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US09763364B1	Heat transfer liquid flow method and apparatus Apparatus and method to facilitate heat transfer fluid flow are disclosed herein. A flexible tube having first and second ends facilitates a heat transfer fluid to flow from the first end to the second end. Ferromagnetic material encircles at least an outside portion of a length of the flexible tube, and a plurality of coil windings encircles the ferromagnetic material. The flexible tube is to be compressed to reduce an amount of flow of the heat transfer fluid from the first end to the second end by expansion of the ferromagnetic material around the flexible tube, in response to an application of a current to the plurality of coil windings.
US09763362B1	Server including an arrangement of devices therein A server adapted to server cabinet having a fan assembly and a power supply. The server includes a chassis, a main board module, a data storage, a signal-transferring module and a docking module. The chassis has a bottom plate, a first side plate and a second side plate disposed on the bottom plate. The main board module is placed along the first side plate. The data storage module is placed along the second side plate. The signal-transferring module is placed along the first side plate. The signal-transferring module is located at the back of the main board module. The signal-transferring module is connected between the main board module and the data storage module. The docking module is disposed on the bottom plate. The docking module is connected to the data storage module and the signal-transferring module. The docking module is connectable to the power supply and the fan assembly.
US09763358B2	Apparatus with diffusion-absorption cycle The invention relates to an apparatus (1) comprising a generator (5), an evaporator (6), an absorber (8) and a condenser (9) circulating a refrigerant (R), an inert (I) and an absorbent (A) in a diffusion-absorption cycle. The generator (5) and the evaporator (6) are arranged in an electric cabinet (2) to receive a heat load from primary electric components (3) and secondary electric components (4). The absorber (8) and the condenser (9) are arranged outside of the electric cabinet (2) and at a higher level than the evaporator (6) to receive fluid from the generator (5) and the evaporator (6) and for dissipating heat from the received fluid to the surrounding environment. The inert (I) and refrigerant (R) are selected such that the inert (I) is heavier than the refrigerant (R) in order to obtain fluid circulation where the inert (I) exiting the absorber (8) flows downwards to the evaporator (6) and the inert (I) exiting the evaporator (6) flows upwards to the absorber (8).
US09763353B1	Mass storage device retainer assembly A carrierless mass storage device retainer assembly for retaining a carrierless mass storage device in a horizontal orientation comprises a base and first and second end surface receiving portions. The base defines a generally horizontal surface. The first end surface receiving portion is shaped to receive a first end of the drive and is movable between an at rest position and an engaged position. The second end surface receiving portion is shaped to receive a second end surface of the drive and has an at rest position spaced from the first end surface receiving portion. The second end surface receiving portion is movable to accommodate a length of the drive, and, with the first and second ends of the drive received therein, is movable back to the at rest position to retain the drive.
US09763347B2	Shell structure of electrical device and terminal of load control system having the same A shell structure of an electrical device includes a first body and a second body. The first body has one or more first lead-out portions, and the second body has one or more second lead-out portions so that electric wires are drawn out. Each of one or more first lead-out portions is formed in the shape of a groove which penetrates a first peripheral wall of the first body and which is opened toward an opening of the first body. Each of the one or more second lead-out portions is formed in the shape of a groove which penetrates a second peripheral wall of the second body and which is opened toward an opening of the second body. The first body and the second body are combined together by allowing the one or more first lead-out portions and the one or more second lead-out portions to overlap with each other.
US09763346B2	Curved display device The present invention discloses a curved display device. The curved display device comprises a frame bracket and a flexible towing component. Wherein, at least two fixed components are arranged on the frame bracket, the flexible towing component is connected between the two fixed components and tows the two fixed components, so that a main surface of the frame bracket assumes a curve Through the above way, the present invention can keep the frame bracket being bended so that the curvature of the curved display device can be kept.
US09763345B2	Gas barrier laminated body, method for producing same, member for electronic device, and electronic device Provided is a gas barrier laminate that can be produced inexpensively as compared with the case of using an inorganic film without requiring a complex production process, and exhibits an excellent gas barrier capability and excellent flexibility, and also provided are a method for producing the gas barrier laminate, an electronic device member that includes the gas barrier laminate, and an electronic device that includes the electronic device member. A gas barrier laminate including a base and a gas barrier layer, the gas barrier layer being provided on the base, the gas barrier layer being obtained by implanting ions into an organosilicon compound thin film formed by a CVD method that utilizes an organosilicon compound as a deposition raw material, a method for producing the gas barrier laminate, an electronic device member that includes the gas barrier laminate, and an electronic device that includes the electronic device member are provided.
US09763339B2	Curved surface module, display device and its assembling method The present disclosure provides a curved surface module, a display device and its manufacturing method. The curved surface module includes a first mold frame, a second mold frame, a first metallic frame, a second metallic frame, a first fastener and a backlight source. An oblique opening is provided at an edge of the second mold frame, and a display panel slot is provided at an edge of the first mold frame. The first mold frame and the second mold frame are secured onto both ends of the backlight source, respectively. The second metallic frame is provided with a bending mechanism which forms a slot together with the oblique opening of the second mold frame.
US09763334B2	Suspension board with circuit and method of manufacturing the same Heat-assisted wiring traces and a conductive support substrate are respectively formed on first and second surfaces of an insulating layer. Further, connection terminals electrically insulated from the support substrate and electrically respectively connected to the heat-assisted wiring traces are formed on the second surface of the insulating layer. Each connection terminal has an element connection portion, a pattern connection portion and a spread blocking portion. When a circuit element is connected to the element connection portion of the connection terminal by solder, spreading of a molten solder applied to the element connection portion to the pattern connection portion is blocked by the spread blocking portion.
US09763332B2	Support body, method of manufacturing support body, method of manufacturing wiring board, method of manufacturing electronic component, and wiring structure A method of manufacturing a support body includes: (a) preparing a support substrate; (b) preparing a metal foil on which a peeling layer is provided; (c) providing an adhesion adjusting layer on the support substrate in a certain region of the support substrate excluding an outer peripheral portion of the support substrate, wherein the adhesion adjusting layer is configured to adjust a contact area between the peeling layer and the support substrate; and (d) providing the metal foil on the support substrate such that the peeling layer provided on the metal foil faces the support substrate via the adhesion adjusting layer. In step (d), the adhesion adjusting layer is adhered to the support substrate, and the peeling layer is adhered to the outer peripheral portion of the support substrate, and is in contact with the adhesion adjusting layer but is not adhered to the adhesion adjusting layer.
US09763331B2	Printed circuit board, electronic device, and manufacturing method A printed circuit board includes: a first electrode made of a tubular electric conductor formed on an inner wall of a first hole formed in the printed circuit board; a dielectric body disposed inside the first electrode; and a second electrode made of a tubular electric conductor formed on an inner wall of a second hole extending through the dielectric body, the second electrode having a center axis concentric with the first electrode.
US09763329B1	Techniques for observing an entire communication bus in operation A circuit board includes conductive traces being sandwiched by an upper insulating layer and a lower insulating layer, a first array of conductive vias extending perpendicularly to the conductive traces, the vias in the first array of conductive vias being arranged such that any two adjacent vias in a row of vias extending along any given dimension in the first array of conductive vias are equally spaced from each other, and isolation resistors embedded within the first array of conductive vias such that each isolation resistor is disposed between at least two adjacent vias in the first array of conductive vias, each isolation resistor being disposed closer to the conductive via to which the isolation resistor is coupled than all other conductive vias surrounding the isolation resistor.
US09763326B1	Methods of attaching components on fabrics using metal braids An electronics assembly includes one or more electronic components coupled to a fabric. Each electronic component includes one or more electrical connection points, such as a bond pad or solder bump. The electronics assembly also includes one or more electrically conductive wire braids, one electrically conductive wire braid coupled to one electrical connection point on an electronic component. The electrically conductive wire braid is stitched to the fabric by an electrically conductive wire, thereby providing an electrical connection between the electronic component and the electrically conductive wire via the electrically conductive wire braid.
US09763324B2	Method of making an electronic device having a liquid crystal polymer solder mask and related devices A method of making an electronic device includes forming a circuit layer on a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate and having at least one solder pad. The method also includes forming an LCP solder mask having at least one aperture therein alignable with the at least one solder pad. The method further includes aligning and laminating the LCP solder mask and the LCP substrate together, then positioning solder paste in the at least one aperture. At least one circuit component may then be attached to the at least one solder pad using the solder paste.
US09763323B2	Stretchable circuit board Provided is a stretchable circuit board having a sheet-like stretchable base capable of stretching and contracting, a stretchable interconnect part formed on or above at least one major surface of the stretchable base, and an external terminal connected to the interconnect part; the stretchable circuit board has a reinforcing area having in-plane rigidity higher than that of the stretchable base, and a stretchable area which remains after excluding the reinforcing area; the interconnect part is formed across a boundary part between the reinforcing area and the stretchable area; and a sheet-like stretchable auxiliary member capable of stretching and contracting is provided to the boundary part having the interconnect part formed therein.
US09763312B2	Dimming lampholder A dimming lampholder includes a printed circuit board installed in the dimming lampholder, a switch and a dimming circuit installed in dimming lampholder and operated together with a dimmable energy-saving fluorescent bulb and a dimmable LED bulb. The dimmable energy-saving fluorescent bulb and the dimmable LED bulb may be installed and used directly to achieve the effect of adjusting the brightness of the emitting light.
US09763309B2	Light-emitting module The present invention provides a light-emitting module. The light-emitting module comprises a motion actuated switch, a counter, a controller, and a plural of light-emitting devices. The motion actuated switch is for generating an actuating signal in response to a motion of an object. The counter is for recording how many times the actuating signal is generated for generating a counting signal, and determining whether the times are larger than a pre-determined threshold. The controller drives a plurality of light-emitting devices for lighting according to the actuating signal, and changes a lighting pattern according to the counting signal. Compared to the prior art, the present creation provides more kinds of lighting/shining patterns for providing eye-catching and sufficient illumination in night activities.
US09763307B2	Lighting control based on interaction with toys in play area The present disclosure is directed to inventive methods, systems and apparatus for lighting control. For example, light output of a lighting system (100) that illuminates a play area (101) may be altered, e.g., by a lighting system controller (102, 302), based on characteristics of toys (104) one or more children is playing with in the area, as well as alterations of the toys or relationships between the toys that the one or more children are effecting.
US09763306B2	Dynamic spatially-resolved lighting using composited lighting models Methods, devices, systems, and non-transitory process-readable storage media for controlling lighting nodes of a lighting system associated with a lighting infrastructure based on composited lighting models. An embodiment method performed by a processor of a computing device may include operations for obtaining a plurality of lighting model outputs generated by lighting control algorithms that utilize sensor data obtained from one or more sensor nodes within the lighting infrastructure, combining the plurality of lighting model outputs in an additive fashion to generate a composited lighting model, calculating lighting parameters for a lighting node within the lighting infrastructure based on the composited lighting model and other factors, and generating a lighting control command for configuring the lighting node within the lighting infrastructure using the calculated lighting parameters. The method may be performed by any combination of lighting node(s), sensor node(s), a remote server, and/or other devices within the lighting infrastructure.
US09763301B2	Method of providing power to solid state lighting A method of providing power to solid state lighting is disclosed. The method includes starting a first cycle by providing current to the solid state lighting system, monitoring a solid state lighting system current level, and reducing the solid state lighting system current level when a predetermined peak current level is reached. A second cycle is commenced by increasing the solid state lighting system current level when a predetermined minimum current level is reached. Corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
US09763300B2	Programmable LED driver with mesh network wireless interface An LED driver includes a first stage. The first stage converts AC power from an AC power source into a DC power source. The driver also includes a second stage that receives the DC power from the first stage. The driver has a buck converter with a constant current output. The buck converter is managed by a buck converter control chip. The buck converter control chip is controlled by a microprocessor with an associated EEPROM. The EEPROM stores settings for the LED driver can be changed either with a wired GUI port or wirelessly through a Zigbee interface. The microprocessor can select a value of a DC output current according to a value of the analog dimming input signal which has been translated using a predetermined programmable relationship between the input signal and the output current.
US09763298B2	Voltage balancing current controlled LED circuit Systems and methods for balancing voltage in LED circuits are provided. An LED circuit can have a plurality of LED strings coupled in parallel with one another. Each LED string can include a plurality of LED devices coupled in series. The LED strings can receive a driver current from a driver circuit. According to example embodiments of the present disclosure, at least one of the plurality of LED strings can include a constant current regulator circuit coupled in series with the LED string. The constant current regulator circuit can provide a constant current through the LED string. The balance or remainder of the driver current can be provided to the other LED string. The constant current regulator circuit can provide for voltage balancing among the plurality of parallel LED strings.
US09763297B2	Lighting apparatus and methods using oscillator-based dimming control An apparatus includes a driver circuit configured to control a current through at least one LED responsive to a control signal. The apparatus further includes a modulated oscillator circuit configured to modulate an oscillating signal responsive to a dimming signal and to generate the control signal responsive to the modulated oscillating signal.
US09763289B2	System and method for a switched-mode power supply In accordance with an embodiment, a switched-mode power converter includes a switch, a freewheeling diode coupled between an output terminal of the switch and a power supply input node, an inductor coupled between the output terminal of the switch and a power supply output node, and a passive network having a first terminal coupled to the output terminal of the switch, a second terminal coupled to a power supply output node, and a third terminal coupled to a reference terminal of the switch. A method includes measuring a first voltage at a fourth terminal of the passive network when the switch is on; measuring a second voltage at the fourth terminal of the passive network when the switch is off; and estimating an output voltage between the power supply output node and the reference terminal of the switch based on the first voltage and the second voltage.
US09763288B2	EL panel, and illumination device and display device using the same An EL panel including: a light-transmissive substrate; an EL element including a light-emitting medium layer interposed between a cathode and an anode, the EL element being provided on one surface of the light-transmissive substrate; and a protection sheet on the other surface of the light-transmissive substrate of the EL element. The protection sheet has a surface opposite to the light-transmissive substrate, the shape of the surface includes rounded convex shapes and prism shapes. Each of the rounded shapes has an apex that is a center point of a cross-section farthest from a bottom surface where the cross-section is parallel to the bottom surface of the unit convex shape and the area becomes smaller in a direction from the bottom surface of the rounded convex shape to a top portion thereof.
US09763287B2	Single mode microwave device for producing exfoliated graphite A device for producing exfoliated graphite from graphite flakes, intercalated graphite, or expanded graphite by means of microwave heating using single mode microwave cavities, a method of producing such materials and products from such methods.
US09763286B2	Fluid system with at least one heating device for fluid, and heating device A fluid system of an internal combustion engine is provided with a heating device in a heating chamber. An electric heating element of the heating device is arranged between two holding bodies such that the heating element electrically and thermally contacts a contact section of at least one of the holding bodies. The heating chamber has an inner volume region between the holding bodies and at least one outer volume region arranged on an outer side of the holding bodies. The inner and outer volume regions allow fluid to flow through. The inner volume region has an enlarged section with a first spacing measured between the holding bodies. The holding bodies have a second spacing measured in a region of the contact section. The first spacing is greater than the second spacing at least at a circumferential side of the contact section facing the enlarged section.
US09763283B2	Method and apparatus for wireless link control in wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity A method and an apparatus for wireless link (radio link) control in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity is disclosed. The present invention includes: detecting radio link failure (RLF) of a secondary serving cell provided from a secondary base station, separately from detecting RLF of a primary serving cell provided from a master base station; generating a RLF specifier specifying an occurrence of RLF of the secondary serving cell when RLF of the secondary serving cell is detected; and transmitting the RLF specifier to an RRC connected master base station. A wireless link between a terminal and a master base station and a wireless link between a terminal and a secondary base station can be managed individually when a terminal is dually connected to both the master base station and the secondary base station in a network.
US09763282B2	Operating with multiple schedulers in a wireless system Systems and methods are disclosed for a WTRU to operate using multiple schedulers. The WTRU may exchange data with the network over more than one data path, such that each data path may use a radio interface connected to a different network node and each node may be associated with an independent scheduler. For example, a WTRU may establish a RRC connection between the WTRU and a network. The RRC connection may establish a first radio interface between the WTRU and a first serving site of the network and a second radio interface between the WTRU and a second serving site of the network. The RRC connection may be established between the WTRU and the MeNB and a control function may be established between the WTRU and the SCeNB. The WTRU may receive data from the network over the first radio interface or the second radio interface.
US09763279B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system A detection result acquiring apparatus includes a first operation object detection unit, a comparison section, and a processing section. The first operation object detection unit is configured to detect a first number of operation objects. The comparison section is configured to compare the first number with a second number representing a number of operation objects a second operation object detection unit is can detect obtain a comparison result. The processing section is configured to perform processing based on the comparison result.
US09763274B2	Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising at least one processing core configured to determine an opportunity for device-to-device, D2D, communication, and at least one transmitter configured to cause transmitting of a D2D communication request, wherein the D2D communication request at least one of comprises a radio resource control signaling message and comprises an indication of a type of D2D communication that is requested. The indicated type may comprise D2D communication with no fallback to cellular connectivity, wherein such a D2D communication can be established without involving a core network, CN.
US09763272B2	System and method for time resource allocation for device-to-device communication overlaid on a cellular network An embodiment of a system for operating a communications controller and a user equipment in a wireless communications system is provided. The communications controller is configured to allocate a first set of subframes to a group of UEs for a DMC link, allocate a second set of subframes to a particular UE in the group of UEs, transmit a first message including information about the first set of subframes to the group of UE, and transmit a second message including information about the second set of subframes to the particular UE. The second set of subframes is a subset of the first set of subframes, and information about the second set includes subframes in which the particular UE may transmit to other UEs in the group of UEs. Subframes in the first set not in the second set are allocated for reception by the particular UE.
US09763271B1	Networked Wi-Fi stations having multi-level displays and multiple antennas A kiosk system is described that may have multilevel displays and multiple network antennas. Upper level displays may be non-touch and a lower level display may include a touch display. The upper level displays may be affixed to a body of the kiosk using brackets. The kiosk may include first and second network interfaces. The first network interface may be provided to enable user terminals local to the kiosk to wirelessly access network resources via the kiosk system. The second network interface may enable the kiosk to access a remote system. The kiosk may be equipped with a camera, microphone, and/or a speaker.
US09763260B2	System and method for dynamic channel allocaton An exemplary system and method for dynamic channel allocation in an LMR system includes using one or more preference indicators to dynamically determine a channel allocation priority to be used for channel allocation when channel allocation requests are received. The preference indicators may include a channel failure indicator (e.g. a channel health indicator based on repeater failures), a channel priority indicator, a radio frequency interference indicator, a high reflected power indicator, an excessive current drain indicator, a loss of backbone communications indicator, and a channel usage indicator. If more than one preference indicator is used, the channel priority ranking may be determined using any of a variety of weightings and prioritizations of the various preference indicators to dynamically generate the channel allocation priority. The dynamic channel allocation system may include one or more site controllers, servers, and/or one or more processors configured to implement the method of dynamic channel allocation.
US09763258B2	Method and arrangement for communication using a dynamic transmission parameter Base station and User Equipment (UE) and methods to be performed therein for communication using a dynamic transmission parameter. The method to be performed in a base station comprises scheduling of transmission resources to a UE in an OFDM symbol associated with a dynamic parameter value. The base station is assumed to be associated with a carrier where a radio frame comprises at least one OFDM symbol associated with a fixed parameter value and at least one OFDM symbol associated with a dynamic parameter value, where the parameter is a cyclic prefix, CP, or a subcarrier spacing, Δf. The method further comprises determining a value of the parameter based on a characteristic of a radio link associated with the UE, and applying the determined value of the parameter when communicating with the UE in the scheduled transmission resources.
US09763255B2	Radio channel utilization The concepts relate to radio channel utilization and more specifically to determining whether individual radio channels are available for use. One example can cause multiple sensing devices in a region to sense radio channels. The example can obtain signal information sensed by the multiple sensing devices in relation to an individual radio channel. The example can collectively analyze the signal information from the multiple sensing devices to determine whether the individual radio channel is being used for a licensed broadcast in the region.
US09763254B2	Arrangements for association and re-association in a wireless network A method is disclosed for associating network devices to a network. The method can include receiving a beacon from a source by an antenna array, allocating resources to beamform and beamforming after receiving at least a portion of the beacon. The beamforming can be accomplished prior to completion of an association request and prior to receipt of an acceptance signal in response to the association request. Accordingly directional transmissions can be utilized transmit at least part of an association request and to transmit an acceptance signal corresponding to the association request.
US09763253B2	Channel allocation in a communication system Methods and systems are described which provide solutions for determining how to allocate terminals to slots in order to maximize communication system performance in the case where there is no feedback channel between a multiuser satellite receiver and terminals within the field of view. Terminals operate independently of each other and choose transmission slots based upon the geographic position of the terminal. Terminals can be programmed with a slot selector to choose slots according to some deterministic or non deterministic function of the current position. A slot plan database may be used to assist in efficient slot selection. Regular and irregular grid based allocation methods are described, that reduce the likelihood that too many terminals transmit using the same slot within the field of view. Satellite induced Doppler effects can be utilized be further increase slot re-use and to improve allocation of slots so that the receiver sees an approximately uniform distribution of frequencies over the frequency band to improve system throughput. The approaches described herein greatly reduce or eliminate the probability of failure at the receiver, which has numerous implementation advantages such as reduced cost, complexity, and power consumption.
US09763252B2	Adapting mobile device behavior using predictive mobility Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjusting at least one channel parameter based on accessed historical channel information associated with mobility patterns of a mobile device. In some examples, a mobile device or a base station may access historical channel information associated with mobility patterns of the mobile device or another mobile device. The mobility patterns may include information relative to a particular time and location of a mobile device, a previously traveled route by a mobile device, etc. Based on the historical channel information associated with the mobility patterns, the mobile device or the base station may adjust a channel parameter to improve communication performance across the particular channel.
US09763250B2	Communication device and method for decoding data based on control information Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units (101-1 to 101-n) encode data (#1 to #n) to mobile stations (#1 to #n), modulation units (102-1 to 102-n) modulate the encoded data so as to generate a data symbol, a scheduler (103) performs frequency scheduling according to a CQI from each mobile station so as to uniformly allocate data to the respective mobile stations for a part of RB extracted from a plurality of RB, and an SCCH generation unit (105) generates control information (SCCH information) to report the allocation result in the scheduler (103) to the respective mobile stations.
US09763245B2	System and methods for controlling the usage of a carrier The disclosure relates to a method (200) performed by a control system (2, 3, 4) that controls the usage of a first carrier, which first carrier is divided into transmission segments and each transmission segment consisting of N transmission time intervals, where N is greater than or equal to 2. The method (200) comprises the control system (2, 3, 4): configuring (202) a first wireless communication device UE1 to transmit data on a physical traffic channel using the first carrier by transmitting the data only during a first subset of the N transmission time intervals in each transmission segment, wherein the first subset of the N transmission time intervals consists of n transmission time intervals and n
US09763242B2	Channel-state information reference symbol scheduling in license-assisted access LTE Methods by network nodes and related network nodes are disclosed for configuring a user equipment (UE) in a telecommunications system. The UE is configured with a Channel-State Information (CSI) measurement resource with subframe-less configuration. A grant is sent on Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel ((e)PDCCH) for the UE with a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI_CSI) including specification of subframe configuration of CSI-measurement resources. A CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) is sent according to a desired scheme in subframes indicated by the subframe configuration. Corresponding methods by UEs and related UEs are also disclosed.
US09763232B2	Method for feeding back channel status information in wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas, and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method for feeding back, by a terminal, channel status information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. In detail, the method includes the steps of feeding back a subband channel quality indication (CQI) and a subband precoding matrix index (PMI), wherein a first subband size for the subband CQI and a second subband size for the subband PMI are set differently.
US09763230B2	Method and apparatus for receiving and transmitting channel state information based on carrier sensing The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and a device for transmitting control information. The wireless communication system supports carrier aggregation (CA). One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for a base station to receive information from a terminal in a wireless communication system, and comprises the steps of: dividing the entire bandwidth used by one or more serving cells configured in the base station and the terminal, into predetermined frequency units; carrying out a carrier sensing operation for each of the plurality of bandwidths divided in the predetermined frequency units; and when the result of the carrier sensing operation for a first bandwidth from the plurality of divided bandwidths is maintained idle for a predetermined time or longer, transmitting first information to the terminal using the first bandwidth; and receiving from the terminal, second information on a second cell (SCell) related to the first information from the one or more serving cells.
US09763229B2	Method and apparatus for controlling traffic in wireless communication system Methods and apparatuses are provided for signal transmission and reception between a user equipment, a base station, and a server in a mobile communication system. The user equipment obtains control information related to traffic associated with the user equipment. The user equipment transmits a user plane message created based on the control information, to the server, via the base station.
US09763227B2	Mobile communication system and mobile communication method A mobile communication system directly performs user-data communication between a plurality of radio terminals without involvement of a radio base station. The user-data communication directly performed between the plurality of radio terminals is performed by using a part of radio resources assigned to the mobile communication system. The plurality of radio terminals include a transmission-side terminal that transmits the user data and a reception-side terminal that receives the user data. The mobile communication system switches between a first assignment mode in which the transmission-side terminal or the reception-side terminal assigns a radio resource used for the user-data communication, and a second assignment mode in which the radio base station assigns the radio resource used for the user-data communication.
US09763226B2	Secondary cell preparation for inter-site carrier aggregation According to embodiments of the invention, an apparatus is provided which includes a connection unit configured to send and/or receive data to and/or from a secondary network control node, a processor configured to establish a configuration preparation message for the secondary network control node for preparing a carrier aggregation in which data to a user equipment is transmitted by at least two component carriers, and in which at least one first component carrier is provided between the apparatus and the user equipment and at least one second component carrier is provided between the secondary network control node and the user equipment, wherein the configuration preparation message includes configuration preparation information for the carrier aggregation, and the connection unit is configured to send the configuration preparation message to the secondary network control node.
US09763225B2	LTE-U clear channel assessment operations The subject technology provides for performing clear channel assessment (CCA) in LTE-U. Transmissions may be monitored in a resource reserved for CCA. An energy of the transmissions is detected over a shorter duration than an assigned slot in the resource reserved for CCA. A beacon may be transmitted in a slot assigned to a wireless entity for CCA in response to detecting a clear channel based on the monitoring. In another aspect, a beacon transmission for CCA and a timing for the monitoring are adapted in response to detecting the transmissions for a consecutive number of CCA periods. Further, the subject technology provides for adjusting to a maximum power for transmission of a beacon in a slot assigned to a mobile station for CCA in response to detecting a clear channel based on the monitoring.
US09763220B2	Correlating road network information and user mobility information for wireless communication network planning Various embodiments monitor user mobility in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a set of temporally related call detail records associated with at least one user of a wireless communication network is analyzed. A set of base stations accessed during at least one call associated with the set of temporally related call detail records is identified based on the analysis of the records. At least one road segment of a road network within a threshold distance to each of the set of base stations is identified. A set of mobility information for the at least one user indicating that the at least one user traversed the at least one road segment is stored based on identifying the at least one road segment.
US09763218B2	System and method for determining a location for a device in a communication network The disclosure recites a system and method of identifying location data for a server device managing communications for a wireless network. The method comprises: obtaining location data for the server device; identifying a location for the server device by analyzing at least the location data; updating data in the server device with the location; identifying a communication transmission range for the location for the server device; and configuring communications generated by the server device to conform to the communication transmission range.
US09763217B2	Positioning systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile communication device A localization approach based on cable length detection. In one aspect, a method performed by a positioning system for determining the location of a mobile communication device (MCD) is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes the positioning system determining a cable length value representative of the length of the cable connecting a base station to a radio head serving the MCD. The positioning system then determines a location of the MCD based on the determined cable length.
US09763216B2	Radiator localization A method of locating a radiator is provided. A channel measurement vector is defined that includes a signal value measured at each of a plurality of antennas in response to a signal transmitted from a radiator. (a) A cell covariance matrix of a first cell from a plurality of cells defined for a region in which the radiator is located is selected. (b) A likelihood value that the radiator is located in the first cell is calculated using the selected cell covariance matrix and the defined channel measurement vector. (a) and (b) are repeated with each cell of the plurality of cells as the first cell. A cell location of the radiator is selected based on the calculated likelihood value for each cell of the plurality of cells.
US09763214B2	Device and method for autonomously performing an implicit detach operation A device can communicate wirelessly with another device in a wireless communication system and is arranged to receive configuring information defining a detach configuration. By using the detach configuration, the device can autonomously perform an implicit detach operation thus terminating a communication link between the device and the other device. Optionally, when the detach configuration includes an explicit detach mode, the device transmits an indicating signal indicating the detach operation. The indicating signal transmitted by the device may comprise a DETACH REQUEST message. Preferably the device can store the configuring information and can store program information, and can perform the detach operation by using the stored program information and the stored configuring information.
US09763210B2	Evolved node-B and user equipment and methods for operation in a coverage enhancement mode Embodiments of an eNB to operate in accordance with a coverage enhancement mode are disclosed herein. The eNB may comprise hardware processing circuitry to, during a legacy sub-frame, transmit a system information block (SIB) in legacy SIB frequency resources according to a legacy SIB transmission format and refrain from transmission of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS). The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first portion of the SIB in first SIB frequency resources included in the legacy SIB frequency resources. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first set of CSI-RS in first CSI-RS frequency resources that include at least a portion of the legacy SIB frequency resources.
US09763208B2	Method and apparatus for supporting synchronization in D2D communication Disclosed is a method for supporting synchronization of a user equipment (UE) for D2D communication. The method includes: first scanning for checking a synchronization signal transmitted from a nearby UE; establishing the UE as a synchronization-transmitting UE, based on a result of the first scanning; transmitting a synchronization channel including timer value information indicating scanning time at which a scanning starts; and second scanning based on the timer value information.
US09763206B2	Adjustment of transmit power parameter Adjustment of a downlink transmit power parameter, such as a ceiling level, is disclosed. Signal-to-noise type information and committed power information can be employed to determine the ceiling level adjustment. A ceiling level can be a predetermined cap on transmission power for downlink channels between a user equipment and a base station. Where there is sufficient headroom in total transmission power and a power level greater than the predetermined ceiling can be effective, the ceiling can be adjusted to greater values than the predetermined value. Where total transmission power is more committed, ceiling adjustment can be prevented. Further, where there is no adequate benefit from increasing the ceiling, the adjustment of the ceiling can be prevented. While some instances can result in optimized transmission levels below the ceiling, instances can also be accommodated where the ceiling is to be increased.
US09763201B2	Power control method in mixed cellular and D2D network and UE The present disclosure discloses a power control method performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a mixed cellular and device-to-device (D2D) network and the UE. The method comprises obtaining one or more power control related parameters for each of one or more neighboring cells of a serving cell for the UE from the serving cell or the neighboring cell. The one or more neighboring cells are asynchronous with the serving cell. The method further comprises adapting a D2D transmission power of the UE based on the obtained power control related parameters so as to reduce interference from the UE to cellular transmission of the one or more neighboring cells.
US09763195B2	Dynamic envelope elimination and restoration polar transmitter Devices and methods for increasing and maximizing power efficiency in polar and Cartesian transmitters are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes a transmitter configured to receive an in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) signal, generate an amplitude envelope signal based on the I/Q signal, decompose the amplitude envelope signal into an envelope amplitude portion and an envelope phase portion, and to dynamically switch between performing a polar modulation of the I/Q signal and performing an I/Q modulation of the I/Q signal based at least in part on an amplitude value of the envelope phase portion.
US09763194B2	User sensing system and method for low power voice command activation in wireless communication systems A method of activating voice control on a wireless device includes sampling signals from a plurality of sensors on the device, determining if the device is in a hands-on state by a user on the basis of the signal sampling, and enabling a voice activated detection (VAD) application on the device on the basis of the determination. A voice controlled apparatus in a wireless device includes a plurality of sensors arranged on the device, a microphone, a controller to sample signals from one or more of the plurality of sensors, a processor coupled to the controller, and a voice activated detection (VAD) application running on the processor coupled to the controller and the microphone.
US09763193B2	Battery life extension for a communication device Systems (100) and methods (400) for extending battery life on a Communication Device (“CD”). The methods involve: configuring operations of CD and an accessory such that they operate in a first operational mode in which the accessory has a first functionality; and detecting the occurrence of a trigger event. The trigger event occurs when: (a) CD's power source has a State-Of-Charge (“SOC”), capacity or voltage level that is not optimal for powering the accessory, (b) a voltage level of the accessory's power source is below a lowest voltage level at which the accessory can fully operate, or (c) a power source of the accessory is sufficiently charged/re-charged such that the accessory can once again operate in the SOM. In response to the trigger event, operations of CD and accessory are re-configured such that they operate in accordance with a second operational mode in which the accessory has a second functionality.
US09763189B2	Low power synchronization in a wireless communication network Some aspects of the present disclosure provide for methods, apparatus, and computer software for low-power synchronization of wireless communication devices. In one example, an asynchronous code division multiple access (CDMA) channel may be utilized for uplink communication. By utilizing asynchronous CDMA on the uplink, synchronization requirements are relaxed relative to other forms of communication. Accordingly, a synchronization period after coming out of a sleep state can be short, reducing power consumption during re-synchronization. In another example, a low-power companion receiver, rather than the full-power WWAN receiver, may be utilized to acquire a sync signal while the device is in its sleep state. Once synchronism is achieved via the low-power companion receiver, the full-power radio may power up and perform communication with the network. By shifting the synchronization from the full-power radio to the low-power companion radio, power consumption during re-synchronization can be achieved.
US09763187B1	Method and apparatus for power saving in client terminals In any cellular communication the network transmits broadcast information with some periodicity which is defined by the network parameters. The client terminal must acquire this system information in order to access the services from the network. The time required by the client terminal to acquire all the necessary system information to initiate network access may depend on the scheduling of the system information broadcast by the network. In some cases the scheduling information about the system information may be described in another system information message whose schedule may be fixed or known a priori. Conventional method of decoding the complete system information may involve decoding attempt for all the possible instances of transmission of the system information. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enables acquisition of the system information based on stored known instances of system information transmission. This results in reduced power consumption at the client terminal.
US09763186B2	Power saving in Wi-Fi devices utilizing bluetooth The present description provides methods, computer program products, and systems for saving power in Wi-Fi devices utilizing Bluetooth. A Wi-Fi radio transitions to deep sleep mode from active mode while a Bluetooth radio remains active. An active Wi-Fi connection to the access point can be maintained by the station while in deep sleep mode as needed to prevent being disassociated. Responsive to the indication of data packets waiting at the access point, sent over the Bluetooth radio, the Wi-Fi radio at the station can be transitioned from the deep sleep mode to the active mode. A notification of active mode is sent to the access point currently associated with the Wi-Fi radio so that packets can be forwarded.
US09763183B2	WLAN access method and apparatus The present invention provides a WLAN access method that includes obtaining an access location of a UE; obtaining AP access information of the UE at the access location; selecting an AP according to the obtained AP access information to access a WLAN; and sending AP access information of the selected AP to the UE. The present invention further provides another WLAN access method and a corresponding apparatus.
US09763182B1	Mobile device morphing using mobile network availability Apparatus, systems and methods for maintaining connection to a wireless service provider on a mobile device. A mobile computing device having stored data and a morph engine is connected to a wireless service provider selected from a plurality of wireless service providers accessible by the mobile device. Triggering data is received at the mobile computing device, whereby the morph engine thereof compares this triggering data against the stored data to determine an optimal wireless service provider that maintains a wireless signal connection on the mobile device. The optimal wireless service provider is identified from the plurality of other wireless service providers, and the wireless signal connection on the mobile device is switched from the first wireless service provider to the optimal wireless service provider to maintain the wireless signal connection.
US09763180B1	Peer-to-peer wireless device communication over a wireless local area network Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing peer-to-peer wireless device communication over a wireless local area network. In a particular embodiment, a method of operating a wireless communication device in communication with a wireless wide area communication network (WWAN) and a wireless local area communication network (WLAN) is provided. The method includes receiving a request from a user to initiate a communication with a second wireless communication device and determining whether the second wireless device is in communication with the WLAN. Upon determining that the second wireless device is in communication with the WLAN, the method provides establishing the communication with the second wireless device as a peer-to-peer communication over the WLAN. Upon determining that the second wireless device is not in communication with the WLAN, the method provides establishing the communication with the second wireless device over the WWAN.
US09763178B2	Enhanced active scanning in wireless local area networks A method for active scanning in a wireless network may include two transmitters. In such a method, the following steps may take place: initiating active scanning on at least one of a plurality of channels; waiting to transmit a first probe request on a first channel of the plurality of channels based on a delay timer; receiving at the first STA, while the delay timer is not expired, a probe request from a second STA; and skipping the first probe request on the first channel of the plurality of channels based on information contained in the received probe request from the second STA.
US09763177B1	False cell filtering during cell search During cell search procedure in 3GPP LTE wireless communication system it is required to detect multiple cells which may be observable by a client terminal. In conventional cell detection a client terminal may detect false cells along with true cells. The number of false cells may depend on specific conventional detection algorithm used. A method and apparatus are disclosed that use of Differential Correlation based SINR metric for filtering out false cells from the list of detected cells reported by the conventional cell detection methods. The combination of conventional cell detection and Differential Correlation SINR based false cell filtering enables significant reduction in false cells reported to the network and reduces power consumption in a client terminal.
US09763176B2	Communications system A communications system is described in which a core network apparatus provides a configuration for accessing a packet data network by a mobile communications device when operator determined barring is in place. Also disclosed are signalling messages used to control the setting up of the packet data connection, which messages are sent between a device in the core network and the mobile communications device.
US09763173B2	Regulatory domain identification for network devices Approaches are described for configuring a wireless network device, such as an access point, with appropriate configurations such that the device is operable in one or more country and/or regulatory domains. At least some embodiments enable the configuration process to operate in an automatic configuration mode, wherein at least one of a plurality of access points can be configured to automatically obtain and apply regulatory domain and country configurations to operate in a particular regulatory domain. Other approaches provide for configuring an access point based on a manual configuration approach, wherein a portable computing device can be used to configured the access point to operate in a particular regulatory domain.
US09763172B2	Idle-mode enhancements for extended idle discontinuous reception (EI-DRX) A user equipment (UE) may determine when to monitor for downlink (DL) communications such as paging messages based on both a received extended idle discontinuous reception (eI-DRX) cycle and a change in a downlink channel reliability condition of the UE. A base station may also adjust its transmission of paging information to a UE based on a eI-DRX cycle.
US09763171B2	Extending EARFCN value range in GERAN An E-UTRAN neighbor cell list is broadcast in a GERAN network using the extended EARFCN value ranges (i.e., 18 bits). Extending the EARFCN value ranges in GERAN and signaling EARFCN values within the extended EARFCN value range to inter-RAT-capable UEs that camp in GERAN allow GERAN to support continued inter-RAT mobility between GERAN and E-UTRAN networks. E-UTRAN neighbor cell information may be communicated to UEs in the GERAN network by System Information message broadcasts using the extended EARFCN value ranges.
US09763163B2	Method and device for simultaneous communications with multiple base stations and related communication device A first base station for handling cell release for dual connectivity in a communication system comprising a user equipment (UE) connecting to the first base station and a second base station, the first base station comprises a processing means configured to execute the instructions of determining to release a cell of the second base station which communicates with the UE; transmitting a cell release request message to the second base station, for initiating a release of the cell of the second base station from the UE; receiving a cell release response message transmitted by the second base station in response to the cell release request message; transmitting a RRC message to the UE, to indicate the UE to release the cell of the second base station, after receiving the cell release response message; and receiving a RRC response message transmitted by the UE in response to the RRC message.
US09763161B2	Apparatus of controlling connection for user equipment and method of controlling access for user equipment The present invention provides a terminal connection control apparatus, including: a cell position determining unit which provides information on a cell in which a terminal is located; a requested data speed determining unit which figures out a data speed requested by the terminal; and a connection cell control unit which controls a connection cell of the terminal based on cell position information and the requested data speed.
US09763158B2	Base station identity code and system information collection A user equipment (UE) speeds up circuit switched fallback call establishment and reduces circuit switched fallback call establishment failure. In one instance, the UE receives a redirection command including a list of current neighbor cells/frequencies. The UE determines whether a current serving cell matches a previous serving cell stored in the UE. The UE also evaluates the list of current neighbor cells to determine whether each current neighbor cell matches a previous neighbor cell associated with the previous serving cell. The UE then determines neighbor cells for power scan and/or synchronization channel decoding procedures to select one of the current neighbor cells to redirect the UE based on the previously recorded type of redirection result.
US09763156B2	Supporting enhanced uplink transmission during soft handover An enhanced uplink user equipment is in soft handover. A radio network controller selects a primary Node-B out of a plurality of Node-Bs supporting the soft handover. The radio network controller receiving successfully received enhanced uplink data packets from the plurality of Node-Bs. The radio network controller reordered the successfully received enhanced uplink data packets for in-sequence deliver. The primary Node-B sends specified scheduling information to the user equipment that the other Node-Bs does not transmit. At least the primary Node-B transmits acknowledgements and negative acknowledgements to the user equipment.
US09763151B2	Control method for supporting multiple connections in mobile communication system and apparatus for supporting multiple connections Disclosed are a control method for supporting multiple connections in a mobile communication system and an apparatus for supporting multiple connections. In the method for supporting the multiple connections to be performed in first and second base stations, a first base station receives the measured results for multiple connections from a terminal, determines whether the plurality of connections are set on the basis of the measured results, transmits the information for setting the multiple connections to the second base station when setting the multiple results, and the second base station generates the control information for setting the multiple connections of the terminal on the basis of the information for setting the multiple connections received from the first base station. Thus, the multiple connections can be easily supported and the performance of the mobile communication system can be improved therethrough.
US09763150B2	Method and apparatus for establishing connection in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for establishing a connection in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) in a connected mode camps on a second cell, transmits a connection request to the second cell, and receives redirection information, which indicates redirection to a first cell or a frequency of the first cell, from the second cell. The UE completes connection with the first cell by transmitting a message.
US09763149B2	Method and device for supporting mobility of mobile terminal in distributed mobile network based on a software-defined network A method and a system for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a distributed mobile network based on a SDN are disclosed. A method of supporting a fast handover of a mobile terminal in a node-B (eNB) includes the steps of: receiving a handover initiation message from the mobile terminal, the handover initiation message including identification information and signal strength of a target eNB; determining whether or not for a fast handover trigger using the signal strength of the target eNB and movement history of the mobile terminal previously stored; and when it is determined as the fast handover trigger, transmitting a handover request message and a rule for the handover to the target eNB by using the identification information of the target eNB.
US09763145B2	Selection of packet data protocol context for handover from cellular network to femto cell Packet data protocol (PDP) contexts are managed upon cellular-to-femto handover, wherein femto network has disparate capabilities to support applications with distinct access point names (APNs) and quality of service (QoS) profiles. Based at least on activity factors of applications associated with PDP contexts, a QoS-based ranking of PDP contexts, and subscriber input, cellular network platform selects active PDP contexts to retain and suspend upon handover. A group of active PDP contexts is handed off in accordance with femto coverage capability, with remaining active PDP contexts suspended during handover. When a suspended PDP context, and application associated therewith, is resumed through femto coverage, a PDP context modification is conducted with a new APN and the application is routed to a corresponding femto gateway node and application server. Additionally, femto network platform performs a radio access bearer reconfiguration to meet QoS requirements of the resumed PDP context.
US09763144B2	Handset transitions in a dual-mode environment Embodiments of the invention provide novel solutions, including systems, methods and/or software, for handling calls in a dual-mode VoIP/cellular environment. Merely by way of example, some systems can be configured to determine whether to use a VoIP system or a cellular system to handle a particular call, and/or to transition a call from one network to the other network. Other systems can be configured to substitute a public number (which might be, for example, a VoIP number) for a private number (which might be, for example, a cellular number) when routing a call originating from a dual-mode phone on a cellular network. Further systems can be configured to allow a VoIP system to serve as an anchor for calls originated and/or delivered on a cellular system, for instance to facilitate a transition between cellular and VoIP service during a call.
US09763143B2	Method and apparatus for performing handover with a relay node A method and apparatus for performing handover with a relay node (RN) are described. A donor eNodeB (eNB) includes circuitry configured to establish a wireless backhaul link with an RN and an X2 interface with at least one other eNB, circuitry configured to receive over the wireless backhaul link an X2 application protocol (X2AP) handover request message indicating that a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) of the RN is being requested to be handed over to another eNB, and circuitry configured to send the handover request message to the another eNB over the X2 interface.
US09763133B2	Content delivery system and content delivery method A plurality of cache servers, connected to a packet forwarding apparatus, forwarding a packet transmitted and received between a storage apparatus that holds a content under management in store and a user terminal, temporarily holds at least part of the content under management in store. A controller decides an on-screen resolution at the terminal, based on information contained in a content request message from the terminal, and selects a cache server that holds a content of the on-screen resolution in store. The controller instructs the selected cache server to deliver the content. The cache server instructed calculates a bit rate based on a signal received from the terminal. The cache server reads content from the terminal, which is to have the on-screen resolution and a bit rate not higher than the calculated bit rate. The content is stored in a packet and transmitted, then delivered without reducing the user's QoE.
US09763130B1	Systems and methods for managing congestion in a wireless communication network Systems and methods are described for assigning a profile to a wireless device in a communication network. Usage data associated with a wireless device may be received at a first access node. A first bearer profile may be assigned to a data transmission path. The usage data may be monitored for a set of criteria for a predetermined time period. A second bearer profile may be assigned to the data transmission path based on the usage data associated with the wireless device when the set of criteria is met. The wireless device may be detached from the communication network. The wireless device may be updated with the second bearer profile.
US09763129B2	Method and terminal for handling channel state information Provided in embodiments of the present application are a method and terminal for handling CSI. The embodiments of the present invention use the terminal to measure and report to a base station first CSI, where the first CSI comprises a first RI, a first PMI, and a first CQI, to acquire a second RI and/or a second PMI on the basis of the first CSI, thus allowing the terminal to utilize the second RI to measure and report to the base station the PMI and CQI corresponding to the second RI; or, the terminal utilizes the second RI and the second PMI to measure and report to the base station the CQI corresponding to the second RI and to the second PMI; or, the terminal utilizes the second PMI to measure and report to the base station the RI and CQI corresponding to the second PMI.
US09763128B2	Measurement reporting in D2D communication An apparatus is provided for use in a User Equipment, UE, comprising an input to receive an information element, IE, during a device-to-device, D2D, communication session with another UE, the IE indicating whether or not the UE is to send a measurement report; a processing section to determine based on the indication; and an output to control transmission by the UE, the processing section being arranged to suppress participation in measurement reporting when it is determined that a measurement report is not to be sent. A related apparatus is provided for use in an evolved Node B, eNB, and related methods are also provided.
US09763127B2	User equipment handover error reporting Embodiments described herein relate generally to a user equipment (“UE”) that is to transmit a handover error report to an access node. An access node may use information in the handover error report to adjust configurations for parameters that are used to make handover decisions. A UE may transmit such a handover error report in response to an undesirable handover procedure from a source access node to a target access node, such as a failed or nearly failed or too early handover procedure. The UE may transmit this handover error report to either the source access node or the target access node or another node.
US09763126B2	Electronic device and method for processing packet in internet protocol-based network An electronic device and method for processing a packet in an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network are provided. The method performed in an electronic device includes determining a network condition from a received signal, setting one of reference values set for corresponding network conditions as a transmission rate for the determined network condition, and transmitting the packet at the transmission rate.
US09763125B2	Measuring device and measuring method retroactively checking preconditions A measuring device serves the purpose of performing measurements of a measuring signal generated by a device under test. The measuring signal uses carrier aggregation of at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The measuring device comprises a high-frequency unit adapted to receive the measuring signal comprising the first carrier and the second carrier and a control unit. The control unit comprises a measuring unit adapted to perform measurements on the received measuring signal. While performing these measurements, it is assumed that an alignment of a power of the first carrier and a power of the second carrier is present. Moreover, the control unit comprises a power alignment determination unit adapted to determine, based upon results of the measurements of the measuring unit, whether the power of the first carrier and the power of the second carrier are in alignment. The control unit is adapted to discard at least some of the results of the measurements, if a lack of alignment of the power of the first carrier and the power of the second carrier is determined by the power alignment determination unit.
US09763123B2	Methods and apparatus to discover spectrum usage of mobile carriers Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining reliability of wireless carriers. An example method includes extracting channel information from messages transmitted to mobile devices at a plurality of locations to determine a quantity of available channels, segregating the extracted channel information into a first group corresponding to channels of a first carrier and a second group corresponding to channels of a second carrier, and determining, with a processor, a relative reliability between the first carrier and the second carrier based on a respective quantity of channels in the first group and the second group.
US09763118B1	System, method and apparatus for metering configuration in a wireless sensor network A remote user can specify data collection and processing characteristics of a wireless sensor network. In one example, a configuration station enables a user to activate/deactivate different sensor channels of data to support a delivery of data streams to customers. In another example, a configuration station enables a user to specify reporting intervals for different sensor channels of data. In yet another example, a configuration station enables a user to specify transformation functions for different sensor channels of data. The remote configuration process can be applied to every sensor in every sensor module unit attached to every wireless node at a monitored location.
US09763117B2	Multi-band wireless station having multiple radios in one band The disclosure is related to a multi-band wireless station, e.g., a wireless access point, that includes more than one wireless radio in the same frequency band. The wireless station operates at multiple frequency bands, e.g., 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Further, the wireless station includes multiple radios in the same frequency band. For example, the wireless station can have two radios for the 5 GHz band—one for a low 5 GHz band and another for high 5 GHz band. If the client station is connecting to the 5 GHz band, it can either connect to the first sub-band or the second sub-band of the 5 GHz. The wireless station can decide the sub-band to which a particular client station has to be assigned based on a number of assignment attributes, e.g., client station attributes and the sub-band attributes.
US09763113B2	Wireless receiving system and associated signal processing method A wireless receiving system includes a packet searching module and a memory module. The packet searching module performs packet searching that includes adopting at least one parameter. The memory module stores the at least one parameter corresponding to a packet as a set of reference parameters. At a predetermined time point, the packet searching module again performs packet searching according to the set of reference parameters stored in the memory module.
US09763109B2	Method and apparatus for analyzing signaling traffic A method and an apparatus for analyzing signaling traffic are disclosed by the embodiments of the present invention, which relate to the field of wireless communications, and are capable of analyzing signaling traffic and obtaining an analysis result. The method of the present invention includes: obtaining the number of signaling messages generated in the process that a terminal device transmits a packet according to user-plane data of the terminal device, where the user-plane data includes an interval between packets transmitted by a terminal device or the length of each packet transmitted by the terminal device; and analyzing the number of signaling messages generated in the process that the terminal device transmits a packet and obtaining an analysis result, where the analysis result includes address information about a terminal device that generates anomaly signaling traffic and/or characteristic information that affects signaling traffic.
US09763107B2	System and method for mobile data expansion In a system of surface markers, each surface marker includes a housing having an upper surface with a clear top that, when the surface marker is on a vehicle travel surface, is raised with respect to the vehicle travel surface. The housing includes a battery and photoelectric converter, as well as a sensor detecting vehicles, a wireless transceiver at least transmitting data, and processing circuitry all powered by the battery or converter. The surface marker communicates location information for the surface marker to a mobile terminal, directly or indirectly via a network, and communicates information relating to the vehicle to a remote server within the network. Surface markers may communicate only with each other and mobile terminals, or also communicate with network access points to forward information from other surface markers. Each surface marker optionally includes a reflector around at least a portion of the housing.
US09763101B2	Methods and apparatus for correcting error events associated with identity provisioning Methods and apparatus for correcting error events associated with identity provisioning. In one embodiment, repeated requests for access control clients are responded to with the execution of a provisioning feedback mechanism which is intended to prevent the unintentional (or even intentional) over-consumption or waste of network resources via the delivery of an excessive amount of access control clients. These provisioning feedback mechanisms include rate-limiting algorithms and/or methodologies which place a cost on the user. Apparatus for implementing the aforementioned provisioning feedback mechanisms are also disclosed and include specialized user equipment and/or network side equipment such as a subscriber identity module provisioning server (SPS).
US09763098B2	Bypassing security authentication scheme on a lost device to return the device to the owner Some embodiments provide a method for bypassing device security protections to communicate with a contact of a secure device. The method displays a selectable user interface object on the device enabling a user to bypass the security protections of the device. Upon receiving a selection of the user interface object, the method initiates a communication to a contact that is preselected from a list of contacts.
US09763094B2	Methods, devices and systems for dynamic network access administration Methods and devices for providing access to a wireless network through a network access point secured with a network password may include receiving a request to provide access to the wireless network for a device on the network access point. A virtual access point may be established to provide access to the wireless network for the device in response to receiving the request to provide access for the device on the network access point. A virtual access point password may be established for the device and associated with a unique identifier of the device. The virtual access point password may be different from the network password. The device may be provided with access to the network when an entered password matches the virtual access point password and the device identifier matches the unique identifier of the device associated with the virtual access point password.
US09763089B2	Protecting sensitive data in a security area Managing data security on a mobile device. Data associated with a mobile device is received; the data includes an identification (ID) of the mobile device and a location of the mobile device relative to one or more location sensor devices. A path is determined, relative to the one or more location sensor devices, through which the mobile device has travelled. An electronic security key is communicated to the mobile device based on determining that the path corresponds to a defined path associated with the mobile device.
US09763082B2	Optimizing setup for wireless devices A method of on-boarding a wireless electronic device may comprise sending, by the wireless electronic device, a unique identifier over a wireless local area network; receiving a communication from a computing device having selected the unique identifier and seeking to connect to the wireless electronic device; responsive to having received the communication from the computing device, determining a type of the computing device; and redirecting the computing device to a location on a wide area network where an application configured to interface with the wireless electronic device and suitable for the determined type of computing device is available for download to the computing device.
US09763080B2	Method and apparatus for selectively activating multiple subscriber identity modules A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to selectively establish communications with one or more of a plurality of mobile terminals in accordance with a predefined criteria, such as a predefined schedule. In the context of a method, a mobile terminal maintains at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM is mapped to different subscriber identification numbers. In this regard, the second SIM is mapped to the same subscriber identification number as the SIM of at least one other mobile terminal. The method may also activate the second SIM in accordance with a predefined criteria and may then subsequently deactivate the second SIM. For example, the second SIM may be activated and subsequently deactivated in accordance with a predefined schedule, such as a shift schedule, that identifies one or more time periods in which the second SIM is to be activated.
US09763079B2	System and method for communication history reconciliation amongst linked devices Methods and systems for communication history reconciliation amongst linked devices are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for communication history reconciliation amongst linked devices may include receiving an incoming communication request directed to a communication identifier associated with a user account, transmitting the communication request to at least a first device and a second device associated with the user account, receiving, responsive to the communication request, a message from the first device indicating that the first device has accepted the communication request to establish a call, and transmitting, to the second device, an indication that the communication request was accepted by the first device.
US09763078B1	Subscriber awareness for a mobile private network routing service in a network environment A method provided in one embodiment includes receiving, at a packet gateway, a first binding update message from a mobile access gateway. The first binding update message has a destination address associated with a local mobility anchor. The method further includes extracting at least one session identifier associated with the mobile access gateway from the first binding update message, constructing an option field including the at least one session identifier, and appending the option field to the first binding update message to form a second binding update message. The method further includes sending the second binding update message to the local mobility anchor.
US09763077B2	Method and system for implementing data routing of roaming user A method and system for implementing data routing of a roaming user are disclosed. The method comprises: configuring a roaming protocol between the home network and the roaming network; during the registering process of the user in the roaming network, performing an interactive negotiation between the home network and the roaming network, so as to determine one of the home network and the roaming network to allocate IP address according to the roaming protocol between the home network and the roaming network; and establishing the IP access bearer based on the IP address.
US09763076B2	Management of mobility in a communication network as a function of a credits usage profile A method of managing mobility of a mobile terminal in a communication network comprising a plurality of access points and an access points discovery server adapted for providing the mobile terminal with a list of network access points to which the mobile terminal can connect is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises the following processes implemented by the access points discovery server: recovery, from a credits management server, of a credits usage profile associated with the mobile terminal and generation of the list of access points as a function of said credits usage profile.
US09763073B2	Dynamically associated neighbor awareness networking (NAN) discovery windows for fine timing measurement Certain embodiments herein relate to a dynamic pre-association between Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) discovery windows and fine timing measurement (FTM) communications. A wireless station may trigger An FTM procedure during a NAN discovery window by the transmission of a NAN Service Discovery Frame (SDF). In addition to the FTM communications, an indication of a discovery window for which a subsequent FTM communication is expected to occur is also transmitted. In some embodiments, an FTM range report may also be transmitted with the indication.
US09763068B2	Short message service management systems and methods Systems and methods for short message service message management are provided herein. A method includes initiating a short message service (SMS) message session on a short message service (SMS) center for a first user equipment (UE) using a telephone number of the first UE, and facilitating exchange of SMS message session messages between the first UE and a second UE using the SMS center. The first UE uses a browser client or an application executing on the first UE to receive and send the SMS message session messages.
US09763066B2	Instantiating talkgroups In one implementation, information specifying a geographic area for a talkgroup may be received. In addition, information specifying that the talkgroup is a “warm” talkgroup may be received. In response to the receipt of the information specifying that the talkgroup is a “warm” talkgroup, a satellite constellation may be controlled to continuously light up a control channel in the geographic area for the talkgroup. A request to instantiate the talkgroup via the control channel may be received. In response thereto, the satellite constellation may be controlled to continuously light up a traffic channel in the geographic area for the talkgroup. Subsequently, the talkgroup may be determined to be inactive. In response thereto, the satellite constellation may be controlled to stop continuously lighting up the traffic channel in the geographic area while continuing to continuously light up the control channel in the geographic area.
US09763065B2	Method and system for processing information One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for transmitting information. During operation, the system receives, by a server from an initial mobile device, a request for transmitting information. The request does not specify a recipient for the information. The system obtains location and/or orientation information associated with the initial mobile device and location and/or orientation information associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The system selects from the plurality of mobile devices a subset of mobile devices based on the location and/or orientation information associated with the initial mobile device and the location and/or orientation information associated with the plurality of mobile devices, and transmits the information to the selected subset of mobile devices.
US09763058B2	Method and system of personalized broadcast service on public transportation A method for implementing broadcast service and a broadcast service system are provided. The information transmitted may be personalized for a user of a public transportation system. In an embodiment, the method includes transmitting information including at least a calling point identifier. Optionally the information may be transmitted via audio signals. Optionally the information is encrypted during transmission and decrypted upon receipt. Information related to the calling point may be retrieved based on the calling point identifier. The information may be displayed selectively. In an embodiment, position and speed information of the user may be obtained, and the time of arrival at a calling point may be determined. In an embodiment, the broadcast system may alert the user upon arrival at a calling point or in advance.
US09763053B2	Beacon communication system and methods A system and method for providing a communications link between an owner of a lost article and a person that finds the lost article. The method includes detecting at a communication device of the person that finds the lost article, a beaconing signal generated by an electronic beacon device when the communication device is in proximity of the communication device. The beaconing signal is associated with an owner of the electronic beacon device. The communication device may transmit, to a server, location information and identification information inherent within the beaconing signal. The server may return one or more communication options enabling a user of the communication device to contact the owner of the electronic beacon device. Such communication options may comprise, for example, voice communication, video communication or communication via text message. In one embodiment the communication options enable communication to occur while maintaining the anonymity of the owner.
US09763052B2	Terminal device and communication method A terminal device includes a processor and a memory storing a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to receive the broadcast information of a radio base station currently in communication with the terminal device, store location information included in the received broadcast information in a first storage part, and transmit the location information stored in the first storage part to a management apparatus connected to the radio base station through a network. The terminal device is caused to transmit the location information stored in the first storage part when the radio base station currently in communication with the terminal device is switched from a first radio base station to a second radio base station and location information is absent in the broadcast information of the second radio base station received by the terminal device.
US09763050B2	Method and apparatus for location determination with WLAN/WPAN/sensor support Apparatus and methods for estimating a location of a wireless device in communication with a wireless network, such as a UMTS network, based at least in part on WLAN/WPAN AP measurements and/or barometric measurements are disclosed. The wireless device responds to a location capability inquiry from the wireless network by providing a response that indicates the wireless device is configurable to estimate its location based on WLAN/WPAN AP and/or barometric measurements. The wireless network sends WLAN/WPAN AP and/or barometric reference information to the wireless device to assist in estimating its location. The wireless device measures one or more WLAN/WPAN APs, and the wireless device uses the WLAN/WPAN AP and/or barometric measurements to estimate its location. In some embodiments, GPS/GNSS information is used in conjunction with WLAN/WPAN AP and/or barometric measurements to estimate the location of the wireless device.
US09763048B2	Secondary indications of user locations and use thereof by a location-based service Systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining secondary indications of locations of users for use by a location-based service. In one embodiment, a secondary indication of a location of one or more users is obtained from a source of secondary indications of locations of users. The secondary indication includes a location of the one or more users and timing information defining when the one or more users were or will be located at the location. The secondary indication of the location of the one or more users is then stored and utilized to provide the location-based service. In one embodiment, the secondary indication is utilized to store historical aggregate user profile data by location and/or to provide aggregate user profile data for crowds of users formed via a spatial crowd formation process.
US09763043B2	Position determination of mobile stations in a wireless network The invention relates to a network, and a method of operating a network. The network includes a plurality of stations each able to transmit and receive data so that the network can transmit data between stations via at least one selected intermediate station. Each station transmits probe signals in broadcast fashion to other stations to gather a list of neighbor stations. The stations transmit position data and/or position determining data in at least some of the probe signals. The position data includes data indicative of the absolute or relative position of a station transmitting a probe signal, and the position determining data includes data usable by a station receiving a probe signal to determine the absolute or relative position of the station and/or other stations. Each station maintains position data and/or position determining data received from selected probing stations, and utilizes the data to determine the absolute or relative position of itself and/or other stations. The stations can determine the relative or absolute position of other stations in direct communication with themselves, and also of other stations not in direct communication with themselves.
US09763034B2	Channel-type supervised node positioning method for a wireless network A method for positioning a collection of nodes within a wireless sensor network in which each node measures Respective Strength of Signals (RSSs), from its neighboring nodes, and channels linking regular nodes and its neighboring nodes are classified into different categories and are allocated path loss parameters accordingly. Distances separating each regular node from each of its neighboring nodes, and respective variances thereof, are estimated on the basis of the measured RSSs and the allocated path loss parameters. The positions of the regular nodes are then estimated by Weighted Least Square, optimization where the distances to be matched and the variances used for the weighting are those previously estimated.
US09763033B1	Prevention of inductive coupling between components of a mobile communication device A method of organizing components of a mobile communication device. The method comprises orienting a radio frequency identity chip of the mobile communication device relative to a general purpose near field communication transceiver of the mobile communication device, locating the radio frequency identity chip in a null region of an electromagnetic field radiated by the general purpose near field communication transceiver, whereby, the null region of the electromagnetic field may be below a threshold required to activate the radio frequency identity chip.
US09763030B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for management of connected devices, such as in a wireless docking environment-intelligent and automatic connection activation Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments enable a wireless docking center device to manage one or more wireless and/or wired peripheral devices on behalf of a wireless dockee device. In an example embodiment, a wireless docking system may automatically provide only those peripherals to user's attention, which are in direct relation to user's activity and are meaningful to the user at each point in time. The set of offered peripherals may depend on the application, for example, video playing or web browsing, running in user's dockee device, such as a smartphone. An example embodiment may automatically take into account known user preferences/habits, location, etc. The selection of peripherals offered may automatically provide the best technical performance, for example, best quality display for a video. An example embodiment also enables the docking solution to allocate optimum peripheral resources on a dynamic usage basis for each user.
US09763027B2	Method and apparatus for communication using IP address exchanged via NFC A method of performing communication with a second communication device by a first communication device is provided. The method includes identifying an Internet Protocol (IP) address for communication with a first communication network, providing data including the IP address to the second communication device connected through a second communication network, and executing a communication application being connected with the second communication device via the first communication network using the IP address.
US09763022B2	Automatic system and method for conversion of smart phone applications to basic phone applications A system and method is disclosed for converting smart cell phone applications to applications that operate on basic cell phones. The invention has a classifying process that classifies one or more functions of a cell phone application into those functions capable being performing by a basic cell phone and those functions, missing functions, that can not be performed by a basic cell phone. Substitute functions for the missing functions are developed. An emulator monitors the execution of the cell phone application and provides the substitute cell phone functions at points in the execution where a missing function is to be executed. Therefore, the smart phone application is converted into a basic phone application that can be executed by the basic cell phones with reduced functionality. The invention can run on a smart phone or a server. The invention can also be provided as a server based service for basic cell phone users.
US09763021B1	Systems and methods for display of non-graphics positional audio information Systems and methods are disclosed herein that may be implemented to use multiple light sources to visually display non-graphics positional audio information based on multi-channel audio information produced by a computer application executing on a processor of an information handling system. The multiple light sources may be operated separately and independently from a user's computer display device, and the non-graphics positional audio information may be separate and different from any visual graphics data that is generated by the computer application or information handling system.
US09763019B2	Analysis of decomposed representations of a sound field In general, techniques are described for identifying distinct audio objects from spherical harmonic coefficients (which may also be denotes as higher order ambisonic coefficients). A device comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques so as to identify the distinct audio objects from the spherical harmonic coefficients (SHC) associated with the audio objects based on a directionality determined for one or more of the audio objects.
US09763018B1	Calibration of audio playback devices An audio playback device comprises a microphone, a speaker, and a processor. The processor is arranged to output by the speaker first audio content and receive by the microphone an indication of the first audio content. A first acoustic response of a room in which the audio playback device is located is determined based on the received indication of first audio content. A mapping is applied to the first acoustic response to determine a second acoustic response. The second acoustic response is indicative of an approximated acoustic response of the room at a spatial location different from a spatial location of the microphone. The second audio content output by the speaker is adjusted based on the second response.
US09763014B2	Loudspeaker with piezoelectric elements Embodiments are disclosed for a loudspeaker driven by one or more piezoelectric actuators. In embodiments of the disclosure, a loudspeaker comprises a support structure, and a piezoelectric layered cantilever actuator affixed to the support structure via at least two grips. The support structure may also comprise a membrane suspended over the piezoelectric actuator, the membrane being in contact with the piezoelectric actuator between the at least two grips.
US09763009B2	Electroacoustic transducer An electroacoustic transducer is provided that combines the properties and advantages of the known concepts of the thickness mode transducer and of the bending transducer with each other. For this purpose, an electroacoustic transducer is provided, which includes a housing and an oscillating structure. The oscillating structure is formed by at least one piezoelectric element, a diaphragm, and an acoustic transmitter. It is provided that the diaphragm is designed as a bending transducer, and the acoustic transmitter is designed as a thickness mode transducer.
US09763008B2	Timbre constancy across a range of directivities for a loudspeaker A system and method for driving a loudspeaker array across directivities and frequencies to maintain timbre constancy in a listening area is described. In one embodiment, a frequency independent room constant describing the listening area is determined using the directivity index of a first beam pattern, the direct-to-reverberant ratio DR at the listener's location in the listening area, and an estimated reverberation time T60 for the listening area at a designated frequency. On the basis of this room constant, an offset may be generated for a second beam pattern. The offset describes the decibel difference between first and second beam patterns to achieve constant timbre and may be used to adjust the second beam pattern at multiple frequencies. Maintaining constant timbre improves audio quality regardless of the characteristics of the listening area and the beam patterns used to represent sound program content. Other embodiments are also described.
US09763006B2	Noise reduction in a microphone using vowel detection In an approach for reducing feedback in a device, wherein a first audio signal is received by a device. A processor determines that an intensity value of the first audio signal is increasing above a predetermined threshold value. A processor determines whether the first audio signal includes a vowel type sound. A processor responsive to determining that the first audio signal does not include the vowel type sound clips the first audio signal.
US09763004B2	Systems and methods for audio conferencing Systems and methods for enabling an audio conference are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a transmitting device which receives audio signals representing sounds captured by at least two microphones from participants situated at a first location. A time-of-arrival delay between at least two of the audio signals is calculated and a beam-formed monaural audio signal and corresponding spatial data are generated and transmitted to remote participants situated at a second location. A receiving device processes the beam-formed monaural audio signal based on the spatial data to render and output spatial audio via speakers to the remote participants at the second location. In various aspects, the spatial data may include an angular value or a participant identifier that are determined based on the time-of-arrival delay. The spatial data may also indicate a total number of conference participants that are detected at the first location.
US09763003B2	Automotive constant signal-to-noise ratio system for enhanced situation awareness Audio systems for a vehicle and methods for increasing auditory situation awareness in a vehicle are provided. An audio system includes at least one ambient microphone disposed on the vehicle, a processor and at least one loudspeaker. The at least one ambient microphone is configured to capture ambient sound external to the vehicle and to produce an ambient sound signal. The processor is configured to receive the ambient sound signal and an audio content signal, and to mix the ambient sound signal with the audio content signal to generate a mixed output signal. The at least one loudspeaker is configured to reproduce the mixed output signal in the vehicle cabin.
US09763002B1	Stream caching for audio mixers Methods and systems are provided for reusing audio streams in an audio mixing environment such that processing resources (e.g., CPU cycles) are not wasted on encoding the same audio streams multiple times (e.g., more than once). Instead, processing resources are conserved without comprising audio quality. The methods described herein are particularly useful when a participant transitions from using a shared encoder to using the participant's own encoder, and when the participant transitions from using the participant's own encoder to using a shared encoder.
US09762997B2	Mobile device acoustic divider A mobile communication device having an acoustic divider for minimizing acoustic coupling is disclosed. The mobile communication device includes a housing having an outer surface and internal sidewalls. The outer surface and internal sidewalls define a void disposed at and below the outer surface of the housing. The mobile communication device includes a receiver disposed within the housing and below a first portion of the void, and a microphone disposed within the housing and below a second portion of the void. An acoustic divider is disposed within the void and laterally disposed between the receiver and the microphone. The acoustic divider acoustically isolates the first and second portions of the void, thereby minimizing acoustic coupling between the receiver and the microphone.
US09762988B2	Microphone A microphone is provided that ensures the electrical connection between a unit case and an audio-signal output circuit board. The microphone includes a unit case 10 having a shape of a hollow cylinder with a closed end and accommodating an electroacoustic transducer 20, an audio-signal output circuit board 40 connected to the electroacoustic transducer, and a microphone case accommodating the unit case and the audio-signal output circuit board, wherein the audio-signal output circuit board has a receiver 41 disposed on a portion of the peripheral edge of the audio-signal output circuit board, and an open end 11 of the unit case comes into contact with the receiver and is positioned when the unit case and the audio-signal output circuit board are accommodated in the microphone case.
US09762974B2	Consumer-configurable alternative advertising reception with incentives An indication from a user is detected by a first content viewing device to transfer an advertisement delivered to the first content viewing device as part of streamed audio and video (A/V) content to an alternative content viewing device. A determination is made, based upon user-specific advertising configuration information, as to whether the user is authorized to perform advertisement deferral during the streamed A/V content. The advertisement is configured as an incentivized deferred advertisement to be viewed by the user at a later time using the alternative content viewing device in response to determining that the user is authorized to perform advertisement deferral during the streamed A/V content. The configured incentivized deferred advertisement is transferred to the alternative content viewing device.
US09762973B2	Method and system for operating a receiving circuit module to encode a channel signal into multiple encoding formats A receiving circuit module and method for operating the same includes a housing receiving a first signal, a first encoder disposed within the housing encoding the first signal to form a first encoded signal and a second encoder disposed within the housing encoding the first signal to form a second encoded signal having a different format than the first signal.
US09762972B2	Methods and apparatus for selectively obscuring a rendering of a media stream Various embodiments of systems, apparatus, and/or methods are described for selectively obscuring a rendering of a media stream. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a request to render the media stream. The media stream is accessed through a first media source. A content identifier is identified for an event within the requested media stream. Based upon the content identifier, it may be discovered that the event is accessible through at least one second media source. The rendering of the requested media stream may then be obscured and a notification provided to a user that the event within the requested media stream is accessible through at least one second media source.
US09762970B2	Access of stored video from peer devices in a local network A method that communicates a request from a first device to a proximally located second device for a movie residing in storage associated with the second device, the request communicated over a communications network, responsive to the request, receives the movie from the second device over the communications network, presents a menu on a screen corresponding to the first device, the menu comprising playback options to enable a user to manipulate playback and rewind of the movie, and responsive to user selection of one of the playback options, presents the movie on the screen.
US09762969B2	Display apparatus for processing multiple applications and method for controlling the same A method of controlling a display device for processing video data, a tuner configured to receive at least one of broadcast program; an network interface configured to receive at least one of application; an external device interface configured to connect at least one of external device; a display module configured to display the received broadcast program, the received application or video data received from the external device interface; and a controller configured to control the display module. Furthermore, the controller is further configured to control the display module to display the received broadcast program in first area, the controller is further configured to control the display module to display a menu identifying multiple applications in second area within the first area according to first request command signal, the controller is further configured to control the display module to display a recent list according to second request command, and the recent list comprises at least one of information identifying recently accessed external device, recently accessed application and recently accessed broadcast program based on a predetermined order.
US09762968B2	Transmission apparatus and method, reception apparatus and method, and transmission and reception system Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, including a question generation section configured to generate question information representative of a question regarding liking of a user of the client, and a transmission section configured to transmit the question information and provider side answer information representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.
US09762967B2	System and method for presenting content with time based metadata Disclosed herein is a system and method for rendering media related content and web services. According to one or more embodiments, media content is rendered from a source. In one or more segments of the media source, at least one of an object, person or location is identified and additional information, relevant content or services about the person, object or location are displayed or made accessible while or after the media content is being rendered, on one or more devices and/or on one or more paired devices.
US09762966B2	Video displaying method and video decoding method which can operate in multiple display mode and electronic system applying the method A video displaying method, applied to an electronic apparatus comprising a first display, comprising: (a) selecting a plurality of video contents from a plurality of candidate video contents; and (b) simultaneously displaying selected video contents selected in the step (a), respectively in sub-windows on the first display. Related video decoding methods are also disclosed.
US09762959B2	Automatic transition of content based on facial recognition Methods and systems for automatically transitioning content based on facial recognition, wherein the method may include receiving a signal from a camera, identifying a face of a viewer within an area, retrieving a user identifier associated with the face of the viewer, selecting a program, and displaying the program.
US09762954B2	System and method for streaming audio of a visual feed An approach for streaming audio feeds independently from visual feeds is provided. The approach includes processing programming information associated with one or more first devices proximate a user to determine one or more programs presented by the one or more first devices. The approach also includes presenting a user interface to the user for selecting from among the one or more programs. In addition, the approach includes determining an input from the user for selecting at least one of the one or more programs. The approach further includes streaming an audio feed of the at least one of the one or more programs to a second device associated with the user.
US09762953B2	TV and operating method therefor Provided is an operating method of a TV for allocating a dynamic channel for content transmitted from an outside. The method includes: receiving a first content from the outside; generating a dynamic channel for the first content; displaying a channel change guide according to the first content reception; entering the dynamic channel according to a first channel change input; displaying a playback screen of the first content according to the dynamic channel entry; and exiting from the dynamic channel according to a second channel change input, wherein the dynamic channel is formed of a channel that is the closest to a recent broadcast channel.
US09762949B2	Methods of displaying an electronic program guide A method of displaying an electronic programming guide, comprising: outputting a video signal from a receiver to a display device, the video signal including program service content for display on the display device; receiving a signal at the receiver, the signal including a command to display an electronic programming guide; in response to receiving the signal, determining if there is at least one viewer of the display device that does not want to view the electronic programming guide; and in response to determining that there is at least one viewer that does not want to view the electronic programming guide, projecting the electronic programming guide from the receiver to a projection surface.
US09762948B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screen 12 that is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screen 18 that is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen 12. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen 18, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen 12, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screen 18 with image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen 18.
US09762947B2	Method for providing application menu in image display device, and image display device using same The present invention relates to a method for maintaining various application installed in an image display device, and more particularly, to a method for operating an image display device, the method allowing a user to more conveniently select and execute applications in configuring selection menus of the applications, and to an image display device using the method. The method comprises: searching for applications which can be used on an image display device; displaying a first application list including selected menu items of the selected applications; and displaying one or more application key screens from among the applications which are included in the first application list. Accordingly, the user of the image display device can be provided, from the image display device, with application menus, which include menu items for running the applications that can be used on the image display device.
US09762946B2	Display apparatus and control method thereof A display apparatus is provided, which includes a remote control signal receiver configured to receive a remote control signal transmitted from at least one among a first remote controller configured to control the display apparatus and at least one second remote controller configured to control at least one neighboring device, a display configured to display a list of function menus corresponding to the received remote control signal, according to information related to the received remote control signal, and a controller configured to control, on a condition that a function menu is selected from the list, an operation that corresponds to the selected function menu.
US09762941B1	Media-broadcasting system with broadcast schedule simulation feature In one aspect, an example method includes (i) accessing, by a computing system, a broadcast schedule, which indicates that a broadcast of a first media content item is scheduled to be followed by a broadcast of a second media content item, wherein the computing system can operate in a schedule mode or a breakout mode; (ii) switching from operating in the schedule mode to operating in the breakout mode; and (iii) while operating in the breakout mode: (a) simulating a broadcast of the first media content item; (b) making a determination that a particular signal is embedded in the first media content item; (c) responsive to making the determination, simulating a switch from broadcasting the first media content item to broadcasting the second media content item; (d) based on the simulated broadcast of the first and second media content items, generating a simulation log; and (e) presenting the generated log.
US09762939B2	Enhanced user experience for miracast devices A method is implementable in a source device operable to provide, via a wireless channel, a video stream to a sink device for display by the sink device. The method includes receiving link quality information indicative of a condition of the wireless channel and/or performance of communications between the source device and the sink device via the wireless channel. The method also includes determining a measure of network congestion based on the link quality information, and, based on the measure of network congestion, skipping one or more, but not all, video frames of a plurality of video frames in the video stream, such that the one or more video frames are not provided to the sink device, reconfiguring a video encoder operating on the plurality of video frames, such that an output bit rate of the video encoder is changed, and/or changing a video format of the video stream.
US09762937B2	Systems and methods for protecting elementary bitstreams incorporating independently encoded tiles Systems and methods for partial frame encryption in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method receives a video bitstream that includes several frames, each frame including several independently encoded compression units within the frame, encrypts a portion of each of several compression units in several frames, and generates an output bitstream that includes the several independently encoded compression units including the encrypted portions of the compression units.
US09762933B2	Video decoding apparatus and video encoding apparatus While maintaining a high degree of freedom in choosing partition sizes and transformation sizes adapted for local characteristics of videos, the amount of metadata is decreased. A video encoding apparatus (10) divides an input video into blocks of a prescribed size and encodes the video block by block. The video encoding apparatus is provided with: a prediction parameter determining portion (102) that decides the block partition structure; a predictive image producing portion (103) that generates predictive images, partition by partition, as prescribed by the partition structure; a transform coefficient producing portion (107) which applies one of the frequency transformations included in a prescribed transformation preset to prediction residuals, i.e. the differences between predictive images and the input video; a transform restriction deriving portion (104) which generates the list of transform candidate, i.e. lists of frequency transformations that can be applied to each partition, on the basis of partition format information; and a variable-length-encoding portion (108) which, on the basis of the list of transform candidate and the transformation preset, performs variable-length encoding on transformation selection flags.
US09762928B2	Conditional signalling of reference picture list modification information Innovations in signaling of reference picture list (“RPL”) modification information. For example, a video encoder evaluates a condition that depends at least in part on a variable indicating a number of total reference pictures. Depending on the results of the evaluation, the encoder signals in a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. A video decoder evaluates the condition and, depending on results of the evaluation, parses from a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. The condition can be evaluated as part of processing for an RPL modification structure that includes the flag, or as part of processing for a slice header. The encoder and decoder can also evaluate other conditions that affect syntax elements for list entries of the RPL modification information.
US09762926B2	Image processing device and image processing method, program, and imaging apparatus An image processing device includes: a division unit that divides each picture of image data into multiple arrangements; multiple coding units, each of which codes the pictures in the mutually-different arrangements that result from the division by the division unit; and a composition unit that composites streams in the arrangements, which are obtained by each of the multiple coding units coding each picture, in which when coding a current picture, the coding unit performs inter-prediction using a first global motion vector (GMV) that is derived from motion information on a portion whose processing is finished, of a picture that precedes the current picture in the image data that is present before being divided by the division unit and whose processing is in progress in a different coding unit.
US09762920B2	Dynamic range control of intermediate data in resampling process An apparatus for coding video information according to certain aspects includes a memory and a processor. The memory unit is configured to store video information. The processor is configured to: obtain reference layer video information; upsample the reference layer video information in a first dimension to generate an intermediate output; constrain the intermediate output to a predetermined bit depth; and upsample the constrained intermediate output in a second dimension, wherein the second dimension is orthogonal to the first dimension.
US09762919B2	Chroma cache architecture in block processing pipelines Methods and apparatus for caching reference data in a block processing pipeline. A cache may be implemented to which reference data corresponding to motion vectors for blocks being processed in the pipeline may be prefetched from memory. Prefetches for the motion vectors may be initiated one or more stages prior to a processing stage. Cache tags for the cache may be defined by the motion vectors. When a motion vector is received, the tags can be checked to determine if there are cache block(s) corresponding to the vector (cache hits) in the cache. Upon a cache miss, a cache block in the cache is selected according to a replacement policy, the respective tag is updated, and a prefetch (e.g., via DMA) for the respective reference data is issued.
US09762916B2	Encoding apparatus and method An encoding apparatus includes an encoder configured to classify an image into a regions corresponding to display screen sizes, and encode the image. The encoder classifies the regions into tile region. The encoder adds, to encoded data, information for associating information of a tile region to be decoded when decoding an image corresponding to one of display screen sizes.
US09762915B2	Systems and methods for variable compression of media content based on media properties Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a first media content item. First mage dimensions associated with the first media content item can be determined. A first compression amount to be applied to the first media content item can be determined based on the first image dimensions associated with the first media content item. The first compression amount can be variable based on the first image dimensions associated with the first media content item. The first media content item can be compressed based on the first compression amount.
US09762905B2	Disparity vector refinement in video coding A video coding device performs a disparity vector derivation process for a current block of multi-view video data. The current block is in a current view. An availability value indicates that a disparity vector for the current block is unavailable when the disparity vector derivation process is unable to derive the disparity vector for the current block. When the availability value indicates that the disparity vector derivation process has not derived the disparity vector for the current block, the video coding device generates a disparity vector for the current block in another manner.
US09762903B2	External pictures in video coding A video encoder generates a syntax element that indicates whether a video unit of a current picture is predicted from an external picture. The external picture is in a different layer than the current picture. Furthermore, the video encoder outputs a video data bitstream that includes a representation of the syntax element. The video data bitstream may or may not include a coded representation of the external picture. A video decoder obtains the syntax element from the video data bitstream. The video decoder uses the syntax element in a process to reconstruct video data of a portion of the video unit.
US09762898B2	Method and system for parallelizing video compression Video data compression performance is improved through the use of multiple processors operating in parallel. The parallel processors perform motion or spatial estimation, where portions of a video frame are found to be similar to portions in reference frames. Because this estimation operation can be very time consuming, the use of multiple processors can reduce the overall time required, or they can enable higher-performing algorithms that might otherwise require a prohibitively long processing time. The motion or spatial estimation results are applied to reconstructed versions of the video frame data to enable high levels of video data compression.
US09762893B2	Systems and methods for multiscopic noise reduction and high-dynamic range The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that may improve and/or modify images captured using multiscopic image capture systems. In an example embodiment, burst image data is captured via a multiscopic image capture system. The burst image data may include at least one image pair. The at least one image pair is aligned based on at least one rectifying homography function. The at least one aligned image pair is warped based on a stereo disparity between the respective images of the image pair. The warped and aligned images are then stacked and a denoising algorithm is applied. Optionally, a high dynamic range algorithm may be applied to at least one output image of the aligned, warped, and denoised images.
US09762891B2	Terminal device, image shooting system and image shooting method A terminal device used for stereo imaging includes: an image shooting unit; a communication unit that receives a first image of a first angular field from an external terminal device; and a determination unit that determines the image shooting range relationship between the first image received by the communication unit and a second image of a second angular field shot by the image shooting unit, the second angular field being wider than the first angular field.
US09762889B2	Subtitle detection for stereoscopic video contents A right image and a left image is provided. Then a disparity estimation map relating to both images is provided and a left subtitle detection map for the left image and a right subtitle detection map for the right image are generated. Each map indicates subtitle areas within an image. For said subtitle areas and based on said disparity estimation map a subtitle disparity value for X and Y directions common for all subtitle areas is determined. Said left and right subtitle maps and said subtitle X and Y disparity values are used in an image interpolation process.
US09762888B2	Receiving system and method of processing data A receiving system that can receive and process 3D images and a data processing method of the same are disclosed. The receiving system includes an image receiving unit and a display unit. The image receiving unit receives a 3-dimensions (3D) image and system information including additional information of the 3D image (i.e., additional 3D image information), generates 3D signaling information based upon the additional 3D image information included in the system information, and transmits the generated 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through a digital interface. And, the display unit receives the 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through the digital interface, formats the 3D image based upon the receiving 3D signaling information, and displays the formatted 3D image.
US09762887B2	Transmitting apparatus, stereo image data transmitting method, receiving apparatus, and stereo image data receiving method Transmission of stereo image data may be performed between devices, where a source device receives E-EDID from a sink device via DDC of an HDMI cable. This E-EDID contains information on 3D image data transmission modes supportable by the sink device. Based on information on 3D image data transmission modes from the sink device, the source device selects a predetermined transmission mode from among the 3D image data transmission modes supportable by the sink device. The source device transmits 3D image data in the selected transmission mode to the sink device. The source device transmits information on the transmission mode for the 3D image data, to the sink device by using an AVI InfoFrame packet or the like. The sink device processes the 3D image data received from the source device in accordance with its transmission mode, thereby obtaining left and right eye image data.
US09762884B2	Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, and decoding method for encoding multiple viewpoints for compatibility with existing mode allowing fewer viewpoints An encoding device and method, and a decoding device and method, capable of encoding and decoding a multi-viewpoint image in accordance with a mode having compatibility with an existing mode. A compatible encoder generates a compatible stream by encoding an image that is a compatible image. An image converting unit converts the resolution of images that are auxiliary images. An auxiliary encoder generates an encoded stream of the auxiliary image by encoding the auxiliary image of which the resolution is converted. A compatibility information generating unit generates, as compatibility information, information that designates the image as a compatible image. A multiplexing unit transmits the compatible stream, the encoded stream of the auxiliary image, and the compatibility information. The encoding device can encode a 3D image of the multi-viewpoint mode.
US09762883B2	Balancing colors in a scanned three-dimensional image A method of balancing colors of three-dimensional (3D) points measured by a scanner from a first location and a second location. The scanner measures 3D coordinates and colors of first object points from a first location and second object points from a second location. The scene is divided into local neighborhoods, each containing at least a first object point and a second object point. An adapted second color is determined for each second object point based at least in part on the colors of first object points in the local neighborhood.
US09762875B2	Methods and devices for parallax elimination Devices and methods for reducing parallax in graphic content captured by a camera array include identifying color fringes that correspond to the parallax in the captured graphic content, determining an amount of displacement of the color fringes and adjusting the parallax in the captured graphic content based on the amount of displacement. The camera array may comprise a two-dimensional array of cameras.
US09762869B2	Image processing device, projector, and method of controlling projector A detection image generation section generates a detection image, which is an image for detection a state of a projection image, and includes a plurality of detection image parts, and background images covering respective peripheries of the detection image parts. Each of the detection image parts includes a plurality of regions with respective luminance values different from each other, and the background images have luminance values lower than the luminance values of the detection image parts. The detection image generation section changes at least one of a luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the detection image to be generated and a size of each of the background images so that a luminance distribution of each of the detection image parts of the taken detection image obtained by imaging is approximated to a luminance distribution of corresponding one of the detection image parts of the detection image.
US09762867B2	Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus The present technique relates to a solid-state imaging device and an imaging apparatus that enable provision of a solid-state imaging device having superior color separation and high sensitivity.The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor layer 11 in which a surface side becomes a circuit formation surface, photoelectric conversion units PD1 and PD2 of two layers or more that are stacked and formed in the semiconductor layer 11, and a longitudinal transistor Tr1 in which a gate electrode 21 is formed to be embedded in the semiconductor layer 11 from a surface 15 of the semiconductor layer 11. The photoelectric conversion unit PD1 of one layer in the photoelectric conversion units of the two layers or more is formed over a portion 21A of the gate electrode 21 of the longitudinal transistor Tr1 embedded in the semiconductor substrate 11 and is connected to a channel formed by the longitudinal transistor Tr1.
US09762864B2	System and method for monitoring at least one observation area System for monitoring at least one observation area including at least one camera for providing panorama pictures of the at least one area, where the camera is arranges on a rotating platform in the at least one area to be monitored; at least one video camera for providing real time video and which is arranged on a stationary platform in the at least one area to be monitored; a processing device connected to the camera and the video camera for capturing, processing and coordinating signals.
US09762861B2	Telepresence via wireless streaming multicast A method is disclosed which provides for multicasting video of an event, thereby allowing geographically dispersed members of a user's social network to experience a user's current locale, so that the user's friends may join him via live video at events (concerts, clubs, or other venues) which they cannot attend in person. The method includes the steps of enabling transmission of an invitation to at least one selected individual; processing an acceptance of the invitation; processing a live video signal of the event; storing the signal in a streaming database; and outputting a video stream in accordance with the acceptance. The outputting may be performed in real time. The processing of the live video signal may also include caching the video signal, so that the event may be viewed other than in real time.
US09762859B2	Shared communication terminal, communication system, and communication method A shared communication terminal, a communication system, and a method of communication. The shared communication terminal and the method of communication includes receiving, from a first personal communication terminal personalized to a user who participates in a streaming communication at a first site, first personal communication terminal identification information for identifying the first personal communication terminal, receiving an instruction to start communication instructing a shared communication terminal, which serves as a local communication terminal at the first site, to request to start streaming communication with a counterpart shared communication terminal at a second site to exchange contents of data, transmitting the first personal communication terminal identification information to a communication management system, and transmitting communication start request indicating a request that the local communication terminal requests to start streaming communication with the counterpart shared communication terminal. The communication system includes the shared communication terminal and the counterpart shared communication terminal.
US09762853B2	Transmission management apparatus, transmission system, transmission management method and recording medium A transmission management apparatus for managing a session performing transmission/reception of content data via a relay apparatus includes a service information management unit configured to manage service management information in which service identification information for identifying service content provided to each of a plurality of transmission terminals, and service content corresponding to the service identification information are stored preliminarily; a service identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire service identification information of each of transmission terminals participating in the session; a service content determination unit configured to determine service content of the session, based on the service identification information acquired by the service identification information acquisition unit and the service management information; and a session control unit configured to report information specifying quality of the content data to be sent, based on the determined service content of the session, to each of the transmission terminals participating in the session.
US09762850B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An apparatus comprises an unit to receive an input of an input image signal including a high resolution component signal and a low resolution component signal; an unit to obtain a high frequency component signal of the high resolution component signal and obtain a low resolution signal obtained by scaling down the resolution of the high resolution component signal; an unit to change a value of at least one of the low resolution signal and the low resolution component signal based on a combination of a value of the low resolution signal and a value of the low resolution component signal; and an unit to generate an output image signal corresponding to the input image signal based on the at least one of the low resolution signal and the low resolution component signal whose value has been changed, and the high frequency component signal.
US09762849B2	Super-resolution processing method for TV video images, super-resolution processing device for TV video images that is used in same method, first to fourteenth super-resolution processing programs, and first to fourth storage media In order to solve the problems described above, the present invention employs a PSF restoring means and an image restoring means, implemented in software or hardware, for executing a plurality of iterations of real-number-based computations based on Bayse probability theory by using, as input information, a PSF luminance distribution identified according to a degree of degradation of TV video, a luminance distribution of a degraded image constituted of Y (luminance) components of the TV video, and an estimated luminance distribution of restored-image initial values. With these means, an estimated luminance distribution of a restored image having a maximum likelihood for the luminance distribution of the degraded image is obtained, and the estimated luminance distribution is substituted for the Y components of the TV video obtained by extracting the luminance distribution of the degraded image. Accordingly, TV video that approximates the pre-degradation state is provided substantially in real time.
US09762846B2	Real-time hyper-lapse video creation via frame selection Various technologies described herein pertain to creation of an output hyper-lapse video from an input video. Values indicative of overlaps between pairs of frames in the input video are computed. A value indicative of an overlap between a pair of frames can be computed based on a sparse set of points from each of the frames in the pair. Moreover, a subset of the frames from the input video are selected based on the values of the overlaps between the pairs of the frames in the input video and a target frame speed-up rate. Further, the output hyper-lapse video is generated based on the subset of the frames. The output hyper-lapse video can be generated without a remainder of the frames of the input video other than the subset of the frames.
US09762845B2	Media player There is disclosed a media player comprising a playing unit being arranged to play at least one media element, and a processing unit being arranged to identify at least one data element in said media element, to extract said data element from the media element, and to make said data element available to an external NFC device. Furthermore, there is disclosed a corresponding method for playing media, a corresponding computer program, and a corresponding article of manufacture.
US09762843B2	Display system, display method, and display apparatus A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a second acquisition unit acquiring the third luminance signal and setting information indicating display settings recommended to the display apparatus in display of the video; a display setting unit setting the display apparatus, using the setting information; a third luminance converter converting a third code value indicated by the third luminance signal into a second luminance value compatible with a second luminance range, using the setting information; and a display controller displaying the video on the display apparatus based on the second luminance value.
US09762842B2	Image display method and apparatus An image display apparatus including a display unit a data on a screen; a communication unit receiving a signal transmitted from a remote control device; and a control unit configured to detect whether an external device is connected to the apparatus; display a menu allowing an user to select whether or not to transmit an image being displayed on the external device to the screen; and display the image on the screen.
US09762840B2	Imaging device and method of driving the same In an imaging device including a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, each of the pixels including first and second photoelectric conversion units, and a micro lens that collects incident light to the first and second photoelectric conversion units, in a first frame period, a first signal based on a signal electric charge generated in the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second signal based on a signal electric charge generated in at least the second photoelectric conversion unit are read out from a plurality of pixels included in a part of the pixel array, and in a second frame period, a third signal based on the signal electric charges generated in the first and the second photoelectric conversion units is read out from a plurality of pixels included in another part of the pixel array.
US09762838B2	Imaging device and signal processing method to correct shading of images having a phase difference An imaging device to which an imaging optical system is attachable, includes a correction data generating unit that generates correction data to correct a sensitivity difference of first phase difference detecting pixel cells and second phase difference detecting pixel cells; and a signal correcting unit that corrects at least one of an output signal of the first phase difference detecting pixel cells and an output signal of the second phase difference detecting pixel cells in accordance with the correction data, in which the correction data generating unit calculates two ratios to generate the correction data based on the two ratios.
US09762837B2	Photoelectric conversion device and image-pickup apparatus In a photoelectric conversion device, groups of unit pixels are arranged in a well, where each of the unit pixels includes photoelectric conversion elements, an amplifier transistor, and transfer transistors. The photoelectric conversion device includes a line used to supply a voltage to the well, a well-contact part used to connect the well-voltage-supply line to the well, and transfer-control lines used to control the transfer transistors. The transfer-control lines are symmetrically arranged with respect to the well-voltage-supply line in respective regions of the unit-pixel groups.
US09762827B2	Method of removing a bad pixel from a pixel image generated by an image sensor, an image sensor using the method, and an application processor using the method A method of removing a bad pixel from a pixel image is provided. The method includes determining whether a representative pixel representing at least one bad pixel is included in a kernel, determining whether a first pixel is a bad pixel when the representative pixel is included in the kernel, and compensating for the first pixel using a second pixel in the kernel when the first pixel is determined to be a bad pixel. The kernel has the first pixel at a center of the kernel.
US09762825B2	Method and system for reducing analog-to-digital conversion time for dark signals A method for reducing ADC time for dark signals starts with pixel array capturing image data of frames including first frame and second frame. Pixel array includes visible pixels and black pixels (OPB). Scanning circuitry then selects OPB of first frame to be readout. OPB generate a dark signal when selected by scanning circuitry. Column readout circuitry included in readout circuitry then acquires the dark signal of first frame and processes the dark signal based on a ramp signal received from ramp generator included in readout circuitry to generate dark ADC output. Readout circuitry then determines a ramp timing offset based on the dark signal of first frame. The ramp timing offset is then applied to the second frame, which includes generating by the ramp generator the ramp signal for a second frame that includes the ramp timing offset. Other embodiments are described.
US09762823B2	Imager with increased readout capacitance An image sensor may be provided. The image sensor may be a high-capacitance image sensor or a dual-mode image sensor having a high-capacitance operational mode. A high-capacitance image sensor may include image detectors and associated unit cells. During operation, the image sensor may integrate image signals from each detector row using unit cells in multiple unit cell rows. The image sensor may integrate and readout image signals in an interleaved process that allows each detector row to capture image data using multiple unit cells. A dual-mode image sensor may operate in a similar manner to a high-capacitance image sensor when operated in the high-capacitance mode. The dual-mode image sensor may have switches interposed between unit cells to selectively couple and decouple the unit cells for switching between the high-capacitance mode and a normal operational mode.
US09762819B2	Voltage generator and image sensing device including the same A voltage generator includes a supply voltage conversion block suitable for converting a supply voltage into an internal voltage, and a supply voltage control block suitable for supplying the supply voltage to the supply voltage conversion block, wherein the supply voltage has different voltage levels that correspond to generation sections of the internal voltage.
US09762813B2	Monocentric lens-based multi-scale optical systems and methods of use A monocentric lens-based multi-scale imaging system is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention comprise a monocentric lens as an objective lens that collects light from a scene. Monocentric lenses in accordance with the present invention include a spherical central lens element and a plurality of lens shell sections that collectively reduce at least one of spherical and chromatic aberration from the magnitude introduced by the spherical lens element itself. A plurality of secondary lenses image the scene through the objective lens and further reduce the magnitude of aberrations introduced by the objective lens. A plurality of sensor arrays converts optical sub-images of the scene into a plurality of digital images, which can then be used to form a composite image of the scene.
US09762803B2	Focal point adjustment device, camera system, and focal point adjustment method for imaging device A focal point detection device according to the present invention comprising: an image sensor having an imaging pixel and a focal point detection pixel; a camera-shake preventing section which moves the image sensor in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the photographic lens to correct camera shake and also outputs information on the movement of the image sensor; a calculation section to calculate a focal point adjustment signal, based on the output of the focal point detection pixel; a memory to store a correction value for correcting the focal point adjustment signal, depending on the image height position of the focal point detection pixel; and a correction section to correct the focal point adjustment signal, depending on the output of the memory, the information output by the camera-shake preventing section, and the position of the focal point detection pixel.
US09762801B1	Image processing circuit, hand-held electronic device and method for compensating for motion in an image received by an image sensor The present application provides an image processing circuit, a hand-held electronic device and a method for compensating for motion in an image received by an image sensor. The method includes sub-dividing an array of individual sensor cells from an image sensor adapted for receiving an image into at least a first sub-group and a second sub-group of sensor cells. Multiple timing signals are then generated for use in reading data out of the individual sensor cells of the image sensor. Data values are then read out from the individual sensor cells, wherein the data values from the individual sensor cells of the first sub-group of sensor cells are read out at a first rate using a first timing signal, and the data values from the individual sensor cells of the second sub-group of sensor cells are read out at a second rate using a second timing signal. The second rate is different than the first rate, where the sensor cells in the second sub-group of sensor cells are sampled more frequently than the sensor cells in the first sub-group of sensor cells. Motion of the image sensor is then determined from the data values read out of the individual sensor cells of the second sub-group of sensor cells. The image derived from the data values read out of the individual sensor cells of the first sub-group of sensor cells is then modified using the motion detected for producing a processed image.
US09762799B2	Received video stabilization Method, device and computer program product for stabilizing a received video signal. A plurality of frames of the video signal is captured using a camera. The video signal is transmitted as an encoded bit stream. Displacement of the camera between successive frames is determined from a motion indication in the bit stream. The determined displacement is used to compensate for motion in the video signal between successive frames caused by the motion of the camera, to thereby stabilize the video signal.
US09762793B2	System and method for dimensioning A system and method for structured-light dimensioning is disclosed. The method includes combining multiple images using different camera settings to provide all of the information necessary dimensioning. What results is an improved ability to sense a light pattern reflected from an object's surfaces, especially when the lighting and/or object color make imaging all surfaces simultaneously difficult.
US09762792B2	Adjusting motion capture based on the distance between tracked objects The technology disclosed relates to adjusting the monitored field of view of a camera and/or a view of a virtual scene from a point of view of a virtual camera based on the distance between tracked objects. For example, if the user's hand is being tracked for gestures, the closer the hand gets to another object, the tighter the frame can become—i.e., the more the camera can zoom in so that the hand and the other object occupy most of the frame. The camera can also be reoriented so that the hand and the other object remain in the center of the field of view. The distance between two objects in a camera's field of view can be determined and a parameter of a motion-capture system adjusted based thereon. In particular, the pan and/or zoom levels of the camera may be adjusted in accordance with the distance.
US09762788B2	Image pickup apparatus, depth information acquisition method and program An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit that acquires a first image by capturing an object at a first focusing position, and acquires a second image after acquiring the first image, by capturing the object at a second focusing position different from the first. The second image has different blur than the first image. A depth information determination unit determines depth information of the object on the basis of a difference in blur between the first image and the second image. A focusing position setting unit sets a focus movement amount that is a difference between the first focusing position and the second focusing position, in accordance with an F-number of the imaging unit. The second focusing position is set such that an absolute value of the focus movement amount is larger when the F-number is large, as compared to when the F-number is relatively small.
US09762787B2	Image pickup apparatus having auto-focusing function and its control method An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup unit for outputting image signals obtained by respectively photoelectrically converting light passing through different exit pupil areas of a focusing optical system, and a setting unit for setting a focus detection area into an image pickup area of the image pickup unit, stores at least one approximate function for calculating correction values of the image signals obtained by the image pickup unit in an approximation manner, obtains an approximate function effective for the correction at least in the focus detection area set by the setting unit on the basis of at least the one stored approximate function to calculate a correction value in accordance with the obtained approximate function; and performs a focus detection by using the image signals obtained by the image pickup unit and the calculated correction values.
US09762786B2	Image pickup device, light projection device, beam light control method, and program There is provided an image pickup device including an image pickup unit, and a beam light control unit configured to control a state of a beam light based on living body detection information given by a living body detection unit.
US09762784B2	Camera module having a housing coupling a printed circuit board (PCB) and an actuator A camera module, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a printed circuit board having an image sensor provided thereon; a housing which protects the image sensor and is coupled to the printed circuit board; an actuator unit arranged on the housing; and a conductive pattern formed on a surface of the housing, wherein the actuator unit comes into contact with and is coupled to the upper part of the housing so as to be electrically connected to the printed circuit board through the conductive pattern.
US09762780B2	Display device including camera module A display device including a camera module is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel; a case member disposed on a back surface of the display panel; and a camera module disposed on a back surface of the case member. When a predetermined pressure is applied to an upper part of the camera module, the camera module is configured to rise by a predetermined height and then rotate at a predetermined angle.
US09762774B2	Receiving apparatus and receiving method thereof Method and apparatus for processing multimedia data received via different networks by synchronizing time stamps of video frames of multimedia data received via the different networks using time codes in the multimedia data.
US09762768B2	Image reading apparatus and document reading method An image reading apparatus includes: an operation unit; a setting unit configured to set one of a plurality of operation modes, in which different processing is executed for a document, in accordance with an operation content of the operation unit; a reading unit configured to read the document in response to a reading execution request from the operation unit; and a control unit configured to control the reading unit whether or not to execute a reading preparation operation before the reading execution request is made depending on the set operation modes set by the setting unit.
US09762766B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and a server. A acquisition unit of the apparatus acquires a first screen. A display unit of the apparatus displays the first screen. When a button to which an instruction is attached is pressed, a determination request information transmission unit of the apparatus transmits, to the server, determination request information requesting a validity determination to determine whether the application associated with the instruction can be used in the information processing apparatus. A reception unit of the apparatus receives, from the server, determination result information. When the determination result information indicates that the application associated with the instruction cannot be used, a first control unit of the apparatus performs control to update firmware. A determining unit of the server performs the validity determination. A determination result information transmission unit of the server transmits the determination result information to the information processing apparatus.
US09762763B2	Image inspection apparatus that determines a line width of a test image, and image forming apparatus An image inspection apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit white light onto a test image formed on a paper sheet; an optical lens system configured to receive light reflected by the paper sheet, the reflected light being of the white light emitted from the light source; a separating unit configured to separate light having passed through the optical lens system; a reading unit configured to receive the separated light at the different wavelengths, and optically read the test image of the light; and a control unit configured to calculate edge blurs at a rising edge and a falling edge of each set of image data of the light obtained by the reading unit reading the test image, calculate widths of the test image, and determine the width calculated from the set of image data having the smallest edge blur to be the width of the test image.
US09762760B2	Image processing apparatus, method of displaying operation mode keys for image processing apparatus, and recording medium An image processing apparatus comprises: a display that displays a first screen including one or more than one first key for setting a mode to execute a function of the apparatus, and then, if one of the first keys is pressed, displays a second screen including one or more than one second key, which is a lower-class screen under the pressed first key; and a customizing portion that hides at least one of the first and the second keys on the first screen, according to a user operation, and wherein if a user changes to non-display, the setting of at least one of the first keys on the first screen, while there exists a second key preliminarily prohibited from being hidden, on the second screen that is a lower-class screen under the first key to be hidden according to the changed setting, the customizing portion doesn't hide the first key.
US09762759B2	Remotely displaying an operation screen of an image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus that allows a remote operation terminal to operate an image processing apparatus connected by SIP. On this account, the image forming apparatus (100) connected to the remote operation terminal (300) by SIP includes a remote operation-request message receiving part that receive a remote-operation request message from the remote operation terminal (300), a remote-operation response message transmitting part that transmits a remote-operation response message in response to the remote-operation request message, and an operation-screen information transmitting part that transmits operation screen information of the image forming apparatus (100) to the remote operation terminal (300) in accordance with the communication condition of the communication session when an SIP-based communication session is established between the remote operation terminal (300) and the image forming apparatus (100).
US09762757B2	Mobile terminal having an image projector module and controlling method therein A mobile terminal having an image projector module and controlling method therein are disclosed, by which a plurality of planes capable of displaying at least one portion of an image displayed on a display unit are rearranged in a 3-dimensional space to be projected on an external plane via a projector module. The present invention includes displaying a first display including at least one planar object on a display unit, selecting a pattern for arranging a plurality of facets in a 3-dimensional space on a second display, selecting an image to be mapped to each of a plurality of the facets from the at least one planar object, mapping the selected image to each of a plurality of the facets, and projecting the second display including a plurality of the facets having the selected image mapped thereto on a prescribed external plane via a projector module.
US09762755B1	IPP scan directory service A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed containing a computer program having computer readable code embodied to carry out a method of providing Uniform Resource Identifiers for Push Scan jobs pursuant to an Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), which includes hosting a database of IPP clients and destination Uniform Resource Identifiers (destination-uris) for each of the IPP clients, the database of destination-uris defining each of the destination-uris in which each of the IPP clients are authorized to send Push Scan jobs; receiving a request from an IPP client for at least one Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for a Push Scan job; checking the database to determine if the IPP client is authorized to send the Push Scan job to the at least one URI; and sending the destination-uris to the IPP client upon determination that the IPP client is authorized to send the Push Scan job.
US09762751B2	Image forming apparatus executing a job based on a job request and logout method An image forming apparatus includes: a tray on which at least one sheet is loaded; a sensor and a controller. The sensor measures overall weight of the sheet loaded on the tray. The controller calculates decrement from the overall weight measured by the sensor upon completion of a job. The controller calculates total weight of the sheet loaded on the tray through execution of the job. The controller executes a logout process based on the decrement and the total weight.
US09762748B2	Power management in an internet protocol (IP) telephone Power management is provided in an Internet protocol (IP) telephone and system to provide energy savings during times that the IP telephone is not in use or use is not expected. A low-power operating mode disables at least a portion of the IP telephone. The low-power operating mode may be initiated by a command received by the IP telephone from the IP telephone controller according to a schedule, which may be modified locally by the user to individualize the user's schedule. The low-power operating mode may alternatively be activated manually by a user pressing a special key, sequence or combination. The low-power operating mode is canceled upon an indication that a user either is or should be present at the IP telephone.
US09762746B2	Advice of charge in content centric networks Advice of charge (AoC) enforcement is implemented in a content centric networking (CCN) gateway. The AoC enforcement receives a CCN interest packet from a user equipment in a network external to the CCN network and looks up a prefix of the CCN name in an AoC table. The AoC enforcement further, in response to determining a match between the prefix of the CCN name and an entry in the AoC table, generates an AoC request and forwarding the AoC request toward an AoC server identified by the entry in the AoC table determined to be the match with the prefix of the CCN name. In response to not determining the match between the prefix of the CCN name and the entry in the AoC table or in response to receiving a purchase accepted response from the AoC server, a CCN object identified by the CCN name is retrieved and forwarded to the user equipment.
US09762745B2	Protocol for billing telecommunication services between network operators A method for automatically generating service usage information in a telecommunication network, wherein the service usage information relates to a group of telecommunication transmission devices requesting a plurality of different types of telecommunication services on the telecommunication network, includes: for each request event of a telecommunication service of a telecommunication transmission device of the group of telecommunication transmission devices requested on the telecommunication network, generating an entry of the service usage information, wherein at least one type of the plurality of different types of telecommunication services is associated with each entry; and generating an aggregate entry, wherein the aggregate entry relates to the entries of the service usage information, and wherein the aggregate entry comprises aggregate information on each type of the plurality of different types of telecommunication services.
US09762744B2	Charge management system, charge management method, program, program providing system, and maintenance system A charge management system includes a user managing unit configured to manage pieces of user identification information for identifying users and pieces of terminal identification information for identifying transmission terminals, each piece of user identification information being associated with pieces of terminal identification information for identifying transmission terminals used by a user identified by the each piece of identification information; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a participation charge to each of the transmission terminals, bases on a total participation duration in which the each of the transmission terminals has participated in a conversation during a predetermined period, and calculate a total participation charge to each of the users by summing up the participation charges to transmission terminals specified by the pieces of terminal identification information associated with the each piece of the user identification information.
US09762743B2	Technologies for converting mobile communications network billing records Technologies for converting mobile communications network billing records include a billing record converter system. The billing record converter system receives a data usage billing record associated with a mobile computing device communicatively coupled to a long term evolution wireless communications network. The received data usage billing record is formatted according to a real-time data usage billing record format. The received data usage billing record is converted into a new data usage billing record formatted according to a roaming data usage billing record format that corresponds to a legacy wireless communications network. The new data usage billing record is transmitted to a billing system of the legacy wireless communications network for processing. In some embodiments, the billing record converter system cumulates and converts multiple data usage billing records associated with the mobile computing device into the new data usage billing record. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09762741B2	Robust DTMF detection in an unreliable voice-over-IP (VoIP) environment A method to discriminate a signal as a DTMF digit is operative in a service provider having a VoIP-based media server. The media server accepts both in-band DTMF and RTP telephone events. A digit detection module receives as input a data stream that may include one or more DTMF digits. The module processes the input data stream and provides, as output, an indication of what digit(s) have been detected and from what source (e.g., in-band audio, an RTP 2833 telephone event, of both). The output is then further processed by a discrimination algorithm to make a final digit determination. If RTP telephone events are detected, the algorithm prefers them and ignores in-band DTMF until the call ends or the media is re-negotiated. The approach detects when duplicate digits of differing types are initially received and only accepts one of them, regardless of spacing or duration.
US09762737B1	IPBX control interface for distributed networks Apparatus and methods concerning routing of calls in an IPBX are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes an IPBX server configured to route VoIP calls for a plurality of end-users having respective VoIP-enabled devices communicatively coupled to the IPBX via a network. A user-activity detection circuit is communicatively coupled to the IPBX server. The user-activity detection circuit is configured to receive activity data indicating activity of end-users in a virtual office environment and receive event messages indicating statuses of pending calls in the IPBX server. The user-activity detection circuit determines user-activity statuses of the end-users based on received activity data and event messages. A computing server is communicatively coupled to the user-activity detection circuit and is configured to provide a set of services for one or more of the plurality of users as a function of the determined user-activity statuses of the end-user.
US09762733B1	System and method for recommending communication mediums based on predictive analytics A system for recommending a communication medium for interacting with a customer of a contact center, the system includes: a processor; and memory, wherein the memory has stored therein instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect a first interaction via a first medium with the customer; identify a plurality of communication mediums based on constraints for determining one or more candidate communication mediums that are different from the first medium for a second interaction with the customer; for each communication medium of the candidate communication mediums, estimate an expected value to be obtained by utilizing the communication medium for the second interaction; and select a particular communication medium of the candidate communication mediums based on the estimates for establishing the second interaction via the selected communication medium.
US09762731B1	Determining and denying call completion based on detection of robocall or unsolicited advertisement Unwanted calls are detected by determining all calls which are unverified by prior prompting the caller to provide data, such as “press 5 to be connected” or “say ‘proceed’” before being allowed to connect. Once connected, the called party may indicate that the call was/is unwanted and should be disconnected. Then, the call is disconnected from the called party while being maintained with the switch. The call is also recorded in embodiments of the disclosed technology, with the audio therefrom, or audio signature, being used to detect future unwanted calls. The detection of future unwanted calls may further be modified or determined based on association of called parties to each other, which, additionally, may be used to change the threshold of closeness of audio signatures between calls.
US09762729B1	Caller preview for video calls Implementations of the present application relate to caller previews for video calls. In some implementations, a method includes sending, by a caller device, a call request to a callee device and determining an identifier associated with the callee device. The method determines whether the identifier is associated with an address book of the caller device, and/or is in an outgoing call record of the caller device. An acknowledgment is received from callee device, and, upon receipt of the acknowledgment, a connection is established with the callee device. Based on determining that the identifier is associated with the address book and/or in the outgoing call record, at least a portion of a caller video is transmitted over the connection with the callee device. The caller video is transmitted prior to receipt of an acceptance of the call request from the callee device.
US09762725B2	Methods, devices, and systems for transferring an ongoing call of a communication device using a portable communication device Systems and methods for controlling communication systems for the hearing impaired are disclosed. A portable communication device requests control over a plurality of communication devices. The portable communication device connects to and controls the plurality of communication devices. The portable communication device includes a user interface that enables a user to transfer a call from a first communication device to a second communication device.
US09762723B2	Device and method for controlling alarm according to unintended function in mobile terminal A method and device for controlling generation an alarm in a mobile terminal is provided. The method comprises: checking whether a request to operate a microphone has been made by an application intended by a user that initiates an audio processing function when a request to operate the microphone is received; generating an alarm indicating an abnormal microphone operation if the request is determined not to be from an intended application; and turning off the microphone in response to the indication of the abnormal microphone operation.
US09762721B2	Intra-vehicular mobile device management The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing mobile device usage in a moving vehicle. In response to detecting that a user is traveling at a speed consistent with vehicular travel, optical data from an interior of the moving vehicle is detected. The optical data is analyzed to identify a set of vehicular markers. The user's intra-vehicular location is determined in relation to the set of vehicular markers. If the user's intra-vehicular location is the driver's seat, then restricted use protocols are initiated.
US09762720B2	Apparatus and method for sharing information through presence service in a communication network An apparatus is capable of sharing information through a presence service in a communication network and capable of providing presence information of a Mobile Station (MS). The apparatus extracts at least one of application information and contents indication information from an application in execution. Presence information is generated that includes at least one of the application information and the contents indication information, and transmitting the presence information to a presence server.
US09762717B2	Simplified control input to a mobile device A method and system for operating a mobile device includes interpreting a user-defined pattern detected by at least one of a touch interface and a motion sensor included with the mobile device. The user-defined pattern may be interpreted as at least one of: a polygon, an ellipse, a curve, a line segment, an alphanumeric character, and a movement of the mobile device. The user-defined pattern may be a two-dimensional pattern traced by the user on the touch interface. When the user-defined pattern is recognized, a wireless communication command may be executed by the mobile device. The wireless communication command may be a telephone command or a remote control command for a remote-controlled device.
US09762711B2	Ejecting mechanism of a primary and secondary machine module, and primary and secondary machine module and primary machine therewith An ejecting mechanism provides an ejecting executing portion driven by an ejecting driving portion for pushing a secondary machine out of a primary machine and for separating a secondary connector and a primary connector connected to each other. It allows the secondary machine to be ejected out of the primary machine automatically and prevents damage of the secondary connector and the primary connector caused by applying an external pulling force on the secondary machine directly. Furthermore, when a first external force overcomes a resilient driving force to push the secondary machine into a slot, the ejecting executing portion contacting with the secondary machine swings toward a rear end of a connecting surface of the primary connector. Additionally, an ejecting locking portion moving with the swing of the ejecting executing portion can be locked by a locking executing portion, such that the automatic ejection of the secondary machine is restrained.
US09762708B2	Management of outbound transactions to an enterprise information system A system, method, and/or computer program product manages outbound transactions in a computing environment. At least one communication request is received during a pre-defined time period. The at least one communication request is processed to result in at least one processed data. A packet comprising the at least one processed data corresponding to the received at least one communication request is generated responsive to satisfying at least one pre-defined condition. The packet is delivered to an enterprise information system (EIS) within the computing environment.
US09762707B2	Management of outbound transactions to an enterprise information system A system, method, and/or computer program product manages outbound transactions in a computing environment. At least one communication request is received during a pre-defined time period. The at least one communication request is processed to result in at least one processed data. A packet comprising the at least one processed data corresponding to the received at least one communication request is generated responsive to satisfying at least one pre-defined condition. The packet is delivered to an enterprise information system (EIS) within the computing environment.
US09762704B2	Service based media player A method and system are provided for simultaneously coupling to a plurality of client applications, receiving a first playback request from a first client application of the plurality of client applications, the first playback request being implemented in a first application specific protocol of the first client application, and a second playback request from a second client application of the plurality of client applications, the second playback request being implemented in a second application specific protocol of the second client application, wherein the first application specific protocol is different from the second application specific protocol and executing the first playback request and the second playback request by one or more players implemented in a single protocol.
US09762703B2	Method and apparatus for assembling data, and resource propagation system A method and apparatus for assembling data, and a resource propagation system. The method comprises: acquiring content, and generating a content data packet; generating an identifier of a container; combining the content data packet and the identifier into a container data packet capable of encapsulating value-added content information; and generating a resource address comprising the identifier; wherein the container is structured data. The content and the value-added content information are encapsulated via a container, which implements decoupling between the content and the value-added content information, implements simple and convenient replacement of the value-added content information, reduces replacement cost of the value-added content information, such as, advertisement content data, and better matches the content with the value-added content information.
US09762698B2	Computer application promotion A computer-implemented process includes providing a request to access content associated with a website; receiving web page information associated with the website, and data for displaying a notification that indicates availability of a native computer application that is associated with the website; providing a request to access information associated with the native computer application; receiving information associated with the native computer application that describes interactions between a plurality of users of an application marketplace and a component of the application marketplace that provides and receives information related to the native computer application; and displaying the descriptive information for viewing by a user, including displaying information that indicates the interactions between the plurality of users and the component of the application marketplace.
US09762697B2	Method and system for sharing content by using position information and content access history A method and system for sharing content by using context information. A content recommendation server for recommending content to a device includes a context information receiving unit configured to receive position information of a first device from the first device. The server also includes a content registering unit configured to receive a request for registration of content from the first device and register the content together with the received position information. The server further includes a content recommendation unit configured to recommend the registered content to a second device in response to determining that the second device is within a region associated with the received position information of the first device. The region is allocated to the first device and a size of the region is determined based on a number of times that the registered content is provided to another device.
US09762693B2	Methods and systems for delivery of information to a mobile computing device based on priority of the information Disclosed are systems and methods for delivery of information to a mobile computing device. A remote computing device detects the occurrence of a first user event that precedes an associated second user event. The remote computing device identifies information corresponding to the associated second user event. The remote computing device determines a first priority of the information associated with the second user event and a second priority of a second information associated with the second user event. The remote computing device determines that the first priority is higher than the second priority. In response to detecting the occurrence of the first user event, the remote computing device transmits, to a mobile computing device, the information having the first priority before transmitting the second information having the second priority.
US09762691B2	Policy proxy In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the policy server and a second device able to communicate with the first device and unable to communicate with the policy server, the first device is to act as a policy proxy. The policy server may push to the first device a policy for the second device, and the first device may push the policy to the second device.
US09762688B2	Methods and apparatus to improve usage crediting in mobile devices Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify a first request having a first source port number, from a device. Examples disclosed herein determine whether a second request, having a second source port number, is within a threshold number of ports from the first source port number. Examples disclosed herein group the first and the second requests as a first session when the second source port number is within the threshold number of ports from the first source port number, and identify an application associated with the first session.
US09762686B2	Systems and methods for simultaneous display of related social media analysis within a time frame Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing social media data for assets and related sub-assets, and simultaneously displaying the analysis for assets, sub-assets, and contributing social media content items to give the user insight into the analysis. The analysis may be based on user selection of a time frame, and may also include a historical timeline that plots different lines for different assets. The user may select one of the assets and cause related sub-assets and social media content items to be simultaneously displayed.
US09762683B2	Use of packet header extension for geolocation/geotargeting A method for providing geo-location information in a communication packet is disclosed. The method comprises constructing an IPv6 packet using a client device. Further, the method comprises inserting an extension header into the IPv6 packet. Also, the method comprises determining geo-location information. Next, the method comprises inserting the geo-location information into the extension header. Finally, the method comprises transmitting the IPv6 packet to a communication network.
US09762680B2	Node apparatus operating as proxy server A node apparatus connected to an information retention apparatus and a plurality of information reference request apparatuses via a network. The node apparatus includes a memory configured to store content identification information of content retained in the information retention apparatus, identification information of a first information reference request apparatus, and identification information of the information retention apparatus that are acquired through an information search initiated by a request from the first information reference apparatus.When the node apparatus receives a content acquisition request including the content identification information from a second information reference request apparatus identification information of which is not stored in the memory, the node apparatus acquires the content from the information retention apparatus and respond to the request including the content identification information on behalf of the information retention apparatus.
US09762676B2	Hardware resource access systems and techniques Systems and techniques for hardware resource access are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus may receive, via a stateless protocol message, a request from an application to pair with a hardware resource of a computing device remote from the apparatus. The apparatus may provide to the computing device, via a stateless protocol message, identifiers of the application and the hardware resource, and may receive, via a stateless protocol message, pairing approval from the computing device. In response to receiving the pairing approval, the apparatus may generate a pairing token that may be used by the application to pair the application with the hardware resource. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09762675B2	System and method for secure real-time cloud services A system and method for providing secure, end-to-end data service enabling real-time data over the Internet is disclosed. The system and method provides a communication framework between sensors, devices, and machinery and the users of that data from any remote location that is connected to the Internet without requiring open inbound firewall ports, while at the same time enabling high data rates, low latency and full bi-directionality. The graphical and networking features of RIA frameworks in combination with the disclosed system and method provide low-latency, real-time data applications in a web browser securely over the Internet.
US09762673B2	System and method for reliable and scalable health monitoring A health-monitoring system and method are disclosed. The health-monitoring system and method comprise a sensory system and a sensory to front-end communication (SFCM) protocol coupled to the sensory system. The health-monitoring system and method include a front-end system coupled to the sensory system and a front-end to back-end communication (FBCM) protocol coupled to the front-end system. The health-monitoring system and method include a back-end system. The SFCM protocol communicates with the front-end system using a first state awareness link and the FBCM protocol communicates with the back-end system using a second state awareness link.
US09762671B2	Wireless access device and wireless access system A file copy controller in a wireless access device reads file system management information of both of a local memory and a remote memory, generates a FS transfer list in which logical address positions of copy sources and logical address positions of copy destinations are stored, and inputs the FS transfer list to a non-volatile memory controller connected to the local memory. The non-volatile memory controller performs copy operation between the local memory and the remote memory based on the information stored in the FS transfer list without using a CPU in an access device or an internal bus connected to the CPU.
US09762668B2	Content syndication platform A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.
US09762664B2	Optimistic concurrency utilizing distributed constraint enforcement Optimistic concurrency is effectuated to manage constraints in a synchronization environment at multiple computing device endpoints in a consistent fashion without utilizing concentrated centralized constraint logic. Implemented data synchronization constraints that identify false violation scenarios may be automatically resolved without user intervention by using an etag system directed by a master component to assist computing device endpoints to maintain data synchronization among them. Data entries defining each file hierarchy component to be synched are generated and shared with the master component and each computing device endpoint in a synchronization environment. Individual computing device endpoints can use the data entries generated locally with those generated by other computing device endpoints to locally resolve identified false violation scenarios.
US09762663B2	Asset sharing within an enterprise using a peer-to-peer network An approach for sharing an asset in a peer-to-peer network is provided. After determining a locally stored first list does not include meta data specifying the asset, a new node is identified. In response to receiving a subscription from the new node, a second list locally stored at the new node is received. The second list includes the meta data and an identification of a source node that has the asset. The first list is updated to include the meta data and the identification of the source node. The updated first list is searched and in response, the meta data and the identification of the source node are detected. Based on the detected meta data and identification, the source node is identified. A request to retrieve the asset is sent to the source node, and in response, the asset is received.
US09762662B2	Mass re-formation of groups in a peer-to-peer network A system in which wireless devices form a group in accordance with a peer-to-peer protocol and, at a later time, a device may send an invitation request to trigger the devices tore-form the peer-to-peer group. The invitation request may contain an identifier that is associated with a set of a plurality of devices. Those devices may be related such that they perform a function for which a user would want to use those devices together. The group of devices, for example, may be multimedia devices that receive and present streaming multimedia content or may be human interface devices that collectively act as an interface for a work station incorporating a wireless computing device operated by a user. Requesting that remote devices concurrently re-form a group reduces the time and spectral congestion associated with re-forming the group, particularly when the remote devices may periodically enter a low power state.
US09762660B2	Deploying a portion of a streaming application to one or more virtual machines according to hardware type A streams manager monitors performance of a streaming application, and when the performance needs to be improved, the streams manager requests a cloud manager provision one or more VMs on a server that has a specified hardware type, and optionally has specified available hardware capacity. In response, the cloud manager determines which available servers have the specified hardware type, and when available hardware capacity is specified, further determines which of the available servers with the specified hardware type have the specified available capacity. When there are multiple servers that satisfy the request from the streams manager, the cloud manager determines from historical performance logs for the servers which is preferred. The cloud manager then provisions the requested VM(s) on the specified hardware type and returns the requested VM(s) to the streams manager. The streams manager then deploys a portion of the streaming application to the VM(s).
US09762658B2	Dynamic reconfigurable client side beaconing Some embodiments provide a monitoring system for a distributed platform. The monitoring system dynamically controls the monitoring and reporting function of client applications running on user devices using a plurality of configurations. The system distributes different configurations to different client applications to control the monitoring and reporting of each client application independently. The system distributes different configurations to the same client application at different times in order to dynamically reconfigure the reporting function of that client application. The system compiles metrics from the client applications in order to generate custom performance reports for different content providers and identify performance issues. In response to a detected issue, the system can automatically reconfigure affected client applications to better diagnose the issue with increased reporting. The system can also issue alerts for others to take corrective action. The system can also self-heal by commanding operation of the affected client applications.
US09762655B2	Directing communications to nodes of a social network using an elastic map A target space having configurable parameters may be defined such that nodes of a corresponding social network may be adapted to an elastic map of the target space. Communications may be directed to one or more nodes of the social network based on the computed elastic map.
US09762651B1	Redaction suggestion for sharing screen content Systems and methods are provided for sharing a screen from a mobile device. For example, a method includes capturing an image of a screen displayed on the mobile device in response to a command to share the screen, receiving user instructions for redacting a portion of the image, and transmitting the image with the selected portion redacted to a recipient device selected by the user. As another example, a method includes receiving, from a first mobile device, an identifier for a recipient and an image representing a captured screen of a first mobile device, copying the image to an image repository associated with the recipient, performing recognition on the image, generating annotation data for the image, based on the recognition, that includes at least one visual cue, and providing the image and the annotation data to a second mobile device, the second mobile device being associated with the recipient.
US09762650B2	Collaborative phone-based file exchange A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC.
US09762647B2	System and method for using image data in connection with configuring a universal controlling device Data indicative of an object of interest is received at a recognition system having an associated database in which is stored data for a plurality of reference objects each of which is cross-referenced to configuration information for a universal controlling device. The reference system uses the received data and the data for the plurality of reference objects to discern one or more reference objects as being a match for the object of interest. At least a subset of the configuration information that has been cross-referenced to the one or more reference objects discerned by the recognition system as being a match for the object of interest is then used to configure the universal controlling device to enable the universal controlling device to communicate commands to one or more target appliances.
US09762645B2	Modifying data collection systems responsive to changes to data providing systems Modifying data collection systems responsive to changes to data providing systems. When a data collection system receives a failure message from a data providing system in response to transmitting a data collection query, the data providing system can notify a data query evaluation system. The evaluation system can create a local version of the collection system and search computer-readable storage media for a modified data collection query. The evaluation system can execute the local version to provide the modified data collection query to the providing system. If the local version receives a success message in response to providing the modified data collection query, then an execution state of the local version is provided to the collection system. If the local version receives a failure message, then the data query evaluation system iteratively performs refined searches of different computer-readable storage media until the modified data collection query is identified.
US09762643B2	Providing hosted virtual desktop infrastructure services In an example embodiment, a device provides a connection to an endpoint coupled with a first network to a virtual desktop client coupled with a second network. The device obtains data from the virtual desktop client which client which includes at least one link to data available from an external server, such as streaming media. The device obtains the data from the external server and provides the data with data obtained from the virtual desktop client to the endpoint.
US09762642B2	Storing and transmitting content for downloading and streaming A method implemented by a first client device, the method comprising receiving a media presentation description (MPD) for a media content from a streaming server, receiving a plurality of segments for the media content from one or more streaming servers, and packaging the MPD and at least part of the received segments such that the packaged segments are accessible by a second client device through the packaged MPD.
US09762640B2	Locating points of interest using references to media frames within a packet flow In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a stream of transport packets encapsulating media packets, and generating a reference to the point-of-interest media packet relative to the location of the point-of-interest within the transport packet stream. The reference is generated for each media packet that is identified as a point-of-interest.
US09762639B2	Dynamic manifest generation based on client identity Timestamps for streams of media that transition from one media source to another (such as from live content to on-demand content, and vice versa) can be rewritten by a server to help ensure error-free streaming by the client. Embodiments can coordinate the creation of a client manifest with the dynamic creation of a requested segment of media (i.e., “chunk”) to determine how to rewrite timestamps of requested chunks such that they are continuous through the transition.
US09762636B2	Streaming media delivery system Streaming media, such as audio or video files, is sent via the Internet. The media are immediately played on a user's computer. Audio/video data is transmitted from the server under control of a transport mechanism. A server buffer is prefilled with a predetermined amount of the audio/video data. When the transport mechanism causes data to be sent to the user's computer, it is sent more rapidly than it is played out by the user system. The audio/video data in the user buffer accumulates; and interruptions in playback as well as temporary modem delays are avoided.
US09762635B2	Content set based pre-positioning Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of the communications system through various “deltacasting” techniques for handling content sets (e.g., feeds or websites). In some embodiments, within a client-server context, content sets are anticipatorily pre-positioned in client dictionaries using multicasting techniques to share forward link capacity. Pre-positioning determinations are made according to byte-level data, set-level metadata, and/or user preferences. In some embodiments, when locally stored information from the content sets is requested by a user, deltacasting techniques are used to generate fingerprints for use in identifying and exploiting multicasting and/or other opportunities for increased utilization of links of the communications system.
US09762632B2	Systems and methods for establishing and controlling conference call bridges Systems and methods allow an administrator of a conference call bridge to control who is admitted to the conference call bridge. The systems and methods also allow the administrator to identify a new individual who will become the administrator of the conference call bridge when a triggering event occurs. The systems and methods also allow an administrator to identify a new endpoint device from which valid control commands can be received.
US09762629B1	Customizing content in a social stream The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a customized stream of content to a user. The system includes: an item sourcer for gathering one or more content items from one or more content sources; a behavior indicator module and scorer for determining one or more behavior scores for the one or more content items; a content indicator module and scorer for determining one or more content scores for the one or more content items; a score combiner for aggregating the one or more behavior scores and the one or more content scores to generate one or more item scores for the one or more content items; a content diversifier for determining one or more diverse items from the one or more content items; and a stream generator for generating a customized stream of content for the user from the one or more diverse items.
US09762625B2	Device and method for virtual private network connection establishment A method, client device and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for connecting to a virtual private network (VPN). A request to connect to a destination identified by a hostname is received from an application executed on the client device and a domain name system (DNS) lookup functionality is performed on the hostname, the DNS lookup functionality returning an address. It is then determined whether the returned address is a redirected address, whether a hypertext transmission protocol secure (HTTPS) probe configured for the hostname fails, or whether the returned address matches a cached route in which a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection establishment is unsuccessful. If any of the returned address is a redirected address, the HTTPS probe fails or the returned address matches the cached route and the TCP connection establishment is unsuccessful, the client device is connected to the VPN.
US09762624B2	Method and system for establishing a group messaging session in a communication system A system and a method for establishing a group messaging session in consideration of a group policy in a communication system. A transmitter-side terminal stores information on a group policy in a group information storage unit, and transmits, to a server, an INVITE message requiring application of the group policy to generation of a group messaging session. The server receives the INVITE message, recognizes that the group policy should be applied to the generation of the group messaging session, and acquires the information on the group policy from the group information storage unit. The server transmits the INVITE message including the acquired group policy information to a receiver-side terminal that is invited to participate in the group session, and receives a response from the receiver-side terminal.
US09762615B2	Management apparatus and method for controlling management apparatus A device management apparatus sets a first password required to reflect a security policy managed by the device management apparatus on a device or change the security policy in a device, generates distribution data including the security policy and the set first password, and distributes the generated distribution data to a selected device.
US09762614B2	Systems and methods for providing network security using a secure digital device A system may include a traffic interception module configured to intercept network traffic of a host device. A traffic virtualization module may be configured to generate a virtual file on the host device containing the intercepted network traffic. A security system interface module may be configured to provide the virtual file to a secure digital security system over a virtualized file interface coupling the host device to the secure digital security system, and to receive instructions to allow or to deny the network traffic from the secure digital security system over the virtualized file interface. A traffic access management module may be configured to allow or to deny the network traffic based on the instructions.
US09762611B2	Endpoint-based man in the middle attack detection using machine learning models A first node of a networked computing environment initiates each of a plurality of different types of man-in-the middle (MITM) detection tests to determine whether communications between first and second nodes of a computing network are likely to have been subject to an interception or an attempted interception by a third node. Thereafter, it is determined, by the first node, that at least one of the tests indicate that the communications are likely to have been intercepted by a third node. Data is then provided, by the first node, data that characterizes the determination. In some cases, one or more of the MITM detection tests utilizes a machine learning model. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09762607B2	Incident response automation engine Systems, methods, and software described herein enhances how security actions are implemented within a computing environment. In one example, a method of implementing security actions for a computing environment comprising a plurality of computing assets includes identifying a security action in a command language for the computing environment. The method further provides identifying one or more computing assets related to the security action, and obtaining hardware and software characteristics for the one or more computing assets. The method also includes translating the security action in the command language to one or more action procedures based on the hardware and software characteristics, and initiating implementation of the one or more action procedures in the one or more computing assets.
US09762600B2	Mobile router with vehicle intrusion detection An embodiment is provided of a mobile router for installation in a vehicle comprising a vehicle network bus coupled to a plurality of electronic control units. The mobile router comprises: a processor; a memory comprising a plurality of programs; a wireless wide area network interface; a wireless local area network interface; and an interface to the vehicle network bus coupled to vehicle electronic control units. The processor utilizes the interface to monitor data on the vehicle network bus. The plurality of programs comprises an intrusion detection program executable by the processor to detect one or more anomalies in the monitored data; and to generate an alert upon detection of one or more anomalies.
US09762598B1	Automatic dynamic vetting of browser extensions and web applications A digital good offered for downloading from a first computing system to a client computing device for execution by a browser executing on the client is identified. The digital good is received at a third computing system, where source code for the received digital good includes scripting language code. The code is re-written to include tracking code to track behavior of the digital good during execution of the digital good, and the re-written digital good is executed in a browser run by the third computing system. Based on evaluation of results of executing the re-written digital good, it is automatically determined, by the third computer system, whether the digital good violates one or more predetermined conditions, and based on the determination of whether the digital good violates a predetermined conditions, it is automatically determined whether to discourage downloading the digital good to, or executing the digital good by, the client.
US09762597B2	Method and system to detect and interrupt a robot data aggregator ability to access a website An information processing system, a computer readable storage medium, and a method to detect and block a robot data aggregator from accessing a website. A method includes defining a set of important features of business operations associated with users using a website. A feature value for each important feature is extracted from collected session data of a user session using the website. A user classifier classifies the user session as being with a human user or a robot user. Based on the classifying, access to the website by a robot user is blocked. Training user session data is also generated from the collected user session data thereby the user classifier learns and improves accuracy and reliability in detecting the type of user in a user session.
US09762588B2	Imposter account detection and remediation in a social networking system When a request to connect a requesting user to a target user is received by the social networking system, information associated with the requesting user and with users connected to the target user is retrieved. A fraud probability score indicating a probability that the requesting user is impersonating a user connected to the target user is determined based on the information associated with the requesting user and with users connected to the target user. Based on the fraud probability score, a determination is made whether the requesting user is a suspected imposter and remedial action is taken if imposter is suspected.
US09762587B2	Grouping access control violations for process-aware systems Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for analyzing access control violations of a computer-implemented process. Implementations include actions of receiving a request including violation data indicating an access control violation that occurred during execution of the computer-implemented process, requesting a process model from a process model database, the process model including a computer-readable representation of the computer-implemented process, and a task corresponding to the access control violation, processing the task and the process model to provide correlation data including one or more of grouped violations, a set of granted accesses, and a set of violations, and transmitting the correlation data to a client-side computing device for display to a user.
US09762586B2	System and method for controlling mutual access of smart devices The present invention discloses a system and method for controlling mutual access of smart devices. The method includes creating a home account on a cloud server, and adding smart devices and device information corresponding to the smart devices to a device list under the home account; acquiring, for each of the smart devices, authentication by using the home account and device information corresponding to the smart device; and establishing, for each of the smart devices, a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) long connection to the cloud server. In the present invention, a unique home account is created on a cloud server, so that smart devices log in to the cloud server by using the unified home account, and the smart devices under the unified home account allow mutual access when being authorized. Therefore, when smart devices in a home access each other, the workload is greatly reduced. Moreover, a permission management module is established on the cloud server, which limits permissions of sending messages between smart devices under a same home account or different home accounts, thereby improving the reliability and security of mutual access of the smart devices.
US09762585B2	Tenant lockbox Tenant approval for operator access to tenant data is provided. In order to grant service personnel operators access to a tenant's data for performing a requested action, a lockbox determines a security group role to which an operator needs to be elevated to perform a requested action, computes a set of internal administrators and tenant administrators authorized to grant a temporary role elevation, and sends an access control request to the administrators. Upon receiving approval of the access control request from an internal administrator and a tenant administrator, the lockbox elevates the operator to the security group role, granting the operator a set of permissions needed in order to allow the operator to perform the requested action. Accordingly, tenants are enabled to control access to their data and scrutinize access requests per their company procedures and compliance needs.
US09762577B2	Mutual authentication with symmetric secrets and signatures A client and server negotiate a secure communication channel using a pre-shared key where the server, at the time the negotiation initiates, lacks access to the pre-shared key. The server obtains the pre-shared key from another server that shares a secret with the client. A digital signature or other authentication information generated by the client may be used to enable the other server to determine whether to provide the pre-shared key.
US09762576B2	Enhanced multi factor authentication In one embodiment, a network element comprises one or more processors, and a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory module comprises logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, via a first communication channel, a primary authentication request transmitted from a user from a first device, process the primary authentication request to determine whether the user is authorized to access one or more resources, in response to a determination that the user is authorized to access one or more resources, initiate, a secondary authentication request, and transmit the secondary authentication request from the network element to the user via a second communication channel, different from the first communication channel.
US09762573B2	Biometric framework allowing independent application control Generation and segregation of mobile device biometric application template storage is described. Applications request a memory domain within mobile device storage for storing enrolled templates in the domain. The application calls a secure API associated with the biometric driver and software of the mobile device. As a result, the biometric driver and software does not search a number of domains to locate the enrolled templates that correspond to the mobile application or search all enrolled templates stored in memory. The mobile device applications maintain control of the storage domain and the template. The enrolled template may only be deleted through the controlling mobile device application.
US09762569B2	Network authentication The present invention addresses apparatuses, methods and computer program product for providing improved authentication of a network by a network node. A network node identification and a vendor certificate are configured in a network node, a usage certificate is created for the network node, which is signed by the vendor with a signature, and contains verification information indicating that the usage certificate relates to this network node and authentication information for allowing the network node to authenticate a network, the usage certificate is transmitted to an operator of an operator network, the network node requests the usage certificate from the operator, when the network node is initially connected to the operator network, the network node determines validity of the signature in the usage certificate received upon the request, and the network node checks whether the received usage certificate actually relates to the network node being initially connected to the operator network, based on the information contained in the usage certificate.
US09762567B2	Wireless communication of a user identifier and encrypted time-sensitive data Examples disclosed herein relate to wireless communication of a user identifier and encrypted time-sensitive data. Examples further include wireless communication of an authentication token including a user identifier and encrypted time-sensitive data. Examples further include interaction with a remote authentication service. Examples further include utilization of near field communication (NFC).
US09762565B2	Spatial-light-modulator-based signatures of intrinsic and extrinsic scattering surface markers for secure authentication Unique methods and systems are introduced herein for the determination of unique spatial light modulator based optical signatures of intrinsic and extrinsic scattering surface markers. These techniques can be used to authenticate semiconductor components and systems at various stages during the manufacturing process by measuring and cross correlating the surface marker's unique optical signature. In addition, these techniques can be used with extrinsic surface markers which are added to existing hardware (e.g. containers, locks, doors, etc.). These markers can then be measured for their unique optical signatures, which can be stored and used at a later time for cross-correlation to authenticate the surface marker and verify the hardware's provenance.
US09762557B2	Policy settings configuration with signals Techniques and systems are disclosed for enabling device configuration using signals that encode device policy settings. A method of configuring policy settings on a host device can include receiving a signal that encodes at least one policy setting; interpreting the signal to determine the at least one policy setting; and applying the at least one policy setting to the host device at its own authority.
US09762556B2	Registering, managing, and communicating with IOT devices using domain name system processes Provided herein is a method for registering an IoT device with a DNS registry. The method can include obtaining, at a DNS server, an identifier, IP address, and a public key of an asymmetric key pair associated with the IoT device from a network gateway device that is in communication with the IoT device, wherein the asymmetric key pair is provisioned onto the IoT device and an associated private key stored within a memory of the IoT device at a time that IoT device is manufactured or during a predetermined time window after manufacturing; creating at least one DNS record for the IoT device; assigning a domain name associated with the internet protocol (“IP”) address to the IoT device; storing the identifier, IP address, the domain name, and the public key in the at least one DNS record; and providing confirmation of the registration to the IoT device.
US09762555B2	Data processing method and apparatus A data processing method and apparatus, where the method includes acquiring a first network data packet that is sent by a target application that runs in an untrusted execution domain, where the first network data packet includes a first identifier; acquiring, in a trusted execution domain, first data corresponding to the first identifier; generating, in the trusted execution domain, a second network data packet according to the first data and the first network data packet; performing, in the trusted execution domain, encryption on the second network data packet by using a first session key to acquire an encrypted second network data packet; and sending the encrypted second network data packet to the target server. The data processing method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention can effectively prevent an attacker from stealing data.
US09762549B2	Instant messaging private tags Systems for instant messaging private tags preferably comprise a parser for parsing an instant message for sensitive data and an encryption engine for encrypting the sensitive data. A modified uuencoder is also preferably included for converting the encrypted sensitive data into a data stream that complies with an XML format. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US09762547B2	System and method for routing-based internet security Method and system for improving the security of storing digital data in a memory or its delivery as a message over the Internet from a sender to a receiver using one or more hops is disclosed. The message is split at the sender into multiple overlapping or non-overlapping slices according to a slicing scheme, and the slices are encapsulated in packets each destined to a different relay server as an intermediate node according to a delivery scheme. The relay servers relay the received slices to another other relay server or to the receiver. Upon receiving all the packets containing all the slices, the receiver combines the slices reversing the slicing scheme, whereby reconstructing the message sent.
US09762546B2	Multi-connection system and method for service using internet protocol Disclosed are a multi-connection system (MCS) and method for a service using an Internet protocol. The MCS includes a plurality of proxies; an MCS client to receive a packet to be transmitted from the client to the server, generate MCS packets by adding an MCS sequence identification (ID) to the packet, and sequentially and respectively transmit the MCS packets to the plurality of proxies, wherein a number of MCS packets corresponds to a number of pieces of proxy access information connected to the plurality of proxies or a set number of pieces of proxy access information; and an MCS server to respectively receive the MCS packets from the plurality of proxies; extract the MCS sequence IDs from the MCS packets, compare the extracted MCS sequence IDs with MCS sequence IDs stored beforehand; store the extracted MCS sequence IDs, generate server-receivable packets from the MCS packets, and transmit the server-receivable packets to the server when the extracted MCS sequence IDs are not identical to the stored MCS sequence IDs; and block the MCS packets from being transmitted to the server when the extracted MCS sequence IDs are identical to the stored MCS sequence IDs.
US09762543B2	Using DNS communications to filter domain names Using DNS communications to filter domain names is disclosed. A domain name is extracted from a received DNS request. The received DNS request is blocked in response to determining based on a policy that access to the domain name of the DNS request is not permitted. In some cases, such a DNS request is responded to with a spoofed DNS response.
US09762541B2	Intelligent sorting for N-way secure split tunnel A method of intelligently sorting packets/datagrams for sending through appropriate branches of a N-way split VPN tunnel according to embodiments of the present invention allow for efficient movement of network traffic to and from a remote network location. Intelligent sorting may be based on a wide range of criteria in order to implement different policies. For example, datagrams may be sorted for sending through the branches of a 3-way split tunnel so that all traffic from a remote network location ultimately destined to servers at a central location may be sent via a secure VPN tunnel, all traffic that matches a “white-list” of trusted external sites may be sent directly to and from these sites to the remote network location, and all other traffic may be redirected through a Web service that scrubs and filters the traffic to/from questionable sites. Furthermore, the VPN tunnel may be chosen to minimize latency, to detour around network failures, or to conserve energy by minimizing the number of routers a datagram passes through.
US09762539B2	System and method for limiting data leakage in an application firewall System and methods for connection processing with limited data leakage. The system records state associated with a connection request in a connection state engine, records state associated with a connection acknowledgement in the connection state engine, stores data sent after the connection acknowledgement in a buffer and determines, without a proxy, whether to allow or deny a connection as a function of the data stored in the buffer.
US09762537B1	Secure path selection within computer networks In general, techniques are described by which a path through a network may be selected based on security information. For example, a network device may include one or more interfaces and a control unit. The interfaces may receive security information that describes a security service provided by a network security device. The network security device may couple to another network device. The control unit then determines, based on the security information, a path through the network that includes the other network device. The interfaces may forward at least a portion of the network traffic along the determined path to the other network device such that the network security device coupled to the other network device applies the security service to the portion of the network traffic forwarded via the path. As a result, the network device secures traffic by perform security path selection to forward traffic to network security devices.
US09762536B2	One way secure link A method for secure communications between a transmitting computer (24) and a receiving computer (22) includes transmitting data from the transmitting computer over a first one-way link (28) to a data security engine (26), receiving and validating the data within the data security engine, and, after validating the data, transmitting the data from the data security engine to the receiving computer over a second one-way link (30).
US09762534B2	System and method for geographic SIP scaling Described herein are aspects relating to a system and method for scaling a session initiation protocol communication system that allows components of the system to be distributed and/or scaled across multiple and different hardware, networks, systems, and locations.
US09762531B2	Position parameterized recursive network architecture with topological addressing A digital data communications network that supports efficient, scalable routing of data and use of network resources by combining a recursive division of the network into hierarchical sub-networks with repeating parameterized general purpose link communication protocols and an addressing methodology that reflects the physical structure of the underlying network hardware. The sub-division of the network enhances security by reducing the amount of the network visible to an attack and by insulating the network hardware itself from attack. The fixed bandwidth range at each sub-network level allows quality of service to be assured and controlled. The routing of data is aided by a topological addressing scheme that allows data packets to be forwarded towards their destination based on only local knowledge of the network structure, with automatic support for mobility and multicasting. The repeating structures in the network greatly simplify network management and reduce the effort to engineer new network capabilities.
US09762529B1	Integrating offsite activities with online data records Various systems and associated methods for tracking activities related to an event, such as audio communications, chats, text messages, completion of forms, and other user interactions. The process generates at least one identifier, distributes the identifier(s) to at least one system, and uses the identifier(s) to associate interactions with network-based content across different entities, whereby at least one interaction can be anonymous. The method involves receiving a request sent to a database stored on a computer readable medium in response to online activity and any collected or known user information, creating a record thereof in response to the request, generating an identifier associated therewith, generating a code corresponding thereto, and using the identifier to associate activities related to an event and user information. The association happens through remote communication with a system that interacts with the event.
US09762527B2	Following/subscribing for productivity applications A method for following asynchronous and synchronous productivity application communications includes receiving, by an update processor, one or more preference sets for following progress on a productivity application communication. The update processor provides a targeted medium with a notification for one or more changes associated with the productivity application communication based on a promotion of the productivity application communication to the targeted medium. The update processor further receives one or more subscriptions for receiving update notifications through the targeted medium for the one or more changes associated with the productivity application communication.
US09762526B2	Creating a dynamic aggregate group profile of users in an online collaboration session for providing tailored content delivery There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for suggesting content to a group. The system identifies a group of users in a social network. The system receives inputs associated with the social network group. The system aggregates the received inputs. The system analyzes the aggregated inputs. The system searches, based on the aggregation and the analysis, one or more tailored content to be delivered to the group in Internet, one or more database and one or more data warehouse. The system delivers the tailored content to the group in the social network.
US09762525B2	Electronic mail messaging system and method Systems and methods of confirming an addressee of an email message include receiving an email message addressed to one or more forwarding addresses. At least one email address associated with each of the one or more forwarding addresses is obtained. A potential discrepancy in the email message is detected in response to the at least one obtained email address. Before sending the email message, an alert is issued to a sender of the email message. The alert provides a recommendation regarding whether to continue with sending the email message and identifies content associated with the email message that led to detecting the potential discrepancy.
US09762522B2	Method and apparatus for storing email messages A method for saving an email to an electronic storage location is disclosed. A topic identifier located in the email is used to locate a storage location on the electronic storage device for saving the email message. Emails relating to the same topics of interest may be stored in the same storage location.
US09762521B2	Semantic analysis and delivery of alternative content A method, computer program product, and system for identifying attributes of a link embedded in a digital communication, generating a list of alternative links based on the identified link attributes by searching the internet for alternative links; organizing the list of alternative links based on characteristics of a recipient of the digital communication, and selecting an alternate link from the list of alternative links based on the characteristics of the recipient, wherein the selected alternate link provides comparable content to the recipient as the link.
US09762515B1	Interactive online entertainment system and method Disclosed is a system and method for allowing one or more users to interact with models from a distance, for example, by enabling the users to tip the models during online video chat sessions, wherein the models can define tipping parameters to perform predefined acts, via an adult toy, based on the amount of tips received. The adult toy can be Wi-Fi or Bluetooth™ enabled to receive commands directly from the server via a web browser extension, the website hosting an online video chat session, or connect to an application installed on a device operated by the model, wherein the application communicates with the web browser extension to relay commands to the adult toy therefrom. In some embodiments, the browser extension or website can generate live control links to enable certain users have a live control of the model's adult toy.
US09762513B2	Managing chat sessions Computer system, method and program product for managing a chat session having a plurality of participants. A server sends to each participant in the chat session, a current local time of each other participant in the chat session. A workstation of each participant in the chat session displays an identity and current local time of each other participant in the chat session. The current local time of each other participant in the chat session can be represented by a graphical representation of the current local time of each other participant in the chat session. The server also sends to each participant in the chat session a current date of each other participant in the chat session. The workstation of each participant in the chat session displays the current date of each other participant in the chat session.
US09762509B2	Apparatus and method of operating a network traffic policing module An apparatus and method of operating a network traffic policing module includes a data ingress port configured to receive data frames transmitted over the network, a data egress port configured to transmit a set of the data frames to the data egress port and a logic device configured to execute a set of compliance tests on the data frames received at the data ingress port and transmits to the data egress port only a set of data frames that are compliant with the set of compliance tests.
US09762506B2	Virtual guest management system and virtual guest management method Proposed are a virtual guest management system and a virtual guest management method capable of improving the usage efficiency of resources.In a virtual guest management system comprising a plurality of virtual hosts, a virtual guest arranged in each of the plurality of virtual hosts, and a management system that manages migration of the virtual guest, the management system adds a used resource history of a migration-target virtual guest to a used resource history of a destination candidate virtual host, estimates the used resource history of the destination candidate virtual host upon assuming that the migration-target virtual guest was migrated, and determines the destination virtual host among the destination candidate virtual hosts based on an estimated result.
US09762502B1	Method and system for validating rate-limiter determination made by untrusted software The present application describes a system and method for a virtual machine to classify a packet. Once the virtual machine (VM) classifies the packet, it bypasses a hypervisor to enqueue the packet directly on a hardware transmission queue. The NIC will then verify that the VM classified and enqueued the packet correctly. If the packet was classified properly, it is transmitted over the wire to its destination. In this regard, the system and method provides a technique for verifying that the VM is enqueuing packets properly, while improving performance by allowing high-rate flows to bypass the hypervisor.
US09762493B2	Link aggregation (LAG) information exchange protocol In one embodiment, a switch includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor to receive details about which link aggregation (LAG) information about a first peer switch will be exchanged with the switch, send to the first peer switch, prior to receiving the LAG information about the first peer switch, details about which LAG information about the switch will be exchanged with the first peer switch, receive the LAG information about the first peer switch, store the LAG information about the first peer switch, and use the LAG information about the first peer switch and the LAG information about the switch to determine load balancing across one or more connections between the switch and the first peer switch.
US09762486B2	Method and system for using extension headers to support protocol stack migration An IP packet may include an IP header and one or more optional IP extension headers. The packet may contain non-IP protocol data in one of the IP extension headers. An application that uses non-IP protocol data may use the non-IP protocol data from the IP extension header. This allows an application designed for a non-IP protocol stack to operate on a device with an IP protocol stack with minimal modification. The non-IP protocol data may alternatively support non-IP routing options within a network or sub-network.
US09762481B2	Efficient highly connected deployment units Efficient and highly-scalable network solutions are provided that each utilize deployment units based on Clos networks, but in an environment such as a data center of Internet Protocol-based network. Each of the deployment units can include multiple stages of devices, where connections between devices are only made between stages and the deployment units are highly connected. In some embodiments, the level of connectivity between two stages can be reduced, providing available connections to add edge switches and additional host connections while keeping the same number of between-tier connections. In some embodiments, where deployment units (or other network groups) can be used at different levels to connect other deployment units, the edges of the deployment units can be fused to reduce the number of devices per host connection.
US09762480B2	Propagation of routing information in RSVP-TE for inter-domain TE-LSPs In one embodiment, a traffic engineering (TE) label switched path (LSP) is established between a head-end node in a local domain and a tail-end node in a remote domain. The TE-LSP spans one or more intervening domains located between the local domain and the remote domain. The head-end node sends a routing information request over the TE-LSP to a target node on the TE-LSP that is in the remote domain. The head end node receives routing information from the target node. The received routing information includes a list of address prefixes reachable by the target node. The head end node uses the received routing information to calculate routes reachable via the TE-LSP to the target node. The calculated routes have a next-hop interface set to be the TE-LSP. The calculated routes are inserted into a routing table of the head-end node.
US09762479B2	Distributed routing control in a vast communication network Multiple network controllers are interconnected in a full mesh structure, e.g., through a cyclical cross connector, to form a distributed control system for a network of a large number of nodes. A network controller acquires characterizing information of links emanating from a respective set of nodes, communicates the information to each other network controller, and determines a route set from each node of the respective set of nodes to each other node of the network. The network controller may determine, for each link included in the route set, identifiers of specific route sets which traverse the link. Accordingly, a state-change of any link in the network can be expeditiously communicated to network controllers to take corrective actions where necessary. A network controller may rank routes of a route set according to some criterion to facilitate selection of a favourable available route for a connection.
US09762478B2	Method and apparatus for PCC enhancement for flow based mobility Systems and methods are described that facilitate multiple registrations and flow based mobility in a wireless communication network. A flow routing component can be included in a mobile device, home agent/p-gateway, or a policy and charging rules function server that determines the manner in which to route one or more IP flows through a set of network access entry points. The flow routing component can determine the routing based on a set of policies and/or network data, such as quality of service requirements, bandwidth requirements, network congestion, currently active IP flows, and so forth.
US09762476B1	Networking loop cable assembly Communicatively coupling multiple networking-enabled electronic devices to a local ring communication network enables remote monitoring and maintenance of the networked electronic devices with a single network gateway device per local network. The devices are coupled to the ring network in series through a loop cable assembly. The loop cable assembly enables forwarding of data received at a particular electronic device from another electronic device separately coupled to the loop cable assembly, via a portion of the loop cable assembly, to the gateway device, via another portion of the loop cable assembly. The loop cable assembly can include multiple network cables and dongles. The loop cable assembly may include a back-pass pathway, where a network terminator device coupled to a network connector at a distal end of the loop cable assembly from the network gateway device reroutes output data back through loop cable assembly towards the network gateway device.
US09762475B2	Communicating with business customers A method including providing a business with a unified communications number for all types of customer communication and mapping the unified communications number to each address for the business issued by the communication service providers of the business. The method may also include routing communications addressed to the unified communications number to the appropriate the address as a function of the type of communication.
US09762473B2	Network optimization Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method for optimizing an extension of an optical network to provide service to one or more new customers. The method considers the location of existing network nodes as well as a metropolitan environment where the new customer is located (e.g., the geographical location of streets where fiber may be routed to a customer). Aspects of the present disclosure further employ one of various linear programming models, such as a 1-Layer Model, a 3-Layer Model, a 5-Layer Model and a Dual Path Model to generate cost effective solutions to extend the existing optical network to provide service to the new customers.
US09762470B2	Determining performance criteria of a vehicle communication network connection A mobile vehicle communication system and a method carried out by the system to determine at a remotely-located vehicle a performance criteria of a communication network connection in the vehicle. Steps of the method include: monitoring the vehicle's communication network connection for at least one of a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters are associated with the performance criteria of the network connection; correlating a performance status test indicative of the performance criteria of the network connection with at least one of the plurality of parameters; and determining the performance criteria of the network connection based on the correlation.
US09762465B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting a response to a command in wireless communication system A method for transmitting a response to a command from a server in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is implemented by a terminal, and comprises the steps of: receiving a command from a server; implementing the command until a timeout expires; transmitting to the server, a first response including an identifier for the command if the implementation of the command is not completed until the timeout expires; and transmitting a second response including the result of the command and the identifier after the implementation of the command is completed.
US09762464B2	Measurement on data traffic in a communication network A method for performing a measurement on data traffic at a node of a communication network. The node includes an input interface and an output interface. The input interface receives first packets and checks whether they are marked. If a first packet is marked, a global input parameter is updated. A partial input parameter is also updated, provided the first packet is addressed to the output interface. The output interface receives second packets, which include at least part of the first packets, and checks whether they are marked. If a second packet is marked, a partial output parameter is updated, provided the second packet is received from the input interface. Further, a global output parameter is updated. The method further performs a measurement on the data traffic based on: global input parameter, partial input parameter, global output parameter, and partial output parameter.
US09762463B2	Methods and apparatus for operating an access network Methods and apparatus are disclosed for operating an access network including data connections (19) between end-user devices (12, 14, 16, 18) and an aggregation transceiver (20) at which connections (19) are aggregated for onward connection through the network. The method comprises, for each connection, obtaining connection data for each of a plurality of monitoring periods, each comprising shorter periods, the connection data comprising performance and user activity indications for each shorter period; monitoring the performance of the connection in order to estimate a measure of its performance during a particular monitoring period that discounts performance indications obtained in respect of shorter periods within that monitoring period when the user was inactive unless activity indications in respect of corresponding shorter periods within other monitoring periods indicate that such user inactivity is anomalous; and applying a profile to the connection that is dependent on the measure of performance of the data connection.
US09762460B2	Providing continuous context for operational information of a storage system A system management tool provides a comprehensive summary of operational information of a storage system. For example, the system management tool presents a digital dashboard (“dashboard”) in a graphical user interface. The system management tool also presents, via the dashboard, views that correspond to different dimensions of the storage system. In response to expansion of a selected view, the system management tool can automatically collapse the other views into a non-expanded views or move the other views to visible areas remaining after expansion of the selected view. Thus, all of the views remain continuously visible via the dashboard despite the modification to the appearance of the selected view.
US09762458B2	Mesh network transmission decisions based on node performance metrics Systems and methods for transmission of data through mesh networks are disclosed. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for using performance metrics of nodes in a mesh network to make data transmission decisions. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method. The method comprises receiving, at a network device on a network, performance metrics associated with an additional network device on the network; generating performance metrics associated with the network device; storing the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with the additional network device; and transmitting the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with an additional network device, wherein when the performance metrics are received, the performance metrics are used to determine whether data will be transmitted to the network device.
US09762457B2	Deep packet inspection virtual function Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a deep packet inspection virtual function. A control system can detect a service request. The control system can analyze a policy to determine a function of a service to which the service request relates, a virtual machine that will host the function, and a deep packet inspection virtual function associated with the service. The control system can trigger loading of an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the function of the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function. The control system can validate the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function.
US09762444B1	Detecting a configuration profile from a management agent Detecting a mobile device management (MDM) profile from a management agent is disclosed. A third party management agent is used to perform a test operation to determine an occurrence of an indirect indication of a presence of a configuration profile. The occurrence of the indirect indication is based at least in part on the presence of indirect indication-associated data in the configuration profile. It is determined, based at least in part on the occurrence of the indirect indication, that the configuration profile is implemented by a platform management agent.
US09762442B2	Virtualization of networking services A method of configuring a virtual network comprises: running a user-interactive business requirements wizard from a server, the wizard collecting business requirements from a user; translating the business requirements into technical requirements for a network configuration using the server; selecting a network configuration from a network configuration database using the server, the selecting utilizing the technical requirements; testing the network configuration using a processor; monitoring the testing and generating new facts regarding performance of the network configuration, using the processor; feeding back the new facts to the server for use by the server in the selecting; and repeating the selecting, testing, monitoring and generating, and feeding back, until the server determines a criterion for network stability has been reached. The method may include automatically discovering local network characteristics using a networking device, prior to the selecting, sending the characteristics to the server for use by the server in the selecting.
US09762439B2	Configuration command template creation assistant using cross-model analysis to identify common syntax and semantics In one embodiment, a computer program product for creating a configuration template for a set of devices includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable/executable by a hardware processor to cause the processor to separate, by the processor, existing syntactic models describing syntax from existing semantic models describing semantics prior to determining a command information and determine, by the processor, the command information for a plurality of devices. The program instructions also cause the processor to identify, by the processor, a command structure from the command information which is common to a set of devices from the plurality of devices, and associate, by the processor, the set of devices to a common configuration template.
US09762438B2	Automatically generating configuration images and deploying computer components in a computing environment that comprises a shared pool of configurable computing resources Generating configuration images and deploying computer components in a computing environment that comprises a shared pool of configurable computing resources may be provided. Configuration templates from a plurality of repositories may be mined and classified. Base templates may be created that represent different service configurations based on the configuration templates classified into classes of different service configurations. For deploying a requested service with specified requirements, a plurality of candidate templates may be created based on the base templates that represent configurations for the requested service and configurations that meet the specified requirements. A target template from the plurality of candidate templates may be selected that most meets the specified requirements. Computer resources for the requested service may be deployed by running the target template.
US09762437B2	Systems and methods for networking consumer devices Systems and methods for enrolling nodes into an ad hoc network associated with a multi-roomed structure. Nodes within the ad hoc network comprise a communication module configured to communicate with the ad hoc network using at least one of room-limited communications and room-transparent communications.
US09762435B2	System and method for monitoring and managing data center resources incorporating a common data model repository A system is disclosed that forms a base platform that enables a plurality of objects to be used in forming a plurality of different domain models. The system may have a common data model repository (CDMR) having an object relational mapping layer for mapping instances of the objects to persistent storage. The instances of objects may represent information that includes connections and control capabilities for at least certain ones of the instances of objects, and the CDMR may implement the connections and control capabilities in relation to managed elements.
US09762431B2	Communication device, on-vehicle communication system, and inspection method A communication device includes a first resistance connected between a first reference potential and a midway point of one of a pair communication lines connected to a coil, a second resistance and a third resistance arranged in series so as to be connected between a second reference potential different from the first reference potential and a midway point of the other one of the pair communication lines, and a switch configured to open or close a path between the first resistance and the first reference potential.
US09762429B2	Control protocol encapsulation A processor is configured to determine non-core functions to be performed by an unmanaged device disposed on a packet based computer network. A control message generator is configured to (i) generate a point-to-point control message conforming to a point-to-point control protocol for controlling the unmanaged device over a point-to-point serial bus connection to perform the determined non-core functions, and (ii) encapsulate the point-to-point control message in a transport packet for transport over the packet based computer network. A packet transmitter is configured to transmit the transport packet including the encapsulated point-to-point control message via a port coupled to the packet based computer network, the packet based computer network configured to route the transport packet including the encapsulated point-to-point control message based on a header included in the transport packet so that the point-to-point control message is received at the unmanaged device via the packet based computer network.
US09762423B2	High data rate multilevel clock recovery system Digital receiver systems and clock recovery techniques for use in digital receiver systems are provided to implement asynchronous baud-rate clock recovery systems for high data rate serial receivers multilevel line modulation. A two-stage postcursor ISI equalization system is provided to efficiently emulate a 4-level DFE (decision feedback equalization) system, for example, while converting a 4-level equalized signal to s 2-level equalized signal. For example, a two stage postcursor ISI equalization system includes a DFE stage which operates on a most significant component of a given 4-level data symbol, followed by a DFFE (decision-feedforward equalizer) stage which operates on a least significant component of the given 4-level data symbol. In parallel with the DFFE stage, an estimate of the least significant component is subtracted from the equalized 4-level data symbol to convert the 4-level data symbol to a 2-level symbol.
US09762420B2	Transmitting device for high speed communication, and interface circuit and system including the same A transmitting device may include an encoder, a timing transmission controller, and a transmission driver. The encoder may generate transmission control signals according to control symbols. The timing transmission controller may generate driving control signals from the transmission control signals. The transmission driver may drive each of wires to one level among multiple levels, based on the driving control signals. The timing transmission controller may control generation timings of the driving control signals according to levels to which the wires are to be driven.
US09762419B2	Edge-based communication with a plurality of slave devices Methods, systems and devices related to bidirectional edge-based pulse width modulation communication systems are disclosed. In some implementations, upon receipt of a predetermined trigger pulse at least two slave devices perform an action.
US09762418B2	Repeatable backchannel link adaptation for high speed serial interfaces A receiver includes a plurality of equalization modules each configurable to provide a selectable compensation value to a data bit stream received by the receiver, and a control module configured to perform a plurality of back channel adaptations on the data bitstream to achieve a target bit error rate for the receiver, each back channel adaptation being associated with a set of compensation values of the equalization modules, determine a most common set of compensation values derived from the performance of the plurality of back channel adaptations, and determine an optimized set of compensation values based on the most common set of compensation values.
US09762417B1	Adaptive equalization for vestigial sideband (VSB) transmissions The present invention pertains to systems and methods for equalizing a digitally modulated input signal for transmission as an optical signal over an optical fiber. In detail, this equalization is accomplished prior to the signal's conversion to an optical signal, and prior to the signal being filtered by a vestigial sideband (VSB) filter. In particular, equalization is accomplished by giving weights to the taps of a tapped delay equalizer, wherein weights for respective taps are derived from the output signal after its conversion to a digital signal at the downstream end of the optical fiber.
US09762414B2	Least squares channel identification for OFDM Systems An OFDM system generates a channel estimate in the time domain for use in either a frequency domain equalizer or in a time domain equalizer. Preferably channel estimation is accomplished in the time domain using a locally generated reference signal. The channel estimator generates an initial estimate from a cross correlation between the time domain reference signal and an input signal input to the receiver and generates at least one successive channel estimate. Preferably the successive channel estimate is determined by vector addition (or subtraction) to the initial channel estimate. The at least one successive channel estimate reduces the minimum mean square error of the estimate with respect to a received signal.
US09762412B2	Redundant traffic encoding of encapsulated real time communications A system that performs redundant encoding for real-time communications (“RTC”) establishes a tunnel by a tunneling server with a tunneling client of user equipment (“UE”). The system receives a request from the UE to enable the redundant encoding for an inner socket of the tunnel and sends a response back to the UE to indicate that the redundant encoding is enabled for the inner socket, where the response includes a buffer size. For each first frame received on the inner socket, the system stores the first frame in a buffer of the buffer size. The system further receives a reference that corresponds to a second frame from the UE on the inner socket and retrieves the second frame that corresponds to the first reference from the buffer.
US09762408B2	Modular wireless power, light and automation control A device and method for controlling a host apparatus (300) through a wireless link with a personal controller (10). The device includes a wireless communications module (202) configured to communicate with personal controller (10) via a peer-to-peer communications standard. The device connects to host apparatus (300) via a plug and receptacle interface (206) which includes power and signal pins. The device simulates an actuation signal using a reed relay (216) to cause host apparatus (300) to perform a function.
US09762404B2	Providing contextual information associated with a communication participant Contextual information associated with a party in a communication instance is provided to a user upon request. The communication instance can comprise a voice call, email, or video conference. If there is more than one party associated with the communication instance, the user may select the participating party from among several participating parties. The user may indicate the type of contextual information to be searched. The types of contextual information may include documents, spreadsheets, presentations, call records, emails, or other information associated with the selected participant. Contextual information search results comprising a list of file names of the selected file type are provided to the user. The user may further select a specific file name and, in response, view a thumbnail image of the file. A list of potential contextual information sources may be defined for each user.
US09762398B2	Application-based toll-free data service A first device may receive a toll-free data request that includes an application signature. The toll-free data request may request that a first entity be billed for data usage by a second device associated with a second entity, and may be received from an application. The first device may decrypt the application signature to obtain a device identifier and an application identifier. The first device may validate the application signature based on the device identifier and the application identifier. The first device may selectively cause the first entity or the second entity to be billed for data usage associated with the toll-free data request based on a result of validating the application signature.
US09762391B2	Chip authentication technology using carbon nanotubes Embodiments relate to the authentication of a semiconductor. An identification circuit disposed within a package of an integrated circuit, and the identification circuit includes carbon-nanotube transistors configured to generate an encryption key.
US09762389B2	Moderation of network and access point selection in an IEEE 802.11 communication system A method for use in a front-end network communications device, arranged to operate as an access point, for establishing a data connection between a mobile communications terminal and one or more data communications networks comprises receiving, from the mobile communications terminal, a service provider request comprising a MAC address of the mobile communications terminal; sending, to a master server, request information pertaining to the service provider request; receiving, from the master server, a policy message comprising a visibility policy, said visibility policy containing rules for controlling the visibility of at least one of the one or more data communications networks; determining a subset of communications networks that should be visible to the mobile communications terminal based on said rules; and enforcing said visibility policy by allowing said mobile communications terminal to connect only to said subset of data communications networks.
US09762380B2	Synchronization to upstream bursts The invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronizing to upstream bursts of frames when a delimiter pattern normally used for the synchronization is a-priory unknown. The method includes identifying in a specific received signaling burst a sequence of pre-defined fixed bits, determining the position and bit pattern of the identified delimiter based on the found position of the fixed bits in the signaling burst, and using the found delimiter pattern to synchronize to following bursts in a burst stream.
US09762378B1	Method and apparatus for extending and measuring phase difference between signals A phase difference multiplier circuit is disclosed that includes first and second delay circuits to apply two different quantities of delay to first and second input signals. The first and second delay circuits may operate in a first mode where a first and smaller amount of delay is imparted to the respective input signals. The first and second input signals differ in phase, and a transition in the first signal will be followed by a similar transition in the second signal. Following the transition of the first signal reaching the input of the first delay circuit, the similar transition will reach the input of the second delay circuit. In response to the transition reaching the input of the second delay circuit, the first and second delay circuits are then operated to impart a second and larger amount of delay to the first and second signals. At the output of the first and second delay circuits, the duration of the difference in phase between the first and second signals is increased by a multiplication factor. Extending the duration in such a manner may, for example, make the initial difference in phase easier to measure.
US09762376B2	Method and transceiver for cancelling multi-carrier transmission interference A method, an apparatus, and a transceiver for cancelling multi-carrier transmission interference are provided. The method includes: collecting a high order intermodulation signal in radio frequency signals output by a transmitter; processing the high order intermodulation signal so as to generate a first digital signal; establishing a high order intermodulation model by using the first digital signal and a first baseband signal output by the transmitter; generating a second digital signal by using a coefficient of the high order intermodulation model and a second baseband signal output by the transmitter; and counteracting interference in a digital signal output by a receiver with the second digital signal. By using the embodiments of the embodiments of the invention, high order intermodulation interference of a multi-carrier transmitter on a receiver can be effectively canceled, and therefore, difficulty in duplexer design and requirements on a suppression degree are reduced.
US09762371B2	Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus is capable of improving communication efficiency by reducing the amount of control information transmitted. A channel quality information extraction section extracts CQI's from a received signal. An allocation control section allocates subcarriers for every communication terminal apparatus and selects a modulation scheme in such a manner that required transmission rate is satisfied for each communication terminal apparatus based on required transmission rate information, etc. and CQI's for communication terminal apparatus of each user. A required subcarrier number determining section decides the number of subcarriers allocated to every communication terminal apparatus so as to satisfy the required transmission rate for each communication terminal apparatus. A required subcarrier number information generating section generates information for the number of subcarriers allocated to every communication terminal apparatus. A subcarrier allocation section allocates packet data to selected subcarriers. Modulating sections adaptively modulate packet data allocated to each subcarrier.
US09762366B2	Mapping user data onto a time-frequency resource grid in a coordinated multi-point wireless communication system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for receiving user data in a wireless communication system that employs coordinated multi-point transmission of the user data from a first cell serving a wireless terminal and a second cell site neighboring the first cell site. In an exemplary system, the first cell site maps control signals and user data to a time-frequency resources according to a first mapping pattern, while the second cell site maps control data and traffic data to the time-frequency resources according to a second mapping pattern. An exemplary method comprises extracting user data, according to the first mapping pattern, from time-frequency resources of a first transmission for the wireless terminal transmitted from the first cell site; detecting a control element transmitted by one of the first and second cell sites, the control element indicating that user data associated with the control element is mapped to the time-frequency resources according to the second mapping pattern; and, responsive to said detecting, extracting user data according to the second mapping pattern from time-frequency resources of a second transmission for the wireless terminal transmitted from the second cell site.
US09762363B2	Method and apparatus for performing coordinated communication in a communication system A method and apparatus for performing coordinated communication between radio access points in a communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, by a first radio access point, a message requesting channel information from a second radio access point, transmitting, by the first radio access point, a response message in reply to the message requesting channel information to the second radio access point, transmitting, by the first radio access point, a message reporting the channel information to the second radio access point, and receiving, by the first radio access point, resource allocation information for Coordinated Multi-Point transmission and reception (CoMP) from the second radio access point.
US09762362B2	Multi-hop peer-to-peer communications Frame structures may be designed and channels may be allocated in a manner to support multi-hop for fully distributed and infrastructure-less peer-to-peer communications in proximity. Frame structures may have a dedicated multi-hop period near the end of a superframe.
US09762357B2	Short PUCCH in uplink sPUCCH In one aspect, a wireless device receives a first data transmission from a base station in a first subframe interval and transmits HARQ feedback and/or CSI to the base station in a subsequent subframe interval, within a duration that is less than a maximum transmission duration that is possible within the subsequent subframe interval. In another aspect, a base station transmits a first data transmission to a wireless device in a first subframe interval and receives HARQ feedback and/or CSI from the wireless device in a subsequent subframe interval, within a duration that is less than a maximum transmission duration that is possible within the subsequent subframe interval.
US09762354B2	Signaling methods and apparatus A transmission apparatus and transmitting method for signaling parameters of a part of a frame, and a reception apparatus and receiving method for decoding a part of a transmission frame. The transmitting method includes generating, using processing circuitry of a transmission apparatus, a transmission frame. The transmission frame includes a plurality of parts. A last symbol in a first one of the plurality of parts includes signaling information for decoding a second one of the plurality of parts. The transmitting method further includes transmitting the transmission frame using the processing circuitry.
US09762353B2	Data packet for bidirectional transmission of data packets during data transmission between a first and a second communication appliance, and method for transmitting such a data packet A data packet for bidirectional transmission of data packets in the case of data transmission between a first and a second communication device and a method for transmitting such a data packet is provided. A data packet that is transmitted from a first to a second communication device to contain a piece of acknowledgement information for all data packets that have already been received from the first communication device previously during this data transmission.
US09762352B2	Decoding method and receiving apparatus in wireless communication system A method for decoding Polar codes includes: receiving a Polar code having a length of N, and dividing the Polar code into m subcodes that are coupled to each other, each subcode has a length of N/m, and each of N and m is an integer powers of 2; calculating squared Euclidean distances of input bits in the m subcodes, to obtain minimum squared Euclidean distances of the input bits that are independent of each other; obtaining, accordingly a minimum squared Euclidean distance of input bits that are coupled to each other in the m subcodes; and obtaining input bits that are in the m subcodes and that meet the independent minimum squared Euclidean distances and the combined minimum squared Euclidean distance, and obtaining a decoding result of the Polar code with reference to relationships between the m subcodes and the Polar code.
US09762351B2	Statistics adaptive soft decision forward error correction in digital communication A digital communication receiver uses a maximum likelihood sequence estimation stage to recover symbols from digitized sample values of a received signal. A probability density function is calculated and used to improve a soft decision forward error correction calculation. The results of error decoding, which represent error corrected data bits, are further used to improve the probability density function calculation.
US09762347B2	Dynamic configuration of a flexible orthogonal frequency division multiplexing PHY transport data frame preamble A method for operating a transmitting device to communicate with a receiving device is described herein. The method includes the step of the transmitting device selecting a root index value from a set of root index values. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device generating a frequency domain Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence based on the selected root index value. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device modulating the Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence by a pseudo-noise sequence. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device generating an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol, wherein the frequency domain Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence modulated by the pseudo-noise sequence defines subcarrier values for the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device transmitting the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol as an initial Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol of a preamble of a frame to the receiving device.
US09762345B2	Receiving device A receiving device according to the present invention is a receiver for receiving a signal including null symbols. The receiver includes a null extraction unit for extracting the null symbols from the received signal, a power calculation unit for calculating a power of each null symbol extracted by the null extraction unit, a two-dimensional filter unit for performing a plurality of kinds of filtering for the powers of the respective null symbols calculated by the power calculation unit and obtaining a plurality of kinds of average power values, and a normalizing unit for normalizing a data symbol included in the received signal based on a value obtained by performing nonlinear processing to the average power values obtained by the two-dimensional filter unit.
US09762343B2	Interference rejection for improved cell detection Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting one or more predefined signals while suppressing interference. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a wireless network to detect a predetermined signal in the presence of interference comprises detecting one or more first cells and detecting one or more predetermined signals from a second cell while spatially filtering transmissions from one or more perceived directions of the one or more first cells, respectively. In this manner, detection of the one or more predefined signals from the second cell is improved. In some embodiments, the one or more first cells are strong relative to the weaker second cell.
US09762342B2	Transmitting data to and from nodes of a clustered multi-hop network with a TDMA scheme A method for transmitting data to and from nodes of a multi-hop network with a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme is suggested. The network is clustered into N clusters, wherein each cluster of the N clusters has at least one of the nodes. In a first step, the TDMA scheme is organized by periodic superframes. Each superframe of the periodic superframes has a number of frames including at least one broadcast frame and one collection frame for the N clusters. In a second step, one dedicated communication channel is shared by the N clusters within the broadcast frame. In a third step, N separate communication channels are used by the N clusters within the collection frame.
US09762338B2	Emergency responder systems Systems for aiding emergency responders are described. An exemplary system may include a primary device and a secondary device. The primary device may be configured to provide audio communication between the primary device and one or more of the plurality of secondary devices along a wireless communication path. The primary device may be configured to compress audio communication for transmission over a low bitrate band. The plurality of secondary devices may be configured as a network where each of the devices is configured to communicate with at least two other secondary devices. The secondary devices may also be configured to receive audio communication from the primary device and automatically transmit the received audio communication to one or more other of the secondary devices.
US09762337B2	Communication apparatus and computer readable medium for executing application programs based on radio-wave intensity According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a Bluetooth (trademark) controller which is wirelessly connected to a mobile information terminal, and a CPU configured to acquire a radio-wave intensity of wireless connection to the wirelessly connected mobile information terminal, to selectively read an application program from a program memory, based on the acquired radio-wave intensity, and to execute the application program.
US09762333B2	Optical receiver and optical reception method In order to reduce a delay at the time of detecting inputted optical signals in an optical receiver using a variable optical attenuator, the optical receiver includes: a variable optical attenuator that outputs optical signals by attenuating the intensity of inputted optical signals; a photoelectric converter that converts the optical signals into electric signals; an amplitude detection circuit that outputs an output voltage based on the amplitude of the electric signals; an optical attenuator control circuit that outputs signals for controlling an attenuation quantity of the variable optical attenuator based on the output voltage; a signal detection circuit that outputs signal detection output by comparing the output voltage and a signal detection threshold voltage, i.e., reference of signal detection, to each other; and a threshold control circuit, which monitors the output voltage, and which changes the signal detection threshold voltage when an output voltage change state becomes stable with time.
US09762330B2	Optical communication device and method of controlling optical modulator An optical communication device includes an optical modulator of a Mach-Zehnder type, a low frequency superimposing circuit configured to superimpose a low frequency signal on a substrate bias voltage applied to the optical modulator, a monitor configured to monitor a modulated light output from the optical modulator, and a substrate bias controller configured to control the substrate bias voltage based upon a low frequency component contained in a monitor signal output from the monitor.
US09762320B2	Techniques for enhancing baud rate in light-based communication Techniques are disclosed for coding light-based communication (LCom) data in a manner that allows for detection thereof, for example, via a standard low-speed (e.g., 30 frames per second) smartphone camera. In accordance with some embodiments, the disclosed techniques can be used, for example, in encoding and decoding LCom data in a manner that: (1) prevents or otherwise minimizes perceivable flicker of the light output by a transmitting LCom-enabled luminaire; and/or (2) avoids or otherwise reduces a need for additional, specialized receiver hardware at the receiver computing device including the camera. In some cases, the disclosed techniques can be used, for example, to enhance the baud rate between a transmitting LCom-enabled luminaire and a receiver device.
US09762316B2	Lightweight pairing and connection transfer protocol via gesture-driven shared secrets A gesture is performed by a wireless accessory attempting to pair with a device. The gesture comprises a series of user interactions associated with accessory data detected at the accessory and device data detected at the device. The device begins looking for accessories advertising a Bluetooth service indicating they are attempting to pair. Once an accessory is identified, the device compares the device data to the accessory data for that particular accessory. If the accessory data matches the device data, the gesture detected at the device was made by the accessory and a secure connection can be established. Based on the secure connection, a clock associated with the accessory may synchronize with a clock associated with the device for additional security and fidelity.
US09762315B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring information using device in idle state in wireless communication system A method and apparatus of acquiring information on a primary radio access technology (RAT) system in a wireless communication system is provided. An entity of a secondary RAT system transmits a request for information on the primary RAT system to a multi-RAT device, and upon transmitting the request, starting a waiting timer which has a default value. If it is determined that the information on the primary RAT system cannot be acquired, by the multi-RAT device, until the waiting timer expires, the entity of the secondary RAT system reconfigures the waiting timer by a fixed value or a dynamic value.
US09762313B2	Systems and methods for increasing the transmission speed of a satellite VSAT Systems and methods are provided for increasing or decreasing the transmission speed of a VSAT used in a satellite network. A VSAT may include an ASIC and an FPGA in a transmission block of the VSAT. The ASIC includes an ASIC transmit modulator configured to modulate an input information signal, and circuitry for bypassing at least a portion of the ASIC transmit modulator. The FPGA includes circuitry for receiving a signal bypassing at least a portion of the ASIC transmit modulator, and an FPGA transmit modulator configured to modulate the bypassed signal. In implementations, the system uses the ASIC to burst format an input information signal with a payload burst segment; bypasses a transmit modulator of the ASIC after burst formatting the input information signal with the ASIC; and uses an FPGA to insert additional burst segments into the ASIC burst-formatted signal.
US09762312B2	Signal testing apparatus and methods for verifying signals in satellite systems A signal testing apparatus is provided. The signal testing apparatus generally comprises a recording device that is configured to receive a plurality of signals representative of a plurality of electromagnetic waves that correspond to a pre-defined period of time. The recording device is further configured to record a plurality of digital representations of the signals such that each digital representation corresponds to a separate signal. A processing device is coupled to the recording device, wherein the processing device is configured to introduce at least one operational parameter to each of the digital representations. A play-back assembly is coupled to the recording device and to the processing device, wherein the play-back device is configured to play each of the digital representations simultaneously in real-time to facilitate verification of each of the signals.
US09762309B2	Flexible multi-channel amplifiers via wavefront muxing techniques This invention aims to present a smart and dynamic power amplifier module that features both power combining and power sharing capabilities. The proposed flexible power amplifier (PA) module consists of a pre-processor, N PAs, and a post-processor. The pre-processor is an M-to-N wavefront (WF) multiplexer (muxer), while the post processor is a N-to-M WF de-multiplexer (demuxer), where N≧M≧2. Multiple independent signals can be concurrently amplified by a proposed multi-channel PA module with a fixed total power output, while individual signal channel outputs feature different power intensities with no signal couplings among the individual signals. In addition to basic configurations, some modules can be configured to feature both functions of parallel power amplifiers and also as M-to-M switches. Other programmable features include configurations of power combining and power redistribution functions with a prescribed amplitude and phase distributions, as well as high power PA with a linearizer.
US09762308B2	Paired-beam transponder satellite communication Systems and methods are described for paired-beam satellite communications in a flexible satellite architecture. Embodiments include one or more “bent pipe” satellites having multiple transponders for servicing a number of spot beams. Implementations include novel types of paired-beam transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in different spot beams. Some implementations also include loopback transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in the same spot beam. The transponders can use similar components, can provide for flexible forward-link and return-link spectrum allocation, and/or can provide other features. Certain embodiments further include support for utility gateway terminal service and/or redundancy (e.g., active spares) for one or more active components.
US09762307B2	Communication system and communication control method using interference channel matrix A communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of communication terminals. The communication terminal calculates a desired channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the desired base station in communication therewith, also calculates an interference channel matrix based on the reference signal received from the strong interference base station having the strongest power of an interference wave affecting the communication terminal, and notifies the desired base station of the desired channel matrix and the interference channel matrix in an uplink message.
US09762301B2	Base station and terminal for distributed array massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication antenna system Disclosed are a terminal and a base station for a distributed array massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication antenna system and an operation method thereof, wherein the terminal includes a distribution analog unit receiving a plurality of analog array receive signals based on a terminal antenna transmit signal from a virtual terminal through a plurality of distributed antenna arrays and a digital unit restoring the terminal antenna transmit signal based on the analog array receive signals and a channel parameter, and the base station includes an antenna receiving an analog receive signal based on a transmit beamforming input signal from a plurality of distributed antenna arrays, a virtual terminal restoring the transmit beamforming input signal based on an amplitude of the analog receive signal, and a terminal receive signal mapper mapping the transmit beamforming input signal to a base station transmit signal.
US09762299B1	System and method for self-interference suppression structure A tapped delay line channel model may be employed to suppress the self-interference that is introduced, at a receiver input, by a signal at a transmitter output. The self-interference may be considered to have components introduced by the internal antenna subsystem of a full duplex MIMO transceiver.
US09762297B2	Beam modulation and demodulation method and apparatus based on beam-space multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna system Provided is a beam modulation and demodulation method and apparatus based on a beam-space multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna system, the beam modulation method including generating a preparatory beam list including a plurality of beams, generating a beam combination table of beam combinations of beams selected from the preparatory beam list, generating a beam modulation rule to map the beam combinations and bit data patterns, and determining a beam combination corresponding to input data from the beam combination table based on the beam modulation rule.
US09762296B2	Wireless communication system [Object]A wireless communication system capable of detecting propagation path modification from the outside and compensating for degradation of quality of communication between transmission and reception with respect to the propagation path modification is provided. A wireless communication system includes a transmitter that transmits electromagnetic waves in which a polarization direction rotates according to a signal in which data is loaded on a carrier, and a receiver that receives the electromagnetic waves and demodulates the data, in which the transmitter imparts angle information indicating a polarization direction for transferring the data to the signal, and sets a rotation frequency of the polarization direction to a frequency lower than a frequency of the carrier, and the receiver changes a polarization direction of the received electromagnetic waves, based on the angle information transferred by the electromagnetic waves. The receiver can detect propagation path modification from the outside using the angle information of the polarization direction, and compensate for degradation in quality of communication between transmission and reception by changing the polarization direction of the received electromagnetic waves when the modification is detected.
US09762295B2	System and method for commissioning devices According to an aspect of the invention a system for commissioning devices is provided, which system comprises: a first device and a second device; an RFID tag comprised in the first device; a host processor comprised in the first device; wherein the second device is arranged to generate an electromagnetic field; wherein the RFID tag is arranged to detect the electromagnetic field and to wake up the host processor upon detecting said electromagnetic field in order for the second device to communicate with the host processor. Furthermore, a corresponding method for commissioning devices is provided. Since the RFID tag comprised in the first device is arranged to wake up the host processor, an end-user does not have to switch on the first device manually. Therefore, the user interaction is simplified. Furthermore, there is no need for a separate power button on the first device. The latter reduces cost and simplifies the design of the first device.
US09762293B2	Wireless power repeater and wireless power transmitter Disclosed is a wireless power transmitter which transmits power to a wireless power receiver using resonance. The wireless power transmitter includes a repeating resonant unit and a power source transmitting AC power having a mutual-change resonant frequency, which results from a mutual inductance component between the wireless power receiver and the repeating resonant unit, to the repeating resonant unit.
US09762291B2	Methods and apparatus for consumer testing of an NFC device Near-field communication (NFC) test apparatus and methods for use by a consumer to confirm the functionality of the NFC circuitry the consumer's NFC-enabled mobile device, and/or to troubleshoot NFC communications problems of the mobile device. In an embodiment, a NFC test apparatus includes a mobile device package, at least one NFC tag configured for communications with NFC circuitry of a mobile device, and a support substrate that has an indicator to ensure correct positioning of the mobile device during a self-testing procedure. In some embodiments, the NFC tag is located on the mobile device package so that an orientation of the mobile device is known during a portion of the mobile device self-testing procedure, and the support substrate is configure for supporting the mobile device during the self-testing procedure.
US09762287B2	Crosstalk reduction in multiplexers Multiplexers are described in which differential signals on the signal paths associated with unselected differential inputs are converted to common mode signals to reduce crosstalk between unselected signal paths and the multiplexer's active signal path.
US09762283B2	Method and apparatus for antenna calibration Method and apparatus for antenna calibration have been disclosed. A radio unit (510) is provided. The radio unit (510) may comprise: a plurality of transmit/receive (TX/RX) paths; a plurality of radio frequency (RF) ports (512) connected with the plurality of TX/RX paths; and a coupling unit (516), coupled with the plurality of TX/RX paths and configured to inject an uplink (UL) calibration signal (550) into at least one of the plurality of TX/RX paths and extract a downlink (DL) calibration signal (540) from at least one of the plurality of TX/RX paths. A normal TX/RX path may be reused both for antenna calibration and antenna supervision. Thus, a low cost hardware solution for antenna calibration is provided. An AIR base station (500) comprising such radio unit (510) is also provided.
US09762276B2	Wireless transmission system A wireless data transmitter including: a data modulator adapted to modulate a data signal based on a frequency signal; and at least one antenna adapted to wirelessly transmit the modulated data signal and the frequency signal independently.
US09762275B2	Super-regenerative receiving method and super-regenerative receiver (SRR) circuit with high frequency selectivity A super-regenerative receiver (SRR) circuit includes an amplifier configured to amplify an input injection signal and output the amplified injection signal to an oscillator; and a feed-forwarding unit configured to feed-forward, to the oscillator, a filtered signal obtained by filtering the injection signal after converting a frequency of the injection signal to another frequency; wherein the oscillator is configured to receive an input of a signal in which the filtered signal is applied to the injection signal.
US09762267B2	Detection path design for communication systems Methods and apparatus are provided for detection path design for reflection coefficient estimation. In one novel aspect, a hardware-based phase estimator estimates a phase shift between the forward path signal and the reverse path signal. In one embodiment, a data selector is used to pass only signals above a magnitude threshold. In another embodiment, a modified phase unwrap algorithm stores an unwrapping correction for subsequent samples and updates the stored unwrapping correction upon processing of each sample processed. In another novel aspect, mixed hardware and software solutions are used. In one embodiment, the reference signal and the detection signals are matched such that the modulation signal interference is removed. In some embodiments, one or two power detectors and a cross-correlator are used. In yet another embodiment, two detection measurement paths are used to obtain the reflection coefficient. In one embodiment, fractional timing offset is estimated to obtain the reflection coefficient.
US09762265B2	Methods and systems for enhanced detection of electronic tracking messages Methods and systems for enhancing the detectability of electronic tracking messages are provided. Transmitters apply error protection encoding to the payload portion of messages to be transmitted. Transmitted messages are received by a satellite or other surveillance platform employing a compatible radio frequency receiver to collect message signals over a large area or great distance. Candidate messages are identified and the error protection encoding decoded to recover messages.
US09762259B1	Sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter with auto tunable loop filter A notch filter in a sigma-delta modulator loop filter increases SNR by limiting in-band quantization noise around a frequency to which the notch filter is precisely tuned. A tuning mode controller isolates the notch filter from other loop filter stages. A bias voltage is applied to the notch filter, causing it to resonate. Tuning mode switches insert the notch filter into a frequency-locked loop (“FLL”) circuit as a variable frequency oscillator component of the FLL. An ADC operational mode input signal is applied to the FLL as a reference signal. A tuning control component of the FLL adjusts a tunable feedback element in the notch filter to drive the FLL error signal to zero in order to precisely tune the notch filter to the center frequency of the ADC input signal. Tuning inputs to the tunable feedback element are then latched prior to re-inserting the notch filter into the modulator.
US09762252B2	Digitally controlled oscillator Methods and systems for a digitally controlled oscillator may comprise, for example, an all-digital all digital phase locked loop (ADPLL) for generating an output clock signal from a reference clock signal, the ADPLL comprising a thermometer pulse coder comprising a plurality of frequency control word signal lines. the thermometer pulse coder may be configured to generate a frequency control word from a binary encoded frequency control word, where the frequency control word may comprise hermometer coded signals and a pulse modulated dither signal, and may select a frequency control word signal line over which to transmit the pulse modulated dither signal and may transmit the thermometer coded signals over another of frequency control word signal lines. A digitally controlled oscillator may be configured to receive a frequency control word and generate an output clock signal at a frequency determined using at least the frequency control word.
US09762248B1	Pre-synchronizer The arrival time of an asynchronous signal from an asynchronous domain at a synchronizer circuit of a synchronous domain is modified by injecting synchronous domain timing into an additional last stage of the asynchronous logic function generating the asynchronous signal. That reduces the probability of metastability by increasing the probability that the asynchronous signal will arrive at the synchronizer at a time that can guarantee the setup time for the flip-flop(s) of the synchronizer.
US09762246B2	Semiconductor device with a storage circuit having an oxide semiconductor An object is to provide a semiconductor device that can maintain the connection relation between logic circuit units or the circuit configuration of each of the logic circuit units even after supply of power supply voltage is stopped. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device in which the connection relation between logic circuit units or the circuit configuration of each of the logic circuit units can be changed at high speed. In a reconfigurable circuit, an oxide semiconductor is used for a semiconductor element that stores data on the circuit configuration, connection relation, or the like. Specifically, the oxide semiconductor is used for a channel formation region of the semiconductor element.
US09762245B1	Semiconductor structure with back-gate switching The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to circuits with logical back-gate switching and methods of operation. The circuit includes at least one front-gate contact and digital back-gate potentials for logical function implementation on a back side of at least one device. The digital back-gate potentials are switchable between two logic levels.
US09762241B1	Physically unclonable function circuit including memory elements Some embodiments include apparatus and methods using a first ring oscillator, a second ring oscillator, and circuit coupled to the first and second ring oscillators. The first ring oscillator includes a first memory cell and a first plurality of stages coupled to the first memory cell. The second ring oscillator includes a second memory cell and a second plurality of stages coupled to the second memory cell. The circuit includes a first input node coupled to an output node of the first ring oscillator and a second input node coupled to an output node of the second ring oscillator. In one of such embodiments, the circuit can operate to generate identification information to authenticate the apparatus.
US09762239B2	Logic circuit, semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device A drive capability of a dynamic logic circuit is improved. A logic circuit includes a dynamic logic circuit, a first output node, a first transistor that is diode-connected, and a capacitor. The dynamic logic circuit includes a second output node. The first transistor and transistors in the dynamic logic circuit have an n-type conductivity or a p-type conductivity. The first output node is electrically connected to a first terminal of the capacitor, and the second output node is electrically connected to a second terminal of the capacitor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first output node, and a first voltage is input to a second terminal of the first transistor.
US09762237B1	Constant impedance transmitter with variable output voltage limits A transmitter is provided with a plurality of pull-up legs and a plurality of pull-down legs. A controller controls the pull-up legs and the pull-down legs so that a constant output impedance is provided while supporting a range of logic-high output voltages.
US09762230B2	Method and circuitry for controlling a depletion-mode transistor In described examples, a first transistor has: a drain coupled to a source of a depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to a first voltage node; and a gate coupled to a control node. A second transistor has: a drain coupled to a gate of the depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to the first voltage node; and a gate coupled through at least one first logic device to an input node. A third transistor has: a drain coupled to the gate of the depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to a second voltage node; and a gate coupled through at least one second logic device to the input node.
US09762225B2	Power supply apparatus and control method thereof A power switch circuit includes an oscillation circuit that generates a clock signal based on a supplied first voltage. A boosting circuit receiving the clock signal and boosting the first voltage based on the clock signal to output a boosted first voltage as a second voltage is provided. A detection circuit that detects a difference in voltage levels between an input voltage and the first voltage and outputs a voltage selection signal based on the detected difference is provided. A voltage selection circuit that selects one of the first voltage and the second voltage based on the voltage selection signal and outputs the selected voltage is provided. A switching element switching according to a control voltage based on an enable signal and the selected voltage is also provided.
US09762223B2	Circuit and method for generation of a clock signal with duty-cycle adjustment A clock-signal generator circuit, for generating an output clock signal starting from an input clock signal, includes: a monostable stage having a clock input configured to receive the input clock signal, a control input configured to receive a control signal, and an output configured to supply the output clock signal having a duty cycle variable as a function of the control signal; and a feedback loop, operatively coupled to the monostable stage for generating the control signal as a function of a detected value, and of a desired value, of the duty cycle of the output clock signal.
US09762222B2	Wireless transmission apparatus, phase compensating apparatus and phase compensating method thereof The invention provides a wireless transmission apparatus, a phase compensating apparatus, and a phase compensating method thereof. The phase compensating apparatus includes main transmission wire, a plurality of capacitors, and at least one phase compensating unit. The main transmission wire is coupled between the output end of the power amplifier and the input end of the impedance matching apparatus. A first end of each of the capacitors is coupled to the main transmission wire. The phase compensating unit has two ends for being coupled to second ends of two of the capacitors.
US09762219B1	Circuitry and methods for operating a switched driver A switched driver for a power supply includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch coupled to the high-side switch. An output is coupled between the high-side switch and the low-side switch. A switch controller is coupled to either the high-side switch or the low-side switch and has a switch controller input for receiving a switch control signal and an output for controlling a switch. The switch controller initially reduces the resistance of the switch, increases the resistance of the switch, and then reduces the resistance of the switch in response to a signal received at the input.
US09762218B2	Amplifying circuit, AD converter, integrated circuit, and wireless communication apparatus An amplifying circuit according to an embodiment includes an input terminal, an output terminal, first and second operational amplifiers, first and second input impedance elements, first to third feedback impedance elements, and an adder. The first (second) operational amplifier includes an inversion input terminal connected to a first (third) node and an output terminal connected to a second (fourth) node. The first (second) input impedance element has one end connected to the input terminal and the other end connected to the first (third) node. The first (second) feedback impedance element has one end connected to the first (third) node and the other end connected to the second (fourth) node. The third feedback impedance element has one end connected to the first node and the other end connected to the fourth node. The adder adds output voltages of the first and second operational amplifiers.
US09762216B1	Level shifter circuit using boosting circuit A level shifter circuit is provided that uses a boosting circuit. The boosting circuit is configured to improve the operation of the level shifter circuit when the high voltages of voltage domains across the level shifter circuit are widely separated. A circuit apparatus includes a core level shifter circuit that changes a first voltage of an input signal to a second voltage of an output signal. The circuit apparatus further includes a first boosting circuit that is coupled to the core level shifter circuit and generates a first transient voltage applied to the core level shifter circuit when the input signal transitions from a low value to a high value. The circuit apparatus also includes a second boosting circuit that is coupled to the core level shifter circuit and generates a second transient voltage applied to the core level shifter circuit when the input signal transitions from a high value to a low value.
US09762215B1	Apparatuses and methods for voltage buffering An apparatuses and methods for buffering a voltage from a circuit without current drive ability are described. An example apparatus includes a voltage buffer that includes two identical stages. The first stage is configured to receive an input voltage and produce an intermediate voltage as an output. The second stage is configured to receive the intermediate voltage and provide an output voltage that is equal to the input voltage. The voltage buffer may be coupled to a current source. The second stage of the voltage buffer may have current drive ability.
US09762212B1	Initializing scannable and non-scannable latches from a common clock buffer Aspects include a computer-implemented method for initializing scannable and non-scannable latches from a clock buffer. The method includes receiving a clock signal; receiving control signals including a hold signal, a scan enable signal, and a non-scannable latch force signal; responsive to receiving a low input from the hold signal and the scan enable signal, outputting a high signal from a functional clock port on a next cycle; responsive to receiving a high input from the scan enable signal and a low input from the hold signal, outputting a high slave latch scan clock signal on the next cycle; responsive to receiving a high input from the hold signal and the scan enable signal, outputting a high master latch clock signal on the next clock cycle; and responsive to receiving a high input from the non-scannable latch force signal, outputting a low master latch clock signal on a current cycle.
US09762210B1	Complex exponential modulated filter bank for high frequency reconstruction or parametric stereo An apparatus and method are disclosed for filtering an audio signal. The apparatus includes an analysis filter bank, a phase shifter, a high frequency reconstructor or parametric stereo processor, and a synthesis filter bank. The analysis filterbank receives real-valued time domain input audio samples and generates complex valued subband samples. The phase shifter shifts a phase of the complex-valued subband samples by an amount. The high frequency reconstructor or parametric stereo processor modifies at least some of the complex valued subband samples. A phase shifter then unshifts a phase of the modified complex-valued subband samples by the amount. The synthesis filter bank receives the modified complex valued subband samples and generates time domain output audio samples.
US09762207B2	Surface acoustic wave resonator, surface acoustic wave oscillator, and electronic instrument A SAW resonator which, using a quartz crystal substrate with Euler angles (−1.5°≦φ≦1.5°, 117°≦θ≦142°, and 41.9°≦\|ψ\|≦49.57°, includes an IDT that excites a stop band upper end mode SAW, and an inter-electrode finger groove provided between electrode fingers configuring the IDT. When a wavelength of the SAW is λ, a first depth of the inter-electrode finger groove is G, a line occupation rate of the IDT is η, and an electrode film thickness of the IDT is H, λ, G, η and H satisfy the relationship of 0
US09762204B2	Piezoelectric resonator A piezoelectric resonator for use in a sensor arrangement for detecting or measuring an analyte in a medium, comprises a quartz crystal plate, having a first crystal surface and a second crystal surface. The first crystal surface is provided with a first electrode, which has a surface area of less than 15 mm2 and the second crystal surface is provided with a second electrode. The first electrode may have a rectangular surface shape. A flow cell for use in an apparatus for detecting or measuring an analyte in a medium, comprises walls that form a sensing chamber together with the resonator, and inlet and outlet openings for leading a fluid through the sensing chamber. A part of the resonator constitutes one of the walls of the sensing chamber and is arranged such that the first electrode is situated inside the sensing chamber.
US09762201B2	Common mode filter and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed are a common mode filter and a manufacturing method thereof. The common mode filter in accordance with an aspect of the present invention includes: a substrate; a filter layer including a coil and a dielectric layer and disposed on the substrate and configured to remove a signal noise; and a magnetic layer being laminated on the filter layer, and a surface of the filter layer being joined with the magnetic layer can be formed to be flat by having the coil embedded in a surface of the filter layer being joined with the magnetic layer in such a way that one surface of the coil is exposed.
US09762189B2	Dynamic biasing of power amplifiers Systems and methods are provided for dynamically biasing power amplifiers. In particular, dynamic biasing of a power amplifier may be controlled, with the controlling comprising receiving an input signal that is to be amplified; processing the input signal; generating based on said processing of the input signal input signal, a plurality of control signals comprising at least one biasing control signal; and applying the plurality of control signals to one or more control elements that are used in driving and/or control of the power amplifier. The one or more control elements may comprise at least one biasing component that adjusts biasing applied to power amplifier.
US09762182B2	Magnetoresistive effect oscillator A magnetoresistive effect oscillator executes a first step of applying a current, which has a first current density larger than a critical current density JO for oscillation, to a magnetoresistive effect element for a time TP, and then executes a second step of applying a current, which has a second current density JS smaller than the first current density and not smaller than the critical current density JO for oscillation, to the magnetoresistive effect element. The following formulae (1), (2) and (3), or the following formulae (1) and (4) are satisfied on an assumption that an average value of the first current density during the time TP in the first step is JP, a critical current density for magnetization reversal of the magnetoresistive effect element is JR, and a magnetization reversal time of the magnetoresistive effect element is TR: 0.1 × T R ⁡ ( J R - J O ) J p - J S < T p < 0.9 × T R ⁢ J R - J O J S - J O ( 1 ) T P < T R ⁡ ( J R - J O ) J P - J O ( 2 ) J R ≤ J P ( 3 ) J P < J R . ( 4 )
US09762180B2	Voltage controlled oscillator An oscillator includes a front side voltage divider, a rear side voltage divider, and an oscillation unit. The front side voltage divider includes a first resistor connected between a first and second potential sources, and a first output terminal configured to changeably connect to a connection position in the first resistor so as to vary an obtained output voltage. The rear side voltage divider includes a second resistor connected between the first output terminal and a third potential source; and a second output terminal configured to changeably connect to a connection position in the second resistor so as to vary an obtained output voltage. The oscillation unit includes a variable capacitance element with a capacitance varied according to the output voltage from the second output terminal. The oscillation unit varies an output frequency based on a variation in a resonance point associated with a variation in the capacitance.
US09762178B2	Solar battery control apparatus There is provided a solar battery control apparatus comprising: a solar battery in a vehicle; a vehicle speed detecting unit; a load circuit capable of be controlled to vary a generated current; and a control unit configured to perform MPPT control while controlling the load circuit to vary the generated current, wherein the control unit varies the generated current within a range having a certain upper limit value upon the speed of the vehicle being detected to be greater than a predetermined speed. The predetermined speed is set to be less than a speed at which the generated current becomes unable to be varied to correspond to a change in an i-V output characteristic of the solar battery, and the certain upper limit value is set to be less than a value of short-circuiting current having been reduced according to the change.
US09762177B1	Roof sealing system A seal includes an elongated body having a first end and a second end, an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a hole extending from the first end to the second end. The hole defines the interior surface of the body. The seal further includes a first flange disposed adjacent the hole on the first end of the body and a second flange disposed adjacent the hole on the second end of the body.
US09762176B2	Hybrid photovoltaic and piezoelectric fiber The invention provides hybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric energy harvesting devices in the form of flexible filaments. The devices harvest energy from ambient light, and also from environmental motions and vibrations. They are particularly suitable for incorporation into fabrics and clothing.
US09762167B2	Computer-readable storage medium, generating method, generating apparatus, driving apparatus, processing apparatus, lithography apparatus, and method of manufacturing article The present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for causing a computer to generate time-series data of an electric current to be supplied to a motor in order to cause, a control system, including the motor configured to drive an object, to transit from a first state to a second state, the program causing the computer to generate the time-series data so as to satisfy a constraint including a condition to constrain an upper limit value of dispersion of a plurality of state quantities respectively obtained from a plurality of models each of which estimates, from the time-series data, a state quantity of a specific mode of a vibration mode and motion mode of the object, and so that a value of an evaluation function for evaluating the time-series data falls within a tolerance.
US09762166B2	Method for field-oriented control of a frequency converter for a three-phase motor A method for field-oriented control of a frequency converter for a three-phase motor includes the setting of a new position of the rotary field in the electric motor being performed by voltage pulses for the stator coils. An amplitude and the angle of the rotary field vector are specified by the duration of the voltage pulses for the respective coils and by their temporal offset. The duration and the offset of voltage pulses for the stator coils are the result of the calculation of manipulated variables in a digitally controlled process in a coordinate system fixed in respect of the rotor, depending on the prevailing angular rotation (theta) and the prevailing speed of rotation (omega) as well as on the prevailing current values, a predetermined torque and a predetermined speed of rotation.
US09762164B2	Methods and apparatus for generating current commands for an interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor In one aspect, an apparatus includes a motor and inverter configured to provide input power to the motor. The apparatus may also include a data store comprising at least one entry including a first torque command, a first motor speed, and a first DC voltage value, where the first torque command and the first motor speed and the first DC voltage value are associated with a first current output and a processor. The processor receives a torque input, a DC voltage input, and a motor speed input and identifies the current output associated with the torque input, the DC voltage input, and the motor speed input based on another motor speed different than the motor speed input and another DC voltage different than the DC voltage input and the motor speed input, and output the determined current output to cause the inverter to provide the input power to the motor.
US09762160B2	Method of controlling multiple parallel-connected generators A generator system configured to be connected in parallel with other generators is disclosed. The generator system includes an alternator having a stator with an output winding and a quadrature winding and a rotor with a three-phase winding. The rotor of the alternator is rotatably driven by an engine having a controller to regulate the engine speed. An inverter receives power from the quadrature winding and generates an AC voltage for the rotor winding. The inverter receives an input corresponding to the voltage on the output winding of the stator and also receives an input corresponding to the phase angle of a second AC voltage produced by another power source. The inverter controls the frequency of the AC voltage for the rotor winding such that the phase angle of the voltage on the output winding of the stator is synchronized to the phase angle of the second AC voltage.
US09762158B2	Pulse motor driving circuit and method of driving a pulse motor A pulse motor driving circuit includes a first switch having a terminal connected with a positive terminal of a power source; a second switch having a terminal connected with a negative terminal of the power source; and a capacitor having another terminal connected with positive terminal of the power source and having another terminal of the first switch and another terminal of the second switch. The second switch is a transistor, and is capable of limiting a current flowing from the power source to the capacitor. The first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off in a current application start period while the current starts to be applied to a pulse motor phase excitation part for exciting the pulse motor. The first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on in a period other than the current application start period.
US09762157B2	Electronic switch controller, electronic switch control method, electronic switch and electronic device An electronic switch controller, an electronic switch control method, an electronic switch and an electronic device are disclosed. The processor comprises voltage-stabilized power supplies, a processor and a driving circuit; the processor is connected between the voltage-stabilized power supplies and a measurement device to receive working parameters of the power supply, a load and the electronic switch measured by the measurement device, read duty cycle parameters matching with the working parameters, calculate a new duty cycle with the duty cycle parameters and the working parameters, adjust the current control signal to a PWM signal having the new duty cycle, and send the PWM signal to the driving circuit; and the driving circuit is connected between the voltage-stabilized power supplies and the load to control the rotation speed of the motor in the load. By reducing the volume of an electronic switch and achieving a long low-speed travel, the disclosure enables the user to work at an accurate working point with an electronic device.
US09762156B2	Control apparatus for rotating electric machine A rotating electric machine is applied to a multilayer winding-type rotating electric machine including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an armature winding. The rotor includes at least one of a field winding and a permanent magnet for generating a magnetic field that have characteristics of magnetic flux of a non-sinusoidal waveform in relation to a rotation angle of the rotor. The armature winding has winding groups. Each of the winding groups has coils that are connected to an actual neutral point provided for each winding group, and has a first winding group and a second winding group that have a phase difference. A control apparatus detects a rotation angle based on a voltage at the actual neutral point of the first winding group and a voltage at the actual neutral point of the second winding group, and controls the rotating electric machine based on the rotation angle.
US09762154B2	Control system for electric rotating machine A control system for controlling an electric rotating machine includes an inverter for driving the electric rotating machine, a converter that converts an input voltage thereof to an output voltage equal to a step-up command value, and supplies the output voltage to the inverter, a pulse generation section that generates PWM pulses from a carrier for controlling the inverter in accordance with result of comparison between the carrier and a voltage command to the electric rotating machine, and a command generation section that generates the step-up command value. The command generation section includes a command control section that controls the step-up command value such that a modulation factor defined as an amplitude of the voltage command divided by the output voltage of the converter is changed within a predetermined modulation factor range.
US09762149B2	Drive controller, imaging apparatus and drive control method There is provided a drive controller including a determination part that compares a target stop position of a movable body, which is driven by a piezoelectric actuator driven by a piezoelectric element expanded and contracted in response to an applied voltage, with a real position of the movable body acquired on the basis of a position sensor, and determines whether or not the target stop position matches with the real position, and a drive control part that turns off energization of the piezoelectric actuator when the target stop position matches with the real position while the movable body is being driven by the piezoelectric actuator.
US09762143B2	Devices and methods for controlling current in inverters An inverter controller is configured to control inverters connected in parallel. The inverter controller is configured to closes switch of a first inverter and turn on a first switching element provided at the first inverter to charge capacitors of the inverters at the time of starting the inverters, and to close the other switches after the capacitors are charged.
US09762142B2	Electric power converter with a voltage controller and a current controller An electric power converter for converting AC to DC power or DC to AC power is disclosed. The converter includes a circuit for controlling the voltage and the circuit for controlling the current separately. The voltage is controlled by the switching modules and the up-side controller using the calculated target voltage. The current is controlled by the current controller using the calculated target current.
US09762141B2	Drive circuit for electrical load A circuit for an electrical load comprises a passive transformer, the secondary of which is connected to power cells for each phase according to the transformer tappings. Each power cell comprises a low cost but efficient power factor correction circuit to produce lower harmonics on the transformer.
US09762138B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device converts three-phase AC power into DC power by two-arm PWM modulation control and includes a main circuit that is constituted by a plurality of switching elements that are bridge-connected therein; a voltage-command generation unit that generates a voltage command value for the main circuit; a current detection unit that detects at least one of output currents of the main circuit; a power-factor calculation unit that calculates a power factor on the basis of the output current and the voltage command value; a carrier-signal generation unit that generates a carrier signal of a frequency corresponding to the power factor; and a PWM-signal generation unit 6 that compares the voltage command value and the carrier signal to generate a PWM signal that executes switching control on the switching elements.
US09762137B2	Power converter package with integrated output inductor In one implementation, a semiconductor package includes a first patterned conductive carrier including partially etched segments. The semiconductor package also includes a control FET having a control drain attached to a first partially etched segment of the first patterned conductive carrier. In addition, the semiconductor package includes a sync FET having a sync source and a sync gate attached to respective second and third partially etched segments of the first patterned conductive carrier. The semiconductor package further includes a second patterned conductive carrier having a switch node segment situated over a control source of the control FET and over a sync drain of the sync FET, as well as an inductor coupled between the switch node segment and an output segment of the second patterned conductive carrier.
US09762134B2	Multi-cell power conversion method and multi-cell power converter A method includes converting power by a power converter comprising a plurality of converter cells, and selectively operating at least one converter cell of the plurality of converter cells in one of an active and an inactive mode based on a level of a power reference signal.
US09762129B2	Techniques for controlling a power converter using multiple controllers A power converter controller includes a primary controller coupled to operate in a first mode to control a power switch with a primary switching pattern. A secondary controller is galvanically isolated from the primary controller. The secondary controller is coupled to initiate a transition operation with the primary controller to take control of the power switch with one or more control signals through a communication link. The primary controller is coupled to acknowledge receipt of the one or more control signals to the secondary controller and transition from the first mode to a second mode.
US09762127B2	Power converter and power conditioner A power converter 1 includes a first conversion circuit 10 connected with a first winding n1 of a transformer 40, and a second conversion circuit 20 connected with a second winding n2 of the transformer 40. The first and second conversion circuits 10 and 20 are configured to perform bidirectional power conversion. The power converter further includes a third conversion circuit 30 that is a circuit provided at a pre-stage of the first conversion circuit 10 in a direction of transferring electric power toward the second conversion circuit 20 from the first conversion circuit 10. The third conversion circuit 30 is configured to perform bidirectional power conversion, and function as a boosting chopper circuit upon transferring electric power toward the second conversion circuit 20 from the first conversion circuit 10.
US09762126B2	Electric power converter An electric power conversion unit of an electric power converter establishes two converter circuits including four switching elements and two batteries and carries out electric power conversion in a parallel mode in which the batteries are connected in parallel with each other. A controller is configured to set a control signal for each of the switching elements, identify a target switching element of which a temperature is suppressed, determine a state having a maximum loss value in correspondence with input-output data, and execute phase control for suppressing the maximum loss value.
US09762117B2	Control device for power conversion apparatus and power conversion apparatus A sense voltage obtained by feeding a sense current of an IGBT into a sense resistor is input to a comparator, and as the reference voltage of the comparator, a sense voltage immediately before the IGBT is turned off is held by a sample and hold circuit for each switching, and is then divided by a voltage dividing circuit and the divided voltage is input to the comparator. The comparator compares the sense voltage with the voltage based on the sense voltage immediately before the IGBT is turned off, and therefore the comparator may accurately detect the falling edge time of the sense voltage and is used for the control for dissolving the imbalance in current with respect to the other IGBTs connected in parallel.
US09762116B2	Voltage conversion apparatus A voltage conversion apparatus includes a booster circuit, a boost stop circuit, a Zener diode, and a capacitor. The boost stop circuit includes a transistor. When an overvoltage equal to or larger than a breakdown voltage of the Zener diode is output to an output line of the booster circuit, the Zener diode is turned on. Accordingly, the transistor is turned on and a switching element is turned off to stop a boost operation. Further, the capacitor is charged through the Zener diode. Even when the Zener diode is turned off due to a drop in the output voltage after the stop of the boost operation, the transistor maintains its on state for a certain time by discharge of the capacitor. Thus, the stop of the boost operation is continued.
US09762113B2	Control circuit, control method and flyback converter In one embodiment, a control circuit can include: a voltage feedback circuit configured to obtain a voltage feedback signal that represents an output voltage of the power stage circuit; a set signal generator configured to output a set signal when a secondary current crosses zero or a voltage sampling signal reaches a valley value; a reset signal generator configured to output a reset signal in a constant on time mode when the voltage feedback signal is greater than a first voltage threshold value, and to output the reset signal in a peak current mode when the voltage feedback signal is less than the first voltage threshold value; and a logic circuit configured to activate a switching control signal according to the set signal, and to deactivate the switching control signal according to the reset signal.
US09762111B2	Linear vibration generation device Disclosed is a linear vibration generating device including: a stator including a bracket on which a coil is seated, and a case made of a magnetic material which is engaged to the bracket to form an inner space; a vibrator including a permanent magnet for generating a vibration force in cooperation with the coil, and a weight enclosing a circumference of the permanent magnet; a resilient member which is positioned between the vibrator and the stator to resiliently support vertical oscillation of the vibrator; and a plate which is positioned between the resilient member and the vibrator
US09762109B2	Permanent magnet brushless motor A permanent magnet brushless motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a yoke and s teeth extending from the yoke, forming a stator core, where s is an integer greater than four. Coils of a stator winding are wound about the teeth. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft and a permanent magnet mounted to the rotor core. The permanent magnet forms p magnetic poles, where p is an even number greater than 2 but less than s. Each section of the permanent magnet corresponding to a respective magnetic pole is divided into n equal parts by n−1 magnet grooves, where n is an integer greater than 1 and p*n is an integral multiple of s. The magnet grooves significantly increase the detent torque of the motor.
US09762108B2	Method for winding edgewise coil and winding device Provided is a method for winding an edgewise coil and a winding device capable of saving time and labor when changing a guide. A guide bar is disposed in contact with the side face of the rectangular conductor bent by the bending jig and the rotation center of the guide bar deviates from the rotation center of a bending jig for bending a rectangular conductor. The guide bar rotates in accordance with the action whereby the bending jig bends the rectangular conductor and supports the outside surface of a coil on the side of rotational direction of the bending jig.
US09762102B2	Rotary electric machine and method of manufacturing rotary electric machine In a rotary electric machine, wound wires are connected to a first terminal and a second terminal. Circuit terminals that are configured from a conductive metal other than aluminum, and the first terminal and the second terminal that are configured from a metal with a principal component of aluminum are joined together inside a circuit chamber that has high water resistant properties. Corrosion is accordingly suppressed at join sites of the circuit terminals with the first terminal and the second terminal. There is therefore no need to coat the join sites with for example a sealing material in order to suppress corrosion at the join sites. Good electrical continuity is accordingly enabled between the circuit terminals and the wound wires while suppressing an increase in costs, even when the wound wire is configured from a metal with a principal component of aluminum.
US09762101B2	Linear bearing for an electromagnetic solenoid and solenoid having said linear bearing A rolling-element bearing for an electromagnetic solenoid includes a hollow cylindrical cage with a plurality of spherical pockets formed around a first circumference and a second circumference of the cage. The pockets around the first circumference are offset from the pockets around the second circumference. Spherical rolling elements are provided in the spherical pockets and are captured for free rotation in the first pockets and second pockets.
US09762099B2	Segmented stator for an axial field device An axial rotary energy device including a segmented stator assembly having a plurality of segments arranged in an annular array. Each stator segment is constructed by stacking a plurality of PCB power conductor layers and a plurality of PCB series layers. Each layer having radial conductors extending from an inner via to an outer via. The vias electrically connect selected radial conductors of the series conductor layer and power conductor layer. Each power conductor layer includes a pair of positive and negative terminal vias for one phase of the electric current connected to selected outer vias. A daughter PCB layer electrically connects two adjacent segments together by having a first portion electrically connected to a negative terminal via located in one segment and a second portion electrically connected to a positive terminal via located in an adjacent segment together with a current conductor electrically connecting the two terminal vias together.
US09762097B2	Rotor and motor A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, and an annular magnet. The first magnet is arranged between first extensions of the first rotor core. The annular magnet, which is arranged between second extensions of the second rotor core, is held between the first core base and the second core base. The first magnet and the second magnet are formed integrally.
US09762096B2	Interior permanent magnet motor An interior permanent magnet motor includes: a rotor; a stator; and a plurality of permanent magnets respectively inserted into a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in a rotor core, the rotor core being formed by laminating a plurality of magnetic steel sheets, the magnetic steel sheets including first magnetic steel sheets each not having a magnet stopper in the magnet insertion hole, and second magnetic steel sheets each having magnet stoppers at both end portions of the magnet insertion hole, the rotor core including a laminate of the magnetic steel sheets in a lamination mode in which, when Hn represents a distance between an upper end surface of the second magnetic steel sheet and an upper end surface of the n-th second magnetic steel sheet, a progression of differences of Hn is a geometric progression.
US09762083B2	Wireless charging transmitter and wireless charging system using the same A wireless power transmitter is electromagnetically coupleable to a receiving coil of a wireless power receiver to provide power wirelessly and includes a substantially planar transmitting core. A transmitting coil has a plurality of windings and is disposed on a surface of the transmitting core. The transmitting core may extend beyond the transmitting coil in a planar direction.
US09762072B2	Secondary battery protection circuit, secondary battery protection device, battery pack and method of writing data A secondary battery protection circuit for protecting a secondary battery including: a power supply terminal; a protection operation circuit configured to monitor a state of the secondary battery through the power supply terminal to generate a signal for turning on/off conduction of a current path between the secondary battery and a load according to a protection state determined by the monitored state of the secondary battery; a nonvolatile memory in which data is written by a writing voltage being provided at the power supply terminal, an operation of the secondary battery protection circuit being controlled by the data; a voltage generation circuit configured to generate a provision voltage which is provided to a low withstand voltage circuit; and a control circuit configured to enable the nonvolatile memory to store the data therein in accordance with the protection state upon an input voltage being greater than a determination threshold voltage.
US09762071B2	Battery management circuit and related techniques using MOSFET power switch with intelligent switch control A circuit includes a power supply configured to generate a supply voltage, an electrical load coupled to receive the supply voltage from the power supply, and a switching circuit. The switching circuit has a first terminal coupled to a first terminal of the electrical load, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first terminal and the second terminal of the switching circuit correspond to current conducting terminals of the switching circuit. The circuit also includes a current sensing circuit and at least one battery having a first terminal coupled to a corresponding terminal of the current sensing circuit. The circuit additionally includes a battery measurement circuit having a first terminal coupled to the control terminal of the switching circuit and at least a second terminal coupled to the first terminal and a second terminal opposing the first terminal of the at least one battery.
US09762067B2	Active rectifier for efficient wireless power transfer Methods, devices, and integrated circuits are disclosed for efficiently receiving a wireless power transfer. In one example, a device configured for receiving a wireless power transfer includes an active rectifier, rectifier input nodes, and a controller. The controller is operatively coupled to the active rectifier and configured to control the active rectifier to modify the impedance at the rectifier input nodes.
US09762065B2	Method and device for controlling electronic devices The present invention provides a method and a device for controlling electronic devices. The method includes the following steps. According to a triggering signal, a first control signal is generated for controlling a first electronic device to execute a first action. After that, based on whether the first electronic device executes the first action, a first feedback signal is generated. When the first feedback signal indicates that the first electronic device executes the first action, a second control signal is generated for controlling a second electronic device to execute a second action. Therefore, the method and the device of the present invention provide interaction and simultaneous control between the device and a plurality of electronic devices.
US09762064B2	Stable electrical power system with regulated transformer rectifier unit A method and apparatus for providing power stably for direct current loads. A regulated transformer rectifier unit is controlled to provide regulated direct current power for the direct current loads at an output of the regulated transformer rectifier unit from alternating current power provided by an alternating current power source to an input of the regulated transformer rectifier unit. The direct current loads comprise passive direct current loads and active direct current loads comprising active switching power supplies. The direct current loads have at least one of constant power characteristics, resistive power characteristics, inductive power characteristics, and capacitive power characteristics. A source impedance at the output of the regulated transformer rectifier unit is determined based on an aggregate load impedance of the direct current loads and stability criterion.
US09762061B2	Method and apparatus for transferring electrical power for subsea applications Methods for transferring electrical power in the sea include: generating AC power; and guiding, at least partially underwater, the AC power through a cable from a first end of the cable to a second end of the cable. A first reactor is connected near the first end of the cable and a second reactor is connected near the second end of the cable. Inductances of the first reactor and the second reactor are selected to at least partially compensate for reactive power generated in the cable.
US09762060B2	Distributed hierarchical control architecture for integrating smart grid assets during normal and disrupted operations Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for facilitating operation and control of a resource distribution system (such as a power grid). Among the disclosed embodiments is a distributed hierarchical control architecture (DHCA) that enables smart grid assets to effectively contribute to grid operations in a controllable manner, while helping to ensure system stability and equitably rewarding their contribution. Embodiments of the disclosed architecture can help unify the dispatch of these resources to provide both market-based and balancing services.
US09762057B2	Control command apparatus, power system control system and control command method A control command apparatus in a power system selecting a measuring apparatus according to a power system state, includes: a measuring apparatus extraction unit (112) extracting a measuring apparatus (2) between a first and second control apparatus (3) downstream the first control apparatus (3), or a measuring apparatus (2) downstream the first control apparatus (3) if no second control apparatus (2) exists, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, based on system configuration information (121), and generating measuring apparatus information (123) associating the extracted measuring apparatus (2) and the first control apparatus (3) with each other; and a control command generation unit (114) acquiring a measurement value from the measuring apparatus (2), identifying a control apparatus (3) associated with the measuring apparatus (2) as a the measurement value source based on the measuring apparatus information (123), and calculating and outputting a control parameter to the identified control apparatus (3).
US09762056B1	Electrical outlet unit An electrical unit outlet device is disclosed for controlling power isolation, based on a pre-determined time, for a device charger, while remaining plugged into a power outlet. A power isolating circuit cuts any power to the charging device off when charge is complete. Multiple embodiments are disclosed including a ground fault interrupted electrical unit outlet that may be controlled by a timer to shut down after batteries have been charged is disclosed and claimed herein. All circuits will subject to ground fault interruption protection and may be subject to surge protection as well. In another embodiment, a lamp with timed charging outlets that shut down when batteries are being charged is disclosed and claimed herein.
US09762050B2	Motor drive device A motor drive device for driving a motor, which has a plurality of winding pairs, includes a plurality of inverter units for the plurality of winding pairs. The inverter units are coupled in parallel to a power source. A plurality of capacitors provided for the plurality of inverter units, and a plurality of power relays are disposed between the power supply and the inverter units. In particular, a power relay is provided for each of the inverter units. A control unit detects a short failure of the power relay, and simultaneously turns ON the power relays that do not have a short failure. In such manner, damage to the power relays as well as damage to other electronic components of the motor driver device due to a large electric current is prevented.
US09762046B2	Sleeve for shielding electrical joint A splice for use in high voltage electrical environment employing a combination of cold-shrink and interference fit in a single splice component allowing for the use of a shortened core at a first cold splice end and the absence of a cable adapter at the interference fit second end.
US09762042B2	Cable connector and electrical box A cable connector is provided for coupling to and mounted within the internal cavity of an electrical box for securing an electrical cable passing through an opening in the electrical box. The cable connector includes a housing having a first end positioned next to or adjacent the cable opening in the electrical box and a second end spaced from the first end and the cable opening. At least one and typically two cable retaining members are positioned in the cable opening of the housing between the front wall and the rear wall. The cable retainer has a body with a plurality of retaining arms extending into an axial passage of the body for gripping the outer surface of a cable.
US09762039B2	Cable installation detection A method for use in connection with installing a cable into a conduit having a first conduit end and a second conduit end, comprising the steps of —providing the cable with a metallic attribute, —providing within or proximate to the conduit, sensing means for sensing the metallic attribute, —introducing the cable into the first conduit end and driving it towards the second conduit end and —detecting that the sensing means has sensed the metallic attribute by sensing a change in inductance levels of the sensing means.
US09762038B2	Independent shutter system for rack-in breakers A switchgear interlock system includes a circuit breaker with clusters of connector fingers separated from each other by respective cluster shields. In a connected position, the connector fingers engage respective bus connectors of bus bars for electrical contact. When the circuit breaker is disconnected from the bus bars, independently movable shutters cover access to the bus connectors to prevent inadvertent contact with the bus connectors. Each shutter includes a pedestal with an attached movable mount and movable curtain. As the circuit breaker is moved into the connected position, the mount slides along the pedestal towards the bus connector causing the curtain to open and allow the connector fingers to engage the bus connectors. As the circuit breaker is being disconnected, a return spring causes the mount to slide along the pedestal away from the bus connectors causing the curtain to close and prevent access to the bus connectors.
US09762037B1	High current busbar system for low-profile power shelves A low profile (1U) power distribution system includes a power shelf assembly having a first side and an opposing second side. First and second bus bars extend across the assembly and substantially in parallel with the first and second sides, the second bar positioned behind the first bar. One row of power supply pins extends from the bars to engage power supply units within the assembly. A first set of pins extends from the first bus, while a second set extends from the second bar and protruding through respective apertures in the first bar. An insulating material may be provided to electrically insulate power supply pins of the second bar from the first bar. The reduced height profile of the bars allows for cooling air to pass through the remaining >50% of the assembly, which may now desirably include additional electrical circuits within the cooling channel.
US09762035B2	Multi-step tube of a ceramic material and gas discharge tube made of the same A multi-step tube (1) of a ceramic material comprises a tube body (1) of the ceramic material having an inner wall (11) located inside the tube body (1). A surface of the inner wall (11) is formed with a plurality of steps (2). The steps (2) are formed to extend differently far inside the tube (1). A multi-layered gas discharge tube comprises the multi-step tube (1). An inner electrode (31) is disposed on a step (21), and an outer electrode (41) is disposed on an outer surface (13) of the tube body (1). A disc (51) is partially placed on a step (22) and the inner electrode (31) between the inner electrode (31) and the outer electrode (41) so that, in case of an electrostatic discharge, the discharge will only take place in the center of the multi-step tube (1) and not at the border of the isolated ceramic disc (51).
US09762025B2	Temperature insensitive integrated electro-absorption modulator and laser Apparatuses and methods for a temperature insensitive electro-absorption modulator and laser. The device comprising a laser capable of emitting light. The laser itself includes a laser gain section, a first mirror and a second mirror. Each of the mirrors are coupled to the laser gain section. The laser gain section contains quantum wells. The first mirror and the second mirror have a wavelength bandwidth sufficient for a lasing wavelength range of the laser. A modulator is coupled to the laser to receive the light and is capable of modulating the light to vary the output from the modulator. The modulator contains quantum wells and has a quantum well confinement factor that is greater than 0.1. An output coupler is coupled to the modulator and the output coupler has a back reflection that is less than half of a back reflection of the second mirror. The laser has a lasing wavelength that tracks the absorption spectrum of the modulator. The device is operated at a temperature range comprising a first temperature and a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is greater than the first temperature by at least 15 degrees Celsius.
US09762024B2	Laser apparatus and extreme ultraviolet light generation system An example of the disclosure is a laser apparatus including a master oscillator capable of outputting a pulse laser beam, a plurality of optical amplifiers disposed on an optical path of the pulse laser beam outputted from the master oscillator and configured to sequentially amplify the pulse laser beam, an optical reflector capable of passing the pulse laser beam therethrough and reflecting a self-oscillation beam generated in one of the plurality of optical amplifiers, and an optical absorber capable of receiving and absorbing the self-oscillation beam reflected by the optical reflector.
US09762020B1	Bi-directionally pumped polarization maintaining fiber amplifier A bi-directionally pumped PM fiber amplifier includes an amplifier input coupled to a first WDM coupler and a second WDM coupler providing an amplifier output. A doped fiber is between the WDM couplers. A first pump light source emitting at a first wavelength along a first polarization axis is coupled to the WDM coupler through a polarization beam combiner/splitter and a polarization rotator is for downstream pumping of the doped fiber with rotated light relative to the first polarization. The fiber is upstream pumped with light having the first polarization using a second pump light source emitting at the first wavelength/first polarization, by an output of an optical power splitter with its input coupled to the first pump light source, or by a fiber-coupled rotator mirror coupled to the second WDM coupler.
US09762017B2	Power transfer unit The disclosure relates to a power-transfer unit for a sealing unit of a packaging machine comprising a support, intended to be attached to a sealing unit, a power bar comprising a contact-initiation section, a contact-termination section, and an intermediate section therebetween, the power bar being resiliently suspended in the support and being movable along a first direction being normal to a contact surface of the intermediate section. The power bar is suspended in the support by a first leaf spring.
US09762015B2	Brush holder apparatus and system A brush holder system includes a stationary support member having at least one groove, and a fork electrical connector. A brush retainment member is configured to be releasably affixed to the stationary support member. The brush retainment member has at least one rail configured to slide along the at least one groove. The brush retainment member has a knife electrical connector configured to mate with the fork electrical connector. A radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag is mounted on the brush retainment member, and the RFID tag is configured to monitor brush wear and communicate brush wear status to a monitoring system. The stationary support member is configured for electrical connection to a collector mount and the brush retainment member is configured to retain at least one brush.
US09762011B2	Engine block heater cord set An engine block heater cord set. The cord set comprises an electrical power cord engagable with the engine block heater. A connector includes a plurality of power contacts, where the number of power contacts is four or more and a multiple of two. Each of the power contacts is electrically bonded to one of first and second electrical conductors. The power contacts are positioned symmetrically relative to one another on the connector with diagonally opposite contacts having a different polarity and spaced apart by a distance generally equal to the distance between the electrical terminals of the engine block heater.
US09762009B2	Plug connector insertable in two orientations and having a metallic shield plate with arms with hook structures A plug connector includes an insulative housing with mating slot, contacts disposed in the housing by two sides of the mating slot, and a pair of side arms located by two opposite ends of the mating slot in a horizontal transverse direction. a receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a horizontal mating tongue; contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue; and a monolithic horizontal metallic shielding plate disposed and extending substantially fully the mating tongue. The shielding plate defines side protruding edge sections exposed outside of corresponding side edges of the mating tongue and a notch structure on each side protruding edge section, the pair of side arms each defines a hook structure to engagement with the notch structure.
US09762008B2	Coaxial cable connector with integral RFI protection A coaxial cable connector for coupling an end of a coaxial cable to a terminal is disclosed. The connector has a post assembled with a coupler. The post is adapted to receive an end of the coaxial cable and comprises a front end, an enlarged shoulder at the front end, and a plurality of contacting portions. The contacting portions are of monolithic construction with the post, collectively circumscribe the enlarged shoulder at the front end of the post, and extend in a generally perpendicular orientation with respect to a longitudinal axis of the connector. The coupler is rotatably attached to the post and comprises an internally projecting lip, having a forward facing surface, adapted to couple the connector to the terminal. The contacting portions are configured to contact the forward facing surface of the lip of the coupler.
US09762004B2	Shielded battery receptacle A shielded receptacle provides faraday shielding across conductive elements of the receptacle; a method of molding conductive materials into a shielded receptacle, and a method of molding nonconductive materials onto a conductive shield are disclosed.
US09761996B2	M.2 interface memory device and M.2 interface connection seat insertedly provided thereof The invention provides a M.2 interface memory device and a M.2 interface connection seat insertedly provided thereof. The M.2 interface memory device comprises a M.2 interface card and a housing provided with at least one guide groove. The M.2 interface connection seat is disposed on a circuit board, and comprises two arms and a base comprising a M.2 interface slot. At least one arm is provided with a guide rail. An opening direction of the M.2 interface slot is horizontal to a surface of the circuit board. When the M.2 interface card is inserted into the M.2 interface slot in a horizontal direction, the M.2 interface memory device will be fixed within the M.2 interface connection seat by embedding between the guide groove and the guide rail. Thus, M.2 interface memory devices of a variety of specification lengths are able to be inserted into the M.2 interface connection seat.
US09761993B2	Banana plug A system for containing a strain relief, the system comprising an assembly housing, the assembly housing including: a first outer housing including a connector body; a second outer housing including a rear housing, wherein the first outer housing snaps into the second outer housing and creates a chain of contact points that connect components internal to the assembly housing and prevents internal components from rotating, wherein the assembly housing houses within a banana plug shaft, a strain relief and a solder junction, wherein the solder junction solders a first end of a conductor cable to the banana plug shaft, wherein the first end of the conductor cable is disposed within the assembly housing, and wherein via the chain of contact points, the banana plug shaft presses the strain relief into place and prevents movement of the strain relief and the solder junction.
US09761990B2	Water bonding device and methods of use Embodiments include a water bonding device for electrically grounding a swimming pool. One embodiment includes a bonding electrode installed in a pool skimmer or pump strainer. The bonding electrode typically resides in a skimmer or strainer cavity, and a ground conductor coupled directly to the electrode extends out of the skimmer or strainer through a port. A plug assembly forms a water tight seal against the port and the ground conductor, providing a water tight access point for the ground conductor to enter the pool skimmer or pump strainer. The ground conductor is typically electrically connected to both the bonding electrode and a ground pole residing at ground potential.
US09761988B1	Waterproof electric connector assembly A waterproof electric connector assembly includes an electrically insulative housing including an accommodation chamber, a front opening, a recessed bottom chamber and two locating devices at two opposite lateral sides thereof, a metal shielding cover covered on the top side of the rear opening and having plug rods respectively fastened to the locating devices of the electrically insulative housing, an electric connector including an electrically insulative terminal block mounted in the accommodation chamber, a tongue plate extended from the electrically insulative terminal block and a conducting terminal set mounted in the electrically insulative terminal block with conducting terminal contact portions thereof respectively arranged on opposing top and bottom walls of the tongue plate and conducting terminal bonding portions thereof extended out of the recessed bottom chamber of the electrically insulative housing, and a waterproof adhesive sealed up the recessed bottom chamber.
US09761986B2	Retaining clip for electrical connectors A retaining clip that provides a method for securing electrical connections between male and female electrical connectors is disclosed. Current locking mechanisms are on both the electrical plug and the connector. These locking mechanisms often break when disconnecting the plug. Some embodiments of the present invention eliminate the need for the locking mechanisms. Furthermore, in cases where the mechanisms have been broken, some embodiments provide a method for reusing the electrical plug and/or the connector.
US09761980B2	Battery connector and manufacturing method therefor A connector comprises an insulating housing (10) defining a plurality of isolated terminal chambers and a plurality of conductive terminals (20) disposed in respective terminal chambers of the insulating housing. Each of the terminal chambers has a bottom portion (101) on one side of the insulating housing and an opening (102) through a surface (103) on the opposite side of the insulating housing. Each of the conductive terminals comprises a fixing portion (201) that is fixed on the bottom portion of a corresponding terminal chamber, a contact portion (203) that is projecting out of the opening, and a middle portion (202) that is connected between the fixing portion and the contact portion and slanting from one end of the fixing portion towards the other end of the fixing portion. The middle portion and the contact portion are configured to move both towards the bottom portion and in a longitudinal direction of the insulating housing in response to pressure imposed on the contact portion.
US09761977B2	Conductive terminal and electrical connector A conductive terminal and an electrical connector are disclosed. The conductive terminal comprises a mating portion positioned at a front end, a tail portion for connecting a conductive wire and a fixed portion connected between the mating portion and the tail portion. Wherein the fixed portion comprises a bottom wall, two side walls bent upwardly respectively from two sides of the bottom wall, a lock tang obliquely extending rearwardly and upwardly from the middle of the bottom wall and two stopping protrusions protruding inwardly from the two side walls, the two stopping protrusions abut against the lock tang so as to prevent the lock tang from being improperly deformed due to a force applied. The present invention can assure that the conductive terminal is firmly fixed in insulative body of the electrical connector.
US09761975B1	Connector module A connector module includes a board connector and a cable connector. The board connector includes a board connecting body whereon a slot is formed, conductive terminals disposed on the board connecting body and extending into the slot, and two metal pads disposed on two sides of the board connecting body and each having a resilient buckle. The cable connector includes a cable connecting body including an installation portion and two engaging portions, and a flexible transmission unit installed in the installation portion. Contacts are disposed on a front end of the flexible transmission unit. The front end of the flexible transmission unit is inserted into the slot, the conductive terminals contact with the contacts, and the resilient buckles engage with the engaging portions when the cable connector is connected with the board connector.
US09761966B2	Mold for forming terminal of electric wire A mold includes a first electrode on which a looped conductor of an electric wire is placed, the looped conductor being an exposed conductor of the electric wire from which a coating is removed and having an overlap portion at which different parts of the exposed conductor overlap each other, a hole forming jig provided upright on the first electrode to extend through an inner hole of the looped conductor, a wire holding jig arranged to surround the first electrode, and a second electrode having a conductor pressing protrusion configured to be fitted in a conductor molding groove defined by the first electrode and the wire holding jig to press and heat the looped conductor. The wire holding jig has a plurality of separable holding jigs configured to hold the looped conductor between the separable holding jigs from a direction perpendicular to an axis of the hole forming jig.
US09761963B1	Connector A connector includes an inner sleeve through which a central conductor and an insulator of a coaxial cable are passed and an outer sleeve through which the central conductor, the insulator and a shield member of the coaxial cable are passed, the inner sleeve including projection portions that are arranged in a circumferential direction, project outward in a radial direction and are inserted between the insulator and the shield member of the coaxial cable, and at least one of the projection portions is elastically displaceable in the radial direction, the outer sleeve including an inner peripheral surface that covers the projection portions and tapers in a first direction directed toward the front end of the coaxial cable along the coaxial cable, the shield member of the coaxial cable being sandwiched between the projection portions of the inner sleeve and the inner peripheral surface of the outer sleeve.
US09761962B2	Electrical power wet-mate assembly An electrical power wet-mate assembly includes a compliant-insulated pin assembly and a ceramic-insulated pin assembly. Those pin assemblies are physically and electrically engaged to one another. The compliant-insulating material may be a thermoplastic, and the ceramic-insulating material may be alumina. The electrical power wet-mateable assembly may be used in conjunction with a pressure containing device such as a subsea tree to form a wet-mateable connection system. The electrical power wet-mate assembly is capable of operating in high pressure differential and high temperature environments. A plurality of ceramic-insulated pin assemblies may be welded to a connector body to form a pressure barrier system. The cavities created by the ceramic-insulated pin assemblies and the compliant-insulated pin assemblies may be filled with a dielectric oil. Individual pressure compensators may be dispersed equally between the pin assemblies.
US09761959B2	Ultrasonic weld coaxial connector A coaxial connector for interconnection with a coaxial cable with a solid outer conductor by ultrasonic welding is provided with a monolithic connector body with a bore. An annular flare seat is angled radially outward from the bore toward a connector end of the connector; the annular flare seat open to the connector end of the connector. The flare seat may be provided with an annular flare seat corrugation.
US09761958B2	Wireless communication antennae for concurrent communication in an access point One or more access points in a wireless communication system, wherein at least one of those access points includes a set of more than one antennae capable of concurrent communication, and at least one of those more than one antennae is isolated from a remainder of that set of antennae during concurrent communication. Isolation includes one or more of disposed a first antenna in a null region of a second antenna, disposing a first antenna to communicate polarized and substantially orthogonal to a second antenna, disposing a set of antennae to communicate at two or more carrier frequencies, wherein each first antenna adjacent to a second antenna operate at distinct such carrier frequencies, or disposing a set of antennae to communicate using two or more substantially distinct protocols, wherein substantially each first antenna adjacent to a second antenna operate at substantially distinct such protocols.
US09761957B2	Providing wireless service at a venue using horn antennas A system may include horn antennas arranged at a venue. The horn antennas may be connected to an operator network that provides a wireless service. The horn antennas may provide the wireless service to at least one mobile device at the venue. The horn antennas may be arranged at the venue based on a configuration of the venue.
US09761953B2	Electromagnetic absorber The invention concerns an electromagnetic absorbent comprising: a metal earth plane, an insulating dielectric substrate, disposed on said metal earth plane, a set of metal resonant elements disposed on said insulating dielectric substrate, the electromagnetic resonant frequency of a resonant element being adjusted by adapting the dimensions of the resonant element, the set of resonant elements comprising resonant elements with different dimensions so as to enable the production, by juxtaposition of different electromagnetic resonant frequencies, of a predetermined electromagnetic absorption band. An elementary pattern formed by a plurality of metal resonant elements can be replaced periodically.
US09761950B2	Dielectric waveguide with embedded antenna A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and may have a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. A radiated radio frequency (RF) signal may be received on a first portion of a radiating structure embedded in the end of a dielectric waveguide (DWG). Simultaneously, a derivative RF signal may be launched into the DWG from a second portion of the radiating structure embedded in the DWG.
US09761942B2	Feeding matching apparatus of multiband antenna, multiband antenna, and radio communication device The present disclosure relates to the field of antenna technologies and discloses a feeding matching apparatus of a multiband antenna, a multiband antenna, and a radio communication device to improve a bandwidth and efficiency of a lower frequency band. The feeding matching apparatus of a multiband antenna includes: a grounding portion; a feeding portion connected to a signal source, where a signal of the signal source is input into the feeding portion; and two or more ground cable branches with different lengths, where one end of each ground cable branch is electrically connected to the feeding portion, the other end is electrically connected to the grounding portion, at least one ground cable branch is connected in series to a signal filtering component, and the signal filtering component is capable of preventing a signal lower than a frequency point corresponding to the signal filtering component from passing through it.
US09761941B2	Directional multiband antenna There is disclosed A directional multi-band antenna, the antenna comprising: —an optical unit comprising an optical sensor; —an RF unit comprising an RF sensor; —a substantially planar optical lens, the optical lens comprising surface relief elements for beam forming, the lens being arranged to focus optical signal beams, incident along a first optical axis, onto the optical sensor, the optical lens being substantially transparent to RF signals, —an RF beam forming device arranged to receive RF signals incident along the first optical axis and focus such RF signals onto the RF sensor.
US09761938B2	Antenna apparatus for base station and operation method therefor An antenna apparatus for base station (BS) having at least one cell, includes: two or more antenna units to form antenna beams based on predetermined tilting angles for each of two or more different frequency bands with respect to the cell; and a tilting angle control unit to control tilting angles designated to the two or more antenna units, respectively, to be different from each other, so as to make coverages of the antenna beams of the two or more different frequency bands formed by the two or more antenna units different from each other with respect to the cell.
US09761935B2	HDTV antenna assemblies Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of HDTV antenna assemblies. In an exemplary embodiment, a high definition television antenna assembly generally includes an antenna element having a generally annular shape with an opening and first and second end portions. First and second arms are spaced apart from the antenna element and extend at least partially along portions of the antenna element. A first member extends between the first arm and the first end portion of the antenna element. A second member extends between the second arm and the second end portion of the antenna element. A substrate supports and/or is coupled to the antenna element, the first and second arms, and the first and second members.
US09761933B2	Millimeter wave antenna and radar apparatus for vehicle An millimeter wave antenna includes an antenna body adapted to transmit and receive an electromagnetic wave of a millimeter wave band; and a radome that covers a transmitting and receiving surface of the antenna body. The transmitting and receiving surface and the radorm are apart from each other and have a space therebetween. The radome includes a gap adapted to allow the electromagnetic wave of the millimeter wave band to pass through the gap. A radar apparatus for vehicle includes the millimeter wave antenna.
US09761928B2	Mobile terminal and coil antenna module There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a first case comprising a battery loading portion, a battery loaded in the battery loading portion, a second case coupled to the first case and configured to cover the battery, a coil antenna module arranged between the second case and the battery, and a controller electrically connected to the coil antenna module and configured to transmit and receive a signal or receive an electric power, wherein the coil antenna module includes an insulating sheet, a first coil arranged in a surface of the insulating sheet, a second coil arranged in the first coil, a third coil arranged in the second coil, and a magnetic sheet disposed on the surface of the insulating sheet, and ends of the first, second and third coils are arranged in the surface of the insulating sheet or dividedly arranged in both surfaces of the insulating sheet. The mobile terminal may realize the coil antenna module including a plurality of coils configured to perform diverse manners of wireless communication in a limited area.
US09761924B2	Wired connector and antenna An antenna can be in a computing device. A connector can be in the computing device and adjacent to the antenna for a wired connection. In one implementation the antenna is connector to a controller to monitor the antenna for wireless signal degradation and compensate for the wireless signal degradation.
US09761921B2	Tunable bandpass filter The tunable bandpass filter is used for filtering an electromagnetic signal, has a system passband between a first and a second tunable cutoff frequencies, and has a first subfilter and a second subfilter connected to one another in series between an input port and an output port and being complementary to one another in the tunable bandpass filter. At least one of the first subfilter and the second subfilter being connected to operate in reflection.
US09761920B2	Metal-air electrochemical cell with high energy efficiency mode The present invention relates to a metal-air electrochemical cell with a high energy efficiency mode.
US09761917B2	Battery unit A battery unit includes the following elements: a battery module that includes a plurality of battery cells and a gas discharge opening for discharging gas jetted from each of the battery cells; and a gas discharge duct in communication with the gas discharge opening and discharging the gas to the outside of the battery module. The gas discharge duct includes at least one duct outlet of which cross-sectional area of the channel in the duct outlet or the sum of cross-sectional areas of the channel in the respective duct outlets is larger than a cross-sectional area of the channel on the upstream side in the flow direction of the gas. The gas discharge duct also includes a temperature reducing member that is fixed to the periphery of the duct outlet so as to block part of the channel and reduces the temperature of the gas going through gaps.
US09761912B2	Safety system for batteries A battery, particularly a lithium-metal battery or a lithium-ion battery, having at least one galvanic cell surrounded by a cell housing. To increase the safety of the battery and to close up again a cell opened by a safety device or by a leakage, the inner chamber of the cell housing of the at least one cell includes a first chemical component, a chamber bordering on at least one section of the outer side of the housing including a second chemical component; a solid reaction product being developable by the chemical reaction of the first and second chemical components. The first component is containable in the electrolyte of the cell and the second component in a cooling and/or tempering arrangement. Also described is a cooling and/or tempering arrangement based on it, and an electrolyte, an electrolytic liquid, a safety system, a method and a mobile or stationary system.
US09761911B2	Battery pack of improved safety Disclosed herein is a battery pack including a power supply unit including two or more battery cells or battery modules electrically connected to each other, at least one pressure driven switch configured to cause a short circuit in a portion or the entirety of the battery pack upon detecting expansion in volume of the battery cells or the battery modules when the power supply unit malfunctions, a cut-off portion located at at least one series connection region between the battery cells or the battery modules to interrupt electrical connection in the battery pack when the short circuit occurs in the battery pack, and external input and output terminals connected to electrode terminals located at outermost sides of the power supply unit to supply power to an external device.
US09761905B2	Lithium ion-conducting garnet-like compounds A lithium ion-conducting compound, having a garnet-like crystal structure, and having the general formula: Lin[A(3-a′-a″)A′(a′)A″(a″)][B(2-b′-b″)B′(b′)B″(b″)][C′(c′)C″(c″)]O12, where A, A′, A″ stand for a dodecahedral position of the crystal structure, where A stands for La, Y, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm and/or Yb, A′ stands for Ca, Sr and/or Ba, A″ stands for Na and/or K, 0
US09761901B2	Three-dimensional batteries and methods of manufacturing the same Various methods and apparatus relating to three-dimensional battery structures and methods of manufacturing them are disclosed and claimed. In certain embodiments, a three-dimensional battery comprises a battery enclosure, and a first structural layer within the battery enclosure, where the first structural layer has a first surface, and a first plurality of conductive protrusions extend from the first surface. A first plurality of electrodes is located within the battery enclosure, where the first plurality of electrodes includes a plurality of cathodes and a plurality of anodes, and wherein the first plurality of electrodes includes a second plurality of electrodes selected from the first plurality of electrodes, each of the second plurality of electrodes being in contact with the outer surface of one of said first plurality of conductive protrusions. Some embodiments relate to processes of manufacturing energy storage devices with or without the use of a backbone structure or layer.
US09761898B2	Membrane electrode assembly, fuel cell using the same and manufacturing method of membrane electrode assembly There is provided a technique of preventing degradation of an electrolyte membrane included in a fuel cell. A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly. The membrane electrode assembly is provided as a power generation device where electrodes are arranged on both sides of an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity. Each of the electrodes has a layered structure of stacking a catalyst layer arranged to support a catalyst and a gas diffusion layer arranged to spread a reactive gas over the entire electrode plane. The outer peripheral edge of the gas diffusion layer is located inward of the outer peripheral edge of the catalyst layer.
US09761895B2	Cell stack device, fuel cell module, fuel cell device, and method of fabricating cell stack device [Object] To provide a cell stack device, the power generation efficiency of which is improved, and a fuel cell module and a fuel cell device that include the cell stack device.[Solution] A cell stack device 1 includes a cell stack 2 that includes a plurality of fuel cells 3 electrically connected to one another and arranged, the fuel cells 3 that each includes a gas channel through which a reactant gas flows. In the cell stack device 1, the fuel cells 3 of the cell stack 2 are provided in the form of fuel cell groups that each include an arbitrary number of the fuel cells 3. In the cell stack device 1, the fuel cell groups are arranged such that average pressure loss values of the fuel cells 3 of the fuel cell groups increase sequentially from a central portion to an end portion side in a fuel cell 3 arrangement direction. Thus, the power generation efficiency of the cell stack device 1 can be improved.
US09761890B2	Redox flow battery with anisotropic electrode layer A redox flow battery having reduced internal resistance is provided. The redox flow battery includes a membrane, a bipolar plate, an electrode disposed between the membrane and the bipolar plate, an inlet port for supplying an electrolyte to the electrode, and an outlet port for discharging the electrolyte from the electrode, and performs a charge-discharge reaction by allowing the electrolyte to flow in the electrode. The electrode includes an anisotropic electrode layer having different permeabilities between a direction A1 on a plane of the electrode and a direction A2 orthogonal to the direction A1 on the plane of the electrode. In the anisotropic electrode layer, a permeability K1 in the direction A1 is larger than a permeability K2 in the direction A2. The electrode is disposed such that the direction A1 is substantially parallel to a main flow direction of the electrolyte in the electrode, the main flow direction being determined on the basis of a positional relationship between the inlet port and the outlet port and a shape of a surface of the bipolar plate on the electrode side.
US09761889B2	Fuel cell flow field channel with partially closed end A device (10) for use in a fuel cell includes a fuel-cell flow-field channel (18) having a channel-inlet section (42) and a channel-outlet section (44). At least one of the channel-inlet section (42) or the channel-outlet section (44) includes an obstruction member (46) that partially blocks flow through the fuel-cell flow-field channel (18).
US09761887B2	Energy storage An energy storage apparatus having a housing, a plurality of battery cells, a temperature-control system with a liquid temperature-control medium for cooling and/or heating the battery cells in the housing. An absorbent element is arranged spatially between the battery cells and the housing such that any temperature-control medium escaping from the temperature-control system is absorbed by the absorbent element. The absorbent element is separated from the battery cells by an electrically insulating layer, the electrically insulating layer being impermeable to the temperature-control medium.
US09761881B2	Binder and lithium ion battery using the same The present application discloses a binder for a lithium ion battery, which comprises a polymer obtained through emulsion polymerization of a monomer in the presence of a reactive emulsifying agent. The binder is used in fabrication of a lithium ion electrode plate, whereby a thin film formed on the surface of an electrode membrane and fine channels formed in the electrode membrane with the use of a conventional emulsifying agent during the electrode membrane-forming process are eliminated, and the lithium ion conductivity of the electrode membrane is improved. Meanwhile, with the use of the reactive emulsifying agent, the bonding effect of the binder and the stability of the electrode membrane are improved, thereby greatly improving the charging rate and cycle life of the lithium ion battery.
US09761876B2	Energy storage device and energy storage unit An energy storage device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer containing a non-graphitizable carbon as a negative electrode active material, and the negative electrode active material has a negative electrode active material weight per unit volume of the negative electrode active material layer of 0.92 g/cc or more and 1.13 g/cc or less and a particle size D90 of 4.3 μm or more and 11.5 μm or less, the particle size D90 being a particle size in particle size distribution in which a cumulative volume is 90%.
US09761873B2	Negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries A negative electrode active material for nonaqueous secondary batteries is disclosed. The active material contains a silicon solid solution having one or more than one of a group 3 semimetal or metal element, a group 4 semimetal or metal element except silicon, and a group 5 nonmetal or semimetal element incorporated in silicon as a solute element. The solute element is present more on the crystal grain boundaries of the silicon solid solution than inside the grains.
US09761872B2	Rechargeable electrochemical cell A rechargeable electrochemical battery cell with a housing, a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte which contains SO2 and a conducting salt of the active metal of the cell, whereby at least one of the electrodes contains a binder chosen from the group: Binder A, which consists of a polymer, which is made of monomeric structural units of a conjugated carboxylic acid or of the alkali salt, earth alkali salt or ammonium salt of this conjugated carboxylic acid or a combination thereof or binder B which consists of a polymer based on monomeric styrene structural units or butadiene structural units or a mixture of binder A and B.
US09761867B2	Open porous electrically conductive nanocomposite material Nanocomposits of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer and electronically active material, in particular PEDOT and LiFePO4, were found to be significantly better compared to bare and carbon coated LiFePO4 in carbon black and graphite filled non conducting binder. The conductive polymer containing composite outperformed the other two samples. The performance of PEDOT composite was especially better in the high current regime with capacity retention of 82% after 200 cycles. Hence an electrode based on composite made of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer and electronically active material, in particular LiFePO4 and PEDOT nanostubs, with its higher energy density and increased resistance to harsh charging regimes proved to dramatically extend the high power applicability of materials such as LiFePO4.

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