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US09808140B2	Steerable segmented endoscope and method of insertion A system for determining the shape of a surgical instrument includes an elongate instrument body having a selectively steerable distal tip, a pair of automatically controlled segments proximal to the selectively steerable distal tip, and a joint that couples the pair of adjacent automatically controlled segments together. An actuator changes an angle of the joint and a position encoder provides information associated with the joint angle. A controller receives the information associated with the angle of the joint and generates a three dimensional model of a shape of the instrument. A method for determining the three dimensional shape of an instrument includes providing axial position data to a controller, providing angular position data to the controller from a respective segment controller, and generating a three-dimensional model of a shape of said instrument using the axial position data and the angular position data.
US09808132B2	Ventilation assembly A ventilation assembly for removing odors from a toilet includes a seat that may be hingedly attached to a toilet such that the seat may be sat upon. A venting unit is operationally coupled to the seat such that the venting unit may capture odors from the toilet and expel the odors to a remote location.
US09808126B2	Showerhead water collection device A showerhead water collection device includes an arc hanging element and a pipeline. The arc hanging element includes a fastener, an arc hook, a temperature sensing element, a temperature display device and a through hole. The fastener is for fixing the arc hanging element to a seat or a wall; the arc hook is for hanging the showerhead; the temperature sensing element is for sensing the temperature of water outputted from the showerhead and displaying the water temperature on the temperature display device; the through hole is formed at the bottom inside the arc hanging element for collecting the water outputted from the showerhead; and the pipeline is coupled to the bottom of the arc hanging element for receiving the water outputted from the through hole through the connecting portion. The invention has the effects of fixing the showerhead, facilitating water connection, and preventing unnecessary waste of water resource.
US09808125B2	Vertically adjustable shower caddy and method for tensioning same A vertically adjustable shower caddy system comprising a tension pole, a number of shelves and a number of securing element for attaching and reattaching the shelves and accessories to the tension pole. The tension pole is installed using an integrated tensioning mechanism allowing extension of the top and bottom extremities as to apply tension to the bath or shower floor and ceiling. The securing element uses clips that are opened and closed when attaching and reattaching the shelves to the tension pole rail. Repositioning a shelf to a new location on the tension pole therefore does not require the removal of the tension pole from a shower stall or bathtub/shower area, thereby saving a user a significant amount of time and effort.
US09808123B1	Shoe assembly The present invention support devices and shoe assembly are for an article that is adjacent to a sink margin, the present invention provides a storage solution for the article and holds the article in an upright position, thereby helping to prevent seepage and loss of soap fluids from the article and also directs sponge drainage either into a sink or a container. The present invention works on sinks that are either under-mounted or drop-in sinks, or can be positioned adjacent to a sink on the countertop. The present invention is easily movable, can be placed in multiple locations, can be easily cleaned and function without the need for suction cups or other attachments. When the article is being used, the present invention is out of the way resulting in minimal conflict with the use and activity around the sink, thereby allowing maximum unimpeded use of the sink area.
US09808122B2	Device for cracking an egg A device for cracking eggs is provided. The device has a generally flat blade portion secured to an arched base portion. The generally flat blade portion is used to cut or crack the egg. The generally flat blade portion is perpendicularly secured to the arched base portion wherein the arched base portion mirrors the arc of the exterior surface of an average egg. A user uses the generally flat blade portion to strike the egg. The arched base portion stops the generally flat blade portion from penetrating the egg past a predetermined point. In some embodiments, a padded attachment or a spring loaded contact surface may be secured to the arched base portion and may prevent the device from over-cutting or cracking the egg. In alternative embodiments, the back of the arched base portion has a loop for securing a finger. Finally, a handle may be secured to the arched base portion to easily grasp the device.
US09808117B2	Tool for forming a three dimensional article or container A forming tool assembly and method for forming a cooking element. The forming tool assembly has an upper tool assembly and a lower tool assembly that cooperate to shape the cooking element from an annular cutout.
US09808116B1	Camp stove A stove that has tiered wings allowing for different sized cooking pots, and that is fully collapsible based on tab-in-slot construction, allowing for completely flat storage and easy replacement of panels.
US09808111B2	Device for preparing a drink extracted from a capsule Devices for preparing a drink extracted from a capsule include a capsule mounting and a capsule housing, inside of which at least one water inlet and a capsule-boring means are arranged, wherein the housing is sized so as to at least partially deform any capsule, consisting of a material that is deformable when placed in contact with hot water and placed in the housing, such that the capsule is retained in the housing after the contact thereof with the hot water.
US09808110B2	Disposable combined squeezer/stirrer/dispenser/brewer device A disposable packaging form is provided for brewed, hot drinks. The invention allows a user to brew the hot drink, squeeze out the brewed contents, and stir the contents of the hot drink. Each action can be performed multiple times before disposal. In some embodiments, the device of the present invention dispenses sweeteners, creamers, flavorings and condiments. The present invention frees the user of the inconvenience of having to collect, wash, or dispose of the stirrers, squeezers and bags of the hot drink individually.
US09808109B2	Programmable heating circulator A sous-vide circulator cooker temperature control device that includes a motor module which can be replaced by users when the motor fails. The circulator cooker temperature control device includes an outer portion, an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a programmable controller storing one or more codes that represent cooking temperatures and times selectable by a user. The controller can be programmed to receive additional codes. The controller includes a speaker and a voice assist algorithm configured to alert users of events.
US09808108B1	Automated pasta dispensing device with ball valve A device for making and dispensing pasta comprises: a pressure cooking vessel; and a ball valve assembly comprising: i) a valve body coupled to a top opening of the vessel, and ii) a rotatable ball securely located within the valve body and rotatable between an open position and a closed position, the ball having a bore, wherein in the open position the bore provides access to the top opening of the vessel, and in the closed position the ball hermetically seals the top opening. The device also includes a means for dropping pasta through the bore and into the vessel; a means for rotating the ball to the closed position; a means for heating the interior volume of the vessel to cook the pasta; and a means for providing egress of the pasta from the device after the vessel has cooked the pasta.
US09808107B2	Portable steam-producing apparatus and methods of making and using the same A portable steam-producing apparatus is disclosed. Methods of making and using portable steam-producing apparatus are also disclosed.
US09808106B1	Safe rotatable mailbox A safe rotatable apparatus for supporting a rural roadside mailbox and for providing a simple, low-cost, highly rugged mounting structure which is less subject to damage due to impact from passing vehicles. The apparatus returns to its original position after a side impact. It is made of a typical mailbox; a top structural member; (c) a manner to connect the mailbox to the member; strengthening gussets attached to an outer sleeve connected to the top member and a way for connecting gussets to the top member; the outer sleeve having an opening for a pivot rod; the pivot rod held to the outer sleeve; an inner post with a rotational “sinusoidal” slice at the top end of inner post and an opening for a locking bar at the bottom of the inner post; the locking bar and a way for ballasting the locking bar such as concrete.
US09808105B2	Carrying case A carrying case for storing items in a work environment includes a bag element for accommodating items having an access opening at the upper side when the bag element is in its position of use, and a dimensionally stable support frame to which an upper edge region of the bag element in the bag element's position of use is fixed in such a way that the access opening of the bag element is accessible through the support frame. A dimensionally stable holding bracket having a first projection and a second projection is provided on the support frame, permitting the carrying case to be hung from a board-like furniture element in such a way that the first projection makes contact with an upper side of the furniture element and the second projection makes contact with an underside of the furniture element.
US09808104B1	One-piece construction chopsticks A one-piece construction chopsticks including symmetrical first and second portions connected to each other by a parallelepiped resilient member at a rear end thereof in a mirror image configuration. A hook on the second portion aligns and maintains positioning of the first and second portions and limits the size of an opening between a bottom side thereof. A pair of parallelelepiped rails perpendicularly disposed on a lower segment of the first portion guides and aligns the first and second portions. Interchangeable implements, such as a spoon, a fork, and a gripping tool, is attachable to the bottom side of each of the first and second portions. Thus, the present chopsticks secure a food particle between the gripping tools without the time and effort involved in developing the skills necessary to use conventional chopsticks, while also permitting the interchangeable use of an eating utensil, such as a spoon and a fork.
US09808103B2	Eating utensil A food utensil having a handle portion and a food engagement portion, the food engagement portion includes one or more member(s) disposed about the periphery of the food engagement portion, whereby the one or more member(s) define a food engagement region. The utensil is suitable for use by young children.
US09808102B2	Travel container having drinking orifice and vent aperture A container is provided with a lid having a push-button trigger mechanism that operates both a drink seal for a drinking opening and a vent seal for a vent opening. The trigger translates in a straight line transverse to a longitudinal axis of the container body during the entire movement of the trigger to define a straight-line actuation stroke. The vent opening is initially opened during a first portion of the actuation stroke of the trigger, and the drink opening is initially opened during a second portion of the actuation stroke of the trigger.
US09808101B2	Travel beverage container A lid assembly for a beverage container having a lid housing, a seal assembly and a trigger member. The seal assembly has a drink seal to close the drink aperture. The seal assembly is rotatedly connected to the lid housing and movable between a use position and a cleaning position to allow the drink aperture to be open for cleaning. The trigger member is connected to the lid housing and is capable of engaging the seal assembly in the use position, but it cannot engage the seal assembly in the cleaning position. Additionally, a trigger lock is connected to the lid housing to prevent engagement of the seal assembly by the trigger member when the trigger lock is locked. The trigger lock may also contain a visual indicator to indicate that the lock is in the locked position.
US09808096B1	Water impervious chair cushion A cushion includes a cushion shell formed to define a fill receiving cavity and a cushion fill that resides within the fill receiving cavity. The cushion shell includes a shell upper surface, at least one shell side surface and a bottom surface. The shell upper surface is generally oriented parallel to a first plane. The shell upper surface does not include any seams and is fabricated from at least one water impervious material. The at least one shell side surface is generally oriented parallel to a second plane perpendicular to the first plane. The shell side surface is fabricated from the at least one water impervious material. The shell bottom surface is generally oriented parallel to the first plane. The shell bottom surface is fabricated from a water pervious material and is joined to the side surface along a bottom edge seam.
US09808095B2	Bed bug protection device A bed covering device for protecting humans, animals and objects from crawling pests such as bed bugs. The device includes a top component for contacting the top surface of bedding such as a mattress or box spring. The top component includes barrier material suitable for preventing pests from biting humans or animals resting on the bedding. The device further includes a fitted side skirt joined to the periphery of the top component and having a slippery, i.e., low friction, exterior surface that hinders bed bugs and similar pests from climbing up the covered bedding and gaining access to humans, animals, or objects resting atop the bedding. The device may be part of a system including pillow protectors, headboard and/or footboard protectors for preventing contact by traditional bed coverings with walls or bed structures that may be infested by bed bugs.
US09808094B2	All truss foundation unit, method of making the same and foundation unit kit An all truss foundation unit, method of making the foundation unit, and a foundation unit kit. The foundation unit is formed of multiple cross trusses interconnected by bridging top and bottom side rails. This results in a flat surface on both the top and the bottom of the foundation unit. The kit is formed of a plurality of the trusses and four side rails, with the trusses and side rails being oriented together with their longitudinal dimensions aligned in a generally parallel orientation and with at least some of their flat sides in contact with one another. When the foundation unit is constructed, a truss locator guide is provided on at least two of the side rails, and the cross trusses are oriented in a parallel, spaced relationship in accordance with the truss locator guide.
US09808089B2	Collapsible chair with collapsible back support A collapsible chair includes a collapsible seat having a front portion and an opposing rear portion and a collapsible back. The collapsible back includes a first back support member and a second back support member. Each of the first back support member and the second back support member includes an arcuate portion extending toward the front portion of the collapsible seat. A back membrane is coupled to the back support members and spans a distance between the back support members.
US09808088B2	Chair with a frame with tubular elements A chair with a frame with tubular elements, which comprises two inverted V-shaped elements that form the front legs and rear legs, are parallel and are joined substantially at their inner curvature to a rod-like crossmember, two L-shaped elements connected by the crossmember on which they are arranged in a parallel configuration so as to form a support for the back and for the seat, respectively with first substantially vertical portions thereof and second substantially horizontal portions.
US09808087B1	Sun-bathing mat with integrated angled headrest The sunbathing mat with integrated angled headrest is adapted for use in sunbathing. The sunbathing mat with integrated angled headrest is a portable sunbed that is further equipped with a thermal pocket that is adapted for use in storing beverages and one or more photovoltaic cells that are adapted to provide power through a USB port. The sunbathing mat with integrated angled headrest comprises a mat, a thermal pocket, one or more photovoltaic cells, a USB port, and a voltage regulator.
US09808080B2	Portable height-adjustable tabletop assembly and method of adjusting a height of the same A portable tabletop assembly includes a horizontal tabletop, first and second pairs of legs for supporting the tabletop on a horizontal surface, a first crossbeam, and a height lock. Each pair of legs includes a first leg and a second leg pivotably connected to one another. Each leg has a first leg end, and a second leg end slidably coupled to the tabletop. The first crossbeam connects the first leg of the first pair of legs to the first leg of the second pair of legs. The height lock is engageable at infinite positions between raised and storage positions to inhibit horizontal sliding of the first crossbeam and the second leg ends of the first legs to fix a height of the tabletop above the horizontal surface. A method of adjusting the height of a portable tabletop assembly is also disclosed.
US09808079B2	Height adjustable desk system and method A height adjustable desk can include a work surface; and at least one leg assembly connected to the work surface. The at least one leg assembly can include: a first member; and a second member moveable relative to the first member along a longitudinal axis; and a counterbalance mechanism connected to the desk and configured to counteract a force exerted on the work surface. The counterbalance mechanism can include: a wheel; a gas spring having a cylinder and a moveable piston; a wheel moveably connected to the gas spring; and the tension member is connected to the leg assembly.
US09808075B1	Portable carrier for non-rigid containers A simple, portable carrier for a non-rigid container such as a plastic bag or sack that permits container to remain open for filling with articles or materials while serving as a carrying handle, especially suitable for highway crew members cleaning debris over long stretches of roadway. Device is comprised of a rigid member such as a hollow rod (tube), snug-fitting end caps, and end cap retaining bands. A segment of the open end of container is entrapped at each end of rigid member and held in place by friction between end caps and each end of rigid member. The device is reusable and is small enough to be carried in a pocket or on a belt loop.
US09808071B2	Apparatus for dispensing cosmetic material An apparatus is provided for dispensing cosmetic material. The apparatus includes a dispensing assembly configured to receive at least one cartridge that contains a cosmetic material and to dispense a specified amount of the cosmetic material from the cartridge into a receiving area; a memory configured to receive and store dispensing information which includes the specified amount of the cosmetic material to be dispensed for each cartridge disposed in the dispensing assembly to achieve a specified single use of a cosmetic application; and circuitry configured to obtain the dispensing information from the memory and to control the dispensing assembly to dispense the cosmetic material from each cartridge disposed in the dispensing assembly into the receiving area according to the one or more specified amounts included in the dispensing information.
US09808070B2	Apparatus and methods for providing samples external to the packaging of a product Apparatus and methods for providing samples (e.g., cosmetic samples) with primary product packages (e.g., cosmetic product packages) exterior to the primary product package.
US09808067B2	Attachment for a handheld appliance An attachment for a handheld appliance, the attachment having a first end for connection to the appliance and a second end, a first wall extending from the first end towards the second end and defining a fluid flow path through the attachment, a second wall extending from the second end towards the first end about the first wall and defining a second fluid flow path extending between the first wall and the second wall. The first end of the appliance may be substantially circular. The fluid flow path may have a fluid inlet that may be annular at the first end. The fluid inlet may be defined by the first wall and an inner wall extending around and at least partially along the first wall. The inner wall may be substantially equidistant from the first wall around the fluid inlet. A hair care appliance comprises such as attachment.
US09808066B2	Hand held appliance A hair care appliance including, a body, a heater, a PCB and a primary fluid flow path extending from a primary fluid inlet into the appliance to a primary fluid outlet out of the body wherein the PCB and heater are in fluid communication with the primary fluid flow path and the PCB is upstream of the heater. A fan unit may be provided and the fan unit is upstream of the heater and may be upstream or downstream of the PCB. A thermal barrier may be provided between the PCB and the heater. The thermal barrier may be in thermal communication with the PCB and functions as a heat sink for the PCB.
US09808063B2	Heat conducting mechanism for personal care device and personal care device A heat conducting mechanism for a personal care device comprising: a heat conductor and a mounting rack, wherein, the heat conductor is fixedly mounted on the mounting rack. The heat conductor is an aluminum plate, and a bamboo fiber layer or a carbon fiber layer is arranged at a working face of the heat conductor. According to the disclosure, the aluminum plate and bamboo fibers are combined, and the aluminum plate is easy to form, low in machining requirements and low in material cost. For example, for a using face, the bamboo fibers are additionally arranged at a surface of the aluminum plate. The bamboo fibers have good breathability and high wear resistance, and have the functions of natural antibiosis, bacteriostasis, mite removal, deodorizing and ultraviolet ray resistance, and thus the effect of environmental protection is achieved.
US09808061B2	Hair styling appliance The invention relates to a hair styling appliance (100, 100′, 100″) comprising at least one heater (103, 104) having a plurality of heating zones (Z1-Z5). The heating zones are independently operable arranged along the length of the heater. The sequential arrangement of the independently operable heating zones helps to improve the thermal control of the hair styling appliance. The hair styling appliance may be a hair straightener, curling tong, curling wand or a crimping iron.
US09808060B2	Pull handle of luggage A pull handle of a luggage, which is adapted for accommodating a control device having a button, includes a main body and a cover. The main body has a transverse pipe, two vertical pipes integrally extended from two ends of the transverse pipe respectively, and a hollow portion located at the transverse pipe. The cover is mounted to the main body and covers at least one part of the hollow portion. The cover and the transverse pipe constitute a grip which has an opening corresponding in position to the button of the control device. In this way, the pull handle is not only firm in structure so as to be uneasily damaged and have long life time, but also simplified in assembling process.
US09808057B2	Material of storage device, storage device and a bag thereof The present invention discloses a material of storage device, a storage device and a bag of the same. The material of storage device comprise a composite layer composed of polyurethane layer, polyurethane-polyurea copolymer layer, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer layer materials. The storage device is formed by the above material, which can be folded in vertical direction and/or horizontal direction; the storage device has a plurality of cavity-shaped storage chamber. A bag formed by the storage device is disclosed. The material and structure of the present invention has the features of waterproof, light weight, proper hardness, capability to fold, high wearing feature, scratch resistant. The storing spatial pattern of the said storage device could be adjusted when needed; it could effectively protect the stored items. The provided bag could be opened partially, allowing quickly and conveniently access to the stored items, the storage space in the bag is designed for a better protection of stored items.
US09808054B2	Wearable electronic apparatus providing sensory feedback Wearable electronic apparatus providing sensory feedback is provided. The wearable electronic apparatus has master beads that can power slave beads. The beads have electronic circuitry enabling visual, auditory or haptic feedback to be initiated by the master beads. Master beads of one unit of a wearable electronic apparatus communicate with master beads of another unit of another apparatus. In the presence or proximity of an authorized apparatus, the master bead causes the slave beads to provide a user with sensory feedback.
US09808053B2	Magnetic clasp for jewelry A magnetic clasp for jewelry has a first and a second coupling part each having a magnet and an abutment surface which are pulled against one another by a magnetic force of attraction when closed. The two coupling parts each have a fastening element for fastening jewelry and predefine a pulling direction when closed. The first coupling part defines a receptacle for the second coupling part to engage when the clasp is closed. The second coupling part has an undercut which forms an interlock acting against the pulling direction. The abutment surfaces are at an incline to the pulling direction and the first coupling part forms a sliding surface which, when the clasp is closed and pressure acts on the second coupling part oppositely to the pulling direction, allows a displacement of the second coupling part relative to the first coupling part, thus opening the clasp.
US09808051B1	Removable fastener for a loop shank button An improved one-piece fastener for retaining a loop shank button in the buttonhole of a garment. The fastener is in the form of a planar disk having a solid margin and a central portion within the margin that is notched to define a pair of mutually parallel deflectable legs sized and spaced to permit their partial insertion through the loop shank of the button. The legs of the fastener are contoured to define a detent position in which the loop shank seats to securely attach the fastener to the loop shank and thereby retain the loop shank button in the buttonhole of the garment. One longitudinal end of the fastener margin is provided with an extension or tab by which a user can conveniently grasp the fastener during its installation and removal.
US09808049B2	Clamping device for a cable closure system A clamping device for a cable closure system. The clamping device (1) includes a supporting base (2), a pulley (3), operatively associable with a closure cable, and a handle (4), connected integrally to the pulley (3) and manually activatable. The clamping device (1) includes first and second retaining means (5,6) operatively engageable with a toothed surface (331) of the pulley (3) and control means (7), separate from said handle (4). The retaining means (5,6) and the control means (7) are operatively associated with one another so as to be able to obtain a complete release or a controlled release of the clamping tension of the closure cable.
US09808039B2	Glove and production process thereof The present invention reduces the minimum detectable volume of a piece of a glove in the detection using a metal detector. A glove made of a rubber or resin film which contains magnetic particles, wherein the quantity of the magnetic particles is 0.2 to less than 40 mass % relative to the whole of the film; and the magnetic particles comprise secondary particles formed by the agglomeration of primary particles.
US09808037B2	Urination relief hatch for waterproof waders and foul weather gear A waterproof pair of pants and/or waders includes a sealable opening for relief of bodily fluids. A rigid frame is sealed in a waterproof manner to the pair of pants and/or waders forming a frame aperture. A rigid lid is pivotably connected to the frame. A seal is disposed between the frame and the lid forming a waterproof closure when the lid is in a closed position. An optional rigid backing forms a backing aperture, wherein a first surface of the backing and a back side surface of the frame capture there between the waterproof material. An optional roughened surface can be disposed on the first surface of the backing, on the back side surface of the frame or on the wader material itself. At least one adhesive bond is disposed between the back side surface of the frame and the waterproof material, and/or, between the first surface of the backing and the waterproof material. The backing aperture is equal to or greater in surface area in comparison to the frame aperture.
US09808034B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly and an atomizer assembly within a housing with the battery assembly electrically connected to the atomizer assembly. The housing has one or more air inlets. A liquid storage component is in contact with a porous component of the atomizer assembly, with the porous component having a run-through hole. A heating wire is in an air flow path through the run-through hole.
US09808031B2	Systems and methods to estimate nutritional needs of human and other patients Systems, techniques and methods for estimating the metabolic state or flux, e.g., the body energy state (“BES”) of a patient, are disclosed. The BES provides deep insight into the nutritional needs of the patient, thus allowing for a sort of exquisite glycemic control with regard to the patient. The invention discloses systems and methods for estimating fractional gluconeogenesis, which is the % of glucose production that comes from gluconeogenesis (“GNG”), as opposed to glycogenolysis (“GLY”), the other form of glucose production. Nutritional formulations, materials, cocktails and methods for feeding patients by parenteral and other means are disclosed. The amount, type and rate of such nutritional feeding are typically based upon the above estimating. The invention discloses formulations that contain labels, such as deuterium, for medical diagnostics, such as for estimating BES and fractional gluconeogenesis. The invention is suitable for any sort of patient, including those who are injured, such as with traumatic brain injury, ill, or have other conditions that stress the metabolic system.
US09808030B2	Salt composition A low sodium salt composition and method for manufacture are provided. The composition generally includes salt, such as sodium chloride, and one or more crystallization interrupters. The composition is in the form of amorphous particles, optionally in combination with other ingredients.
US09808027B2	Methods for promoting health or wellness in adult animals Methods for promoting health or wellness, regulating food intake, and increasing nitrogen retention in an adult animal by feeding the animal a food containing lysine in an amount of at least about 3% by weight of total protein. Also, kits containing lysine and a food suitable for consumption in separate packages and instructions for how to combine the lysine and food are provided.
US09808025B2	Film-coating apparatus The invention relates to a film-coating apparatus (1) for coating foods with a coating material, more particularly with sugar solution or with a solution based on sugar substitute, having a housing (2), a coating chamber (9) within the housing (2), in which a delivery means (6) for delivering the coating material can be placed, and having a circulating belt (3) which in sections forms part of the walls of the coating chamber (9) and is provided as a bearing surface for the foods. The invention relates more particularly to a film-coating apparatus in which the belt (3) has a multiplicity of gas ports (30) which are designed for the accelerated solidification of the coating material.
US09808023B2	Process for producing purified tea extract Provided is a process for producing a tea extract having a high recovery rate of non-polymer catechins, a low caffeine content and an improved taste and color tone. As one embodiment of this invention provides, there is provided a process for producing a purified tea extract by adsorbing a tea extract on a synthetic adsorbent, bringing an aqueous solution of an organic solvent or a basic aqueous solution into contact with the synthetic adsorbent to elute non-polymer catechins, and then bringing the eluate into contact with activated carbon in an aqueous solution of an organic solvent.
US09808021B2	Systems and methods for ozone treatment of grain in grain piles Systems and methods for treating grain stored in a grain pile with ozone are effective for treating grain for toxins, insects, mold, and/or odor. A method according to embodiments of the invention involves monitoring at least one of temperature and odor at a plurality of aeration outlet locations spaced around the grain pile. When an abnormal temperature variance or odor is detected at one or more of the aeration outlet locations, a determination is made as to a problem location within the grain pile where a treatment of ozone should be applied, and a further determination is made as to how best to apply ozone to the problem location. Ozone is then applied to the problem location within the grain pile to minimize nascent problems in the grain pile. The ozone treatment may reduce molds and toxins.
US09808019B2	Method and system for harvesting knee meat together with thigh meat from a poultry leg A method and a corresponding system for harvesting knee meat and thigh meat from a whole leg poultry product are disclosed. The method includes providing a leg product having a thigh, a drumstick, a knee and a transverse cut at the knee. The thigh and the drumstick are connected to each other and the knee cap is intact, creating a drumstick side cut plane and a thigh side cut plane, with the leg product suspended from a poultry product carrier, arranging it adjacent to a counter element, with the drumstick side cut plane facing the counter element, bringing a knee cap scraper in engagement with the leg product adjacent to the knee cap and the counter element with the leg product at the rear of the knee cap, moving the knee cap past the knee cap scraper while the counter element engages the leg product at the rear of the knee cap, therewith scraping knee meat from the knee cap while leaving the knee meat connected to the thigh, after the scraping step the knee meat and thigh meat being present on a first side of the knee cap scraper and the knee cap on a second side.
US09808018B2	Alpha-amylase variants A variant polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, wherein the variant has an amino acid sequence which, when aligned with the alpha-amylase comprising the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, comprises at least one substitution of an amino acid residue.Such a variant polypeptide may be used in the preparation of a baked product.
US09808016B2	Pesticide composition for shortening the virus lethal time The present invention provides a method of shortening pesticidal time of the baculovirus to pest, comprising: (1) preparing a pesticide composition; (2) diluting the pesticide composition 100-3000 times; and (3) spraying the diluted pesticide composition on third or older instars in fields; wherein the pesticide composition comprises: (a) a ryanodine receptor insecticide or a diamides insecticide and (b) baculovirus, wherein the concentration of the ryanodine receptor insecticide or the diamides insecticide is 0.01-75% and the concentration of the nucleopolyhedrovirus is 107-1012 PIB/ml. The pesticide composition of the present invention can effectively reduce the lethal time to the pest compared to the baculovirus alone, and also can increase the control effect of the pest compared to the same concentration of the insecticide, when applied in field.
US09808014B2	Active-powder biocidal composition comprising at least one copper salt and at least one zinc salt and the method for the production thereof Active-powder biocidal composition comprising at least one copper salt and at least one zinc salt such that the molar ratio between the copper salt and the zinc salt is within the range of 10 to 1 and each copper and zinc salt, separately, has a solubility constant (Kps) within the range from a value greater than or equal to 110-20 to a value less than or equal to 910-6. Also included is the biocidal composition that comprises the active-powder composition and a polymer, and the method for the production of said biocidal composition, which comprises: thoroughly mixing the salts in such a manner as to obtain a homogeneous distribution of an active-powder biocidal composition; controlling the mixing temperature such that it remains at approximately less than 50° C.; and mixing the resulting mixture of active powders with a polymer.
US09808011B2	Pentacyclic triterpene compounds and uses thereof Disclosed herein is a PEGylated bis pentacyclic triterpene, compositions comprising the PEGylated bis pentacyclic triterpene, methods of preparing the PEGylated bis pentacyclic triterpene, and a method of treating or preventing a fungal disease in a plant using the compounds and compositions disclosed herein. The PEGylated bis pentacyclic triterpene has the formula A-P-B, wherein A is a first pentacyclic triterpene; B is a second pentacyclic triterpene; and P is a polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecule.
US09808009B2	Dazomet compositions A solid body of dazomet for use in internal remedial treatments of wood and methods of applying such solid bodies to wooden structures and manufacturing such solid bodies. The solid bodies can be easily transported and inserted into treatment holes in utility poles, wooden pilings, and other wooden structures, delivering a dose of insecticide and fungicide that combats internal decay in the wood.
US09808008B2	Synergistic pesticidal compositions and related methods A pesticidal composition comprises a synergistically effective amount of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) allosteric activator compound and a pesticide selected from N-(3-chloro-1-(pyridin-3-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-N-ethyl-3-((3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)thio) propanamide (I), N-(3-chloro-1-(pyridine-3-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-N-ethyl-3-((3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)sulfinyl) propanamide (II), or any agriculturally acceptable salt thereof. A method of controlling pests comprises applying the pesticidal composition near a population of pests. A method of protecting a plant from infestation and attack by insects comprises contacting the plant with the synergistic pesticidal composition.
US09808006B2	Insecticidal phenyl-or pyridyl-piperdine compounds A compound of formula (I) wherein A, p, R1, R3, R4, R5, R6, m, R7, n and R8 are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to intermediates used to prepare compounds of formula (I), to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, nematode and mollusc pests and to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and molluscicidal compositions comprising them.
US09808001B1	Microbicidal composition A synergistic microbicidal composition having two components. The first component is a nonionic surfactant with structure: R2O(CH2CH(CH3)O)3(CH2CH2O)5H, where R2 is a mixture of C8-C14 linear alkyl groups. The second component is 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol. The weight ratio of the nonionic surfactant to 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol is from 1:0.08 to 1:0.12 or 1:0.2 to 1:1.8286.
US09808000B2	Water dispersible granules Water dispersible granules are provided containing (a) an agrochemical active ingredient that is solid at 25° C., (b) a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether phosphate or its salt, (c) at least one anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of arylsulfonates or their formaldehyde condensates, ligninsulfonates, and polycarboxylates, and (d) lactose. The granules are water dispersible granules having good disintegrability and dispersibility in water and also having good storage stability. The water dispersible granules can be disintegrated and dispersed in a small amount of water. Accordingly, the water dispersible granules can be mixed with paste fertilizers to produce agrochemical-containing paste fertilizers, which can also be used in paddy fields and are useful water dispersible granules.
US09807996B1	Bug eater A drone with a high-voltage trap seeks, identifies, pursues and destroys flying insects within a patrolling area. During its passive attracting mode, the drone lands on a designated ground site and attracts insects with light, sound, and scents. Once insects are lured, the high voltage screens trap will immediately electrocute targeted insects. In its active offensive mode, the drone hovers closer to insect nests using its high-velocity propellers, producing strong downdraft jet streams to disturb the nest and force insects, such as mosquitoes and the like, to evacuate their nest. Once insects are airborne, the drone pursues fleeing insects from below or behind, making use of its propellers and vacuuming the fleeing insects. Slow flying insects that come in contact with the high-voltage electrified screens are immediately electrocuted. Insects that are vacuumed into the fast-spinning propellers blades are knocked down and killed. A rectified charging pad recharges the drone batteries.
US09807992B2	Crankbait tuning device Disclosed herein is a crankbait tuning device comprising a main lever arm comprising a first main lever arm major side, a second main lever arm major side, and a first handle portion, the first lever arm major side comprising a first interlocking portion and a main lever arm threaded portion; a torque setting knob comprising a mating threaded portion, wherein the mated threaded portion is attached to the main lever arm threaded portion in mated threaded fashion; an opposing lever arm comprising a second handle portion and a first jaw portion, the opposing lever arm pivotally attached to the main lever arm; and a movable lever arm comprising a first movable lever arm major side and a second movable lever arm major side, wherein the first movable lever arm major side comprises a second jaw portion and a second interlocking portion, wherein the movable lever arm first major side is disposed between the torque setting knob and the main lever arm and pivotally attached to the main lever arm such that the first interlocking portion is contacted with and engaged with the second interlocking portion.
US09807990B2	Double bearing reel One object is to provide a double bearing reel that allows a fingertip gripping the reel body to be retained well in reeling out and in a fishing line thereby to provide better grip retention of the reel body. A double bearing reel according to the present invention includes a reel body having left and right side plates. A concave finger retainer is provided in an edge of at least one of outer circumferential surfaces of the left and right side plates to retain a thick of a fingertip of a hand gripping and holding the reel body.
US09807983B2	Device control method for estimating a state of an animal and for determining a control detail for an electronic device An electronic device including: a living thing state estimator that determines whether or not at least an animal other than a human is present in a space based on information on the space in which the electronic device is disposed, and estimates a state of the animal that is determined to be present; and a control detail determiner that determines a control detail for the electronic device, according to a result of the determination or the estimated state of the animal.
US09807979B2	Explosive and narcotics detection dog training with vapour or aerosol air impregnation The present invention provides devices and methods for the impregnation of air with the vapor or aerosol of a substance in a ‘controllable manner to enable the testing or training of detection means to evaluate and quantify the presence of the substance in an enclosed volume, and iη• particular to enable production of training aids and quality assurance test items for use in canine-olfaction based security screening.
US09807976B2	Closeable container cap A closeable container cap device that is adapted to releasably connect to litter containers such that when the closeable container cap is screwed on to the litter container opening, the closeable container cap allows for the controllable dispensing of litter from litter container.
US09807974B2	Double-gripper for the application of teat cups to an animal to be milked, rinse cup for this and milking machine provided therewith, and a method for milking This invention is related to a double grab, its rinsing cup and milking machine provided therewith, and the method for automatically applying teat cups to the teats of an udder of an animal to be milked. The double grab according to the invention includes: —a first housing part provided with a first magnet designed to hold a first teat cup; —a second housing part, installed substantially in a horizontal plane next to the first housing part, provided with a second magnet designed to hold a second teat cup; —whereby each housing part is provided with separate pivoting means that can be activated and is designed to make the related housing part pivot around a pivoting axis which in use, extends substantially in a horizontal direction, substantially in a widthwise direction of the arm.
US09807973B2	Double-gripper for the application of teat cups to an animal to be milked, rinse cup for this and milking machine provided therewith, and a method for milking This invention is related to a double grab, its rinsing cup and milking machine provided therewith, and the method for automatically applying teat cups to the teats of an udder of an animal to be milked. The double grab according to the invention includes:—a first housing part provided with a first magnet designed to hold a first teat cup;—a second housing part, installed substantially in a horizontal plane next to the first housing part, provided with a second magnet designed to hold a second teat cup;—whereby each housing part is provided with separate pivoting means that can be activated and is designed to make the related housing part pivot around a pivoting axis which in use, extends substantially in a horizontal direction, substantially in a widthwise direction of the arm.
US09807972B1	Vision system with leg detection A system that includes a three-dimensional (3D) camera configured to capture 3D images of a dairy livestock. The system further includes a memory operable to store a thigh gap detection rule set and a processor operably coupled to the 3D camera and the memory. The processor is configured to obtain the 3D image, to identify one or more regions within the 3D image comprising depth values greater than a depth value threshold, and to apply the thigh gap detection rule set to the one or more regions to identify a thigh gap region. The processor is further configured to demarcate an access region within the thigh gap region. The processor is configured to reduce the width of the access region by shifting a first vertical edge and a second vertical edge of the access region and to determine position information for the first vertical edge and the second vertical edge.
US09807971B1	Vision system with automatic teat detection A system including a 3D camera, memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain the 3D image, identify one or more regions within the 3D image comprising depth values greater than a depth value threshold, and apply the thigh gap detection rule set to identify a thigh gap region. The processor is further configured to demarcate an access region within the thigh gap region, demarcate a teat detection region, partition the 3D image within the teat detection region to generate a plurality of image depth planes, and examine each of the plurality of image depth planes. The processor is further configured to identify one or more teat candidates within the image depth plane, apply the teat detection rule set to the one or more teat candidates to identify one or more teats, and determine position information for the one or more teats.
US09807964B1	Maize inbred PH2RRS A novel maize variety designated PH2RRS and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2RRS with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2RRS through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2RRS or a locus conversion of PH2RRS with another maize variety.
US09807959B1	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH541984 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH541984. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH541984, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH541984 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH541984.
US09807957B1	Maize hybrid X70H269 A novel maize variety designated X70H269 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X70H269 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X70H269 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X70H269, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X70H269. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X70H269.
US09807956B1	Maize hybrid X05H233 A novel maize variety designated X05H233 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05H233 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05H233 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05H233, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05H233. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05H233.
US09807948B2	Drip irrigation tube with metering elements inserted therein A drip irrigation tube is provided with metering elements comprising respectively inlet regions, through which the water in the tube arrives in the metering elements, metering regions, formed by a labyrinth channel, which is delimited by two lateral walls, a cover and the walling of the drip irrigation tube and in which a pressure reduction of the water flowing through takes place, and outlet regions, through which the water emerges out of the drip irrigation tube via outlet openings made in the tube walling. The respective outlet region borders at least on one lateral wall, of the labyrinth channel; at least one region of this lateral wall is covered by an elastic membrane forming a portion of the cover, so that the lateral wall is able to be lifted off of the tube wall by means of the elastic membrane and forms a passage through which the water from the labyrinth channel arrives directly in the outlet region. The water flowing through the metering element can thereby be metered depending upon the water pressure in the drip irrigation tube.
US09807947B2	Plant cultivating container A plant cultivating container comprising a hollow cell (10) for holding a growing medium and a plant. The cell has side walls (11), a base (20) and an open top (12). Air vents (30) are disposed on the side walls of the container. The base is vertically-movable base with guide tabs (21) which are extendable though an air vent. When the vertically-movable base is pushed upwards to eject the cultivated plant, the vertical movement is guided by engagement of the tabs within the air vents resulting in uniform support at all sides of the base. This enables the removal of the growing medium and the plant cultivated within it, in a substantially compact unit resulting in minimized root damage and transplant shock to the cultivated plant. The air vents of the plant cultivating container further comprises retaining flaps (31) to aid in the pruning of the roots.
US09807946B2	Vertical living wall planter A vertical planter having a partitioned tray, a liner, and a sliding wire support grid, wherein the partitioned tray engages the sliding wire support grid to provide access to the partitioned tray.
US09807945B2	Illumination apparatus used for plant cultivation The present invention provides an illumination apparatus for plant cultivation, including a unit configured to change light in any wavelength region of 300 nm or higher and 600 nm or lower (wavelengths of 452 nm to 474 nm, for example) to light in the wavelength region having dominantly a right-circularly polarized light component. The illumination apparatus of the present invention enables irradiation with light that is capable of giving a specific effect in plant cultivation.
US09807943B1	Handheld apparatus and method for trimming a plant The present application provides a handheld plant trimming apparatus. The handheld plant trimming apparatus, in one aspect, includes a wand having a longitudinal axis. The wand includes a wand inlet tube defining a void and an elongate slot, an outlet port having a through bore parallel to the wand longitudinal axis and an outlet bore where the outlet bore is in fluid communication with the void, and a handle. A cutting element is contained in the wand inlet tube and coupled to a motor to provide rotative force to the cutting element. A drum is in fluid communication with the wand and a vacuum pulls plant parts that are cut by the cutting element from the wand to the drum.
US09807942B2	Bale shredder A bale shredder apparatus may comprise a frame and a bale hopper mounted on the frame and defining an interior bale chamber for receiving a bale to be shredded with a bale feed opening. A bale shredding assembly may be in communication with the bale chamber through the opening to shred a bale in the bale chamber. A side wall of the hopper may be movable away from the primary side wall to permit removal of a bale from the bale chamber. A primary bale movement assembly may move a bale in a lateral direction toward the opening and a secondary bale movement assembly may move the bale in a direction substantially transverse to the lateral direction. A shredding rotor of the shredding assembly may include at least one brace including at least one leg extending outwardly from the outer surface of the rotor.
US09807939B1	Spiked threshing bar and combine harvester thresher formed therewith A combine harvester threshing drum spiked threshing bar includes a rigid, integral, unitary threshing fixture having a leading edge, a trailing end, an upstream face, a downstream face, a threshing side, including a trailing threshing face and a leading threshing face, a threshing drum emplacement side, and a threshing spike that extends outwardly from the leading threshing face.
US09807938B2	Harvesting system having a self-propelled harvesting machine A self-propelled harvesting machine such as a combine harvester has multiple working units for processing crop picked up from a field, a driver assistance system for the sensor-supported control of the working units, an environmental sensor system for detecting environmental information and spatial areas of applicability located in the environment of the harvesting machine. The driver assistance system has a memory for storing data and a computing unit for processing data, including the data stored in the memory. A functional system model for at least one part of the harvesting machine is stored in the memory. The computing unit functions as a characteristic control on the basis of the system model and autonomously determines machine parameters of at least one working unit and specifies these to the particular working unit.
US09807936B2	Swath roller with controlled anchoring force A swath roller apparatus is adapted to be attached to a swather, where the swather is operative to cut standing crop plants and lay cut plants in a swath as the swather moves along the ground in an operating travel direction. A drum is rotatably attached to an axle that is adapted to be movably attached to a rear portion of the swather such that the axle is oriented substantially horizontally and perpendicular to the operating travel direction, and such that the drum moves up and down and rolls along a top of the swath exerting a downward anchoring force on the swath. A bias element is operative to exert a bias force on the axle, and a bias force control is operative to vary the bias force to vary the anchoring force.
US09807931B2	Monitoring of operating modes for harvesters A method and control system are disclosed for monitoring operating modes of a harvester. A harvester may include one or more harvesting devices driven by one or more hydraulic circuits. A lower pressure limit and a current operating pressure may be determined for a hydraulic circuit of a harvesting device. The determined pressure limit and operating pressure may be compared, and a current operating mode for the harvester identified accordingly. The operating mode may include at least one of a waiting mode, a transport mode, a maneuvering mode, and a harvesting mode.
US09807927B2	Overlapping sickle section for a knife assembly An improved knife assembly for use with a header of an agricultural harvester. The assembly includes a knife head, a knife back and a plurality of sickle sections fastened to the knife head and knife back. The sickle sections include first and second portions where a second portion of one knife section overlaps a first portion of an another sickle section when the knife sections are arranged in adjacent relationship. The overlapping areas of the adjacent knife sections include aligned though holes which shared fasteners. The resultant construction reduces the overall knife assembly mass thereby leading to increased cutting speeds and corresponding harvester ground speeds. Additionally, the time and labor associated with manufacture and maintenance is reduced while the assembly strength and force distribution capability is enhanced.
US09807926B2	Agricultural harvesting machine An agricultural harvesting machine has a header designed as a front attachment for cutting and picking up crop and a driver assistance system for controlling the header. The driver assistance system has a memory for storing data and a computing unit for processing the data stored in the memory. The header together with the driver assistance system forms an automated header, in that a plurality of selectable harvesting-process strategies is stored in the memory and in order to implement a selected harvesting-process strategy or the selected harvesting-process strategies, the computing device autonomously determines at least one machine parameter, a header parameter and specifies this to the header.
US09807925B2	Robotic mower area coverage system A robotic mower area coverage system includes a load sensor on the robotic mower signaling load on a cutting blade motor, a boundary sensor on the robotic mower indicating the distance from the sensor to a boundary wire, a timer on the robotic mower indicating when the robotic mower last used a specified boundary coverage, and a vehicle control unit on the robotic mower selecting the type of area coverage based on input from the load sensor, the boundary sensor and the timer, and commanding a pair of traction drive motors to drive the robotic mower using the selected type of area coverage.
US09807921B2	Agricultural row unit systems, methods, and apparatus A row unit for an agricultural planter having features for releasably operably coupling a seed meter of the row unit to a seed deposition apparatus of the row unit such as a seed conveyor, seed tube or the like. Apparatus are provided for tipping a seed meter of the hopper for disengagement from the seed deposition apparatus. Apparatus are provided for biasing the seed deposition apparatus into operative engagement with the seed meter. The row unit includes features such as latches for releasably operably coupling the row unit to crop input and vacuum supply lines. Apparatus are provided for tipping a seed meter of the hopper for disengagement from the crop input and vacuum supply lines. Systems are provided for supplying vacuum and crop inputs to the seed meter via the releasably engageable apparatus.
US09814164B2	Sealing assembly system and method An assembly (500) is provided including: a first component (10) having a first outer surface (15) defining an opening therein; a second component (30) having second surface (60); and a sealing system (100). The sealing system includes a sealing member (200) and a support member (300). The sealing member is configured for providing sealing between the first component and the second component with respect to the opening and along a generally non-planar sealing perimeters. The support member is configured for supporting the sealing member in a generally non-planar configuration corresponding to the generally non-planar sealing perimeter. At least one of the second component and the support member is configured for enabling the sealing system to be mounted to the second component in a sealing position wherein to align the sealing member with the second component along the sealing perimeter. The support member is configured for being sealingly affixed to the first component subsequent to the system being mounted to the second component in the sealing position.
US09814161B2	Electronic device rack and information processing apparatus An electronic device rack includes a plurality of panels surrounding a first space. Moreover, the electronic device rack includes: an electronic-device housing unit disposed in the first space and configured to house electronic devices; a heat exchanger disposed in the first space at a position away from the electronic-device housing unit; a second space provided between the electronic-device housing unit and the heat exchanger and isolated from the rest of the first space; and an air blower configured to circulate air inside the first space through the electronic-device housing unit, the second space, and the heat exchanger in the described order.
US09814160B2	Side-cooled modular data center A modular data center includes a cooling module with a cooling module enclosure and a first cooling unit housed within the cooling module enclosure. The cooling module enclosure includes a first interface side wall with a first cooling module supply opening that receives a first portion of cooling air from the first cooling unit. The center further includes a data module with a data module enclosure for housing data equipment. The data module enclosure includes a second interface side wall with a first data module supply opening that receives the first portion of cooling air from the first cooling module supply opening such that the first portion of cooling air flows into the data module enclosure and removes heat from the data equipment.
US09814150B2	Mounting fixture system A cable manager includes a trough, defining a footprint, and a door. At least one side of the trough is formed from a plurality of finger-like projections extending forwardly from a support member. At least two of the projections include a hinge boss disposed at an outer end thereof and extending inwardly. At least one edge of the door has a hinge structure disposed therealong that includes an outer arm and an inner arm defining a hinge channel therebetween. The hinge bosses are disposed within the hinge channel such that the door is rotatably attached along at least one of its longitudinal edges to the trough. The door is rotatable to an open state without extending beyond the footprint of the trough.
US09814149B2	Smart-home device battery compartment facilitating ease of user access and device robustness According to one embodiment, an access door for a hazard detector includes a release member that releasably secures the access door in a closed position over a battery compartment of the hazard detector. The release member allows the access door to be pivoted open and closed relative to the battery compartment and hazard detector. The access door also includes a first hinge member and a second hinge member. The first hinge member enables the access door to pivot along a first pivot path and by a first pivot amount and the second hinge member enables the access door to pivot along a second pivot path and by a second pivot amount. A cumulative total of the first pivot amount and the second pivot amount is substantially greater than either pivot amount alone.
US09814144B2	Component placement device as well as a method for picking up a component and placing a component on a substrate A component placement device for picking up a component and placing a component on a substrate device comprises a holder which is movable at least in a main direction, as well as a nozzle for picking up a component. The nozzle is movable at least in a direction opposite the main direction relative to the holder. The component placement device comprises a fluid flow channel which opens or closes upon movement of the nozzle in the direction opposite the main direction relative to the holder, detection means for detecting the opening or closing of the fluid flow channel as well as means for controlling the movement of the holder in at least the main direction on the basis of a signal delivered by the detection means concerning the opening or closing of the fluid flow channel.
US09814139B2	Mounting substrate, manufacturing method for the same, and component mounting method A mounting substrate includes a through-hole 13 formed in a substrate 10, a first land part 21, a second land part 31, a first component attaching part 22, a second component attaching part 32, a conductive layer 14, and a filling member 15 filled into a part of the through-hole 13. A shortest distance allowable value L0 from the center of the first land part 21 to a component 51 is determined on the basis of the volume Vh of a part of the through-hole 15 positioned above a top surface of the filling member 15 on the side of the first land part 21, the length L1 of the component 51 to be mounted to the first component attaching part 22, and the maximum allowable value of the inclination of the component 51 to be mounted to the first component attaching part 22 relative to the first surface 11 of the substrate 10.
US09814136B2	Wiring board, mounting structure equipped with the wiring board, and method for manufacturing wiring board A wiring board includes a first electrically-conductive layer; and a first resin layer covering the first electrically-conductive layer, the first resin layer including a resin portion and inorganic insulating particles dispersed in the resin portion. The first resin layer has a first layer region which is in contact with one main surface and side surfaces of the first electrically-conductive layer, and a second layer region which is located on a side of the first layer region which side is opposite to the first electrically-conductive layer. The inorganic insulating particles include a plurality of first inorganic insulating particles contained in the first layer region, and a plurality of second inorganic insulating particles contained in the second layer region. A content rate of the first inorganic insulating particles in the first layer region is lower than a content rate of the second inorganic insulating particles in the second layer region.
US09814133B2	Touch panel module and electrostatic discharging method A touch panel module including a touch panel and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided. The touch panel includes one or more conductive electrodes and one or more dummy electrodes. The one or more conductive electrodes include at least one of one or more driving electrodes and one or more sensing electrodes. The one or more dummy electrodes are configured to fill areas between the one or more conductive electrodes or areas outside the one or more conductive electrodes. The ESD protection circuit is electrically connected to at least one dummy electrode of the one or more dummy electrodes, and configured to provide an electrostatic discharging path to the at least one dummy electrode. Furthermore, an electrostatic discharging method of the touch panel module is also provided.
US09814132B2	Display device A display device having a display panel, a conductive shielding film disposed on a surface of the display panel, and a flexible circuit unit connected to another surface of the display panel and configured to provide a driving signal to the display panel, wherein the shielding film has at least one protrusion disposed adjacent the flexible circuit unit.
US09814130B2	Reflected signal absorption in interconnect Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations for electrical signal absorption in an interconnect stub. In one instance, a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly may comprise a substrate and an interconnect (such as a via) formed in the substrate to route an electrical signal within the PCB. The interconnect may include a stub formed on the interconnect. At least a portion of the stub may be covered with an absorbing material to at least partially absorb a portion of the electric signal that is reflected by the stub. The absorbing material may be selected such that its dielectric loss tangent is greater than one, for a frequency range of a frequency of the reflected portion of the electric signal. A dielectric constant of the absorbing material may be inversely proportionate to the frequency of the reflected electric signal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09814125B2	Compact X-ray generation device An x-ray transmitter, which may be compact, may be in the form of a housing with an x-ray transparent window sputtered with a metal on one wall, and tribocharging electron source on another wall.
US09814124B2	Surge protection device, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic component including the same The present disclosure provides a surge protection device including a ceramic substrate (1), at least one pair of discharge electrodes (31) disposed on a surface of the ceramic substrate (1) so as to face each other at end portions thereof with a space in between, outer electrodes (32) electrically connected to the corresponding discharge electrodes (31), and a discharge auxiliary electrode (4) disposed between the end portions of the pair of discharge electrodes (31) The discharge auxiliary electrode (4) contains crystalized glass and particles of conductive powder (40) dispersed apart from each other in the crystalized glass.
US09814120B2	Channel allocation method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication local area network A method and apparatus for allocating channels for a wireless communication local area network are presented. A system includes a console and a plurality of nodes controllable by the console through wireless communication. At least two nodes are connected in series, each of the nodes being configured to transmit signals in turn. A trigger signal is sent to a first node, and a first response signal sent by the first node in response to the trigger signal to determine that the first node is available. A first wireless channel is allocated for wireless communication between the console and the first node, and for sending information including the allocation of the first wireless channel to the first node, whereupon the first node transmits the trigger signal to a second node adjacent to the first node after confirming that the allocation of the first wireless channel has been completed.
US09814113B2	Voltage converter for operating lamps A voltage converter is proposed, for providing a DC voltage (Vout) for operating at least one LED strip (1), wherein the converter is configured to:a) output a DC voltage increasing or decreasing at least once, preferably in a voltage range lying above the flux voltage of the LED strip (1) while measuring the LED current (iL), andb) set the operating point of the DC voltage (Vout) as a function of this measurement.
US09814112B2	Load control device for a light-emitting diode light source A load control device for controlling the intensity of a lighting load, such as a light-emitting diode (LED) light source, may include a power converter circuit operable to receive a rectified AC voltage and to generate a DC bus voltage, a load regulation circuit operable to receive the bus voltage and to control the magnitude of a load current conducted through the lighting load, and a control circuit operatively coupled to the load regulation circuit for pulse width modulating or pulse frequency modulating the load current to control the intensity of the lighting load to a target intensity. The control circuit may control the intensity of the lighting load by pulse width modulating the load current when the target intensity is above a predetermined threshold and control the intensity of the lighting load by pulse frequency modulating the load current when the target intensity is below the predetermined threshold.
US09814109B2	Apparatus and technique for modular electronic display control The present invention discloses apparatus and techniques for modular backlighting control of a display. The display includes a number of strings of LEDs. The display is divided into several sections, and each section includes one or more strings of LEDs. A local controller is assigned to each section. The local controller receives feedback signals from the strings of LEDs in its sections and controls the drive voltages and drive currents of those strings. The local controllers communicate with each other and also with the main system controller.
US09814108B2	Switched mode power supply driver integrated with a power transmission antenna A driver comprising a switched mode power supply, wherein said switched mode power supply comprises an existing coil, the driver circuit further comprises: a first power transmission antenna (42) formed as a first coil which is either the existing coil of the switched mode power supply or coupled to the existing coil of the switched mode power supply, said first power transmission antenna (42) is adapted for being magnetically coupled to a second power receiving antenna (44) thereby forming a wireless power transmitter.
US09814102B2	Rotary switch with improved simmer performance A cooking appliance has a cooktop including a plurality of separately controlled cooking areas. A first heating element and a second heating element are positioned below one of the separately controlled cooking areas. A control switch is electrically coupled to the first heating element and the second heating element and is operable to selectively energize the first heating element with single-phase AC power and selectively energize the second heating element with two-phase AC power.
US09814098B2	Microfluidic delivery system for releasing fluid compositions A microfluidic refill includes a reservoir having a hollow body and an opening; a transport member in fluid communication with the reservoir; and a lid enclosing the opening of the reservoir. The lid is in fluid communication with the transport member. The lid comprises a rigid microfluidic delivery member. The rigid microfluidic delivery member includes a die and electrical traces that are in electrical communication with the die, wherein the electrical traces terminate at electrical contacts, wherein the electrical traces are disposed on only one plane. The die has a fluid chamber in fluid communication with the transport member at an inlet of the fluid chamber and with an orifice at an outlet of the fluid chamber and.
US09814094B2	Device-to-device transmission in communications A method for providing an ad-hoc network provided, wherein at least one group of mobile devices operate as a device-to-device cluster having a currently elected cluster head device. The method comprises configuring, in a network apparatus for the device-to-device cluster, a cluster-specific cell-level radio network temporary identifier C-RNTI on the basis of a content-sharing service requested within the device-to-device cluster. C-RNTI is used to act as a cluster-specific virtual radio access user responsible for transmission between a serving base station and the currently elected cluster head device on behalf of the device-to-device cluster.
US09814089B2	System timing-aware co-existence on a shared communication medium Techniques for co-existence on a shared communication medium are disclosed. To foster co-existence, operation of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) may be cycled between active periods and inactive periods of transmission, on a communication medium shared with a second RAT, in accordance with a Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) communication pattern. One or more cycling parameters of the DTX communication pattern may be set based on a frame structure associated with the first RAT. Transmission may proceed over the communication medium in accordance with the first RAT and the one or more cycling parameters of the DTX communication pattern.
US09814085B2	Systems and methods for fast initial network link setup Systems and methods for communicating in a wireless communication system are described. Various processes for reducing the initial link set up time are described. In aspect a method in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting two or more network domain identifiers from an access point, each of the network domain identifiers being associated with a respective network service. The method further includes receiving an access request message for establishing the network service associated with at least one of the transmitted network domain identifiers.
US09814080B2	Server device and terminal device transmitting audio signal An acquisition unit acquires a reproduction period of an audio signal, a first transmission delay period of from a transmitting side terminal device or a server device to each of receiving side terminal devices, and a second transmission delay period of from each of the receiving side terminal devices to the server device. A derivation unit derives a response period of from when the reproduction of the audio signal ends to when the right-to-speak is requested, for each of the receiving side terminal devices, by subtracting the reproduction period, the first transmission delay period, and the second transmission delay period from timing when the right-to-speak request signal has been received. A comparing unit compares the derived response period of each of the receiving side terminal devices to grant the right-to-speak to any one of the receiving side terminal devices.
US09814079B2	Methods and systems for selectively routing group communications amongst multiple networks A process carried out by a first mobile radio includes detecting a request to transmit group communication media and, responsively, determining, by the first mobile radio, whether a push-to-talk (PTT) key input is in an activated or de-activated state, selecting, by the first mobile radio and as a function of the determined state of the PTT key, one of a first talkgroup on a first wireless network and a second talkgroup on a second wireless network as a target talkgroup to transmit the communication media to, and transmitting, by the first mobile radio via a corresponding one of a first wireless communication interface to the first wireless network and a second wireless communication interface to the second wireless network, the communication media to the selected target talkgroup.
US09814077B2	Mobility in a distributed antenna system A device, method or system implements operations to receive compressed samples of wireless transmissions from a plurality of user equipment (UEs) traveling through different communication regions in a wireless network, and detect information in the wireless transmissions of the UEs based on the compressed samples.
US09814073B2	PRACH-based proximity detection Improvements to signaling procedures for use in physical random access channel (PRACH)-based proximity detection are disclosed. Signaling and signaling processes from a serving base station may trigger a more efficient and reliable transmission of PRACH from related user equipment (UE). At the dynamic power nodes (DPNs) monitoring for such PRACH-based proximity, features are disclosed which establish neighbor lists for more efficient management of detection and proximity activation.
US09814072B2	Methods and devices for communicating on a radio channel based on jointly encoding a preamble format with random access configuration The invention relates to devices and methods for transmitting data on a radio channel comprising to jointly encode a preamble format with a first random access configuration, forming an extended random access configuration. The extended random access configuration is then transmitted on the radio channel.
US09814056B2	Methods and apparatus for interference management of wireless links with overriding link priority Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for interference management of wireless links with overriding link priority. The switched wireless link or connection may have lower or higher priority than the non-switched or scheduled link. The priority order between the links may be overridden in certain conditions.
US09814054B2	Base station, user apparatus and interference reduction method A base station connected to a user apparatus in a radio communication system is provided. The base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive from an interference base station first control information which is used by the user apparatus for reducing an uplink interference signal from one or more cells formed by the interference base station or from another user apparatus, a generation unit configured to generate second control information based on one or more pieces of the first control information received from the interference base station, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the second control information to the user apparatus by a downlink control signal.
US09814052B2	Data distribution system, distribution device, terminal device, and data distribution method providing enhanced communication efficiency A data distribution server and terminals measure a communication status with other devices. Based on measurement results of the communication status, the data distribution server categorizes the terminals as “trunk” or “branch”, notifies the terminals of categorization results, notifies the terminals of selection of a relay path through which data can be distributed to all relay terminals by relaying the data between “trunks”, and instructs a “trunk” terminal to relay the data through the relay path. When notified that the terminal itself is a “trunk”, each of the terminals relays the data based on an instruction from the data distribution server. When notified by the data distribution server that the terminal itself is a “branch”, each of the terminals receives the data distributed from the data distribution server or the “trunk”.
US09814040B2	UL/DL waveform and numerology design for low latency communication Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some examples, a wireless system may use a staggered uplink/downlink (UL/DL) format in which the symbol periods of the downlink are offset from the symbol periods of the uplink. Thus, if a user equipment (UE) receives a transmission in a first symbol period, it may decode the transmission and transmit a response in a staggered symbol period (e.g., in a UL control channel symbol period beginning one half of a symbol period after the first symbol period). A base station may then receive the response and, if it is a negative acknowledgement (NACK), retransmit during the third symbol period following the first symbol period. In another example, thin control channels may be used to reduce the round trip time between receiving a transmission and a retransmission.
US09814038B2	6lowpan based multidisciplinary wireless sensor protocol for connected home security systems A system is provided that includes a control panel having a wireless transceiver that operates under a 6LowPan/IPv6/IoT protocol, wherein the 6LowPan/IPv6/IoT protocol supports one or more of a 6LowPan protocol, an IEEE802.15.4 protocol, and IEEE802.11 coordination, a plurality of remotely located, wireless devices each having a wireless transceiver that exchanges messages with the control panel within a time division multiple access (TDMA) slot on a radio frequency (RF) channel, and a respective processor within the control panel and each of the plurality of wireless devices that controls transmission and reception of messages within TDMA slots of a repeating super frame, wherein at least some of the plurality of wireless devices select TDMA slots of the super frame under a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) algorithm/mechanism and some other of the plurality of wireless devices select TDMA slots of the super frame under a WiFi protocol.
US09814037B2	Method for efficient channel estimation and beamforming in FDD system by exploiting uplink-downlink correspondence A method for selecting at least one parameter for downlink data transmission with a mobile user equipment. The method is executable by a wireless communication base station having multiple antennas configured to communicate wirelessly with the mobile user equipment. The method receives an uplink probing signal from the mobile user equipment. The method determines a plurality of angles of arrival for a corresponding plurality of paths between the mobile user equipment and the multiple antennas. The method transmits a plurality of downlink probing signals directionally toward corresponding angles of arrival in the plurality of angles of arrival. Each downlink probing signal is a virtual antenna port with respect to the mobile user equipment. The method receives channel state information. The method composes at least one of a rank indicator (RI), precoding matrix indicator (PMI), or modulating and coding scheme (MCS) for downlink data transmission to the mobile user equipment.
US09814035B2	Method and apparatus for enhanced control channel-based operation in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for enhanced-control channel-based operation. A method for a terminal for transmitting confirmation response information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a step for transmitting confirmation response information for a downlink data channel by means of an uplink control channel resource, wherein an index for the uplink control channel resource can be determined on the basis of a delegate antenna port of a downlink control channel derived from the identifier of the terminal.
US09814033B2	Receiving control information through PDCCH A method for efficiently transmitting and receiving control information through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) is provided. When a User Equipment (UE) receives control information through a PDCCH, the received control information is set to be decoded in units of search spaces, each having a specific start position in the specific subframe. Here, a modulo operation according to a predetermined first constant value (D) is performed on an input value to calculate a first result value, and a modulo operation according to a predetermined first variable value (C) corresponding to the number of candidate start positions that can be used as the specific start position is performed on the calculated first result value to calculate a second result value and an index position corresponding to the second result value is used as the specific start position. Transmitting control information in this manner enables a plurality of UEs to efficiently receive PDCCHs without collisions.
US09814031B2	Method for transmitting downlink control information, network side device, and user equipment The present invention provides a method for transmitting downlink control information, a network side device, and a user equipment. The method includes: selecting, by a network side device, a aggregation level of a physical control channel set in a transmission subframe, and selecting the number of physical control channel candidates corresponding to the aggregation level according to the aggregation level; and sending, by the network side, downlink control information on a physical control channel candidate corresponding to the selected number. The times that blind detection is performed corresponding to the aggregation level corresponds to the number of physical control channel candidates, and therefore, when the number of physical control channel candidates is determined, the times that blind detection is performed is determined, so that the network side device and the user equipment can communicate with each other without increasing the times that blind detection is performed.
US09814030B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving reference signal in wireless communication system A method for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) in a specific downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a CSI-RS sequence and mapping the CSI-RS sequence to CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols; and mapping the CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols to at least one pattern of a first CSI-RS pattern set composed of a plurality of CSI-RS patterns and a second CSI-RS pattern set composed of a plurality of CSI-RS patterns, the CSI-RS patterns being composed of REs to which CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols are mapped, wherein the second CSI-RS pattern set is available when 2 OFDM symbols are used for a physical downlink control channel in the downlink subframe or a specific downlink control information format is configured.
US09814022B2	Network accessing method for mobile terminal and mobile terminal The present invention discloses a network accessing method for a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal. In some implementations of the present invention, a mobile terminal reads a help request for accessing a network by another mobile terminal; sends a beacon channel on a beacon channel resource allocated by a base station of the network, and sends a broadcast signal on a broadcast channel resource corresponding to the beacon channel resource, where the broadcast signal includes an access resource; and receives an access request of the another mobile terminal on the access resource, and assists the another mobile terminal in accessing the network.
US09814015B2	Positioning method, positioning server, terminal and base station Embodiments of the present invention provide a positioning method, a positioning server, a terminal and a base station. The positioning method includes: notifying a terminal of difference threshold information; receiving cell subset information that is determined by the terminal according to the difference threshold information, where the cell subset information is used to indicate a cell pair whose reference signal measured value exceeds the difference threshold, or the cell subset information is used to indicate a cell pair whose reference signal measured value does not exceed the difference threshold; determining a configuration of a PRS according to the cell subset information, and notifying the terminal of the configuration of the PRS; and receiving an RSTD that is obtained by the terminal through measurement according to the configuration of the PRS, and determining a location of the terminal according to the RSTD.
US09814012B2	Method, node and system for managing resources of machine type communication application A resource management method of a machine type communication application is disclosed. The method includes: a machine-to-machine (M2M) application sending a registration request updating message which carries remote registration parameters of the M2M application to a local common service entity (CSE); the local CSE receiving the registration updating request message and managing remote registration of the M2M application according to an instruction of the remote registration parameters; and the local CSE returning a registration updating response to the M2M application. The embodiments of the present document also provide an M2M node and a resource management system of the machine type communication application.
US09814008B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for receiving a clock synchronization message Methods, systems, and computer readable media for receiving a clock synchronization message are disclosed. According to one exemplary method, the method occurs at a first node configured to operate on a protected side of a firewall device. The method includes sending, via the firewall device and to a second node configured to operate on a non-protected side of the firewall device, a clock lease message indicating an amount of time for clock synchronization, wherein the clock lease message triggers the firewall device to allow a clock synchronization message from the second node to the first node. The method also includes receiving, via the firewall device and from the second node, the clock synchronization message.
US09814007B2	Synchronizing time among two or more devices A time server device may send a first message to a client device, capturing and storing the time value of the time server clock when the first message is sent. When the first message is received by the client device, the client device starts a timer. At some later time, the time server device sends a second message to the client device that includes the stored time value. The clock of the client device may be updated based at least in part on the value of the timer and the received time value.
US09814004B2	Satellite communication device, satellite communication system comprising such a device and method for managing the resources allocated within such a system In the field of satellite communication systems, a method is provided for managing communication resources allocated by central control equipment to the various terminal communication devices within a global satellite communication system. In particular, the management of communication resources by way of the monitoring of the equivalent isotropically radiated power transmitted by a terminal of the satellite communication system is provided.
US09814003B2	Transmission of information in a wireless communication system Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of transmission in a wireless communication system comprises determining by a wireless device (201) a configuration of a plurality of power amplifiers (207) to achieve a single antenna transmission mode; amplifying a signal by said wireless device (201) using the configuration of the plurality of power amplifiers (207) to form a plurality of amplified signals; simultaneously transmitting at or about the same time by the wireless device (201) to a base station (202) the plurality of amplified signals from a plurality of physical antennas (212), wherein the plurality of physical antennas (212) are coupled to the configuration of the plurality of power amplifiers (207); and wherein the measured transmit power from the totality of the plurality of physical antennas (212) is about the same as the required transmit power using the single antenna transmission mode.
US09813999B2	Method and apparatus for determining MoCA beacon transmit power Systems and methods for efficiently establishing beacon transmission power, for example in networks in which beacon transmission responsibility can be passed between nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for establishing beacon transmission power in a node that has received beacon transmission responsibility in a network, for example by hand-off, failover, etc.
US09813998B2	Techniques for entering a low-power link state Techniques to cause a point-to-point link between system components to engage in a negotiation process that may lead to the link transitioning from an active state in which data may be transmitted between system components to a low power state where data may not be transmitted. The negotiation process may occur between each pair of nodes within an electronic system that are interconnected via point-to-point link. The negotiation may ensure that there are no pending transactions or transactions that may occur within an upcoming period of time. Through this negotiation each component acknowledges and agrees to transition the link to the low power state.
US09813995B2	Interference cancellation A method implemented in an access point (AP) used in a wireless communications system including a first uplink (UL) client device, a second UL client device, and a first downlink (DL) client device is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, from the first DL client device, first composite channel matrix M1 comprising a first channel matrix and a second channel matrix, wherein the first DL client device estimates the first channel matrix and the second channel matrix. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
US09813994B2	Managing transmit power for better frequency re-use in TV white space Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for managing transmit power in a television white space (TVWS) network. One example method generally includes transmitting a sequence of request-to-send (RTS) messages at different transmit power levels to an apparatus and determining if a clear-to-send (CTS) message was received in response to at least one of the RTS messages corresponding to a particular one of the transmit power levels. Another example method generally includes receiving, at a first apparatus from a second apparatus, a packet that cannot be decoded by the first apparatus; determining at least one of a time or a duration corresponding to the packet; transmitting a query with an indication of the at least one of the time or the duration; and receiving a message from the second apparatus in response to the query, the message identifying the second apparatus as a source of the packet.
US09813991B2	Access and power management for centralized networks A system and method for managing power in a subnet having a hub in communication with one or more nodes is disclosed. The hub and nodes communicate using one or more non-contention access methods, such as scheduled, polled or posted access. The node may enter a sleep or hibernation state while no scheduled, polled or posted allocation interval is pending. The hibernation state allows the node to hibernate through one or more entire beacon periods. In the sleep state, the node may be asleep between any scheduled, polled and posted allocation intervals for the node or during another node's scheduled allocation interval in a current beacon period. By selecting which access scheme is in use, the node and hub can increase the node's chances to be in hibernation or sleep state and minimize power consumption.
US09813987B2	System and method for intelligent power save notification Systems and methods are disclosed to coordinate a power save delay between a station (STA) and an access point (AP.) The STA may be configured to transmit information regarding a power save delay duration to the AP. The STA may then inform the AP that it will be entering power save mode and delay entering the power save mode for a specified period of time corresponding to the power save delay duration, thus providing a buffer period to allow the AP to complete the delivery of any frames that may already be in the hardware queue.
US09813976B2	Detection of a delinquent mobile device A method and system of detecting a delinquent mobile user device. An international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of a subscriber identity module (SIM) card of the user device is determined by the user device. The IMSI is sent to a Remote Recovery Server (RRS). A message is received from the RRS as to whether the IMSI is authorized for the user device. Upon determining that the IMSI is not authorized for the user device, a notification is displayed on a display of the user device.
US09813957B2	Method and apparatus for receiving signal of neighboring cell signal by D2D terminal in wireless communication system Disclosed herein is a method for receiving a signal of a neighboring cell by a Device-to-Device (D2D) terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving an offset parameter and a periodicity parameter, determining a resource pool of the neighboring cell in consideration of relation between the periodicity parameter and a maximum possible number of subframes contained in a resource pool period set, and receiving the signal of the neighboring cell in the determined resource pool.
US09813956B2	Base station device and handover control method [Problem] To provide a base station device and a handover control method capable of avoiding a situation in which the base station device of a cell becomes overloaded when the cell transitions from an inactive state to an active state. [Solution] A base station device (100) having: an adjacent base station information table (150) for storing adjacent base station information that includes handover suppression information correlated with an adjacent cell (200a) managed by an adjacent base station device (200), and also includes the processing capacity index of the adjacent base station device; and a handover control unit (130) for limiting the handover of a mobile terminal device (300) under control to an activated adjacent cell on the basis of the handover suppression information and the processing capacity index when the adjacent cell transitions from an inactive state to an active state.
US09813951B2	Method and apparatus for cell update while in an enhanced cell—FACH state A method and apparatus for cell update while in a Cell_FACH state are disclosed. After selecting a target cell, system information is read from the target cell including high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) common system information. A radio network temporary identity (RNTI) received in a source cell is cleared and a variable HS_DSCH_RECEPTION is set to TRUE. An HS-DSCH medium access control (MAC-hs) entity is configured based on the HS-DSCH common system information. High speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) transmission is then received in the target cell. A CELL UPDATE message is sent to notify of a cell change. The HSDPA transmission may be received using a common H-RNTI broadcast in the system information, a reserved H-RNTI as requested in a CELL UPDATE message, or a temporary identity which is a subset of a U-RNTI. The MAC-hs entity may be reset.
US09813949B2	Technique for terminating call set up in a CSFB situation Techniques and apparatus are described for controlling set up of a terminating call from an IMS to a UE, in a Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) situation. A first MSC receives a terminating call from IMS and tries to page the UE. The UE has moved to the second MSC and performs a Location Update to the second MSC. The second MSC informs the first MSC with a Send Identification message comprising an address of the second MSC. The first MSC maintains the IMS subscription of the UE at Cancel Location and forwards the terminating call to the second MSC. The first MSC acts as relay for subsequent call control messages for calls of the UE. The first and second MSCs are supervising the ongoing calls and as soon as all calls are completed the second MSC registers the UE into IMS and the first MSC de-registers the UE from IMS.
US09813947B2	Clearance of frequency spectrum in a cell using authorized shared access (ASA) The invention relates to the Authorized Shared Access (ASA) concept in which a source node temporarily uses ASA spectrum as secondary user and on request of an ASA controller said ASA spectrum needs to be cleared (evacuated) and made available to a primary spectrum user and thus target nodes have to be selected by the source node to take over traffic from the source node; the source node thus obtains resource information of at least one target node for the spectrum clearance, choose at least one target node for clearance traffic transfers based on the resource information of the at least one target node, inform the chosen at least one target node about the coming traffic transfers, and transfer traffic by using a handover procedure; the target node reserves resources after receiving the information about the coming traffic transfers.
US09813939B1	Management of channel state information reporting rate in a communication system According to aspects of the disclosure, a method and system are provided for managing signaling in a wireless communication network. In some aspects, a base station serves a user equipment device (UE) over an air interface connection between the base station and the UE, and a bearer extends between the UE and a gateway. An example method may involve determining a quality of service (QoS) level of the bearer, and responsively selecting a channel state information (CSI) reporting rate based on the determined QoS level. Further, in some aspects, responsive to the selection of the CSI reporting rate, the method may involve causing the UE to periodically report CSI to the base station according to the selected CSI reporting rate. The method may be performed, in whole or in part, by the UE, the base station, and/or another entity in the wireless communication system.
US09813937B2	Mobile communication system An object is to perform a priority control that is more elaborate than that is performed by using a QCI. In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, a mobility management node MME notifies a radio base station eNB, in an “Initial Context Setup procedure” or an “E-RAB Setup Procedure”, following pieces of information in an associated form: an “E-RAB ID” of an E-RAB to be established between a gateway device S-GW and a mobile station UE; one QCI that is assigned to the E-RAB; and one FPI that is assigned to data flow transmitted on the E-RAB. A radio base station eNB establishes, in response to the notification, one S1 bearer corresponding to the E-RAB between the gateway device S-GW and the radio base station and one DRB corresponding to the E-RAB between the mobile station UE and the radio base station.
US09813925B2	Systems, methods, and computer readable media for utilizing a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct performance testing in a wireless communications network According to one aspect, the disclosed subject matter describes herein a method that includes navigating, by a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a service coverage area associated with a wireless communications network, wherein the service coverage area includes a plurality of wireless access points and assigning, by at least one of the UAVs, wireless access points to one or more of the UAVs for wireless traffic testing. The method further includes executing, for each of the wireless access points, a wireless traffic test including test traffic data communicated between at least one of the UAVs and a tested wireless access point and determining, for each of the wireless access points to be tested, performance metric information associated with traffic data being wirelessly communicated between the tested wireless access point and the at least one of the UAVs.
US09813923B2	Duplex mode adaptive method and apparatus The present invention relates to the field of network communications, and discloses a duplex mode adaptive method, including: querying the modulation mode configuration table, to obtain a maximum modulation mode of the current duplex mode and a maximum modulation mode of the non-current duplex mode; calculating maximum spectral efficiency of the current duplex mode according to the maximum modulation mode of the current duplex mode; calculating maximum spectral efficiency of the non-current duplex mode according to the maximum modulation mode of the non-current duplex mode; comparing the maximum spectral efficiency of the current duplex mode with the maximum spectral efficiency of the non-current duplex mode, and selecting a duplex mode whose spectral efficiency is greater as a next-step duplex mode; and switching a duplex mode of the wireless communications apparatus to the next-step duplex mode.
US09813922B2	System and method for resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks A system and method for resource management in a heterogeneous wireless network wherein the resources of the mobile communications system are managed on a coarse time-scale and a fine time-scale. The coarse time-scale management comprises a first stage of determining the user association for each of the plurality of TPs followed by a second stage of determining activation fractions for all TPs. The determining of the user association is performed by utilizing a GLS procedure having a Greedy Stage and a Local Search Stage. In the Greedy Stage, new user, TP pairs are analyzed and the pair with the greatest improvement in system utility is selected. In the Local Search Stage, potential swaps are analyzed and a pair offering the greatest improvement that exceeds a threshold is selected. The determining of activation fractions for all TPs is performed by utilizing an auxiliary function method.
US09813918B2	Method and device for determining working mode, network element, element management system (EMS) and network management system (NMS) Provided are a method and a device for determining a working mode, a network element, an Element Management System (EMS) and Network Management System (NMS). In the method, static importance of a base station or cell is determined according to static data of the base station or cell; dynamic importance of the base station or cell is determined according to dynamic data of the base station or cell; the working mode of the base station or cell is determined according to both the static importance and the dynamic importance. By virtue of the technical solution, the problem caused by the adoption of a dynamic mode or a static mode to determine the working mode of the base station or cell is solved, and the determination on the working mode of the base station or cell is more reliable and effective.
US09813917B2	Structuring and method for wireless radio access network deployment A structuring and deployment method is provided for a radio access network in a cellular wireless communication system, employing a single or plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The method consists of: Unifying the performance of non-Radio Transmission Functions (non-RTFs) in multi-RAT systems; providing a flexible RAN topology, comprising reconfigurable Connection Points (CPs) that may be supplemented by reconfigurable RAN Functional Elements (RFEs), that is capable of adapting to system deployment environments; Reconfiguration of the implementation of RAN functions based on changes in the available system hardware and links.
US09813911B2	Methods and systems for monitoring computing devices on a vehicle Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. As an example, one method includes monitoring a first set of networked devices located at a transportation vehicle and a second set of user devices that are controlled by users of the transportation vehicle; detecting a first parameter indicating a suspicious behavior by a user device; obtaining at least a second parameter associated with the user device; and correlating the first parameter and the second parameter to declare a security related event.
US09813909B2	Cloud server for authenticating the identity of a handset user A method for authenticating the identity of a handset user in a cloud-computing environment is provided. The method includes: obtaining, a login account and a password from the user; judging whether the login account and the password are correct; if the login account or the password is incorrect, refusing the user to access an operating system of the handset; if the login account and the password are correct, sending the login account and the password to a cloud server, wherein the login account and the password correspond to a face sample image library of the user stored on the cloud server; acquiring an input face image of the user; sending the input face image to the cloud server; authenticating, by the cloud server, the identity of the user according to the login account, the password and the input face image.
US09813907B2	Sensor-assisted user authentication Systems and techniques for user authentication are described. A portable electronic device can include an imaging sensor and a motion sensor. Multiple images of a face of a user can be acquired by using an imaging sensor. Motion information can be obtained by using a motion sensor. Next, a first motion vector can be determined based on the multiple images, and a second motion vector can be determined based on the motion information. The user can then be authenticated based on (1) determining a similarity measure between the first motion vector and the second motion vector, and (2) performing facial recognition on at least one of the multiple images. Note that the similarity measure can be used to detect a virtual-camera attack. Specifically, authentication can fail if the similarity measure is less than a threshold.
US09813904B2	System and method of secure logon for shared devices A system includes a sensor to determine a user is proximate to the system and a logon module to receive information from the sensor that a user is proximate to the system, receive logon information from the user and identification information associated with the user, authenticate the user to use the system based on the logon information, store the identification information, receive second information from the sensor that the user is not proximate to the system, suspend an operating system session, receive information from the sensor that the user is again proximate to the system, receive second identification information associated with the user, determine that the first and second identification information matches, and resume the OS session in response to determining that the first and second identification information matches.
US09813900B2	Motion-based user interface feature subsets Motion adaptive user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network environment adapted for selecting one or more subsets of accessible user interface (UI) functions based, at least in part, on the determined motion of a UE, is disclosed. By selectively employing the one or more subsets of UI functions, a UE can dynamically adapt to the motion of the UE and limit distracting interactions with the UE creating a safer or more compliant wireless environment. Further disclosed are features related to override of UI limitations, auxiliary location sensing aspects, motion rule updating features, and voluntary and involuntary user preference aspects.
US09813895B2	Methods and systems for managing resources on a mobile trading device Certain embodiments provide a method including obtaining data at a first time using at least one sensor associated with a mobile computing device, the at least one sensor arranged to gather data regarding at least one operating factor for the mobile computing device, the mobile computing device configured to receive market data and execute a trading application. The example method includes analyzing the data obtained from the at least one sensor to determine the at least one operating factor. The example method includes determining a first operating state of the mobile computing device based on the at least one operating factor. The example method includes altering a function of the mobile computing device with respect to the trading application based on the first operating state.
US09813892B2	Method and apparatus for controlling access technology selection A method and system for selecting at a terminal at least one of a plurality of available access networks for use with a wireless application invoked at the terminal according preferences associated with the wireless application, the network service provider, the subscriber, the subscriber subscription and application content provider. The selection may be constrained by an Application Policy received from a network service provider.
US09813891B2	Mobile device sharing facilitation methods and systems featuring a subset-specific source identification Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner.
US09813881B2	Messaging automatic response service server and method for transceiving automatic response service message with mobile device There is provided a messaging automatic response service (ARS) server for transceiving an ARS text message with a mobile device. The messaging ARS server includes: a receiver configured to receive an ARS request text message sent by the mobile device from a message service center server; an ARS text message generator configured to analyze the received ARS request text message and generate an ARS response text message including at least one automatic response menu text; a transmitter configured to transmit the generated ARS response text message to the message service center server; a state information generator configured to generate state information corresponding to one or more of the received ARS request text message and the generated ARS response text message; and a state information transmitter configured to transmit the generated state information to a first apparatus of a voice ARS system.
US09813878B1	Method and apparatus for vehicle occupant location detection A system includes a plurality of wireless transceivers deployed in a vehicle cabin and a processor configured to receive a relay signal from a transceiver, including a device identification and a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) associated with a device signal. The processor is also configured to use the RSSI and device identification, associated with a single device, included in relay signals from multiple transceivers to determine a device location and store the device location and corresponding possessor identification and location in memory.
US09813877B1	Accurate indoor positioning with cellular signals A system for accurate positioning of a communication devices includes a plurality of positioning cells configured for synchronizing to the cellular network and to each other, and for emitting positioning signals during time intervals proximal to time points at which the cellular network emits synchronization signals. In the manner, the positioning signals reach the communication device when the communication device's antenna is on for listening to a synchronization signal of the cellular network. Processing the times of arrival of the positioning signals by a server in communication with the communication device enables accurate positioning of the communication device.
US09813874B2	System and method for maximizing mobile device power using intelligent geo-location selection A mobile application tracks a user's behavior and activities and, in particular, a geo-location. The mobile application may then produce a profile of the user's behaviors and locations. This may be used to optimize mobile device power and may also be used as a data aggregator to collect and gather user information for other purposes, such as data marketing and modeling. In an embodiment, the mobile application is continuously monitoring the mobile device's battery level and power usage and determining the most power-efficient approach for tracking the device's location. One-hundred percent location accuracy is not always required when profiling a user's behavior. It may be more critical to simply determine the general location of the device and the associated user. The application may continuously function in the background while expending the least amount of power possible.
US09813873B2	Mobile device tracking prevention method and system A mobile device tracking prevention method and system includes monitoring a mobile device for movement, determining whether an operating state of a wireless module of the mobile device should be adjusted when movement of the mobile device is detected, and controlling the operating state of the wireless module based on the determination. One or more of the actual geographic location of the mobile device, network IDs broadcasted by nearby network access points, and signal strengths of the access points as detected by the mobile device can be monitored to detect movement of the mobile device. Changes to any of these may be indicative of movement of the mobile device, which may serve as the basis for enabling or disabling the wireless module to prevent tracking of the mobile device without sacrificing user productivity.
US09813869B2	Communication device and communication method for wireless communications The present disclosure provides a communication device for wireless communication systems and a communication method for the communication device. The communication device includes: one or more processors, configured to determine information of a reference geographical location used for the communication device, and generate, based on the information of the reference geographical location and a current absolute geographical location of the communication device, information of a relative geographical location of the communication device with respect to the reference geographical location; and a communication unit, configured to transmit the information of the relative geographical location to a predetermined communication object.
US09813867B2	Angle of arrival (AOA) positioning method and system for positional finding and tracking objects using reduced attenuation RF technology Systems and methods for determining user equipment (UE) locations within a wireless network using reference signals of the wireless network are described. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a plurality of in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) samples generated from signals provided by receive channels associated with two or more antennas of the wireless system. Based on received reference signal parameters the reference signal within the signals from each receive channel among the receive channels is identified. Based on the identified reference signal from each receive channel, an angle of arrival between a baseline of the two or more antennas and incident energy from the UE to the two or more antennas is determined. That angle of arrival is then used to calculate the location of the UE. The angle of arrival may be a horizontal angle of arrival and/or a vertical angle of arrival.
US09813863B2	Enhanced passive positioning with adaptive active positioning Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations and/or techniques for enhanced passive positioning with adaptive round trip time (RTT)-type ranging, such as for use in or with a mobile communication device, for example.
US09813861B2	Media device that uses geolocated hotspots to deliver content data on a hyper-local basis The hyper-local broadcasting system may include a global positioning system (“GPS”) embedded in a user's media device, such as a smartphone or tablet. The hyper-local broadcasting system allows a person to create a localized hotspot and to specify the information that is pushed to users who enter the hotspot in a hyper-localized manner. Such information may be, for example, ads, coupons, music, video, literature, and other information that may be particularly relevant to the hotspot.
US09813860B2	Geo-fencing based location detection method and electronic device Disclosed are a geo-fencing based location detection method and electronic device, and the method includes: obtaining present geographic coordinates of a terminal, when an update of location of the terminal is detected; and checking whether or not the obtained geographic coordinates are within a rectangular coverage area denoted by any leaf node in a pre-built tree data structure, and if they are, obtaining an actual coverage area of a polygonal geo-fence within the rectangular coverage area; checking whether or not the geographic coordinates are in the actual coverage area of the polygonal geo-fence, and outputting a checking result.
US09813859B2	Identifying mobile device location and corresponding support center locations to provide support services over a network A mobile device may receive updates, support and other data from a current data center agent platform. When the mobile device travels to another location the nearest data center agent may be different from the previous agent. A changeover determination must be performed prior to determining whether the new agent should be assigned to the mobile device. One example method of operation may include receiving current location information of the mobile device and identifying a present location of the mobile device and a current service center assigned to the mobile device. The method may also provide determining whether a new service center location at a remote location from the current service center location should be assigned to the mobile device based on predefined assignment criteria.
US09813851B2	Checkpoint system and process A checkpoint system includes a plurality of checkpoint tags, each checkpoint tag located at a different checkpoint location. Each checkpoint tag has a storage device storing a checkpoint tag identification code. The system includes at least one mobile processor device that reads the checkpoint tags when the mobile processor device is brought within a predefined vicinity of the checkpoint location, and obtains location information corresponding to the location of the mobile processor device when the mobile processor device reads a checkpoint tag. The mobile processor device is configured to transmit data corresponding to the checkpoint tag identification code, location information and other information over the communication network to a backend or other processor device, in accordance with rule-base processes.
US09813850B2	Asset tracking system having primary and secondary tracking devices An asset tracking system that utilizes a wireless network system and which includes primary (active) and secondary (passive) tracking devices. The primary tracking device acts as a coordinator and the secondary devices surrounding the coordinator act as end-devices. Each secondary device can communicate only with the primary device. The primary device passes messages (data) from the secondary devices to the remote host transparently. Each secondary device only sends its data when it triggered by a ‘ping’ from the primary device. When a ping event occurs, the primary device broadcasts a main data packet, in some embodiments followed by two additional data packets. Within this time span of the primary data packet, the secondary devices send their data packets to the primary device, in some embodiments, as two small data packets.
US09813849B2	Suggestions based on group criteria Systems and methods for generating suggestions based on group criteria. A device may act as a proxy for a group and scan information from other devices in the group. The proxy device may then transmit the scanned information to a remote resource. The remote resource may obtain preference information based on profile information, for devices that are determined to be registered with a service, and based on inquiry responses for unregistered devices. The preference information may be compiled into group criteria that may be employed in making one or more suggestions to the group. If the group selects one of the suggestions then the remote resource may make arrangements based on the selection. Otherwise, additional suggestions may be provided to the group. The remote resource may also monitor the group and continue to make suggestions accordingly.
US09813846B2	Short-distance radio communication system for vehicle This short-distance radio communication system for a vehicle includes an in-vehicle unit having more than one antenna and a portable unit performing radio communications with the in-vehicle unit. The in-vehicle unit transmits a first burst together with a call signal for calling the portable unit through a first antenna, and transmits a second burst subsequent to the first burst through a second antenna. The portable unit receives the signals transmitted from the in-vehicle unit, measures respective received signal strength indicators from the first burst and the second burst contained in the received signals, and responds to the in-vehicle unit according to results of comparing the respective indicators with given thresholds.
US09813845B2	Method and apparatus for bluetooth connection The present invention relates to Bluetooth connection methods and apparatuses. An embodiment of the present invention provides a Bluetooth connection method, including transmitting, by a Bluetooth LE module, a packet to request device information, receiving a packet related to the device information from at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module, and discovering the at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module; transmitting, by the Bluetooth LE module, a packet indicative of connection with the discovered at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module and connecting the discovered at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module; and transmitting data to the discovered at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module or at least one Bluetooth BR/EDR module corresponding to the discovered at least one connectable Bluetooth LE module.
US09813841B2	Wireless wide area network (WWAN) assisted proximity wireless local area network (WLAN) peer-to-peer (P2P) connection and offloading A system and method for wireless wide area network (WWAN) assisted proximity wireless local area network (WLAN) peer-to-peer (P2P) connection and offloading is disclosed. The method includes the operation of identifying a first wireless device and a second wireless device between which a WLAN P2P connection is desired. Each wireless device can have a WWAN radio and a WLAN radio. WLAN information can be sent for at least one of the first and second wireless devices via the WWAN to a P2P configuration server. A WLAN P2P configuration can be received from the P2P configuration server at the first and second wireless devices via the WWAN for WLAN P2P communication between the first and second wireless devices. A WLAN P2P connection can be set up between the first and second wireless devices using the WLAN P2P configuration. The first and the second wireless devices can communicate using the WLAN P2P connection.
US09813835B2	Sound system for establishing a sound zone A system and method for acoustically reproducing Q electrical audio signals and establishing N sound zones is provided. Reception sound signals occur that provide an individual pattern of the reproduced and transmitted Q electrical audio signals. The method includes processing the Q electrical audio signals to provide K processed electrical audio signals and converting the K processed electrical audio signals into corresponding K acoustic audio signals with K groups of loudspeakers that are arranged at positions separate from each other and within or adjacent to the N sound zones. The method further includes monitoring a position of a listener's head relative to a reference listening position. Each of the K acoustic audio signals is transferred according to a transfer matrix from each of the K groups of loudspeakers to each of the N sound zones to contribute to the corresponding reception sound signals.
US09813834B2	Method for and apparatus for decoding an ambisonics audio soundfield representation for audio playback using 2D setups Sound scenes in 3D can be synthesized or captured as a natural sound field. For decoding, a decode matrix is required that is specific for a given loudspeaker setup and is generated using the known loudspeaker positions. However, some source directions are attenuated for 2D loudspeaker setups like e.g. 5.1 surround. An improved method for decoding an encoded audio signal in soundfield format for L loudspeakers at known positions comprises steps of adding (10) a position of at least one virtual loudspeaker to the positions of the L loudspeakers, generating (11) a 3D decode matrix (D′), wherein the positions (Formula I) of the L loudspeakers and the at least one virtual position (Formula II) are used, downmixing (12) the 3D decode matrix (D′), and decoding (14) the encoded audio signal (i14) using the downscaled 3D decode matrix (Formula III). As a result, a plurality of decoded loudspeaker signals (q14) is obtained.
US09813832B2	Mating assurance system and method A mating assurance system includes first and second microphones configured to be located in a vicinity of a mating zone for electrical connectors. The first microphone is located a first distance from the mating zone and the second microphone being located a second distance from the mating zone. The first and second microphones are configured to detect audible sound when the electrical connectors are mated. An output unit is connected to the first and second microphones and receives audio signals from the first and second microphones. The output unit processes the audio signals from the first microphone and from the second microphone for mating assurance.
US09813828B2	Speaker system with acoustic event detection, modification kit for speaker system and method of modifying a speaker system A speaker system with acoustic event detection, the speaker system including a number of speakers, a head unit including an output circuit structured to output an output signal to the speakers to cause the speakers to output an audible sound, and an acoustic event detection module structured to receive signals from the speakers and to detect an acoustic event based on the signals received from the speakers.
US09813821B1	Miniature sound generator A miniature sound generator includes a vibration system including a diaphragm, a voice coil, a damping part supporting the coil elastically, and a fixing system. The voice coil is located below the diaphragm for driving the diaphragm to vibrate and includes a pair of long shaft sides and a pair of short shaft sides. The damping part includes a circuit board arranged on one short shaft side for electrically connecting with the voice coil, and an insulated symmetrical plate arranged on the other short shaft side. The damping part is only arranged at the short shaft sides symmetrically, with one end thereof being fixed with the fixing system, and the other end thereof being fixed with the voice coil. The insulated symmetrical plate has a damping coefficient same to that of the circuit board.
US09813816B2	Audio plug detection structure in audio jack corresponding to audio plug and method thereof An audio plug detection structure is disclosed, which is adapted for an audio jack corresponding to an audio plug and includes a first and second connection points, a time-varying signal generation circuit, and a comparison circuit. The time-varying signal generation and comparison circuits are connected to the first connection point. When the audio plug is inserted into the audio jack, the first connection point is connected to a first pole of the audio plug and the second connection point is connected to a second pole different from the first pole of the audio plug. Therefore, the time-varying signal generation circuit, the first connection point, an inner impedance circuit of the audio plug and the second connection plug form a loop. The comparison circuit outputs a determination signal indicating the audio plug is inserted by detecting a change of a time-varying signal generated by the time-varying signal generation circuit.
US09813815B2	Method of wireless transmission of digital audio A method of wireless communication of data sets includes: transmitting a first data set of a first data category from a transmitter for reception by a receiver; and re-transmitting the first data set at a time after the first data set is transmitted if there is an absence of an acknowledgement of receipt from the receiver, or transmitting a second data set of a second data category that is different from the first data category from the transmitter to the receiver at the time if there is a presence of the acknowledgement of receipt from the receiver.
US09813814B1	Enhancing dynamic range based on spectral content of signal In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus for providing an output signal to an audio transducer may include a signal path and a control circuit. The signal path may include an analog signal path portion having an audio input for receiving an analog signal, an audio output for providing an output signal, and a selectable analog gain, and configured to generate the output signal based on the analog signal and in conformity with the selectable analog gain and a digital path portion having a selectable digital gain and configured to receive a digital input signal and convert the digital input signal into the analog signal in conformity with the selectable digital gain. The control circuit may be configured to determine a spectral content of a signal indicative of the output signal and change the selectable digital gain and the selectable analog gain based on the spectral content.
US09813811B1	Soundfield decomposition, reverberation reduction, and audio mixing of sub-soundfields at a video conference endpoint At a microphone array, a soundfield is detected to produce a set of microphone signals each from a corresponding microphone in the microphone array. The set of microphone signals represents the soundfield. The detected soundfield is decomposed into a set of sub-soundfield signals based on the set of microphone signals. Each sub-soundfield signal is processed, such that each sub-soundfield signal is separately dereverberated to remove reverberation therefrom, to produce a set of processed sub-soundfield signals. The set of processed sub-sound field signals are mixed into a mixed output signal.
US09813809B1	Mobile device and method for operating the same A mobile device and a method for operating the same are provided. The mobile device includes a sound detection unit, a signal processing unit, a sound mixing unit and a speaker. The sound detection unit detects an environment sound around the mobile device and converts the environment sound to an external sound signal. The signal processing unit analyzes the external sound signal and determines whether to enable a sound mixed mode according to an analyzed result. In the sound mixed mode, the sound mixing unit mixes a music signal with the external sound signal to generate a sound mixed signal, and the mobile device plays the sound mixed signal through the speaker.
US09813807B2	Ear-canal earpiece An ear-canal earpiece having an electroacoustic sound transducer, a sound guide unit having a first and a second end for guiding the sound from the electroacoustic sound transducer to an ear of a user and at least one portion. The ear canal earpiece has a canal having a first end open towards the ear canal and a second outwardly open end. A diaphragm is provided in the canal and extends over the entire cross-section of the canal.
US09813806B2	Integrated beamforming microphone array and ceiling or wall tile This disclosure describes a beamforming microphone array integrated into a wall or ceiling tile as a single unit where the beamforming microphone array picks up audio input signals. The beamforming microphone array includes a plurality of microphones that picks up audio input signals. In addition, the wall or ceiling tile includes an outer surface on the front side of the tile where the outer surface is acoustically transparent. The beamforming microphone array is coupled to the tile as a single unit and is integrated into the back side of the tile. Additionally the beamforming microphone array picks up the audio input signals through the outer surface of the tile.
US09813802B2	Resonance damping for audio transducer systems An apparatus (10) comprising: an audio transducer (201) configured to at least one of: generate sound upon receiving an audio signal provided by the apparatus (10); and convert sound into an audio signal to be processed by the apparatus (10); a housing component (301) comprising one or more sound apertures (303) configured to allow the transmission of sound through the one or more sound apertures (303); and an acoustic cavity (203) inside the apparatus (10) being acoustically coupled to the audio transducer (201) using the one or more sound apertures (303) wherein the one or more sound apertures (303) are configured to provide an acoustic damping.
US09813798B2	Eyewear accommodating headset with audio compensation A headset comprises an ear cup, at least one speaker, an adjustable ear cup shaper, and circuitry. The ear cup shaper is adjustable into at least two configurations, wherein a first of the configurations creates no depression or a first amount of depression in the ear cup and a second of the configurations creates a second amount of depression in the ear cup, where the second amount is greater than the first amount. The circuitry is operable to determine which one of the configurations the ear cup shaper is configured into, and set an audio setting applied to an audio signal output to the speaker based on the determined one of the configurations.
US09813791B1	Active phantom-powered ribbon microphone with switchable proximity effect response filtering for voice and music applications Novel active phantom-powered ribbon microphones that provide switchable proximity effect response filtering for voice and music applications are disclosed with unique adjustable interfaces. In one embodiment of the invention, a slider-based full frequency response vs. low frequency response and high pass filtering adjustment interface on a surface of a microphone casing provides a convenient switching between a “Music” mode and a “Voice” mode, wherein the “Voice” mode reduces the undesirable proximity effect in an active phantom-powered ribbon microphone, when a sound source is situated overly close to the active phantom-powered ribbon microphone. Furthermore, in one embodiment of the invention, a slider-based or a knob-based variable voice mode adjustment interface can also be integrated on a surface of a microphone casing to provide various preset levels of low frequency reduction and/or proximity effect response filtering when the “Voice” mode is enabled.
US09813790B1	Microphone package A microphone package includes a housing; a control circuit chip accommodated in the housing; a micro-electromechanical chip accommodated in the housing; and a circuit board forming an accommodation space with the housing. The circuit board includes a substrate, a rigid conductive layer disposed on the substrate and a plurality of conductive pads on the substrate for connecting to the control circuit chip. The micro-electromechanical chip and the control circuit chip are mounted on the rigid conductive layer, and the rigid conductive layer is provided with a number of isolation holes for receiving the conductive pads.
US09813784B1	Expanded previously on segments Techniques are described for providing functionality to allow a viewer of a television show to watch a “previously on” segment of an episode of the television show and be able to watch the scenes from prior episodes referenced in the “previously on” segment.
US09813779B2	Method and apparatus for increasing user engagement with video advertisements and content by summarization Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for increasing user engagement with video ads and content. The invention is not limited to video advertisements, but is applicable to any other content. Embodiments of the invention provide engagement formats that use interesting frames in a video or objects within video frames to increase user engagement in the video, one or more frames of the video, or any object within the video.
US09813777B1	Time shifting content for network DVR and trick play keys Decoupling a time shift buffer from content streams to allow faster trick mode response is provided. A TSB/DVR manager may be provided to manage user selection of trick play options while viewing linear or non-linear content streams from a network source. Indication of selection of a trick play option may be received and analyzed by the TSB/DVR manager. The content stream may be managed, such that one or more trick play content streams may be sent to an endpoint device. This provides a network trick play experience similar to the trick play experience when content resides locally. Further, the user's behavior and viewing patterns may be continually monitored and recorded to allow the system to send one or more trick play content streams prior to the user selecting the trick play option. An option to acquire and record missed portions of the content stream may also be provided.
US09813776B2	Secondary soundtrack delivery Methods and systems for providing a secondary soundtrack to a user viewing an audiovisual work associated with a primary soundtrack. A secondary soundtrack corresponding to the primary soundtrack is determined. Soundtrack synchronization data from a user computing device is transmitted to a server, which determines a position within the primary soundtrack based on the soundtrack synchronization data. The selected secondary soundtrack is streamed to the client computing device based on the determined position, and played for a user of the client computing device.
US09813773B2	Subtitle display method and subtitle display device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a subtitle display method and a subtitle display device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. Category content is presented to a user in an interactive graphic manner, so that the user can select corresponding category content according to the user's preference, and subtitles corresponding to the category content are displayed. The method includes receiving a subtitle file, and parsing a category label of the subtitle file, where the category label includes category content; presenting, on a display device in an interactive graphic manner, the category content for a user to perform selection; and receiving a result of selecting one or more pieces of the category content by the user, and displaying, according to the selection result, subtitles corresponding to the selected category content, therefore classified display of subtitles is implemented.
US09813770B2	Method and system for generation and playback of supplemented videos The present invention is a method and system for generation and playback of supplemented videos which include interactive features. The supplemented video includes hotspots that allow a video viewer to interact with the video when the video viewer sees an object. The hotspots can be manually defined. Information regarding the object and the hotspot can be stored in a separate XML file. Furthermore, the present invention can be a marketplace where a desired object can be found by searching the XML file. The search results can list the supplemented videos which contain hotspots corresponding to the object and also the time in the supplemented video in which the object is found. The present invention can also aggregate data about the objects based on the playback of the supplemented videos and the video viewer's interaction with the supplemented videos.
US09813769B2	Display device, information acquisition method, and information providing method There is provided a display device including a detection section which detects a presence of another display device, and acquires information of a provision source of a function provided by the another display device, a function execution section which executes the function provided by the another display device based on the information acquired from the another display device, a communication section which establishes a connection with the another display device by the execution of the function by the function execution section, and a display section which displays information corresponding to reception, by the communication section, of information of a content provision source specified from content displayed on the another display device with which a connection has been established by the communication section.
US09813768B2	Configured input display for communicating to computational apparatus According to various embodiments, an input device is provided for receiving one of a plurality of commands via the manipulation of one or more fingers of a user and sending output commands to a separate device based on the nature of the manipulation. According to one embodiment, the input device is a hand-held tablet and the separate device is a computer. In one embodiment, the system may be used for editing electronic video or audio content.
US09813765B2	Broadcast signal receiver, method for providing broadcast signal relation information, and server A broadcast signal receiver capable of displaying relation information corresponding to a broadcast signal in real time.
US09813758B2	Method for processing targeting descriptor in non-real-time receiver A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) Receiver Targeting service is disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) Receiver Targeting service, the method comprises receiving broadcast signal including first signaling information and second signaling information, identifying an NRT service based on the first signaling information, parsing a Receiver Targeting Descriptor from the second signaling information, determining validity of the NRT service or an NRT content based on a targeting_criterion_type_code included in the Receiver Targeting Descriptor, and downloading the NRT service or the NRT content when a receiver determines the NRT service or the NRT content to be valid.
US09813750B2	Networked personal video storage and delivery A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.
US09813749B2	Method of performing time-shift function and television receiver using the same A method of performing time-shift function and television receiver having a tuner and a personal video recorder for storing broadcast programs of at least one channel enables a broadcast program of a currently tuned channel to be continuously and efficiently stored to enable time-shifting, regardless of an interruption by switching channels or changing input sources or even in the case of an inadvertent power-off condition. The method includes steps of setting a time-shift lock function; storing in the personal video recorder the broadcast program of a first channel that is currently viewed; storing in the personal video recorder the broadcast program of a second channel and the broadcast program of the first channel, if the currently viewed first channel is switched to the second channel; and supplying power only to the tuner and the personal video recorder, if a power-off condition occurs, wherein the supply of power to the tuner and the personal video recorder causes a continuous storing of the broadcast programs of the first and second channels in the personal video recorder.
US09813746B2	Network-loss tolerant mobile broadcast systems and algorithms Systems and Algorithms for a network-loss tolerant, mobile broadcasting system that reliably and efficiently address unreliable or untimely transmission of segments. By associating a unique metadata to each segment (an Upload ID), segments are identified by the order in which they were captured at their source. Upload IDs allow for methods to proactively address lost or out-of-order segments without disturbing a broadcast. Late arriving segments are preserved for broadcast in the correct sequence by the invention's novel uses of Upload IDs.
US09813744B2	Method and apparatus for synchronizing video live broadcast The present invention relates to a method for synchronizing video live broadcast, which can improve user experience in a video live broadcast service. In the present invention, a video stream synchronization request is sent to a network side device; a video stream playback position synchronization parameter sent by the network side device is received, where the video stream playback position synchronization parameter includes a playback position parameter at a video stream sending moment and a system frame number SFN at the video stream sending moment; an SFN at a video stream receiving moment is acquired; and the playback position parameter at the video stream sending moment is adjusted according to the SFN at the video stream sending moment and the SFN at the video stream receiving moment, so as to coincide with a current playback position parameter of the network side device.
US09813741B2	Controller, control method, computer program, and video transmission system [Object] To provides a controller capable of switching a video so that the video is not distorted on the receiving side when the video is transmitted using IP multicast[Solution] There is provided a controller including a bandwidth reservation unit configured to, when an instruction given to a receiving device that receives a first video stream transmitted via IP multicast to receive a second video stream after receiving the first video stream is acquired, acquire information on a status of a network topology and a transmitted video stream and to reserve a network bandwidth for transmitting the second video stream in addition to the first video stream, and a reception instruction unit configured to send out an instruction to receive the second video stream to the receiving device by using the network bandwidth reserved by the bandwidth reservation unit.
US09813739B2	Backward adaptation apparatus for applying backward adaptation to probability table at end of processing of frame and related backward adaptation method A backward adaptation apparatus includes a first storage apparatus, a count table maintenance apparatus, and a backward probability update circuit. The first storage apparatus has a first buffer and a second buffer allocated therein. The first buffer stores a first probability table involved in processing of a first frame. The second buffer stores a second probability table selectable for processing of a second frame following the first frame. The count table maintenance apparatus maintains a count table, wherein the count table maintenance apparatus has at least one count data updating circuit shared for dynamically updating the count table during the processing of the first frame. The backward probability update circuit refers to information of the count table and information of the first probability table to calculate the second probability table in the second buffer at an end of the processing of the first frame.
US09813736B2	Inter-view dependency type in MV-HEVC A video decoder receives a value for a first syntax element representing whether a dependency type syntax element for a current layer is signaled, wherein the dependency type syntax element identifies a type of dependency of a current layer relative to a reference layer; and in response to the value for the first syntax element indicating that the dependency type syntax element is not signaled determines that the type of dependency of the current layer relative to the reference layer is a predetermined type and decodes a block of the current layer using inter-layer prediction conforming to the predetermined type.
US09813733B2	Differential pulse code modulation intra prediction for high efficiency video coding A video codec including a memory and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to compute a reconstructed pixel based on a residual pixel and a first prediction pixel and compute a second prediction pixel in a directional intra prediction mode based on the reconstructed pixel, where the first and second prediction pixels are located in a same block of a video frame. A method for intra prediction including computing a prediction pixel adaptively based on a plurality of reconstructed neighboring pixels, where a distance between the prediction pixel and each of the plurality of reconstructed neighboring pixels is one.
US09813729B2	Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded residual data ERes, a prediction type PredType, a reference picture number RefNo2 and motion vectors MV1, MV2 on a block-by-block basis, and outputting them as coded moving picture data Str.
US09813726B2	Method and apparatus for compressing coding unit in high efficiency video coding A method for decoding of a video bitstream including receiving coded data for a 2N×2N coding unit (CU) from the video bitstream, selecting one or more first codewords according to whether asymmetric motion partition is disabled or enabled, selecting one or more second codewords when a size of the 2N×2N CU is equal to a smallest CU size, wherein none of the second codewords corresponds to INTER N×N partition when N is 4, determining a CU structure for the 2N×2N CU from the video bitstream using the first codewords or the second codewords, and decoding the video bitstream using the CU structure. A corresponding method for encoding a 2N×2N coding unit of video data is also disclosed.
US09813723B2	Conditionally invoking a resampling process in SHVC 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 associated with an interlayer reference picture for a current picture to be coded. The processor is configured to: receive information relating to a plurality of interlayer reference offsets that are configured to define a region of a resampled version of the interlayer reference picture, wherein the region is used to generate a prediction of the current picture, and wherein the plurality of interlayer reference offsets include a left offset, a top offset, a right offset, and a bottom offset that are each specified relative to the current picture; determine based at least in part on the plurality of interlayer reference offsets whether to resample the interlayer reference picture; and in response to determining to resample the interlayer reference picture, resample the interlayer reference picture.
US09813722B2	Video encoding and decoding A method comprising: encoding pictures into a bitstream, the bitstream comprising at least two scalability layers, pictures being associated with access units and pictures being associated individually with one of the at least two scalability layers; indicating in the bitstream inter-layer prediction dependencies, indicative of direct reference layers, if any, of a first scalability layer and indirect reference layers, if any, of the first scalability layer; selecting an earlier picture in decoding order as a basis for deriving picture order count (POC) related variables for a current picture based on a pre-defined algorithm, the current picture being associated with a current scalability layer, wherein the earlier picture is the closest preceding picture, in decoding order, to the current picture among a set of pictures that are associated with the current scalability layer or any direct or indirect reference layer of the current scalability layer.
US09813721B2	Layer-based video encoding A technique for encoding a video signal generates multiple layers and multiple corresponding masks for each of a set of blocks of the video signal. Each of the layers for a given block is a rendition of that block, and each of the masks distinguishes pixels of the respective layer that are relevant in reconstructing the block from pixels that are not. The encoder applies lossy compression to each of the layers and transmits the lossily compressed layers and a set of the masks to a decoder, such that the decoder may reconstruct the respective block from the layers and the mask(s).
US09813718B2	Apparatus and method for compact bit-plane data compression An encoder includes a plurality of registers and is configured to: sequentially receive an array of coefficients, each of the coefficients being decomposed into a plurality of bits located at a plurality of corresponding bit positions of the coefficient; and concurrently operate on the plurality of bits of each of the coefficients.
US09813716B2	Video encoder and video encoding method A video encoder includes: a restriction block identification unit that determines a valid prediction mode with a reference range not overlapping an unrefreshed region, for each size of a first sub-block, which is a unit for generating a prediction block, when a coding-target block in a refreshed region is to be encoded by intra prediction coding; and a coding mode determination unit that identifies a combination of the size of the first sub-block, the size of a second sub-block, which is a unit for application of a prediction mode, and a valid prediction mode with the smallest estimation value of the amount of code for encoding a third block, which is a unit for application of an intra prediction coding mode, as a combination to be used for intra prediction coding of the third sub-block.
US09813715B2	Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding video data A method of decoding a bit-stream of encoded video data in a video decoder is disclosed. The method determines if the bit-stream of encoded video data has extended precision processing enabled and has a bit-depth greater than nine bits, when a profile of the bit-stream of the encoded video data is determined to be unsupported by the video decoder. The bit-stream of the encoded video data is decoded to determine decoded video data, using a profile supported by the video decoder, if the bit stream has extended precision processing enabled and a bit depth greater than nine (9) bits. The decoded video data has differences to the video data encoded in the bit-stream due to the unsupported profile being different to the supported profile.
US09813714B2	Image processing device and method An image processing device and method that enable suppression of a reduction in coding efficiency. The image processing device encodes an image to generate encoded data, and set, as syntax of the generated encoded data, syntax whose semantics is set so that a default quantization matrix having the same size as a block size that is a unit of processing in which quantization is performed is referred to when in a copy mode in which a quantization matrix is copied, quantization matrix reference data identifying a reference destination of the quantization matrix matches quantization matrix identification data identifying the quantization matrix. The device and method can be applied to an image processing device.
US09813709B2	Intra-prediction encoding method, intra-prediction decoding method, intra-prediction encoding apparatus, intra-prediction decoding apparatus, program therefor and recording medium having program recorded thereon Setting a reference pixel signal from a decoded pixel signal in intra-prediction in which a prediction signal is generated in the same frame, acquiring prediction mode identification information that identifies an intra-prediction mode, generating a prediction signal based on the reference pixel signal and the prediction mode identification information, making a determination regarding correction of the prediction signal using a reference pixel having a shorter distance from a pixel that is a prediction target in the intra-prediction mode identified by the prediction mode identification information, and correcting the generated prediction signal according to a result of the determination are included in order to provide an image encoding method and an image decoding method capable of improving subjective image quality and coding efficiency using a closer decoded pixel in an intra-prediction process.
US09813708B2	Method and system of coding prediction for screen video According to one to one exemplary embodiment, the disclosure provides a method of coding prediction for screen video. The method classifies a plurality of coding blocks into a plurality of block types by using a classifier; and uses a computing device to filter at least one candidate block from the plurality of coding blocks, according to the plurality of block types of the plurality of coding blocks, and compute a first candidate motion vector set of a type-based motion merge mode and a second candidate motion vector set of a type-based advanced motion vector prediction mode, wherein each of the at least one candidate block has a block-type different from that of a current coding block.
US09813703B2	Compressed dynamic image encoding device, compressed dynamic image decoding device, compressed dynamic image encoding method and compressed dynamic image decoding method A compressed dynamic image encoding device is provided, in which a motion vector is generated by searching a reference image for an image area most similar to an image area of a video input signal; a motion-compensated reference image is generated from the motion vector and the reference image; a prediction residual is generated, by subtracting the motion-compensated reference image from the video input signal; the reference image is generated, by adding the motion-compensated reference image and the result of processing performed to the prediction residual; and an encoded video output signal is generated by the processing performed to the prediction residual. The reference image comprises on-screen reference images, located inside a video display screen, and an off-screen reference image located outside the video display screen, and the off-screen reference image is generated based on the positional relationship of plural similar reference images of the on-screen reference images.
US09813700B1	Adaptively encoding a media stream with compound prediction A method and apparatus for adaptively encoding a media stream with compound prediction are provided. Adaptively encoding a media stream with compound prediction may include decoding a first compound prediction use indicator for decoding a current frame, on a condition that the first compound prediction use indicator indicates that the encoded video stream includes a compound prediction mode for the current block, decoding the compound prediction mode for the current block from the encoded video stream and decoding the current block using the compound prediction mode, and on a condition that the first compound prediction use indicator indicates that the encoded video stream includes a second compound prediction use indicator, decoding the second compound prediction use indicator from the encoded video stream and decoding the current block based on the second compound prediction use indicator; and outputting or storing the decoded current block.
US09813698B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and electronic apparatus There is provided an image processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze contrast according to a spatial frequency of an input image, a parallax transition information acquisition unit configured to acquire a relation of a crosstalk aggravation amount and a parallax transition corresponding to the contrast according to the spatial frequency of the input image with reference to a database in which the relation of the crosstalk aggravation amount and the parallax transition is stored in association with contrast according to spatial frequencies of various images, and a parallax computation unit configured to compute parallax corresponding to a predetermined threshold value set for the crosstalk aggravation amount in the acquired relation of the crosstalk aggravation amount and the parallax transition.
US09813694B2	Disparity value deriving device, equipment control system, movable apparatus, robot, and disparity value deriving method An image reducer executes a reduction process on a comparison image to generate a reduced comparison image, and executes a reduction process on a reference image to generate a reduced reference image. A disparity value deriver (a deriving unit) derives a disparity value by setting the minimum value of synthesized costs of pixels in the reduced comparison image in connection with a reference pixel in the reduced reference image, which have been calculated by a cost synthesizer. A disparity image generator generates a reduced disparity image, which is an image obtained by replacing the luminance values of the respective pixels in the reduced reference image with the disparity values corresponding to the pixels. The disparity image enlarger executes an enlargement process for enlarging the image size of the reduced disparity image generated by the disparity image generator to generate a disparity image.
US09813693B1	Accounting for perspective effects in images Images captured at short distances, such as “selfies,” can be improved by addressing magnification and perspective effects present in the images. Distance information, such as a three-dimensional depth map, can be determined for an object using stereoscopic imaging or another distance measuring approach. Based on a magnification function determined for a camera lens, magnification levels for different regions of the captured images can be determined. At least some of these regions then can be adjusted or transformed in order to provide for a more consistent magnification levels across those regions, thereby reducing anamorphic effects. Where appropriate, gaps in the image can also be filled to enhance the image. At least some control over the amount of adjustment may be provided to users for aesthetic control.
US09813692B2	Online compensation of thermal distortions in a stereo depth camera A method and apparatus for performing temperature compensation for thermal distortions in a camera system. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first camera configured to capture a sequence of images of the object; a second device; a processing unit to receive the sequence of images and determine depth information in response to parameters of the camera and the second device; one or more temperature sensors; and a thermal correction unit responsive to temperature information from the one or more temperature sensors to adjust one or more of the calibration parameters of the first camera and the second device.
US09813691B2	3D camera assembly having a bracket for cameras and mobile terminal having the same A mobile terminal can include a front body including a touch screen, a rear body coupled to the front body and including first and second holes, first and second cameras corresponding to the first and second holes, a bracket including third and fourth holes corresponding to the first and second cameras, the bracket surrounding the first and second cameras, a main printed circuit board (PCB), a first camera PCB coupled to the first camera, a second camera PCB coupled to the second camera and separated from the first camera PCB, a first connector extended from the first camera PCB and electrically connected to the main PCB, and a second connector extended from the second camera PCB and electrically connected to the main PCB, in which the first camera is inserted into the third hole of the bracket and the second camera is inserted into the fourth hole of the bracket.
US09813679B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus with on-chip lens and micro-lens The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus that can provide a compound-eye system solid-state imaging apparatus capable of capturing an image with high image quality regardless of use environments, a method of manufacturing a solid-state imaging apparatus, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes photoelectric conversion units (21) that are two-dimensionally arranged, on-chip lenses (27a) that are two-dimensionally arranged on an upper side of the photoelectric conversion units (21) in correspondence with the photoelectric conversion units (21), a micro-lens (10a) that is arranged so as to face each plurality of the on-chip lenses (27a), and a transparent material layer that is pinched between the on-chip lenses (27a) and the micro-lens (10a) and are configured by a first intermediate layer (29) and a second intermediate layer (31).
US09813674B2	Photography system and photography method A photography system includes: an observation scope inserted into a hole of a case in which a plurality of sets of subject groups, each of which includes a plurality of subjects that are cyclically disposed around a rotary shaft and rotate around the rotary shaft, are housed along with the rotary shaft and a plurality of holes are formed to penetrate through the case and configured to sequentially acquire light from the plurality of subjects included in one set of subject groups among the plurality of sets of subject groups; an imaging section configured to continuously image light acquired by the observation scope to generate an image in a state in which the plurality of sets of subject groups rotate; and a display section configured to display the image generated by the imaging section.
US09813672B2	Systems and methods for conveying physical state of a remote device Described are systems and methods for helping a participant, who is represented in a remote space by a remote device, to understand the physical state of the remote device in the remote space. This is done through physical and virtual changes in their local space that reflect their own remote physical representation. For example, if their action in the local space causes the remote telepresence robot to rotate 90 degrees, their local display through which the control the robot might rotate 9 degrees. The described methods will help participants have a greater sense of presence in a remote space.
US09813671B2	Method and apparatus for enhanced video mixing A telecommunications system including a network; a plurality of user devices coupled to the network; a multipoint control unit coupled to the network and configured to supervise multipoint conferencing among the plurality of user devices, the multipoint control unit including a presentation mixer, the presentation mixer configured to remove one or more backgrounds from a presentation and mix a live video feed into the presentation as a substitute background; and a screen for displaying a resulting mixed presentation such that a full area of the screen is used to display the mixed presentation. In some embodiments, the presentation mixer is further configured to adjust a level of transparency of the substitute background.
US09813668B2	Collaboration system The improved collaboration system of the present invention is a high tech mobile conference room packaged in a low-cost, compact, and mobile unit to help users better collaborate, communicate, and increase productivity. The system allows multiple users to concurrently connect their personal electronic devices to the system wirelessly, through a hard connection, or across the internet to utilize the attached high definition monitor display. Integrated technology allows multiple users to be displayed simultaneously on the monitor display, eliminating the need for users to present in a linear fashion, one after the other. Attached whiteboards promotes active participation and collaboration by allowing users to convey their thoughts immediately. An attached pull-out conference table provides a large surface area to conduct meetings, presentations, and hold conferences. A self-contained rechargeable power system removes the need to be constantly connected to the power grid and allows the system to be used anywhere, any time.
US09813664B1	Method and system for creating media content Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for determining a plurality of parameters of a shim file to define a format of at least one media content input, creating a file based program master based on the shim file, and providing the created file based program master to a user for creating and delivering the at least one media content input.
US09813663B2	Handling requests when available channel selectors are in use A receiver receives a request for content associated with a channel, determines that all channel selectors are in use, selects a set of options, and transmits the set to a presentation device. The receiver fulfills the request utilizing a selected option. All available channel selectors may be in use because they are tuned to frequency bands of a broadcast signal to record content and data associated the channel is included in a different frequency band.
US09813660B2	Information processing apparatus and recording apparatus selection method An apparatus information acquisition unit 444 acquires information representative of a limitation relating to viewing or recording of a broadcasting program in regard to each of a plurality of recording apparatus. An operation detection unit 44 accepts a user operation which designates a recording target program. When the user operation is accepted, a recording apparatus selection unit 446 determines a priority of each recording apparatus in response to the limitation relating to viewing or recording of a broadcasting program in each recording apparatus, and selects a recording apparatus which has the highest priority as a recording apparatus which is to record the recording target program.
US09813656B2	Method and apparatus for providing a channel service A method and an apparatus for providing a channel service are disclosed. The method may generate a channel list including a channel number inputted by a user and a main viewing channel list and display together the channel list and the main viewing channel list. Here, the channel list includes at least one channel of which number starts from the inputted channel number, and the main viewing channel list includes one or more channels viewed mainly by the user with the received channel number.
US09813655B2	Detection of an analog connection in a video decoder A video and/or audio decoder provided with a first terminal for supplying an analog audio and/or video signal, including: a first circuit capable of supplying a digital signal which is an image of said analog signal; a digital-to-analog converter capable of receiving as an input said digital signal; an amplifier coupling a second output terminal of the digital-to-analog converter to the first terminal; and a second circuit capable of comparing a signal representative of the voltage or current level on the first terminal with a reference signal, and of deducing therefrom whether the first terminal is connected or not to an analog input terminal of a video signal display and/or audio signal playing device.
US09813654B2	Method and system for transmitting data Various aspects of a system and a method for transmitting data are disclosed herein. The method is included in a first electronic device. The first electronic device splits each frame of the video data into a plurality of partial resolution layers. The plurality of partial resolution layers comprises a base frame layer and one or more additional frame layers. The base frame layer and the one or more additional frame layers of frame of the video data are transmitted to a second electronic device.
US09813652B2	CMOS image sensor and imaging method implementing correlated double sampling and compression An image sensing device may include one or more compression modules that compress digitized pixel reset values obtained from light sensing elements. The device may perform a CDS operation in which the compressed reset values are stored, decompressed, and then subtracted from light dependent values obtained from the light sensing elements. The compressed reset values may also be output from the device without CDS subtraction having been performed. The light dependent values may also be compressed. CDS corrected output pixel values may also be compressed.
US09813651B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes pixels arranged two-dimensionally, each of the pixels including: a metal electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer that is on the metal electrode and converts light into an electrical signal; a transparent electrode on the photoelectric conversion layer; an electric charge accumulation region that is electrically connected to the metal electrode and accumulates electric charges from the photoelectric conversion layer; an amplifier transistor that applies a signal voltage according to an amount of the electric charges in the electric charge accumulation region; and a reset transistor that resets electrical potential of the electric charge accumulation region, in which the reset transistor includes a gate oxide film thicker than a gate oxide film of the amplifier transistor.
US09813650B2	Image-capturing device for generating image-capture data and control device for controlling area image sensor An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing section, an image-data-generation section, a display section, and a timing generator. The image-capturing section is configured and arranged to capture an image of a subject at a timing on the basis of a vertical synchronization signal inputted and generate image-capture data corresponding to a frame. The image-data-generation section is configured and arranged to generate image data on the basis of the image-capture data corresponding to the frame. The display section is configured and arranged to display the image data. The timing generator is configured and arranged to output the vertical synchronization signal. The timing generator outputs the vertical synchronization signal at a variable timing in accordance with a generating condition of the image data corresponding to the frame. The image-capturing section generates the image-capture data corresponding to another frame at the timing on the basis of the vertical synchronization signal.
US09813649B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system In a photoelectric conversion apparatus, a pixel transistor and a differential transistor form a differential pair. A clamp circuit clamps a gate voltage of the differential transistor. An output circuit performs a first operation in which a voltage based on the voltage at the gate of a pixel transistor is output to the gate of the differential transistor. The output circuit also performs a second operation in which in response to receiving a current from the differential transistor, a signal based on a result of a comparison between the gate voltage of the pixel transistor and the gate voltage of the differential transistor is output to the output node. In the second operation, a control unit in the output circuit controls a change in the drain voltage of the differential transistor to be smaller than a change in the voltage at the output node.
US09813647B2	Image processing apparatus, radiation imaging apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes: a first correction unit configured to perform correction processing of subtracting a first dark image obtained in a state without radiation irradiation from an object image, thereby removing a dark component of the object image; an evaluation value obtaining unit configured to obtain an evaluation value by a varying dark component included in a corrected image that has undergone the correction processing based on the first dark image and a second dark image obtained after the first dark image; and a second correction unit configured to perform correction processing of removing the varying dark component from the corrected image based on the evaluation value.
US09813641B2	Method and apparatus for targeting of interactive virtual objects A method and an apparatus are used to target interactive virtual objects to subscribers in a television delivery system. Programs are selected and virtual object locations are defined in the selected programs. The virtual objects available for targeting are categorized and the categories are correlated to subscriber information to determine the optimum targeting of the virtual objects. The virtual objects may be targeted based on individual subscriber information or on information related to groups of subscribers. When a frame of a program includes a virtual object location, a default or an alternate virtual object is displayed. The virtual object location may change over space or time. The virtual object may be interactive, and may be used to link a subscriber to a remote location, such as an Internet web site. An operations center or a cable headend may generate a group assignment plan that assigns the subscribers' television terminals to groups, based on factors such as area of dominant influence and household income. A retrieval plan is then generated that instructs the television terminals to select the desired virtual object for display. The television terminals record which virtual objects were displayed, and report this information to the cable headends and the operations center. The reported information is used to generate billing for commercial advertisers, and to analyze viewer watching habits. Interactive virtual objects are received by the television terminal with directions on actions to be taken upon selection of the interactive virtual object. Actions may result in the initiation of processes locally at the television terminal, or communication with a remote site for the initiation of processes to be performed remotely. The invention uses upstream data reception hardware, databases and processing hardware and software, and corresponding features in the televisions to accomplish these functions.
US09813638B2	Lightpainting live view Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a light painting live view. A method includes, in a device comprising at least a processor, a memory, a display and a camera device having an on-screen viewfinder, accessing the camera, capturing individual frames of footage, each of the captured frames being displayed through the on-screen viewfinder in cumulative succession, rendering the captured frames on a graphical processing unit (GPU), sending the captured frames through a shader program, generating at least two images, a first image saved to the memory and a second image displayed on the display, and rendering the first image into the second image to generate a final image.
US09813636B2	Processor and apparatus capable of reducing image flicker and a related method An apparatus capable of reducing image flicker, including: a processor and an image capture device. The processor is configured to: detect whether a telecom operator is currently offering a telecommunication service to the apparatus; search a mapping history of utility frequencies from a storage device and determine whether the telecom operator is mapped to a utility frequency after detecting that the telecom operator is currently offering a telecommunication service to the apparatus; and obtain the utility frequency mapped to the telecom operator from the mapping history to be a current utility frequency after determining the utility frequency mapped to the telecom operator. The image capture device, coupled to the processor, is configured to operate with an exposure time adjusted according to the current utility frequency.
US09813635B2	Method and apparatus for auto exposure value detection for high dynamic range imaging A method and apparatus for auto exposure value detection for High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging. An image can be captured as a captured image at a capture exposure. The exposure of a current iteration of the image can be changed by at least a fraction of an exposure value. A changed exposure image can be captured at the changed exposure value. A difference between an exposure data metric of the current iteration of the changed exposure image and an exposure data metric of a previous iteration of the image can be ascertained. The difference between the exposure data metric of the current iteration of the changed exposure image and the exposure data metric of the previous iteration of the image can be compared to a difference threshold. Changing the exposure value, capturing the changed exposure image, ascertaining the difference, and comparing the difference can be repeated when the difference between the exposure data metric of the current iteration of the changed exposure image and the exposure data metric of the previous iteration of the image exceeds the difference threshold.
US09813633B2	Method and system for configuring an imaging device for the reception of digital pulse recognition information In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for configuring one or more imaging sensors of an imaging device to capture digital images for digital pulse recognition demodulation. In some embodiments, the method includes initializing one or more imaging sensors of the imaging device, determining a subset of the one or more imaging sensors to configure, setting a configuration for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset by defining a region of interest as a metering area for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset and automatically adjusting a setting for each of the one or more imaging sensors of the subset, and adjusting input parameters of a demodulation function based on a device profile of the imaging device. In some embodiments, the adjusted setting is locked to prevent further adjustment of the adjusted setting.
US09813627B2	Image shake correcting apparatus and its control method, lens barrel, optical equipment, and imaging apparatus An image shake correcting apparatus includes a shake detecting unit to detect shake of an apparatus containing an imaging optical system. A calculating unit calculates an image shake correction amount by acquiring a shake detection signal output from the shake detecting unit. A shake correcting unit corrects an image shake in accordance with the image shake correction amount calculated by the calculating unit. The calculating unit calculates an imaging magnification of the imaging optical system, and calculates the image shake correction amount by calculating a first correction amount before change of a frequency range of a correction filter and calculates the image shake correction amount by a second correction amount after change of a frequency range, in accordance with a size of the imaging magnification.
US09813626B2	Image sensor, operating method therefor, and electronic device An image sensor includes: a plurality of light-receiving elements that receive light from a subject and are arranged in a 2-dimensional form; a detection unit that detects a movement amount of a projected image of the subject projected to the plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in the 2-dimensional form; and a light-receiving element control unit that adaptively controls a timing at which pixel data is read from the plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in the 2-dimensional form for each line according to the movement amount.
US09813622B2	Color corrected high resolution imaging A high resolution imaging system includes an imaging camera array creating a sets or frames of array images of a scene and a reference camera creating reference images of the same scene. A synchronization controller coordinates imaging of the scene by the imaging camera array and the reference camera. An image processor merges the sets of array images into high resolution images and apply a color correction to the high resolution images based on reference images. Color correction can be performed on the merged high resolution image or on individual array images prior to merger into the high resolution image.
US09813618B2	Wide area imaging system and method The present invention provides a new and useful paradigm in wide area imaging, in which wide area imaging is provided by a step/dwell/image capture process and system to capture images and produce from the captured images a wide area image. The image capture is by a sensor that has a predetermined image field and provides image capture at a predetermined frame capture rate, and by a motorized step and dwell sequence of the sensor, where image capture is during a dwell, and the step and dwell sequence of the sensor is synchronized with the image capture rate of the sensor.
US09813615B2	Image photographing apparatus and image photographing method for generating a synthesis image from a plurality of images An image photographing apparatus and an image photographing method are provided. The image photographing apparatus includes: a plurality of image capturers respectively comprising lenses having different focal distances and respectively configured to capture a plurality of images having different resolutions; a storage configured to store the plurality of images captured by the plurality of image capturers; an image processor configured to adjust properties of the plurality of images to correspond to each other; a controller configured to, in response to a magnification change command being input, control the image processor to synthesize the plurality of images of which the properties are adjusted and generate a synthesis image of a magnification changed according to the magnification change command; and a display configured to display the synthesis image.
US09813614B2	Method and system for analog/digital image simplification and stylization A computer program product includes instructions for a processor to perform a method of improving image structure and coherence, and/or for simplification/stylization. The method includes inputting the image, by: scanning the image; image capture using a camera; and/or image creation using a computer. Multi-channel images are converted into a single-channel image, which is separated into a first image component—the high spatial frequencies, and a second component image—the low spatial frequencies. The first and second component images are each formed by filtering to remove frequencies outside of respective upper and lower threshold frequencies. A gain multiplier is applied to the filtered first and second component images to control detail amplification. The first and second component images are each blurred at the respective upper and lower threshold frequencies. An improved stylized composite image results by subtracting the gain multiplied first component image from the gain multiplied second component image.
US09813612B2	Imaging apparatus, information managing apparatus, control methods thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for superimposing image data on a display An imaging apparatus acquires, from an external apparatus, other image data obtained by other imaging apparatuses and other image data information containing information about the other image data, superimposes the other image data information on an imaging confirmation screen, and displays the other image data information on a display unit.
US09813610B2	Method and apparatus for relative control of multiple cameras using at least one bias zone The present invention relates a method of obtaining motion picture footage of a moving object within an environment, being a surveyed environment or an environment of known dimensions. The method including the steps of: creating a computer generated virtual map of the environment within a control apparatus. At least one bias zone overlays the virtual map, the at least one bias zone being a predetermined or variable pattern, capturing a dynamic primary image of said object using a first motion picture camera, and capturing a dynamic halo image that extends around the primary image using a second motion picture camera. The said first and second motion picture cameras being controlled by the control apparatus such that a position or size of the halo image relative to the primary image is regulated by the at least one bias zone.
US09813608B2	Fast auto-focus in imaging The disclosure relates to methods and systems for automatically focusing multiple images of one or more objects on a substrate. The methods include obtaining, by a processor, a representative focal distance for a first location on the substrate based on a set of focal distances at known locations on the substrate. The methods also include acquiring, by an image acquisition device, a set of at least two images of the first location. The images are each acquired using a different focal distance at an offset from the representative focal distance. The methods further include estimating, by a processor, an ideal focal distance corresponding to the first location based on comparing a quality of focus for each of the images, and storing the estimated ideal focal distance and the first location in the set of focal distances at known locations.
US09813605B2	Apparatus, method, and program product for tracking items Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for tracking items. An identification module identifies an item using one or more sensors of an information handling device. A location module receives location data for the item in response to identifying the item. A communication module shares the location data with one or more different information handling devices.
US09813604B2	Management method for network system and network device, network device and control method therefor, and management system A log is recorded when an event occurs in an image forming apparatus, a video file recorded by a network camera is tagged at the point in time that the event occurred, and video tag information tagged to the recorded video file is registered in relation to a device serial ID of the image forming apparatus and an ID for uniquely identifying the log in the image forming apparatus.
US09813602B2	Autofocus camera using MEMS actuation of image sensor A miniature camera module that achieves autofocus (AF) by applying actuation to the image sensor using MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) actuators comprising of a piston-tube electrostatic actuators. The camera comprises of a MEMS piston-tube actuator, an image sensor die, an IC package, a housing, and a lens barrel. The image sensor die is attached and is electrically bonded to the moving rotor of the MEMS electrostatic piston-tube actuator, which is, in turn, attached and electrically bonded to a semiconductor device package. The packaged piston-tube actuator with the image sensor attached to it is covered with a transparent protection lid which could be an IR filter.
US09813601B2	Imaging device for scenes in apparent motion Imaging systems and methods for imaging of scenes in apparent motion are described. A multi-axis positioning mechanism is operable to move an area imaging device along a tracking axis. A control module directs the multi-axis positioning mechanism to set the tracking axis to be substantially parallel with the apparent motion, and directs the multi-axis positioning mechanism to move the area imaging device in one or more cycles such that the area imaging device moves, in each of the one or more cycles, forward along the tracking axis at a tracking speed that compensates for the apparent motion. The control module directs the area imaging device to take at least one exposure during each of the one or more cycles to generate one or more exposures. An imaging module forms an image of the scene based on the one or more exposures.
US09813599B1	Portable electronic device with an attachable image capturing module An image capturing module applicable to a portable electronic device is provided. The image capturing module includes an approximately cylindrical casing, an image capturing sensor, an accommodation space, and at least one magnet. The casing includes a first side having a projection, and a second side, opposed to the first side, having a charging contact. The image capturing sensor is disposed on an outer surface of the casing. The accommodation space is disposed in the casing for receiving a battery. The at least one magnet is disposed between the first side of the casing and the accommodation space.
US09813598B2	Light emitting system, light emission control apparatus and control method therefor, communication system and control method therefor and storage medium A light emitting system in which a light emission control apparatus wirelessly communicates with at least one controlled light emitting apparatus, the controlled light emitting apparatus comprising a first transmission unit which wirelessly transmits charging state information to the light emission control apparatus, and the light emission control apparatus comprising a receiving unit which receives the charging state information from the controlled light emitting apparatus, an informing unit which informs the image capture apparatus that a charging operation is complete, a second transmission unit which transmits a signal to stop transmitting charging state information, and a third transmission unit which transmits a light emission command to the controlled light emitting apparatus.
US09813594B2	Photon-drive fingerprint identification module A photon-drive fingerprint identification module configured to detect a fingerprint of a finger is provided, and the photon-drive fingerprint identification module includes at least a light emitting unit and a light detecting semiconductor array. The light emitting unit is configured to emit a detecting light to the finger, and the finger and the fingerprint reflect the detecting light and turn it into a signal light. The light detecting semiconductor array includes a plurality of light detecting semiconductor units arranged in an array, and the light detecting semiconductor units are configured to receive the signal light reflected by the finger and generate a plurality of electrical signals. Each of the light detecting semiconductor units sequentially includes an antireflection structure, a first type doped semiconductor layer and a second type doped semiconductor layer. The first type doped semiconductor layer is stacked between the antireflection structure and the second type doped semiconductor layer.
US09813589B2	Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control method, and program A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data.
US09813579B1	Method and apparatus for generating a multi-layer correlation mark via a monochrome printer A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for generating a multi-layer correlation mark via a monochrome printer are disclosed. For example, the method includes setting a first scalar value of a channel of the monochrome printer, setting a second scalar value of the channel of the monochrome printer, generating a first layer of the multi-layer correlation mark at the first scalar value of the channel, generating a second layer of the multi-layer correlation mark at the second scalar value of the channel and printing the multi-layer correlation mark comprising the first layer at the first scalar value of the channel and the second layer at the second scalar value of the channel.
US09813577B2	Image forming apparatus, activation control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with activation control program An image forming apparatus includes a main processor, a first memory, a sub processor, and a second memory. The second memory stores a snapshot that includes an executable program obtained by loading one or more programs in the first memory. The main processor switches from a drive mode to a stop mode. The sub processor activates the main processor in response to any one of a plurality of activation factors being detected, cuts off power in response to an operation mode being switched to the stop mode, and supplies power to the main processor and the first memory before the main processor is activated. The main processor reads out a snapshot associated with an activation factor from the second memory and stores the snapshot into the first memory in response to being activated by the sub processor.
US09813575B2	Image forming apparatus having memorizing control, image forming system, and image formation control method An image forming apparatus, includes an image forming section to form an image on a paper sheet based on image data; an output image reading section to read the image formed on the paper sheet by the forming section and to produce formed image data; a data memory section to memorize various kinds of data; an attribution information producing section to discriminate the contents of the formed image data and to produce attribution information which shows the attribute of the formed image data; and a control section to control image formation by the image forming section, reading by the output image reading section, and memorizing by the data memory section, wherein the control section controls the memorizing by the data memory section for formed image relating information in association with the formed image data based on the attribution information.
US09813574B2	Image processing apparatus and information processing method An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a request from an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the image processing apparatus via a network, a determination unit configured to, based on authority information about user's authority included in the request received by the receiving unit and setting item information for identifying a setting item included in the request, determine whether a user has a write authority on the setting item, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the user has the write authority on the setting item, control whether to permit a change of a setting value of the setting item, based on a setting value of security policy information associated with the setting item.
US09813573B2	Reading device, image forming apparatus, and reading device control method A reading device includes a conveyance control section for controlling document conveyance. In a case of double-sided reading of a document and with a cutout document mode applied, the conveyance control section stops a pair of reverse-rotation rollers at a time point when the document has been conveyed by a distance resulting from adding an additional distance, which is predetermined or determined based on a recognized cutout width in the document conveyance direction, to a reference distance since a time point of passage of a rear end of a document-detecting detection part, and thereafter start reverse rotation of the pair of reverse-rotation rollers.
US09813572B2	Image processing apparatus that reduces setting operation by user, image forming method, and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes a processing target selection unit. The processing target selection unit inquires which image data obtained by a conveyed-document reading unit or by a fixed-document reading unit, to be set as a processing target when a user determination unit has determined that users are identical, determines image data obtained by a conveyed-document reading unit as a processing target when the user determination unit has determined that the users are not identical and a determination unit has determined that the document on the platen is a left document, and inquires which image data image data obtained by the conveyed-document reading unit or by the fixed-document reading unit, to be set as the processing target when the user determination unit has determined that the users are not identical, and the determination unit has determined that the document on the platen is not a left document.
US09813571B2	Communication apparatus, method of controlling the communication apparatus, and storage medium A communication apparatus at a client side communicates with a server to update remote one-touch keys each time because a remote one-touch key can be deleted or added in a communication apparatus at the server side. However, a remote one-touch key selected to specify a transmission destination can be used to deselect the transmission destination. Consequently, the communication apparatus at the client side does not update the remote one-touch keys while the remote one-touch key is selected to specify the transmission destination. With the configuration, the one-touch keys provided from the communication apparatus at the server side can be used while the operability of the one-touch keys is maintained.
US09813570B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product An information processing apparatus is connectable to a server via a network, and includes an acquisition unit, a first display control unit, a storage unit, and a permission control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first screen including an execution procedure of a first command from the server. The first display control unit performs control to display the first screen acquired by the acquisition unit. The storage unit stores therein one or more pieces of command information indicating information on a command permitted to be executed. The permission control unit does not permit execution of the first command when the one or more pieces of command information stored in the storage unit include no command information corresponding to the execution procedure of the first command selected from the first screen.
US09813569B2	Display input device and image forming apparatus including same, and method for controlling display input device When a display changing operation is performed after a shift is made to a rotation mode, a display input device performs a rotation display of an object, and increases a rotation angle of the object per unit movement amount of a predetermined touch point according as a distance between two points touched in a mode switching operation is larger. When a display changing operation is performed after a shift to an enlargement/reduction mode, the display input device performs an enlargement/reduction display of the object, and increases an enlargement amount or a reduction amount of the object per unit movement amount of the predetermined touch point according as the distance between the two touch points touched in the mode switching operation is larger.
US09813568B2	Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for more uniformly distributing documents An image processing apparatus includes: a providing unit that provides a document data accumulated in a host apparatus according to a request from another apparatus in a same apparatus group to which the host apparatus belongs; and a control unit that acquires information of a size of document group accumulated in each of other image processing apparatuses from each of those image processing apparatuses in the apparatus group, and performs control of moving the document among the host apparatus and those image processing apparatuses in such a manner that the size of the document group accumulated in the host apparatus and each of those image processing apparatuses approaches uniform.
US09813561B2	Methods and apparatus for transferring an established communication session in a telecommunications network Measures for transferring an established communication session in a telecommunications network, the communication session being established between one of a plurality of communication clients associated with a user and a remote device associated with a remote party. At a call control system located in the signaling path for the established communication session, a communication session transfer request is received from a device associated with the user, the communication session transfer request having been generated by and transmitted from the device. Transfer of the established communication session from the one communication client in the plurality of communication clients to another communication client in the plurality of communication clients is initiated at the call control system. The transfer is conducted on the basis of a preconfigured data set, specific to the user, identifying one or more of the plurality of communication clients associated with the user.
US09813560B2	Systems and methods for managing multimedia conference calls Systems and methods are disclosed for managing a multimedia conference call. According to certain embodiments, a server establishes a multimedia conference call between a plurality of multimedia conference devices. The multimedia conference call includes the communication of multimedia conference contents via one or more of the plurality of multimedia conference devices. The server also records at least a portion of the multimedia conference contents; and detects one or more interrupting events. The interrupting events occur during the multimedia conference call. The server further provides substitute contents to the other multimedia conference devices of the plurality of multimedia conference devices. The substitute contents are generated based on a recorded portion of the multimedia conference call associated with a time to the interrupting events.
US09813557B2	Conditional attribute mapping in work assignment A contact center, methods, and mechanisms are provided for assigning work items to resources using attributes that conditionally expand a selectable pool of resources. The work item is first analyzed for any required, preferred, and conditional attributes and then queued in multiple resource attribute sets for work assignment. Work items are assigned to resources by considering a match between the analyzed attributes of a work item and a resource while observing alternative assignment conditions. When met, the alternative assignment conditions cause the work item to be queued in additional resource attribute sets thereby expanding the pool of selectable resources. Once assigned, the work item may be removed from queues not selected in the work assignment.
US09813554B2	Determining most effective call parameters and presenting to representative Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for determining most effective call parameters for a representative-customer interaction for a representative working to recover payment in arrears. Embodiments of the invention retrieve call history data and date of payment data; correlate the call history data and the payment data; determine success information based on the correlation of call history data and payment data; and present the success information to the representative for improving likelihood of future success. Other embodiments retrieve call history data and determine best time and/or channel for contacting the customer in order to achieve customer contact.
US09813552B2	Selective voice communication among multiple services When a voice call is made between two users (Caller and Callee), both of which may have access to multiple voice communication services, the connection is made automatically by the communication equipment through a selectable communication service, based upon characteristics of connection. Those characteristics may include the services available to the users, the day of the week, the time of day, the availability of the Callee on a service, the geographic locations of the Caller and Callee, and Caller pre-established service preferences. Preferably, Caller preferences and associations of callees with unique destination identifiers are stored in a database created for the Caller and available to his communication equipment. An ultimate callee identifier selected for a particular call includes an indication of communication service, and connection an appropriate interface for that service is then provided automatically for the Caller.
US09813549B2	Voice service evaluation processing method and apparatus A voice service evaluation processing method and apparatus may include acquiring record data related to a to-be-evaluated voice service; using a voice service evaluation model that is acquired according to record data related to a voice service to evaluate the record data related to the to-be-evaluated voice service, so as to acquire an evaluation value of the record data related to the to-be-evaluated voice service; and performing, according to the evaluation value, evaluation processing on a voice service corresponding to the record data related to the to-be-evaluated voice service. The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a more reliable basis for improvement and optimization of a voice service. In addition, an actual status of a network may further be reflected according to evaluation performed on record data related to the voice service, and adjustment on a network indicator may further be performed according to the reflected network status.
US09813545B2	Inconspicuous mode for mobile devices A communication device is configured to switch from a normal mode of operation to an inconspicuous mode of operation in which a reduced set of information is presented on a home screen of a display of the device in comparison to a set of information presented on the home screen in the normal mode of operation. In addition, other display properties such as contrast and brightness may be adjusted to make them less conspicuous. The home screen in the inconspicuous mode of operation is less obtrusive or conspicuous to individuals than in the normal mode of operation. The device may enter the inconspicuous mode upon user request or by detecting at least one environmental condition using a sensor available to the mobile communication device. The environmental condition may be anything that the device can detect or sense in its surrounding environment such as ambient light or sound. The device may return to the normal mode of operation by user request or when the environmental condition is no longer present.
US09813543B2	System and method for provision of appliance control functionality to a smart device A system for use in issuing commands to a plurality of appliances each of a specific one of a plurality of different appliance types includes a smart device adapted to transmit command communications and a plurality of low-energy consuming controllers each adapted to transmit a command to a one of the plurality of appliances of a specific one of the plurality of different appliance types in response to receipt of a command communication originating from the smart device.
US09813537B2	Method for connecting and blocking call in portable terminal A method in a call system connects and blocks a call in a portable terminal. A call blocking time period is set. An elapsed time period is measured from a time point when the call blocking time period is set. A determination is made as to whether the measured time period exceeds the set call blocking time period if the portable terminal receives a call connection request from an external terminal. If the measured time period does not exceed the set call blocking time period, the call connection is blocked and information regarding time period, calculated by subtracting the measured time period from the set call blocking time period, is transmitted to the external terminal that requested the call connection.
US09813536B2	System for testing wireless interaction between a system for reproducing audio signals and a mobile phone, and corresponding method and computer program product Described herein is a system for testing wireless interaction of a system for reproduction of audio signals, in particular a user-interface device of a motor vehicle configured for reproducing audio signals, with a mobile phone, said reproduction system and said mobile phone being configured for communicating over a wireless communication channel for short-range communications.According to the invention, the above system comprises a module for simulation of a mobile phone, comprising processing means configured for simulating operation of a mobile phone, said module for simulation of a mobile phone being associated in a signal-exchange relationship to a short-range wireless transceiver module configured for communicating via said wireless communication channel with the system for reproduction of audio signals.
US09813534B2	Method and apparatus for testing cell phones A phone holder for a mobile phone testing apparatus which comprises at least a base plate, a rest structure on the base plate for supporting a mobile phone, at least one block for contacting a mobile phone's narrow side, wherein the at least one block is moveably attached to the base plate, thereby enabling adapting the position of the block to a mobile phone being supported by said rest, and clamping means for releasable fixing the at least one first block in said position can be configured for securely holding almost any mobile phone model.
US09813522B2	Managing interactions in a network communications environment A network communications environment has advanced interaction management functionality that enables the opportunities for users to interact with one another to be expanded beyond the opportunities that exist with closed interaction management approaches while still providing reasonable privacy and security protections that are not available with open interaction management approaches. The advanced interaction management functionality also encourages the proliferation of trust-based interactions.
US09813520B2	Distributed cache for state transfer operations A network arrangement that employs a cache having copies distributed among a plurality of different locations. The cache stores state information for a session with any of the server devices so that it is accessible to at least one other server device. Using this arrangement, when a client device switches from a connection with a first server device to a connection with a second server device, the second server device can retrieve state information from the cache corresponding to the session between the client device and the first server device. The second server device can then use the retrieved state information to accept a session with the client device.
US09813518B2	Merging data downloads with real-time data feeds Methods and apparatuses for merging downloaded data with a real-time data are disclosed. An example includes receiving downloaded item of data from a download connection with a data repository and real-time item of data from a real-time data feed with a data publisher. In response to determining that the downloaded item of data includes the most recent downloaded item of data from the download connection, the downloaded item of data is stored as the last downloaded item of data. In response to determining that the real-time item of data is the most recent real-time item of data received from the real-time data feed, the real-time item of data is stored as the last real-time item of data from the real-time data feed. In response to determining a match between the last downloaded item of data and the last real-time item of data the download connection is ended.
US09813515B2	Systems and methods for caching content with notification-based invalidation with extension to clients Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for content delivery on the Internet. In certain non-limiting embodiments, a caching model is provided that can support caching for indefinite time periods, potentially with infinite or relatively long time-to-live values, yet provide prompt updates when the underlying origin content changes. In one approach, an origin server can annotate its responses to content requests with tokens, e.g., placing them in an appended HTTP header or otherwise. The tokens can drive the process of caching, and can be used as handles for later invalidating the responses within caching proxy servers delivering the content. This caching and invalidation model can be extended out to clients, such that clients may be notified of invalid data and obtain timely updates.
US09813513B2	Engine, system and method for an adaptive search engine on the client computer using domain social network data as the search topic sources An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising.
US09813511B2	Roaming instant messaging A computer-implemented method of instant messaging can include determining location information for at least one user of an instant messaging system, determining when the user is no longer proximate to a home instant messaging client, and determining when the user is proximate to a guest instant messaging client. The computer-implemented method also can include dynamically updating a status of the user within an instant messaging system according to the proximity of the user to at least one of the home instant messaging client or the guest instant messaging client.
US09813508B2	Approach for providing service workflows through devices An approach for providing service workflows through devices includes a service server determining that a service is available for a particular device. In response to determining that the service is available for the particular device, the service server obtains, from the particular device, service information that specifies, for the service, at least one or more processes that implement the service on the particular device, one or more parameters for the one or more processes and one or more user interfaces for the one or more processes. The service server generates, based upon the service information, a service application that implements the service. The service server receives, from a client device, a request to use the service for the particular device and in response, the service server provides to the client device the service application that implements the service.
US09813507B2	Method for maintaining transmission control protocol connection and computer system using the method A method for maintaining transmission control protocol (TCP) connection and a computer system are provided. The method is adapted to a computer system having a network card and a processor, wherein the processor executes an operating system. In the method, a first TCP connection with a remote server is first established via the network card. Then, after the operating system enters a power saving mode, a wake-up packet transmitted by the remote server through the first TCP connection is received to wake the operating system. The operating system resets the retransmission time of the remote server transmitting the wake-up packet when resuming a normal operation mode.
US09813497B2	Network-assisted peer discovery Techniques for performing network-assisted peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are described. In one design, a device registers with a network entity (e.g., a directory agent) so that the presence of the device and possibly other information about the device can be made known to the network entity. The network entity collects similar information from other devices. The device sends a request to the network entity, e.g., during or after registration. The request includes information used to match the device with other devices, e.g., information about service(s) provided by the device and/or service(s) requested by the device. The directory agent matches requests received from all devices, determines a match between the device and at least one other device, and sends a notification to perform peer discovery. The device performs peer discovery in response to receiving the notification from the network entity.
US09813496B2	Method and apparatus for collaborating in a work environment The disclosed embodiments relate to a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for improving collaborative communications that can be implemented using either centralized or decentralized modes, or combinations thereof. An exemplary method comprises receiving information corresponding to a user of a collaboration platform, the collaboration platform being associated with a plurality of collaboration channels; determining at least one of the collaboration channels to be most relevant for the user based on the received information; and routing the user to the at least one collaboration channel determined to be the most relevant for the user. The disclosed embodiment further utilizes discussions as a way of communicating to solve problems and incidents.
US09813489B1	System, method and apparatus for enabling a shared infrastructure Parties having different responsibilities and interests at a monitored location can be given a partial view of the totality of the sensor channels of data generated by the various sensors installed at the monitored location. The partial views deliver customized sets of data streams to customers. The selective distribution of sensor information accommodates the divergent interests and needs of parties responsible for tracking the various characteristics of a monitored location.
US09813488B2	Detecting virtual private network usage According to some aspects described herein, a system may determine whether a network actor appears to be using an intermediary such as a VPN and/or proxy server. This may be accomplished by directing the network actor to request and/or access a network-segment identification resource which may, in some embodiments, be stored in another region of the global network. The system may include links and/or other identifiers pointing the network actor to one or more network-segment identification resources. The network actor may access the network-segment identification resources using the links or identifiers, and the system may use information about the request for the network-segment identification resource to determine whether the network actor is associated with multiple source addresses.
US09813486B2	Assessment of cloud hosting suitability for multiple applications In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method of assessment of cloud hosting suitability for multiple applications is disclosed. The method may include creating a second synthetic application definition based on a first synthetic application definition, wherein creating the second application definition comprises defining, in the second synthetic application definition, a second plurality of resource consumptions, wherein the second plurality of resource consumptions are equivalent to consumptions by the candidate application at a second level of user demand. The method may also include consuming, based on the second synthetic application definition, a plurality of quantities of resources of the computing system and evaluating the computing system. The present disclosure additionally includes associated systems and apparatuses.
US09813483B2	Method and system for downloading application, downloading terminal, sharing terminal, and storage medium The present invention provides a method and system for downloading an application, a downloading terminal, a sharing terminal, and a storage medium, in which the method includes: sending an application sharing request to a sharing terminal by a downloading terminal, to obtain application information of the sharing terminal; receiving, by the sharing terminal, the application sharing request sent by the downloading terminal, and sending the application information of the sharing terminal to the downloading terminal; and downloading the corresponding application by the downloading terminal according to the application information sent by the sharing terminal. According to the invention, the promotion of the applications can be targeted, such that the application with a better user experience in sharing terminal is recommended to the downloading terminal, thus improving the promotion efficiency of the application, while not causing the adverse effect to terminal which downloads the application.
US09813482B2	Remote process management Embodiments of the present invention provide a process-management interface on a companion device that allows a user to control characteristics of an application running on a primary device. The interface can change a size or position of a viewport and change the primary device's control focus to or away from viewport. The process-management interface also allows a user to target a process on the companion device.
US09813480B2	Placeholders for dynamic components in HTML streaming A method of speeding up the delivery of a dynamic webpage is disclosed. A request for a webpage is received, the webpage including one or more dynamic components. A cached stub is sent in response to the request, wherein the cached stub includes components empirically determined as static components of the webpage, and wherein the cached stub includes a placeholder replacing at least a portion of a first dynamic component of the webpage. A script is injected in the cached stub that intercepts any access to the placeholder.
US09813476B2	Performing an action on a social networking system based on a content identifier embedded in provided content A content source provides metadata associated with content, such as an audio signal or video data, to a social networking system. The metadata identifies characteristics of the content or specifies an action for the social networking system to perform. A content identifier associated with the metadata is generated by the social networking system, and an association between the content identifier and the metadata is stored. The content identifier is provided to the content source, which encodes the content identifier into the content (e.g., as a watermark). When a client device receives the content encoded with the content identifier, the content identifier is extracted and communicated to the social networking system in connection with a user account associated with the client device. Based on the content identifier, the social networking system retrieves the corresponding metadata and performs an action in connection with the user account based on the metadata.
US09813475B1	Delivering a video stream Delivering a video stream is disclosed. A request for the video stream is received. A past portion of the video stream is delivered to a client. The past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer. Receiving a video stream is also disclosed. A request for the video stream is transmitted. A past portion of the video stream is received. The received past portion has a marker time that precedes a current time by an interval that corresponds to a buffer length in a client buffer.
US09813474B2	ABR video white spot coverage system and method A scheme for managing ABR streaming of content in a wireless radio network environment that may have radio white spot areas. Upon determining that the wireless UE device executing an ABR client application is in a radio white spot area, the current ABR streaming session may be suspended at a particular segment. Thereafter, playback of other content locally cached at the wireless UE device may be commenced in lieu of the ABR media segments. When the wireless UE device exits the radio white spot area, the ABR streaming session may be resumed from a point adjacent to the particular segment where the ABR streaming session was suspended.
US09813472B2	System and method for minimizing network bandwidth retrieved from an external network A system and method are provided of minimizing network bandwidth used from an external network by client peers in a local network. The method can include the operation of organizing a plurality of clients each having media streamlets and a client parent in a structure within the local network. Mapping information propagates through the structure. The mapping information represents local streamlet locations as stored by the plurality of clients. Another operation is retrieving a local streamlet from a client identified in the mapping information as having the local streamlet for the requesting client.
US09813470B2	Unicast ABR streaming A method of delivering unicast adaptive bitrate (UABR) streaming includes receiving, at a content delivery network (CDN) node, a request for a video asset to be streamed at a selected bitrate; loading a manifest for the requested video asset; parsing the manifest for the requested video asset and preloading a plurality of segments across all represented bitrates into a preload cache buffer; fetching requested bitrate segments into a segment combiner; and streaming a combined stream to the requesting entity.
US09813466B2	Direct connection with side channel control A wireless computer that pairs with a remote audio-video presentation device, such as a television. As a result of the pairing, a communication channel is established for the computer to transmit audio-video content for presentation through that device. Additionally, as part of the pairing, the computer and remote device select a side channel for communication of user commands. The wireless computer may display a user interface through which a user may input commands that control the manner in which the remote audio-video device presents the content. As a result, a user may use the wireless computer as a remote control for the audio-video device, controlling both the content presented and the manner in which it is presented. The side channel may use different frequencies than the channel used to communicate audio-video content, and may use very low power at frequencies in the digital TV spectrum.
US09813465B2	Network proxy for energy efficient video streaming on mobile devices Examples of systems and methods for network proxy server for energy efficient video streaming on mobile devices are generally described herein. A proxy server to deliver video content may include a communication module to intercept a request for video content from a mobile device, the request for video content intended for a content server and forward a modified request for the video content to the content server. The communication module may receive the video content from the content server and transfer a portion of the video content to the mobile device using a multipath transport protocol.
US09813464B2	Conducting a conference call over a computer network A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for a conference call moderator to conduct a conference call between a plurality of participants. At least some of the conference call participants are grouped by location. A participant within each group is identified to act as a domestic focus for that group and is notified of its assigned role. For each group, the conference call moderator disconnects from all participants in the group except for the participant that has been assigned the role of domestic focus. For each group, the conference call is then routed through the assigned domestic focus. Such a grouping may, for example, occur as a result of a degradation in call quality or may be based on the number of call participants. This solution preferably off-loads some of the conference call processing to the domestic focus, thereby alleviating the workload faced by the overall conference call moderator.
US09813461B2	Viewing full screen applications in a sharing session An attendee device in an online conference session views a shared application window in a full screen mode. The attendee device receives data for content being shared by a host device, including at least one application window at a first resolution. The attendee device receives an input to enter a full screen mode for one of the application windows and determines whether displaying that application window at a second resolution for the full screen mode requires the image data to be magnified. When displaying the application window at the second resolution requires magnified image data, the attendee device requests the magnified image data from the meeting server facilitating the conference session. The meeting server provides the magnified image data to the attendee device, and the attendee device displays the application window in full screen mode using the magnified image data.
US09813457B2	Broadcast notifications using social networking systems A notifier sends out notifications to potential viewers or listeners of a broadcast stream via social networking systems or other communication channels. The notifier stores information about a user's preferences and identity on the social networking systems. After the notifier receives a notification request from a broadcaster, the notifier commands broadcaster agents deployed in the social networking systems or in the notifier to send notification messages to users of the social networking systems registered to receive notification. The broadcaster agents function as a proxy that establishes relationships with users of the social networking systems and then sends out the notification messages to the users with established relationships.
US09813455B2	Systems and methods for handling multiple concurrent session initiation protocol transactions Systems and methods for handling the processing of multiple SIP transactions that have been requested at substantially the same time can involve establishing a priority order for processing the SIP transactions, and then individually processing the SIP transactions based on the established priority order. One or more SIP transactions having a lower priority can be held in a SIP processing queue of a software application until the processing of SIP transactions having a higher priority has been completed. Each time that the processing of a higher priority SIP transaction is completed, the next-highest priority SIP transaction in the queue is submitted for processing. Also, where possible, two or more SIP transactions in the queue may be consolidated into a single SIP transaction.
US09813454B2	Cybersecurity training system with automated application of branded content A cybersecurity training system uses lures and training actions to help train a user of an electronic device to recognize and act appropriately in situations that could compromise electronic device security. The system includes a library of cybersecurity training actions and a library of brand items. The system retrieves a template for a cybersecurity training action from the first library, automatically modifies the retrieved template to include a brand or branded content from the second library, and causes the cybersecurity training action according to the modified template instantiated with the branded content to be sent to the user's electronic device.
US09813451B2	Apparatus and method for detecting cyber attacks from communication sources An apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to specify a communication source device that performs a plurality of traffic confirmations of communications with a plurality of first devices, and control to discard a plurality of first authentication requests for the plurality of first devices generated by the communication source device after performing the plurality of traffic confirmations of communications.
US09813449B1	Systems and methods for providing a security information and event management system in a distributed architecture A Distributed Security Information and Event Management System (DSIEMS) is a scalable, intelligent, security and fraud management platform that proactively collects information from a network's computer systems, applications, users, and external intelligence data feeds, and aggregates the information into a centralized repository where the information can then be analyzed and quickly acted upon when necessary. Further, according to one aspect, a DSIEMS analyzes aggregated information to discern patterns of potential attack, inappropriate data movement, and fraud from normal and legitimate network activity, account activity, user activity, and data access. According to one embodiment, aspects of the present disclosure are implemented in a distributed architecture. In particular, aspects of the present DSIEMS utilize an agent-based architecture in which intelligent software agents are deployed on each node (e.g., endpoint computing device) within the system.
US09813444B2	Reliable selection of security countermeasures Among other things, this document describes a computer-implemented security method such as for authenticated selection of security countermeasures and for reliable identification of computing devices. The method can include receiving, by a computing system, a request from a computing device for an electronic resource. The computing system can identify a security token received from the device that made the request. Based on the security token, particular security countermeasures can be selected that are to be applied to the electronic resource to be served in response to the request. The countermeasures can be operable to interfere with an ability of malware to interact with the served electronic resource when the served electronic resource is on the computing device. Portions of the electronic resource that are to be executed on the computing device can be re-coded using the selected particular security countermeasures.
US09813439B2	Evaluation node for reporting status via a secure link An evaluator node may obtain an IP address within a network to be tested, the network having multiple testable addresses other than the IP address. The evaluator node establishes a secure session to the server, where the evaluator node authenticates itself to the server using a predetermined key. The evaluator node, in response to establishing the secure session, assesses the testable addresses, wherein each of the first testable address and the second testable address are tested according to a pre-set test suite stored in the evaluator node. It reports a summary assessment, to the server, in response to at least one of the testable addresses being assessed. Subsequently, it may, sanitize itself, following receiving responses, detecting timeouts with respect to expected responses. The evaluator node may sanitize by at least erasing from memory at least one summary assessment and the predetermined key.
US09813438B2	Anomaly prediction method and system for heterogeneous network architecture An anomaly prediction method and system for heterogeneous network architecture are provided. A gateway receives a packet and converts the packet to conform to a switching format. The gateway compares the packet and a security policy. The gateway transmits the packet to a controller after determining the packet has no anomaly. The controller sets a priority of the packet, converts the packet to conform a target format and stores the packet to a queue temporarily. The controller relays the packet to a destination address according to the priority and the destination address of the packet.
US09813433B2	System and method for embedded mobile (EM)/machine to machine (M2M) security, pattern detection, mitigation The invention provides a security system and method for use in a communications network, said network comprising means to allow a plurality of devices to communicate over the network wherein at least one device is a machine to machine (M2M) operated device and at least one other device is a human operated device, said security system comprising: means to capture data traffic originating from the plurality of devices on the network; means for analysing the data traffic; and means for identifying at least one of the M2M operated devices on the network wherein the system is configured to dynamically adapt to different data traffic patterns on the network.
US09813432B2	Tracking anomaly propagation at the network level In one embodiment, a device in a network monitors one or more metrics regarding network traffic associated with a particular application. The device detects an application-centric anomaly based on the monitored one or more metrics. The device causes an anomaly mitigation action to be performed in the network, in response to detecting the application-centric anomaly.
US09813428B2	Apparatus and method for securely managing the accessibility to content and applications A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receive secret information and non-secret information from a secure download application function, provide a request for a first verification to a secure element where the first verification is associated with access to content and/or an application that is accessible via the secure download application function, receive the first verification which is generated by the secure element based on the secret information without providing the secret information to the secure device processor, receive the non-secret information from the secure element, and generate a second verification for the access based on the non-secret information, where the content and/or application is accessible from the secure download application function responsive to the first and second verifications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09813423B2	Trust-based computing resource authorization in a networked computing environment A trust-based approach for authorizing computing resources in a networked computing environment is provided. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a candidate computing resource (e.g., a virtual machine) will submit a request to join a network computing environment (“environment”). Based on the request, a message will be communicated to previously authorized/joined computing resources to poll/solicit their votes as to whether the candidate computing resource should be trusted/authorized in the environment. Based on the responses submitted by the polled computing resources, the candidate computing resource may be authorized or denied membership in the environment. If authorized, a permission level may be set (e.g., as recommended by the polled computing resources).
US09813415B2	System and method of generating and using bilaterally generated variable instant passwords Implementations of a system and method of generating and using bilaterally generated variable instant passwords are provided. In some implementations, the Bilaterally Generated Variable Instant Password System is a Password generation and authentication system that may be used to secure electronic transactions (e.g., a stock market transaction). The system works by authenticating a user at the beginning of a session and at the initiation of any subsequent transactions that occur during the same session. The initial password is entered by the user while additional passwords required to authenticate subsequent transactions are generated by the system without any effort on the part of the user. The passwords are used as encryption keys to encrypt each transaction and may be used to limit a user's access to specific portions of a service providers system. A variety of authentication devices may be used to generate system passwords.
US09813414B2	Password-based management of encrypted files Embodiments include methods for managing encrypted files by storing a user password hash including a predetermined function of the user password associated with that user ID and the secret keys. Aspects also include, in response to receipt from a user computer of an input password and a the user ID for a required encrypted file, communicating with authentication servers to implement a key-reconstruction protocol in which each server computes first and second hash values for the required encrypted file. The file management server uses the first hash values to compute an input password hash including the predetermined function of the input password and the secret keys, checks if the input password hash matches the user password hash for the received user ID, and reconstructs the encryption key for the required encrypted file.
US09813407B2	Rule based device enrollment Techniques for providing enrollment services for various types of electronic devices in a communication network is disclosed. The electronic devices may include devices associated with a user and headless devices not associated with any user. In certain embodiments, a device enrollment system is disclosed that controls the authentication and enrollment of both user devices and headless devices within a communication network. The device enrollment system detects a particular device within a communication, identifies a type of enrollment policy to be applied to the device based on a type of the device, applies a set of enrollment rules to the device in accordance with the enrollment policy and enrolls the device if the device satisfies one or more criteria specified by the enrollment rules.
US09813402B1	User authentication based on probabilistic inference of threat source Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to authenticating a user requesting access to a computing resource. To authenticate the user, activity data describing various activities are collected and stored. The activities may be categorized, for example, as work-related activities, personal-related activities, and social-related activities. The activity data may be utilized to generate challenge questions to present to the user. If the user answers enough of the challenge questions correctly, then the user may be successfully authenticated and granted access to one or more computing resources.
US09813400B2	Computer-implemented systems and methods of device based, internet-centric, authentication Systems and computer-implemented methods for authorizing respective access by each of a plurality of Internet users to a respective one or more Internet services provided by each of a plurality of Internet service providers. A system includes a processor, and non-transient computer readable storage media, at a single identity provider. The storage media is encoded with program code executable by the processor for requiring an identity provider application residing on each of a plurality of devices to create a respective authentication token that is specific to a respective identifier and user credential of a respective Internet user, a respective device identifier, and the respective identity provider application, and for authorizing respective access by the plurality of Internet users to a respective requested one of the Internet services provided by each Internet service provider using the respective created authentication tokens and respective identifiers for each of the respective requested Internet services.
US09813399B2	Secure remote user device unlock for carrier locked user devices System and method of unlocking a user device. A carrier unlock request is received for a user device that may have an unlock application that has been deactivated or flashed. One or more verifications are performed to determine whether the user device is eligible for the carrier unlock requested. Upon determining that the user device is eligible for the carrier unlock, an unlock command is sent to either the user device or an alternate computing device that initiated the unlock request. The unlock command is operative to disable a comparison of a device carrier code of the user device to a subscriber identity module (SIM) carrier code stored in a SIM card of the user device. In various embodiments, the unlock command may be sent either directly to the modem of the user device via USSD or as a QR code to the alternate computing device.
US09813396B2	Methods and systems for managing content subscription data In some aspects, control circuitry receives, at a content provider server that is associated with a first subscription service, a first authentication key from a content aggregator server that is associated with a second subscription service, prior to the user subscribing to the first subscription service. The control circuitry generates and stores, at the content provider server, the first user account after comparing the first authentication key to acceptable authentication. In response to storing the first user account, the control circuitry receives a request from the content aggregator server to subscribe the user to the first subscription service, wherein the request includes a second authentication key. The control circuitry compares the first authentication key to the second authentication key, and in response to determining that the first authentication key matches the second authentication key, validates the first user account and grants access to the first subscription service through the first user account.
US09813392B2	Apparatus and method for providing a public key for authenticating an integrated circuit Disclosed is a method for providing a public key for authenticating an integrated circuit. In the method, the integrated circuit obtains a hardware key and an integrated circuit identifier. The integrated circuit generates a derived key based on the hardware key using a key derivation function (KDF) shared with a manufacturing machine. The integrated circuit generates a private key and a corresponding public key using the derived key as an input to a deterministic function. The integrated circuit then provides the public key and the integrated circuit identifier to a partner service for authentication of the integrated circuit using an anonymized credential database to be provided to the partner service by a manufacturer.
US09813391B2	Method and apparatus for providing conditional access based on channel characteristics A first network device may measure one or more values of one or more parameters corresponding to a plurality of links and/or devices of the network. The first network device may compare the measured one or more values of the one or more parameters to an expected one or more values of the one or more parameters. The first network device may determine whether to transmit data onto a network path between the first device and one of the plurality of devices based on a result of the comparison, wherein at least one of the plurality of links and/or devices are not part of the network path. The first network device may be operable to utilize the discovered parameter values to generate a security key which may be utilized to encrypt and/or scramble content prior to transmitting the content onto the network.
US09813390B2	Systems and methods for controlling email access Embodiments of the disclosure relate to proxying one or more email resources in transit to the client devices from the email services, removing one or more email attachments from the email resources, and encoding the stripped email attachments based at least in part on one or more cryptographic keys.
US09813389B2	System and method for wireless data protection Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for wireless data protection utilizing cryptographic key management on a primary device and a backup device. A system encrypts a file with a file key and encrypts the file key twice, resulting in two encrypted file keys. The system encrypts each file key differently and stores a first file key on the primary device and transmits one of the encrypted file keys in addition to the encrypted file to a backup device for storage. On the backup device, the system associates the encrypted file key with a set of backup keys protected by a user password. In one embodiment, the system generates an initialization vector for use in cryptographic operations based on a file key. In another embodiment, the system manages cryptographic keys on a backup device during a user password change.
US09813388B2	Method and system for secure document exchange An application is instrumented with a document protection service provider interface (SPI). The interface is used to call an external function, e.g., an encryption utility, to facilitate secure document exchange between a sending entity and a receiving entity. When the application invokes the SPI, the user is provided with a display panel. The end user provides a password for encryption key generation, together with an indication of desired encryption strength. The service provider uses the password to generate an encryption key. In one embodiment, the service provider provides the key to the service provider interface, which then uses the key to encrypt the document and to complete the file transfer operation. In the alternative, the service provider itself performs encryption. The SPI generates and sends a message to the receiving entity that includes the key or a link to enable the receiving entity to retrieve the key.
US09813384B2	Time-locked network and nodes for exchanging secure data packets A method and apparatus for transmitting secure data packets through a node network. Unsecure data packets are received at a set of unsecure inputs and secure data packets are received at a number of secure inputs in a node in the node network. The secure data packets are authorized to be sent to a number of secure destination devices. The unsecure data packets are not authorized to be sent to the number of secure destination devices. The secure data packets and the unsecure data packets are integrated to form a number of output data streams based on a predetermined schedule. The number of output data streams is sent to a number of next nodes in the node network.
US09813383B2	Systems and methods for re-commissioning a controlled device in a home area network Systems and methods for preparing and re-commissioning a controlled device in a home area network are described. A utility meter is communicated with. An authentication key and encryption data for communicating with the utility meter may be determined. The authentication key and encryption data are sent to a controlled device. A set of translation rules for a message are determined. The translation rules are sent to the controlled device. The controlled device establishes a secure communication link with the utility meter using the authentication key and the encryption data. The controlled device receives a request to change power usage from the utility meter over the secure communication link. The controlled device translates the request to change power usage into control instructions using the translation rules.
US09813382B2	Cryptographic binding of multiple secured connections In some embodiments, a method includes establishing a secured connection between a client device and a subordinate web service of a single sign-on service for a user, using a shared cryptographic key in a cookie stored on the client device that was transmitted over a different secured connection by a master web service of the single sign-on service, as part of authentication of the user for the single sign-on service.
US09813381B2	Flexible and secure transformation of data using stream pipes Responsive to a request to retrieve or store a file, a transformation pipeline may be created to efficiently transform file data one unit at a time in memory. The transformation pipeline includes a sequence of transformation streams, each containing a write method, a read method, and a transformation to be applied. The write method moves a unit of data, for instance, from a memory buffer into an associated stream. The read method reads the unit of data from the stream, calls an associated transformation, and passes the unit of data thus transformed to the next stream or a destination. This process is repeated until all desired and/or required transformations such as compression, encryption, tamper protection, conversion, etc. are applied to the unit of data.
US09813380B2	Method, apparatus, and network system for terminal to traverse private network to communicate with server in IMS core network Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a network system for a terminal to traverse a private network to communicate with a server in an IMS core network. The method includes: the terminal sets a source address of service data to be sent as a virtual IP address, sets a destination address of the service data to be sent as an address of an internal network server, and obtains a first service packet, where the virtual IP address is an address allocated by the IMS core network to the terminal, encapsulate the first service packet into a first tunnel packet, and send the first tunnel packet to the security tunnel gateway over a VPN tunnel between the terminal and a security tunnel gateway, then the security tunnel gateway sends the first service packet in the first tunnel packet to the internal network server.
US09813377B2	Dynamic provisioning of protection software in a host intrusion prevention system Methods and apparatus for optimizing security configurations of a set of computers are disclosed. A set of local servers, each functioning as a deep-security manager supporting a respective subset of the computers, maintains protection software containing filters and rules for deploying each filter. A local server receives updated protection software from a central server. Each local server interrogates each computer of its subset of computers to acquire computer-characterizing data and applies relevant rules to determine an optimal set of filters for each computer. Each rule adaptively determines required characterizing data elements from each computer for determining an optimal security configuration. A local server updates the security configuration of a computer to suit changes in the operational environment of the computer.
US09813375B2	Relay apparatus, relay system, and relay method Upon receipt of a packet addressed to a virtual IP address assigned to each first device from a second device outside a base network, a processor identifies a base relay apparatus that accommodates the first device, to which the virtual IP address is assigned, on the basis of the virtual address and a protocol type of the received packet, and also identifies a reception port number of the identified base relay apparatus, which corresponds to a combination of the virtual IP address and the protocol type of the received packet, from among reception port numbers each assigned to a combination of the first device accommodated to identify a transfer destination, and a protocol type. Then, the processor relays the received packet to the identified reception port number of the identified base relay apparatus.
US09813368B2	System and method for regulating electronic messages A system for regulating e-mail comprises a database of information profiling legitimate e-mail usage. When an e-mail is received at the system, it is scrutinized relative to the information in the database. If the e-mail is found to be legitimate based upon this evaluation, it is delivered to the intended recipient. If, however, the e-mail appears on the basis of the evaluation to be the last in a series of illegitimate e-mails or otherwise has characteristics inconsistent with the profile of legitimate e-mail usage, the e-mail may not be delivered and the postmaster and administrator at the source of the e-mail is contacted.
US09813362B2	Framework for scheduling packets with multiple destinations in a virtual output queue network switch A system for communicating a multi-destination packet through a network switch fabric is described. The system receives the multi-destination packet at an input port of the network switch fabric, wherein the multi-destination packet is directed to multiple output ports, and wherein the network switch fabric has a virtual output queue (VOQ) architecture, wherein each input port maintains a separate VOQ for each output port. The system sends the multi-destination packet by inserting the multi-destination packet into VOQs associated with the multiple output ports. While inserting the multi-destination packet in each VOQ, if the VOQ is empty, the system inserts the multi-destination packet at a head of the VOQ. Otherwise, if the VOQ is not empty and if the VOQ contains an end of a last complete packet received by the VOQ, the system inserts the multi-destination packet into the VOQ at the end of the last complete packet.
US09813360B2	Switch board of blade server and port configuring method thereof A switch board that includes a port configuring unit and a plurality of ports, where the port configuring unit is configured to divide the switch board into more than one virtual sub-switch-board, allocate the ports to the virtual sub-switch-boards, and configure each port of each virtual sub-switch-board to a first-type port or a second-type port, where the first-type port and the second-type port have different bandwidth; and each of the ports is configured to connect a server blade according to a configuration on the port configuring unit. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can meet a requirement for flexible port bandwidth configuration.
US09813359B2	Methods and apparatus related to a distributed switch fabric A method of sending data to a switch fabric includes assigning a destination port of an output module to a data packet based on at least one field in a first header of the data packet. A module associated with a first stage of the switch fabric is selected based on at least one field in the first header. A second header is appended to the data packet. The second header includes an identifier associated with the destination port of the output module. The data packet is sent to the module associated with the first stage. The module associated with the first stage is configured to send the data packet to a module associated with a second stage of the switch fabric based on the second header.
US09813358B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for ARP mediation An exemplary network controller may be configured to perform ARP mediation through passively learning MAC addresses on client sides and keeping track of IP/MAC/Attachment point associations, hijacking ARP requests received by the core nodes through a packet_in operation or a redirection to other agents, injecting proxy ARP replies that provide target MAC information without the actual target being involved, and possibly programming the network nodes with the static ARP responding rule for a specified duration.
US09813357B2	Filtration of network traffic using virtually-extended ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of an ingress appliance in a visibility fabric may include rules for filtering traffic received by the ingress appliance. But the TCAM has limited space for rules and can become easily exhausted. By migrating rules to other visibility nodes in the visibility fabric, the techniques introduced here allow the TCAM to be virtually extended across multiple visibility nodes. More specifically, upon receiving a data packet at an ingress port, the ingress visibility node can tag the data packet with an identifier based on which ingress port received the data packet. The ingress visibility node can then determine, based on the identifier, whether the data packet should be filtered using a rule stored in the TCAM of the ingress visibility node or a rule stored in the TCAM of some visibility node in the visibility fabric.
US09813352B2	Method for prioritizing network packets at high bandwidth speeds The embodiments are directed to methods and appliances for scheduling a packet transmission. The methods and appliances can assign received data packets or a representation of data packets to one or more connection nodes of a classification tree having a link node and first and second intermediary nodes associated with the link node via one or more semi-sorted queues, wherein the one or more connection nodes correspond with the first intermediary node. The methods and appliances can process the one or more connection nodes using a credit-based round robin queue. The methods and appliances can authorize the sending of the received data packets based on the processing.
US09813345B1	Offload of data transfer statistics from a mobile access gateway In general, techniques are described for offloading data transfer statistics from a mobile access gateway. The mobile access gateway comprises a forwarding unit. The forwarding unit comprises a packet forwarding engine (PFE). When the PFE receives a packet, the PFE updates a data transfer statistic based on a quantity of data in the packet. The data transfer statistic is initially stored in a memory of the PFE. The PFE is configured to push the data transfer statistic from the memory of the PFE to a memory of the forwarding unit.
US09813341B1	Systems and methods for routing data traffic based on network conditions Systems and methods are described for routing data traffic based on network conditions. Network conditions for a communication network may be monitored, where the communication network comprises a first access node and a second access node that are in communication using a first communication link and a second communication link. The monitored network conditions may include at least a utilization of the second communication link. It may be determined that the network conditions meet a criteria. A first classification may be assigned to a message when it is determined that the network conditions meet the criteria. The first access node may be instructed to transmit the message over the first communication link based on the first classification when the network conditions meet the criteria and to transmit the message over the second communication link when the network conditions fail to meet the criteria.
US09813340B2	Class-aware load balancing using data-plane protocol in a loop-free multiple edge network topology In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting a traffic condition by a network device in a loop-free routing topology comprising routing arcs for reaching a destination device, each routing arc comprising a first edge, a second edge, and at least a third network device configured for routing any network traffic along the routing arc toward the destination device and exiting via any one of the first or second edges of the routing arc, the traffic condition proximate to the first edge of at least one of the routing arcs in which the network device is positioned; and the network device initiating load balancing based on sending a management frame over a data plane of the at least one routing arc toward the corresponding second edge, the management frame requesting a change in load balancing for at least one of an identified traffic class based on the detected traffic condition.
US09813337B2	Secure resource name resolution using a cache Techniques for securing name resolution technologies and for ensuring that name resolution technologies can function in modern networks that have a plurality of overlay networks accessible via a single network interface. In accordance with some of the principles described herein, a set of resolution parameters may be implemented by a user to be used during a name resolution process. In some implementations, when an identifier is obtained for a network resource, the identifier may be stored in a cache with resolution parameters that were used in obtaining the identifier. When a new name resolution request is received, the cache may be examined to determine whether a corresponding second identifier is in the cache, and whether resolution parameters used to retrieve the second identifier in the cache match the resolution parameters for the new resolution request. If so, the second identifier may be returned from the cache.
US09813334B2	Network element federation controller and forwarding box A controller network device, in a network control layer of a service provider network, receives command input for providing services over a service provider network and provides, to a forwarding network device, a first control communication. The first control communication includes an initial output to implement the command input. The controller network device provides, to peer controller network devices, a verification request to verify the initial output of the first control communication; receives, from the peer controller network devices, responses to the verification request that each include a calculated output based on the command input; and applies a verification schema to determine a majority output from the responses. The controller network device compares the initial output to the majority output and sends a second control communication, with a verified output indication, to implement the command input when the initial output matches the majority output.
US09813333B2	Using PCE as SDN controller Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for transitioning a system from a tradition network to a Software Defined Network (SDN) enabled network. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may comprise the use of a Path Computation Element (PCE) as a central controller. Smooth transition between traditional network and the new SDN enabled network, especially from a cost impact assessment perspective, may be accomplished using the existing PCE components from the current network to function as the central controller of the SDN network is one choice, which not only achieves the goal of having a centralized controller to provide the functionalities needed for the central controller, but also leverages the existing PCE network components.
US09813327B2	Hierarchical hardware linked list approach for multicast replication engine in a network ASIC A multicast rule is represented in a hierarchical linked list with N tiers. Each tier or level in the hierarchical linked list corresponds to a network layer of a network stack that requires replication. Redundant groups in each tier are eliminated such that the groups in each tier are stored exactly once in a replication table. A multicast replication engine traverses the hierarchical linked list and replicates a packet according to each node in the hierarchical linked list.
US09813326B2	Decoupling functionality related to providing a transparent local area network segment service A transport LAN segment service is provided over a transport network. Responsibilities for configuring, provisioning and forwarding over a transport LAN segment are divided between layer 2 and 3 service provider edge devices, where the layer 3 edge device handles discovery and tunneling responsibilities, the layer 2 edge device handles learning and flooding responsibilities, and information can be exchanged between the layer 2 and 3 edge devices. Configuration is simplified by advertising TLS-label information, layer 2 address learning, and flooding when the needed configuration information has not yet been learned or discovered.
US09813325B2	Information stream management Aspects of the disclosure relate to management of information streams. The information streams can be delivered according to adaptive streaming mechanisms. In one aspect, a method of data stream management can comprise receiving a plurality of data streams having a specific bit rate and a segmentation signaling structure, comprising at least one segmentation signaling marker. The method may also comprise monitoring the segmentation signaling structure of at least one data stream and supplying, based on the monitoring, a metric indicative of compliance with a predetermined segmentation signaling structure.
US09813323B2	Systems and methods for controlling switches to capture and monitor network traffic A packet forwarding network may include switches that forward network traffic between end hosts that are coupled to the forwarding network. An analysis network may be connected to the forwarding network. A controller may control the switches in the forwarding network to implement desired forwarding paths. The controller may configure the switches to form switch port groups. The controller may identify a port group that is connected to the analysis network. The controller may select a subset of the forwarded packets and may control selected switches to copy the subset to the identified port group. The controller may establish network tunnels between the switches and the port group. In this way, the controller may control the switches to perform efficient traffic monitoring regardless of the location on the forwarding network at which the traffic monitoring network is connected and without interfering with normal packet forwarding operations through the forwarding network.
US09813318B2	Assessment of best fit cloud deployment infrastructures A system configured to facilitate brokering hybrid cloud services selects information requests for characterizing an information technology application. The system responses to the information requests and determines a plurality of sets of the responses each used for deriving a value of a respective one of a plurality of factor functions. The system determines a plurality of assessment results each derived using values for of a respective set of the factor functions. Each one of the assessment results characterizes a respective aspect of deploying the information technology application within a cloud environment.
US09813314B2	Mitigating reflection-based network attacks In one embodiment, a network device routes traffic along a network path and receives a performance threshold crossing alert regarding performance of the network path. The network device detects that the performance threshold crossing alert is part of a potential network attack by analyzing, by the device, the performance threshold crossing alert. The network device also provides a notification of the detected network attack.
US09813311B1	Dynamic snapshot value by turn for continuous packet capture Embodiments are directed to capturing packets on a network. A snapshot value may be provided for a network monitoring computer (NMC). If the NMC may be provided packets of a network flow, characteristics of the network flow may be monitored. If the characteristics of the network flow indicate that a flow turn may be occurring on the network flow, the snapshot value may be modified by increasing it to a provided value. If conditions indicate that the flow turn may be complete, the snapshot value maybe reset by decreasing it to another provided value. A portion of each of the packets may be captured by the NMC, such that the size of the portion may be equivalent to the snapshot value. The captured portion of each of the packets may be stored in a memory of the NMC.
US09813308B2	Statistical monitoring of customer devices A network device receives configuration information for monitoring, via a network, control data for a monitored customer device. The configuration information includes business rules for responding to an event when the control data is outside baseline control limits. The network device identifies original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or service provider recommended limits for the control data and receives initial control data, associated with the monitored customer device, for a particular time period. The network device determines, based on the initial control data, baseline control limits related to the OEM or service provider recommended limits. The network device receives, an indication of an out-of-bounds event, wherein the out-of-bounds event includes at least one instance where subsequent control data is outside the baseline control limits and initiates, based on the business rules, an action responsive to the out-of-bounds event.
US09813307B2	Methods and systems of monitoring failures in a distributed network system In one embodiment, the methods and systems may include receiving an Application Program Interface (API) request, assigning a unique identifier to the API request, recording, in association with the unique identifier, receipt time corresponding to a time at which the API request is received, and associating one or more system state changes with the unique identifier. Advantageously, the present embodiments provide a more accurate failure monitoring and associated metrics. Additional benefits and advantages of the present embodiments will become evident in the following description.
US09813302B2	Data center networks Measures, including systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums, for use in operating a data center network, the data center network including an interconnect fabric including a plurality of spine switches, a plurality of top-of-rack switches and a plurality of compute servers. The interconnect fabric is configured to implement a plurality of independent spine switch planes. Each spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes includes a different spine switch in the plurality of spine switches. The configuring includes configuring Layer 2 networking within each independent spine switch plane in the plurality of independent spine switch planes.
US09813301B2	Optimization framework for multi-tenant data centers Systems and methods for decoupled searching and optimization for one or more data centers, including determining a network topology for one or more networks of interconnected computer systems embedded in the one or more data center, searching for routing candidates based on a network topology determined, and updating and applying one or more objective functions to the routing candidates to determine an optimal routing candidate to satisfy embedding goals based on tenant requests, and to embed the optimal routing candidate in the one or more data centers.
US09813300B2	Media flow tracing in third party devices In one implementation, performance statistics for a provider network are compiled and delivered outside of the provider network. The provider network includes a media trace proxy server that receives a media trace query for a media stream of a customer edge network device. The media trace proxy server initiates a route discovery process on the provider network in response to the request or in response to at least one network device in the provider network being nonresponsive to similar types of media trace queries. The media trace proxy server collects performance statistics from the at least one network device and forwards the performance statistics of the at least one network device to the customer edge network device. The performance statistics may include only those statistics authorized by a subscription level or administrative region of the customer edge network device.
US09813299B2	Systems and methods for bandwidth management in software defined networking controlled multi-layer networks Bandwidth management systems and methods performed in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controlled network include, responsive to detecting congestion on one or more network services with identifiable data therein, obtaining policy associated with the congested network services and causing bandwidth on demand in the network to mitigate the congestion if the bandwidth on demand is possible in the network and permitted based on the policies of the congested network services; responsive to the congestion remaining subsequent to the bandwidth on demand or if the bandwidth on demand is not possible or permitted, orchestrating bandwidth for the congested network services based on their associated priority in their policy; and, responsive to the congestion remaining subsequent to the orchestrating bandwidth based on priority, orchestrating bandwidth for the congested network services based on an amount remaining to download for each of the congested network services.
US09813296B2	Wireless network optimization appliance Methods and apparatus are provided for wireless network optimization. Wireless network traffic is optimized by receiving redirected traffic based on one or more configuration rules; and applying the redirected traffic to a protocol optimizer that optimizes the wireless network traffic based on one or more optimization rules. A management interface is optionally provided to manage the network optimization appliance. A process monitor is optionally provided to monitor one or more process threads to determine if the process threads have stalled. The process monitor can monitor other components and can be monitored by at least one other component.
US09813295B2	Wireless network optimization appliance Methods and apparatus are provided for wireless network optimization. Wireless network traffic is optimized by receiving redirected traffic based on one or more configuration rules; and applying the redirected traffic to a protocol optimizer that optimizes the wireless network traffic based on one or more optimization rules. A management interface is optionally provided to manage the network optimization appliance. A process monitor is optionally provided to monitor one or more process threads to determine if the process threads have stalled. The process monitor can monitor other components and can be monitored by at least one other component.
US09813292B2	Network node policy generation and implementation An operator node is configured to enable the management of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. A selection of node objects is received by the operator node, the selected node objects including software components for inclusion within a node configuration. A configuration policy is generated based on the selected objects, the configuration policy including a set of tests (such as scripts or executables) that, when run, test for the presence of one or more of the selected node objects. A target node is scanned to determine the configuration of the target node, and the set of tests are applied to identify a set of objects identified by the policy but not installed at the target node. The target node is then re-configured to install the identified set of objects at the target node.
US09813289B2	Technique for configuring a software-defined network A technique for configuring a Software-Defined Network (SDN) is provided. A first control message is issued by a Software-Defined Network controller. The first control message is received at a first network device of the SDN. The first control message includes a SDN configuration command. Two or more second network devices of the SDN are determined as recipients of the SDN configuration command or as intermediate nodes towards recipients of the SDN configuration command. The first network device sends second control messages to the determined two or more second network devices.
US09813286B2	Method for virtual local area network fail-over management, system therefor and apparatus therewith A method for virtual local area network fail-over management, a system therefor and an apparatus therewith are introduced herein. In the method for virtual local area network fail-over management in a hybrid software-defined network (SDN), a controller with a centralized management authority may manage some fail-over events that occur in each link or switch in a centralized manner. The controller may pre-calculate backup paths for each link or switch in case that fail-over events occur therefrom. Whenever the fail-over event occurs in some specific link or switch, the controller may deploy the pre-calculated backup path in response to the link down or switch down event, which may reduce the convergence recovery time for the VLAN path in case of fail-over events and improve the reliability of data transmission.
US09813285B1	Enterprise server access system Systems and techniques are disclosed for providing a rule set from an authorization server to a broker associated with an enterprise server. The broker can be configured to receive a broker understandable restricted action request from an agent associated with the enterprise server, the request originated by an endpoint device. The request can be analyzed by the broker in view of the rule set and an approve, deny, partially approve or partially deny decision can be provided from the broker to the agent. The agent can prevent the endpoint device to performing the restricted action based on the decision provided by the broker.
US09813280B2	Likelihood generation apparatus and method therefor A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.
US09813279B2	Coding and modulation apparatus using non-uniform constellation A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
US09813277B2	Method and apparatus for processing a multiple-carrier signal provided with subcarriers distributed in a band A method for processing a multiple carrier signal provided with subcarriers distributed in a band. The method includes calculating a subcarrier noise of an edge of the band, calculating a subcarrier noise of a center of the band, calculating a ratio of the subcarrier noise of the edge of the band to the subcarrier noise of the center of the band, determining whether the ratio is greater than a threshold, and acknowledging that the edge of the band suffers from interference when the ratio is greater than the threshold.
US09813276B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting a signal A method for transmitting a signal is described, wherein the method has transforming a signal into a frequency domain to obtain a spectrum, forming a filtered spectrum according to a filter spectrum and occupying a set of subcarriers of a frequency domain representation of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal with the filtered spectrum. A temporary signal is obtained by transforming the frequency domain representation of the OFDM signal into a time domain. The temporary signal is subjected to a phase modulation.
US09813272B2	OFDM transmitting and receiving systems and methods thereof An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system is provided which includes a data processing unit which generates a transmission signal using a plurality of tones including a reserved tone, a storage unit which stores Peak Reduction Kernel information according to the type of data symbol, and a compensation unit which retrieves the Peak Reduction Kernel information according to the type of data symbol from the storage unit and causes the retrieved information to be carried by the reserved tone included in the transmission signal. Therefore, a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) can be efficiently compensated.
US09813269B1	Wireless transceiver having a phased array antenna panel for transmitting circularly-polarized signals with modulated angular speed A radio frequency (RF) front end chip in a phased array antenna panel for transmitting a modulated circularly-polarized signal is disclosed. The RF front end chip includes an oscillator providing an angular speed modulation signal to a quadrature generation block, the quadrature generation block providing an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal based on the angular speed modulation signal, a first amplifier receiving the in-phase signal and a data signal, and providing a modulated horizontally-polarized signal, and a second amplifier receiving the quadrature signal and the data signal, and providing a modulated vertically-polarized signal, where a modulated circularly-polarized signal is generated based on the modulated horizontally-polarized signal and the modulated vertically-polarized signal. The angular speed modulation signal controls an angular speed of the modulated circularly-polarized signal. The data signal is encoded by the angular speed modulation signal.
US09813266B2	Distributed combined junctional transformer The Distributed Combined Junctional Transformer (abbreviated in this document as repeater station) provides a system to take any input wireless signal in any frequency and using any modulation and multiplexing schemes, convert it to the desired format and frequency and subsequently transmits the new wireless signal. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a repeater station comprises: an input antenna section capable of receiving the input signal generated by any source device in radio, microwave, infrared, visible or ultraviolet spectrums; an input conversion section translating the input wireless signal to a baseband signal if required; a baseband processing section that interprets the information of the input signal, converts the signal to the desired format and controls the other sections; an output conversion section which translates the baseband frequency output signal to the desired carrier output frequency if required; and an output antenna section which transmits the output signal.
US09813264B2	Millimeter wave phase shifters using tunable transmission lines Tunable phase shifters and methods for using the same include a signal line; one or more grounding lines; one or more crossing lines below the signal line in proximity to the signal line and substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the signal line, where the crossing lines conform to the shape of the signal line along at least three surfaces of the signal line and where the crossing lines have a tunable capacitance; and an inductance return line below the crossing lines substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the signal line, where the inductance return line provides a tunable inductance.
US09813262B2	Method and apparatus for selectively transmitting data using spatial diversity A method, performed in a communication device having multiple transmitters, for selectively transmitting data using spatial diversity, includes determining a type of data to be transmitted, determining whether the type of data meets a data type criteria, which comprises determining whether the data includes priority data, and transmitting the data using spatial diversity when the type of data meets the data type criteria.
US09813261B2	Context-based messaging system Socially provided context-based messaging can include receiving a message content in a messaging system from a user, wherein the content includes objects; matching one or more objects of the message content to socially provided context information, which the socially provided context information is information relevant to an object obtained from a social network to which the user belongs; and displaying the socially provided context information with the message content for a recipient user to receive.
US09813257B2	Access network dual path connectivity A transport network employs dual homing to an access network to provide connectivity from multiple network switches. Dual homing is a mechanism by which an access network employs pair of switches in the transport network as if it were connecting to a single device. Conventional arrangements for defining multiple paths from a transport network to an access network suffer from the shortcomings of potential routing loops, increased hops to the access network, and inability or inconsistency with forwarding to different types of access networks, and may involve redirecting traffic absent faults in the access network. The dual homed network switches identify the type of access network and perform switching logic corresponding to the access network type to provide comprehensive dual-homed support to the access network independently of the type of transport employed in the access network, and employ redirection only if there is a fault in the access network.
US09813255B2	Collaboration environments and views Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating collaboration environments. In at least one implementation, a presentation of an initial view of a collaboration scene is presented within a collaboration environment. A portion of the collaboration scene is identified that corresponds to an object of interest selected for separate viewing. A separate presentation within the collaboration environment is initiated related to the portion of the scene corresponding to the object of interest.
US09813252B2	Multicasting within a distributed control plane of a switch In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions configured to cause a processor to receive, from an access switch, a first signal including forwarding state information associated with a first peripheral processing device from a set of peripheral processing devices. The code can further represent instructions configured to cause the processor to receive, from the first peripheral processing device, a second signal including a data packet. The code can further represent instructions configured to cause the processor to send, to a replication engine associated with the set of peripheral processing devices, a third signal such that the replication engine (1) defines a copy of the data packet, which is included within the third signal, and (2) sends, to a second peripheral processing device from the set of peripheral processing devices, a fourth signal including the copy of the data packet.
US09813246B2	Encryption using biometric image-based key Methods and systems according to the present disclosure improve upon known biometric security systems by not permanently storing (e.g., for later comparison as in known systems) the actual image of the biometric characteristic. Instead, an image of a biometric identifier (e.g., retina, fingerprint, etc.) may be used to form a key which may be used to secure and provide access to data. The key may be formed, in embodiments, using a neural network and/or a random input (e.g., a vector of random characters), for example. The image of the biometric identifier may be discarded, and thus may not be vulnerable to theft. In an embodiment, the key may be used in a key-based encryption system.
US09813240B2	Method and device for generating a secret key In a method for generating a secret key, a first node which is connected via a transmission channel to a second node estimates a variability of the transmission channel with regard to at least one physical channel parameter of the transmission channel, selects a sampling rate for the channel parameter as a function of the variability, generates a bit sequence by sampling the channel parameter at the selected sampling rate, and adjusts the bit sequence with the second node.
US09813238B2	Mobile security using context patterns Examples of methods, systems, products, devices, and/or apparatus generally related to mobile security are described. An example method may include capturing a context pattern of a user device. The context pattern may be based, at least in part, on data from one or more sensors of the user device. The data may be acquired at multiple different times. The example method may further include generating at least one public-private key pair based, at least in part, on the context pattern.
US09813236B2	Multi-factor authentication using a smartcard Methods and systems are provided for non-cryptographic capabilities of a token such as a smartcard to be used as an additional authentication factor when multi-factor authentication is required. Smartcards are configured to generate a transaction code each time a transaction is attempted by the smartcard. The transaction code is dynamic, changing with each transaction, and therefore is used as a one-time password. When a user attempts to access a service or application requiring at least two authentication factors, a secure processor is used to read transaction code from the smartcard. The secure processor establishes a secure communication with the remote computer hosting the service or application. The transaction code can then be encrypted prior to transmission over the public Internet, providing an additional layer of security.
US09813232B2	Device and method for resisting non-invasive attacks A device and method for resisting, non-invasive attacks are disclosed herein. The device includes a random number generator that generates a random number, and a multiplier that multiplies first data and second data in a unit of a bit length determined based on the random number.
US09813229B2	Communication system using low bandwidth wires A high frequency signal is down-converted into an intermediate frequency signal, transmitted over a limited bandwidth medium from a master unit to a remote unit and up-converted back into its original high frequency at the remote unit. The up-conversion is aided by reconstruction of a reference signal embedded at the master unit as a carrier for a management signal which is transmitted to the remote unit through the same limited bandwidth medium together with the intermediate frequency signal. The reference signal is reconstructed using a phase locked loop which includes a charge pump and is kept stable during intervals between bits and messages by a charge pump shutter.
US09813225B2	Lossless time based data acquisition and control in a distributed system Systems and methods for mapping a time-based data acquisition (DAQ) to an isochronous data transfer channel of a network. A buffer associated with the isochronous data transfer channel of the network may be configured. A clock and a local buffer may be configured. A functional unit may be configured to initiate continuous performance of the time-based DAQ, transfer data to the local buffer, initiate transfer of the data between the local buffer and the buffer at a configured start time, and repeat the transferring and initiating transfer in an iterative manner, thereby transferring data between the local buffer and the buffer. The buffer may be configured to communicate data over the isochronous data transfer channel of the network, thereby mapping the time-based DAQ to the isochronous data transfer channel of the network.
US09813222B2	Single channel full-duplex joint radar and communication The disclosure includes a system and method for implementing full-duplex wireless communications between communication devices. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: create, at a first communication device, first data to transmit to a second communication device; switch a half-duplex operation mode of the first communication device to a full-duplex operation mode to activate the full-duplex operation mode of the first communication device; transmit a first portion of the first data from the first communication device to the second communication device using a wireless channel; and transmit, in the full-duplex operation mode of the first communication device, a remaining portion of the first data to the second communication device while simultaneously (1) receiving second data from the second communication device using the wireless channel and (2) detecting a presence of the second communication device via radar.
US09813220B2	Equipment for femtocell telecommunications system A femtocell telecommunication system equipment comprising: a base apparatus structured to provide a first information signal and control signals; an electrical conductor based transmission line connected to said base apparatus; a bidirectional conversion apparatus adapted to receive/transmit from/on the transmission line the first signal and the control signals; the bidirectional apparatus comprising: a processing module structured to process the first signal to generate a second information signal and vice-versa; the second signal being adapted to be transmitted/received by an antenna device connectable to the bidirectional apparatus.
US09813216B2	Method for reporting channel state information having interference cancellation capability reflected therein, and apparatus therefor A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) having interference cancellation capability reflected therein, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) to which interference cancellation capability is reflected in a wireless communication system is performed by a terminal and includes receiving one or more CSI process configurations including one or more CSI resource sets from a serving cell, wherein the CSI resource set is associated with a specific interference cell, detecting a dominant interference signal from a received signal and selecting a CSI resource set corresponding to the dominant interference signal, calculating CSI to which interference cancellation capability is reflected, using the selected CSI resource set or interference hypothesis (IH) information corresponding to the selected CSI resource set, and reporting the calculated CSI to the serving cell through a CSI process corresponding to the selected CSI resource set or the IH information.
US09813212B2	Method and apparatus for sending and detecting discovery reference signal A method for detecting a discovery reference signal includes: acquiring, by a user equipment, configuration information of a discovery reference signal, where the configuration information includes time-frequency resource information and sequence information of the discovery reference signal; receiving, by the user equipment, a first discovery reference signal sent by a base station; and determining a candidate time-frequency resource location of the discovery reference signal according to the time-frequency resource information, determining a candidate sequence of the discovery reference signal according to the sequence information, and, by detecting the candidate sequence of the discovery reference signal at the candidate time-frequency resource location, determining an actual time-frequency resource location of the first discovery reference signal and/or determining an actual sequence of the first discovery reference signal.
US09813206B2	Method and apparatus supporting improved wide bandwidth transmissions A method for transmitting information in a wireless system is provided. In this method, the traffic on a plurality of channels can be determined. A bandwidth for a packet can be selected based on the traffic and available channel bandwidths. A modulation and a coding rate can be selected from a plurality of modulations and associated coding rates. The modulation and coding rate can be applied to a segment of the packet, wherein each segment includes one or more bandwidth units. The packet including the selected modulation and coding rate therein can be transmitted on at least one channel
US09813204B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication control method and access point A wireless communication system includes a first access point that forms a first wireless area and a second access point that forms a second wireless area. The first access point controls the scheduling of a terminal located in the first wireless area based on the state of a communication channel between a terminal which is a candidate for scheduling by the second access point and the first access point.
US09813202B2	Interference cancellation in wireless networks The present application relates to a method of a wireless device for interference cancellation (IC) in a cellular radio network system comprising a serving network node serving said wireless device. The method comprises using a first IC method for at least partly removing a time aligned symbol of an interfering radio signal from at least a first symbol of a time slot received from the serving network node. The method also comprises using a second IC method, different from the first IC method, for at least partly removing a non-time aligned symbol of an interfering radio signal from at least a second symbol of said time slot received from the serving network node.
US09813201B2	Transmission apparatus and transmission method A transmission apparatus includes: a first obtaining section configured to obtain a first transmission characteristic in communication of a multi-carrier signal through a transmission path between the transmission apparatus and a distant transmission apparatus; a second obtaining section configured to obtain a second transmission characteristic under a predetermined usage condition within a specified performance range of the transmission apparatus; a correcting section configured to correct the first transmission characteristic according to the second transmission characteristic; and a determining section configured to determine an amount of allocation for each subcarrier included in the multi-carrier signal, according to the first transmission characteristic that has been corrected by the correcting section.
US09813194B2	Feedback in a communication system A method and apparatus relating to feedback in a communication system. The method includes receiving feedback relating to a transmission slot; and subsequently determining the type of transmission slot the feedback relates to.
US09813190B1	Pre-distortion calibration Described herein are technologies related to an implementation of a closed-loop system to measure and compensate non-linearity in a transceiver circuitry of a device.
US09813185B2	WDM single fiber ring protection A node (20, 25) for a single fiber bidirectional WDM optical ring network has a first optical protection switch (100) having first and second ports for coupling to the single fiber bidirectional ring, while providing a pass through optical path for wavelengths on the bidirectional ring. A further port is coupled to an external optical path. In operation the switch couples optically bidirectional selected wavelengths between the external optical path and either of the first and second ports selectively, according to an indication of a fault on the ring, so as to use different portions of the bidirectional ring respectively as working path and protection path. This combines coupling wavelengths with the ring, with the selection of protection or working path, which simplifies the optical equipment, and upstream and downstream optical delays can be symmetrical.
US09813182B2	Submarine reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer with passive branching unit Systems and methods for data transport, including submarine reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, branching units configured to receive signals from trunk terminals (TTs), and dummy light filters configured to pass useful signals through the filters, and to reflect dummy light. Optical interleavers are configured to separate useful signals into two or more groups of optical channels, and the optical channels are set to a frequency of either a left or a right portion of a total channel bandwidth. De-interleavers merge signal groups together from trunk terminals, and lasers at each of the transponders at the source terminals are configured to adjust a destination of a channel by fine tuning a frequency or wavelength of the one or more signals.
US09813178B2	Systems and methods for small cell uplink interference cancellation using cooperation between small cells A method of managing uplink interference at a base station includes: detecting uplink interference caused by one or more inter-cell user equipments to an uplink channel of a base station, the one or more inter-cell user equipments associated with a neighboring base station; receiving, at the base station, assistance information from the neighboring base station, the assistance information comprising a parameter list of ongoing transmissions by the one or more user equipments associated with the neighboring base station; and performing uplink interference cancellation, at the base station, on at least a portion of a received signal based on the assistance information to generate a resulting signal.
US09813175B2	Method for detecting timing references affected by a change in path delay asymmetry between nodes in a communication network A method for detecting a timing reference affected by a change in path delay asymmetry in a communications network comprising a master node having a master clock and a plurality of slave nodes each having a respective slave clock is provided. The method comprises: determining that a first timing reference received by a first slave node indicates a time correction to its slave clock greater than a time correction threshold; determining whether one or more other slave nodes have received a timing reference indicating a time correction to their slave clock greater than a time correction threshold; and determining whether the first timing reference is affected by a change in path delay asymmetry based on the determining of whether one or more other slave nodes have received a timing reference indicating a time correction to their slave clock greater than a time correction threshold. Apparatus and a computer program for detecting a timing reference affected by a change in path delay asymmetry in a communications network are also provided.
US09813173B2	Time signal verification and distribution The time signal verification and distribution device disclosed herein verifies and distributes a time signal to consuming devices. The device determines a time quality status of a first and second time signal, calculates a difference between a first and a second time signal, and compares the difference to a predetermined threshold. Based on the time quality status and the comparison, the time signal verification and distribution device distributes a time signal to a plurality of time signal consuming devices. Exceeding the predetermined threshold may indicate a spoofing attack or other problem with the time signals.
US09813172B1	Method for container structured communications A digital broadcast communication system includes an upload system further comprising digital transceivers that upload a plurality of voice sources from any one of announcers, players, referees, coaches, and sportscasters from a broadcast booth utilizing a multicast transmission protocol. At least one access point is configured to communicate with the digital transceivers using the multicast transmission protocol. The system also includes broadcast circuitry for digitally broadcast transmitting at least one of the uploaded voices sources to a plurality of receivers utilizing the multicast communication protocol in a broadcast transmission format. The utilizing the multicast communication protocol specifically utilizes communication vessels and containers for carrying control signaling and payload in a synchronized manner.
US09813170B2	In-vehicle terminal that measures electric field strengths of radio waves from information terminals An in-vehicle terminal includes: a measurement unit that measures electric field strengths of radio waves for wireless communication emitted from information terminals located in a vicinity thereof; a main terminal identifying unit that identifies a predetermined main terminal among the information terminals; and a communication unit that establishes wireless communication with the identified main terminal and transmits a first electric field strength for another information terminal than the main terminal measured by the measurement unit, via the wireless communication to the main terminal.
US09813169B2	Precision measurement of transmit power using loopback calibration in an RF transceiver An RF or other high frequency transceiver including a loopback reference channel for measurement of an absolute power level. A transmit channel in the transceiver includes a programmable power amplifier that can be controlled to operate at a selected power level, and a receive channel including a receive amplifier, mixers, filters, and analog-to-digital converters. The loopback reference channel includes a self-biased amplifier, followed by a series of buffers that generate a square wave from the received signal, and an attenuator applying an attenuation gain to the square wave. The transmit power at a programmed power level can be calculated from ratios of a measured power level of a transmitted signal as received by the receive channel to the measured power level of the transmitted signal using the loopback reference channel.
US09813162B2	Optical transmission circuit, optical transmission device, and optical transmission system A driving element which performs driving according to a level of a voltage signal to be transmitted optically, a modulation current driving circuit configured to supply a modulation current modulated by the driving element to a light source for optical communication configured to convert a current signal into light and to output the light, and a constant current supply circuit configured to supply a constant current to the light source for optical communication are included. Then, when the voltage signal is at a first level, the driving element is turned on and the modulation current driving circuit supplies the modulation current to the light source for optical communication. When the voltage signal is at a second level, the driving element is turned off and the modulation current driving circuit stops supplying the modulation current. The present technique can be applied, for example, to an optical transmission system.
US09813157B2	Mitigation of multi-path interference from quasi-single-mode fiber using hybrid span configuration and digital signal processing Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to the mitigation of multi-path interference from quasi-single-mode fiber using hybrid span configuration and digital signal processing wherein a hybrid span of quasi-single mode fibers and single-mode fibers are used to configure the hybrid span. Additional aspects are directed to introducing a low-baud rate sub-banding signal to reduce the number of DD-LMS taps required when compensating the multi-path interference as the low-baud rate signal requires fewer taps to cover a given range of MPI as compared to a high-baud rate signal. Finally further aspects are directed to an ALMS equalizer which further reduces the number of equalizer taps by shifting its center tap towards the right if higher-order modes transmit slower than a fundamental mode, otherwise the center tap is shifted to the left.
US09813156B2	Hybrid fiber/Cu distribution point with external ONU-to-dsl conversion unit A hybrid service terminal for use in a passive fiber optic network comprises a plurality of optical fiber connectors, each coupled to a respective optical fiber for receiving downstream optical frames from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT); a plurality of hybrid fiber/copper connectors, each of the hybrid fiber/copper connectors coupled to a respective one of the plurality of optical fiber connectors; and a plurality of electrical connectors configured to receive electrical signals from a multi-line converter module over a respective one of a plurality of electrical conductors. One of the plurality of hybrid fiber/copper connectors is configured to provide the downstream optical frames to the multi-line converter module for conversion to the electrical signals. Each of the plurality of electrical connectors is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of hybrid fiber/copper connectors for providing the electrical signals over a respective metallic drop cable coupled to a respective network terminal at a corresponding customer premise.
US09813153B2	Data communications cable with wireline capacitance compensation A communications cable is disclosed. The cable includes a first circuit configured to receive electrical data signals from a data source via an input connector, and convert the electrical data signals into optical signals for transmission by way of one or more optical fibers. The cable includes a second circuit configured to convert the optical signals received via the one or more optical fibers back to electrical data signals for providing to a data sink via an output connector. The cable includes a third circuit for applying pre- and post-signal conditioning to bi-directional control data for transmission to and received from the data sink via wires. The cable includes a fourth circuit for applying pre- and post-signal conditioning to bi-directional control data for transmission to and received from the data source via wires. The pre- and post-signal conditioning compensate for capacitance and/or resistance effects on the signals introduced by the wires.
US09813150B1	Controllable selection of light-capture devices Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, computer readable media, and other implementations, including a method to determine a location of a mobile device that includes determining a physical state of the mobile device, with the mobile device including multiple light-capture devices, selecting at least one of the multiple light-capture devices of the mobile device based, at least in part, on the determined physical state of the mobile device, capturing at least one image, comprising at least one Visual Light Communication (VLC)-capable light device, with the selected at least one of the multiple light-capture devices, decoding at least part of an identifier of the at least one VLC-capable light device, and determining the location of the mobile device based, at least in part, on the identifier of the at least one VLC-capable light device.
US09813148B2	Wireless media usage, channel aggregation, and full-duplex communications A wireless network includes a channel allocation manager and multiple wireless access points. The wireless channel allocation manager receives a request from a first wireless access point amongst multiple wireless access points for allocation of a wireless channel. In response to receiving the request for allocation of a wireless channel, the channel allocation manager selects a particular wireless channel for allocation to the first wireless access point in the network environment. The channel allocation manager notifies the multiple wireless access points of a particular wireless channel that has been allocated for use by the first wireless access point (or its subordinates) in a specified timeframe. The first wireless access point either uses the allocated channel to communicate data downstream to a respective mobile communication device or notifies the mobile communication device that the particular wireless channel has been allocated to communicate upstream to the first wireless access point.
US09813143B2	Interference cancellation repeater An interference cancellation repeater for canceling an interference signal included in an input signal including a first adaptive filter configured to generate a first estimated signal; a second adaptive filter configured to generate a second estimated signal; a first scaler configured to scale the first estimated signal based on a first scale factor determined according to a channel state; a second scaler configured to scale the second estimated signal based on a second scale factor determined according to the channel state; a first canceller configured to generate a first interference canceled signal based on the input signal and the scaled first estimated signal; and a second canceller configured to generate a second interference canceled signal based on the first interference canceled signal and the scaled second estimated signal.
US09813142B2	Method for performing HARQ for relay station A method for performing HARQ includes: receiving information to determine downlink subframes used for a relay station to receive scheduling information from a BS; determining uplink subframes for performing a HARQ with the DL subframes, each of the UL subframes corresponding to each of the DL subframes; assigning sequentially each of a plurality of HARQ processes to each of the UL subframes one by one; and performing HARQ with the BS at at least one of the HARQ processes. An n-th subframe is configured for a corresponding UL subframe if an (n−4)-th subframe is configured for one of the DL subframes, n denoting an integer. The HARQ processes are equal in number to the UL subframes. The DL subframes are configured in at least one radio frame having 10 subframes indexed from 0 to 9. Subframes having indexes 0, 4, 5 and 9 are not configured as a DL subframe.
US09813141B1	Dynamic control of automatic gain control (AGC) in a repeater system A Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication system dynamically controls Automatic Gain Control (AGC) in a repeater system serving individual User Equipment (UE). The LTE communication system identifies individual UEs and an application type used by the individual UEs being served by a repeater section in the repeater system. The LTE communication system determines a Variable Bit Rate (VBR)-to-Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) application ratio based on a number of the identified individual UEs using a VBR application and a number of the identified individual UEs using a GBR application. The LTE communication system compares the VBR-to-GBR application ratio to a VBR application threshold and determines that the VBR-to-GBR application ratio exceeds the VBR application threshold. In response to determining that the VBR-to-GBR application ratio exceeds the VBR application threshold, the LTE communication system instructs the repeater section in the repeater system to disable the AGC.
US09813140B2	Radio frequency transmitter A radio frequency transmitter device, constituted for transmitting a radio frequency signal in a frequency band comprising at least one transmit subband and at least one receive subband, comprises: a transmit chain for processing a transmit signal associated with the at least one transmit subband; a power amplifier for amplifying the transmit signal; an output port for transmitting the amplified transmit signal; a processing unit for calculating, from the transmit signal associated with the at least one transmit subband, a correction signal in the at least one receive subband making use of a power amplifier model modelling the behavior of the power amplifier; and a coupler for adding the correction signal to the amplified transmit signal for cancelling intermodulation products in the amplified transmit signal produced by the power amplifier.
US09813136B2	System and method for mapping symbols for MIMO transmission Methods and devices are provided for MIMO OFDM transmitter and receivers having odd and/even numbers of transmit antennas. Various methods for pre-coding information bits before space time coding (STC) are described for enabling transmission of information bits over all antennas. Methods of decoding received signals that have been pre-coded and STC coded are also provided by embodiments of the invention. Pilot patterns for downlink and uplink transmission between a base station and one or more wireless terminals for three transmit antenna transmitters are also provided. Variable rate codes are provided that combine various fixed rate codes in a manner that results in codes whose rates are dependent on all the various fixed rate codes that are combined.
US09813132B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting channel state information in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting, by a terminal, channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: subsampling a code book for four antenna ports; and feeding back the CSI on the basis of the subsampled code book, wherein the CSI includes a rank indicator (RI) reported together with a precoding type indicator (PTI), and if the RI is greater than 2, the PTI is set to one.
US09813130B2	Method and device for estimating angle The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure relates to an operating method of an electronic device for estimating an angle for another device, including: determining errors for candidate angles of channel measurement values corresponding to a plurality of beams for the other device; determining distances between the angle of a beam determined through beam training with the other device and at least one candidate angle; and estimating an angle for the other device based on the distances and the errors. In addition, the present disclosure also includes embodiments different from the above described embodiment.
US09813128B2	Base station apparatus and transmission method The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
US09813126B2	Method for transmitting feedback information via a spatial rank index (SRI) channel A method for transmitting feedback information via a Spatial Rank Index (SRI) channel includes determining, at an access terminal, a value of a spatial rank index and transmitting, from the access terminal through the SRI channel, feedback information indicating the determined value of the spatial rank index according to a prescribed coding. The codeword of the prescribed coding is one of: (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), (1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1), (0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1), or (1,1,0,1,1,1,1,0).
US09813125B2	Acknowledgment and/or receiver recovery mechanisms for scheduled responses within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications Acknowledgment and/or receiver recovery mechanisms for scheduled responses within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Explicit scheduling information is provided from a first wireless communication device (e.g., an access point (AP), a transmitting wireless communication device) to a number of other wireless communication devices (e.g., wireless stations (STAs), receiving wireless communication devices) directing those other wireless communication devices a manner by which responses (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs), block acknowledgments (BACKs), training feedback frames, etc.) are to be provided to the first wireless communication device there from. Such direction may include the order, timing, cluster assignment, etc. by which each respective wireless communication device is to provide its respective response to the first wireless communication device. In the event of the first wireless communication device failing to receive at least one response from at least one of the other wireless communication devices, various communication medium recovery mechanisms may be performed.
US09813122B2	Method of coordination multi point transmission, control node and wireless communication device A method of coordination multi-point transmission is provided, which let a plurality of base stations perform communication with at least one access point of a vehicle. A first coordination multi-point set corresponding to a first position of the vehicle is obtained by looking up a database according to the first position. The first coordination multi-point set is a set of a plurality of first coordinated base stations among the plurality of base stations. A first beamforming weighted matrix correspondingly using by each of the plurality of first coordinated base stations is obtained by looking up the database. A coordination multi-point transmission is performed with the at least one access point of the vehicle by the each of the plurality of first coordinated base stations using the corresponding first beamforming weighted matrix of the each of the plurality of first coordinated base stations.
US09813120B2	Base station, and method and device for returning signal A method for returning a base station signal and a base station for implementing the method. The base station includes a first return unit located in a radio frequency system and a second return unit located in a baseband processing system. The first return unit is configured to perform analog modulation on an uplink analog signal of a first bandwidth to obtain an uplink analog signal of a second bandwidth, and send the uplink analog signal of the second bandwidth to the second return unit, where the second bandwidth is larger than the first bandwidth. The second return unit is configured to receive the uplink analog signal of the second bandwidth, demodulate the uplink analog signal of the second bandwidth to obtain the uplink analog signal of the first bandwidth.
US09813119B1	Passive wireless accessory switch pack A switch pack for a vehicle and systems comprising the same. One system includes the switch pack and a control unit mechanically coupled to the vehicle. The control unit includes a first antenna coil electrically coupled to an electrical system of the vehicle. The first antenna coil receives a current from the electrical system and produces a magnetic field. The switch pack includes a second antenna coil, at least one user-actuated device, and a wireless transmitter electrically coupled to the second antenna coil. The second antenna coil is positioned within the magnetic field and receives an induced current from the magnetic field. The wireless transmitter receives the induced electrical current from the second antenna, uses the induced electrical current to determine a state of the at least one user-actuated device, and uses the induced electrical current to wirelessly transmit the state of the at least one user-actuated device.
US09813117B2	In vehicle inductive power provision system and method A vehicle inductive power assembly and method for transferring electrical power inductively to an electrical device, in a motorized vehicle. The system includes an inductive power transfer system which is configured to provide the electrical power to the electrical device as well as a communications security system which is configured to establish a secure communications channel between the inductive power transfer system and the electrical device. Following activation of the inductive power transfer system, the communications security system initiates a handshaking procedure between the inductive power transfer system and the electrical device. If the handshaking procedure is successful the communications security system instructs the inductive power transfer system to commence providing the electrical power to the electrical device.
US09813116B2	Secure near field communication solutions and circuits A device includes a near field communication (NFC) circuit that is configured and arranged to communicate data with external devices. An internal communication circuit communicates data over a microprocessor bus. A secure memory circuit stores an identifier that is unalterable in the secure memory circuit. Logic circuitry performs a secure transaction protocol. The transaction protocol includes determining whether a communication, received by the NFC circuit, is addressed to the secure memory circuit; sending, in response to determining that the communication is addressed to the secure memory circuit, the communication to the memory circuit; sending, in response to determining that the communication is not addressed to the secure memory circuit, the communication to the microprocessor bus; and transmitting data, received from both the NFC circuit and the secure memory circuit, to the NFC circuit, the transmitted data including the identifier value and configured for communication with external devices using NFC.
US09813115B2	RF system using PR-ASK with orthogonal offset An RF system using PR-ASK with orthogonal offset is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a PR-ASK signal generator and an orthogonal offset generator. The PR-ASK signal generator can produce a signal representing a sequence of symbols, for example, RFID symbols. The orthogonal offset generator can shift the PR-ASK signal trajectory away from the origin while maintaining the time domain requirements for an RFID signal, such as waveform edge rise and fall times. In some embodiments stored waveforms incorporating the controlled orthogonal offset are used to synthesize a sequence of symbols. The stored waveforms may also include nonlinear and/or linear predistortion to reduce computational complexity. The waveforms can be represented in Cartesian coordinates for use in a direct conversion transmitter or polar coordinates for use in a polar modulation transmitter. An RFID system can also include a receiver to receive incoming RFID signals.
US09813105B2	Broadband distributed antenna system with non-duplexer isolator sub-system Certain aspects and aspects of the present invention are directed to a distributed antenna system having a downlink communication path, an uplink communication path, and a non-duplexer isolator sub-system. The downlink communication path can communicatively couple a transmit antenna to a base station. The uplink communication path can communicatively couple a receive antenna to the base station. In one aspect, the non-duplexer isolator sub-system can be electronically configured for isolating uplink signals traversing the uplink communication path from downlink signals. In another aspect, a non-duplexer isolator sub-system can be configurable in one or more mechanical steps selecting a frequency response. In another aspect, a non-duplexer isolator sub-system can include an active mitigation sub-system.
US09813102B2	Display panel with transparent conductor based isolator and method for improved wireless communications A communication device includes at least one radio that comprises signal processing circuitry, and at least one antenna coupled to the signal processing circuitry to send and receive radio signals. A component of the communication device requires user visibility and includes an isolator for isolating the at least one antenna, the isolator comprising at least one film that includes a transparent conductor. The component that requires user visibility may be a display screen or part of the chassis of a transparent communication device. The transparent conductor comprises a transparent conducting oxide such as indium tin oxide, indium tin oxide ink, graphite material, carbon nanotubes, or a conductive polymer.
US09813100B1	Privacy enhancing device case A device case has a body forming a compartment holding an electronic device with a back facing camera lens and a front side with a user interface display and front facing camera lens. The device case has a movable lens cover attached to the body and held by the body when moved to any of an open position, a first position, and a second position. The movable lens cover, in the open position, leaves the front facing camera lens, the user interface display, and the back facing camera lens exposed. The movable lens cover, in the first position, covers the back facing camera lens while leaving the user interface display and the front facing camera lens exposed, and when in the second position, covers both the front facing camera lens and the back facing camera lens while leaving the user interface display exposed.
US09813099B2	Electronic device with antenna device An electronic device with an antenna device is provided. The electronic device includes a case member that includes a first face, a second face disposed opposite to the first face, and side walls that enclose a space between the first face and the second face, a first metallic member that forms at least a portion of the side walls of the case member or is formed adjacent to the side walls, a metal pattern disposed within the case member and extends from a portion of the first metallic member to another portion of the first metallic member, the first metallic member and the metal pattern electrically forming at least a portion of a closed loop, a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to a portion of the metal pattern, a ground member positioned within the case member, and a portion of the metal pattern disposed adjacent to the ground member.
US09813098B2	Mobile terminal There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a body, a first case coupled to the body and covering a first lateral surface of the body, a second lateral surface facing the first lateral surface and a rear surface of the body, a first slide groove formed in one or more of the first and second lateral surfaces of the body, a second slide groove formed in an inner surface of the first case and facing the first slide groove, and a slide bar inserted in a slide hole formed by the first slide groove and the second slide groove, so that according to at least one of the embodiments mentioned above, the coupling structure more stable than the conventional hook structure may be provided and it may be easy to assemble and dissemble the mobile terminal.
US09813095B2	Glasses-type communications apparatus, system, and method A glasses-type communications apparatus is provided that includes a frame; a display module set on the frame configured to receive data information and generate a corresponding visual picture according to the data information for the user to watch; a camera module set on the frame configured to obtain image information and transfer the image information; and a communications module set on the frame configured to set up a communications channel with an external processing apparatus by using a communications protocol, where the communications module receives data transmitted by the external processing apparatus through the communications channel, so as to parse the data to obtain the data information, and send the data information to the display module; where the communications module is further configured to receive the image information output by the camera module, and transfer the image information to the external processing apparatus by using the communications channel.
US09813093B2	Broadcast signal receiving apparatus and multi-layer printed circuit board A broadcast signal receiving apparatus, including a multi-layer printed circuit board comprising a transmission line configured to connect with at least one component mounted on the multi-layer printed circuit board, the at least one component being configured to process a broadcast signal received from an outside of the apparatus through a cable, wherein a signal line for receiving the broadcast signal is at least partially provided on an inner layer of the multi-layer printed circuit board.
US09813088B2	Supply modulators with voltage and frequency partitioning Techniques to improve efficiencies of power amplifiers in wireless communication devices are described herein. In one embodiment, an envelope tracking supply modulator includes a pre-amplifier having an input coupled to an envelope signal and another input coupled to a threshold voltage signal, a de-multiplexer coupled to an output of the pre-amplifier, a pulse frequency modulator having an input coupled to an output of the de-multiplexer, and a pulse width modulator having an input coupled to the output of the de-multiplexer. The de-multiplexer is configured to allow the pulse frequency modulator to modulate a switching frequency to generate a switched signal according to a slew rate of the envelope signal or allow the pulse width modulator to provide the switched signal as a current source with a constant frequency, based on a comparison result between the envelope signal and the threshold voltage signal at the pre-amplifier.
US09813086B2	RF transmitter, integrated circuit device, wireless communication unit and method therefor A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a power amplifier comprising a plurality of power amplifier cells. At least one digital signal processing module of the RF transmitter is operably coupled to the power amplifier and comprises at least one digital pre-distortion component arranged to apply at least one digital pre-distortion codeword to the plurality of power amplifier cells, wherein the at least one digital pre-distortion codeword is applied to at least one of the plurality of power amplifier cells via a digital filter. A combiner is arranged to combine outputs of the plurality of power amplifier cells thereby generating an analogue RF signal for transmission over an RF interface based at least partly on the digitally filtered at least one digital pre-distortion codeword.
US09813085B1	Closed loop digital pre-distortion A system and method for calibrating digital pre-distortion in a wireless device. A pre-distortion circuit may output a first training signal while a power amplifier of the wireless device is on, to generate a first feedback signal. The first feedback signal may be fed back to the pre-distortion circuit via a receive path of the wireless device. The pre-distortion circuit may output a second training signal while the power amplifier is off, to generate a second feedback signal. The second feedback signal may be fed back to the pre-distortion circuit via the receive path. The pre-distortion circuit may then determine one or more pre-distortion coefficients based on the first and second feedback signals.
US09813080B1	Layer specific LDPC decoder A method to decode low-density parity check (LDPC) encoded data using a parity check matrix having a plurality of layers, includes receiving a plurality of values at a decoder. Each value of the plurality of values represents one of a plurality of bits of an LDPC codeword encoded using the parity check matrix. The LDPC codeword is decoded using layered scheduling. A functional adjustment is applied to an approximation of belief propagation used during the decoding. At least one layer specific functional adjustment is used to provide an estimate of the codeword. An apparatus to decode low-density parity check (LDPC) encoded data using a parity check matrix having a plurality of layers includes a decoder. The decoder includes circuitry to decode, layer by layer, the LDPC encoded data utilizing functional adjustments and an algorithmic approximation to belief propagation to provide an estimate of the LDPC codeword. The functional adjustments include layer specific parameters for at least two layers of the parity check matrix associated with the codeword.
US09813072B2	Methods and apparatus to increase an integrity of mismatch corrections of an interleaved analog to digital converter Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to increase an integrity of mismatch corrections in an interleaved analog to digital converter are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an instantaneous mismatch estimator that uses an output of an interleaved analog to digital converter to identify a mismatch estimate between two or more component analog to digital converters of the interleaved analog to digital converter. An integrity monitor is to cause the instantaneous mismatch estimator to avoid incorrectly providing the mismatch estimate to a filter, the integrity monitor to instruct the filter to remove the mismatch estimate when the mismatch estimate is detected to be inaccurate.
US09813070B2	Display apparatus and driving method for the same The present invention relates to a method for generating a reference signal to drive a display apparatus. A method according to the present invention may comprise generating a reference signal having a training pattern being repeated with a periodicity of two clock terms (CTs); and transmitting the reference signal to a phase locked loop (PLL). Each CT has a single embedded clock bit (CB) and a plurality of data bits, and the reference signal has a rising edge at a start point of a first CB corresponding to a first unit interval (UI) of a first CT, and a rising edge at an end point of a second CB corresponding to a first UI of a second CT. According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, energy consumption and EMI effects can be remarkably reduced, and a complexity of PLL can be reduced.
US09813065B2	Simultaneous LVDS I/O signaling method and apparatus First and second devices may simultaneously communicate bidirectionally with each other using only a single pair of LVDS signal paths. Each device includes an input circuit and a differential output driver connected to the single pair of LVDS signal paths. An input to the input circuit is also connected to the input of the driver. The input circuit may also receive an offset voltage. In response to its inputs, the input circuit in each device can use comparators, gates and a multiplexer to determine the logic state being transmitted over the pair of LVDS signal paths from the other device. This advantageously reduces the number of required interconnects between the first and second devices by one half.
US09813061B1	Circuitry for implementing multi-mode redundancy and arithmetic functions Integrated circuits such as application specific integrated circuits or programmable logic devices may include multiple copies of a same circuit together with a majority vote circuit in a configuration that is sometimes also referred to as multi-mode redundancy. An adder circuit may be coupled to these multiple copies and produce a carry-out signal and a sum signal based on signals received from the multiple copies. The carry-out signal of the adder circuit may provide the result of the majority vote operation. A logic exclusive OR gate may perform a logic exclusive OR operation between the sum signal and the carry-out signal, thereby generating an error signal. The error signal may indicate that one of the multiple copies produces an output that is different than the outputs produced by the other copies.
US09813060B2	Actuator and method of manufacture thereof An actuator for controlling the operation of an apparatus comprises a panel (16) and an acoustic sensor (26). The panel provides a partition within a building structure, while the acoustic sensor is adapted to detect acoustic waves propagating through the panel. When a user exerts pressure against the panel, the sensor detects the acoustic waves that are formed and emits signals for controlling the operation of an apparatus, such as a doorbell, a light source, a television, a sound system, a ventilation system, a window blind, a radio or an alarm.
US09813056B2	Active device divider circuit with adjustable IQ An active voltage divider circuit is provided comprising: a first node; a second node; a third node; multiple FET load devices coupled in series between the first node and the second node; multiple first switches, each associated with a different FET load device and configured to selectably couple a respective associated bypass circuit between source and drain of its associated FET load device; and second switch circuitry configured to selectably couple a drain of a FET load device, from among the multiple FET load devices, to the third node.
US09813050B1	Comparator circuit with input attenuator A comparator circuit's signal range can be enhanced using an input signal attenuation circuit. In an example, a comparator circuit receives an input signal and a reference signal. The input signal can be conditioned by one or both of the attenuation circuit and a conditioning circuit, and a resulting conditioned signal can be presented to a compare element. Under first operating conditions where the input signal is approximately equal to the reference signal, the attenuation circuit can be substantially bypassed and a first resulting conditioned signal can be presented to the compare element. Under second operating conditions where the input signal is substantially greater than the reference signal, the attenuation circuit receives a portion of the input signal and a different second resulting conditioned signal can be presented to the compare element.
US09813048B2	Electronic comparison systems An electronic comparison system includes input stages that successively provide bits of code words. One-shots connected to respective stages successively provide a first bit value until receiving a bit having a non-preferred value concurrently with an enable signal, and then provide a second, different bit value. An enable circuit provides the enable signal if at least one of the one-shots is providing the first bit value. A neural network system includes a crossbar with row and column electrodes and resistive memory elements at their intersections. A writing circuit stores weights in the elements. A signal source applies signals to the row electrodes. Comparators compare signals on the column electrodes to corresponding references using domain-wall neurons and store bit values in CMOS latches by comparison with a threshold.
US09813047B2	Standby mode state retention logic circuits A retention mode sequential logic circuit has no balloon latch, and all its P-channel transistors are disposed in a single N-well. In one example, the circuit is a retention flip-flop that has an active high retention signal input and an active low reset input. In another example, the circuit is a retention flip-flop that has an active low retention signal input and an active low reset input. In a multi-bit retention register example, one common clock and reset signal generation logic circuit drives multiple pairs of latches. Each retention mode logic circuit described has a low transistor count, is implemented with a single N-well, exhibits low retention mode power consumption, is not responsive to a reset signal in the retention mode, and has a fast response time when coming out of retention mode operation.
US09813041B1	Automatic boost control for resonant coupled coils Wireless power transfer systems having improved power transfer efficiency are disclosed. A wireless power receiver may include an automatic impedance regulator that adjusts the effective input impedance of the receiver depending upon the power requirements of the receiver. For example, in certain embodiments, the impedance regulator is a boost converter. The boost converter may exploit the leakage inductance of the receive coil to boost the voltage output from the terminals of the receive coil. The effective input impedance may be substantially matched to the output impedance of the transmitter.
US09813036B2	Dynamic loadline power amplifier with baseband linearization Radio frequency (RF) amplification devices and methods of amplifying RF signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, an RF amplification device includes a control circuit and a Doherty amplifier configured to amplify an RF signal. The Doherty amplifier includes a main RF amplification circuit and a peaking RF amplification circuit. The control circuit is configured to activate the peaking RF amplification circuit in response to the RF signal reaching a threshold level. In this manner, the activation of the peaking RF amplification circuit can be precisely controlled.
US09813032B2	Negative impedance circuit A negative impedance circuit including: a first and a second bipolar transistors having a common collector, a base of the first transistor being connected to an emitter of the second transistor; a third and a fourth bipolar transistors having a common collector, a base of the third transistor being connected with an emitter of the fourth transistor; and at least one first impedance formed of one or of a plurality of passive components coupling the common collector of the first and second transistors to the common collector of the third and fourth transistors, a base of the second transistor being coupled to the collector of the third and fourth transistors and a base of the fourth transistor being coupled to the collector of the first and second transistors.
US09813030B1	Wideband single-ended IM3 distortion nulling System-on-chip (SOC) products using high frequency, wideband, highly linear, CMOS and BiCMOS processes will be the next evolution of wireless and wireline communications integrated circuits. Aspects described herein can provide enhanced overall performance over existing prior art single-ended, wideband RF amplifier topologies. A single-ended third order intermodulation distortion nulling circuit can extend the dynamic range for wideband amplifiers up to an order-of-magnitude, without a DC power or noise figure (NF) penalty. The application of distortion nulling can be extended to all the building blocks used in CMOS/BiCMOS RF transceivers to improve performance. The application of this concept to all of the building blocks in an RF transceiver will allow the dynamic range of the transceiver to be increased without suffering a DC power dissipation increase or a significant noise increase.
US09813027B2	Devices and methods related to embedded sensors for dynamic error vector magnitude corrections Devices and methods related to embedded sensors for dynamic error vector magnitude corrections. In some embodiments, a power amplifier (PA) can include a PA die and an amplification stage implemented on the PA die. The amplification stage can include an array of amplification transistors, with the array being configured to receive and amplify a radio-frequency (RF) signal. The PA can further include a sensor implemented on the PA die. The sensor can be positioned relative to the array of amplification transistors to allow sensing of an operating condition representative of at least some of the amplification transistors. The sensor can be substantially isolated from the RF signal.
US09813026B2	Amplifier arrangement An amplifier arrangement is presented, comprising a first differential stage (DS1) comprising at least two transistors (M1, M1′) having a first threshold voltage (Vth1), at least a second differential stage (DS2) comprising at least two transistors (M3, M3′) having a second threshold voltage different from the first threshold voltage, at least one of the transistors of the first and second differential stage (DS1, DS2), respectively, has a control input commonly coupled to an input of the amplifier arrangement, at least one transistor (M1) of the first differential stage and one transistor (M3) of the second differential stage are arranged in a common current path, which is coupled to an output of the amplifier arrangement.
US09813023B2	Common-mode impedance network for reducing sensitivity in oscillators A low-complexity differential inductor and common-mode impedance network for reducing effects of flicker noise in an oscillator output signal have been disclosed. An oscillator includes a planar conductive loop comprising a first terminal, a second terminal, and a center tap. The planar conductive loop is formed from a first conductive layer above an integrated circuit substrate. The center tap is coupled to a first power supply node. The oscillator includes a planar conductive structure extending from a first point proximate to the center tap. The planar conductive structure extends along a line of symmetry of the planar conductive loop to a second point proximate to the first terminal and the second terminal. The planar conductive structure may be formed from the first conductive layer and may be directly coupled to the center tap.
US09813021B2	System and method for enhanced watch dog in solar panel installations A system and method for automated shutdown, disconnect, or power reduction of solar panels. A system of solar panels includes one or more master management units (MMUs) and one or more local management units (LMUs). The MMUs are in communication with the LMUs with the MMUs and LMUs “handshaking” when the system is in operation. The MMUs are connected to one or more controllers which in turn are connected to emergency detection sensors. Upon a sensor detection of an emergency, the associated MMU is notified which in turn instructs associated LMUs to take appropriate action. In the event that communication with the MMUs has been cut off, the LMUs take the initiative to shut down, disconnect, or reduce the output of associated string(s) of solar panels.
US09813020B2	Bracket for connection of a junction box to photovoltaic panels A device for attaching a junction box to a photovoltaic. The photovoltaic panel has a photovoltaic side and a non-photovoltaic side. The device includes a bracket with a first side attachable to the junction box and a second side attachable to the non-photovoltaic surface of the photovoltaic panel. A central fastener is attachable at one end to the bracket and a plate is adapted for connecting to the other end of the central fastener and for mounting on the photovoltaic side of the photovoltaic panel. One or more rotatable spacers, connectible to the central fastener, may be located on the non-photovoltaic side of the photovoltaic panel. One or more fixed spacers may be located on the non-photovoltaic side connectible to the bracket.
US09813017B2	Adiabatic secondary optics for solar concentrators used in concentrated photovoltaic systems A solar concentrator for concentrating solar radiation toward a solar cell, a concentrated photovoltaic module including a solar concentrator and a solar cell, and a secondary optical element for use in a solar concentrator are provided. The solar concentrator includes a primary optical element for collecting and focusing the solar radiation, and a secondary optical element. The secondary optical element is arranged to receive the solar radiation collected and focused by the primary optical element and includes an input end, and output end, and an adiabatic light guide tapering from the input end toward the output end and configured for concentrating and adiabatically guiding the solar radiation between the input and output ends. Some embodiments of the present invention can be useful in solar photovoltaic applications where it is desirable to provide high acceptance angles while maintaining high concentration and optical efficiency levels.
US09813015B1	End clamp for mounting solar module to rail A solar power system may include rails, solar modules, and a plurality of clamps to secure the solar modules to the rails. An end clamp may be partially disposed inside a rail at an end of the rail. The end clamp may secure a solar module to the rail by coupling to the frame of the solar module. The end clamp may include a fastener that may be tightened to engage the end clamp and secure the solar module by holding it on top of the rail. The end clamp may establish an electrical grounding connection between the frame of the solar module and the rail.
US09813014B2	Solar cell array A holding member of a solar cell array according to the present invention includes a first holding portion that holds a first side portion of a solar cell module and that extends along the first side portion, and a second holding portion that holds a second side portion and that extends along the second side portion. The first holding portion includes a covering portion, a first supporting portion, and a first side wall portion. The second holding portion includes a second supporting portion, a second side wall portion, an extending portion, and a pressing member.
US09813013B2	Solar panel installation systems and methods Solar panel installation systems are disclosed that reduce or eliminate the need for large, costly rails for mounting solar panels on an installation surface. The systems may include an array of framed solar modules supported above an installation surface using a number of height-adjustable base members. Adjacent solar modules in the array may be coupled to one another at or near their corners using module links that can structurally couple the frames of the adjacent solar modules together.
US09813009B1	Active gate clamping for inverter switching devices using grounded gate terminals An inverter for an electric vehicle comprises a phase leg having series-connected upper and lower transistors between a positive bus and a ground bus. Upper and lower gate drive circuits supply gate drive signals to the upper and lower transistors. Each gate drive circuit includes an active clamp for deactivating the upper and lower transistors. The transistors are comprised of semiconductor devices, each having respective gate, collector, and emitter terminals. Each pair of gate and emitter terminals is adapted to provide an enhanced common source inductance therebetween. Each gate terminal is adapted to be tied to a ground voltage of the drive circuits. Each respective active clamp is comprised of a p-channel MOSFET having a source terminal connected to the gate terminal of a respective transistor and having a drain terminal connected to the emitter terminal of the respective transistor bypassing the respective enhanced common source inductance.
US09813008B2	Half-bridge switching circuit system One example includes a half-bridge switching circuit system. The system includes a first plurality of switches arranged between a first rail voltage and an output on which an output voltage is provided and a second plurality of switches arranged between a second rail voltage and the output, the first and second pluralities of switches being controlled via a plurality of switching signals. The system also includes a plurality of flying capacitors arranged to interconnect the first and second pluralities of switches, and further includes a plurality of snubber circuits that are each arranged in parallel with a respective one of the plurality of flying capacitors, the first plurality of switches, and the second plurality of switches.
US09813006B2	Method for reliable control of high rotor pole switched reluctance machine A system and method for reliable control of a high rotor pole switched reluctance machine (HRSRM) utilizing a sensorless reliable control system. The method comprising: energizing at least one of the plurality of stator phases; measuring a first current value and time taken by the first current value to reach a first peak value or preset threshold value of current; determining a self-inductance value; storing the self-inductance value and the first current value for each of the stator phases; measuring a second current value and time taken by an adjacent un-energized stator phase to reach a second peak value of current; determining a mutual inductance value; storing the mutual inductance value and the second current value for each of the stator phases; estimating a rotor position utilizing the self-inductance and mutual inductance values; and controlling the HRSRM based on the estimated rotor position.
US09812996B2	Method for calculating distance, method for neutralizing electrostatic chuck, and processing apparatus There are provided a method for obtaining a distance between a base portion of an electrostatic chuck and a back surface of a target object and a method for neutralizing the electrostatic chuck based on the obtained distance. The electrostatic chuck has an upper surface including the base portion and a plurality of convex portions projecting from the base portion. The target object is mounted on apexes of the convex portions of the electrostatic chuck such that the back surface is in contact with the apexes. By processing a first wavelength spectrum output from a spectroscope based on reflected light of light emitted from a light source, a distance between the back surface of the target object and the base portion of the electrostatic chuck is calculated. Based on the calculated distance, a voltage is applied to the electrostatic chuck to neutralize the electrostatic chuck.
US09812993B2	Single electrode triboelectric generator A triboelectric generator includes a first contact charging member, a second contact charging member and an electrical load. The first contact charging member has a contact side and an opposite back side. The first contact charging member includes a material that has a first rating on a triboelectric series and also has a conductive aspect. The second contact charging member has a second rating on the triboelectric series, different from the first rating, and is configured to come into contact with the first contact layer and go out of contact with the first contact layer. The electrical load electrically is coupled to the first contact charging member and to a common voltage so that current will flow through the load after the second contact charging member comes into contact with the first contact charging member and then goes out of contact with the first contact charging member.
US09812991B2	Insulating structure for power conversion device Due to increase of demand for safety of device, reinforcement of insulation of exposed conductive parts is required also in power conversion device. Relay unit having optical transmission unit, signal processing unit and power generating unit is provided between control circuit unit and gate drive circuit unit which form control device for an inverter. A gate signal generated in the control circuit unit is inputted into the signal processing unit of the relay unit through the optical transmission unit, and is outputted to the gate drive circuit unit from the signal processing unit through the optical transmission unit. Further, AC power is supplied to the power generating unit of the relay unit from a control device low-voltage AC power source through high-withstand voltage transformer. AC power is supplied to the gate drive circuit unit from the power generating unit of the relay unit through high-withstand voltage transformer.
US09812990B1	Spare on demand power cells for modular multilevel power converter Apparatus to provide bypass redundancy for a multiphase multilevel inverter including a spare inverter stage and a switch circuit to connect the spare inverter stage between a selected one of the inverter phase first nodes having a bypassed stage and a common connection node, and to connect the remaining inverter phase first nodes with the common connection node.
US09812988B2	Method for controlling an inverter, and inverter The invention relates to a method for controlling an inverter and to an inverter a DC/DC stage, which comprises at least one main switch (S2) and a discharge circuit, and with a DC/AC stage. The discharge circuit is formed by a series connection of a bidirectional switching element, which comprises two switches (SA1, SA2), and an inductivity. A device is provided for controlling the switches (SA1, SA2) and is designed such that one switch (SA1, SA2) is activated in an alternating manner and the switch-on time of the switch is determined by the controlling device prior to a switch-off time of the main switch (S2).
US09812986B2	Apparatus for balancing voltages of DC link capacitor in inverter An apparatus for balancing a voltage of a direct current (DC) link capacitor of an inverter is provided. The apparatus of the present disclosure includes a switching unit connected to a node (a reference point) between the first and second resistors, which are connected in series to each other, and a node (a neutral point) between the first and second capacitors, which are connected in series to each other, and configured to short and open between the reference point and the neutral point, and a control unit configured to control the switching unit to short between the reference point and the neutral point when a voltage of the reference point (a reference point voltage) and a voltage of the neutral point (a neutral point voltage) are different from each other.
US09812984B2	Maximizing power in a photovoltaic distributed power system A power harvesting system including multiple parallel-connected photovoltaic strings, each photovoltaic string includes a series-connection of photovoltaic panels. Multiple voltage-compensation circuits may be connected in series respectively with the photovoltaic strings. The voltage-compensation circuits may be configured to provide respective compensation voltages to the photovoltaic strings to maximize power harvested from the photovoltaic strings. The voltage-compensation circuits may be include respective inputs which may be connected to a source of power and respective outputs which may be connected in series with the photovoltaic strings.
US09812969B2	Ground leakage power supply for dimming applications A dimmer is provided for controlling power to a load, the dimmer having a ground leakage power supply deriving power from a connection of the dimmer to ground. The power supply may be a switching-mode power supply that can be the sole or primary power supply to power operation of the dimmer, including operation of the controller.
US09812964B2	Semiconductor device and power supply unit utilizing the same A semiconductor device has pluralities of grid array terminals forming a grid array structure, e.g. a BGA structure, in which the output end of a built-in switch circuit is connected to multiple terminals of the grid array structure, thereby reducing the current that flows through each of the multiple terminals below a permissible level and minimizing the heat due to contact resistances of the multiple terminals in contact with the IC socket of the semiconductor device. Each pair of nearest neighbors of the multiple terminals is interposed by at least one further array terminal. The multiple terminals are all located at the outermost peripheral terminal positions of the grid array structure. Thus, the heat generated in the respective multiple terminals connected to the switch circuit is reduced, thereby minimizing the possibility of hazardous melting of the terminals.
US09812963B1	Current detection and averaging circuit for switching power supplies with a half-bridge switch circuit topology A power supply includes a half-bridge circuit. The power supply further includes an output inductor connected to a switch node that is common to a high side switch and a low side switch of the half-bridge. During a turn ON time of the low side switch, a current detection circuit of the power supply samples and holds in a capacitor a valley of an inductor current flowing through the output inductor. Also during the turn ON time of the low side switch, the current detection circuit samples and holds in another capacitor a peak of the inductor current. During a turn OFF time of the low side switch, a sense inductor current that is representative of the inductor current is generated by combining the charges stored in the capacitors.
US09812962B2	Method and system for increasing efficiency and controlling slew rate in DC-DC converters One embodiment pertains to a method including transitioning a logic state of at least one enable signal. A first power transistor begins to turn off. A parameter level of the input of the first power transistor is directly sensed. A second power transistor is turned off when the parameter level is less than a threshold level.
US09812953B2	DC-DC converter with configurable compensator A controller of a power converter and related method pre-determine a range of suitable compensators across an end user's design space and permit the end user to configure the compensator such that the most suitable compensator is selected.
US09812951B2	Advanced PFC voltage controller A power factor correction voltage controller is disclosed. In one embodiment, the controller has a linear PI compensator, a moving average filter, a non-linear error circuit, a hysteretic peak control, and an output power feedforward. The power factor correction voltage controller provides regulation of maximum and minimum voltage values but without allowing large periodic fluctuations in the input power/current.
US09812947B2	Motor control device having life prediction unit of smoothing capacitor A motor control device includes a converter that converts AC power into DC power, a smoothing capacitor provided in a DC link, an inverter that converts the DC power in the DC link into AC power for a motor, a capacitor capacity measurement unit that measures a capacity of the smoothing capacitor, a data record unit that records a plurality of pieces of data composed of a measurement value of the capacity of the smoothing capacitor and a date or both a date and time when the measurement has been performed, a deterioration characteristic calculation unit that calculates a deterioration characteristic line indicating a change of the capacity of the smoothing capacitor with respect to elapsed time, on the basis of the recorded data, and a life prediction unit that predicts a period when a life of the smoothing capacitor ends, on the basis of the deterioration characteristic line.
US09812939B2	Linear motor system A linear motor system includes a plurality of armatures that are disposed along a movement path of a mover continuously or discretely, a detector that detects position information of the mover in the movement path, zone controllers that are provided to a plurality of unit zones of the movement path in one-to-one correspondence and control the armatures disposed on the unit zones, respectively, and an integrated controller that supplies a traveling instruction of the mover to the plurality of zone controllers provided to the movement path based on the position information detected by the detector and totally controls the plurality of zone controllers. The zone controllers determine whether the mover to be driven is present in the related unit zones based on the traveling instruction, and control the plurality of armatures based on determined results.
US09812938B2	Magnetic device comprising an acceleration unit acting on the translator A magnetic device comprising at least one stator (1) and one translator (2), which translator (2) is movable along a translator movement path (3) in a translator movement direction (4) relative to the Stator (1),the translator (2) being coupled, at least in portions of the translator movement path (3), to an acceleration unit (5), which on coupling the translator (2) with the acceleration unit (5) generates an acceleration force state comprising at least a corrective force Fcorr acting on the translator (2), which acceleration force state can cause a movement of the translator (2) away from the stator (1), wherein when the translator (2) is coupled to the acceleration unit (5) and the translator (2) moves away from the stator (1), the sum total of the forces acting on the translator (2) in the translator movement direction (4) due to magnetism is greater than or equal to zero, so that the translator (2) can be separated from the attractive force generated by the stator (1) by means of the corrective force Fcorr.
US09812936B2	Drive motor with master-slave flywheel The present invention relates to a master-slave flywheel drive motor, including a shaft, master motor, master flywheel, slave motor bracket, outer rotor of slave motor and drive connector, slave motor coil winding and magnet wheel. The master motor, master flywheel, slave motor bracket, outer rotor of slave motor and drive connector are sequentially fitted over the shaft. The slave motor coil winding and magnet wheel are sequentially fitted over the outside of the master motor. There is a slave motor three-phase electrode fixed boss on the master flywheel, the three-phase electrode fixed boss being integrally formed with the master flywheel. There is no shifting mechanism in the drive motor, taking advantage of the inertia of the flywheel, so as to reduce power consumption when start-up and to achieve a CVT transmission torque energy recycle function by regenerative current controlling of the slave motor.
US09812933B2	Electric hand tool having a discrete operating element An electric hand tool has an electric consumer, a movable operating element and a control unit for controlling a current flow between the energy store and the consumer on the basis of the position of the operating element. The control unit is constructed separately from the operating element and the mechanical position of the operating element is converted into an electrical control signal in the control unit.
US09812929B2	Electric rotating machine Two or more switching devices (36) and two or more lead frames (41, 42, 43, and 44) are integrally molded by use of a molding resin (37) so that a power module (30) is formed; the power module (30) is made to adhere to a heat sink (32) via an insulating material (31); the power module (30) and the heat sink (32) are fixed to a housing (33) of the power module composite (23); the power module composite (23) is fixed to a case (6) of an electric rotating machine (1) via the housing (33).
US09812927B2	Electro-mechanical dynamo for C and D battery replacement A self-contained electro-mechanical device incorporating a hand crank wound main spring mechanism coupled with gears to a rotating magnet inside an iron core with wound copper wire for the purpose of generating electricity. An external AC adaptor can use the generator as a motor to wind the main spring without the need to use the hand crank. An internal electronic circuit is connected to the motor/generator and mechanically coupled using a unique solenoid and clutch mechanism to prevent the main spring from turning until an external load is detected. When packaged in the form of two standard C or D size batteries this invention can be installed into devices currently using electro-chemical batteries. An internal LED light enables the device to be used as a self-contained flashlight. A mini USB connector is incorporated for charging cell phones and powering numerous devices compatible with USB power.
US09812926B1	Micro-wind turbine for the power and recharge of satellite home automation sensors Systems and methods are for generating electrical power using air moving through a duct of a forced air heating or air conditioning system within a building. In one embodiment, a wind turbine may be provided that is sized to be mounted within a duct and includes one or more blades coupled to a motor for converting kinetic energy from air moving the duct into electrical power. A device may be coupled to the motor for at least one of operating electrical components or sensors of the device and charging a battery of the device.
US09812924B2	Motor assembly for an electric power steering assembly In one aspect of the invention, a motor assembly for an electric power steering assembly is provided. The motor assembly includes a motor housing, a stator, and a hollow rotor defining an inner cavity, the rotor configured for rotational movement within the motor housing. The motor assembly further includes a worm shaft having a first end and a second end, and a motor coupling positioned within the inner cavity and coupled to the rotor for rotational movement therewith. The worm shaft first end is coupled to the motor coupling for rotational movement therewith.
US09812921B2	Apparatus for oscillation-decoupled mounting of an electric motor, in particular a blower motor It is known to mount an electric motor (1), in particular a blower motor, with oscillation decoupling. The electric motor (1) has a motor housing (4), in particular a pole housing, which has at least one connecting lug (10), which protrudes radially from the motor housing (4) and on which a decoupling element (20) is fitted, via which decoupling element the motor housing (4) is supported on an outer housing (5, 6). In order to rule out the risk of a collision between the connecting lug (10) and the outer housing (5, 6), the invention proposes an apparatus for oscillation-decoupled mounting, in which the decoupling element (20) surrounds the connecting lug (10; 11, 12) in the form of a sleeve with a casing part (21), wherein the casing part (21) is supported, via at least one web (30, 31; 40, 41; 50, 51; 55, 56), on an outer part (26), which surrounds the casing part (21) in the form of a frame and is accommodated in the outer housing (5, 6), which is preferably formed in two parts. The apparatus for oscillation-decoupled mounting of an electric motor is intended in particular for blower motors of motor vehicle air conditioning systems.
US09812920B2	Air-cooled electric machine and method of assembling the same An electric machine comprises a motor housing and an electronics enclosure coupled to the motor housing. The electronics enclosure defines an air passage between the electronics enclosure and the motor housing. The electronics enclosure further defines at least one air intake connected to said air passage. The electric machine also includes a fan configured to draw air through the at least one air intake and into the air passage.
US09812918B2	Electrical connection assembly for brushless motor and system comprising such an assembly The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection system and assembly for a brushless electromagnetic motor including a coiled stator assembly with P electric phases and X coils per phase, each coil exhibiting in proximity a body furnished with two connection slots, a first sub-assembly formed of W tracks cut in a conducting sheet, the tracks forming W coplanar output tracks, W being an integer number lying between P and P+1, each of the W tracks terminating in at least one end folded back perpendicularly to the plane of the tracks, the shape of the folded back end being complementary to the shape of the connection slot, the tracks being joined by an insulating plastic material.
US09812917B2	End turn support and cooling fixture A generator rotor system having various features is disclosed. The generator rotor system has at least one main stage generator rotor with winding-pole sets spaced annularly about the rotor. The tendency of the windings to distort and or displace under the centrifugal force of the spinning rotor is ameliorated by a winding retention member disposed axially outboard of the winding-pole sets. The winding retention member may also have a one or more cooling oil routing hole to enhance the flow of cooling oil among the windings.
US09812914B2	Rotor component member, rotating axis, rotor, motor, and machine tool A rotor according to the present invention includes a rotating axis rotating about an axial center of the rotating axis and a rotor component member including an inner circumferential surface on which an outer circumferential surface of the rotating axis fits. The outer circumferential surface of the rotating axis and the inner circumferential surface of the rotor component member include corresponding tapered surfaces each having a diameter that varies in taper along the axial center, the tapered surfaces being in full contact with each other while the outer circumferential surface of the rotating axis is press-fitted relative to the inner circumferential surface of the rotor component member, and at least one of the tapered surfaces has a corrugated surface structure storing a lubricant before the rotating axis is press-fitted relative to the rotor component member, while configured to wear away by press-fitting the rotating axis relative to the rotor component member to discharge the lubricant.
US09812913B2	Electric machine with Q-offset grooved interior-magnet rotor and vehicle A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.
US09812909B2	Sectionalized electromechanical machines having low torque ripple and low cogging torque characteristics A method and apparatus for reducing or eliminating the effects of torque ripple and cogging torque and otherwise improving performance in an electromechanical machine such as a motor or generator. The rotor and/or stator is conceptually sectionalized and the sections spaced apart by amount sufficient to alleviate deleterious aspects of cogging torque and torque ripple. Positioning of the stator teeth or rotor magnets is determined based on the calculated spacing. Conceptual sections may be formed as physically individual segments. Unwound teeth may be disposed in end spaces between sections occupying less than the entire area of the end space.

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