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US09592281B2	Method for inducing immunity with a peptide fragment from human CAPRIN-1 The invention relates to an immunity-inducing agent comprising, as an active ingredient, at least one polypeptide having immunity-inducing activity that is selected from among polypeptides (a), (b), and (c): (a) a polypeptide of at least seven contiguous amino acids of the amino acid sequence shown by any even SEQ ID number selected from SEQ ID NOs: 2 to 30 listed in the Sequence Listing; (b) a polypeptide of at least seven amino acids having 90% or more sequence identity with the polypeptide (a); and (c) a polypeptide comprising the polypeptide (a) or (b) as a partial sequence thereof, or a recombinant vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding said polypeptide and capable of expressing said polypeptide in vivo.
US09592277B2	Compositions with modified nucleases targeted to viral nucleic acids and methods of use for prevention and treatment of viral diseases Antiviral compositions comprising a modified nuclease, or a plurality of such modified nucleases having at least one non-natural amino acid residue substituted for a naturally occurring amino acid in a parent nuclease are provided, as are methods of use and kits providing unit dosages of such compositions.
US09592275B2	Medicament for therapeutic treatment and/or improvement of sepsis A medicament for therapeutic treatment and/or improvement of sepsis in a patient with severe sepsis accompanied with one or more organ dysfunctions, wherein a value of International Normalized Ratio (INR) of a plasma specimen obtained from said patient is more than 1.4, which comprises thrombomodulin as an active ingredient.
US09592264B2	Delivery system for saw palmetto extract and carotenoid A medicine delivery system delivers medicine such as a dietary supplement to improve prostate health and includes an outer capsule containing a saw palmetto extract and an inner capsule within the outer capsule and containing a carotenoid. The outer capsule is formed to dissolve in the stomach when ingested to release the saw palmetto extract into the stomach and the inner capsule is formed to pass into the duodenum to dissolve and release the carotenoid into the duodenum.
US09592263B2	Purified extract (ATC2) isolated from Pseudolysimachion rotundum var. subintegrum containing abundant amount of active ingredient, the preparation thereof, and the composition comprising the same as an active ingredient for preventing or treating inflammation, allergy and asthma A method for preparing purified extract containing more abundant active ingredients such as catalpol derivatives from the extract of Pseudolysimachion rotundum var subintegrum than that prepared by the conventional preparation method disclosed in the prior art and the therapeutics or functional health food comprising the purified extract for treating and preventing inflammatory, allergic or asthmatic disease. The purified extract showed more potent anti-inflammatory, anti-allergy and anti-asthma activity than that prepared by the conventional preparation method disclosed in the prior art through various in vivo tests such as inhibition test on the reproduction of eosinophil, the release of immunoglobulin and inflammatory chemokines in plasma and bronchoalveolar fluid as well as the suppression of airway hyperresponsiveness and goblet cell hyperplasia in a OVA-sensitized/challenged mouse model.
US09592262B2	Composition for preventing or treating hangover The present invention relates to a composition including a Laurus nobilis leaf extract as an active ingredient, and particularly, to a composition for preventing or treating hangover including the Laurus nobilis leaf extract, a food composition for preventing or relieving hangover including the Laurus nobilis leaf extract, and a method for preparing the composition. Since the composition according to the present invention includes the Laurus nobilis leaf extract, it has a remarkably excellent effect of lowering blood concentrations of alcohol and acetaldehyde. Its hangover-preventing and treating effects were confirmed by behavioral tests, and thus the composition can be widely applied to foods, drugs, or functional health foods which can be effectively used for preventing and treating hangover.
US09592252B2	Colonoscopy—preparation The invention provides a colon cleansing solution comprising: a) 300 to 2000 mmol per liter ascorbate anion provided by ascorbic acid, one or more salts of ascorbic acid, or a mixture thereof; and b) 10 to 200 g per liter polyethylene glycol. The invention also provides methods and kits associated with, or making use of the solutions. The invention also provides a method of cleansing the colon of a subject comprising: —administering to the subject an effective amount of a first cleansing solution; and then after a time interval —administering to the subject an effective amount of a second cleansing solution, where in the two cleansing solutions are as described in the specification.
US09592250B2	Double-stranded oligonucleotides Antisense sequences, including duplex RNAi compositions, which possess improved properties over those taught in the prior art are disclosed. The invention provides optimized antisense oligomer compositions and method for making and using the both in in vitro systems and therapeutically. The invention also provides methods of making and using the improved antisense oligomer compositions.
US09592244B2	Complexes of abiraterone acetate, process for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing them The present disclosure relates to pharmaceutically acceptable complex formulae comprising complexes of Abiraterone acetate and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, process for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The complex formulae of the present disclosure have improved physicochemical properties which results in reduced food effect which allows significant dose reduction and the abandoning of the requirement of taking the drug on an empty stomach.
US09592239B2	Methods and compositions for ibogaine treatment of impulse control disorder, anxiety-related disorders, violence and/or anger, or regulating food intake This invention provides a method for treating anxiety-related disorder or impulse control disorder, regulating food intake, attenuating food cravings, or treating anger and/or violence and disorders associated therewith in a patient, comprising administering to the patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of ibogaine, ibogaine derivative, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof.
US09592235B2	Aminoquinazoline and pyridopyrimidine derivatives The invention provides a method of treating cancer in a patient by administering a compound of formula (I): wherein R1 R2 and R3 are as defined herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US09592230B2	Substituted imidazoles as PDE10A inhibitors This invention is directed to phenylimidazole derivatives having the formula I: wherein HET is an optionally substituted heteroaromatic group; -L- is selected from the group consisting of —CH2—CH2—, —S—CH2—, —CH2—S— and —CH═CH—, R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkyl; C1-C6 alkyl(C3-C8)cycloalkyl; C1-C6 hydroxyalkyl, CH2CN, CH2C(O)NH2, C1-C6 arylalkyl, and C1-C6 alkyl-heterocycloalkyl, and R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are selected individually from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkoxy and halogen, or pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof, which are PDE10A enzyme inhibitors useful in the treatment of psychiatric disorders and drug addiction.
US09592229B2	Potent anticancer activity via dual compound activation The invention provides compositions and methods for the induction of cell death, for example, cancer cell death. Combinations of compounds and related methods the use are disclosed, including the use of compounds in therapy for the treatment of cancer and selective induction of apoptosis in cells. The disclosed drug combinations can have lower neurotoxicity effects than other compounds and combinations of compounds.
US09592226B2	Solenopsin and derivatives, therapeutic compositions; and methods related thereto This disclosure relates to solenopsin derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions, and therapeutic uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compounds of the following formula: or salts, esters or prodrugs thereof as described herein.
US09592224B2	Substituted benzothiazoles and therapeutic uses thereof for the treatment of human diseases The invention relates to a family of differently substituted benzothiazoles having inhibitory activity against casein kinase 1 (CK-1) enzyme, as a result of which they are suitable for use in the treatment or prevention of diseases caused by this enzyme, particularly diseases associated with circadian rhythm and inflammatory, autoimmune, psychiatric, neurodegenerative, neurological or ophthalmic diseases, as well as for inducing cell regeneration
US09592221B2	Antibacterial agents: aryl myxopyronin derivatives The invention provides compounds of formula Ia, Ib and Ic: and salts thereof, wherein variables are as described in the specification, as well as compositions comprising a compound of formula Ia-Ic, methods of making such compounds, and methods of using such compounds, e.g., as inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase and as antibacterial agents.
US09592220B2	Diagnosis and treatment methods for entry of gastrointestinal contents into respiratory tract A method of diagnosing in a subject for the purpose of determining if the subject's gastrointestinal contents has entered the subject's respiratory tract. The qualitative analysis can be also expanded into quantitative analysis, enabling the estimation of either the concentration, or the amount, or both, of the gastrointestinal contents that entered the respiratory tract. The invention also provides methods of treatment based on the identification of aspiration using the methods of the invention.
US09592219B2	Self-magnetic metal-salen complex compound A new self-magnetic metal-salen complex compound and its derivatives are provided. The present invention is a metal-salen complex compound including any one of the following compounds.
US09592218B2	Reverse micelle system comprising metal ions and use thereof The present invention relates to reverse micelle system based on sterols, acylglycerols, phospholipids or sphingolipids and metal ions. Reverse micelle system of the invention is able to cross mucosa and cellular membranes. It thus allows vectorization of metal ions to target sites. It is advantageously useful in the pharmaceutical and dietetic fields.
US09592217B2	Method for treating skin inflammatory diseases The present invention is directed to a method for treating skin inflammatory diseases such as dermatitis, psoriasis, and acne, and rosacea, by administering 3-methanesulfonylpropionitrile or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof to a subject in need thereof. The method alleviates the symptoms of the disease treated. The active compound can be administered by a systemic route or topical route. Topical administration is a preferred route of administration.
US09592216B2	Use of 2,5-dihydroxybenzene compounds and derivatives for the treatment of rosacea The present invention relates to the use of a 2,5-dihydroxybenzene derivative of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, isomer, or prodrug thereof for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of, inter alia, rosacea.
US09592215B2	Topical analgesic lotion Technologies are described for a formulation and production of a formulation. The methods may comprise depositing a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) compound into a chamber. The methods may comprise depositing a muscle relaxant into the chamber. The methods may comprise depositing a calcium channel blocker into the chamber. The methods may comprise depositing a general anesthetic into the chamber. The methods may comprise depositing a local anesthetic into the chamber. The methods may comprise milling and mixing the NSAID compound, the muscle relaxant, the calcium channel blocker, the general anesthetic, and the local anesthetic into a powder. The methods may comprise adding a solvent with the powder. The methods may comprise mixing the solvent with the powder to form a solution. The methods may comprise adding a base cream to the solution. The methods may comprise mixing the base cream and the solution to form the formulation.
US09592213B2	Prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for dysmenorrhea Disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for dysmenorrhea and/or associated symptoms thereof. Specifically disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for dysmenorrhea and/or associated symptoms thereof, which comprises tranilast as an active ingredient thereof.
US09592204B2	Oral pharmaceutical dosage forms Abuse-resistant oral dosage forms suitable for administration of pharmacologically active agents are provided.
US09592200B2	Abuse-deterrent pharmaceutical compositions of opioids and other drugs An abuse-deterrent pharmaceutical composition has been developed to reduce the likelihood of improper administration of drugs, especially drugs such as opioids. In a preferred embodiment, a drug is modified to increase its lipophilicity. In some embodiments the modified drug is homogeneously dispersed within spherical microparticles composed of a material that is either slowly soluble or not soluble in water. In some embodiments the drug containing microparticles or drug particles are coated with one or more coating layers, where at least one coating is water insoluble and/or organic solvent insoluble. The abuse-deterrent composition retards the release of drug, even if the physical integrity of the formulation is compromised (for example, by chopping with a blade or crushing) and the resulting material is placed in water, snorted, or swallowed. However, when administered as directed, the drug is slowly released from the composition as the composition is passes through the GI tract.
US09592194B2	Lip stick Disclosed is a lipstick comprising a combination of active ingredients comprising Portulaca pilosa extract, sunflower oil, jojoba esters, mango butter, and tocopherol.
US09592193B2	Canine sebum substitute A canine sebum substitute utilizes plant derived raw components that contain essential fatty acids, triglycerides and sterols present in canine sebum applied directly to the coat or added to pet products such as shampoos, conditioners, shine sprays, and detanglers to re-fat the hair and skin of dogs and improve shine and condition.
US09592188B2	Method of treating or reducing the severity of dermatological conditions The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating dermatological disorders using a podophyllotoxin formulation.
US09592186B2	Topical compositions and methods for skin lightening Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to compositions useful for reducing pigmentation in the skin. The composition may further include other depigmenting agents such as nicotinamide and its melanasome transfer-inhibiting derivatives, 3,3′-thiodipropanoic acid and its tyrosinase-inhibiting derivatives, or resorcinol and its tyrosinase-inhibiting derivatives, in a topically acceptable vehicle.
US09592185B2	Compositions containing hydrogen peroxide or substances releasing hydrogen peroxide The invention relates to compositions containing a) one or more substances selected from the group of hydrogen peroxide and substances releasing hydrogen peroxide, b) water, d) one or more substances selected from the group consisting of hydroxypyridones and the salts thereof, characterized in that said compositions do not comprise polymers having thickening properties. The compositions are particularly characterized by the advantageous storage stability thereof.
US09592183B2	Inhibitor of endothelin action and skin-whitening agent An inhibitor of endothelin action or a skin-whitening agent, comprising a compound represented by Formula (1) or a salt thereof as an active ingredient: wherein in Formula (1), R1 represents a formyl group or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atom(s), and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atom(s).
US09592182B2	Cleansing composition with whipped texture A liquid cleansing composition comprising water in a sufficient amount to form a fluid composition; fatty acid soap; a divalent metal salt in an amount to provide a viscosity to entrain gas; and entrained gas to provide a specific gravity of not greater than 1.05 g/cm3. Optionally, a surfactant can also be included. The cleansing composition has a whipped texture. Also, a method of making the liquid cleansing composition.
US09592179B2	Disposable rigid container for pharmaceutical compositions A single use rigid package containing pharmaceutical compositions which protects tablets, capsules, soft shell pills against hard transporting conditions and undesired rupture. The package comprises at least four sections made from a single sheet foldable into a folded configuration. At least two sections are carrier sections pivotally connected to each other and each comprising cavities for housing pharmaceutical compositions. Two sections are end sections not comprising cavities, the end sections being foldable to adjacent and at least partly covering the carrier sections when the sheet is folded so as to protect the carrier sections. The package allows for personal transportation, e.g. in a pocket, and it is easy and convenient to open for people of all levels of ability and dexterity. Its design allows for transport as standard mail withstanding temperature fluctuation, vibrations and shocks, mechanical pressure and variation in atmospheric pressure which may occur during transport.
US09592177B2	Circulatory flow restoration device Disclosed is a circulatory flow restoration (CFR) device that includes an abdominal pressure element configured to be arranged at or around a patient's trunk and including at least one unit capable of exerting pressure on patient's body, a thoracic pressure element configured to be placed at or around a patient's thorax and including at least one unit capable of exerting pressure on the patient's body, and a pulsatile generator. The present circulatory flow restoration (CFR) device may be used in cases of cardiac arrest. Also disclosed are methods of restoring heart beat in a patient.
US09592176B2	Walking aid The present invention relates to a walking aid suitable for supporting patients with cerebral palsy while walking and/or during physiotherapy. The walking aid comprises a frame supported by a pair of wheels positioned next to one another, and a support element connected to the frame, for securing the walking aid to a patient. The connection between the support element and the frame allows a rotational movement of the support element with respect to the frame, in two or more rotational degrees of freedom.
US09592172B2	Retractable wheel base A base with retractable wheels is provided for an examination, procedure or surgical table or chair for use in the medical, dental, or veterinary fields that can be easily switched between a stationary state and a mobile state. The base includes fixed wheels on one end and on the other end stationary foot pads and retractable wheels that can be engaged by a lift mechanism that can transfer the weight of the table or chair from the foot pads onto the wheels, allowing the table or chair to be more easily moved within a room.
US09592167B2	Fastening tag for disposable absorbent article A fastening tab that may be used with a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, is disclosed. The fastening tab comprises a primary tape and a release tape. The primary tape may include a first and second mechanical fastener bearing region, an exposed adhesive region, and an intermediate region. The fastening tab provided may be directly attached to a nonwoven back sheet of a diaper chassis.
US09592164B2	Open-type disposable diaper with crotch stretch unit An open-type disposable diaper includes a crotch stretch unit formed in an absorber arrangement region where an absorber is arranged in a crotch region and being stretchable in a product longitudinal direction; a pair of leg stretch units formed along a leg hole openings and being stretchable in at least the product longitudinal direction; and a waist stretch unit formed in a back waistline region and being stretchable in a product widthwise direction; the absorber core arrangement region enclosed by the crotch stretch unit, the leg stretch units, and the waist stretch unit and configuring the absorber is formed so as not to be stretched. The length of the absorber core arrangement region in the product longitudinal direction is configured to be longer than half the length of the crotch stretch unit in the product longitudinal direction.
US09592163B2	Disposable pull-on diaper Disposable pull-on diapers of the present disclosure may have optimized waist circumferential length and leg opening length.
US09592157B2	System and method for femto-fragmentation of a crystalline lens A system and method for performing a femto-fragmentation procedure on tissue in the crystalline lens of an eye requires that a laser beam be directed and focused to a focal point in the crystalline lens of the eye. The focal point is then guided, relative to an axis defined by the eye, to create a segment cluster by causing Laser Induced Optical Breakdown (LIOB) of tissue in the crystalline lens. The resultant segment cluster includes a plurality of contiguous, elongated segments in the crystalline lens that are individually tapered from an anterior end-area to a posterior end-area. Specifically, this is done to facilitate the removal of individual segments from the segment cluster in the crystalline lens.
US09592156B2	Laser beam ophthalmological surgery method and apparatus This invention is related to refractive eye surgery and specifically regarding guiding a laser beam through free space using a set of rotatable mirrors to guide said laser beam into a hand piece module that converts the laser beam into a two dimensional random overlapping scanning parallel laser beam that is delivered to the eye for ablation of cornea tissue to reshape the cornea of the eye. The rotating mirror set module allows a hand piece having an eye stabilization and distance control unit to be positioned by the surgeon onto a patient's eye for performing the surgery.
US09592149B2	Heat generating eye mask A heat generating device includes a heat generating element enclosed in an air-permeable stretch bag. The heat generating element includes an air-permeable first side adapted to be located proximal to the skin of a wearer, a second side adapted to be located distal to the skin of a wearer, and a heat generating member interposed between the first side and the second side. It is preferred that a part of the heat generating element is fixed to a part of the inner side of the stretch bag in the overlap between the stretch bag and the heat generating element in a plan view of the heat generating device.
US09592142B2	Inner catheter arrangement for a self-expanding medical device delivery system A delivery system for a self-expanding medical device is provided. The delivery system includes an outer sheath that radially restrains the medical device. First and second inner catheters are disposed within the outer sheath. The first inner catheter is a composite structure with a closed coil wire covered by a polymer outer layer. The second inner catheter is disposed within the closed coil wire but is not attached to the closed coil wire.
US09592141B2	Bioresorbable scaffold for treatment of bifurcation lesion Bioresorbable scaffolds for treatment of bifurcation lesion are described herein. Generally, an expandable scaffold may be fabricated from a high molecular weight isotropic PLLA material, wherein the scaffold incorporates one or more strain relief features which are configured to allow side branch treatment.
US09592140B2	Split sheath deployment system A device for delivering and deploying a radially expandable prosthesis is disclosed and comprises a proximal prosthesis release mechanism having a first resistance and a distal prosthesis release mechanism having a second resistance. The device further comprises an actuation mechanism for actuating the distal and proximal release mechanisms in a single coordinated movement and a biasing compensator for regulating the relationship between the first resistance and the second resistance. Additional aspects of the invention include devices and methods for delivering and deploying a radially expandable prosthesis.
US09592138B1	Pulmonary airflow Devices, systems, and methods for improving airflow within an airway. One example embodiment includes a method for treating a subject. The method includes (1) placing an expandable object into one or more airways of the bronchial tree of the subject, (2) expanding the expandable object within at least one of the one or more airways such that at least a portion of a wall of the one or more airways is expanded, and (3) placing a stent in the airway such that a portion of the stent is adjacent to the portion of the wall of the one or more expanded airways.
US09592132B2	Shape-memory spinal fusion system A spinal fusion system method and apparatus can include: providing segments including a first segment and a second segment; and coupling the first segment to the second segment with a flexible member, the flexible member configured to have a deformable state based upon a temperature of the flexible member being below a transition temperature range or based upon a stress being applied to the flexible member, and the flexible member configured to enter a shape-set state from the deformable state based on the temperature of the flexible member rising above the transition temperature range, or based upon the stress being removed from the flexible member and the temperature of the flexible member being above the transition temperature range.
US09592129B2	Zero profile spinal fusion cage An interbody fusion cage having upper and lower canals for receiving the heads of bone screws that have been pre-installed in opposing vertebral body endplates. In certain embodiments, the interbody fusion cage can include a main interbody device having a guide surface canal, and a rail component configured to slidingly engage the guide surface canal.
US09592128B2	Glenoid implant An apparatus can include a base plate. A glenosphere can be configured to be mountable to the base plate. The glenosphere can be adapted to operate with a complementary humeral component. The base plate can include a removable taper member on a side of the base plate facing the glenosphere. The taper member can be configured to mount the glenosphere to the base plate.
US09592126B2	Self-centering, anti-seizing acetabular liner A liner adapted for insertion into an acetabular shell for use in hip arthroplasty. The liner includes a concave inner surface adapted to engage a femoral head. The liner also includes an outer surface adapted to engage the acetabular shell and a rim that extends between the inner surface and the outer surface. The outer surface includes a locking section extending from the rim, a composite-curved section extending from the locking section at a first transition point, and a dome section extending from the composite-curved section, wherein at the first transition point, the composite-curved section is tangential to the locking section.
US09592125B2	In situ system for intra-articular chondral and osseous tissue repair Disclosed is a device and method which provide a surgical therapy for in situ treatment and repair of intra-articular cartilage lesions and/or defects. The device is an implantable laminate cartilage repair patch which is bio-compatible and physiologically absorbable. The cartilage repair patch has a first outer cell occlusive layer; a second outer, cell porous layer adapted to be disposed proximate a subchondral bone wound site; and a cartilagenic matrix disposed between the first and second layers. The cartilagenic matrix is a sink for diffusion of autologous stem cells and includes chemical components promoting generation of hyaline-like cartilage in the presence of the autologous stem cells. The method of the present invention provides the autologous compositions, which when used in combination with the repair patch provides a therapeutic system to regenerate replacement hyaline-like intraarticular cartilage.
US09592124B2	Protective external cranial plate A method and apparatus for preventing brain compression subsequent to removal of a portion of a patient's cranium comprises custom forming a protective external cranial plate. The protective external cranial plate is shaped to approximate the removed portion of the patient's cranium, and to extend peripherally beyond the removed portion. The protective external cranial plate is affixed in airtight and fluid tight engagement to the scalp of the patient.
US09592118B2	Device, system, and method for transcatheter treatment of valve regurgitation The invention relates to a device for use in the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, specifically a coaptation enhancement element for implantation across the valve; a system including the coaptation enhancement element and anchors for implantation; a system including the coaptation enhancement element, catheter and driver; and a method for transcatheter implantation of a coaptation element across a heart valve.
US09592116B2	Methods and apparatus for ophthalmic devices including cycloidally oriented liquid crystal layers This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert into an ophthalmic lens. A liquid crystal layer may be used to provide a variable optic function and in some examples, an alignment layer for the liquid crystal layer may be patterned in a cycloidally dependent manner. The patterning may allow for a polarization dependent lens in some examples. An energy source is capable of powering the variable optic insert included within the ophthalmic lens. In some examples, an ophthalmic lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various ophthalmic lens entities may include electroactive liquid crystal layers to electrically control optical characteristics.
US09592115B2	Femoral fixation Various methods and devices are provided for a graft fixation device for fixing a graft member within a bone tunnel. In one embodiment, a graft fixation device is provided having a radially expandable sheath adapted to be disposed within a bone tunnel, and a sheath expander adapted to be received within the radially expandable sheath to expand the sheath and thereby anchor a graft between the sheath and the bone tunnel. In an exemplary embodiment, the graft fixation device is particularly useful to affix a graft within a femoral tunnel.
US09592109B2	Hernia mesh placement system and method for in-situ surgical applications A method for hernia mesh placement during in-situ surgical applications. The method includes the step of positioning a mesh having a center mark within an abdominal cavity near a site of repair. A light assembly projecting a light beam through a free end is provided. Next, the free end of the light assembly is inserted through a central location of the site of repair. Finally, the center mark of the mesh is aligned with the light beam of the light assembly to position the mesh at the central location of the site of repair.
US09592108B2	System and method of laparoscopic use of hemostatic patch The present disclosure includes systems and a method for in situ application of a surgical patch during minimally invasive surgery. The method includes the steps of inserting a surgical patch into a bag; transferring a polymeric bag containing a hemostatic patch into a body cavity; removing the surgical patch from the polymeric bag while the polymeric bag is within the body cavity; and applying the surgical patch to a tissue within the body cavity.
US09592105B2	Dental blank comprising a pre-sintered porous zirconia material, process of its production and dental article formed from said dental blank The invention relates to a dental mill blank comprising a pre-sintered porous zirconia material, the porous pre-sintered zirconia material showing a N2 adsorption of isotherm type IV according to IUPAC classification, the porous pre-sintered zirconia material having a Vickers hardness from about 25 to about 150, the dental mill blank comprising means for reversible attaching it to a machining device. The invention also relates to a process of producing a zirconia dental article comprising the steps of providing a dental mill blank comprising a porous pre-sintered zirconia material, placing the dental mill blank in a machining device, machining the porous zirconia material and to a dental article obtained by such a process.
US09592104B2	Polyaxial dental implant system A dental implant system can include an upper implant body coupled to a lower body with a cavity between the upper and lower implant bodies. The system can further include an anchor at least partially disposed within the cavity. The system can also include an abutment that couples to the anchor and serves as a mounting area for a crown. The anchor can be rotatable and swivelable, allowing the lower implant body to be implanted at an angle in bone while permitting the crown to be positioned in a natural tooth orientation.
US09592103B2	Virtual orthodontic treatment A method for virtual orthodontic treatment is provided in which a virtual set of orthodontic components is associated, in a virtual space, with a first virtual three-dimensional image of teeth, and then by a set of rules which define the effect of the set of components' teeth, the effect of the virtual treatment can be computed. This virtual treatment can be used to predict the results of a real-life orthodontic treatment as to design such a treatment.
US09592099B2	Transapical collapsible valve reference fixture A device for positioning a reference element during aortic valve implantation surgery. The device includes a first extension member having a proximal end and a distal end, a connection member adapted to connect the first extension member to a support, and a coupling having a first end connected to the connection member and a second end connected to the proximal end of the first extension member so that the first extension member is moveable in multiple planes relative to the support. At least one reference datum is operatively connected to the distal end of the first extension member and extends in a straight line, the reference datum being moveable between a first position and a second position to enable precise locating of the reference datum during the aortic valve implantation surgery.
US09592096B2	Robotic-assisted device for positioning a surgical instrument relative to the body of a patient The robotic device for positioning a surgical instrument relative to the body of a patient includes a first robotic arm with a device for rigidly connecting to at least one surgical instrument, a device for anatomical realignment of the first arm by realigning an image that is of an area of the anatomy of the patient, and a device for compensating the movements of the first arm on the basis of detected movements. One version of the device includes at least one second robotic arm having sensors for detecting inner movements of the anatomical area, and a device for controlling the positioning of the first arm relative to sensed inner movements and to the outer movements induced in the second arm.
US09592091B2	Ablation catheter for vein anatomies A catheter adapted for simultaneous tissue contact with two opposing ring electrodes carried on a generally linear portion of an electrode assembly is adapted to straddle an ostium for ablating two lesions along a chord of the ostium, wherein the generally linear portion is stabilized on the ostium to ensure proper tissue contact when a force is applied down the length of the catheter body.
US09592090B2	Bipolar electrosurgical cutter with position insensitive return electrode contact A bipolar electrosurgical device includes a handle and an elongated end effector coupled to the handle. The end effector includes an elongated, insulating body having first and second electrodes disposed thereon. The first and second electrodes are separated at the distal end of the insulating body, and a cavity formed in the distal end of the effector is positioned between the first and second electrodes. A fluid-delivery tube is positioned on the body to deliver a conductive fluid to the distal end, adjacent the cavity. During use of the electrosurgical device, delivery of the conductive fluid facilitates formation of an electrical coupling between the electrodes via the tissue being treated.
US09592085B2	Medical ablation system and method of use A probe for ablating tissue comprises an electrosurgical working end configured to provide a first plasma about a first surface location and a second plasma about a second surface location, the first plasma having first ablation parameters and the second plasma having second ablation parameters. The probe has a working end with a thickness below 3 mm and produces a low temperature plasma.
US09592083B2	Spine stabilization device Technologies are generally provided for devices, systems, and methods to provide spinal fixation, spinal stabilization, and/or spinal fusion. Example devices may include a first end and a second end with a middle portion extending between the first and second end. The first end may be configured to be in contact with a portion of a first or upper vertebra and the second end may be configured to be in contact with a portion of a second or lower vertebra in an adjacent vertebral pair. Portions of the vertebra which may be in contact with the device may include lamina, processes, vertebral bodies, and facet joints. The example devices may include bone engagement features, such as screws or similar fasteners, to enhance stabilization and fixation when in contact with the vertebrae. Additionally, the devices may include a bone integration feature to promote bone growth and to facilitate fusion between the vertebrae.
US09592080B2	Orthopaedic device for correcting deformities of long bones Orthopedic device (10, 110, 210, 310) for correcting deformities of a long bone (11), comprising a bar (12), extended along an axis (Y-Y) and intended to be placed alongside the bone (11), at least a first clamp (14, 214, 314) for a first group of osseous screws (16) and a second clamp (18, 19, 118) for a second group of osseous screws (20, 22), removably mounted on said bar (12), wherein the first of said clamps (14, 214, 314) is placed onboard a support base (21, 221, 321) in turn mounted on said bar (12), and angularly movable in relation to the support base around a given rotation axis (X-X, X′-X′, Z-Z) by means of a rotary coupling, characterized in that said rotary coupling comprises a male element (35; 235, 236, 237, 238, 239; 333, 334) associated with the first clamp (14, 214, 314) and having a surface at least partially cylindrical, and a corresponding female element (36; 130; 250, 254, 255; 336, 337) associated with the support base (21, 221, 321) and having a surface at least partially cylindrical constituting a seat for the loose coupling of the male element (35; 235, 236, 237, 238, 239; 333, 334).
US09592076B2	Power operated dermatome with rotary knife blade A head assembly (200) for a power operated dermatome (100) including a frame body or housing (202) supporting a gear train (520), a blade housing assembly (400), an annular rotary knife blade (300) supported for rotation about an axis of rotation (R) by the blade housing assembly (400). The rotary knife blade (300) includes an inner wall (365) defining an interior region (301) and has a cutting edge (360) at one end (368) defining a cutting plane (CP). The head assembly (200) further includes a depth gauge assembly (600) including a depth gauge support (602) and a depth gauge (620) including a depth gauge plate (622) supported by the depth gauge support (602) for axial movement along the axis of rotation (R), the depth gauge plate (622) extending into the interior region (301) and the depth gauge support (602) attached to and extending from the frame body (202).
US09592075B2	Atherectomy catheters devices having multi-channel bushings Atherectomy catheters and methods of using them are described herein. In particular, described herein are optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheters that may include a distal tip that can be deflected away from the long axis of the device using a multi-channel bushing. The bushing may include at a hinge point that is offset (e.g., located on a side of the elongate body near the distal end of the elongate body) and a rotatable cutter near an imaging assembly that can be driven against the wall with a high mechanical advantage.
US09592068B2	Free end vascular treatment systems Vascular treatment and methods include a plurality of self-expanding bulbs and a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Joints between woven structures and hypotubes include solder. Woven structures include patterns of radiopaque filaments measureable under x-ray. Structures are heat treated to include at least shapes at different temperatures. A catheter includes a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Heat treating systems include a detachable flange. Laser cutting systems include a fluid flow system.
US09592065B2	Shoulder replacement apparatus A surgical device for guiding a key wire during a shoulder arthroplasty procedure, including a guide for guiding a key wire during the process of drilling into a scapula, and a clamp configured to engage with the scapula neck such that a key wire located in the guide is located in a predetermined geometrical relationship with the scapula neck.
US09592059B2	Battle application tourniquet for limb The present invention relates generally to an emergency tourniquet for rapidly and easily reducing or stopping blood flow to an injured limb. The tourniquet utilizes a closed loop system that is formed by passing a portion of a twistable strap, which comprises the loop, through a side opening in a buckle and cinching the strap tightly above an injury and thereafter twisting the strap. Otherwise, a loop may be formed and the injured limb passed through the loop prior to tightening it about the injured limb. The buckle includes an elongated opening that accepts an end or edge of the twistable strap. A free end of the twistable strap passes into a J-hook opening and is secured therein. The strap is then twisted and a notch in the buckle is hooked on an edge of the twistable strap. Bulbous regions are provided on either end of the buckle. A base plate may also be included for further securing the buckle in place to maintain the tourniquet in place until it can be removed by a competent medical professional.
US09592055B2	Surgical stapling device A surgical stapling device is disclosed for the treatment of internal hemorrhoids. The surgical stapling device includes a handle portion, an elongated body portion and a head portion including an anvil assembly and a shell assembly. The head portion includes an anvil assembly including a tiltable anvil which will tilt automatically after the device has been fired and unapproximated. The tiltable anvil provides a reduced anvil profile to reduce trauma during removal of the device after the anastomoses procedure has been performed. The anvil assembly of the stapling device may include an approximation mechanism having an anvil retainer including an elongated distal extension dimensioned to be telescopingly received within a longitudinal bore of an anvil center rod of the anvil assembly. The elongated distal extension is of a length to provide telescopic engagement with the anvil center rod without obstructing visualization of the surgical site. A kit including a surgical instrument having a removable anvil assembly and an anvil assembly insertion handle is also disclosed. The kit may also include a speculum, an anal dialator and/or an obturator.
US09592053B2	Staple cartridge comprising multiple regions A staple cartridge includes a plurality of staples, wherein each said staple comprises a base and a deformable leg extending from said base. The staple cartridge further includes a first region comprising a first density, a second region, and a third region comprising a density greater than said first density, wherein said third region is separable into a plurality of pieces.
US09592046B2	Modular tissue securement systems A system and method are disclosed for the securement of tissue and in particular for placement of a tongue base suspension fiber for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The system incorporates disposable connectors with releasable needles to facilitate the placement of fibers with minimal increase in suture site dilation or trauma.
US09592044B2	T-fastener suture delivery system A delivery device for inserting a plurality of T-fastener-equipped sutures into a body of a patient in a spaced-apart configuration for the purpose of securing the stomach wall against the abdominal wall, also known as gastropexy, is disclosed. The suture delivery device is configured to deliver multiple sutures using a single needle and without need for reloading, saving time and effort for the clinician and simplifying the suture placement process. In one embodiment, a T-fastener-equipped suture delivery device comprises a housing, a hollow needle extending from the housing, and a plurality of T-fastener-equipped sutures at least partially disposed within one of the needle and the housing. An ejection assembly for successively ejecting the T-fasteners from a distal end of the needle without reloading the delivery device is also included in the housing.
US09592042B2	Surgical device and methods The present invention relates to a device for creating a working space within a human or animal body. The device comprises an outer wall which is configurable to adopt a non-expanded condition and an expanded condition. When the outer wall is in said expanded condition it defines a hollow body having an inner cavity in communication with an orifice for location adjacent a working site within the body such that, in use, said working site can be visualized and/or accessed via said inner cavity and said orifice.
US09592040B2	Apparatus and method for tissue adhesion An array of a plurality of shape memory material microposts have a proximal end configured to be secured to a substrate with a tissue penetrating distal end. The microposts further have a deployment state with the microposts in a substantially straightened configuration with a substantially smooth and continuous outer surface which is substantially parallel to adjacent microposts and an engaged state wherein at least a section of the microposts assume a configuration that is not substantially parallel to adjacent microposts or is not substantially straight with a substantially smooth and continuous outer surface so as to mechanically capture tissue adjacent thereto.
US09592038B2	Vascular suturing device A surgical device of suturing vascular vessels is described, as well as methods for suturing tissue employing the surgical device. In one form the device includes a distal member that contains a suture and needle engaging fitting. A needle is advanced through tissue adjacent the puncture wound and into the needle engaging fitting to draw lengths of suture material which can then be used to close the puncture wound. In another form the device includes a needle advanceable through tissue and into a needle capture element within a distal end of the surgical device to draw lengths of suture material which can then be used to close various puncture wounds. In still another form the device includes at least one needle advanceable to draw lengths of suture material to close various puncture wounds. A foot is pivotal between a non-deployed and a deployed position.
US09592037B2	Systems for venous occlusion for the treatment of venous insufficiency Methods, devices and systems are described for treating venous insufficiency in which the vein is compressed at least partially along a treatment zone. A system can be provided including an injection device, such as a glue gun, that is operably connected to a delivery catheter that can be advanced across a treatment zone in the vein. The delivery catheter can be used to deliver one, two, or more boluses of media (e.g., cyanoacrylate) to occlude the vein along different spaced-apart sections of the treatment zone. External compression can also be applied to the vein by a compression element, such as a hand or multifunctional ultrasound transducer, to occlude portions of the vein along the treatment zone prior to or during the introduction of the boluses of media.
US09592036B2	Multi-functional tissue manipulation medical device and related methods of use A multi-functional medical device including a sheath having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The medical device further includes an end-effector slidably disposed within the lumen. A portion of the end-effector may be configured to transition between a collapsed state while in the lumen and an expanded state while out of the lumen. Further, the end-effector may include a tool configured to dissect tissue, and a retracting member having a plurality of legs disposed about the tool.
US09592034B2	Urine specimen capture and analysis device The present invention relates to a urine specimen capture device comprising a capture bowl for collecting a urine specimen, a mounting frame for supporting the capture bowl within a toilet bowl, and an analytic device connected to the capture bowl to analyze a property of the urine specimen in the capture bowl.
US09592025B2	Method, apparatus and X-ray recording system for visualization of an X-ray region A visualization of an X-ray region during the production of an X-ray recording of an object is produced. In order to reduce radiation exposure for a physician and/or the patient during X-ray recordings, a proposal is made to record a video image of a region, which is captured by a beam from the X-ray source, of the object, to display the video image and to represent at least a portion of the beam in the displayed video image.
US09592024B2	Medical imaging apparatus and bed for medical imaging apparatus Provided is a medical imaging apparatus that, while preventing damage of connector pins, can simultaneously connect electric connectors when a bed is mechanically docked with an apparatus main body. One coupling mechanism either on an apparatus main body side or on a bed side includes a coupling plate, and the other coupling mechanism includes a holding member that holds a coupling plate that, during coupling, respectively contacts both side surfaces of the coupling plate at two or more points, and sandwiches and holds the coupling plate from both sides. A first electric connector is mounted on the coupling plate, a second electric connector is mounted on the holding member, and an electric connector coupling mechanism that couples the first and second electric connectors is mounted on at least one of the coupling plate and the holding member in a state where the coupling plate is held by the holding member.
US09592021B2	X-ray CT device, and method The background projection data of a background region CT image in the X-ray emission path is calculated. Using measurement projection data and background projection data, the measurement projection data of local regions is calculated. Local region CT images are calculated on the basis of local measurement projection data, and the projection data of a local region CT image in the X-ray emission path is calculated. On the basis of local calculation projection data and local measurement projection data, local CT images are iteratively corrected. When creating background region CT images or calculating background projection data, the cause of calculation accuracy deterioration is eliminated by the use of processing such as smoothing, and without deterioration of CT value accuracy in regions other than the target region, a high-quality CT image is obtained.
US09592018B2	Devices and methods for minimally invasive reduction of parathyroid adenomas Apparatus and methods for performing glandular reduction are described. In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a needle-like probe containing a scintillation detector for converting gamma and x-rays emitted from a radio-labeled gland into photons that are then carried from the probe through a fiberoptic cable to a photodetector, and a therapy element for causing selective tissue destruction by directing energy toward the radio-labeled gland.
US09592017B2	Radiographic imaging device and computer readable medium The radiographic imaging device including: a radiation detector comprising plural radiographic image acquisition pixels, which are arranged in a matrix in an imaging region, for capturing a radiographic image and that acquire image information representing the radiographic image by converting applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges, and a plural radiation detection pixels that detect the applied radiation by converting the applied radiation into electric charges and storing the electric charges, a subset of the plural radiation detection pixels having different characteristics; and a detecting unit that uses the radiation detection pixels selectively according to the different characteristics to detect a state of application of the radiation.
US09592009B2	Interface unit and a measurement system The present invention relates to an extracorporeale interface unit (8), for an intravascular measurement system for measuring at least one physiological, or other, variable in a living body, adapted to generate a sensor signal in response of the variable. The interface unit (8) comprises a sensor interface circuitry (6) adapted to interface a sensor wire configured to be inserted into the living body and provided with one or many sensor element(s) at its distal region. The sensor interface circuitry (6) comprises a measurement unit (9) adapted to generate the measured data of the variable as a sensor signal. The interface unit (8) further comprises a control unit (1) adapted to control and supervise the different functions of the interface unit (8), wherein the different functions are performed by predefined tasks (T1, T2 . . . TN) during consecutive control periods CP having the same time duration.
US09592008B2	Devices and systems for lung treatment Devices, systems, and methods for measuring the diameter of an airway in a human or animal subject are disclosed. The device comprises a flexible catheter body having a proximal end and a distal end. Flexible sizing elements are disposed along and extend approximately orthogonally from the catheter body. The sizing elements have different heights from one another and are configured to fit through the working channel of a bronchoscope. Devices, systems, and methods for redirecting airflow through a lung airway are also disclosed. The method comprises introducing into the airway a catheter comprising a distal end, a proximal end and an elongated portion therebetween, wherein the distal end comprises an airway closing mechanism, and wherein the proximal end comprises an actuator to actuate the airway closing mechanism; and actuating the airway closing mechanism to at least partially close the airway.
US09592003B2	Vagal nerve stimulation techniques for treatment of epileptic seizures The system, device, and method may use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to treat epilepsy with minimized or no effect on the heart. Treatment is carried out by an implantable signal generator, one or more implantable electrodes for electrically stimulating a predetermined stimulation site of the vagus nerve, and a sensor for sensing characteristics of the heart such as heart rate. The heart rate information from the sensor can be used to determine whether the vagus nerve stimulation is adversely affecting the heart. Once threshold parameters are met, the vagus nerve stimulation may be stopped or adjusted. In yet another embodiment, the system, device, and method may be simply a modified pacemaker having circuitry that determines whether a vagus nerve is being stimulated. In the event that the vagus nerve is being stimulated, the modified pacemaker may control the heart to maintain it within desired conditions during the vagus nerve stimulation.
US09592001B2	Implantable nanosensor An implantable nanosensor includes a stent to be implanted inside a fluid conduit. The stent has a well in a surface of the stent. The implantable nanosensor further includes a nanoscale-patterned sensing substrate disposed in the well. The nanoscale-patterned sensing substrate is to produce an optical scattering response signal indicative of a presence of an analyte in a fluid carried by the fluid conduit when interrogated by an optical stimulus signal.
US09591996B2	System and method for detecting transitions between sitting and standing states A system and method are described herein for detecting a user's transition between sitting and standing postures. Transitions between sitting and standing states are reliably detected using an accelerometer attached to the user. By modeling error introduced by the accelerometer, and correcting for this error, transitions between sitting and standing states are reliably detected. A microprocessor coupled to the accelerometer converts the captured accelerometer data to approximate vertical acceleration. Vertical velocity, which includes accelerometer error, is determined from the approximate vertical acceleration. The vertical velocity is corrected, and the corrected vertical velocity used to determine vertical displacement. Transitions between sitting and standing states are determined from the vertical displacement.
US09591994B2	Systems and methods to obtain a myocardial mass index indicative of an at-risk myocardial region Systems and methods to obtain a myocardial mass index indicative of an at-risk myocardial region. In at least one embodiment, a method for diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease is provided, the method comprising the steps of identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a side branch vessel, identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a main artery most proximal to the side branch vessel, determining a myocardial region at risk for infarct from side branch occlusion relative to a mass perfused by the most proximal artery, wherein such region is based on a relationship between the cross-sectional areas of the side branch and the most proximal main artery, and diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease based on a diameter of the side branch and the size of the myocardial region at risk for infarct perfused by the side branch.
US09591991B2	Position detection system A position detection system for detecting a position of a capsule medical device is provided. The capsule medical device has a coil constituting a part of a resonance circuit to generate an AC magnetic field. The position detection system includes: sensing coils that detect the AC magnetic field and output detection signals; and a calculation unit that calculates the position of the capsule medical device based on the detection signals. The calculation unit: determines a sensing coil having a maximum amplitude of the AC magnetic field as a reference coil among the sensing coils based on amplitude values of the AC magnetic field detected by the sensing coils, the amplitude values being calculated based on the detection signals; and determines a polarity of each sensing coil based on a first detection signal from the reference coil and a second detection signal from each sensing coil other than the reference coil.
US09591987B1	Determining body composition through segmental bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) An apparatus includes an analysis circuit and a controller. The analysis circuit may be configured to automatically make a plurality of segmental bioelectrical resistance and reactance measurements using permutations of a plurality of electrodes selected four at a time. The plurality of electrodes are configured to be attached to predetermined locations on a body of a subject. The controller may be configured to (i) calculate a plurality of segmental body composition values using the plurality of segmental bioelectrical resistance and reactance measurements, a number of predetermined coefficients, and a number of predictive equations, and (ii) generate a report presenting the plurality of segmental body composition values and a total body composition value. The number of predetermined coefficients are stored in a lookup table. Each of the segmental body composition values when added sum to a value essentially equal to respective whole body composition values.
US09591984B2	Alternans and pharmacological agents First cardiac signal data generated from measured heart beats of a subject is received. Characteristics of alternans occurring in the received first cardiac signal data are determined. Second cardiac signal data generated from measured heart beats of the subject after a change relating to an administration of a pharmacological agent is received. Characteristics of alternans occurring in the received second cardiac signal data are determined. The characteristics of alternans occurring in the received first cardiac signal data are compared with the characteristics of alternans occurring in the received second cardiac signal data.
US09591983B2	Wearable fetal monitoring system having textile electrodes A seamless, smart fetal monitoring garment and methods of using thereof. The system includes a knitted or interwoven garment having a multiplicity of conductive textile electrodes for sensing maternal and fetal electrical vital signals. The maternal and fetal electrical vital signals are selected from a group including maternal heart rate, fetal heart rate and electromyogram (EMG) activities including uterine activities. The method includes wearing the garment, acquiring electrical mixed common, maternal and fetal vital signals from surface region of a pregnant woman, using the plurality of textile electrodes, optimally weighted summing-up the acquired signals, analyzing the summed-up signals to thereby extract the maternal signal and the fetal signal, including determining their heart rates, and including detecting health hazards and in some embodiments, including detecting a uterine contraction sequence suggesting the need to be hospitalized for birth giving.
US09591979B2	Polymer nano-composites as dry sensor material for biosignal sensing The multifunctional polymer nano-composite sensor system for detecting various biosignals, such as EKG, includes (1) a polymer nano-composite sensor material that is flexible, elastic, soft, and conductive, (2) a sensor material fabricated into a desired shape or form, and (3) a signal capturing interface for collecting, transmitting and processing the signals. The present invention more specifically reveals a multi-functional nano-composite sensor for detecting biologically generated electrical signals which is comprised of a polymeric composition having an electrically conductive wire embedded therein, wherein the polymeric composition has a dispersion phase and a dispersed phase, wherein the dispersion phase is comprised of a thermoplastic polymer or a thermoset polymer, wherein the dispersed phase includes an electrically conductive filler, wherein the polymeric composition is gel-free, and wherein the electrically conductive wire is adapted for conveying an electrical signal to a signal processing device.
US09591976B2	Method and apparatus for measuring blood volume Method for measuring a blood volume is provided. At least two types of respiratory variation data; for instance, data pertinent to respiratory variations in stroke volume (SVV) data, data pertinent to respiratory variations in an amplitude of a pulse wave (PAV), a pulse wave transit time (PWTT) in a respiratory cycle, and a heart rate (HR) in a predetermined time, are measured, and patient's inherent coefficients α, β, and K are calculated, whereby a cardiac output can be determined by an equation CO=K (αPWTT+β)HR.
US09591973B1	Monitoring device with a pedometer A monitoring device with a pedometer is disclosed herein. The monitoring device preferably comprises an article, an optical sensor, an accelerometer and processor. The optical sensor preferably comprises a photodetector and a plurality of light emitting diodes. A sensor signal from the optical sensor is processed with a filtered accelerometer output signal from the accelerometer to generate a pedometer function.
US09591972B1	System and method for evaluating a state of health of a coronary artery Method and apparatuses are described to evaluate a state of health of a coronary artery. Vibrational cardiac data from a transducer is received from a first location. The transducer measures vibration of a surface of a human's body non-invasively. The vibrational cardiac data is processed in a second location to create processed vibrational cardiac data. The processing includes separating an unwanted coronary event from the vibrational cardiac data. The processing further includes performing a time-to-frequency transformation on the vibrational cardiac data from a portion of a diastolic interval within a heart cycle to obtain a vibrational frequency power spectrum estimate. The processing includes evaluating a state of health of the coronary artery using the processed vibrational cardiac data.
US09591970B2	Method, apparatus, and system for generating diagnostic image using photoacoustic material Disclosed is a method of generating a diagnostic image by using a photoacoustic material. The method includes determining a wavelength band of light maximally absorbed by a photoacoustic material, based on at least one or more photoacoustic materials injected into an object, irradiating light, which corresponds to the determined wavelength band, onto an internal region of interest (ROI) of the object to acquire a photoacoustic signal corresponding to the irradiated light, generating a photoacoustic image indicating the ROI by using the photoacoustic signal, and combining and displaying the generated photoacoustic image and an image expressing that the light is being irradiated onto the ROI.
US09591968B2	Hand-held medical-data capture-device having a digital infrared sensor and interoperation with electronic medical record systems In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
US09591964B2	Steerable, follow the leader device A system that includes a highly articulated robotic probe having a first mechanism comprising a plurality of first links, and a second mechanism comprising a plurality of second links. The second mechanism is configured to surround at least a portion of the first mechanism. The system includes a feeder mechanism configured to advance and retract the highly articulated robotic probe, and a computing device in communication with the feeder mechanism. The computing device is configured to receive two-axis data from an input device, translate the two-axis position data into three-axis coordinate system data, and adjust a position of one or more second mechanism motors based on the three-axis coordinate system data.
US09591962B2	Endoscope with variable direction of view module A flexible variable direction of view endoscope with a pivotable view vector and a rotatable distal section.
US09591960B2	Surface-cleaning apparatus A surface cleaning apparatus including a cleaning head having a body to sit adjacent a first surface to be cleaned; and a head formation releasably connectable to a connection portion of the body; wherein in a first configuration the head formation is connected to the body such that the head formation sits adjacent the first surface or a second surface to be cleaned, and the cleaning head defines a first footprint, and in a second configuration the head formation is detached from the body and the cleaning head defines a second footprint.
US09591958B2	Surface cleaning apparatus A hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus, such as a cyclonic hand vacuum cleaner, is provided wherein the cyclone chamber has two dirt outlets.
US09591949B2	Lid for a food processor The present application relates to a lid (3) for a food processor (1). The lid is releasably attachable to a container (3) to enclose a food processing tool unit (4) which is operated by a drive unit (5). The lid (3) has a drive unit mount (28) to releasably mount a drive unit (5) to the lid (3), an attachment element to releasably attach the lid (3) to a container (2), and a locking element operable to engage a container (2) attached to the lid (3) when a drive unit (5) is mounted to the lid (3). Therefore, detachment of the lid (3) from a container (2) is prevented by the locking element when a drive unit (5) is mounted to the lid (3). The present application also relates to a food processor (1).
US09591948B2	Method for storing used cooking oil Method of collecting used cooking oil includes extracting used cooking oil from at least one deep fryer to a container, storing and separating said used cooking oil within the container which is located within the cooking area. The oil from the deep fat fryer is periodically pumped to the container and allowed to settle. The unwanted sludge is then tapped off into a portable container and the wanted oil is pumped to an exterior transportation container. The container is triangular shaped with rear walls converging into a corner of the cooking area and a diagonal front face with side flanges and a bottom flap such that it is located in the corner of an interior wall of a building and contains the pipes and plumbing.
US09591944B2	Coffee filter holder and coffee maker A coffee filter holder includes a funnel wall, a substantially flat bottom wall having an outer edge and a coffee brew outlet, a drip-stop valve assembly that can be brought in an opened and a closed condition. The drip-stop valve assembly includes a valve member mounted on a blade spring connected to the bottom wall, and an actuator lever slideably connected to the bottom wall. The actuator lever includes an integral piece of sheet material with a first end that extends beyond the outer edge of the bottom wall so as to be engageable by hand and having a second end positioned under the substantially flat bottom wall to engage the valve member carrier to bring valve member from the opened position to the closed position and vice versa.
US09591940B2	Solar shade apparatus and method An apparatus for shading a window, wherein the window has a right top corner and a top left corner, comprising a rod element, which has a proximate end and a distal end and is disposed along a lateral axis substantially parallel to a lateral window axis. The apparatus further has a spring element, having a first end mechanically coupled to the rod element at the proximate end of the rod element, wherein the spring element is adapted to provide a spring constant force between the rod element and the top left corner of the window.
US09591939B2	Palm branch holder A tabletop stand for holding a palm branch in an upright orientation. The stand has a horizontal sleeve which is a receptacle for a bottom aspect of a palm branch. The sleeve is provided with a slot so that the stand may be used in combination with an elongated plastic bag which has a rod extending for a segment of the bag's length. A bottom segment of the rod and surrounding bag is inserted into the sleeve and a lateral part of the bag passes through the slot.
US09591937B2	Insulating container A package or container includes a side wall, the side wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. At least one of the inner surface or the outer surface of the side wall may be at least partially coated by a layer of a insulating material. The material may be adapted to be expanded to provide thermal insulation.
US09591932B2	Bracket and wall standard assembly A bracket and standard assembly comprises a standard having a plurality of spaced apart holes. A bracket comprises a support body having an elongated portion extending along a longitudinal axis. A connector end comprises at least one hook projecting rearwardly from the support body and passing through a hole in the standard to releasably hook the bracket to the standard, the at least one hook comprising a downwardly projecting tooth, the at least one hook defining with the support body a receptacle, a portion of the receptacle being delimited by a forwardly oriented contact edge of the tooth, the receptacle receiving one of wall portions of the standard. A finger projects generally upwardly from the at least one hook and having a forwardly oriented contact edge, the forwardly oriented contact edge of the finger being rearward of the forwardly oriented contact edge of the corresponding tooth along the longitudinal axis.
US09591928B2	Motorized convertible sofa of the perpendicular-sleeping type A convertible sofa of the perpendicular-sleeping type, comprising a fixed structure supporting a foldable structure which comprises three articulated panels and a system of actuation of folding/unfolding of the foldable structure between a sofa configuration and a sleeping configuration and vice versa, which comprises at least one motorized actuator comprising a body within which a rod is movable in translation, where the body is mounted on one of either the fixed or foldable structure and the end of the rod is articulated on the other of the fixed or foldable structure, the movement of the rod causing the foldable structure to fold/unfold.
US09591926B2	Prostatic relief cushion and method A cushion and method provide relief of pain or discomfort in the pelvic/genital/rectal region of a person. The person is supported on a resilient cushion construct which conforms to the person's posterior profile contour configuration, while locating a gap beneath the pelvic/genital/rectal region of the person. An airway is extended to the gap, through a basal construct located beneath the cushion construct and an air mover moves ambient air through the airway and into the gap to provide cooling to the pelvic/genital/rectal region of the person supported on the cushion construct.
US09591925B2	Seating cushion for treating pelvic pressure, pain and discomfort A seating cushion for treating and alleviating pain and discomfort related to pelvic pressure and pelvic organ prolapse. The seating cushion applies pressure to the pelvic crotch area of a user. The seating cushion comprises a base cushion portion for providing padding and an elevated and elongated central portion for applying pressure to the pelvic crotch area of a user while the user is seated thereon.
US09591918B2	Locking member for a table leg A table may be sized and configured to nest with an adjacent table to reduce a height of a plurality of stacked tables in a nested configuration. The table may include a table top with a round or circular configuration and the table top may have a receiving portion, a downwardly extending lip, a contact surface and an engaging portion. The contact surface may have a ring-shaped configuration and be sized and configured to contact an upper surface of a table top of an adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table. The engaging portion may also have a ring-shaped configuration and may be sized and configured to be disposed in a receiving portion of a table top of the adjacent table when the table is nested with the adjacent table.
US09591916B2	Assembly technology for any shape disk brush A cosmetic applicator brush including a plurality of discs assembled relative to one another with each disc having a body with a plurality of bristles and/or combs extending radially therefrom. The adjacent discs are maintained at an angular relationship with respect to one another independent of a disc specific keying element.
US09591914B2	Safety tether A constriction resistant tether for a child's article includes an elastomeric body, preferably constructed of any FDA approved food grade or higher grade semi-rigid elastomer. A portion of the tether body has a zig-zag, or modified serpentine shape that resembles a non-coiled tension spring. At one end of the body is an anchoring member for securement to a point of attachment such as a child seat, high chair or wheelchair. The anchoring member may possess a small annulus with a tail having spaced knobs along its length extending therefrom, or the anchoring member may be a plug or bulbous member that snaps into or interlocks with a custom sized and shaped aperture defining an attachment point.
US09591906B2	Hair straightening brush A brush is provided herein, the brush having heating elements dispersed on and protruding from its face and spacers arranged to maintain a specified distance between protruding ends of the heating elements and a scalp of a head that is being brushed. The spacers are dispersed on the brush's face at a specified density that assures maintaining the specified distance with respect to a resilience of the spacers.
US09591904B2	Protecting cover A protecting cover is provided. The protecting cover includes a first cover portion which is bendable and to which a first electronic device may be detachably coupled, a second cover portion which is bendably connected with the first cover portion and to which a second electronic device may be detachably coupled, and a third cover portion which is bendably connected with the first cover portion, in which the first cover portion, the second cover portion, and the third cover portion may be used as a cradle by being bent.
US09591903B1	Electric umbrella having roller sets An electric umbrella having roller sets contains: a first stick section, a second stick section, a third stick section, and a transmission mechanism. The second stick section is fitted in the third stick section, and the third stick section is fitted in the first stick section, a lower portion of the second stick section is in connection with a handle. The first stick section includes an upper runner disposed on a top including a first roller set disposed therein, and two ends of the driving rope are fixed on two sides of the lower runner, the driving rope rolls across the first roller set and slides between a top of the third stick section and the first roller set, and the transmission mechanism in the second stick section and drives the third stick section through a driving source in the handle drives the umbrella skeleton to expand or retract.
US09591901B2	Sand based jewelry A sand based jewelry and methods of making sand based jewelry is provided. The jewelry having a quantity of sand mixed with a quantity of binding medium. The binding medium and sand mixture are capable of being solidified and mounted to a jewelry setting. The jewelry setting attached to a jewelry item.
US09591897B2	Slide fastener with angled elements Slide fasteners configured such that opposing elements engage with one another in a non-planar relationship. The elements may engage one another, for example but not limited to, at an angle between approximately 60 degrees and approximately 179 degrees. In some embodiments, each element includes a head and at least one shoulder with angle keeping surfaces and engagement surfaces that abut corresponding surfaces when engaging with a corresponding element to interlock the heads and shoulders of opposing elements. Slide fasteners of the invention may be well suited for use with curved surfaces, corners, ridge lines, edges, or the like of an article.
US09591892B2	Induction heating apparatuses and processes for footwear manufacturing A method of making an article of footwear may include providing a last shaped to resemble a human foot. The method may also include forming at least one footwear component at least in part from a susceptor material that is thermally reactive to an electromagnetic field. The method may further include covering at least a portion of the last with two or more footwear components, wherein the two or more footwear components includes the at least one footwear component formed at least in part from a susceptor material. In addition, the method may include applying an electromagnetic field to the susceptor material, causing induction heating of the susceptor material and joining the two or more footwear components by melding the two or more components with the induction heating.
US09591891B1	Article having sole assembly with cleats An article of footwear has a sole assembly that is further comprised of a chassis, a reinforcing member and a forefoot plate. The reinforcing member includes lateral and medial forefoot portions that fit with corresponding recesses in the forefoot plate and the reinforcing member in the forefoot region of the chassis. The reinforcing member includes a central portion that figs with a corresponding recess in the heel region of the chassis. The chassis and the forefoot plate include ridges on their outer surfaces. Cleats extending from ridges in the forefoot of the chassis are vertically aligned with protrusions on ridges in the forefoot plate. The protrusions can help diffuse forces applied by the cleats against the inner components of the sole and foot to reduce point loading.
US09591890B2	Securing device and method for preventing removal of a shoe A securing device for preventing removal of a shoe comprising a web selectively attachable to an outer surface of a shoe and configured to at least partially cover the shoe. The web includes a bottom portion having a center section securable to a front region of the shoe and a leg support section securable to a user's leg. The web further includes a top portion removably couplable to the bottom portion. The top portion includes a coupled position at least partially covering a lace of the shoe and an uncoupled position leaving the lace of the shoe exposed to an ambient environment.
US09591888B2	Footwear assemblies having diagonally opposing reinforced insole portions and associated methods A footwear assembly has a sole assembly with an insole board having a peripheral edge, a heel portion, a forefoot portion, and an arch portion. The insole board has a lateral side, a medial side, a top surface, and a bottom surface facing away from the top surface. The footwear assembly has an upper with a lower side portion having a lateral forefoot flange, a lateral arch flange, a lateral heel flange, a medial forefoot flange, a medial arch flange, and a medial heel flange. The lateral forefoot flange is stitched to the top surface of the insole board along the forefoot portion, and the lateral arch flange and the lateral heel flange wrap around the peripheral edge along the insole board's lateral side and are attached to the bottom surface at the arch portion and heel portion without being stitched to the insole board's top surface. The medial heel flange is stitched to the top surface of the insole board along the heel portion portion, and the medial arch flange and the medial forefoot flange are wrapped around peripheral edge along the insole board's lateral side and are attached to the bottom surface at the arch portion and forefoot portion without being stitched to the insole board's top surface.
US09591884B2	Ergonomic facemask for an athletic headpiece An ergonomic facemask for a headpiece, including a wire cage having a plurality of horizontal wires and a plurality of vertical wires. The plurality of horizontal wires includes a horizontal wire configured to extend forward of a user's face at a height between the user's nose and the user's upper lip, and the plurality of vertical wires includes a center vertical wire that extends along the sagittal line of a user's face. The mutual arrangement of the center vertical wire together with the horizontal wire adequately shields a user's face while avoiding interference with the user's field of view.
US09591882B2	Absorbent sleeve An absorbent sleeve configured to rest above a shoulder of a user and enable a user to envelop a user's head, thereby enabling the user to absorb fluids disposed thereon by manual manipulation thereof, without the sleeve being in substantial contact with other parts of a user's body. The sleeve includes a cylindrical member having a looped layer of absorbent material. The cylindrical member includes a first aperture and a second aperture. The absorbent sleeve includes a first cinch loop coupled about the first aperture of the cylindrical member. The absorbent sleeve includes a second cinch loop coupled about the second aperture of the cylindrical member. The cylindrical member includes a waterproof layer disposed on an exterior surface thereof.
US09591877B2	Functional brassiere A functional garment includes a single breast supporting device that includes a breast cup, a connector, and a support strap. The breast cup supports a single breast of a user. The breast cup connector comprises an elastomeric material extending along a lateral side of the breast cup. The support strap connects to the connector and connects to the breast cup. The functional garment simultaneously provides orthopedic support to the user and visual enhancement of the breasts. Other implementations are disclosed.
US09591876B2	Electric vaporizer heating assembly with dual anodized heating compartments An electric vaporizer heating chamber that provides a user with two options for heating various smoke forming substances has a first heating compartment and a second heating compartment. The first heating compartment and second heating compartment are enclosed by a chamber casing and are positioned in between a lower heat insulator and an upper heat insulator. The first heating compartment is supported by a heater seat which also insulates the chamber casing. A heating coil is positioned within the first heating compartment and allows substances placed in the first heating compartment to be combusted. The second heating compartment can be placed within the first heating compartment overtop of the heating coil in order to vaporize substances placed in the second heating compartment. A battery connector is also housed within the chamber casing and provides electrical connections for supplying current to the heating coil in order to heat the heating coil.
US09591874B2	Mold for forming at least one food product A mold for forming at least one food product with a measurement unit, wherein the mold has a filling side and a back side opposite to said filling side. Further, the measurement unit comprises: measuring means configured to measure at least one parameter while the mold is used in a production line or testing facility and a data transfer interface configured to transfer data to an external processing unit.
US09591871B2	Machine for products such as ice creams, granita or frozen beverages A machine for producing and dispensing products such as ice cream, frozen beverages or granita has a transparent product container which is provided with a tap for dispensing the product and which contains an evaporator of a refrigerating circuit or cooling the product in the container and a mixer element for stirring the product. The machine is configured for diffusing a thin stream of moving air over the outer walls of the container. The machine may have a fan which emits an air flow inside a diffuser element which is arranged above the container and which defines a mouth around the top of the container and blows downwards the thin stream of air onto the outer walls of the container. The diffuser element may be advantageously formed in the lid the container.
US09591870B2	Food composition comprising a cellulose ether Cellulose ethers are described herein which are useful in food compositions. In these cellulose ethers the ether substituents are methyl groups, hydroxyalkyl groups, and optionally alkyl groups being different from methyl, the cellulose ether has a DS(methyl) of from 1.65 to 2.20, an MS(hydroxyalkyl) of from 0.10 to 1.00, and hydroxy groups of anhydroglucose units are substituted with methyl groups such that [s23/s26−0.2*MS(hydroxyalkyl)] is 0.35 or less, wherein s23 is the molar fraction of anhydroglucose units wherein only the two hydroxy groups in the 2- and 3-positions of the anhydroglucose unit are substituted with methyl groups and wherein s26 is the molar fraction of anhydroglucose units wherein only the two hydroxy groups in the 2- and 6-positions of the anhydroglucose unit are substituted with methyl groups.
US09591868B2	Methods for improving the condition of hair in non-human animals The present invention involves methods for improving the quality of the hair of a non-human animal and for increasing the 18-methyleicosanoic acid content of the hair of a non-human animal comprising feeding to the animal an edible composition comprising an effective amount of an amino acid selected from the group comprising isoleucine, threonine, and mixtures thereof.
US09591865B2	Container for a device for preparing a frozen confection and device for preparing a frozen confection The present invention relates to a container (20) designed for being inserted into a device (1) for preparing a frozen confection (17), said container (20) comprising a sealed flexible casing (25) and said container (20) containing ingredients (15) for producing a frozen confection (17) when being cooled and mechanically forced. The present invention further relates to a device (1) for preparing a frozen confection (17) from a container (20) inserted into the device (1). The present invention further relates to a method for preparing a frozen confection.
US09591864B2	System and method for producing aerated food products under conditions requiring a decreased electrical and thermal load A system for creating an aerated food product, whereby a decreased electrical and thermal load may be obtained is disclosed. Furthermore, a method of producing an aerated food product comprising the steps of separately preparing a first food product portion and a second food product portion, transferring the first food product portion to a first aseptic surge tank, transferring the second food product portion to a second aseptic surge tank, mixing a combination of the first food product portion and the second food product portion to create a mixed food product, aerating the mixed food product to create the aerated food product, and dispensing the aerated food product from a filling apparatus into a container is also disclosed. An aerated food product is also disclosed.
US09591863B2	Foaming coffee composition The present invention provides a foaming instant coffee composition comprising particles having a bulk density of from 0.16 to 0.45 g/cm3, said particles comprising a continuous phase comprising an instant coffee matrix and a non-continuous phase comprising particles of a foamable component containing a gas.
US09591861B2	Oil or fat composition Provided is a fat or oil composition, comprising 50 mass % or more of diacylglycerols whose constituent fatty acids comprise 12 mass % or more of fatty acids having 20 or more carbon atoms and 5 mass % or less of a total content of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, and having an iodine value of a fat or oil of 120 or less.
US09591858B2	Nylanderia pubens virus At least one novel virus capable of infecting crazy ants (Nylanderia fulva) is isolated, along with polynucleotide sequences and amino acid sequences of the virus. The virus is capable of be used as a biopesticide to control populations of crazy ants.
US09591855B2	Diindol-3-ylmethanes as potent non-toxic antifouling compounds The present invention provides high potency 3,3′-diindolylmethane (DIM) and analogue compounds as antifouling agents. The present invention further provides methods of preventing or reducing settlement and/or fouling of marine fouling organisms on surfaces of submerged objects by coating the surfaces with the 3,3′-diindolylmethane (DIM) and analogue compounds provided.
US09591853B2	Jellyfish-derived polymer Embodiments of the invention relate to jellyfish polymer comprising jellyfish protein and at least one additive, wherein the jellyfish protein comprises mucin and collagen. Further embodiments relate to hydrogels, antibacterial polymers, composite polymers and methods of making the polymers.
US09591848B2	Biofilm resistant polymer materials The present invention relates to compounds and materials that reduce the accumulation of microorganisms on a surface by interfering with the attachment of the organisms to the surface. The compounds and materials of the present invention are thus useful in preventing the formation of biofilms. The compounds of the present invention may be either adhered to a surface or integrated within a polymer. Surfaces coated by the present invention are resistant to biofilm formation, in part due to the smoothness of the surface coated with the present invention.
US09591847B2	Control of ripening and senescence in pre-harvest and post-harvest plants and plant materials by manipulating alternative oxidase activity Methods of controlling the maturation of plants and/or plant products (e.g. fruit, vegetable, ornamentals, etc.) by manipulating Alternative Oxidize (AOX) activity. An increase in activity hastens the maturation process while a decrease in activity slows or stops maturation.
US09591844B2	Anatomically correct game call A game call for the producing of sounds that mimic animal sounds better than conventional game calls. The call may include various structures of that mimic or correspond to various features found in the mouth, nasal passageways, and/or trachea opening of an animal. The body of the call may be connected to a mouth piece to enable a user to provide a sound by blowing air through the call.
US09591843B2	Illumination system and method Some embodiments provide an illumination system with an outer housing including a base, a central housing pivotably coupled to the base including a fluid inlet, and an upper housing including a fluid outlet. The inner housing defines a chamber and is coupled to the base, and includes a fluid aperture adjacent to the base, and a fluid aperture adjacent to the upper housing and a viewing aperture. The chamber houses an evaporator system not visible through the outer housing, and an illumination device. Some embodiments include a repellent system with a base including a fluid inlet pivotably coupled to a main housing enclosing an inner region, and including an upper portion with at least one fluid outlet. In some embodiments, an evaporator system within the inner region is not visible through the main housing. Some embodiments include an evaporator assembly that includes a lockable evaporator support to render the system non-refillable.
US09591842B2	Passive volatile dispensing device A passive volatile dispensing device includes a housing having first and second curved walls and sidewalls between the curved walls. A volatile-bearing substrate is disposed within an internal cavity of the housing. The first and second curved walls each include at least one aperture and at least two opposing sidewalls include a vent therein.
US09591840B2	Umbrella-type fishing rig with removable lure arms An umbrella fishing rig can include a head piece, a cap, and at least one dual teaser arm piece. The head piece can include an arm retention portion. The at least one dual teaser arm piece can have two arms extending from the bent central portion. The cap can be removably coupled to the head piece. The arm retention portion can be configured to receive the bent central portion and the cap can retain the bent central portion in the arm retention portion.
US09591838B2	Clutch operating member of a dual-bearing reel A clutch operating member for a dual-bearing reel is disposed at a rear of a reel body of the dual-bearing reel and casts a fishing line in a forward direction. The clutch operating member includes a movable part and a first operating unit. The movable part is movably disposed on the reel body, and is configured to be selectively disposed between a clutch-off position which sets the clutch mechanism in the clutch-off state and a clutch-on position which sets the clutch mechanism in the clutch-on state. The first operating unit has a first end and a second end, is pivotably coupled to the movable part at the first and second ends, and is configured to return the movable part from the clutch-off position to the clutch-on position.
US09591832B2	Pet amusement device with scratching pad, interior ball, and perimeter ball track A pet amusement device formed in two halves, with a scratching pad removably attached to one half and an interior space accessible through openings in the second half. A ball with a bell may be contained in the interior space, allowing a pet to reach through the openings to play with the ball. A continuous track may surround the device, and a ball may be contained within the track, allowing the pet to bat the ball around the track.
US09591830B2	Bit and system for feeding a viscous and/or liquid substance into the mouth of an animal Single or multiple jointed bit (1) with at least two mouthpieces (10), characterized by the fact that at least one mouthpiece (10) comprises at least one channel (100) which extends longitudinally with or without slope through this mouthpiece from one end to the other end, to enable the sending of a viscous and/or liquid substance (72) directly into the middle of the mouth of an animal (2) without changing the feeling in the animal's mouth or on its tongue (2).
US09591826B1	Variety corn line IAX3317 The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated IAX3317, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line IAX3317 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line IAX3317, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line IAX3317, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09591825B1	Wheat variety W050216N2 A wheat variety designated W050216N2, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W050216N2, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W050216N2 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W050216N2 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W050216N2. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W050216N2 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US09591823B1	Inbred corn line XHB25 An inbred corn line, designated XHB25, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line XHB25, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line XHB25 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line XHB25 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line XHB25, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line XHB25 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US09591815B2	Plant cultivation device, box, end section unit A plant cultivation device includes a plurality of boxes, a connection unit, and an end section unit. Each box is provided in an inner space thereof with a cultivation chamber and a light source housing chamber. The plurality of boxes are arranged in a line. The connection unit mutually connects two adjacent boxes. The end section unit is mounted to an end section of a box which is arranged in an end of the line. The end section of the box is unconnected to the connection unit. Each box includes a ventilation opening for ventilating the cultivation chamber, and a ventilation port for air cooling the light source housing chamber. Each of the connection unit and the end section unit includes a first ventilation passage through which air flows into the ventilation opening, and a second ventilation passage through which air flows into the ventilation port.
US09591813B2	Multi-purpose plant watering device and system thereof A plant watering device includes a first body portion, a second body portion having a chamber therein and connected to the bottom of the first body portion, a third body portion set on the top outer wall of the first body portion, and a water supplying tube which is inserted into one side of the third body portion, extending downwards along one side of the first and second body portions to the bottom of the second body portion and upwards along the opposite side of the second and first body portions, and out of the third body portion at the opposite side. Water is provided by the water supplying tube through a hole into the bottom of the chamber and its pressure is regulated using a micropore material block or a water-absorbent rod in the chamber, and a soft water-permeable disc at the bottom of the first body portion.
US09591812B2	Mobile tree-trimming apparatus An apparatus, such as for tree trimming, includes a mobile carriage having a frame and a pedestal supported by the frame. The apparatus further includes a boom, such as a telescoping boom that is secured to the pedestal through a boom support. The pedestal is pivotable with respect to the carriage frame so that the boom may be selectively operated in a variety of orientations. The mobile carriage of the apparatus is sufficiently compact to fit though tight openings, while also being capable of stably supporting boom extension for operation of a distal end of the boom at elevated heights.
US09591811B2	Mobile tree-trimming apparatus An apparatus, such as for tree trimming, includes a mobile carriage having a frame and a pedestal supported by the frame. The apparatus further includes a boom, such as a telescoping boom that is secured to the pedestal through a boom support. The pedestal is pivotable with respect to the carriage frame so that the boom may be selectively operated in a variety of orientations. The mobile carriage of the apparatus is sufficiently compact to fit though tight openings, while also being capable of stably supporting boom extension for operation of a distal end of the boom at elevated heights.
US09591810B2	Harvester head assembly An improved harvester head assembly is provided. The harvester head includes a housing which is rotatable between a horizontal orientation and a vertical orientation. The harvester head further includes feeding system with a central feed roller and a pair of outer feed rollers that are moveable relative to the housing. The harvester head also includes top and bottom saws. A pair of delimbing knives are pivotable relative to the housing. A manifold and valve assembly is disposed in the housing and includes a plurality of solenoid valves which are configured to channel hydraulic fluid to motors and actuators to power and/or move a plurality of the components. The manifold and valve assembly includes a manifold with a rectangular shape and which is oriented with its long dimension extending in a longitudinal direction. The solenoid valves are spaced from one another in the longitudinal direction.
US09591808B2	Gardening shears capable of switching cutting modes A gardening shears includes a first blade, a driving arm pivoted to the first blade, a second blade pivoted to the first blade, and a link arm pivotally connected between the driving arm and the second blade. The bottom portion of the second blade has a sliding groove and positioning recesses. A switching device installed inside the driving arm is locatable at a first usage position where an end of the link arm is stationarily engaged with a positioning recess next to the top end of the sliding groove for enabling a direct cutting mode for cutting a small-sized branch, and a second usage position where the end of the link arm is slidable in the sliding groove and selectively engageable with one of the positioning recesses for enabling a stepwise cutting mode for stepwise cutting off a large-sized branch by changing the force-applying fulcrum.
US09591806B2	Agricultural header with multiple finger infeed assembly An agricultural harvester includes a header with an infeed assembly including a driving element configured to rotate; a hollow tube rotationally coupled to the driving element and having a plurality of openings formed therein; and at least one finger unit rotatably held within the hollow tube. Each finger unit includes: a finger hub having at least one pivoting aperture formed therein and at least one driving aperture formed therein; a pivoting finger pivotally held within the at least one pivoting aperture and configured to at least partially extend out of one of the openings of the hollow tube during rotation; and a driving finger fixedly held within the at least one driving aperture and configured to at least partially extend into one of the openings of the hollow tube to rotate the finger unit by the hollow tube.
US09591805B2	Device for harvesting fruit hanging from a plant as well as a method for harvesting fruit hanging from a plant A device which is suitable for harvesting fruit hanging from a plant at least having a mobile frame, which frame at least comprises two opposite, longitudinal sides for guiding fruit. The frame further comprises fruit collecting devices adjoining the first longitudinal side. At least one longitudinal side is provided with wirelike, flexible elements extending from the first longitudinal side, over which elements the fruit can be guided.
US09591804B2	Oscillating pan of an agricultural combine having a flow control guide vane A chaff pan for attachment to a cleaning apparatus of an agricultural combine. The chaff pan includes a surface for receiving a flow of chaff from the cleaning apparatus. The surface has a proximal end proximate the combine and an opposing distal end. First and second side walls extend upwards from the surface about respective lateral ends of the chaff pan. The chaff pan also includes a flow control guide vane positioned on the surface of the chaff pan that extends from the proximal end to the distal end of the surface. The flow control guide vane is positioned on the surface at an angle relative to a midline of the chaff pan for directing the flow of chaff towards the midline of the chaff pan.
US09591800B2	Agricultural implement metering system and method One embodiment describes an agricultural implement. The agricultural implement includes a plurality of ground engaging opener assemblies that each excavates a trench into soil and deposits a granular product into the trench as the agricultural implement is towed though a field; and a first tool meter coupled to the agricultural implement and pneumatically coupled to a first portion of the plurality of ground engaging opener assemblies. The first tool meter instructs a pneumatic distribution system to supply the granular product to the first tool meter based at least in part on a first amount of granular product stored in the first tool meter; and pneumatically distributes the granular product to the first portion of the plurality of ground engaging opener assemblies.
US09591796B2	Walk aerator A walk aerator comprises a housing supported by a plurality of wheels that include a pair of drive wheels. The drive wheels are pivotally mounted to the housing to permit the housing to move between operational and transport positions thereof. A control is used to so move the housing with the control having a hand grip whose height above the ground is easily adjustable to accommodate users of different effective heights. A foot guard maintains a relatively constant disposition relative to the ground whether the housing is in its operational or transport position. The housing of the aerator has a vent system and an air gap relative to a prime mover deck which cool a traction drive system contained within the housing.
US09596792B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a display panel on the substrate; and a sealing substrate opposite to the display panel. The display apparatus includes further includes a heat dissipating layer which is between the display panel and the sealing substrate and dissipates heat generated from the display panel; and a sealing portion which is between the substrate and the sealing substrate and surrounds the display panel.
US09596785B2	Heat exchanger A heat exchanger useful for mounting to an electronic component housing or other system requiring heat exchange. The heat exchanger has a manifold having a cross-sectional configured for providing an unequal coolant flow to an array of cooling channels fed by the manifold, thereby providing for preferential amounts of heat exchange over a given heat exchange surface of the heat exchanger. A safety channel may surround the channels carrying the coolant to prevent potential leakage outside of the heat exchanger.
US09596783B2	Electronic device with combination heat sink/blower or fan assembly An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board having heat generating components thereon. The electronic device further includes a heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly, disposed over the circuit board, through which heat from the circuit board and the components thereon is released. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly includes a heat sink having a solid central core and a plurality of fins protruding from the core. The heat sink with air current generating electric device assembly further includes an air current generating electric device disposed over the heat sink and having an air intake facing a top of the heat sink and an exhaust opening directed parallel to a plane of the circuit board.
US09596781B2	Rack housing to hold a plurality of insertion components A rack housing that holds a plurality of insertion components includes a plurality of insertion positions that hold the plurality of insertion components in a first area of the rack housing adjacent to a first housing side, a reduced pressure shaft in a second area of the rack housing adjacent to the first area, wherein between the reduced pressure shaft and the insertion components, first openings are provided to thereby remove air heated by the insertion components into the reduced pressure shaft, at least two second openings that suction off heated air from the reduced pressure shaft, and at least two non-return arrangements located in the reduced pressure shaft and correlated to the two second openings, the non-return arrangements preventing entry of air through the correlated second opening if no air is suctioned off through this second opening.
US09596780B2	Structure for maintaining orientation of substrate with respect to casing A structure is provided for a PCU (power control unit) in which components secured inside a casing are electrically connected to electronic components on a circuit substrate by a connector, the structure being adapted to maintain the orientation of the circuit substrate to remove the circuit substrate from the casing or to mount the circuit substrate to the casing. Direction control pins are fitted into cover securing holes provided in the casing to secure a cover to the casing. A gripping jig includes grips for gripping the circuit substrate and guide holes into which the direction control pins are inserted. The direction of movement of the gripping jig is controlled by the direction control pins inserted into the guide holes.
US09596779B2	Element housing package and mounting structure provided with same An element housing package is provided with: a base plate including, on a top surface, a mounting region for mounting an element; a frame body disposed on the top surface of the base plate so as to surround the mounting region, the frame body including a through-hole; a connector disposed so as to pass through the through-hole T of the frame body and to extend from the inside to the outside of the frame body; a pedestal member disposed on the top surface of the base plate so as to be positioned in the frame body; and a wiring base plate bonded to a top surface of the pedestal member with a first bonding material placed therebetween and connected to the connector.
US09596777B2	Enclosure for electrical installations An enclosure for electrical installations includes a rectangular bottom part and a hinged door to be fastened to the bottom part. The bottom part includes sidewalls extending upward, the door being turnable from a closed position, in which it covers the door opening of the enclosure, to an open position, in which it leaves the door opening open. In order for the door to be easily and quickly fastened to the bottom part, the door is fastened to the bottom part by a detachable door frame, which door frame includes at least two quick-release mechanisms to fasten it detachably to at least two detents in the bottom part so that the door frame is locked at the detents and the bottom part when the quick-release mechanisms are in the locked position, and the door frame may be released from the bottom part when the quick-release mechanisms have been opened and released from the detents. The enclosure includes a cover which covers the door frame and the door, which cover is fastened to the bottom part.
US09596771B2	Controlling apparatus A display and operating unit and a main unit are connected with the ability to be separated. In a state with the connection with the main unit separated, the display and operating unit is attached to the front surface side of a panel. In this case, the connector cable is passed through an opening formed on the panel and positioned at the back surface side of the panel, and packing is positioned so as to enclose the periphery of the opening, and the display and operating unit is attached to the front surface side of the panel. Then, the main unit is fixed to the back surface side of the panel, a connector CN1 of the tip end of the connector cable is engaged with a connector of the main unit, and the display and operating unit and the main unit are connected.
US09596768B2	Substrate with conductive vias A substrate includes a plurality of vias that are lined with dielectric polymer having a substantially uniform thickness. This substantial uniform thickness provides a lumen within each dielectric-polymer-layer-lined via that is substantially centered within the via. Subsequent deposition of metal into the lumen for each dielectric-polymer-layer-lined via thus provides conductive vias having substantially centered metal conductors.
US09596764B2	Electronic component-embedded module and communication terminal device To prevent decrease of the bonding strength of an electronic component and a multilayer substrate, an electronic component-embedded module may include an electronic component having a plurality of pads and a multilayer substrate which includes a plurality of resin layers and a cavity for containing the electronic component. The multilayer substrate may include a first resin layer having a plurality of first pattern conductors and a space, and a second resin layer having a second pattern conductor and a plurality of third pattern conductors. The plurality of third pattern conductors may be in conduction with either of the first pattern conductors or the pads, with the second resin layer being placed over the first resin layer. The second pattern conductor may be arranged around a first pad with a gap, and the second resin layer is present between the second pattern conductor and at least one of the first pads.
US09596763B2	Capacitor holder, and capacitor holding structure A capacitor holder comprises: a holding portion having a cylindrical inner wall surface, at least an outer peripheral portion of the inner wall surface being open, the holding portion being configured to hold a capacitor inserted through the opening into an inside of the inner wall surface; a fixed portion formed integrally with the holding portion and positioned opposite to the opening of the holding portion; a pair of fitting grooves formed at a pair of end surfaces of the fixed portion opposed to each other adjacent to the holding portion, the fitting grooves being configured to fittably engage with end edges of a printed circuit board to extend along a surface of the printed circuit board; and a proximity suppressor configured to suppress portions of the fixed portion where the fitting grooves are formed from being brought into proximity each other.
US09596761B2	Different thermal zones in an opto-electronic module An opto-electronic module used in optical networking may be implemented using two different thermal zones. A first thermal zone at a first temperature may be used for an optical module. A second thermal zone at a second temperature may be used for an electronic module. The first temperature may be different from the second temperature. As a result, a physical dimension of the electronic module may be reduced in comparison to using a single thermal zone for the opto-electronic module.
US09596760B2	Electronic device Terminal portions are arrayed at regular widths and regular intervals, and each face any enable terminal, and are electrically connected to the enable terminals by conductive particles. A lead portion is connected to the other terminal portion except for a pair of terminal portions which is a pair of terminal portions adjacent to each other, and extends from an overlap region to a lead region. A connection portion connects the respective terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion to the adjacent terminal portions that are connected to the lead portion within an area of the overlap region. An interval between a pair of lead portions extending from a pair of connection portions located to sandwich a pair of terminal portions that are not connected with the lead portion therebetween is larger than an interval between the other adjacent lead portions.
US09596758B2	Pattern forming method, electronic wiring substrate, and optical device A pattern forming method of ejecting inks in the form of droplets to a base material including a first region and a second region which differ from each other in terms of surface energy by an ink jet method, includes: a preparation step of preparing the base material including the first region and the second region; and a droplet ejection step of simultaneously ejecting a first ink and a second ink in the form of droplets to the first region and the second region respectively by using a multipass method, wherein the inks are at least two kinds of inks including the first ink having volatility and the second ink having curability, the first ink and the first region are lyophilic, and the second ink and the second region are lyophilic.
US09596757B2	Circuit board The present disclosure is directed to a circuit board having a first imaged metal layer, a first electrically insulating layer, a second imaged metal layer, a polyimide bondply derived from 100 mole % 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyl tetracarboxylic dianhydride, 20 to 90 mole % 2,2′-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzidine, and 10 to 80 mole % 4,4′-oxydianiline, a third imaged metal layer, a second electrically insulating layer and a forth imaged metal layer. The circuit board does not have an adhesive layer between the second imaged metal layer and the polyimide bondply or the third imaged layer and the polyimide bondply.
US09596755B2	Magneto-dielectric substrate, circuit material, and assembly having the same In an embodiment, a magneto-dielectric substrate comprises a dielectric polymer matrix; and a plurality of hexaferrite particles dispersed in the polymer matrix in an amount and of a type effective to provide a magneto-dielectric substrate having a magnetic constant of greater than or equal to 2.5 from 0 to 500 MHz, or 3 to 8 from 0 to 500 MHz; a magnetic loss of less than or equal to 0.1 from 0 to 500 MHz, or 0.001 to 0.05 over 0 to 500 MHz; and a dielectric constant of 1.5 to 8 or 2.5 to 8 from 0 to 500 MHz.
US09596751B2	Substrate for mounting electronic element and electronic device There is provided a substrate for mounting electronic elements, including: a frame-shaped first wiring substrate with a first through hole formed in an interior portion thereof; a flat plate-shaped or frame-shaped second wiring substrate arranged to overlap with a bottom surface of the first wiring substrate and electrically connected thereto; and a sheet-shaped metal sheet arranged to overlap with a bottom surface of the second wiring substrate such that the second wiring substrate is sandwiched between the first wiring substrate and the metal sheet, an area inside the frame-shaped first wiring substrate or areas inside the frame-shaped first wiring substrate and second wiring substrate being electronic element mounting areas, and the second wiring substrate having an elastic modulus lower than those of the first wiring substrate and the metal sheet.
US09596750B2	Electronic circuit, method of manufacturing electronic circuit, and mounting member An electronic circuit includes: a semiconductor chip provided with a single-ended I/F including a pad on which single-ended signals are exchanged; and a mounting unit on which a differential transmission path transmitting a differential signal is formed, and on which the semiconductor chip is mounted so that the pad of the single-ended I/F is directly electrically connected to a conductor configuring the differential transmission path.
US09596749B2	Circuit board having a signal layer with signal traces and a reference plane with an additional signal trace larger than the signal traces Techniques for routing signal traces in a circuit board are described. An example of an electronic device in accordance with the described techniques includes a circuit board comprising a plurality of conductive layers. The conductive layers include a signal layer and a reference plane. The signal layer includes signal traces and the reference plane includes an additional signal trace.
US09596743B2	Beam guiding apparatus A beam guiding apparatus includes a vacuum chamber that includes a target region arranged to receive a target material for generating EUV radiation. The vacuum chamber includes a first and second opening for receiving into the vacuum chamber a first and second laser beam, respectively. The first and second laser beam have different wavelengths. The beam guiding apparatus further includes a superposition apparatus arranged to superpose the first and second laser beams entering into the vacuum chamber through the first and second openings, respectively, for common beam guidance in the direction of the target region. The superposition apparatus comprises a first optical element configured to seal the first opening of the vacuum chamber in a gas-tight manner and transmit the first laser beam, or a second optical element configured to seal off the second opening of the vacuum chamber in a gas-tight manner and transmit the second laser beam.
US09596737B2	Multi-port LED-based lighting communications gateway A multi-port communications gateway for one or more LED based illumination devices includes a lighting communications interface that is configured to be coupled to the LED based illumination device(s). The lighting communications interface transmits both data signals and power signals. A lighting control network interface is configured to be coupled to a lighting control system, which generates control commands. A building management network interface is configured to be coupled to a building management system and is configured to receive and transmit information from sensors coupled to the LED based illumination device(s). Memory in the gateway stores information received from the LED based illumination device (s). A processor determines a summary status value associated with the LED based illumination device(s) based on information stored in memory. A real time clock determines a date and time that is periodically transmitted to the LED based illumination device(s).
US09596729B1	Dimmable switching mode LED driving circuit without phase angle measurement A dimmable switching mode LED driving circuit without phase angle measurement, including: a dimmer circuit for providing a phase-cut AC voltage; a bridge rectifier providing an input voltage by rectifying the phase-cut AC voltage; an electromagnetic interference filtering and energy storing circuit providing a line voltage according to the input voltage; a switching power converter converting the line voltage to an output current for an LED load under a control of a driving voltage; and a control unit including an on-time controller for operating in a constant on-time mode to determine an on time, where the on-time controller includes a voltage limiting circuit, a saw-tooth signal generator, and a comparison circuit to set a maximum limit on the on time.
US09596718B2	Heater and image heating apparatus including the same A heater usable with an image heating apparatus includes contacts including at least one first contact provided on a substrate and connectable with a first terminal, and second contacts provided on the substrate and connectable with a second terminal; electrodes arranged in a longitudinal direction of the substrate with predetermined gaps; electroconductive lines connecting the electrodes with respective ones of the contacts such that the electrode connected with the first contact and the electrode connected with the second contacts are alternately arranged in the longitudinal direction of the substrate; and heat generating portions, provided between adjacent electrodes, respectively, for generating heat by electric power supply between adjacent electrodes, wherein all of the first contacts are provided in one end portion of the substrate with respect to the longitudinal direction, and all of the second contacts are provided in the other end portion with respect to the longitudinal direction.
US09596716B2	Wireless network system and smart device management method using LED lighting devices The present disclosure provides a wireless network system and a smart device management method using LED lighting devices. The wireless network system includes a wireless router and a plurality of LED lighting devices with WI-FI modules that have wireless access and network switch capabilities. Through the WI-FI modules, the LED lighting devices may access the wireless network provided by the wireless router or the WI-FI modules of any other LED lighting devices that have been wirelessly connected to the wireless router. The network address of the wireless router and the network addresses of the LED lighting devices are in the same network segment. The present disclosure provides a wireless switch cascade method. The WI-FI module of the LED lighting device has wireless switch capabilities, allowing the IP address of the accessed devices and the module itself to be in the same network segment, and enabling centralized control of the connected devices. The smart devices in a home or office environment therefore are not limited by space and can wirelessly interconnect freely, further enhancing the users' smart home user experience.
US09596714B2	Methods and apparatuses for use in a mobile communication network The proposed technology relates to the issue of supporting release of common radio resources in a radio communication network. A radio network controller (200) sends an indication of a value of a timer for implicit release of common radio resources to a base station (100). The base station (100) receives the indication of a value of a timer for implicit release of common radio resources and determines whether to release common radio resources based on the indication of a value of the timer for implicit release of common radio resources. In this way, by using the indication of a value of the timer for implicit release the base station (100) will be able to correctly determine whether to release the common resources upon reception of a report of empty buffer status from a UE. This will eliminate misinterpretations of the empty buffer status report, and avoid unnecessary radio link failures.
US09596704B2	Initiating and monitoring wireless connection between station and access point Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate the initiation of a wireless setup between a station and an access point upon the station receiving a predetermined input from a user. The status of a wireless connection between the station and an access point may be displayed to a user through one or more display interfaces or light indicators associated with the station. The methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein allow a user to initiate and monitor a wireless setup between a station and an access point without having to connect a display device to the station.
US09596701B2	Method for transmitting an uplink signal, method for receiving an uplink signal, user equipment, and base station The invention relates to a method comprising classifying user equipment (UE) cells, to which carrier aggregation is applied, into a plurality of time advance groups. Uplink-time synchronization is managed using the time synchronization of a primary cell (Pcell) in the time synchronization group to which the primary cell belongs. For other time synchronization groups, the uplink time synchronization is managed using the time synchronization of a secondary cell (SCell) that is particularly set in the relevant time synchronization group. Thus, the plurality of time synchronizations can be effectively managed for the UE and a base station (BS).
US09596700B2	Encoding method for traffic indication map and beacon frame Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an encoding method for a traffic indication map and a beacon frame, which relate to a communication field, enable a user to know whether there are data cached in an access point or enable a user terminal to know whether to access to a channel, and reduce the quantity of bytes occupied by the traffic indication map in the beacon frame. The encoding method for a traffic indication map provided by the embodiments comprises: controlling whether to display a sub-block bitmap display field in a sub-bitmap by marking at least one bit in a bitmap control field, a sub-block sub-bitmap in the sub-bitmap being used for enabling a user terminal to know whether there are data cached in an access point, or enabling the user terminal to know whether to access to a channel.
US09596696B1	Systems and methods for determining broadcast parameters for an area Systems and methods are described for determining a broadcast transmission scheme for an area. Channel quality indicators may be received from a plurality of wireless devices. For each of the plurality of wireless devices, a location may be determined. A geographic area may be classified as a first broadcast classification based on the channel quality indicators received from wireless devices that comprise a location proximate to the geographic area. A transmission scheme may be determined for a broadcast transmission to wireless devices proximate to the geographic area based on the first broadcast classification, where the transmission scheme may comprise a least a modulation and coding scheme. One or more access nodes may then be instructed to broadcast using the determined transmission scheme for the geographic area.
US09596694B2	Multi-radio coexistence A method and apparatus relate to coexistence of multiple RF subsystems on a communication device. An apparatus may include a plurality of radio frequency (RF) subsystems configured to receive or transmit communication signals; and an interference table indicative of zones of interference among the multiple RF subsystems, the zones of interference being based on RF measurements. At least one of the RF subsystems comprises a coexistence module configured to communicate coexistence-related messages with of the other RF subsystems, the coexistence-related messages being based on the zones of interference.
US09596693B2	Method and apparatus for multi-radio coexistence A method for multi-radio coexistence receives historical frequency usage information and historical time usage information from a first radio. The method creates a time and frequency mask by extrapolating the historical frequency and time usage information to future times and frequencies when the first radio will be active and uses the time and frequency mask to schedule a second radio to avoid receiving when the first radio will likely be active. A related apparatus has a collocated radio input for receiving timing usage information, a non-collocated radio input for receiving frequency usage information, and a time and frequency mask generator for creating a time and frequency mask using the timing usage information and the frequency usage information. The method and apparatus predicts collocated and non-collocated radio activity in both the time and frequency dimensions to reduce interference among radios operating in overlapping or adjacent frequency bands.
US09596692B2	Managing wireless resources Various embodiments provide for the management of wireless resources, which can reduce call blocking by allowing high priority services, under suitable conditions, to use resources allocated to low priority services. Thus high priority services can pre-empt the usage of wireless resources by low priority services. This has the advantage of reducing call blocking for high priority calls, while permitting low priority calls to have more access to radio resources than conventional systems with the same call blocking rate. Thus a base station can implement a preemption mechanism that would reclaim Walsh Code and Forward Power resources from an active Supplemental Channel (SCH) burst in order to accommodate incoming Fundamental Channel (FCH) requests.
US09596691B2	Method and system for utilizing smart antennas in establishing a backhaul network A method and system for utilizing smart antennas in transmission of messages between nodes are disclosed. A wireless communication system includes a plurality of nodes, and each node is capable of being connected to each other node. At least a portion of the nodes are provided with a smart antenna configured to generate a plurality of directional beams. Each node maintains a list of other nodes and beam configuration information to be used in transmission of messages to other nodes. When a source node is required to transmit to a target node, the source node retrieves the beam configuration information and transmits with a directional beam directed to the target node.
US09596689B2	Radio resource allocation for D2D communications Systems and methods for switching radio resource allocation for User Equipment (UE) enabled for a device-to-device (D2D) communication. One embodiment is a base station that switches resource allocation between Mode 1, Mode 2, and a transition mode. For the transition mode, one or more parameters have a value in a range between a value specified in Mode 1 and a value specified in Mode 2 for the parameter(s). The base station detects movement of the UE from in-coverage of the base station to edge-of-coverage, and initiates switching of the resource allocation for the UE from Mode 1 to the transition mode. The base station then detects movement of the UE from edge-of-coverage of the base station to out-of-coverage, and initiates switching of the radio resource allocation for the UE from the transition mode to Mode 2.
US09596682B2	Method and apparatus for multiple frame transmission for supporting MU-MIMO A method of multi user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system; and a transmitting device therefore are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes generating an Aggregate-Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) including an A-MPDU subframe, the A-MPDU subframe including a Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) delimiter field; and selecting a type of a guard interval. When the A-MPDU is generated for a plurality of receiving devices, the transmitting device selects a short guard interval only if all of the plurality of receiving devices support the short guard interval. The MPDU delimiter field includes a null field and an MPDU length field, the null field indicates a corresponding A-MPDU subframe is used to pad the A-MPDU, and the MPDU length field indicates a length of an MPDU. The null field is a 1-bit information field.
US09596676B2	Calibration of a downlink transmit path of a base station Methods, systems, and devices are described for calibrating a transmit path of a base station. A calibration symbol of a subframe may be generated for transmission on a downlink channel. The calibration symbol of the subframe may be transmitted. The calibration symbol may include a predefined waveform to calibrate the transmit path of the base station. At least part of the subframe including the calibration symbol may be received through a dedicated feedback receive path. The transmit path may be calibrated based at least in part on the received calibration symbol. The calibration symbols may replace one or more data symbols of the subframe. Control symbols may also be transmitted during the subframe. The control symbols may include reference signals and downlink control channels. The control symbols may signal to a mobile device a zero allocation of downlink resources during the subframe.
US09596675B2	Method and device for sending hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledge information Disclosed are a method and device for sending hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledge information. The method includes: in a TDD system, configuring a terminal to employ a PUCCH format 1b with channel selection method to send HARQ-ACK information; bundling the HARQ-ACK information of downlink subframes of serving cells in a bundling window corresponding to a specified uplink subframe to obtain HARQ-ACK information to be sent by the serving cells; and sending the HARQ-ACK information over an uplink subframe via the PUCCH or PUSCH. By way of bundling the HARQ-ACK information of downlink subframes of serving cells in a bundling window corresponding to a specified uplink subframe, the disclosure can realize sending the HARQ-ACK information when serving cells with different uplink and downlink configurations are aggregated.
US09596668B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting synchronization signal for device to device communication in wireless communication system Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. With respect to a D2D synchronization source to transmit a synchronization signal for D2D communication, the method includes: generating a D2D Synchronization Signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, by a synchronization source, the D2DSS to a D2D reception (Rx) UE, wherein the D2DSS includes a Primary D2D Synchronization Signal (PD2DSS) generated based on information associated with the synchronization source.
US09596665B2	Method and apparatus for providing channel information in a wireless network A method for transmitting and receiving, by a station, channel information in a wireless LAN system, the method comprising: receiving a beacon frame including the channel information, wherein the channel information includes information for a channel change, the information for the channel change includes a field for a operating class of a new channel, a field for a channel number of the new channel and a field for a maximum transmit power of the new channel; parsing the beacon frame; and changing to a new channel with the maximum transmit power.
US09596664B2	Systems and methods for distributed communications and processing Systems and methods to provide distributed wireless communications from a plurality of wireless network devices are disclosed. The plurality of wireless network devices may be configured to provide direction communications with one or more user devices. This may be performed by adjusting one or more radio parameters associated with the plurality of wireless network devices. The plurality of wireless network devices may cooperate with each other to provide network connectivity for the one or more user devices with relatively high fidelity, relatively high bandwidth, and relatively low power consumption. The plurality of wireless network devices may further provide distributed processing capability to perform tasks for user devices that may provide task requests.
US09596658B2	Power control methods Power control methods are provided. The power control method, performed by a receiving end device, includes receiving two consecutive slots from a dedicated physical channel (DPCH), determining a transmit power control command based on signal qualities of the two consecutive slots; and transmitting the transmit power control command in only a first transmit power control field that is firstly available after the transmit power control command is determined.
US09596656B2	Vehicular wireless transmission apparatus adjusting output power according to vehicle A vehicular wireless transmission apparatus includes a memory that stores (i) a default adjustment value relative to a default vehicle model, (ii) a default vehicle model data indicating the default vehicle model, and (iii) a correction value table for correcting the default adjustment value to be compliant with each of different vehicle models different from the default vehicle model. When a host vehicle model data read from a different ECU does not match with the default vehicle model data stored in the memory, it is determined that the vehicular wireless transmission apparatus is presently mounted in a host vehicle model indicated by the host vehicle model data read from the different ECU. The default adjustment value is then corrected by retrieving a correction value corresponding to the host vehicle model data from the correction value table.
US09596654B2	Association of applications to clusters mapped to logical battery partitions A tool for associating one or more apps to one or more app clusters mapped to one or more logical battery partitions on a mobile device. The tool retrieves the one or more apps on the mobile device. The tool determines an app power consumption and an app priority for the one or more apps. The tool defines the one or more app clusters to the one or more logical battery partitions. The tool associates the one or more apps to the one or more app clusters.
US09596647B2	Secure WiFi using predictive analytics Aspects automatically direct data requests from a specific application of a mobile programmable device to a designated WiFi network pathway without interaction from a mobile device user in response to determining that an initial data network pathway does not meet a satisfactory service threshold for forwarding the data requests to an event web server. In response to determining that the mobile device is within communication range of a WiFi service node in communication with a first WiFi pathway designated for access by the specific application for communications with the event web server, the mobile device processor automatically executes an authentication procedure with the WiFi service node to gain access to the first WiFi pathway without requiring a user of the mobile device to log in to the first WiFi pathway or to accept a connection to the first WiFi pathway, and uses the first WiFi pathway.
US09596646B2	Blacklisting techniques for detected set event evaluation Blacklisting techniques for detected set event evaluation are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver, at least one RF antenna, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a measurement control message comprising a remotely-selected event evaluation blacklist (EEB) for a wireless communication frequency, determine whether a local EEB exists for the wireless communication frequency, and in response to a determination that a local EEB exists for the wireless communication frequency, replace the contents of the local EEB with the contents of the remotely-selected EEB. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09596645B2	Method and apparatus for maintaining association in wireless LAN system A method and apparatus for maintaining association in a WLAN system are disclosed. The method for performing association by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system includes: transmitting an association request frame from the station (STA) to an access point (AP); and receiving an association response frame from the access point (AP) in response to the association request frame. If the association request is accepted by the access point (AP), the association response frame includes information regarding an association comeback time.
US09596640B2	Method of routing a session from a calling party in a serving communication network of the calling party to a called party A method of routing a session from a calling party in a serving communication network of the calling party to a called party is described. The serving communication network of the calling party is distinct from a home communication network of the calling party. The method is executed by a session routing node in the serving communication network of the calling party. In order to optimize a session routing path of signaling data of the session, the method comprises receiving from the home communication network of the calling party a session routing request requesting routing the signaling data of the session to the called party via the serving communication network of the calling party, and routing the signaling data of the session to the called party via the serving communication network of the calling party based on the received session routing request.
US09596639B2	User device smart cell selection Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for minimizing data overhead in a cellular network. In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a mobile device connected to the cellular network via a connection point, that the connection point has limited capacity; determining, by the mobile device, location information including location data indicating a current location of the mobile device; and determining, by the mobile device, an offload alternative connection point based on the determined location of the mobile device. In some cases, the method includes initiating disconnecting of the mobile device from a current connection point; and initiating connecting the mobile device to the offload alternative connection point.
US09596638B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for improved link quality evaluation of mobile cellular systems Apparatus, system and methods for evaluating link quality within a cellular system. A user equipment (“UE”) is connected to a network, wherein the UE communicates data to the network on an uplink (“UL”) link. The UE determines a requested buffer size for a UL communication, determines a transport block size for the UL communication based on a primary set of allocation parameters, and compares the requested buffer size to the transport block size to determine if a data rate for the UL communication satisfies a threshold. When the data rate satisfies the threshold, the UE identifies the UL link as a good quality link and sends acceptable link quality feedback to the network. When the data rate does not satisfy the threshold, the UE performs a further action to test a quality of the UL link.
US09596632B2	Context-aware wireless roaming A wireless network infrastructure, comprising static and roaming mobile nodes (including one or more types of access-points), avoids unnecessary handoffs and unstable RF regions, and enables at least selected context-aware-capable mobile nodes to provide context-aware services to connected clients. More particularly, each of at least selected static nodes is enabled to provide the context-aware-capable mobile nodes with context information regarding the static node's relative position and direction, details of information served by the static node, special flags indicative of relevant impending changes in the foregoing parameters, and a range of signal strength values defining a stable RF zone for associated mobile nodes. Each context-aware-capable mobile node accordingly creates a context map that at least in part enables determination of the mobile node's next change in static node association and the preferred timing for the change.
US09596630B2	Source based selection of serving operator The embodiments herein relate to a method in a target RAN node for enabling source based selection of a serving operator which should serve a wireless device in a target shared network. During handover, the target RAN node receives the serving operator that should serve the wireless device in the target shared network. After the handover, the target RAN node transmits a request for the IMSI and receives a response with the IMSI. The target RAN node obtains information about the serving operator stored during the handover. The target RAN node determines a target CN node served by the serving operator if the target shared network is a MOCN network. The target RAN node transmits information indicating the serving operator to the target CN node if the target shared network is a GWCN network.
US09596629B2	Systems and methods for transparent point-to-point handovers of a mobile relay Systems and methods for transparent handovers of mobile relays on high-speed vehicles. In an embodiment, a base station of a wireless communications network transmits identification data to a mobile relay on a high-speed vehicle. The identification data identifies base stations which are configured for transparent handovers. The network also receives data indicative of a scheduled path of the high-speed vehicle, which it uses to select a target base station for communication with the mobile relay. Once the target base station has been selected, the network begins servicing the mobile relay from the second base station, without requiring any measurement values from the mobile relay and without handover signaling.
US09596628B2	Gateway arrangements for wireless communication networks Embodiments related to gateway arrangements for wireless communication networks are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a network controller computing system may include serving gateway (SGW) control plane circuitry to virtualize control plane functions of an SGW, packet data network gateway (PGW) control plane circuitry to virtualize control plane functions of a PGW, first communication circuitry to establish a first secure communication link between the SGW control plane circuitry and an SGW user plane computing system that is to perform user plane functions of an SGW, and second communication circuitry to establish a second secure communication link between the PGW control plane circuitry and a PGW user plane computing system that is to perform user plane functions of a PGW. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09596627B2	Mobile communication method and mobile station In a mobile communication method of the invention, when communication of a mobile station (UE) in a “RRC_Connected state” in a cell (#1) under the control of a radio base station (eNB#1) is performed through an EPS bearer formed of a U-plane bearer between the mobile station (UE) and the radio base station (eNB#1) and an S1-U bearer between the radio base station (eNB#1) and a gateway device (S-GW), and if the radio base station (eNB#1) detects that a cell (#10) is located around the mobile station (UE), the radio base station (eNB#1) sends the mobile station (UE) “RRC Connection Reconfiguration” which contains information correlating identification information on the EPS bearer with identification information on the cell (#10).
US09596616B2	Enhancement on radio link failure report to record necessary timing details for a dual-threshold handover trigger event A system and method in which a Radio Link Failure, RLF, report from a User Equipment, UE, provides system time-based timestamps to enable a source node to correctly analyze the real cause of an RLF associated with a handover. The timestamps are provided for the latest fulfillment of each event-specific entering condition associated with a handover-triggering event and for the occurrence of the RLF. The recorded timestamps are sent as part of RLF-reporting information to be forwarded to the source node to assist the source node in adjusting event-specific threshold(s) as well as other non-threshold related handover parameters such as the Time To Trigger, TTT, period, the time delay between a UE's transmission of its Measurement Report and the source node's transmission of the handover command, and the like, to reduce similar RLFs in the future. The generation of timestamps does not waste the UE's processing resources or battery power.
US09596613B2	Method of establishing smart architecture cell mesh (SACM) network The present disclosure provides a method of establishing a SACM network is disclosed. The method comprises deploying a plurality of mesh nodes, wherein each of mesh nodes having a mesh node capability to communicate with the other mesh nodes as well as a gateway capability to provide an access to a service network, wherein the service network provides a wireless communication service; establishing a plurality of links between the mesh nodes, each of the links connecting two of the mesh nodes; searching and selecting a plurality of dynamic gateway nodes from the plurality of the mesh nodes and establishing a plurality of connections between the dynamic gateway nodes and the service network and performing routing and path optimizing to find optimal route paths for all the mesh nodes to access the service network.
US09596612B2	Femtocell measurements for macro beam steering Attachment data collected by a set of femto access points (FAPs) is utilized to localize, predict, and/or weight potential wireless communication traffic within and between areas. Moreover, the attachment data can be indicative of user equipment (UE) density/traffic within coverage areas of respective femtocells. The attachment data can be consolidated and analyzed to identify location and motion of a UE “swarm”. Moreover an automatic cell planning (ACP) component can be employed to utilize the attachment data for determining an optimal macro site and optimal antenna setting(s) that facilitate steering/tuning the macro antenna beam to focus upon the swarm area. In addition, the ACP component can facilitate reconfiguration of the macro antenna beam as reported swarm concentrations shift between the FAPs.
US09596607B2	Cloud-based WLAN layer 3 mobility control A method and system for virtualization of access points are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, in order to support L3 mobility in WLANS that use cloud-based controllers, methods including predicting client roaming range, and employing a roaming anchor AP are used.
US09596605B2	Dynamic PSK for hotspots Systems and methods for providing secured network access are provided. A user device located within range of a hotspot initiates a request sent via an open communication network associated with the hotspot. The request concerns secured network access at the hotspot by the user device. A unique pre-shared key is generated for the user device based on information in the received request and transmitted over the open communication network for display on a webpage accessible to the user device. The unique pre-shared key is stored in association with information regarding the user device. The user device may then use the unique pre-shared key in subsequent requests for secured network access.
US09596600B2	Systems and methods for generating location based entitlements The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for providing one or more security measures in Bluetooth low energy protocol environment, which comprises broadcasting a beacon signal, wherein the beacon signal comprises one or more temporal attributes and a proximity range. A request from an access device is received to authenticate the access device with the beacon signal and is subsequently authenticated with the beacon signal when the access device is within the proximity range. One or more content items are the transmitted to the access device in accordance with the one or more temporal attributes while the access device is authenticated with the beacon signal.
US09596598B2	Reducing detectability of an encryption key Methods and systems are provided for reducing detectability of encryption keys, which may be used to encrypt messages transmitted in a network (e.g., between a base station and a mobile station, such as over the air). Random bit errors may be introduced into the messages to artificially lowering transmission quality, thus makes it harder to detect the encryption key from well-known messages. The random bit errors may be introduced by inverting one or more randomly selected bits in the encrypted message prior to transmitting.
US09596590B1	Proxy server and method thereof for forwarding location requests to a position determining entity A method, system and server comprise determining, at a server, an appropriate Position Determining Entity (PDE) to forward data to based on a network in which a mobile station is roaming and forwarding the data from the server to the PDE.
US09596584B2	Protocols for facilitating broader access in wireless communications by conditionally authorizing a charge to an account of a third party Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision concerning a wireless service or device within a region to a communication device (smartphone or wearable device, e.g.) or other wireless communication participant (motor vehicle having a wireless communication capability, e.g.).
US09596581B2	Communication method and apparatus A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.
US09596577B1	Relaying mobile communications A system, method and apparatus for relaying mobile communications is provided. The system hosts a communication application operated by mobile communication devices. When a communication is received for a user of a destination device that is off-line, the system determines whether the destination device is capable of receiving an unsolicited message (e.g., a push message, a peer-to-peer message). The system then selects a different mobile device capable of sending a peer-to-peer relay message to the destination device. A relay request is transmitted to the selected device, which causes it to generate and transmit toward the destination device a relay message that will cause the destination device to connect to the system. Either or both of the relay device and the destination device may delete the messages it sends and/or receives during this process, before a user of the device opens the message(s).
US09596575B2	System and method for localization and traffic density estimation via segmentation and calibration sampling Embodiments are provided for calibration, preprocessing, and segmentation for user localization and network traffic density estimation. The embodiments include sending, from a network component, a request to a plurality of user equipment (UEs) to participate in reporting localization data. Reports for localization data including no-lock reports are received from at least some of the UEs. The no-lock reports indicate indoor UEs among the UEs. The network preprocesses the localization data by eliminating, from the localization data, data that increases the total noise to signal ratio. The localization data is then processed using a model that distinguishes between different buildings. This includes associating, according to a radio map, radio characteristics in the localization data with corresponding bins in a non-uniform grid of coverage. The non-uniform grid is predetermined to maximize uniqueness between the radio characteristics. The indoor UEs are associated with corresponding buildings using the no-lock reports data.
US09596571B1	Estimating the location of a wireless terminal based on radio-frequency pattern matching and cooperative measurements A method for estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is based on using: the known location of one or more devices, empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal to the devices, and empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal (which is at an unknown location) relative to other wireless terminals that are also at unknown locations.
US09596570B1	Using anchors to correct GPS data in a network of moving things Systems and methods are described that use anchors to correct satellite-based geographic positioning data in a network of moving things. A plurality of anchor nodes using low-cost, non-differential GPS capable receiver may be used to correct positioning information of a plurality of other nodes of a network of moving things. Nodes in the network may share correction information produced by the anchor nodes with neighboring nodes, enabling other nodes of the network to correct positioning information produced by their own receivers of satellite-based geo-positioning information.
US09596564B2	Matching users in a location-based service Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for matching users in connection with a Location-Based Service. The method includes receiving service messages from a plurality of terminals, wherein the service messages include communication attributes, geographic location information, and user feature identifiers, extracting the communication attributes, the geographic location information, and the user feature identifiers from the received service messages, determining whether two or more of the plurality of terminals are within a threshold range, determining whether the extracted user feature identifiers corresponding to the terminals are the same, and in the event that one or more of the plurality of terminals are within the threshold range and the extracted user feature identifiers are the same, setting a terminal of the one or more terminals as a message receiving terminal if a service message associated with the terminal includes a communication attribute corresponding to receiving.
US09596563B2	Clustering geofence-based alerts for mobile devices A geofence management system obtains location data for points of interest. The geofence management system determines, at the option of the user, the location of a user mobile computing device relative to specific points of interest and alerts the user when the user nears the points of interest. The geofence management system, however, determines relationships among the identified points of interest, and associates or “clusters” the points of interest together based on the determined relationships. Rather than establishing separate geofences for multiple points of interest, and then alerting the user each time the user's mobile device enters each geofence boundary, the geofence management system establishes a single geofence boundary for the associated points of interest. When the user's mobile device enters the clustered geofence boundary, the geofence management system notifies the user device to alert the user of the entrance event. The user then receives the clustered, geofence-based alert.
US09596561B2	Executing applications in conjunction with other devices A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a device using a short-range communication protocol. The application is obtained and executed in conjunction with the device.
US09596560B2	Systems and methods for data transfer A method includes sensing physical proximity between a first device and a second device. At least one of the first device and the second device has transferrable data stored thereon. The method further includes monitoring whether the first device and the second device maintain physical proximity. The method further includes transferring the data between the first device and the second device while the first device and the second device maintain physical proximity.
US09596558B2	Wireless sensor network and association request transmission method A method of transmitting association requests in a wireless sensor network includes transmitting an association request from a leaf node to an intermediate node. The method further includes transmitting the association request from the intermediate node during one of either a shared time slot or a dedicated time slot in response to at least one of the timing of dedicated time slots and data collision rates during shared time slots.
US09596557B2	Subscriber identification module (“SIM”) based machine-to-machine (“M2M”) client systems, methods, and apparatuses Exemplary subscriber identification module (“SIM”) based machine-to-machine (“M2M”) client systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein. An exemplary M2M device includes an M2M SIM client implemented on a SIM card installed in the M2M device. The M2M SIM client provides a platform messaging interface through which the M2M device communicates with an M2M platform, provides a device-side interface through which the M2M device interfaces with the M2M SIM client, and provides a set of one or more M2M services to the M2M device. The set of M2M services may include one or more of the exemplary M2M services described herein. Corresponding systems, methods, and apparatuses are also described.
US09596556B2	Methods and apparatus for determining address of a machine type communication device in a wireless network Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for implementing a framework for an address determination technique for IPv4 addressing of MTC devices behind NATs in wireless networks. In one aspect, a method includes determining address for machine type communications (MTC) devices behind Network Address Translators (NATs) in a wireless communication network. The determining includes assigning a private address to an MTC device attached to the wireless communication network, and determining mapped public transport address.
US09596553B2	Apparatus and method for performing an audio measurement sweep In at least one embodiment, an apparatus for performing an audio measurement is provided. The apparatus includes a controller that is programmed to generate an audio test signal based on a first frequency range that comprises a first noise spectrum, a second frequency range that comprises a second noise spectrum, and a third frequency range that comprises a third noise spectrum and to transmit the audio test signal to an audio device that generates an audio response signal responsive to the audio test signal. The controller is further programmed to receive the audio response signal and to determine audio related characteristics for the audio device in response to the audio response signal.
US09596549B2	Audio system and method of operation therefor An audio system that includes an ultrasound sensor array which has a plurality of ultrasound sensor elements, and an audio band array which has a plurality of audio band elements. An estimator is configured to generate a presence characteristic of a user in response to ultrasound signals received from the ultrasound sensor array. The presence characteristic may include a position estimate for the user. An audio array circuit is configured to generate a directional response for the audio band array by applying weights to individual audio band signals for the audio band elements. A weight circuit is configured to determine the weights in response to the presence characteristic.
US09596547B2	MEMS microphone with spring suspended backplate A MEMS microphone has a base, a backplate, and a backplate spring suspending the backplate from the base. The microphone also has a diaphragm forming a variable capacitor with the backplate.
US09596545B2	Loudspeaker, electronic apparatus using loudspeaker, and mobile equipment using loudspeaker A loudspeaker includes a light-emitting element, a frame, a magnetic circuit provided with a magnetic gap, a diaphragm, a voice coil bobbin, and a voice coil. The diaphragm includes an inner peripheral end portion having an end face to which a light-emitting element is coupled, a light-guide portion, a reflective surface, and an outer peripheral end portion coupled to the frame. The first end of the voice coil bobbin is coupled to the inner peripheral end portion of the diaphragm, and the second end thereof is inserted into the magnetic gap. A voice coil is wound on the second end of the voice coil bobbin.
US09596532B2	Headphone device and a knuckle for facilitating an adjustable connection between an ear pod and headband The present invention provides a knuckle for facilitating an adjustable connection between an ear pod and a headband, and/or a headphone device. The knuckle includes a first end slidably coupled to the headband, the first end being adapted for being received within and traveling along a slot in the headband. The knuckle further includes a second end rotatably coupled to the ear pod proximate the point along the slot that the first end of the knuckle is currently located.
US09596530B2	Configurable speaker A deployable speaker includes a driver and an acoustic enclosure made up of a multiplicity of panels. The driver is secured to one of the panels. The acoustic enclosure is deployable from a closed state to a deployed state. When one of the panels is moved by a user from the closed to the deployed state, all but one of the remaining panels are simultaneously moved from the closed to the deployed state.
US09596528B2	Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer and method of fabricating the same A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer includes a device substrate including a first trench confining a plurality of first parts corresponding to a plurality of elements and a second trench confining a second part separated from the plurality of first parts, a supporting unit provided on the device substrate for confining a plurality of cavities corresponding to each of the plurality of elements, a membrane provided on the supporting unit to cover the plurality of cavities, an upper electrode provided on the membrane and electrically connected to the second part in the second trench through a via hole passing through the membrane and the supporting unit, and a through-silicon via (TSV) substrate provided on a lower surface of the device substrate, and including a plurality of first via metals connected to the plurality of first parts and a second via metal connected to the second part.
US09596524B2	Time-coherent global network employing spectral routers A network of global coverage, scalable to an access capacity of hundreds of petabits per second, is configured as independent bufferless switches with spectral routers connecting edge nodes to the switches. The switches are logically arranged in at least one matrix, the spectral routers are logically arranged into a matrix of upstream spectral routers and a matrix of downstream spectral routers. Each edge node has a link to an upstream spectral router in each column of the matrix of upstream spectral routers and a link from a downstream spectral router in each row of the matrix of downstream spectral routers. Preferably, all sets of edge nodes connecting to the upstream spectral routers are selected to be mutually orthogonal. Each switch is coupled to a respective switch controller and a respective time indicator. Each switch controller entrains time indicators of a set of subtending edge nodes to enable coherent switching.
US09596522B2	Fragmented file structure for live media stream delivery Media files such as MPEG-4 files are fragmented to allow for media and live media creation and delivery. A MPEG-4 standard description box includes synchronization information, end of file information, and chapter information to provide signaling information for near live playback of fragments. Playback can begin upon receiving a first MPEG-4 file fragment. A second MPEG-4 file fragment can be requested using information included in the first MPEG-4 file fragment.
US09596518B2	System and method for searching an internet networking client on a video device A system and method for enabling a user to display and interact with a social networking structure on a video device connected to a network enabled host device is provided. A user interface (UI) is also provided for displaying content (e.g. messages or tweets) that is output in an overlay for display on a display while program video is playing. The method provides for accessing a social networking site in response to a user input, the user input initiated while outputting a program for display, generating at least one keyword for searching the social networking site based on at least one characteristic associated with the program, retrieving content from the social networking site based the at least one keyword and outputting the retrieved content in an overlay for display simultaneous with the program.
US09596517B2	System and method for using a set-top box application to diagnose customer premises equipment A device having a test module configured to connect with a server through a cellular telephone network and a wireless area network. The test module is also configured to initiate, in the server, a diagnostic test of an Internet Protocol television network and a media processor. The test module is further configured to receive information indicating problems with the Internet Protocol television network and the media processor, and to display the information on a display.
US09596511B2	Receiving device, receiving method, and program Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving an AV content broadcast by a broadcasting wave, including: an obtaining section adapted to obtain a description document described in a predetermined computer language for displaying another content different from the AV content; a determining section adapted to determine whether the obtained description document is managed by a broadcaster which broadcasts the AV content or is managed by a different operator other than the broadcaster; and a controlling section adapted to control execution of the obtained description document in response to a result of the determination by the determining section.
US09596509B2	Automatically granting network access and distributing prorated network access payments based on prior usage at different hospitality establishment A user profile server stores a particular user profile corresponding to a user who belongs to a plurality of separate loyalty programs, and the particular user profile includes a plurality of different loyalty program user identifiers each identifying the user on a respective one of the separate loyalty programs. The user profile server communicates user a preference included on the particular user profile to a first controller via the computer network and communicates the user preference included on the particular user profile to a second controller via the computer network. The first controller is associated with a first hospitality location where the user is identified according to a first loyalty program user identifier included on the particular user profile, and the second is controller is associated with a second hospitality location where the user is identified according to a second loyalty program user identifier included on the particular user profile.
US09596504B2	Method for encoding of a video stream A temporal sequence of pictures is generated in a method for encoding of a first video stream. To do so, a synchronization signal is used which is derived from a second video stream independently of the first video stream, or the encoding of a second video stream independent of the first video stream is based on the same principle as for the encoding of the first video stream.
US09596501B2	Remote control processing method, device and system Provided are a remote control processing method, device and system. The method comprises: a mobile terminal acquires the address of an STB which is unable to directly communicate with the mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal sends control information for controlling the STB to a push server, wherein the control information comprises the address, the push server forwards the control information to the STB according to the address, and the STB executes control processing according to the forwarded control information, so that the problem that the mobile terminal is unable to control the STB if the mobile terminal fails to directly communicate with the STB in the related arts is solved, and the effect that the mobile terminal can control the STB even the mobile terminal is unable to directly communicate with the STB is achieved.
US09596498B2	Monitor with conversion capability for portable media player Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for a monitor with conversion capabilities for transferring data to a portable media player. In one embodiment, a monitor is presented for displaying video data. The monitor comprises at least one input, a screen, an encoder, a memory, and an interface. The at least one input receives decompressed video data. The screen displays the decompressed video data. The encoder encodes the decompressed video data. The memory stores the encoded decompressed video data. The interface transfers the encoded decompressed video data to another memory removable from the interface.
US09596494B2	Apparatus and method for processing an interactive service A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving uncompressed audio contents or uncompressed video contents from an external decoding unit, extracting an identifier of a frame from the received content, sending a request containing the identifier to a server and receiving a trigger for the content from the server based on the request, wherein the trigger indicates the current time of the contents and references a particular interactive event in an application parameter table or signals that the event is to be executed now or at a specified future time and the application parameter table includes information about at least one of applications.
US09596493B2	Multi-stream container information communication between information handling systems A multimedia content container storing multimedia content in plural formats has a portion of the multimedia content transmuxed in a selected one of the plural formats to a delivery container for communication from a server information handling system to a client information handling system in response to a request for the content. Only the format supported by the client information handling system is provided from the plural formats of the multimedia container to the client information handling system.
US09596487B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus An image coding method using arithmetic coding. The method includes: performing arithmetic coding on a first flag that indicates whether or not an absolute value of a target coefficient in a target coefficient block is greater than 1; and performing arithmetic coding on a second flag that indicates whether or not the absolute value is greater than 2. In the arithmetic coding on the first flag and the arithmetic coding on the second flag, it is determined whether or not an immediately-prior coefficient block that has been coded immediately prior to the target coefficient block includes a coefficient having an absolute value greater than a threshold value. Based on a result of the determination, respective contexts to be used in the arithmetic coding on the first and second flags are selected.
US09596474B2	Method and apparatus for entropy encoding using hierarchical data unit, and method and apparatus for decoding Provided are video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses. The video encoding method includes: encoding a video based on data units having a hierarchical structure; determining a context model used for entropy encoding a syntax element of a data unit based on at least one piece of additional information of the data units; and entropy encoding the syntax element by using the determined context model.
US09596473B2	Method and apparatus for entropy encoding using hierarchical data unit, and method and apparatus for decoding Provided are video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses. The video encoding method includes: encoding a video based on data units having a hierarchical structure; determining a context model used for entropy encoding a syntax element of a data unit based on at least one piece of additional information of the data units; and entropy encoding the syntax element by using the determined context model.
US09596471B2	Bit rate modification based on an ambient interference level For bit rate adjustment based on ambient interference levels, an apparatus determines an ambient interference level of ambient interference. In addition, the apparatus modifies a bit rate of a lossy compressed data stream in response to the ambient interference level.
US09596466B2	Method and apparatus for setting reference picture index of temporal merging candidate The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
US09596463B2	Coding of loop filter parameters using a codebook in video coding Techniques for coding video data include coding sample adaptive offset (SAO) offset values as part of performing a video coding process. In particular, the techniques include determining the SAO offset values according to a SAO process. The techniques further include storing a codebook defining a plurality of codes for coding different variations of SAO offset values. The techniques also include coding the SAO offset values in accordance with the codebook so as to specify the SAO offset values as one of the plurality of codes defined by the codebook.
US09596459B2	Multi-target camera calibration Techniques for calibration of image capturing devices are described herein. The techniques include capturing one or more images at a first target, capturing one or more images at a second target, capturing one or more images at a third target, capturing one or more images at a fourth target, and calibrating a multi-camera system based on the captured images.
US09596454B2	Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging device including a first filter, and configured to output a first image signal, and the first filter preventing light in a predetermined wavelength band of wavelengths longer than visible light; a second imaging device arranged at a different position and configured to perform photoelectric conversion on subject light containing a wavelength component of the light in the predetermined wavelength band to output a second image signal; a correlation detection unit configured to detect a correlation between the first and second image signals; a luminance signal generation unit configured to generate a luminance signal; a color signal generation unit configured to generate a color signal; and a three-dimensional image generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional image by the correlation, the luminance signal, and the color signal.
US09596453B2	Electronic device and control method thereof An electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device varies a depth of a stereoscopic image displayed on a display unit of the electronic device based on a specific object selected from a preview image displayed on the display unit. When a zoom condition of a camera module of the electronic device is changed, the electronic device adjusts a depth of the stereoscopic image based on the changed zoom condition.
US09596452B2	Defocusing feature matching system to measure camera pose with interchangeable lens cameras A lens and aperture device for determining 3D information. An SLR camera has a lens and aperture that allows the SLR camera to determine defocused information.
US09596447B2	Providing frame packing type information for video coding This disclosure includes techniques for signaling characteristics of a representation of multimedia content at a representation layer, such as frame packing arrangement information for the representation. In one example, an apparatus for receiving video data includes a processing unit configured to receive information indicative of whether a bitstream includes a packed frame of video data, wherein the packed frame comprises two frames corresponding to different views of a scene for three-dimensional playback, and wherein the information is present in a representation layer external to a codec layer of the bitstream, automatically determine whether the apparatus is capable of decoding and rendering the bitstream based on an analysis of the received information and decoding and rendering capabilities of the device, and retrieve the bitstream when the processing unit determines that the device is capable of decoding and rendering the bitstream.
US09596446B2	Method of encoding a video data signal for use with a multi-view stereoscopic display device The present invention relates to a method of encoding a video data signal for use with a multi-view stereoscopic display device a method of decoding a video data signal, a video data signal, an encoder of a video data signal for use with a multi-view stereoscopic display device, a decoder of a video data signal, a computer program product comprising instructions for encoding a video data signal and a computer program product comprising instructions for decoding a video data signal. The method of encoding relates to a method of encoding a video data signal for use with a multi-view stereoscopic display device, the method comprising: providing a first image of a scene as seen from an input viewpoint, providing a depth map associated with the first image, providing preference data indicative of the preferred position of the center view for use in view rendering based on the first image and the depth map, the preferred position of the center view relating the input viewpoint to a base-line between a reference left view and a reference right view and generating the video data signal comprising encoded data representing the first image, the depth map and the preference data.
US09596443B2	Methods and systems for providing sensor data and image data to an application processor in a digital image format Methods and systems for providing depth data and image data to an application processor on a mobile device are described. An example method involves receiving image data from at least one camera of the mobile device and receiving depth data from a depth processor of the mobile device. The method further involves generating a digital image that includes at least the image data and the depth data. The depth data may be embedded in pixels of the digital image, for instance. Further, the method then involves providing the digital image to an application processor of the mobile device using a camera bus interface. Thus, the depth data and the image data may be provided to the application processor in a single data structure.
US09596439B2	Circuit, device, method and system for transmitting video data between a video source and a video sink A method, circuit and system for transmission, receiving and processing of video data between a video source transceiver and a video sink transceiver. Video data or information to be transmitted, which instructs an image processor associated with a video sink to modify a previously video frame into a current frame. A Delta Frame may include one or more Grid Based Predicted Error (“GBPE”) Values. The GBPE may be generated by source-side image processing logic using processes or techniques similar to those described in the MPEG and/or H.264 Standards, with the exception that the prediction error values may be calculated relative to a noisy predicted frame (e.g. based on an analog reception of a base frame) which has been grid quantized based on video sink transceiver SNR (e.g. substantially each pixel value in the predicted frame is rounded off up or down to a value on some grid).
US09596438B2	Information processing system linking information processing apparatus with image pickup apparatus, information processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An information processing apparatus that is capable of automatically performing setting for monitoring the information processing apparatus by an image pickup apparatus. The information processing apparatus is equipped with a display unit. A special pattern display unit displays a predetermined special pattern on the display unit. A reception unit receives a response showing that the special pattern is detected from the image pickup apparatus that detects the special pattern displayed on the display unit by the special pattern display unit. A setting unit sets the image pickup apparatus that transmits the response as an image pickup apparatus used to monitor the information processing apparatus when the reception unit receives the response.
US09596434B2	Communication management system, communication system, communication terminal, communication management method, and recording medium A communication management system starts transmission of first image data captured at a first communication terminal to a second communication terminal through a communication session for display at the second communication terminal, and in response to receiving a communication start request for starting communication with the second communication terminal from the first communication terminal, starts transmission of second image data and second audio data respectively captured at the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal, and first audio data captured at the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal, through the communication session, to enable communication between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.
US09596429B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for providing content when loud background noise is present Media content presentation systems and methods are operable to present a media content event comprising a video portion and an associated audio portion to a user. An exemplary embodiment compares a detected level of background noise with a first background noise level threshold; increases output volume of the presented audio portion of the media content event when the level of background noise exceeds the first background noise level threshold; determines text when the level of background noise exceeds a second background noise level threshold; determines sentences from the determined text; and presents on a display the beginning portion of a current sentence in the dialog of the text when the increasing level of background noise exceeds a maximum background noise level threshold.
US09596426B2	Imaging device, imaging system, and method for driving imaging device An imaging device includes first and second photoelectric conversion portions, a charge holding portion, first and second transfer transistors, and an amplifier portion, wherein in a first control operation, from a state in which the first and the second transfer transistors are off, the first transfer transistor is turned on while the second transfer transistor remains off, in a second control operation, the first and the second transfer transistors are being on, and a difference between a control voltage provided in the first control operation to the first transfer transistor to turn on and a control voltage provided to the first transfer transistor to turn off is smaller than difference between a control voltage provided in the second control operation to the first transfer transistor to turn on and the control voltage provided to the first transistor to turn off.
US09596424B2	Image capturing apparatus and method of controlling the same An image capturing apparatus comprising an image sensor including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, and a first holding unit and a second holding unit configured to store signals output from the plurality of pixels and a driving unit configured to perform first write processing for writing first signals supplied from a first number of photoelectric conversion elements of each pixel in the first holding unit and second write processing for writing second signals supplied from a second number of photoelectric conversion units of each pixel.
US09596421B1	Apparatus comprising a high dynamic range single-photon passive 2d imager and methods therefor A method for computing the intensity of light incident on a photodiode capable detecting single photons comprises using arrival-time statistics for a plurality of detected single photons. The statistics are based on the determination of the arrival time for each detected photon relative to the beginning of a detection period within an image frame in which the photon is detected. In some embodiments, Poisson statistics are applied to the computation of the intensity. By computing the intensity of light in this manner for each of plurality of single-photon photodetectors that compose a focal plane array, a high-contrast image of a scene can be developed.
US09596417B2	Event correlation using data having different time resolutions Methods, Systems, Devices and Programs are provided for obtaining high time resolution data from low time resolution data and subsequently comparing the timings of two events which have been simultaneously recorded by devices with two different time resolutions.
US09596416B2	Microscope system A microscope system comprises: a stage carrying a sample; an optical system forming an sample image; a driver driving at least the optical system or stage to relatively moves the sample and optical system; an imaging section capturing a reference viewing field image as an image of a predetermined viewing field range of the sample and peripheral viewing field images each being an image of a peripheral viewing field range containing a predetermined region in the predetermined viewing field range and different from the predetermined viewing field range, by the driver moving the relative position of the sample; a correction gain calculator calculating a correction gain of each pixel of the reference viewing field image based on the reference viewing field image and peripheral viewing field image; and a corrector performing shading correction on the reference viewing field image based on the calculated correction gain.
US09596413B2	Display apparatus for controlling field of view A display apparatus for controlling a field of view is provided. When a mode it set to a photograph mode, the display apparatus may control the field of view when photographing, by sensing an input light emitted from an object and transmitted through a first panel on which a field of view control pattern is formed, and a second panel on which an imaging pattern is formed.
US09596412B2	Method and apparatus for photographing an image in a user device A method of photographing an image is provided. The method includes displaying a preview image in a photographing mode; receiving a plurality of setting values for an option; receiving a request for photographing; and performing a continuous photographing by sequentially changing the plurality of the setting values in response to the request for photographing.
US09596408B2	Image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes image capturing devices; page memories for the image capturing devices, respectively, each page memory storing a piece of image data output from the corresponding image capturing device; a page-memory read unit configured to read pieces of image data stored in the page memories line by line in a time division manner; an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on the pieces of image data read from the page memories for the image capturing devices line by line in the time division manner; and a write monitoring unit configured to monitor write states of the pieces of image data that are output from the image capturing devices and written into the page memories, and control the page-memory read unit to start reading the pieces of image data from the page memories.
US09596406B2	Image pickup apparatus associating shooter and shot image, and control method for the same An image pickup apparatus capable of associating a shooter with a shot image in consideration of shooter's intention. The image pickup apparatus has a first image pickup unit that shoots a subject to obtain a first image and a second image pickup unit that shoots a shooter to obtain a second image. An identification unit identifies a person existing in the first image to obtain first identification information and identifies a person existing in the second image to obtain second identification information. A recording unit records the second identification information as shooter information in metadata of the first image, together with the second image. If, after the person existing in the second image is identified, the same person as the person identified from the second image is identified from the first image, identification information about the same person is recorded as the shooter information in the metadata.
US09596402B2	Microlens array for solid-state image sensing device, solid-state image sensing device, imaging device, and lens unit According to an embodiment, a microlens array for a solid-state image sensing device includes a plurality of microlenses and a state detector. The plurality of microlenses are disposed in an imaging microlens area and is configured to form two-dimensional images. The state detector is disposed on a periphery of the imaging microlens area and is configured to, on an image forming surface of the microlenses, generate images having a smaller diameter than images formed by the microlenses.
US09596400B2	Image pickup apparatus that periodically changes exposure condition, a method of controlling image pickup apparatus, and storage medium An image pickup apparatus capable of performing proper image evaluation in photographing a moving image by changing the exposure condition. An image pickup unit picks up an image of an object and a driving unit drives a focus lens in an optical axis direction. A control circuit controls a focus state of the object by causing the driving unit to move the focus lens in the optical axis direction. A focus evaluation value is acquired from each image. The control circuit causes the image pickup unit to pick up images of a multistage exposure image group by changing exposure time, selects an image according to exposure time, updates a direction of driving the focus lens using the focus evaluation value acquired from the selected image, and causes the driving unit to move the focus lens in the updated driving direction.
US09596399B2	Apparatus for intelligent and autonomous video content generation and streaming A system for automatically capturing an event of interest in a venue is disclosed, comprising a plurality of cameras for capturing video images of the event; and at least one processor communicatively connected to said plurality of cameras and configured to execute a plurality of modules, said modules comprising a rectification module for combining the video images to form a wide-angle view; at least one of a motion analysis module configured for tracking salient blobs that are not part of a background of the wide-angle view, an activity analysis module configured for extracting temporal and spatial patterns from the wide-angle view, and a shape and appearance module configured for selecting one or more objects in the wide-angle view based on descriptors that are scale and rotational invariant; and a region of interest selector for selecting a viewpoint from the wide-angle view based on output from at least one of the motion analysis module, the activity analysis module, and the shape and appearance module, wherein the region of interest selector outputs the selected viewpoint for display. The system further comprises at least one audio recording device for capturing audio from the event; and means for synchronizing the video images and audio.
US09596395B1	Camera framing light A framing light uses horizontal and vertical framing-light assemblies in which two opposite framing lines of a projected frame are projected from a single light source by use of a beamsplitter, a line emitting laser diode and an angular adjustment which adjusts a spread angle by swinging the light emitting laser diode around a beamsplitter while the beamsplitter is stationary.
US09596394B2	Camera and lens module A camera and a lens module are provided. The camera includes a lens module and an image sensor. The lens module includes a lens unit including a protrusion, the lens unit being configured to move in a direction of an optical axis of the camera. The lens module further includes a movement guide including an inclination part, the protrusion being configured to slide along the inclination part while the lens unit moves in the direction of the optical axis. The lens module further includes a driver configured to drive the lens unit in the direction of the optical axis, and a pre-loader configured to provide a pre-load between the lens unit and the movement guide in the direction of the optical axis.
US09596391B2	Gaze based directional microphone According to the invention, a system for converting sound to electrical signals is disclosed. The system may include a gaze tracking device and a microphone. The gaze tracking device may determine a gaze direction of a user. The microphone may be more sensitive in a selected direction than at least one other direction and alter the selected direction based at least in part on the gaze direction determined by the gaze tracking device.
US09596389B2	Method for manufacturing an imager module and a corresponding imager module A method for manufacturing an imager module, includes: applying a flexible, in particular elastic, receiving area to a carrier device, for example, a metal plate, and applying an image sensor to the flexible receiving area, the image sensor being tiltable and/or pivotable with the flexible receiving area, attaching a lens, in particular including a guide device, on the image sensor so that the lens aligns the image sensor so that an axis, in particular an optical axis of the lens, extends essentially in parallel to a normal of the image sensor, and fixing the lens on the image sensor and/or the carrier device. The guide device may be formed by three guide pins here, whose lower pin ends define a support plane, which is placed on a sensor surface. In addition, an imager module manufactured in this way is created.
US09596386B2	Media synchronization Systems and methods are described for synchronizing media data. A method of synchronizing media data includes receiving a reference acoustic fingerprint for a first media data, generating at least one acoustic fingerprint fragment from a portion of the first media data, comparing the at least one acoustic fingerprint fragment against the reference acoustic fingerprint and identifying a match, and synchronizing a second media data with the first media data based on the match.
US09596385B2	Electronic apparatus Embodiments provide a video camera configured to capture, compress, and store video image data in a memory of the video camera at a rate of at least about twenty three frames per second. The video image data can be mosaiced image data, and the compressed, mosaiced image data may remain substantially visually lossless upon decompression and demosaicing.
US09596384B2	Signal conversion method and apparatus, program, and print system Provided are a signal conversion method and apparatus, a recording medium storing non-transitory program, and a print system which can prevent a color reproduction gamut from being excessively narrowed while avoiding a print failure caused by excess color material. A signal conversion method for limiting the total amount of color materials used in a printing device that forms an image on a recording medium using a plurality of color materials includes determining a final output vector after the total amount of color materials used is limited for an input vector, on the basis of a plurality of input/output signal conversion processes based on different limit values of the total amount of color materials used and weight definition information in which weights applied to the conversion results of the plurality of input/output signal conversion processes are determined according to the input vector.
US09596379B2	Image reading apparatus Provided is an image reading apparatus capable of reading an image of an original at a high resolution by an image pickup unit by reducing an influence of a dark line included in a projection image on an original placing stand, which is ascribable to a displaying element included in a projecting unit and is to be exerted on an original placed on original placing stand. The image reading apparatus includes: an image pickup unit conducting image pickup for a placing surface; a projecting unit projecting an image on placing surface; and a switching unit switching a blur amount of image on placing surface, in which the switching unit sets a blur amount of image in a first mode, in which the image pickup is not conducted by image pickup unit, smaller than that in a second mode, in which the image pickup is conducted by image pickup unit.
US09596375B2	Image capturing apparatus for recording a raw image, control method of image capturing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium with continuous shooting mode control of development process on raw image data in accordance with free storage space An image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing unit, a generating unit which generates RAW image data with an image obtained by the image capturing unit, wherein the generating unit sequentially generates RAW image data of a plurality of pictures in a continuous shooting mode, a storage unit temporarily storing the RAW image data, a first development unit performing development processing on the RAW image data, a recording unit recording, onto a recording medium, first image data obtained by the first development unit and the RAW image data and a control unit, in the continuous shooting mode, performing control so that the first development unit does not perform the development processing on the RAW image data if free storage space of the storage unit available for storing the RAW image data is smaller than a first threshold.
US09596372B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image forming apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises an input interface, a light source unit, a reading unit and a control unit. The input interface receives an input reading condition. The light source unit comprises a plurality of light sources which emit lights of different wavelengths. The reading unit reads an image on a sheet irradiated by the light of the light source unit. The control unit separately controls the quantity of the light emitted from each light source according to the reading condition input from the input interface.
US09596370B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus acquires a plurality of first images and one or a plurality of second images. The first images are acquired through a first reading operation in which a reading apparatus sequentially reads first sides of a plurality of document sheets. The second images are acquired through a second reading operation in which the reading apparatus reads second sides of one or more of the plurality of document sheets. In a case where the number of second images acquired is smaller than the number of first images acquired, the image processing apparatus determines a sequence of the plurality of first images and the one or the plurality of second images such that sequential numbers of the one or the plurality of second images are differently set depending on whether an interrupting factor has arisen.
US09596368B2	Server apparatus, method for controlling server apparatus, and storage medium A server apparatus configured to receive a job from an information processing apparatus and generate print data to be printed by a printing apparatus searches for, in response to reception of the job, a camera configured to image a printing apparatus identified by the job. The server apparatus receives an image of the printing apparatus captured by the camera, and distributes the received image to an information processing apparatus identified by the job.
US09596367B2	Function performing device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device, and function performing system A function performing device may register device information in the mediation server. The device information may include network information which is related to a network to which the function performing device is currently belonging or to which the function performing device is to belong. The function performing device may obtain a first performing instruction from a terminal device not via the mediation server but via the network as a result of the terminal device having joined the network by using the network information, obtain a second performing instruction from the mediation server as a result of the terminal device having supplied a supplying instruction to the mediation server without joining the network, and perform a function in a case where the first or second performing instruction is obtained.
US09596364B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an output instruction to output data; a calculator configured to calculate an index value indicating a cost or an environmental burden when data subjected to output are output in a first output condition specified by the output instruction, and the index value when the data are output in a second output condition differing from the first output condition; and a display controller configured to display a screen to display a calculation result obtained by the calculator and to receive an output instruction based on one of the first and the second output conditions.
US09596358B2	System and method for corporate mobile subscription management This invention relates generally to a system and method to provide mobile subscription service management for medium and large corporations, allowing continuing backend total cost optimization. It determines a minutes pool collectively shared by a group of users, with an equitable cost allocation scheme which assures individual cost saving relative to the least cost stand-alone plan. The system provides real-time active mobile devices usage alert management, expense monitoring, report generation, individual internal cost center based billing and hierarchical data access through a web-based portal. The system is built on a Uniform Database, pulling information from Monthly Statements, Call Detail Records (CDRs), invoices, plan features and data usage summaries across diverse vendor platforms. The system covers all mobile communication devices, including but not limited to all smart phones (Blackberries, Androids, Windows and i-Phones herein), encompassing various protocols (CDMA, GSM or dual mode) and transmission media (WiFi and cellular network).
US09596354B2	Method and system for providing ring back tone played at a point selected by user Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing a ringback tone (RBT). The system for providing an RBT to a user comprises: a sound file storage for storing a sound file; a user database receiving sound selection information from a user terminal, recording a sound identifier of the sound file corresponding to the sound selection information, receiving output position information of the selected sound file from the user terminal, and recording the sound position information; and an RBT providing unit reproducing a region which corresponds to the output position information from the sound file corresponding to the sound identifier with reference to the sound file storage and the user database so as to be provided as an RBT.
US09596352B2	Call forwarding system and method for forwarding a call to a terminal through near-field wireless communication In a call forwarding system, a management apparatus of the call forwarding system determines service terminals capable of near field wireless communication within a reception range of near field wireless communication, generates a terminal list, and receives a call event message reporting the receipt of a call from a reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit a call report message including the terminal list to the reference terminal and the service terminals. The management apparatus may forward the call initially received by the reference terminal to a terminal which transmitted a receipt request message by transmitting a call forwarding request message to the reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit, to the reference terminal and the service terminals, a receipt report message reporting the call was forwarded. According to a change receipt message or upon non-receipt by an intended terminal, the call may be reforwarded to another terminal.
US09596347B2	Method and system for providing a hold media service An approach is provided for determining that a device has been placed on a hold status during a communication session, wherein hold media is presented to the device during the hold status. The approach involves determining that the device and/or the communication session is registered for a hold music service that provides media from a content provider. The approach also involves requesting personalized media from the content provider. The approach further involves presenting the personalized media to the device as the hold media during the hold status.
US09596346B1	Method for decoupling caller routing services and off-net data acquisition Call routing system and method for routing calls based upon an initiator's current location in a wireless communications network. The call routing system includes an interface to receive incoming communications directed to an identifier identifying different geographic locations of destination party. Interactive unit interacts with off-network providers. Call routing process is created to determine, based on the current location of the initiator, which geographic location to direct the communication and gateway mediation process is created to inquire from off-network service the current location of the initiator, to receive location data related to the initiator's current location, and to return the received location data to the call routing process. Interactive unit is configured to terminate communication to geographic location of the destination party based on the initiator's current location. Incoming communication and terminating communication are bridged at interactive unit.
US09596345B2	Methods and apparatus for line selection in a communication device Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication module for making a call over a network to a target recipient. In one broad aspect, a determination of which of the communication lines is a communication line associated with the one of two or more message addresses at which a message is received is made in the selection of a communication line accessible at the communication device on which an outgoing call may be placed.
US09596343B2	Controlled-environment facility resident communication detection Systems and methods insert a modulated signal into audio of a controlled-environment facility resident's side of a call, such as by a controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like. The same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like, may detect the same and/or another modulated signal inserted into the audio of the same and/or another controlled-environment facility resident's side of the call in the audio of an other party's side of the call. The same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like, may determine if more than one modulated signal is present in the other call party's side of the call and alert an authority that more than one controlled-environment facility resident is taking part in the call.
US09596342B2	Mobile station and mobile communication method A mobile station and a mobile communication method are provided, which are, if being able to output a local ringing tone and a NW-provided ringing tone, capable of continuing a ringing tone outputted before a transition from LTE to 3G by aSRVCC even after the transition is made. A UE (100A) executes continuation processing (aSRVCC) of a 3G voice communication service if the mobile station makes a transition of the connection destination from LTE to 3G during an alert period when the other party in the voice communication service is being alerted. Further, the UE (100A) outputs a NW-provided ringing tone without outputting a local ringing tone based on data stored in the mobile station after making a transition to a second radio access system if aSRVCC is executed during a period when the NW-provided ringing tone is being outputted.
US09596334B1	Communication device The communication device comprising a voice communication implementer, a ringing mode implementer, a silent mode implementer, an answering machine implementer, and a stereo audio data output implementer.
US09596333B2	Speakerphone control for mobile device A speakerphone system integrated in a mobile device is automatically controlled based on the current state of the mobile device. In one implementation, the mobile device is controlled based on an orientation or position of the mobile device. In another implementation, the control of the speakerphone includes automatically controlling one or more graphical user interfaces associated with the speakerphone system.
US09596332B2	Mobile device shade Provided is a mobile electronic device shade, sun-blocking, and/or privacy apparatus, comprising a shade having a deployed state and an stowed state smaller than the deployed state, the deployed state is arranged to shade a display of a mobile electronic device. Also included is a containment mechanism having a stow compartment configured to stow the shade in the stowed state. A state transition mechanism is configured to transition the shade from the stowed state in the stowed compartment into the deployed state and back again, in response to user actuation. The shade can be attachable to, form part of, or form part of a case for maintaining the mobile electronic device.
US09596328B2	Hierarchical criteria-based timeout protocols A method of applying a timeout protocol by an access manager to a plurality of resources may include storing the timeout protocol comprising at least one criterion, and receiving a request for a first resource. Each of the resources can be segregated into separate application domains, the first resource can be associated with a first attribute, and the first attribute can be assigned a first value. The method may also include determining that the first value satisfies the at least one criterion, associating the timeout protocol with the first resource, and associating the timeout protocol with each resource that is associated with the first attribute assigned a value that satisfies the at least one criterion. The method may further include granting access to the first resource according to the timeout protocol.
US09596323B2	Transport accelerator implementing client side transmission functionality Transport accelerator (TA) systems and methods for accelerating transmission of content from a user agent (UA) of a user device to a remote recipient are provided according to embodiments of the present disclosure. Embodiments comprise a TA architecture implementing a connection manager (CM) and a request manager (RM). A RM of embodiments subdivides fragments of content provided by the UA into a plurality of content chunks, each fragment may be subdivided into multiple content chunks. The RM of embodiments provides content chunks to a connection manager (CM) of the TA for transmitting the content chunks. The CM of embodiments transmits the content chunks via a plurality of connections established between the CM and the remote recipient.
US09596319B2	Simultaneous input system for web browsers and other applications In a computing environment having a multiple input detection system including a detector that detects and transmits multiple simultaneous user inputs from different users at a same time, a method for processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the computing environment running an operating system (OS) designed to run with a single user GUI, the method including determining, in a primary application, separate from the OS, that a first user input corresponds to a first window and a second user input corresponds to a second window, the primary application sending the first and second user inputs to first and second secondary applications that run in parallel with the primary application, the first and second secondary applications being designed to run with the OS.
US09596316B2	Optimizing bandwidth usage and improving performance for web page caching Improving of bandwidth usage and performance for web page caching. Responsive to a subsequent request for a web page, a server only returns the set of web page portions of the requested web page that are not in a browser cache, have expired, and/or have changed.
US09596314B1	Ordering of digital content based on a content model Ordering of digital content based on models is presented. A user request for digital content is received. A content prefetching model is selected from a plurality of content prefetching models. The content prefetching model is used for prefetching a plurality of portions of the digital content. The content prefetching models are generated based on prior history associated with the digital content. A prefetch sequence for the digital content is generated based on the selected content prefetching model. The plurality of portions can be obtained using the prefetch sequence.
US09596312B2	Static resource caching A method and system for static resource caching in a networking system are provided. The system includes a fetcher instantiated on a particular user device. The fetcher can be a browser plug-in, a separate process or a program integrated into another process on the particular user device. The fetcher downloads static resource data from a web server and groups the downloaded static resource data into a plurality of static resource packages. In some embodiments, the fetcher may predict new static resource package(s) that the particular user may need by analyzing the particular user's activities on the web server and web traffics on the particular user device. Therefore, static resource data from the web server may be effectively cached on the particular user device even before any browser is launched on the particular user device.
US09596311B2	Dynamic data compression A method for dynamic data compression includes receiving, at a first computer system, a request for data from a second computer system. A distance factor is determined, based, at least in part, on distance separating the first computer system and the second computer system. A processor loading factor is determined, based, at least in part, on one or more processor utilization percentages of the first computer system, and a network bandwidth factor is determined, based, at least in part, on bandwidth utilization of data transport fabric interconnecting the first computer system and the second computer system. A data compression selection index is calculated, based, at least in part, on the distance factor, the processor loading factor, and the network bandwidth factor. The requested data is compressed, when indicated by the calculated data compression selection index, and transmitted from the first computer system to the second computer system.
US09596310B2	System and method for real-time, push style, distributed dashboard networks A distributed dashboard system including related server side and communication related functionality is provided. The key is loosely defined metadata for input data coupled with the fact that metadata can be defined after the data is loaded to system. Only the part of metadata relevant to use of dashboard needs to be mapped. In current invention data can be loaded before “import file specification” is defined, and then meaning given in “point and click” fashion. Users can subscribe to different type of gauges (that make up the dashboard) to construct their own dashboard, mostly in a web based user interface, but also from the dashboard itself. In addition to gauges displaying information also input controls called levers are supported allowing users to input commands to the system that are processed by local device or server side system.
US09596308B2	Display of person based information including person notes Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include generating a profile based on the collected historical communication data and personal data. The method may include receiving user input and incorporating the user input into the profile. The method may include presenting the profile including the user input in response to user behavior.
US09596301B2	Distributed-leader-election service for a distributed computer system Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for leadership allocation in a distributed computer system. In certain embodiments of the present invention, a leader-election-service process runs within each node of a distributed computer system, together cooperatively providing a distributed-leader-election service. The distributed-leader-election service employs a distributed consensus service to manage distributed state information related to roles and leadership allocation within a distributed computer system. Client processes within each node interface with the leader-election-service process of the node in order to assume leadership of particular roles within the distributed computer system. Leadership-allocation management is thus centralized, within each node. In alternative embodiments, the distributed-leader-election service may be implemented as a collection of library routines that run in the context of client processes.
US09596299B2	Systems and methods for dynamically expanding load balancing pool The present application is directed towards systems and methods for configuring and applying autoscaling to a service group of an intermediary device for a domain based server. All the IP addresses resolved by the domain name of the server and that are determined as up will automatically become members of the service group. The resolver monitor will resolve the server's domain name based on the TTL (Time to Live) value in the address record or whenever the appropriate command is executed. Each time the domain is resolved, if there is a change in the number of IP addresses resolved, then the members of the service group will shrink or expand based on the number of IP addresses resolved.
US09596297B2	Managing communications in a multi-client, multi-server environment According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is implemented by a server in a server cluster. A request received from a client includes a session identifier (ID) identifying a session between the client and the server, and a correlation ID that is linked to the request. If the correlation ID is not included in an individual server-specific session microcache for the session, the request is processed to determine a response, the response is added to the session microcache, and the response and an indication of the correlation ID are sent to the client. If the correlation ID and a response to the request are stored in the session microcache, the response and an indication of the correlation ID are re-sent to the client. The session ID and session microcache are transferred to another of the plurality of servers in the server cluster to continue the session.
US09596295B2	Computing connected components in large graphs Systems and methods for improving the time and cost to calculate connected components in a distributed graph are disclosed. One method includes reducing a quantity of map-reduce rounds used to determine a cluster assignment for a node in a large distributed graph by alternating between two hashing functions in the map stage of a map-reduce round and storing the cluster assignment for the node in a memory. Another method includes reducing a quantity of messages sent during map-reduce rounds by performing a predetermined quantity of rounds to generate, for each node, a set of potential cluster assignments, generating a data structure in memory to store a mapping between each node and its potential cluster assignment, and using the data structure during remaining map-reduce rounds, wherein the remaining map-reduce rounds do not send messages between nodes. The method can also include storing the cluster assignment for the node in a memory.
US09596288B2	Method and system of requesting information from a server computer A method and system for requesting information by a client computer system from a server computer system are provided. The method includes sending a request for policy capability of the server computer system for a data type; receiving a response to the request including a list of derived data types that are supported by the server computer system; generating a policy using the list of derived data types; and sending a first data file and a first data file virtualization policy for storage.
US09596287B2	Systems and methods for extraction of vehicle operational data and sharing data with authorized computer networks Systems and methods for the generation and sharing of vehicle operation are provided. The system includes: a data harvesting device connected to a vehicle, the data harvesting device capturing vehicle information from the vehicle and processing the vehicle information to generate current vehicle operation data; and a computer system in communication with the data harvesting device, the computer system including one or more server computers. The computer system includes a database system for logging the current vehicle operation data, the database system including a profile for the vehicle configured to store the received current vehicle operation data. The computer system is configured to transmit the current vehicle operation data to one or more remote server computers. The computer system is also operable to enable the sharing of vehicle operation data and related information via social networks.
US09596286B2	Method to process HTTP header with hardware assistance In processing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers, a packet pre-processor is configured with at least one predetermined header field identifier. The packet pre-processor detects at least one header field identifier in a header field of an HTTP packet received over an HTTP session between a host and a server, matches the predetermined header field identifier to the header field identifier in the HTTP packet, generates a header report block comprising information corresponding to the header field identifier in the HTTP packet, and sends the HTTP packet and the header report block to a processor module for processing the HTTP packet based on the header report block. The processor module receives the HTTP packet and the header report block from the packet pre-processor, retrieves a service policy using the header report block, applies the service policy to the HTTP packet, and sends the HTTP packet to the host or the server.
US09596285B2	Methods and systems for AVB networks Embodiments are disclosed for a device for determining which packets of an audio/video stream include a valid presentation time. In some embodiments, a device comprises a communication interface communicatively connectable to another device and configured to transmit data, a processor, and a storage device that stores instructions executable by the processor to designate a sample of an audio/video stream as including a valid presentation time responsive to a sum of a number of data blocks that have been sampled since a last valid presentation time stamped data block and a number of data blocks in the sample being greater than or equal to a threshold value.
US09596283B2	Delivering content in multiple formats Content may be received at an edge location in one format, but delivered to a terminal on an access network in another format. The received content may be transcoded at the edge location. The transcoded content may be stored, or immediately delivered. The transcoded content may be fragmented prior to storage. Multiple copies of the transcoded content may be maintained in multiple formats. These formats may be aligned with one another such that delivery of the content can include delivering portions of the content in one format and other portions of the content in another format.
US09596278B2	Extending caching network functionality to an existing streaming media server A content delivery network (CDN) includes multiple cluster sites, including sites with streaming media servers, caching servers and storage devices accessible to the caching servers for storing streaming content. Interface software is configured to initiate retrieval, by a caching server, of electronic streaming resources from the one or more storage devices in response to requests for the electronic streaming resource received by the streaming media server.
US09596269B1	User-directed privacy control in a user-centric identity management system An identity management system incorporates privacy management processes that enable the user to exercise privacy controls over the disclosure of user identity information within the context of an authentication process. A combination includes an identity selector, a privacy engine, and a ruleset. The identity selector directs the release of a user identity as a security token to satisfy the requirements dictated by a security policy. Prior to release of the user identity, the engine conducts a privacy enforcement process that examines the privacy policy of the service provider and determines its acceptability. The engine evaluates a ruleset against the privacy policy. A preference editor enables the user to construct, in advance, the ruleset embodying the user's privacy preferences regarding the disclosure of identity information. Based on the evaluation results, the user can either approve or disapprove the privacy policy, and decide whether to proceed with disclosure of the user identity.
US09596268B2	Security enforcement in virtualized systems A system includes a virtual machine (VM) server and a policy engine server. The VM server includes two or more guest operating systems and an agent. The agent is configured to collect information from the two or more guest operating systems. The policy engine server is configured to: receive the information from the agent; generate access control information for a first guest OS, of the two or more guest operating systems, based on the information; and configure an enforcer based on the access control information.
US09596267B2	Multi cloud policy enactment via organizations to cloud-provider partnerships A method includes acts for establishing a subscription for an entity. The method includes receiving, at a cloud service provider, a request from an entity to establish a subscription. The request includes credentials for the entity that are not proper credentials for an organization associated with the entity that the entity should use to access services for the organization. The method further includes performing a corrective action based on detecting one or more factors to determine that the entity is associated with the organization. The method further includes providing services based on the corrective action.
US09596264B2	Targeted attack protection using predictive sandboxing Provided herein are systems and methods for targeted attack protection using predictive sandboxing. In exemplary embodiments, a method includes retrieving a URL from a message of a user and performing a preliminary determination to see if the URL can be discarded if it is not a candidate for sandboxing. The exemplary method includes computing a plurality of selection criteria factors for the URL if the URL passes the preliminary determination, each selection criteria factor having a respective factor threshold. The method can further include determining if any of the selection criteria factors for the URL exceeds the respective factor threshold for the respective selection criteria factor. Based on the determining, if any of the selection criteria factors exceeds the factor threshold for the selection criteria factor, the exemplary method automatically processes the URL using a sandbox.
US09596263B1	Obfuscation and de-obfuscation of identifiers A service allowing for obfuscation of identifiers such that the obfuscated identifier values are within a set of valid identifier values. The service allows for resources to be associated with an obfuscated identifier, and for clients to request information regarding obfuscated identifiers and resources associated to obfuscated identifiers.
US09596262B2	Determination of adaptive idle timeout In various embodiments, a method may be provided comprising: determining an adaptive idle timeout value based on the relationship between the number of established TCP connections to a server and the upper threshold value.
US09596258B2	System, apparatus and method for using malware analysis results to drive adaptive instrumentation of virtual machines to improve exploit detection According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a memory to store information and a processor. The processor is adapted to receive information associated with content such as network traffic, to process the stored information and to conduct operations on the content. These operations may comprise determining, by a virtual machine processed by the processor, an occurrence of an event during malware analysis of an object associated with the content, and dynamically altering a virtual machine instrumentation of the virtual machine based on information associated with the event.
US09596257B2	Detection and prevention of installation of malicious mobile applications A combination of shim and back-end server applications may be used to identify and block the installation of malicious applications on mobile devices. In practice, a shim application registers with a mobile device's operating system to intercept application installation operations. Upon intercepting an attempted installation operation, the shim application identifies the application seeking to be installed, generates a key uniquely identifying the application, and transmits the key over a network connection to a back-end server. The back-end server may be configured to crawl the Internet to identify malicious applications and compile and maintain a database of such applications. Upon receiving a key from the shim application, the back-end server can search its database to locate a matching application and, if found, respond to the mobile device with the application's status (e.g., malicious or not). The shim application can utilize this information to allow or block installation of the application.
US09596256B1	Apparatuses, methods and systems for a cyber threat confidence rating visualization and editing user interface The cyber threat intelligence confidence rating visualization and editing user interface technology (hereinafter “TIC”) provides a user interface that allows a user (e.g., a cyber threat analyst, etc.) to submit ratings for various characteristics associated with a cyber threat indicator. In one embodiment, the TIC may instantiate a user interactive risk evaluation component having a user interface input element for a user to submit calculation weights for one or more characteristics of a cyber threat; generate a graphical representation of a cyber threat confidence score for user interface display via the user interactive risk evaluation component; and dynamically adjust the graphical representation of the threat confidence score using at least one of the one or more characteristics weighted by the user configured weight.
US09596253B2	Capture triggers for capturing network data The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system provides a risk-identification mechanism for identifying a security risk from time-series event data generated from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents distributed across a network. Next, the system provides a capture trigger for generating additional time-series event data from the network packets on the one or more remote capture agents based on the security risk, wherein the additional time-series event data includes one or more event attributes.
US09596252B2	Identifying possible security threats using event group summaries A disclosed computer-implemented method includes receiving and indexing the raw data. Indexing includes dividing the raw data into time stamped searchable events that include information relating to computer or network security. Store the indexed data in an indexed data store and extract values from a field in the indexed data using a schema. Search the extracted field values for the security information. Determine a group of security events using the security information. Each security event includes a field value specified by a criteria. Present a graphical interface (GI) including a summary of the group of security events, other summaries of security events, and a remove element (associated with the summary). Receive input corresponding to an interaction of the remove element. Interacting with the remove element causes the summary to be removed from the GI. Update the GI to remove the summary from the GI.
US09596251B2	Method and system for providing security aware applications Instructions for monitoring and detecting one or more trigger events in assets used to implement an application are generated. Instructions for implementing at least one responsive action associated with each of the one or more trigger events is generated. At least part of instructions for monitoring and detecting the one or more trigger events is provided to an asset used to implement the application. The at least part of the instructions for monitoring and detecting the one or more trigger events are used by the asset to detect a trigger event. The instructions for implementing the at least one responsive action associated with each of the one or more trigger events is then used to automatically implement the at least one responsive action associated with the detected trigger event.
US09596249B2	Detecting shared or compromised credentials through analysis of simultaneous actions A privileged account management system can detect when credentials used to access one or more servers have been shared or otherwise compromised. This detection can occur through analysis of simultaneous actions that are performed via multiple sessions associated with the same administrator. When two or more sessions associated with the same administrator are opened, the interactions performed over each of the sessions can be monitored to identify whether such interactions could be performed by a single administrator. If it is determined that the interactions over the multiple sessions could not reasonably be performed by a single administrator, various actions can be taken to address the possible breach to the security of the one or more servers.
US09596248B2	Trojan detection method and device A trojan detection method and device, used to solve the problem in the prior art of being unable to effectively detect a trojan in a network, the method comprising: when a trojan heartbeat is detected in a session, according to whether the trojan heartbeat detection frequency is fixed, increasing the recorded session weight by a corresponding weight and recording the increased weight, and checking whether each packet transmitted from a controlling end to a controlled end complies with the characteristics of a trojan control command packet; if yes, then increasing by a third weight onto the recorded session weight and recording the same, and when the session weight reaches an alarm threshold, generating an alarm to notify that the session is initiated by a trojan. An embodiment of the present invention achieves trojan detection by detecting the packet in the session, thereby the trojan in a network can be detected. The detection to the packet in the session is not simply string matching, thus reducing false alarm rate and effectively detecting the trojan in the network.
US09596247B2	Inmate information center for correctional facility processing Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are provided for correctional facility content management. An inmate computing device provides user interfaces and includes a network interface to connect to processors via a network. A platform application facilitates an inmate interface via the inmate computing device and operates in an application layer. Native modules, designed for the platform application, operate in the application layer. At least one module controls access by the inmate computing device to content from a remote source transmitting the content to facilitate playing and displaying of the content with the inmate computing device. Access regimes define rules regulating the modules. At least one access regime defines rules regulating the access to the content. Each access regime is a function of one or more of an identity of third-party module, an identity of native module, an identity of inmate computing device, an identity of inmate, or a location.
US09596246B2	Provisioning access to customer organization data in a multi-tenant system Methods and systems are described for providing support representative access to applications deployed in an enterprise network environment. An access provisioning system defines a support user class in a user profile database for an application executed on an organization partition within the network. The support user is granted read only privileges to metadata of the application. An organization administrator can grant support personnel access to the application as a support user, thus the ability to view, analyze, and possibly modify the metadata. The access provisioning system generates a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertion upon request by the support personnel to enable access to the data to the extent of the granted privileges. The SAML protocol includes authentication of the support representative as an authorized support user within the system.
US09596245B2	Secure one-way interface for a network device A one-way interface for a network device which secures status registers therein from unauthorized changes. The interface includes a first server, a one-way data link and a second server. The first server is coupled to the status registers to read information stored therein. The first server reads the information from the status registers and transmits the information on an output. The one-way data link has an input coupled to the output of the first server and an output. The second server has an input coupled to the output of the one-way data link and an output coupled to a network. The second server receives the information from the first server via the one-way data link. The second server transmits the information on the output to a predetermined network destination and/or provides a user interface for providing access to the information via the network.
US09596242B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium An information processing apparatus receives a request from a Web server over a network, adds security information to the request, and determines whether to process the request, based on the security information which is added to the request.
US09596239B2	Controlling virtual overlay infrastructure A system has a virtual overlay infrastructure mapped onto physical resources for processing, storage and network communications, the virtual infrastructure having virtual entities for processing, storage and network communications. Virtual infrastructures of different users share physical resources but are isolated. Each infrastructure has its own infrastructure controller to create and configure the infrastructure. It has a user accessible part (CFC) for configuration of that user's infrastructure, and a user inaccessible part (UFC) able to access the mapping and the physical resources. This increases user control to ease system administration, while maintaining security by limiting access to the mapping.
US09596238B2	Using clock drift, clock skew, and network latency to enhance machine identification Methods and systems for authenticating a user device employ a database of global network latencies categorized and searchable by location and calendar date-time of day usage, providing network latency by geography and by time. The database is constructed using voluminous daily data collected from a world-wide clientele of users who sign in to a particular website. Accuracy of the latency data and clock skew machine identification is made practical and useful for authentications using a service provider-proprietary, stable reference clock, such as an atomic clock, so that internal clock jitter of a service provider performing authentications does not affect the network latency time and clock skew identification of user devices. Increased authentication confidence results from using the database for correcting network latency times and user device signatures generated from the clock skew identifications and for cross checking the authentication using comparisons of initial registration to current sign in data.
US09596234B2	Methods and systems for providing bidirectional authentication Methods and systems for providing access to a secure computing device are disclosed. A security device is used to generate a one-time password, a sequence of symbologies, and location information. The security device transmits the password, sequence and location information to the secure computing device for storage and displays the password and sequence to a user. A user device provides a password to the secure computing device in order to obtain access. The secure computing device compares the password with the stored one-time password to verify the user of the user device and sends the sequence to the user device in response. The user or user device verifies the sequence of symbologies to confirm the secure access. The location information may be used to detect fraudulent accesses to the user account.
US09596233B1	Management and authentication in hosted directory service A user, group, and device management and authentication system allows administrators to manage one or more directories with devices that are not associated with a domain of the one or more directories via a set of APIs. The system also allows applications and services that do not have direct access to a list of directory users to access the one or more directories. The user, group, and device management and authentication system may be an add-on system that works in conjunction with a centrally-managed directory service to provide such functionality. For example, the system may generate an access token associated with a particular directory that can be used by a service accessed by an administrator to call an API provided by the system. The API call may be translated into a directory-specific API call that can be used to perform an action in the particular directory.
US09596230B2	Conferencing intelligence engine in a collaboration conferencing system Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing controller in the network configured to control certain aspects of establishing a collaboration conference. In one particular embodiment, the user of the network may access the control system application to provide one or more conferencing parameters or settings the user wishes to be present during a collaboration conference session. The parameters may then be established by the control system and associated with the conferencing session involving the user. In one embodiment, such information may be associated with the identification token. In yet a further embodiment, a user to the collaboration control system may subscribe to receive a notification when another user of the system accesses a portion of a collaboration of the system.
US09596228B2	Methods and systems for handling trusted content from various service providers A method including authenticating one or more service providers that provide one or more services to users, the one or more service providers being authenticated for sending content to the users via a document banking system. The method further includes receiving one or more templates from the one or more service providers. The method furthermore includes receiving content from a service provider corresponding to a service used by a user, the content is received via secure Application Program Interfaces (APIs). The method includes determining whether the service provider is an authenticated service provider and based on the determination, the method includes identifying a template corresponding to the service for which the content is received. Additionally, the method includes overlaying the received content over the identified template and adding the generated document or the updated document to the document bank account of the user.
US09596223B1	Cross-site, TOTP-based two factor authentication A host machine has a web browser. A user of the host machine also has a mobile device. A time-based, one-time password (TOTP) authentication scheme leverages a plug-in associated with the browser to automatically inject a received TOTP code into an element of an HTML-based TOTP authentication page, and to programmatically submit the HTML form (e.g., by mimicking the “click to submit” button on the TOTP form). Typically, the TOTP code is obtained following a successful completion of a push notification interaction between a cloud service, which stores TOTP shared secrets that are used to generate the TOTP codes, and the user of the mobile device.
US09596221B2	Encryption of user data for storage in a cloud server Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for encryption of user data for storage on a remote network server. In one aspect, an example method includes collecting, by a software client, one or more sets of user authentication data from a user device; performing user authentication using one or more sets of user authentication data; when user authentication is successful, calculating a hash of at least one set of the user authentication data; generating an encryption key from the hash of the user authentication data; encrypting the user data using the generated encryption key; and transmitting the encrypted user data to the remote network server for storage.
US09596217B2	Manage encrypted network traffic using spoofed addresses Methods and systems for managing encrypted network traffic using spoofed addresses. One example method includes receiving a request to resolve a domain name; determining that the domain name is included in a predetermined set of domain names; associating a spoofed address with the domain name; sending a response to the request to resolve the domain name including the spoofed address; receiving a secure request for a resource, the secure request directed to the spoofed address; identifying a user identity associated with the secure request; determining that the secure request is directed to the domain name based on the association between the spoofed address and the domain name; and selectively decrypting and/or blocking the secure request based at least in part on determining that the secure request is directed to the domain name and based at least in part on the user identity associated with the secure request.
US09596216B1	Systems and methods for secure cloud-based media file sharing Cloud-based systems and methods to securely share electronic files use a cloud or virtualized server to handle management tasks related to file sharing, while file storage is maintained securely by servers that are not part of the cloud. The content of the file to be shared is not transmitted to or by the cloud. Share requests from file senders, notifications to target recipients, and retrieve requests from target recipients are transmitted to and/or by the cloud.
US09596215B1	Partitioning a filter to facilitate filtration of packets A method may include obtaining a match vector that indicates one or more filter rules that are potentially applicable to a packet. The method may include partitioning the match vector into a plurality of segments. The method may include generating a summary vector that identifies one or more portions of the match vector that include one or more match bits. A match bit may indicate one of the one or more filter rules that is potentially applicable to the packet. The method may include obtaining a relevant segment of the match vector. The relevant segment may include at least one of the portions of the match vector identified by the summary vector. The method may include determining a filter rule to apply based on the match vector and based on the one or more match bits. The method may include applying the filter rule to the packet.
US09596212B2	Apparatus, method, and system for hardware-based filtering in a cross-domain infrastructure An apparatus for hardware-based filtering in a multi-level secure cross-domain infrastructure includes a programmable logic device that includes a filter engine in communication with a first security module. An interface module of the filter engine is configured to receive a message from the first security module. The received message being sent to a second security module, which has a different security classification than the first security module. A filter module of the filter engine is configured to filter the message data according to a message rule, which defines a data compliance requirement associated with the security classification of the second security module. A routing module is configured to provide the message to the second security module in response to the message data complying with the message rule.
US09596197B2	Techniques for sender-validated message transmissions Disclosed are various embodiments, implemented in one or more computing devices, for filtering objectionable content from messages prior to transmission of the messages to recipients. A message is obtained for which a sender seeks to transmit, via a network, to one or more recipients. An examination is determined that is to be performed upon the message, where the examination is selected from among a set of available examinations. An action is initiated for the message, where the action is determined based upon a result of the examination. The action includes at least one of: transmitting the message to the recipients, requesting the sender to review the message, modifying the message, and deleting the message.
US09596195B1	System and method for targeting information based on message content in a reply A method of presenting information to a party through a messaging application is described. Responsive to receipt of a communication from a party (e.g., the first user), a reply is sent. The communication and the reply is presented in an interface to the sender. The messaging system determines matching content that is relevant to one or both of the communication and the reply and determines a quality of the match. Determining the quality of the match may include determining a score for an advertisement based on the advertisement's responsiveness to content identified in the reply message that was sent. Based on a determination that the quality is above a threshold, the matching content is presented along with the communication and the reply.
US09596194B2	System and method for verifying delivery and integrity of electronic messages The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action.
US09596193B2	Messaging with flexible transmit ordering In one embodiment, a system includes a packet reception unit. The packet reception unit is configured to receive a packet, create a header indicating scheduling of the packet in a plurality of cores and concatenate the header and the packet. The header is based on the content of the packet. In one embodiment, a system includes a transmit silo configured to store a multiple fragments of a packet, the fragments having been sent to a destination and the transmit silo having not received an acknowledgement of receipt of the fragments from the destination. The system further includes a restriction verifier coupled with the transmit silo. The restriction verifier is configured to receive the fragments and determine whether the fragments can be sent and stored in the transmit silo.
US09596190B2	Method, apparatus and system for addressing resources A method and an apparatus for addressing resources, the apparatus having a first interface to communicate with end-points operationally connected to the apparatus using a binary web service, the end-points including one or more resources; a second interface for receiving requests regarding the resources and for responding to the requests; a component for storing information on sleeping end-points which are non-continuously available and storing a request queue for each sleeping end-point; a component for receiving through the second interface a request regarding a sleeping end-point, adding the request to the request queue of the end-point; communicating with a sleeping end-point regarding the requests after receiving through the first interface a queue request from the end-point; and sending through the first interface responses for the resolved requests.
US09596189B1	Virtual machine management A migration management service monitors the resource usage or other behavior factors related to virtual machine instances implementing database functionality and hosted on various physical computing devices. Based on the resource usage associated with the implementation of the database functionality and other behavioral factors, the migration management service identifies a set of target hosted virtual machine instances for possible migration. The migration management service can further identify and prioritize from the set of target hosted virtual machine instances which hosted virtual machine instances may have a greater likelihood to impact the execution of other hosted virtual machine instances being hosted in the same physical computing device. Based on the identification and prioritization, the migration management service can then cause the migration of one or more hosted virtual machine instances unto on a different physical computing device.
US09596188B2	Globalization management system and method therefor A globalization management system for managing resources of multiple interrelated data sources corresponding to a plurality of sites accessed through a communications network is provided. The system includes a plurality of target application interfaces respectively coupled to the interrelated data sources through the network. Each interface includes systems for converting a protocol of the respective data source to a predetermined protocol, and the predetermined protocol to the protocol of the respective data source. The system further includes a global management engine coupled to the plurality of target application interfaces. The engine includes a site-to-site relationship manager, a system for reading current content data from the interrelated data sources, a system for comparing the current content data with prior content data, and a project manager for transferring the data identified as a content change to at least one of the interrelated data sources that has been identified as a subscriber site.
US09596187B2	Time-triggered Ethernet-based data transmission method and node device A time-triggered Ethernet (TTE)-based data transmission method and node device, solving the problem of wasting network bandwidth resources in the prior art during TTE-based data transmission; in the method, a main node determines a scheduling period table based on a time-triggered packet; when a node has a to-be-transmitted event-triggered packet, and the node determines, according to the information stored in the scheduling period table, that a physical link occupied by the event-triggered packet is not in conflict with a physical link corresponding to the current time slot, the node transmits the event-triggered packet in the current time slot. The main node does not need to separately allocate time for the event-triggered packet of each node. Therefore, when a node has a to-be-transmitted event-triggered packet, the node can transmit the event-triggered packet in the current time slot as long as the physical link occupied by the event-triggered packet is not in conflict with the physical link corresponding to the current time slot, thus effectively improving data transmission efficiency and network bandwidth utilization.
US09596185B2	Selection of data offer According to an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus configured at least to determine a maximum data quality that is to be offered to a user equipment, compile an offer comprising at least an identifier of a first data item, a quality level of the first data item being at most the maximum data quality, wherein the maximum data quality is determined at least in part based on an access token received from the user equipment.
US09596181B1	Two stage bloom filter for longest prefix match A device may receive a packet that includes a destination address. The device may analyze a first Bloom filter, based on the destination address, in order to identify a prefix range entry associated with the destination address and included in a set of prefix range entries associated with the first Bloom filter. The device may analyze a second Bloom filter, based on the destination address and the identified prefix range entry, in order to identify a prefix length entry associated with the destination address and included in a set of prefix length entries associated with the second Bloom filter. The device may determine routing information associated with the identified prefix length entry. The routing information may identify a longest prefix match associated with the destination address. The device may provide the packet based on the routing information.
US09596180B2	Installation of cached downward paths based on upward data traffic in a non-storing low-power and lossy network In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a parent network device in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) network topology, a data packet destined toward a DAG root and having been output by a target device in the network topology; identifying, by the parent network device based on the received data packet, an identifiable condition for caching a downward path enabling the parent network device to reach the target device independent of any route table entry in the parent network device; and caching, in the parent network device, the downward path enabling the parent network device to reach the target device independent of any route table entry in the parent network device.
US09596179B2	Optimizing private virtual local area networks (VLANS) A network device is provided in a private virtual local area network (VLAN). The network device receives a packet on one of multiple private VLAN ports of the network device, and assigns a classified VLAN signature to the packet. The network device also assigns a primary VLAN signature to the packet, and stores a media access control (MAC) address and the classified VLAN signature of the packet in a single MAC address table.
US09596175B2	Virtual machines in a packet switching device In one embodiment, a packet switching device creates multiple virtual packet switching devices within the same physical packet switching device using virtual machines and sharing particular physical resources of the packet switching device. One embodiment uses this functionality to change the operating version (e.g., upgrade or downgrade) of the packet switching device by originally operating according to a first operating version, operating according to both a first and second operating version, and then ceasing operating according to the first operating version. Using such a technique, a packet switching device can be upgraded or downgraded while fully operating (e.g., without having to reboot line cards and route processing engines).
US09596172B2	Mechanism for exchange of routing data between controllers Inter-tenant and inter-openflow island software communicate in SDN networks by: (i) providing a software defined networking (SDN) network including a plurality of Openflow islands, a first tenant and a second tenant; and (ii) communicating, from the first tenant over the SDN network to the second tenant, a first communication. The first communication passes through at least two Openflow islands of the plurality of Openflow islands as the first communication is communicated through the SDN network from the first tenant to the second tenant.
US09596171B1	Network traffic classification A computer program product for implementing a method comprising receiving a data packet from a network source, extracting source and destination data from the received data packet, and determining a user from the extracted source and destination data from the received data packet. If a label does not exist for the extracted source and destination data from the received data packet, creating a label for the data packet, the label comprising the extracted source data and historic source data for the determined user, calling a chaotic function with the label for the received data packet. If the chaotic function returns false, calling an alternative function for an output with the label for the received data packet. If the chaotic function returns true, capturing the output of the chaotic function, and updating the label with the output of the chaotic function or with the output of the alternative function.
US09596170B2	Dynamically optimizing content delivery using manifest chunking Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system and methods for dynamic re-localization and manifest chunking in a content delivery network. In one implementation, one or more stimuli corresponding to a connection to deliver content from a content source over a network to a user device along a network path are detected. The one or more stimuli indicate a connection issue. An optimized network path through which to deliver the content to the user device is determined based on current network conditions. The optimized network path responds to the connection issue. The user device is dynamically rerouted to the optimized path while providing a substantially continuous delivery of content to the user device.
US09596169B2	Dynamic control channel establishment for software-defined networks having centralized control Dynamic control channel establishment for an access network is described in which a centralized controller provides seamless end-to-end service from a core-facing edge of a network to access nodes. For example, a method includes receiving, by the centralized controller, a discover message originating from a network node, which includes an intermediate node list that specifies a plurality of network nodes the discover message traversed from the network node to an edge node, determining, based on the plurality of nodes specified by the discover message, a path from the edge node to the network node, allocating each of a plurality of Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels to a respective outgoing interface of each of the plurality of network nodes, and outputting one or more control messages for configuring the network node, wherein the control messages are encapsulated within a label stack comprising the allocated plurality of labels.
US09596167B1	Internet protocol virtual private network service performance monitoring An example router includes a control unit configured to receive virtual private network (VPN) routing and forwarding table (VRF) configuration data defining a VRF for a VPN and VPN address space for the VPN, receive configuration data defining a measurement endpoint for measuring performance of a layer 3 (L3) service and associating the measurement endpoint with a remote measurement endpoint of a remote router. The control unit is configured to encapsulate, to generate a flow measurement packet, a layer 2 (L2) measurement packet in a layer 4 (L4) header and an L3 header, where the L3 header includes a source L3 address within the VPN address space and associated with the measurement endpoint, and where the L3 header includes a destination L3 address within the VPN address space and associated with the remote measurement endpoint. The control unit is configured to output the flow measurement packet to the remote router.
US09596162B1	Method and system of imposing a policy rule for heavy usage Disclosed is a method and system of imposing a policy rule for excessive usage in an access network. According to the disclosure, a policy enforcement point (PEP) may detect that usage by a given client device is threshold high and responsively request, from a policy decision point (PDP), a policy directive that specifies a policy rule to apply to the given client device. However, thereafter, the PEP may determine that the requested policy directive has not been received from the PDP and then responsively apply, to the given client device, a default policy rule for threshold-high usage.
US09596159B2	Finding latency through a physical network in a virtualized network Techniques are described for determining latency in a physical network that includes a number of network devices over which packets travel. A virtual network controller receives a plurality of messages from a plurality of network devices in a network, each of the messages including a packet signature comprising a hash of an invariant portion of an original packet that uniquely identifies the original packet, an identifier of one of the plurality of network devices from which the respective message was received, and a timestamp indicating a time an original packet was processed by the network device from which the respective message was received. The virtual network controller determines a latency of a physical network path in the network based on analysis of contents of the identified messages having a common packet signature.
US09596158B2	Common information model (CIM) object transfer via requestor statistical tracking Systems and methods for Common Information Model (CIM) object transfer via requestor statistical tracking. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a computer-implemented method may include providing, via an Information Handling System (IHS), a management console for a CIM environment, wherein the CIM environment includes a plurality of hosts accessible to the console via a network, and wherein each of the hosts has remote agent(s); creating a request to collect data from the remote agent(s), wherein the request follows a Web Services-Management (WS-Man) protocol, the request specifies a timeout and a maximum number of elements to be included in the remote agent(s)' responses, and the maximum number of elements is calculated to allow the remote agent(s) sufficient time to respond to the request prior to expiration of the timeout; and transmitting the request to the remote agent(s).
US09596157B2	Server restart management via stability time A computer-implemented method for monitoring server stability based on a stability time specification of a server includes specifying a stability time for the server, wherein the stability time is defined as a time between a starting state of the server and a stability point of the server. The server activity is monitored by an availability manager to determine an availability status of the server. Responsive to the server activity progressing to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is stable. Responsive to the server activity failing to progress to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is unreliable.
US09596156B2	Network connectivity methods and systems Methods and systems are provided for connecting an electronic device to a network. In some situations, the electronic device connects to a first network provider and pings a first server having a static internet protocol address and a second server having a dedicated uniform resource locator. If the electronic device receives a response from the first and second server, the electronic device maintains its connection to the first network provider. Otherwise, the electronic device connects to a second network provider and pings the first and second servers.
US09596155B2	Encrypted peer-to-peer detection Encrypted peer-to-peer detection is provided. In some embodiments, encrypted peer-to-peer detection includes monitoring network traffic from a first client to determine whether the first client is executing a peer-to-peer application; and generating network traffic that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic sent from the peer-to-peer application executing on the first client to a second client after detecting unknown network traffic sent from the first client to the second client. In some embodiments, encrypted peer-to-peer detection includes monitoring network traffic from a client to determine that the client is sending a request for information for a peer-to-peer application executing on the client; and generating a network traffic response to the client that emulates peer-to-peer network traffic.
US09596148B2	Minimizing service restart by optimally resizing service pools A method, computer program product, and system for optimizing service pools supporting resource sharing and enforcing SLAs, to minimize service restart. A computer processor determines a first resource to be idle, wherein a service instance continues to occupy the first resource that is idle. The processor adds the first resource to a resource pool, wherein the service instance continues to occupy the first resource as a global standby service instance on the first resource. The processor receives a request for a resource, wherein the request for the resource includes a global name associated with a service that corresponds to the global standby service instance, and the processor allocates, from the resource pool, the first resource having the global standby service instance, based on the request for the resource that includes the global name associated with the service corresponding to the global standby service instance.
US09596138B2	Smart dumping of network switch forwarding database Techniques are provided for retrieving entries from a routing table or a forwarding database in a distributed network switch. The forwarding database includes match and mask registers used to compare routing entries and return matching routing entries to a requesting management controller. The forwarding database uses a separate timeout value associated with the forwarding database to avoid timeout errors for general register operations, and allows for an asynchronous dump operation of routing entries.
US09596134B2	Synchronization of configuration file of virtual application distribution chassis Methods and systems for synchronization of configuration files of a plurality of blades in a virtual application distribution chassis are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a master blade processes a configuration command, updates a first configuration file with the configuration command and generates an updated tag, and sends a configuration message to at least one slave blade of the virtual application distribution chassis informing of the updated configuration file. The configuration message is received by a given slave blade of the one or more slave blades and compared with a second configuration file stored at the given slave blade; and in response to determining that the updated tag in the configuration message is more recent than the tag in the second configuration file stored at the given slave blade, the slave blade sends a request for the updated configuration file to the master blade.
US09596133B2	Process execution method and apparatus A disclosed method includes: specifying an activity to be executed, based on process definition that includes plural activities, and that includes a sequence of transitions between activities, wherein each activity includes information representing a device that is operated through a network; first determining, based on the sequence of the transitions, whether or not the specified activity is an initial operation for a certain device whose information is included in the specified activity; and obtaining an access right to the certain device, when determining that the specified activity is the initial operation for the certain device.
US09596132B1	Virtual sandboxing for supplemental content A virtual sandbox environment enables a publisher to publish rules for supplemental content, such as third party advertising, displayed on a page or other grouping of content from the publisher. One or more rule sets can be applied or enforced in a number of ways, such as through active script on a page, as part of a browser or other such application or interface, or via a third party such as an anti-virus application or service. A rule set can specify behavior that is allowed or prohibited, in various circumstances, as well as actions to be taken in response to any unapproved or prohibited behavior. Rule sets may be maintained on, and enforced by, or cached on a client device such that any number of pages or other groupings of content can utilize the same rule set without reloading the set.
US09596120B2	Signal transmission apparatus, distortion compensation apparatus, and signal transmission method A signal conversion unit (120) of a signal transmission apparatus (10) includes an in-band distortion compensation analog circuit unit (122) that generates, for each band, an in-band distortion compensation signal for compensating for in-band intermodulation distortion occurring due to frequency mixing of RF signals of a single band, the distortion being included in RF signals which are output from an amplification unit (130), and causes the generated signal to be carried by the RF signals corresponding to the single band, and an inter-band distortion compensation analog circuit unit (124) that generates, for each combination of two bands, an inter-band distortion compensation signal for compensating for cross-modulation distortion occurring due to frequency mixing of RF signals between a plurality of bands which are input to the amplification unit (130), and causes the generated signal to be carried by each of the RF signals corresponding to the two bands.
US09596118B2	FBMC receiver using a method for synchronization in a frequency domain A filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) receiver implementing a synchronization in the frequency domain. The receiver includes a synchronization module including an error estimator on the sampling instants and, for each subcarrier, an interpolating filter for reconstructing the samples at the accurate sampling instants. A phase-shifter is provided, for each subcarrier, at the output of the interpolating filter, to make a phase compensation. The phase-shifter can be followed by an equalizer in the frequency domain.
US09596112B2	Method for communication via three orthogonal waveforms Aspects of the present disclosure aim at providing three orthogonal waveforms that can be used for transmitting 3n bits (n bits from each waveform) at a given frequency. Such three orthogonal waveforms can be used in applications such as QAM to create a 3-dimensional QAM, along with use in other like applications such as in Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), among others. In an aspect, a method of the present disclosure includes a step of generating three orthogonal waveforms as cos(θ)+k, cos(θ+2π/3)+k, and cos(θ+4π/3)+k, where k is the DC component and can have a value of 0.5 volts, and θ=2 πft with f being the (baseband or passband) frequency=1/T, with T being Time Period, and t being time. Cosine waveforms can be equivalently replaced by sine waveform separated by 120 degrees.
US09596106B2	Pilot pattern for observation-scalar MIMO-OFDM In an embodiment, a transmitter includes a transmission path configurable to generate first pilot clusters in response to a matrix, each first pilot cluster including a respective first pilot subsymbol in a first cluster position and a respective second pilot subsymbol in a second cluster position such that a vector formed by the first pilot subsymbols is orthogonal to a vector formed by the second pilot subsymbols, the matrix having a dimension related to a number of cluster positions in each of the first pilot clusters. For example, where such a transmitter transmits simultaneous orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexed (OFDM) signals (e.g., MIMO-OFDM signals) over respective channels that may impart inter-carrier interference (ICI) to the signals due to Doppler spread, the pattern of the pilot symbols that compose the pilot clusters may allow a receiver of these signals to estimate the responses of these channels more accurately than conventional receivers.
US09596099B2	Scalable network virtualization with aggregate endpoints Techniques provided herein use aggregate endpoints in a virtual overlay network. In general, aggregate endpoints operate as a single receiving entity for certain packets/frames sent between different physical proximities of the virtual overlay network.
US09596098B1	Systems and methods for communication between devices and remote systems with a power cord Systems and methods for remote control of an electronic device using a power cord are disclosed. A power cord that provides electric power to the device includes a module configured to receive wireless control signals originating from and/or transmit wireless signals to a remote device. The power cord includes one or more control wires for communicating signals between the module and the device. The module may be configured to translate information or signals received from the communications protocol of the remote device to the communications protocol of the device, and vice versa. The control wire(s) may extend along or within the power cord. Methods for wirelessly controlling a device comprise transmitting a command from a remote device to a module connected to the device's power cord, the module wirelessly receiving the command and transmitting the command to the appliance via control wires extending from the module to the device.
US09596096B2	Navigation crowd sourcing based on LTE multicast A method for providing crowd sourced navigation alerts including receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), an Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) start session message when the UE is located within a predefined MBMS area. The method may further include receiving traffic message data, which includes information regarding at least one traffic event, over the MBMS session, where the traffic message data may be based on at least one traffic notification provided by at least one second UE. The method may also include comparing a distance from the UE to a position of the at least one traffic event described in the traffic message data to at least one threshold, and providing at least one alert associated with the at least one traffic event based on the comparing.
US09596095B2	Optimized near-simultaneous distribution of multimedia content The “swarming” behavior of multimedia content distribution network subscribers—numerous, near-simultaneous requests for the same content by different users—is predicted, based on analysis of past viewing habits. Users are grouped based on correlations in the multimedia content requested and the time at which it is requested. When a set of users of a group requests particular multimedia content, that content is autonomously distributed, via a shared distribution channel, to the terminal equipment of all users in the group, where it is buffered. As other users in the group request the same multimedia content, an initial portion is distributed to each requesting user via an individual channel. As the rendered content catches up to the buffered content, the terminal equipment switches from the content delivered via the individual distribution channel to the buffered content. The individual distribution is then terminated, and the individual distribution channel released.
US09596093B2	Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and recording medium A communication apparatus having a first state and a second state having different power consumptions receives a communication start request from another communication apparatus when the communication apparatus is in the first state, shifts a state of the communication apparatus to the second state having power consumption which is larger than that of the first state, in response to the reception of the communication start request, and transmits a response to the communication start request to the another communication apparatus if the communication setting used for the communication with the another communication apparatus is not changed after shifting to the second state, and does not transmit a response indicating that the communication in accordance with the communication start request is available to the another communication apparatus if the communication setting is changed.
US09596092B2	On-demand power management in a networked computing environment Methods, apparatuses, program products, and systems are disclosed for on-demand power management in a networked computing environment. A device module determines one or more non-critical devices of a plurality of devices of a software defined network. A non-critical device is determined based on one or more network characteristics of the device. A usage module receives a bandwidth utilization for each of the one or more non-critical devices. The bandwidth utilization includes an amount of network traffic associated with a non-critical device. A power module shuts down at least a portion of the software defined network comprising the one or more non-critical devices in response to the bandwidth utilizations for the one or more non-critical devices being less than a threshold bandwidth. The power module restarts portions of the software defined network that were shut down in response to bandwidth utilizations for different portions of the network exceeding a threshold bandwidth.
US09596091B2	Multiple sensor data processor interface and relay The present invention relates generally to a system and method of networking and interconnecting a large number of various types of sensors to a remote location in an efficient manner. Specifically, the invention utilizes a flexible, configurable, scalable and power-efficient sensor interface relay architecture to gather sensor data from various locations and then relay it to a remote location via the internet.
US09596085B2	Secure battery authentication An embodiment includes a method executed by at least one processor comprising: an out-of-band cryptoprocessor receiving security credentials from a battery, which is included in a mobile computing node that comprises the at least one processor, while the mobile computing node is engaged in at least one of (a) booting, and (b) exchanging the battery after booting and during run-time; the cryptoprocessor accessing an authentication key; and the cryptoprocessor successfully authenticating the battery, via out-of-band processing, based on the security credentials and the authentication key. In an embodiment the security credentials are included in a certificate. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09596078B2	Set of servers for “machine-to-machine” communications using public key infrastructure A set of servers can support secure and efficient “Machine to Machine” communications using an application interface and a module controller. The set of servers can record data for a plurality of modules in a shared module database. The set of servers can (i) access the Internet to communicate with a module using a module identity, (i) receive server instructions, and (iii) send module instructions. Data can be encrypted and decrypted using a set of cryptographic algorithms and a set of cryptographic parameters. The set of servers can (i) receive a module public key with a module identity, (ii) authenticate the module public key, and (iii) receive a subsequent series of module public keys derived by the module with a module identity. The application interface can use a first server private key and the module controller can use a second server private key.
US09596077B2	Community of interest-based secured communications over IPsec A method and system for establishing secure communications between endpoints includes transmitting a first message including a token having one or more entries each corresponding to a community of interest associated with a user of the first endpoint and including an encryption key and a validation key associated with the first endpoint. The method includes receiving a second message including a second authorization token including one or more entries, each entry corresponding to a community of interest associated with a second user and including an encryption key and a validation key associated with the second endpoint. The method includes, for each community of interest associated with both users, decrypting an associated entry in the second authorization token to obtain the encryption key and validation key associated with the second endpoint. The method also includes generating a shared secret based on the key pair, transmitting a third message including the created key pair to the second endpoint, and initializing tunnel using the shared secret to derive encryption keys used for IPsec-secured communications between the endpoints.
US09596075B2	Transparent serial encryption Disclosed herein are methods and systems for configuring and using one or more block ciphering techniques in order to encrypt/decrypt serial data streams while maintaining cryptographic synchronization and attempting to minimize the amount of overhead introduced into the stream. The techniques disclosed herein may be used to encrypt and decrypt serial data streams using a block cipher in a manner that can be substantially transparent to the devices involved in the serial communication session. For example, the serial user data may be left unframed by the encryption device while monitoring for opportunistic times to transmit framed cryptographic synchronization information during periods of relative inactivity in an asynchronous serial data stream. A cryptographic device implementing the techniques described herein may be configured to implement one or more of an encryption device or a decryption device.
US09596074B2	Clock recovery for data signals Embodiments of the present invention provide improved techniques for recovering clock information from data signals. In one embodiment, a general purpose device such as a real-time oscilloscope acquires a data signal. The device takes a derivative of the data signal, then computes the square or absolute of the derivative before applying a bandpass filter. The bandpass filter is a windowing function a spectrum that is wider than the clock, and has a flat top and smooth transitions on both sides. In one embodiment, at Tukey window may be used. The device finds edge crossing times of the filtered result, and applies a phase-locked loop or lowpass filter to the edge crossing times in order to recover a stable clock signal. When the improved techniques are implemented in software, they may be used with any number of different equalizers that are required by various high-speed serial data link systems.
US09596070B2	Methods and apparatuses for device-to-device communication A UE for a cellular communication network is disclosed. The UE is adapted to communicate in a duplex mode with a network node of the cellular communication network, transmitting data to the network node in a UL duplex resource, and receiving data from the network node in a DL duplex resource. The UE is further capable of direct D2D communication with another UE of the cellular communication network using the UL duplex resource. The UE comprises a transceiver adapted to, as part of a D2D control procedure, receive, from the network node, a grant to listen to a transmission in the UL duplex resource from the other UE to the network node. Furthermore, the transceiver is adapted to, as part of the D2D control procedure, in response to receiving said grant, listen to said transmission in the UL duplex resource from the other UE, and determine a quality metric of said transmission from the other UE as received by the transceiver of the UE. A corresponding network node and corresponding methods are also disclosed.
US09596069B2	Narrow bandwidth device in a broadband network Technology for communicating with a narrow bandwidth wireless device in a broadband network is disclosed. One method can include the wireless device retrieving at least one of secondary narrow bandwidth device region (NBDR) configuration information or primary NBDR configuration information from a primary NBDR located in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region of a subframe. The primary NBDR and the secondary NBDRs can be subsets of frequency resources within a wide bandwidth subframe. The wireless device can receive data in at least one of the primary NBDR and the secondary NBDR based on the configuration information. The primary NBDR can be located in the central part of a signal bandwidth spectrum including direct current (DC) subcarrier. The secondary NBDR can use frequency resources within the subframe not used by the primary NBDR.
US09596067B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving channel status information in wireless communication system supporting cooperative transmission The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for reporting CSI (Channel State Information) in a cooperative multi-point (CoMP) wireless communication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising receiving first resource configuration information for a CSI-RS (Channel-State Information-Reference Signal) and second resource configuration information for interference measurement; and calculating CSI using the first resource configuration information and the second resource configuration information, the CSI being for one or more base stations (BSs) among a plurality of BSs participating the COMP, wherein an interference measurement resource according to the second resource configuration information exists in a union of zero-power CSI-RS resources of each of the plurality of BSs.
US09596065B2	Enhanced SRS transmission for MIMO operation in LTE-A Enhanced sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions for multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) operation are disclosed in which a user equipment (UE) detects an observed interference level for each receiver chain of the UE. In response to an imbalance, the UE precodes a SRS targeting downlink operation to indicate the imbalance. The UE then transmits the precoded SRS. In alternative aspects, the precoded SRS vector may be determined by an evolved nodeB (eNB). In such aspects, the eNB determines the precoded SRS vector targeting downlink operations for the served UEs, wherein the determined precoded SRS vector includes determining the precoded SRS vector on a per UE basis, enabling the precoded SRS vector for either one or both of frequency division duplex (FDD) systems and time division duplex (TDD) systems, or enabling the precoded SRS vector for aperiodic SRS only. The eNB then transmits the determined precoded SRS vector to the UE.
US09596064B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving downlink signal A method for receiving a downlink signal by user equipment in a wireless communication system that supports coordinated multiple-point transmission and reception (CoMP) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes receiving information regarding two candidate demodulation reference signal (DMRS) groups for generating a sequence of downlink demodulation reference signals; and generating a sequence of downlink demodulation reference signals using one of at least two candidate DMRS configuration parameter sets. Each of at least two candidate DMRS configuration parameter sets includes a cell identifier and a scrambling identifier. The scrambling identifier included in one of at least two candidate DMRS configuration parameter sets may be determined whether the two cell identifiers included respectively in at least two candidate DMRS configuration parameter sets are the same or not.
US09596060B1	Tone block allocation for orthogonal frequency division multiple access data unit A method for transmitting a first field and one or more second fields is described. A number of devices in a group of multiple devices to which a first OFDMA data unit is to be transmitted is selected. A block allocation that indicates respective integer numbers of different tone blocks of a WLAN communication channel to be assigned to each device in the group of multiple devices is selected. A first field is encoded to indicate both the selected number of devices in the group and the selected block allocation. One or more second fields are encoded to indicate a respective device identifier for each device in the group of multiple devices. The first field and the one or more second fields are transmitted to each device in the group of multiple devices.
US09596054B1	Optical fiber signal quality measuring and reporting in aviation systems and related method A system and method are disclosed for measurement and reporting of signal quality in an optical data link in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER). The system and method of optical fiber signal quality measurement is highly accurate in early determination of signal degradation, is computationally simple in implementation, and is immune to instability with variable temperature and other environmental factors. Counting a number of error free Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC) of a plurality of video signals, the computationally simple method limits the data analysis required to determine a link OK, a link degraded and a link fault status of the optical data link.
US09596049B2	Secure open-air communication system utilizing multi-channel decoyed transmission A secure communication system utilizes multiple “decoy” data signals to hide one or more true data signals. The true data signal(s) are encrypted, and received at a scrambling unit according to an original set of channel assignments. The channel assignments are optically switched with multiple decoy data signals to form a multi-channel “scrambled” output signal that is thereafter transmitted across a communication system. The greater the number of decoy signals, the greater the security provided to the open-air system. Further security may be provided by encrypting the decoy signals prior to scrambling and/or by utilizing a spatially diverse set of transmitters and receivers. Without the knowledge of the channel assignment(s) for the true signal(s), an eavesdropper may be able to intercept (and, with time, perhaps descramble) the open-air transmitted signals, will not be able to distinguish the true data from the decoys without also knowing the channel assignment(s).
US09596048B2	Method for sharing optical fiber for cloud-based wired and wireless access network, and system and apparatus for same A system for sharing an optical fiber for a cloud-based wired and wireless access network, includes: a centralization device to generate summing signals by respectively summing multi-channel optical signals input from a wireless donor unit group and by summing multi-channel wired signals input from a wired donor unit group or generate wavelength-converted signals by wavelength-converting the multi-channel optical signals or the multi-channel wired signals, multiplex the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals, and distribute the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals to a plurality of devices connected to the centralization device via a shared optical fiber; and a distribution device group to generate corresponding optical signals by demultiplexing the summing signals or the wavelength-converted signals in units of wavelengths, and transmit the corresponding optical signals or the multi-channel wired signals to a wireless remote unit group and/or a wired remote unit group via a preset optical fiber.
US09596046B2	Optical line terminal and optical network unit An optical line terminal which includes an observing unit that observes information of any one or all of an arrival interval of frames, an instantaneous bandwidth under use of a flow, a queue length of a queue temporarily storing the frames, and a traffic type, and a stop determining unit that dynamically determines a sleep time to be a period in which a sleep state where partial functions of the ONU are stopped is maintained, on the basis of the information obtained by the observing unit. The ONU is entered into a sleep state, immediately after communication ends, after a predetermined waiting time passes from when the communication ends, or after a waiting time determined on the basis of the information passes from when the communication ends.
US09596044B2	Method and apparatus for analog and digital audio blend for HD radio receivers A method and apparatus are provided for blending analog and digital portions of a composite digital radio broadcast signal by processing compressed audio packets to compute corresponding digital audio quality indicator values, storing the compressed audio packets in an audio blend buffer, processing audio information from each compressed audio packet stored in the audio blend buffer with an audio decoder to generate decompressed digital audio signal samples, and using the digital audio quality indicator values to guide a blending process for combining analog audio signal samples with the digital audio signal samples to produce an audio output by preventing unnecessary blending back and forth between analog and digital if the digital audio quality indicator values indicate that the compressed audio packets are degraded or impaired.
US09596043B2	Quality prediction method and device for physical downlink control channel of long term evolution system Provided are a quality prediction method and device for a physical downlink control channel of a long term evolution system. In the method, a target user equipment (UE) requiring physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) quality prediction is determined, and information reported by the target UE is received. According to the reported information, a prediction index of the target UE is determined, wherein the prediction index is a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of the control channel or an equivalent reception level (RPPDCCH) of the control channel. According to the SINR or the RPPDCCH, the PDCCH quality of the target UE is determined. The present document can be applied to provide more accurate and highly efficient control channel quality prediction for LTE users without adding measurement and signalling, thereby achieving the purpose of providing a quick and precise positioning basis for a control channel element (CCE) resource and power allocation algorithm of an Evolved Node B (eNodeB).
US09596039B2	Method and device for testing radio frequency index and wireless index of active antenna system A method and apparatus for testing a radio frequency index and a wireless index of an active antenna system are provided. A probe-type testing cover based on a near field coupling mode is adopted to test the radio frequency index of the tested active antenna system. The method comprises testing cover monomer calibration, testing cover environment calibration, radio frequency index test, putting the tested active antenna system into the testing cover, wherein the test environment is the same as the calibration environment, and performing radio frequency test on the tested active antenna system through a radio frequency port of a test probe after compensating the test environment according to a calibration result obtained from the calibration. Further a comprehensive testing method is provided.
US09596038B2	Random spread spectrum modulation Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a spread spectrum clocking signal. In a frequency synthesizer, a sequence of values may be generated and used to modulate a frequency of an input signal to the frequency synthesizer.
US09596034B2	High brightness dense wavelength multiplexing laser The present disclosure describes systems and methods for beam wavelength stabilization and output beam combining in dense wavelength multiplexing (DWM) systems. Systems and methods are described for performing beam wavelength stabilization and output beam combining in DWM systems while achieving increased wall-plug efficiency and enhanced beam quality. Interferometric external resonator configurations can be used to greatly increase the brightness of DWM system output beams by stabilizing the wavelengths of the beams emitted by the emitters of the DWM laser source. The resonant cavities described by the present disclosure provide advantages over the prior art in the form of decreased cost, increased wall plug efficiency and increased output beam quality. Particular implementations of the disclosure achieve increased wall plug efficiency and increased output beam quality through a combination of innovative cavity designs and the utilization of reflection diffraction elements for beam combining.
US09596033B2	Optical paired channel transceiver and system An optical paired channel transceiver component comprises an optical channel interface to concurrently receive an inbound optical signal at a designated receiver frequency, and output an outbound optical signal at a designated transmitter frequency distinct from the receiver frequency; a receiver operable to process the inbound optical signal at the receiver frequency; a laser input interface to receive a laser input at the transmitter frequency to produce the outbound optical signal; and a resonant optical structure optically coupling each of the laser input interface and the receiver to the optical channel interface via respective optical paths, and having a resonance corresponding to one of the transmitter frequency and the receiver frequency such that a resonant one of the inbound signal and the outbound signal is resonantly redirected by the resonant optical structure along a resonant one of the respective paths.
US09596027B2	Signal deformation measurement on polarization-multiplexed signals There is provided a method and an apparatus for determining quality parameters on a polarization-multiplexed optical signal based on an analysis of the power spectral density of the Signal-Under-Test (SUT). The method is predicated upon knowledge of the spectral shape of the signal in the absence of significant noise or spectral deformation. This knowledge is provided by a reference optical spectrum trace. Based on this knowledge and under the assumption that ASE noise level is approximately constant in wavelength over a given spectral range, the spectral deformation of the signal contribution of the SUT may be estimated using a comparison of the spectral variations of the optical spectrum trace of the SUT with that of the reference optical spectrum trace.
US09596026B2	Data communication systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods for improved data communication between communication terminals such as a base station and an unmanned aerial vehicle. In some instances, the systems and methods described herein provide robust transmission uplink data such as control data and wideband transmission of downlink data such as image data or other sensor data, while avoiding interference between the uplink data transmission and the downlink transmission.
US09596023B2	Satellite communication centre The invention provides a computer-implemented system (and corresponding method) arranged and configured to manage, manipulate or monitor a plurality of devices provided in association with a unit. The unit may be a vehicle or structure, such as an automotive vehicle, a boat, a trailer or building. The vehicle or structure may be an incident command unit. The invention enables a user to monitor or manage the plurality of devices via a consolidated interface. The plurality of devices may include a satellite support mechanism supporting satellite-related equipment provided in association with the unit; and the system may comprise a satellite controller component to enable a user to manipulate and/or re-orientate the satellite support mechanism via the consolidated interface.
US09596021B2	Method for identifying interfering transmitters from a plurality of known satellite transmitters A method for identifying interfering transmitters, wherein, for each of the satellite transmitters present, a comparison parameter is identified for each transmitter, where the signal is divided into signal periods, each of the samples is normalized, a sampling vector is then created for each of the normalized samples, the sampling vectors are entered into a signal matrix, the elements of the signal matrix are normalized, a singular value decomposition of the signal matrix is performed, and lines of a unitary matrix identified for the signal are used as a comparison parameter for preparation of the signal, and where an interference signal is identified for determining an interfering transmitter for the signal, and a comparison parameter is likewise identified therefor.
US09596012B2	Precoding-related signal transmitting or receiving method and apparatus The present specification relates to a precoding-related information transmitting or receiving method and apparatus. A precoder-related information receiving method by a user equipment according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: transmitting an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) report; receiving a rank indicator and a first precoder indicator from a base station; acquiring a second precoder indicator included in the most recent aperiodic CSI report which corresponds to the rank indicator in the aperiodic CSI reports transmitted by the user equipment; and receiving a signal using the first precoder indicator and the second precoder indicator. According to an embodiment of the present specification, precoding-related information can be effectively transmitted or received.
US09596009B2	Multicast control channel design A system for providing a multicast control channel (MCCH) including information related to a service is provided. The system includes a processor programmed to promote transmission of a MCCH including a multi-cell information portion that contains information common to a plurality of cells in a wireless telecommunications network, and a cell-specific information portion that contains information specific to one of the cells. A method for providing control information is also provided. The method includes transmitting a multicast control channel (MCCH) including information related to a service, wherein the MCCH has a cell-specific portion that contains information specific to a specific cell in a telecommunications network, and wherein the MCCH has a multi-cell portion that contains information common to a plurality of cells in the telecommunications network.
US09596005B2	Wireless energy transfer using variable size resonators and systems monitoring A variable shape magnetic resonator includes an array of at least two resonators each being of a substantially different shapes and at least one power and control circuit configured to selectively connect to and energize at least one of the resonators.
US09596004B2	Method and system of communicating personal health data in a near field communication environment A method and a system for communicating personal health data in a Near Field Communication (NFC) environment are provided. An NFC manager sets control information in an NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF) for providing synchronized communication of personal health data between the NFC manager and an NFC agent. The control information may include a direction flag, a state flag, sequence identifier field, and request/response flag. The NFC manager writes the NDEF format including the control information and payload data into an NFC tag associated with the NFC agent. Subsequently, the NFC manager reads the NDEF record stored in the NFC tag and determines whether the NDEF record is written into the NFC tag by the NFC agent based on the control information in the read NDEF format. Accordingly, the NFC manager repeats the above mentioned steps if the NDEF record includes payload data of the NFC agent.
US09596003B2	Near field communication devices, systems, and methods using Q factor adjustments An NFC (near field communication) device can include a resonance unit and an NFC chip. The resonance unit may communicate with an external device through an electromagnetic wave. The NFC chip can provide output data to the resonance unit, receive input data from the resonance unit, and can reduce a Q factor (quality factor) of the resonance unit when a signal receive operation is performed in a card mode, and can maintain the Q factor of the resonance unit in a reader mode and when a signal transmit operation is performed in the card mode.
US09596001B2	Apparatus for providing communication services and methods thereof Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for modulating a first electrical signal to generate first modulated electromagnetic waves, and transmitting the first modulated electromagnetic waves on a waveguide located in proximity to a transmission medium. In one embodiment, the first electromagnetic waves can induce second electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of the transmission medium. The second electromagnetic waves can have a first spectral range that is divided into, contains or otherwise includes a first control channel and a first plurality of bands. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09596000B2	Method for selecting optimal central controller in power line network The present invention is to provide a method for selecting the optimal central controller in a power line network, which is applicable to the power line network including at least one terminal device, at least one network device and a plurality of controllers. The controllers are respectively installed with a central controller evaluation and selection software and connected to the terminal device and/or network device, and can communicate with one other through power line. The method is performed by a central controller, that is determined by negotiation between the controllers, via the software and includes the steps of detecting and calculating the connected states of the controllers in the power line network; selecting the optimal controller according to the connected states, assigning the optimal controller as new central controller, and notifying the new central controller to the other controllers, so as to optimize the performance of the power line network.
US09595996B2	Wireless communications systems using multiple radios The present invention relates to a communication system and methods of use thereof. The system includes sets of complementary radios for transmitting and receiving signals to achieve high reliability and reduced costs. The sets of complementary radios are in wireless communication with each other. A new connection is made by selecting from amongst the complementary radios. Switching between complementary radios during a connection is also permitted. Optimized protocols and hardware for implementing the system are disclosed.
US09595995B2	Systems and methods for signal processing using power spectral density shape A signal processing method is provided. The signal processing method includes receiving, at a signal processing system, a signal of interest, calculating, using the signal processing system, a power spectral density for the signal of interest, calculating, using the signal processing system, a basis vector based on the power spectral density shape, performing, using the signal processing system, a linear regression using the basis vector to generate an estimate for at least one parameter of the signal of interest, and transmitting, based on the at least one generated estimate, a signal that avoids interference with the signal of interest.
US09595992B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a cover panel and a case, and at least a board disposed therebetween. A plurality of components are disposed on a board and have heights different from one another. A gap reduction member is disposed so as to face the plurality of components. Steps are formed on the gap reduction member in accordance with the heights of the plurality of components which faces the plurality of components to reduce breakage of a cover panel of the electronic apparatus.
US09595989B1	Rain fade mitigation in a satellite communications system A beam plan that defines beams generated by a satellite that satisfy a set of communication service requirements is obtained. Fade condition information that indicates an amount of fade at particular geographic areas for one or more of the beams is obtained. A modification to the beam plan that mitigates the amount of fade at the particular geographic areas for the one or more of the beams is determined. The beam plan is modified based on the determined modification.
US09595986B2	Method and system for extending dynamic range of receiver by compensating for non-linear distortion A method is provided for extending dynamic range of a receiver. The method includes receiving a known input signal at the receiver, detecting a first output signal in response to the known input signal, and determining a correction function based on the first output signal and the known input signal for compensating for non-linear distortion introduced by the receiver. The method further includes receiving an unknown input signal at the receiver, detecting a second output signal in response to the unknown input signal, and applying the correction function to the second output signal in a time domain to recover the unknown input signal.
US09595984B2	Concept for transmitting and receiving an information symbol Devices, methods and examples concerning a concept for transmitting an information symbol from a symbol alphabet (I0; I1; I2; I3). For a first information symbol (I1) from the symbol alphabet, a first signal sequence (S1) is transmitted. For a second information symbol (I2) of the symbol alphabet, a second signal sequence (S2) is transmitted. A cross-correlation between the first signal sequence (S1) and the second signal sequence (S2) is lower than a predetermined cross-correlation threshold (Ψthreshold). For a third information symbol (I3) of the symbol alphabet, a third signal sequence (S3) is transmitted such that both a cross-correlation between the third signal sequence (S3) and the first signal sequence (S1) and also a cross-correlation between the third signal sequence (S3) and the second signal sequence (S2) are above the predetermined cross-correlation threshold (Ψthreshold).
US09595982B2	Relaxed digitization system linearization An approach to linearization relaxes the requirements on the digitization of the analog output signal while maintaining the benefits of a high sampling rate of the output signal. The digitization approach extracts sufficient information to characterize the output signal over a wide bandwidth without necessarily determining sufficient information to fully represent the output signal, for example, without sampling the output signal at the Nyquist sampling rate with a sufficient precision to accurately represent the signal.
US09595980B2	Oscillation circuit and transmitter including the same Provided is an oscillation circuit including a voltage adjuster adjusting a magnitude of a power supply voltage according to a digital signal, an LC tank circuit connected between first and second nodes and generating a resonance signal on a basis of the magnitude adjusted power supply voltage, and a differential amplification circuit oscillating the resonance signal or modifying an oscillation state of the resonance signal to output first and second output voltage signals to the first and second nodes, respectively.
US09595978B2	Transmitting apparatus and interleaving method thereof A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US09595977B2	LDPC decoder with efficient circular shifters A decoder includes variable-node circuitry, check-node circuitry and a Message Passing (MP) module, which includes multiple configurable partial cyclic shifters that each supports only a partial subset of shift values out of a full range of shift values 0 . . . L−1. The variable-node circuitry and check-node circuitry are configured to exchange messages with one another in accordance with a parity check matrix that represents a respective Quasi-Cyclic (QC)-Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Error Correcting Code (ECC) and that includes L-by-L sub-matrices, and to process the exchanged messages to decode a given code word that was encoded using the QC-LDPC ECC. The MP module is configured to schedule the variable-node circuitry and check-node circuitry that are interconnected in accordance with a respective sub-matrix to exchange L messages simultaneously by assigning a given partial cyclic shifter to shift the L messages cyclically a number of positions that depends on a structure of the respective sub-matrix.
US09595976B1	Folded integer encoding Techniques of data compression involve performing a separate compression operation on each set of corresponding bits of a sequence of bit strings in which each bit string represents a number having an upper bound. Advantageously, compressing the sets of corresponding bits produces an improved compression ratio over compressing each number in the sequence. Further, decompression is straightforward as long as sequence order is preserved and the upper bound of each number in the sequence is known.
US09595972B2	Digital phase locked loop arrangement with master clock redundancy Master clock redundancy is provided for a digital phase locked loop having a digital controlled oscillator (DCO) driven by a master clock source, for example, a crystal oscillator. One of a plurality of a crystal oscillators generating clock signals is selected to drive the DCO. The performance of the crystal oscillators is monitored, and the DCO is switched from being driven by a previously selected crystal oscillator to a newly selected crystal oscillator upon loss of a clock signal from the previously selected crystal oscillator or when the performance of the previously selected crystal oscillator falls below a predetermined acceptable level.
US09595969B2	Reciprocal quantum logic comparator for qubit readout One aspect of the present invention includes a reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) readout system. The system includes an input stage on which a read pulse is provided and an output stage configured to propagate an output pulse. The system also includes an RQL comparator comprising a first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction that are coupled to a qubit. A bias current switches between a first Josephson junction in a first quantum state of the qubit and a second Josephson junction in a second quantum state of the qubit. The first Josephson junction triggers to provide the output pulse on the output stage in the first quantum state in response to the read pulse and the second Josephson junction triggers to provide no output pulse on the output stage in the second quantum state in response to the read pulse.
US09595968B2	Cross point switch A cross point switch, in accordance with one embodiment, includes a plurality of tri-state repeaters coupled to form a plurality of multiplexers. Each set of corresponding tri-state repeaters in the plurality of multiplexers share a front end module such that delay through the cross point switch due to input capacitance is reduced as compared to conventional cross point switches.
US09595967B2	Level shift circuit and driver circuit According to one embodiment, a level shift circuit includes first through fourth transistors, a control circuit, and first and second generating circuits. The control circuit outputs a first voltage obtained by level-shifting an input voltage to a first terminal. The first transistor supplies a first electric current to the control circuit for outputting the first voltage to the first terminal. The second transistor increases the first electric current. The first generating circuit generates a first pulse signal for controlling the second transistor. The third transistor supplies a second electric current to the first terminal for generating a second voltage corresponding to a first supply of a low-potential side. The fourth transistor increases the second electric current. The second generating circuit generates a second pulse signal for controlling the fourth transistor.
US09595966B2	Level shifter and non-volatile memory device using the same The level shifter of an embodiment includes a first level shifter configured to output an intermediate signal wherein a high voltage is a positive supply voltage or a positive voltage by inputting an input signal and a low voltage is a negative supply voltage, to an intermediate signal node and an inverted intermediate signal node and a second level shifter configured to output a low voltage to an output terminal and an inverted output terminal by receiving input of the intermediate signal and altering the low voltage to the negative supply voltage or a negative voltage.
US09595964B2	Programmable logic device An object is to provide a programmable logic device having logic blocks connected to each other by a programmable switch, where the programmable switch is characterized by an oxide semiconductor transistor incorporated therein. The extremely low off-state current of the oxide semiconductor transistor provides a function as a non-volatile memory due to its high ability to hold a potential of a gate electrode of a transistor which is connected to the oxide semiconductor transistor. The ability of the oxide semiconductor transistor to function as a non-volatile memory allows the configuration data for controlling the connection of the logic blocks to be maintained even in the absence of a power supply potential. Hence, the rewriting process of the configuration data at starting of the device can be omitted, which contributes to the reduction in power consumption of the device.
US09595958B1	Semiconductor device and driving method for the same The semiconductor device includes a switching arm unit in which first and second wide bandgap semiconductor elements, each having a body diode, are connected in series between a positive line and a negative line; a current detecting unit that detects a current in at least a wide bandgap semiconductor element in which a flyback current flows; and a semiconductor element driving unit that drives the first and second wide bandgap semiconductor elements. When driving one of the wide bandgap semiconductor elements, the semiconductor element driving unit determines, by referring to a fault inhibiting characteristic curve, whether a flyback current detection value of the other wide bandgap semiconductor elements falls within a fault growth region or a fault inhibiting region, and when a result of the determination indicates that the flyback current detection value is within the fault growth region, inhibits a current flowing in the one wide bandgap semiconductor element.
US09595948B2	Semiconductor device having a double-gate switching element A semiconductor device has a drive unit outputting a first drive signal to a first electrode and a second drive signal to a second electrode, an instruction signal generation unit generating an instruction signal as a basis of the drive signals and a control unit outputting a first control signal as a basis of the first drive signal and a second control signal as a basis of the second drive signal, based on the instruction signal to control the drive unit. The control unit synchronizes the first control signal with the instruction signal, delays a turning-on timing of the second control signal by a predetermined time relative to the instruction signal and determines a turning-off timing of the second control signal based on a previous pulse width of the instruction signal.
US09595943B2	Implementing broadband resonator for resonant clock distribution A method and circuit for implementing a broadband resonator for resonant clock distribution, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The circuit includes a pair of first inductors, and a second inductor and a capacitor coupled between a respective first end of the respective first inductors. An opposite free end of the respective first inductors is connected to a respective clock transmission line and connected in parallel to a load capacitance. A frequency response of the circuit includes two poles and a zero in a frequency band of the resonant clock distribution system.
US09595936B2	Reconfigurable bandstop filter A reconfigurable bandstop filter and methods of designing and reconfiguring the bandstop filter are disclosed. The reconfigurable bandstop filter includes a plurality of transmission lines each including a phase shifter. The reconfigurable bandstop filter further includes a signal input port having a phase shifter and a signal output port having a phase shifter. The signal input port and the signal output port is coupled to the plurality of transmission lines.
US09595932B2	Adaptive music playback system An adaptive music playback system is disclosed. The system includes a composition system that receives information corresponding to user activity levels. The composition system modifies the composition of a song in response to changes in user activity. The modifications are made according to a set of composition rules to facilitate smooth musical transitions.
US09595931B2	Two differential amplifier configuration An apparatus is disclosed for providing a common mode voltage to the inputs of a first differential amplifier which outputs the difference between two signals. A second differential amplifier receives the output of the first differential amplifier, and the output of the second differential amplifier is fed back to the inputs of the first differential amplifier as a common mode voltage. Since both inputs of the first differential amplifier receive the fed back common mode voltage, the first differential amplifier still outputs only the difference in the two signals, but the presence of the common mode voltage allows the first differential amplifier to operate with lower noise if the voltage levels of the inputs to the first differential amplifier vary. The second differential amplifier may be of significantly lower quality and cost than the first differential amplifier, without affecting the performance of the first differential amplifier.
US09595928B2	Bias circuits and methods for depletion mode semiconductor devices A Radio Frequency (RF) amplifier includes a depletion mode semiconductor device having a gate, a bias device and an inverting circuit. The depletion mode semiconductor device may be a HEMT and/or a MESFET. The bias device is configured to generate a bias voltage. The inverting circuit is configured to generate an inverted bias voltage from the bias voltage, and to apply the inverted bias voltage to the gate. Related circuits and methods are described.
US09595924B2	Calibration for power amplifier predistortion In one embodiment, a method comprising during a first calibration instance, converting at a first transconductance stage a first output voltage from a power amplifier of a transceiver to a first set of current signals; and during a second calibration instance not overlapping the first calibration instance, converting at a second transconductance stage a second output voltage from the power amplifier to a second set of current signals.
US09595923B2	Systems and methods for optimizing amplifier operations Methods and systems for optimizing amplifier operations are described. The described methods and systems particularly describe a feed-forward control circuit that may also be used as a feed-back control circuit in certain applications. The feed-forward control circuit provides a control signal that may be used to configure an amplifier in a variety of ways.
US09595921B2	Power amplifier having a common input and a plurality of outputs Power amplifier having a common input and a plurality of outputs. In some embodiments, a power amplifier can include a plurality of signal paths having a common input node. Each signal path can include a dedicated amplifier stage, and be configured to be capable of amplifying a radio-frequency (RF) signal received at the common input node. The power amplifier can further include a bias selector configured to provide a bias signal to the dedicated amplifier stage of a selected one of the plurality of signal paths to thereby allow amplification of the RF signal through the selected signal path. Such a power amplifier can be implemented in products such as a die, a module, and a wireless device.
US09595920B2	Hardware-efficient compensator for outphasing power amplifiers Digital compensators for use in outphasing-based power amplification systems (e.g., Linear Amplification using Nonlinear Components (LINC) amplifiers and Asymmetric Multilevel Outphasing (AMO) amplifiers) include a short memory nonlinear portion and a long memory linear time invariant (LTI) portion. In various embodiments, compensators are provided that are of relatively low complexity and that are capable of operation at throughputs exceeding a Gigasample per second.
US09595918B2	Stable microwave-frequency source based on cascaded brillouin lasers A microwave-frequency source, generating an output electrical signal at an output frequency fM, comprises a pump laser source, an optical resonator, and a photodetector. Free spectral range vFSR of the optical resonator equals an integer submultiple of a Brillouin shift frequency vB of the optical resonator (i.e., vB=MvFSR). The pump laser source is frequency-locked to a corresponding resonant optical mode of the optical resonator. Pumping the optical resonator with output of the pump laser source at a pump frequency vpump results in stimulated Brillouin laser oscillation in the optical resonator at respective first, second, and third Stokes Brillouin-shifted frequencies v1=vpump−vB, v2=vpump−2vB, and v3=vpump−3vB. The photodetector receives stimulated Brillouin laser outputs at the first and third Stokes Brillouin-shifted frequencies v1 and v3 and generates therefrom the output electrical signal at a beat frequency fM=v1−v3=2vB. The output electrical signal at the output frequency fM exhibits exceptionally low phase noise.
US09595917B2	Antiferromagnetically coupled spin-torque oscillator with hard perpendicular polarizer An apparatus includes a polarizer, a first free layer, a second free layer, and an antiferromagnetic (AF) coupling layer. The polarizer has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). The polarizer, the first free layer, the second free layer, and the AF coupling layer are included in a spin-torque oscillator (STO). The AF coupling layer is positioned between the first free layer and the second free layer.
US09595914B2	Electronic component, electronic apparatus, and moving object An electronic component includes a wiring substrate, a heating element, a first support, a second support, and a container. The heating element, the first support, and the second support are electrically connected to the wiring substrate. Each of the first support and the second support includes a protrusion portion, and the protrusion portion of the second support is shorter than the protrusion portion of the first support.
US09595913B2	Solar cell apparatus Provided is a solar cell apparatus. The solar cell apparatus includes: a substrate; a first cell group on the substrate; a second cell group on the substrate; a first diode connected in parallel to the first cell group; and a second diode connected in parallel to the second cell group.
US09595912B2	Light concentrator and a solar cell A light concentrator of an embodiment includes: a first high refractive index layer, a first low refractive index layer, and a second high refractive index layer stacked in sequence, wherein a surface on the first low refractive index layer side of the first high refractive index layer has a periodic concavoconvex region.
US09595910B2	Solar assembly and method of forming same Various aspect provide for a solar assembly. The solar assembly may be a mechanical structure that allows many small solar cells to be integrated into the wing design of an aircraft without placing them on the surface area of the wing or the vehicle. Additional aspects may provide for an adjustable solar assembly. The adjustable solar assembly may be configured to be installed into a structure having a structural profile. When installed, the solar assembly may conform to the structural profile such that the structural profile is maintained. The solar assembly may further comprise an adjustable carrier system comprising a plurality of solar cells attached thereto. The adjustable carrier system may be configured to dynamically adjust the orientation of the solar cells so as to maintain an optimal angle with respect to an external light source.
US09595908B2	Power converter A method for a power conversion apparatus to drive an electric motor using a power semiconductor device. The method includes detecting or estimating a temperature of the power semiconductor device to thereby obtain a detected or estimated temperature value, adjusting a torque command of the electric motor, so that the temperature of the power semiconductor device matches a preset temperature when the detected or estimated temperature value is equal to or higher than the preset temperature, and controlling the power semiconductor device using the adjusted torque command.
US09595906B2	Motor control apparatus having function for protecting LCL filter A motor control apparatus includes: a PWM rectifier which converts an AC power to a DC power; an LCL filter provided between the AC power supply and the PWM rectifier; a cooling fan for cooling the LCL filter; a temperature detection unit for the LCL filter; an alarm detection unit for detecting an alarm state when a temperature detection value is a predetermined value or more; a time measurement unit for measuring elapsed time from a start of a normal operation of the PWM rectifier; and a protection unit which determines, in accordance with the elapsed time, an alarm generation cause whether the alarm state is generated due to a reverse connection of a power line of the LCL filter or due to a stop of the cooling fan when the alarm state is notified, and performs a protection operation in accordance with the alarm generation cause.
US09595904B2	Apparatus for modifying voltage command for detecting output current in inverter An apparatus for modifying voltage command for detecting output current in inverter is disclosed to modify a PWM voltage command by determining a sector in a voltage hexagon, the sector having a PWM voltage command therein, by comparing the PWM voltage command, determining an area, the area having the PWM voltage command, within a current detection disabled area by converting a minimum sampling time to a minimum sampling PWM and using the converted minimum sampling PWM, and determining an adjusting voltage and a restoring voltage using a minimum injection voltage based on the determined area.
US09595902B2	Methods, systems and apparatus for adjusting modulation index to improve linearity of phase voltage commands Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and apparatus for controlling operation of a multi-phase machine in a motor drive system. The disclosed embodiments provide a mechanism for adjusting modulation index of voltage commands to improve linearity of the voltage commands.
US09595901B2	Method for regulating a generator set The invention relates to a method for regulating the output voltage of the alternator of a generator set, said generator set including a heat engine driving the alternator, the alternator including a rotor having a pole wheel. Said method includes the following step: detection of an increase in the power at the outlet of the alternator, and in the event of a detected increase, the value of the current in the polar wheel is modified in such a way as to temporarily bring the output voltage of the alternator to a value lower than the value before the detection of the increase in power, with the aim of decreasing the level of torque required from the heat engine.
US09595890B2	Switching control apparatus of load drive system A switching control apparatus is applied to a load drive system that includes a DC voltage converter having a reactor and at least one switching element, and a power transducer including multiple switching element pairs. The switching control apparatus controls a switching timing of the switching element in the DC voltage converter and the switching element pairs in the power transducer. The switching control apparatus includes a DC voltage converter control circuit, a DC voltage converter drive circuit, a power transducer control circuit, a power transducer drive circuit, a switching prohibition period calculation portion, and a switching correction portion.
US09595884B2	Sub-sea power supply and method of use A sub-sea power supply includes a plurality of transformers, a wet-mateable connector, and a plurality of passive rectifier circuits. Each transformer includes a primary coil and secondary coil. The primary coils are coupled in parallel. The wet-mateable connector is coupleable to a sub-sea AC power source. The wet-mateable connector is coupled to the primary coils. The plurality of passive rectifier circuits is respectively coupled to the secondary coils. The plurality of passive rectifier circuits is configured to generate substantially uniform polarity voltage outputs coupled in series.
US09595881B2	Common mode noise reduction apparatus A common mode noise reduction apparatus includes a power converter that supplies electric power to a load; a housing that houses the power converter; a common mode inductor arranged between the power converter and the load; a power wire that passes through the common mode inductor and connects the power converter to the load; a grounding wire that passes through the common mode inductor and connects the housing and a bus of the power converter to ground potential on the load side; a first impedance element provided on the grounding wire between the load and the housing; and a second impedance element provided on the grounding wire between the bus of the power converter and the load.
US09595880B2	Automatic configuration of a load control system A control module is able to be installed with electrical devices, such as, for example electrical loads (e.g., lighting loads) and/or load regulation devices. The control module may determine whether the electrical loads (e.g., drivers for lighting loads) are responsive to one or more of a plurality of control techniques. The control module may be able to automatically determine an appropriate control technique to use to control the connected driver and/or lighting load. The control module may sequentially attempt to control the connected driver and/or lighting load using each of the plurality of control techniques and determine if the driver and/or lighting load is responsive to the present control technique. The plurality of control techniques may include one or more analog control techniques and one or more digital control techniques.
US09595877B2	Secondary side hybrid converter apparatus and method An apparatus comprises an isolated power converter coupled to an input dc power source, wherein the isolated power converter comprises a primary switching network operating at a fixed switching frequency, a secondary resonant tank including a dc blocking capacitor and a rectifier having two input terminals coupled to the secondary resonant tank, an output capacitor coupled between a first output terminal of the rectifier and a load and a dc/dc converter coupled between a second output terminal of the rectifier and the load.
US09595875B2	Voltage converter compensation apparatus and methods On the secondary side of a flyback switching power converter, a compensation diode and a voltage divider with an averaging circuit generate an output current-compensated reference voltage that is proportional to converter output current. The current-compensated reference voltage is added to a regulation feedback controller reference voltage, which in turn adjusts the negative feedback signal to the PWM regulation controller on the primary side in proportion to the converter output current draw. The net effect is to increase the converter output voltage set-point in proportion to the converter output current draw as compensation for a voltage drop in a cable connecting the converter to a powered device. More precisely-regulated voltage levels may be delivered to an input of the powered device as a result.
US09595871B1	High efficiency inductive capacitive DC-DC converter Disclosed examples include high-efficiency integrated circuits and inductive capacitive DC-DC converters with a first converter stage including first and second switches and an inductor, and a second converter stage including third and fourth switches and a flying capacitor. A dual mode control circuit regulates output voltage signal in a first mode when the output voltage signal is below a threshold by pulse width modulating the switches of the first converter stage. When the output voltage exceeds the threshold, the control circuit operates in a second mode with a first state to close the first and third switches, and a second state to close the fourth switch to connect the inductor in series with the flying capacitor. Dual mode operation of the first and second stages facilitates buck-boost operation with reduced inductor losses and converter switching losses, and the integrated circuit can be used in boost, buck or other configurations.
US09595863B2	Inverter control circuit and inverter circuit An inverter control circuit has a quantizer configured to generate a switching signal which changes over switches of a main circuit converting a DC voltage into an AC voltage, and a filter circuit configured to generate a signal having specific transfer characteristic by using a signal correlated with an output voltage of an LC filter which smooths the AC voltage and an instruction signal corresponding to a target value of an output voltage of the main circuit, wherein the quantizer generates the switching signal by quantizing an output signal of the filter circuit.
US09595859B2	Multi-phase multi-pole electric machine A multi-phase multi-pole electric machine attached to a vehicle. The multi-phase multi-pole electric machine includes rotor, stator with five phase windings, machine controller, and torque sensors. The machine controller controls the flow of current. The torque sensors senses the torque exerted by the vehicle and transmits the information to the machine controller. The machine controller provides four degree of control through injection of five phase currents and thus providing higher torque.
US09595855B2	Resin gear device with resin lubricating grease composition An actuator includes a stepping motor; a multi-stage gear device including a first stage gear attached to a rotation shaft of the motor, wherein a gear of each stage engages with a gear of a next stage; and a base member on which the multi-stage gear device and the stepping motor are mounted, wherein in the multi-stage gear device, a grease composition for resin is applied to a bearing part of the gear, and to an engaging part between the gears, and the grease composition for resin includes: (a) a base oil including a poly-alpha-olefin oil with a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 4 to 6 mm2/s; (b) a thickening agent which is lithium soap; (c) a viscosity increasing agent; (d) a solid lubricant; and (e) an anti-wear agent, and wherein the NLGI consistency number of the composition is 00, 0, 1, or 2.
US09595854B2	Electric machine, moisture guide and associated method According to an embodiment of the invention, an electric machine for use in an environment having moisture is provided. The machine includes a housing that has an inner surface defining a cavity in the housing. The housing defines a leak path exit adapted to remove moisture accumulating within the housing away from the housing. The electric machine further includes a stator secured to the housing and a rotor that is rotatably secured to the housing. The electric machine further includes a moisture guide positioned at least partially within the cavity and adapted to guide at least some of the moisture toward the leak path exit.
US09595852B2	Apparatus and method for electrically insulating end turns of a stator assembly An apparatus and method for providing electrical insulation between adjacent end turns at different phases within a stator assembly. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a stator assembly comprising: a stator core; at least two coils of different phases wound on the stator core through the slots and having an end turn that extends from the stator core; and one or more rigid separator members positioned between adjacent end turns of the coils.
US09595851B2	Rotary electric machine Permanent magnets that form individual magnetic poles are configured by arranging three magnet blocks to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially, the three magnet blocks are each formed such that cross-sectional shapes that are perpendicular to a central axis of a rotor core are radially outwardly convex, and circumferential widths are narrower in magnet blocks that are further away from a magnetic pole center, and the three magnet blocks that are arranged circumferentially are formed to have mirror symmetry relative to a plane that passes through the magnetic pole center and the central axis of the rotor core.
US09595850B2	Construction of motorized wheel for vehicle motorization A motorization apparatus for a motorized wheel comprises an axle secured to a frame of a vehicle. A rotor unit has poles of magnet material. A stator unit having slots and teeth secured to the axle is inward of said rotor to define a clearance gap therewith such that the rotor unit is rotatable about the stator core. An arrangement of coils is wound around the teeth of the stator unit, the coils adapted to be powered to induce a rotation of the rotor unit relative to the stator unit. A structure comprises hub portions rotatably mounted to the axle, the structure having lateral walls defining an inner volume for the rotor unit and the stator unit, the structure supporting the rotor unit. The structure comprises attachment members connected to spokes of the motorized wheel, located radially inward of the clearance gap between the rotor unit and the stator unit.
US09595847B2	Uninterrupted lithium battery power supply system An uninterrupted power supply system incorporates a plurality of lithium batteries as a back-up power supply to an AC power supply. In the event that there is an interruption in the AC power supply, a power output switch is automatically activated by a power control system to draw power from a lithium battery pack. In an embodiment, a battery pack is monitored by a battery management system that is coupled to battery monitoring modules couple to each battery. The battery management system may be configured to monitor the voltage and/or temperature of each battery. In another embodiment, an uninterrupted power supply system comprises a battery unit balancing system that maintains each battery within a battery unit below a threshold voltage value. A charging circuit and discharging circuit are used to maintain the batteries in a ready state of charge when not being used for the output power.
US09595846B2	Automatic transfer switch Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, and the like, for an automatic transfer switch (ATS) of a power system. The ATS allows for switching between two or more power systems while preventing back-feeding of the power systems. To provide the safety features of the ATS, a safety circuit and control board may be implemented with the magnetic latching relays to control the actions of the latching relays and provide the switching function of the ATS. In one particular embodiment, the safety board comprises one or more electromechanical relays positioned between the controlling electronics of the control board and the magnetic latching relays. The safety board design contains measures to ensure it still functions if one of the disconnect switches is not connected, if one of the connections to a first load phase, a second load phase or neutral is lost and if the main control board is not connected.
US09595845B2	Methods and systems for emergency lighting Methods and systems for emergency lighting are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide a solid-state lighting system, light fixture or a collection of light fixtures, with a control input that is used to cause the system to dim to a specific level during an outage in order to conserve power in a building where power is backed up by an emergency inverter or a back-up generator. With embodiments of the invention, there is no need to run a separate power feed, as might otherwise be required for keeping distributed batteries charged or for running specified emergency-only fixtures from back-up power. In some embodiments the solid-state lighting system includes an occupancy sensor wherein the specified light output level is determined at least in part based on the occupancy of a room. In some embodiments, the system can be selectively configured for the specified output level.
US09595843B2	Battery charging apparatus and battery charging method thereof Disclosed is a battery charging apparatus. The battery charging apparatus includes a charging plug receiving an AC power supplied from an outside, a plurality of charging units individually converting the AC power received through the charging plug into a DC power, a battery storing the DC power output through at least one of the charging units, and a charging control unit comparing a specification of the battery with specifications of the charging units, determining at least one of the charging units to be used for charging of the battery, and controlling the charging of the battery by the at least one charging unit that is determined.
US09595838B2	Electronic apparatus, control method and recording medium An electronic apparatus includes a power receiving unit that receives power from a power transmitting apparatus wirelessly, a connection unit that connects an external apparatus, a detection unit that detects power received by the power receiving unit, and a control unit that changes a mode of the electronic apparatus to a first mode after the detection unit detects that power received by the power receiving unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined value if the electronic apparatus is in a second mode.
US09595837B2	System of batteries of accumulators with simplified supervision A system of batteries of accumulators includes electrochemical accumulators in series, a power connection connecting either a load or recharging power supply across the accumulators, a control device connected to the accumulators by the power connection, measuring circuits, each of which is attached to a respective accumulator and configured to measure voltage across its terminals, and communication circuits, each of which is attached to an accumulator and configured to induce a voltage drop across its terminals when the measured voltage crosses a threshold. The control device identifies this drop in voltage.
US09595835B2	Methods for manufacturing and operating a semiconductor device A method for manufacturing and operating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a first capacitor node, a second capacitor node, a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode, a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is coupled between the first capacitor electrode and the first and second capacitor nodes such that the first switch has a first position that couples the first capacitor electrode to the first capacitor node and a second position that couples the first capacitor electrode to the second capacitor node. The second switch is coupled between the second capacitor electrode and the first and second capacitor nodes such that the second switch has a first position that couples the second capacitor electrode to the first capacitor node and a second position that couples the second capacitor electrode to the second capacitor node.
US09595833B2	Inductive power for seismic sensor node Embodiments of systems and methods for inductively powering seismic sensor nodes are presented. An embodiment of an inductive battery includes a battery cell configured to store charge for use by an external device. The inductive battery may also include a first inductive element coupled to the battery cell, the first inductive element configured to receive current from the battery cell and emit a responsive magnetic field for powering an external device through inductance. In an embodiment the external device is a seismic sensor node.
US09595832B2	Control unit for an electrical generation/consumption system The invention relates to a control unit for an electrical generation/consumption system including generation sources (200) and consumption units (300) connected by a distribution network (100), including a control center (400) which transmits, to controllable consumption units (310) and to controllable generation sources (210), modulation orders based on warning information received from an external operator (500), on information relating to the potential of the respective suppression of units (310), and on information relating to the respective potential of generation or of a decrease in generation of sources (210), or of the suppression of the latter, at each unit (310), a module (312) which transmits, to the center (400), data updated in real time representing the potential modulation suppression of the unit (310), and at the sources (210), a module (212) which transmits, to the control center (400), data which is updated in real time and which is representative of the potential of generation or of the decrease in the generation of the source (210), or of the suppression of the latter.
US09595831B2	Network system A network system is provided. The network system includes: at least one component of an energy supply unit supplying energy and an energy management unit managing the energy supply unit. An amount of energy used or energy charge of the energy supply unit is adjustable. An amount of energy used or energy charge when the component is controlled on the basis of information related to at least usage charge may be less than that when the component is controlled not on the basis of the information related to at least usage charge. Also, the energy supply unit has a power saving mode to determine a driving method or a driving time of the energy supply unit on the basis of the information related to energy charge.
US09595830B2	Highly stable maximum power point tracking for bipolar photovoltaic inverters The invention is a method of tracking the overall maximum power point of a grounded bipolar photovoltaic array by tracking and regulating the voltage of the weaker of the two monopolar subarrays at any instant in time. The transfer between subarrays being tracked for the maximum power point is seamless when the voltage of one subarray becomes lower than the other. This tracking method insures stable operation and maximum power transfer under all balanced and unbalanced PV array conditions. This tracking algorithm would typically be part of a larger digital power converter control system.
US09595828B2	Sequentially operated modules Method, modules and a system formed by connecting the modules for controlling payloads are disclosed. An activation signal is propagated in the system from a module to the modules connected to it. Upon receiving an activation signal, the module (after a pre-set or random delay) activates a payload associated with it, and transmits the activation signal (after another pre-set or random delay) to one or more modules connected to it. The system is initiated by a master module including a user activated switch producing the activation signal. The activation signal can be propagated in the system in one direction from the master to the last module, or carried bi-directionally allowing two way propagation, using a module which revert the direction of the activation signal propagation direction. A module may be individually powered by an internal power source such as a battery, or connected to external power source such as AC power. The system may use remote powering wherein few or all of the modules are powered from the same power source connected to the system in a single point. The power may be carried over dedicated wires or concurrently with the conductors carrying the activation signal. The payload may be a visual or an audible signaling device, and can be integrated within a module or external to it. The payload may be powered by a module or using a dedicated power source, and can involve randomness associated with its activation such as the delay, payload control or payload activation.

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