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US09398735B2	Computer cart A computer cart has removable electrical connector management system which may be removed from the computer cart to install electrical connectors and then reinserted into the computer cart to facilitate wiring of the cart. A numbering system is implemented to uniquely identify corresponding electrical and physical characteristics of the cart to facilitate maintenance of computers stored within the cart.
US09398728B2	Storage subsystem and method for controlling the same The present invention aims at providing a storage subsystem capable of improving a backend-side I/O processing performance and enabling a single semiconductor memory adapter to be replaced at a time. Therefore, the present invention provides one or more semiconductor memory adapter boards mounting semiconductor memories each having smaller capacity than SSDs attached detachably to a drive canister, a wide port connection established to access the semiconductor memories, the semiconductor memories used as a read cache area of HDDs, and further adopts a wind direction control structure for ensuring a cooling wind path to the HDDs when an adapter board is attached.
US09398726B2	Heat-dissipating base and electronic device A heat-dissipating base is provided. The heat-dissipating base includes a main body and at least one first protrusion. The first protrusion is disposed on the main body. The first protrusion has at least one first protrusion top surface for thermally contacting at least one first component above the main body.
US09398725B2	Terminal box A terminal box includes a box body, a plurality of terminal strips connected to a solar cell module; and a diode disposed between the adjacent terminal strips. The box body has a bottom wall coming into contact with a back surface of the solar cell module, and a top wall facing the bottom wall. The terminal strips are disposed in an inner surface of the top wall, and the bottom wall has an opening to expose the terminal strips to the outside as viewed from the bottom. The terminal strips are covered with a molded element from a side of the opening.
US09398722B1	Cold plate with insertable integrated thermostatic expansion device and sensing element An apparatus for uniform cooling of a single power electronics device, an array of discrete power electronics devices or types of other heat-generating by integrating discrete thermostatic expansion devices (TXVs) and their control directly into each discrete cold plate. The thermostatic expansion device is positioned such that a sensing element is located directly within the exit refrigerant stream.
US09398721B2	Cooling fluid flow passage matrix for electronics cooling A cooling supply package for an electronic component has a supply port communicating with a plurality of outer supply channels, and a return port communicating with a plurality of outer return channels. The outer supply channels and outer return channels communicate with distinct ones of openings in a slot layer and into return and supply slots, respectively. An orifice layer supplies fluid to an electronic component from supply slots and receives return fluid into the return slots after having cooled the electronic component. A cooling supply and electronic combination is also disclosed.
US09398717B2	Modular power skid assembled with different electrical cabinets and components mounted on the skid An integrated platform assembled with different electrical cabinets and components mounted on a framework in order to provide a complete datacenter critical power distribution package. The integrated platform supports the weight of cabinet enclosures and UPSs mounted onto a skeletal framework, which acts as an equipment support structure and a cable routing support system. Main and redundant power supply wiring is routed along the skeletal framework to and between the cabinet enclosures and the UPSs mounted thereon. Electrical connections between the cabinets are internally connected via bus bars as switchgear cabinets. The skeletal framework has top and bottom rails run substantially parallel to each other with cross bars connecting the top and bottom rails and a top horizontal surface to which one or more of the cabinet enclosures are mounted. The skeletal framework and cabinet enclosures are fabricated prior to installation and installed as a monolithic pre-wired pre-assembled integrated platform.
US09398715B2	Electronic module shelf assembly and methods An electronics chassis comprises an electronics module residing in the chassis and fronted by a multi-piece faceplate system. The multi-piece faceplate system includes a faceplate and a faceplate assembly. The faceplate assembly includes an ejection lever pivotally coupled to the electronics module. The ejection lever includes an ejection latch coupled to the faceplate assembly. The ejection latch is configured to facilitate retention of the electronics module within the chassis when said faceplate assembly is in a closed position. The ejection latch is further configured to facilitate ejection of the electronics module from the chassis when the faceplate assembly is in an open position.
US09398714B1	Method of attaching electronic module on fabrics by stitching metal foil 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 metal foils, each metal foil electrically coupled at one end to an electrical connection point of the electrical module and at another end to an electrically conductive wire. The electrically conductive wire is stitched to the metal foil 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. The metal foils can be formed from interconnects on the printed circuit board or the metal foils can be separate elements coupled to the printed circuit board.
US09398712B2	Connector and electronic circuit assembly for improved wet insulation resistance The present invention is premised upon a connector and electronic circuit assembly (130) at least partially encased in a polymeric frame (200). The assembly including at least: a connector housing (230); at least one electrical connector (330); at least one electronic circuit component (430); and at least one barrier element (530).
US09398711B2	Display device A display device including a display panel, a rear cover, disposed at a rear of the display panel, which forms a rear exterior of the display panel, and a reinforcing member disposed between the display panel and the rear cover, such that the strength of the display device is increased, wherein the reinforcing member includes a body unit having a shape of the display panel and forms an external appearance of the reinforcing member, and a plurality of cells that penetrate the body unit.
US09398710B2	Enclosure for an electronic control unit and electronic control unit An enclosure for an electronic control unit is specified which contains a rigid housing element for receiving electronic components of the electronic control unit, an elastic cover covering an open side of the housing element and a protrusion element attached to or comprised by the rigid housing element. The cover abuts the protrusion element with a predetermined force when barometric pressures on different sides of the cover are equal. The cover contains an aperture in the region where the cover abuts the protrusion element. Further, an electronic control unit with the enclosure is specified.
US09398705B2	Stretchable printed electronic sheets to electrically connect uneven two dimensional and three dimensional surfaces A method and apparatus for forming a conductor on an uneven two-dimensional (2-D) or three-dimensional (3-D) surface is described. An amount of conductive material needed to form a conductor between two points on a surface of an object is determined. The determined amount of conductive material is deposited on a substrate. The substrate with the deposited conductive material is applied to the object to form a conductor between the two points on the surface of the object. The conductive material and substrate may be stretchable. The conductive material may be deposited by an inkjet printer or an embedded 3-D printer. The substrate with the deposited conductive material may be applied to the object by laminating the substrate with the deposited conductive material to the object.
US09398700B2	Method of forming a reliable microelectronic assembly Microelectronic assemblies and methods for making the same are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of forming a microelectronic assembly comprises assembling first and second components to have first major surfaces of the first and second components facing one another and spaced apart from one another by a predetermined spacing, the first component having first and second oppositely-facing major surfaces, a first thickness extending in a first direction between the first and second major surfaces, and a plurality of first metal connection elements at the first major surface, the second component having a plurality of second metal connection elements at the first major surface of the second component; and plating a plurality of metal connector regions each connecting and extending continuously between a respective first connection element and a corresponding second connection element opposite the respective first connection element in the first direction.
US09398697B2	Methods and devices for jetting viscous medium on workpiece In a method for jetting droplets of viscous medium on a workpiece, a jetting machine iteratively jets the droplets of viscous medium from a jetting nozzle onto a first surface of the workpiece to form a single continuous mass of material at an edge of the first surface of the workpiece. At least a portion of the single continuous mass of material extends past the edge of the first surface and adheres to a second surface of the workpiece.
US09398693B2	Capacitor arrangement structure and method of mounting capacitor A capacitor arrangement structure includes: a first wiring pattern; a second wiring pattern; a first electrode pattern that protrudes from the first wiring pattern toward the second wiring pattern; a second electrode pattern that protrudes from the second wiring pattern toward the first wiring pattern so as to run in parallel to the first electrode pattern; and a plurality of capacitors that are arranged in parallel between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern.
US09398691B2	Printed circuit board A printed circuit board includes: a substrate; a land that is disposed on a surface of the substrate, and includes a central portion and a plurality of extended portions, the central portion having the same shape and the same size as a land of a surface mount device, and the extended portions being up-and-down symmetry and right-and-left symmetry with respect to a straight line which passes through the center of the central portion; gaps that are disposed on the surface of the substrate, each of the gaps being disposed on a periphery of the central portion and between the extended portions; and a resist that is disposed on the surface of the substrate, and has an opening portion formed at a position corresponding to the central portion and the gaps.
US09398687B2	Display device including line on glass A display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first PCB including first PCB lines to transmit powers and second PCB lines to transmit an image data, gate control signals and data control signals; a second PCB including third PCB lines to transmit the powers and fourth PCB lines to transmit the image data, the gate control signals and the data control signals; a first COF including first COF lines connected to the first PCB lines and second COF lines connected to the second PCB lines; a second COF including third COF lines connected to the third PCB lines and fourth COF lines connected to the fourth PCB lines; and a display panel including first LOGs connected to the first COF lines and the third COF lines and second LOGs connected to the second COF lines and the fourth COF lines.
US09398685B2	Flexible device carrier and method for attaching membrane on flexible device The present invention provides a flexible device carrier for a flexible display panel and a method for attaching a membrane on the flexible device. The flexible device carrier comprises: a bottom plate; a position-limiting plate provided opposite to the bottom plate and detachably mounted on the bottom plate through a position-limiting mechanism, wherein a slotted hole is provided on the position-limiting plate to match with one side of the bottom plate facing the position-limiting plate, so as to form a positioning groove for the flexible device. By using the flexible device carrier, the membrane can be tightly attached on the side of the flexible device away from the bottom plate of the flexible device carrier, reducing probability of defects such as occurrence of bubbles between the membrane and the flexible device, improving quality of attaching the membrane on the flexible device and improving product yield of the flexible display panel.
US09398683B2	Packaged capacitor component with multiple self-resonance frequencies A packaged capacitor component such as a surface mount technology capacitor component may be formed with multiple self-resonant frequencies. The capacitor component may include multiple capacitor portions separated by dielectric layers. The capacitor portions may each be formed from interleaving conductive layers. Additional dielectric layers may be interposed between the interleaving conductive layers. Each capacitor portion may be characterized by a corresponding self-resonance frequency. If desired, a packaged capacitor component having multiple self-resonant frequencies may be formed by stacking multiple surface-mount capacitor components. Each of the stacked surface-mount capacitor components may include interleaving conductive layers that are centered between top and bottom surfaces of that component. Packaged capacitor components having multiple self-resonance frequencies may be used as direct-current blocking capacitors or decoupling capacitors.
US09398675B2	Mobile imaging apparatus In an exemplary embodiment, an imaging apparatus comprises an arm assembly coupled to an imaging arm. The arm assembly includes a shoulder joint, an elbow joint, and an articulation assembly. The shoulder joint is configured to travel a vertical distance in a substantially linear fashion and provide rotational movement. The imaging arm comprises a first end and a second end. As such, the imaging apparatus is configured to provide radial motion along a path equal to the length of the arm assembly and the imaging arm along the vertical distance and the horizontal distance of the shoulder joint. The imaging apparatus may also comprise a movable cabinet, a monitor, and a control, with the arm assembly coupled to the movable cabinet. Furthermore, the imaging arm may comprise an x-ray source and a sensor, with the monitor displaying data detected by the sensor.
US09398673B2	ESD protection device and method for producing the same An ESD protection device is provided which experiences only small increases in discharge start voltage and discharge protection voltage and relatively free of scorching or peeling at the ends of the discharge electrodes thereof even if a discharge repeatedly occurs. The ESD protection device has an insulating substrate with a cavity, and in the cavity first and second discharge electrodes are so disposed that the ends thereof face each other with a gap therebetween. A first outer electrode is on the outer surface of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the first discharge electrode, and a second outer electrode is on the outer surface of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the second discharge electrode. The ends of the first and second discharge electrodes are thicker than any other portion of the first and second discharge electrodes.
US09398671B2	Control device with light adjustment function A control device including a first switch, a control unit and a second switch is provided. When the first switch is turned on, a power signal generated by a power supply is transmitted to a lighting load via the first switch. The brightness of the lighting load is gradually increased or reduced as time increases. When the first switch is turned on, the control unit executes a countdown according to a time value. Upon finishing the countdown, the control unit generates a trigger signal and simultaneously the brightness of the lighting load is at a set value. When receiving the trigger signal, the second switch stops transmitting the power signal from the first switch to the lighting load at first and then transmits the power signal from the first switch to the lighting load such that the brightness of the lighting load keeps at the set value.
US09398669B2	Lighting element-centric network of networks A method for sending and receiving data via a relatively short range, low power wireless data communication link between lighting devices and other non-lighting-system devices. The method includes routing the data over a data network at a premises for which the lighting devices provide illumination. The data may be routed over the data network to a wide area network outside the premises for non-lighting related communications.
US09398668B2	System and method for providing alternative communication path for management of lighting network elements This invention discloses an alternative communication and control path that can by-pass a primary communication and control line in the control luminaires of an illumination network luminaires. By creating the alternative back-up path, it is possible to still communicate and control network elements in cases when the primary communication and control path is unavailable or when direct control of individual or a plurality of luminaries is desired. In one aspect of the invention, this alternative path may provide for a direct interface for demand response utility programs for specialized control of the luminaires of the illumination network.
US09398665B2	Constant current drive for LED light source Disclosed is a constant current drive for an LED light source, including a main power supply loop and at least one backup power supply loop. The main power supply loop at least includes a power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit outputs a constant current to an LED light source. The backup power supply loop at least includes a power conversion backup circuit. The power conversion backup circuit outputs a constant current to the LED light source. When the power conversion circuit and the power conversion backup circuit operate normally, any one thereof operates in a nominal state or a derating state, and the output ends thereof are connected in parallel and then supply power to the LED light source simultaneously. When any one of the power conversion circuit and the power conversion backup circuit is invalid, the invalid circuit will not affect the normal operation of the remaining circuit. The constant current drive for an LED light source in the present invention can improve the reliability of the constant current drive for an LED light source due to having a backup power supply loop.
US09398658B2	Lighting module and corresponding lighting system A lighting module may include at least one light source, and an identification element that identifies the supply current required by the light source, wherein the identification element includes a first terminal and a second terminal for connection to an electronic converter.In particular, the identification element includes at least one shunt regulator configured for limiting the voltage across the first terminal and the second terminal to a maximum threshold voltage, wherein the maximum threshold voltage identifies the supply current required by the light source.
US09398654B2	Solid state lighting apparatus and methods using integrated driver circuitry A lighting apparatus includes a first substrate including a switching circuit, the switching circuit including a first port, a second port and a current control circuit configured to generate a current at the second port of the current control circuit responsive to a varying voltage at the first port. The apparatus further includes a second substrate mounted on the first substrate and including at least two LEDs electrically coupled to the second port of the current control circuit of the first substrate.
US09398653B2	LED driver, the control circuit and the LED driving method The present invention discloses a LED driver including a power stage, an inductor, an error amplifier, a set comparator, a first timer, a logical AND circuit, a reset comparator, a second timer a logical OR circuit, a RS flip flop and a driving circuit. The LED driver provides sufficient latching current for the TRIAC dimmer with no large RC circuit, so as to optimize the dimming and reduce system size.
US09398650B2	LED lighting device using ballast An LED lighting device includes: an LED unit which includes at least one LED device; and a rectifier which rectifies a current power signal output from the ballast and transfers the rectified current power signal to the LED unit. When the ballast is a low-frequency ballast having an output frequency less than 60 Hz, the rectifier opens between a main path for supplying power to the rectifier from the ballast and an auxiliary path for preheating a starter or filament of the ballast. When the ballast is a high-frequency ballast having the output frequency greater than 20 kHz, the rectifier short-circuits between the main path for supplying the power to the rectifier from the ballast and the auxiliary path for preheating the filament of the ballast.
US09398639B2	Methods circuits apparatus and systems for wireless data communication Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatus and systems for facilitating wireless data communication. According to some embodiments, there may be provided a wireless access point including a set of N antenna elements adapted to receive a transmission, wherein the transmission may include one or more data streams. There may be provided a multi-stream wireless modem circuit including a set of K received signal input nodes. According to further embodiments, a received signal translation block may be adapted to translate a data baring radio frequency signal received through the set of N antenna elements into signal inputs applied at some or all of the K received signal input nodes, wherein translating may include using a translation matrix and/or applying an MRC.
US09398636B2	Adjacent channel optimized receiver The present invention offers significant improvements in the performance of a radio receiver operating in an environment with high desired band interference. The present invention comprises a high selectivity RF circuit that is located between the antenna and the radio receiver, and utilizes superheterodyne technology to filter adjacent channel interference in the desired band frequency spectrum. This type of interference is problematic for IEEE 802.11 radio receivers that are implemented with the popular direct conversion radio receiver architectures. The present invention may be utilized in many types of radio receivers.
US09398635B1	Synchronous adaptive radio selection A method for synchronously adapting radio frequency channel selection based on an application which can range from low bandwidth applications such as instant messaging to high bandwidth applications such as streaming video selected by an end user cellular telecommunications device involves providing end user devices with synchronous adaptive radio selection (SARS) modules. The SARS modules perform as sensory agents for identifying usage by the end user device of applications and thus permit monitoring for interference, congestion and the like in the cellular telecommunications network. The sensory agents preferably determine their location and altitude for comparison with reference topographic relief maps of a geographic area surrounding a base station. Control reference test stations collect information from the sensory agents and further receive updates on security alerts and network administration policies from a base station, for example, equipped with a base station scheduler. The reference test stations periodically output channel control information including a reference clock frequency, its identity, interference levels, policies and security updates for the base stations and end user devices to optimize radio frequency selection based on utilized applications. Consequently, the control reference stations oversee channel characteristics in a centralized manner and provide guidelines to base stations for optimized traffic flows and altimetry enhanced application performance.
US09398634B2	Mobile station, core network node, base station subsystem, and methods for implementing longer paging cycles in a cellular network A mobile station, a core network node, a base station subsystem, and various methods are described herein for implementing longer paging cycles (longer Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode) in a cellular network which has a benefit of reducing the energy consumption of the mobile station's battery.
US09398630B2	Methods and apparatuses for controlling and scheduling device-to-device communications At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling direct user equipment communications. The method includes receiving reports from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, respectively, the first and second UEs communicating with a serving base station, determining at least one control channel and at least one data channel for a direct communication between the first UE and the second UE, allocating at least one resource block for the direct communication link between the first UE and the second UE based on the determining and transmitting a configuration message to the first UE and the second UE, the configuration message indicating the allocated resource block and permitting at least one of the first UE and the second UE to determine parameters of the direct communication link.
US09398629B2	System and method for a distributed wireless network WLAN controllers in a same mobility domain are able to dynamically discover other WLAN controllers in the same mobility domain across one or more layer 2 or layer 3 network boundaries. A WLAN controller in the mobility domain determines an address of at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain from a configuration server. The WLAN controller registers with the at least one seed WLAN controller in the mobility domain and receives information for other WLAN controllers in the mobility domain from the at least one seed WLAN controller. The WLAN controller also receives synchronized wireless device information that allows a wireless device to roam from one AP adopted by the WLAN controller in a first access network to another AP adopted by another WLAN controller in a second different access network in the same mobility domain.
US09398628B2	Selection of a basestation physical layer identifier In one example embodiment, a method for selecting a physical layer identifier for use in a basestation is disclosed. The basestation may be comprised within a mobile communications network, which may also comprise a plurality of other basestations. The method comprises receiving a pool of identifiers available for use by basestations within the network and assigning a temporary identifier for the basestation. The method further comprises receiving from connected UEs reports of identifiers from among the received pool that are in use by basestations detected by the connected UEs and assigning a final identifier selected from the received pool of identifiers, the final identifier being different from the temporary identifier.
US09398625B2	Triggering a signaling event from the data plane Some examples of triggering a signaling event in a control plane of a mobile network from a user plane of the mobile network. After it is determined in accordance with a predefined criterion that an error indication should be sent, an error indication may be sent in the user plane, from a location external to a radio access network of the mobile network and external to a core network of the mobile network, to at least one element in the radio access network or the core network, thereby triggering a signaling event. The predefined criterion may include no accessible association between a user identifier or cell identifier and an identifier of a tunnel for tunneling user data packets between the radio access network and the core network. The lack of an accessible association may have negative implications, e.g. for traffic management. The triggered signaling event may include releasing this tunnel.
US09398624B2	Wireless communication Wireless communication terminal 100 reads connection setting information for making a connection to access point 200, the connection setting information including a plurality of identifiers of access point 200. Wireless communication terminal 100 stores the read connection setting information. Wireless communication terminal 100 reads the stored connection setting information and uses an identifier informed by access point 200 and the read connection setting information to set wireless communication connection with access point 200.
US09398621B2	Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing system, information processing apparatus and method for processing connection requests to establish connection to access points from a plurality of programs An information processing program for controlling an information processing apparatus capable of executing at least first and second programs in parallel is provided. The information processing program includes: reception instructions for receiving a connection request for connection to an access point from the first and/or second program(s); determination instructions for comparing information of the received connection request with information of connection status to the access point, and thereby determining whether or not that one of the first and second programs which made the connection request is to be connected to the access point; and connection processing instructions for performing a process for connecting the program that made the connection request to the access point, based on the result of determination.
US09398620B1	Simultaneous voice and audio traffic between two devices on a wireless personal-area network A wireless personal-area network (PAN) communication system includes a first device configured to simultaneously transmit a digitized stereo audio signal to and receive a digitized voice signal from a second device over the wireless PAN. The system also includes the second device, which is configured to simultaneously receive the digitized stereo audio signal from the first device and transmit the digitized voice signal to the first device over the PAN. The wireless PAN can be a Bluetooth® network. Low-latency audio codecs may be included in the first and second devices to reduce the latency of the voice and stereo audio signals transferred between the devices.
US09398618B2	Multi-listener wireless medium access method Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by limiting competing transmissions at the same time or within a temporally proximate time range. A relay schedule may be transmitted with each frame in a transmission chain, the relay schedule containing transmission time information such that each participating node in the transmission chain has designated transmission times. The transmission times may be different such that transmissions are spaced out in an effective manner. A non-participant node may receive the transmission with the relay schedule and may delay transmissions during conflicting times based on the relay schedule.
US09398610B2	Mobile communication method, mobile station, and network device A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of a mobile station UE transmitting a connection setup request signal containing a radio access capability of the mobile station eNB to a radio network controller RNC of a UMTS scheme, upon detecting a predetermined trigger while camping on in a cell of the first communication scheme, a step of the radio network controller RNC of the UMTS scheme transmitting an instruction signal for instructing setup of a connection in a cell of an LTE scheme to the mobile station UE, in a case where the radio access capability of the mobile station UE is contained in the received connection setup request signal, and a step of the mobile station UE setting up the connection in the cell of the LTE scheme in response to the received instruction signal.
US09398603B1	Apparatus to facilitate co-existence of bluetooth and wireless local area networks A method for transmitting one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets and one or more first Bluetooth (BT) packets. The method includes: prior to transmission of the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets, predicting a first time at which the transmission of the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets is going to end, and predicting a second time at which reception of one or more second Bluetooth (BT) packets is going to start; and simultaneously transmitting the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets and the one or more first Bluetooth (BT) packets in response to the first time being predicted to occur prior to the second time.
US09398601B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling in cellular based device to device communication Disclosed is a method and apparatus for scheduling in a cellular-based device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method of scheduling a cellular resource used in a base station for a D2D communication between terminals may include grouping, by a proximity coordinator, a cellular resource of an adjacent base station based on cell information of a base station, managing a resource to be allocated to the terminal and a resource allocated previously to the terminal based on the grouped resource, and allocating the grouped resource to the terminal based on information associated with the resource to be allocated and the previously allocated resource when a request for D2D communication between terminals located in different cells is received.
US09398600B2	Base station device, radio communication system, and base station device control method A calculation unit computes, based on subsequent information that is added to data transmitted from a terminal device and indicates the presence or absence of untransmitted data reserved in the terminal device when transmitting the data, the number of data in which untransmitted data exists among the certain number of data previously transmitted from the terminal device. A time slot assignment control unit controls the assigned size of a time slot to the terminal device based on the number of the data, in which untransmitted data exists, computed by the calculation unit. A data processing unit notifies the terminal device of the assigned size of the time slot determined by the time slot assignment control unit.
US09398598B2	Overall MU-MIMO capacity for users with unequal packet lengths in an MU-MIMO frame In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for transmitting packets (including but not limited to MU-MIMO packets). An access point communicating wirelessly with a plurality of devices can determine that a first packet for a first device of the plurality of devices has a first transmission duration. The access point can determine that a second packet for a second device of the plurality of devices has a second transmission duration shorter than the first transmission duration. The access point can adjust, based on the determination, a transmission power or a modulation and coding scheme to transmit the second packet during a third transmission duration. The third transmission duration can be greater than the second transmission duration.
US09398597B2	Multiplexing of control and data with varying power offsets in a SC-FDMA system Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of control information and data for common transmission in a localized FDM wireless communication system. Localized FDM transmission of control and data channels can be achieved by, for example, multiplexing control information with data and transmitting the control information and data using resources and transmission schemes specified for transmission of the data. To ensure the reliability of control information multiplexed with data, a power offset can be applied to the control information to provide varying protection levels for the control information based on properties of the data resources into which it is embedded in order to maintain a predetermined signal quality for the control information independent of the data resources.
US09398594B2	Hybrid coordination function (HCF) access through tiered contention and overlapped wireless cell mitigation A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells in a medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and there is at least one overlapped station occupying both cells. An inter-cell contention-free period value is assigned to a first access point station in the first cell, associated with an accessing order in the medium for member stations in the first and second cells. The access point transmits a beacon packet containing the inter-cell contention-free period value, which is intercepted at the overlapped station. The overlapped station forwards the inter-cell contention-free period value to member stations in the second cell. A second access point in the second cell can then delay transmissions by member stations in the second cell until after the inter-cell contention-free period expires.
US09398592B2	Scheduling apparatus and method for a TDD communication system The present invention relates to a scheduling apparatus (100) and a method for a cellular Time-Division Duplex (TDD) radio communication system (180). The apparatus comprises a storage unit configured for holding a database comprising topographical information concerning a geographical area covered by the communication system. The apparatus also comprises a position unit configured for obtaining information concerning a geographical position held by at least one of a first and a second radio communication device (120;160) of the communication system within said area. The apparatus further comprises a scheduling unit configured for allocating a communication time slot as an uplink time slot or a downlink time slot for radio communication between a first base station (110) and said first device (120) of the communication system. Whether the time slot is allocated as an uplink time slot or a downlink time slot is dependent on said position information and on said topographical information.
US09398588B2	Enhanced lighting network to serve mobile cellular users and method of operation thereof A method to control a lighting network having a plurality of light units, the method may be controlled by a lighting operator which may obtain information related to service availability for each of the light units; map the information related to service availability for each of the light units to form a service availability information map comprising attribute information of each of the light units; determine one or more of service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for each of the plurality of light units for a service time period; and/or provide cellular communication service to one or more cellular stations in a service area of the light units in accordance with one or more of the determined service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for the service time period.
US09398586B2	Almost blank subframe based orthogonal resource allocation in a wireless network environment An example method for facilitating almost blank sub-frame (ABS) based orthogonal resource allocation in a wireless network environment is provided and includes receiving at a serving Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) nodeB (eNB), ABS patterns from a plurality of neighboring eNBs in a orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing based network, each neighboring eNB transmitting a separate ABS pattern, setting a maximum duty cycle of physical downlink control channel in a frame to be transmitted by the serving eNB within its serving cell, and computing an optimal ABS pattern at the serving eNB subject to the maximum duty cycle and based on the ABS patterns received from the plurality of neighboring eNBs. In specific embodiments, computing the optimal ABS pattern includes identifying neighboring eNBs transmitting at each sub-frame of the frame, identifying sub-frames transmitted by a least number of neighboring eNBs, and selecting each identified sub-frame for configuring as an ABS.
US09398584B2	Method and apparatus of configuring sounding reference signal for coordinated multi-point transmission The disclosure provides a method of configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission. The method may include: determining for a CoMP UE in the cell set B a first SRS resource orthogonal with SRS resources configured for other UEs in the cell set A by exchanging information among cells within the cell set B; transmitting to the CoMP UE SRS configuration information describing the first SRS resource. The disclosure also provides apparatuses for configuring SRS of CoMP transmission.
US09398579B2	Systems and methods for downlink frequency domain multiplexing transmissions Systems, methods, and devices for transmitting data are described herein. In some aspects, a method comprises generating a first packet. The first packet may comprise a physical layer and a media access control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer may allocate a first station to a primary frequency channel and a second station to a secondary frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting the first packet to the first station and the second station. The method further comprises transmitting a second packet to the first station using the primary frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting a third packet to the second station using the secondary frequency channel.
US09398577B2	Transmission and reception of control information The disclosure is related to transmitting control information in a transmission/reception point and to receiving the control information in user equipment. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to transmitting the control information for user equipment which receives downlink control information through a downlink control channel newly defined in a data region. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to performing a resource mapping for enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) of an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH).
US09398576B2	System and method for communications link control A method for operating an access point includes identifying one or more stations to receive a transmission from the access point, and generating a traffic indicator map (TIM) for the one or more stations identified, the TIM in accordance with a TIM generating rule, the TIM identifying at least an offset length and a number of entries. The method further includes broadcasting a beacon carrying the TIM to the one or more stations identified, the one or more stations configured to decode the beacon according to the TIM generating rule.
US09398571B2	System and method for packet information indication in communication systems A wireless device is described that may selectively include resource allocation information in a frame to be transmitted to one or more other wireless devices. The resource allocation may indicate channel/sub-channel assignment for each wireless device. The wireless devices may each utilize this received resource allocation information to determine the appropriate segment/sub-band of the transmission that is intended for their receipt/consumption. A first signaling field (e.g., HE-SIG-A) may indicate whether the resource allocation information is present in a second signaling field (e.g., HE-SIG-B) of the frame. For example, a single bit may be toggled to indicate the presence of the second signaling field and therefore the presence of the resource allocation information. Alternatively, multiple bits may be used to indicate the length of the second signaling field (e.g., a length of zero indicates the absence of the second signaling field and accordingly the absence of the resource allocation information).
US09398569B2	L1 control signaling for UTRAN HSDPA A Level-1 (L1) signaling flag is mapped to unused (invalid) bit sequences in Part 1 of the HS-SCCH—that is, Part 1 bit encodings that are not defined in the UTRAN specifications—and a corresponding L1 command is encoded in Part 2. This allows UE (18) to detect early that the HS-SCCH is pure L1 signaling, and the UE (18) may avoid wasting power by not processing an accompanying HS-PDSCH. Alternatively, in CPC HS-SCCH-less mode, the UE (18) may blind decode the HS PDSCH. In one embodiment, a general DRX mode is defined and controlled via L1 signaling. In one embodiment, a UE (18) acknowledgement improves the L1 signaling accuracy. In one embodiment, a L1 signal and UE (18) acknowledgement protocol are utilized to “ping” a UE (18).
US09398562B2	Configuration of uplink and downlink grant search spaces in an OFDM-based mobile communication system The invention relates to methods for detecting at least one of a downlink grant and an uplink grant within a sub-frame of an OFDM-based mobile communication system. The invention provides a reception apparatus (e.g. a relay node or a mobile terminal) that are adapted to perform these methods. The invention defines the uplink grant search space to form a subset of the downlink grant search space. In other words, in the frequency domain, the uplink grant search space is defined on a subset of the resource block pairs that form the downlink search space. This configuration allows downlink data to be mapped to the remaining resources outside the uplink grants search space and the resources used for a downlink grant. Furthermore, the downlink grants comprise an indication of whether the uplink grant search space in the sub-frame comprises (user) data or not.
US09398560B2	Method for performing paging in wireless communication system supporting direct communication between terminals, and D2D terminal for the method A method of performing paging by a first D2D terminal in a wireless communication system supporting D2D communication includes: obtaining information on a paging slot, the paging slot being designated to be dedicated to the first D2D terminal for the D2D communication and including a plurality of paging sections; monitoring whether a signal for the first D2D terminal is transmitted in a first paging section in the obtained paging slot through a region assigned to the first D2D terminal; monitoring whether a paging request message is transmitted in a paging region only for the first D2D terminal in a second paging section if the signal is detected; and transmitting a paging response message through a third paging section to the second D2D terminal that transmits the paging request signal, as a response to the paging request message, if the paging request message is detected.
US09398553B2	Technique for improving LDP-IGP synchronization A technique may improve LDP-IGP synchronization in a MPLS network when an interface of a router coupled to a communications link along a shortest path between a source router and a destination router becomes newly active. Specifically, an IGP adjacency may be held down over the newly active link while a LDP adjacency is established over the link. The router may inject a temporary, non-redistributable route having a large administrative weight into its routing table utilizing addresses learned during establishment of the LDP adjacency. The injected route ensures that there is a reachable route to a peer router so that LDP may converge. After LDP has converged and all needed label bindings have been distributed in the MPLS network utilizing the injected route, IGP executing on the router may advertise a normal cost metric for the link associated with the newly active interface, and IGP convergence may be completed.
US09398550B2	Using synchronization frames for mesh networking with piconets Certain aspects provide a technique for managing transmissions in a wireless network. The technique generally provides for an access terminal to transmit synchronization packets containing timing information regarding an existing piconet. The synchronization packets may contain an indication of resources of the piconet allocated to the access terminal by an access point.
US09398548B2	Interference control method in wireless communication system and apparatus for the same A method for an eNB to control inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system includes receiving information on a plurality of time-domain interference patterns corresponding to sub-frequency-domain interference control information on a plurality of sub-frequency domains constituting a system frequency domain, the plurality of time-domain interference control patterns indicating interference control for subframes of the plurality of sub-frequency domains, and transmitting, to a UE, scheduling information about the UE based on information on at least one of the plurality of time-domain interference control patterns, wherein each of the plurality of time-domain interference control patterns is configured to have more subframes for which transmission power restriction is set (referred to as “transmission power-restricted subframes” hereinafter) as an inter-cell interference level indicated by the sub-frequency-domain interference control information increases.
US09398541B2	Communication device for handling uplink power control A communication device for handling uplink power control comprises the instructions comprise determining a power level of a first uplink (UL) subframe of a first base station and a first power level of a second UL subframe of a second base station according to an initial power level of the first UL subframe and an initial power level of the second UL subframe, wherein a starting boundary of the second UL subframe is within the first UL subframe; and determining a second power level of the second UL subframe of the second base station and a first power level of a third UL subframe of the first base station according to the first power level of the second UL subframe and an initial power level of the third UL subframe, wherein a starting boundary of the third UL subframe is within the second UL subframe.
US09398539B2	Method for transmitting signal in multiple node system Provided are a method of transmitting a signal of a multi-node system. The method includes: transmitting a first signal to a user equipment via the plurality nodes by applying a first power factor; receiving power feedback information as a feedback from the user equipment; and transmitting a second signal to the user equipment via at least one node among the plurality of nodes by applying a second power factor, wherein the first power factor and the second power factor are elements for determining transmit power to be applied to the plurality of nodes, wherein the power factor information includes information for transmit power applicable to each of the plurality of nodes by measuring the first signal, and wherein the second power factor is determined based on the power factor information.
US09398528B2	Method for energy saving in a mobile communication system A method for energy saving in a mobile communication system—is provided in the invention. In the mobile communication system. OAM unit performs centralized management of the energy saving priorities. The respective base station obtains energy saving priorities thereof and energy saving priorities of adjacent base stations, and determine whether it is a candidate energy saving base station or a candidate compensating base station according to a load condition thereof, and energy saving priority information, thereof and energy saving priority information of adjacent base stations. The candidate energy saving base station can communicate with the adjacent base stations to negotiate about entering an energy saving procedure. With the technical solutions of the invention, OAM unit performs centralized management of the energy saving priorities, and each base station, can determine dynamically whether it is a candidate energy saving base station or a candidate compensating base station according to a load condition thereof, and energy saving priority information thereof and energy saving priority information of adjacent base stations and communicate with the adjacent base stations to negotiate about entering an energy saving procedure. Thus it is possible to accommodate flexibly and effectively a change to the load conditions so as to realize the energy saving of the system more reasonable with an alleviated influence of the energy saving procedure on the performance of the system.
US09398522B2	Mobile station, small radio base station, and communication control method A “macro-assisted cell” adaptable to multiple operation modes is realized. In a mobile station (UE) of the invention, a control unit (22) is configured to start communication in a small cell on the basis of MIB/SIB of the small cell when a sequence in a “discovery signal” is determined as a sequence for a “stand-alone cell.” The control unit (22) is configured to start the communication in the small cell on the basis of a control signal from a macro cell when the sequence in the “discovery signal” is determined as a sequence for a “macro-assisted cell.”
US09398521B2	Access control failure handling for HeNB inbound mobility When MME receives Handover required from source eNB/HeNB which contains CSG ID, it verifies whether the CSG subscription data it stores is fresh or expired. If it is expired, or if MME does not have any association data for UE, MME retrieves the latest CSG subscription data from HSS. MME rewrites its stored CSG subscription data with the one retrieved from HSS, if they are different. MME performs access control for the UE according to the CSG ID received from Handover required message and its CSG subscription data. When the access control is failed, a new message List Update Indication is proposed to be sent from source eNB/HeNB to UE. In order to indicate what caused the failure, an appropriate cause in the message is proposed. Upon receiving the message, UE updates its stored CSG whitelist, such that the CSG subscription data in UE and MME are synchronized.
US09398520B2	System search for full service while on a cell with limited service Techniques for performing system searches to find a suitable cell to receive full service while camped on a cell with limited service are described. Initially, a user equipment (UE) may camp on a first cell and receive limited service. The UE may perform a system search in background to find a suitable cell to receive full service. By performing the system search in background, the UE can receive paging messages and perform cell reselection and/or other tasks while the system search is pending and may also be able to obtain limited service with little or no delay when requested by a user. The UE may suspend the system search prior to each paging occasion, receive paging messages applicable for the UE, and then resume the system search. The UE may receive a request for limited service (e.g., emergency call), suspend or abort the system search, and obtain the requested limited service.
US09398514B1	Generating frequency reference signals The invention is directed to methods and systems for generating frequency reference signals from a radio signal received from a large-coverage access component, such as a base station. The radio signal is received and processed by an oscillator to filter out abnormalities. Consequently, a frequency reference signal is generated that is encapsulated into packets and delivered to one or more small-coverage access components using the Precision Timing Protocol or some other protocol that is useable by the small-coverage access components. The small-coverage access components comprise one or more of a femtocell or a picocell.
US09398512B2	Mobile route optimization Embodiments provide techniques for mobile route optimization authentication protocols. Embodiments allow for system control over whether route optimization is allowed or not allowed. A conditional allowance of route optimization solves several billing and security issues by allowing the system to impose appropriate charges for the route optimization feature or prevent route optimization where message flow using care-of addressing can be monitored.
US09398511B2	Timing and cell specific system information handling for handover in evolved UTRA A method and apparatus for reducing handover time includes a wireless transmit receive unit receiving cell specific information in a downlink signal. The downlink signal is one of a set of signals included in a handover process.
US09398510B2	Handover method, base station, user equipment, and mobility management entity Embodiments of the present invention provide a handover method, base station, user equipment, and mobility management entity. The handover method includes: obtaining an algorithm used by a user equipment in a universal mobile telecommunication system and four least significant bits of a downlink non-access stratum count; and sending a handover command to the user equipment, where the handover command carries the algorithm used by the user equipment in the universal mobile telecommunication system and the four least significant bits of the downlink non-access stratum count, so that the user equipment calculates a cipher key and an integrity key according to the four least significant bits of the downlink non-access stratum count.
US09398507B2	Method and user equipment for processing frequency information The present invention discloses a method and a user equipment for processing frequency information. The method for processing frequency information includes: receiving a measurement control message sent from network device, where the measurement control message contains frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode; and clearing stored frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode if the type of frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode that is contained in the measurement control message is different from the type of the stored frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode. The technical solutions disclosed in the present invention avoid a problem of measurement failure when a UE performs measurement without compressed mode on an adjacent frequency.
US09398506B1	Optimal use of multiple concurrent internet protocol (IP) data streams for voice communications Examples are disclosed for hosting a communication session between a hybrid mobile device and a second communication device in an Internet Protocol (IP) based packet data network. A communications server functions as a bridge service between the hybrid mobile device and the second communication device enabling the exchange of multiple concurrent IP packet data media streams over multiple different IP based networks between the hybrid mobile device and the communications server. An IP data stream over an 802.11 WiFi communication link is characterized as the primary IP data stream and when its quality falls below a first threshold level, the hybrid mobile device will encode a second IP data stream that is the same as the original IP data stream and send a variable percentage of the second IP data stream over a cellular based IP communication link. If the quality of the IP data stream over the 802.11 WiFi communication link improves, a lesser percentage of the second IP data stream is sent over a cellular based IP communication link.
US09398500B2	Systems, methods, and devices for cell selection based on prioritized nodes Systems and methods for cell selection and/or reselection based on prioritize nodes are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to determine whether to select and/or reselect an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The eNB may be a dedicated eNB and/or may be communicatively coupled to a dedicated core network (CN). The dedicated eNB and/or the dedicated CN may be configured to optimize performance for UEs sharing particular characteristics. Accordingly, the selection and/or reselection criteria may be biased to encourage the UE to select and/or reselect towards a dedicated eNB and/or an eNB coupled to a dedicated CN. The eNB and/or CN may be dedicated to supporting particular types of UEs, types of nodes, types of traffic, types of subscriptions, UE mobilities, applications/services, other predetermined categories, and/or the like.
US09398499B2	Terminal and method for switching between radio access technologies A method includes determining whether a packet switched (PS) signaling connection is released, the PS signaling connection being associated with a first network corresponding to a first radio access technology (RAT), controlling a switching timing to a second network corresponding to a second RAT according to a type of the PS signaling connection, and transmitting a request for switching to the second network. A terminal includes a controller to determine whether a packet switched (PS) signaling connection is released, the PS signaling connection being associated with a first network corresponding to a first radio access technology (RAT), and to control a switching timing to a second network corresponding to a second RAT according to a type of the PS signaling connection, and a transmitter to transmit a request for switching to the second network.
US09398496B2	Method and apparatus for performing handover in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method for a terminal performing a handover in a wireless communication system, comprising a step of receiving from a first transmission point, information required for performing the handover to a second transmission point, wherein the information required for performing the handover includes information related to a system frame of the second transmission point.
US09398495B2	Completely redundant connection and handover in cellular industrial radio networks Apparatus for securely transmitting data between a mobile subscriber (1) having at least one transmission apparatus (2) and a stationary receiver (3), wherein the mobile subscriber (1) can change between a plurality of radio cells (Cell 1, Cell 2, Cell 3) and each radio cell (Cell 1, Cell 2, Cell 3) has at least one transmission apparatus (AP1, AP2, AP3), wherein the at least one transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) is also connected in a wired manner to at least one network (LAN A, LAN B), wherein the stationary receiver (3) is likewise connected in a wired manner to the at least one network (LAN A, LAN B), and both the wireless transmission between the mobile subscriber (1) and the transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) respectively associated with the latter and the wired data transmission between the transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) and the at least one associated network (LAN A, LAN B) are carried out redundantly, and the stationary receiver (3) is redundantly connected in a wired manner to the network (LAN A, LAN B).
US09398491B2	Methods and apparatus for resource allocation based on changeable service levels Subscribers are segmented in a telecommunications by allocating given first subscribers network resources with a lower priority than second subscribers, but allowing the first subscribers to temporarily upgrade their subscription by a self-service request. On detecting the request, the network updates the charging correspondingly and adapts the resource allocation of the first subscribers who made the request for a predetermined period and/or amount of phone calls. The network is also capable of signaling the subscribers their current resource allocation priority so that the subscribers can provide respective users with a feedback of changes in resource allocation. The mechanism is also applicable for temporarily lowering the priority of given subscribers in resource allocation.
US09398490B2	Method of fragmenting a message in a network Embodiments described herein provide a method of fragmenting a large message into, for example, numbered packets for sending the message in a packet based communication system, such as in a ZigBee wireless network. Each packet may have a predetermined size and may include a MAC address, a network header of a variable size, and fragmented message data. The fragmented message data can be configured to be smaller than the available space in the packet so that the packet can be sent, for example, when the size of the header increases.
US09398485B2	Wireless sensor network system A wireless sensor network system includes: sensor terminals and a management terminal. A sensor terminal sends a join request at a first transmission power; and the management terminal calculates the traffic load of nodes on the reception path of the join request. If the number of hops and the traffic load are both within respective permissible ranges, the management terminal sets the reception path as the communication route of the sensor terminal. If the number of hops and/or the load is not within the permissible rage, the management terminal reconstructs the communication path by outputting an instruction to the sensor terminal to make direct connection to the management terminal or a specified node with a low traffic load, at a second transmission power greater than the first transmission power. When receiving the instruction, the sensor terminal transmits to the management terminal or the specified node at the second transmission power.
US09398483B2	Method and controlling node for controlling measurements by a user equipment A method and controlling node (400) of a cellular network, to control measurements on signals to or from a User Equipment, UE, engaged in a radio communication in a cluster cell served by multiple transmission points (404). A set of conditions potentially affecting performance for the UE in the cluster cell, is identified. At least one type of reference signals and corresponding radio measurement(s) are then selected based on the identified set of conditions. The controlling node obtains measurements made on the selected type(s) of reference signals according to the radio measurement(s), and configures a UE-specific measurement set of transmission points (406) for the UE, out of the transmission points (404) serving the cluster cell, based on the obtained measurements. The UE is then instructed to perform and report measurements on UE-specific downlink signals transmitted from the transmission points of the UE-specific measurement set.
US09398480B2	Methods of obtaining measurements in the presence of strong and/or highly varying interference Systems and methods for obtaining effective measurements in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a node (i.e., a measuring node) in a cellular communications network performs a reference measurement at the node, where the reference measurement contains one or more interference components. The node then mitigates at least one of the interference components contained in the reference measurement to thereby provide an effective measurement. In one embodiment, the effective measurement is used by the measuring node, reported to another node, or both used by the measuring node and reported to another node.
US09398479B2	Multi-device monitoring and control using intelligent device channel sharing A physical network address of one of a set of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices is translated to a shared logical device physical network address in response to receipt from an application server of a first data packet addressed to the physical network address. The shared logical device physical network address forms a logical device group and physically addresses each of the set of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices over a single wireless communication channel. The physical network address of the one of the set of wireless customer-premise monitoring devices is embedded within the first data packet addressed to the shared logical device physical network address. The first data packet is sent to the shared logical device physical network address.
US09398478B2	Radio base station, radio network node and methods therein for detecting a faulty antenna Embodiments herein relate to a method in a first radio base station (12) for enabling detection of a faulty antenna in a radio communications network. The radio communication network comprises the first radio base station (12) providing radio coverage in a first cell (14), and a second radio base station (13) providing radio coverage in a second cell (15). The first radio base station (12) receives, from at least one user equipment in the first cell (14), a first set of measurement reports over a first period of time. At least some measurement reports are indicating a cell relation between the first cell (14) and the second cell (15). The first radio base station (12) further forms reference statistics of the cell relation between the first cell (14) and the second cell (15) based on the first set of measurement reports. Furthermore, the first radio base station (12) receives, from at least one user equipment in the first cell (14), a second set of measurement reports over a second period of time. The first radio base station (12) then forms current statistics of the cell relation between the first cell (14) and the second cell (15) based on the second set of measurement reports. The first radio base station (12) then compares the current statistics with the reference statistics to enable the detection of a faulty antenna in the first radio base station (12) or the second radio base station (13).
US09398469B2	Mesh network evaluation methods Methods, software and apparatus for determining the quality of a wireless mesh network (ie a network comprising a plurality of access nodes supporting wireless communications both with user terminals and between themselves), comprises storing information relating to the access nodes, the information including whether or not each access node is a data sink (ie is connected to an external network, typically a wireline network with relatively higher capacity); determining measures of traffic flow on wireless links between said access nodes; determining measures of capacity on the wireless links; and determining the quality of the network in dependence on the stored information, the measures of traffic flow, and the measures of capacity.
US09398464B2	Base station router for distributed antenna systems Certain aspects are directed to a base station router disposed in a distributed antenna system. The base station router includes a backplane and a controller. The backplane can manage an availability of sectors for coverage zones. Each sector can include communication channels to be radiated to mobile devices in the coverage zones and can represent an amount of telecommunication capacity. The controller can respond to a traffic indicator by causing the backplane to redistribute the availability of at least one sector. The sector can be redistributed from a first coverage zone to a second coverage zone.
US09398463B2	Portable terminal and lock state canceling method A mobile phone (10) includes a touch panel (38) and a touch control circuit (36) detecting a touch operation, and can set a lock state that a telephone function or the like is restricted. If the lock state is set and a key operation is performed, a message urging to long-depress a touch is displayed on a display (30), and when the touch is detected, a changing object representing an elapse of time is displayed on the display (30). If five (5) seconds elapse in a touched state, a completion image is displayed on the display (30). Then, if a finger is released from the touch panel (38) within three (3) seconds after the completion image is displayed, the lock state is canceled.
US09398460B1	Mobile phone-based system for on-demand security primarily via non-voice communication A mobile phone-based system for providing on-demand security to a requester primarily via non-voice communication, the system comprising a database having requester, security escort, engagement, and review data, and request factors; a requester phone having one non-voice and voice communication channel and an interface facilitating engagements; a screening facility qualifying security escorts, requesters, and reviewing one screened person's qualifications; a security escort phone having one non-voice and voice communication channel, an interface facilitating engagements; an engagement engine having a query generator facilitating requests and generating an appropriate queries and a response generator receiving the queries and generating factor-based responses; and a meeting engine facilitating all phases of the engagement, whereby the security escorts required for a particular engagement are determined based on requester-provided data as a function of a requester requirements, security escort provider abilities, and application of request factors.
US09398457B2	System and method for wireless communications activity within a predetermined area and for generating messages to selected communication devices A system and method is disclosed for detecting the presence and level of wireless communications activity within a predetermined area, without disclosing the identity of the wireless users, and for generating a message to certain information and communications devices in response to the detection of a predetermined level of wireless communications activity within the predetermined area. The information detected also may include information relating to the general direction and rate of movement of detected wireless devices. The message generated in response to the detection of wireless communications activity may include wireless messages, including Short Message Service (SMS) messages, to persons desiring or needing to receive such information; messages to public officials and other interested persons; and automatic signals to devices such as computers, computer networks (including the internet and wireless networks), facsimile machines, signs, lights, loudspeakers, and other devices providing information through other communication and information media.
US09398456B2	Electronic device with accessory-based transmit power control An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. Control circuitry may be used to adjust transmit power levels for the wireless signals and other settings for the wireless circuitry. The electronic device may be operated in conjunction with an external accessory. The accessory may be equipment that includes a dock connector, a case to enclose the electronic device, equipment that is coupled to the electronic device using a cable, or other external electronic equipment. An identifier may be stored in the accessory. The impact of the accessory on the wireless performance of the electronic device may be characterized and associated with the identifier. During operation of the electronic device, the electronic device may adjust transmit power levels and other settings based on the identifier of the accessory and based on sensor data, user input, and other information.
US09398453B2	Ad hoc service provider's ability to provide service for a wireless network An ad hoc service provider for a wireless network, a method for providing service from a mobile node, and a machine-readable medium are disclosed. An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to support first and second wireless access protocols and to alter the ad hoc service provider's ability to provide service for a wireless network in response to a resource related event. A method includes sending a request that a mobile node be allowed to provide service as an ad hoc service provider, detecting a resource related event of the mobile node for a wireless network, and altering the mobile node's ability to provide service for the wireless network. A machine-readable medium includes instructions for detecting a resource related event of a mobile node, and altering the mobile node's ability to provide service as an ad hoc service provider for a wireless network based on the detection.
US09398452B1	Bootstrapping secure connections for deployable networks A method and apparatus for bootstrapping secure connections between wireless devices and deployable wireless communications networks. Using the method, a wireless device establishes a connection to an auxiliary network, and then establishes a connection with a deployable subscription bootstrapping service. The deployable subscription bootstrapping service generates a temporary subscription profile, including a temporary shared symmetric key, for the wireless device, writes the temporary profile to a deployable home subscriber server, and communicates the temporary profile to the wireless device, which stores the temporary profile. The wireless device then terminates the connection to the auxiliary network, and initiates a connection with the deployable wireless communications network using the temporary subscription profile.
US09398448B2	Enhanced wireless communication security Systems, methods, and devices are directed to an electronic device that includes a first wireless communication module configured to facilitate transmission and reception of data via a wireless communication link and a first secure element while a wireless communication device includes a processor, an operating system executed by the processor, a second wireless communication module configured to facilitate transmission and reception of data via the wireless communication link, and a second secure element. The second secure element exchanges information with the first secure element via the wireless communication link to establish a secure channel within the wireless communication link, and the wireless communication device employs logic configured to route the data to the second secure element for processing prior to forwarding the data to the operating system, upon establishing the secure channel.
US09398446B2	Method for changing aid in wireless LAN system Disclosed is a method for changing an AID in a wireless LAN system. The method for changing an AID of a terminal by an access point comprises: a step of receiving an AID reassignment frame from the access point; a step of extracting an AID reassignment counter value from the AID reassignment frame; and a step of changing the AID of the terminal to the new AID included in the AID reassignment frame after the beacon periods of the access point indicated by the AID reassignment counter value extracted from the AID reassignment frame reception time have elapsed. Thus, a conflict between AIDs can be prevented.
US09398440B2	Apparatus and method for interfacing with a cell-phone network A smart card for use with a mobile communication device adapted to communicate over a cell-phone network, the smart card comprising: at least one communication port for communicating with a transceiver via a communication channel that is not a cell-phone channel; and a processor configured to receive from the transceiver an IMSI from a SIM having an authentication key, and an authentication response generated by the SIM responsive to the SIM's authentication key and a challenge by a cell-phone network, and to transmit the received IMSI and authentication response to the mobile communication device for transmission to the cell-phone network via a cell-phone communication channel provided by the cell-phone network.
US09398439B2	Method, apparatus and system using camel dialogue services An objective of the present invention is a method, apparatus, and a system using a CAMEL service. According to the method of the present invention, the method comprises the following steps during a process in which a called user equipment moves from an original visit mobile switch center (VMMSC) to a new VMSC: when receiving roaming retry information from the original VMSC, generating a first send routing information containing suppress Terminating CAMEL Subscription Information (TCSI) indicator of the CAMEL dialog service; sending the first send routing information to a home location register, so as to request a mobile station roaming number of the called user equipment in said new MSC. According to the method of the present invention, the initial CAMEL service connection is always maintained during the MTRR process, without bothering to interrupt and re-invoke various kinds of CAMEL services, thereby shortening the call setting time during the MTRR process; besides, the communication load of the network ss7 is reduced, and the network resources are saved. Particularly during the RBT service process, the user will not hear two different ringtones any more, which enhances the user experience.
US09398436B2	Cloud service for making social connections A cloud service for making social connections includes a remote computer storing user accounts, each account including user information and an anonymous ID bound to the user information. A first mobile device transmits an anonymous ID using a limited range wireless signal module and a second mobile device receives the anonymous ID using a limited range wireless signal module of the second mobile device. The second mobile device transmits the received anonymous ID to a remote computer using an Internet connection module and receives the user information bound to the anonymous ID from the remote computer.
US09398435B2	Indicating physical change in relation to an exterior of a network node module The invention relates to a method for indicating a physical change in relation to an exterior of a network node module included in a network node in a wireless communication network, such a network node module and such a network node. According to the invention the network node module (19) comprises a movement detector (20) configured to detect movement between a male element and a corresponding female element, where the network node module comprises one of the elements and both elements are required for obtaining an operative network node, and a control unit (24) configured to generate an indication of a physical change of the network node module based on the detected movement.
US09398432B2	Electronic device and method for controlling emergency call in electronic device An electronic device includes a communication module configured to support a first communication network and a second communication network, comprising a switch module for switching between the first communication network and the second communication network, and a processor configured to determine whether at least one of conditions for switching to a second communication network is satisfied when a request for originating an emergency call is made in a state of a setting of providing a voice service through a first communication network, cause the switch module to switch into the second communication network, and attempt to originate the emergency call when the at least one of conditions for switching to the second communication network is satisfied. Other embodiments are implemented.
US09398431B2	Method for running applications using mobile device and playback apparatus supporting BD-J specification A method for running applications using a mobile device and a playback apparatus supporting a BD-J specification is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a function that cannot be provided by the playback apparatus supporting the BD-J specification is provided by the mobile device, thereby preventing the lack of resources and the rise of suppressing the manufacturing costs of the playback apparatus.
US09398430B2	Controlling communication arrival indicators The present invention relates to a user interface method for controlling output of a reception signal sound of a smart device. The method of the present invention includes a step of executing the call-keeper application to select a call-keeper mode (including a mode name and a time for controlling output of the reception sound signal) for blocking output of the reception signal sound through a mode setting user interface. When the time for blocking output of the reception signal sound in a designated mode expires, communication is performed normally without controlling output of the reception signal sound according to classification.
US09398423B2	Methods and systems for driver identification A method of determining vehicle entry information for a user includes obtaining a yaw measurement using a mobile device, determining, using a processor, a first time span associated with a user entering a vehicle, and determining, using the processor, a second time span associated with a user exiting the vehicle. The method also includes determining that a change in magnitude over a portion of the yaw measurement is greater than a predetermined threshold over at least one of the first time span or the second time span and determining an angular change of the yaw measurement over the predetermined threshold. The method further includes associating right hand entry with the vehicle entry information if the angular orientation of the yaw measurement is clockwise and associating left hand entry with the vehicle entry information if the angular orientation of the yaw measurement is counter-clockwise.
US09398421B2	Preventing access to functions on a mobile device in response to an external OS-level command Systems, methods, and devices for preventing access to a prohibited function on a mobile device when the mobile device is in a vehicle, the mobile device having an operating system (OS) installed thereon. The system includes a control device installed within the vehicle and a software application installed and running in memory resident on the mobile device. If a prohibited function is active or attempts to become active on the mobile device, the software application causes the mobile device to transmit a notification signal to the control device. In response, the control device transmits an OS-level command, such as a home or power key press, back to the mobile device. Upon receipt of the OS-level command, the operating system of the mobile device prevents access to the prohibited function without any direct interference or interruption of the prohibited function by the software application installed on the mobile device.
US09398420B2	Computing and harnessing inferences about the timing, duration, and nature of motion and cessation of motion with applications to mobile computing and communications An information delivery system comprises a receiver component that receives information about the movement, velocity, acceleration, and/or locations over time of a user. A computation component using a predictive model generates a probability distribution relating to one or more of when the user will next be stopped, how long the user will be stopped, how long a pattern of motion, such as walking, driving in stop and go traffic, and smooth highway motion will last, based at least in part upon signals about motion over time. The system can further comprise an alerting component that determines when to provide the user with information based at least in part upon the probability distribution over some aspect of motion or cessation of motion, and optionally the content, or tagged or inferred urgency or importance, of a message or communication.
US09398417B2	Communication system, communication method, program and information storage medium Methods and apparatus provide for a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.
US09398415B1	System, method, and computer program for determining geo-location of user equipment for a subscriber that is in simultaneous communication with a cellular network and a wi-fi network A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining geo-location of one or multiple User Equipment, that belong to the same subscriber subscription, that collectively are in simultaneous communication with a Cellular network and a Wi-Fi network. In use, it is determined that a subscriber utilizing at least one User Equipment is in simultaneous communication with at least one Cellular network and at least one Wi-Fi network. Cellular network measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment is received. Additionally, Wi-Fi network measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment is received. Further, the Cellular network measurement data and the Wi-Fi network measurement data are correlated to generate correlated measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment. Moreover, the correlated measurement data is utilized to determine the geo-location of the at least one User Equipment, utilizing at least one geo-location determination algorithm and/or method, including and not limited to triangulation and correlation to Radio Frequency fingerprint.
US09398412B2	Indoor position location using docked mobile devices Examples are disclosed for a mobile device to determine its location by trilateration with docked mobile devices and, optionally, wireless access points. Locations are determined to within an accuracy of within three feet. The docked mobile devices are at fixed locations such as docked to a docking station. In some examples, a mobile device may perform ranging to the docked mobile devices and fixed wireless stations. Ranging may use a time-of-flight (ToF) process, and may compensate for multipath interference. Trilateration may consider relative accuracies of ranging components. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09398410B2	Location-based communications across time A first user at a location creates content (e.g., a text, voice message, photograph, image, video, or other content) associated with the location and sends the content to a service provider server using a first user device. The service provider server stores the content for future visitors of the location to access. When a second user with a second user device is subsequently at or close to the location associated with the content, the service provider server provides access to the content based on a location of the second user device and one or more criteria, such as a search area criterion, time interval criterion, access area criterion, and/or user interest criterion. The second user may then view the content on the second user device.
US09398409B2	System and method for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence.
US09398405B2	Event based service An event based service provides services and/or products based on an event. Services/products are made available to persons attending an event. Services, products, and/or advertisements can be made available to persons via wireless mobile communications devices. The services/products can be made available to persons attending an event. Services/products can be made available while the event is occurring. Additionally, advertising space is auctioned allowing the ability to bid for advertising space for advertising services/products via the event based service. Individual providers can offer services/products to a group of people at the same location, and at a time that people may be most interested in the services/products. Access to the event based service can be via service provider offered access points. An individual provider's device can act as a server that enables services/products to be purchased. An individual provider's device can act as a network gateway that enables services/products to be purchased.
US09398403B2	Providing mobile device location as a proxy location for an access point in response to mobile device association with the access point, and related methods, devices, and systems Providing mobile device location as a proxy location for an access point in response to mobile device association with the access point, and related methods, devices, and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile device receives signals from a transmitter(s). Based on the received signals, the mobile device determines its current location. The mobile device also establishes an association with an access point device. In response to the association, the mobile device transmits to a location server an identification of the access point device and the current location of the mobile device as a proxy location for the access point device. In this manner, the location server may determine a location of the access point device while maintaining the privacy of user(s) of the mobile device(s). The location server may provide the access point device location to user device(s) to allow the user device(s) to determine its location.
US09398395B2	Grouping and displaying messages exchanged between a sender and multiple recipients The disclosure is related to grouping and displaying messages exchanging between a sender and a plurality of recipients. A first message including a first tag may be sent to a plurality of recipient terminals. A second message may be received from at least one of the recipient terminals. The received second message may be grouped into a related message group based on the first tag and a second tag. The second tag may be included in the second message. The received second messages may be displayed within the related message group.
US09398391B2	Stereo widening over arbitrarily-configured loudspeakers A system and method are disclosed for effective and simple stereo widening over arbitrarily-configured speakers and its real-time implementation. According to one embodiment, the system includes five processing units: (1) elevation processing unit; (2) side signal or difference signal processing unit; (3) center signal processing unit; (4) binaural signal processing unit; and (5) stereo limiter (to prevent the clipping) unit. Any of the five processing units may be included or omitted depending on the application. In general, embodiments of the present invention provide effective and simple stereo widening schemes with good audio quality results, but without having substantial requirements on the speakers' positional configuration. For example, the proposed schemes can apply to both symmetric and non-symmetric stereo loudspeakers.
US09398390B2	DJ stem systems and methods Systems and methods selectively mix a first and second song together during a live performance. The first song has a plurality of first stems, each having stereo audio that combine to form the audio of the first song. The second song has a plurality of second stems, each having stereo audio that combine to form the audio of the second song. A computer, with memory and a processor, executes machine readable instructions of a multiple channel audio mixing application with stored within the memory. The multiple channel audio mixing application plays and mixes audio of at least one of the first stems with audio of at least one of the second stems. The multiple channel audio mixing application is controlled in real-time during the performance to select the at least one first stem and the at least one second stem for the mixing.
US09398389B2	Apparatus for securing components in an electret condenser microphone (ECM) An Electret Condenser Microphone (ECM) motor apparatus includes a diaphragm ring support structure, a charge plate, and at least one stitch. The diaphragm ring support structure defines an opening there through. The charge plate is disposed within the opening. The at least one stitch is coupled to the diaphragm ring support structure to the charge plate. The diaphragm is disposed adjacent to and in a generally parallel relationship to the charge plate. The stitch is configured to hold the charge plate and the diaphragm ring, and the stitch is configured to maintain a constant or nearly constant distance between the charge plate and the diaphragm in the absence of sound energy.
US09398385B2	Fitting system and method for fitting a hearing system The method for adjusting a hearing system to individual hearing needs and preferences of a specific hearing system user by means of a fitting system comprising a visual display comprises: a) presenting on the visual display a visualization (33) simultaneously visualizing for each of a group of data sets: whether or not the respective data set is accessible to a user of said fitting system; and for each device selected in said fitting system to be part of said hearing system: whether or not the respective device is accessible to a user of said fitting system; by b1) displaying on the visual display a graphics object (33a, 33b, . . . ) representing the respective data set or device, in case the respective data set and the respective device, respectively, is accessible to a user of said fitting system; and b2) not displaying on said visual display a graphics object (33a, 33b, . . . ) representing the respective data set or device, in case the respective data set and the respective device, respectively, is not accessible to a user of said fitting system.
US09398384B2	Hearing prosthesis accessory Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to a protective sleeve for an external component of a hearing prosthesis. The protective sleeve comprises a base plug configured to be inserted into a main body. The main body and base plug are each primarily formed from a substantially flexible material and each comprises one or more substantially rigid members. When the base plug is inserted into the main body the substantially rigid members operate to deform a portion of substantially flexible material forming part of the main body or base plug to seal the base plug to the main body.
US09398383B2	Battery assembly for a hearing device and associated method A battery assembly for powering a hearing device includes: a main part having at least a first surface and a second surface, the main part comprising a first electrode formed as an inductive coil; a first attachment member on at least a primary part of the first surface for attaching the main part to a hearing device housing of the hearing device; a second attachment member for attaching a direct current source to the main part; and an electronic circuit having a first input terminal and a second input terminal connectable to a first output terminal and a second output terminal, respectively, of the direct current source, wherein the electronic circuit is connected to the first electrode, and wherein the electronic circuit is configured for converting direct current from the direct current source to alternating current.
US09398378B2	Acoustic generator, acoustic generating apparatus, and electronic apparatus An acoustic generator according to an embodiment includes a film-shaped vibrating body, a flame, and an exciter. The frame is configured to fix at least both ends of the vibrating body in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction that is a thickness direction of the vibrating body. The exciter is disposed on the vibrating body, and is configured to vibrate itself to vibrate the vibrating body. The vibrating body has a value of an average coefficient of linear expansion during a temperature change from 90° C. to 40° C. set to be not less than a value of the average coefficient of linear expansion of the vibrating body during a temperature change from 40° C. to 90° C., and set to be not less than a value of an average coefficient of linear expansion of the flame during a temperature change from 90° C. to 40° C.
US09398377B2	Piezoelectric sound element A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.
US09398374B2	Systems and methods for nonlinear echo cancellation In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an audio processing circuit for use in an audio device may perform non-linear acoustic echo cancellation by predicting a displacement associated with an audio speaker, wherein such prediction takes into account a nonlinear response of the audio speaker with a mathematical model that calculates the predicted displacement of the audio speaker as a function of a current signal associated with the audio speaker using a time-varying difference equation, wherein coefficients of the difference equation are based on a set of physical parameters of the audio speaker. From the predicted displacement, the processing circuit may calculate a predicted acoustic output of the audio speaker, which may be used to generate a reference signal to an acoustic echo canceller.
US09398373B2	Direct selection of audio source When an indication is received from a user input, a name of an audio source from an ordered list of audio sources to which a headset is currently connected is output. Whenever a successive indication is received within a predefined amount of time, the name of the next wireless audio source in the list is output. If the next wireless audio source in the list is the last wireless audio source in the list, and the successive indication from the user input is received before the elapsed time exceeds the predefined value, the name of the audio source to which the headset is currently connected is output as the next selected wireless audio source in the list. When an amount of time greater than the predefined value elapses without a successive indication from the user input, the last wireless audio source that had its name output is connected.
US09398370B2	Intraoral appliance for sound transmission via bone conduction An intra-oral appliance for transmitting sound via bone conduction and optimized for comfort, safety, speech intelligibility, eating and drinking and extended wear by the user including an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to the actuator to cause the actuator to generate sound; and a first chamber containing the actuator and the transceiver, said first chamber adapted to be coupled to one or more teeth of the user.
US09398364B2	Earpiece passive noise attenuating An earpiece with structure for positioning and retaining the earpiece and with structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal to provide passive noise attenuation. The positioning and retaining structure engages features of the lateral surface of the ear. The structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal includes a conical structure.
US09398363B2	Neckband-type earphone [Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a neckband-type earphone that can be worn for a long time without subjecting the wearer to discomfort of wearing a neckband-type earphone, and in which the extent of hazard to the wearer when worn is lowered and locations that break are reduced. [Solution] A neckband-type earphone provided with: earphone parts which are inserted into the pinnae of the wearer and which output an audio signal; ear holder parts which connect to the earphone parts and which abut the upper side of the pinnae of the wearer; holder bodies provided with the ear holder parts; earphone drivers provided with the holder bodies; and a neck band connecting the two earphone drivers; the holder bodies being provided with a cushion part at a portion that comes into contact with the head of the wearer in the vicinity of the pinnae.
US09398351B2	Method and apparatus for converting content in multimedia system A method and an apparatus for converting content by a terminal in a multimedia system are provided. The method includes acquiring reference information for converting a first content based on a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) transport stream to a second content based on a media file format and converting the first content to the second content using the reference information.
US09398338B2	Utilization of remote control to display media A system (10), a method and a utilization of a remote control adapted to display media content from the World Wide Web (12). This is accomplished by utilizing a smart-phone (18) as a remote control by an application program, and transmitting the media content through a backend system (110) utilizing WI-FI adapters to (20) transmit streaming media to for instance a HDMI TV (16).
US09398337B2	Method and apparatus for assigning video bitrate in mobile communication system An embodiment provides a method for supporting video transmission and reception in a bitrate selection server of a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a metadata request of a video from a terminal. The method also includes transmitting the received metadata request to a media server based on the request; receiving a metadata response from the media server. The method also includes storing the received video metadata and transmitting the received video metadata to the terminal. The method also includes requesting subscriber information of the terminal to a Policy and Changing Rules Function (PCRF) and receiving the subscriber information. The method also includes receiving a video segment request of the video from the terminal. The method also includes determining a bitrate of the video based on at least one of the video metadata and the subscriber information.
US09398336B2	Methods and apparatus for selecting digital interface technology for programming and data delivery Methods and apparatus for selecting digital (network) interface technology for programming and data delivery over, e.g., a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises an HFC cable or satellite network that includes a server process interfacing with a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE), and/or associated client devices, each having different capabilities profiles. The server determines the one or more capabilities possessed by the CPE, and evaluates one or more program or content choices for possible delivery to that CPE based on its profile. The server generates a list of programs or content based on this evaluation, and transmits this list to the CPE, which displays the list for viewing by a user. The user is therefore offered a list of available content that is compatible with their specific configuration. A business and operational rules engine is also optionally employed to control the operation of the foregoing processes to accomplish particular business or operational goals.
US09398331B2	Power management for audience measurement meters Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device that is to present received media and is monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information. Such disclosed example methods also include determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and power outage information determined from the audience measurement data.
US09398329B2	Video management and control in home multimedia network A system may include a video link and a hybrid link that connects a transmitting device to the receiving device, and at least one intermediate hop between the transmitting device and the receiving device. The intermediate hop may be configured to relay video content from the video source to the video sink through the hybrid link using one or more data relay modes. The hybrid link may be configured to perform hybrid link control signaling (HLCS) to manage a physical layer of the hybrid link. The video link between the video source and the video sink may be configured to transmit a video stream the from video source to the video sink over one or more video lanes. A video link training may be implemented for the video link and the hybrid link.
US09398323B2	Technique for delivering network personal video recorder service and broadcast programming service over communications network A resident application and a second application are provided in a set-top terminal to receive a TV broadcast service and network personal video recorder (NPVR) service, respectively. The resident application is suspended in favor of the second application when a user changes from a broadcast channel to an NPVR enabled channel, and vice versa. In an embodiment where a digital video recorder (DVR) set-top terminal is used, a DVR server therein provides trick mode functions (pause, rewind and fast-forward) before an NPVR session, e.g., a Look Back session, is established. In another embodiment, during an NPVR session the DVR server plays back recorded programming content downloaded from a communications network, and provides trick mode functions as well.
US09398320B1	Managing access to content using ratings provided by a content provider A method, system, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for blocking online content based on ratings supplied by the content provider are provided. A content server may communicate a content rating for online content in a response to a request for the online content. The content rating may be communicated as an attribute value within the response header. The content rating may be compared to the rating-permission for the computing device that requested the online content to determine whether the content should be blocked. If the computing device that sent the request is not approved to receive the online content then the online content is blocked.
US09398319B2	System, method, and apparatus for playing back a plurality of video elementary streams with one playback channel A system, method, and apparatus for playback of multiple video elementary streams is presented herein. A host processor modifies the video elementary streams to allow a transport demultiplexer to distinguish among the plurality of the video elementary streams.
US09398313B2	Depth map coding The invention relates to coding of depth information for multi-view video coding. Different parameters and/or any features from picture encoding or the encoded and reconstructed pictures may be used in the coding of the depth information, especially in filtering the depth picture using e.g. a loop filter in the depth coding loop. The same principle may be applied in decoding, that is, the decoded (texture) pictures and parameters may be used to control the decoding of the depth data, e.g. to control the filtering of the depth data in a loop filter. Parameters and data that may be used as such control may comprise features extracted from the reconstructed pictures, the encoded video data and parameters, the motion estimation data and others.
US09398312B2	Adaptive inter-channel transform for wavelet color image compression A method for compressing an image including one or more blocks, each of the one or more blocks including an x channel, a y channel, and a z channel, the method including, for each of the one or more blocks: performing a frequency domain transform, by a processor, on each of the x, y, and z channels; ordering, by the processor, the transformed x, y, and z channels into first, second, and third transformed channels; performing an inter-channel transform in accordance with the order of the first transformed channel, the second transformed channel, and the third transformed channel; and encoding the inter-channel transformed channels.
US09398308B2	Coding motion prediction direction in video coding This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing a cost of coding prediction information in video coding. Video blocks in a generalized P/B (GPB) frame are encoded using up to two motion vectors calculated from reference pictures in two separate reference picture lists that are identical. When one of the reference picture lists is preferred over the other reference picture list, the preferred reference picture list may be used for unidirectional prediction, by default. When a GPB frame is enabled such that the first and second reference picture lists are identical, either of the first and second reference picture lists may be used for unidirectional prediction. The techniques include coding one or more syntax elements indicating that a video block is coded using one of the unidirectional prediction mode with respect to a reference picture in a reference picture list and the bidirectional prediction mode using less than two bits.
US09398301B2	Parallel video encoding based on complexity analysis Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for encoding chunks of a video file in parallel. Embodiments may divide a source video file into a plurality of chunks, and may encode each chunk at a rate based upon complexity data associated with the chunk. The encoded chunks may then be reassembled to produce an encoded video file.
US09398300B2	Method, system and apparatus for intra-prediction in video signal processing using combinable blocks A method, apparatus and system for a video encoder for selecting a block of intermediate size from a set of block sizes for intra-prediction estimation for encoding a video signal. A set of neighboring blocks with the intermediate size are tested for combining. If the set of neighboring blocks are determined to be combinable, the video encoder selects a larger block size formed by the tested neighboring blocks for encoding. On the other hand, if the set of neighboring blocks are determined to be not combinable, the video encoder selects a smaller block size from the set of tested neighboring blocks for prediction. Furthermore, intra-prediction is determined by first intra-predicting a block with intermediate modes in a set of modes. Then the intra-predictions are performed for the neighboring modes of at least one intermediate mode.
US09398299B2	Method and system for generating a transform size syntax element for video decoding In a video processing system, a method and system for generating a transform size syntax element for video decoding are provided. For high profile mode video decoding operations, the transform sizes may be selected based on the prediction macroblock type and the contents of the macroblock. A set of rules may be utilized to select from a 4×4 or an 8×8 transform size during the encoding operation. Dynamic selection of transform size may be performed on intra-predicted macroblocks, inter-predicted macroblocks, and/or direct mode inter-predicted macroblocks. The encoding operation may generate a transform size syntax element to indicate the transform size that may be used in reconstructing the encoded macroblock. The transform size syntax element may be transmitted to a decoder as part of the encoded video information bit stream.
US09398296B2	Digital closed caption transport in standalone stream A method and system for digital closed caption transport are provided. In one example, the method involves receiving closed caption data and a program feed having video content, embedding the closed caption data into a standard video syntax, and encoding the video content into the standard video syntax as a background, wherein the closed caption data and the video content are encoded into a closed caption program feed.
US09398290B2	Stereoscopic image display device, image processing device, and stereoscopic image processing method Provided is a stereoscopic image display device and the like with which the issues of a CT-image and pseudoscopic view by the 3D crosstalk can be overcome so that a sense of discomfort is not felt by the observer even when the observing position of the observer is shifted without giving a sense of discomfort by a drastic change in the parallax value, in which an image processing unit includes: a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of a stereoscopic display panel with respect to the measured observing position of the observer; a parallax adjustment amount calculating unit which calculates a parallax adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display according to the relative position; and a parallax adjustment processing unit which performs parallax adjustment processing on image data according to the parallax adjustment amount.
US09398288B2	IR signal capture for images Technologies and implementations for capturing images from IR signals are generally disclosed.
US09398286B2	Multi-image capture device capturing images by means of circular motion A multi-image capture device capturing images by means of circular motion controls the shift movement, along a semi-circular measuring rod, of a moving mechanism by a location control device. Furthermore, a rotary control device is used to control the positioning and image-capturing angle of a second image capture device fixed on the rotary mechanism. Thereby, a first image capture device and the second image capture device are of a co-circle configuration where the optical axis of the first image capture device and the second image capture device overlap to form a center of the co-circle. Such a configuration can broaden the visual range of the image capture device, and allows quick calibration of the image capture device according to positioning of shift movement and image-capturing angles.
US09398280B2	AWB using face detection A method, system, and article provide automatic white balancing with skin tone correction for image processing.
US09398279B2	Image sensor optimization An apparatus including: a plurality of photodetectors for converting the light to which they are exposed to into signals for image generation, wherein the photodetectors use locally optimized saturation signal. The apparatus is, for example, an image sensor or an electronic communication device.
US09398278B2	Graphical display system with adaptive keystone mechanism and method of operation thereof A method of operation of a graphical display system includes: generating a first registration point of an adaptive alignment image; calculating the adaptive alignment image having a first alignment point with a known location relative to the first registration point; projecting a projected image, having a first projected registration point, with the adaptive alignment image for displaying on a display surface with the first alignment point is a first projected alignment point on the display surface; calculating an adjustment for the adaptive alignment image using a relative location between the first alignment point and the first registration point, and the first projected alignment point and the first projected registration point, respectively; and creating an apparent image as an adaptive keystone corrected perception of the projected image by modifying the display image with the adjustment for displaying from a projector device.
US09398277B2	Projection type display device and method for producing recorded images A projection type display device includes projection means that projects an input image, representing an object on a background and that corresponds to an input video signal, onto a projection surface on which a user writes information, and processing means that, upon receiving a photographing instruction, stops projection by the projection means and photographs the projection surface to generate a photographed image, and detects the difference between the color of the background in the input image and the color of the projection surface in the photographed image, to generate a corrected image by correcting the color of the input image or the photographed image so as to reduce the difference, and generates a recorded image by superimposing the corrected image on the remaining input image or the photographed image.
US09398273B2	Imaging system, imaging apparatus, and imaging method An imaging system includes an encoding apparatus that performs a multiple sampling process on charge signals in a plurality of wavelength bands and encodes image information and a decoding apparatus that decodes the image information. In the multiple sampling process, the charge signals of pixels in a pixel group having a predetermined arrangement pattern are analog-summed and the sum is converted into a new digital signal. The encoding apparatus performs the multiple sampling process on charge signals in at least two of the wavelength bands and outputs a digital image signal in each of the wavelength band. The at least two pixel groups have different arrangement patterns, and combinations of the arrangement patterns for all the wavelength bands differ from one another. The decoding apparatus generates a reconstructed image from the digital image signals in the wavelength bands using multiple sampling information and outputs the image.
US09398271B2	Apparatus and method of alternately capturing images with rotating prism A network camera and an image capturing method using rotating prism are described. The network camera includes a lens module including lenses having incident paths different from each other, a prism reflecting light incident through the lens module, a prism driving module rotating the prism, and a controller controlling the prism through the prism driving module. The prism reflects lights incident through the incident paths different from each other by performing a rotation operation according to a control of the prism driving module.
US09398267B2	Box-to-box camera configuration/reconfiguration A system and method of setting configurations for individual encoders and cameras in closed circuit television (CCTV) systems, for example surveillance and security systems comprising a plurality of cameras. One aspect of the disclosed invention is a system for configuring/reconfiguring the settings of remote units in an Internet Protocol (IP) based CCTV system. The system may include a configuration device and a plurality of remotely located units dispersed in a region of interest. The plurality of remotely located units may include one or more groups, each group including units of the same type. Each remote unit in the system may include logic and software for operating its components, as well as communication components allowing transfer of information over a network to and from the configuration device and the other remote units in the system.
US09398265B2	Method and apparatus for remote multiple-process graphical monitoring A network of controllers for controlling and monitoring associated assay testing systems coupled to a remote monitoring unit for monitoring and controlling the controllers and/or the assay testing systems is disclosed. Each controller transmits a display image representing the status of the respective assay testing system. The remote monitoring unit automatically detects if the number of display images from the controllers is greater than a threshold number of displayable, static thumbnail images and, when the threshold is exceeded, displays thumbnail images dynamically in a scrolling or streaming motion. The thumbnail images, whether static or dynamic, are updated in real-time or pseudo-real-time to reflect updated status of the assay testing systems.
US09398256B2	Telecommunication end-point device data transmission controller A telecommunication channel data transmission controller 20 for controlling data transmission in a telecommunication channel typically forms part of a telecommunication end point device, such as a video phone 2. The data transmission controller 20 is configured to encode and transmit data in a telecommunication channel at a channel bit rate comprising a data rate and a redundancy rate; and maintain an increase in channel bit rate 70, if a packet loss rate in the telecommunication channel does not increase by increasing the channel bit rate including reducing or maintaining the data rate and increasing the redundancy rate 68.
US09398254B2	Method for implementing telepresence technology and telepresence device Disclosed are a method for implementing telepresence technology and a telepresence device. The method comprises: a first telepresence device establishes a communication connection with a second telepresence device, wherein the first telepresence device performs a first capability negotiation with the second telepresence device during the communication connection establishment; the first telepresence device performs a TIP capability negotiation with the second telepresence device; the first telepresence device and the second telepresence device determine, according a result of the first capability negotiation and a result of the TIP capability negotiation, an audio and video coding/decoding mode used in the following communication; and the first telepresence device communicates with the second telepresence device according to the determined audio and video coding/decoding mode. The disclosure solves a technical problem in the prior art that new audio and video coding/decoding modes cannot be used because content of a TIP protocol is not updated in time.
US09398253B2	Video pause indication in video telephony The disclosure relates to video telephony and, more particularly, to techniques for detecting a video pause in a video telephony application. In one example of the disclosure, a method for video telephony comprises detecting, at a receiving device, that video data packets associated with a video telephony call have stopped arriving from a sending device, and determining that the sending device has paused a video portion of the video telephony call based on information contained in video control packets.
US09398252B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system and program Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including: a motion information generating unit that obtains information on a first user's motion, and generates first motion information; a transmitting unit that receives, from other information processing apparatus via a transmission line, second motion information on a second user; a motion detecting unit that detects first and a second kinds of motion corresponding respectively to the first and second motion information; a delay detecting unit that detects a transmission delay on the transmission line between the information processing apparatuses; a judging unit that judges whether modifying an object, which represents the second user's motion based on the second motion information, is necessary or not based on the first and second kinds of motion and the transmission delay; a modifying unit that modifies the second motion information; and an object generating unit that generates the object based on the second motion information.
US09398246B2	Display device, method of driving display device, and program Provided is a display device including a panel (158) in which a plurality of pixels that emit light in response to a video signal are arranged, a light emission amount calculation unit (164) that acquires a light emission amount on a plurality of positions of the panel (158) based on a video signal supplied to the panel (158), a storage unit (150) that accumulates data related to the light emission amount accumulated based on a video signal of a plurality of frames, a high-brightness gamma adjustment block (172b) that reduces brightness of a high brightness side of the video signal supplied to the panel (158) based on the data related to the light emission amount accumulated in storage unit (150), and a low-gradation gamma adjustment block (172c) that reduces brightness of a low brightness side of the video signal in conjunction with a reduction in brightness of the high brightness side.
US09398239B2	Solid-state imaging device having an enlarged dynamic range, and electronic system A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix, the pixels including a charge holding section configured to hold a signal charge transferred from a photoelectric conversion section, and to include a capacitor section having a first capacitance value and an additional capacitor section for increasing the first capacitance value to be a second capacitance value; and to part of a reset transistor configured to reset a charge held by the charge holding section, a test-voltage power source configured to apply a test voltage having a voltage different from a drive voltage of the reset transistor.
US09398238B2	Semiconductor device, physical information acquiring apparatus, and signal reading-out method A semiconductor device includes: an element array portion in which unit elements are disposed in a matrix; and a signal processing portion including a signal processing circuit executing predetermined signal processing based on unit signals outputted from the circuit elements, respectively, every column, in which a function of the signal processing circuit is controlled in such a way that power consumption of the signal processing circuit concerned corresponding to the unit elements each not required becomes lower in a phase of an element selection mode in which only information on a part of the unit pixels for one row in the element array portion is required than in a phase of a normal operation mode.
US09398234B2	Electronic device and method for processing image thereof A method for processing an image of an electronic device is provided, which includes detecting at least one motion object from image information. When there are two motion objects, determining whether the motion objects are separated from or combined with each other. At least one motion object is extracted the motion objects are separated from or combined with each other, determining whether or not there is a preset motion object synthesis sequence, and recommending a synthesis time point before and after a time point of separation or combination of the motion objects.
US09398233B2	Processing apparatus, system, method and program for processing information to be shared An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, and a method of processing information are provided. In one embodiment, the information processing apparatus includes a processor, and a memory device storing instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to receive, from a first information processing apparatus, area specifying information and location information, the area specifying information specifying a display area in an image, the display area including a plurality of partial images, the location information indicating at least one location of the plurality of partial images. The instructions further cause the processor to transmit, to a second information processing apparatus, the area specifying information and the location information.
US09398229B2	Selective illumination of a region within a field of view In embodiments of selective illumination, an illumination system includes light sources implemented for selective illumination of a target within a field of view of an imaging system. The illumination system also includes optics that can be positioned to direct light that is generated by a subset of the light sources to illuminate a region within the field of view. An imaging application can activate the subset of the light sources and position the optics to illuminate the region within the field of view that includes the target of the selective illumination.
US09398228B2	Image pickup apparatus, interchangeable lens, and camera system An image pickup apparatus on which an interchangeable lens is removably mounted, includes an image pickup element configured to perform a photoelectric conversion of an optical image formed via the interchangeable lens, and a controller configured to control a power supply to the interchangeable lens mounted on the image pickup apparatus. When the mounted interchangeable lens is a first type interchangeable lens and a power is turned off, the controller performs an aperture control so as to change a first aperture state set in the interchangeable lens to a second aperture state and then stops the power supply to the interchangeable lens. When the mounted interchangeable lens is a second type interchangeable lens and the power is turned off, the controller maintains the power supply differently from a case where the mounted interchangeable lens is the first type interchangeable lens.
US09398224B2	Method and device for detecting an object in a substrate A method and device for detecting an object in a substrate is disclosed. The device has a sensor unit having a sensor element and at least one further sensor element, a control and evaluation unit, and a display unit. The method for detecting an object in a substrate includes simultaneous reception of a receive signal and at least one further receive signal and simultaneous calculation of a depth cross-sectional image from the receive signal and at least one further depth cross-sectional image from the at least one further receive signal by the control and evaluation unit.
US09398222B2	Image display device that displays image and display bodies specifying image's particular regions, control method and storage medium therefor, and image pickup apparatus An image display device capable of providing satisfactory user's visibility of an image including object images when the image and display bodies specifying particular regions of the object images are screen displayed. In a case where a horizontal direction distance between face detection frames for object images adjacent on a screen is equal to or less than a first threshold value and a vertical direction distance between face detection frames exceeds a second threshold value, a system controller of the image display device determines which one of the face detection frames is located on an upper side of the screen. A human body detection frame for the object image corresponding to the face detection frame determined as being located on an upper side on the screen is made non-display.
US09398217B2	Video stabilization using padded margin pixels One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for video stabilization and/or for image frame generation. For example, a user may instruct a video application hosted on a smart phone to capture a video at a target resolution of 1080 pixels. A padded input having a padded resolution that is larger than the target resolution may be obtained from a capture device, such as a camera of the smart phone. The padded input may be provided to a video stabilization component to obtain a target image frame having the target resolution. In this way, the video stabilization component may perform cropping using padded margin pixels (e.g., additional pixels of the padded input beyond the 1080 pixels of the target resolution) so that image upscaling after cropping (e.g., to account for global warping, etc.) may be mitigated to reduce blur that may otherwise result from image upscaling.
US09398215B2	Stereoscopic panoramas Systems and methods to generate stereoscopic panoramas obtain images based on captured images. The obtained images may be processed and/or preprocessed, for example to compensate for perspective distortion caused by the non-ideal camera orientation during capturing, to reduce vertical parallax, to align adjacent images, and/or to reduce rotational and/or positional drift between adjacent images. The obtained images may be used for interpolating virtual in-between images on the fly to reduce visible artifacts in the resulting panorama. Obtained and/or interpolated images (or image fragments) may be stitched together to form a stereoscopic panorama.
US09398214B2	Multiple view and multiple object processing in wide-angle video camera Methods and systems of transmitting a plurality of views from a video camera are disclosed. A multi object processing camera captures a wide-angle field of view in high resolution and a processing circuit executes a plurality of software tasks on a plurality of regions extracted from the wide-angle view. Multiple objects can be processed by the camera to detect various events, and the results of the processing transmitted to a base station. The camera removes the need for mechanical pan, tilt, and zoom apparatus by correcting distortions in the electronic image introduced by the wide-angle optical system and image sensor to electronically emulate the pan, tilt, and zoom movement.
US09398212B2	Image processing method and image processing system and image capturing device using the same An image processing method applied to an image capturing device includes the following steps. Firstly, a number of shooting parameters, provided by an image capturing module of the image capturing device, are obtained. Next, a number of super resolution parameters are obtained according to the shooting parameters. Then, a captured image is obtained through the image capturing module. After that, a super resolution operation is executed on the captured image based on the super resolution parameters.
US09398206B2	Focus adjustment apparatus, focus adjustment method and program, and imaging apparatus including focus adjustment apparatus A focus adjustment apparatus that, based on imaging signals obtained by picking up an optical image of an object formed via a photographing optical system including a focus lens, adjusts a position of the focus lens, reads out, in parallel with an operation of reading out first imaging signals at a predetermined frame rate, second imaging signals at a frame rate that is higher than the predetermined frame rate, the number of the second imaging signals being smaller than the number of the first imaging signals, generates first and second focus signals using the first and second imaging signals, and performs first focus adjustment according to determination of the focus state based on the first focus signal and second focus adjustment according to determination of the focus state based on the second focus signal to determine an in-focus position of the focus lens.
US09398201B2	Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; a fourth lens unit having negative optical power, a fifth lens unit having negative optical power; and a sixth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the condition: 3.5<\|f6/f2\|<15.5 (f2: a focal length of the second lens unit, f6: a focal length of the sixth lens unit) is satisfied.
US09398200B2	Wavelength separation device and 3-dimensional image acquisition apparatus including the same Provided are a wavelength separation device and a 3-dimensional (3D) image acquisition apparatus including the same. The wavelength separation device includes a first prism having an inclined surface and a second prism bonded to a first region of the inclined surface of the first prism. A wavelength separation coating may be disposed at a junction between the first portion of the inclined surface of the first prism and the second prism, and a second portion of the inclined surface of the first prism, different from the first portion, is a total reflection surface that totally internally reflects light.
US09398199B2	Image capture apparatus capable of shifting electrical signal when center of gravity is shifted due to an eclipse of pupil area An image capture apparatus comprises an imaging optical system, an image sensor, a pupil division unit which limits a light beam entering each pixel on the image sensor to a specific pupil area of the imaging optical system, an incident angle determination unit which determines an incident angle to each pixel on the image sensor, an image shift unit which shifts an electric signal obtained from the image sensor, based on the incident angle determined by the incident angle determination unit and a position of a plane on which image generation is performed, and an image generation unit which synthesizes electric signals obtained from the image shift unit.
US09398198B2	Pipe crawler apparatus and method for internal pipe inspection Steam turbine engine cross over pipe or other pipe internal inspection is performed with a selectively steerable pipe inspection crawler apparatus with a chassis having a longitudinal axis, with front and rear Mechanum wheels capable of independently-selected forward or rearward driven rotational direction, for selectively steering the apparatus within the pipe interior under control of a human-machine interface (HMI). The crawler apparatus has at least one inspection camera having a field of view, for capturing images of a pipe interior that is also under control of the HMI. Embodiments of the crawler apparatus include a selectively orientable inspection camera and/or a deployable bore scope that is selectively deployed and retracted from a descending section of the cross over pipe.
US09398191B2	Electronic document generation system, electronic document generation apparatus, and recording medium An electronic document generation apparatus extracts a processing target area including a row area from a scanned image of an original document and detects the dimensions of the row area, the row area being an area of either a whole or partial range of a row of character string arranged in one direction in the scanned image. The apparatus determines an arrangement-direction character size on the basis of the dimensions of the row area, and sends out image data of the processing target area and an instruction to perform OCR processing on the processing target area to an external apparatus. The apparatus then receives a processing result of the OCR processing from the external apparatus, and arranges a character string of the processing result in the electronic document on the basis of the arrangement-direction character size to generate an electronic document.
US09398190B2	Method and system for configuring an imaging device for the reception of digital pulse recognition information In one aspect, the present disclosure related to a method for configuring one or more imaging sensors of an imaging device to capture digital images for digital pulse recognition demodulation. In some embodiments, the method includes initializing one or more imaging sensors of the imaging device, determining a subset of the one or more imaging sensors to configure, setting a configuration for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset by defining a region of interest as a metering area for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset and automatically adjusting a setting for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset, and adjusting input parameters of a demodulation function based on a device profile of the imaging device. In some embodiments, the adjusted setting is locked to prevent further adjustment of the adjusted setting.
US09398189B2	Image forming apparatus, and method and program for controlling parallel processing An image forming apparatus includes a processor including a CPU formed with a plurality of cores, the CPU performing processes, wherein a CPU core managing unit operates at least one predetermined core by a first control method involving relatively frequent process switching through task switching, and operates the other one or more cores than the at least one predetermined core by a second control method involving relatively less frequent process switching, and when a first process requiring communication with a device outside the processor and a second process not requiring communication with a device outside the processor are performed in parallel, the CPU core managing unit causes the at least one predetermined core to perform the first process, and causes the at least one predetermined core and the other one or more cores to perform the second process.
US09398187B2	Image scanning apparatus having two scanning units An image scanning apparatus having a feeding unit that feeds a document; a first scanning unit, which scans one face of the document fed, and which scans a document set on a document platen; a second scanning unit that scans the other face of the document fed; an instructing unit that, during a scanning operation being performed by a preceding-document scanning unit, which is one of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit, instructs an other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit to scan a document not being scanned by the preceding-document scanning unit; and an executing unit that executes a scanning operation by a following-document scanning unit that is the other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit when the instructing unit instructs the other of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit to start the scanning operation.
US09398185B2	Image forming apparatus and authentication method An image forming apparatus including applications and system side software for providing system side services to the applications is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an authentication module for displaying an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, wherein the authentication module allows the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition, and wherein the authentication module is provided in the image forming apparatus separately from the system side software.
US09398180B2	Portable terminal apparatus, information processing apparatus, character input method, and recording medium A portable terminal apparatus includes an access portion that enables access to an information processing apparatus; an image obtaining portion that obtains an image of a character input tool, a transmitter that transmits the image of the character input tool to the information processing apparatus; a receiver that receives touched key information from the information processing apparatus, and a character identification portion that identifies a character on the basis of the touched key information received by the receiver, wherein the image obtaining portion obtains a different image of the character input tool upon each change to a screen appearance of the character input tool or upon each receipt of the touched key information and the transmitter transmits the different image of the character input tool and character information to the information processing apparatus.
US09398179B2	Image display apparatus which displays an N-up image generated from a plurality of thumbnail images by a touch operation of a display screen When displaying a N-up image view in which a plurality of thumbnail images displayed in given windows are grouped and displayed in a single window by using a detecting section for detecting a contact position on a display screen of a display section, position specifications for the N-up image view of thumbnail images in the windows are received based on a contact position in the window in selecting thumbnail images to be displayed in the N-up image view by making contact with the thumbnail images, and the thumbnails images are displayed in the N-up image view based on the received position specifications.
US09398172B2	Core services platform for wireless voice, data and messaging network services A system and method for managing wireless devices in a wireless network that performs operation comprising: receiving a diagnostic request to analyze a problem associated with a wireless device operating in the wireless network; retrieving contextual information associated with the wireless device from a database of the wireless network; determining at least one solution for the problem associated with the wireless device based on the contextual information; transmitting the at least one solution; and receiving a confirmation that the problem has been resolved.
US09398170B2	Method, apparatus, and system for processing charging information Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a system for processing charging information, wherein the method includes: a mobility management device acquires a PLMN identifier corresponding to a network name displayed by a user equipment; transmits the PLMN identifier corresponding to the network name displayed by the user equipment to a call detail record information generating device, so that user call detail record information generated by the call detail record information generating device includes the PLMN identifier corresponding to the network name displayed by the user equipment; therefore, a charging device can charge the user according to the network name displayed by the UE included in the user call detail record information generated by the call detail record information generating device, thereby ensuring accuracy of the charging the user, and enhancing user experience.
US09398169B2	Method for enabling a wireless device for geographically preferential services Disclosed is system comprising: a server platform operative to communicate with a wireless communication network; and data storage coupled to the server platform to store a plurality of business rules, wherein the server platform is operative to: generate a first provision instruction to provision a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) with a first rule set associated with a first set of business rules for wireless usage incurred by a mobile terminal operating in the wireless communication network; generate a first billing instruction based on the first set of business rules and a first data type determined by a packet gateway that inspects packet data communicated to or from the mobile terminal.
US09398167B2	Disaster relief event call flagging Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing disaster relief event call flagging. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to create a disaster relief event associated with a plurality of customer accounts maintained by an entity, wherein the disaster relief event comprises one or more parameters that identify locations associated with the disaster relief event; create a temporary dialer file for use in contacting the plurality of customers in reference to the accounts, wherein the dialer file is based at least partially on the one or more parameters of the disaster relief event, and automatically suspend contact to one or more customers based at least partially in response to the telephone numbers of the one or more customer being excluded from the temporary dialer file.
US09398162B1	Systems and methods for playing recorded announcements The invention features a computer-implemented method for playing back an announcement message to a user device. The method includes initiating, by a computing device, an announcement session in response to a user device establishing communication with the computing device and determining, by the computing device, the announcement message to be played back to the user device. The method includes loading, by the computing device, into a queue associated with the announcement session, a descriptor referencing a memory buffer on the computing device. The memory buffer includes a plurality of memory partitions, each memory partition storing at least one portion of the announcement message encoded at a different rate. The method includes the computing device scheduling play back of the announcement message, playing the announcement message to the user device at a first rate and receiving a request from the user device for playback at a second rate.
US09398160B2	Method and communication terminal for providing VoIP The invention relates to a method for providing Voice over IP (VoIP) in a communication system with a number of terminals operating with VoIP, between which a transmission of voice data according to VoIP or a signalling is achieved, wherein the signalling is achieved using the Computer Supported Telecommunication Application (CSTA) interface standard. Telephone services can be controlled by a computer using the CSTA protocol. As for conventional application, H323 protocol and SIP are used for IP telephony processing of audio/video streams of a conversation. The invention is based on replacing H323 protocol and SIP by a CSTA protocol only when the latter is correspondingly extended.
US09398159B1	Gathering information for members of call Responsive to detecting a call from a first user into a call system, a user identifier associated with the first user to can be added to respective user information stored in an e-meeting data structure associated with the call. A determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes the user identifier associated with the first user and, responsive to determining the call system does not recognize the user identifier associated with the first user, a determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes a voice of the first user. If the call system does not recognize the voice of the first user, a location of the first user can be identified by processing the user identifier. The location of the first user can be added to respective user information stored in the e-meeting data structure. An e-meeting can be generated for the call.
US09398155B2	Enterprise-wide split function IVR callback system A system related to connecting customers to agents of a business includes an inbound (INB) interactive voice response (IVR) computer, an outbound (OUTB) IVR, and a computer telephony interface (CTI) computer. The INB IVR computer receives an inbound call from a customer and determines that there is a delay in a call queue of a call center. The OUTB IVR places an agent outbound call (on behalf of the customer) to the INB IVR which is then placed into the queue of the call center in response to the customer selecting a call-back option. The CTI computer then monitors the call center, and sends a notification to the OUTB IVR processor in response to the agent outbound call connecting to the available agent. Responsive to the notification, the OUTB IVR computer places a customer outbound call to the customer to connect the customer to the available agent.
US09398153B2	IP based automatic response service system and method for electronic device An electronic device using an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony technology and a method and system for forwarding information between the electronic device and a call center system are provided. The method includes sending, by an electronic device, a telephony connection request to a call center system, generating, by a switch device, a response message including connection information of a web ARS server of the call center system in response to the telephony connection request, sending, by the switch device, the response message including the connection information to the electronic device, forming, by the electronic device, a data session with the web ARS server using the received connection information of the web ARS server, and providing the ARS of the display scheme using information received from the web ARS server.
US09398150B2	Method of setting detection parameters in an apparatus for on hold music detection A method of setting detection parameters in an apparatus for on-hold music detection, includes comparing a telephone number dialed with telephone numbers in a database. If the telephone number dialed is found in the database, detection parameters and/or detection software associated with the telephone number are retrieved from the database, and the retrieved detection parameters and/or detection software are provided to an on-hold music detection unit.
US09398144B2	Mobile device mode of operation for visually impaired users A mobile device operates in a standard mode of operation, or operates in a visually impaired (VI) mode of operation designed for visually impaired users and in which a display screen of the mobile device is turned off by default. The display screen may thus remain turned off in the VI mode even when conditions under which the display screen is turned on in the standard mode are satisfied. The display screen may further remain turned off in the VI mode even when conditions under which a touch-screen input interface of the mobile device is turned on in either of the standard and VI modes. The mobile device may be configured to automatically transition from the VI mode to the standard mode in response to detecting a gaze directed towards the display screen.
US09398141B2	Inconspicuous mode for mobile devices A communication device is configured to switch from a normal mode of operation to an inconspicuous mode of operation in which a reduced set of information is presented on a home screen of a display of the device in comparison to a set of information presented on the home screen in the normal mode of operation. In addition, other display properties such as contrast and brightness may be adjusted to make them less conspicuous. The home screen in the inconspicuous mode of operation is less obtrusive or conspicuous to individuals than in the normal mode of operation. The device may enter the inconspicuous mode upon user request or by detecting at least one environmental condition using a sensor available to the mobile communication device. The environmental condition may be anything that the device can detect or sense in its surrounding environment such as ambient light or sound. The device may return to the normal mode of operation by user request or when the environmental condition is no longer present.
US09398136B2	Handheld device capable of providing data tethering services while maintaining suite of handheld service functions An improved tethering system is described in which a handheld device can be used by a user to reach the same network that the handheld device also provides access to for a tethering machine. Specifically, as described herein, a handheld device provides a tethering machine with access to a remote network (e.g., the Internet) through a wireless network that the handheld device is communicatively coupled to. Not only is the handheld device able to support multiple data flows between the tethering machine and the remote network, but also, the handheld device is capable of being used by a user to “surf” or otherwise access the same remote network that the handheld device provides the tethering machine with access to. For example, if the remote network is the Internet and the handheld device is a “smart phone”, a user who is holding the smart phone can access the Internet concurrently with one or more applications on the tethering machine that are also access the Internet. Moreover, the smart phone is also capable of concurrently supporting other networked services that the smart phone is designed to provide such as voicemail services, messaging services, and telephony (cell phone) services.
US09398129B1	T-coil enhanced smartphone A smart phone incorporating a T-coil unit is described. Selection between the output of the induction coil(s) of the unit and the analog output of the radio frequency section of smart phone can made by standard switches for the analog output of the smart phone. Alternatively, with control over the amplification of the induction coil output and the analog output of the radio frequency section, and over a comparator which receives both outputs, different modes of operations for the T-coil output and the analog output can be selected for the audio output of the smart phone. The T-coil unit can also be built as a smart phone dongle which notifies the user of the existence of induction loop signals.
US09398128B2	Identifying a contact based on a voice communication session Arrangements described herein include identifying a voice communication session established between a first communication device and a second communication device and, based on the voice communication session established between the first communication device and the second communication device, identifying a plurality of contacts who potentially may be the second user. A list including at least a name of each of the plurality of contacts who potentially may be the second user is presented to a first user using the first communication device.
US09398127B2	Portable terminal and skin property measuring instrument A portable terminal includes a case, a display unit having a display screen exposed from a front surface of the case, and a skin-condition measurement sensor accommodated in the case. The skin-condition measurement sensor includes a measurement unit provided on the front surface of the case. The portable terminal can be carried and operate easily.
US09398121B1	Selecting among virtual networking protocols Techniques are disclosed for determining a virtual networking framework for computing nodes to use where they are part of a plurality of computing nodes that have heterogeneous virtual networking framework capabilities. Each node may report its capabilities to a mapping server, which serves as a centrally-managed selector of policy capabilities for the two computing nodes to use in communications with each other. The mapping server selects virtual networking framework capabilities for the two computing nodes to use in communicating with each other, instructs the nodes of these selected capabilities, and the two nodes then communicate according to these selected capabilities.
US09398119B2	Detection of RVU capable devices Devices and methods for quickly and definitively detecting whether or not a device is RVU capable. Aspects of the disclosed method and apparatus make use of the RVU messaging protocol, which include a Discovery phase and a Description phase. In one embodiment, a stand-alone testing device includes functionality that can test for the existence of RVU capability in a network connected device; in another embodiment, a cable/data network interface device may be modified to include such functionality. One detection method exams messages transmitted by a device during a Discovery phase for unique indicia of RVU compliance by the device. Another detection method reads a data structure from a device during a Description phase and looks for unique indicia of RVU compliance by the device. An installation method provides a process for quickly and definitively detecting an RVU compliant device.
US09398118B2	Processing apparatus for bus data A communication controller apparatus couples a device comprising a device processor to a data bus. The communication controller comprises an input/output controller coupled to the bus to receive a plurality of types of data packets. The types of data packets comprise at least one type of data packets having a high priority determined by timing criticality. The input/output controller is operable to process data packets received via the bus before providing any of the received data packets to the device processor. The communication controller comprises a high priority data path comprising a high priority data packet queue a low priority data path to the device comprising a low priority data packet queue.
US09398115B2	Unified location and presence, communication across real and virtual worlds A method and system for providing unified location and presence information of and intercommunication among a plurality of networked users is disclosed, where the users may be real world people or virtual world personae. Generally, after receiving data representative of both a first and second user's presence or location in the real or a virtual world over a communications network, the users are permitted to view each other's presence in a virtual network. The users are identified by endpoint addresses, and may intercommunicate using various types of media via the communications network.
US09398111B1	File caching upon disconnection Systems and methods for file caching are provided. A remote session is established with a host device via a communication network that allows a client device to access resources hosted on the host device. Such resources may include a file hosted on the host device, though the file opened using an application at the client device. A connection between the host device and the client device may be detected as interrupted, thereby terminating the remote session. Information regarding the file may be cached in memory of the client device upon detecting that the connection has been interrupted. Upon reconnection or start of a new connection, the cached information may be used to update the file at the host device. In some embodiments, the cached file may be accessible to the client device while off-line.
US09398110B2	Method and apparatus for providing standard information processing pipelines An approach is provided for providing standard information processing pipelines. A standard pipeline generation platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more information sources to cause an extraction of one or more least meaningful data components. The standard pipeline generation platform also causes a transformation of the one or more least meaningful data components into one or more isomorphic representations. The standard pipeline generation platform further causes a compilation of one or more data repositories comprising the one or more isomorphic representations, wherein the one or more data repositories are available for processing by one or more services, one or more applications, or combination thereof. The standard pipeline generation platform also causes a loading of the one or more data repositories, the one or more isomorphic representations, or a combination thereof into the one or more information sources following the processing.
US09398108B2	Intelligent delivery agent for short message distribution center A message distribution center (MDC) and Intelligent Delivery Agent are implemented in a wireless Internet gateway interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via SMTP based on desired rules (non-peak hours, paying subscribers only, etc.) using standard SMTP Gateway and other well-known protocols. The MDC includes an individual queue for each subscriber, and the provider is informed through conventional SMTP protocol messages that the short message has been accepted. If the carrier has specifically disallowed service for a particular MIN (in the case of churning), then the content provider is informed through an SMTP interchange that the recipient is invalid.
US09398105B2	Method for providing a third party service associated with a network-accessible site using a single scripting approach The invention provides a method for providing a third party service associated with a network-accessible site. The method includes providing a client-side script which is configured to be installed on a client-side application. The client-side script gathers information associated with the network-accessible site in response to access of the network-accessible site via the client-side application. The information associated with the network-accessible site includes content published on the network-accessible site and user behavior data associated with access of the network-accessible site. Based on the information gathered using the client-side script, the third party service provider can provide users with one or more services.
US09398102B2	Security for network delivered services A computer-implemented method for accessing a hosted service on client devices is described. The client devices include client software that uses a remotely delivered policy to redirect network requests for hosted services to a server to enforce visibility, policy and data security for network delivered services. The method can be used in conjunction with existing VPN and proxy solutions, but provides distinct additional functionality, particularly suited to corporate needs. Policies allow entities to centralize enforcement of service-specific restrictions across networks and communication channels, e.g. only certain users can download client records from a service—irrespective of the network used to access the service.
US09398098B2	Customer premise equipment and method of remote login A customer premise equipment (CPE) communicates with both lower-layer and upper-layer network within the LAN that communicates with an ISP server. The CPE searches other CPEs after receiving commands from the upper-layer network and makes port configuration after receiving commands from the upper-layer network, and also configures the default telnet port according to the port number receiving from the upper-layer network. Then the CPE establishes remote communications via the default telnet port with the ISP server. Finally the CPE disabling module disables the telnet service and releases the default telnet port after receiving commands from upper-layer network.
US09398095B2	Method in an electronic mobile device and such a device A method in a system for sending a picture from an electronic mobile device to an electronic device is provided. The picture is to be sent over a wireless communications network. The system comprises the electronic mobile device, the wireless communications network, and the electronic device, and the electronic mobile device comprises a camera unit. The camera unit captures a high resolution picture. The electronic mobile device creates a low resolution picture based on the high resolution picture. The electronic mobile device sends the low resolution picture to the electronic device, and, when a quality of resources in the wireless communications network is above a threshold, sends the high resolution picture to at least one database for storage. Further, such a system is provided.
US09398089B2	Dynamic resource sharing among multiple wireless devices A system and method that enables two or more hosts so that they can share a resource, such as a display. Client allocates a portion of the resource to each of the eligible hosts. This allocated size is negotiable among host(s) and the client. Client may request the hosts to scale down/up resource utilization based on the allocated portion of the resource being shared. This helps keep the client implementation simple. In this case, client maintains the allocation vector for each host. This allocation vector is used to keep track of the resource sharing. While this is a preferred approach, it is possible that “intelligent” client may actually modify resource utilization for a given host based on the negotiated allocation.
US09398088B2	Peer to peer (P2P) operation by integrating with content delivery networks (CDN) A method and apparatus for use in a network storage control peer (NSCP) supporting peer to peer (P2P) operation are disclosed. The method includes receiving a content map request message and transmitting a content map response message including an indication that a CDN-stored content piece is available from the NSCP; and, receiving a content fetch request message for the content piece and transmitting a response message including a redirection command and the CDN URI for the content piece.
US09398086B2	Visibility inspector in social networks Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying digital content to an author user, the author user having authored the digital content, receiving user input from the author user, the user input corresponding to the digital content, and, in response to receiving the user input, transmitting first data and second data to the computing device for display to the author user, the first data comprising a number of contacts that are able to access the digital content and the second data indicating one or more relationships between the author user and the contacts.
US09398085B2	Systems and methods for initiating a peer-to-peer communication session Systems and methods are disclosed for initiating a peer-to-peer communication session. According to certain embodiments, at least one peer device is identified. A first request is sent to the at least one peer device for an inventory of service capabilities of the at least one peer device. The requested inventory of service capabilities of the at least one peer device is received from the at least one peer device. A second request is sent to the at least one peer device to initiate a communication session with the at least one peer device using at least one service from the requested inventory of service capabilities.
US09398084B2	Information processing system An information processing system includes multiple network segments to which one or more information processors are connectable. The network segments includes a first network segment to which at least one first information processor configured to store predetermined information is connected, a second network segment to which at least one second information processor is connected, and a third network segment to which at least one third information processor is connected. The second network segment includes multiple predefined application programming interface (API)s, and the at least one second information processor executes a process corresponding to a called one of the APIs using the predetermined information stored in the at least one first information processor. In response to receiving a request from outside the information processing system, the at least one third information processor controls a process corresponding to the request by calling one of the APIs which corresponds to the request.
US09398075B2	Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium The data server stores, data and user identification information, and transmits to the analysis server the data and first identification information associated with the user identification information. The analysis server analyzes the data and stores an analysis result in association with the first identification information. When the communication apparatus transmits the analysis-result obtainment request to the analysis server, the analysis server transmits, to the communication apparatus, second identification information associated with the analysis-result obtainment request. The communication apparatus transmits the second identification information and the user identification information to the data server. The data server transmits the second identification information and the first identification information associated with the user identification information to the analysis server. The analysis server transmits the analysis result and the second identification information to the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus transmits the analysis result to a requestor that has made the analysis-result obtainment request.
US09398073B1	Methods and apparatus for providing content One embodiment of the invention relates to the transfer of content between a host computer that issues OAS access requests and a block I/O storage system. Specifically, a host computer may issue an access request for a content unit that identifies the content unit is an object identifier. The request may be received by a second server, which may determine the block address(es) on the block I/O storage system at which the content unit is stored. A request may then be sent to the block I/O storage system to retrieve the content stored at the requested block address(es) and the block I/O storage system may return the content.
US09398071B1	Managing page-level usage data Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate management and monitoring of page-level usage data. Specifically, a client computing device may retrieve content from a remote system for local display. A local interaction monitoring component may monitor local interaction with the content, and transmit local interaction information to the remote system. In one embodiment, interaction may be monitored with regard to predefined portions of the content. In another embodiment, interaction may be transmitted to the remote server for processing, in order to generate page-level usage data. In still more embodiments, page level-usage data may be processed or formatted in order to facilitate ease of retrieval and display. In yet more embodiments, the remote system may enable clients, such as administrators, to view aggregate page-level usage data why viewing a corresponding content.
US09398069B2	Stateless microkernel web server architecture A method for serving enterprise commerce between a stateless microkernel architecture HTTP server program executed on a server device and an HTTP client program executed on a client computing device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an HTTP request including a plurality of client attributes and a plurality of resource operations from an HTTP client program, reading the plurality of client attributes from the HTTP request, and splitting the HTTP request into a plurality of individual resource operations at a splitter/combiner agent. For each individual resource operation, the method includes determining a destination URL and content type from a content type header of the HTTP request, comparing the client attributes to stored client attribute profiles, retrieving matching existing resource representations, sending the retrieved existing resource representation to the splitter/combiner agent, combining retrieved resource representations into a combined resource representation, and sending the combine resource representation to the HTTP client program.
US09398065B2	Audio/video streaming in a topology of devices with native WiGig sink A method and system may include a source station to provide wireless multicast transmission to a plurality of destination stations according to a protocol adaptation layer multicast management protocol. The topology includes audio/video sources and sinks and intervening branch devices. Messages between sources and sink devices may be used for resource management such as device discovery and certification. If certification is shown, the disclosed transmission performs AV streaming directly to the least one sink device without the need for a displayport (DP) interface or a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) or additional bridge devices/dongles that convert WiGig to some other interface supported by the monitor.
US09398060B2	System and method for remote home monitoring utilizing a VoIP phone A system and method for remote monitoring through a voice over Internet Protocol phone. An indicator configured to activate a video interface of the VoIP phone is received. A determination is made whether the indicator authorizes the video interface. The video interface of the VoIP phone is activated in response to determining the indicator authorizes the video interface. Video communications are sent and received between the VoIP phone utilized by a receiving party and a communications device utilized by a calling party. An action is performed in response to recognizing a response from the receiving party.
US09398057B2	System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation are provided that are capable of selecting digital media items for inclusion in the presentation from multiple participant's accounts thereby creating a group presentation in which digital media items of each participant are included in the presentation. Selections of digital media items for inclusion in the presentation can be made directly at the direction of the participations or inferentially according to a selection algorithm. Selections can be made during the presentation thereby allowing a participant to join the presentation after it has started and contribute digital media items to the presentation while it is running.
US09398055B2	Secure call indicator mechanism for enterprise networks The concept of a secure call indicator is introduced. In general, the secure call indicator is capable of inspecting the security of signaling associated with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages and comparing the security with media descriptions of the actual media path of the SIP messages. Furthermore, the secure call indicator may be configured to indicate the security associated with a communication session via a physical or virtual notification system.
US09398053B2	Efficient data transmission between computing devices The subject disclosure is directed towards technology by which data transmission sizes are reduced when uploading files over a network. By processing hash values corresponding to a plurality of data blocks of a file to potentially be uploaded to a server, the server identifies any already known data block or blocks of the file. The server performs a server-local copy operation that writes the known data block into a server-local copy of the file. If applicable, the server returns hash values corresponding to unknown data blocks to a client, by which the client responds by uploading copies of the unknown data blocks. Accordingly, the client and the server maintain the server-local copy of the file by transferring only unknown data blocks.
US09398051B2	Enforcing policy-based application and access control in an information management system A method and apparatus for controlling document access and application usage using centrally managed rules. The rules are stored and manipulated in a central rule database via a rule server. Policy enforcers are installed on client systems and/or on servers and perform document access and application usage control for both direct user document accesses and application usage, and application program document accesses by evaluating the rules sent to the policy enforcer. The rule server decides which rules are required by each policy enforcer. A policy enforcer can also perform obligation and remediation operations as a part of rule evaluation. Policy enforcers on client systems and servers can operate autonomously, evaluating policies that have been received, when communications have been discontinued with the rule server.
US09398050B2	Dynamically configured connection to a trust broker A method for connecting to a trust broker system is disclosed. The method is performed on a client device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The client device connects to a trust broker system upon start-up of the device, wherein the device is not enabled to connect to any other system. The client device transmits information identifying the electronic device to the trust broker system. The client device receives, from the trust broker, information that enables the client device to connect to a server system, wherein the trust broker determines the appropriate server system based on the client device. The client device downloads, from the server system, further instructions for performing the one or more tasks associated with the client device; wherein the downloaded instructions are only retained for the current session.
US09398048B2	Authenticating an application to access a communication system Embodiments describe transmitting authentication data from an application to a communication system. The communication system verifies the authentication data transmitted from the application, and on the basis that the authentication data is verified, the communication system authenticates the application for accessing the communication system on behalf of a user. Prior to the transmitting step the authentication data is provided from the communication system to the client, and then from the client to the application. The verifying step comprises determining that the authentication data transmitted from the application corresponds to the authentication data provided from the communication system to the client, such that the application is authenticated for accessing the communication system on behalf of the user on the basis of the client's authentication with the communication system.
US09398045B2	Network device and method for avoiding address resolution protocol attack A network device records IP addresses and MAC addresses of a plurality of CPEs to form an address mapping table, sends first ARP request packets to the plurality of CPEs according to the IP addresses in the address mapping table, and receives first ARP response packets. The network device compares the MAC addresses in the first ARP response packets with the corresponding MAC addresses in the address mapping table to identify an unusual MAC address. The network device generates a plurality of IP addresses randomly, sends second ARP request packets according to the plurality of IP addresses, and receives second ARP response packets. In response to a MAC address in the second ARP response packets being same with the unusual MAC address, the network device blocks packets transmission corresponding to the unusual MAC address.
US09398044B2	Method and apparatus for detecting attack on server The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for detecting an attack on a server. The method comprises: calculating interval time after a current request is received by the server, wherein the interval time is interval time between a time when a previous request is received and a time when the current request is received, or interval time between a time when a previous request, of a same type as a type of the current request, is received and the time when the current request is received, or interval time between a time when a previous response to the previous request, of the same type as the type of the current request is sent by the server and a time when a response to the current request is sent by the server; calculating a baseline moving average of interval time and a trigger moving average of interval time according to the calculated interval time, wherein the baseline moving average reflects a change of interval time in a long history period, and the trigger moving average reflects a change of interval time in a recent period; and when a ratio of the baseline moving average to the trigger moving average is larger than a first threshold, determining there is an attack on the server.
US09398043B1	Applying fine-grain policy action to encapsulated network attacks An intrusion detection system inspects encapsulated packet flows and, upon detecting a malicious encapsulated packet flow, may close an encapsulated network session corresponding to the malicious flow or drop sub-packets of the malicious flow without acting against non-malicious sub-packets and/or sessions. In one example, a network device includes a flow analysis module that receives a packet flow packets, each packet comprising a packet header and one or more sub-packets each corresponding to respective network sessions, an attack detection module that identifies at least one of the network sessions as a malicious network session, a policy action module that executes a policy action on the sub-packet corresponding to the malicious network session based on the identification of the malicious network session, and a forwarding component that forms a reconstructed packet comprising the packet header and the sub-packets excluding the sub-packet corresponding to the malicious network session and forwards the reconstructed packet.
US09398036B2	Chunk-based file acquisition and file reputation evaluation One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for file acquisition for reputation evaluation. A reputation service may be configured to evaluate files and provide reputations of such files to clients (e.g., an indication as to whether a file is safe or malicious). If the reputation service receives a reputation request for a file that is unknown to the reputation service (e.g., a file not yet fully acquired by the reputation service), then the reputation service may identify a set of chunks into which the file can be partitioned. The reputation service may obtain chunks from various clients, such as a first chunk from a first client and a second chunk from a second client. Such chunks may be evaluated to assign a reputation to the file. In this way, the reputation service may retrieve portions of a file in a distributed manner for reputation evaluation.
US09398035B2	Attack mitigation using learning machines In one embodiment, techniques are shown and described relating to attack mitigation using learning machines. A node may receive network traffic data for a computer network, and then predict a probability that one or more nodes are under attack based on the network traffic data. The node may then decide to mitigate a predicted attack by instructing nodes to forward network traffic on an alternative route without altering an existing routing topology of the computer network to reroute network communication around the one or more nodes under attack, and in response, the node may communicate an attack notification message to the one or more nodes under attack.
US09398034B2	Matrix factorization for automated malware detection Disclosed herein is a system and method for automatically identifying potential malware files or benign files in files that are not known to be malware. Vector distances for select features of the files are compared to vectors both known malware files and benign files. Based on the distance measures a malware score is obtained for the unknown file. If the malware score exceeds a threshold a researcher may be notified of the potential malware, or the file may be automatically classified as malware if the score is significantly high.
US09398030B2	Ascertaining domain contexts Various embodiments pertain to ascertaining domain contexts. In one embodiment, an application receives content that may contain a script (i.e. code). In this case, the domain context is ascertained and the script is executed in the context of the domain associated with the received content, rather than requiring the application or some other component to navigate to a location, such as a web location, to attempt to ascertain the domain context of the script. In another embodiment, third party objects or code are required to provide their domain context to an application in order for the application to make a security-based decision.
US09398024B2	System and method for reliably authenticating an appliance A system and an apparatus (41) for reliably authenticating an appliance (42) involves a challenge message (C) being linked to the examination apparatus (40) by an examiner context information item (K). It is therefore more difficult for an attacker to feign an identity of an appliance. The application can be used in authentication scenarios, particularly in telecommunication, in which sensitive messages are interchanged.
US09398016B1	Cache-free and lock-free handling of security information for multiple distributed objects in protection storage systems A native protection storage operating system (PSOS) process receives a request specifying an operation having security related implications for elements in the PSOS having a first set of components handling data transfer operations and a second set of components handling configuration operations. A security component stores an identifier of the requester and a security related information element locally within a storage location of the first or second set of components, and accesses, upon receiving the request, the security related information element and requester identifier to match other elements of the network impacted by the request, and performs a security condition specific check to determine whether or not the request is to be allowed or denied. The native process eliminates a need for caching, locking, and chain propagation of the security related information through the PSOS.
US09398015B2	Method for modifying rights to security domain for smartcard, and server, smartcard, and terminal for same The present invention relates to modifying rights to a security domain for a smartcard, and more specifically, to a server for managing modification of rights to a security domain, a smartcard for modifying the rights to the security domain, a terminal which is loaded with the smartcard, and to a method for modifying the rights.
US09398011B2	Location determination for user authentication User authentication techniques based on geographical locations associated with a client device is provided. A network connection can be established between two or more host machines and a client device. Upon a request received from the client device by one of these host machines, round trip times of test messages may be measured between the client device and each of the host machines. The round trip times can be utilized to determine the current geographical location of the client device. If the location is within a tolerance geographical area, the client device may be authenticated. Otherwise, the authentication may fail or additional security procedures may be implemented. In some examples, a travel time from a historical geographical location to current geographical location can be determined. This data may be also utilized in the user authentication process.
US09398009B2	Device driven user authentication The disclosed embodiments provide a system that authenticates a user. The system includes an authentication server that obtains an authentication request containing a user identifier for the user and matches the user identifier to a device identifier for an electronic device of the user. Next, the authentication server provides a notification of the authentication request to the electronic device. Upon receiving approval of the authentication request from the electronic device, the authentication server authenticates the user without requiring an additional authentication factor from the user.
US09398008B2	Cloud-based system for reading of decodable indicia A data decoding system can comprise one or more computers communicatively coupled to a network. The computers can execute at least one decoding process. The decoding process can be configured, responsive to receiving a decoding request comprising an image of decodable indicia, to locate the decodable indicia within the image, and to decode the decodable indicia into a decoded message. The decoding process can be further configured, responsive to completing a decoding operation, to transmit to the client the decoded message and/or the decoding operation completion code.
US09398004B2	Method for reading attributes from an ID token The invention relates to a method for reading at least one attribute stored in an ID token, wherein the ID token is assigned to a user, comprising the following steps: authenticating the user with respect to the ID token, authenticating a first computer system with respect to the ID token, after successful authentication of the user and the first computer system with respect to the ID token, read-access by the first computer system to the at least one attribute stored in the ID token for transfer of the at least one attribute to a second computer system.
US09398001B1	System for and method of providing single sign-on (SSO) capability in an application publishing environment A client-server computing system includes a computer cluster for hosting certain resources, applications, programs, processes, files, and/or data that are published to users who are accessing the computer cluster remotely. The computer cluster includes a network of one or more host computers, a gateway server, a gateway service database, and a user database. A single sign-on (SSO) method of the disclosure includes performing a computer cluster authentication process in which a user enters his/her credentials followed by a resource authentication process in which there is no need for the user to reenter his/her credentials, having entered them already in the computer cluster authentication process.
US09397999B2	Methods, devices, and computer readable storage devices for sharing sensitive content securely Sensitive content is securely shared. A request is received from a first communication device to share sensitive content. The first communication device is associated with an account for a communication service provided by a network provider. A message including a link to the sensitive content is sent to a second communication device associated with a phone number. That message is addressed to the second communication device. An authentication message is received, indicating that the second communication device is associated with the phone number. Responsive to receipt of the authentication message, the sensitive content is made accessible via the second communication device without requiring that the second communication device be associated with an account for the communication service provided by the network provider.
US09397994B2	Packet forwarding device, packet forwarding system, and packet forwarding method A packet forwarding device includes: an evaluation unit configured to judge whether or not authentication information is stored in a header, the authentication information being for authenticating communication quality control information stored in the header of a packet transmitted via a network, and evaluate whether or not the authentication information is proper, the evaluation being made when the authentication information is stored in the header; and a forwarding unit that configured to control a communication quality using the communication quality control information, and forward the packet toward a transmission destination, the control being made when the authentication information is evaluated by the evaluation unit to be proper.
US09397991B2	Digital content distribution and subscription system Digital content distribution systems and methods are provided for distributing for digital data files, such as digital audio and video data files. In accordance with one implementation, a token-based authentication system is provided that does not require knowledge of the individual user requesting the download of digital content data or real-time access to user account information. Instead, the token-based authentication system embeds the authentication information, or token, in the download request information itself. In this way, the download or content server authenticates the download request using the token contained in the download request information and therefore does not require any additional information to carry out this authentication, such as access to user account information.
US09397988B2	Secure portable store for security skins and authentication information A security component may be associated with a network-enabled application. The security component may access a secure store, which may include customization information, which may include one or more graphical user interface customizations defined by a user, and one or more instances of card information. The card information may specify how to authenticate a user's credentials to access a relying party (e.g., web site). The security component may initiate the display of an embedded region of a window drawn by the network-enabled application. At least a part of the appearance of the embedded region of the window may be defined according to the customization information and not by the relying party. The embedded region may provide a user interface for determining user authentication credentials. The customization information and the one or more instances of card information may not be accessible to the relying party.
US09397987B1	Managing interaction with hosted services Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate managing interaction with instances corresponding to hosted services. Customers may implement services on a hosted computing environment. Further, the customer may allow limited interaction with the hosted service to a third party (e.g., in connection with a secondary service). For example, the third party may interact with a temporary copy of the hosted service. Thereafter, the customer may, given the consent of the third party, view details of the third party's interaction with the copy, and may be enabled to merge any alterations with the initial hosted service. In addition, a customer may monitor their own interactions with a hosted service or copies of a hosted service, and view details of the differences between multiple versions of the hosted service.
US09397985B1	System and method for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information A system and method configured for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information. One or more information transactions including encrypted information may be generated and/or provided to a distributed ledger. The one or more information transactions may include information intended for one or more parties. Information transactions intended for one or more parties may be identified. An information transaction may include one or more of a transaction identifier associated with one or more parties, an information payload, and/or other information. The information payload may include encrypted information. The encrypted information may be encrypted with one or more public keys associated with one or more parties. One or more information transactions may be retrieved from the distributed ledger. The encrypted information may be decrypted with one or more private keys that correspond to the public keys. Presentation of the encrypted information to one or more parties may be facilitated.
US09397982B2	Secure key storage systems, methods and apparatuses The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing environment that manages private key storage. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may comprise a first non-volatile storage for storing a private root key for signing digital certificates, an input device for receiving manual input from an operator, a communication interface consisting of a one-way transmitter for transmitting information from the apparatus, and a processor. The processor may be configured to retrieve the private root key from the first non-volatile storage, receive information for a new digital certificate through the input device, generate the new digital certificate according to the received information, sign the new digital certificate using the private root key and transmit the new digital certificate from the apparatus using the transmitter.
US09397977B2	Registration and use of patterns defined by expressions as domain names A domain name registration service permits registrants to register names that are defined by a regular expression that may include one or more wildcard values in any portion of the domain or subdomain name. A domain name server utilizes pattern matching with regular expressions, such as REGEX systems, to parse incoming domain name requests to identify text strings that conform to the domain defined by the registered regular expression. Other components assign economic value to defined patterns and prevent conflicts between registered patterns and domain names.
US09397974B1	Microblogging system and method for resending posts A delivery assurance system for ensuring that people have an opportunity to view messages shared by authors to which they subscribe is disclosed. The delivery assurance system is configured to communicate with at least one author and a plurality of followers associated with the at least one author. The system in the preferred embodiment comprises a computer processor configured to receive a post from an author; transmit a first copy of the post to a plurality of users; determine if any of the plurality of users did not see the post; automatically transmit a second copy of the post to each of the plurality of users that did not see the first copy of the post; and remove the first copy of the post from a timeline of each user to which a second copy of the post was transmitted. Transmission of multiple copies of the messages, therefore, enables users to see a message regardless of when the author initially transmitted it.
US09397970B2	Coordinated deep tagging of media content with community chat postings Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deep tagging of media content and provide a method, system and computer program product for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings can be provided. The method can include monitoring a group chat of participants co-browsing media content, identifying a token in the group chat appearing a threshold number of times within a temporal window, and creating a deep tag in the media content in association with a portion of the media content played back concurrently with the temporal window.
US09397964B2	Method, system, and apparatus for providing self-destructing electronic mail messages A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the e-mail client application sends a request to an e-mail server application to transmit the self-destructing e-mail message. The e-mail client application may also receive self-destructing e-mail messages. When a self-destructing e-mail message is received, the destruction date associated with the e-mail message is identified and the message is destroyed at the specified time. The e-mail client application can also limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on a self-destructing e-mail. An e-mail server application is also provided that receives requests from the e-mail client application to transmit self-destructing e-mail messages and perform other functions.
US09397963B2	Wireless device address book updates A system for maintaining an address book, wherein the address book includes a plurality of entries with each entry containing contact information and wherein address book updates are transmitted over a wireless network. The system includes a gateway for storing the address book and transmitting the address book updates to a wireless device.
US09397958B2	FCoE VN—port virtualizer An FCoE VN_Port virtualizer where VF_Ports are used to connect downstream to host and target VN_Ports and a VN_Port is used to connect upstream to further FCoE VN_Port virtualizers or to an FCF. An alternate embodiment uses an Ethernet Fabric for an additional purpose. The Ethernet Fabric devices all act as FCoE VN_Port virtualizers, so that the Ethernet Fabric itself is considered a virtual FCoE VN_Port virtualizer.
US09397957B2	Traffic engineering for large scale data center networks The present disclosure provides for the determination of bandwidth allocation of inter-block traffic in a data center network. It employs a number of optimization objectives and a heuristic water-filling strategy to avoid producing unnecessary paths and to avoid determining paths that would be unavailable when actually needed. Allocation may be adjusted incrementally upon node and link failure, for instance to perform only the minimal allocation changes necessary. If demand between a source and a destination cannot be satisfied, a decomposition process may be used to allocate remaining demand. One aspect constructs a graph for route computation based on inter-block topology. Here, the graph initially starts with a highest level of abstraction with each node representing a middle block, and gradually reduces the abstraction level to identify paths of mixed abstraction level to satisfy additional demand.
US09397956B2	Communication system, control device, forwarding node, and control method and program for communication system A communication system includes a plurality of forwarding nodes that process a received packet in accordance with a processing rule that determines a matching rule matching a packet and a process to be applied to a packet conforming with the matching rule; and a control apparatus that controls the forwarding nodes using control information. The control apparatus includes a tunnel establishing unit that determines forwarding path(s) for the respective control information for each of the forwarding nodes, and transmits to the forwarding nodes a tunnel establishing message including a processing rule for forwarding the control information to be set in the forwarding nodes in each of the forwarding paths. The respective forwarding nodes give and receive control information with regard to the control apparatus, by holding processing rules for forwarding the control information included in the tunnel establishing message.
US09397953B2	Operation managing method for computer system, computer system and computer-readable storage medium having program thereon In one embodiment according to the present invention, a virtual server collects the configuration information of a physical server being executed with granularity corresponding to the degree of operation verification defined in a business operation system including as a component the virtual server and stores it as checked and passed environmental information of the virtual server. When a new virtual server is allocated to the business operation system, a physical server group to which the virtual server is allocated is determined on the basis of the checked and passed environmental information of the virtual server. Hereby, a method of allocating resources enabling both the reliability guarantee of the business operation system and the cost reduction associated with operation check is realized.
US09397951B1	Quality of service using multiple flows A method, system, and computer program are provided for quality of service using multiple flows. At a first digital device, a plurality of inter-computer flows is established between the first digital device and a computer. A plurality of inter-device flows is also established between the first digital device and a second digital device via a communication network. At least one flow metric associated with each of the inter-device flows is determined, which may include, for example, a latency metric, a loss metric, and/or a re-ordering metric. According to various embodiments, flow metrics may form a basis for categorizing the inter-device flows. One or more preferred flows are selected based on the flow metrics. Finally, a packet to be sent to the second device is directed to one of the preferred flows.
US09397949B2	Terminal, control device, communication method, communication system, communication module, program, and information processing device A terminal communicating via a network including a forwarding device(s) for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device(s) in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes: a communication unit that receives a processing rule specifying a process of adding, to a packet, quality information related to communication quality with respect to the terminal, from the control device, a memory unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating via the network, adds quality information to a packet in accordance with a processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the memory unit.
US09397946B1	Forwarding to clusters of service nodes Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for forwarding traffic to clusters of nodes. A system can group nodes in a network fabric into a cluster of nodes, and generate respective hash buckets in the network fabric for the nodes, each respective hash bucket being generated based on a hash function applied to a subset of packet header fields. Next, the system receives a packet associated with a service provided by a node in the cluster, and assigns the packet to a hash bucket from the respective hash buckets based on a comparison of a hash value associated with the packet and hash values associated with the respective hash buckets. The system then selects a node in the cluster to service the packet, the node being selected based on the hash bucket assigned to the packet, the hash bucket being associated with the node.
US09397944B1	Apparatus and method for dynamic communication scheduling of virtualized device traffic based on changing available bandwidth In one embodiment a method for communicating data comprises receiving, by a traffic manager between a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) and a network interface, (a) first data from a first VM in the plurality of VMs and en route via a first client computer to a first device, and (b) second data from a second VM in the plurality of VMs and en route via a second client computer to a second device; determining first attributes of the first data that provide a first communication requirement; determining second attributes of the second data that provide a second communication requirement; determining, based on available bandwidth of the network interface, a communications schedule associated with cumulative bandwidth of the first and second communication requirements; and transmitting, according to the communications schedule, the first data to the first client computer and the second data to the second client computer.
US09397943B2	Configuring virtual media access control addresses for virtual machines A network management apparatus according to an example may configure virtual Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for virtual machines (VMs). A virtual MAC addresses may include a Uniqueness identifier (ID), a DC ID, a Device ID and a Host ID. A number of bytes of the virtual MAC address may be equal to a number of bytes of an actual MAC address of the VM. VMs accessing the same access layer device in the same data center may have the same Uniqueness ID, DC ID, and Device ID and have different Host IDs. VMs accessing different access layer devices and in the same data center may have the same Uniqueness ID and DC ID and have different Device IDs.
US09397942B2	Packet forwarding According to an example, to forward a packet, an access layer device searches a Layer 2 forwarding table according to a source Media Access Control (MAC) address of the packet, and replaces the source MAC address with a mapped virtual MAC address in a matching Layer 2 forwarding entry. The Layer 2 forwarding table is searched according to a destination MAC address of the Ethernet packet. In response to determining that a Layer 2 forwarding entry matching the destination MAC address of the Ethernet packet does not include a MAC address mapped to the destination MAC address, Very Large Layer 2 (VLL2) network protocol encapsulation is performed on the Ethernet packet of which the source MAC address is replaced according to an egress port in the Layer 2 forwarding entry matching the destination MAC address; and the Ethernet packet encapsulated with a VLL2 network protocol header is sent via the egress port.
US09397941B2	Dual purpose on-chip buffer memory for low latency switching In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a buffer memory, at least one ingress port, at least one egress port, at least one processor, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the at least one processor, the logic being configured to communicate with a software-defined network (SDN) controller, store one or more look-up tables in a first portion of the buffer memory, receive a packet using an ingress port, and determine an egress port for the packet. In another embodiment, a method for switching packets in a SDN includes storing one or more took-up tables in a first portion of a buffer memory of a SDN-capable switching device, receiving a packet using an ingress port of the switching device, and determining an egress port for the packet.
US09397938B2	Packet scheduling in a network processor A circuit operates to manage transmittal of packets in a network packet processor. The circuit includes a packet descriptor manager (PDM), a packet scheduling engine (PSE), and a packet engines and buffering module (PEB). The PDM generates a metapacket and a descriptor from a command signal, where the command signal identifies a packet to be transmitted by the circuit. The PSE models the packet through a model of the network topology, determining an order in which to transmit the packet among a number of packets based on the modeling. Once the packet is scheduled for transmission, the PEB performs processing operations on the packet to produce a processed packet based on instructions indicated in the descriptor. The PEB then causes the processed packet to be transmitted toward the destination.
US09397937B2	Computer system, server, open flow controller and communication method In a computer system according to the present invention, a host sends a packet in which protocol information above a TCP layer and within a transport layer is included in an option area of a TCP header. An open flow controller set a flow entry wick defines a forwarding destination corresponding to the protocol information, in a switch. An open flow switch forwards the received packet toward a forwarding destination which corresponds to the protocol information included in the TCP header of the received packed. As a result, an adaptation of the computer system is increased.
US09397932B2	Systems and methods for routing network information A network routing system is described herein. The network routing system comprises a traffic router and a plurality of proxy gateways. The traffic router is configured to receive at least one request for a network object from a requester. The request includes a network address of a target web host. One or more proxy servers from a plurality of proxy servers are assigned to each proxy gateway. In operation, if there is a proxy server having a current connection with the target web host, the traffic router selects the proxy server and forwards the request to a proxy gateway that the proxy server is assigned to. In operation, the proxy gateway receives the request for the network object, converts the request into a translated request based on a protocol type of the proxy server, and sends the translated request to the proxy server.
US09397931B1	Fast convergence in singly-homed ethernet virtual private networks In general, techniques are described for performing a mass withdrawal of media access control (MAC) addresses using a reduced number of route withdrawal messages within a singly-homed segment of an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN). The techniques may include determining a segment identifier of the segment and sending a route advertisement to advertise a route for the segment identifier to a provider edge network device. The techniques may include sending a route advertisement to advertise one or more media access control (MAC) routes for the layer two segment. The techniques may also include, responsive to determining a link failure between a first provider edge network device and a customer edge network device, sending a withdrawal message to the second provider edge network device for the route associated with the segment identifier to withdraw all of the plurality of MAC routes at the second provider edge network device.
US09397926B2	Peer-influenced aggregate member selection Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to allow a peer or remote device to influence aggregate member selection in an aggregate group of members for a data flow. In embodiments, local-side weights and remote-side weights may be assigned to each member in an aggregate group of members. Using these weights, a global value for each member in the aggregate group may be calculated. Given these global values, a member from the aggregate group of members may be selected for egress of the new flow based upon the global values.
US09397924B2	Method for applying macro-controls onto IP networks using intelligent route indexing Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
US09397916B2	Communication device and communication system According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a clock to measure time, communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry transmits a request signal to the other communication device in a certain cycle, and receives a response signal transmitted in response to the request signal, from the other communication device. The processing circuitry changes a transmission timing of the request signal; compares first round-trip delay time with second round-trip delay time; and if a result of comparison shows that the second round-trip delay time is shorter than the first round-trip delay time, adjusts the time measured by the clock using a transmission time point of the second request signal and the reception time point of the second request signal in the other communication device, and the transmission time point of the second response signal from the other communication device and a reception time point of the second response signal.
US09397915B2	Reducing time period of data travel in a wireless network Examples of methods, systems, and computer program products relating to supervising data in a wireless network are disclosed. At least part of a system may be located between a packet data network and a base station, and/or may be at least logically separate from the base station. The system may be capable of evaluating the service provided by the base station, and may be capable of determining whether or not any action should consequently be performed. Examples of an action may include an action which may not necessarily affect en-route data packets such as outputting a report, and/or an action which may affect en-route data packets such as delaying packets, not delaying packets, and/or stopping the delaying of packets. An action which affects data packets may or may not affect data packets uniformly. An action may or may not result in an improvement in quality of user experience.
US09397912B2	Method and system for active fabric management using unicast reachability monitoring A method for active network fabric management. The method includes receiving a probe packet by a termination beacon, where the probe packet is associated with a stream, the stream is identified using an origin beacon identification (ID) for an origin beacon, a stream source IP address, a stream destination IP address, an L2 origin interface, and a TTL value or an IP Hop value. The method further includes generating, after receiving the probe packet and after the expiration of a probe rate request (PRR) refresh timer, a rate control packet (RCP) by the termination beacon where the RCP includes a PRR for the stream, and sending the RCP to the origin beacon using an origin beacon IP address, where the origin beacon IP address is different than the stream source IP address.
US09397910B2	Marking program files as belonging to an application A managed device is searched in a computer network and program files and an installed package are discovered on the managed device. A rule is applied to package properties of the installed package to create a normalized representation of the installed package.
US09397908B2	Method, apparatus, and system for acquiring quality of service QoS control information A method, an apparatus, and a system for acquiring quality of service (QoS) control information. A policy control and charging rules function entity (PCRF) determines, according to a random algorithm, a time point in a time period from a receiving time of a request message sent by a policy and charging enforcement function entity PCEF for acquiring QoS control information to an update time of the QoS control information, as a time for the PCEF to reacquire QoS control information from the PCRF; and the PCEF reacquires QoS control information from the PCRF according to the time for reacquiring QoS control information from the PCRF that is carried in a response message returned by the PCRF, thereby avoiding execution of a QoS update by multiple PCEFs at a same time point, avoiding update message congestion, and improving an update speed of the QoS.
US09397903B2	Method of determining an attribute of a server A method of determining an operational attribute of a server executed on a first execution platform and providing a service, the method comprising: performing a measurement indicative of an operational attribute of the server, wherein the measurement is performed by a platform observer system executed on said first execution platform; communicating a result of said measurement to an external observer system; wherein the communicating comprises protecting secrecy of the communicated result; verifying, by the external observer system, that the received measurement result is indicative of a measurement performed on said server.
US09397900B2	Methods and apparatus for sharing counter resources between CoS/priority or/and between EVC/VLAN to support frame loss measurement Embodiments including methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for calculating frame parameters for the purpose of measuring performance in a network based on the calculated frame parameters are disclosed. By automatically or manually provisioning at least two network elements in a star or other network topology to transmit and receive service frames (e.g., Loss Measurement Messages or Loss Measurement Responses), the embodiments enable network elements to share network resources, such as frame counters, thereby decreasing the number of frame counters needed to perform frame parameter measurements and increasing scalability for a given counter resource supported by a low cost network processor units.
US09397898B2	Digital link viewer A system may receive a user input that identifies an optical route in an optical network, and may receive a user input that identifies a view type, where the view type includes a data channel view or a control channel view. The system may provide, based on the user input, a user interface that displays a representation of network entities associated with the optical route, a representation of an amplification capability associated with a network entity, a representation of a first parameter associated with the network entity, where the representation of the first parameter is based on the user input, a representation of optical links that connect the network entities, where the optical links indicate an optical transmission direction between two network entities, and a representation of a second parameter associated with an optical link, where the representation of the second parameter is based on the user input.
US09397884B2	Workflows for processing cloud services Provisioning, managing and tracking of services provided by a cloud infrastructure system are described. A subscription order request from a customer for services provided by the cloud infrastructure system is received. A workflow is defined that includes steps to process the subscription order. The workflow enables a customer to gain access to services requested in a subscription order upon placing the subscription order without the customer having to wait until all the steps involved in processing the subscription order are complete.
US09397883B2	Modifying network settings of an unreachable host An exemplary system may configure network settings of an unreachable host. In one embodiment, the system determines that a first host on a network is unreachable using a first communication protocol. The system selects a second host on the network that is reachable using the first communication protocol. The second host on the network can reach the first host using a second communication protocol. The system provides a communication to the second host on the network using the first communication protocol. The communication causes the second host to access the first host on the network using the second communication protocol.
US09397880B1	Network monitoring using virtual packets A network monitoring device includes a flow processing element, disposed to receive flow information relating to network flows, and to generate a set of virtual packets, each representing a portion of a network flow. The virtual packets are maintained in a time-sequential order, and read by elements of the network monitoring device to generate information relating to network traffic, such as symptoms affecting the communication network, problems affecting the communication network, and otherwise. The network monitoring device randomly samples virtual packets, with at least one of two effects: (1) flow information from traffic reporting devices that are themselves sampling a differing rates can be equalized, with the effect of standardizing information from all of them; (2) the network monitoring device itself can restrict its attention to a fraction of all virtual packets, with the effect of keeping up with a relatively large number of virtual packets.
US09397879B2	System, apparatus and method for address management in a distributed mobile core network Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, apparatus and method for address management in a distributed mobile core network. The apparatus includes a user equipment for managing multiple addresses for connecting at least one application client of the user equipment to a respective application server via at least one network. The user equipment includes a mobile address unit configured to manage a principal address, a local macro network (LMN) address, and a local area network (LAN) address. The principal address is used for data transmissions of a first type, the LMN address is used for data transmissions of a second type, and the LAN address is used for data transmission of a third type.
US09397878B2	Cross-platform module that is shared by client applications for access to rich communications suite resources on a client device In an embodiment, a client device running a particular OS or OS-version is provisioned with a rich communications suite (RCS) interface. The RCS interface mediates interactions between RCS client applications and RCS resources. The RCS interface interacts with the plurality of RCS client applications in a platform-independent manner using an RCS protocol, and the RCS interacts with the RCS resource in an OS-specific manner using an OS-specific RCS access protocol. The RCS interface translates application-originated RCS signaling that complies with the RCS protocol into the OS-specific RCS access protocol for delivery to the RCS resources, and the RCS interface likewise translates application-terminated signaling that complies with the OS-specific RCS access protocol into the RCS access protocol for delivery to one of the RCS client applications.
US09397877B2	Method and apparatus for concurrent filtering of multiple components of streaming data Content filtering of data containers of multiple content types is performed using multiple filtering modules operating concurrently. An apparatus for content filtering has a set of content-specific filtering modules and a network interface for parsing a received data container into components and directing each component to a respective filtering module. A filtering module edits a component of a specific content type according to respective rules. A multiplexer combines edited components produced by the set of filtering modules to form an edited data container. A root module applies a set of basic rules to a data container and any attachments. In an alternative configuration, the apparatus employs multiple filtering modules each applying rules for all content types. Received data containers are distributed among the filtering modules and an output module arranges edited data containers of a data stream in proper sequential order.
US09397876B2	Synchronization and frame structure determination of a base station A method and apparatus of synchronization and frame structure determination of a base station are disclosed. One method includes the base station determining an initial frame structure including an active region and a dummy region, wherein the regions are sets of OFDM symbols. The base station receives timing information from at least one of a mobile station and a second base station, wherein the mobile station is simultaneously communicating with the base station and the second base station. The base station adjusts its frame structure based at least in part on the timing information, wherein adjusting its frame structure includes at least one of adjusting the active region and the dummy region. The base station adjusts its internal timing to improve synchronization with the second base station based on the timing error information.
US09397875B2	Carrier grouping in multicarrier communications A wireless device receives messages comprising parameters of carriers and carrier groups. Downlink transmissions on a first carrier and at least one second carrier are substantially time aligned with each other. The wireless device receives time alignment commands comprising a time adjustment value and an index identifying a carrier group. Uplink transmissions on a first carrier group and a second carrier group employ different synchronization signals on different carriers as timing reference and are adjusted in response to different time alignment commands.
US09397873B2	Compressed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a wireless communication system One or more first padding bits are added to information bits to be included in a data portion of a data unit such that the information bits, after being encoded, fill one or more OFDM symbols up to a boundary within a last OFDM symbol. The information bits and the first padding bits are encoded to generate coded bits. After encoding, coded bits corresponding to the last OFDM symbol are padded, or constellation points generated based on the coded bits corresponding to the last OFDM symbol are padded, such that the padded coded bits or the padded constellation points occupy a remaining portion of the last OFDM symbol after the boundary. The last OFDM symbol of the data portion is generated to include the coded information bits corresponding to the last OFDM symbol, the first padding bits and second padding bits or padding constellation points added after encoding.
US09397865B2	Method and apparatus for receiving signal in wireless communication system One embodiment of the present invention is a method in which a terminal receives a signal in a wireless communication system, comprising: a step of receiving a subframe; and a step of performing a channel estimation using either a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on the information relating to a time-frequency resource to which the subframe pertains.
US09397860B2	Mobile messaging platform A method for providing mobile messages includes generating a message based on received content. A first functional bind to an aggregator is identified. A second functional bind to the aggregator is also identified. The first functional bind and the second functional bind are distinct communication connections to the aggregator. First message recipients are associated with the first functional bind, and second message recipients are associated with the second functional bind. The message is provided in parallel to the aggregator for the first message recipients through the first functional bind and for the second message recipients through the second functional bind.
US09397857B2	Methods and apparatus for stateless transport layer tunneling Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of tunneling a data packet by encapsulating the data packet with a protocol header and specifying information in the fields of the header in a manner that a network switch can offload processing tasks to its network interface controller. The switch on a transmit side sends the processed data packet through the tunnel to another switch on a receive side. The two sides represent the two ends of the tunnel established between the two switches. Each of the transmit and received side switches is controlled by a switch controller, which in some embodiments is implemented as software. The switch controllers and network interface controllers together process the data packet which is being transferred through the tunnel between the switches.
US09397853B2	System for broadcasting targeted data The present invention relates to a system (100) for broadcasting targeted information for a home network (RD) to which at least one electronic device (4) including a processing means is connected, said broadcasting system including: at least one detector agent (1) for detecting a predefined event (Eid), said at least one detector agent (1) being arranged on the at least one electronic device (4); at least one selector agent (2) for selecting an action (Aid) to be performed, the at least one selector agent (2) being arranged on the at least one electronic device (4); and at least one broadcasting agent (3) for broadcasting targeted information content (Cid) for an end user (5), the at least one broadcasting agent (3) being arranged on the at least one electronic device (4). The detector (1), selector (2) and broadcasting (3) agents perform tasks in separate execution contexts on a processing means of the at least one electronic device (4) connected to the home network (RD).
US09397846B2	Methods and apparatus for efficient IP multicasting in a content delivery network Methods and apparatus for assigning physical channels in a content-based network. In an exemplary embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network having a plurality of cable modems, and the physical channels are assigned to the cable modems based at least in part on any multicast transmissions that may exist on the system. When two cable modems are receiving the same multicast transmission, the invention causes tuning of one or more of the cable modems to the same physical channel in order to limit the total number multicast transmissions on the network. Multicast transmissions typically comprise video or audio information, but other types of information may also be multicast according to the invention. In another embodiment, a multicast transmission list (containing a list of multicast transmissions and the corresponding physical channels) is sent to the set of cable modems. This list is used by the modems (or associated CPE) to manage channel allocation and tuning.
US09397843B2	Method for configuring billing processes in network elements A method configures billing processes in the network elements of data path for the transmission of packet data in a communications system. According to said method, network elements that are located between a first and a second element of the data path are configured and the packet data transmission that is associated with a terminal is carried out between the first network element and the second network element via the data path. The terminal transmits or receives the associated packet data transmission via the second network element. In a central third network element, which is not assigned to the data path, a stored billing control function generates a configuration message, which is used to configure the network elements. The configuration message is transmitted to the network elements of the data path, said network elements at least partially evaluating the configuration message for initialization and configuration purposes.
US09397841B2	Motion-based human verification system and method Disclosed herein is a human verification system, method and architecture, which make use of sensing components built into a user's computing device, or otherwise coupled to the user's device, to receive a response to a challenge-response verification test, which may comprise a pattern-based and/or an image-based challenge-response.
US09397840B2	Digital certificate automatic application method, device and system In a digital certificate automatic application method, device and system, a digital certificate applicant notifies a digital certificate issuer of supported digital certificate generation methods. If a digital certificate issued by the issuer is available, then the issuer is notified of the existing digital certificate information. Otherwise, the issuer is notified of the certificate information required to be contained in a newly applied digital certificate. The issuer selects a digital certificate generation method from the digital certificate generation methods supported by the applicant, and notifies the applicant. If the applicant must apply for a new digital certificate, then the new digital certificate information is generated and the applicant is notified. Otherwise, the applicant is notified of the invalid digital certificate information. The applicant determines the digital certificate to be used according to the notification from the issuer. The present application achieves automatic application, updating and issuing of a digital certificate.
US09397838B1	Credential management In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include transmitting a certificate signing request to a certificate authority system, the certificate signing request comprising a public key, a unique identifier for a mobile device, and a unique identifier for a user associated with the mobile device, wherein the public key is associated with a credential management account that is maintained by a credential management system; receiving a digital certificate from the certificate authority system, the digital certificate comprising the public key and the unique identifier for the user; transmitting a request for a credential to a credential issuing organization system, the request for a credential comprising the digital certificate; receiving a token for a credential from the credential issuing organization system; transmitting a request to retrieve the credential to the credential management system, the request to retrieve the credential comprising the token and information identifying the credential management account; and receiving data encoding a portion of a badge representing the credential from the credential management system.
US09397837B2	Secure access to information associated with a value item Privacy of information is protected by a method of securing access to information associated with a value item, the method including comparing a security signature and a stored profile, and permitting access to the information associated with the value item if the security signature matches the stored profile. The value item may be a machine readable document or other item of high value. The associated information may be stored in an electronic storage medium attached to the value item, or may be stored in an external database, or both. Permitting access to the associated information may include generating an access code unique to the associated information and to the value item.
US09397834B2	Scrambling an address and encrypting write data for storing in a storage device An address to access a location in a storage device (106, 204) is received, and the address is scrambled. Write data is encrypted using an encryption key. The encrypted write data is stored in the storage device at a location of the storage device specified by the scrambled address.
US09397832B2	Shared data encryption and confidentiality Embodiments of the invention relate to processing streams of encrypted data received from multiple users. As the streams are processed, smaller partitions in the form of data chunks are created and subject to individual decryption. The data chunks are placed into sub-stream based on a master key associated with its owning entity. Prior to processing, the data chunks in each stream are decrypted, and advanced functions, including but not limited to de-duplication and compression, are individually applied to the data chunks, followed by aggregation of processed data chunks into data units and encryption of the individual data units including use of a master key from the data's owning entity. Individual encryption units are created by encrypting the data unit(s) with an encryption key, thereby limiting access to the data unit. Confidentiality of data is maintained, and the ability of storage systems to perform data reduction functions is supported.
US09397831B2	Encrypted communication device and method for performing encrypted communication while reducing traffic in communication system An encrypted communication device includes: a pattern generation unit configured to judge whether or not a security association including as matching data a data portion whose data pattern matches between data in a packet targeted for processing and data in a sample packet is to be generated; a key information exchange unit configured to transmit to an opposite device a key information exchange packet including the matching data and key data when the pattern generation unit judges that the security association is to be generated, and receives from the opposite device a key information exchange packet including a security association identifier of the security association, thereby establishing the security association with the opposite device; and a key information unit configured to store the matching data, the key data, and the security association identifier of the security association established by the key information exchange unit.
US09397830B2	Method and apparatus for encrypting and decrypting data A method and system is disclosed for encrypting and decrypting data, with decryption contingent upon user-defined conditions being met. The encryption process comprises a method for using pointers to indicate the locations and sizes of encryption components, utilizing randomly determined patterns to be used for a random number of characters of text data being encrypted. For each randomly determined block of text, a randomly determined pattern is selected, which specifies how to combine the encryption components, including the shuffled and encrypted text, and references to that block's seed key, the size and composition of which are randomly determined. Decryption comprises of a methodology for reversing the process to decode encrypted text, iteratively extracting the decryption components in accordance with the pattern indicator identified for each block of encrypted text, as determined by the pointers, and dependent upon satisfying all user-defined conditions necessary to enable decryption.
US09397829B2	Electronic key registration method and electronic key registration system A method for registering first and second electronic keys, which are capable of controlling a communication subject, to a controller of the communication subject, wherein the first electronic key is to be initially registered, and the second electronic key is to be additionally registered, the method including: performing an additional key production process including storing, in the second electronic key, an additional encryption key generation code unique to the second electronic key and an additional encryption key that is used to verify the second electronic key; and performing a key additional registration process including obtaining the additional encryption key generation code from the second electronic key when identification information unique to the communication subject is stored in the second electronic key, generating the additional encryption key with an additional encryption key generation logic, and storing the additional encryption key in the controller.
US09397828B1	Embedding keys in hardware Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for embedding keys in hardware. One of the methods includes providing, to a device provider, one or more encrypted keys, each of the encrypted keys to be included in a corresponding device provided by the device provider. A user system that includes a device that includes one of the encrypted keys receives information specifying the encrypted key. The information received from the user system is validated. A decryption key is selected based on the information received from the user system that is configured to decrypt the encrypted key specified by the information received from the user system. The decryption key is provided to the user system that includes the device.
US09397825B2	Method and system for reconstruction of a data object from distributed redundant data parts A data object is encoded in a redundant code. The redundant code defines a decoding scheme for reconstructing the data object from a sub-set of the encoded data parts. At least the sub-set of the encoded data parts is encrypted using a homomorphic encryption scheme, which allows equivalents of the arithmetic operations of a reconstruction process to be performed on encrypted encoded data parts. The data parts are stored distributed over a plurality of source terminals of a communication network, for use by a target terminal of the communication network. Upon a retrieval command from the target terminal, an upload management module determines which source terminals are available and the upload management module determines causes a selected set of terminals to transmit the encrypted encoded data parts each via its own connection to the network to a decoder server. The decoder server performs homomorphic equivalent operations of arithmetic operations of the reconstruction process and downloads the results to the target terminal. In this way the target terminal does not need to perform the entire reconstruction, without requiring decryption outside the target terminal.
US09397816B2	Partial CQI feedback in wireless networks Within a wireless network, feedback information from user equipment (UE) to a control node (eNodeB) is necessary to support various functions. A UE receives an allocation from the eNodeB comprising a plurality of periodic transmission instances for a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a schedule comprising a plurality of periodic transmission instances for a rank indicator (RI), wherein the CQI comprises RI and other CQI fields. The UE then transmits an RI without transmitting the other CQI fields in a transmission instance allocated for both RI and other CQI fields.
US09397814B2	Method for transreceiving signal and apparatus for same Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for carrier aggregation, that involves setting a first cell having a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration and a second cell having a second TDD UL-DL configuration; receiving data through a DL subframe of the first cell; and saving at least a portion of the data to a HARQ soft buffer when decoding is unsuccessful. The size of the HARQ soft buffer is determined based on the number of HARQ processes of the first cell, which, in turn, is determined based on the number of subframes of which the first cell is the DL within a specific HARQ round trip time, wherein at least one subframe of which the first cell is the DL and the second cell is the UL is excluded when determining the number of the HARQ processes.
US09397811B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in wireless communication system A method of transmitting data in a wireless communication, by a first Base Station (BS) is provided. The method includes receiving control information including information related to transmission of a Reference Signal (RS) of at least one second BS from the at least one second BS adjacent to the first BS and transmitting data by using a preset method based on the control information when an RS transmission mode of the at least one second BS is different from an RS transmission mode of the first BS.
US09397809B2	Base station device and communication method In a terminal, a control unit transmits a bundle response signal using a resource in a basic region of an uplink control channel in an uplink unit band of a unit band group when no error is detected in each of a plurality of pieces of downlink data of the unit band group, the uplink control channel in the uplink unit band being associated with a downlink control channel in a basic unit band that is a downlink unit band in which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and the control unit transmits the bundle response signal using a resource in an additional region of the uplink control channel when an error is detected in each of the plurality of pieces of downlink data.
US09397803B2	Scheduling apparatus and scheduling method A scheduling apparatus and a scheduling method, wherein the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced while maintaining system throughput performance. In a base station apparatus (100), a scheduling section (113) allocates frequency resources to frequency allocation target terminals based on set frequency allocation units, and a frequency allocation parameter setting section (112) adjusts the set frequency allocation units set in the scheduling section (113) based on cluster numbers. Due to this, in each cluster number, frequency resources can be allocated based on the most suitable frequency allocation units with respect to the signaling bit number. As a result, the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced. Further, system throughput can be maintained by making the cluster number, which is a parameter having little effect on system throughput, a setting parameter for frequency allocation units.
US09397798B2	Communication method, mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus and mobile communication system A UE receives information indicating a specific downlink component carrier (DCC), a first PUCCH (PUCCH1), and a second PUCCH (PUCCH2). The UE transmits HARQ-CI (HARQ control information) in a subframe using i) the PUCCH1 and a PUCCH1 format, the PUCCH1 and the PUCCH1 format being used for the transmission of the HARQ-CI for a PDSCH transmission on a DCC different from the specific DCC, the PDSCH transmission being indicated by a detection of a PDCCH in a UE-specific search space and ii) the PUCCH2 and a PUCCH2 format, the PUCCH2 and the PUCCH2 format being used for the transmission of the HARQ-CI for a PDSCH transmission only on the specific DCC, the PDSCH transmission being indicated by a detection of a PDCCH in a common search space. The PUCCH1 format is used for transmitting HARQ-CI together with a scheduling request using the PUCCH1.
US09397794B2	Automatic retransmission in communications systems Automatic retransmission in communications systems. An embodiment includes retransmitting data. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is executed on a portion of data received as part of a data stream at a receiver antenna. Feedback information of acknowledgment (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) for the portion of data is determined based on a result of the CRC. It is identified that the portion of data is to be retransmitted based on the feedback information indicating a NACK with respect to the portion of data. A retransmission mode is selected for the portion of data based on desired characteristics of the data stream, including a first mode that retransmits the portion of data on at least a first transmitter antenna while transmitting new data on at least a second transmitter antenna; and a second mode that retransmits the portion of data simultaneously on at least the first and second transmitter antennas.
US09397789B2	Uplink radio access network with uplink scheduling A radio access network comprises a serving radio network controller (S-RNC). The S-RNC receives successfully received medium access control (MAC) packet data units (PDUs), discards duplicates of MAC PDUs, reorders the non-discarded MAC PDUs based on serial numbers of the MAC PDUs and delivers the MAC PDUs to a radio link control protocol layer. A controlling radio network controller (C-RNC) provides information to Node-Bs under its control for use in scheduling uplink transmissions. A plurality of Node-Bs schedule uplink transmissions in response to the information provided by its C-RNC, transmit scheduling information to user equipments of its cells, receive MAC PDUs from user equipments of its cells using hybrid automatic repeat request and forward the successfully received MAC PDUs to an associated S-RNC.
US09397786B2	System and method including modified bit-interleaved coded modulation A system and method with a modified bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID). Coded and interleaved bits are combined and coded with a second FEC code that is then mapped to a modulation format. The second FEC code may be a single parity check (SPC) and the scheme may be referred to as a SPC-BICM-ID scheme.
US09397783B2	Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency to live streams in networks are provided. One example method includes receiving source data at a first rate, outputting the source data at a rate less than the first rate, collecting the source data in a buffer, FEC decoding the source data, thereby generating decoded data; and outputting the decoded data at a rate equal to the first rate, either after collecting the source data in the buffer for a predetermined time duration or after collecting a predetermined amount of the source data in the buffer.
US09397776B2	Constant-capacity physical resource blocks for upstream transmissions over coax A coax line terminal (CLT) transmits allocations of upstream bandwidth to a plurality of coax network units (CNUs). In response to the allocations, the CLT receives frames with data in a plurality of physical resource blocks that each correspond to a distinct set of subcarriers. The plurality of physical resource blocks includes a first group of physical resource blocks that all have a first constant allowed capacity. Sizes and modulation orders of respective physical resource blocks in the first group vary as defined by a first modulation profile. The data in the first group are received from one or more CNUs that are assigned the first modulation profile.
US09397775B2	Frequency division duplexing and half duplex frequency division duplexing in multihop relay networks In methods of operating a relay station in a multi-hop wireless relay network, the relay station in communication with a superordinate station and a subordinate station, a downlink transmission to/from the superordinate station is transmitted/received at a first frequency. An uplink transmission to/from the subordinate station is transmitted/received at a second frequency. Communications between the relay station and the superordinate station may be scheduled using frames, each frame including a downlink portion at the first frequency, and an uplink portion at the second frequency. The downlink portion includes first and second downlink subframes for communication between the superordinate station and first and second pluralities of stations, respectively. The uplink portion includes first and second uplink subframes for communication between the superordinate station and the first and second pluralities of stations, respectively. The downlink transmission occurs in the first downlink subframe, and the uplink transmission occurs in the first uplink subframe.
US09397773B2	Methods and apparatus for enabling context sensitive interaction with distributed content A method and apparatus for obtaining content distributed to a wireless communications device is provided. The method may comprise receiving, by a wireless communications device (WCD), a first content item distributed by a first service provider, obtaining a bookmark, wherein the bookmark couples at least one WCD operation identifying item to the first content item, transmitting, from the WCD, to a second service provider, a content item request coupled to the bookmark, and receiving, from the second service provider, a second content item associated with the first content item through the transmitted content item request and the bookmark.
US09397770B2	System and method for providing information lookup while buffering received content on a radio system A system is disclosed for providing supplemental information to a user receiving a broadcast of audio information. A radio system is used for wirelessly receiving broadcast content. The broadcast content may be provided with a signal component indicating that supplemental information is available for the broadcast content. A smartphone is in communication with the radio system. The radio system and the smartphone communicate to enable supplemental information from the smartphone to be presented to the user, upon a user selection, while the radio system buffers the broadcast content for playback after the supplemental information has concluded.
US09397769B2	Interference mitigation for positioning reference signals Techniques are provided, which may be used for determining a position of a user equipment (mobile device). In certain example implementations, tones in positioning signals from one or more sources that may interfere with certain positioning signals be estimated and some form of interference mitigation may be applied, which may better enable the user equipment to acquire certain other positioning signals that may be useful in determining a position of the user equipment.
US09397766B2	Calibration system and technique for a scalable, analog monopulse network Described is a calibration technique for an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) having a scalable, analog monopulse network.
US09397760B2	Wireless microphone based communications system A communication system is provided with wireless microphones each including a first control panel, a first controller, a first codec, and a first ultrasound-based communications module, the first ultrasound-based communications module for emitting ultrasonic sound and receiving ultrasonic signals; and a wireless transceiver including a second control panel, a second controller on the second control panel for setting an operating frequency and an ID thereof and an operating frequency and an ID of each microphone, a second codec on the second control panel, and a second ultrasound-based communications module on the second control panel, the second ultrasound-based communications module. Data is sent from the transceiver to the microphone in an encrypted form and vice versa.
US09397757B2	Semiconductor packages with optical transceivers A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate stacked on the package substrate, and an optical transceiver that generates and receives an optical signal travelling between the package substrate and the second semiconductor substrate using an infrared (IR) ray that passes through the first semiconductor substrate.
US09397754B2	Linecards with pluggable interfaces for pluggable optical amplifiers and other pluggable devices A linecard includes at least one pluggable device, a linecard processor, and a centralized host processor. The linecard also includes an interface that supports a pluggable device. A pluggable device is electrically coupled to the interface and is controlled by the centralized host processor. A flash memory stores data for the pluggable device. The pluggable device can include at least one of an optical amplifier and a ROADM pluggable device.
US09397752B2	Optical transceiver modules, optical transmission devices, and optical transmission methods An optical transceiver module coupled to a device is provided. The optical transceiver module includes an electronic signal transmitting terminal coupled to a receiving terminal of the device, an electronic signal receiving terminal coupled to a transmitting terminal of the device, an optical signal receiving terminal coupled to the electronic signal transmitting terminal, and an optical signal transmitting terminal coupled to the electronic signal receiving terminal. When the optical transceiver module is at an normal operation state and the electronic signal receiving terminal does not receive any electronic signal over a first predetermined time period, the optical transceiver module enters a idle detection state to make the electronic signal transmitting terminal to perform a receiver termination detection to the device to determine whether the device is coupled to the optical transceiver module. At the idle detection state, the optical signal transmitting terminal transmits the optical signal continuously.
US09397750B2	Hybrid electrical-optical data communications cable with wireline capacitance compensation A communications cable is disclosed. The cable includes a first circuit configured to receive electrical data signals from a data source via an input connector, and convert the electrical data signals into optical signals for transmission by way of one or more optical fibers. The cable includes a second circuit configured to convert the optical signals received via the one or more optical fibers back to electrical data signals for providing to a data sink via an output connector. The cable includes a third circuit for applying pre- and post-signal conditioning to bi-directional control data for transmission to and received from the data sink via wires. The cable includes a fourth circuit for applying pre-and post-signal conditioning to bi-directional control data for transmission to and received from the data source via wires. The pre- and post-signal conditioning compensate for capacitance and/or resistance effects on the signals introduced by the wires.
US09397747B2	Method and apparatus for connectivity control in a data center network A data center network that employs an optical network having optical nodes arranged in a ring topology uses a method of topography discovery and maintenance so that connectivity can be maintained and node failures, link failures, end stations being discovered on the network, etc., can be handled without impacting network performance.
US09397743B2	System for coupling wireless repeater donor and server units over cable A three hop wireless repeater is disclosed, including a donor unit having transmit and receive antennas for wireless communication with one or more cellular base stations, and a server unit having transmit and receive antennas for wireless communication with the donor unit and with one or more wireless communication devices. The repeater further includes a physical cable interconnect between the donor unit and the server unit. The physical cable interconnect includes a donor unit sleeve having donor unit coupling antennas to inductively couple signals to and from the transmit and receive antennas of the donor unit, and a server unit sleeve having server unit coupling antennas to inductively couple signals to and from the transmit and receive antennas of the server unit.
US09397734B2	Method for differentially quantizing channel information in multi-antenna wireless systems and system adopting the same A method of signal transmission based on differentially quantized channel information in a multi-antenna wireless communication system which can transmit signal to multiple mobile stations simultaneously through multiple transmit antennas includes a main codebook reporting step of each mobile station for quantizing channel correlation information (CCI) using a main-codebook and reporting an index of the main codebook, which corresponds to the quantized CCI, to a base station. A sub-codebook reporting step of each mobile station for quantizing the change of the CCI between the quantization interval using a sub-codebook and reporting an index of the sub-codebook, which corresponds to the quantized CCI change, to a base station. A multi-user eigen-beam transmission step of the base station for generating multiple eigen-beams using the index of the main-codebook or sub-codebook reported from mobile stations and transmitting them to multiple users simultaneously.
US09397731B2	Signaling support for antenna selection using subset lists and subset masks A communication device is described herein that has control (or at least partial control) over which virtual antenna(s) in one or more base stations to use for transmissions. In one embodiment, the mobile phone performs the following steps: (1) receives an antenna subset list (from the scheduling unit) which identifies a configuration of virtual antennas that is associated with the base station(s); (2) uses the antenna subset list to select which virtual antenna(s) in the configuration of virtual antennas to use for transmissions; and (3) sends an antenna selection signal (to the scheduling unit) which contains information that instructs/requests the base station(s)/scheduling unit to use the selected virtual antenna(s) for transmissions.
US09397729B2	Through chip coupling for signal transport Through-chip coupling is utilized for signal transport, where an interface is formed between a first coil on a first integrated circuit (IC) chip and a second coil on a second IC chip. The first coil is coupled to an antenna. The second coil is coupled to an amplifier circuit. The second coil is not in direct contact with the first coil. The first coil and the second coil communicatively transmit signals between the antenna and the first amplifier circuit.
US09397727B1	Slot antenna and NFC antenna in an electronic device An electronic device including a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna and a slot antenna is described. The slot antenna may be formed by a slot opening in a housing of the electronic device. The slot opening may be shaped as a rectangular slot, a T-shaped slot, or T-shaped slot leading into a circular opening. The slot opening exposes the NFC antenna and allows the NFC antenna to radiate in a first frequency band while the slot antenna radiates at a second frequency band.
US09397725B2	Reception circuit and communication system According to an embodiment, a reception circuit receives a reception signal according to a signal transmitted from a transmission electrode through a reception electrode capacitively coupled to the transmission electrode. The reception circuit includes an adder, a hysteresis circuit, a shift register and a feedback signal generator. The adder is configured to add one or more feedback signals to the reception signal. The hysteresis circuit has hysteresis in input and output characteristics, and is configured to output output data according to an output signal of the adder. The shift register is configured to sequentially shift the output data of the hysteresis circuit. The feedback signal generator is configured to generate the feedback signal according to each output data of the shift register.
US09397722B1	Single feed distributed antenna system A radio system provides multi-antenna coverage of an area in an efficient and affordable manner. The radio system includes a base radio to transmit and communicate with and through multiple antennas spaced throughout a substantially radio opaque structure through a single transmission line. The base radio has an antenna port that connects the base radio to a transmission line. Several directional couplers are spaced in line with the transmission line corresponding with the areas where antenna coverage is needed.
US09397718B2	Mobile telephone holding device The present invention relates to a mobile telephone holding device which includes a main body, an arm, at least two clamping elements, a wireless electrical charging device with which a mobile telephone can be charged and an electrical switching device, wherein the arm s mounted on the main body in such a way that the arm can be moved between an inoperative position (R) and at least one holding position (H) against a restoring force, wherein the electrical switching device, depending on the position of the arm, interrupts an electrical line which leads to the charging device in the inoperative position (R) of the arm, and closes the electrical line which leads to the charging device in each holding position (H) of the arm.
US09397715B2	Method for displaying contact information and electronic device thereof A method for displaying contact information and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method for displaying the contact information in the electronic device includes the operations of confirming service provider information corresponding to displayed contact information, and displaying the confirmed service provider information together with the contact information.
US09397714B1	Radio frequency receiver circuit and the inductor-coupling single-ended input differential-output low-noise amplifier thereof The present invention presents a RF receiver circuit including an inductor-coupling single-ended input differential-output LNA, a mixer circuit, and a differential trans-impedance amplifier. The inductor-coupling single-ended input differential-output LNA includes a single-ended input, a balance-to-unbalance transformer, and an inductor-less differential LNA. The balance-to-unbalance transformer is used to transform the radio frequency signals into a plurality of differential-output first differential signals and includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The inductor-less differential LNA is used to transform the first differential signals into a plurality of differential-output second differential signals, wherein the input impedance of the inductor-coupling single-ended input differential-output LNA is inversely proportional to the square of the coil ratio of the first and second inductor, and the product of the reciprocal of the coil ratio and the input impedance matches the external input impedance of the inductor-coupling single-ended input differential-output LNA.
US09397713B1	Polar modulation using product mode Radio frequency (RF) transmitters and methods of their operation are disclosed. An exemplary RF transmitter includes an RF power amplifier (RFPA), a dynamic power supply (DPS), and a baseband processing unit. The baseband processing unit generates an amplitude modulation (AM) signal that the DPS follows to generate a DPS voltage VDD(t). The DPS voltage VDD(t) serves as a power supply for an output stage of the RFPA. Under most operating conditions the output stage is configured to operate in a compressed mode (C-mode), but is reconfigured to operate in a product mode (or “P-mode) during times low-magnitude events in the AM signal are conveyed to the DPS and become present in the DPS voltage VDD(t) produced by the DPS. Operating the output stage in P-mode overcomes the inability of C-mode operation to reproduce low-magnitude events contained in the AM signal at the RF output of the RFPA.
US09397710B2	Power amplifier module A power amplifier module includes a first signal input terminal to which a first radio frequency signal of a first frequency band is input; a second signal input terminal to which a second radio frequency signal of a second frequency band is input; first, second, and third power amplifiers; and a bias control circuit. The first signal input terminal and an input terminal of the first power amplifier are electrically connected to each other, the second signal input terminal and an input terminal of the second power amplifier are electrically connected to each other, output terminals of the first and second power amplifiers and an input terminal of the third power amplifier are electrically connected to each other, and the bias control circuit controls supplying a bias current to one of the first and second power amplifiers depending on a selected frequency band.
US09397709B2	Light device and positional information management system A light device includes a light emitting module in which a plurality of light sources are provided; caps that are provided at two ends of the light emitting module and are to be mounted in a lighting fixture; and a positional information transmission part that is provided between an outermost one of the plurality of light sources of the light emitting module and the corresponding cap and transmits predetermined positional information.
US09397698B1	Methods and apparatus for error recovery in memory systems employing iterative codes Systems and methods for error recovery are presented. Data is decoded with an iterative decoding scheme having a first set of parameters. In response to a determination that the iterative decoding scheme has failed, the data is re-read. While the data is being re-read, the iterative decoding scheme is reconfigured with a second set of parameters, and the data is decoded with the reconfigured iterative decoding scheme. In response to determination that the reconfigured iterative decoding scheme has failed, an error type associated with the data is determined. An error recovery scheme is selected from a plurality of error recovery schemes for the data based on the determined error type.
US09397697B2	Communication apparatus, image forming apparatus, communication method, and computer-readable storage medium A communication apparatus includes a serializer configured to convert parallel data into serial data and output the serial data; and a deserializer configured to convert the serial data output from the serializer into parallel data and output the parallel data. The serializer is configured to add first data used for detecting unique data in the parallel data before the unique data, add second data used for detecting the unique data after the unique data, and add third data whose length is variable to each of the first data and the second data.
US09397694B2	Methods and devices for coding and decoding the position of the last significant coefficient Methods and devices are described for entropy coding data using an entropy coder to encode quantized transform domain coefficient data. Last significant coefficient information is signaled in the bitstream using two-dimensional coordinates for the last significant coefficient. The context for bins of one of the coordinates is based, in part, upon the value of the other of the coordinates. In one case, instead of signaling last significant coefficient information, the number of non-zero coefficients is binarized and entropy encoded.
US09397689B2	Interpolator systems and methods A digital to time converter is disclosed and includes a code logic and an interpolator. The code logic is configured to receive a first phase signal and a second phase signal and generate a select signal according to the first phase signal and the second phase signal. The interpolator has a bank of inverters. The interpolator is configured to generate an interpolator signal based on the select signal and an input signal.
US09397687B2	Monotonic segmented digital to analog converter In one implementation, a digital analog converter (DAC) is monotonic because the output moves only in the direction of the input and segmented because a more significant portion of the DAC is separated from a less significant portion. The DAC receives an input binary word that includes multiple most significant bits and multiple least significant bits. The DAC decodes the input binary word to an intermediate signal that includes a bit width equal to or greater than a bit width of the binary word. The intermediate signal sets output switches and current source switches. The DAC provides an analog output signal that represents the input binary word.
US09397685B1	Sensor with low power model based feature extractor Described examples include low power analog front end circuits for sensing repeating signal waveforms, including a first sampling circuit to sample an input signal, an analog detector circuit to provide a detector output signal representing a feature of the input signal, a second sampling circuit to sample the detector output signal, and a control circuit to control a sample rate or other analog front end operating parameter at least partially according to the sampled detector output signal, and to selectively enable and disable the analog detector circuit at least partially according to a model representing an expected repeating waveform of the input signal.
US09397683B2	Reduced digital audio sampling rates in digital audio processing chain Reduced digital audio sampling rates are described in a digital audio processing chain. In one embodiment, an audio signal is received. A convolution operation is performed on the received audio signal. The convoluted audio signal is sampled. An interrupt is received to process the audio sample, and the sample is processed in response to the interrupt. The processed samples are collected to form a frame and the frame is transmitted to a remote device.
US09397681B2	Analog/digital converter system and associated method for checking a multiplexer for an analog/digital converter An analog/digital converter system includes a multiplexer, which includes multiple channels having at least one switch, and an analog/digital converter, the analog input of which is connected to the output portal of the multiplexer. Also described is a method for checking a multiplexer for an analog/digital converter. At least one other switch for testing the multiplexer is provided in at least one channel, this other switch connecting the input portal and/or the output portal of the corresponding channel and/or the corresponding channel to a predefined voltage potential.
US09397680B2	Receiver with adjustable reference voltages A receiver having an analog to digital converter with adjustable reference voltages that are calibrated to account for process variations. The receiver comprises an analog to digital converter. The analog to digital converter includes a reference generator to generate a set of N reference voltages. The reference generator adjusts voltage levels of the set of N reference voltages based on one or more control signals. A plurality of comparators compare an input signal to the set of N reference voltages. A calibration circuit generates the one or more control signals for adjusting the voltage levels of the N reference voltages based on outputs of the comparators.
US09397677B1	Method and system for digital-to-analog converter performance measurement using equivalent-time sampler A system and method: provide a digital input signal to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) which, in response to a DAC clock signal, converts the digital input signal to an analog output signal; generate from the DAC clock signal a sampling clock signal having pulses spaced apart from each other in time by a plurality of DAC clock periods, wherein a timing of at least one of the pulses is offset with respect to the DAC clock signal by a first fraction of a DAC clock period, and a timing of at least an other one of the pulses of the sampling clock signal is offset with respect to the DAC clock signal by a second fraction of the DAC clock period; sample-and-hold the analog output signal in response to the sampling clock signal; and digitize the sampled-and-held analog output signal to output digital values representing the sampled-and-held analog output signal.
US09397670B2	Edge generator-based phase locked loop reference clock generator for automated test system An automatic test system configured for generating a periodic signal of a programmable frequency. The automatic test system may comprise a clock, an edge generator coupled to the clock, a phase locked loop, and a delay adjustment circuit. The edge generator may comprise an edge generator output, an enable input and a delay input. The edge generator may produce at the edge generator output a signal with a delay relative to an edge of the clock specified by a value at the delay input in each cycle of the clock for which the enable input is asserted. The phase locked loop may comprise a reference input and a phase locked loop output configured to provide the periodic signal of the programmable frequency. The delay adjustment circuit may comprise an accumulator that may increase in value by a programmed amount for each cycle of the clock.
US09397666B2	Fault protection for clock tree circuitry An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes clock-tree circuitry and protection circuitry. The clock-tree circuitry is configured to distribute a clock signal across the IC. The protection circuitry is clocked by multiple instances of the clock signal that are sampled at multiple sampling points in the clock-tree circuitry, and is configured to detect a fault in the clock-tree circuitry in response to an abnormality in one or more of the instances of the clock signal.
US09397664B2	Programmable logic circuit A logic circuit is provided which can hold a switching state of the logic circuit even when a power supply potential is not supplied, has short start-up time of a logic block after the power is supplied, can operate with low power consumption, and can easily switch between a NAND circuit and a NOR circuit. Switching between a NAND circuit and a NOR circuit is achieved by switching a charge holding state at a node through a transistor including an oxide semiconductor. With the use of an oxide semiconductor material which is a wide bandgap semiconductor for the transistor, the off-state current of the transistor can be sufficiently reduced; thus, the state of charge held at the node can be non-volatile.
US09397659B2	Touch screen panel for display device and method of manufacturing the same A touch screen panel for a display device includes layers of polymer formed on both sides of a substrate for forming driving electrodes and sensing electrodes. The substrate may be made of materials such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Instead of bonding a window cover made of a heavy material, layers or polymer are formed on both sides of the substrate to afford rigidity to the touch screen panel. By removing the window cover, the weight and thickness of the touch screen panel can be reduced.
US09397658B2	Gate drive circuit and a method for controlling a power transistor A gate drive circuit drives a control terminal of a power transistor and comprises: a drive terminal for electrically coupling the control terminal, a first reference source, a first switch arranged between the first reference source and the control terminal, a switch control circuit and a measurement circuit. The first switch is switched-on to turn-off the power transistor. The switch control circuit switches-off the first switch during a transition period to a fully off-state. The measurement circuit outputs a control signal to the switch control circuit in response to a value of a voltage at the control terminal measured when a discharge current flowing to the drive terminal has been reduced to a predetermined threshold, for switching-on the first switch if the measured value is smaller than a threshold voltage.
US09397653B2	Semiconductor device According to one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a power-on reset circuit and a constant voltage generation circuit. The power-on reset circuit generates a power-on reset signal to initialize an internal circuit when power supply is turned on. The constant voltage generation circuit supplies an output voltage to the internal circuit. The constant voltage generation circuit includes a differential amplifier, a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor, a switch, and a pull-up unit. The pull-up unit is provided between the power supply input terminal and the gate terminal of the second MOS transistor. The pull-up unit controls a voltage applied to the gate terminal of the second MOS transistor in accordance with the power-on reset signal.
US09397651B2	Dynamically driven deep n-well circuit A circuit can include an NMOS transistor having a drain and a source, a p-well containing the drain and the source, an n-well under the p-well, a circuit node, and a connection element connecting the n-well to the circuit node. The connection element can include a diode having an anode terminal connected to the circuit node and a cathode terminal connected to the n-well, a resistor having a first terminal connected to the circuit node and a second terminal connected to the n-well, a conductor directly connecting the n-well to the circuit node, or a well switch configured to connect the n-well to the circuit node during an enable phase of a switching signal and to electrically float the n-well during a non-enable phase of the switching signal. The diode can include a diode-connected transistor. The circuit node can be configured to receive a predetermined voltage having a magnitude equal to or greater than an upper supply voltage.
US09397645B2	Circuit for common mode removal for DC-coupled front-end circuits In one example, a method includes receiving a first differential signal including a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal, wherein the first differential signal includes a first common mode voltage; receiving a second common mode voltage. The method further includes determining, by a circuit, a second differential signal including a third voltage signal and a fourth voltage signal, wherein a difference between the third voltage signal and the fourth voltage signal is based on a difference between the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal, wherein the second differential signal includes the second common mode voltage. The method further includes outputting, substantially continuously, the second differential signal.
US09397644B2	Frequency doubler A frequency doubler includes a voltage controlled oscillator outputting N (where, N is a natural number) signals having a first period and having different phases, and an XOR circuit receiving the N signals and outputting a signal having a second period that corresponds to a half of the first period, wherein the voltage controlled oscillator includes N nodes that correspond to the N signals and inverter units respectively connecting the N nodes, the N nodes are arranged so that, if a signal that starts from any one start node of the N nodes passes through the same number of the inverter units, it recurs to the corresponding start node, the XOR gate includes a first unit block set including N unit blocks that are connected to the same output node and match the N nodes in a one-to-one manner, and a second unit block set that is substantially the same as the first unit block set, wherein the first and second unit block sets share the output node.
US09397640B2	Latch circuit and semiconductor device including the same A latch circuit includes: first to Nth storage nodes where N is an even number equal to or more than four; and first to Nth pairs of transistors, each of which comprises a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor coupled in series with each other through a corresponding node among the first to Nth storage nodes. The PMOS transistor is coupled to one of the storage nodes included in previous one of the pairs of transistors at a gate of the PMOS transistor. The NMOS transistor is coupled to one of the storage nodes included in next one of the pairs of transistors at a gate of the NMOS transistor. The PMOS transistors of the first to Nth pairs of transistors are formed in a first active region. The NMOS transistors of the first to Nth pairs of transistors are formed in a second active region, separated from the first active region.
US09397633B2	Acoustic wave device A SAW device (1) comprises a substrate (3); SAW elements (10) on a first main surface (3a) of the substrate (3); first lines (intermediate lines (29) and output side lines (31)) that are disposed upon the first main face (3a) and connected to the SAW elements (10); an insulator (21) that is layered upon the first lines; second lines (a second ground line (33b) and a third ground line (33c)) that are layered upon the insulator (21) and configure three-dimensional wiring parts (39) with the first lines; and a cover (5) that seals the SAW elements (10) and the three-dimensional wiring parts (39). Wiring spaces (53), formed between the first main face (3a) and the cover (5), houses the three-dimensional wiring parts (39), without housing the SAW elements (10).
US09397628B2	Electronic device, controlling method and controlling program for electronic device, and recording medium An electronic device includes (i) an input-volume measuring section (23) for measuring input volume, which is volume of a sound inputted into the sound input section (17) while the sound output section (16) is performing sound output, (ii) a feedback-volume estimating section (24) for estimating estimated volume, estimated volume is volume of a sound which is to be inputted into the sound input section (17) in a state in which there is no object which blocks the sound in a predetermined range, (iii) volume determination section (26) for determining whether or not the input volume is lower than the estimated volume, and (iv) a function control section (21) for carrying out a predetermined process if the input volume is lower than the estimated volume.
US09397626B2	Charge-sensitive amplifier A charge-sensitive amplifier is disclosed for use in amplifying signals from a particle detector. This includes a field effect transistor having a gate, source and drain, the gate being connectable, using a gate pad, to the particle detector, for the receipt of said signals. Also included is an amplifier having an input connected to the drain or source of the field effect transistor and an output connected through a feedback capacitor to the gate of the field effect transistor. The gate pad of the field effect transistor is made to be integral with the feedback capacitor so as to reduce the capacitance of the device.
US09397625B1	Instrumentation log amp with multiplexed inputs A device has at least two current mode logarithmic amplifiers having currents as their inputs, and multiplexing logic electrically connected to outputs of the current mode logarithmic amplifiers to select one of the current mode amplifiers to produce an output signal.
US09397622B2	Programmable hysteresis comparator In one embodiment, a circuit includes a differential amplifier having a differential pair with a first transistor and second transistor. Each of the first and the second transistors include a front gate contact and a back gate contact. A first digital feedback loop is coupled between an output of the differential amplifier to the back gate contact of the first transistor. A second digital feedback loop is coupled to the back gate contact of the second transistor. The first digital feedback loop is configured to be opposite in phase to the second digital feedback loop.
US09397618B2	Power amplification module A power amplification module includes a first transistor which amplifies and outputs a radio frequency signal input to its base; a current source which outputs a control current; a second transistor connected to an output of the current source, a first current from the control current input to its collector, a control voltage generation circuit connected to the output and which generates a control voltage according to a second current from the control current; a first FET, the drain being supplied with a supply voltage, the source being connected to the base of the first transistor, and the gate being supplied with the control voltage; and a second FET, the drain being supplied with the supply voltage, the source being connected to the base of the second transistor, and the gate being supplied with the control voltage.
US09397615B2	Harmonic rejection power amplifier A power amplifier is provided that generates timing signals which respectively turn on or off switches for respectively opening or closing current paths for current sources and which have same duty ratio and different phases and that adjusts current values for the current sources based on phase differences among the timing signals.
US09397614B2	Multi-band power amplifier An apparatus includes a first capacitor, an inductor coupled to the first capacitor, and a second capacitor coupled to the inductor. The second capacitor is coupled to a first output of a differential amplifier.
US09397609B2	Photovoltaic module A photovoltaic module includes: a solar cell module including a plurality of solar cells; and a junction box including a capacitor unit attached to one face of the solar cell module and that to stores DC power supplied from the solar cell module, and a dc/dc converter unit to convert the level of the stored DC power and output the same. Thus, power may be easily supplied through the junction box.
US09397603B2	Multiple field motor controller An electric motor including a first conductive winding, a second conductive winding, a rotor, and a controller is disclosed. When energized by an AC source, the first conductive winding generates a first magnetic field. The second conductive winding, which is configured to be selectively energized by the AC source via one or more switches, is arranged so as to generate a second magnetic field superimposed with the first magnetic field when so energized. The rotor magnetically interacts with the first magnetic field, or the superimposed first magnetic field and second magnetic field, such that a torque is applied on the rotor. The controller is configured to: (i) obtain a measurement of a voltage of the AC source; (ii) make a determination, based on the measurement, whether to energize the second conductive winding; and (iii) energize the second conductive winding in accordance with the determination.
US09397601B2	Power generation control unit determining maximum excitation current of power generator mounted on vehicle An on-vehicle power generation control unit includes current detecting unit; communication unit; holding unit; maximum current determining unit; and current control unit. The current detecting unit detects the excitation current at the field winding. The communication unit communicates with an external equipment to receive a first upper limit. The holding unit holds a second upper limit. The maximum current determining unit determines a maximum current to be the second upper limit when the first upper limit has not received by the communication unit or when the received first upper limit is more than or equal to the second upper limit. Further, the maximum current determining unit determines the maximum current value to be the first upper limit when the received first upper limit is less than the second upper limit. The current control unit controls the detected excitation current to be within the maximum current value.
US09397600B2	Compressed air energy storage system utilizing two-phase flow to facilitate heat exchange A compressed-air energy storage system according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress and expand air, one or more compressed air storage tanks, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and, in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor-expander uses mechanical power to compress air (when it is acting as a compressor) and converts the energy stored in compressed air to mechanical power (when it is acting as an expander). In certain embodiments, the compressor-expander comprises one or more stages, each stage consisting of pressure vessel (the “pressure cell”) partially filled with water or other liquid. In some embodiments, the pressure vessel communicates with one or more cylinder devices to exchange air and liquid with the cylinder chamber(s) thereof. Suitable valving allows air to enter and leave the pressure cell and cylinder device, if present, under electronic control.
US09397594B2	BLDC motor sinusoidal PWM with single phase BEMF slot detection A back electromotive force (BEMF) zero cross may be detected in a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor that is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM). A phase input of the BLDC motor is tri-stated during PWM periods in which the phase input conducts motor drive current, and the tri-stating of the phase input is used to determine whether a BEMF zero cross has occurred in the BLDC motor.
US09397593B2	Motor control device A ripple current that flows into a main-circuit capacitor is estimated based on a system impedance and output power to a motor, thereby making it possible to always perform ripple-current estimation and life estimation computation for the main-circuit capacitor online. Because data of the system impedance which largely affects the ripple-current estimation for the main-circuit capacitor is used, the capacitor ripple current can be estimated according to the magnitude of the system impedance. This enables highly-accurate life estimation computation of the main-circuit capacitor.
US09397587B2	Multi-actuator design and control for a high-speed/large-range nanopositioning system Multi-actuator system. The system includes at least two nano positioners having different ranges and bandwidths located in cascaded serial form to contact and move an object. A control system employs data-based control design to combine the at least two nano positioners so as to apportion actuation responsibilities among the at least two nano positioners so as to compensate for their coupled dynamics while moving the object. It is preferred to provide a separate controller for controlling separately each of the at least two nano positioners. Parameters of the separate controllers may be determined by minimizing output error.
US09397581B2	Power conversion apparatus that provides a release path for inductive energy accumulated in an inductive load A power conversion apparatus includes first, second, third, and fourth switching elements. In a first period, the second and third switching elements are switched ON, and first and fourth switching elements are alternately switched ON/OFF. In a second period, the first and fourth switching elements are switched ON, and the second and third switching elements are alternately switched ON/OFF. In a third period, the first and second switching elements are switched ON, and the third and fourth switching elements are switched OFF. The power conversion apparatus provides a release path for inductive energy accumulated in a reactor.
US09397577B2	Switching mode power supplies with primary side regulation and associated methods of control A switching mode power supply (SMPS) includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding for providing an output voltage and an auxiliary winding, a primary switch coupled to the primary winding, a secondary rectifying diode coupled to the secondary winding and a secondary switch connected in parallel with the secondary rectifying diode. A control method used in the SMPS includes: comparing a voltage across the secondary switch with a first secondary threshold and a second secondary threshold and generating a hysteresis comparison signal; timing based on the hysteresis comparison signal; comparing the voltage across the secondary switch with a third secondary threshold when the timing period reaches a first predetermined time; turning ON the secondary switch when the voltage across the secondary switch is less than a third secondary threshold; and turning on the primary switch when the conduction of the secondary switch is detected.
US09397569B2	Current control circuit with in parallel transistor modules Consistent with an example embodiment, there is a current control circuit for controlling current flow between a first terminal and second terminal. The current control circuit comprises a current-sensing power MOSFET (metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor). Current control is useful for limiting current flow during linear mode operations such as “hotswap”, “soft start” and “eFuse” operations, in particular, the reducing of or the preventing of high current surges due to discharged capacitive loads suddenly being switched into circuit. Such current surges can cause supply interference or cause malfunction of sensitive circuits due to the effects of the noise pulse. In extreme cases, fuses may blow or circuit breakers may trip due to the high current surges, therefore taking one or more systems offline.
US09397565B2	Phase offset compensation for multiphase DC-DC converter The present document relates to multiphase DC-DC power converters. In particular, the present document relates to the compensation of the phase offset incurred in multiphase DC-DC power converters which are controlled based on coil current zero crossing. A control circuit for a multiphase power converter is described. The multiphase power converter comprises a first and a second constituent switched-mode power converter, wherein the first and second constituent power converters provide first and second phase currents, respectively. The first and second phase currents contribute to a joint load current of the multiphase power converter. The first and second constituent power converters comprise first and second half bridges with first and second high side switches and first and second low side switches, respectively.
US09397562B1	Negative reference voltage generating circuit and system thereof A negative reference voltage generating circuit generating a negative reference voltage is provided, including a differential amplifier, a first diode, second diodes, and a third resistor. The differential amplifier includes a non-inverting input terminal, an inverting input terminal, and an output terminal, and is driven by a positive and a negative power voltages. The output terminal is connected with the non-inverting input terminal via a first resistor and connected with the inverting input terminal via a second resistor. The first diode includes a cathode connected with the non-inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier and an anode connected with a ground. The second diodes respectively include a cathode connected with a predetermined connection point and an anode connected with the ground, and are connected in parallel. The third resistor is connected between the connection point and the inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier.
US09397560B2	Controller for a power supply with transition region regulation A method for regulating a flow of energy from an input to an output of a power converter includes receiving a first signal representative of an output voltage, and receiving a second signal representative of a current of the power converter. An output current of the power converter is determined in response to at least one of the first and second signals. A power switch of the power converter is switched to regulate the output current of the power converter to a substantially constant output current value for a first range of power converter output voltages, to regulate an output power of the power converter to a substantially constant power value for a second range of power converter output voltages, and to regulate the output voltage of the power converter at substantially a highest output voltage value of the second range of power converter output voltages.
US09397554B2	Motor drive device having function of estimating dead time in output stage A motor drive device includes an inverter for generating an AC voltage from a DC voltage by switching power elements, a current detection unit for detecting a current to be inputted to a motor, a current controller for generating a voltage command from a current command and a current detection value, a gate drive command generator for generating drive commands for the power elements such that a dead time in an output stage, that is a period of time in which both of the power elements for upper and lower arms that compose the output stage of the inverter are turned off, becomes a predetermined value, a gate drive circuit unit for outputting gate drive signals for the power elements, and a dead time estimator for estimating the dead time in the output stage that is produced by the gate drive signals for the power elements.
US09397553B2	Switching mode power supply, apparatus and method of supplying power by using the same, and image forming apparatus therefor A switching mode power supply (SMPS) usable with an image forming apparatus receives an alternating current (AC) power from an external electric power supply source and outputs a direct current (DC) power. When a supply state of an electric power to the image forming apparatus is turned off, electric charges charged in a capacitor of the SMPS are discharged.
US09397547B2	Non-sliding carrier bearing in submersible pump motor and method of installation A submersible well pump motor has features to prevent the carrier bearing from sliding axially along the stator due to thermal growth of the rotor. The rotor has a shaft and rotor sections spaced apart from each other. Carrier bearings are located between the rotor sections, each having an anti-rotation member that frictionally engages the inner diameter of the stator to prevent spinning of the carrier bearing. A deflectable thrust washer may be located between ends of the carrier bearing and the rotor sections. The thrust washer reduces in thickness in response to an axial thermal growth force due to axial thermal growth movement of the rotor sections and shaft. The thermal growth force is less than an amount of dislodging force required to cause the anti-rotation member to axially move relative to the stator. Rather than deflectable thrust washers, sacrificial thrust washers that dissolve prior to normal operation may be used.
US09397545B2	Electric damper for a motor vehicle An electric damper for a motor vehicle for damping a relative movement between two components includes an electric generator for generating an induction voltage, the generator being drivable by the relative movement and having a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor shaft that is rotationally coupled to at least one rotor disk. A field-generating ring is provided in which elements that can be magnetized in segments are connected to the field-generating means such that the magnetizable elements are polarized alternately over the periphery of the ring. At least one coil ring with coil windings is provided which are arranged in segments, the coil ring and the field-generating ring being concentrically arranged.
US09397542B2	Stator manufacturing method used for automotive rotary electric machine The stator winding has winding assemblies that are disposed in a stator core so as to be stacked in three or more layers in a radial direction such that slot-housed portions line up in single columns in a slot depth direction inside slots, and radial widths of return portions of the winding assemblies that are mounted so as to be stacked in a radial direction are made sequentially narrower in order of return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned centrally, return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an inner circumferential side, and return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an outer circumferential side.
US09397537B2	Cooling assembly for electric machines A cooling assembly for the stator of an electric machine provided with coils including heads is described herein. The cooling assembly includes a generally cylindrical cooling body provided with opposite longitudinal ends and at least one head-cooling element mounted to one of the longitudinal end of the body; the head-cooling element being so configured as to enclose heads of the coils and to receive heat conducting material therein.
US09397534B2	Device for damping vibrations with an energy recovery capability, and vehicle with such a device A device for damping vibrations with an energy recovery capability includes an input shaft rotatable about the input shaft longitudinal axis with an alternating rotational direction by a component that vibrates relative to the device. A freewheel device is connected to the input shaft on the drive side and at least indirectly to a generator on the output side, the generator being capable of converting the kinetic rotational energy into electric energy and transferring said energy to an energy storage element, and the freewheel device includes a first and a second freewheel, each being rotationally fixed to the input shaft on the drive side and arranged so as to lock in opposite directions of rotation. The second freewheel is connected to a reversing gear mechanism on the output side, and the reversing mechanism and the first freewheel are at least indirectly connected to the generator on the output side.
US09397530B2	Control device and rotating electric machine integral with control device A control device (28) includes: a housing (15); a control section including control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7) and an electronic component (22); a heat sink (13); an external-connection connector (8) which includes connector connection terminals (9, 10, 11) to be electrically connected to the control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7); and a cover (17). The connector connection terminals (9, 10, 11) and the control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7) pass through a housing hole portion (16) covered with the cover (17) to be electrically connected to each other at respective distal end portions. Accordingly, in the control device having a different mounting direction of the external-connection connector or including a different type of the external-connection connector, the same housing, heat sink, and control section can be used so that manufacturing cost of the control device can be significantly reduced.
US09397528B2	Shaft linear motor with improved structural strength A shaft linear motor includes an armature portion, a magnetic way and a sealing resin. The armature portion includes a frame, two ribs and a bobbin. The frame is formed with a receiving space therein. The two ribs are disposed on an inner wall of the frame. The ribs are respectively formed with a sectional surface. The bobbin is disposed in the receiving space and formed with an axially penetrated hole. The magnetic way is linearly and movably disposed in the axially penetrated hole. The sealing resin is fully filled in the receiving space for wrapping the inner wall of the frame and the sectional surfaces.
US09397527B2	Stator unit and motor A stator unit including a coil in which a distance between an m−1-th turn and an m-th turn is wider than each distance in a first turn to the m−1-th turn. The m+1-th turn is disposed between the m−1-th turn and the m-th turn. Further, in a cross-section perpendicular to a central axis and passing a tooth, an angle between a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m−1-th turn and a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m-th turn is about 120° or more. With this structure, bulging in a circumferential direction of the coil adjacent to an inner peripheral portion of the tooth can be suppressed and a clearance can be secured between adjacent coils such that the number of turns of the coil can be increased.
US09397521B2	Site management in an on-demand system Methods and systems are provided for managing environmental conditions and energy usage associated with a site. One exemplary method of regulating an environment condition at a site involves a server receiving environmental measurement data from a monitoring system at the site via a network, determining an action for an electrical appliance at the site based at least in part on the environmental measurement data and one or more monitoring rules associated with the site, and providing an indication of the action to an actuator for the electrical appliance.
US09397520B2	Intelligent adaptive power supply A multi-output power supply comprises an input power port for receiving input power, a first output power port supplying a first voltage derived from the input power, a second output power port supplying a second voltage derived from the input power, and a shut-down circuit configured to shut down the first output power port, independently of the second output power port, if power drawn from the first output power port exceeds a first predetermined value.
US09397514B2	DC power signal generation for electro-chemical reactor Various systems, processes, and techniques may be used for converting alternating current power to direct current power for an electro-chemical reactor. In certain implementations, a system and a process may include the ability to receive an alternating current power signal, convert the alternating current signal to a direct current signal, and distribute the direct current signal to at least two power conversion modules coupled to a mounting structure. Each power conversion module may be able to convert a portion of the direct current signal to a high-frequency alternating current signal, adjust the voltage of the high-frequency alternating current signal, convert the voltage-adjusted high-frequency alternating current signal to a direct current power signal, and filter the direct current power signal. The system and the process may include the ability to combine the direct current power signals from the modules into an output direct current power signal for an electro-chemical reactor.
US09397511B2	Safety device for battery pack having inserted-typed disconnect member Disclosed herein is a safety device mounted in a battery pack including one or more battery modules, each of which includes a plurality of unit modules electrically connected to each other, to interrupt a flow of electric current in the battery pack in an abnormal state of the battery pack, the safety device including a safety device case provided with a connection terminal connected to a main cable of the battery pack and a circuit breaker unit mounted into the safety device case from an outside of the battery pack in an insertion fashion such that the circuit breaker unit is electrically connected to the connection terminal in a state in which the circuit breaker unit is mounted in the safety device case and the circuit breaker unit is electrically disconnected from the connection terminal in a state in which the circuit breaker unit is separated from the safety device case.
US09397506B2	Voltage management device for a stacked battery An apparatus is provided that includes a first terminal to couple to a first node of a stacked battery pack having a first cell block and a second cell block, a second terminal to couple to a second node between the first cell block and the second cell block, and a voltage management circuit to detect an output voltage at the second terminal and to adjust energy within the battery pack based on the output voltage to be detected at the second terminal.
US09397504B1	Hybrid inverter power control system for PV string, battery, grid and back-up loads A string inverter for use with a photovoltaic array includes a string-level DC input channel for receiving DC power from a photovoltaic array. The input channel performs channel-level maximum power point tracking. An input-output channel connects the string inverter to a battery pack. A DC to DC buck-boost circuit between the at least one DC input channel and the at least one input-output channel prevents more than a predetermined amount of DC voltage from reaching the battery pack. A DC to AC inverter circuit having an AC output serving as an output of the string inverter. A revenue grade power meter is configured to measure the AC output of the string inverter.
US09397503B2	Providing power in an electronic device To provide power to an electronic device, converter circuits include a first converter circuit having an input connected to a first power source, and a second converter circuit having an input connected to a second, different power source. A controller determines whether an overload condition of the first power source exists. In response to determining that the overload condition exists, the first and second converter circuits are activated.
US09397501B2	Maximum power point tracking for photovoltaic power generation system A method controls power generated by a photovoltaic array. The method estimates a voltage corresponding to a global maximum power point (MPP) of the power generated by the photovoltaic array to produce an estimated voltage; and tracks an output of the power based on the estimated voltage to determine the global MPP.
US09397494B2	Electrical monitoring device and method for safeguarding the protective function of a type A residual current device (RCD) A monitoring device and a method safeguards the function of a type A residual current device (RCD) in a power supply system. The monitoring device includes a measuring current transformer circuit for detecting a DC fault current (IF), an evaluation unit for processing the current detected by the measuring current transformer circuit, and a communication interface connected to the output of evaluation unit. In one embodiment, the monitoring device forms part of an electrical protection device with a type A residual current device (RCD) for ensuring the function of the type A residual current device (RCD).
US09397493B2	Switching device In the present invention, a main switch circuit (13) is provided between an electric power line (PL), to which voltage outputted from a solar cell (11) is applied, and a battery module (12). A protection circuit (19) turns OFF the main switch circuit (13) to protect the battery module (12) from overcharging when the voltage (VBAT) of the battery module (12) is equal to or greater than an upper limit voltage. The voltage outputted from the solar cell (11) is set so as to be greater than the upper limit voltage to allow the battery module (12) to be charged to the upper limit voltage. When a charge ON command signal has been received, a control unit (18) turns ON only a sub-switch circuit (14) to introduce current from the solar cell (11) into a parallel circuit (15) and to suppress the voltage (VPL) of the power line (PL) to less than the upper limit voltage before turning ON the main switch circuit (13).
US09397485B2	Electrical distribution center An electrical distribution center, such as those used in a motor vehicle to provide and manage electrical power from a battery to electrical modules such as headlights, taillights, wiper motors, etc. is presented herein. The electrical distribution center includes a housing containing electrical switching devices, such as relays to control the flow of electrical power. The housing also contains fuses to protect various circuits connected to the electrical distribution center. The fuses are arranged on the exterior walls of the housing and are accessible for service and replacement without requiring a cover to be removed to access an internal cavity containing the relays. There are no fuses within the internal cavity of the electrical distribution center. The electrical distribution center is connected to a number of wiring harnesses via electrical connectors terminating the wiring harnesses and interconnecting the electrical distribution center to the power supply and electrical modules.
US09397480B2	Semiconductor laser and method for producing a semiconductor laser comprising a feedback element Embodiments relate to a semiconductor laser having a multilayer structure including a ridge and two material removal areas adjacent to the ridge on either side, the multilayer structure being arranged on a substrate and a layer expansion plane being defined by a surface of the substrate, the ridge having at least one active region and at least the active region being spatially limited by passages between the ridge and the material removal areas in one dimension of the layer expansion plane, the active region having a layer structure for forming an interband cascade laser.
US09397474B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a lower light confinement layer on a substrate, a light absorption layer on the lower light confinement layer, and an upper light confinement layer on the light absorption layer; and removing parts of these layers to form an optical modulator, forming a laser section having a diffraction grating in a portion of the substrate where the optical modulator is not present, forming a diffusion constraining layer, which constrains diffusion of a dopant, on the upper light confinement layer, and forming a contact layer on the laser section and the diffusion constraining layer. The same dopant is present in the contact layer and the upper light confinement layer.
US09397473B2	Laser diode and transmitter module A transmitter module that includes a laser diode (LD) and a driver, each mounted on a sub-mount, is disclosed. The driver directly drives the LD by supplying a modulation signal, a bias signal, and a reference. Two signals are provided to a first pad of the LD, while, the reference is provided to the second pad of the LD. The second pad in the center thereof is formed relatively closer to the second facet of the LD opposite to the first facet through which the laser light is emitted.
US09397469B1	Er,Yb:YAB laser system A method of operating a q-switch Er,Yb:YAB laser includes providing a pump bias current to a pump source, the pump source output directed to an Er,Yb:YAB gain medium where the Er,Yb:YAB gain medium is in a resonator cavity. The bias current at or below a lasing threshold of the Er,Yb:YAB gain medium. Providing a pump pulse to the gain medium, the pump pulse over the lasing threshold of the Er,Yb:YAB gain medium, the pump pulse causing the Er,Yb:YAB gain medium to emit a laser pulse. Reducing the pump bias current, wherein the pump current reduction brings the pump bias current to at least below the gain medium lasing threshold, the combination of the pump bias, the pump pulse, and the pump reduction having a current profile.
US09397467B2	Optical pumping device The invention relates to an optical pumping device comprising: a fibre light source emitting controlled radiation having a very high transverse modal quality, with a wavelength shorter than 1000 nm; at least one element consisting of an amplifying material doped with a rare earth dopant; means for introducing a pumping light into said doped amplifying material element; and means for cooling said amplifying material. Said optical pumping device is characterised in that the pumping light is emitted by the fibre light source with an average power of higher than 2W and a modal quality characterised by an M2<5 factor.
US09397465B2	Fiber laser device In a case where the period from the input of the output suspension instruction to the next output instruction is shorter than the fixed period of time, the seed laser light source and the pumping light source are in a pre-pumped state during the period from the end of the output state to the start of the next output state. In a case where the period from the input of the output suspension instruction to the next output instruction is longer than the fixed period of time, the seed laser light source and the pumping light source are in the pre-pumped state only for the fixed period of time from the input of the output instruction.
US09397463B2	Method and device for the simultaneous compression and characterization of ultrashort laser pulses The present invention relates to a method and a device for the simultaneous compression and characterization of ultrashort laser pulses. An embodiment of the method comprises applying predetermined spectral phases to the pulse to be characterized so as to perform a dispersion scan; applying a nonlinear process to the pulse to be characterized; measuring the resulting signal from the application of the predetermined spectral phases and nonlinear process; applying a numerical iterative algorithm to the measured signal to retrieve the spectral phase of the pulse to be characterized. A few cycle laser pulse may be negatively chirped with a pair of DCM, the controllable amount of positive dispersion may be provided by a pair of glass wedges, one of them being translated for dispersion or phase control, and the frequency spectrum may be measured as well as also frequency resolved the dispersion dependent second-harmonic of the signal being phase modulated.
US09397462B2	Rail mounting system and detaching method A rail mounting system for mounting a module on a structure is provided. The rail mounting system comprises a mounting rail comprises a base portion extending along an elongated direction. The base portion comprises a first and a second edge extending along the elongated direction, and further comprises a mating portion extending upwardly from a first edge of the base portion. The rail mounting system further comprises a module configured to be disposed on the mounting rail via the mating portion so as to be mounted on the structure. The module is moveable relative to the mounting rail along a direction from the second edge towards the first edge, so as to be detached from the mounting rail. A rail detaching method is also presented.
US09397459B2	Manual service disconnect with screw cover A manual disconnect includes a housing and a base attached to the housing by a fastener. The base includes primary terminals. The manual disconnect also includes a plug assembly that includes fuse terminals and a bolt cover. The plug assembly is movable relative to the base between a disconnected position wherein the fuse terminals are not engaged with respective primary terminals, and a primary circuit engaged position, wherein the fuse terminals are engaged with respective primary terminals. When the plug assembly is in the primary circuit engaged position the bolt cover is positioned to prevent the fastener from being removed from the housing. A handle or cover part of the plug assembly is then rotated to a locked position with respect to the base. Then, the plug assembly can be moved further in the insertion direction to close an interlock circuit, allowing current to flow in the primary circuit.
US09397455B2	Coupler connector and cable terminator with side contacts An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising a wire guide, a cube shaped securing cap comprising an open end for installation over the wire guide, and pairs of piercing contacts for piercing respective conductors of the cable. When assembled, an outer end of each of the piercing contacts is exposed on an outer surface of a respective securing cap sidewall. The assembly also comprises a coupler connector comprising one of a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) socket or a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) plug, a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket, wherein pairs of contacts are exposed along at least one side wall of the socket, and further wherein each of a plurality of the tines in the modular socket or the terminal contacts of the plug is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts. When the cable terminator is inserted into the cable terminator receiving socket, each of the piercing contacts comes into contact with a respective one of the contacts, thereby interconnecting each of the tines (or each of the terminal contacts) with a respective one of the conductors. A back-to-back connector is also disclosed.
US09397454B2	Electrical connecting device, connector kit, and method of electrically connecting two apparatus The present relates to a connector kit for interconnecting a first and a second apparatus, said first apparatus having a first female connector jack, and said second apparatus having a second female connector jack, and to a method of electrically connecting a first apparatus to a second apparatus.
US09397449B2	Receptacle connector flexibly connected to a mother board A receptacle connector (100) includes an insluative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing; a metal shield (4) covering the insulative housing for defining a space for receiving a plug connector along an insertion direction, and a cable (3) having a first end soldered to a mother board of an electronic appliance and a second end directly soldered with the soldering portions of the contacts in a first embodiment and indirectly connected with the contacts via a printed circuit board in a second embodiment.
US09397447B2	Electrical connector and electrical connector device To allow easy and reliable establishment of electromagnetic shielding regarding a portion connected to a circuit board with a simple structure, a shield plate provided to a fit-in holding member which keeps a state of fitting in a counterpart connector externally covers board connection legs of counterpart contact members and, simultaneously with an operation of rotating the fit-in holding member when connectors fit together, electromagnetic shielding with respect to the board connection legs is immediately established. Also, a ground connecting units provided to the fit-in holding member are connected to ground connection conductive paths provided at positions near the board connection legs of the counterpart contact members, thereby obtaining favorable electromagnetic shielding characteristics. Also, a connected state at the board connection legs can be favorably confirmed.
US09397443B2	Electric plug-in system A plug-in system is provided for a control unit of a vehicle, including a plug, such as a cable harness, and a plug module. The plug is designed to produce an electrical connection with the plug module. The plug has a plug body that accommodates a multiplicity of electrical contacts and that has a plug base that is designed to accommodate a shroud of the plug module. In addition, the plug has a plug lever that is designed to be moved from a start position to an end position, while pulling the plug in the direction of the plug module using a lever arm that engages in the plug module. The plug lever can be mounted on the plug body in two orientations, and in both the orientations the lever arm and the plug module engage in one another in such a way that the plug can be pulled in the direction of the plug module.
US09397442B2	Connector having a latch with a locating member and a tooth with a notch A cable connector is provided having an insulative housing, a conductive shield and a pair of latching members. Each latching member has free ends with engagement teeth formed thereon which are separated by an intervening engagement notch. The sidewalls of the engagement notch are flat and define hard stop surfaces in opposing directions for engagement by each latching member with an opposing board connector. The free ends further include ramped surfaces leading to the engagement notch to form cam surfaces that depress each latching member when the cable connector is mated to a board connector. Each latching members may also include locating tabs captured in vertical movement by the cable connector body.
US09397436B2	Electrical coupling device for a machine An electrical connecting device for a machine includes a fitting element (2) to be fitted in an aperture (1a) of a wall element (1), at least one connecting element (3) which has a first end (3a) with a first connection unit (3b) for an electric cable which is situated outside the wall element (1), a second end (3c) with a second connecting element (3d) for an electric cable which is situated within the internal space, and an intermediate portion (3e) to be fitted in an aperture (2c) which runs through the fitting element (2); a sealing (5) makes a tight connection between the connecting element (3) and the fitting element (2) in the aperture (2c). The fitting element (2) is made integrally from a first material. The connecting element (3) is made integrally from a second material. The connecting element (3) and the fitting element (2) are provided with mutually cooperating surfaces (2c1, 2c2, 3e1, 3e2) which define a predetermined fitting position for the connecting element (3) in the aperture (2c).
US09397435B2	Connector assembly with firm structure and method of assembling the same A connector assembly includes a housing, a metal shell, plural terminals, a cable, an inner member, and an outer boot. The inner member comprises a dispensing groove and at least one receiving groove, and a bonding material is received in the dispensing groove and in one or more of the at least one receiving groove. A method of manufacturing a connector assembly comprises the steps of: providing a housing; soldering a cable to the housing; enclosing a metal shell to cover the housing; molding an inner member on cable to comprise a dispensing groove and at least one receiving groove behind the dispensing groove; setting an outer boot along a front-to-back direction onto the metal shell; and depositing a bonding material in the dispensing groove and pushing the outer boot forwardly across the dispensing groove and the at least one receiving groove until covering the whole inner member.
US09397434B2	Connector device A first housing of a first connector being fitted to a second housing of a second connector includes first and second rotation check lock portions. A third housing of the first connector includes rotation rail portions with first and second rotation prevention walls. The first rotation prevention wall allows rotation of the first rotation check lock portion beyond the first rotation prevention wall in one rotational direction, and does not allow the rotation beyond the first rotation prevention wall in the other rotational direction to blocks the rotation at a rotational position of 180 degrees or more. The second rotation prevention wall does not allow rotation of the second rotation check lock portion beyond the second rotation prevention wall in the one rotational direction to block the rotation at a rotational position of 180 degrees, and allows the rotation beyond the second rotation prevention wall in the other rotational direction.
US09397431B2	Electrical connector and a method of manufacturing the same A liquid adhesive sealant for bonding a connector case and a terminal holder is filled in a sealant filled chamber formed in a space surrounded by a first fitting peripheral wall and a bottom surface of a first groove of the connector case made of a primary molding resin, and a second fitting peripheral wall and a bottom surface of a second groove of the terminal holder made of the primary molding resin in an electrical connector.
US09397428B2	Electric connector with reduced insertion force An electric connector includes a base adapted to receive a plug, which is able to be plugged into the base along a longitudinal direction in the plugged position. The base and the plug define together an interstitial space. The connector also includes a contact member adapted to radially extend into the interstitial space when the plug is in the plugged position. The contact member is able to ensure electric contact between the plug and the base and includes a metal wire folded back on itself so as to form turns around the longitudinal direction. The turns are in a number of less than or equal to five. A set of electric connectors can include the electric connector and the plug.
US09397427B2	Card edge connector A card edge connector comprises a housing, a plurality of first terminals and a terminal block. The housing has a first wall and a second wall which are opposite to each other, a slot between the first wall and the second wall and a plurality of terminal grooves spaced apart from each other and provided in the first wall in a row. The first terminals are supported by the first wall and positioned in the terminal grooves. The terminal block comprises an insulative body engaged with the second wall and a plurality of second terminals spaced apart from each other and supported by the insulative body. Each of second terminals has a fixed portion fixedly provided to the insulative body, a contact portion extending out of the insulative body and extending into the slot, and a tail portion extending out of the insulative body.
US09397422B2	Circuit board assembly, electronic device having the same, and lifting and lowering apparatus thereof A circuit board assembly is provided. The circuit board assembly includes: a first circuit board; a second circuit board; a bracket for supporting the second circuit board; and an interconnect apparatus for a connection and a disconnection of the first circuit board and the second circuit board, wherein the interconnect apparatus includes a first connector disposed on the first circuit board and a second connector disposed on the second circuit board (one is a male connector and the other is a female connector). The circuit board assembly includes a lifting and lowering apparatus for vertically lifting or lowering the bracket so that after the connection the second connector is vertically disconnected from the first connector and after the disconnection the second connector is vertically connected to the first connector. An electronic device having the circuit board assembly is further provided.
US09397420B2	Card slot structure having an automatic card ejection function A card slot structure is disposed in a housing of an electronic device. The card slot structure includes a slot, a cover door, and a push portion, wherein the slot has a push-push type unit. A card is adapted to be fixed in or ejected from the slot through the push-push type unit along a first axial direction. The cover door is slidably disposed in the housing along a second axial direction for opening or closing the slot. A push portion is connected to the cover door. As the cover door slides along the second axis to open the slot, a portion of the card located in the moving path of the push portion is pushed into the slot to trigger the push-push type unit. As the push portion moves away from the card, the card is ejected from the slot through the push-push type unit.
US09397417B2	Wiring module having a voltage detection terminal A wiring module that includes a connecting member for connecting adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of electricity storage elements that have a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal; an insulating protector that has a partition wall surrounding the connecting member and that accommodates the connecting member; and a detection terminal that is connected to an end portion of an electric wire and that is laid over the connecting member.
US09397412B2	IDC contact element for an electrical plug The invention relates to an IDC (Insulation Displacement Connector) contact for an electrical plug. The IDC contact includes a wire contact section and a secondary contact section. The wire contact section includes a cable receiving opening at a proximal end thereof and extending into a slotted cable receiving section. The secondary contact section includes a contact spring extending from and positioned adjacent to the wire contact section and a contact arm extending from the contact spring and extending to a contact point.
US09397407B2	Antenna system An antenna system having a cylindrical electromagnetic lens configured to guide at least one electromagnetic signal to an emerging area by means of at least a variation in dielectric permittivity, thereby generating a beam output from the emerging area. The antenna system has a dielectric member configured to receive the beam output from the emerging area and to focus the beam in an elevation plane perpendicular to a planar face of the cylindrical electromagnetic lens. The cylindrical electromagnetic lens is received in a conductive mounting, and the mounting carries the dielectric member.
US09397404B1	Crossed-dipole antenna array structure The invention is directed to a crossed-dipole antenna structure that, in one embodiment, is comprised of: (a) a first planar dielectric substrate with a feed portion and an antenna portion that supports a first dipole antenna and (b) a second planar dielectric substrate that supports a second dipole antenna or substantial portion of such an antenna. The first and second planar dielectric substrates are positioned substantially perpendicular to one another and so as to form a crossed-dipole antenna from the first and second dipole antennas. The feed portion of the first planar dielectric substrate is electrically and mechanically connected to the second planar substrate by a plurality of solder joints established in the corners defined by the intersections of the first and second planar dielectric substrates.
US09397402B2	Antenna having a planar conducting element with first and second end portions separated by a non-conductive gap In one embodiment, an antenna includes a dielectric material and a planar conducting element. The dielectric material has a first side opposite a second side, with the planar conducting element residing on the first side. The planar conducting element defines a conductive path between first and second end portions of the planar conducting element, which end portions are separated by a non-conductive gap. In another embodiment, an antenna has a planar conducting element defining a conductive path between first and second end portions of the planar conducting element. The planar conducting element has at least two different widths transverse to the conductive path. The first and second end portions of the planar conducting element are separated by a non-conductive gap.
US09397398B2	Multiple-band antenna with patch and slot structures A multiple-band antenna having first and second operating frequency bands is provided. The antenna includes a first patch structure associated primarily with the first operating frequency band, a second patch structure electrically coupled to the first patch structure and associated primarily with the second operating frequency band, a first slot structure disposed between a first portion of the first patch structure and the second patch structure and associated primarily with the first operating frequency band, and a second slot structure disposed between a second portion of the first patch structure and the second patch structure and associated primarily with the second operating frequency band. A mounting structure for the multiple-band antenna is also provided. The mounting structure includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to and overlapping the first surface.
US09397397B2	Electronically-steered Ku-band phased array antenna comprising an integrated photonic beamformer A phased-array antenna that includes a photonic beamformer is disclosed. In some embodiments, a front stage of electrical-domain processing applies a 16-to-1 signal-combination ratio, a single stage of photonic beamforming applies a 4-to-1 signal-combination ratio, and a passive, electrical-domain, signal combiner applies a 32-to-1 signal-combination ratio.
US09397386B2	Near field communication module A near field communication module applied to an electronic device is provided. The near field communication module includes a flexible circuit board, a first sensing antenna and a second sensing antenna. The flexible circuit board includes a first part and a second part connected with each other. The first sensing antenna is disposed at the first part. The second sensing antenna is disposed at the second part. The first sensing antenna is connected to the second sensing antenna. After the flexible circuit board is bended, it is disposed at a side of the electronic device.
US09397384B2	Touching an antenna of a near field communications (NFC) device to control its operation A near field communications (NFC) device is disclosed that interacts with other NFC devices to exchange information and/or the data. An operator may touch, or be sufficiently proximate to, an antenna module of the NFC device to operate and/or control the NFC device. The antenna module includes antenna components that are characterized by a corresponding characteristic impedance. The touch, or sufficient proximity, of the operator changes the corresponding characteristic impedance of antenna components. The NFC device may determine a location of the touch, or proximity, of the operator based upon this change. The NFC device may interpret the location of the touch, or proximity, of the operator as information from the operator to operate and/or control the NFC device.
US09397381B2	Electromagnetic coupling structure, multilayered transmission line plate, method for producing electromagnetic coupling structure, and method for producing multilayered transmission line plate This electromagnetic coupling structure includes a laminated body that is laminated with an inner dielectric layer interposed between inner conductive layers, one pair of outer dielectric layers facing each other with the laminated body interposed therebetween, and one pair of outer conductive layers facing each other with the one pair of outer dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The one pair of outer conductive layers include wiring portions and conductive patch portions disposed at front ends of the wiring portions, and the conductive patch portions have portions longer than the wiring portions in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the wiring portions. In the laminated body, a hole passing through the inner dielectric layer and the inner conductive layers is arranged, and the one pair of outer conductive layers are electromagnetically coupled through a metal film formed inside the hole.
US09397378B2	Waveguide-type image rejection filter and single-sideband receiver, frequency divider, and sideband-separating receiver using the same filter An image rejection filter comprising a waveguide-type 90-degree hybrid coupler having an input port for receiving an input signal within a millimeter or submillimeter band, first and second output ports for dividing the input signal in two and outputting the divided signals, respectively, wherein the one signal deviates by a 90-degree phase from the other signal, and a branch port for outputting the signal; a pair of band pass filters: a waveguide-type first band pass filter whose one end is connected with the first output port and a waveguide-type second band pass filter whose one end is connected with the second output port; and a pair of radiowave absorptive terminations: a first radiowave absorptive termination connected to the other end of the first band pass filter and a second radiowave absorptive termination connected to the other end of the second band pass filter.
US09397376B2	Battery pack with segmented, electrically isolated heat sink A battery assembly is provided that utilizes electrically isolated heat sinks to enhance battery pack thermal management and safety. The battery assembly is divided into groups of batteries, where the batteries within each group are of the same voltage, and where each battery group is serially coupled to the other battery groups. The heat sink is segmented, where each heat sink segment is thermally coupled to the batteries within a single battery group, and where each heat sink segment is electrically isolated from the adjacent heat sink segments. The heat sink segments are thermally coupled to, and electrically isolated from, at least one coolant conduit which, in turn, is coupled to a thermal management system.
US09397375B2	Battery pack with segmented, electrically isolated heat sink A battery assembly is provided that utilizes electrically isolated heat sinks to enhance battery pack thermal management and safety. The battery assembly is divided into groups of batteries, where the batteries within each group are of the same voltage, and where each battery group is serially coupled to the other battery groups. The heat sink is segmented, where each heat sink segment is thermally coupled to the batteries within a single battery group, and where each heat sink segment is electrically isolated from the adjacent heat sink segments. The heat sink segments are thermally coupled to a cold plate, and electrically isolated from the cold plate by a layer of a thermal interface material.
US09397374B2	Secondary battery module, battery information management device, battery information management system, secondary battery reuse system, secondary battery recovery and sales system, secondary battery reuse method, and secondary battery recovery and sales method A secondary battery module includes a battery information storage unit for storing electric characteristic information and usage history information of the secondary battery module. A battery information management device and a terminal device respectively include interfaces to be connected to the secondary battery module. The battery information management device is provided with a battery information database. The battery information management device is connected to the terminal device through a communications network. In this way, battery information stored in the battery information storage unit, which is acquired by the battery information management device and the terminal device, is accumulated in the battery information database. Moreover, the battery information management device grades the secondary battery module for reuse based on the battery information and a predetermined threshold.
US09397373B2	Lithium ion secondary battery without internal short A lithium ion secondary battery including a compound containing at least one thiol group (—SH) in a molecule in a unit cell of the battery is provided. By including the compound containing thiol group (—SH) having good reactivity with copper or copper ions, the formation of dendrite through the reduction of copper ions present in the inner portion of the battery or produced during operating the battery at the surface of an anode may be prevented. The internal short between two electrodes due to the dendrite may be also prevented.
US09397371B2	Storage system and storage controller for storage system A storage control unit for a storage system includes a first storage controller. The first storage controller includes: first voltage detection terminals that is connected to voltage detection lines respectively connected to first storage units, via switches; a first voltage detection circuit that is connected to each of the first voltage detection terminals and that detects a first voltage of each of the first storage units via each of the first voltage detection lines; a first voltage input terminal that a second voltage of each of second storage units that are different from the first storage units is input to; and a first voltage output terminal that is connected to the first voltage detection terminals via switches. The first voltage detection circuit is further connected to the first voltage input terminal and detects the second voltage via the first voltage input terminal.
US09397370B2	Single and multiple cell battery with built-in controller Single and multiple cell batteries are provided with built-in controllers that monitor the cell or cells and provide a safety disconnect when certain monitored conditions are detected by the controller. Preferred single and multiple cell batteries have their cell or cells within a container having a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The built-in controller monitors the cell or cells for each of the following conditions: over temperature, short-circuit, overcharge, and over-discharge and the controller provides a safety disconnect when one of the monitored conditions exist. A multiple cell battery includes a built-in controller that monitors the temperature of the cells and provides a safety disconnect that electronically disconnects all of the cells when at least one of the cells exceeds a predetermined temperature, or a controller that monitors the state of charge of each of the cells and individually controls the charge cycle of each of the cells, or a controller that monitors the temperature of the cells and to provides a safety disconnect when at least one of the cells exceeds a predetermined temperature.
US09397364B2	Electric storage device and electric storage apparatus An electric storage device includes: an electrode assembly in which electrodes are wound such that paired curved portions and a straight portion connecting the paired curved portions are formed; a case which houses the electrode assembly, the case comprising a convex part protruding toward the straight portion of the electrode assembly to support the straight portion; and a support portion which supports the curved portion toward an inside of the electrode assembly.
US09397355B2	Integration of molten carbonate fuel cells in fischer-tropsch synthesis In various aspects, systems and methods are provided for integration of molten carbonate fuel cells with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process. The molten carbonate fuel cells can be integrated with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process in various manners, including providing synthesis gas for use in producing hydrocarbonaceous carbons. Additionally, integration of molten carbonate fuel cells with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process can facilitate further processing of vent streams or secondary product streams generated during the synthesis process.
US09397352B2	Fuel cell motor A Fuel Cell Motor, or, Fuel Cell Engine, and system are described. A central output shaft is mounted with a novel set of rotationally capable fuel cells, of various shapes and configurations. These fuel cells when supplied by hydrogen and oxygen fuels generate electricity. That electricity so generated is channeled to electromagnet winding poles that are mounted on top of these rotationally capable fuel cells and also to the nearby stator electromagnetic poles. The current in the armature electromagnet poles produces magnetic fields which interacts with the congruent magnetic fields produced by the stator electromagnetic winding poles, to cause a rotational motion on the armature poles, adjoined to the central output shaft; henceforth, accomplishing the operations of an electric motor.
US09397351B2	Apparatus and methods for connecting fuel cells to an external circuit Embodiments relate to a fuel cell including, an ion conducting component, two or more electrode coatings and one or more interconnects. The interconnects include a non-conductive interface region having a first surface and a second surface in which the first surface is in contact with the ion conducting component, an electron conducting component having two surfaces and a length that is parallel to the two surfaces wherein one of the surfaces is disposed adjacent to the second surface of the interface region. The electron conducting component provides an electrically conductive pathway between one of the electrode coatings and an external circuit, said pathway extending along the length of the electron conducting component.
US09397349B2	Fuel cell A fuel cell includes: a membrane-electrode assembly in which electrode catalyst layers are formed on two sides of an electrolyte membrane; and a cerium-containing layer that is formed at an outer side of at least one of the two surfaces of the membrane-electrode assembly, and that contains a cerium-containing oxide in an amount that is greater than 5 wt % and less than or equal to 30 wt % where 100 wt % is an amount of solid components except the cerium-containing oxide which form the cerium-containing layer.
US09397347B2	Electrode for use in a fuel cell functioning as a gas diffusion layer and an electrocatalyst layer An electrode for use in a fuel cell comprises a flexible carbon-fiber nonwoven fabric and a fuel cell catalyst, such as a metal catalyst or a carbon alloy catalyst, supported on the surfaces of the carbon fibers constituting the flexible carbon-fiber nonwoven fabric. The flexible carbon-fiber nonwoven fabric is formed by carbonizing a nonwoven fabric obtained by electrospinning a composition containing: an electrospinnable macromolecular substance; an organic compound that is different from the macromolecular substance; and a transition metal. This structure allows the provision of an electrode, for use in a fuel cell, which uses a flexible carbon-fiber nonwoven fabric as a substrate and combines the functions of a gas-diffusion layer and an electrocatalyst layer.
US09397346B2	Solid oxide fuel cell device A fuel cell device having an exterior surface defining an interior ceramic support structure. An active zone is along a first portion of the length for undergoing a fuel cell reaction, and at least one non-active end region is along an end portion extending away from the active zone without being heated. Fuel and oxidizer passages extend within the interior support structure from respective first and second inlets in the non-active end region to the active zone. The active zone has an anode associated with each of the fuel passages and a cathode associated with each of the oxidizer passages in opposing relation to a respective one of the anodes with an electrolyte therebetween. A plurality of ceramic support members in spaced-apart positions are provided throughout each one of the plurality of fuel and oxidizer passages that physically holds open the passages to prevent collapse.
US09397343B1	Copper foil exhibiting anti-swelling properties The present disclosure relates to a copper foil which exhibits surprising anti-deformation properties (e.g., it is resistant to swelling, sagging, and wrinkling). Typically, the copper foil has (a) a shiny side with a surface roughness (Rz) in the range of 0.6 to 1.9 μm; (b) a matte side with a surface roughness (Rz) in the range of 0.6 to 1.9 μm; and (c) a lightness L* value of the matte side, based on the Lab* color system, in the range of 12 to 35. The disclosure further relates to an anode comprising an anode active material on an anode current collector, wherein the anode current collector includes the above-mentioned copper foil. The anodes are used in, for example, lithium ion secondary batteries.
US09397342B2	Lithium anodes for electrochemical cells Provided is an anode for use in electrochemical cells, wherein the anode active layer has a first layer comprising lithium metal and a multi-layer structure comprising single ion conducting layers and polymer layers in contact with the first layer comprising lithium metal or in contact with an intermediate protective layer, such as a temporary protective metal layer, on the surface of the lithium-containing first layer. Another aspect of the invention provides an anode active layer formed by the in-situ deposition of lithium vapor and a reactive gas. The anodes of the current invention are particularly useful in electrochemical cells comprising sulfur-containing cathode active materials, such as elemental sulfur.
US09397340B2	Composite carbon fibers Provided is composite carbon fibers comprising multi-walled carbon nanotubes wherein 99% by number or more of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes have a fiber diameter of not less than 5 nm and not more than 40 nm, carbon particles having a primary particle diameter of not less than 20 nm and not more than 100 nm and graphitized carbon nanofibers wherein 99% by number or more of the graphitized carbon nanofibers have a fiber diameter of not less than 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, wherein the multi-walled carbon nanotubes are homogeneously dispersed between the graphitized carbon nanofibers and the carbon particles.
US09397338B2	Electrodes, electrochemical cells, and methods of forming electrodes and electrochemical cells Electrodes and methods of forming electrodes are described herein. The electrode can be an electrode of an electrochemical cell or battery. The electrode includes a current collector and a film in electrical communication with the current collector. The film may include a carbon phase that holds the film together. The electrode further includes an electrode attachment substance that adheres the film to the current collector.
US09397337B2	Polyurethane-based electrode binder compositions and electrodes thereof for electrochemical cells The invention relates to an electrode binder composition, an electrode made using the described binder composition, and an electrochemical cell made using the described electrode, where the all of these materials are made using a composition of a poly(dialkylene ester) thermoplastic polyurethane composition. The electrode is made using the described thermoplastic polyurethane and an electrode active material. The electrochemical cells can be made using the described electrodes and also using (i) membranes and/or separators made using the described poly(dialkylene ester) thermoplastic polyurethane composition; (ii) an electrolyte system based on the described poly(dialkylene ester) thermoplastic polyurethane composition; or (iii) a combination thereof.
US09397336B2	Battery active material comprising a crystal phase having a Ruddlesden-Popper structure and battery including the same A battery active material includes a crystal phase that is represented by a formula Y2−xScxTi2O5S2 (where 0
US09397335B2	Bimodal type anode active material and lithium secondary battery including the same Provided is an anode active material including a compound of Chemical Formula 1 below that may realize a high-density electrode and may simultaneously improve adhesion to the electrode and high rate capability, wherein the compound of Chemical Formula 1 includes first primary particles and secondary particles, and a ratio of the first primary particles to the secondary particles is in a range of 5:95 to 50:50: LixMyOz [Chemical Formula 1] where M is any one independently selected from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), tin (Sn), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), antimony (Sb), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), indium (In), aluminum (Al), and zirconium (Zr) or a mixture of two or more thereof; and x, y, and z are determined according to an oxidation number of M.
US09397333B2	Method for manufacturing carbon-sulfur composite, carbon-sulfur composite manufactured thereby, and lithium-sulfur battery The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a carbon-sulfur composite, a carbon-sulfur composite manufactured by the method, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. In the carbon-sulfur composite manufactured by the method for manufacturing the carbon-sulfur composite, the sulfur is filled up to inside of the carbon balls, and thereby uniformly distributed. Accordingly, the sulfur content is increased, resulting to increase of capacity property, and also electrode structure does not collapse even though the sulfur is changed to a liquid phase while charging or discharging the battery, resulting to showing stable cycle property.
US09397328B2	Flexible busbar holder for welded cells A traction battery assembly is provided including a support member, two battery cells, a busbar, and a segmented busbar holder. The battery cells include adjacent terminals at differing heights relative to the support member. The busbar is attached to the terminals. The segmented busbar holder includes adjacent panels configured to cover and orient the busbar relative to the terminals. The panels are also configured to move relative to one another such that the holder accommodates the differing heights of the terminals.
US09397327B2	Battery connecting assembly A battery connecting assembly 20 includes a first coupling unit 21 having a plurality of individual units 20A each accommodating a connecting member 13, and configured by coupling the individual units 20A adjacent to each other; a second coupling unit 22 having a plurality of individual units 20A each accommodating a connecting member 13, and configured by coupling the individual units 20A adjacent to each other, and arranged side by side with the first coupling unit 21; and a positioning member 40 connected to the first coupling unit 21 and the second coupling unit 22 to position the first coupling unit 21 and the second coupling unit 22 relatively.
US09397324B2	System for the storage of electrical energy for a vehicle with electric propulsion A system for the storage of electrical energy for a vehicle with electric propulsion; the storage system presents: at least one group of chemical batteries, which are arranged aligned with one another and each of which presents an upper wall, which is provided with a pair of electrical terminals and with a safety valve, and a lower wall, which is parallel and opposite to the upper wall; a container, which houses the group of chemical batteries; a relief duct, which rests against the upper walls of the chemical batteries and presents, for each safety valve, a corresponding opening, which is coupled to the safety valve; and a cooling element, which is parallel and opposite to the relief duct and rests against the lower walls of the chemical batteries.
US09397323B2	Cylinder type secondary battery Disclosed is a cylindrical secondary battery that can improve pressing force of a gasket pressing a cap up and a safety vent. The cylindrical secondary battery prevents leakage of electrolyte by improving pressing force of the gasket by including a cap up whose terminal portion is formed thicker than the peripheral portion. By using the cap up of the above structure, a curled portion is formed at the edge of the cap up or safety vent so as to surround the end of the safety vent or cap up. Thus, internal resistance can be reduced when the vibration or external impact is applied to the battery, and assembling error can be prevented.
US09397319B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device. The display device includes: a first substrate including a display region at which pixels are located; a second substrate on the first substrate while covering the display region; a sealant between the first substrate and the second substrate and surrounding the display region; and at least one protruding pattern located at an outer side of the sealant with respect to a center of the first substrate or the second substrate, on at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate.
US09397318B2	Method for hybrid encapsulation of an organic light emitting diode Methods and apparatus for encapsulating organic light emitting diode (OLED) structures disposed on a substrate using a hybrid layer of material are provided. The encapsulation methods may be performed as single or multiple chamber processes. The processing parameters used during deposition of the hybrid layer of material allow control of the characteristics of the deposited hybrid layer. The hybrid layer may be deposited such that the layer has characteristics of an inorganic material in some sublayers of the hybrid layer and characteristics of an organic material in other sublayers of the hybrid layer. Use of the hybrid material allows OLED encapsulation using a single hard mask for the complete encapsulating process with low cost and without alignment issues present in conventional processes.
US09397317B2	Organic light-emitting transistor and organic light emitting display apparatus Each pixel of the organic light-emitting display apparatus comprises a plurality of sub-pixels by using an organic light-emitting transistor (OLET). The OLET includes a plurality of gate electrodes that have different areas and are arranged adjacent to one another, a plurality of source electrodes and a plurality of drain electrodes, and an organic thin film layer disposed between or below the source electrodes and drain electrodes, the organic thin film layer including an organic light-emitting material, wherein the sub-pixels of the pixel selected by a scan signal are selectively turned-on/off by a data signal to represent a gradation.
US09397313B2	Organic light emitting diode and display device using the same The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; an organic material layer which is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light extraction layer which is disposed on the first electrode or under the second electrode, wherein the light extraction layer has a wave surface. The present invention also relates to a display device which comprises the above-mentioned organic light emitting diode.
US09397312B2	Process for fabricating metal bus lines for OLED lighting panels Systems and methods for the design and fabrication of OLEDs, including high-performance large-area OLEDs, are provided. Variously described fabrication processes may be used to deposit and pattern bus lines with a smooth profile and a gradual sidewall transition. Such smooth profiles may, for example, reduce the probability of electrical shorting at the bus lines. Accordingly, in certain circumstances, an insulating layer may no longer be considered essential, and may be optionally avoided altogether. In cases where an insulating layer is not used, further enhancements in the emissive area and shelf life of the device may be achieved as well. According to aspects of the invention, bus lines such as those described herein may be deposited, and patterned, using vapor deposition such as vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) through a shadow mask, and may avoid multiple photolithography steps. Other vapor deposition systems and methods may include, among others, sputter deposition, e-beam evaporation and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). A final profile of the bus line may substantially correspond to the profile as deposited.
US09397311B2	Lighting device An object of the present invention is to reduce the thickness of a lighting device using an electroluminescent material. Another object of the present invention is to simplify the structure of a lighting device using an electroluminescent material to reduce cost. A light-emitting element having a stacked structure of a first electrode layer, an EL layer, and a second electrode layer is provided over a substrate having an opening in its center, and a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion for supplying electric power to the light-emitting element are provided in the center of the substrate (in the vicinity of the opening provided in the substrate).
US09397308B2	Light emitting element, light emitting device, and electronic device The present invention provides a light emitting element which includes an electron transporting layer and a hole transporting layer between an anode and a cathode, and a first layer and a second layer between the electron transporting layer and the hole transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first organic compound and an organic compound having a hole transporting property, the second layer includes a second organic compound and an organic compound having an electron transporting property, the first layer is formed in contact with the anode side of the second layer, the first organic compound and the second organic compound are the same compound, and at least one of either the organic compound having a hole transporting property and the organic compound having an electron transporting property is a high molecular compound.
US09397307B2	Organic electroluminescence device and electronic device An organic electroluminescence device includes: a cathode; an anode; and an organic layer having one or more layers and provided between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic layer includes an emitting layer, and the emitting layer includes a first host material, a second host material and a phosphorescent dopant material. The first host material is a compound represented by a formula (1) below. The second host material is a compound represented by a formula (4) below.
US09397301B2	Sulfone group-containing compound, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device having the same, and a method of fabricating the OLED device The present invention provides a sulfone group-containing compound, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device using the sulfone group-containing compound, and a method of fabricating the OLED device. The sulfone group-containing compound has formula as wherein the bridging unit R is capable of connecting to three or more than three fluorene sulfur oxide units; and the unit R1, R2 and R3 respectively connected to the fluorene sulfur oxide units are selected from alkyl chains, aromatic groups or heterocyclic groups. According to the present invention, the sulfone group-containing compound connects to three or more than three fluorene sulfur oxide units with a bridging unit to form a novel star-shaped molecular structure. The sulfone groups-containing compound combines electron affinity and transport properties of the fluorene sulfur oxide units and spatial characteristics of the star-shaped molecular structure, so that efficiency and lifetime of an OLED device using the same can be enhanced.
US09397298B2	Organic compound, organic light-emitting device, and image display device The present invention provides an organic compound having a basic skeleton which has an emission wavelength in the yellow region, a high luminous efficiency, and good sublimability.
US09397293B2	Phoniton systems, devices, and methods An artificial composite object combines a quantum of sound with a matter excitation. A phonon in a confinement structure containing the matter excites it from an initial state to an excited state corresponding to a frequency of the phonon. Relaxation of the matter back to the initial state emits a phonon of the same frequency into the confinement structure. The phonon confinement structure, for example, a cavity, traps the emitted phonon thereby allowing further excitation of the matter. The coupling between the phonon and the matter results in a quantum quasi-particle referred to as a phoniton. The phoniton can find application in a wide variety of quantum systems such as signal processing and communications devices, imaging and sensing, and information processing.
US09397292B2	Methods for forming resistive switching memory elements by heating deposited layers Resistive switching nonvolatile memory elements are provided. A metal-containing layer and an oxide layer for a memory element can be heated using rapid thermal annealing techniques. During heating, the oxide layer may decompose and react with the metal-containing layer. Oxygen from the decomposing oxide layer may form a metal oxide with metal from the metal-containing layer. The resulting metal oxide may exhibit resistive switching for the resistive switching memory elements.
US09397291B1	RRAM with dual mode operation A two-terminal memory cell comprises a dual mode of operation in a unipolar mode and bipolar mode for a programming or On-state and for an erase or Off-state of the cell. The two-terminal memory cell is field programmable and can be flexibly designed or integrated into existing architecture. The two-terminal memory comprises a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer with a switching layer disposed between that has an electrical insulator material. A semiconductor layer is disposed between the switching layer and at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode. The switching layer generates a conductive path that is configured to be in a program state and an erase state, based on a bipolar mode and a unipolar mode.
US09397290B2	Memory cells Memory cells useful in phase change memory include a phase change material between first and second electrode and having a surface facing a surface of the second electrode. The second electrode comprises a plurality of portions of material, each portion having a respective distance from the surface of the phase change material and each portion having a respective resistivity. A portion of the plurality of portions of material farthest from the surface of the phase change material has a lowest resistivity and a portion of the plurality of portions of material closest to the surface of the phase change material has a highest resistivity. The resistivity of each individual portion is lower than the resistivity of each portion located closer to the surface of the phase change material, and higher than the resistivity of each portion located farther from the surface of the phase change material.
US09397286B2	Magnetic memory devices having perpendicular magnetic tunnel structures therein Magnetic memory cells include a magnetic tunnel junction and a first electrode, which is electrically coupled to the magnetic tunnel junction by a first conductive structure. This conductive structure includes a blocking layer and a seed layer, which extends between the blocking layer and the magnetic tunnel junction. The blocking layer is formed as an amorphous metal compound. In some of the embodiments, the blocking layer is a thermally treated layer and an amorphous state of the blocking layer is maintained during and post thermal treatment.
US09397283B2	Chip mode isolation and cross-talk reduction through buried metal layers and through-vias A method for fabricating a chip surface base includes preparing a first substrate, preparing a plurality of vias in the first substrate, depositing metal fillings into the plurality of vias, preparing a second substrate, bonding the first and second substrates and exposing the metal fillings. A method for fabricating a chip surface base includes preparing a first and second substrate, depositing a metal on at least one of the first and second substrates, bonding the first and second substrates, preparing a plurality of vias in the first substrate, depositing metal fillings into the plurality of vias and exposing the metal fillings. A chip surface base device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a metal layer disposed between the first and second substrates and a plurality of vias disposed on the first substrate.
US09397278B2	Light emitting device package, backlight unit, lighting device and its manufacturing method Provided are a light emitting device package, a backlight unit, a lighting device and its manufacturing method. The light emitting device package may include a flip chip type light emitting device having a first pad and a second pad, a lead frame that includes a first electrode disposed at one side of an electrode separation space, and a second electrode disposed at the other side of the electrode separation space, and on which the light emitting device is mounted, a first bonding medium formed between the first pad of the light emitting device and the first electrode of the lead frame to electrically connect the first pad and the first electrode, and a second bonding medium formed between the second pad of the light emitting device and the second electrode of the lead frame to electrically connect the second pad and the second electrode, wherein at least one first accommodating cup capable of accommodating the first bonding medium is formed in the first electrode of the lead frame, wherein at least one second accommodating cup capable of accommodating the second bonding medium is formed in the second electrode of the lead frame, and wherein at least one air discharge path is formed on each of the first and second accommodating cups.
US09397277B2	LED packages and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing LED packages includes the steps of: forming a conductive circuit layer on a substrate; screen printing a wall layer on the conductive circuit layer to form a trellis with a plurality of wall units, so that regions of the conductive circuit layer surrounded by the wall units are exposed; mounting and electrically connecting at least one LED die on the conductive circuit layer within each of the wall units; molding a transparent layer to cover the LED dies; and cutting along the wall units to form a plurality of LED packages.
US09397273B2	Optoelectronic devices containing a converter carrier layer, and methods of producing an optoelectronic device containing a converter carrier layer An optoelectronic device includes a layer sequence having an active layer that emits electromagnetic primary radiation, and at least one converter carrier layer arranged in the beam path of the electromagnetic primary radiation. The at least one converter carrier layer includes converter particles and an inorganic-organic hybrid material and/or a silicate glass.
US09397272B2	Phosphor and light emitting device A phosphor and a light emitting device are provided. The phosphor comprises a composition having a formula of (BaaSr1-a)2-zSi5ObNn:EuZ, 0.03
US09397269B2	Light emitting diode for surface mount technology, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing light emitting diode module Provided are a light emitting diode (LED) in which a conductive barrier layer surrounding a reflective metal layer is defined by a protective insulating layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. A reflection pattern including a reflective metal layer and a conductive barrier layer is formed on an emission structure in which a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer are formed. The conductive barrier layer prevents diffusion of a reflective metal layer and extends to a protective insulating layer recessed under a photoresist pattern having an overhang structure during a forming process. Accordingly, a phenomenon where the conductive barrier layer is in contact with sidewalls of the photoresist pattern having an over-hang structure and the reflective metal layer forms points is prevented. Thus, LED modules having various shapes may be manufactured.
US09397263B2	Light-emitting diodes A light-emitting diode is provided. The light-emitting diode includes an N-type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer and a P-type semiconductor layer. A P-type electrode includes a body part and an extension part, wherein the body part is disposed on a corner of an upper surface of the P-type semiconductor layer and the extension part extends from the body part onto the N-type semiconductor layer along a sidewall of the P-type semiconductor layer adjacent to the N-type semiconductor layer. An N-type electrode is disposed on the N-type semiconductor layer. Moreover, a current blocking layer is disposed under the P-type electrode. A transparent conductive layer is disposed on a partial upper surface of the P-type semiconductor layer.
US09397262B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor chip and method for the production thereof An optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1) is herein described which comprises a non-planar growth layer (2), which contains at least one first nitride compound semiconductor material, and an active zone (5), which contains at least one second nitride compound semiconductor material and is arranged on the growth layer (2), and a top layer (7), which is arranged on the active zone (5), the growth layer (2) comprising structure elements (4) at a growth surface (3) facing the active zone (5).
US09397260B2	Patterned layer design for group III nitride layer growth A device having a layer with a patterned surface for improving the growth of semiconductor layers, such as group III nitride-based semiconductor layers with a high concentration of aluminum, is provided. The patterned surface can include a substantially flat top surface and a plurality of stress reducing regions, such as openings. The substantially flat top surface can have a root mean square roughness less than approximately 0.5 nanometers, and the stress reducing regions can have a characteristic size between approximately 0.1 microns and approximately five microns and a depth of at least 0.2 microns. A layer of group-III nitride material can be grown on the first layer and have a thickness at least twice the characteristic size of the stress reducing regions.
US09397259B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting cells disposed on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and a connection wire electrically connecting adjacent ones of the light emitting cells. One of the adjacent light emitting cells includes a plurality of first segments, and the other of the adjacent light emitting cells includes a plurality of second segments respectively facing the first segments. A separation distance is provided between first and second segments facing each other, where each of which has an end contacting the connection wire is greater than a separation distance between first and second segments facing each other, and each of which has an end that does not contact the connection wire.
US09397258B2	Semiconductor structures having active regions comprising InGaN, methods of forming such semiconductor structures, and light emitting devices formed from such semiconductor structures Semiconductor structures include an active region between a plurality of layers of InGaN. The active region may be at least substantially comprised by InGaN. The plurality of layers of InGaN include at least one well layer, and at least one barrier layer proximate the at least one well layer. Methods of forming semiconductor structures include growing such layers of InGaN to form an active region of a light emitting device, such as an LED. Luminary devices include such LEDs.
US09397257B2	Light emitting device The disclosed light emitting device includes an intermediate layer interposed between the light emitting semiconductor structure and the substrate. The light emitting semiconductor structure includes a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, wherein the active layer has a multi quantum well structure including at least one period of a pair structure of a quantum barrier layer including AlxGa(1-x)N (0
US09397256B2	Light-emitting diode structure having progressive work function layer The present invention relates to an LED structure having a progressive work function layer, which adopts a conversion layer with a gradually varying work function as the medium for forming an Ohmic contact between the p-type GaN and the metal reflection layer. The work function of the conversion layer is not a single value. Instead, different quantities of dopants are doped at different depths of the conversion layer. Thereby, the conversion layer can match excellently the connected p-type GaN and the metal reflection layer. By taking advantage of the high light transmissivity of the material of the conversion layer, the possibility that light is absorbed by the Ohmic contact layer is reduced. The conversion according to the present invention can also block diffusion of the metal in the metal reflection to the p-type GaN. Accordingly, it can be used as both an Ohmic contact layer and a barrier layer.
US09397254B2	Superluminescent diode and method for implementing the same A superluminescent diode and a method for implementing the same, wherein the method includes growing a first epi layer on top of an SI (semi-insulating substrate); re-growing a butt based on the first epi layer; forming a tapered SSC (spot size converter) on the re-grown butt layer; forming an optical waveguide on an active area that is based on the first epi layer and on an SSC area that is based on the tapered SSC; forming an RWG on the optical waveguide; and forming a p-type electrode and an n-type electrode.
US09397250B2	Releasing apparatus for separating a semiconductor substrate from a semiconductor template According to one embodiment, a releasing apparatus for separating a semiconductor substrate from a semiconductor template, the releasing apparatus having an enclosed pressure chamber having at least one gas inlet and at least one gas outlet. A top vacuum chuck for securing a released semiconductor substrate or semiconductor template in the enclosed pressure chamber. A bottom vacuum chuck for securing an attached semiconductor substrate and semiconductor template in the enclosed pressure chamber. A gap between the attached semiconductor substrate and semiconductor template and the top vacuum chuck allowing gas flowing through the gap to generate lifting forces on the attached semiconductor substrate and semiconductor template.
US09397236B2	Optical semiconductor device having pre-molded leadframe with window and method therefor A semiconductor device is made by providing a semiconductor die having an optically active area, providing a leadframe or pre-molded laminated substrate having a plurality of contact pads and a light transmitting material disposed between the contact pads, attaching the semiconductor die to the leadframe so that the optically active area is aligned with the light transmitting material to provide a light transmission path to the optically active area, and disposing an underfill material between the semiconductor die and leadframe. The light transmitting material includes an elevated area to prevent the underfill material from blocking the light transmission path. The elevated area includes a dam surrounding the light transmission path, an adhesive ring, or the light transmission path itself can be the elevated area. An adhesive ring can be disposed on the dam. A filler material can be disposed between the light transmitting material and contact pads.
US09397233B2	High voltage deep trench capacitor A semiconductor process and apparatus provide a high voltage deep trench capacitor structure (10) that is integrated in an integrated circuit, alone or in alignment with a fringe capacitor (5). The deep trench capacitor structure is constructed from a first capacitor plate (4) that is formed from a doped n-type SOI semiconductor layer (e.g., 4a-c). The second capacitor plate (3) is formed from a doped p-type polysilicon layer (3a) that is tied to the underlying substrate (1).
US09397232B2	Nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate and nitride semiconductor device There is provided a nitride semiconductor epitaxial substrate having a group III nitride semiconductor layer with C-plane as a surface, grown on a substrate via a buffer layer of the group III nitride semiconductor containing Al, wherein the buffer layer has an inversion domain on the surface.
US09397226B2	Vertical field effect transistors with controlled overlap between gate electrode and source/drain contacts An approach to forming a semiconductor structure for a vertical field effect transistor with a controlled gate overlap. The approach includes forming on a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer, a fifth semiconductor layer, and a first dielectric layer. The etched first dielectric layer and a first drain contact are surrounded by a first spacer. The first drain contact is composed of the fifth semiconductor layer. A second drain contact composed of the fourth semiconductor layer, a channel composed of the third semiconductor layer, and a second source contact composed of the second semiconductor layer are formed. Additionally, first source contact composed of the first semiconductor is formed and a gate electrode is formed on a portion of the first source contact layer surrounding a portion of the first pillar and the second pillar.
US09397224B2	Semiconductor device A transistor in a display device is expected to have higher withstand voltage, and it is an object to improve the reliability of a transistor which is driven by high voltage or large current. A semiconductor device includes a transistor in which buffer layers are provided between a semiconductor layer forming a channel formation region and source and drain electrode layers. The buffer layers are provided between the semiconductor layer forming a channel formation region and the source and drain electrode layers in order to particularly relieve an electric field in the vicinity of a drain edge and improve the withstand voltage of the transistor.
US09397221B2	Thin film transistor, manufacturing method thereof and thin film transistor array substrate The present invention discloses a thin film transistor, comprising an active layer, a gate insulating layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode formed on a substrate. The active layer is above the substrate. The gate insulating layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode are above the active layer. The gate electrode is above the gate insulating layer. Wherein, the thin film transistor further comprises a shielding layer between the substrate and the active layer, the shielding layer is used to absorb external light. The thin film transistor according to the present invention not only has strong stability, but also has high output efficiency. Moreover, the thin film transistor can follow the existing process, which facilitates mass production. The present invention further discloses a manufacturing method of the thin film transistor and a thin film transistor array substrate using the thin film transistor.
US09397220B2	Thin film transistor A thin film transistor disposed on a substrate is provided. The thin film transistor includes a channel, a gate, a source, a drain and an etching stop layer. The channel is disposed above the substrate and is located between the etching stop layer and the source. The gate is disposed on the substrate and overlapped with the channel. The source is disposed between the channel and the substrate and electrically connected to the channel. The channel is disposed between the drain and the substrate. The etching stop layer is disposed between the drain and the channel and has a first through hole exposing a portion of the channel. The drain is filled in the first through hole of the etching stop layer and is electrically connected to the channel. The drain covers the channel completely.
US09397214B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided includes a substrate, a gate structure formed on the substrate, an epitaxial source/drain structure respectively formed at two sides of the gate structure, and a boron-rich interface layer. The boron-rich interface layer includes a bottom-and-sidewall portion and a top portion, and the epitaxial source/drain structure is enclosed by the bottom-and-sidewall portion and the top portion.
US09397209B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method of forming a large pattern and a plurality of fine gate lines located between the large patterns A semiconductor structure has a second portion with an appendage on one side of the second portion and extruding along the longitudinal direction of the second portion. Moreover the semiconductor structure also has a gate line longitudinally parallel to the second portion, wherein the length of the gate line equals to the longitudinal length of the second portion.

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