rotational motor drive and to an automatic transmission assemble configured to automatically force the balance the rotational motion cycle with the newly balanced position of the occupied chair before switching from manual to powered rocking and a device referred to as a powered pawl controller which is configured to allow the rocking chair to rock while in the recline position with the leg rest extended.
US09332846B2	Seating system with tiltable deck and belt drive A seating system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a riser including a tiltable deck. Another seating system according to the present disclosure includes, among other things, a drive system for moving a riser. The drive system includes a sprocket configured to engage a belt.
US09332843B2	Sitting type shampoo chair A shampoo chair having a seat is provided. When a back of the chair is pushed backwards, a leg support is concurrently lifted up in conjunction with the back of the chair such that a client washing his or her hair can receive a shampoo service in a more comfortable way.
US09332841B1	Drawer pull The drawer pull is a device that is adapted for use with a drawer face in order to provide a pull that is used to open or close off the respective drawer. The drawer pull is adapted to be installed onto an existing drawer, but with no retrofitting required of the drawer or the drawer face. The drawer pull includes a knob that extends forwardly of a planar member. The planar member may be decorative, and is telescopically affixed to a frame member. The planar member includes a pair of armatures that extend rearwardly. The pair of armatures is telescopically engaged with respect to the frame member. Moreover, the pair of armatures enables the planar member and the knob to adjust with respect to the frame member in order to adaptively accommodate a drawer front of a drawer.
US09332840B2	Rail device and refrigerator using the same A refrigerator with a rail device having a bracket which is fixed to an inner surface of an inner box, and first, second and third rails which are arranged in such a manner that longitudinal directions are identical and have an elongated shape, and supporting a storage container so as to be movable forward and backward. The second rail has flanges protruding right and left in upper and lower sides in the longitudinal direction, the lower flange is held to the first rail so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, the first rail is bonded to the bracket, and has flanges extended to a height beyond the lower flange of the second rail in right and left sides in the longitudinal direction, and the third rail holds the flange on the second rail so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction.
US09332837B2	Apparatus for holding and displaying articles An assembly for holding and displaying books, or items having a book-like structure includes a book attached to a hinged book-holding device, which displays the book in various positions. The hinge allows the book to move in at least two positions, a first standing position and a second, inclined position. The disclosed book-holding system also comprises a stabilizing mechanism that, when activated, provides a broader structural base. Thus, when the book is inclined and opened, the stabilizing mechanism holds the entire system steady so it does not tilt open.
US09332836B1	Height adjustable table A height adjustable table, which has a counterbalance mechanism integrated into a top assembly of the table is disclosed. The height adjustable table can include a top assembly supported by a base assembly, which can include right and left telescoping leg assemblies. The top assembly can include a work surface supported by a housing. A counterbalance mechanism, which can include a spring coupled to a snail cam pulley, can be mounted within the housing. A synchronized lift mechanism, which can include at least two bands operatively engaged with a pulley system disposed within the right and left telescoping leg assemblies, can be operatively coupled to the snail cam pulley such that the counterbalance force provided by the counterbalance mechanism is transmitted to the synchronized lift mechanism.
US09332834B2	Foldable table having legs of unequal length The foldable table has a flat table top and a pair of leg assemblies which fold inward from an operative position to an inoperative position. The leg assemblies are pivotal about separate axes which are spaced an unequal distance from the table top. When the leg assemblies are folded in an inoperative position, both of the leg assemblies lie parallel to each other and to the table top.
US09332829B2	Liquid dispensing oral care implement with low profile pump A fluid dispensing oral care implement having a low profile pump includes a head, a reservoir for storing an oral care fluid, at least one liquid outlet in the head, and a pump. The pump includes a flexible membrane movable between alternating pump intake and discharge motions. The pump includes inlet and outlet flap valves, which may be formed integrally from portions of the membrane. In one embodiment, the valves are integrally formed in the membrane as flexible cantilevered tabs movable between open and closed positions. In some embodiments, the pump may be mounted in the toothbrush head or forms the head. In some embodiments, the pump may be disposed in a neck or a handle portion of the toothbrush.
US09332827B2	Oral care kit and dispenser for use with the same An oral care kit comprising an oral care implement and a dispenser. In one aspect, the invention can be an oral care kit comprising at least one toothbrush and a dispenser. The dispenser (300) comprises a housing (309) having an internal chamber (321) containing a plurality of capsules (310) containing an oral care material; a dispensing conduit (322) extending from the internal chamber to an exterior of the dispenser; a valve (325) positioned in the dispensing conduit and biased into a sealed state that prevents moisture from entering the internal chamber; and a dispensing subassembly (302, 315, 316, 317) configured to dispense one of the capsules from the internal chamber through the valve. The valve is forced into an open state that allows the one capsule to pass therethrough when the one capsule is subjected to a dispensing force imparted by the dispensing subassembly and automatically returns to the sealed state after the one capsule passes therethrough.
US09332823B2	Shoulder harness system A shoulder harness system for efficiently pulling objects by a human. The shoulder harness system generally includes a support member having a central segment formed to fit about the back of the neck, a first segment extending from the central segment, a second segment extending from the central segment opposite of the first segment, a first connecting end extending from the first segment and a second connecting end extending from the second segment. The central segment is formed to fit about the rear portion of the neck of the user and the first segment and the second segment are formed to be positioned adjacent to an upper front portion of the user's chest. The connecting ends include apertures that receive a corresponding fastener to secure a first connector and a second connector respectively to the first connecting end and the second connecting end. The connectors are attached to the object to be pulled.
US09332811B2	Webbing buckle with release mechanism A buckle assembly includes a hollow buckle body and an insertable buckle latch with elongate latching legs. A separate reciprocable slide element carried by the buckle latch element with cam surfaces, angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the buckle that overlies the free ends of the latching legs. The cam surfaces are associated with angled surfaces on the latching legs forward of the latching edges. Movement of the slide element relative to the latch element causes the cam surfaces to urge the free ends of the latching legs together to unlatch the latching legs from the hollow buckle body locking edges. In one form, a cable is connected to the separate slide element to slide the separate slide element.
US09332809B2	Method of making an article of footwear A method of making an article of footwear is disclosed. The method includes the steps of designing an article of footwear via a website, converting a footwear representation into a set of two-dimensional portions, printing the two dimensional portions onto a sheet material, cutting and assembling the two dimensional portions into a finalized article of footwear. The method further includes a step of shipping the article of footwear to a pre-designated shipping address. Systems for receiving an order for a customized article of footwear are also disclosed.
US09332808B2	Footwear with enhanced cleats A shoe includes a sole having a plurality of cleats thereon at spaced apart locations. The cleats are configured to enhance the performance of the shoe based upon the specific characteristics of movement of the user. The cleats may include differently configured first and second cleats. Each first cleat includes at least one first directional pattern and each second cleat includes at least one second directional pattern. Individual cleats and methods of assembling and designing a shoe are also provided.
US09332803B2	Sole for a golf shoe An outer sole for a golf shoe includes a plurality of cleats distributed along a forefoot area and a heel area. The cleats are integrated with the outer sole and extend from a surface of the outer sole that faces away from the shoe. The plurality of cleats includes at least a larger sized set of cleats and a smaller sized set of cleats. Such outer sole for a golf shoe gives good traction on the golf course but is also useable as a casual shoe off the golf course.
US09332801B2	In-mold protective helmet having integrated ventilation system The present invention provides a lightweight protective helmet having an improved ventilation system therein. The protective helmet comprises an outer shell and an inner liner that are joined together to form a shell/liner composite. The ventilation system interacts with one or more ventilation ports in the protective helmet to control the flow of ambient air in and out of the interior of the protective helmet. The ventilation system may be integrated or encased within the shell/liner composite, or it may be adapted to be used on the exterior of the helmet. In addition, the ventilation system may include one of several types of interchangeable insert members to allow active or passive control of ambient air into the interior of the helmet.
US09332800B2	Helmet structure with compressible cells A helmet structure without any hard outer shell has axially compressible cell units contained in a hemispheric frame by a thin fabric covering stretched over cup shaped cell retainers that have sidewalls of compressible foam. The frame is supported on the wearer's head on plastic foam posts that space the inner ends of compressible bladders from the wearer's head, and ambient air in the bladders compresses at impact, being vented then through openings for gradually absorbing such impact forces. Each bladder is vented into a space between the cup “bottom” and the outer end of a bladder. At least two cell sizes are provided, and some of these are on depending lobes in the frame, for protecting the wearer's ears and neck.
US09332798B2	Device for regulating and fastening a strap of protecting helmets Disclosed is a device for fastening and adjusting a strap having a base body structured to allow insertion of part of the strap therein, and one ratchet constrained in a rotatable manner to the base body and provided with a coupling portion adapted to engage one corresponding portion of the strap. The device includes first elastic means interposed between the ratchet and the base body to reversibly retain the ratchet in one position of engagement with the strap, and one operating lever to rotate the ratchet from a position of engagement with the strap to a position of disengagement therefrom. The operating lever of the device is constrained on the ratchet in a rotatable manner for one given angular interval. The device also has second elastic means to regulate rotation of the operating lever relative to the ratchet in the angular interval of rotation.
US09332794B2	Airbag system for motorcycle drivers A garment which comprises an inflatable protective device able to expand from a rest condition, wherein it's in a deflated status, to a working condition, wherein it's in an inflated status, inflation means able to inflate said protective device and an electronic controller able to activate the inflation means if a risk and/or danger signal is detected by sensors incorporated in the garment. The inflatable protective device, after being moved to the working condition, can return automatically to the rest condition without requiring to be repacked or reset and the inflation means can inflate the protective device more than once without requiring to be recharged.
US09332793B2	Ear protection device for athletes This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for an earring safety device that can be clipped to an ear enveloping an earring so as to protect the ear and the wearer's head from the earring during fast-paced activities. The earring safety device can enable athletes, manufacturing workers, and others to participate in contact sports or dangerous craft without removing the earring, especially where sport or labor rules would otherwise preclude the athlete or worker from competing or working. The earring safety device can also protect the wearer from snagging the earring during high-intensity activities and dangerous workplace activities. The protection also protects the athlete, worker, or other person from injury due to impacts made to the earring.
US09332792B2	Articles of apparel utilizing targeted venting or heat retention zones that may be defined based on thermal profiles Garments may include targeted vent or heat retention zones including openings or heat insulation areas in the fabric of various different sizes. The locations and sizes of these openings or heat insulation areas, at least in part, may be determined based on a thermal profile of a body from which the garment is designed. For example, openings or heat insulation areas of a larger size may be provided in the garment at locations where the body typically releases a large amount of heat, and openings or heat insulation areas of smaller sizes may be provided at other locations, e.g., where the body releases less heat. Several thermal profiles may be collected and used to develop a collection of opening patterns, e.g., corresponding to specific body characteristics, body types, and/or ultimate end uses for the garment. Custom patterns may be determined and used in garments specially designed for individual users.
US09332788B2	Attachable garment collar cover Various embodiments of a novel attachable garment collar cover are disclosed. In one embodiment, the attachable garment collar cover has a first collar cover blade, a second collar cover blade, a first button hole edge, a second button hole edge, a rear elastic, and a collar insert opening that can form an arched groove. A collar portion of a shirt, a dress, a coat, a blouse, or another article of clothing can be inserted into the collar insert opening of the attachable garment collar cover, and be fastened by the rear elastic of the attachable garment collar cover. The attachable garment collar cover completely encapsulates the collar portion of the article of clothing to protect and/or hide the collar from stains and wear-and-tear. When attached to the collar portion of the article of clothing, the attachable garment collar cover can also provide a pleasant and unique fashion statement.
US09332783B2	Metal-complexing aroma compounds for use in aroma stabilization The present invention relates to the use of one or more compounds of the formulae and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for inhibiting the oxidation of fatty acids and/or triacylglycerols; and/or the rancidification of products that includes one or more of fatty acids and/or one or a plurality of triacylglycerols; and/or chemical and/or sensory changes of products that includes one or more of fatty acids and/or one or a plurality of triacylglycerols, caused by the action of the oxygen of the air. Corresponding mixtures and orally consumable preparations and methods are also described.
US09332781B2	Method for processing biomaterials Systems and method for thermal preservation (sterilization) of heterogenous and multiphase foods and biomaterials in order to achieve their shelf stability at ambient level temperatures. Flowing heterogenous, multiphase foods and biomaterials are exposed to single or multiple stages of electromagnetic energy under continuous flow conditions within conduits passing through the electromagnetic energy exposure chambers.
US09332780B2	Gelated crab meat and food products derived from gelated crab meat Embodiments of the present invention relate to food products and methods and systems for producing such products. The food products of the present invention may include uncooked crab meat from species within Decopada Infrorders Anomura (i.e., King Crab and the like) and Brachyura Swimming Crabs and the like) that has been treated with an agent to promote gelation without cooking the meat.
US09332778B2	System and method for weight management A system and method for weight management and loss is provided. The system and method regulate the quantity and constitution of the food and the system and method regulate the speed at which a meal is consumed so as to trigger a natural satiety response. In one aspect of the invention there is provided a timer (11) adapted to communicate with a subject during a meal over a predetermined time interval, whereon the subject in response to the timer completes the meal on or after the expiry of said predetermined time interval.
US09332773B2	Anti-boil-over compositions and methods for microwave oven cooking of dry pasta Anti-boil-over compositions and methods are provided that significantly reduce boil-over during microwave oven cooking of pasta relative similar pasta and water mixtures such that oversized containers are not required. Thus, when prepared using limited volume container, the container of cooked pasta appears full.
US09332771B2	Human milk fat substitutes Disclosed are human milk fat (HMF) substitutes, processes for preparation thereof, uses thereof, and fat blends and infant formula containing the HMF substitutes. A fat base composition of the invention includes a mixture of vegetable-derived triglycerides, with less than 50% of the fatty acid residues bonded at the sn-2 position being saturated; and/or with the amount of saturated fatty acid residues bonded at the sn-2 position of the glycerol backbone less than about 43.5% of the total amount of the fatty acid residues. Typically, substantially all of the saturated fatty acids bonded at the sn-2 position of the glycerol backbone are palmitic acid residues. Also disclosed are substitute HMF compositions including a blend of at least 25% or at least 30% of the fat base composition of the invention with up to 75%, or respectively up to 70%, of at least one vegetable oil. Processes for preparing the fat base compositions and blend are also disclosed. Further disclosed are infant formulas including the fat base composition or substitute human milk fat composition.
US09332769B2	Roller-type peeler with retractable rack gear and associated method A roller-type peeler having a rack gear retractable for servicing peeler rollers and a method for servicing peeler rollers by retracting the rack gear. A jack attached to the rack gear allows an operator to jack the rack gear up to a service position and out of engagement with roller gears so that the rollers can be removed and replaced and to lower the rack gear back into engagement with the gears of the replaced rollers.
US09332765B2	Antimicrobial complex surface and method of fabricating the same An antimicrobial metal complex surface and a method of fabricating the same, and the method includes providing an article, and the article has a first metal complex surface treated by anodization. The first metal complex surface is formed with a first pore. Secondly a silver suspension is provided. The silver suspension also has pore sealing agent. The article is soaked in the suspension to form a pore sealing layer having silver particles on the first metal complex surface such that the silver particles are distributed in the pore sealing layer. The antimicrobial metal complex surface fabricated by the method inhibits microorganism growth on the anodized metal surface.
US09332761B2	Synergistic combination of a chlorotoluron compound and zinc pyrithione for dry film protection A synergistic antimicrobial composition containing chlorotoluron and zinc pyrithione is provided. Also provided is a method of inhibiting the growth of or controlling the growth of microorganisms in a building material by adding such a synergistic antimicrobial composition. Also provided is a coating composition containing such a synergistic antimicrobial composition, and a dry film made from such a coating composition.
US09332759B2	Herbicide safener compositions Herbicide-safener compositions are described, comprising active ingredients from the group of the N-(1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)benzamides and safeners. These herbicidal compositions are particularly suitable for use against harmful plants in crops of useful plants.
US09332758B2	Compositions containing 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one In a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a composition comprising 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one dispersed in an aqueous medium and further comprising one or more polysaccharide; wherein either (a) said composition comprises no surface-active compound, or (b) said composition comprises one or more surface-active compounds, and the amount of said surface-active compounds in said composition is less than 0.4% by weight based on the weight of said composition.
US09332757B2	Composition for inhibition of insect host sensing The present invention provide chemical modulators of insect olfactory receptors. In particular, compounds and compositions are provided that can inhibit host targeting functions in insects such as mosquitoes. Method of employing such agents, and articles incorporating the same, are also provided.
US09332750B2	Cyclic implant perfusion, cleaning and passivation process and implant produced thereby This invention is a novel method for perfusion of a porous implant which achieves efficient interpenetration of desired factors into and removal of undesirable factors from the pores of the implant, cleaning of the implant, efficient passivation of the implant (inactivation of pathogens, microorganisms, cells, viruses and the like and reduction in antigenicity thereof), and the novel implant produced by such treatment. The process presents a system wherein the rate of pressure cycling, the fact of pressure cycling, and the amplitude of pressure cycling, results in highly cleaned tissues and other implants for implantation. Target decontamination goals for this process include between about a one (1) to twelve (12) log reduction in bacterial contamination, between about a one (1) to fifteen (15) log reduction in enveloped virus contamination, up to about a five (5) log reduction in non-enveloped virus contamination, between about a two (2) to ten (10) fold reduction in endotoxin, maintenance of implant or graft biologic and biomechanical properties, absence of tissue toxicity due to cleaning solutions used, and reduced implant antigenicity.
US09332747B2	Apparatus, system and method for recovery of artifacts and eradication of invasive species in aquatic environments An apparatus, system and method for recovery of artifacts and eradication of invasive species in aquatic environments. The structure may comprise an elongate flexible bladder blanket divider having first and second ends. The structure may have an open bore vertical support operably coupled to the first and second ends. Each end extends into the open bore vertical support and rests on at least one apron bladder of an apron bladder bundle. The at least one apron bladder is contained in the open bore vertical support and at least one apron bladder is between the end of the vertical support and the bottom of the body of water. A method of using the apparatus, comprising providing an apparatus having variable volume first and second compartments separated by a flexible bladder blanket divider; and introducing agents through openings in the bladder to control the growth of or kill the invasive organisms.
US09332746B2	Fishing line wobble device A fishing line wobble device for causing a fishing hook attached to a fishing line to wobble as said fishing hook is pulled through water. The fishing line deflector having a deflector for deflecting water, and an elongated line guide. The deflector having a plurality of voids disposed about the rim of the deflector.
US09332743B2	Fishing lure A fishing lure includes a body in non-metallic material having a front end and a rear end; a first attaching means or loop arranged at the front end; a second attaching means or loop arranged at the rear end; a longitudinal connecting rod passing through the body and connecting the first attaching means with the second attaching means; wherein the lure comprises at least one hole arranged in the body between the front end and the rear end, and wherein the connecting rod passes through the hole.
US09332741B2	TL1A model of inflammation fibrosis and autoimmunity This invention relates transgenic animals that overexpress TL1A in a tissue specific manner to model inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as colitis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, fibrosis, and related inflammatory diseases and conditions. TL1A transgenic animals constitutively express both TL1A and GFP in lymphoid and myeloid cell lineages, allowing convenient identification and sorting of immune cells involved in IBD disease progression, such as T-cells, antigen presenting cells (APC), and dendritic cells (DC). TL1A transgenic animals may be induced to exhibit gross fibrosis, or isolated cells may be implanted into immunodeficient mice to establish colitis.
US09332739B2	Local bee hive with system to control the humidity and temperature inside it The invention relates to a bee hive system which includes a housing, at least one ambient condition sensor being adapted to sense an ambient condition in the housing, a first fan being adapted to generate an air flow in at least a portion of the housing, a container for a liquid having an opening, in which the container is arranged such that the air flow generated by the first fan at least partially passes the opening of the container, electronics connected to the ambient condition sensor and to the first fan, in which the electronics controls the first fan according to the sensed ambient condition.
US09332724B2	Spinach line SP6111 Spinach, parts thereof, and the making and use thereof, including with respect to the inbred spinach line called SP6111 are disclosed.
US09332722B1	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV023001 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV023001. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV023001, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV023001 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV023001 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV023001.
US09332720B1	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV040275 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV040275. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV040275, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV040275 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV040275 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV040275.
US09332716B1	Soybean variety XB42A14R2 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB42A14R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB42A14R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB42A14R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB42A14R2 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332715B1	Variety corn line HID3753 The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated HID3753, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line HID3753 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line HID3753, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line HID3753, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09332714B1	Wheat variety W040241D1 A wheat variety designated W040241D1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W040241D1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W040241D1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W040241D1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W040241D1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W040241D1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US09332713B1	Soybean variety XB44K13 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB44K13. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB44K13. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB44K13 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB44K13 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332711B2	Soybean variety XB23AB13 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB23AB13. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB23AB13. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB23AB13 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB23AB13 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332708B2	Soybean variety XBO9AE13 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB09AE13. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB09AE13. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB09AE13 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB09AE13 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09332696B2	Sprinkler control module Sprinkler control units, that are designed to control water usage in residential and commercial above ground sprinkler systems, are disclosed herein. The sprinkler control units operate with any above-ground sprinkler system. They require reduced external power, and use the water flowing through the device to generate power. and are powered by the water flowing through the module. The modules are built with buried sensors that measure the ground saturation level, thus altering the water supply provided through the sprinkler system(s).
US09332691B2	Autonomous travel work system An autonomous travel work system works, regarding a garden LD as a canvas and applying an arbitrary design to the garden LD, according the design. The autonomous travel work system includes an information terminal configured to be input means and transmit input information, a computer configured to receive the input information, and at least one electric lawn mower configured to work autonomously traveling in the garden LD. The information terminal includes a display, a work ground input, a design allocation input, and a work request device. The information terminal or the computer includes a work ground designation device, a design allocation device, a mapping route generator, and a work pattern generator.
US09338934B2	Shield-can and jig for manufacturing shield-can There is provided a shield-can, including a plate including a circular through-hole formed therein for exposing a lens part, a plurality of side walls extended from edges of the plate and forming an inner space together with the plate, an anti-reflection layer stacked on an upper surface of the plate, and an insulating layer stacked on an inner surface of any one side wall of the plurality of side walls and at edges of inner surfaces of side walls neighboring the any one side wall, wherein the insulating layer has a band shape and is stacked on lower end portions of the inner surfaces of the side walls.
US09338927B2	Thermal interface material pad and method of forming the same A thermal interface material (TIM) pad is disclosed for dissipating heat from a component. The TIM pad includes a plurality of thermal interface material layers and at least one graphene layer interposed between the plurality of TIM layers. A method for forming the TIM pad includes stacking the plurality of TIM layers with at least one graphene layer interposed between the plurality of TIM layers to reach a length for the TIM pad. The stacked layers are cut corresponding to a thickness for the TIM pad for compression against the component.
US09338923B2	Image display device An image display device is provided that efficiently cools a display and internal circuit components thereof. The image display device includes a display for displaying visual information, circuit components spaced apart from a rear side of the display, a fan installed on the rear side of the display that generates an airflow from one side of the display to the other side of the display so as to cool the display and the circuit components, and an airflow distribution device facing the fan to selectively distribute the airflow generated by the fan towards the display and the circuit components based on temperatures of the display and the circuit components.
US09338922B2	Rack adapter apparatus and method Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a rack adapter apparatus. The rack adapter apparatus includes a shelf configured to be mounted in a rack frame having a front opening of a first width and a rear opening of the first width, the shelf being further configured to support a computing device thereon, the computing device having a second width less than then first width and having a back-side port disposed thereon, the back-side port facing the rear opening when the computing device is supported by the shelf and the shelf is mounted in the rack frame. The rack adapter apparatus also includes a pass-through jack having a front port facing the front opening and a rear port facing the rear opening, the front and rear ports being electrically coupled, and the rear port being configured to be communicatively coupled to the back-side port of the computing device.
US09338921B2	Fixing mechanism for a circuit board and related electronic device A fixing mechanism includes a casing and a positioning component. The casing includes a base and at least one wall whereon an opening is formed. A bottom of the positioning component is disposed on the base, and a top of the positioning component includes a level difference structure, which includes a first support surface and a second support surface. The first support surface is formed on an inner of the level difference structure, and the second support surface surrounds the first support surface to form on an outer of the level difference structure. The first support surface is higher than the second support surface relative to the base. The positioning component contacts the circuit board via the first support surface or the second support surface according to a hole on the circuit board, so as to align a connector of the circuit board with the opening on the casing.
US09338918B2	Socket interposer and computer system using the socket interposer Exemplary embodiments include a socket interposer having a plurality of connectors and at least one of on-board memory and an external communication controller. The plurality of connectors is configured to fit with a form factor of a socket on a server board. The server board includes at least one processor and a circuit board having the socket and at least one processor socket. The processor(s) are coupled with the processor socket(s). The socket has the form factor configured for a module having a first functional set and the form factor. The at least one of the on-board memory and the external communication controller is coupled with at least some of the connectors. The external communication controller also has a second functional set different from the first functional set. The on-board memory is configured to be usable by the processor(s).
US09338915B1	Method of attaching electronic module on fabrics by stitching plated through holes A wearable electronics assembly includes one or more electronic modules coupled to a wearable electronics fabric. Each of the one or more electronic modules includes one or more plated through holes, through each of which is coupled an electrically conductive wire. The electrically conductive wire is stitched through the plated through hole and to a fabric onto which the electronic module is attached. The electronic module can include one or more electronic components coupled to a printed circuit board.
US09338911B2	Electronic enclosure device An electronic enclosure device including an enclosure, an electric circuit device, and a sealing device is disclosed. The sealing device is provided as one, continuous gasket having a first gasket section configured to seal a first sealing area, a second gasket section configured to seal the second sealing area, and a third gasket section configured to seal the third sealing area.
US09338909B2	Waterproof structure, electronic device, and method for manufacturing the waterproof structure The disclosed device includes: housing which has opening; protective panel arranged in the housing and which closes opening; O ring which is arranged on one face of protective panel in a direction perpendicular to an opening plane of opening; sliding plate which is arranged on the other face of protective panel in a direction perpendicular to the opening plane of opening and which holds protective panel in such a way that protective panel can slide in a direction parallel to the opening plane of opening; and spring member which is arranged in the state of making contact with an end portion of protective panel and which supports protective panel in such a way that protective panel can be displaced in a direction parallel to the opening plane of opening. Protective panel is supported by housing in the state in which protective panel is sandwiched between O ring and sliding plate.
US09338906B2	Cover film Disclosed is a cover film, which includes at least a base layer, an intermediate layer, a releasing layer and a heat seal layer that can be heat-sealed to a carrier tape, and wherein the heat seal layer contains, as a main component, a styrene-acrylic copolymer that has a mass average molecular weight of 5000 to 20000. This cover film is suppressed in variation in release strength when separated from the carrier tape, and is capable of reducing problems in the mounting process of electronic components such as rupture of the cover film during the separation.
US09338886B2	Substrate for mounting semiconductor, semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A substrate for mounting a semiconductor includes a first insulation layer having first and second surfaces on the opposite sides and having a penetrating hole penetrating through the first insulation layer, an electrode formed in the penetrating hole in the first insulation layer and having a protruding portion protruding from the second surface of the first insulation layer, a first conductive pattern formed on the first surface of the first insulation layer and connected to the electrode, a second insulation layer formed on the first surface of the first insulation layer and the first conductive pattern and having a penetrating hole penetrating through the second insulating layer, a second conductive pattern formed on the second insulation layer and for mounting a semiconductor element, and a via conductor formed in the penetrating hole in the second insulation layer and connecting the first and second conductive patterns.
US09338884B2	Laminated body and manufacturing process therefor Disclosed is a laminated body including a substrate having an unevenness with an aspect ratio of 1.5 to 100 in the surface thereof, and a conductive film that is laminated in an approximately uniform thickness on a bottom, side wall surfaces, and an apex of the unevenness, the conductive film being any one film selected from the group consisting of an ITO film, an FTO film, a SnO2 film, an ATO film, an AZO film, a GZO film, an IZO film, and an IGZO film.
US09338883B2	Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing printed wiring board A printed wiring board includes multiple insulating layers laminated on each other and each including resin and core, the insulating layers having first-surface sides and second-surface sides on the opposite side, respectively, and including multiple first insulating and second insulating layers, multiple first-surface-side conductive layers formed on the first-surface sides of the first insulating layers, respectively, multiple second-surface-side conductive layers formed on the second-surface sides of the second insulating layers, respectively. The insulating layers include one or more insulating layer having the core positioned such that the core is shifted toward the first-surface side from the center in the thickness direction, the insulating layers include a central insulating layer positioned in the center of the insulating layers, and the first-surface-side and second-surface-side conductive layers are formed such that the first-surface side conductive layers have the total area which is set smaller than the total area of the second-surface-side conductive layers.
US09338874B2	Systems and methods to generate a self-confined high destiny air plasma This disclosure relates to methods and devices for generating electron dense air plasmas at atmospheric pressures. In particular, this disclosure relate to self-contained toroidal air plasmas. Methods and apparatuses have been developed for generating atmospheric toroidal air plasmas. The air plasmas are self-confining, can be projected, and do not require additional support equipment once formed.
US09338871B2	Feedforward temperature control for plasma processing apparatus Methods and systems for controlling temperatures in plasma processing chamber with reduced controller response times and increased stability. Temperature control is based at least in part on a feedforward control signal derived from a plasma power input into the processing chamber. A feedforward control signal compensating disturbances in the temperature attributable to the plasma power may be combined with a feedback control signal counteracting error between a measured and desired temperature.
US09338866B1	Panelboard power bus with arc transfer for passive arc control Methods and systems for limiting damage caused by arcs in bus stacks provide an arc transfer feature on each side of the bus stack. The arc transfer feature captures any arcs forming near busbar connection points and transfers the arc away from the busbar connection points to the interior of the bus stack. Phase barriers along the length of the interior of the bus stack then direct the arcs toward the end of the bus stack. At the end of the bus stack, a bus end interrupter receives and extinguishes the arcs.
US09338859B2	Illuminated makeup mirror set and method of controlling light source An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source for illumination with adjustable color and adjustable brightness; a memory unit in which illumination conditions corresponding to a plurality of scenes are stored; a detection unit for detecting the color and brightness of ambient light at an installation position of the makeup mirror set; a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of scenes according to an input operation; an acquisition unit for acquiring, from the memory unit, illumination conditions corresponding to the scene selected through the selection unit; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the color and brightness of the surface light source according to the color and brightness of the ambient light detected by the detection unit and the illumination conditions acquired by the acquisition unit.
US09338858B2	Handheld device for communicating with lighting fixtures Control of lighting fixtures in a lighting network may be distributed among the lighting fixtures. The lighting fixtures may be broken into groups that are associated with different lighting zones. At least some of the lighting fixtures will have or be associated with one or more sensors. Within the overall lighting network or the various lighting zones, the lighting fixtures may share sensor data from their sensors. Each lighting fixture may process sensor data provided by its own sensor, a remote standalone sensor, or lighting fixture, and process the sensor data according to the lighting fixture's own internal logic to control operation of the lighting fixture. The lighting fixtures may also receive control input from other lighting fixtures, control nodes, light switches, and commissioning tools. The control input may be processed along with the sensor data according to the internal logic to further enhance control of the lighting fixture.
US09338857B2	Electronic ballast circuit for lamps An electronic ballast circuit includes a power factor correction circuit, a control and amplifier circuit, a ballast controller circuit and a ballast driver circuit. The ballast driver circuit includes a resonant circuit that connects to a lamp and a strike voltage limiter circuit that regulates the behavior of the resonant circuit. An overcurrent sensor circuit may be included to indirectly the control the ballast controller circuit via the control and amplifier circuit. The strike voltage limiter circuit uses varistors to change the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit to limit the voltage to the lamp.
US09338851B2	Operation of a LED lighting system at a target output color using a color sensor A method for operating a LED lighting system at a target output color is provided. The LED system includes a color sensor and three or more LED emitters each operable at a controllable emitter drive setting. The method provides at least one calibration matrix defining a relationship between measurements obtained from the color sensor, represented by sensor color point coordinates, and absolute color point coordinates in an absolute color space. In some embodiments, a calibration matrix defining a non-linear relationship between the two color spaces is provided. In other embodiments, individual calibration matrices are provided for each LED emitter.
US09338845B2	LED arrangement An LED arrangement includes a first LED chain having first LEDs; a second LED chain having second LEDs; a circuit arrangement for coupling the first and second LED chains to a supply source; wherein the circuit arrangement is configured such that the first and second LED chains can be coupled to or decoupled from the supply source, wherein the first LED chain can be coupled to the supply source at first points in time and the second LED chain can be coupled to the supply source at second points in time; wherein the circuit arrangement is configured such that, in the case of a coupling of the LED arrangement to the supply source, a current having a first average current intensity through the first LED chain and a current having a second average current intensity through the second LED chain, wherein the LEDs are arranged depending on their current intensities.
US09338837B2	Lighting device According to one embodiment, there is provided a lighting device which includes a substrate; a light emitting element which is provided on the substrate; and a resistive element which is provided on the substrate, and is connected to the light emitting element in series. A voltage rate of the resistive element when a value of a first voltage which is reduced to half is applied to a first circuit to which the light emitting element and the resistive element are connected in series becomes equal to or smaller than 25% of a voltage rate of the resistive element when the first voltage is applied to the first circuit.
US09338829B2	Heated platen with improved temperature uniformity A heated platen with improved temperature uniformity is generally described. Various examples provide a platen portion with a metallization layer thermally coupled thereto. An electrical contact may be connected to the metallization layer and configured to conduct an electric current for heating the metallization layer and the platen portion. The electrical contact may include an electrical conductor and a resistive heating element that is configured to heat up when electric current flows therethrough, thereby creating a thermal block that reduces an amount of heat that is absorbed into the electrical contact from the platen portion.
US09338828B2	Foam heat exchanger for hot melt adhesive or other thermoplastic material dispensing apparatus A foam heat exchanger, for use in connection with hot melt adhesive or other thermoplastic material dispensing applicators, comprises a foam having an open cell reticulated foam structure. Due to the open cell reticulated structure of the foam, the surface area of the foam heat exchanger, with which the air comes into contact, is significantly increased. In addition, the open cell reticulated structure of the foam heat exchanger will also cause the air flow to experience resistance and turbulence so as to in turn enhance the heating efficiency of the heat exchanger, through means of enhanced thermal energy transfer from the heat exchanger to the processed air stream, whereby a significantly larger volume of air can be heated as compared to a conventional heat exchanger of similar size.
US09338817B2	Reduction of data corruption in wireless systems There is provided a system for reducing the risk of data corruption occurring in wireless systems, by reducing the risk of an un-expected disconnection occurring between a client device (20; 52, 54, 56) and a host device (20; 50). The client device monitors its own power supply, and when the client device determines that its power supply capacity is almost exhausted, the client device sends a low power notification (5; 55) to the host device. The host device receives the low power notification, and in response closes the wireless connection to the client device, thereby preventing an unexpected disconnection from occurring when the clients power supply is finally exhausted.
US09338812B1	Method and apparatus for supporting multiple connections over different types of access in 3GPP systems A method and apparatus for routing packets from a home agent to a user equipment through a first access network and a second access network. The method includes sending a first binding update message from the user equipment over the first access network to create a first binding cache entry at the home agent. The user equipment uses a home address assigned to the user equipment as a source IP address of the first binding update message. The method further includes sending a second binding update message from the user equipment over the second access network to create a second binding cache entry at the home agent. The user equipment receives packets from the home agent through the first access network and the second access network based on the first binding cache entry and the second binding cache entry.
US09338798B2	Systems and methods for collision management in a neighborhood aware network Methods, devices, and computer program products for collision management of wireless devices in a peer-to-peer network are described herein. In one aspect, a method of communicating via a wireless medium by a wireless communications apparatus within a neighborhood aware network is provided. The network is configured with periodic discovery windows, and sized for a maximum number of devices M. The method includes determining a discovery window interval K, the smallest integer greater than or equal to one, such that the probability that more than a threshold M devices will transmit during the same discovery window is less than a threshold probability P. The method further includes selecting a random or pseudo-random integer m in the range from 0 to K−1, deferring for at least m discovery windows after a previous interval K−1 has elapsed, and transmitting a discovery frame during the next discovery window after said deferring.
US09338793B2	Methods for allocating and scheduling uplink and downlink transmissions and apparatuses thereof At least one example embodiment discloses a method for allocating uplink transmissions from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) to a base station. The method includes allocating uplink transmission air-time of the base station to a plurality of groups, associating each of the plurality of UEs to the plurality of groups, a throughput of each associated UE in a same group being affected by the remaining UEs in the same group and determining a resource sharing mode associated with each of the plurality of groups, the resource sharing mode being one of a first mode and a second mode, the base station allocating the same throughput to each associated UE in the associated group in the first mode and the base station allocating a same transmission air-time to each associated UE in the associated group in the second mode.
US09338787B2	Network analysis for radio resource activation in green mobile networks The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for optimizing radio coverage and power consumption within a mobile communication network (1). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, radio measurements (UE_meas1; BS_meas1; BS_meas2) carried out by subscriber devices (11) and/or radio base stations (21; 23), as well as user geographical locations (UE_pos1; UE_pos2; UE_pos3) at the time the radio measurements have been carried out, are gathered. Antenna geographical locations (ant_pos22; ant_pos23) are then derived from the radio measurements and the user geographical locations, and radio propagation models (rpm22; rpm23) from the antenna geographical locations that best fit the radio measurements at the user geographical locations. The so-derived radio propagation models from the so-derived antenna geographical locations are then supplied to a radio resource controller (41) for activation of dormant cells (C22; C23).
US09338786B2	Reference signal transmitting method, mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a reference signal transmitting method, a mobile terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus capable of reducing influences on a PDCCH even when performing transmission control over an aperiodic reference signal for measuring channel quality. Downlink control information corresponding to each component carrier in which transmission control information of a reference signal for measuring channel quality is set is aggregated and assigned to a downlink control channel of a specific component carrier for a mobile terminal apparatus that performs radio communication in a system band containing a plurality of component carriers and transmitted, and when the mobile terminal apparatus controls transmission of the reference signal for measuring channel quality based on the transmission control information of the reference signal for measuring channel quality included in the received downlink control information, the downlink control information corresponding to each component carrier includes a bit field in which identifier information of the component carrier is set and the transmission control information of the reference signal for measuring channel quality is set in the bit field.
US09338783B2	Allocating reuse codes to cells in a communication network Systems and methods for allocating reuse codes to cells in a communication network are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods select a target cell from a group of cells in a telecommunication network, determine one or more reuse code exclusion zones associated with allocating scrambling codes to the selected target cell, and allocate a scrambling code to the selected target cell based on the determined one or more reuse code exclusion zones.
US09338782B2	Method and apparatus for receiving data using extension carrier in wireless access system Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for receiving data using an extension carrier in a wireless access system that supports a carrier aggregation/multiple cells. A method in which a terminal receives data in a wireless access system that supports a carrier aggregation according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving data starting point information indicating the symbol in a subframe at which a transmission of said data starts when data is transmitted via a secondary carrier that constitutes the carrier aggregation together with a primary carrier; and a step of receiving said data via the secondary carrier based on the data starting point information. The symbol at which the transmission of said data starts is determined from any one of a plurality of symbols including a first symbol of the subframe.
US09338781B2	Additional carrier types for LTE A method for transmitting and receiving a carrier segment in a wireless communications system, including a base station and a user equipment, is disclosed. The carrier segment includes a first band having a first bandwidth and a second band having a second bandwidth, wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.
US09338778B2	Apparatus and method for feeding back data receiving status An apparatus and a method for feeding back data receiving status, applied to a system, are provided. The method includes sequencing, by a User Equipment (UE), downlink subframes for transmitting data with respect to each Component Carrier (CC), generating receiving status feedback information for the first X downlink subframes with respect to each CC according to the result of the sequencing, where X≦M, wherein M is the number of downlink subframes on each CC, and transmitting the receiving status feedback information generated with respect to each CC to a base station. Accordingly, the UE will not misinterpret the receiving status for the downlink subframes due to inconsistencies with the base station between transmitting and receiving feedback. This affects the Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission, saves the uplink overheads occupied by the receiving status feedback information, and increases the uplink coverage area.
US09338776B2	Method for allocating backhaul link resources in relay communication system, and method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using same A method and a base station are described for transmitting a downlink signal in a wireless communication system. A configuration of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols for a first partition of a subframe are transmitted through higher layer signaling. A relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) contained in at least the first partition of the subframe is transmitted. If the R-PDCCH contains a downlink assignment, the first partition of the subframe is configured to be not used for a transmission for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) corresponding to the R-PDCCH.
US09338774B2	Method and apparatus for user equipment searching control channel in wireless communication system Disclosed is a method and apparatus for searching for a user equipment searching for a control channel in a multi-node system. The method comprises: searching inside an E-PDCCH region for a first piece of downlink control information (DCI), which is determined according to a transmission mode; and searching inside the E-PDCCH region for a second piece of DCI, regardless of the transmission mode, wherein the E-PDCCH region is a control channel region to which the DCI, which is decoded on the basis of a user equipment-specific reference signal (URS), is transmitted from a subframe comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols.
US09338771B2	Method and apparatus for allocating resources using nested bit mapping An approach is provided for generating a control signal for allocating one or more physical resource blocks to a terminal for communicating over a network. The control signal is separately coded and utilizes a nested bit mapping scheme to specify the allocation.
US09338770B2	Method and apparatus for mitigating interference in a wireless communication system supporting heterogeneous networks A method and apparatus for receiving signals at a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of cells including a first cell and a second cell. The method includes receiving first uplink control information via a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) from a first user equipment (UE); and receiving second uplink control information via a second PUCCH from a second UE. The first PUCCH is carried only on the first cell. The second PUCCH is carried only on the second cell. The first cell is different from the second cell.
US09338769B1	Method of scheduling communication in a wireless communication network A system and method of scheduling communication in a wireless communication network are provided. A first access node can receive an uplink scheduling request from a wireless device. The first access node can receive a first interference indicator from a second access node when the wireless device is located at the cell edge. A first scheduling scheme for the first access node and a second scheduling scheme for the second access node can be determined based on the uplink scheduling request and the interference indicator. The uplink portions of the first scheduling scheme do not overlap the uplink portions of the second scheduling scheme. The first access node can instruct the wireless device to communicate uplink data to the first access node during the uplink portions of the first scheduling scheme and to communicate uplink data to the second access node during the uplink portions of the second scheduling scheme.
US09338761B2	Presence-based device mode modification In some examples, a first device may detect the presence of a second device or a particular person and, when a triggering event related to the second device or the particular person applies, the first device may change from a first mode to a second mode.
US09338760B2	Method and system for notifying a system information modification The various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for notifying, a system information modification in at least one of a MIB/SIB1. The method comprises of transmitting a system information in a first modification period by an eNodeB, verifying the system information at eNodeB to check if the system information is to be modified in a modification period succeeding the first modification period, checking at eNodeB if only the system information corresponding to the at least one of the MIB or the SIB1 is modified, fetching the modified system information without initiating a paging procedure if only the MIB/SIB1 is modified and transmitting the modified system information in a succeeding modification period to the system information transmission module. The UE acquires the MIB/SIB1 at a start of each modification period.
US09338759B2	Method and system for tracking a mobile user A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically tracking a mobile user using the user's mobile device. This invention is particularly useful in the field of social media, such as for detecting and tracking the location and activity of a user and her community. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method provides a tracking functionality that uses less battery power than a GPS system. The method includes a location module configured to receive location transmissions, places the location module into a sleep mode when possible, awakens the location module upon receipt of a location transmission, and determines a location with the location module and the location transmission. These steps are desirably repeated to continually and automatically track the mobile user. The location transmission can be provided by WiFi triangulation and/or a cellular phone system upon crossing a boundary between antennae cells and/or a boundary between a plurality of established and contiguous geofences.
US09338757B2	Clock synchronization and centralized guard time provisioning Embodiments of the invention provide a method to accommodate clock drift and guard time in a centralized fashion. In one embodiment, a first device is adapted to communicate with a second device. A clock in the first device is synchronized to a clock in the second device using beacon or/and acknowledgement frames received from the second device. A centralized guard time is calculated by the second device between two neighboring allocation intervals. The centralized guard time accounts for clock drift in the first and second devices during a nominal synchronization interval. An interval at least as long as the centralized guard time is provisioned by the second device between two neighboring allocation intervals. One or more frames are transmitted between the devices within the allocation intervals.
US09338753B2	Method and apparatus for performance management in wireless backhaul networks via power control A method and system is disclosed for managing performance of a wireless backhaul network through power management, which provides a practical approach to balancing data throughput and fairness. For each transmit frame, one or more power zones is defined, each power zone comprising a set of radio resources operating at one transmit power level Pi, and the same power zone being defined over the same set of radio resources across all other clusters. The method maximizes the value of weighted weighted-sum utility, using a rate expression based on a CINR function. The optimization comprises a summation of the weighted logarithm of the rate expression plus a non-negative constant value, using a Newton's method approach, for fast and reliable convergence. Optimization may be based on long term averaged channel gains measured for each link. The value of c is selected to achieve a required balance of fairness and data throughput.
US09338748B2	Techniques for managing idle state activity in mobile devices An apparatus may comprise a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver and a message aggregation module arranged to intercept multiple messages from one or more mobile data applications during an idle mode of a device, one or more of the multiple messages operable to trigger a transition of the device from the idle mode to a connected mode by causing a radio resource control message to be sent from the device to a radio access network, the message aggregation module to store the multiple messages in a buffer associated with the one or more mobile data applications in order to maintain the device in the idle mode, and schedule for transmission by the RF transceiver the stored messages at a defined time instance based on a delay tolerance for the one or more mobile data applications when the device is in the connected mode. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US09338742B2	Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of receiver A method of reducing power consumption of a receiver includes identifying a plurality of sensors for transmitting a signal, generating data for controlling a transmission operation of the plurality of sensors, and transmitting the data to the plurality of sensors.
US09338735B2	Cell search and measurement in heterogeneous networks An extended cell search procedure enables more inclusive measurement reports by mobile terminals operating in a heterogeneous network. The mobile terminal may be configured to conduct an extended cell search to enable better detection of signals transmitted from weaker cells. For mobile terminal with extended cell search capabilities, the network sends an extended cell search message to the mobile terminal when there is a need for an extended cell search. In response to the extended cell search message, the mobile terminal uses an extended cell search procedure rather than the normal cell search procedure (as specified in Rel-8 of the LTE standard) when performing cell searches.
US09338729B2	Method for detecting interference user, home base station and user equipment Detecting interference user and home base station including: pre-configuring the cell type information of a home base station as an open cell type, and broadcasting the cell type information by the home base station in the cell; determining whether user equipment is one belonging to the home base station by the home base station according to the related information transmitted by the user equipment via a random access procedure, wherein the related information includes user information or a random access preamble; and determining by the home base station that the user equipment is an interference user, if the user equipment is not one belonging to the home base station.
US09338725B2	Mobile device for use in a dynamic and stochastic asynchronously updated wireless ad-hoc network A method for establishing and maintaining a dynamic network designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with one another on an ad-hoc basis. The wireless network is designed specifically to function autonomously, remaining completely independent from relying on any internet service provider or any other subsidiary systems such as any access points or routers. Rather than using central routers, all nodes in the network share the same capabilities as one another, and allow for a dynamic routing protocol to be executed directly by the network nodes.
US09338720B2	Self-organized decentralized mobility robustness optimization There is provided a control apparatus for controlling a first cell of a cellular communication network, the control apparatus including a control unit configured for receiving handover related data related to a handover from the first cell to a second cell and a third cell, wherein the control unit is further configured for determining a ranking data for the second cell and the third cell, the ranking data being dependent on the handover related data, and wherein the control unit is further configured for setting at least one operating parameter of the control apparatus depending on the handover related data and the ranking data. Further, the control unit may be configured for determining ranking data for the first cell and a fourth cell, and for determining a value for at least one operating parameter of a control apparatus which controls the second cell.
US09338719B2	Mobile station and radio base station A mobile station LIE is provided with an access right management unit for managing a CSG-ID corresponding to a CSG cell which permits the mobile station UE to access thereto, a measurement unit for measuring the radio quality of a CSG cell defined as an object to be measured, and a measurement report transmission unit for, only when the radio quality of a CSG cell corresponding to the CSG-ID managed by the access right management unit out of the radio qualities of CSG cells measured by the measurement unit satisfies a report condition, transmitting a measurement report including at least the radio quality of the CSG cell corresponding to the CSG-ID.
US09338718B2	Voice call resumption on a legacy network A method for resuming a voice call on a legacy network is provided. The method can include a wireless communication device establishing a voice call with a remote device over a first cellular network; determining that a connection quality of the first cellular network has dropped below a threshold connection quality; sending a notification that the wireless communication device is releasing the voice call to transition to a legacy cellular network and will resume the voice call on the legacy cellular network; releasing the voice call on the first cellular network; transitioning to the legacy cellular network; establishing a second voice call with the remote device on the legacy cellular network; and using the second voice call to resume the voice call with the remote device.
US09338715B1	Method and system for facilitating transition from broadcast to unicast Disclosed is a method and system to help facilitate transition from broadcast to unicast. A broadcast server provides a copy of session content to a unicast gateway, and a content-synchronizer keeps track of which UEs are broadcast recipients and what the progress of the broadcast is over time. In response to unicast attachment of a UE with the unicast gateway, as when the UE moves from broadcast coverage to unicast coverage, the unicast server determines based on information from the content synchronizer (i) that the UE is a broadcast recipient and (ii) the progress of the broadcast so far. The unicast gateway then begins transmitting to the UE the media content received from the broadcast server, starting at a point in the media content based on the determined progress. This process may thereby help to facilitate a seamless transition from broadcast to unicast, with at most a brief interruption.
US09338714B2	System and method for providing mobile wireless data network connectivity via vehicle-installed small cell A system is described for managing in-vehicle small cell gateway (IV-SCG) connections with a mobile wireless device. A home IV-SCG maintains a list identifying a set of neighboring SCG nodes, each one of the set of neighboring SCG nodes being a potential candidate for establishing a connection with the home IV-SCG forming a link along a data communications path between the home IV-SCG and the broadband network data resource. The home IV-SCG detects a triggering condition causing the home IV-SCG to seek out an alternative data communications path for the current data communications path. Thereafter, the home IV-SCG selects a partner neighboring SCG, from the neighboring SCG list, through which the alternative communications path passes, based upon a handover criterion based upon at least a capacity of individual ones of the set of neighboring SCG nodes to support current data communication requirements of a registered mobile wireless device.
US09338707B2	Communication matching method, user equipment and base station The present invention provides a communication matching method, a user equipment and a base station. The communication matching method includes: obtaining, by a second user equipment supporting a D2D function, D2D capability information of a serving base station of a cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs; obtaining, by the second user equipment, information, which is broadcasted by a first user equipment supporting the D2D function, of the first user equipment after determining that the cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs supports the D2D function according to the D2D capability information; performing, by the second user equipment, communication matching with the first user equipment according to the information of the first user equipment and the D2D capability information of the serving base station of the cell to which the second user equipment currently belongs.
US09338700B2	Inter-RAT transitioning utilizing system information messaging Methods, systems, and devices are described for transitioning between different radio access technologies (RATs) utilizing system information messages to trigger the transition. Some embodiments may involve utilizing a system information message (e.g., SIB19, SI2quater) that may be received from a serving cell over a first radio RAT (e.g., 2G, 3G, 4G) while in a connected mode with the serving cell. A transition may be initiated from the connected mode with the serving cell to an idle mode with the serving cell in response to the received system information message. A reselection may be performed from the idle mode with the serving cell to a target cell utilizing a second RAT (e.g., 3G, 4G, or 5G) in response to the received system information message.
US09338695B2	Signaling of supported carrier bandwidths for carrier aggregation Techniques for signaling carrier bandwidths supported by a user equipment (UE) for carrier aggregation are disclosed. A UE may be configured with a plurality of carriers for carrier aggregation. Each carrier may have one carrier bandwidth of a set of possible carrier bandwidths. The set of possible carrier bandwidths may be dependent on a band in which the carrier belongs. Multiple combinations of carrier bandwidths for the plurality of carriers may be possible. The UE may identify at least one supported carrier bandwidth combination for the plurality of carriers. Each of the supported carrier bandwidth combinations may include a particular carrier bandwidth for each configured carrier. The UE may send signaling indicative of the at least one supported carrier bandwidth combination. The UE may thereafter communicate on the plurality of carriers based on a carrier bandwidth combination selected from the supported carrier bandwidth combination(s).
US09338693B2	Scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery over cellular networks Systems and methods for adaptive video delivery over a network, including receiving a plurality of types of data flows from one or more network base stations; separating resource management of the plurality of types of data flows, wherein the data flows include one or more of adaptive video streaming flows, regular video traffic flows, and other traffic flows by resource slicing. A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery is instantiated; available choices of video bit rates for all users is received as input to an allocator; optimal allocation of resources is computed for all users by determining and selecting an optimal bit rate for each user using the allocator; the optimal bit rate being sent to an enforcer; resources across flows are isolated using the enforcer; and the optimal bit rate for each user is enforced using per-flow traffic shapers to maximize resource utilization without reaching network capacity.
US09338689B2	Method for mobile terminal to access wireless access point and wireless access point A method for a mobile terminal accessing wireless access points and a wireless access point are disclosed. The method includes: after acquiring an access request of a mobile station, when determining that its load exceeds a preset first load upper limit, according to acquired connection information of other wireless access points, a first wireless access point sends a load balance request to all the other wireless access points; a wireless access point receiving the request sends a load balance feedback message to the first wireless access point, carrying its load and connection authentication information required; the first wireless access point selects a load balance feedback message carrying a minimum load from all received messages, and then sends the connection authentication information carried in the selected message to the mobile station; and the mobile station initiates an access flow to a corresponding wireless access point according to the received information.
US09338688B2	Method for transmitting data and user equipment The present invention provides a method for a user equipment for supporting a multitude of radio access technologies. The method includes receiving information on an inter-system routing policy from a server. The information includes a filter rule information. The filter rule information includes at least a domain information or a content type information, and a list which is organized according to the priority of access technologies or access networks which are supported by the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting a data traffic to be transmitted, by using at least one access technology or a network that is decided according to the filter rule information.
US09338686B2	Method for operating a wireless network, a wireless network and a device Method for operating a wireless network, wherein at least one MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) group of different stations will be constructed by a grouping algorithm based on a grouping metric for providing a MIMO group of different stations addressable simultaneously in space by a base station using MIMO techniques and meeting a definable level of performance quality, the grouping metric being based on an SINR (Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio) experienced by each station within the MIMO group. The method includes: computing an SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) that a new station would experience without any interference when added to an existing MIMO group; computing an SINR estimate by correcting the SNR with the sum of spatial correlations between the new and each of the stations already present in the existing MIMO group; and using the SINR estimate for deciding whether the new station can be added to the existing MIMO group.
US09338684B2	Method and apparatus for implementing report measurement and reporting measurement result According to the embodiments of the present invention, a report measurement can be implemented between a radio network controller and a user equipment in a CELL_FACH state by using a current MC message and a current MR message; and in a process of implementing the report measurement, coordination between the report measurement and a cell reselection measurement executed by the user equipment can be implemented to minimize an impact of the report measurement on the cell reselection measurement.
US09338682B2	System, method, and device for minimizing uplink registration or location reports for fixed or low-mobility devices A system, method, and device for minimizing uplink registration or location reports, such as route update messages, for fixed or low-mobility devices. An access terminal is configured to transmit route update messages to a radio access network at a first rate and also at a reduced rate that is lower than the first rate. The access terminal is configured to transmit to the radio access network a request to allow the access terminal to use a reduced reporting function that causes the access terminal to transmit route update messages at a reduced rate that is lower than the first rate, receive a response that grants permission to use the reduced reporting function, and transmit route update messages at the reduced rate in accordance with the reduced reporting function.
US09338677B2	Method for synchronizing state information of a home wireless system A method of synchronizing state information of a home wireless system wherein the home wireless system comprises a plurality of peripheral wireless nodes (14; 16; 19; 21; 23) and a first gateway (12) having wireless communication means for communicating with and controlling associated peripheral wireless nodes, the method comprising the steps installing at least one second gateway (26) in said home wireless system, assigning peripheral wireless nodes to said first gateway (12) or anyone of said at least one second gateway (12′), and each gateway directing each assigned peripheral wireless node to communicate with an assigned gateway, receiving in a first gateway system state affecting input message from an associated peripheral wireless node, determining in said first gateway a resulting system state based on said input, and communicating said resulting system state as a state change message from said first gateway to said at least one second gateway.
US09338673B2	Device and method of enhancing downlink UE-specific demodulation reference signal to facilitate inter-cell interference cancellation and suppression Various devices and methods are provided that use enhanced downlink demodulation reference signals (DMRS) to facilitate inter-cell interference cancellation and suppression. Coordinated configuration of DMRS port assignments for transmission from cells in a group of neighboring cells is provided. Each cell's physical cell identification (PCID) is mapped with its corresponding assigned antenna port(s).
US09338672B2	System and method for coordinating hub-beam selection in fixed wireless backhaul networks Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating hub-beam selection in wireless backhaul networks and optionally, for joint hub-beam selection and slot assignment. Data indicative of path loss is measured or estimated for each of a set of RBMs and for each hub-beam of a respective multi-beam serving hub. A performance metric is computed, and hub-beam selection is made based on optimizing the performance metric across the set of RBMs. A serving hub may use reserved frames to train an RBM on each hub-beam and communicate beam selections, e.g. based on minimizing path loss on a per-cell or per-sector basis, or maximizing a sum-utility function for improved performance over a neighborhood of the network. A beam assignment map may be shared amongst serving hubs. A weight table of good and bad beam combinations may be generated to evaluate the cost of a hub-beam combination, for joint hub-beam selection and slot assignment.
US09338668B2	Gain control for intra-band carrier aggregation In a wireless communication system, carrier aggregation may be used to provide desired amounts of bandwidth, where a primary carrier and one or more secondary carriers are aggregated. At the receive side of a system in which the aggregated carriers are in a single frequency band, an amplifier may be used to apply a common gain to the aggregated carriers in the single frequency band, and the common gain may be determined as a function of indications of received signal quality associated with groups of aggregated carriers containing one or more of the aggregated carriers, where one group contains the primary carrier and possible one or more secondary carriers and another group contains only secondary carriers.
US09338663B2	Method and system for providing roaming intelligence (RI) to a host network operator for its roaming traffic The present invention provides a method for facilitating roaming management of a host network. The method includes obtaining at a gateway associated with the host network, signaling messages of one or more roamers. The roamers are subscribers of either the host network or one or more non-host networks. The method further includes determining by the gateway, the host network's roaming arrangement with the non-host networks, based on analysis of one or more signaling messages from the obtained signaling messages.
US09338662B2	Method for inter-beam interference reduction using cross polarization and method for transmitting/receiving signal Disclosed are a method for inter-beam interference reduction using cross polarization and a method for transmitting/receiving a signal. A transmitting method of a base station in a wireless communication system, includes: configuring a first parameter for forming a first beam having first polarization with respect to a terminal located in a first sub-sector, and configuring a second parameter for forming a second beam having second polarization with respect to a terminal located in a second sub-sector; and transmitting a signal to each terminal by forming the first beam using at least one antenna based on the configured first parameter and forming the second beam using the at least one antenna based on the configured second parameter, wherein a frequency band equal to a frequency band of the first sub-sector is allocated to the second sub-sector in a cell in the base station.
US09338658B1	Telecommunication service provider customer account portal for strategic partners An evaluation server is disclosed. The server comprises a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory. The application receives a request from an enterprise new accounts sever to predict the trustworthiness of an account applicant. The application then accesses a plurality of mobile communication service provider data stores that comprise information on mobile communication service provisioning events, wherein these events comprise at least one of voice mail redirect events of the mobile communication device, changing out of the mobile communication device for other mobile communication devices events, payment history, and adding international calling service events. The application then generates a confidence report about the trustworthiness of the account applicant based on the information found in the plurality of data stores. The application then transmits the confidence report to the enterprise server.
US09338656B2	Conditional limited service grant based on device verification Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for accepting capability attestation of a device for determination of whether to grant access to a service during a state of operation. In various embodiments, access to the service sought may be conditionally granted responsive to verification of the capability attested. In various embodiments, during the state of operation, access to the service may be granted on a limited basis.
US09338655B2	Access control of relay node with closed subscriber group There are provided measures for access control of a relay node with a closed subscriber group, said measures exemplarily comprising retrieval of setting information relating to a closed subscriber group of a base station function of a relay node, said relay node requesting access to a relay-enhanced cellular system via a donor base station, acquisition of setting information relating to a closed subscriber group of the donor base station, and execution of access control of the base station function of the relay node based on the setting information relating to the closed subscriber groups of the base station function of the relay node and the donor base station.
US09338653B2	Secure reception reporting In a first configuration, a UE receives, from a service provider, a certificate authority list. The certificate authority list is at least one of integrity protected or encrypted based on a credential known by the UE and the service provider and stored on a smartcard in the UE. The UE authenticates a server using the received certificate authority list. In a second configuration, the UE receives a user service discovery/announcement including a reception report configuration and an address of a server. The UE sends a protected reception report to the server based on the reception report configuration. In a third configuration, the UE receives a protected broadcast announcement and communicates based on the broadcast announcement. The broadcast announcement is at least one of integrity protected or encrypted based on a credential known by the UE and stored on a smartcard in the UE.
US09338650B2	Apparatus for cooperating with a mobile device An apparatus for cooperating with a mobile device having an embedded transceiver is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing and a mechanical connector on the housing, the mechanical connector being configured to mechanically retain the mobile device. At least one port within the housing conveys energy to at least one auxiliary wireless transceiver associable with the apparatus. The apparatus is configured to cooperate with the mobile device when the mobile device is retained on the housing by the mechanical connector, to enable transmission of a first portion of a data stream over the at least one auxiliary transceiver while a second portion of the data stream is simultaneously transmitted over the embedded transceiver.
US09338648B2	Method and system for managing authentication of a mobile terminal A terminal is authenticated in view of inclusion in a communication network by an authentication process conditioned upon location information transmitted from the terminal to at least one server in the network. At least one access point for the terminal to the network is configured for allowing a non-authenticated terminal to transmit to an authentication server in the network authentication messages based on a given authentication protocol, such as, e.g., EAP. The terminal is configured for transmitting the location information to the authentication server by conveying it over the authentication protocol. A location system can be integrated in the terminal to generate location information identifying the location of the terminal, and in that case the terminal is configured for transmitting the location information identifying the location of the terminal to authentication server. As an alternative, a location server is associated with the network and the location information is transmitted from the terminal to the location server. On the basis of the location information transmitted from the terminal, the location server generates location information identifying the location of the terminal and sends the information to the authentication server.
US09338647B2	Mobile station with bond between end device and security element The invention relates to a mobile station comprising a terminal (ME) and a security element ((U)(SIM)) which can be operated, removed or securely implemented in the terminal (ME), a link being provided between the terminal (ME) and the security element ((U)(SIM)) and being verifiable by means of a secret key (PrK; KST) and by means of the verification key (Puk; KSA). The terminal (ME) comprises a secured runtime environment (TEE), and the verification key (PuK; KST) is stored in the secured runtime environment (TEE).
US09338646B2	Method for transmitting and receiving fake communication data and terminal performing the same A technology for preventing leakage of personal information from traffics of terminals by transmitting and receiving fake communication data artificially generated so that an attacker does not identify normal communication between terminals is provided. A method for transmitting fake communication data includes: making a response request to whether or not a fake communication application is presented in an opponent terminal using an address book registered in a terminal; receiving a response corresponding to the response request and selecting targets to and from which the fake communication data are to be transmitted and received in a terminal list corresponding to the received response; controlling a communication amount depending on the selected targets; and transmitting the fake communication data to a corresponding receiving terminal depending on a control result.
US09338645B2	Method and system for message service in multi-device environment and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method and a system for a message service in a multi-device environment in which one or more terminals are used by a user, and to an apparatus therefor, the present invention registering, for each user, one or more terminals which will be using a message service and providing the message service by means of the one or more registered terminals, thereby providing additional services comprising user privacy protection and/or provision of presence information.
US09338641B2	Enhanced handling of access capability information in a mobile network In a mobile network with a plurality of access networks, a control node, which is controlling access of a user equipment to that one of the access networks which is currently used by the user equipment, performs a determination of an access capability of the user equipment in this access network. The control node provides an indication of the determined access capability to a subscriber database associated with the user equipment. When transmitting the indication, a guard timer is started. After determining the access capability, the control node receives an update indication for the user equipment. In response to receiving the update indication, the control node performs a redetermination of the access capability. Further, the control node checks if the guard timer has expired and, only if the guard timer has not expired, provides a further indication of the redetermined access capability to the subscriber database.
US09338640B2	System and method for remotely triggering actions on a mobile device A method for selecting data from a first electronic device for a second electronic device. The second electronic device includes an authentication module and is arranged to receive messages over a communication bearer, and transfer a received message to the authentication module when determining from an indication in the received message that the message is intended for the authentication module. The method includes receiving from the first electronic device the selected data, retrieving one or more commands associated to the selected data, generating using the selected data and associated command(s) a triggering message, the triggering massage including an indication that the triggering message is intended for the authentication module of the second electronic device for triggering the command(s) for the selected data, and sending the triggering message over the communication bearer to the second electronic device, thereby causing the authentication module to trigger the command for the selected data.
US09338635B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for device tracking In an example embodiment, a method includes measuring, by an apparatus, signal strength of wireless device discovery messages received from a wireless communication device, the wireless discovery messages including a device address of the wireless communication device; storing, by the apparatus, the device address of the wireless communication device and the measured signal strength of the received wireless discovery messages; detecting, by apparatus, other wireless device discovery messages having a different device address; measuring, by apparatus, received signal strengths of the other wireless device discovery messages; and if no messages are received including the device address of the wireless communication device, comparing, by apparatus, the stored signal strength of the wireless discovery messages received from the wireless communication device with the measured received signal strength of the other wireless device discovery messages to determine whether a source of the other wireless device discovery messages is the wireless communication device.
US09338634B2	Discovering capabilities of offline users A system and method is provided for discovering capabilities of a first device communicating with a second device using a telecommunications network. The first and second devices are registered at a service platform. The first and second devices access the service platform through first and second core networks. At the first core network, a request is received from the second device for discovering capabilities of the first device. The first core network determines a first status indicator of the first device. The request is routed from the second device to an application server. The first status indicator of the first device is identified by the application server and a second status indicator of the first device is determined. A response is sent from the application server to the second device, the response containing feature tags describing a set of services supported by the first device.
US09338630B2	Configurable price matrix for mobile billing at a billing server A method of processing transactions is described. A pricing matrix is configured on a billing server. The pricing matrix has a set of cells, each cells corresponding to an intersection between a respective country and a respective target price. The merchant server downloads the pricing matrix periodically from the billing server. The merchant server determines a country of a consumer mobile phone and displays price points corresponding to the country within a mobile phone application. When the consumer selects one of the price points a transaction is processed between the consumer mobile phone, the billing server and a carrier server aligned with the billing server.
US09338627B1	Portable device for indicating emergency events A portable device including a gesture recognizer module for automatically detecting a specific sequence of gestures is described. The portable device may be used to detect a health, safety, or security related event. The portable device may further include an emergency event module for automatically determining whether the sequence of gestures corresponds to an emergency event. The portable device may further include a proximity detection module for automatically determining whether a mobile device corresponding to a user listed as an emergency contact is in a state of proximity to the portable device. The portable device may further include a notification module for automatically transmitting a message, indicating the emergency event, to the user of the mobile device determined to be in the state of proximity.
US09338625B2	Geographically redundant and multiple EATF nodes An emergency access transfer function (EATF) node is described for use when hand over of a user equipment (UE) from a first to a second access network is performed during an emergency call session (ECS). The EATF node receives a request for transferring the ECS from the first access network to the second access network. The EATF node transfers the ECS of the UE from the first to the second access network when the ECS is known to the EATF node. The EATF node selects a second EATF node from a set of one or more EATF nodes when the ECS is unknown, and forwards the request for transferring the ECS to the second EATF node. The EATF node may be in a first network region and the second EATF node may be in the first or a second network region.
US09338620B2	Method and apparatus for executing alarm with respect to missed received call for mobile communication terminal A method of executing an alarm with respect to a missed received call for a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method includes determining whether the mobile communication terminal is moving, and determining whether a missed received call occurs while the mobile communication terminal is moving, and executing an alarm with respect to the missed received call when it is determined that the mobile communication terminal does not move for a period of time if it is determined that the missed received call occurs while the mobile communication terminal is moving.
US09338619B2	User authentification system using call identification information and method thereof A user authentication system using call identification information, includes: a contents service provision server which provides a contents service through a wired/wireless communication network; a first user terminal which accesses the contents service provision server to request a service requiring the approval authentication; an authentication server which makes a call to the first user terminal with a corresponding stored terminal number upon receiving a request for approval authentication from the contents service provision server; and a wired/wireless second user terminal which transmits an approval number during calling with the authentication server, as an audio signal, to the authentication server.
US09338617B2	Smart monitoring sensor system for monitoring mobility The present invention provides devices, systems, and methods for remotely alarming an intelligent hand held device when a sensor on a stair assist device is made thereby signaling an event which is of concern for a patient caregiver. In accordance with a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a remote transmitter for use with a smart phone or tablet connectable to sensors such as end of travel sensors for a stair climbing assist device or a mat, a photoelectric sensor, toilet or chair sensor and providing that information via wireless peer to peer communication to a smart phone or tablet so that a caregiver can react appropriately to the information. The remote transmitter device contains a conventional switch detection circuit and a peer to peer communications circuit such as Bluetooth.
US09338614B2	Voice messaging method and mobile terminal supporting voice messaging in mobile messenger service A mobile terminal supporting a voice messaging method includes a microphone for capturing sound waves and converting the sound waves into an audio signal, a storage unit for storing the audio signal, an audio data generation unit for generating audio data packets with the audio signal, a packet data communication network interface unit for providing a packet data communication network, and a control unit for controlling the microphone, audio storage unit, audio data generation unit, and packet data communication network interface unit to capture the audio signal and transmit the audio signal as audio data packets in response to audio message transmission request entered during a mobile messenger service session.
US09338613B2	Intelligent messaging system to convert email to SMS, EMS and MMS Upon receiving an email for a mobile station containing a subject and a body, the subject and body are combined into a first message. If the email contains an attachment, the first message can be converted into a MMS message. If there is no attachment, the number of characters in the first message can be counted. If the number of characters is less than or equal to a first number of characters, the first message can be converted to a SMS message. If the number is greater than the first number of characters and less than or equal to a second number of characters, the first message can be converted to an EMS message. In addition, if the number of characters is greater than the second number of characters, the first message can be converted to the MMS message.
US09338612B2	Push to talk mobile station, mobile communication system, and program A mobile station 100 monitors, in Slotted mode, a Paging Channel Slot in a monitor cycle. The mobile station 100 includes: a user interface 53 which receives a PTT setting operation from a user for setting a PTT (Push to Talk) mode; a PTT communication control unit 51 which transmits an allocation request to the radio base station when the PTT setting operation is received; a slot cycle switching unit 52 which switches, when the PTT setting operation is received, the monitor cycle to a predetermined short cycle which is shorter than a cycle at the time of receiving the PTT setting operation; and a voice signal processing unit 40 which receives a voice packet after a PTT CALL is detected in a message transmitted from the radio base station to the mobile station, and reproduces a voice based on the voice packet.
US09338610B2	Flow line management apparatus, flow line management system, and recording medium A flow line management apparatus includes a usage information acquisition unit configured to acquire usage information of an apparatus disposed at a predetermined position, a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of a wireless terminal held by a user using the apparatus, and a flow line determining unit configured to determine a flow line when the user uses the apparatus based on the usage information acquired by the usage information acquisition unit and the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit.
US09338607B2	Information delivery system for sending reminder times based on event and travel times There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
US09338604B2	System and method for verifying the location of a radio device A method and system for verifying a location value reported by an electronic device. The reported location value and spectrum sensing data containing signal strength measurements for each channel of plural channels are received from the electronic device. A predicted RF footprint for the reported location is generated. The predicted RF footprint includes signal strength values for each of the plural channels. Each signal strength value is representative of RF energy that the electronic device ought to detect if the electronic device is actually present in the reported location and each signal strength value is determined as a function of known characteristics of radio devices with known locations. A determination is made as to whether the received signal strength measurements and the predicted RF footprint sufficiently correlate to validate that the electronic device made the signal strength measurements at the reported location.
US09338600B2	Method and system to communicate between host system and network of remote client computers linked to wireless mobile communication devices Embodiments of a system and method allowing a host system to select among a plurality of Remote Client Computers (RCC) the one RCC that is wirelessly coupled to and closest to a specific Wireless Mobile Communication Device (WMCD) to communicate with are described. The coupling between the RCC and the WMCD is for the purpose of determining which RCC in the network the server should send the data to and receive from. The process is executed on a host server computer coupled to a plurality of RCC over either a wireless or wired network. The server computer detects the presence and precise location of a WMCD using a system of wireless sensors. Once the precise location of the WMCD is determined, the server system selects among a plurality of RCC the one RCC that is wirelessly coupled to and closest to a specific WMCD to communicate with.
US09338596B2	Apparatus and method for determining a wireless device's location after shutdown A wireless data processing device is described which periodically exits an unpowered state and transmits location data. For example, one embodiment of a wireless data processing device comprises: power circuitry for maintaining the wireless data processing device in a powered or unpowered state, the power circuitry causing the wireless data processing device to enter into an unpowered state responsive to user input; a timer to periodically power up the wireless device or portion thereof in response to reaching a predetermined time; a location services module determining a current location of the wireless data processing device using one or more specified location determination techniques; a transmit thread transmitting the current location of the wireless device over one or more specified communication channels; and the power circuitry powering down the wireless data processing device a second time after the current location has been transmitted.
US09338595B1	Location-based mobile object management in a distributed cloud for enhancing access and performance A method for location-based service migration is provided. The method may include monitoring, by a processor, a location of a mobile device. The method may also include checking the location against a geo-location profile, whereby the geo-location profile includes at least one of a service, a plurality of migration rules, a plurality of data, an application, a security, and a plurality of access frequency criteria. The method may further include transferring the at least one service and a plurality of data objects used by the at least one service from a first server with a server location outside a bounds for the location to a second server within a bounds for the location in response to detecting a service in the geo-location profile meets a migration criteria.
US09338594B1	Processing location information A system for processing location information is disclosed. The location information is received from a mobile device. One or more polygons associated with the received location information are determined. A representation of the mobile device is stored based at least in part on the determined one or more polygons associated with the received location information.
US09338590B2	Global contact synchronization A situational and global context aware calendar, communications, and/or relationship management method and system is disclosed. The system is configured to receive non-calendaring related context information, and, based on that context information, to automatically determine one or more parameters of a meeting request.
US09338588B1	Reducing interference between Wi-Fi and bluetooth signals during voice calls In a wireless network, a method for operating a wireless device including at least a cellular modem, a wireless local area network (WLAN) controller, and a Bluetooth (BT) controller, the method comprising facilitating a voice call with another device; generating a signal, from the cellular modem, indicating whether the cellular modem is active during the voice call; and selectively suppressing background scanning operations based, at least in part, on the signal.
US09338587B2	System and method for radio-tagging radio transmitters A system and method for radio frequency tagging a transmitter of a useful first signal Su, by a tagging second signal Ctag, the signals are transmitted simultaneously, comprises at least the following elements: signal generation means adapted: to produce a useful signal Su in a given frequency band B, at a frequency fSu and an amplitude ASu, and to determine, from the values of the band parameter BSu of the useful signal Su and from the amplitude ASu of the useful signal Su, the parameters of the tagging signal Ctag, a transmission antenna adapted to simultaneously transmit said signal Su and said tagging signal, the level of which is X dB lower than the useful signal Su, means for receiving and processing the useful signal and the tagging signal adapted to discriminate the tagging signal from the useful signal.
US09338586B2	Tracking and communicating with short-range communication devices First communication circuitry of a first device is made discoverable by a second device via a short-range wireless protocol. A device name for the first communication circuitry is set to a user identifier that is specific to a user of the first device. The second device discovers the first device and the user identifier is transmitted to the second device. A response message can also be included with the user identifier and can be appended to the user identifier. The second device stores the user identifier, and the response message if included, in a log to record a presence of the user of the first device within a range between the first and second devices of the short-range wireless protocol.
US09338580B2	Method and apparatus for packet loss rate-based codec adaptation A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided where, at a first wireless node, a weighted average of a frame loss rate is determined for a plurality of frames transmitted from a second wireless node using a first codec; feedback is transmitted to the second wireless node based at least in part on the frame loss rate; and one or more frames are received from the second wireless node using a second codec, responsive to transmitting the feedback. Also, transmitting from a first wireless node a plurality of frames to a second wireless node using a first codec; receiving frame loss rate information from the second wireless node responsive to the transmitting; selecting a second codec, based at least in part on the frame loss rate information, and transmitting a second plurality of frames to the second wireless node using the second codec.
US09338578B2	Localization control method of sound for portable device and portable device thereof A localization control method of a sound for a portable device and a portable device thereof is provided. The localization control method of a sound for a portable device includes collecting location information of the portable device and location information of a counterpart portable device when an event for communicating with the counterpart portable device by the portable device is generated, determining localization of the sound based on the location information, and outputting the sound according to the determined localization.
US09338573B2	Matrix decoder with constant-power pairwise panning A constant-power pairwise panning upmixing system and method for upmixing from a two-channel stereo signal to a multi-channel surround sound (having more than two channels). Each output channel is some combination of the two input channels. Closed-form solutions are used to calculate dematrixing coefficients that are used to weight each input channel. The dematrixing coefficients are computed based on an inter-channel level difference and an inter-channel phase difference between the two input signals. The weighted input channels then are mixed uniquely for each output channel to generate a surround sound output from the stereo input signal. Each dematrixing coefficient has an in-phase component and an out-of-phase component. The phase coefficients for each component vary in time and are based on the phase difference between the input signals. The resultant surround sound output faithfully simulates the audio content as originally mixed.
US09338571B2	Method for determining a direction of at least one sound source from an array of microphones A direction of at least one sound source from an array of microphones is determined by obtaining a plurality of solutions sets from audio signals acquired from the microphones array, each solutions set being obtained by applying a sound source localization method to the audio signals, each solution defining a sound direction candidate. Then, solutions are grouped into groups of solutions and at least one of the groups is removed, based on a criterion of disparity between the solutions sets. The direction of the at least one sound source from directions associated with the remaining groups is obtained.
US09338562B2	Listening system with an improved feedback cancellation system, a method and use A listening device includes an input transducer, an output transducer, a signal processor, and a feedback cancellation system for estimating acoustic feedback. The feedback cancellation system includes an adaptive FBC filter arranged in parallel to the forward path, an adaptive whitening filter, and a howl detection unit that performs howl detection based on an output of the adaptive whitening filter. The adaptive FBC filter includes a variable FBC filter part and an FBC update algorithm part for updating the variable FBC filter part, the FBC update algorithm part receiving first and second FBC algorithm input signals influenced by the electrical input and the electrical output signals. Further, the feedback cancellation system receives an electrical update signal essentially consisting of the direct part of the electrical input signal and coefficients of the adaptive whitening filter are based on the electrical update signal.
US09338561B2	Hearing aid with improved localization A method of determining parameters of a BTE hearing aid having at least one ITE microphone and at least one BTE microphone, the method includes: determining Head-Related Transfer functions HRTFl(ƒ); determining a hearing aid related transfer function Hl,iITEC(ƒ) of a ith microphone of the at least one ITE microphone for direction l; determining a hearing aid related transfer functions Hl,jBTEC(ƒ) of a jth microphone of the at least one BTE microphone; determining transfer functions GiIEC(ƒ) of a ith cue filter of at least one cue filter filtering audio sound signals of the at least one ITE microphone; and determining transfer functions GjBTEC(ƒ) of a jth cue filter of the at least one cue filter filtering audio sound signals of the at least one BTE microphone; wherein the transfer functions GiIEC(ƒ) and the transfer functions GjBTEC(ƒ) are determined using a processing unit based on equation: minGiIEC(ƒ),GiBTEC(ƒ)Σl=0L-1W(l)∥W(ƒ)HRTFl(ƒ)−ΣiGiIEC(ƒ)Hl,iIEC(ƒ)−ΣjGjBTEC(ƒ)Hl,jBTEC(ƒ))∥p.
US09338558B2	Acoustic generator, acoustic generation device, and electronic device An acoustic generator according to an embodiment at least includes an exciter, a vibrating plate, a frame body, and a resin material. The exciter is mounted on the vibrating plate, and the vibrating plate is caused to vibrate together with the exciter by the vibration of the exciter. The frame body is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the vibrating body. The resin material is disposed in a space formed with the surface of the vibrating plate on which the exciter is disposed and an inner peripheral surface of the frame body to integrate the vibrating body and the exciter. The resin material is provided also on at least part of a surface other than the inner peripheral surface of the frame body.
US09338556B2	Electroacoustic transducer, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device utilizing same An electroacoustic transducer comprises a piezoelectric vibrator; a casing being provided with a predetermined space from the piezoelectric vibrator and including a frustum shape cutout in an inner wall thereof; and an acoustic absorption material being fitted in the cutout wherein a sound hole is formed in the casing in front of the piezoelectric vibrator in an oscillating direction of the piezoelectric vibrator; and the casing is formed in the casing such that a hole diameter of a sound path decreases toward a front end in the oscillating direction of the piezoelectric vibrator.
US09338552B2	Coinciding low and high frequency localization panning A method of panning includes panning an input signal or a low frequency portion of the input signal to split the input signal or the low frequency portion of the input signal into first and second channels, panning the input signal or a high frequency portion of the input signal to split the input signal or the high frequency portion of the input signal into third and fourth channels such that localization of the high frequency portion of the input signal coincides with localization of the low frequency portion of the input signal.
US09338544B2	Determination, display, and adjustment of best sound source placement region relative to microphone A video conference endpoint determines a position of a best audio pick-up region for placement of a sound source relative to a microphone having a receive pattern configured to capture sound signals from the best region. The endpoint captures an image of a scene that encompasses the best region and displays the image of the scene. The endpoint generates an image representative of the best region and displays the generated image representative of the best region as an overlay of the scene image.
US09338542B2	Wireless headset having ear hook A wireless headset having ear hook includes a device body, a speaker, an electrical charger, a charger cover, and an ear hook. The speaker is coupled to the device body. The electrical charger is arranged in the device body, and the electrical charger is exposed from the device body. The charger cover is coupled to the device body and selectively covers the electrical charger. The ear hook is integrally formed with the charger cover. By the combination of the ear hook and the electrical cover, the amount of parts is reduced, and when not in use, the headset can be electrically charged by lifting the charger cover.
US09338541B2	Method and system for in-game visualization based on audio analysis A game headset receives a plurality of channels of game and/or chat audio during game play, monitors the plurality of channels, and detect one or more sounds on the channels during the monitoring. The game headset determines characteristics of the detected one or more sound and outputs one or more signals for generating a visual representation of the detected one or more sounds based on the determined characteristics. The game headset output the signals to a game console that provides the game play. The game console displays the visual representation during the game play based on the communicated visualization information. The one or more signals is a video stream of an in-game visualization. The game headset outputs the one or more signals to a second screen communication device that generates the visual representation during the game play based on the signals.
US09338538B2	Multi-microphone system A microphone system implements multiple microphones on a single base. To that end, the microphone system has a base, and a plurality of substantially independently movable diaphragms secured to the base. Each of the plurality of diaphragms forms a variable capacitance with the base and thus, each diaphragm effectively forms a generally independent, separate microphone with the base.
US09338537B2	Loudspeaker housing The invention relates to a loudspeaker and to a loudspeaker housing for accommodating a loudspeaker module, wherein the loudspeaker housing has a sound output side having a sound output opening and a casing, wherein the sound output side is the side of the loudspeaker housing that is intended to output the sound of the loudspeaker module through the sound output side when the loudspeaker module is arranged in the loudspeaker housing, wherein the sound output direction is perpendicular to the sound output side, and wherein the casing is arranged radially around the sound output direction and laterally around the sound output side, and wherein the loudspeaker housing has a rear side opposite the sound output side, and wherein the rear side is open or has an opening, wherein between the sound output side and the rear side, the casing varies in the cross-section thereof perpendicular to the distance line between the sound output side and the rear side.
US09338530B2	Versatile optical network interface methods and systems Methods and systems for implementing versatile optical terminals that detect optical transmission protocols and subsequently adapt to the correct protocol are disclosed. In an embodiment, an interface device for providing an interface for a first network with a passive optical network (PON) is disclosed. The interface device includes a protocol detection circuit for determining whether optical communication signals received from the PON conform to a first optical communication protocol, and a switchover control circuit that reconfigures the interface device to work with a second optical communication protocol when the received optical communication signals do not conform to the first optical communication protocol.
US09338527B2	Data and call routing and forwarding One or more aspects of the disclosure relate to various functions and processes related to routing of calls originating from other service providers. For example, a method includes receiving a request to route a call or a call session, such as a session initiation request, from a second service provider and proceeding to route the requested call or session through a call routing facility of the first service provider to a requested destination of the call. Routing the call through the call routing facility may include determining a service provider type and/or an origination number type for the call, determining routing information for the call using the type information, and causing routing of the call to a destination of the call based on the routing information. Further aspects of the disclosure relate to various functions and processes related to accessing routing data and/or information from a routing database.
US09338524B2	Cable backplane system having a strain relief component A cable rack for a cable backplane system includes a tray having a plurality of plates defining a frame and surrounding a raceway. Cable connector assemblies are held by the tray with each having a plurality of cables extending between at least two cable connectors and routed in the raceway. Each cable connector is positioned between and is supported by corresponding plates. At least one cable strain relief component is held by the tray. Each cable strain relief component is positioned between and is supported by corresponding plates of the tray independent of the cable connectors. Each cable strain relief component provides strain relief for the associated cables. Optionally, the cable connectors are loosely held by the tray and float relative to the tray with a predefined limited amount of movement relative to the tray and relative to the at least one cable strain relief component.
US09338523B2	Audio splitting with codec-enforced frame sizes A method and apparatus for splitting the audio of media content into separate content files without introducing boundary artifacts is described.
US09338515B2	Real-time and secured picture/video upload via a content delivery network A content delivery network includes an overlay network having a plurality of cache servers. Each cache server configured to receive a request from a personal content server to register with the content delivery network, receive a request from a mobile capture device to establish communication with the personal content server, and establish a communication path through the overlay network between the mobile capture device and the personal content server. Each cache server is further configured to transfer content from the mobile capture device along the communication path to the personal content server.
US09338513B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for automatically presenting stored media content at its beginning Media device systems and methods are operable to automatically present a program at its beginning while a remaining portion of the program is being received at the media device. An exemplary embodiment receives a program in a media content stream; receives a presentation request to present the program, wherein the presentation request is received after an initial portion of the program has been received and wherein the presentation request is received before a conclusion of the program; accesses a stored initial portion of the program from a memory medium; and initiates presentation at a beginning of the program residing in the accessed initial portion of the program.
US09338511B2	Video-on-demand content delivery method for providing video-on-demand services to TV service subscribers A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include those for higher-order displays which have one or more links to lower-order displays of specific content. The VOD Application Server, in response to viewer request, displays a high-order templatized display, and in response to viewer selection of a link, displays the lower-order display of specific content. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.
US09338509B2	Method for operating an interactive program guide, a user device for an interactive program guide, a method and a device for providing a consolidated data guide information listing A method for displaying an interactive program guide, a user device for an interactive program guide, a method and device for providing a consolidated data guide information listing. A receiver is configured to receive individual data guide information from at least two information sources. A controller is configured to combine the received individual data guide information to form a consolidated data guide information listing and to output the consolidated data guide information listing. A displayer is configured to generate a display of at least a portion of the consolidated data guide information listing output to the controller.
US09338508B2	Preserving a consumption context for a user session Continuity of an entire user session (including the primary content stream, secondary content streams, and user context) is preserved so that the user can resume the session at a later time, at a different place, and, possibly, using different equipment. When a user pauses a session, the context of that session is automatically preserved. Upon resumption, the session begins where the user left off, resuming the primary media stream at the point where the user stopped, knowing what secondary content items the user has already seen, and re-establishing any user-set parameters for the session (e.g., playback volume, allocation of streams to particular screen real estate, whether closed captioning is turned on, and the like). For time-shifted content consumption, the system intelligently selects, filters, and processes contextual information (such as characteristics of the primary media) in order to present companion streams that are relevant and engaging to the user.
US09338506B2	Inserting ad elements Systems and methods are provided for presenting ad content with electronic content. In one implementation a method is provided that includes receiving, from a user device, a request that identifies a segment of electronic content, and selecting a set of ad metadata for the identified segment of electronic content, the selected set of ad metadata including information defining how ad content is to be presented. The method also includes selecting a set of content metadata for the identified segment of electronic content, the selected set of content metadata including information related to presenting the segment of electronic content, and instructing the user device to generate a presentation based on the selected set of ad metadata and the selected set of content metadata, the presentation including the segment of electronic content and at least one ad content element.
US09338503B2	Decoding apparatus for a set top box A decoding apparatus includes at least one data input terminal receiving a program transport stream from an external set-top box. A decoder decodes the program transport stream and a data output terminal outputs the decoded content to an external device. The program transport stream is the same transport stream received by the external set-top box from a service provider.
US09338502B2	Method and system for collaborative recording and compression A data compression reduces redundancy over time using information from other frames and among different viewers. A personal compressed copy of content includes an array of keys, and encrypted copy of the content and a codebook. The codebook, which is not a copy of the content may be stored in shared memory.
US09338501B2	System and method to remotely program a receiving device A web server presents a web page to a user. The web page dynamically presents information corresponding to a digital video recorder (DVR) associated with the user. The web server accepts input information to control the DVR. A delayed-job server accepts input from the web server and stores a job entry corresponding to the input in a message queue. The delayed-job server processes the job entry from the message queue and creates a function request representative of the web server input. An access server accepts the function request from the delayed-job server and bi-directionally communicates messages with the DVR. The access server communicates a response to the function request back to the delayed-job server. The delayed-job server communicates data from the response to the web server, wherein the web server is not blocked while waiting for the response from the delayed-job server.
US09338498B2	System and method for drawing anti-aliased lines in any direction A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
US09338489B2	Recommending media items based on take rate signals In an approach, a method comprises using a server computer in a media content delivery system that is configured to selectively deliver a particular media title from among a library of titles, for a source title, generating title data that specifies an order of a plurality of titles that are related to the source title based on a plurality of stored probability values; wherein each probability value in the plurality of probability values represents, for each particular title of the plurality of titles, a likelihood of selecting the particular title after playing the source title; using the server computer, receiving title impression data, wherein the title impression data specifies a plurality of browsed titles that were browsed from among the plurality of titles but may have not been selected for interaction; using the server computer, receiving title interaction data, wherein the title interaction data specifies a plurality of selected titles that were selected for interaction from the plurality of browsed titles; based on the title interaction data, the title impression data and a statistical model, re-calculating the plurality of probabilities.
US09338485B2	Method and apparatus for distributing a multimedia content A method for distributing a multimedia content to at least two rendering devices, wherein said multimedia content comprises at least two elementary contents, the method comprises the steps of receiving first information including information indicating for each of said at least two elementary contents a destination rendering device and a starting time; for each rendering device associated with said multimedia content, sending corresponding information indicating starting time for at least one elementary content destined to the rendering device; receiving said multimedia content; and sending said at least two elementary contents of said multimedia content to their corresponding destination rendering devices based on information indicating destination rendering device for each of said at least two elementary contents.
US09338484B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are provided. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmission parameter channel signaling information and fast information channel signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, an acquirer for acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble by using the extracted fast information channel signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, a detector for detecting a descriptor defining Internet access information corresponding to the mobile service data by using the acquired program table, and a controller for controlling the Internet access information of the detected descriptor and the mobile service data to be displayed.
US09338483B2	Camera system, video selection apparatus and video selection method A camera system includes a plurality of camera apparatuses that output respective video data in a packetized format. A relaying apparatus receives the packetized video data from the plurality of camera apparatuses and relays selected selected packetized video data from a particular one of the plurality of camera apparatuses on a frame basis.
US09338482B2	Enhanced group of pictures (GOP) alignment in media stream variants A media feed is received and delineated into groups of pictures (GOPs) for processing into output media streams having different quality levels. The media feed needs only to be decoded once. The decoded stream is split along different paths based on resolution, and resized output media data is sent to multiple encoders and fragmenters to generate variants in bit rate and frame rate for each resolution. The generated variants may be maintained as fragments on shared storage. A particular stream corresponding to a particular variant can be reconstructed using the encoded fragments.
US09338478B2	Video compression using multiple variable length coding methods for multiple types of transform coefficient blocks Classifying a series of quantized transform coefficients of a block of image data into one of a pre-defined plurality of classes for entropy coding, and entropy coding the block. A class is defined by at least the size of the block and typically but not necessarily one or more other factors. The classified series is coded by one of a set of pre-defined entropy coding methods, e.g., variable length coding methods for the pre-defined classes.
US09338476B2	Filtering blockiness artifacts for video coding In one example, an apparatus for coding video data includes a video coder configured to determine a first prediction mode for a first block of video data and a second prediction mode for a second block of video data, wherein the first block and the second block share a common edge, decode the first block using the first prediction mode and the second block using the second prediction mode, and determine whether to deblock the common edge between the first block and the second block based at least in part on whether at least one of the first prediction mode and the second prediction mode comprises short distance intra-prediction (SDIP).
US09338474B2	Reference picture list construction for video coding Techniques are described related to modifying an initial reference picture list. The example techniques may identify a reference picture in at least one of the reference picture subsets used to construct the initial reference picture. The example techniques may list the identified reference picture in a current entry of the initial reference picture list to construct a modified reference picture list.
US09338466B2	Method and device for coding an image sequence implementing blocks of different size, signal, data medium, decoding method and device, and computer programs corresponding thereto A method is provided for coding an image sequence, including splitting a current image into blocks of standard size, termed macroblocks. For at least one current macroblock of the current image, the method further includes: constructing at least one block of greater size than the current macroblock, termed a large block, which includes the current macroblock and at least one neighbor macroblock in the current image, taking account of characteristics of the current image; coding the large block, delivering base coding information, making it possible to reconstruct a base layer of said current image, and for at least one large block, determining enhancement information associated with at least one macroblock present in the large block.
US09338465B2	Context initialization based on decoder picture buffer A method for decoding a video frame includes receiving a slice header of at least one of a plurality of slices, identifying a type of a first slice and a type of a second slice, and initializing a first context associated with the first slice and a second context associated with the second slice using one of a first initialization method and a second initialization method. The first initialization method or the second initialization method is selected according to the type of the first slice and the type of the second slice.
US09338457B2	Method and apparatus for encoding image information, and method and apparatus for decoding image information In an image information encoder (10) supplied with an interlaced image in a 4:2:0 format, a color-difference signal phase correction unit (22) shifts, for motion estimation and compensation, the phase of the color-difference signal in a reference image block adaptively to a selected motion estimate mode and the value mv of vertical component in motion vector information so that the reference image block will coincide in phase of the color-difference signal with an input image block.
US09338455B1	Adaptive compression artifacts reduction method A method of reducing artifacts in video image data includes determining pixels in a block of image data that are mosquito pixels, estimating a level of mosquito noise in the block, and filtering out the mosquito noise to produce noise-filtered data.
US09338452B2	Motion vector difference coding extension for enhancement layer An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit stores difference video information associated with a difference video layer of pixel information derived from a difference between an enhancement layer and a corresponding base layer of the video information. The processor determines pixel accuracy of motion predictor information, determines a motion vector based on the pixel accuracy of the motion predictor information, and determines a value of a video unit based at least in part on the motion vector.
US09338450B2	Method and apparatus for signal encoding producing encoded signals of high fidelity at minimal sizes Methods and apparatus for determining encoding parameters of an encoder or a transcoder which yield an encoded signal of optimal measurable properties are disclosed. For a video signal, the encoding parameters may include quantization granularity, a measure of display resolution, and a frame rate. The measurable properties of an encoded signal may include a fidelity index, a relative size, and a relative flow rate. Reference data records quantifying properties of sample signals encoded according to experimental sets of encoding parameters are used to define parameters of conjectured analytical functions characterizing the encoding or transcoding functions. The analytical functions are then used to generate granular tables of estimated measures of encoded-signal properties. A fast search mechanism relies on the granular tables, together with sorted arrangements of the granular tables, to determine, in real-time, preferred encoding parameters for multimedia data streams received at an encoder or a transcoder.
US09338446B2	Method of starting camera in user equipment, user equipment and storage medium A method of starting a camera, a user equipment and a storage medium are provided. A memory in the user equipment is additionally utilized to store calibrated OTP data therein so that the calibrated OTP data stored in the memory can be written directly into a register of an optical sensor of the camera each time the user equipment accesses the camera to thereby avoid OTP data calibration each time the user equipment accesses the camera, and shorten a period of time for the user equipment to access the camera and a period of time for the camera to start while avoiding an overly amount of calibration calculations, lowering a load on a kernel of the user equipment and improving the experience of a user.
US09338442B2	Visual displays and TelePresence embodiments with perception of depth using a curved surface reflected backdrop System and method for a visual display system with a two-way mirror, which is between the observation zone and the image display device, positioned at an angle to reflect a backdrop surface that may be wider than the image display device or a backdrop with mirrored sides to extend the visual perception of the backdrop surface. A camera may be included with the visual display system for telepresence applications. The two-way mirror may extend into wall panels on the sides to form a room that appears to extend in depth by the reflection of the wall panels and a backdrop panel.
US09338440B2	User interface for three-dimensional modeling A method of acquiring a set of images useable to 3D model a physical object includes imaging the physical object with a camera, and displaying with the camera a current view of the physical object as imaged by the camera from a current perspective. The method further includes displaying with the camera a visual cue overlaying the current view and indicating perspectives from which the physical object is to be imaged to acquire the set of images.
US09338439B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for runtime adjustment of image warping parameters in a multi-camera system Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining, without interrupting a video processing pipeline, whether currently used warping parameters are appropriate for a multi-camera system. New warping parameters may be determined, where these parameters cause the images rectified with these new parameters to have the desired geometric properties. This determination may be made without interrupting the video processing pipeline. Warping parameters may be determined, for example, such that the epipolar lines of the two cameras are horizontal and properly aligned, as defined below, and the metric 3D position of a point observed by both cameras can be determined and is accurate.
US09338438B2	Calibrating range-finding system using parallax from two different viewpoints and vehicle mounting the range-finding system A range-finding system includes two imaging devices to capture multiple images from two different viewpoints and a parallax calculator to calculate parallax based on the multiple images captured by the two imaging devices. The parallax calculator includes an estimation unit to estimate a correction value based on the amount of image deviation in a lateral direction corresponding to pixel position in the images captured by the two imaging devices and a correction unit to correct a pre-correction parallax or an image based on the correction value estimated by the estimation unit.
US09338436B2	Imaging device and imaging method A first imaging device and a second image device are connected with each other in a communicatable manner, and data of imaging timing and data of an exposure period of the first imaging device are transmitted to the second imaging device. In the second imaging device, the imaging timing and the exposure period can be set based on the data of the imaging timing and the data of the exposure period which are received. Therefore, an image is taken by the first imaging device and the second imaging device with the imaging timing and the exposure period of the first imaging device agreeing with those of the second imaging device.
US09338430B2	Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, and decoding method The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method capable of suppressing the amount of information without degrading the image quality of an image of a viewpoint that is used when the compatibility is secured in a case where a multi-viewpoint image is encoded. A compatible encoder generates a compatible stream by encoding an image A1 that is a compatible image. An image converting unit lowers the resolution of images B1 and C1 that are auxiliary images. An auxiliary encoder generates an encoded stream of the auxiliary image by encoding the auxiliary image of which the resolution is lowered. A multiplexing unit transmits the compatible stream and the encoded stream of the auxiliary image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an encoding device that encodes a 3D image of the multi-viewpoint mode.
US09338429B2	Video processing apparatus capable of reproducing video content including a plurality of videos and control method therefor In a video processing apparatus, image information relating to a graphic image corresponding to a first video is converted using difference information calculated from first view-point information relating to a first video and second view-point information relating to a second video. A graphic image corresponding to the second video is generated based on the converted image information, and the generated graphic image and an image of the second video are synthesized.
US09338427B2	Scaling pixel depth values of user-controlled virtual object in three-dimensional scene Pixel depth values of a user-controlled virtual object in a three-dimensional scene may be re-scaled to avoid artifacts when the scene is displayed. Minimum and maximum threshold values can be determined for the three-dimensional scene from a target derived from pixel depth data for the three-dimensional scene. Each pixel depth value of the user-controlled virtual object can be compared to the minimum threshold value and the maximum threshold value. A depth value of each pixel of the user-controlled virtual object that falls below the minimum threshold value can be set to a corresponding low value. Each pixel depth value of the user-controlled virtual object that exceeds the maximum threshold value can be set to a corresponding high value.
US09338424B2	Processing depth data of a three-dimensional scene A signal processing device for processing three-dimensional image data, having two-dimensional (2D) image data and 2D depth data, includes an input for receiving the 2D image data and the 2D depth data. Further, a first outlier detector is used for establishing a statistical depth deviation of a depth value from other depth values in a first spatial neighborhood of the 2D depth data. A second outlier detector is used for establishing a statistical image deviation of an image value from other image values in a second spatial neighborhood of the 2D image data. The signal processing device also includes a depth value generator for, in dependence on the statistical depth deviation and the statistical image deviation, providing a replacement depth value when the statistical depth deviation exceeds the statistical image deviation.
US09338419B2	Image processing apparatus and control method therefor An image processing apparatus is provided that allows accurate white balance gains to be obtained by accurately estimating the illuminant colors of various objects in an image. The white balance gains are obtained based on values of white pixels that have been extracted from an input image and have colors included in an extraction range, and the white balance gains are obtained based on specular reflection components included in the input image, are mixed in accordance with a mix ratio. The mix ratio is determined in accordance with, for example, a degree of reliability of extraction of the white pixels.
US09338406B2	Method and system for collaborative recording and compression A data compression reduces redundancy over time using information from other frames and among different viewers. A personal compressed copy of content includes an array of keys, an encrypted copy of the content and a codebook. The codebook, which is not a copy of the content, may be stored in shared memory.
US09338397B2	Information processing device and conference system An information processing device includes an imaging unit configured to take an image; a first image processing unit configured to perform a first image process on the taken image; a sending unit configured to send the image, which has undergone the first image process, to a device that is a communication destination; and a changing unit configured to change a process content of the first image process, according to usage scene information received from the device that is the communication destination, the usage scene information specifying at least one usage scene among a plurality of usage scenes defined in advance.
US09338394B2	System and method for providing enhanced audio in a video environment A method is provided in one example and includes receiving audio data at a microphone array that includes a plurality of microphones. The microphone array is provisioned at a first endpoint, which includes a camera element configured to capture video data associated with a video session involving the first endpoint and a second endpoint. The method also includes formatting the audio data into a time division multiplex (TDM) stream, and communicating the stream to a port for a subsequent communication over a network and to the second endpoint.
US09338393B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus An in-vehicle apparatus includes an FM radio tuner that receives FM broadcast waves of a reception frequency that is set; a FM radio controller; an LCD unit that is capable of changing a horizontal synchronous frequency corresponding to each horizontal line by varying a horizontal blanking period along the horizontal direction, without changing the numbers of effective pixels in horizontal display and vertical display, and an effective display period; a horizontal synchronous frequency setter that sets the horizontal synchronous frequency so that a minimum value of the differences between the reception frequency of the FM broadcast waves and multiplied frequencies that are integral multiples of the horizontal synchronous frequency is higher than or equal to a certain value; and a video processor that generates a video signal necessary to display at least one of a working screen and an operation screen in the LCD unit.
US09338392B1	Hough transformation deinterlacing circuitry Integrated circuits with interpolating circuitry for deinterlacing video data are provided. Each frame of video data may include a field of pixels from every-other row of the frame. Edge detection circuitry may generate an edge map for the field. The edge map may be filtered to remove weak edges from the map. Cartesian Hough transformation circuitry may perform Cartesian Hough transforms on the filtered edge map to generate a Cartesian Hough space histogram. The Cartesian Hough space histogram may be filtered to remove bins having insufficient counts. Offset mask generation circuitry may generate an offset mask based on the Cartesian Hough space histogram. Interpolation circuitry may generate interpolated pixel values for missing rows of the field using pixels from the field and the offset mask. The interpolating circuitry may generate deinterlaced video data that is free from image artifacts along low-angle edges using the interpolated pixel values.
US09338388B2	Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate first moving image data and second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data and having a smaller amount of data than that of the first moving image data, an output unit configured to output the moving image data, a recording unit configured to record the moving image data on a recording medium, and a control unit configured to generate identification information for identifying the second moving image data and to control the recording unit to add the identification information to the second moving image data and record the resultant second moving image data on the recording medium, wherein the control unit controls the output unit to add the identification information of the second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data to the first moving image data and output the resultant first moving image data.
US09338387B2	Integrated audio video signal processing system using centralized processing of signals Integrated processing of audio/video signals can eliminate unnecessary signal processors and converters without losing the functionality of typical home entertainment system components. The integrated system includes a main player that captures and processes signals digitally, a dummy display, and a dummy speaker. The dummy display may only have a display panel and a panel driver. The dummy speaker may only have a driving unit and no crossover logic. The main player may have a PC architecture and process all signals digitally for outputting signals tailored for the display device and the individual driving units of the dummy speaker. The integrated system may also provide dynamic signal adjustments based on the surrounding environment. The main player may include a storage device and can process media content stored therein to produce supplemental information to provide an optimal audiovisual experience. This supplemental information can be shared among users over a network connection.
US09338385B2	Identifying ancillary information associated with an audio/video program A system communicates video information including television content associated with a plurality of channels and ancillary information. Information may be transmitted with the ancillary information that is indicative of the type of content included in the ancillary information. This provides the user, in one embodiment of the present invention, with a visual indication of the type of information that accompanies television content. This helps the user to decide whether the user wishes to view the ancillary information and provides the opportunity to select that enhancement for viewing.
US09338384B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus including electrically connected substrates A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel unit which has a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, wherein each of the pixels that a photoelectrical conversion element which generates a photoelectrical conversion signal corresponding to an amount of incident light disposed on a first substrate, and which outputs a photoelectrical conversion signal generated by each of the pixels to each row as a pixel signal, and an analog-to-digital converter which is disposed on every one or more columns of the pixel unit and generates a digital signal by digitizing a phase state of a multi-phase clock including clock signals of a plurality of phases different from each other at predetermined fixed intervals according to the pixel signal. Each of first and second circuit configuration units whose circuit scales are determined according to the multi-phase clock is disposed on a different substrate of a first or second substrate.
US09338382B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for making and using eyeglasses with adaptive lens driven by gaze distance and low power gaze tracking Described is an electro-optical apparatus and method for correcting myopia that includes at least one adaptive lens, a power source, and an eye tracker. The eye tracker includes an image sensor and a processor operatively connected to the adaptive lens and the image sensor. The processor is configured to receive electrical signals from the image sensor and to control the correction power of the adaptive lens to correct myopia, with the correction power dependent on a user's gaze distance and myopia prescription strength. A lower-power-consumption method of eye glint tracking is further described.
US09338379B2	System, device, and method for obtaining an image of a person's skin There is provided an imaging device including a lighting unit whose lighting directions to a subject are able to be switched, and a control unit that performs focus adjustment on the subject for every lighting directions to calculate evaluation values in accordance with focus states, and determines a direction in which a focus state becomes best as a lighting direction based on the evaluation values to capture the subject.
US09338377B2	Solid-state image pickup device having a level shift unit and signal processing unit where a voltage range supplied to the level shift unit is wider than a voltage range supplied to the signal processing unit Dark current from a transfer transistor is suppressed and power-supply voltage in a second semiconductor substrate is lowered. A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel array, a plurality of common output lines receiving signals read out from a plurality of pixels, a transfer scanning unit sequentially driving the plurality of transfer transistors, a signal processing unit processing the signals output to the common signal lines, and a level shift unit making amplitude of a pulse supplied to a gate of the transfer transistor larger than amplitude of a pulse supplied to a gate of a transistor constituting the signal processing unit. The pixel array and the level shift unit are arranged on a first semiconductor substrate, whereas the plurality of common output lines and the signal processing unit are arranged on a second semiconductor substrate.
US09338374B2	Solid-state image sensor, method for driving solid-state image sensor, and electronic device Provided is a solid-state image sensor including a pixel array unit and a driving control unit. In the pixel array unit, pixels each including a charge accumulation unit accumulating a photocharge corresponding to an amount of received light, a signal conversion unit converting the photocharge into an electric signal, and a charge transfer unit performing, with a driving signal, switching between a conduction state and a non-conduction state, the charge transfer unit being disposed between the charge accumulation unit and the signal conversion unit are arranged. The driving control unit controls a state of the charge transfer unit with the driving signal and performs a first driving control in which the charge transfer unit is kept being in the conduction state from when the photocharge is transferred from the charge accumulation unit to the signal conversion unit until when a first signal corresponding to the transferred photocharge is read out.
US09338370B2	Visual system having multiple cameras A visual system including a near-to-eye display supported by a frame adapted to be worn by a user such that each display is positioned proximate an eye of a wearer, a set of cameras supported by the frame, the cameras having different overlapping fields of view, and a processor coupled to receive images from the cameras and adapted to integrate and transform images from the set of cameras to provide a mosaic image for viewing on the display having a wider field of view than an individual camera provides.
US09338368B2	Imaging apparatus, method of detecting flicker, and information processing unit An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device configured to convert light into an electric signal and to output the electric signal; an exposure control section configured to variably control an exposure period of the imaging device with use of an electronic shutter; and a flicker detection section configured to detect a flicker based on variation in an output signal from the imaging device when speed of the electronic shutter is varied from relatively-high speed to relatively-low speed.
US09338366B2	Apparatus and method for compensating for back light of image An apparatus and method for compensating for back light of an image are provided. The method includes receiving an image at a preset time interval, upon receiving the image, dividing pixels constituting the received image according to preset ranges, determining whether the received image is a back light image by confirming a distribution degree of pixels of each of the divided ranges, adjusting the brightness of the back light image when the received image is the back light image, and storing the received image and the back light compensated image.
US09338365B2	Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor An image pickup apparatus arranged so that an optical image of an object obtained by emitting a flash is converted into an electric signal to obtain a first image regarding photographing of the object, the same optical image of the object is converted into an electric signal to obtain a second image, a distance from the object is measured for each image area of the first image on the basis of the second image, and the first image is corrected on the basis of the distance from the object measured for each image area and light distribution characteristic data of a flash stored beforehand corresponding to the distance of the object.
US09338360B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus whose posture is easily adjustable is provided. The imaging apparatus is configured to include an inclination detector detecting a degree of inclination of one of the imaging apparatus and an image captured by the imaging apparatus relative to a horizontal direction orthogonal to a direction of gravity; a display unit; a first inclination indicator unit allowing the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the degree of inclination according to a detection result from the inclination detector; a second inclination indicator unit notifying via sound according to a detection result from the inclination detector that the degree of inclination is over a predetermined value; and a selector unit allowing at least one of the first and second inclination indicator units to operate.
US09338358B2	Image capture apparatus and control method for reflecting exposure compensation An image capture apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit which acquires image data, a photometry unit which performs photometry using the image data, an exposure control unit which performs exposure control when the image data acquisition unit acquires image data, a gain control unit which performs gain control for the image data, a display unit which displays a captured image reflecting the exposure compensation value set by a setting unit, and a control unit which controls to, when the exposure compensation value falls within a predetermined range, reflect the exposure compensation value on the exposure control by the exposure control unit, and when the exposure compensation value falls outside the predetermined range, reflect the exposure compensation value on the exposure control by the exposure control unit and the gain control by the gain control unit.
US09338355B2	Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a motion vector detection unit, a shake detection unit, a shake calculation unit configured to calculate a shake amount of the image capturing apparatus between the two images, an image blurring conversion unit configured to convert an output from the shake calculation unit into an image blurring amount of an image, a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, by using at least one of an output from the motion vector detection unit and an output from the image blurring conversion unit, a correction amount for electronically correcting the image blurring amount of the image, and a correction unit configured to electronically correct image blurring of the image based on an output from the correction amount calculation unit.
US09338353B2	Method of and system for detecting motion in real time A method and a system for detecting a motion in real time. The system includes: a parallel image generator which generates, in parallel, multi-resolution images, the generated multi-resolution images having at least one or more resolution levels; a characteristic dot extractor which extracts a characteristic dot from at least one of the generated multi-resolution images; and a motion vector detector which detects a motion vector from a low-resolution image based on the extracted characteristic dot and extends the detected motion vector of the low-resolution image to a motion vector of high-resolution.
US09338352B2	Image stabilization systems and methods A method and systems of stabilizing a sequence of infrared (IR) images captured using an infrared (IR) imaging system, includes: generating edge information representations of selected captured IR images in said sequence; for each generated edge information representation, generating a second representation having a reduced amount of information compared to the edge information representation; determining displacements between captured IR images in relation to previous IR images in said sequence based on a comparison between said second representations; generating a stabilized sequence of IR images by shifting said captured IR images based on said determined displacements.
US09338347B2	Electronic device and method for adjusting photographic lamp In a method for adjusting a photographic lamp of an electronic device, the electronic device obtains a preview image from a camera device of the electronic device, and obtains a brightness value of an ambient environment of the electronic device. When a human face is detected in the obtained preview image, the electronic device changes a current output power value of the photographic lamp to be a first output power value, according to the obtained brightness value. When no human face is detected in the obtained preview image, the electronic device changes the current output power value to be a second output power value according to the obtained brightness value.
US09338345B2	Reliability measurements for phase based autofocus Techniques related to autofocus for imaging devices and, in particular, to generating reliability values associated with phase autofocus shifts are discussed. Such techniques may include performing a curve fitting based on accumulated phase difference values and phase shifts for phase autofocus images and generating a reliability value for a focus phase shift based on the curve fitting.
US09338343B2	Imaging apparatus and method for controlling same Provided is an imaging apparatus that acquires an object distance to an object and focus position information for each of a plurality of divided areas of an imaging screen corresponding to an imaging area. The imaging apparatus acquires data of the amount of field curvature corresponding to the imaging distance and removes a field curvature component from the object distance and the defocus amount so as to determine a plurality of objects which is equi-spaced from the imaging apparatus and faces the imaging apparatus. When the plurality of objects is equi-spaced from the imaging apparatus and is arrayed so as to face the imaging apparatus, a focused position at which an error in the defocus amount on the entire imaging screen is minimized is calculated. If otherwise, a focusing reference area is selected and then a preferential focusing operation is performed for an object corresponding to the area.
US09338337B2	Camera module having a dust trap The present invention relates to a camera module, the camera module including a base supporting a filter member mounted on a position corresponding to that of an image sensor mounted on a PCB (Printed Circuit Board), a dust trap unit mounted about the filter member of the base to collect soils including dust introduced into the filter member, wherein the dust trap unit includes an epoxy reception groove formed with one or more ribs formed at a periphery of the filter member mounted at the base, and a dust trap epoxy coated on an inside of the epoxy receptin groove.
US09338335B2	Lens drive apparatus, lens barrel to which the lens drive apparatus is applied, and image pickup apparatus A lens drive apparatus includes a yoke which has a first parallel portion parallel to an optical axis and a second parallel portion which is located closer to the optical axis than the first parallel portion, the first and the second parallel portions being magnetically coupled, a magnet arranged at the first parallel portion to extend in the optical axis direction, a first lens frame which has a first coil wound around the second parallel portion and which is guided by a first guide shaft, and a second lens frame, which has a second coil wound around the second parallel portion and which is guided by a second guide shaft, and the first and the second guide shafts are arranged at positions so as not to interfere with the yoke in a cross-section perpendicular to the optical axis.
US09338332B2	Thin form factor computational array cameras and modular array cameras Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement one-dimensional array cameras, as well as modular array cameras using sub-array modules. In one embodiment, a 1×N array camera module includes: a 1×N arrangement of focal planes, where N is greater than or equal to 2, each focal plane includes a plurality of rows of pixels that also form a plurality of columns of pixels, and each focal plane not including pixels from another focal plane; and a 1×N arrangement of lens stacks, the arrangement of lens stacks being disposed relative to the arrangement of focal planes so as to form a 1×N arrangement of cameras, each configured to independently capture an image of a scene, where each lens stack has a field of view that is shifted with respect to that of each other lens stack so that each shift includes a sub-pixel shifted view of the scene.
US09338329B2	Image processing including color conversion for a printed image There are provided an image processing apparatus that can appropriately update a color profile referred to by an OS when color conversion is performed and/or an output condition associated with the color profile, a controlling method of the image processing apparatus. To achieve this object, in a case where a color profile and/or an output condition associated with the color profile are/is updated, by using the updated information, a color profile referred to by an OS when color conversion is performed and/or an output condition associated with the color profile are/is updated.
US09338327B2	Image processing device A reproduction color storing section stores pieces of color information in association with a color range that is stored in a color range storing section and includes a fluorescent color targeted for detention. Each piece of color information specifies a reproduction color candidate usable for reproducing the fluorescent color. The pixel extracting section extracts, from image data, a pixel having the fluorescent color based on the color range. A display control section reads, from the reproduction color storing section, the pieces of color information corresponding to the fluorescent color of the extracted pixel and displays the reproduction color candidates specified by the pieces of color information on a display section. The reproduction color receiving section receives a reproduction color selected by a user from the displayed reproduction color candidates. The fluorescent color reproducing section replaces color information of the extracted pixel with color information specifying the received reproduction color.
US09338326B2	Image processing apparatus to which security policy is applicable, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An image processing apparatus that is capable of appropriately applying security policy data based on an information security policy. Security policy data containing a policy name of a security policy and a security policy setting value corresponding to the policy name is applied to the image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains updating security policy data for updating the security policy data. An application version determination unit determines whether the updating security policy data obtained by the obtaining unit will be applied according to a predetermined application version setting value, when a version of the updating security policy data differs from a version of security policy data that is being applied actually. An application unit applies the updating security policy data when the application version determination unit determines that the updating security policy data will be applied.
US09338325B2	Image forming apparatus issuing a notification to a network-connected terminal in response to occurrence of an event, image forming apparatus management and control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing image forming apparatus control program An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet based on image data, an operation display unit for operation and display, a communication unit that performs communication via a network, and a control unit that manages and controls the apparatus, and, if a predetermined event has occurred at the apparatus, the control unit makes an information terminal apparatus connected to the network activate a remote panel for the image forming apparatus.
US09338323B2	Multifunction peripheral which carries out printing processing according to an instruction of an application that operates on an information processing apparatus and method therefor In a case of a first function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from a user of a multifunction peripheral (10), the user is set as an execution user. In a case of a second function of carrying out a cooperative processing in accordance with an instruction from an application, a user instructed by the application is set as an execution user. Further, in a case where an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the first function and an execution user of a cooperative processing carried out using the second function are identical, use history information of the execution user is managed as use history information of a single user. This makes it possible to appropriately manage use history information of a cooperative processing.
US09338321B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction along a conveyance path; a first reading unit configured to read an image of a first surface of the sheet conveyed by the conveyor through a first reading surface; a second reading unit configured to read an image of a second surface opposite to the first surface of the sheet conveyed by the conveyor through a second reading surface; a first pressing member, which is made of a resin, is configured to face the first reading surface and is configured to urge the sheet passing through the conveyance path towards the first reading surface; and a second pressing member, which is made of metal, is configured to face the second reading surface and configured to urge the sheet passing through the conveyance path towards the second reading surface.
US09338320B2	Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same An image forming apparatus includes a printer unit to form an image and outputting the image on a sheet, a storage unit, a control unit to control hardware resources of the image forming apparatus including at least the printer unit and the storage unit by executing a first OS that is activated on the image forming apparatus and a control program operating on the first OS and that can execute second to N-th OSs that activate at least one application and an emulator disposed between the first OS and the second to N-th OSs to allow the second to N-th OSs to operate on the first OS, wherein the control unit can cause the first OS to enter into a sleep mode and inhibits the first OS from entering into the sleep mode when at least one of the second to N-th OSs is active.
US09338310B2	Image processing apparatus and computer-readable medium for determining pixel value of a target area and converting the pixel value to a specified value of a target image data An image processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires original image data and specifies a plurality of target areas including a first target area and a second target area, and the target areas include background pixels and colored pixels. The controller determines pixel values of first colored pixels, respectively, the pixel value representing a color of the first colored pixel; determines a first conversion pixel value based on the pixel values of the first colored pixels; determines pixel values of second colored pixels, respectively, the pixel value representing a color of the second colored pixel; and determines a second conversion pixel value based on the pixel values of the second colored pixels. The controller converts the pixel value of every pixel included in each of the first target area and the second target area into each of the first conversion pixel value and the second conversion pixel value.
US09338309B2	Operating system supporting cost aware applications A mobile computing device that supports cost-aware application components for operation over a metered network. A current basis for computing usage charges over one or more networks may be made available to the cost-aware application components through an application programming interface supported by an operating system service. That service may receive a policy for charging for data usage over a network and may also obtain information defining data usage for the mobile computing device. Based on this information, the service may determine a current basis for charging for data usage. With this information, the application component can determine a manner for executing network operations that involve data transmission over the network, such as deferring the operation or selecting an alternative network.
US09338301B2	Digital linking of multiple microphone systems Systems and methods for digitally linking multiple microphones and managing microphone signals are provided. Embodiments provide for digitally linking of multiple auto-mixer systems where a large number of microphones are required. In large auto-mixer systems, microphone input channels may be distributed among many devices. Rather than transmitting these signals individually to a central processing device for the auto-mixer, it is most efficient to distribute the audio signal processing functions of the automatic microphone mixer among multiple devices in an audio conferencing system. Subsequently, a smaller number of gated mixes of microphone signals may be transmitted between devices. Thus, embodiments of the present invention act to digitally link multiple microphone signals, arbitrating these signals, in order to enable distributed automatic microphone mixers to behave as a single mixer.
US09338300B2	Method for communicating status or warning regarding mobile device functions This provides for controlling mobile device functions and features. For example, it limits or disables the use of some of mobile device features which could cause distraction to the user, when the user is engaged in another activity. In an example, it enables other mobile device features based on occurrence of events related to the user or environment. Another example addresses controlling the mobile device features, such as SMS, while the user is in a vehicle or driving. Another example restricts the ability of the driver of a vehicle to text, while the vehicle is in motion, by automatically disabling the texting ability of mobile device within and around the perimeter of the driver's seat. Other variations, examples, improvements, detection mechanisms, models, techniques, calculations, verification mechanisms, and features are also described in details.
US09338297B2	Setup application for generating custom code Contact centers often employ a number of in-memory processes as one means of providing fast and efficient data processing. In-memory processes produce messages for reports or as inputs to other processes. While every available message producing option may be turned on, the processing overhead may be burdensome on even the most powerful computing platforms. As a result, contact centers selectively activate the production of messages. Furthermore, errors and/or inefficiencies may exist when a message produced is either not used or not producing the message content expected. Similarly, messages may be expected but the production of such a message has not been enabled and/or has been disabled, possibly inadvertently. By being able to apply a semantic level change, which in turn is mapped to individual reporting elements of reporting objects, the reporting objects may be modified and/or optimized to produce the desired data without requiring a programming to manually implement such changes.
US09338294B2	Automated task definitions Task analysis of an interactive communication system (ICS) can be performed manually. Manual task analysis is costly and time-consuming process. In an embodiment, a method of defining tasks within an ICS includes identifying hub node(s) to be marked as unavailable from consideration as nodes within a task. The at least one hub node can be within a directed graph representing flows through an ICS. The method further includes, from available nodes, automatically identifying a connected subgraph that corresponds to nodes representing an area of functionality defining a task within the ICS. The method additionally includes repeating the identifying of the connected subgraph at least one time. The method also includes outputting an indicator of the at least one hub node identified and the connected subgraphs that represent corresponding areas of functionality defining respective tasks. Therefore, task analysis is improved by extracting task definitions from the graph data automatically.
US09338292B2	Method and apparatus for selective silencing of telephone ringing A system and method for a selective ring silencer that prevents people from having to listen to the telephone ring on and on with nuisance calls. The ringer silencer can be: (1) discretely constructed from a telephone, (2) part of a telecommunication device, or (3) part of a central telephone network construction. A receiver demodulates an incoming call. Control logic reads at least a portion of the called identification (CID) data and determines an action based on the reading. A switch in communication with the control logic is actuated to a first state that allows the communication data to be output from the ring silencer, and a second state that blocks the communication data from being output from the ring silencer to a user's communication device. The control logic blocks toll-free area codes originated calls from ringing a user's telephone, optionally forwarding the call to a voice mail module.
US09338291B2	Using an ISDN message header to support time zone identification Inserting time zone information within an Integrated Services for Digital Network (ISDN) message header is provided. A time zone indicator corresponding to an origin of a communication is inserted into a time zone indicator field within a header of an ISDN message. The ISDN message with the inserted time zone indicator corresponding to the origin of the communication within the header is sent to another data processing system via a network.
US09338283B1	Reduction in network congestion A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when read by a processor perform receiving a telephony connection request, determining addressing information regarding the telephony connection request, the addressing information including at least routing information or a phone number, determining traffic information regarding the telephony connection request based on the addressing information, the traffic information including previous telephony connection requests, sending a reply in response to the telephony connection request, wherein: forwarding the telephony connection request to an intended recipient would result in a system response, and the reply differs from the system response.
US09338282B2	Data processing in a digital subscriber line environment Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for data processing in a digital subscriber line environment are provided. In one aspect a method includes (i) determining a deterioration of a connection between a centralized unit and a decentralized unit during an initialization of the connection; and (ii) disabling the connection based on the deterioration.
US09338281B2	Method and apparatus for detecting and locating loop impairments According to certain aspects, the present invention relates to methods and apparatuses to identify and locate a line-cuts in a loop that may or may not also contain bridgetaps. In embodiments, different bands of SELT signal data are analyzed separately using a TDR method, to effectively detect any potential bridgetaps. In these and other embodiments, by combining information from the separate bands, bridgetap locations and lengths are determined. Methodology is also established to distinguish legitimate line cut or bridgetap signal data from spurious data. According to certain aspects, embodiments of the invention also incorporate baselining, which includes tests to make sure that there are no inconsistencies or imperfections that can corrupt the SELT data.
US09338280B2	System and method for managing telephony endpoint inventory A system and method for managing an endpoint repository of a communication platform that includes managing a set of telephone endpoints that can be in an allocated state or an unallocated state; classifying endpoints of the set of telephone endpoints with a set of classifiers; evaluating endpoint inventory across a set of endpoint classification groupings and detecting at least one classification grouping that, based in part on the allocated and unallocated state of corresponding endpoints, satisfies an inventory update condition; generating an endpoint transfer request that specifies the endpoint classifiers of the classification grouping; and selectively adding endpoints from the inventory source to the endpoint repository.
US09338279B2	Mechanism for connecting a mobile device to a network A system and method are disclosed for offloading control of services in a mobile device to a non-cellular wireless network, such as Wi-Fi. The described system and method allow the overall connection management to be performed by an application processor, while services are handled in a modem using Wi-Fi connectivity. The Wi-Fi subsystem can be fully driven by the modem for time critical operations allowing the application processor to be off (or in low-power mode) when it is not involved in the delivery of services. Battery power is saved by being able to substantially power down the application processor.
US09338276B2	Gating accessory connection Embodiments of the invention can manage the activity of accessories connected to a mobile computing device. A mobile computing device can be connected to any number of accessories through wireless or physical connections. Processing and resource limitations at the mobile computing device limit the number of accessories that can feasibly interoperate with the mobile computing device at any one time. In some embodiments, a threshold value is placed on the number of accessories with which a mobile computing device can interoperate at any one time. This threshold value can depend on the types of accessories, the application(s) executing on the mobile computing device, the processing power, whether media output resource are being used, etc. In response to a threshold number of accessories being connected, the mobile computing device can deactivate accessories.
US09338272B2	Communication apparatus that detects improper connection of cable, control method therefor, and storage medium A communication apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of events arising from improper connection. A voltage being applied to an interface for connecting a phone is detected, and it is determined whether or not a value of the detected voltage is equal to or greater than a value determined in advance. When it is determined that the value of the detected voltage is equal to or greater than the value determined in advance, a user is notified that there is a possibility of improper connection. When it is determined that the value of the detected voltage is not equal to or greater than the value determined in advance, a power feeding unit starts feeding power to the interface.
US09338271B2	Mobile terminal and method forming case of the same A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure includes a terminal main body, a case covering the terminal main body, and forming at least part of appearance of the terminal, wherein the case comprises a penetration line formed through the case along a predetermined path, and forming a connecting portion between ends of the penetration line, and wherein the connecting portion extends from the case, and an input part is formed on a region formed by the penetration line and the connecting portion, the input part being rotatable based on the connecting portion.
US09338269B1	Context sensitive backlight Systems and methods for controlling the lighted display of a mobile device are disclosed. The backlight of or active power supplied to a display is reduced or deactivated after a certain period based on the application running on the mobile device, rather than being a uniform deactivation time. The system and method can be used on a variety of mobile devices having a display screen.
US09338268B2	Wireless docking with carrier sense control A wireless docking system in a shared radio spectrum environment includes a docking station (220) configured with a radio (224) connected to an antenna (222), a dockee (210) configured with a radio (214) connected to an antenna (212) and using a radio standard with a carrier sense mechanism for communications with the docking station, and a system to reduce sensitivity of the carrier sense mechanism in at least one of the radio (214) of the dockee (210) and the radio (224) of the docking station (220).
US09338265B2	Mobile device to operate in tablet mode and phone mode A mobile device is provided that may switch between a first arrangement and a second arrangement. The mobile device may include a communication device to provide wireless communication. A first panel may be provided having a display, and a second panel may be provided having a display. A first hinge device may couple the first panel to the second panel. A first magnet may be provided at or near a side surface of the first panel, and a second magnet may be provided at or near a side surface of the second panel.
US09338263B2	Multiplexing packets in high speed downlink packet access communications Processing a received multiplexed data packet on a downlink channel, in a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) communication, utilizing protocol layers is disclosed. The multiplexed data packet may have multiple data packets for two medium access control (MAC) entities. A header of the multiplexed data packet may indicate a number of data packets in the multiplexed data packet and a size of each of the multiple data packets.
US09338262B2	IPv4/IPv6 dual stack software/hardware apparatus and method for processing internet packet Disclosed are an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack software/hardware apparatus for processing an Internet packet and a method thereof. The IPv4/IPv6 dual stack software/hardware apparatus for processing an internet packet includes: a hardware type packet processor configured to process the Internet packet by a system logic circuit; a software type packet processor configured to process the Internet packet according to execution of a previously prepared program; and a packet process controller configured to receive the Internet packet to control the hardware type packet processor to process the Internet packet of a preset protocol, and to control the software type packet processor to process the Internet packet of another preset protocol.
US09338260B2	Protocol conversion apparatus and protocol conversion method A protocol conversion apparatus and a protocol conversion method. The protocol conversion apparatus includes a first control to analyze first protocol data received through a first channel, a protocol mapper to determine whether protocol conversion is required for the first protocol data, and a second control to create second protocol data associated with the first protocol data based on a result of the determination, and to transfer the second protocol to a second channel.
US09338259B2	User defined protocol for zero-added-jitter and error free transmission of layer-2 datagrams across lossy packet-switched network links A zero-added-jitter protocol for transmission of datagrams over packet-switched networks between two or more connected microprocessor devices with negligible packet delay variation and negative acknowledgment datagram recovery. A method for the analysis and preservation of the instantaneous bitrate and packet spacing provides for the output of the datagrams to a network facing provider edge device matching in timing and inter-packet spacing, that which was originally received, along with a pre-configured time-delay for error correction. Additional embodiments provide duplication of path for reduction of re-requests; the splitting of path for faster transport between transmitter and receiver; encryption for more secure transport between transmitter and receiver; compression for more efficient transport between transmitter and receiver; and encryption and compression, for more secure, efficient transport between transmitter and receiver.
US09338256B2	System for generating page element by server using interface configuration acquiring from user equipment Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field and provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for acquiring media. The method for acquiring media includes the following: A user interface server acquires a media acquiring request generated by a browser, where the media acquiring request includes interface configuration information of a user equipment; and the user interface server generates, according to the interface configuration information, a page element corresponding to an interface of the user equipment, and the user interface server sends the page element to the user equipment, or the user interface server generates, according to the interface configuration information, page information corresponding to the interface of the user equipment, and the user interface server sends the page information to the user equipment, where the page information includes the page element and media information.
US09338253B2	Apparatus and method for providing semantically aware network services A method and apparatus where network-layer devices use host-provided, detailed, per-packet, semantic information (DPPS information), which describes the content, meaning, importance, and/or other attributes of particular application data and is associated with each packet, to provide enhanced network services. In some embodiments of the above method, network-layer devices use DPPS information that includes QoS-related information to provide fine-grained, content-aware, and/or complex QoS assurances or similar services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide network-based, application-protocol-independent, rate-adaptation services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide highly efficient, application-protocol-independent, publish/subscribe dissemination services.
US09338247B2	Roaming queries prior to association/authentication A mechanism to enable roaming queries prior to association/authentication while maintaining the advantages of power saving mechanisms can be implemented. The mechanism can involve requiring a mobile terminal to request the desired information a second time so that the access point may take sufficient time to obtain the desired information. The mechanism can be implemented in conjunction with IEEE 802.11.
US09338245B2	Status indicator for communication systems A variety of techniques and devices for acquiring user status information at a transmitting device to a receiving device, or vice versa, are provided.
US09338244B2	Remote virtual supervision system A server includes a data communication controller and an analyzer for monitoring social changes in a neighborhood and providing indicators to appropriate agencies. The data communication controller receives from a plurality of information sources, through a telecommunication network, a plurality of social behaviors for a particular neighborhood and a plurality of monitoring criteria. The analyzer assigns a weight for each social behavior according to the monitoring criteria, calculates a total score for the monitoring criteria, compares the total score against the monitoring criteria, and generates an indicator if the total score matches a criterion in the monitoring criteria. The data communication controller sends the indicator to a third party agency.
US09338240B2	System and method for naming a location based on user-specific information A method, system, and device for naming a location at which a user is present with a mobile communication device, including retrieving general information relating to the location, the general information managed by or for an entity other than the user; comparing the retrieved general information relating the location to user-specific information managed by or for the user; identifying an atemporal correlation between the retrieved general information and the user-specific information; generating at least one name for the location based on the atemporal correlation between the retrieved general information and the user-specific information providing the at least one name for the location for selection; and storing the name selected for the location from the at least one name.
US09338236B2	Computer-implemented method for checking a communication input of a programmable logic controller of an automation component of a plant In order to determine for a programmable logic controller whether or not a communication input is blocked, a nominal/actual comparison between the communication input and predefined rules of a nominal communication is performed, a reaction matrix being used for case differentiation.
US09338232B2	Method and system for synchronizing status of member servers belonging to same replication group A system for synchronizing a state of a member server with a state of other member servers belonging to a same replication group, the system including: a server sequence storage unit storing a first server sequence; a message receiving unit receiving an external message from a service server and receiving a second state update message from a second member server belonging to the same replication group including the member server, the second state update message including a second server sequence; an external message processing unit, in response to the receiving the external message, increasing the first server sequence by a predetermined value, generating a first state update message including the first server sequence, and transmitting the first state update message to the second member server; and a state update message processing unit, in response to the receiving the second state update message, changing the first server sequence to the second server sequence when the second server sequence included in the second state update message is larger than the first server sequence stored in the server sequence storage unit.
US09338227B2	Automated management of content servers based on change in demand Methods and apparatus for detecting a change in demand for server resources across a load-bearing system having one or more content servers hosting identical content, the load-bearing system being connected to a network of content servers; and automatically modifying the number of content servers on the load-bearing system in response to the change in demand.
US09338226B2	Actor system and method for analytics and processing of big data The embodiments herein provide a system architecture, application model and methods to write Big Data programs using actor systems and asynchronous messaging middleware akka and scala language. The system comprises an actor network connected to a cloud network and to a distributed virtual machine (DVM) network. The actors are connected respectively to the DVMs based on a predefined protocol. A scheduler is provided to schedule the resources to an actor in the actor network. A stop and start mechanism is provided to change a connection between the actors and the DVMs. The system server sends a message to the actor to disconnect an actor connected to one DVM and to connect the actor to another DVM based on a load of a process agent present in each DVM to balance a load on the actor. The system server adds three fundamental operations over actor systems.
US09338220B1	System and method to anonymize data transmitted to a destination computing device A method and system for anonymizing data to be transmitted to a destination computing device is disclosed. Anonymization strategy for data anonymization is provided. Data to be transmitted is received from a user computer. The data includes a plurality of fields. One or more fields are selectively extracted. A hash using the extracted fields is computed. The computed hash is stored. Anonymization of the data is performed, using an anonymization module. Anonymized data is transmitted to the destination computing device over a network.
US09338218B1	Distributed platform as a service A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) comprising capturing metadata about the big data stored in clouds at an informational infrastructure layer.
US09338217B2	Method and apparatus for computing within a wide area network A cluster computer system including multiple network accessible computers that are each coupled to a network. The network accessible computers implement host computer programs which permits the network accessible computers to operate as host computers for client computers also connected to the network, such that input devices of the client computers can be used to generate inputs to the host computers, and such that image information generated by the host computers can be viewed by the client computers. The system also includes a cluster administration computer coupled to the multiple network accessible computers to monitor the operation of the network accessible computers. A method for providing access to host computers by client computers over a computer network includes receiving a request for a host computer coupled to a computer network from a client computer coupled to the computer network, wherein the relationship of the host computer to the client computer is to be such that after the client computer becomes associated with a host computer, an input device of the client computer can be used to generate inputs to the host computer, and such that image information generated by the host computer can be viewed by the client computer. Next, a suitable host computer for the client computer is determined, and the client computer is informed of the network address of the suitable host computer.
US09338210B2	Distributing content items to users Systems and methods for providing content items to users. A first content item is divided into an opening portion and a remainder portion. The opening portion begins at a chronological beginning of the first content item and ends a predetermined number of digital units from the chronological beginning of the first content item. The opening portion may be encoded according to an encoding format. The opening portion may be stored at a first remote data storage location. In response to a request for the content item from a user device, the first remote data storage location is instructed to stream the opening portion to the user device. The remainder portion may be encoded according to the encoding format and streamed to the user device.
US09338207B2	Remote cine viewing of medical images on a zero-client application Systems and methods for remotely viewing medical images on a client device having a zero-client web application with a buffering module. The zero-client web application receives an image series selection from a user and receives corresponding series details from a web server. The zero-client web application generates an off-screen image array according to the series details. The buffering module outputs image requests based on the series details to a web server. The web server is in communication with a medical image database storing images in a non-web browser compatible format (e.g., DICOM). The buffering module then populates the off-screen image array with converted medical images received from the web server. The zero-client web application further includes an on-screen image and a display module. The display module sequentially sets converted medical images of the off-screen array as the on-screen image to stream the converted medical images.
US09338202B2	Managing a collaborative space Managing a collaborative space includes providing a collaborative space in which a number of users collaborate from respective client devices, monitoring content of the collaborative space to determine a context of collaboration in the collaborative space, and changing an operation of at least one functionality of the collaborative space based on the determined context of collaboration in the collaborative space.
US09338199B2	System and method for determination of an interaction map An example method is provided and includes receiving recorded meeting information, selecting a meeting participant from the recorded meeting information, determining at least one of meeting participant emotion information, meeting participant speaker role information, or meeting participant engagement information based, at least in part, on the meeting information, and determining an interaction map associated with the meeting participant based, at least in part, on at least one of the meeting participant emotion information, the meeting participant speaker role information, or the meeting participant engagement information.
US09338192B1	Connection management using connection request transfer protocol A network device receives, from a client device, a client request associated with a connection with a server device, where the client request identifies requested content. The network device determines connection information that identifies the connection with the server device, transmits, to a proxy server, a connection transfer request that identifies the connection information and the requested content, and receives, from the proxy server, an indication that the proxy server is capable of providing the requested content. Based on receiving the indication, the network device provides, from the proxy server to the client device, a response to the client request, and provides, from the proxy server and to the server device, information that causes the server device to terminate the connection. The network device may use a connection request transfer protocol to transmit the connection transfer request, and the client request may be an HTTP request.
US09338190B2	System and method for managing multimedia communications across convergent networks A method and device that interrogates the availability of a called party before placing a communication from the calling party to the called party. A callback may be initiated so that both communications are completed simultaneously. The routing of communication may take place through any one of a number of different networks and at another time of the day, even if the caller does not otherwise have access to those networks.
US09338188B1	User agent to exercise privacy control management in a user-centric identity management system A client-side user agent operates in conjunction with an identity selector to institute and exercise privacy control management over user identities managed by the identity selector. The user agent includes the combination of a privacy enforcement engine, a storage of rulesets expressing user privacy preferences, and a preference editor. The editor enables the user to direct the composition of privacy preferences relative to user identities. The preferences can be applied to individual cards and to categorized groups of attributes. The engine evaluates the proper rulesets against the privacy policy of a service provider. The privacy preferences used by the engine are determined on the basis of specifications in a security policy indicating the attribute requirements for claims that purport to satisfy the security policy.
US09338185B2	Service provision A method and system for service provision, comprising: a web browser (4) in a first communications device (e.g. a personal computer) (2) running a script (8) that is from a remote source (e.g. a remote web server) (30); sending, from the first communications device (2) to a second communications device (e.g. a smart phone) (16), a service request for a service required by the script (8) running on the web browser (4); sending a user authorization request from the second communications device (16) to the first communications device (2); the first communications device (2) obtaining authorization from a user (12); sending a user authorization from the first communications device (2) to the second communications device (16); and the second communications device (16) providing the requested service only if the user authorization is received.
US09338177B2	Prefix hijacking detection device and methods thereof A method of placing prefix hijacking detection modules in a communications network includes selecting a set of candidate locations. For each candidate location, a detection coverage ratio with respect to a target Autonomous System is calculated. Based on the relative size of the coverage ratios, proposed locations for the prefix hijacking detection modules are determined.
US09338176B2	Systems and methods of identity and access management The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods of providing identification and access management. The system could include a network security zone having access rules for a network resource object associated with the network. The system could also include a module to collect information related to an attempt to access the network resource object and to generate an alert if the collected information fails to meet certain requirements related to the access rules. The module could change the access rules to prevent possible future unauthorized access attempts based on the collected information.
US09338174B2	Systems and methods for inhibiting attacks on applications In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods that protect an application from attacks are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, input from an input source, such as traffic from a communication network, can be routed through a filtering proxy that includes one or more filters, classifiers, and/or detectors. In response to the input passing through the filtering proxy to the application, a supervision framework monitors the input for attacks (e.g., code injection attacks). The supervision framework can provide feedback to tune the components of the filtering proxy.
US09338173B2	Methods and apparatuses for avoiding damage in network attacks Methods and apparatuses in a client terminal and a web server for enabling safe communication between said terminal and server. When the terminal obtains a web page from the server in a session, the terminal creates a context-specific key, Ks_NAF′, based on one or more context parameters, P1, . . . Pn, pertaining to said session and/or web page. The terminal then indicates the context-specific key in a login request to the server, and the server determines a context-specific key, Ks_NAF′, in the same manner to verify the client if the context-specific key determined in the web server matches the context-specific key received from the client terminal. The context-specific key is thus bound to and valid for the present context or session only and cannot be used in other contexts or sessions.
US09338172B2	Enhanced IPsec anti-replay/anti-DDOS performance A method for authenticating an Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) packet, wherein the method comprises, receiving the IPsec packet via an input port, performing a Sequence-Integrity Check Value (SEQ-ICV) check that validates a sequence number within the IPsec packet, and performing an Integrity Check Value (ICV) check that validates a checksum within the IPsec packet, wherein the SEQ-ICV check is performed before the ICV check. In yet another example embodiment, an apparatus for transmitting an IPsec packet, comprising a processor, and a transmitter coupled to the processor, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit an IPsec packet that comprises a header that comprises a sequence number field that provides a sequence number, and a payload that comprises one or more SEQ-ICV segments used to authenticate the sequence number within the IPsec packet.
US09338159B2	Method and apparatus for sharing wireless network subscription services A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for enabling multiple mobile terminals to access a subscription service. The method may further include causing a client certificate to be issued to the first mobile terminal as a result of the certificate enrollment procedure. In some example embodiments, the client certificate comprises a subscription identifier and a flag indicating whether the client certificate is to be sharable with a second mobile terminal. The method may further include causing a certificate enrollment procedure to be initiated by a second mobile terminal with the first mobile terminal in an instance in which the first mobile terminal possesses one or more credentials that are configured to be shared with another mobile terminal. The method may further include the second mobile terminal receiving at least one credential in the form of a client certificate from the first mobile terminal.
US09338158B2	System and method for secure content sharing and synchronization A flexible content sharing system may comprise a network based application built on a client device using information from dissociated user experience component (UXC), application logic and execution layer (ALEL), and content distribution system (CDS) payloads. An ALEL engine may communicate a request from the network based application to a CDS module. The CDS module may interface the ALEL engine and a CDS server. The ALEL engine can act as a gate keeper and securely communicates requests from client devices to the CDS server. The CDS server is configured to manage and alert the ALEL of any enterprise policies that may be applicable to the client devices connected to the ALEL engine which, in turn, notifies the client devices to comply with the enterprise policies. The CDS server may synchronize any change made to the content by any of the client devices running network based applications.
US09338156B2	System and method for integrating two-factor authentication in a device A system and method for providing secondary-factor authentication with a third party application that can include enrolling a device application instance of an account into a secondary-factor authentication service on behalf of a service provider that includes at the secondary-factor authentication service, receiving a secondary factor of authentication enrollment request of an account, the request received from the service provider, transmitting an activation code, and pairing the device application instance with the account through the activation code; receiving an authentication request identifying the account; transmitting an authentication request to the device application instance paired with the account; validating a response to the application request; and transmitting an assessment to the service provider.
US09338155B2	Security device provisioning The provisioning of a security token object to a user is disclosed. The security token object is used for accessing a computing resource through a mobile device. A security token object provisioning request may be received from the mobile device. In response, an authentication request may be transmitted. The user is authenticated against a user identity based upon a set of received identity credentials provided by the user. The extraction of a unique token identifier from the security token object is initiated, and completed without intervention from the user. The unique token identifier received from the client computer system is associated with to the user identity in a data store. By providing the security token object, the user can gain access to the computing resource.
US09338153B2	Secure distribution of non-privileged authentication credentials An authentication credentials push service (ACPS) that securely pushes non-privileged authentication credentials to registered client entities. The ACPS comprises a classification server and a push server to provide access to non-privileged authentication credentials absent a pull transaction. The classification server in the ACPS classifies authentication credentials as either privileged (i.e. private, forgeable) or non-privileged (i.e. non-forgeable, non-sensitive). Credentials identified as being of a privileged nature are treated with restricted access. Alternatively, credentials classified as being of a non-privileged nature are made available for the push service. Authentication servers register with the ACPS to become consumers of the push service. A push server within the ACPS pushes non-privileged authentication credentials to registered authentication servers at predetermined intervals. Individual authentication credentials push services (ACPS) have access to different authentication credentials. An authentication server can use a dynamic name service (DNS) lookup to find a specific authentication credentials push service (ACPS).
US09338152B2	Personal control of personal information A personal information server provides personal information about an individual to a third-party only when authorized by the individual through use of a previously authenticated computing device. The personal information server authenticates both the computing device used by the third-party to access the personal data and the device used by the individual to grant or deny such access using highly secure digital fingerprints of each. The individual can allow the third-party multiple instances of access to the personal information within restrictions specified by the individual. Other advantages also arise from large-scale tracking of which devices access and control personal information of many people—particularly with respect to identifying and preventing fraud and identity theft.
US09338151B2	Method and device for controlling the execution of at least one function in a short range wireless communication module of a mobile phone A method and device for controlling the execution of at least one function in a short-range wireless communication module of a mobile apparatus adapted for receiving at least one identification card. After transmitting an information request to the identification card, to obtain at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card, an answer including at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card is received therefrom. When the answer is identified and in response to the at least one piece of information, the at least one function is executed. An authentication request is received by the short-range wireless communication module. If the answer is authenticated, the short-range wireless communication module sends an authorization to the authentication request in response to the at least one piece of information characteristic of the identification card before the execution of the at least one function.
US09338148B2	Secure distributed information and password management A method, performed by a computer device, may include receiving an indication that a first user has acquired rights to access a digital content; generating a key for the digital content; encrypting the digital content using the generated key to generate encrypted digital content; obtaining a first passcode; and providing the first passcode and the encrypted digital content to a user device associated with the first user. The method may further include receiving, from the user device, a request for the key, wherein the request include the first passcode; determining that the first passcode is valid; determining that the key has not expired; and providing the key to the user device, in response to determining that the first passcode is valid and that the key has not expired.
US09338147B1	Secure communication secret sharing Embodiments are directed to sharing secure communication secrets with a network monitoring device (NMD). The NMD may passively monitor network packets communicated between client computers and server computers. If a secure communication session is established between a client computer and a server computer, a key provider may provide the NMD a session key that corresponds to the secure communication session. The NMD may buffer each network packet associated with the secure communication session until the NMD is provided a session key for the secure communication session. The NMD may use the session key to decrypt network packets communicated between the client computer and the server computer. The NMD may then proceed to analyze the secure communication session based on the contents of the decrypted network packets.
US09338145B2	Security patch without changing the key A method of patching a cryptographic implementation without changing a key in a cryptographic system, including: sending a message from a first message set to the cryptographic implementation, wherein the first message uses a first portion of the cryptographic implementation; deciding to patch the cryptographic implementation; sending a second message from a second message set to the cryptographic implementation after deciding to patch the cryptographic implementation, wherein the second message use a second portion of the cryptographic implementation that is not used for any messages in the first message set.
US09338143B2	Stateless web content anti-automation A computer-implemented method for coordinating content transformation includes receiving, at a computer server subsystem and from a web server system, computer code to be served in response to a request from a computing client over the internet; modifying the computer code to obscure operation of the web server system that could be determined from the computer code; generating transformation information that is needed in order to reverse the modifications of the computer code to obscure the operation of the web server system; and serving to the computing client the modified code and the reverse transformation information.
US09338141B2	Embedded module system with encrypted token authentication system Method and systems for accessing and providing protected content are disclosed herein. An example system includes a client configured to access a third-party application to receive at least one piece of content associated with a first identifier; wherein the client comprises a token generator configured to generate a token requesting the at least one piece of content, the token comprising at least one private encryption key and the first identifier. The system further includes an embedded module system comprising a database of content, the content separated into a plurality of modules, the embedded module system configured to receive the token and decrypt the at least one private encryption key. The embedded module system may further authorize the client by comparing the first identifier with a second identifier stored in the database.
US09338136B2	Security key generation for simultaneous multiple cell connections for mobile device A first security context is established between a given user computing device and a first network computing device associated with a first network cell of a communications network to enable a secure data connection between the given user computing device and the first network computing device. A second security context is established between the given user computing device and a second network computing device associated with a second network cell of the communications network to enable a secure data connection between the given user computing device and the second network computing device simultaneous with the secure data connection between the given user computing device and the first network computing device. Establishment of the second security context includes the first network computing device sending the given user computing device a simultaneous secure data connection parameter useable by the given user computing device to establish the second security context with the second network computing device.
US09338130B2	Apparatus and method to register Wi-Fi clients on a Wi-Fi network Techniques are provided to enable the registration of an embedded device with a wireless network, such as a Wi-Fi network. An established client of the wireless network formulates one or more data packets having an unencrypted multicast address, where at least a portion of the multicast address is unnecessary for transmission of the data packets over the wireless network. The established client inserts network configuration information in the unused portion of the multicast address and transmits the data packets over wireless network. The network configuration information can include a network identification (SSID) and network password. Any access point that receives the multicast packets will retransmit multiple times per standard protocol, allowing the embedded device to receive the original transmission from the client device or the retransmissions. Since the address portion of data packets are not encrypted, the embedded device can determine the SSID and any password from the multicast packets, and thereafter register with the wireless network.
US09338127B2	Browser based hostname resolution for non-DNS (domain name service) and/or different DNS environments Communication between (at least) two domains where domain name resolution for the first domain is not going to be available to clients in the second domain “as a service” but more as a “capability” available inherently in web containers. This can be accomplished as follows: (i) connecting a first server computer in direct data communication with a first domain and a second domain; (ii) storing domain name system (DNS) mapping information for the second domain on the first server computer; (iii) storing a first network page related to a network application on the first server computer; and (iv) sending, from the first server computer to a client computer on the first domain, the first network page and the DNS mapping information for the second domain.
US09338125B2	Automatically providing a communication based on location information for a user of a social networking system Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member.
US09338123B2	Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods An exemplary method includes a content hub subsystem receiving a content posting from an access device connected to a wireless network and associated with a first user. The content posting includes data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance. The exemplary method further includes the content hub subsystem storing the content posting and selectively distributing the content instance to at least one other access device connected to the wireless network based on the geographic location, the at least one other access device associated with a second user. A past or present physical location of the at least one other access device within a predefined proximity of the geographic location is requisite to the distribution of the content instance to the at least one other access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09338121B2	System and method for managing a messaging campaign within an enterprise A method and system for managing a messaging campaign within an enterprise are disclosed. Such a method includes generating with a server a user interface, the interface being configured to allow a user to select a recipient list based upon one or more contextual attributes stored in a database, wherein the contextual attributes are based upon the interaction of one or more recipients with external systems. The method also includes selecting a recipient list using the user interface based upon a set of contextual attributes, generating electronic messages within a message campaign, and sending the electronic messages to recipients on the recipient list.
US09338113B2	Real-time messaging method and apparatus A system and method for the late-biding of time-based media in real-time With late binding, the sender may create time-based media before or at the same time an active delivery route to the recipient is discovered. As soon as the route becomes available, the media is transmitted. The existing DNS and email infrastructure is possibly used for route discovery, while any real-time transmission protocol may be used for the actual delivery of the media. “Progressive” emails may also be used for the real-time delivery of time-based media.
US09338112B2	Safety protocols for messaging service-enabled cloud services In one embodiment, a cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may filter messages in a message synchronization between a message service account and a cloud service account. A cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may associate a message service account 114 on a user messaging device 110 with a cloud service account 122. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may execute a message synchronization between the cloud service account 122 and the message service account 114. The cloud service interface 112 or a device interface 124 may apply a message filter to the message synchronization.
US09338110B1	Method of providing instant messaging service, recording medium that records program therefore, and terminal Disclosed are a method of providing an instant messaging service, a recording medium that records a program therefor, and a terminal. A real time camera capture image is output to a background screen of a dialog window for displaying an instant message so that a user can keep his/her eyes forward through the background screen of the dialog window and use an instant messaging service while moving. Moreover, the real time camera capture image is transmitted to a partner in a conversation through the background screen of the dialog window according to the user's simple input so that it is possible for the user to share circumstances around him or her with the partner in real time.
US09338108B2	Inter-modal messaging communications Inter-modal messaging communication is described. In one embodiment, a method of communication includes receiving an electronic mail message to be distributed and determining whether the electronic mail message is a multi-modal distribution message. Respective portions of the message may be separated for each mode of distribution. The separated portions may represent portions to be delivered by SMS messaging and facsimile, for example. The method further includes the steps of transmitting a short message comprising the short message portion of the mail message and establishing a conversation comprising conversation attributes. The conversation attributes are referenced, in certain aspects, to maintain a conversation between an originator of the received electronic mail message and a distribution address of short message portion of the mail message. For example, upon receipt of a short message in reply, the short message may be forwarded to an originator of the conversation.
US09338107B2	Transferring message context information using extended simple mail transfer protocol binary data chunking A client computer sends an extended simple mail transfer protocol extended hello command to a server computer. In response, the server computer sends an advertisement to the client computer to identify a capability to receive message context information. The client computer, in turn, analyzes the capability advertisement to determine if it has any blobs associated with the capability identified in the capability advertisement to send. If the client computer has one or more blobs to send, the client computer sends a parameter in a MAIL command to the server computer specifying that the client computer will utilize the capability identified in the capability advertisement and specifying an order in which to expect the blobs if the client computer intends to send more than one blob. The client computer sends the blob(s) to the server computer after receiving an indication that the server computer is ready to receive the blob(s).
US09338105B2	Providing oversubscription of pipeline bandwidth A system for providing oversubscription of pipeline bandwidth comprises a steer module, an absorption buffer, an ingress packet processor (IPP), a memory management unit (MMU), and a main packet buffer. The steer module receives packets that include start of packet (SOP), middle of packet (MOP), and end of packet (EOP) cells, attaches a packet identifier to the cells, passes the MOP and EOP cells to the MMU, and stores the SOP cells and EOP metadata in the absorption buffer. The IPP processes the SOP cells and EOP metadata and passes the same to the MMU. The MMU stores the MOP, EOP, and processed SOP cells in the main packet buffer, combines, upon receiving the processed EOP metadata of each packet, the processed SOP cell, the MOP cells and the EOP cell of each packet to reconstruct each packet, and queues each reconstructed packet in an egress port queue.
US09338103B2	Injecting congestion in a link between adaptors in a network Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for injecting congestion in a link between adaptors in a network. A congestion request is sent to a selected adaptor in a containing network component comprising one of a plurality of network components. The selected adaptor is in communication with a linked adaptor in a linked network component comprising one of the network components. The congestion request causes a delay in servicing the selected adaptor to introduce congestion on a link between the selected adaptor and the linked adaptor.
US09338100B2	Method and apparatus for aggregating input data streams A method and apparatus aggregate a plurality of input data streams from first processors into one data stream for a second processor, the circuit and the first and second processors being provided on an electronic circuit substrate. The aggregation circuit includes (a) a plurality of ingress data ports, each ingress data port adapted to receive an input data stream from a corresponding first processor, each input data stream formed of ingress data packets, each ingress data packet including priority factors coded therein, (b) an aggregation module coupled to the ingress data ports, adapted to analyze and combine the plurality of input data steams into one aggregated data stream in response to the priority factors, (c) a memory coupled to the aggregation module, adapted to store analyzed data packets, and (d) an output data port coupled to the aggregation module, adapted to output the aggregated data stream to the second processor.
US09338099B2	Dynamic queuing and pinning to improve quality of service on uplinks in a virtualized environment At a network element having a plurality of physical links configured to communicate traffic over a network to or from the network element, an uplink group is formed comprising the plurality of physical links, wherein the plurality of physical links comprise a first physical link and a second physical link. A plurality of classes of service are defined comprising a first class of service and a second class of service, wherein the first class of service and second class of service have bandwidth allocations on the first physical link. Traffic congestion is detected on the first physical link that exceeds a predetermined threshold for the first class of service. Traffic associated with one or more virtual machines associated with the first class of service on the first physical link is re-associated to the second physical link until the traffic congestion falls below the predetermined threshold.
US09338095B2	Data flow segment optimized for hot flows Embodiments are directed towards improving the performance of network traffic management devices by optimizing the management of hot connection flows. A packet traffic management device (“PTMD”) may employ a data flow segment (“DFS”) and control segment (“CS”). The CS may perform high-level control functions and per-flow policy enforcement for connection flows maintained at the DFS, while the DFS may perform statistics gathering, per-packet policy enforcement (e.g., packet address translations), or the like, on connection flows maintained at the DFS. The DFS may include high-speed flow caches and other high-speed components that may be comprised of high-performance computer memory. Making efficient use of the high speed flow cache capacity may be improved by maximizing the number of hot connection flows and minimizing the number of malicious and/or in-operative connections flows (e.g., non-genuine flows) that may have flow control data stored in the high-speed flow cache.
US09338091B2	Procedures for efficient cloud service access in a system with multiple tenant logical networks A method of providing efficient access to cloud services in a network that includes a several tenant logical networks and a set of service logical networks. The method receives, from a particular tenant VM, a first packet that specifies a destination address associated with a service VM of a service logical network. The method, based on the destination address of the first packet, replaces the source network address and source port number of the first packet with one of a set of network address and port number pairs allocated for accessing service VMs. The method receives from the particular VM a second packet that specifies a destination address outside the tenant logical network but not associated with any service VM. The method, without modifying the source address and port number of the second packet, forwards the second packet to a network element outside the host for network NAT processing.
US09338089B2	Method and system for using extension headers to support protocol stack migration An IP packet may include an IP header and one or more optional IP extension headers. The packet may contain non-IP protocol data in one of the IP extension headers. An application that uses non-IP protocol data may use the non-IP protocol data from the IP extension header. This allows an application designed for a non-IP protocol stack to operate on a device with an IP protocol stack with minimal modification. The non-IP protocol data may support routing options within a network or sub-network.
US09338087B2	Source identification preservation in multiprotocol label switching networks A source Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network element, a destination MPLS network element, and a MPLS method are disclosed which introduce the concept of a source label into the MPLS label stack for source identification preservation. The source label can located at the bottom of the label stack thereby being a last item popped in the MPLS stack at the destination node, or indicated subsequent to an explicit reserved label identifier. The source label is used for maintaining Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) data efficiently without requiring deep packet inspection.
US09338085B2	Smart mobility management entity for UE attached relay node A system includes a communication section communicably connected to a network, and configured to receive requests for data flows from user equipment attached to the network. The system may further include a flow path determination section configured to determine, for each data flow requested, an optimal signal path from among a plurality of potential signal paths based on substantially current characteristics of the potential signal paths and on characteristics of the data flow requested. The system may further include a command plane section configured to control routing of each requested data flow in accordance with the optimal signal path determined by the flow path determination section for the respective data.
US09338081B2	Method and computer program products for routing a data unit For routing a data unit through a chain of nodes, the nodes are assigned addresses that are increasing in one direction of appearance of the nodes in the chain. For routing the data unit, the receiving node first verifies if the destination address of the data unit corresponds with the address of its first hop neighbor or its second hop neighbor, and the node routes the data unit directly to its first hop neighbor or its second hop neighbor if this is the case. Otherwise, the node determines the difference between the destination address of the data unit and its own address or the difference between the source and destination address of the data unit, selects a routing direction depending on the sign of this difference, and selects a first hop link when the difference is in magnitude below a threshold value or a second hop link when the difference is above the threshold value.
US09338079B2	Method of routing multicast traffic A method of routing multicast traffic in a computer network is disclosed. The method comprises associating a plurality of multicast group addresses on a network device with respective multicast routing topologies. A network device and a network are also disclosed.
US09338078B2	Technique to minimize traffic loss on a router reload/restart A link state information correction scheme is implemented by the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the correction scheme is implemented by a reload logic module that cooperates with link state protocol logic configured on a reload routing element (or routing element that has reloaded or hard restarted). The reload logic module is configured to receive a database descriptor message at a reload routing element, where the database descriptor message is received from a neighbor routing element during an adjacency formation. The reload logic module is also configured to determine whether the database descriptor message identifies a stale version of a link state advertisement (LSA), where the LSA is self-originated by the reload routing element. The reload logic module is also configured to generate a new version of the LSA during the adjacency formation.
US09338076B1	Deriving hardware acceleration of decoding from a declarative protocol description A test-and-measurement instrument is described. The test-and-measurement instrument can store a state machine. As the state machine is used to analyze a bit stream, breadcrumbs can be saved from states in a memory of the state machine. The breadcrumbs can then be used to analyze the operation of the state machine.
US09338075B2	Method for monitoring traffic in a network and a network For providing a simple monitoring mechanism with reduced resource and performance requirements a method for monitoring traffic in a network is claimed, wherein a monitoring activity of at least two monitoring probes of the network is coordinated by a coordinating element, wherein at least two nodes of the network are able to operate as coordinating elements and wherein the responsibility for coordinating the monitoring activity of the monitoring probes is split between the nodes according to a compressed representation of flow parameter keys. Further, an according network is described, preferably for carrying out the above mentioned method.
US09338073B2	Enhanced dynamic multicast optimization The present disclosure discloses a system and method for enhanced dynamic multicast optimization based on network condition measurement. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: measure a network condition for a multicast group using one or more metrics; determine whether to convert all stations in the multicast group to unicast based on the network condition; and responsive to determining not to convert the all stations in the multicast group to unicast, determine, based on the network condition, a sub set of the multicast group for converting the subset of the multicast group to unicast, wherein the subset includes less than all stations in the multicast group.
US09338072B2	Optimizing the quality of audio within a teleconferencing session via an adaptive codec switching A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session between computing devices can be identified. Each computing device can be associated with a communication link. Each of the computing devices can execute a VoIP application. Each application can include selectable codecs. The codecs can be an audio codec and a video codec. A unique list of the selectable codecs can be generated. The list can include sublists which can identify the codecs. A loss threshold with each sublist based on previously determined performance characteristics of the codecs can be associated. The threshold can be a packet loss threshold value of the link associated with the devices. A packet loss metric of the link can be evaluated. The link can be associated with a codec of the sublists. A programmatic action can be performed to select a different codec from the sublists responsive to the evaluating.
US09338066B2	Tunnel keep-alive timeout mechanism based on quality of service (QoS) value of received keep-alive messages A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a variable tunnel keep-alive interval is presented. A tunnel keep-alive packet for a first tunnel is received at a first switching device. A Quality of Service (QoS) value of the keep-alive packet ishcekce. A determination is made regarding whether the QoS value corresponds to a QoS value of network control traffic, and when the QoS value of the keep-alive packet is lower than the QoS value of the network control traffic then a value of a tunnel keep-alive interval is increased.
US09338065B2	Predictive learning machine-based approach to detect traffic outside of service level agreements In one embodiment, a request to make a prediction regarding one or more service level agreements (SLAs) in a network is received. A network traffic parameter and an SLA requirement associated with the network traffic parameter according to the one or more SLAs are also determined. In addition, a performance metric associated with traffic in the network that corresponds to the determined network traffic parameter is estimated. It may then be predicted whether the SLA requirement would be satisfied based on the estimated performance metric.
US09338064B2	System and method for managing a computing cluster A system and method that includes managing a computer cluster with a plurality of machines of a first version in an active configuration; adding at least one machine of a second version to the computer cluster; monitoring the operational status of the machine of a second version; and transitioning the computer cluster to use the machine of a second version in an active configuration.
US09338063B2	Automatic extraction, modeling, and code mapping of application user interface display screens and components Managing user applications is provided. A display screen data package that includes images of user interface display screens of a user application located on a client device and screen position coordinates corresponding to components displayed within the user interface display screens is received from the client device via a network. The display screen data package is parsed to identify each component within each of the user interface display screens. A visual model of user interface display screens of a user application is generated. A runtime policy for each component in a selected set of components within the user interface display screens of the user application is generated based on user interaction with the generated visual model of the user interface display screens. The generated runtime policy for each component in the selected set of components is sent to the client device via the network.
US09338061B2	Open station as a stream analysis operator container An open station as a stream analysis operator container is disclosed. In an example, a method is stored as instructions on computer readable media and executable by a processor. The method includes packaging graph-structured stream transformations into a topology of a top-level dataflow process including stream transformation operators (STOs) on open stations. The method also includes sending a tuple from one of the STOs to every other STO in the topology subscribed to a data stream of the tuple.
US09338058B2	Determination of communication routes in a wireless communication network A network manager device in an industrial wireless network sends a network investigating message to other network nodes for processing and forwarding through the network, the message including a message weight. A wireless communication device providing a node in the network receives the message from another network node, determines a communication weight based on the quality of communication, adds the communication weight to the message weight and compares the sum with the node weight. If the sum is lower than the node weight, it is set as new node weight and as new message weight, whereupon the changed message is sent to other nodes in the network. The network manager device maps the topology of the network based on updated node weights, sets a communication scheduling scheme based on the mapped topology and informs the network nodes of the scheme.
US09338054B2	Method, computer program, and algorithm for computing network service value pricing based on communication service experiences delivered to consumers and merchants over a smart multi-services (SMS) communication network A system and method for providing multi-services within a communication network according to various exemplary embodiments can include storing, in a database of a computer, user-defined sets of rules and instructions for providing multi-services to end user devices connected to a communication network comprising a Hybrid Fiber-Wireless (HFW) network having policy management capabilities. The system and method can receive, at one or more processors, the user-defined sets of rules and instructions from a plurality of end users via a plurality of end user devices. The system and method can configure a virtual network for each end user within the communication network using the policy management capabilities based on the user-defined sets of rules and instructions provided by each end user. The user-defined sets of rules and instructions define provisioning and delivery of resources and services provided by the communication network to the end user.
US09338053B1	Automatically configuring virtual private networks Disclosed are various embodiments for configuring virtual private networks (VPNs). A request is made, through a service call, for creation of a VPN through a client VPN gateway and a server VPN gateway. In response to the service call, a generic gateway configuration document is received. The generic gateway configuration document is applicable to the client VPN gateway. The generic gateway configuration document is translated to a device-specific gateway configuration document.
US09338052B2	Method and apparatus for managing the interconnection between network domains A control protocol is run in the interconnect region between network domains so that the interconnect region may be managed using a separate control plane. According to an embodiment of the invention, a spanning tree protocol is used to establish a separate spanning tree within the interconnect region. To avoid loop formation within the interconnect region, links interconnecting adjacent edge nodes that are part of the interconnect region and which belong to a given domain are allowed to pass control frames but not data frames. OAM may be used detect link failure of a link between adjacent nodes on a given domain.
US09338050B2	Shared keep-alive and failure detection mechanism in distributed network Node, computer readable medium and method for detecting a failed node in a structured network. The method includes assigning nodes of a neighboring set either to an active group or to a passive group, wherein the nodes of the neighboring set are connected to a current node; instructing active nodes in the active group to send a keep-alive query to the current node, wherein a timing for sending the keep-alive query from the active nodes to the current node is controlled by the current node; instructing passive nodes to listen for a keep-alive query from the current node and to reply with a keep-alive query response to the current node; configuring the current node to reply with a keep-alive query response to the active nodes; and determining the failed node based on (i) the keep-alive query response received from the passive nodes and (ii) the keep-alive query sent by the active nodes. The current node is configured to not send the keep-alive query to the active nodes and the passive nodes are configured to not send a keep-alive query to the current node.
US09338046B2	Port pooling In one embodiment, methods and systems for port pooling are described. An interface may communicate with at least one physical server. The at least one physical server may host a plurality of virtual servers and be connectable via a plurality of gateway ports to a storage area network (SAN). A virtual server manager configured to arrange the plurality of gateway ports in a plurality of port pools, define a virtual server group including a plurality of virtual servers, associate each virtual server with one or more port pools, the one or more port pools defining available gateway ports for access by the particular virtual server; and provide configuration instructions to allow the particular virtual server to communicate with the SAN through the available gateway ports.
US09338042B1	Separating and extracting modulated signals Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving an input signal, where the input signal includes a carrier signal modulated with a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal, and where the second modulation signal is a TM signal. Demodulating the first modulation signal from the input signal. Modulating an un-modulated carrier signal with the first modulation signal to generate a third signal, where the third signal includes the carrier signal modulated by the first modulation signal. And, removing the first modulation signal from the input signal by subtracting the third signal from the input signal to extract the TM signal from the input signal.
US09338034B2	Ternary sequences with power of two exponent dimensionalities suitable for channel estimation Methods, systems, and devices for channel estimation in a location tracking system are described. The methods, system, and devices may include tools and techniques for determining and/or designing perfect or semi-perfect sequences (including preamble sequences) for implementation in a location tracking system. Sequences having 2's exponent dimensionality, such as ternary sequences, may be determined and employed, which may help reduce implementation complexity and/or operating power consumption. Sequences may be determined using mean square error and/or maximum autocorrelation peak performance metrics.
US09338031B2	Methods and apparatus for interference decrease/cancellation on downlink acquisition signals A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for receiving a signal including components from a plurality of cells, estimating a channel from the received signal using one or more channel estimation schemes, removing a component signal using the estimated channel from the received signal to generate a processed signal and detecting a residual signal in the processed signal.
US09338024B2	Extended layer two tunneling protocol applications and architectures A device, deployed at the edge of a provider network, includes logic to receive traffic from one or more customer edge devices, and to encapsulate the customer traffic into a Layer 2 tunnel of an IP frame. The IP frame in further included within an Ethernet frame, and quality of service priority bits are promoted from the customer traffic into both the IP frame and the Ethernet frame.
US09338023B2	Site-to-site 6rd tunneling using collocated border router and customer edge In one embodiment, a router gateway in a first Local Area Network (LAN) hosts both an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Rapid Deployment (6rd) Customer Edge (CE) as well as a 6rd Border Router (BR). In one specific example embodiment, upon registering the BR to a global computer network, the router gateway may then accept a 6rd tunnel from a device hosting a second 6rd CE of a second LAN, such that the 6rd tunnel joins the first and second LANs into a single LAN. The second CE may then communicate, via the router gateway, between the first and second LANs as a single LAN (e.g., site-to-site), accordingly.
US09338017B2	Method and device for controlling transmitter A method for controlling a transmitter, comprising: awaking and initiating the transmitter by a trigger signal generated by a timer; detecting whether the transmitter receives an input control parameter from outside of the transmitter, and if yes, updating an input control parameter stored in the transmitter by using the received input control parameter; reading the input control parameter currently stored in the transmitter; performing operations based on the read input control parameter so as to control the transmitter to select one sensor signal from a plurality of sensor signals, amplify the selected sensor signal with a gain within a first gain range, and output the amplified sensor signal; and after determining that the transmitter has accomplished a task specified by the read input control parameter, resetting the timer, and entering into a sleeping state until the timer generates the trigger signal.
US09338011B2	Document modification detection and prevention Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for document authentication. An electronic document is presented to a user. The electronic document has data representing a signed state and a current state. A disallowed difference between the signed state and the current state is detected, based on one or more rules that are associated with the electronic document. A digital signature associated with the electronic document is invalidated in response to the detecting.
US09338003B2	Secure modules using unique identification elements Various embodiments of the invention relate to secure systems and modules, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of generating and applying identification elements uniquely associated with modules or elements. These unique identification elements provide an improved, statistically random source from which keys may be derived. The application of these keys across various architectures result in an improvement in the security of data communicated within a system.
US09338000B2	Device and method for generating keys with enhanced security for fully homomorphic encryption algorithm There is proposed a method of generating secret and public keys vDGHV with enhanced security, implemented in a device including at least one microprocessor and a memory. The method includes generating a secret key SK corresponding the generation of a prime random number p or product of prime numbers.
US09337998B2	Method for improving synchronization and information transmission in a communication system A method is provided for improving synchronization and information transmission in a communication system, including: generating a signal with a centrally symmetric part s(k) exploitable for synchronization; and sending the signal over a communication channel. The signal is based on a uniquely identifiable sequence c(l) from a set of sequences exploitable for information transmission. The centrally symmetric part s(k) is centrally symmetric in the shape of absolute value thereof. The centrally symmetric part s(k) is of arbitrary length N.
US09337997B2	Transcoding method for multi-wire signaling that embeds clock information in transition of signal state A method for performing multi-wire signaling encoding is provided in which a clock signal is encoded within symbol transitions. A sequence of data bits is converted into a plurality of m transition numbers. Each transition number is converted into a sequential symbol number from a set of sequential symbol numbers. The sequential symbol number is converted into a raw symbol that can be transmitted over a plurality of differential drivers. The raw symbol is transmitted spread over a plurality of n wires, wherein the clock signal is effectively embedded in the transmission of raw symbols since the conversion from transition number into a sequential symbol number guarantees that no two consecutive raw symbols are the same. The raw symbol is guaranteed to have a non-zero differential voltage across all pairs of the plurality of n wires.
US09337992B2	Clock and data recovery using receiver clock spread spectrum modulation and offset compensation A system and method for performing clock and data recovery. The system sets the phase of a recovered clock signal according to at least three estimates of the rate of change of an offset between the frequency of the data transmitter clock and the frequency of a receiver clock.
US09337991B2	Wireless communication unit, radio frequency module and method therefor A wireless communication unit includes at least one antenna port; a transmitter and a receiver operably coupled to the at least one antenna port via a duplexer; wherein the duplexer includes a dynamically reconfigurable phase shift network that includes: at least one tunable radio frequency (RF) component; and at least one switch operably coupled to the tunable RF component and controllable to reconfigure the dynamically reconfigurable phase shift network to selectively support both normal and reverse duplexer modes of operation for RF signals passing there through.
US09337988B2	Method for supporting mobility of user equipment in a wireless communication system and apparatus for the same A method for supporting a mobility of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: performing the mobility with a target cell; receiving mobility state estimation (MSE) basis information; updating a mobility counter of the UE based on the MSE basis information; performing the MSE by estimating a mobility state of the UE based on the updated mobility counter of the UE; and scaling a mobility parameter based on the estimated mobility state.
US09337987B1	Autonomous denial of transmission in device with coexisting communication technologies A method includes determining a first measure of a benefit of disallowing transmission during a time period within a time frame. The benefit of disallowing transmission includes an immediate benefit of disallowing transmission during the time period, and a future benefit of having, for use in a subsequent portion of the time frame, a decremented number of opportunities to disallow transmission. The method also includes determining a second measure of a benefit of not disallowing transmission during the time period. The benefit of not disallowing transmission includes an immediate benefit of not disallowing transmission during the time period, and a future benefit of having, for use in the subsequent portion of the time frame, a non-decremented number of opportunities to disallow transmission. The method also includes determining whether to disallow transmission during the time period at least in part by comparing the first measure to the second measure.
US09337983B1	Use of discrete portions of frequency bandwidth to distinguish between ACK and NACK transmissions The air interface between a first node and a second node will span a frequency bandwidth defining two distinct portions, and acknowledgement message transmission such as Hybrid-ARQ message transmission will make use of those distinct portions to distinguish ACKs from NACKs. In particular, ACKs may be restricted to being transmitted within one portion of the frequency bandwidth, while NACKs may be restricted to being transmitted in different portion of the frequency bandwidth. Consequently, when the first node transmits data to the second node and receives an acknowledgement message sent in response from the second node, the first node may determine, based on which portion of the frequency bandwidth the first node received the acknowledgement message in, whether the acknowledgement message is an ACK or rather a NACK.
US09337982B2	Adaptive antenna management in LTE Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for adaptive antenna management in LTE. Devices and networks capable of transmitting and receiving signals using a variable number of transmitting or receiving antennas using LTE radio access technology are described.
US09337981B2	Terminal, base station, communication system, and communication method In a terminal that communicates with a base station, in the case where a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel, which is associated with a physical downlink shared channel on a first cell, and an enhanced physical downlink control channel associated with a physical downlink shared channel on a second cell are detected, one physical uplink control channel resource is selected from a physical uplink control channel resource configured for the physical downlink shared channel on the first cell and a physical uplink control channel resource configured for the physical downlink shared channel on the second cell.
US09337980B2	Method for controlling uplink transmission power and wireless device using same Provided are a method for controlling uplink transmission power and a wireless device. The wireless device decides a first transmission power of a first uplink channel, which is transmitted through a first wireless resource from a first serving cell, and decides a second transmission power of a second uplink channel, which is transmitted through a second wireless resource from a second serving cell. The first serving cell belongs to a first timing advance (TA) group, and the second serving cell belongs to a second TA group that differs from the first TA group. All or a portion of the first wireless resource and the second wireless resource overlap, wherein the sum of the first and second transmission powers in the overlapping portion is decided so as not to exceed a maximum transmission power.
US09337974B2	User equipment generation and signaling of feedback for supporting adaptive demodulation reference signal transmission Disclosed are UE-feedback techniques to support the adaptive DMRS transmission. A UE and eNB support adaptive DMRS transmission in which an eNB adjusts (i.e., selects) a DMRS pattern based on information describing channel conditions perceived by the UE. The UE may explicitly provide the channel conditions, or implicitly provide them by selecting a desired DMRS pattern.
US09337971B2	Wireless resource allocation method, wireless resource allocation device, and communication system An allocation of wireless resources is performed to avoid interference caused as an uplink and a downlink are mismatched between neighboring cells. When interference at a base station is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a base station side, an ABS is applied to any one of downlink and uplink sub frames. When interference at a terminal is desired to be reduced, in each portion causing interference at a terminal side, transmission or reception of a terminal is stopped. When both interference at a base station side and interference at a terminal side are desired to be reduced, basically, it is desirable to stop the same portion as when interference between base stations is reduced.
US09337970B2	Configuration of coordinated multipoint transmission hypotheses for channel state information reporting A system and method for providing an eNodeB with the flexibility to configure a Channel State Information (CSI) report to match a specific Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission hypothesis, which is a candidate for a downlink transmission to a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed. A UE receives, from the eNodeB, a configuration message that specifies a CSI report. The CSI report is specified by a particular interference hypothesis and a particular desired signal hypothesis corresponding to data transmission over at least one effective channel characterized by a specific reference signal. The UE estimates interference according to the interference hypothesis, and/or estimates at least one effective channel by performing measurements on the specific reference signal, and determines a CSI report based on the interference estimation and on the estimated effective channel. The UE also transmits the CSI report to the eNodeB.
US09337969B2	Low-frequency assisted methods for beamforming, timing and frequency offset in mm-wave access systems A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for operating a user equipment (UE) are provided. The apparatus determines a first set of beamforming directions for communication with a base station (BS) in a first network, monitors for beams in a second set of beamforming directions for communication with a millimeter wave base station (mmW-BS) based on the determined first set of beamforming directions, where the second set of beamforming directions includes the first set of beamforming directions, and where the mmW-BS is in a second network having a higher carrier frequency than the first network, and establishes a communication link with the mmW-BS based on a beamforming direction in the second set of beamforming directions.
US09337967B2	Method and device for activating secondary carrier in wireless communication system for using carrier aggregation technique The present invention proposes a method for activating secondary carriers in addition to the primary carrier in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation technology. Through the present invention, the UE sorts the operations for activating an SCell into two groups that are executed at different timings, thereby facilitating communication without malfunctioning.
US09337958B2	Data transmissions over a voice channel A modem for communicating application data over a voice channel comprises an adaptive modulator, a mixer, and a vocoder. The adaptive modulator modulates application data as a function of a source application of the application data and feedback information of the voice channel. The modulated data is inputted to the mixer. The vocoder processes the mixed data for transmission through the voice channel.
US09337953B1	Smart device for controlling avionics data transfer apparatus and method A method and apparatus for controlling data transfer between a data providing device and an aircraft equipment. The method includes operating in a device mode, wherein the device mode allows the transfer of data between the data providing device and a storage medium of an intermediate device and disallows the transfer of data between the aircraft equipment and the storage medium. The method also includes operating in an avionics mode, wherein the avionics mode allows the transfer of data between the aircraft equipment and the storage medium and disallows the transfer of data between the data providing device and the storage medium. Furthermore, the method includes no more than one of operating in the device mode or operating in the avionics mode occurring at any particular time.
US09337952B2	Embedded resilient buffer Described is an apparatus that comprises: a first sequential unit; a first queue coupled in parallel to the first sequential unit such that the first queue and first sequential unit receive a first input, the first sequential for double sampling the first input; a compare unit to receive an output from the first sequential unit; and a first selection unit controllable by a write pointer of a previous cycle, the first selection unit to receive outputs of each storage unit of the first queue, wherein the first selection unit to generate an output for comparison by the first compare unit.
US09337950B2	Service sensitive resilient IPoWDM network and method of operation A network and method of operating the network, the network comprising a transport layer that includes first and second disjoint but topologically substantially identical subnetworks A and B, each having a plurality of optical switch nodes and/or reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) nodes, and a routing layer wherein each router is coupled to at least one node in A and at least one node in B. The network is operable to provide a plurality of classes of services providing corresponding Quality of Service, and the routing layer or routing/transport interface can differentiate between traffic having different classes of service and schedule the traffic based on its service class. In the case either of the subnetworks becomes inoperable, all of the traffic is transferred to the other subnetwork, and the QoS of the classes of service is maintained by scheduling traffic to increase the delay experienced by delay-tolerant traffic.
US09337948B2	System and method for performing high-speed communications over fiber optical networks Processing a received optical signal in an optical communication network includes equalizing a received optical signal to provide an equalized signal, demodulating the equalized signal according to an m-ary modulation format to provide a demodulated signal, decoding the demodulated signal according to an inner code to provide an inner-decoded signal, and decoding the inner-decoded signal according to an outer code. Other aspects include other features such as equalizing an optical channel including storing channel characteristics for the optical channel associated with a client, loading the stored channel characteristics during a waiting period between bursts on the channel, and equalizing a received burst from the client using the loaded channel characteristics.
US09337946B2	Dual-mode low-noise block controller Exemplary embodiments are related to a dual-mode controller. A device may include a controller configured to convey a signal to a low-noise block (LNB) via a transmission line and circuitry configured to sense at least one parameter of the transmission line. The device may further include logic coupled to the circuitry and configured to determine whether the transmission line is available for transmission based on the at least one sensed parameter.
US09337938B2	Signal processing method, optical receiver and optical network system A signal processing method, an optical receiver and optical network system is provided. The method includes: receiving a first optical signal sent by an optical network unit, generating a second optical signal and modulating a phase of the second optical signal, obtaining at least one path of electrical signals after the first optical signal and the second optical signal separately undergo polarization splitting, frequency mixing, and optical-electrical conversion, outputting a third electrical signal after performing operation processing on the at least one path of electrical signals, and restoring a data signal according to the third electrical signal and performing sending. The embodiments example benefits are greatly reducing complexity of system implementation and maximally reducing a system upgrade cost and an optical power loss.
US09337937B2	Common mode rejection ratio control for coherent optical receivers An optical signal is received at a coherent optical receiver. The received optical signal is converted to a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal through a first photodetector and a second photodetector, respectively. The first electrical signal is input into a first single input variable gain amplifier, and the second electrical signal is input into a second single input variable gain amplifier. A gain of at least one of the first single input variable gain amplifier or the second single input variable gain amplifier is controlled to balance the output of the first single input variable gain amplifier and the output of the second single input variable gain amplifier. The output of the first single input variable gain amplifier and the output of the second single input variable gain amplifier are input into a differential amplifier. A receiver output is obtained at an output of the differential amplifier.
US09337936B2	Optical transmission apparatus, optical transmission method and program for optical transmission An object of the invention is to provide an optical transmission apparatus capable of reducing the influence of nonlinear effect of an optical fiber, suppressing a band requested to a device from being widened, easily bias controlling a modulator, and flexibly switching plural modulation methods.An optical transmission apparatus 301 according to the invention includes a modulator 101 and a controller 102. The modulator 101 is a modulator capable of quadrapture phase-shift keying the light from a light source and outputting the light. The controller 102 controls the input signal to the modulator 101 and causes the modulator 101 to carry out a quadrapture phase-shift keying operation or a π/2 shift binary phase-shift keying operation.
US09337933B2	Integrated optical network unit An optical network unit includes a transmit/receive port and a silicon waveguide optically coupled to the transmit/receive port. The optical network unit also includes a tunable filter coupled to the silicon waveguide and providing a first output for a first frequency band and a second output for a second frequency band. The optical network unit further includes a polarization diverse receiver coupled to the tunable filter and a laser coupled to the tunable filter.
US09337931B2	Control and provisioning in a data center network with at least one central controller Data center networks that employ optical network topologies and optical nodes to efficiently allocate bandwidth within the data center networks, while reducing the physical interconnectivity requirements of the data center networks. Such data center networks employ at least one central controller for controlling and provisioning computing resources within the data center networks based at least in part on the network topology and an application component topology, thereby enhancing overall application program performance.
US09337926B2	Apparatus and method for providing dynamic fiducial markers for devices An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described below that can provide and/or detect dynamic fiducial markers presented on a display of an apparatus. An apparatus providing the fiducial marker may initially provide for the presentation of the fiducial marker on a display, where the fiducial marker represents one or more properties of the apparatus, such as connectivity information for the apparatus. The apparatus may modify the presentation of the fiducial marker based on a change in one or more properties of the apparatus. An apparatus configured to detect dynamic fiducial markers provided on other device displays may also be configured to provide for the presentation of its own fiducial markers, and vice versa. Thus, in some cases, apparatuses may function as both a tangible user interface display and a tangible object (e.g., in a bi-directional communication scenario).
US09337920B2	Cabinet with power supply arrangement A cabinet is provided with a housing releasably mounted on one side of the cabinet and including a power cord having an AC power plug for connecting to an external power source; and a power supply module electrically connected to the power cord and disposed in the housing, the power supply module including at least one socket disposed on a top of the housing so that one or more electronic devices can be connected thereto for charging.
US09337919B2	Signal transmission system, connector apparatus, electronic device, and signal transmission method A signal transmission system including: a first connector apparatus, and a second connector apparatus that is coupled with the first connector apparatus. The first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus are coupled together to form an electromagnetic field coupling unit, and a transmission object signal is converted into a radio signal, which is then transmitted through the electromagnetic field coupling unit, between the first connector apparatus and the second connector apparatus.
US09337917B2	Call establishment optimization for IMS based mobile satellite system IMS nodes and a satellite radio access node (RAN) are described herein which are operative to establish certain calls (e.g., voice calls) with reduced latency and selectively using a High Penetration Alert (HPA) page to reach a terminating satellite user equipment (UE).
US09337916B2	Radio repeater apparatus and system, and operating method thereof A radio repeater system may include: a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) donor antenna configured to transmit/receive MIMO signals to/from base stations; a beamforming control unit configured to control beamforming by adaptively applying a phase weight to the repeated signals received from the MIMO donor antenna; an interference signal cancellation unit configured to estimate and analyze feedback interference signals introduced from a MIMO service antenna to the MIMO donor antenna and adaptively cancel the feedback interference signals; and the MIMO service antenna configured to transmit/receive MIMO signals to/from radio terminals in a service area.
US09337914B2	System and method for communicating with a portable electronic device A system and method for communicating with a portable electronic device are provided. The system includes a plurality of relay antennas mounted to a vehicle. The system further includes a processor in communication with the plurality of relay antennas to relay a communication message between the portable electronic device and a base station. The processor is also configured to locate the portable electronic device based on input data received from the plurality of relay antennas. The method involves establishing a communication link between the portable electronic device and a plurality of relay antennas. The method further involves relaying a communication message between the portable electronic device and a base station. The method also involves locating the portable electronic device based on input data from the plurality of relay antennas.
US09337911B2	Method and system for a low-complexity soft-output MIMO detection An approach for Soft-output K-Best MIMO detection comprises computing an estimated symbol vector and Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values for transmitted bits. The approach includes a relevant discarded paths selection process, a last-stage on-demand expansion process, and a relaxed LLR computation process. The relevant discarded paths selection process includes analyzing the K-Best paths and discarded paths at each intermediate tree level and selecting only those discarded paths for further processing that will help in LLR computation for at least one of the transmitted bits. The last-stage on-demand expansion process includes expanding K paths at the tree level 2NT−1 (NT=number of transmit antennas) on-demand to only 2K−1 lowest Partial Euclidean Distance (PED) paths at last tree level 2NT. The relaxed LLR computation scheme includes approximating LLR computations by assuming that discarded path PED is greater than or equal K-Best path PED.
US09337910B2	MIMO communication system using pre-coder based on tight frame Provided is a MIMO communication system using a pre-coder based on a tight frame capable of increasing an amount of transmitted signals and improving reception performance by transmitting and receiving a signal through a tight-frame pre-coder. The transmission device modulates transmission data on the basis of a transmission combination of the transmission antennas and the pre-coder based on the tight frame and transmits the data to the reception device.
US09337909B2	Communication device of mobile terminal and mobile terminal A communication device of a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal are provided. The communication device includes a communication module mainboard that has a communication module disposed thereon; a main antenna that is coupled to the communication module mainboard; a MIMO antenna capable of enhancing signals; and a MIMO board coupled to the communication module mainboard via a spring contact plate; and the MIMO antenna is coupled to the MIMO board via a coaxial cable. Since the main antenna and the MIMO antenna are separately disposed, their interference can be reduced, and the overlapping disposal of the main antenna and the MIMO antenna can be avoided, and the thickness of the mobile terminal can be reduced. The MIMO antenna is coupled to the communication module via the coaxial cable, so the MIMO antenna can be freely adjusted and disposed anywhere within the mobile terminal.
US09337908B2	Space-time channel sounding in wireless network A method, apparatus, and computer program for carrying out channel sounding are provided. Said method comprises: causing, by an apparatus, transmission of a request for space-time channel sounding to at least one unassociated access node; receiving, in the apparatus as a multi-antenna transmission and in response to said request, at least one message comprising space-time sounding information from at least one unassociated access node; determining, by the apparatus, at least one parameter describing space-time channel quality from the received space-time sounding information; and causing, by the apparatus, transmission of the at least one determined parameter to an associated access node or causing selection of an unassociated access node for further communication based at least partly on the determined at least one parameter.
US09337905B2	Inductive structures with reduced emissions and interference An inductive structure includes a power coil and a data coil. The data coil is substantially centered within the power coil. A first portion of the data coil conducts current in a first direction. A second portion of the data coil conducts current in a second direction opposite the first direction. The first portion of the data coil is connected at a node to the second portion of the data coil. The node is coupled to a ground.
US09337900B2	Electronic device To improve the usability of an electronic device, the electronic device includes: a first communication unit located near a user; a receive unit configured to receive data through communication via a body of the user or near field communication between a second communication unit located in a member used by the user and the first communication unit; and a recording unit configured to record data pertaining to the member when communication is established between the first communication unit and the second communication unit.
US09337899B2	Methods and apparatus for secure updates to persistent data in a near field communication controller Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products, and other implementations, including a method that includes determining a source from which routing table information is to be obtained based, at least in part, on location data indicating the source, and receiving configuration information from a device host (DH). The method also includes removing DH-based routing table information included in the configuration information in response to the location data indicating that a near-field communication controller (NFCC) is configured to receive the routing table information from one or more secure computing environments or from the DH, and obtaining secure routing table information from at least one of the one or more secure computing environments.
US09337898B2	Digital intercom network over DC-powered microphone cable A digital intercom system provides DC power and multi-channel bidirectional digital communications over existing cabling such as microphone cabling used in analog intercom networks. Three or more conductors in the cabling are used for both transmitting and receiving digital signals and carrying DC power. The digital intercom system includes digital user stations and a digital master station which can be used to retrofit an existing analog intercom network or deployed in a new network. User stations can be connected to the cabling via drop cables which do not use active electronic components. The master station routes digital audio and control data packets in three or more channels based on respective network addresses of the user stations to provide point-to-point, point-to-multi-point, and party line communications among the user stations. Sessions and groups can be configured which define talker and listener user stations.

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