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US09848730B2	Food carrier and grilling accessory A food carrier for use in a cooking space of a cooking appliance has a first cooking area and a second cooking area on which a food to be cooked can be placed. The cooking areas can in particular be grilling areas. The first and the second cooking areas are arranged on opposite sides of the food carrier, and each of the first and second cooking areas has a structuring. The structuring of the first cooking area is different from the structuring of the second cooking area.
US09848729B2	Vibrating cooking system A cooking system that utilizes vibration to improve the convenience of preparing food and the quality of the finished product. The system uses a vibrating device coupled to a cooking vessel with a pad and/or isolation blocks disposed between the vibrator and the vessel. The cooking system can be adapted to prepare specific foods in specific quantities, such as popcorn in pre-packaged containers.
US09848727B2	Modular appliance Appliances comprising a base unit and a plug connector coupled to the base unit. The plug connector is configured to electrically couple the appliance to a first socket connector of an electrical receptacle. A channel is formed on or in a first sidewall of the base unit. The plug connector is disposed in the channel when in an engaged position. A defines a channel wall of the channel. The lever is configured to facilitate a transition of the plug connector between the engaged position and a disengaged position. The lever engages the plug connector when in the engaged position and does not engage the plug connector when in the disengaged position.
US09848722B1	Container assembly with a lid and the lid thereof that allow for drinking from the side A beverage container assembly has a container with an opening and a lid that closes the opening. The lid has a mouthpiece that extends laterally outwardly of the container to allow a person's head to remain upright or erect (i.e., minimizing or no head tilt movement) while drinking so as to not impede the user's straight-ahead vision, such as while driving. The mouthpiece is configured so that the container becomes disposed at one side of the nose so that the container is tiltable further as the nose does not interfere with the tilting action.
US09848721B2	Universal lid for food and drink containers The present disclosure is directed to a universal food and drink lid. The lid is formed of a stretchy material so that it can fit on a plurality of containers of different sizes. The lid is also formed of a material with sufficient elasticity so that once it is fit onto a container, such as a cup or a bowl, the lid forms a seal therewith that allows for a spill-proof connection between the container and the lid. The lid may further include an outlet for removing the contents of the container without removing the lid. The lid may further include an outlet that is a spout, an opening with a movable stopper, a straw opening or an opening sized to fit the hand of a user.
US09848718B2	Adhesive frame An adhesive frame includes a clear flexible sheet member with an optional printed ink layer disposed on a border of a first side of the clear flexible sheet member. A semi-permanent adhesive layer is disposed on a second side of the clear flexible sheet member at the border of the clear flexible sheet member. No adhesive is disposed in the middle of the adhesive frame, either through using a patterned adhesive or through use of a liner. Such adhesive frames allow for quick and easy mounting of visual media on nearly any surface. Media can be quickly removed and replaced from underneath the adhesive frame because of the lack of adhesive in the middle portion of the adhesive frame.
US09848717B2	Refrigerated sales cabinet A refrigerating cabinet (1) comprises at least one goods presentation and air circulation space (2), a refrigeration cycle for cooling the at least one goods presentation and air circulation space (2), and at least one drain conduit (36; 42) configured for draining condensed water, which is produced when the refrigeration circuit is operating, from the at least one goods presentation and air circulation space (2). At least a portion of the at least one drain conduit (36; 42) is filled with a granulate material (34) or provided with a movable flap (48) allowing water to pass through the drain conduit (36; 42) and blocking air from passing through the drain conduit (36; 42).
US09848716B2	Vending shelf A merchandise dispensing apparatus for deterring theft includes a housing having a plurality of walls defining an interior space within the housing. At least one merchandise support module is mounted in the housing and includes an electro-mechanical ejector located adjacent a front end of the at least one module. The ejector includes an electrical motor with an output shaft, along with an ejector plate movably mounted in relation to the housing. A gear train connects the output shaft of the motor to the ejector plate. A relay selectively provides electrical power to the motor.
US09848712B2	Bedding system with support surface control A bedding system uses machine vision to makes adjustments for comfort and/or support. In one aspect, a pressure mapping engine measures a two-dimensional pressure image of a sleeper on the bedding system while the sleeper is sleeping on the bedding system. A machine vision process analyzes the pressure image. A comfort and support engine adjusts a comfort and/or support of the bedding system based on the machine vision analysis.
US09848708B2	Retractable seat assembly A retractable seat assembly which can be attached to a vertical structure and which, in the upright position, presents a profile which is relatively thin and in any event poses virtually no impediment to going very close to the vertical structure. The retractable seat assembly having a rear support, a seat, a front support, and a biaser which releasably biases said seat to the generally upright position.
US09848705B2	Electrically adjustable office chair An office chair including a base, a seat, a chair column that extends in the vertical direction between the base and the seat, and a backrest, further comprising an electric drive unit that comprises an electric motor and a change gear, the change gear being designed to input the rotational force of the electric motor into a first adjustment device for adjusting a seat height of the seat and converting said force in a second adjustment device for adjusting a tilt of the seat or the backrest.
US09848703B2	Slide rail assembly A slide rail assembly to be mounted to a first post and a second post of a rack is provided. The two posts define an accommodation space therebetween. The slide rail assembly is mounted between the first post and the second post by two brackets and includes a transverse width. A portion of the transverse width is arranged within the accommodation space so as to provide more space and thereby facilitate the mounting of an object to the rack.
US09848698B2	Display and enclosure apparatus A display and enclosure apparatus for supporting a television includes a cabinet that has a back face and at least one flange extending from the back face for holding the television. A decorative member is connected to the flange of the cabinet. The decorative member defines a hollow that extends in a non-linear shape and terminates at a mouth. A bracket interconnects the cabinet and decorative member. The bracket includes a plate that overlies and is connected to the flange of the cabinet, and at least one wing that extends from the plate. The wing has a shape that substantially matches the non-linear shape of the hollow of the decorative member and nests in the hollow for interconnecting the flange of the cabinet and the decorative member.
US09848692B1	Attaching loop member to mount printing device on belt-like member worn by user An attaching loop member to mount a printing device on a belt-like member worn by a user includes: a device-side member connectable to the printing device; and an attaching-side member mountable on the belt-like member worn by the user. The device-side member includes: a device-side plate portion; a fixing portion fixable to the printing device; a shaft portion and an engaging portion provided on the device-side plate portion. The attaching-side member includes: a bearing portion engageable with the shaft portion; an engaged portion engageable with the engaging portion; and an open portion providing an open region between the bearing portion and the engaged portion to allow the belt-like member to penetrate through the open region. The engagement of the shaft portion with the bearing portion allows the device-side member to pivot relative to the attaching-side member to realize engagement and disengagement of the engaging portion relative to the engaged portion.
US09848690B2	High strength retention loops for wearable bands A high strength retention loops for a wearable band of an electronic device and method of forming the retention loop. The retention loop of the wearable band may include a bottom layer, a tensile member encircling the bottom layer, and a top layer positioned adjacent to and substantially encircling the bottom layer and the tensile member. A distinct retention loop may include a single piece of folded leather material having an exterior portion, and two interior portions positioned adjacent the outer portion. The distinct retention loop may also include a tensile member positioned between the exterior portion and the two interior portions.
US09848689B2	Sleeping bag having waterproof bottom and side walls and enclosure for a sleeping pad A sleeping bag having a waterproof bottom and side wall region. The bottom region extending vertically upward is made from a waterproof material. A cavity formed above the bottom region includes an opening into which may be inserted and removed a sleeping pad. A top region creates a cavity for holding insulative material. A sleeping cavity is provided between the top cavity and the bottom cavity.
US09848688B2	Tool belt with non-scratch buckle cover A non-scratch tool belt apparatus conveniently contains instruments that are useful for a task adjacent to a user, such as for detailing operations of objects that have delicate surfaces or finishes. The tool belt apparatus is lightweight and generally features only soft exposed materials, such as cotton. The tool belt reduces the likelihood that users will lose an instrument, and also of scratching a surface. The apparatus includes an elongated fabric belt, a buckle, a non-scratch buckle cover, and a plurality of tool bags. The elongated fabric belt wraps around a user and is secured by the buckle. The buckle cover encloses the buckle to prevent scratching. The buckle cover and plurality of tool bags can slide on the belt. The tool bags are each configured to hold at least one instrument, such as a tool or bottle used in detailing operations.
US09848687B2	Adjustable strap height mechanism A strap height adjustment apparatus including a backpack, a locking strap adjuster, a non-locking strap adjuster, an adjusting strap, and a shoulder strap. The locking strap adjuster is secured to the backpack at a first attachment point. The non-locking strap adjuster secured to the backpack at a second attachment point. The adjusting strap is configured to be carried by the locking strap adjuster and the non-locking strap adjuster. The shoulder strap is secured to the adjusting strap at a shoulder strap attachment point.
US09848686B2	Pack having one-piece seamless bodyside liner A backpack which includes at least one panel defining an interior compartment adapted to store objects for transport in the backpack, wherein the at least one panel has a bodyfacing surface. The backpack further includes a pair of shoulder straps attached to the at least one panel for use in carrying the backpack on a user's back, each of the shoulder straps having another bodyfacing surface. A bodyside liner covers the bodyfacing surfaces of the at least one panel and the pair of shoulder straps. The bodyside liner is free from attachment to the at least one panel and the shoulder straps except along a peripheral edge of the bodyside liner, wherein the peripheral edge of the bodyside liner is attached to the at least one panel and the pair of the shoulder straps.
US09848684B2	Tubular container comprising applicator A tubular container includes an applicator that not only easily controls a slope degree of the support body, by installing a rotation control part at an inner side of a support body, when applying contents onto skin by using an applicator or massaging, but also prevents the deformation of an upper portion of the support body which is coupled with the applicator through a rotation control part, such that assemblability with the applicator is improved and thus separation of the applicator is prevented.
US09848683B2	Hair styling device A shoulder assembly for connecting two arms of a hair styling apparatus, the shoulder assembly comprising: a housing; a first coupling member which is attached to the housing and which projects from the housing to couple the housing to a first arm; a second coupling member which is attached to the housing and which projects from the housing to couple the housing to a second arm; wherein both the first and second coupling members are flexible so that the first arm is movable relative to the second arm when the shoulder assembly is connected to the first and second arms.
US09848682B2	Computer case strap retention system With respect to cases for laptop computers, and the like and, an improvement comprises pair of opposing strap guides through which elastic side retention straps are respectively journaled to prevent the straps from interfering with the closure of the case. A case according to the invention comprises top and bottom covers hinged in the rear of the case, and a closure mechanism such as a zipper is for closing the top and bottom covers. Right and left elastic retaining straps respectively connect the top and bottom portions of the case, and the right and left elastic retaining straps pass through respective strap guides, each attached to the inner surface of the top portion of the case, to prevent the retaining straps from being caught in the hinged portions of the computer or the closure mechanism as the case is closed. Each elastic retaining strap may twist between the bottom cover of the case and each strap guide.
US09848680B2	Contact lens case having integrated lens data stowage compartments A contact lens case having integrated lens data stowage compartments is provided. The contact lens case includes a left and a right bowl section in an upper portion of a case body for storing a pair of contact lenses, and two lens data stowage compartments in a lower portion of the case body. Each of the bowl section has a closed bottom and an open top detachably closed by a closure cap. Each lens data stowage compartment is positioned underneath one bowl section, and is assessable from a side or a lower base of the contact lens case. The height of the compartments is proportioned for receipt of a lens data sheet having thereon lens data corresponding to a contact lens located in the bowl section thereabove. The lens data stowed in each compartment can be viewed or accessed from the contact lens case.
US09848679B2	Brunnian link making device and kit A Brunnian link is a link formed from a closed loop doubled over itself to capture another closed loop to form a chain. The example kit provides for the successful creation of unique wearable articles using Brunnian link assembly techniques and includes several pin bars that are supported in a desired special orientation by at least one base. The desired special orientation is dependent on the desired linked configuration of the completed article. The pins may be assembled in various combination and orientations to provide endless variation of completed link orientations.
US09848678B2	Interchangeable jewelry, particularly a ring assembly A ring assembly includes an annular ring platform having a recess formed in a portion thereof and a column with an opening therein. A collar is received on the ring platform and has a sleeve that mates with the column. An ornamental portion has an anchor that extends through the collar and selectively mates with the column opening. A biasing spring is received in the recess of the ring platform and urges the collar outwardly from the ring platform. The ornamental portion selectively rotates relative to the ring platform whereby the anchor locks with the column and the spring urges the ornamental portion toward locked relation therewith.
US09848677B2	Jewelry clasp A jewelry clasp is provided that includes a key, a casing, and a locking mechanism. The casing includes an external body with an internal cavity having an opening for receiving the key and another opening into which the locking mechanism is partially disposed. The locking mechanism includes a lever and a spring. The lever has a locking end configured to engage the key in a fixed position relative to the casing, and a pressing end for disengaging the lever from the key. The spring provides tension to the lever to facilitate engagement of the key.
US09848670B2	Kicking shoe attachment for propelling kick scooters and the like A kicking shoe attachment for use by the rider of a kick scooter having an elongated core with a flat upper surface with an upper sole thereupon, and an opposing curvilinear lower surface with a wear resistant lower sole disposed thereupon. Optionally a heel cup connected to a heel cup carrier plate is slidably supported in a heel cup carrier plate receiver. A latching mechanism allows securing the heel cup and carrier plate in a desired position along a major axis of the elongated core. The elongated core may be split apart horizontally and two or more springs, a block of a resilient material or a scissor jack mechanism may be placed between the portions. An opening may be placed in the upper surface of the elongated body to receive the protruding heel of typically a woman's heeled shoe or boot. A removable plug may fill the hole when unneeded.
US09848664B2	Eyewear retaining head covering Provided is a form-fitting, eyewear retaining head covering made of an elastic material that snuggly fits the contour of a wearer's head. On each side of the head covering is a retention slot designed to receive the arm of a pair of eyeglass frames. The slots are disposed along the lower edge of the head covering and in horizontal alignment therewith. The slots may be reinforced with a high friction material in order to grip the eyeglass frames and reduce slippage. The normal seat and positioning of the head covering is not adjusted by eyewear and the eyewear is disposed in its natural position. The slots are relatively close to one another to minimize the propensity of the hat lower edge to fold backward in high winds, whereby the lower edge of the head covering is stretched to accommodate the arms of the glasses.
US09848663B2	Cap having striker surface A hat assembly and method of use is provided including a striking surface for igniting a flammable instrument. The hat assembly may also provide a receptacle for storing flammable instruments.
US09848661B2	Method and an apparatus for attaching hair extensions to human hair A method is provided for attaching a hair extension to a recipient's hair. The method comprises defining an anchoring structure for receiving attachment of the hair extension; positioning the hair extension adjacent to the anchoring structure; employing a hair extension attachment apparatus to attach the hair extension to the anchoring structure; wherein the employment includes manipulating a user manipulable hand member of the apparatus to position a shield mechanism between the recipient's scalp and the fastener as the fastener is being crimped; and to crimp a fastener to attach the hair extension to the anchoring structure. An apparatus is provided for attaching a hair extension to the recipient's hair. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for crimping a fastener to attach the hair extension; and a shield mechanism for preventing the fastener from contacting the recipient's scalp as the fastener is being crimped.
US09848660B1	Garment with two waistbands A garment having an outer waistband and an inner waistband, the outer waistband and the inner waistband connected by a fabric portion, wherein in a first operative mode the outer waistband is disposed adjacent the inner waistband and the fabric portion is hidden, and in a second operative mode the outer waistband droops beneath the inner waistband, and the fabric portion is visible and extends the length of the garment.
US09848658B1	Bra with sling-like under breast support A backless bra in a halter form comprises a pair of breast engaging cup panels formed of a circular, flattened elastic, preferably nylon knit material. The L-shaped cup panels can be secured to a waistband and can also be provided with rearwardly and side engaging side panel pieces. When the breasts are placed within the cup panels, the weight of the same causes the knit nylon to become rigid and support the breasts from below in a sling like manner. In the halter embodiment of the invention, a view from the rear, has only the back of the neck engaging segments of the straps and the rear of the waist band visible. Preferably, the primary component of the bra is elastic, tubular knit nylon, formed from conventional circular nylon knitting machines.
US09848656B2	Electronic cigarette An electronic smoking article includes an outer tube extending in a longitudinal direction, an inner tube within the outer tube and including a pair of opposing slots, a liquid supply comprising a liquid material, a coil heater, a wick and a mouth end insert. The coil heater is located in the inner tube. The coil heater is formed of an iron-free, nickel-chromium alloy and has substantially uniformly spaced windings. The wick is surrounded by the coil heater such that the wick delivers liquid material to the coil heater and the coil heater heats the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol in the inner tube.
US09848653B2	Cotton-free electronic cigarette, heat-insulating and heat-dissipating component of vaporizer device, and method for heat insulation and heat dissipation Disclosed is a cotton-free electronic cigarette, a heat-insulating and heat-dissipating component of a vaporizer device of the cotton-free electronic cigarette, and a method for heat insulation and heat dissipation. The heat-insulating and heat-dissipating component consists of a heat insulation sleeve and a vapor flow passage. The heat insulation sleeve is provided inside an outer pipe and outside a vaporizer unit. The heat insulation sleeve, the outer pipe and the vaporizer unit have a same central longitudinal axis. A method for heat insulation and heat dissipation of the cotton-free electronic cigarette comprises: dissipating heat generated from the vaporizer unit along the vapor flow passage formed between an exterior longitudinal flat surface of a liquid storage cup and the heat insulation sleeve, and discharging the heat outside the cotton-free electronic cigarette through thermal conductivity of the heat insulation sleeve.
US09848651B2	Electronic atomization device Disclosed is an electronic atomization device, which includes a suction nozzle, an oil cup assembly, an atomization core assembly and an electrode assembly. The atomization core assembly includes a heater support with a first stepped structure, an atomization core body supported by the heater support, a sealing washer sleeved on the atomization core body and closely contacting with the first stepped structure, an electrode connecting part connected with an end of the heater support via an insulating ring and an air hole connecting part disposed in the atomization core body. The oil cup assembly includes an oil cup body having an airway tube for connecting with the air hole connecting part, a first connecting element removably connected with the suction nozzle and a second connecting element having a second stepped structure formed therein for fitting the sealing washer. According to the present invention, its atomization core is easy to be changed.
US09848650B2	Atomizer and aerosol inhaling device having same An exemplary atomizer includes a main body, an atomizing component received in the main body, and a liquid chamber configured for receiving tobacco liquid. The atomizing component is configured for generating aerosol from the tobacco liquid. The atomizing component and the liquid chamber cooperatively define a liquid passage therebetween. The atomizer further includes a liquid blocking element defining a notch. The liquid blocking element is capable of rotating relative to the main body between a first position where the liquid blocking element prevents the tobacco liquid in the liquid chamber from flowing into the liquid passage, and a second position where the notch is in alignment with the liquid passage, so that the tobacco liquid flows to the atomizing component via the liquid passage.
US09848646B2	Electronic cigarette and battery device thereof The present invention provides an electronic cigarette and a battery device thereof. The battery device applied to an electronic cigarette, includes a cylindrical body, a first airflow channel, and two conductive members. The first air flowing channel extends axially through the cylindrical body. The conductive members are mounted to opposite ends of the cylindrical body, and keep insulation from an anode and a cathode of the battery device. The two conductive members further is electrically connected to each other. By virtue of the airflow channel defined in the cylindrical body of the battery device, it is easily to maintain the airflow channel being consistent, thereby enhancing the consistency of electronic cigarettes.
US09848645B2	Cartomizer structure for automated assembly A cartomizer assembly of an electronic cigarette which is formed from automated assembly compatible parts comprises a container assembly including a container and a heater coil surrounding a wick in an airflow space of the container. The entire coil of the heater coil is inside the container and the heater coil is configured to heat liquid on the wick to generate an aerosol mist during a vaporization process. A liquid storage space is in liquid communication with the wick and is operable to supply liquid to the wick. The heater, the wick, and the container are shaped such that the heater and wick can be dropped into the container during automated assembly thereof and be directed to and located at a desired location in the container.
US09848644B2	Electronic smoking article An electronic smoking article includes a liquid supply region including liquid material and a heater-wick element operable to wick liquid material and heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol. The heater-wick element is formed of a carbon or graphite foam.
US09848642B2	Aerosol generator An aerosol generator device has an elongate body with an interior passageway extending longitudinally to its mouth end. The device receives an interchangeable, pressurized canister charged with a nicotine containing liquid that is discharged in a metered dose on manual actuation of a button member that causes a valve in the canister to open and discharge through a discharge tube. A sleeve releasably couples the canister to the body. The button member is slidably mounted on the body for reciprocal movement along a trigger axis Y-Y′ extending transversely of the longitudinal axis X-X′ of the device, and has a manually depressible surface portion and a camming surface portion that drives a slidable nozzle member to press the discharge tube inwardly of the canister to open its valve and release liquid into the nozzle member. Nozzle forms an aerosol from the liquid, which is delivered to the consumer through outlets in the mouth end of the device.
US09848641B2	Nicotine delivery system The present invention relates to a nicotine inhaling device and a method for making the same. Such device allows a user to ingest nicotine vapours orally and it is primarily intended to be used as a smoking cessation aid.
US09848639B1	Water pipe smoking system A novel water pipe smoking system features a base chamber having a base chamber cavity connected to a hose. The base chamber is designed to contain a water level and a vapor headspace. The system features one or more stacked filtering liquid lock chambers each having a filtering liquid lock chamber cavity. The filtering liquid lock chamber is designed to contain a water level and a vapor headspace. The system features one or more chamber connecting lids each having an open tube. The filtering liquid lock chamber is attached to either another filtering liquid lock chamber or the base chamber via the chamber connecting lid. The system features a stem cap having an open tube that is attached to a topmost filtering liquid lock chamber at a filtering liquid lock chamber top. The system features a medicine bowl located on the filtering liquid lock chamber lid.
US09848638B2	Cigar shaped smoking device with reverse calabash chamber A cigar shaped pipe, ideally made from premium materials such as briar, yet designed to be low cost to manufacture. The device uses a comparatively thin-walled combustion chamber, which both keeps material costs to a minimum, as well as an in-line reverse Calabash chamber to reduce the temperature and moisture of the smoke. In some embodiments, the pipe will further use an end cap, ether for pipe storage or during smoking. This optional end-cap will ideally be made of the same materials as the main pipe body, and thus will have similar thermal expansion properties, as well as having the same beneficial combustion chamber properties. This end cap may utilize O-rings or screw threads to hold the pipe's end cap onto position, thus enabling easy loading and cleaning.
US09848635B2	Apparatus for creating liquid tobacco extract A kit is disclosed for supplying a cartridge of an inhaler article with liquid tobacco extract, the kit comprising an apparatus having means for extracting a liquid tobacco extract from a tobacco derived solid. The apparatus is adapted to deliver liquid tobacco extract to a cartridge and a cartridge adapted to receive liquid tobacco extract from the apparatus. An apparatus for supplying a liquid tobacco extract to a cartridge of an inhaler article is further disclosed. The apparatus has a housing, means for extracting a liquid tobacco extract from a tobacco derived solid and said housing is adapted to deliver liquid tobacco extract to a cartridge of an inhaler article. A related method of supplying a cartridge of an inhaler article with a liquid tobacco extract is further disclosed.
US09848634B2	Smokeless tobacco product A melt spun tobacco composition, e.g., in flake or particle form, for oral use in a mammal made by melt spinning comprising tobacco and/or a tobacco extract and at least one material which is solid at room temperature, which melts at or below 500° F., and carries from 1% to 70% of tobacco when processed through melt spinning, and solidifies again in less than 5 seconds after melt spinning.
US09848631B2	Home-style meat product and method of producing same Methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing irregular slices of meat from meat products. Further, a method of mass-producing a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance includes combining whole muscle meat with a mixture having no phosphates and a limited amount of salt. Further, the whole muscle meat mixture is loosely stuffed into casings such that void space is permitted between the individual whole muscles. Once the whole muscle meat has been cooked and cooled, the meat may be sliced on a variety of slicing equipment to create a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance.
US09848630B2	Puffed and expanded starch material and a method of synthesizing the same The embodiments herein provide a puffed and extruded popcorn product synthesized from cornmeal. The popcorn product is similar in appearance, texture and flavor to that of a regular popcorn. A cornmeal is mixed with water to obtain a mixture. The cornmeal is cooked under high temperature and pressure. The cornmeal is passed to the die holes provided at the end of the extruder by the hammer type twin extrusion screws. The corn is extruded out of the holes at a high velocity to obtain a corn product of irregular shape. The corn product into several pieces of desired length by a cutter. The cut pieces are dried with a drier before packaging.
US09848628B1	Product drying apparatus and methods The present invention provides improved apparatus and methods for the monitoring and control of apparatus designed to remove moisture from an initially wet product, such as a continuous dryer (14). The net rate of water removal from the wet product (16) is determined during drying thereof, preferably on a real-time basis. A control assembly (20) is operatively coupled with the dryer (14) and includes sensors (24, 26, 28, 34), which are operatively coupled with a digital controller (38). The controller (38) has a PID controller operable to continuously determine the average net rate of water removal from the product (16).
US09848626B2	Food grade arabinoxylan product from corn fiber A food grade water-soluble arabinoxylan product containing arabinoxylan oligosaccharides and retaining a high amount of bound ferulic acid and other phenolic substances is isolated from corn fiber using an aqueous extraction wherein the pH of the aqueous medium employed for the extraction is adjusted to a selected value after mixing with the corn fiber and prior to the initiation of extraction.
US09848625B2	Compositions and methods for increasing the suppression of hunger and reducing the digestibility of non-fat energy satiety The present invention relates to methods for increasing the suppression of hunger and/or increasing the reduction of prospective consumption and/or increasing the reduction of appetite and/or increasing the feeling of satiety and/or reducing non-fat energy uptake in the gastrointestinal tract of a mammal in order to prevent a positive non-fat energy balance, weight gain, overweight and obesity, and to induce a negative non-fat energy balance and weight loss in subjects who wish to reduce their body weight. In particular, feed, food and/or beverages and dietary supplements of the present invention comprises mucilage such as flax seed mucilage and/or one or more active compounds of mucilage useful for increasing the suppression of hunger and/or increasing the reduction of prospective consumption and/or increasing the reduction of appetite and/or increasing the feeling of satiety and/or reducing the digestibility of non-fat energy in the gastrointestinal tract of a mammal.
US09848622B2	Compositions and methods for enhancing immune system of felines Compositions and methods useful to enhance the development of the immune system of a growing animal are disclosed.
US09848611B2	Pin bone removal system A pin bone removal system involves automatically removing a pin bone area of a fish fillet when conveyed by a conveyor after undergoing a cutting process, and includes at least two side by side arranged conveyor belts extending from a first end for receiving a fish fillet to a second end. The internal arrangement of the side by side arranged conveyor belts is such that the spacing varies among first end the conveyor belts along their length. The transversal position of the fish fillet in relation to the first end is adjusted when the fish fillet arrives at the downstream position such that the position of the cut pin bone area is such that the cut pin bone area falls through the space while the remaining part of the fish fillet remains on the first and/or second conveyor belts.
US09848610B2	Method for stuffing food products in casings and stuffing machine for its execution A method for stuffing food products in casings comprising the steps that consist in inserting the product to be stuffed in a first casing, which is permeable to air, and in a second casing, which is impermeable to air and is arranged outside the first casing, creating an at least partial vacuum at least between the first casing and the second casing.
US09848601B2	Pesticidal composition, and method for controlling pests To provide a pesticidal composition having a stable and high pesticidal effect. The pesticidal composition comprises a pyridine compound represented by the formula (I): (wherein R1 is CH2CN or and each of R2 and R3 which are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, C1-6 alkyl or C1-6 alkoxy) or its salt and at least one potency-enhancing component selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surface active agent, an anionic surface active agent, a cationic surface active agent, an amphoteric surface active agent, an animal or plant oil, a mineral oil, a water-soluble polymer, a resin and a wax.
US09848598B2	Cryoprotected, frozen recombinant cancer cells This invention provides compositions and methods for cryoprotection of recombinant live cancer cells. Specifically, an improved cryoprotective medium is provided which includes a hydroxyethyl starch and/or derivative thereof alone or in combination with either DMSO or glycerol.
US09848596B2	Photographic camouflaged scent-free game calls and method of manufacturing same A scent-free game call configured to emulate a sound of a predetermined species of animal, the call comprising a mouthpiece section, with a digitally reproduced image displayed thereon, in a manner such that the digitally reproduced image specifically relates to said predetermined species.
US09848595B1	Insect net with emergency deployment An insect net with emergency deployment structured to be retrofit onto the roof of the cab of the typical construction or agricultural equipment vehicle. The system includes a cylindrical insect net that may be compressed into a closed deployment box positioned on the underside of the vehicle cab roof. A deployment cord is positioned adjacent the operator where it may be readily accessed and pulled to open the doors of the deployment box to allow the cylindrical net to drop (under the influence of a ring of small weights) to surround the operator within the cab. The system is structured to be re-used by replacing the cylindrical net back into the deployment box and refitting the deployment cord with pull pin to hold the deployable components within the box for subsequent use.
US09848591B2	Pest entrapment device and method The invention is directed at to a pest entrapment device for attracting and trapping flying pests around the head of a person. The apparatus includes an attachable device having at least one member, which member contains at least one cavity to hold a pest attractant. The attachable device is affixed to a head covering on the underside of a bill, brim, visor or the like. The pest attractant can be of a combination of grease, carbon dioxide, sweetener, and a sticky, viscid matter. The pest attractant also acts as a trapping substance to capture the flying insects. The pest entrapment device can be removed for cleaning and reapplication of the pest attractant.
US09848590B2	Leech clamp A clamp is provided which is adapted for use in fishing and other outdoor activities. The clamp includes a plurality of elongate segments and a grasper, which further features a plurality of tines. In operation, the clamp is operated by the user so as to grasp and hold live bait for baiting a hook. The clamp is typically operated by the user applying pressure against a tension, so as to actuate the grasper between open and closed positions.
US09848587B2	Humanized T cell co-receptor mice The invention provides genetically modified non-human animals that express chimeric human/non-human T cell co-receptor polypeptides (e.g., CD4, CD8α, CD8β), as well as embryos, cells, and tissues comprising the same. Also provided are constructs for making said genetically modified animals and methods of making the same.
US09848586B2	System and method for environmental control In an exemplary embodiment, an Environmental Optimization System (“EOS”) provides a system for the intelligent control and monitoring of a poultry or livestock house environment through the utilization of a solar thermal collection system, a variety of environmental and livestock behavior sensors, apparatus for controlling the thermal collection and existing interior heating/air conditioning/ventilation (“HVAC”) systems, and Internet or cloud based intelligent control and monitoring capabilities of the system. In various embodiments central sensor data aggregation is utilized to provide improved optimization control for individual structures based on data from multiple structures.
US09848585B1	Bone or chew toy holder The bone or chew toy holder is a device that is adapted to support a chew toy or a pet treat at an elevation that is adapted to be consistent with an applicable pet animal. The bone or chew toy holder is constructed of a base that may be weighted. The base includes a pole that extends vertically from the base. The pole is attached to a spring member that in turn is attached to a bracket. The bracket is used to attach to at least one clamp member. The at least one clamp member is adapted to support a chew toy or pet treat.
US09848580B2	Tug toy A tug toy that includes at least two gripping members and a central portion, wherein the at least two gripping members are attached to the central portion, and wherein the central portion further includes a noise maker.
US09848576B2	Milking cluster and milking parlor having such a milking cluster A milking cluster for a milking parlor for milking milk-giving animals, having at least one teat cup unit having a housing, a teat cup, a drive appliance, a pulling element arrangement connected to the teat cup, and the pulling element arrangement has a segment unit having at least two pulling elements.
US09848572B1	Maize inbred PH2TBH A novel maize variety designated PH2TBH and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2TBH with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2TBH 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 PH2TBH or a locus conversion of PH2TBH with another maize variety.
US09848570B1	Maize inbred PH2T0P A novel maize variety designated PH2T0P and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2T0P with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2T0P 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 PH2T0P or a locus conversion of PH2T0P with another maize variety.
US09848567B1	Soybean variety 01064142 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064142. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064142. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064142 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064142 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09848565B1	Soybean variety 01063939 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01063939. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01063939. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01063939 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01063939 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09848562B1	Soybean variety 01058349 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01058349. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01058349. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01058349 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01058349 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09848560B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH192374 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH192374. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH192374, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH192374 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 CH192374.
US09848552B1	Soybean variety XB46V15R A novel soybean variety, designated XB46V15R is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB46V15R, cells from soybean variety XB46V15R, plants of soybean XB46V15R, and plant parts of soybean variety XB46V15R. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB46V15R with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB46V15R, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB46V15R, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB46V15R. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB46V15R are further provided.
US09848539B2	Control device of cutting tool A control device of a cutting tool is revealed. For performing cutting, opening and closing, the cutting tool includes a pair of handles pivotally connected to each other and each handle having a blade. The control device is set on the handle and involved in opening or closing of the blades of the cutting tool. The control device includes a first component and a second component. The first and the second components are connected to and locked with each other tightly by a fastening structure. The control device is disposed on the handle closely, without loosening from the handle.
US09848534B1	Agricultural harvesting unit and method of harvesting using the unit A harvesting unit with a combine, having a user cab. A harvesting apparatus, advanced by the combine, has a frame and a harvesting assembly on the frame configured to process severed crop over a width between spaced sides of the frame. A fluid delivery system discharges pressurized fluid in discrete streams each directed to at least one of: a) facilitate severance of crop by the harvesting assembly; and b) facilitate advancement of severed crop rearwardly in relationship to the frame for further processing. A user can selectively vary at least one of: a) a volume of pressurized fluid; and b) a direction of pressurized fluid in the discrete streams. A control system has at least one actuator accessible and operable from outside of the cab through a user input to cause the at least one of the volume of pressurized fluid discharged, and direction of the pressurized fluid, in the discrete streams to be varied.
US09848528B2	Method for planting seeds or plants and a corresponding machine In accordance with an example embodiment, a method and a machine for planting seeds or plants in a field to enable a planting of the seeds or plants in an established spacing based on two-dimensional coordinates output by a positioning system and the slope of the field in the working direction.
US09848524B2	Agricultural seed trench closing systems, methods and apparatus A closing wheel assembly is provided for a row unit agricultural planter. The planter is configured to open a trench in the soil and the closing wheel assembly is configured to close the trench. A resilient flap is provided for firming and leveling the soil returned to the trench by the closing wheel assembly. Pivotally mounted offset closing wheels are also provided.
US09848523B2	Dyanmic supplemental downforce control system for planter row units A dynamic supplemental downforce control system for a planter row unit. The system includes closed-loop feedback circuit that cooperates with a downforce actuator to dynamically control fluid flow to the downforce actuator to maintain balance between the actual gauge wheel downforce and a desired gauge wheel downforce during planting operations.
US09854720B2	Electromagnetic wave shileding dielectric film Disclosed herein is an electromagnetic wave shielding dielectric film. The electromagnetic wave shielding dielectric film includes a lower layer and an upper layer. The lower layer is formed of a dielectric in a plate shape. The upper layer is formed of a dielectric stacked on the lower layer, and is configured to form a periodic pattern of protrusion and depression structures.
US09854716B2	System and method of controlling an air mover A system and method of controlling a cooling fan in an information handling system is disclosed. A fan request signal is received from a component of an information handling system and a determination is made regarding whether the component is configured to operate with a cooling fan. If the component is configured to operate with the cooling fan, the fan request signal is transmitted to the cooling fan. If, on the other hand, the component is not configured to operate with the cooling fan, a revised fan request signal is generated and transmitted to the cooling fan.
US09854713B2	Multifunction coolant manifold structures A cooling system is provided which includes, for instance, a coolant supply manifold, a multifunction coolant manifold structure, and multiple cooling structures. The multifunction coolant manifold structure includes a coolant-commoning manifold and an auxiliary coolant reservoir above and in fluid communication with the coolant-commoning manifold. The multiple cooling structures are coupled in parallel fluid communication between the coolant supply and coolant-commoning manifolds to receive coolant from the supply, and exhaust coolant to the coolant-commoning manifold. The coolant-commoning manifold is sized to slow therein a flow rate of coolant exhausting from the multiple cooling structures to allow gas within the exhausting coolant to escape the coolant within the coolant-commoning manifold. The escaping gas rises to the auxiliary coolant reservoir and is replaced within the coolant-commoning manifold by coolant from the auxiliary coolant reservoir.
US09854709B2	Heat-transfer device, power-supplying device, and wireless power-supplying system A wireless power-supply system (1) performing a wireless power supply between a vehicle (10) and a stop station (20), wherein the wireless power-supply system includes a heat-transfer device (30). The heat-transfer device (30) transfers heat generated due to the wireless power supply to the stop station (20) having high heat capacity from the vehicle (10) having low heat capacity. The heat-transfer device (30) includes a flexible heat-transfer member (32), in which the flexible heat-transfer member has tiltability in a moving direction of the vehicle (10).
US09854708B2	Unit for semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a single unit capable of improving adhesion to a cooling body and a heat dissipation performance, and an aggregate of the single units is capable of configuring any circuit at a low cost. A single unit includes copper blocks, an insulating substrate with a conductive pattern, an IGBT chip, a diode chip, a collector terminal pin, implant pins fixed to the chips by solder, a printed circuit board having the implant pins fixed thereto, an emitter terminal pin, a control terminal pin, a collector terminal pin, and a resin case having the above-mentioned components sealed therein. The copper blocks make it possible to improve adhesion to a cooling body and the heat dissipation performance. A plurality of single units can be combined with an inter-unit wiring board to form any circuit.
US09854707B2	Integrated pipe heat exchanger A heat exchanger system may have a base, a mounting apparatus for attaching the base to a device, a gasket shelf for placing a gasket, a dissipation member for dissipating heat, and heat generator attachment sites for absorbing heat. A mounting apparatus may have finger-like extensions which flex and draw the base into contact with an underlying electronic device from which the system conducts heat. A base may also have an integrated heat pipe clamp attachment forming an aperture in the base into which a heat pipe may extend and may be clamped in thermal communication. The dissipation device may be a series of fins and troughs and a fan may direct air over the dissipation device to cool the apparatus.
US09854706B2	Heat sink A heat sink includes a bottom surface, a top surface, plural first fins and plural second fins. The plural first fins and the plural second fins are alternately and separately arranged between the top surface and the bottom surface along a specified axis direction. Moreover, plural airflow channels are defined by the plural first fins, the plural second fins, the top surface and the bottom surface collaboratively. The first fin has a first non-overlapped zone and a second non-overlapped zone with respect to a projection area of the second fin along the specified axis direction. The first non-overlapped zone is located at an airflow inlet. In the first non-overlapped zone, the lower portion is wider than the upper portion. The second non-overlapped zone is located at an airflow outlet. In the second non-overlapped zone, the upper portion is wider than the lower portion.
US09854701B2	Multivision display system Provided are a multivision display system a stand for the multivision display system. The multivision display system includes: a plurality of displays; and at least one stand configured to support the plurality of displays so as to stand on a horizontal surface, wherein the stand includes: a base configured to be supported by the horizontal surface; and a plurality of coupling frames configured to support the plurality of displays and which are mutually coupled to each other to adjust relative positions of the plurality of displays.
US09854699B2	Insert element for frameworks An insert element for frameworks, in particular racks, for use in the information and network technology, comprises a plurality of insertion slots, wherein the insertion slots receive insertable cable storage elements each accommodating a cable, the two cable ends of which are guided to the outside via openings provided in the end face of the cable storage element and can be pulled out of the cable storage element at variable lengths.
US09854698B2	Support member An example module is provided herein. The module includes a tray and a cable support member. The tray includes a cage, a handle mechanism, a tray handle, and a tray midplane. The cage receives an electronic component and the handle mechanism rotates the cage using a cage lever and a cam member between a closed position, a top open position, and a bottom open position. The tray handle releases the tray from an engaged position. The tray midplane provides a connector for the electronic component. The cable support member provides a movable connection between the tray midplane and an enclosure backplane.
US09854697B2	Modular network switches, associated structures, and associated methods of manufacture and use Modular network switches and other computer systems are described herein. A modular network switch can include a latching device for installing and removing computer modules (e.g., line cards) from an associated cabinet or enclosure. The network switch can also include interconnected computer modules (e.g., line cards, fabric cards, control modules, etc.) that include circuit boards oriented parallel to the flow of cooling air through the cabinet in the absence of a backplane or midplane oriented perpendicular to the air flow. The absence of such backplanes and/or midplanes provides a more direct air flow path through the cabinet, thereby enabling a more efficient flow of cooling air and lower operating temperatures. Additionally, the network switch can include an orthogonal arrangement of data planes, control planes, and/or power planes that can be efficiently interconnected to increase operational speed and further facilitate the flow of cooling air through the computer cabinet.
US09854696B1	Server having light-emitting cover A server having a light-emitting cover includes a frame, a cover assembly and at least one pogo pin connector. The frame includes an opening and at least one recess adjacent to the opening. The recess includes an electrical contact inside. The cover assembly includes a cover plate and a light emitting module fixed to the cover plate. The cover plate covers the opening. The pogo pin connector is installed on the cover plate and is electrically connected to the light-emitting module. The pogo pin connector is detachably engaged in the recess and is in contact with the electrical contact. Accordingly, the cover assembly provides a light indication, provides an attractive appearance, and can be detached or assembled easily.
US09854695B1	Single rack unit storage blade with redundant controllers A storage blade apparatus includes a blade housing, a first drive drawer, a second drive drawer, and at least first and second redundant controllers. The first drive drawer is included in the blade housing and includes a first set of drive bays. The second drive drawer is included in the blade housing and includes a second set of drive bays. The first and second redundant controllers are contained within the blade housing and each of the first and second redundant controllers is operably connected to each of the first set of drive bays and each of the second set of drive bays. The blade housing is configured to fit within a blade slot of a chassis.
US09854693B2	Rear cover and display apparatus including the same A display apparatus includes a display module for displaying an image, a variable member for varying a shape of the display module, and a rear cover disposed at a rear surface of the display module and varying with the varying shape of the display module.
US09854691B2	Electrical equipment module The electrical-accessory module (130) for engaging in an electrical box (110) includes a casing (131) that is made of insulating material and that includes: a side wall (132) that is closed at the rear by a rear wall (133) so as to define an inside space for receiving at least one electrical connection element; and an outer collar (135) that borders the side wall at the front so as to bear against the front edge (115) of the electrical box. The casing further includes a front wall (134) that closes the inside space at the front and that includes: an access window (137) for accessing each electrical connection element, the access window being closed by trim (139) that gives the electrical-accessory module its electrical function; and securing elements (138) for securing a finishing plate (150).
US09854689B2	Display device A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a display body including a curved part; a case including a bottom plate part through which a through hole is provided at a position opposed to the curved part; and a printed circuit board that is fixed to a surface of the bottom plate opposite to the display body side with the electronic component is mounted on a surface opposed to the bottom plate and with the electronic component arranged inside the through hole.
US09854687B2	Multi-layer substrates including thin film signal lines This disclosure generally relates to high-speed fiber optic networks that use light signals to transmit data over a network. The disclosed subject matter includes devices and methods relating to header subassemblies and/or optoelectronic subassemblies. In some aspects, the disclosed devices and methods may relate to a header subassembly that can include: a multi-layer substrate with a bottom layer, a top layer having top thin film signal lines, and one or more intermediate layers having thick film traces between the top layer and the bottom layer, the thick film traces electrically coupled to the top thin film signal lines; and optoelectronic components positioned over the multi-layer substrate and electrically coupled with the signal lines.
US09854684B2	Component mounting machine A component mounting machine includes a board conveyance device, a component supply device, a component transfer device which includes a mounting head and a head driving mechanism, and a mounting order control device. The component mounting machine partitions a long printed circuit board of a length exceeding a mounting station into a plurality of mounting areas, sequentially positions each mounting area in the mounting station, and mounts the electronic components. The mounting order control device performs control to change the mounting order of the electronic components.
US09854682B2	Component incorporating substrate and method for manufacturing component incorporating substrate A laminated body of a component incorporating substrate includes insulating base members. First and second mounting terminals of a first electronic component abut on a conductor-less surface of a first insulating base member. A first interlayer connection conductor in the first insulating base member connects the first mounting terminal to a conductor pattern. Third and fourth mounting terminals of a second electronic component abut on a conductor-less surface of a second insulating base member. A second interlayer connection conductor in the second insulating base member connects the third mounting terminal to a conductor pattern that abuts a conductor pattern of the first insulating base member which faces toward the second insulating base member, and the conductor pattern of the second insulating base member faces toward the first insulating base member in a lamination direction.
US09854681B2	Component-embedded substrate A component-embedded substrate includes: a resin substrate having a mount surface and a peripheral surface surrounding a perimeter of the mount surface; a first mounted component mounted on the mount surface; a second mounted component mounted on the mount surface and spaced from the first mounted component; and a first embedded chip-type electronic component disposed in the resin substrate. The first embedded chip-type electronic component is located close to the peripheral surface of the resin substrate. The mount surface includes: a first region located between the first and second mounted components and extending along a cross direction crossing an arrangement direction along which the first and second mounted components are arranged with respect to each other; and a second region located outside the first region. The first embedded chip-type electronic component is arranged to extend in the first and second regions as seen from above the mount surface.
US09854679B2	Cable termination system A cable termination is disclosed that includes a cable with a first and a second insulated conductor positioned in a shield, the cable further including a drain wire. The cable is mounted on a circuit board that includes a first pad and a second pad that are respectively soldered to the first and second conductors. A ground via is positioned in front and between the first and second pads and the drain wire is inserted into and soldered to the ground via.
US09854677B2	Module component A module component includes a substrate including a liquid crystal polymer resin sheet, and an electronic component mounted on the substrate by ultrasonic bonding, wherein the electronic component includes a plurality of first substrate connecting electrodes including respective planar conductors provided on a substrate mounting surface separately from each other, and connected at a same potential or substantially a same potential, and the substrate includes a first component connecting electrode including a planar conductor provided on a component loading surface, and bonded to the plurality of first substrate connecting electrodes.
US09854674B1	Flexible printed circuit and printed circuit board soldered structure A flexible printed circuit and printed circuit board soldered structure is provided. The structure includes signal transmission lines which dispense with any through hole, thereby enhancing integrity of high-frequency signals. The special design of the signal line structure of the flexible printed circuit and the printed circuit board together provides a satisfactory high-frequency signal transmission interface and enables a soldering technique which is highly practicable and compatible with the flexible printed circuit and printed circuit board soldered structure.
US09854669B2	Package substrate A printed wiring board includes a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer formed on first surface of the first insulating layer, a second conductor layer formed on second surface of the first insulating layer, a first via structure formed in the first insulating layer such that the first via structure is connecting the first and second conductor layers, a second insulating layer formed on the second surface of the first insulating layer such that the second conductor layer is embedded into the second insulating layer, a third conductor layer formed on the second insulating layer, and a second via structure formed in the second insulating layer such that the second via structure is connecting the second and third conductor layers. The second conductor layer includes a dedicated wiring layer which transmits data between two electronic components to be mounted to the first surface of the first insulating layer.
US09854668B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first flexible substrate including an insulating substrate with a first area, a second area adjacent to the first area, and a through hole, and a pad electrode, a second flexible substrate including a connection line, the second flexible substrate disposed below the first flexible substrate, and an anisotropy conductive film which electrically connects the pad electrode and the connection line, wherein the anisotropy conductive film is disposed between the second area and the second flexible substrate, and has a first film thickness in a first position and a second film thickness in a second position, where the first film thickness is greater than the second film thickness.
US09854666B2	Printed circuit board with a differential line pair having vias in each line that are not equally spaced apart A printed circuit board includes a differential pair of transmission lines. The differential pair of transmission lines includes a first signal transmission line and a second signal transmission line. The first signal transmission line includes a first via and a second via. The second transmission line includes a third via and a fourth via. A first distance between a center of the first via and a center of the third via is equal to a first value. A second distance between a center of the second via and a center of the fourth via is equal to the first value. A third distance between the center of the first via and the center of the second via is equal to a second value. A fourth distance between the center of the third via and the center of the fourth via is not equal to the second value.
US09854661B2	Charged particle accelerator systems including beam dose and energy compensation and methods therefor A method of operating an acceleration system comprises injecting charged particles into an RF accelerator, providing RF power to the accelerator, and accelerating the injected charged particles. The accelerated charged particles may impact a target to generate radiation. The RF power is based, at least in part, on past performance of the system, to compensate, at least partially, for dose and/or energy instability. A controller may provide a compensated control voltage (“CCV”) to an electric power source based on the past performance, to provide compensated electric power to the RF source. A decreasing CCV, such as an exponentially decreasing CCV, may be provided to the electric power source during beam on time periods. The CCV to be provided may be increased, such as exponentially increased toward a maximum value, during beam off time periods. The controller may be configured by a compensation circuit and/or software. Systems are also described.
US09854660B2	Ion accelerators An ion accelerator includes: an inner magnet having a channel extending through it in an axial direction; an outer magnet extending around the inner magnet, the magnets having like polarities so as to produce a magnetic field having two locations of zero magnetic field strength. The locations are spaced apart in the axial direction; and an anode and a cathode are arranged to generate an electrical potential difference between the locations.
US09854655B2	Air stream controller and system for static charge reduction An air stream controller and a system for static charge reduction comprising such air stream controller are disclosed. The air stream controller comprises an enclosed hollow body having a first surface and a second surface, wherein, an opening is on the first surface facing an incoming tubing of a device for static charge reduction for receiving air stream from the device for static charge reduction, wherein an outgoing tubing of the device for static charge reduction is attached onto the second surface of the enclosed hollow body for discharging the air stream. A technical solution to more effectively prevent the “leaking of air stream passage” can be achieved through the design of a multi-holes structure at the air passage to more broadly expand its air sucking area coverage without increasing the original suction power.
US09854654B2	System and method of control of a programmable lighting fixture with embedded memory A computing device that displays graphic user interface (GUI) icons that represent index mapping of one or more functions of a firmware of a programmable apparatus, enabling transmission of a command as a command control signal packet to control the programmable apparatus by selection of any GUI icon.
US09854651B2	Programmable lighting device and method and system for programming lighting device A programmable lighting device includes a power stage, a controller, a nonvolatile memory and a near field communication device. The power stage is configured to receive power from an external supply and supplying power to at least one light source. The controller is configured to control operation of the power stage according to an operating parameter and/or configuration setting for the programmable lighting device. The nonvolatile memory device stores the operating parameter and/or configuration setting. The near field communication device receives a radio frequency signal which communicates the operating parameter and/or configuration setting, and in response thereto stores the operating parameter and/or configuration setting in the nonvolatile memory. The near field communication device generates a supply voltage for powering the nonvolatile memory device from the RF signal.
US09854648B2	Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device An electronic device including a submersion detector, illuminants, a lighting circuit, a controller, and an orientation detector. The submersion detector detects submersion of the device and detect retrieval of the device. The illuminants are arranged inside a casing such that at least one of the illuminants is visible from above water when the device is submerged in any submersion orientation. The lighting circuit lights up at least one of the illuminants in response to an input of a lighting signal. The controller generates and outputs the lighting signal to the lighting circuit for a period of time from the submersion at least until the retrieval so as to light up the at least one of the illuminants. The orientation detector detects a submersion orientation of the device. Only the at least one of the illuminants that is visible from above water lights up, in accordance with the detected submersion orientation.
US09854646B2	Method and a device for the reduction of margins of the light image of a headlight and the headlight A method and a device for the reduction of margins of the light image of a headline, and the headline incorporating the device, is provided, having a reflective diaphragm which is adapted to be shifted in a light axis direction within adjustment limits of a longitudinal position. The margins of the light image can be detected by an optical colour-sensitive photometric sensor, and colour characteristics of the light image margins can be evaluated by identifying a current position of the reflective diaphragm. The reflective diaphragm can then be fixed in the longitudinal position corresponding to selected colour characteristics of the light image margins. The reflective diaphragm can also be adapted to be shifted in a direction perpendicular to the light axis direction.
US09854638B1	Lighting apparatus An improved lighting apparatus includes a direct current power supply unit, a light emitting unit, and a voltage control unit located between the direct current power supply unit and the light emitting unit to control a level of a voltage applied from the direct current power supply unit to the light emitting unit. The light emitting unit includes first light emitting groups having a first correlated color temperature and being turned on at a first turn-on voltage or above and second light emitting groups having a second correlated color temperature and being turned on at a second turn-on voltage greater than the first turn-on voltage. The voltage control unit includes at least one variable resistor to control such that the second light emitting groups emit light or are prevented from emitting light, achieving a desired correlated color temperature according to a preset proportion.
US09854637B2	Method for controlling a tunable white fixture using a single handle A system allows a light fixture to have a wider range of color temperatures (CCT) while limiting the warmest temperature reached at full intensity. The CCT of the light output may be controlled independently of intensity across a certain range of CCT and dependent on intensity across another range. In an implementation, both intensity and CCT may be adjusted from a single handle, where the interface positions may be divided into multiple zones. In another implementation, intensity may be adjusted from a first handle, while CCT may be adjusted from a second handle. The CCT of the light output may be limited to cooler levels when the intensity is higher, and/or the intensity of the light may be limited to lower levels when the CCT is warmer.
US09854634B2	Solid state lighting switches and fixtures providing dimming and color control A solid state lighting switch can include a first input control that can be configured to adjust a dimming indication or color indication for a solid state lighting fixture that is configured for coupling to the solid state lighting switch. A selective linking mechanism can be configured to activate a linked mode of operation of the switch to link the dimming indication to the color indication or to activate an unlinked mode of operation of the switch to unlink the dimming indication from the color indication.
US09854632B2	Optoelectronic circuit with low-flicker light-emitting diodes An optoelectronic circuit for receiving a variable voltage having alternating increasing and decreasing phases. The optoelectronic circuit includes an alternating arrangement of resistive elements and light-emitting diode sets mounted in series. Each set contains two terminals. Each resistive element is inserted between two consecutive sets. The optoelectronic circuit includes, for each set among a plurality of said sets, a depletion mode metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor, the drain and the source of which are coupled with the terminals of said set and the gate of which is coupled with one of the terminals of the next set. An additional resistive element is, for at least some of the transistors, coupled between the drain or the source of the transistor and one of the terminals of the set.
US09854627B2	Induction heating system The present invention intends to run one induction heating apparatus using a three-phase AC power supply without use of a Scott connection transformer while preventing an occurrence of a phase where no current flows. An induction heating system uses the three-phase AC power supply to run the induction heating apparatus including an induction heating coil, and has an intermediate apparatus including a coil that is wound on an iron core with an even number of turns, forming a closed magnetic circuit. Additionally, a winding start point of the induction heating coil is connected to the U phase of the three-phase AC power supply and a winding end point of the same is connected to a midpoint of the intermediate coil. The winding start point and end point of the intermediate coil are connected to the V and W phases of the three-phase AC power supply, respectively.
US09854626B2	Thick film heaters The invention relates to a combination of an electrical heating element and a heat dissipater to be heated thereby; the heating element comprises a substrate, an insulating layer located on the substrate and a thick film conductor located on the insulating layer, wherein the second side of the metallic substrate is in contact with the heat dissipater, comprising a layer of metallic material on its face towards the heater and wherein the substrate is brazed to the heat dissipater and the surface of the heating element over which the thick film conductor extends, is substantially equal to the surface of the heat dissipater. The brazing leads to a permanent contact between the heating element and the heat dissipater, so that the possible tendency for warping as caused by the heating and cooling cycles will be withstood.
US09854622B2	Configuration of carrier-related reference signal transmission There are provided measures for configuration of carrier-related reference signal transmission. Such measures exemplarily include setting of a transmission mode for reference signal transmission on a carrier out of at least a long-cycle discontinuous transmission mode and a short-cycle discontinuous transmission mode, said long-cycle discontinuous transmission mode having a longer transmission discontinuity period than the short-cycle discontinuous transmission mode, and configuration of a transmission of at least one reference signal on the carrier according to the set transmission mode. The transmission mode setting may for example be based on at least one of an activation state of the carrier as serving cell and/or secondary cell and/or measurement object cell and a period of radio resource management measurement on the carrier.
US09854621B2	Wireless connection switching method, wireless terminal, and system thereof The present application provides a wireless connection switching method, a wireless terminal, and a system thereof, which are used to automatically switch a wireless connection state. For example: detecting whether a wireless terminal is connected to a bearer device of the wireless terminal; disconnecting a wireless data connection between the wireless terminal and a specified terminal if the wireless terminal is connected to the bearer device; and establishing the wireless data connection between the wireless terminal and the specified terminal if the wireless terminal is disconnected from the bearer device. In this way, it is implemented that a wireless terminal automatically switches a wireless connection state according to a different status of a connection to a bearer device.
US09854617B1	Wireless charging and network connection system and method thereof A to-be-charged electronic client device is placed on a wireless base device. An information member of the wireless base device provides pairing information to a wireless first charging member which transmits electricity signals including the pairing information in a wireless manner to the electronic client device. The electronic client device is charged by the electricity signals. In the meantime, the electronic client device pairs with a wireless first pairing member of the wireless base device. The wireless first pairing member passes a connectivity information provided by the information member to the electronic client device so that it can linked with the Internet automatically and accordingly. The present invention allows the electronic client device to access the Internet automatically while being wireless charged.
US09854616B2	System and method for proximity based networked mobile communication Communication between users of mobile devices is provided based on proximities between the users. Users are given unique identifiers, which are stored on a server, and mobile devices with the unique identifiers broadcast transmissions with their unique identifiers. The mobile devices listen for incoming identifiers from other mobile devices, and devices are detected directly or through an external radio communication device or hotspot. Additionally, indirect detection through another mobile device or hotspot is used to linking the first mobile device and the second mobile device. The detection is used to form a group of two or more mobile devices, providing at least a subset of profile information associated with the list of users in the group to the first mobile device to form proximity groups.
US09854615B2	Devices and methods for telephone call sharing using a direct wireless connection A host electronic device is configured to share a telephone call with a participant electronic device. The host electronic device includes a transceiver, a wireless communication module and a controller. The controller is configured to: establish a direct wireless connection with the participant electronic device; process and present incoming call data received from an outside device through a speaker and/or a display device at the host electronic device; forward the incoming call data to the participant electronic device using the direct wireless connection for presentation of the incoming call data through a speaker and/or a display device at the participant device; receive participant call data from the participant electronic device using the direct wireless connection; process and present the received participant call data through a speaker and/or display device at the host electronic device; and forward the participant call data to the outside device.
US09854611B2	Group network acquisition For group network acquisition, systems, apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed. The apparatus may include a radio transceiver for communicating on a mobile communication network, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor detects a connection status of the radio transceiver and forms a group with a communication device based on the network status. In a further embodiment, the processor attempts network acquisition for the group during an assigned connection period and ceases network acquisition attempts during an unassigned connection period.
US09854608B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining uplink timing alignment on a secondary cell A method for uplink timing alignment in a wireless transmit/receive unit is provided. The method includes receiving control signaling from an evolved Node B, receiving on a primary cell (PCell) a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, the PDCCH order including a carrier indicator field indicating a secondary cell (SCell) to transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission. In response to the PDCCH order, transmitting the PRACH transmission, and in response to the PRACH transmission, monitoring the PCELL for a random access response (RAR). In response to detecting an RAR associated with the PRACH transmission, adjusting timing for the SCell in response to a timing advance included in the RAR.
US09854604B2	Controlling random access failure on a secondary cell A method in a base station for controlling a Random Access, RA, procedure is provided. The base station initiates (201) an RA procedure on a Secondary Cell, SCell, in a User Equipment, UE, by sending to the UE a Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, order for a RA procedure on the SCell. At initiation of RA, the base station starts (202) a timer in the base station. The timer is a timer for random access failure detection associated with said initiated RA procedure. If the RA procedure has not been completed before expiry of said timer, the base station sends (205) a command to the UE, commanding the UE to deactivate the SCell, and thereby stopping the RA procedure on the SCell.
US09854598B2	Method and apparatus for scheduling communication traffic flows In one or more embodiments of the disclosed technology, an Access Point (AP) schedules communication traffic flows or service tasks between an Access Point (AP) and one or more member stations in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). The communication traffic flows or service tasks may include both control and management flows and data traffic flows. The communication traffic flows or service tasks may include traffic flows or streams of different types, each of which may have different service intervals. The order of service tasks can be changed from cycle to cycle, randomly, by rotation, or based on historical delay records.
US09854597B2	Method and communication apparatus for resource allocation in wireless communication network The invention provides method and communication apparatus for resource allocation in wireless communication network. The resource allocation method comprises: receiving, at a cluster-level scheduler, channel quality metrics of each user equipment (UE) in a cluster of at least two radio remote head units (RHUs); calculating, at the cluster-level scheduler, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) metric of each UE in the cluster according to the received channel quality metrics of each UE; performing, at each cell-level scheduler in the cluster, cell-level packet scheduling within a pre-configured duration, each cell-level scheduler corresponding to one of the RHUs; classifying each UE to be one of predetermined categories according to the calculated RSRQ metric of the UE; and determining, at the cluster-level scheduler, whether to adjust the cell-level packet scheduling within the pre-configured duration at each cell-level scheduler according to the classified category of each UE scheduled within the pre-configured duration.
US09854595B2	Scheduling and admission of radio bearers in a communications system applying carrier aggregation A method and a network node (110; 400) for scheduling of resources to radio bearers associated with wireless devices (120, 121, 122) served by a base station (110) in a cell (115). The network node (110, 400) and the base station (110) operating in a wireless communications system (100) applying carrier aggregation. A first group of one or more of the wireless devices (120, 121) is served in the cell (115) as primary serving cell and a second group of other one or more of the wireless devices (122) is served in the cell (115) as a secondary serving cell. The network node (110, 400) assigns higher priority to respective radio bearer associated with the first group than to respective radio bearer associated with the second group based on that the second group is served in the cell (115) as a secondary serving cell. The network node (110, 400) then schedules (302) the resources to the radio bearers based on the assigned priorities. Simple implementation and efficient utilization of benefits from carrier aggregation are enabled.
US09854594B2	Wireless cross-connect switch A wireless packet switch and methods for controlling the same include a multiple port controllers, each in communication with a respective wireless transceiver, configured to analyze data streams to and from the respective wireless transceiver; a cross-connect switch in communication with all of the port controllers, configured to provide connections between respective port controllers; an arbiter, in communication with all of the port controllers and with the cross-connect switch, configured to control the cross-connect switch, such that the cross-connect switch connects data streams of the port controllers in accordance with packet destination information and scheduling information from the port controllers.
US09854593B2	Channel quality indicator reporting A method, computer program and apparatus operate when resuming data transmission/reception upon activation of a serving cell, or after a long in-device coexistence interference avoidance gap, to determine whether to report to a network access node an in-device coexistence interference indicator value and send the in-device coexistence interference indicator value to the network access node, The in-device coexistence interference indicator value is reported to the network access node for a certain period if any periodic channel quality indication resource is configured for the cell, or if an aperiodic channel quality indication for the cell is requested from the network access node.
US09854590B2	Multi-carrier operation in a wireless communication network Techniques for communicating on multiple carriers in a wireless communication network are described. In an aspect, different transmit power levels may be used for different carriers to mitigate interference. A first base station may be assigned one or more carriers among multiple carriers available for communication. A second base station may be assigned one or more carriers not assigned to the first base station. Each base station may communicate on each assigned carrier at a first (e.g., full) transmit power level and may communicate on each unassigned carrier at a second (e.g., lower) transmit power level lower. The first and second base stations may belong in different power classes or support different association types. In another aspect, control information may be sent on a designated carrier to support communication on multiple carriers. In yet another aspect, a base station may broadcast bar information indicating the status of carriers.
US09854587B2	Data routing method and device A data routing method includes: receiving a route distinguisher of an MME serving UE sent by the MME; determining an information transmission manner supported by the MME; receiving_a query message sent by an MTC-IWF, where the query message carries a user equipment UE identifier and an information transmission manner that needs to be used; determining according to the information transmission manner supported by the MME, the UE identifier, and the information transmission manner that needs to be used, that the MME serving the UE supports the information transmission manner that needs to be used; and sending a route distinguisher of the MME that corresponds to the information transmission manner that needs to be used to the MTC-IWF, so that the MTC-IWF performs routing according to the route distinguisher. Therefore, a most effective transmission path is selected for information transmission, thereby improving service experience of a user.
US09854586B2	Method and apparatus for supporting user equipment in task execution The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for supporting user equipment in task execution, which are used to resolve a problem that a result of measurement and/or synchronization performed by user equipment is erroneous. In the method, a first network-side device acquires duration of a cell working state, where the duration of the cell working state includes duration for which a cell performs signal sending and/or duration for which the cell does not perform signal sending; and the first network-side device determines a time for user equipment to perform measurement and/or synchronization, where the time for the user equipment to perform measurement is within a range of duration for which a to-be-measured cell performs signal sending, and the time for the user equipment to perform synchronization is within a range of duration for which a serving cell performs signal sending.
US09854584B1	Wireless communication connecting system and method A wireless communication connecting system includes a at least one wireless access point, a wireless electronic device, a position obtaining module, a position determining module, and a controlling module. A rotatable directional antenna is installed in the wireless electronic device. The position obtaining module determines first relative positions between each wireless access point and the wireless electronic device. A position determining module determines angles of relative positions between the directional antenna and each wireless access point according to a position information of the directional antenna and the first relative positions. The controlling module controls the directional antenna to point to the strongest-signal wireless access point. A wireless communication connecting system method is also disclosed.
US09854580B2	Efficient resource allocation In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a wireless device. The wireless device determines a first subset of resource units (RUs) of a set of RUs that extends across a bandwidth of a channel in a transmission time period, the first subset of RUs including less RUs than the set of RUs, each RU of the set of RUs including at least 26 tones. The wireless device communicates at least one of data or control information in the first subset of the RUs.
US09854579B2	Integrated circuit that controls a search space setting process An integrated circuit, for example, included in a wireless communication base station, controls a process that includes mapping a first downlink control channel to control channel element(s) (CCE(s)) in a first search space comprised of a first plurality of CCEs, the first downlink control channel including resource assignment information, which indicates a resource allocated to a terminal in a component carrier n (CCn) out of one or more component carrier(s) (CC(s)), and mapping a second downlink control channel to CCE(s) in a second search space comprised of a second plurality of CCE(s), the second downlink control channel including resource assignment information, which indicates a resource allocated to the terminal in a component carrier n+1 (CC+1) out of the CC(s), the first plurality of CCEs and the second plurality of CCEs are consecutive. The process also includes transmitting the first and the second downlink control channels to the terminal.
US09854576B2	Terminal device, base station apparatus, and method There is provided a terminal device (2) which communicates with a base station apparatus (1). In a case where a PDCCH for a serving cell of frame structure type 2 is monitored in a serving cell of frame structure type 1, a TPC command included in the PDCCH is received based on a predetermined value.
US09854572B2	Data transmission method and apparatus, and user equipment The present invention discloses a data transmission method and apparatus, and a user equipment. The method includes: classifying, by using a transmission time interval TTI as a classification basis, TTIs on a carrier in a cell into a time division multiplexing TDM TTI and a code division multiplexing CDM TTI; and sending, to a user equipment UE, control information carrying a classified result, so as to instruct the UE to send uplink data according to the classified result and a data scheduling type of the UE in the TDM TTI or the CDM. By using the foregoing technical solution, a data transmission resource can be well saved and scheduling flexibility can be improved.
US09854563B2	Bandwidth control in wireless communication Technologies are generally described for a bandwidth control scheme. In some examples, a transmitter device configured to transmit information via a wireless connection may include a baseband signal processor configured to process the information to generate a baseband signal with a baseband bandwidth; a modulator configured to modulate a radio frequency (RF) signal with an RF bandwidth based on the baseband signal; and a controller configured to adjust at least one of the baseband bandwidth and the RF bandwidth based on a movement of the transmitter device relative to a position of a receiver device configured to receive the RF signal.
US09854561B2	Communication control apparatus, communication control method, terminal apparatus, and information processing apparatus [Object] To achieve more flexible DRX.[Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a selection unit configured to select a paging segment from a plurality of paging segments that are repeatedly present during a period having a length of a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle for a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform paging for the terminal apparatus during the selected paging segment if performing the paging. The length of the first DRX cycle is not divisible by a length of each of the plurality of paging segments.
US09854558B2	Receiver processor for adaptive windowing and high-resolution TOA determination in a multiple receiver target location system The present invention provides methods for a high-resolution active RTLS tag location determination system that provides for <1 ns TOA accuracy and resolution and significantly reduces the channel effects of multipath interference, even in low SNR applications. To accomplish these objectives, the present invention provides for an iterative and adaptive windowing function in each of the receivers of a receiver grid that captures multiple reflections of multiple transmissions from each of the associated target RTLS tags. The adaptive windowing function is used in conjunction with an asynchronous transmit and receive clock function that effectively increases resolution of TOA detection to levels less than the minimum detection window width associated with each of the receivers in the receiver grid.
US09854557B2	System for automatic configuration of a mobile communication system A communication system includes a receive antenna for receiving communication signals, processing circuitry for processing the received communication signals and repeating the signals for further transmission and at least one transmit antenna for transmitting the repeated signals. The processing circuitry utilizes configurable settings for controlling the operation of the communication system and the configurable settings are variable for varying the operation of the system. The processing circuitry is further operable for receiving inputs regarding current operating conditions of the communication system and for selectively adapting the configurable settings of the system based upon the operating condition inputs.
US09854556B2	Determining node location using a master node association in a wireless node network Improved methods and apparatus are described for determining node locations using one or more associations of nodes in a wireless node network. In general, a first node (such as a master node) may broadcast one or more first messages at a first anticipated range distance. The first node identifies which nodes associated with the first node received at least one of the first messages, such as by reports from associated nodes that receives such message(s). The first node then broadcasts one or more second messages at a smaller anticipated range distance (e.g., with a lower output power level), and determines a location of those associated nodes that did not receive any second messages but received at least one of the first messages. Such a location is between the first anticipated range distance from the first node and the second anticipated range distance from the first node.
US09854555B2	Method and system for notifying access network location information A method and a system for notifying access network location information are provided. The method includes that in a PMIPv6 architecture, a Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) sends a circuit ID to a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) by carrying the circuit ID in a proxy binding update message; and in a GTP architecture, a local GTP peer sends a circuit ID to a correspondent GTP peer by carrying the circuit ID in a Create Session Request message, a Modify Bearer Request message or a Delete Session Request message. In the disclosure, an MAG can notify an LMA of access network location information of a UE in a PMIPv6 architecture, and a GTP peer can notify a correspondent GTP peer of access network location information of a UE in a GTP architecture.
US09854553B2	Method and system for link synchronization in an LTE-TDD architecture A method of detecting a synchronization switching pulse using a power detector in a time division duplexing (TDD) system includes receiving an input signal, detecting a power level associated with the input signal using a digital power meter, and determining a configuration associated with the input signal. The method also includes determining that a pulse width associated with the input signal is greater than a threshold, determining an offset associated with a special subframe configuration, and generating an estimated sync pulse. The method further includes forming a regenerated sync pulse, determining an error between the estimated sync pulse and the regenerated sync pulse, determining that the error is less than a threshold, and providing a lock detect.
US09854548B2	Method for constructing a distributed boundary clock over a dedicated communication channel A method for implementing a distributed boundary clock in situations where book-end devices such as microwave TX/RX pairs must collaborate in achieving PTP on-path support is described. A dedicated channel, generally low-speed compared to the main channel is used to transfer timing from the master side to the slave side using framing and super-framing applied to the digital channel. Time-stamps of events such as super-frame boundaries are communicated between the two sides to enable timing transfer.
US09854546B2	GNSS radio signal for improved synchronization A global navigation satellite system (“GNSS”) positioning method is provided, based upon a GNSS radio signal that comprises a navigation message transmitted as a succession of data packets. Each data packet is present in the GNSS radio signal as a sequence of symbols obtained by application of a code preceded by a synchronization symbol header. The data packets are organized internally into data fields. At least certain data packets of the succession of data packets contain a synchronization bit field translated by application of the code into a synchronization symbol pattern.
US09854544B2	Power spectral density control using AIS and spreading in an aeronautical SATCOM terminal using a low profile antenna Power spectral density in an aeronautical satellite communication system is controlled through the use of adaptive inroute selection and spreading. Once a communication session has been established between the aircraft and the satellite, environmental conditions and aircraft conditions are monitored to detect events capable of affecting transmit/receive properties during the communication session. A maximum allowable transmission output is determined based, at least in part, on governmental regulations and the conditions being monitored. One or more transmit parameters are adjusted during the time interval in order to maintain transmission output power of the aircraft terminal below the maximum allowable transmission output power.
US09854542B2	Method and apparatus for configuring power headroom information in mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation A method and apparatus for configuring Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes generating a header including a LCID for identifying extended PHR and L indicating a length of the extended PHR, and inserting Power Headrooms (PHs) of multiple activated carriers into the extended PHR of one of the carriers.
US09854540B2	Mobile communication device and radiated power adjusting method thereof A mobile communication device and a radiated power adjusting method thereof are provided. The mobile communication device includes an antenna, a signal measurement module, a proximity sensing module and a controlling module. The antenna receives a radio-frequency signal, and the signal measurement module is coupled to the antenna and measures a signal parameter of the radio-frequency signal. The proximity sensing module is switched between an activation mode and an original detection mode according to existence of an object, wherein a sensing conductor is configured adjacent to an adjusted antenna. The controlling module is coupled to the signal measurement module and the proximity sensing module, and the controlling module adjusts the radiated power of the adjusted antenna. When the signal parameter decreases more than a threshold value and the proximity sensing module is in the activation mode, the controlling module reduces the radiated power of the adjusted antenna.
US09854539B2	Radio communication device, radio communication system and beam control method A radio communication device including a memory that stores information on a strength of interference between a beam output by a first base station and a beam output by a second base station for each of a plurality of combinations, each of the plurality of combinations including at least one of a plurality of beams output by the first base station and at least one of a plurality of beams output by the second base station, emitting directions of each of the plurality of beams output by the first base station being different each other, emitting directions of each of the plurality of beams output by the second base station being different each other, and a processor configured to identify one or more combinations having the interference strength higher than a threshold, and assign different radio resources to each of beams included in the identified one or more combinations.
US09854537B2	Methods, network node, wireless device, computer programs and computer program products for assisting downlink interference estimation It is presented a method for assisting downlink interference estimation in a cellular network. The method is performed in a network node of the cellular network and comprises the steps of: estimating an average transmit power of the network node in a future time period; transmitting a power parameter based on the estimated average transmit power to at least one wireless device being served by the network node; and transmitting a reference signal for downlink interference estimation. A corresponding network node, wireless device, computer programs and computer program products are also presented.
US09854534B2	Terminal apparatus and retransmission control method A terminal apparatus and retransmission control method reduces overhead of the uplink control channel in cases when ARQ is applied in communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. A first condition is set in which downlink assignment control information is transmitted from a base station by a unit band group which comprises a basic unit band, which is the downlink unit band on which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and a second downlink unit band other than the basic unit band. A bundling unit will not transmit a response signal to the base station in certain cases.
US09854532B2	Method, network nodes, and computer program products for load based adaptive CRS power adjustment A method performed in a network node. The method includes the network node receiving a report regarding a traffic load of at least one network cell of a plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node determining whether the traffic load of the at least one network cell is greater than an average traffic load of the plurality of network cells. The method further includes the network node adjusting a power of a reference signal based on said determining. The method also includes the network node transmitting the adjusted reference signal in the at least one network cell.
US09854530B2	Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in portable terminal An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of a portable terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for reducing power consumption generated in an idle state in order to solve a power consumption problem in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a state determination unit which is configured independently from an application processor for controlling applications and which wakes up when entering an idle mode to allow the application processor to sleep, and thereafter determines a state of the portable terminal, and if it is determined that the portable terminal escapes from the idle mode, allows the application processor to wake up.
US09854527B2	User equipment transmit duty cycle control In some embodiments, a user equipment device (UE) implements improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. In some embodiments, the UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. In some embodiments, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information. In some embodiments, the UE may switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.
US09854522B2	System and method for semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling and discontinuous reception control Methods of combining semi-persistent resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation are provided. Packets, such as VoIP packets, are transmitted on the uplink and downlink using respective semi-persistent resources. For each mobile device, awake periods and sleep periods are defined. The semi-persistent resources are aligned with the awake periods so that most of the time the mobile device can turn off its wireless access radio during the sleep periods. In addition, signalling to request, and to allocate, resources for additional packets are transmitted during the awake periods, and the resources allocated for the additional packets are within the awake windows.
US09854510B2	Dynamic aggression management of cellular connectivity This disclosure relates to techniques for dynamic selection of connection attempt throttling algorithms based on user context. According to some embodiments, a wireless device may monitor certain current conditions of the UE, such as battery level, user activity level, motion level, and/or other conditions. Depending at least in part on the current conditions of the UE, cellular connection attempt parameters may be selected. In some conditions the cellular connection attempt parameters may be selected such as to allow more aggressive pursuit of cellular connectivity, while in other conditions the cellular connection attempt parameters may be selected such as to allow less aggressive pursuit of cellular connectivity.
US09854507B2	Flexible connectivity framework This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatuses related to a flexible connectivity framework. A device may cause to send a discovery request seeking a service. The device may identify a discovery response received from a computing device advertising the service. The device may cause to send a connectivity information request to the computing device. The device may identify a connectivity information response including one or more session information received from the computing device.
US09854502B2	Method and apparatus for supporting an lOPS in a wireless access system The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for supporting an IOPS and notifying the IOPS status. In one aspect of the present invention, a method for supporting an Isolated E-UTRAN Operations for Public Safety (IOPS) in a wireless access system, the method performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a RRC connection mode and comprises steps of receiving a radio resource control (RRC) connection release message including a release cause field and an IOPS extended wait time field for restricting an initial access procedure; and releasing the RRC connection mode when the release cause field indicating an IOPS situation has been occurred, wherein the IOPS extended wait time field is configured to an Extended Wait Time (EWT) field indicating a time duration restricting the initial access procedure or to a Further Announcement field indicating the initial access procedure is restricted until a further announcement is received.
US09854501B2	Radio spectrum utilization The concepts relate to radio channel utilization. One example can monitor a location of a mobile device that has cellular capabilities. The example can identify a set of channels that are available to the mobile device at the location. The example can also send the set of channels to the mobile device with a suggestion for the mobile device to utilize one or more of the channels of the set to accomplish data communication rather than using the cellular capabilities.
US09854499B2	System and methods for managing a user data path Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that determines each of a default downlink forwarding address of a first interface of a user plane and a currently used downlink forwarding address of the first interface of the user plane. One of an uplink user data packet comprising an origination address of a second interface of the user plane, a downlink user data packet comprising a destination address of the second interface of the user plane or both are received, by way of the user plane. One of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both can be modified based on the uplink origination address, the destination address or both. Modification of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both results in a redirection of an associated packet flow within the user plane. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09854498B2	Method and apparatus for providing very high throughput operation and capability signaling for wireless communications A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling very high throughput (VHT) communications. A wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from an access point (AP), a management frame comprising VHT capabilities information. The VHT capabilities information may comprise an indication of support for reception via non-contiguous channels. The WTRU may transmit, on a condition that reception via non-contiguous channels is supported, at least one data packet, to the AP, via multiple non-contiguous channels. The multiple non-contiguous channels may be used simultaneously.
US09854496B2	Method of high-efficiency connected mode cell re-selection A novel and efficient connected mode cell reselection procedure is proposed to improve the mobility performance for user equipments (UEs) configured with extended connected mode Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle in LTE systems. A UE-centric mobility mechanism with which a UE performs cell reselection in RRC connected mode is proposed. The UE is allowed to select a target cell without handover signaling in the source cell and when needed to initiate signaling with the target cell, for which signal quality is much better. In this way, handover failures due to failed signaling in the source cell can be avoided. More specifically, the proposed mobility mechanism reduces signaling overhead and is inherently robust towards different DRX cycle settings, i.e., longer DRX cycles do not cause more failures, or more overhead, or more battery consumption.
US09854495B2	Radio link failure reporting in a system using multiple cells Radio link Failure (RLF) reporting operation in a wireless communication system using multiple cells is disclosed. According to this operation, when a first cell and a second cell are simultaneously connected to a UE and the first cell and the second cell are of different base stations (a first base station and a second base station respectively), if the RLF with the UE on the first cell is detected by the first base station, the first base station may transmits an indication of the RLF with the UE on the first cell to the second base station.
US09854488B2	Method and wireless communication device for idle mode mobility management The embodiments disclose a method of a wireless communication device adapted to operate in compliance with a first radio access technology in association with a first network and in compliance with a second radio access technology in association with a second network. The method comprises reading a first information comprised in a first signal received from a first network node of the first network using the first radio access technology; and if the first information comprises a first list of neighboring cells for the second radio access technology, using the first list of neighboring cells to provide idle mode mobility management for the second radio access technology in the second network. The embodiments also disclose a wireless communication device performing the method.
US09854486B2	Method and apparatus for handling a cell change Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a user equipment, and corresponding methods therein, for handling a cell change from a first cell to a second cell in a wireless communications network. Some example embodiments may also be directed towards the user equipment altering a duration of a measurement time over which at least one measurement is performed, and altering a measurement bandwidth of the at least one measurement. The alterations may be performed based on associated bandwidths of the first and second cells. Other example embodiments may be directed towards a network node, and corresponding method therein, for sending, to the user equipment, a notification of a cell change and information associated with the cell change. Example embodiments may further comprise the network node receiving measurement data of at least one measurement performed over an altered measurement bandwidth and an altered duration of measurement time, where the alterations are based on the information associated with the cell change.
US09854479B2	Communication method in inter-RAT network, access network device and UE A communication method in an inter-RAT network, an access network device, and UE are provided. The method includes: generating, by a source access network device, a temporary priority list, where the temporary priority list includes a frequency of a source network, a frequency of a target network, a priority of the frequency of the source network, and a priority of the frequency of the target network; sending, by the source access network device, the temporary priority list to a target access network device; and sending, by the source access network device, the temporary priority list to the UE. The present application can ensure that broadcast messages in networks of different RATs are consistent and prevent ping-pong reselection of the UE.
US09854476B2	Facilitating method for handover of a mobile communication device A target node includes an S1 interface which includes an interface between the target node and a gateway, an X2 interface which includes an interface between a source node and the target node, and a transceiver which receives data from the S1 interface and data from the X2 interface. The transceiver sends the data from the X2 interface before sending the data from the S1 interface to a mobile device after the mobile device completes a handover from the source node to the target node.
US09854474B2	Resource management in a wireless communications network Detection of an unbalanced network load and redistribution of network traffic to balance the network load is provided herein. Load balancing across different radios in the same sector of a cell site can be facilitated through detection of the unbalance network load and changes to one or more parameters can be made to rebalance the network load. After radios within a sector are more evenly balanced, network load balancing across sectors can be facilitated. The balancing can be performed to improve system performance, reduce a dropped call rate, as well as to achieve other benefits that can provide an improved user experience as compared to systems that do not attempt to balance the network load.
US09854470B2	Processing of overlay networks using an accelerated network interface card According to one embodiment, a system includes an accelerated network interface card (NIC), the accelerated NIC including a plurality of network ports including multiple Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) ports, an Overlay Network Offload System (ONOS), the ONOS including logic configured to provide overlay functionality to network traffic received by the accelerated NIC, and logic configured to cause network traffic that has overlay functionality provided by a hypervisor to bypass the ONOS. In another embodiment, a method for accelerating overlay functionality in a server includes providing overlay functionality for at least some network traffic received by an accelerated NIC implemented in a server, wherein the accelerated NIC provides an interface between the server and a network, and causing network traffic that has overlay functionality provided by a hypervisor of the server to bypass the accelerated NIC.
US09854468B2	Method and apparatus for estimating distance between network devices in a wireless network A first wireless communication device including a timing module and a fine timing measurement module. The timing module is configured to provide a first timer value. The fine timing measurement module is configured to receive, from a second wireless communication device, a first request to perform a fine timing measurement to determine a distance between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device, and transmit a first response including a first time to start a burst period for performing the fine timing measurement. The first time is one of included in the request received from the second wireless communication device and based on the first timer value. The fine timing measurement module is further configured to perform the fine timing measurement in the burst period starting at the first time.
US09854467B2	Methods and systems for device wireless module diagnostics Methods, devices and systems are provided for diagnosing a wireless module of a device. An exemplary method involves operating a second wireless module of the device to transmit data on a second wireless channel that overlaps, at least in part, a first wireless channel. A measured response associated with the first wireless channel concurrent to the data transmitted on the second wireless channel is obtained from the first wireless module and a remedial action is initiated with respect to the first wireless module based at least in part on the measured response.
US09854466B2	Method and apparatus for managing monitoring task Disclosed are a method and apparatus for managing a monitoring task, the method comprising: receiving, by a gateway, monitoring configuration information transmitted by a machine to machine (M2M) service platform or M2M application server, wherein a management parameter for managing a monitoring task is carried in the monitoring configuration information; managing the monitoring task by the gateway according to the management parameter. The effect that the gateway can effectively manage the monitoring task is achieved.
US09854465B2	Wireless access network node having an off state A wireless access network node receives, from a coordinating network node, configuration information relating to a configuration of an uplink signal comprising a given uplink sequence selected by a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of uplink sequences and to be transmitted by the UE, the configuration information to enable the wireless access network node to monitor for the uplink signal, the plurality of uplink sequences mapped to respective power levels. The wireless access network node monitors for the uplink signal according to the configuration while the wireless access network node is in an off state, and determines a power level of the uplink signal based on the given uplink sequence in the uplink signal detected by the wireless access network node.
US09854461B2	Methods for detecting and classifying signals transmitted over a radio frequency spectrum A method for classifying a signal can be used by a station or stations within a network to classify the signal as non-cooperative (NC) or a target signal. The method performs classification over channels within a frequency spectrum. The percentage of power above a first threshold is computed for a channel. Based on the percentage, a signal is classified as a narrowband signal. If the percentage indicates the absence of a narrowband signal, then a lower second threshold is applied to confirm the absence according to the percentage of power above the second threshold. The signal is classified as a narrowband signal or pre-classified as a wideband signal based on the percentage. Pre-classified wideband signals are classified as a wideband NC signal or target signal using spectrum masks.
US09854458B2	Data transmission method and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A method for data transmission includes: if correctly receiving one or more source data packets, a destination node selecting source data packets which have not been saved from the source data packets to save; if receiving one or more network coded data packets, the destination node decoding them, and if the decoding can be correctly conducted and source data packets can be obtained, the destination node selecting source data packets which have not been saved from obtained source data packets to save; if judging that the number of currently saved source data packets is greater than one, the destination node selecting and sending one saved source data to other destination nodes, or after conducting network coding according to part or all of saved source data packets to obtain one or more network coded data packets, the destination node selecting and sending one network coded data packet to other destination nodes.
US09854457B2	Management of communications with multiple access points based on inter-access point communications Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for managing communications in a wireless communications system. An inter-access point communications link between a first access point and a second access point is established. At the first access point, one or more performance statistics from the second access point are received via the inter-access point communications link. Communication to or from a mobile device via the first access point and the second access point, is managed based at least in part on the received performance statistics.
US09854454B2	Matching method and apparatus Embodiments of the present application relate to a matching method. The method includes: selecting, by a base station, a remote electrical tilt unit and sending instruction information to a signal transmitter, where the instruction information is used to instruct the signal transmitter to connect to an antenna radio frequency port corresponding to the remote electrical tilt unit and enable the signal generator to generate a signal. The method also includes receiving, by the base station, the signal when the signal reaches the antenna radio frequency port through a signal coupling unit and is sent by using the antenna radio frequency port. The method also includes selecting, by the base station, a target sector according to a background noise value of each base-station radio frequency port.
US09854453B2	Methods for WiFi sectorization MAC enhancement A method and apparatus may be used for WiFi sectorization medium access control enhancement (WiSE MAC). An IEEE 802.11 STA may receive an omni-directional indication of a first sectorized transmission opportunity (TXOP) associated with a second STA. The omni-directional indication may include an identifier (ID) of a first sector associated with the first sectorized TXOP. The STA may transmit a directional indication of a second sectorized TXOP a condition that a second sector associated with the second sectorized TXOP does not interfere with the first sector associated with the first sectorized TXOP.
US09854452B2	Device and method for clustering small cells in time division duplex network, and base station A device and method for clustering small cells in a time division duplex network, and a base station including the device. The device includes: a request receiving unit, configured to receive from a small cell base station a clustering request for implementing dynamic clustering; and a clustering determining unit, configured to determine whether to implement clustering at least based on the clustering request.
US09854450B2	Enhanced data collection, processing, and analysis facilities A method and corresponding apparatus configured to collect raw data from a plurality of wireless devices. The raw data includes activity recorded when the wireless devices are at a selected topographic region. The raw data is combined to produce aggregated data representative of the activities of the individual wireless devices. Either the aggregated data or the raw data are selected for analysis depending on whether the raw data meets a threshold activity or subscriber density level. The selected data are analyzed to identify activity patterns of users of the wireless devices.
US09854444B2	Apparatus and methods for preventing information disclosure The present application is directed to apparatuses and methods for preventing information disclosure. According to example embodiments of the present application, after a mobile terminal of a user is lost, a first short message may be sent to the mobile terminal through a short message network. When the mobile terminal determines that the received short message is the first short message, user information stored in the mobile terminal may be erased by the mobile terminal.
US09854443B2	Mobile device traffic splitter A mobile device traffic splicer is disclosed. In various embodiments, a network communication associated with a destination is received from a mobile device. A stored routing data associated with the mobile device is used to determine, based at least in part on the destination, to redirect the network communication to a proxy associated with the destination. The network communication is sent to the proxy associated with the destination. In various embodiments, one or both of metering network traffic by destination and/or domain and filtering network communications and/or portions thereof based on the destination and/or domain may be performed.
US09854441B2	Terminal apparatus carrying out communications after authentication, a communication system, and a communication method An acquiring unit acquires the positional information. A first request unit requests an authentication station to perform authentication by using the positional information acquired by the acquiring unit. When the authentication station grants authentication for a request from the first request unit, a communication processing unit carries out communications using a first radio communication system. When authentication required for carrying out the communications using the first radio communication system is not performed in the communication processing unit, a second request unit requests another terminal apparatus to perform authentication by using a second radio communication system, whose transmission distance is shorter than the first radio communication system.
US09854439B2	Device and method for authenticating a user of a voice user interface and selectively managing incoming communications A receiver coupled to a processor for receiving an electronic communication from a separate computing device, a local storage medium coupled to the processor, the local storage medium storing an identification system for identifying the electronic communication received from the separate computing device, and a voice user interface coupled to the processor for receiving a voice communication from the user without a physical interaction between the user and the computing device is provided. Associated methods are also provided.
US09854434B2	User apparatus and soft buffer size determination method A user apparatus configured to perform communication with a base station in a mobile communication system that supports downlink spatial multiplexing such that the user apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits category information of the user apparatus to the base station and a receiver that receives configuration information from the base station. If the category information is a value equal to or greater than a predetermined value and if a parameter indicating a transmission mode corresponding to the downlink spatial multiplexing and predetermined additional information are received as the configuration information, a processor determines a soft buffer size used for downlink data reception processing in the user apparatus by using the total number of soft channel bits corresponding to the category information.
US09854431B2	Method, apparatus, and system of distributing data of virtual subscriber identity module A method, an apparatus, and a system for distributing data of a virtual subscriber identity module (VSIM) where a terminal device acquires a graphic code from a distribution client; acquires the temporary data of the VSIM and the service authentication code that are included in the graphic code; registers with a mobile network according to the temporary data of the VSIM; connects to the management server through the mobile network; sends to the management server, a request for downloading formal data of the VSIM; and if the authentication is passed, the management server acquires formal data that is of the VSIM and corresponding to the service authentication code, and sends the formal data of the VSIM to the terminal device.
US09854425B2	Remote alarm hushing Methods and devices may be used to remotely hushing an event notification by receiving, from a sensor of the electronic device, an indication that a measured level has surpassed a notification threshold. In response to the indication, generating an advertising packet including an event notification for broadcast over a low power wireless point-to-point communication protocol and communicating the advertising packet including the event notification over the low power wireless point-to-point communication protocol.
US09854423B2	Subscription and charging control for wireless communications between proximate devices A method and system for facilitating a controlled wireless communication relationship between a first device and a second device is provided. The wireless communication relationship is established at least in part via a portion of licensed radio spectrum. A remote validation server is contacted to obtain a validated authorization to use the portion of licensed radio spectrum for radio communication. Proof of the authorization between the first device and the second device is communicated. The first device and the second device subsequently enter into an authorized wireless communication relationship.
US09854421B2	Transfer of emergency services session between disparate subsystems Methods and nodes for coordinating communication sessions are described herein. A method includes providing, by a control system, a signaling anchor point at a domain transfer function in a visited multimedia subsystem for an access signaling leg and a remote access signaling leg for a communication session between a user element and a public service access point and coordinating call signaling for the communication session via the access signaling leg and the remote signaling leg.
US09854418B1	Automatic friend connection within a social network A computer-implemented method for recommending a friend for a network utilizing a host site. The method includes obtaining, using a processor system, a first audio recording from a first user device associated with a first member having a first member profile affiliated with the host site and a second audio recording from a second user device associated with a second member having a second member profile affiliated with the host site. Determining if the first and second user are in proximity by comparing the first and second audio recordings; and based on a determination that the first and second users are in proximity, initiating steps for associating the first member profile with the second member profile via the host site.
US09854414B2	Hopping master in wireless conference A first radio has duplex communication with a second radio and a third radio, without using a base station by using a multiple-access protocol system. The first radio is configured to perform as a master radio and then switch to be a slave radio. A master radio provides timing synchronization and/or assigns transmission slots for radios in the multiple-access protocol system.
US09854413B2	Mobile communication terminal, communication method, and communication system A mobile communication terminal used in a communication system in which audio based on an audio signal transmitted from a given mobile communication terminal having speaking rights is output from another mobile communication terminal, the given mobile communication terminal being selected by a server storing priority rank information indicating a priority rank pertaining to acquisition of the speaking rights for each of a plurality of mobile communication terminals, the mobile communication terminal including a rank signal receiver receiving, from the server, a priority rank signal based on the priority rank information stored by the server and indicating the priority rank for at least a subset of the mobile communication terminals and a display displaying a terminal priority rank based on the priority rank signal when the rank signal receiver receives the priority rank signal.
US09854407B2	Method and devices for monitoring the position or modifying the position of an object A method and apparatus for the technical monitoring of objects, in particular of vehicles, by a mobile radio network is provided. The method for operating a mobile radio network having one or a plurality of mobile radio base stations for monitoring the object includes a first network access device for the mobile radio network communicating with at least one of mobile radio base station, including the acts of receiving first data from the first network access device via the at least one mobile radio base station, detecting a physical position or a change of physical position of the object based on the first data, checking whether the detected position or position change meets a predetermined criterion, and, if the predetermined criterion is met, outputting a predetermined signal.
US09854402B1	Formation of wireless device location sharing group A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel.
US09854393B2	Partial information throttle based on compliance with an agreement Partially reduces performance or features of a user's electronic device if the user does not comply with an agreement. An agreement may specify tasks or activities to be performed, such as homework or chores, or required results such as grades. Partial throttling of the device when the user is not in compliance with the agreement may include for example disabling a subset of the apps or services on the device, slowing down the device or selected applications, denying access to selected information sources, limiting audio volume or display resolution, or limiting time on activities such as web browsing. The device may remain usable, but with reduced features or performance. Throttling actions may also be based on location, schedule, or environmental conditions. The system may reward compliance with the agreement by increasing performance, by re-enabling previously disabled applications, or by providing direct rewards such as money or credits.
US09854390B2	Context-driven local network services Various embodiments are generally directed to cooperation among networked devices to obtain and use a multiple-frame screenshot. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor circuit executing a sequence causing the processor circuit to receive a signal conveying a context data; retrieve an aspect of a current context of the apparatus; compare the aspect to the context data; determine whether a context defined as appropriate exists to engage in interactions with one or more other computing devices through a network based on the comparison, the interactions comprising providing a network service to the one or more other computing devices; and engage in the interactions with one or more computing devices through the network when the appropriate context to engage in the interactions exists. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
US09854387B2	Mobile information terminal and image forming apparatus capable of carrying out near-field wireless communication, system, control method therefor, and storage medium A system which enables an image forming apparatus to give priority to executing a job sent from a mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal sets an operating mode of the image forming apparatus. When a near-field wireless communication is started by the mobile information terminal coming close to the image forming apparatus, information on the set operating mode is sent to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus provides operating mode shifting control based on the information on the operating mode sent from the mobile information terminal by the near-field wireless communication.
US09854385B2	Conditional separation alert system A system for detecting and reporting the separation of two entities including where the entities are people or items. In some implementations, the system performs separation checking triggered by movement conditions, or by checking of the state of an entity upon separation, and additionally adapts checking methods according to a condition.
US09854380B1	System and method for providing one or more application services A first network device including a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a first frame from a second network device. The first frame includes an indicator indicating whether the second network device is capable of providing one or more application services. The second network device is capable of determining whether the one or more application services are located on the second network device, and if not, the second network device is capable of locating the one or more application services on a third network device. The transmitter, in response to the indicator indicating that the second network device is capable of providing the one or more application services, transmits to the second network device a second frame including a request for the one or more application services. In response to transmitting the second frame, the receiver receives the one or more application services from the second network device.
US09854375B2	Selection of coded next generation audio data for transport An example device for receiving audio data includes an audio decoder implemented using digital logic circuitry and configured to decode audio data conforming to MPEG-H or AC-4 part 2, and an audio data processing unit implemented in digital logic circuitry and configured to receive a manifest file describing a plurality of audio objects conforming to MPEG-H or AC-4 part 2, wherein the manifest file indicates whether each of the audio objects is available via broadcast, broadband, or both broadcast and broadband, receive selection data indicating which of the audio objects are to be presented, receive streamed media data including the audio objects based on the selection data, and provide the audio objects indicated by the selection data to the audio decoder.
US09854370B2	Implantable remote control The present application discloses systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for controlling one or more functions of a device utilizing one or more tags. In one example, a method for controlling one or more functions of a medical device includes scanning a data interface of the medical device for signals induced wirelessly by one or more gestures made with one or more tags associated with a recipient of the medical device and controlling one or more functions of the medical device based on the wirelessly induced signals.
US09854369B2	Wireless system for hearing communication devices providing wireless stereo reception modes The present subject matter relates to the wireless stereo reception of first and second audio information by wireless hearing communication devices. One type of device which may employ the present subject matter is a hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid. Various forms and protocols of signal transmission are employed in varying embodiments. The present subject matter includes various communication modes such as eavesdropping modes and relaying modes.
US09854356B2	Headset noise-based pulsed attenuation A headset having a talk-through microphones incorporates an audio circuit that disconnects or compresses a signal representing sounds detected by the talk-through microphones in response to the audio circuit detecting the onset of a peak in the signal that exceeds a predetermined voltage level, and that does so with a rate of change in voltage level that exceeds a predetermined rate of change in voltage level. The duration of the disconnection or compression may be controlled by a timing circuit set to a predetermined period of time that may be retriggerable while amidst the predetermined period of time.
US09854355B2	Grounding circuit for alternate audio plug designs Circuits, methods, and apparatus for grounding contacts in an audio jack. One example may provide a driver, such as a charge pump, driving a first transistor or switch coupled between a first contact in an audio jack and ground, and a second transistor or switch coupled between a second contact in the audio jack and ground. The first transistor or switch and second transistor or switch may be p-channel transistors or n-channel transistors depletion or enhancement-mode transistors, floating-gate transistors, MEMs, relays, or other switching devices. The first and second transistors or switches may be on and conducting when power is removed from the driver.
US09854349B2	Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, and program Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus including a surrounding sound signal acquisition unit, a NC (Noise Canceling) signal generation part, a cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part, and an addition part. The surrounding sound signal acquisition unit is configured to collect a surrounding sound to generate a surrounding sound signal. The NC signal generation part is configured to generate a noise canceling signal from the surrounding sound signal. The cooped-up feeling elimination signal generation part is configured to generate a cooped-up feeling elimination signal from the surrounding sound signal. The addition part is configured to add together the generated noise canceling signal and the cooped-up feeling elimination signal at a prescribed ratio.
US09854344B2	Wireless earphones and earphones charging case Rechargeable wireless earphone systems and charging cases are disclosed. The rechargeable charging case, which doubles as a storage case for the earphone components, includes externally accessible charging ports adapted to charge the rechargeable battery contained therein as well as for charging other electronic devices. The earphones are configured such that they may be used even when charging or when the earphone system battery is depleted. An alignment and positioning mechanism is provided to align and electrically connect charging contacts of a controller housing of the earphone system with charging contacts provided in the charging case to better secure and facilitate the charging process when the controller is received within the charging case. Reversibly detachable ear hooks and ear canal plugs are uniquely designed and configured to be independently attached to the earphone housing and compliantly adjustable to the desired shape for user comfort. The ear hooks and plugs may be configured such that the ear hooks at least partially encircle the ear plugs when both are attached to the earphone housing and either the ear hooks and/or ear plugs may be detachable from the earphone without removal of the other. Illuminated ear hooks and cable are also disclosed.
US09854327B2	Methods and systems for performing non-linear reach optimization by computing reach values Methods and systems for performing non-linear optimization of reach are described herein. The methods and systems may be used to compute the reach associated with different advertisement campaigns involving different combinations of spots. The method includes computing probabilities that a user will access a certain spot. The method includes retrieving a weight associated with the targeted user demographic. The method includes computing a first reach value using a first non-linear function, and a second reach value using a second non-linear function. The method includes comparing the two reach values to each other and to a predetermined reach threshold. The higher reach value larger than the predetermined reach threshold is selected and information associated with the selected reach value is provided to the user.
US09854326B1	Creating and fulfilling dynamic advertisement replacement inventory A processing device can execute instructions to query a database to determine a top-ranked avail for a target audience, to generate a target avail, determine the target avail is not within a sell CPM price for the target audience, and determine that demand for the target avail as addressable television (ATV) impressions is beyond a predetermined threshold sufficient to discount the CPM price of the target avail for the target audience. The ATV impressions can be derived from directly addressable replacement ads. The processing device can further determine that the target avail is within the sell CPM price for the target audience with a determined discount and discount the sell CPM price for the target avail by the determined discount that decreases a margin for an ad campaign when filling the target avail with a broadcast ad. Also, ATV sell CPM price can be adjusted according to programmable TV campaign performance.
US09854324B1	Systems and methods for automatically enabling subtitles based on detecting an accent Systems and methods are described for automatically enabling subtitles based on a user profile when a language is spoken with an accent a user has difficulty understanding. For example, a media guidance application may detect a first plurality of user interactions of the user while the given language is being spoken with the accent. Based on the first plurality of interactions, the media guidance application may calculate a first value associated with a user specific level of difficulty indicating how difficult it is for the user to understand the language when spoken with the accent. If the first plurality of user interactions are not being performed again, the media guidance application may update the user specific difficulty with a second value that is lower than the first value. The media guidance application may automatically generate for display subtitles for a media asset based on the user specific level of difficulty.
US09854321B2	Client-server electronic program guide A client-server interactive television program guide system is provided. An interactive television program guide client is implemented on user television equipment. The interactive television program guide provides users with an opportunity to define expressions that are processed by the program guide server. The program guide server may provide program guide data, schedules reminders, schedules program recordings, and parentally locks programs based on the expressions. Users' viewing histories may be tracked. The program guide server may analyze the viewing histories and generates viewing recommendations, targets advertising, and collects program ratings information based on the viewing histories.
US09854320B2	Method and system for accessing TV programs and applications on smart TV A method for accessing TV programs and applications on a smart TV may include receiving a channel selection command from a user, and determining an index number corresponding to the channel selected by the user according to the command. The method may also include searching for a program resource or an application corresponding to the determined index number through a preset index table, and starting and displaying the identified program resource or application. A system for accessing TV programs and applications on a smart TV may change a channel management mode of conventional systems of smart TVs and set-top boxes, such that information of TV programs and applications can be displayed together and called conveniently. A user can conveniently and rapidly switch between programs and applications without the need to switch between TV channel and application interfaces.
US09854315B1	Systems and methods for broadcast audience interaction and participation A broadcast audience interaction and feedback system may discover and activate a recording function of a portable device of a user to record audio and/or video of media content output by a media device in proximity to the user. The audio or video data may be used to identify the content by matching audio or video fingerprints or signatures of the data recorded by the portable device with separately generated signatures or fingerprints associated with the content. Additional entities may be automatically associated with the content via capturing of metadata or closed captioning data during the content, OCR of displayed text in the content, or detection of other such entities. In some implementations, the portable device may also capture feedback from the user, including cheering, applause, and laughter, as well as explicit questions or comments, voting choices, etc. The feedback may be identified, and queries generated or additional functions performed based on the identified feedback, the identified media content, and/or one or more entities associated with the identified media content.
US09854314B1	Methods and systems for receiving ratings from a third-party source of ratings Methods and systems are presented for selecting a preferred source of ratings (e.g., Metacritic.com) and integrating the ratings into the electronic program guide (EPG) such as displaying the ratings alongside program listings. By allowing the user to select the source of ratings, the media guidance application ensures that the ratings provided are meaningful to the user. The media guidance application retrieves the ratings from the source of ratings selected by the user and displays the retrieved ratings in the corresponding program listing so that the user may make an informed decision about his or her television viewing. The media guidance application may also incorporate the retrieved ratings into media guidance functions such as setting reminders, scheduling recordings, or recommending programs.
US09854313B2	Methods and systems for presenting information about media assets Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that presents information about a media asset by modifying graphical properties of a progress bar associated with the media asset. For example, based on one or more events in the media asset, the media guidance application may modify the dimensions of the progress bar to include textual descriptions, may modify a color, brightness, transparency, etc. of the progress bar, and/or may modify an animation of the progress bar or a graphic associated with the progress bar.
US09854310B2	Intelligent system and methods of recommending media content items based on user preferences A system and method for making program recommendations to users of a network-based video recording system utilizes expressed preferences as inputs to collaborative filtering and Bayesian predictive algorithms to rate television programs using a graphical rating system. The predictive algorithms are adaptive, improving in accuracy as more programs are rated.
US09854308B1	Method and system for authorizing user devices to communicate with a primary service provider using a limited number of streams A system and method for controlling access to content stream includes a user device and a service provider in communication with the user device. The service provider receives a request for a requested content stream associated with the user device and determines an access number corresponding to a number of content streams active by a user device. When the access number associated with the user device exceeds a predetermined number, the service provider denies access to a requested stream for the user device.
US09854307B2	Multimedia program recording schedule manager A multimedia program recording schedule manager for DVR systems is described. In a first embodiment, for example, a method implemented by one or more server computing devices, the method comprising: receiving input selecting a particular DVR system; receiving input selecting a particular multimedia program for the particular DVR system to record on a repeat basis; adding the particular multimedia program to a server-side instance of a repeat recording schedule for the particular DVR system; and synchronizing the server-side instance of the repeat recording schedule with another instance of a repeat recording schedule for the particular DVR system resulting in the addition of the particular multimedia program to the other instance of the repeat recording schedule. In one embodiment, the other instance of the repeat recording schedule for the particular DVR system is a data component of the particular DVR system.
US09854306B2	Methods and systems for content navigation among programs presenting advertising content Systems and methods for aiding user content navigation are described. An exemplary system may include an electronic device configured to receive audiovisual content and/or user inputs. The electronic device may additionally include one or more outputs coupled with a display device. The electronic device may further include one or more processors as well as memory, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause them to perform one or more navigation functions to receive a channel change command to adjust from a first channel to a second channel. The one or more processors may further be caused to determine that the second channel is presenting advertising content instead of program content, and determine that a third channel is presenting program content. The one or more processors may further be caused to adjust the output to the third channel.
US09854304B2	Systems and methods for identifying a source of media content based on a log of fingerprints Systems and methods are described for identifying a content source of media content being transmitted to a viewer in situations when a specific media asset is being transmitted to the viewer from two different content sources nearly simultaneously. For example, if a certain movie is being broadcast at nearly the same time by two different channels, the system is able to identify the channel that the viewer is watching. The system performs the identification by obtaining fingerprints for two different channels, matching the fingerprints based on time and then finding a divergent pair of fingerprints by iterating in reverse chronological order through the pairs and comparing the fingerprints. The system then compares the fingerprints to fingerprints in a log that stores fingerprints and corresponding generation times for content that the viewer is consuming. The matching fingerprint corresponds to the correct content source.
US09854300B2	Automatic channel changing auxiliary device and automatic channel changing method thereof A device providing an automatic channel changing function includes: a receiving unit, receiving recommended program data, first user data and second user data from a first AV playing device; a storage unit, storing reference data; a look-up unit, generating channel changing data according to the recommended program data, the first user data, the second user data and the reference data; and a transmitting unit, transmitting the channel changing data to a second AV playing device according to the second user data.
US09854298B2	Apparatus and method for providing N-screen service in broadcast system A method for supplying an N-screen service by a main N-screen device in a broadcast system is provided. The method includes receiving an Application Information Table (AIT) including a screen_type indicating a type of N-screen device in which a broadcast service application will be run from a broadcast service provider, and one of running the broadcast service application based on the screen_type, performing an operation related to running the broadcast service application by considering a connection relationship between the main N-screen device and a sub N-screen device based on the screen_type, and discarding the AIT based on the screen_type.
US09854293B2	Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners A system or method selects among multiple tuners to tune a particular channel. A request is received to tune a first channel. In response to this request, a first tuner is assigned to tune the first channel. A request is received to tune a second channel. If the program tuned by the first tuner is not being recorded, the first tuner is assigned to tune the second channel. If the program tuned by the first tuner is being recorded, the second tuner is assigned to tune the second channel.
US09854292B1	Systems and methods for determining audience engagement based on user motion Systems and methods are described for measuring audience engagement for a media asset using user motion. For example, a media guidance application may receive movement logs from a plurality of user equipment. These movement logs may contain information indicating when each of the plurality of users moved, as detected by motion sensors, while the user equipment was generating for display a media asset. The movement logs may be analyzed to determine time periods during the media asset during which greater than a certain number of the plurality of users were moving. These time periods may in turn be used to infer how engaged the plurality of users were during the media asset or what portions of the media asset the plurality of users viewed. This data may be used to determine in what media assets, or portions thereof, supplemental video content should be inserted.
US09854291B2	Recording of multiple television channels Various arrangements for recording multiple television channels are presented. A plurality of sets of television channels may be identified. An interface may be output for presentation, the interface presenting indications of each of the plurality of sets of television channels and a plurality of input elements associated with the plurality of sets of television channels. User input may be received via one or more of the plurality of input elements indicative of one or more sets of television channels of the plurality of sets of television channels to be recorded. Dates and times at which the one or more sets of television channels are to be recorded may be determined. The one or more sets of television channels may be recorded at the determined dates and the determined times.
US09854289B2	Secure multimedia transfer system A method and apparatus for secure multimedia transfer provides an encrypted data transfer system that makes transferring multimedia content from a client to any incompatible system or to a system outside the location of the client very difficult.
US09854288B2	Method and system for analysis of sensory information to estimate audience reaction A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform operations, for example, including determining a first correlation value between a behavior of a first audience member and a subject matter being presented at a display processor, wherein the subject matter being presented at the display is observable by the first audience member. A second correlation value is determined between the behavior of the first audience member and a characteristic of an environment in a vicinity of the display and the first audience member. Responsive to the second correlation value exceeding the first correlation value, a determination is made as to whether a present channel selection resulting from user input initiated by the first audience member is responsive to the characteristic of the environment influencing the audience member more than the subject matter being presented at the display. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09854285B1	Popular media items data set with exponential decay A processing device computes scores for a plurality of media items. A score for a media item is computed based on a plurality of positive user actions associated with the media item. The media items are ranked based on the scores. One or more of the media items that have not been featured by any source external to the content hosting platform are identified. A popular media item data set is then created, based on the ranking, with highest ranked media items that have been featured by at least one source external to the content hosting platform.
US09854281B2	Systems and methods for media packaging The invention relates to a method for packaging media and data for transmission over a broadband communications network link for display at a terminal destination. Features of the method included creating desired media segments for transmission to the terminal destination and for creating targeting information, for example in whole or in part in the form of metadata, for transmission to the terminal destination. Other features include packaging the created media segments and the created targeting information in a single package and unpacking the single package for display of the targeted media at the terminal destination. In another aspect, the invention can provide a method for unpacking media and data for display at a terminal destination implementing, at the terminal destination, receiving a single package containing media segments and instructions regarding handling of the media segments, quickly unpacking the media segments and the instructions from the single package and, based on the unpacked instructions, assembling one or more of the media segments for display at the terminal destination.
US09854280B2	Apparatus and methods for selective enforcement of secondary content viewing Methods and apparatus for selectively enforcing required insertion or viewing of secondary content, such as advertisements or promotions, in a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the network is a managed network (e.g., cable television, satellite, or the like), and the method includes identifying secondary content with a particular attribute or property (e.g., an advertisement that a user has watched before), and selectively enabling one or more “trick mode” functions relating to that secondary content. In one implementation, audio codes or watermarks are inserted into the secondary content and detected when the content is accessed or rendered; if the detected content matches a database or listing of previously played content for that user or premises, the trick mode functionality (e.g., FF or “skip”) is enabled, thereby allowing the user to bypass the content.
US09854273B2	Method of decoding moving pictures in intra prediction A method of decoding an image is discussed. The method includes deriving an intra prediction mode, generating reference pixels on an unavailable position if there exist unavailable reference pixels of a current block, determining whether reference pixels of the current block are filtered or not based on the derived intra prediction mode and a block size of the current block, filtering the reference pixels of the current block using a filter; and generating a prediction block of the current block according to the derived intra prediction mode of the current block and the reference pixels. The filter is selected based on the block size of the current block and a difference between reference pixels, and the reference pixels of the current block are not filtered in a vertical mode.
US09854271B2	Hybrid video coding supporting intermediate view synthesis Hybrid video decoder supporting intermediate view synthesis of an intermediate view video from a first- and a second-view video which are predictively coded into a multi-view data signal with frames of the second-view video being spatially subdivided into sub-regions and the multi-view data signal having a prediction mode is provided, having: an extractor configured to respectively extract, from the multi-view data signal, for sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, a disparity vector and a prediction residual; a predictive reconstructor configured to reconstruct the sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, by generating a prediction from a reconstructed version of a portion of frames of the first-view video using the disparity vectors and a prediction residual for the respective sub-regions; and an intermediate view synthesizer configured to reconstruct first portions of the intermediate view video.
US09854270B2	Device and method for scalable coding of video information An apparatus configured to code video information includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store video information associated with a first video layer having a current picture. The processor is configured to process a first offset associated with the current picture, the first offset indicating a difference between (a) most significant bits (MSBs) of a first picture order count (POC) of a previous picture in the first video layer that precedes the current picture in decoding order and (b) MSBs of a second POC of the current picture.
US09854267B2	Picture decoding method for decoding coded picture data and performing distortion removal by comparing pixel difference values with threshold A picture decoding method is provided for decoding coded picture data. The decoding method includes decoding coded picture data to obtain a first transform block and an adjacent second transform block in a reconstructed picture having a plurality of blocks forming a moving picture image. The decoding method also includes determining whether the first transform block is located inside a motion-compensation block in which the second transform block is located. The decoding method further includes performing a filtering on pixels in a block boundary between the first and second transform blocks when the first transform block is located outside the motion-compensation block in which the second transform block is located, and performing no filtering on the pixels in the block boundary between the first and second transform blocks when the first transform block is located inside the motion-compensation block in which the second transform block is located.
US09854266B2	Picture encoding device, picture encoding method, picture encoding program, picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program A candidate list construction unit selects a plurality of blocks each having one or two pieces of motion information containing at least information about a motion vector and information about a reference picture from a plurality of neighboring encoded blocks of an encoding target block and constructs a candidate list containing candidates of the motion information used for the motion compensation prediction from the motion information of the selected blocks. A selected candidate generator generates a new candidate of the motion information by combining the motion information of a first prediction list derived by the first motion information deriving unit and the motion information of the second prediction list derived by a second motion information deriving unit.
US09854255B2	Electronic apparatus, and method and computer-readable medium for the same An electronic apparatus including an input unit configured to separate image data into pixel blocks and serially input luminance data and color difference data of each pixel block as individual pieces of block data, respectively, a quantization unit configured to serially convert each piece of the block data into quantized data, an encoding unit configured to serially convert each piece of the quantized data into encoded data, a color generation unit configured to generate compressed color image data using the encoded data, and a monochrome generation unit configured to generate compressed monochrome image data using the encoded data by performing one of deleting particular pieces of encoded data corresponding to the color difference data from a data sequence of the encoded data generated through the conversion by the encoding unit, and replacing the particular pieces of encoded data with encoded data corresponding to monochrome color difference data.
US09854252B2	Method and apparatus of HEVC de-blocking filter A method of de-blocking filtering a processed video is provided. The processed video includes a plurality of blocks and each block includes a plurality of sub-blocks. A current block of the plurality of blocks includes vertical edges and horizontal edges. The processed video further includes a set of control parameters and reconstructed pixels corresponding to the current block. A boundary strength index is estimated at the vertical edges and at the horizontal edges of the current block. The set of control parameters, the reconstructed pixels corresponding to the current block and partially filtered pixels corresponding to a set of adjacent sub-blocks are loaded. The vertical edges and the horizontal edges of the current block are filtered based on the boundary strength index and the set of control parameters such that a vertical edge of the current block is filtered before filtering at least one horizontal edge of the current block.
US09854248B2	Inter-prediction method and apparatus for same An inter-prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving motion information of a current block; and generating a prediction block for the current block on the basis of the derived motion information. According to the present invention, computational complexity can be reduced and encoding efficiency can be improved.
US09854245B2	Method and apparatus for coefficient scan based on partition mode of prediction unit Provided are a method and an apparatus for coefficient scan on the base of a partition mode of a prediction unit. The method comprises the steps of: determining a scan method on the basis of a partition mode of a prediction unit; and encoding the information about the scan method, wherein the scan method is determined, on the basis of RDO (Rate Distortion optimization), from among the extracted candidate scan methods which have been extracted with consideration of the shapes of the partitions of the partition mode.
US09854240B2	Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus includes an inter-pixel filter having filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The inter-pixel filter includes filters having different filtering strengths. The coding apparatus also includes a filter processing control unit for determining a filtering strength of the inter-pixel filter.
US09854238B2	Video encoding apparatus, video encoding method, and video encoding computer program In a video encoding apparatus, an encoder for encoding a first region of a picture includes: an inhibited block identifying unit which identifies a first inhibit target sub-block that is contained within the first region and that may select a motion vector of a referenced block contained in a second region of an already encoded picture, the second region being a region encoded by another encoder, as a prediction vector for the motion vector of the first sub-block when an inter-predictive coding mode is applied; and a predictive encoding unit which uses a motion vector other than the motion vector of the referenced block as the prediction vector when encoding a second inhibit target sub-block by using the inter-predictive coding mode, wherein the second inhibit target sub-block is a sub-block that contains the first inhibit target sub-block and at which the inter-predictive coding mode is applied.
US09854237B2	AMVP and merge candidate list derivation for intra BC and inter prediction unification A method of decoding video data comprising receiving a first block of video data in a first frame of video data, the first block of video data being encoded relative to a first predictive block in the first frame of video data, the first predictive block being identified by a block vector, and decoding the block vector using a motion vector prediction process and a same motion vector candidate list as used for decoding a motion vector, wherein the motion vector is used to identify an inter-frame predictive block for a second block of video data coded using inter coding.
US09854236B2	Cell-based compression with edge detection An example embodiment may involve obtaining an a×b pixel macro-cell from an input image. Pixels in the a×b pixel macro-cell may have respective pixel values and may be associated with respective tags. It may be determined whether at least e of the respective tags indicate that their associated pixels represent edges in the input image. Based on this determination, either a first encoding or a second encoding of the a×b pixel macro-cell may be selected. The first encoding may weigh pixels that represent edges in the input image heavier than pixels that do not represent edges in the input image, and the second encoding might not consider whether pixels represent edges. The selected encoding may be performed and written to a computer-readable output medium.
US09854235B2	Methods and devices for entropy coding in scalable video compression Methods and devices for decoding, in a video decoder, a block of enhancement-layer transform domain data for an enhancement-layer encoded video and corresponding to a reconstructed block of reference-layer transform domain data, are provided. The method includes determining a context for an enhancement-layer element based, at least in part, upon elements in the corresponding reconstructed block of reference-layer transform domain data, wherein the elements are identified by a template and wherein the position of the template in the reference-layer reconstructed block is based upon the position of that enhancement-layer element in the block of enhancement-layer transform domain data.
US09854225B2	Imaging unit including a chassis and heat transfer member An imaging unit includes a plurality of imaging devices configured to capture images of an object; a circuit substrate configured to generate image data based on the images captured by the imaging devices; a chassis that holds the imaging devices; and a heat transfer member including a contacting portion configured to contact an installed member in a case where the imaging unit is installed on the installed member. The heat transfer member contacts the chassis or the circuit substrate, and heat conductivity of the heat transfer member is greater than the heat conductivity of the chassis.
US09854216B2	Image pickup apparatus that displays image based on signal output from image pickup device, method of controlling the same, and storage medium An image pickup apparatus that makes it unnecessary to temporarily stop image pickup performed by an image pickup device to thereby improve operability of the image pickup apparatus, and achieves power saving. In an image pickup apparatus having an electronic viewfinder function, first image signals for live view are acquired by thinning read lines of an image pickup device, and second image signals for AF evaluation value calculation are acquired from the other read lines at a higher speed than the first image signals, for simultaneous output with the first image signals. Reading of the second image signals is started when the state of the object of image data changed or when one photographing mode is changed to another by a user's operation, and is terminated when a reading termination condition set in advance in association with the reading start condition is satisfied.
US09854215B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus generates image data for projection by applying a deformation process to obtained image data based on an input parameter related to the deformation process. The image processing apparatus prohibits execution of the deformation process if it is determined that a magnification related to the deformation process based on the input parameter with respect to the obtained image data is out of a predetermined range.
US09854214B2	Video projector system Some embodiments provide for a modular video projector system having a light engine module and an optical engine module. The light engine module can provide narrow-band laser light to the optical engine module which modulates the laser light according to video signals received from a video processing engine. Some embodiments provide for an optical engine module having a sub-pixel generator configured to display video or images at a resolution of at least four times greater than a resolution of modulating elements within the optical engine module. Systems and methods for reducing speckle are presented in conjunction with the modular video projector system.
US09854209B2	Display system utilizing vehicle and trailer dynamics A vehicle and trailer display system is disclosed. The display system includes a plurality of imaging devices disposed on the vehicle, each having a field of view. The display system further includes a screen disposed in the vehicle operable to display images from the imaging devices. A controller is in communication with the imaging devices and the screen and is operable to receive a hitch angle corresponding to the angle between the vehicle and the trailer. Based on the hitch angle, the controller is operable to select a field of view of an imaging device to display on the screen.
US09854208B2	System and method for detecting an object of interest A system and method for detecting an object of interest. An embodiment of a system or method may include receiving an indication an object of interest is present in a first area; obtaining, at the first area, a first set of unique characteristics of a respective set of mobile communication devices; receiving an indication the object of interest is present in a second area; obtaining, at the second area, a second set of characteristics of a respective second set of mobile communication devices; and associating a unique characteristic of a mobile communication device with the object of interest based on the first and second sets of characteristics.
US09854207B2	Mobile surveillance system A system and method comprising a mobile device in communication with a server, wherein the server is adapted for receiving surveillance data transferred electronically from a surveillance area. At least one camera is positioned at the surveillance area for capturing surveillance data, wherein the surveillance data comprises metadata comprising at least one of audio, video, images, point in time and location of the surveillance area. The surveillance data is transferred from the server to said mobile device and displayed on the mobile device upon a user request. The surveillance data may be transferred automatically using a combination of a radio, a network, or a base station. A motion detection means can be engaged to the system to detect variations in motion measurements and provide global positioning data at the surveillance area. The system provides automatic updates to a user regarding delivery surveillance data corresponding to the user request.
US09854204B2	Communication system and method for controlling the same A communication system includes, a first projection unit configured to project an image on a first projection surface, an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an object positioned in front of the first projection surface, a determination unit configured to determine a processing parameter for image processing to be performed on the object image captured by the imaging unit, based on a distance between the first projection surface and the object, a processing unit configured to perform the image processing on the object image based on the processing parameter determined by the determination unit, and a second projection unit configured to project the object image having undergone the image processing on a second projection surface.
US09854201B2	Dynamically updating quality to higher chroma sampling rate Innovations in encoding of video pictures in a high-resolution chroma sampling format (such as YUV 4:4:4) using a video encoder operating on coded pictures in a low-resolution chroma sampling format (such as YUV 4:2:0) are presented. For example, according to a set of decision rules, high chroma resolution details are selectively encoded on a region-by-region basis such that increases in bit rate (due to encoding of sample values for the high chroma resolution details) happen when and where corresponding increases in chroma resolution are likely to improve quality in noticeable ways. In this way, available encoders operating on coded pictures in the low-resolution chroma sampling format can be effectively used to provide high chroma resolution details.
US09854199B2	Multiple outlet digital video recording system A multimedia time warping system allows a user to store selected multimedia data streams while the user is simultaneously watching or reviewing other multimedia data. Data streams are converted to digital streams for internal transfer and manipulation. A parser and event buffer decouple the CPU from having to parse the digital stream. Video segments are stored on a storage device and when data is requested for display, its video segments are extracted from the storage device and sent to a decoder that converts them into display output signals and delivers the display output signals to a display.
US09854197B2	Television protection and carrying device The present invention provides methods and systems for a television protection and carrying device that includes a television protection and carrying device that includes a top portion with a base portion, a first end, a second end, and two sides, and a bottom portion with a first end, a second end and two sides. A receptacle disposed within each side of the bottom portion for receiving the second end of the top portion for selectively securing the top portion to the bottom portion, and a television is positioned within the top portion.
US09854196B2	Head-mounted electronic device and audio processing method A head-mounted electronic device and an audio processing method includes a fixing unit, by which the head-mounted electronic device can be worn on the wearer's head; a processing unit, provided in the fixing unit and configured to perform audio processing and output a first audio signal; a first bone conduction unit, provided on the inner side of the fixing unit, configured to generate vibrations according to the first audio signal, so that the wearer can hear the first audio through the generated vibration, wherein the inner side of the fixing unit is the side which is closer to the wearer's head when the head-mounted electronic device is worn on the wearer's head, and when the head-mounted electronic device is worn on the wearer's head, the first bone conduction unit contacts the wearer's head, so wearer can sense vibrations generated by the first bone conduction unit.
US09854194B2	CMOS active pixel structure The invention concerns a structure of a CMOS active pixel, comprising a semi-conductive substrate (1) of a first type, at least one first photodiode operating in photovoltaic mode comprising a photovoltaic conversion area (2) defined by a doped area of a second type forming a PN junction with the substrate, said first photodiode re-emitting photoelectric charge carriers collected by the PN junction during the exposure of said first photodiode to a light, at least one second photodiode operating in integration mode and reverse-biased, said second photodiode comprising a charge accumulation area (3) defined by a doped area of the second type forming a PN junction with the substrate, said charge accumulation area being exposed to the charge carriers from the photovoltaic conversion area (2) in order to accumulate such charge carriers.
US09854191B2	Solid-state image sensor and driving method There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a pixel circuit including a plurality of pixels and imaging a subject, a peripheral circuit provided in a vicinity of the pixel circuit and performing operation in regard to imaging, and a connection element electrically connecting, in initialization of the pixels, elements in the pixels to which a predetermined voltage is applied for initializing the pixels to the peripheral circuit with the predetermined voltage.
US09854189B2	Imaging element and electronic apparatus with improved wiring layer configuration An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion section and a wiring layer. The photoelectric conversion section is configured to photoelectrically convert light incident from a subject. The wiring layer is provided on an opposite side of the subject with respect to the photoelectric conversion section and includes a wire connected to an element that constitutes a pixel including the photoelectric conversion section. The wire includes a plurality of wires extending long in a predetermined direction. The plurality of wires are arranged in a direction almost perpendicular to the predetermined direction in the wiring layer. The wire is provided with a protrusion protruding in a direction different from the predetermined direction.
US09854182B2	Folded optic array camera using refractive prisms Aspects relate to a prism array camera having a wide field of view. For example, the prism array camera can use a central refractive prism, for example with multiple surfaces or facets, to split incoming light comprising the target image into multiple portions for capture by the sensors in the array. The prism can have a refractive index of approximately 1.5 or higher, and can be shaped and positioned to reduce chromatic aberration artifacts and increase the FOV of a sensor. In some examples a negative lens can be incorporated into or attached to a camera-facing surface of the prism to further increase the FOV.
US09854180B2	Optical filtering for electronic devices In one embodiment, a camera includes an image sensor within a camera housing that converts light entering the camera housing through an optical filter into digital image data. The optical filter can have a variable opacity. A processor in communication with the image sensor identifies operation settings for the optical filter and adjusts an opacity level of the optical filter over an exposure period in accordance with the operation settings for the optical filter. In addition, the processor modifies values of the digital image data based at least on the operation settings for the optical filter.
US09854171B2	Image stabilizing apparatus and method based on a predicted movement position Provided are an image stabilizing apparatus and method thereof. The image stabilizing apparatus performs image stabilization by using both an image sensor and a motion sensor. Image distortion and movement are stably corrected by using both the position of a feature point, which is extracted by the image sensor and image processing, and the movement position of the feature point, which is predicted by the motion sensor.
US09854170B2	Rolling shutter blur reduction using motion data Embodiments relate to adjusting an image frame based on motion sensor data. An image frame including image data for a plurality of rows of the image frame is captured sequentially row-by-row. Motion sensor data corresponding to the image frame is also captured. Motion vectors describing motion between each row of the image frame are determined based on the motion sensor data. An image data translation is calculated for each row of image frame based on the motion vector for the row. The image frame is adjusted based on the image data translation for each row of the image frame to generate an adjusted image frame.
US09854169B2	Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine an optical transfer function based on shooting condition information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire shake information, a control unit configured to select a method of image restoration based on the optical transfer function and the shake information, and an image restoration unit configured to perform the image restoration based on the selected method of the image restoration.
US09854168B2	One-pass video stabilization A device is disclosed comprising a memory configured for holding video and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory contains computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the device to perform operations to stabilize the video, the operations comprising buffering consecutive original video frames, determining transformation matrices from subsets of the original video frames, wherein the transformation matrices represent estimates of stable camera motion, using the transformation matrices to warp the original video frames and generate video that is stabilized relative to the original video frames, and adjusting a size of a subset of original video frames in response to detecting a condition.
US09854157B1	Camera with touch sensor integrated with lens window A camera comprises a camera body, an image sensor internal to the camera body for capturing images, a lens assembly, a display screen on an external face of the camera body, and a touch controller. The lens assembly comprises one or more lens elements to direct light to the image sensor. The one or more lens elements includes a lens window on the external face of the camera body that comprises a transparent integrated touch sensor to detect a position of a touch on the lens window and to generate a touch signal indicating the position of the touch. The touch controller processes the touch signal and updates a display on the display screen in response to the touch signal.
US09854154B2	Infrared recording device and infrared recording method An infrared recording device and infrared recording method in the invention relates to an infrared recording device and an application field of infrared detection. In the prior art, corresponding record between infrared files and object information is inconvenient. According to the infrared recording device and infrared recording method in the invention, based on prestored object information, special object information is designated, and the object information is record with the infrared file when recording. It is not necessary or is convenient to find and select the object information. Thereby, the present problems are solved.
US09854153B2	Imaging apparatus, and a method of controlling imaging apparatus using an imaging surface correction map for performing corrections An imaging apparatus receive light fluxes passing through and incident on different pupil regions of an imaging optical system and generates at least image data of one pair of subject images. Imaging surface correction information regarding a manufacturing error or optical characteristics of design of an imaging lens is transmitted from a lens control unit of the imaging lens to a system control unit of a camera body, and then the system control unit receives the imaging surface correction information. The system control unit performs a process of generating a defocus map based on a parallax between at least one pair of images and performs imaging surface correction through correction of the calculated defocus amount. In the imaging surface correction process, influences of the optical characteristics of the imaging lens and an inclination of an imaging surface of an image sensor are corrected, and thus a more accurate distance map is generated.
US09854151B2	Imaging device and focusing control method The present invention provides an imaging device and a focusing control method capable of enhancing accuracy of moving subject estimation while reducing the computation of the moving subject estimation used in a case of continuously performing focusing with respect to the moving subject. A system control unit (11) predicts a subject distance in an imaging process of a third frame from information about subject distances obtained in an imaging process of a first frame and an imaging process of a second frame, calculates an error with respect to the predicted subject distance from information about a maximum error with respect to a focus lens position to be calculated, and performs lens driving based on a predicted focus lens position instead of a focusing control based on the predicted subject distance in a case that the error of the subject distance is large.
US09854150B2	Auto-focus control in a camera to prevent oscillation A method and device for auto-focus control in an imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes a lens. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining a first lens position phase difference; after obtaining the first lens position phase difference, detecting lens movement; obtaining a second lens position phase difference; comparing the second lens position phase difference to the first lens position phase difference to determine whether the second lens position phase difference is greater than the first lens position phase difference; and in response to determining that the second lens position phase difference is greater than the first lens position phase difference, determining autofocus settings by a contrast detection method.
US09854149B2	Image processing apparatus capable of obtaining an image focused on a plurality of subjects at different distances and control method thereof An image capture apparatus derives a frequency distribution of subject distances from captured images, selects a plurality of subject distances based on peaks in the frequency of appearance, and acquires a plurality of captured images whose focus distances are the plurality of selected subject distances, enabling an image focused on a plurality of subjects at different distances to be efficiently obtained.
US09854144B2	Lens moving apparatus Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a first magnet, a housing, a bobbin, around which a coil is wound and which moves in a first direction in the housing, an upper elastic member disposed on upper surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member disposed under lower surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, and a damping member disposed between the upper or lower elastic member and the bobbin.
US09854143B2	Mobile device and optical imaging lens thereof Present embodiments may provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens may comprise an aperture stop and five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least one inequality, the optical imaging lens may exhibit better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
US09854139B2	Lifelog camera and method of controlling same using voice triggers A lifelog camera is configured to capture the digital image without user input upon detection of a sound-based trigger in an audio signal output by a microphone present at the lifelog camera. The sound-based trigger is indicative of activity of the user or another person near the user.
US09854135B2	Information processing apparatus and recording medium An information processing apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not there is a bias in jobs distributed to a plurality of printers to be used in a distributed printing system. In addition, in a case where there is a bias in distributed jobs, the information processing apparatus decides a color correction target to be applied to a printer having a small number of distributed jobs and resulting in an unused state, applies the decided color correction target to the printer having a small number of jobs, to thereby decide a timing of performing color adjustment on the printer having a small number of jobs. The printer having a small number of jobs and resulting in an unused state is subjected to color adjustment at the decided timing.
US09854134B2	Color processing apparatus and color processing method When performing color conversion using a color conversion table which has signal values of an output color space corresponding to grid points dividing an input color space into a plurality of unit cubes, a quadrant to which an input signal belongs is determined, in a chromaticity plane perpendicular to a lightness axis of the input color space. A unit cube to which the input signal belongs is detected in the plurality of unit cubes. The detected unit cube is divided into a plurality of polyhedrons for interpolation operation by a segmentation method corresponding to the determined quadrant. The divide of the detected unit cube is performed along a direction of a diagonal line, which passes through an origin of the chromaticity plane, in a part of the plurality of unit cubes in accordance with the segmentation method.
US09854132B2	Image processing apparatus, data registration method, and data registration program An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; an image extraction unit configured to extract an image of a predetermined shape from a captured image being the image of the subject captured and output by the imaging unit; and a registration unit configured to, upon the image extraction unit extracting a first image identifying input data and a second image identifying a storage area, store the input data identified by the first image in the storage area identified by the second image.
US09854130B2	Image reading apparatus and semiconductor device An image reading apparatus includes an image reading chip for reading an image. The image reading chip includes a plurality of pixel units which include a light receiving element which receives light from the image so as to perform photoelectric conversion, an analog circuit, a logic circuit, and a power source pad to which a power source voltage is supplied. The image reading chip has a shape which includes a first side and a second side shorter than the first side. A distance between the analog circuit and a median point of the first side is shorter than a distance between the logic circuit and the median point of the first side, and a distance between the analog circuit and the power source pad is shorter than a distance between the logic circuit and the power source pad.
US09854128B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method for detecting bad blocks in auxiliary memory Image forming apparatus 1 that shortens warm-up time is provided. Accordingly, image forming apparatus 1 is an asymmetrical multiprocessing configuration provided with auxiliary memory part 21 shared between main control part 10 and sub control part 11. Use area 300 is an area accessed by main control part 10. Use area 301 is an area accessed by sub control part 11. Use area specifying part 100 specifies for use area 300 and use area specifying part 101 specifies for use area 301, respectively, by use area specifying table 210. Defective area table making part 110 makes defective area table 200 by searching whether or not a defective area only for use area 300 and set as a defective area for the other area. Defective area table making part 111 makes defective area table 201 by searching use area 301, similarly, and set as the defective area for the other area.
US09854123B2	On net faxing Distribution of electronic documents is described, including receiving an electronic document to be distributed, identifying whether a destination identifier is associated with a destination account among a known group of customer accounts, routing the electronic document, and calculating a fee associated with delivery of the electronic document based on whether the destination account is among the known group of customers and a set of billing rules. The set of billing rules may specify a discounted fee for routing an electronic document to each of a known group of customer accounts. In other aspects, the set of billing rules may specify a discounted fee for routing an electronic document to a first group of the known group of customer accounts and specify a standard fee for a second group of the known group of customer accounts.
US09854122B2	Image forming apparatus, data management method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes a state management unit that shifts an authentication state from a non-login state to a login state, a storage unit that stores setting information, and a data management unit that, in a case where a free space of the storage unit is less than a threshold value, deletes the setting information stored in the storage unit at a timing of shifting from the non-login state to the login state and secure a free space greater than or equal to the threshold value in the storage unit.
US09854118B2	Image reading apparatus A transmission light source unit includes a first light source portion including: a first light source; and a first light guide that shapes light emitted by the first light source into a line and emits the light toward a conveyance path of a paper sheet. An image sensor unit includes: a second light source portion that emits light toward the conveyance path of the paper sheet; and an image sensor that detects the light emitted by the first light source portion and transmitted through the paper sheet and the light emitted by the second light source portion and reflected by the paper sheet. A first light diffusing surface of the first light guide is provided with at least one of concave portions and convex portions including inclined surfaces and inclined relative to a normal line of the first light emission surface.
US09854115B2	Document reading apparatus and a method for controlling a document reading apparatus It is possible to read a document at an optimal speed according to an operation mode selected by a user while improving productivity at a low cost, without forcing the user to perform a complicated operation for changing a document reading speed. A method for controlling a reading unit to read a document with a first reading resolution in a case where a reading resolution is the first reading resolution, to read a document with a second reading resolution in a case where the reading resolution is the second reading resolution smaller than the first reading resolution and a predetermined mode is not set, and to read a document with the first reading resolution in a case where the reading resolution is the second reading resolution smaller than the first reading resolution and the predetermined mode is set.
US09854112B2	Information display apparatus, information providing apparatus, and communication system A communication system includes an information display apparatus and an information providing apparatus which perform communication with each other. The information display apparatus transmits, through the network, an information transmission request for requesting transmission of specific information related to the information providing apparatus to a plurality of apparatuses connected to the network by broadcast communication, receives the specific information transmitted, through the network, from the information providing apparatus to a plurality of apparatuses connected to the network by broadcast communication, as a response to the information transmission request, and controls a display unit to display the specific information received as the response to the information transmission request.
US09854104B2	Method and system for dynamic trunk group based call routing Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for providing routing of a communication received at a telecommunications network based on a unique identifier. In particular, a telecommunications network may route one or more communications based on a dynamically updated trunk group identifier associated with an egress user. Thus, in addition to routing the communication based on a telephone number or Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with a user, the network may also route the communication based upon a dynamically updated trunk group identifier included in an updated routing function of the network.
US09854101B2	Methods and apparatuses for echo cancellation with beamforming microphone arrays This disclosure describes a method to manufacture a conferencing apparatus for echo cancelation with beamforming microphone arrays. This method provides a beamforming microphone array for developing a plurality of microphone signals, where each microphone of the beamforming microphone array is configured to sense acoustic waves from a direction vector substantially different from other microphones in the beamforming microphone array. Additionally provided is a memory configured for storing computing instructions. Operably coupled is a processor that executes computing instructions to:perform a beamforming operation to combine the plurality of microphone signals to a plurality of combined signals that includes a number of signals between one and a number of signals in the plurality of microphone signals, each of the plurality of combined signals corresponding to a different fixed beam; andperform an acoustic echo cancelation operation on the plurality of combined signals to generate a plurality of combined echo-canceled signals.
US09854091B2	Fault routing of an emergency communication Aspects of the disclosure relate to routing of an emergency communication under fault conditions. Routing can be implemented in a packet-switching (PS) network that provides voice service. For a network node of the PS network, availability to route the emergency communication through a specific emergency service routing number (ESRN) can be determined and, in response to the network node being unavailable, administrative data associated with the ESRN can be accessed. In addition, an identifier associated with the administrative data can be updated (e.g., created or modified) with data indicative of the device that originated the emergency communication. The administrative data and the resulting identifier can be delivered to a second network node that can route the emergency communication to an emergency service network.
US09854089B1	Managing and enabling interaction with communication information A communications device receives a trigger event and, in response to the trigger event, retrieves identification information and identifies a correspondent entity associated with the trigger event based on the identification information. Communication information relating to one or more communications events associated with the correspondent entity is then retrieved, organized, and displayed in one or more views on the communications device.
US09854088B2	Method to tag a phone call to communicate purpose of the call Phone calls may be tagged with the importance or the context of the call to be displayed along with the caller ID information on the display of a receiving phone. The context information is thus made available even before the call is answered to aid the user in determining whether or not to answer the call or how long thereafter it would be appropriate to wait before the call is returned.
US09854087B1	Contraband wireless communications device identification in controlled-environment facilities Systems and methods for identification of a controlled-environment facility resident in possession of a contraband communications device capture or otherwise accept managed access data and/or contraband communications device assessment data for contraband communications devices operating in the controlled-environment facility. Controlled-environment facility resident call data for each resident of the controlled-environment facility is gathered from the controlled-environment facility resident communications system. Correlations in the managed access data and/or assessment data with the controlled-environment facility resident communications system call data are analyzed to identify each resident of the controlled-environment facility in possession of a contraband communications device.
US09854084B2	Contextual alarm and notification management Systems and methods are disclosed for managing alarms and notifications pursuant to contextual cues pertaining to the persisting relevance or utility of such alarms and notifications. The systems and methods involve receiving, at a local computing device comprising an output device, the output device configured to output at least one of visual, aural, and tactile output, input instructing the output device to provide output in the form of a notification at a predetermined time. The systems and methods further involve receiving contextual information at a notification manager, analyzing the contextual information at the notification manager, and cancelling, suppressing, or replacing the notification at the local computing device based on the analysis of the contextual information.
US09854078B2	Display device A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a sound element on a rear side of the display panel; and a rear chassis configured to receive the display panel and protect the rear side of the display panel, and including a protruding portion protruding away from the rear side of the display panel and corresponding to the sound element. The sound element includes a pair of electrodes, and a vibration material layer between the electrodes.
US09854075B2	Portable communication devices with accessory functions and related methods Portable communication devices and related methods for use in supporting voice and/or data communication are provided. One example portable communication device includes a housing, an interface connector disposed at the housing. The interface connector is configured to couple to an accessory module configured to provide at least one accessory function. The example portable communication device also includes a processor disposed at least partially within the housing. The processor is coupled to the interface connector and is configured to determine whether a coupled accessory module is an approved module for use with the portable communication device, based on an identity of the accessory module, and if the accessory module is an approved module, enable power at the interface connector such that communication between the portable communication device and the accessory module is permitted.
US09854074B2	Case for electronic devices An external device for an electronic device includes a first cover portion configured to cover at least a portion of the electronic device, an insert coupled to the first cover portion, and a second cover portion coupled to the insert and covering at least a portion of the insert. At least an outer layer of the first cover portion or the second cover portion is made of a non-moldable material. The insert includes various mechanical structures and electrical circuits.
US09854073B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal including of a terminal body having a front side and a rear side, a mobile communication module configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal, a touch screen disposed at the front side, a battery, a battery cover disposed at the rear side, the battery cover having a first through hole and a second through hole, a camera exposed to an outside of the terminal body at the first through hole of the battery cover, an input unit configured to receive an input, the input unit being exposed to an outside of the terminal body at the second through hole of the battery cover and a controller configured to process the input as control commands for different functions according to operating states of the mobile terminal. Further, a first function to release a locked state of the mobile terminal is performed based on a first input applied in a first state that a lock screen is displayed on the touch screen, a second function to connect an incoming call is performed based on a second input applied in a second state that a screen indicating the incoming call is displayed on the touch screen, and a third function to capture an image through the camera is performed based on a third input applied in a third state that a camera preview is displayed on the touch screen.
US09854072B1	Script-controlled egress packet modifier An egress packet modifier includes a script parser and a pipeline of processing stages. Rather than performing egress modifications using a processor that fetches and decodes and executes instructions in a classic processor fashion, and rather than storing a packet in memory and reading it out and modifying it and writing it back, the packet modifier pipeline processes the packet by passing parts of the packet through the pipeline. A processor identifies particular egress modifications to be performed by placing a script code at the beginning of the packet. The script parser then uses the code to identify a specific script of opcodes, where each opcode defines a modification. As a part passes through a stage, the stage can carry out the modification of such an opcode. As realized using current semiconductor fabrication process, the packet modifier can modify 200M packets/second at a sustained rate of up to 100 gigabits/second.
US09854070B2	Transmission control protocol (TCP) data handling A method for handling transmission control protocol (TCP) data between networked computer nodes during blackout periods associated with live kernel updating is provided. The method includes initiating a live kernel update on a first node, transmitting, prior to performing a network blocking procedure associated with the live kernel update, a zero window update to one or more peer nodes, generating a surrogate partition associated with the first node, copying network states from an original partition associated with the first node to the surrogate partition, restoring the network states on the surrogate partition, and transmitting another window update to the one or more peer nodes.
US09854068B2	System and method for providing a dynamic invocation and service interface for use in a middleware or other environment A system and method for providing a dynamic invocation and service interface for use in a middleware or other environment. At the service-side, messages can be inserted into an inbound processing chain. After service-side inbound processing, messages are given to the user via a provider request function. The user gives a response by using a provider response function that inserts messages into a service-side outbound processing chain. After service-side outbound processing, messages are given to the user's service response transport. On the client side, the user can insert messages into the outbound processing chain using a dispatcher request. After client-side outbound processing, messages are given to the user's client request transport. This decouples message processing from the transport and makes the message processing asynchronous in nature. When the response is received, a user uses a client response transport function to insert the response into the client-side inbound processing chain.
US09854065B2	System and method for providing virtual spaces for access by users via the web A system configured to provide one or more virtual spaces that are accessible to users. The virtual spaces may be provided such that an enhanced level of interactivity between the virtual spaces and the Web, including resources that communicate with the system via the Internet (e.g., via users, websites, webpages, other web resources, etc.) and/or other networks. To provide this enhanced level of interactivity, the system may enable interactions between an instance of a virtual space and the Web (e.g., queries, commands, communication, administrative controls, etc.) via a standard web protocol, such as a HyperText Transfer Protocol (e.g., http, https, etc.) and/or other standard web protocols. Since interactions take place between the instance of the virtual space and the Web via a standard web protocol, the instance of the virtual space may interact directly with Web resources such as web servers, web browsers, websites, webpages, and/or other Web resources.
US09854062B2	Data relay apparatus and method, server apparatus, and data sending method A relay node includes interfaces, a request statistical table that stores therein information concerning a request in an entry generated for each chunk, a request statistics processor that records a reception time and sending source information concerning a request in the request statistical table, a target request determining unit that determines whether or not a currently received request is a target request, a delay amount determining unit that determines a delay amount for a received request, which is a target request, and a delay processing unit that delays forwarding a received request or content data for a delay amount.
US09854058B2	Proxy-based profile management to deliver personalized services A third-party profile service based on a proxy server model is described, where a user's profile service resides at a URL, in contrast to a profile service that requires federation identity. A profile service is provided that augments location-based services offered by service providers targeting mobile users via, for example, wireless and Wifi Networks. Additional personalization is driven by identity/profile services. Participants in the scenario are not required to share an identity or profile (i.e., static federation is not required). The user establishes a single profile with a trusted provider, hands-off solicitations to a profile agent that operates on behalf of the user to apply policies and preferences. The agent also provides privacy and anonymity (opaqueness).
US09854056B2	Managing system and managing method for transferring data between tenants An instruction to delete a first managing tenant among managing tenants in a system is accepted. Information included in management information of the first managing tenant and customer information unique to a customer managed by the first managing tenant is held as transfer information of the first managing tenant, and is managed using an access authority assigned to information of the customer. The held transfer information of the first managing tenant is transferred to the second management tenant when the second management tenant is determined to be a destination of the transfer from the first managing tenant.
US09854053B1	Providing faster data access using multiple caching servers A method and system for identifying an optimal server to receive requests for network content requested by a user of a network device is provided. A browser application in a network device receives a request for network content from a user and transmits the request to a server. The browser application receives the network content from the server and renders the network content to the user on the network device. Executable code in the rendered network content enables the browser application to identify an optimal server to receive subsequent items of network content requested by the user. When the user selects an item of network content in the rendered network page, the browser application connects to the optimal server to receive subsequent items of network content for the user.
US09854050B1	Providing electronic content based on sensor data Techniques are described for using sensor data derived from a monitoring system to drive personalized content. Sensor data captured by a monitoring system may be used to determine attributes of users of the monitoring system and/or attributes of a property monitored by the monitoring system. The determined attributes may be used to select content to present to users of the monitoring system. Content presentation may be made through the monitoring system and may be triggered based on events detected by the monitoring system.
US09854044B2	Method and arrangement for handling device-to-device communication in a wireless communications network A method in a radio network node for handling a Device-to-Device, D2D, communication is provided. The D2D communication is wireless, and the radio network node is comprised in a wireless communication system. After receiving (201) from a first user equipment, an indication of resources that are currently available in the first user equipment for D2D communication, the radio network node identifies (202) whether or not the first user equipment currently has capacity for a D2D communication based on the received indication. The resources relates to hardware resources, to combined hardware resources and radio resources, or to combined software resources, hardware resources and radio resources.
US09854039B2	Method and system for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to synchronize a larger amount of data. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature can enable more effective synchronization of a user-level sharing entity database with a multi-user on-demand database service.
US09854038B2	Data replication using ephemeral tree structures The disclosure is directed to replicating data across multiple computer nodes (“nodes”) in a distributed computing system. The data is replicated to a significantly large number of servers in two modes—a pull mode and a push mode. In the push mode, data replication is initiated by a publisher node, which replicates the data to the nodes. In the pull mode, data replication is initiated by a node which pulls the data from one of the nodes. The nodes are deployed as an ephemeral tree structure (“tree”) such that data can flow efficiently between nodes of different hierarchical levels of a communication network, e.g., a region, a datacenter, a cluster, and a rack. Data is transmitted across the hierarchical levels from a leader node of one level to a leader node of another level, and from the leader node to the other nodes within the level.
US09854035B2	Maintaining state synchronization of an application between computing devices as well as maintaining state synchronization of common information between different applications without requiring periodic synchronization A method, system and computer program product for maintaining state synchronization of an application between computing devices and maintaining state synchronization of common information between different applications. A server receives a request from a client device to access a shared state scope. A shared state scope is a data store that physically resides on the server, where the data store stores state information. The state information stored in these scopes can be shared among multiple instances of an application residing on multiple client devices. Furthermore, the state information may include common information that is shared among different applications. Upon the server providing access to the requested scope, the server receives an update to the state information stored within the requested scope from the requesting client device. The server then notifies other client devices regarding the update to the state information that have access to the shared state scope.
US09854032B2	Context-aware task offloading among multiple devices The present disclosure relates to offloading computing tasks from a user device to a cloud service. In one embodiment, a method generally includes generating, based on user input, a command for processing by the cloud service. The user device ranks the user device and one or more peer devices in a network based on at least one of information about the user device and one or more peer devices and information about the generated command from the user device and the peer devices, and the user device selects one or more of the user device and the peer devices to transmit the command based on the ranking information. Upon determining that the user device is one of the selected devices, the user device transmits the command to the cloud service. If the user device is not one of the selected devices, the user device discards the generated command.
US09854031B2	Cloud service agent based on service level agreement(SLA) Provided is a cloud service agent based on a Service Level Agreement (SLA). The cloud service agent includes: a cloud service user manager configured to manage information on cloud service users; a cloud service manager configured to register cloud services provided by cloud service providers, and to generate and manage virtual cloud services based on the registered cloud services; a cloud service SLA broker configured to manage a matrix of an Service Level Agreement (SLA) of the cloud services, to measure a quality of the cloud services, and to provide information on the SLA or on the measured quality; and a cloud service executor configured to execute the virtual cloud services generated by the cloud service manager and to provide a result of the execution to the cloud service users.
US09854026B1	Service to invoke companion applications A service to invoke a companion application or service is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to invoke a companion application is received in the context of a display page of a calling application. A service a call comprising a filtered set of data values derived from the display page is sent to an external service. A request associated with the companion application is received from the external service and used to invoke the companion application.
US09854025B2	Soliciting and creating collaborative content items A method for soliciting and creating collaborative content items is disclosed. The method includes identifying contacts of a target user, the contacts each having an affinity score with the target user that exceeds an affinity score threshold value, soliciting, from each of the identified contacts, a content item curated by the identified contact to convey a personalized message to the target user corresponding to an event unique to the target user, receiving the content items from at least a subset of the identified contacts, and providing a collaborative content product comprising the received content items to the target user.
US09854019B2	Method and apparatus for modifying a stream of digital content The invention relates to a method for modifying a stream of digital content received via a first data connection at a reproducing device, the stream of digital content being related to at least one time code. The method comprises the following steps when reproducing the stream of digital content: (a) receiving at least one cue point by the reproducing device via a second data connection; and (b) modifying the stream of digital content by the reproducing device when the at least one time code related to the stream of digital content matches the at least one cue point.
US09854017B2	Resilience in the presence of missing media segments in dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP Systems, methods, and devices enabling scalability to be incorporated into a media presentation such that the media presentation at a client end may be continuous or at least substantially continuous in the presence of missing segment files. In an embodiment, the loss of one or more segment file may not require a media presentation interval associated with the missing segment file to be skipped at the client end. Systems, methods, and devices enable scalability in live streaming and/or on-demand presentations.
US09854016B2	Systems and methods for dynamic access to program features The multimedia client-server system provides a multimedia client program with a set of features and a server system that creates feature access information that determines which features are to be made available to a particular user. The server system may send the feature access information to the user such that the information is accessible to the multimedia client program. The multimedia client program may dynamically control the user's access to the program's feature set by using the feature access information to validate and verify the user. In addition, the feature access information may be accessible to the server system, such that the server system may periodically update the feature access information, such as, for example, when the user accesses the server system to download multimedia content.
US09854015B2	Incident data collection for public protection agencies An approach is provided in which a public protection system sends a data collection request to user devices located within a geographical proximity of an incident in progress that instructs the user devices to capture real-time data corresponding to the incident in progress. The public protection system receives the real-time data from the user devices and determines that a set of the real-time data includes evidence data corresponding to the incident in progress.
US09854013B1	Synchronous communication system and method A method and computing system for providing, using one or more computing devices, a synchronous communication session for a plurality of users of a social network. A first video stream of a first user of the plurality of users is rendered within a primary viewing field associated with the synchronous communication session. A placeholder for the first user of the plurality of users is rendered within a first portion of a secondary viewing field associated with the synchronous communication session. The secondary viewing field includes a plurality of portions. A video stream of the remaining users of the plurality of users is rendered within the remaining portions of the secondary viewing field.
US09854010B2	Smart notifications using a calendar Notifications are delivered to a user based in part on a user's current context. The notifications may be based on personal information (e.g. calendar events, tasks, alerts, and the like) as well as a context of a user. The notifications may be delivered using different types of notifications. The type of notification selected may be based on the current context of the user. Notifications may also be sent to other users (e.g. that are part of a trusted group) in response to a change in state of the event (e.g. the task completed). Instead of a user receiving notifications at preset times, notifications are delivered to the user using their current context. A group member may also create a message to another member requesting an action. When a response is made, the requesting group member receives a notification and the other group members may also receive notifications.
US09854009B2	Method and apparatus for enabling multimedia synchronization Methods and apparatus are described for synchronizing a media presentation on a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). A media session may be synchronized by a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) creating a networked bookmark for a media program at a bookmark-created time; the first WTRU presenting the media program at a bookmark-presentation time, wherein the first WTRU includes in the networked bookmark a suggested presentation offset that indicates an offset in time from the bookmark-created time to the bookmark-presentation time; and the first WTRU transmitting the networked bookmark, including the suggested presentation offset, to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network for use by a second WTRU in replicating, at the second WTRU, the presentation of the media program at the first WTRU.
US09854006B2	System and methods for improving interaction routing performance An interaction router includes a computerized server executing a routing engine stored on a machine-readable medium, an interface at the server receiving information from an interaction switching element, the information regarding an interaction received at the switching element to be routed, an interface at the server to a wide area network (WAN), a function of the routing engine judging if one or more business-logic determinations are to be made to select a routing destination for the interaction, and a function for controlling the switch to route the interaction. If if one or more business-logic determinations are to be made, the routing engine requests the business-logic determination from a remote server over the WAN, and upon receiving the determination from the remote server, uses the determination in controlling the switching element to route the interaction.
US09854001B1	Transparent policies A system enforces policies in connection with requests to access resources. Users are provided the ability to obtain information about the policies the system enforces. Some of the users have associated restrictions such that, when those users request information about the policies, the information provided is incomplete. The information provided may lack information about one or more policies that apply to the users.
US09853997B2	Multi-channel change-point malware detection A malware detection system and method detects changes in host behavior indicative of malware execution. The system uses linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for feature extraction, multi-channel change-point detection algorithms to infer malware execution, and a data fusion center (DFC) to combine local decisions into a host-wide diagnosis. The malware detection system includes sensors that monitor the status of a host computer being monitored for malware, a feature extractor that extracts data from the sensors corresponding to predetermined features, local detectors that perform malware detection on each stream of feature data from the feature extractor independently, and a data fusion center that uses the decisions from the local detectors to infer whether the host computer is infected by malware.
US09853996B2	System and method for identifying and preventing malicious API attacks A system and method for identifying and preventing malicious application programming interface attacks is configured to, during a learning stage: monitor all requests sent to and from the server API; identify one or more first characteristic data points of each request and response sent during the learning stage; and determine, based at least in part on the identified one or more first characteristic data points, one or more characteristic data models, wherein a characteristic data model represents at least one of an expected input to the API and an expected output of the API; and during a protection stage: monitor all requests sent to and from the server API; identify one or more second characteristic data points of each request and response sent during the protection stage; and one of validate and invalidate the identified one or more second characteristic data points against the one or more characteristic data models.
US09853995B2	System and method for restricting pathways to harmful hosts in computer networks System and method for detecting malicious activity in a computer network that includes hosts and connectors between the hosts. Network pathways to a plurality of investigated hosts are explored. A graph is formed based on results of the exploring of the network pathways. The graph represents topology of explored portions of the computer network, including connectors (e.g., communication links) between the investigated hosts and intermediary hosts situated along explored pathways that include the investigated hosts, and an indication of a prevalence of connectors in pathways to each of the investigated hosts. The prevalence of connectors along pathways to each of the investigated hosts is compared against a threshold, and any suspicious host situated along pathways to a common investigated host that is associated with a connector having a low prevalence that is below the prevalence threshold is identified. An access restriction can be associated with the suspicious host.
US09853994B2	Attack analysis system, cooperation apparatus, attack analysis cooperation method, and program In a log analysis cooperation system including a logger that collects a log of a communication device and stores the log in a storage device, a SIEM apparatus that detects an attack, and a log analysis apparatus that analyzes the log collected by the logger, a log analysis cooperation apparatus stores an attack scenario in a storage device, receives from the SIEM apparatus warning information including information on the detected attack, computes a predicted occurrence time of an attack predicted to occur subsequent to the detected attack based on the warning information and the attack scenario, and transmits to the log analysis apparatus a scheduled search to search the log at predicted occurrence time computed. The log analysis apparatus transmits a scheduled search to the logger to search the log at the predicted occurrence time.
US09853993B1	Systems and methods for generation and selection of access rules In some embodiments, a resource security system may determine an access request outcome (e.g., accept, reject, or review) for an access request based on access rules. The resource security system may generate and select the access rules to be used for using stability information. For instance, the resource security system may select a training set from the received access requests, e.g., including recently received access requests, and generate a plurality of potential access rules based on the training set. The resource security system may determine and compare the detection performance and the stability performance of the potential access rules. The resource security system may select the best performing potential access rules to be used in operation for determining the outcome of access requests.
US09853992B1	Cloud service usage risk analysis based on user location A system and method for filtering detected anomalies in cloud service usage activities associated with an enterprise uses a trusted location analysis to filter detected anomalies. The locations from which the cloud usage activities are made are analyzed and designated as trusted or non-trusted. The trusted location determination is used to filter the detected anomalies that are associated with trusted locations and therefore may be of low risk. In this manner, actions can be taken only on detected anomalies that are associated with non-trusted locations and therefore may be high risk. The system and method of the present invention enable security incidents, anomalies and threats from cloud activity to be detected, filtered and annotated based on the location heuristics. The trusted location analysis identifies trusted locations automatically using cloud activity usage data and does not rely on potentially unreliable location data from user input.
US09853991B1	Finding command and control center computers by communication link tracking Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for identifying malware attacks collects data traffic information. A system receives data traffic information indicative of communications between computers within a network and computers external to the network. The system parses the data traffic information to identify communication links between the computers within the network and computers external to the network. The system can generate communication link profiles for each of the computers within the network. The system can then group computers within the network into computer clusters based on similarities between the communication link profiles for each computer. The system can identify computer clusters having anomalous communication patterns as being indicative of a malware attack.
US09853989B2	Smart power background to validate user Technologies are generally described to implement intrusion detection based on smart power background. In some examples, upon detection of an attempt to access a resource, a power line ambiance may be determined at a location of a device on which the attempt to access the resource is executed. The power line ambiance may be based on a connection of the device and/or one or more other devices at the location to a power line. The captured/received power profiles may identify device signatures enabling generation of a digest of the location. An intrusion detection system (IDS), may receive the digest of the location and compare the digest to previous digests associated with an authorized client of the resource to evaluate an authenticity of the attempt. If the authenticity of the attempt is suspicious, the IDS may elevate security by employing one or more verification levels and/or one or more authentication techniques.
US09853988B2	Method and system for detecting threats using metadata vectors An approach for detecting network attacks using metadata vectors may initially involve receiving network communications or packets, extracting metadata items from the packets. The metadata items describe the communications without requiring deep content inspection of the data payload or contents. The communications may be clustered into groups using the metadata items. If a cluster exceeds a threshold, an alarm may be generated.
US09853987B2	Method, apparatus and system for realizing security detection in heterogeneous network Provided are a method, apparatus and system for realizing security detection in a heterogeneous network. UE establishes cross-Evolved NodeB (eNB) double/multiple connections with a MeNB and a LPN in an access network which is a kind of heterogeneous network, the LPN is responsible for data distribution, and the distribution is layered by RB; the MeNB receives a report message from the LPN through a backhaul interface between the MeNB and the LPN, and the report message contains the data count sent/received between the LPN and the UE; and the MeNB transmits CP information with the UE to compare the data counts actually sent/received between the access network and the UE to detect whether there is insertion of an attacker or not. According to the present disclosure, the heterogeneous network is deployed with the MeNB and the LPN, so that joint transmission service is provided for the UE; and moreover, the security performance of the network is further improved, the present disclosure is applicable to various backhauls, and good joint transmission service can be securely and efficiently provided for the UE.
US09853981B2	Handling potential service load interruptions by presenting action items for service requester to complete to increase time to address potential service load interruption A method, system and computer program product for handling potential service load interruptions. The utilization of resources, such as servers in a service infrastructure of a SaaS provider, are monitored. If the utilization of a resource exceeds a threshold, then the resource is identified as having an excessive service load leading to a potential service load interruption. When a request is received from a user requesting to access such a resource, one or more action items to be completed by the user are generated and presented to the user. “Action items” refer to any activity that is required by the user to be performed thereby providing the SaaS provider additional time to address the potential service load interruption in an appropriate manner. Additional action item(s) will be presented to the user until the SaaS provider addresses the potential service load interruption, at which point, the request will be serviced.
US09853974B2	Implementing access control by system-on-chip Systems and methods for implementing access control by systems-on-chip (SoCs). An example SoC may comprise an access control unit employed to: receive a message comprising an access control data item; validate the message using a value of a message digest function of contents of the message and a value of a state variable reflecting a state of communications between the access control unit and a programming agent that has initiated the message, wherein the value of the state variable is derived from a previous value of the message digest function calculated within a current communication session between the access control unit and the programming agent; update the state variable using the value of the message digest function of the contents of the message; and control, using the access control data item, access by an initiator device to a target device.
US09853973B2	Information distribution system, and server, on-board terminal and communication terminal used therefor Inherent terminal identification information and a terminal unique key are stored in an on-board terminal, and server-side terminal identification information and a server-side terminal unique key, which are same information as the above terminal identification information and terminal unique key are stored in a server. And, the on-board terminal transmits the terminal identification information to the server via a communication terminal, and the server performs terminal authentication according to the server-side terminal identification information, and if the authentication is success, transmits encrypted software for the on-board terminal of which authentication was success to the communication terminal. The communication terminal transmits the encrypted software to the on-board terminal, and the on-board terminal obtains a software unique key, which is encrypted by the server-side terminal unique key by the server, via the communication terminal, decrypts the encrypted software using the software unique key, and installs it.
US09853969B2	Bluetooth low energy hostless private address resolution Conventional Bluetooth low energy (or like personal wireless network) controllers cannot resolve private addresses without some calculation from a host processor but leaving the host processor on or awaking it from a sleep each time a non-trusted device attempts to connect wastes power. Hostless private address resolution allows a host controller to enter a sleep state off while the Bluetooth controller advertises its device name, primary services, rejects connection requests from non-trusted devices with public and private addresses, and awakens the host controller upon a connection request from a trusted client device with a public or private address. Not only does this approach reduce power consumption by allowing the host processor to remain in the sleep state it simultaneously ensures security by allowing the private address resolution to remain active on the Bluetooth controller.
US09853966B2	Securely connecting control device to target device In an approach, a target computing device receives a pairing request from a controller computing device, the pairing request including controller credentials that were previously received by the controller computing device from an authentication server computer and encrypted under a service key. The target computing device forwards the pairing request to the authentication server, the authentication server computer being configured to return a pairing response based at least in part on the controller credentials. The target computing device receives the pairing which includes a shared secret encrypted under a target device key and the same shared secret encrypted under a controller key. The target computing device decrypts the shared secret encrypted under the target device key and forwards the shared secret encrypted under the controller key to the controller device. Using the decrypted shared secret, the target computing device establishes a secure connection to the controller computing device.
US09853965B2	Authentication service for third party applications An authentication device receives, from an application executing at a mobile device, a request for an authentication token, the request including an application identifier and an encrypted session identifier (SID). The application identifier identifies the application and the SID uniquely identifies a session between the application and a destination network device. The authentication device decrypts, using a first private key of a first public/private key pair, the encrypted SID to produce a decrypted SID; and determines a first hash value of certain data that includes the application identifier and session information associated with the session. The authentication device further encrypts, using a second public key of a second public/private key pair, the determined first hash value and the decrypted SID to produce an authentication token comprising the encrypted first hash value and the SID; and sends the authentication token to the application at the mobile device.
US09853952B2	Apparatus and method for encryption An encryption apparatus comprises a memory configured to store a predetermined program on a general domain and a security domain; and a processor configured to perform an encryption process based on the program, wherein the program is configured to: generate encoding data by encoding input data on the security domain, generate encryption data by performing encryption for the encoding data through a whitebox encryption module on the general domain, and generate output data by encoding the encryption data on the security domain.
US09853950B2	Systems and methods for protecting internet advertising data Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting user privacy in, for example, online advertising environments. The method includes receiving data related to a user in a first communication session between a host server and a client device, and generating a user profile associated with the user. The method further may include encrypting the user profile to produce encrypted user profile data and generating a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted user profile data. Thereafter, either the decryption key or a portion of the encrypted user profile data may be transmitted to the client device and then deleted from host server before ending the first communication session. The method further may include establishing a second communication session between the host server and the client device and retrieving the transmitted content. Then targeted advertising may be provided by decrypting the encrypted user profile data.
US09853946B2	Security compliance for cloud-based machine data acquisition and search system Disclosed herein are a method, apparatus and system that authenticate a first data forwarder, of a distributed machine data acquisition and search system (MDASS), to a node that regulates traversal of a firewall that protects a protected environment within which the data forwarder operates. The authentication may be performed by using a SOCKS5 authentication process. The method further includes, only after successful completion of the SOCKS5 authentication process, establishing a first connection, through a network, between the first data forwarder and a first indexer of the distributed MDASS, where the first indexer operates outside the protected environment, and sending machine data acquired by the first data forwarder from a machine data source, to the first indexer via the first connection.
US09853944B2	Cloud based logging service Methods and systems are provided for facilitating access to a cloud-based logging service. According to one embodiment, access to a cloud-based logging service is integrated within a network security appliance by automatically configuring access settings for the logging service and creating an account for the security appliance with the logging service. A log is created within the logging service by making use of the automatically configured access settings and the account. A request is received by the security appliance to access data associated with the log. Responsive thereto and without requiring separate registration of a network administrator with the cloud-based logging service, the data is retrieved by the security appliance from the logging service and is presented via a graphical user interface of the security appliance.
US09853943B2	Selectively performing man in the middle decryption A HTTP request addressed to a first resource on a second device outside the network is received from a first device within the network. The HTTP request is redirected to a third device within the network. A first encrypted connection is established between the first device and the third device, and a second encrypted connection between the third device and the second device. The third device retrieves the first resource from the second device. The first resource is modified to change pointers within the first resource to point to location in a domain associated with the third device within the network. The third device serves, to the first device, the second resource.
US09853941B2	Security information and event management Systems and methods are described for conducting work flows by an SIEM device to carry out a complex task automatically. According to one embodiment, an SIEM device may create a work flow that includes multiple security tasks that are performed by one or more security devices. When a security event is captured or the work flow is scheduled to be executed, the SIEM device starts the work flow by scheduling the security tasks defined in the work flow. The SIEM device then collects results of security tasks performed by the one or more security devices.
US09853940B2	Passive web application firewall To protect network-based services, offering computer implemented functionality, from attacks, a passive web application firewall reactively identifies vulnerabilities, enabling such vulnerabilities to be quickly ameliorated, without intercepting communications or introducing other suboptimal aspects of traditional web application firewalls. Communications directed to the network-based services are logged and such logs are scanned for entries evidencing attacks, such as based on predetermined attack syntax. Further evaluation of the entries identified as evidencing attacks identifies a subset of those entries that correspond to likely successful attacks. Such further evaluation includes attacking the network-based service in an equivalent manner. Attacks that are found to be successful identify vulnerabilities, and a notification of such vulnerabilities is provided to facilitate amelioration of such vulnerabilities. Vulnerability amelioration can be automatic, such as by automatically adjusting the settings corresponding to the implementation of the network-based services to ameliorate identified vulnerabilities in a predetermined manner.
US09853936B2	Method and system for message pacing A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits first and second messages to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by a characteristic of the second message. The system sends the first message to an intended recipient. The system determines a separation based on a pacing algorithm and sends the second message to the recipient according to the separation.
US09853935B2	Plug-in for extending functionality of messenger application across supplemented and unsupplemented application instances A first instance of a messenger application having a plug-in communicates with a second instance of the messenger application lacking the plug-in. The plug-in provides enhanced functionality to the first instance of the messenger application, while also providing corresponding functionality to the second instance, which lacks the plug-in. For example, the plug-in may provide rich, non-thread-native content to the first instance, while also providing corresponding thread-native content to the second instance. As another example, the plug-in may obtain data from the second instance and provide tailored advertisements to the second instance based upon that data. An another example, the plug-in may obtain location data from one or more of the instances and provide access to location-specific services that take the location data into account.
US09853934B2	Platform show pages In one embodiment, a method includes determining available shows from one or more content sources, providing at least a portion of the available shows for display in a programming guide on a display device of a user, receiving a selection by the user of a particular entry in the programming guide, determining a plurality of modules for the particular show, and providing a show page that includes the determined modules for display on the display device in response to the selection by the user. The entries of the programming guide are each associated with one of the available shows. At least one of the determined modules includes social content from a social graph of the social-networking system.
US09853927B2	Enforcing resource quota in mail transfer agent within multi-tenant environment An application such as a mail transfer agent (MTA) enforces a resource quota within a multi-tenant environment. An email associated with a tenant is managed based on decisions evaluating the email against a queue quota and an association between the email and an email storm. The email is also managed based on another decision evaluating the email against a processing quota. In addition, the email is managed based on a cross MTA aggregate of usage information associated with the first, second, and third decisions.
US09853926B2	Methods and systems for exchanging private messages A method and server are provided for sending a secure message from a first computing device to a second computing device. A first computing device sends an encrypted, secure message a message server. The message server processes the secure message to unencrypt and separate the secure message contents into two or more separately downloadable message parts. The server sends a complex link to the second computing device, or sends a complex link to the first computing device for sending to the second computing device. When the complex link is selected by a user of the second computing device the server transmits a first part of the message to the second computing device. After transmitting the first part, the server then separately transmits a second part of the message to the second computing device.
US09853921B1	Secure account communication management Messages for customers and/or third parties may be generated and/or stored by a service provider. The messages may include user information associated with a resource or an account of a user. In some aspects, a message containing at least a portion of the user information may be provided to the user. The message may be configured to enable the user to associate information with the message. The service provider may receive an indication of the association between the information and the message. Based at least in part on the received indication, the service provider may perform an action corresponding to the action.
US09853919B2	Data processing apparatus and data processing method A data processing apparatus includes a shared buffer; an issuing unit that issues a write address for writing incoming data to the shared buffer; a receiving unit that receives a returned read address for the data read from the shared buffer; a monitoring buffer that saves information indicating use status of an address for the shared buffer; and a monitoring unit that monitors write address issuance and returned read address reception, changes the information for the write address, from an unused state to a used state, when the write address is issued, and changes the information for a read address to be returned, from a used state to an unused state when the returned read address is received. The monitoring unit determines the address for the shared buffer is overlapping, when the information for the write address indicates a used state when the write address is issued.
US09853917B2	Heterogeneous media packet bridging Methods and systems for bridging network packets transmitted over heterogeneous media channels are provided. According to one embodiment, a network device maintains translation data structures defining translations among multiple framing media formats used for transmitting or receiving network packets via multiple supported media transmission channels, including (i) between a first framing media format and an intermediate format and (ii) between the intermediate format and a second framing media format. A virtual bridging application representing a single bridging domain for bridging all network traffic traversing the network device translates ingress network packets from the first framing media format to egress network packets of the second framing media format based the translation data structures.
US09853916B2	Modular fabric internal datapath Described is an apparatus comprising one or more router circuitries. One or more of the circuitries may be a shared-bus router circuitry including a plurality of shared-bus ports and a shared-bus datapath, and one or more of the circuitries may be a crossbar router circuitry including a plurality of crossbar ports and a crossbar datapath. Also described are methods of making the apparatus, which may include: providing one or more design files modeling the apparatus, the shared-bus datapath, and the crossbar datapath; incorporating a configuration parameter for the datapath into the one or more design files; and setting an RTL configuration parameter to instantiate either the shared-bus backbone or the crossbar backbone. The methods may also include loading the one or more design files with a design tool and compiling the one or more design files with the design tool.
US09853914B1	System, method, and computer program for selecting at least one new physical element and/or virtual element for use in a system including a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFV-O) A system, method, and computer program product are provided for selecting at least one new physical element and/or virtual element for use in a system including a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFV-O). In use, information corresponding to data traffic associated with a network system including an NFV-O module is identified, the NFV-O module being operable to manage data flow associated with one or more Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and one or more physical elements of the network system. Additionally, an overall expected usage of the network system is determined based on the information corresponding to the data traffic. Further a cost of implementing at least one of one or more new physical elements or one or more VNFs is determined, based on the overall expected usage. Moreover, at least one of the one or more new physical elements or the one or more VNFs to implement in the network system is selected based at least partially on the determined cost of implementing the one or more new physical elements and the cost of implementing the one or more VNFs.
US09853906B2	Network prioritization based on node-level attributes A first method includes a plurality of nodes communicating with a network switch, each node transmitting a packet with a packet header that includes a value of a node-level attribute selected from a node utilization level, a node role, and a dependency involving the node, and the network switch receiving the packet and prioritizing transmission of the packet based on the value of the node-level attribute identified in the packet header. In a related second method, each node reports the value of the node-level attribute to a management entity, the management entity determines a priority for each node based on the value of the node-level attribute received from each node, and the management entity provides the priority for each node to the network switch, such that the network switch prioritizes, for each packet, transmission of the packet based on the priority for the node involved in communication of the packet.
US09853905B2	System and method for wireless connected device prioritization in a vehicle A method and system for managing electronic devices in a vehicle including establishing operable connections for computer communication between electronic devices and the vehicle in a vehicle network and communicating device characteristics between each electronic device and the vehicle. The device characteristics are stored at a data storage device and the device characteristics include at least one or more data types capable of transmission between each electronic device and the vehicle. Assigning a priority to each electronic device based on the device characteristics and a priority rules set stored at the data storage device and controlling data transmission between each electronic device and the vehicle based on the priority.
US09853903B1	Simultaneous redirecting and load balancing The present disclosure describes methods and systems for enabling simultaneous redirection and load-balancing of data packets to network elements in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data packet is received at a network element. The network element identifies a traffic bucket corresponding to the data packet. The traffic bucket includes a matching criterion that identifies a subset of network traffic to map to a node. The data packet is redirected, based on the traffic bucket, from a first address contained in a field of the data packet to a second address that corresponds to the node. The data packet is forwarded to the second address.
US09853901B2	Centralized control of data plane applications The invention relates to a central control entity (200) configured to control a data plane flow of a stream of data packages in a radio access network part of a mobile communications network. The central control entity (200) comprises an information detecting unit (210), configured to detect information about data plane applications (41-44) attached to forwarding elements (120-124; 131-134) of the radio access network part and configured to detect information about at least one data plane application (41-44) that is to be applied to said data plane flow. Furthermore, the central control entity (200) comprises a control unit (230), configured to determine a path of the data plane flow through the forwarding elements (120-24; 131-134) of the radio access network part, wherein the control unit (230) is configured to determine the path taking into account said at least one data plane application (41-44) to be applied to said data plane flow, the control unit (230) being further configured to instruct the forwarding element in the path, to which said at least one data place application is attached, to pass the data plane flow through said at least one data plane application (41-44).
US09853897B2	Forward packet with edge device When a User Edge Device (UED) receives a unicast packet from a user side, the UED searches in a Media Access Control (MAC) table. When a matching entry in the MAC table is found, the UED forwards the unicast packet locally. When no matching entry in the MAC table is found, the UED transmits the unicast packet to a Network Edge Device (NED). When the UED receives a broadcast packet from the user side, the UED broadcasts the broadcast packet within a same Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) of a local site and forwards to the NED.
US09853896B2	Method, device, and virtual private network system for advertising routing information The present invention discloses a method for advertising routing information, and embodiments of the present invention further provide a virtual private network server device, an IP edge node device, and a client-based virtual private network system. In the technical solutions of the present invention, a virtual private network server first collects MAC address routing information of each site on a local virtual private network and then sends MAC address routing information of each site except a destination site in a unicast manner to a customer edge node that corresponds to each site on the virtual private network. This solves the problem that CE nodes in sites on the virtual private network cannot exchange routing information with each other by using a routing protocol because multicast packets are filtered by an access node of the data center network.
US09853894B2	Apparatus and method for establishing tunnels between nodes in a communication network Tunnels are established between nodes along a packet transfer route in a communication network so that a packet is transferred from a first relay node to a second relay node via one or more intermediate relay nodes using the established tunnels. An intermediate relay node receives, from an adjacent downstream relay node, a reply message storing relay-node addresses identifying the downstream relay node and at least one intermediate relay node between the downstream relay node and the first relay node. The intermediate relay node establishes a tunnel to the downstream relay node in association with the relay-node address of the downstream relay node, updates the reply message by removing the relay-node address of the down stream relay node from the reply message, and transfers the updated reply message to an adjacent upstream relay node along the packet transfer route.
US09853891B2	System and method for facilitating communication According to one embodiment, a system includes one or more memory units for storing an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table. The system further includes one or more processors. The processors receive, from a routing protocol, an Internet Protocol (IP)-Media Access Control (MAC) address pair for a first host computer. The processors further populate the ARP table with the IP-MAC address pair for the first host computer.
US09853887B2	Information transfer device, delay tolerant network, information transmission method, and recording medium A delay tolerant network is built with the use of a plurality of information transfer devices each of which includes: a communication unit to communicate to and from another device within a communication range that is connected to the information transfer device; and a storing unit to store and keeps collected notification information, and each of which holds delay tolerant communication by exchanging the collected and kept notification information with another device when the exchange becomes possible. Each information transfer device includes a control unit to exchange environment information with another information transfer device, and to execute deriving processing an assigned range that is assigned autonomously to its own information transfer device, based on the environment information that is kept by its own information transfer device, through a planarization search processing in which a value is evened out between its own information transfer device and other information transfer devices.
US09853883B2	Device mobility in a mesh network In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a notification from a neighbor of the device indicative of a child node of the device requesting a parent change from the device to the neighbor. The device updates an existing routing path from the device to the child node to be routed through the neighbor, in response to receiving the notification from the neighbor. The device receives an instruction to remove the updated routing path from the device to the child node through the neighbor. The device removes the updated routing path from the device to the child node, in response to receiving the instruction to remove the updated routing path.
US09853880B2	2 level routing in CCN Exemplary methods at a content centric networking (CCN) gateway located at an autonomous system (AS), wherein the CCN gateway is communicatively coupled to a CCN domain name system (DNS) server, include receiving, on a first face, a first interest message comprising of a first content name identifying a first content being requested by the first interest message. The methods include in response to determining the first content is not located at the AS, determining a first remote AS name that identifies a first remote AS where the first content is located, generating a first 2-level (2L) content name comprising of the first remote AS name and the first content name, forwarding the first interest message comprising of the first 2L content name, and in response to receiving a first content object (CO) message comprising of the first 2L content name and the first content, forwarding the first content.
US09853878B2	Limiting data output from windowing operations A method for regulating output from stream operators performing a windowing operation may include receiving stream of tuples to be processed by a plurality of processing elements, each processing element having one or more stream operators. The method may also include receiving a first stream of tuples at a first stream operator, the first stream operator being configured to generate a stream of accumulated tuples according to a set of windowing conditions. The method may then include processing the stream of accumulated tuples in response to a window trigger, where the processing generates a quantity of output. At least one processor may then monitor the quantity of output to determine whether the quantity of output exceeds a data output threshold. The processing may then be adjusted, in response to determining that the quantity of output exceeds the data output threshold, to reduce the output to approach the data output threshold.
US09853877B2	Method for optimized placement of service-chain-monitoring probes Exemplary methods include receiving requests comprising of monitoring zones (MZs), each MZ to be allocated a pair of probes in a network, wherein each MZ is associated with a rule identifying a condition for when its probes are to be updated, and wherein each probe in the network is associated with a rule identifying a condition of when it is updated. The methods include determining whether previously allocated pairs of probes in the network can serve as probes for one or more MZs in the requests, wherein a previously allocated pair of probes can serve as probes for a MZ if a rule associated with the MZ is similar to rules associated with the previously allocated pair of probes. The methods include for each MZ that can be served by a previously allocated pair of probes, sending information identifying the MZ and the previously allocated pair of probes.
US09853876B1	Mobile application identification in network traffic via a search engine approach A method for identifying a network application. The method includes analyzing metadata and source code of a network application to extract a set of application tokens, generating an index document of the network application based on the set of application code tokens, wherein the index document is included in a library of index documents corresponding to a number of network applications, extracting a set of packet header tokens from a packet header of a packet in a flow, comparing the set of packet header tokens to the set of index documents to generate a number of match scores, wherein each match score represents a similarity measure between the set of packet header tokens and one index document, and determining, based on a highest match score corresponding to a particular network application, that the flow is generated by the particular network application.
US09853867B2	Method and apparatus to determine network quality Aspects of the invention may involve systems and methods. A system may score the experience of accessed services. The system may include a probe connected to a telecommunications network and configured to transmit metrics at regular intervals. The system may also include a network monitor configured to: receive data from the probe, transform the received data into key performance indicators, generate a set of key quality indicators based on the key performance indicators, categorize one or more subscribers, and calculate a Quality of Experience index based on the categorized subscribers.
US09853866B2	Efficient parallel processing of a network with conflict constraints between nodes According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for parallel processing a network of nodes having at least one ordering constraint and at least one conflict constraint is provided. The method may include breaking a plurality of loops caused by the at least one ordering constraint. The method may also include determining a node order based on the at least one ordering constraint. The method may then include determining a conflict order based on the at least one conflict constraint, whereby no new loops are created in the network. The method may further include performing parallel processing of the network of nodes based on the node order and the conflict order.
US09853865B2	Method and apparatus for layer 2 discovery in a managed shared network Methods and systems are provided for Layer 2 (L2) discovery in a managed shared network, such as a Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) network. A network controller node of the MoCA network node may receive, from a node entering the MoCA network, a submission requesting discovery of information regarding communication capabilities of a plurality of nodes in the network. In response to the request, the network controller node may obtain from one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes information regarding communication capabilities of the plurality of nodes, and may send the communication capabilities of the plurality of nodes, such as to a second plurality of nodes.
US09853864B2	System and method for updating printer location information field A system and method are provided for updating location information associated with a printer resource stored in a printer resource registry in a network resource access system. Updating the location information for the printer resource may involve obtaining a unique identifier for the printer resource, determining the location of the printer using GPS or other location based services, authenticating access to the printer resource registry, and submitting the location information to the printer resource registry. Systems for updating location information in the resource registry may operate on the printer resource by itself or in conjunction with a mobile device. System may operate autonomously or provide a user interface for a system administrator to update location information.
US09853863B1	Collision detection using state management of configuration items Implementations of a system, method and apparatus described herein receive, for a configuration item in a configuration management database, status indicating an operational state and an automation state associated with the configuration item, and determine whether a conflict will occur with at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item as a result of a process affecting the configuration item. When the conflict will not occur, a change is made to at least one of the operational state or the automation state of the configuration item in accordance with the process. Upon a conclusion of the process, the change is removed. If the conflict will occur, the process not allowed to continue.
US09853851B2	Dynamic configuration of a flexible orthogonal frequency division multiplexing PHY transport data frame A base station may generate and transmit a transport stream including a sequence of frames. A frame may include a plurality of partitions, where each partition includes a corresponding set of OFDM symbols. For each partition, the OFDM symbols in that partition may have a corresponding cyclic prefix size and a corresponding FFT size, allowing different partitions to be targeted for different collections of user devices, e.g., user devices having different expected values of maximum delay spread and/or different ranges of mobility. The base station may also dynamically re-configure the sample rate of each frame, allowing further resolution in control of subcarrier spacing. By allowing the cyclic prefixes of different OFDM symbols to have different lengths, it is feasible to construct a frame that conforms to a set payload duration and has arbitrary values of cyclic prefix size per partition and FFT size per partition. The partitions may be multiplexed in time and/or frequency.
US09853845B2	Apparatus, method, and computer readable media for indicating a communication protocol and information in a signal field Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for indicating a communication and information in a signal field are disclosed. A high-efficiency wireless local area network (HEW) device comprises circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to: generate a HEW packet comprising a legacy signal (L-SIG) field, where the L-SIG field comprises a plurality of subcarriers, and an R-L-SIG field, where the R-L-SIG field comprises a repeat of the plurality of subcarriers partitioned into a plurality of groups, and where information is encoded into one or more groups of the plurality of groups by a same modulation to each subcarrier partitioned into the corresponding group. A HEW device comprising circuitry is disclosed. The circuitry may be configured to: receive a L-SIG field; receive a R-L-SIG field; and determine whether the R-L-SIG field is a repeat of the L-SIG field with piggybacked information.
US09853843B2	Software programmable, multi-segment capture bandwidth, delta-sigma modulators for flexible radio communication systems A cellular radio architecture that includes a multiplexer coupled to an antenna structure and including multiple signal paths, where each signal path includes a bandpass filter that passes a different frequency band than the other bandpass filters and a circulator that provides signal isolation between the transmit signals and the receive signals. The architecture also includes a receiver module having a separate signal channel for each of the signal paths in the multiplexer, where each signal channel in the receiver module includes a receiver delta-sigma modulator that converts analog receive signals to a representative digital signal. The delta-sigma modulator includes an LC filter having a plurality of LC resonator circuits, a plurality of transconductance amplifiers and a plurality of integrator circuits, where a combination of one resonator circuit, transconductance amplifier and integrator circuit represents a two-order stage of the LC filter.
US09853841B1	Low complexity slicer architectures for N-tap look-ahead decision feedback equalizer (DFE) circuit implementations A slicer circuit for use in a N-tap, S-bit symbol look-ahead decision feedback equalizer (DFE) wherein the slicer comprises overflow adders and sign adders, the slicer circuit including a first processing path for generating, based on a signal sample y(n), a most significant bit (MSB) for each of 2SN possible output symbols of the DFE, the first processing path including (2SN)/2 overflow adder circuits, and a second processing path for generating, based on the signal sample y(n), a least significant bit (LSB) for each of the 2SN possible output symbols, the second processing path including 2SN sign adder circuits.
US09853839B2	System, method and software program for tuneable equalizer adaptation using sample interpolation Various embodiments of the present invention solve the problem of generating intermediate-time information useable to drive ZFE adaptation (for example, in connection with a digital receiver). Further, various embodiments of the present invention increase flexibility by enabling user-specified over-peaking and/or under-peaking (i.e. configurable equalizer tuning) with respect to a ZFE convergence (or lock) criterion.
US09853833B2	Individual virtual private local area network service conversion to a different virtual private network service In one embodiment, a plurality of virtual private local area network services (VPLSs) are operated among a plurality of packet switching devices, with the plurality of VPLSs including a first VPLS and a different second VPLS. In response to a conversion declaration including a particular Service Instance VLAN ID (I-SID), the first VPLS corresponding to the particular I-SID is converted to a different type of virtual private network (VPN) service, while continuing to operate the different second VPLS which is not related to the particular I-SID. In one embodiment, the different type of VPN service is Provider Backbone Bridging Ethernet VPN (PBB-EVPN). In one embodiment, the conversion declaration is a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) of Route Type 3 Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag (IMET) route.
US09853830B2	Information-provision control method, information reproduction system, information-provision apparatus, information reproduction apparatus and information-presentation control program When the information-provision apparatus is providing an audio signal to the specific information reproduction apparatus, the user enters an operation input to the specific information reproduction apparatus to switch processing to reproduce an audio content from the specific information reproduction apparatus to another information reproduction apparatus. In this case, the specific information reproduction apparatus requests the information-provision apparatus to start an operation of providing the audio content to the other information reproduction apparatus specified in the operation input as an apparatus to newly reproduce the audio content. Then, the specific information reproduction apparatus requests the information-provision apparatus to end an operation of providing the audio content to the specific information reproduction apparatus specified in the operation input as an apparatus to terminate an operation of reproducing the audio content.
US09853823B2	Applying user-specified permissions to distribution of content items to social networking system users A social networking system user identifies one or more social networking system users authorized to present content items to the user via the social networking system (“authorized users”). When an additional user requests presentation of a content item to the user, the social networking system determines if the additional user is an authorized user. If the additional user is an authorized user, the content item is presented to the user. However, if the additional user is not an authorized user, the social networking system identifies the additional user to the user along with a request to identify the additional user as an authorized user. If the user identifies the additional user as an authorized user in response to the request, the content item is presented to the user.
US09853822B2	Bit indexed explicit replication Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER). For example, one method involves receiving a packet at a node. The packet includes a multicast forwarding entry. The multicast forwarding entry has a plurality of elements, and each element corresponds to a particular node. The method also involves comparing the multicast forwarding entry with forwarding information stored by the node. The method involves selecting a neighbor node based on the comparing, updating the multicast forwarding entry in the packet, and forwarding the packet to the neighbor node.
US09853819B2	Blockchain-supported, node ID-augmented digital record signature method At least one node in a distributed hash tree verification infrastructure is augmented with an identifier of an entity in a registration path. A data signature, which includes parameters for recomputation of a verifying value, and which is associated with a digital input record, will therefore also include data that identifies at least one entity in the hash tree path used for its initial registration in the infrastructure. An uppermost value of the hash tree verification infrastructure is entered as, or as part of, a transaction in a blockchain.
US09853811B1	Optimistic key usage with correction Nodes in a distributed system utilize the same cryptographic key, where the cryptographic key is subject to a usage limit. The usage limit is allowed to be temporarily exceeded. When the usage limit is exceeded, results of exceeding the usage limit are corrected to mitigate the effects of exceeding the usage limit.
US09853809B2	Method and apparatus for hybrid encryption Described herein is a combination of mixed-signal hardware and software that is capable or realizing hybrid chaotic oscillators that can be tuned digitally. This includes the type/class of chaotic oscillator, initial conditions, nonlinear elements, thresholds, nonlinear event surfaces, delays, etc. At the same time, tunable methods of how to use the chaotic oscillator information to encrypt and decrypt both analog and digital information is presented. This will make the secure information not vulnerable by digital information compromises or hardware breach.
US09853807B2	Automatic detection of change in PLL locking trend A phase lock loop (PLL), such as an all digital phase lock loop (ADPLL) to provide an example, of the present disclosure operates in a frequency tracking mode to adjust a frequency of the output signal to be proportional to a frequency of a reference input signal, or, in a phase tracking mode to adjust a phase of the output signal to match any variations in the reference input signal. The ADPLL includes a phase and/or frequency detector that provides an error signal representing a difference, in frequency and/or phase, between the output signal and the reference input signal. The ADPLL monitors a trend of the error signal, such as a positive trend, a negative trend, or a flat trend to provide some examples, and switches among the frequency tracking mode and the phase tracking mode upon detecting a change in the trend of the error signal.
US09853803B1	Single pair PHY with auto-negotiation Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with auto-negotiating over a single pair PHY are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a physical layer (PHY) transceiver configured to communicate over a single twisted pair channel. The apparatus includes a setup logic configured to control the PHY transceiver to initiate an auto-negotiation sequence over the single twisted pair channel with a remote device upon detecting a transmission from the remote device on the single twisted pair channel. The auto-negotiation sequence includes an exchange of parameters with the remote device using a half-duplex mode to communicate on the single twisted pair channel.
US09853802B2	Radio frequency circuit and mobile terminal A radio frequency circuit. In the circuit, a first directional coupler receives a second transmit signal, uses a part of the second transmit signal as a third transmit signal, directly sends the third transmit signal to a first port of a circulator, and obtains a first coupling signal from the second transmit signal; the circulator outputs the third transmit signal through a second port; an impedance tuner transmits the third transmit signal to an antenna port and transmits, to the second port of the circulator, a first input signal from the antenna port; the circulator inputs the first input signal to a second directional coupler through a third port; the second directional coupler obtains a second coupling signal from the first input signal; and a controller adjusts impedance of the impedance tuner according to the first coupling signal and the second coupling signal.
US09853796B2	Terminal apparatus and method for controlling channel quality indicator transmission A terminal apparatus and an associated communication method to be implemented by the terminal apparatus are provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver which, in operation, receives, from a base station apparatus, control information indicating whether the terminal apparatus is to transmit one channel quality indicator (CQI) for each subcarrier block within a communication frequency band or one CQI for all subcarrier blocks within the communication frequency band instead of multiple CQIs for multiple subcarrier blocks within the communication frequency band. The terminal apparatus further includes a transmitter which, in operation, transmits one CQI for each subcarrier block within the communication frequency band or one CQI for all subcarrier blocks within the communication frequency band to the base station apparatus according to the received control information.
US09853795B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ ACK/NACK Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK. The method includes: recognizing, from a PDCCH or an EPDCCH, a 2-bit uplink (UL) downlink assignment index (DAI) field configured in a UL downlink control information (DCI) format; receiving a PDSCH transmission through the second serving cell; generating an HARQ response signal based on the number of PDSCHs scheduled in the downlink subframes indicated by the UL DAI field and the number of total downlink subframes associated with one uplink subframe; and transmitting the HARQ response signal through a PUSCH in the one uplink subframe.
US09853794B2	Acknowledgement (ACK) type indication and deferral time determination Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for indicating a type of response for acknowledging a protocol data unit. One example method for wireless communications by a first apparatus generally includes transmitting a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) to a second apparatus and setting at least one bit in a PLCP header of the PPDU to indicate a type of response expected from the second apparatus responsive to the transmitted PPDU.
US09853793B2	Method and apparatus of transmitting control information in wireless communication system A method and an apparatus of transmitting control information in a wireless communication systema are provided. The method includes transmitting first control information and second control information through an uplink component carrier (UL CC), wherein the first control information is for a first downlink component carrier (DL CC), and the second control information is for a second DL CC.
US09853791B2	Medium access protection and bandwidth negotiation in a wireless local area network A first communication device transmits a first control frame to multiple second communication devices via a wireless communication medium, wherein the first control frame i) indicates to other communication devices that the wireless communication medium is reserved for a first time period, and ii) indicates that the second communication devices are requested to simultaneously transmit respective second control frames to the first communication device via the wireless communication medium, wherein the second control frames are to include information indicating to other communication devices that the wireless communication medium is reserved for a second time period that is a subset of the first time period.
US09853783B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal in distributed antenna system An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is provided. A method for determining an initial state in a DAS includes receiving a value through high-level signalling and determining an initial state based on the value, in which the value includes a value in which is set an initial state of a scrambling sequence, which differs according to a transmission point.
US09853779B2	Systems and methods for carrier aggregation A UE for performing carrier aggregation is described. The UE determines a duplex method of each serving cell for carrier aggregation. A primary cell is a FDD cell. When transmitting PDSCH HARQ-ACK information on a PUSCH or using a PUCCH format 3 in a later subframe, the UE generates two NACKs for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports up to two transport blocks, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell. The UE further generates a single NACK for a PDSCH transmission in an earlier subframe for a serving cell when a configured downlink transmission mode supports a single transport block, the serving cell is a TDD cell and an earlier subframe is an uplink subframe for the serving cell.
US09853777B2	Method for optimizing cell selection in a dual SIM dual standby device A method for optimizing cell selection in a Dual Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) Dual Standby (DSDS) device is provided. The method includes selecting at least one candidate neighbor cell for a first SIM from a mapping table of the DSDS device, the at least one selected candidate neighbor cell corresponding to a cell currently serving a second SIM, wherein the first SIM is out of service and the second SIM is in service, and camping the first SIM onto the at least one selected candidate neighbor cell.
US09853771B2	Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US09853769B1	High-speed Ethernet coding A BASE-T Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The transceiver includes a BASE-T Ethernet transmit circuit that employs a data framing module. The data framing module includes an input interface to receive Ethernet block data bits, and, forward error correction encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a first portion of the data bits to generate first error check bits. A Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a second portion of the data bits in accordance with a Reed-Solomon error code to generate second error check bits. A symbol mapper modulates the Ethernet block data bits in accordance with an SQ64 constellation comprising back-to-back PAM8 symbols.
US09853766B2	Radio communication devices, access points, method for controlling a radio communication device, and methods for controlling an access point According to various embodiments, a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a transmitter configured to transmit a null data packet. The null data packet may include acknowledgement data indicating acknowledgements for a plurality of packets. The null data packet may include a cyclic redundancy check field configured to provide information based on which the null data packet or acknowledgements may be checked for errors. The null data packet may include further information based on which the acknowledgements may be checked for errors.
US09853763B2	Optical line terminal for a passive optical wavelength division multiplex network Proposed is an OLT for a passive optical wavelength division multiplex network. The network contains optical transmitters for generating downstream signals of an L-Band, as well as optical receivers for receiving upstream signals of a C-Band. Furthermore, the OLT contains a bi-directional SOA and an optical interface. The optical interface, the SOA, the transmitters and the receivers are optically coupled such that an upstream signal received at the optical interface is firstly provided to the bi-directional SOA and subsequently from the SOA to one of the receivers, and such that a downstream signal generated by one of the transmitters is firstly provided to the bi-directional SOA and then subsequently to the optical interface. The bi-directional SOA has a gain function that is not constant with respect to a wavelength of an optical signal to be amplified. Furthermore, the gain function is maximal for a wavelength located within the C-band.
US09853762B2	Automated provisioning and control of shared optical spectrum in submarine optical networks Systems and methods of sharing optical spectrum between a plurality of users of a submarine optical system includes receiving one or more optical signals from the plurality of users of the submarine optical system, wherein each of the plurality of users are assigned a slice of optical spectrum on the submarine optical system; monitoring each of the one or more optical signals to determine compliance with one or more constraints; and adding the one or more optical signals to the submarine optical system if compliant with the one or more constraints.
US09853760B2	Terminal station apparatus, base station apparatus, transmission method and control method A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced. In this terminal apparatus: a pilot information deciding unit decides, based on allocation control information, Walsh sequences of the respective ones of first and second stream groups at least one of which includes a plurality of streams; and a pilot signal generating unit forms a transport signal by using the decided Walsh sequences to spread the streams included in the first and second stream groups. During this, Walsh sequences orthogonal to each other are established in the first and second stream groups, and users are allocated on a stream group-by-stream group basis.
US09853758B1	Systems and methods for signal mixing Systems and methods for a signal mixing device are provided. An example method includes generating a mixing request during a live performance based on sensed mouth movement when sensed audio from the mouth is less than a threshold. In such an example method, the sensed mouth movement may be generated from a sensor mounted separately from an audio sensor of a microphone, and may be displayed at a mixing console during the live performance.
US09853751B2	Method of estimating the frequency response of multipath channels In a digital communication system there is provided a method for OFDM channel estimation that jointly considers the effects of coarse timing error and multipath propagation. The method uses an iterative channel estimation technique, which considers the practical scenario of fractional timing error and non-sample space echo delays. The method does not require channel state information such as second-order statistic of the channel impulse responses or the noise power. Moreover, timing error can be conveniently obtained with the proposed technique. Simulation shows that, when comparing OFDM channel estimation techniques under DOCSIS 3.1 realistic channel conditions, the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms conventional methods.
US09853748B2	Systems and methods for controlling radio transmit power for information handling systems based on system-specific RF parameters Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to optimize or otherwise control radio module transmit power performance from a given wireless-enabled information handling system platform based on a set of system-specific RF parameter values that are provisioned and stored on the information handling system platform and that uniquely represent particular RF characteristics (e.g., such as specific device environment, system chassis configuration, etc.) of the given information handling system.
US09853747B2	Apparatus and method for controlling interference 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). An apparatus includes at least one transceiver, and at least one processor, coupled to the at least one transceiver, configured to determine at least one terminal having a value lower than or equal to a threshold among terminals in a coverage of the base station, the value indicating a signal quality, to identify another value for indicating interference in the coverage, to identify a resource pool allocated for the determined at least one terminal and shared with neighboring base stations around the base station based on determining that the another value exceeds another threshold, and to transmit a message for instructing to modulate a signal to be communicated via the identified resource pool based on a frequency and quadrature-amplitude modulation (FQAM) scheme in the neighboring base stations.
US09853740B1	Adaptive communications focal plane array Adaptive communications focal plane arrays that may be implemented in, e.g., a specially-configured camera that can be utilized to receive and/or process information in the form of optical beams are presented. A specialized focal plane array (FPA) having a plurality of optical detectors is utilized, where one or more optical detectors are suppressed such that data is not allowed to be output from the one or more suppressed optical detectors, and only a significantly smaller number or subset of optical detectors receiving optical beams are allowed to output data. In this way, the rate at which data is to be output by an adaptive communications FPA (ACFPA) can be significantly reduced.
US09853738B2	Distributed traveling-wave mach-zehnder modulator driver A distributed traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator driver having a plurality of modulation stages that operate cooperatively (in-phase) to provide a signal suitable for use in a 100 Gb/s optical fiber transmitter at power levels that are compatible with conventional semiconductor devices and conventional semiconductor processing is described.
US09853737B2	Bias control of nested Mach-Zehnder modulators for the generation of optical QAM signals Disclosed are bias control methods for Mach-Zehnder modulators for the generation of optical QAM signals while ensuring correct I/Q polarity of the generated optical QAM signal. One exemplary method involves temporarily offsetting I and Q biases from ideal transmission null bias points while another illustrative method temporarily makes I and Q data streams identical.
US09853733B2	Techniques for single sideband suppressed carrier (SSBSC) optical signals A method and apparatus includes an optical source for a single order single-sideband suppressed-carrier optical signal with a bandwidth that scales from over 4 gigaHertz or is at least 8 GHz from an optical carrier frequency. In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a stable laser source configured to output an optical carrier signal at a carrier frequency. The apparatus includes a radio frequency electrical source configured to output an electrical radio frequency signal with a radio frequency bandwidth less than one octave. The apparatus also includes an optical modulator configured to output an optical signal with the optical carrier signal modulated by the radio frequency signal in a plurality of orders (harmonics) of optical frequency sidebands. The apparatus further includes an optical filter configured to pass one single order optical frequency sideband of the optical signal, which sideband does not overlap the sideband of any other harmonic.
US09853731B2	Segmentable optical node module configurable as an RF amplifier and corresponding methods and systems A module for a hybrid fiber coax network includes a quad-output amplifier module that can include a port to couple to upstream devices, four ports to couple to downstream devices, and a configured port. The configured port can optionally couple to one of a radio frequency (RF) pre-amplifier or one or more optical transmitter modules or receiver modules. The module is initially provided in a default configuration as an optical node module. However, it can be pre-configured as a RF amplifier. When the configured port is coupled to the one or more optical transmitter modules or receiver modules in the default configuration, the module is operable as an optical node module. When the configured port is coupled to the RF pre-amplifier, the module is transformed to be operable as an RF amplifier.
US09853728B2	Method for determining numbers of bits allocated to subcarriers and optical transmission system A bit allocation method is used in an optical transmission system that transmits multicarrier signals of different wavelengths in wavelength division multiplexing. Frequency characteristics of subcarriers included in the multicarrier signals are different between the respective multicarrier signals. The method includes: measuring transmission characteristics of the subcarriers included in corresponding multicarrier signals at different subcarrier frequencies; and determining a number of bits to be allocated to each of the subcarriers included in each of the multicarrier signals based on the transmission characteristics measured at the different subcarrier frequencies.
US09853726B2	Wavelength collision detection in carrier multiplexers This disclosure relates to optical line system equipment, which enables wavelength addition for long haul transmission. The system is configured to prevent contention of wavelengths added into a multiplexer. For example, an optical wavelength combiner, such as a multiplexer, may include components that are configured to detect potential collisions between existing wavelengths and a newly added wavelength, and block the addition of the conflicting wavelength while alerting the operator.
US09853725B2	Optical dispersion compensation in the electrical domain in an optical communications system A compensation function mitigates a substantial portion of the chromatic dispersion imparted to a communications signal by an optical communications system. A digital input signal is digitally processed using the compensation function to generate a predistorted signal. An amplitude and a phase of an optical signal are modulated using a pair of orthogonal signal components to generate a predistorted optical signal for transmission. In one implementation, the pair of orthogonal signal components are components of the predistorted signal. In another implementation, the predistorted signal is processed using a non-linear compensator to generate a further distorted signal and the pair of orthogonal signal components are components of the further distorted signal. In that implementation, the non-linear compensator is configured to substantially compensate for nonlinearities in one or both of an optical modulator of a transmitter of the system and an optical-to-electrical converter of a receiver of the system.
US09853721B2	Apparatus and methods for enabling recovery in optical networks Apparatus for enabling an M:N recovery scheme in an optical network includes a set of N working DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders including at least one working DSP-enabled optical transceiver/transponder that uses a first set of transmission parameters and at least one working DSP-enabled optical transceiver/transponder that uses a second set of transmission parameters which is different from the first set of transmission parameters, and a set of M protection DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders operable to protect the set of N working DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders and including L protection DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders, each having a capability of using a set of adjustable transmission parameters enabling it to protect every one of the N working DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders, and, when M>L, M-L protection DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders, each having a capability of protecting at least one, but not all, of the N working DSP-enabled optical transceivers/transponders. Related network and methods are also disclosed.
US09853718B2	Dynamically adjusting the transmission mode in a satellite communication system A system and method for transmitting a data stream between a server and a user terminal, comprises at least one satellite gateway associated with a satellite router communicating with at least one satellite terminal associated with a terminal router, wherein the terminal router is configured, when it receives a stream request from a user terminal, to search for it in its memory resources and, if appropriate, transmit it to the user terminal, the satellite router is configured to transmit the request to the server, estimate a popularity of the stream and transmit a message of correspondence between the stream and broadcasting parameters then convert the stream into a point-to-multipoint stream adapted to the broadcasting parameters, the terminal router is configured to convert point-to-multipoint streams into point-to-point streams and transmit them to the user terminals.
US09853715B2	Broadband access system via drone/UAV platforms The present disclosure describes the system and methods for providing broadband internet access to homes and enterprises using a network of aerial platforms such as drones/UAVs/balloons. The drone communication system is composed of an antenna sub-system, a radio sub-system and a data switching sub-system. Drones form and point beams toward ground terminals in different areas in a space division multiple access scheme. Ground terminals are composed of an antenna sub-system and a radio sub-system. Ground terminals search for the drone from which they receive the strongest signals. Drone and ground terminals comprise of methods and systems to calibrate receive and transmit antenna elements. Drone radio sub-system keeps track of the drone's position and orientation changes and adjust drone's antenna beam accordingly to point to the same location on the ground as the drone moves. Depending on the changes in drone's position and orientation, the drone radio sub-system may switch the antenna aperture and/or the antenna fixture that is used to form a beam toward a specific ground terminal. Drones communicate with the terminals using a space and time division multiple access scheme.
US09853711B2	Method and apparatus for providing content and method and apparatus for displaying content Provided are a method and apparatus for providing digital content and a method and apparatus for displaying digital content. In the displaying method, method of displaying content in a terminal, situational information including at least one of information regarding a user of the terminal and information regarding an external environment is collected, whether the collected situational information conforms to display conditions of the content is determined, and then, the content is selectively displayed based on a result of the determining.
US09853710B2	Relay apparatus specifying frequency offset based on connection history and method thereof A relay apparatus of this disclosure includes: a communication unit that communicates with a radio device by radio; a storage unit that stores connection history information on a past radio connection with the radio device; and a controller that specifies a frequency offset, which is used at a time when the radio connection with the radio device is initiated, based on the connection history information.
US09853708B2	Wiring device with integrated wireless signal extender An electrical wiring device includes a receptacle housing comprising alternating current (AC) terminal openings. The electrical wiring device further includes an AC power output terminals disposed within the receptacle housing and aligned with the AC terminal openings. The AC power output terminals are designed to receive prongs of an electrical plug through the AC terminal openings. The electrical wiring device also includes a wireless signal extender circuit disposed within the receptacle housing. The wireless signal extender circuit is configured to receive an incoming wireless signal and to transmit an outgoing wireless signal, where the outgoing wireless signal is generated based on the incoming wireless signal.
US09853707B2	Channel state information collection for wireless communication system with beamforming A method of providing channel station information in a beamforming system is proposed. Reference Signal (RS) is used for channel state estimation. For fine-resolution dedicated beam with smaller spatial coverage, additional channel monitoring of coarse-resolution beams for beam fallback is applied. The joint coverage of monitored fallback beams covers a desired service area. For beam administration, fallback beams need to be evaluated and the most preferable beam is selected for use in case the currently used dedicated beam is no longer suitable. For link adaptation, at least the channel state of the selected fallback beam is evaluated and provided to a scheduler (e.g., a BS) for adapting the transmission of the selected fallback beam.
US09853703B2	Codebook sub-sampling for CSI feedback on PUCCH for 4Tx MIMO Channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is disclosed. User equipment transmits a CSI feedback signal via a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). If the UE is configured in a first feedback mode, the CSI comprises a first report jointly coding a Rank Indicator (RI) and a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI1), and a second report coding Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) and a second precoding matrix indicator (PMI2). If the UE is configured in a second feedback mode, the CSI comprises a first report coding RI, and a second report coding CQI, PMI1 and PMI2. The jointly coded RI and PMI1 employs codebook sub-sampling, and the jointly coding PMI1, PMI2 and CQI employs codebook sub-sampling.
US09853702B1	Methods for channel estimation in OFDMA based hybrid beamforming (HBF) systems The method is for channel estimation with transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) beam training in an OFDMA HBF system wherein the transmitter and receiver communicate over a channel and each include a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) chains and an antenna array of antenna elements corresponding to each RF chain, and wherein the transmitter includes an analog beamformer and the receiver includes an analog combiner. The method includes generating a set of orthogonal Tx training beams for the transmitter based upon a number of antenna elements in the transmitter antenna array, and generating a set of orthogonal Rx training beams for the receiver based upon a number of antenna elements in the receiver antenna array. The method includes probing the channel by simultaneously transmitting OFDMA preambles with each RF chain using a different one of the orthogonal Tx training beams and receiving the OFDMA preambles with each of the orthogonal Rx training beams in a scheduling sequence that includes a pairing of each orthogonal Tx training beam with each orthogonal Rx training beam, and performing channel estimation based upon probing feedback results including a channel response between different pairs of the orthogonal Tx training beams and the orthogonal Rx training beams.
US09853700B2	Wireless transmission system and reception device An object of the present invention is to generate a soft estimation value where missing of bit information is avoided and to implement turbo equalization processing in a wireless transmission apparatus and a wireless transmission system where termination processing is not performed in an error correction coding part and interleave processing over frames is performed. A wireless transmission system of the present invention includes a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes an error correction coding unit, a first interleave unit, a second interleave unit, and a digital modulation unit. The reception apparatus includes a unit that detects a reception signal, a demapper unit, a second deinterleave unit, a unit to store a received bit logarithm of likelihood ratio in a frame buffer, a frequency interleaver data extraction part that extracts data of a predetermined period, a decoding part, and a hard decision part.
US09853696B2	Tightly-coupled near-field communication-link connector-replacement chips Tightly-coupled near-field transmitter/receiver pairs are deployed such that the transmitter is disposed at a terminal portion of a first conduction path, the receiver is disposed at a terminal portion of a second conduction path, the transmitter and receiver are disposed in close proximity to each other, and the first conduction path and the second conduction path are discontiguous with respect to each other. In some embodiments of the present invention, close proximity refers to the transmitter antenna and the receiver antenna being spaced apart by a distance such that, at wavelengths of the transmitter carrier frequency, near-field coupling is obtained. In some embodiments, the transmitter and receiver are disposed on separate substrates that are moveable relative to each other. In alternative embodiments, the transmitter and receiver are disposed on the same substrate.
US09853695B2	Transmitting magnetic field through metal chassis using fractal surfaces Described herein are techniques related one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for reducing induced currents in a apparatus chassis. For example, a fractal slot is constructed in the apparatus chassis to reduce the induced currents, and enhance passage of magnetic fields through the apparatus chassis. In this example, the fractal slot may include a no-self loop fractal space filling curve shape to provide high impedance to the induced currents.
US09853693B2	Locating an in-vehicle near field communication (NFC) antenna In an example of a method for locating a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna, an indication of an imminent use of the NFC antenna is received. In response to receiving the indication, a light is caused to illuminate a location of the NFC antenna, a logo of the NFC antenna, or an area within proximity of the location of the NFC antenna in a pattern.
US09853692B1	Systems and methods for wireless power transmission The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. The transmitter can locate the at least one receiver in a three-dimensional space using a communication medium (e.g., Bluetooth technology). The transmitter generates a waveform to create a pocket of energy around each of the at least one receiver. The transmitter uses an algorithm to direct, focus, and control the waveform in three dimensions. The receiver can convert the transmission signals (e.g., RF signals) into electricity for powering an electronic device. Accordingly, the embodiments for wireless power transmission can allow powering and charging a plurality of electrical devices without wires.
US09853688B2	Bicycle component and bicycle communication system A bicycle component is basically provided with a controller, a first connection part and a second connection part. The first connection part is connected to a first transmission path configured to transmit electromagnetic waves. The second connection part is connected to a second transmission path configured to transmit electricity. The controller is configured to establish a communication path with other bicycle components through the first transmission path by communicating with the other bicycle components via the second transmission path.
US09853687B2	Method and apparatus for launching a wave mode that mitigates interference Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that performs operations including receiving electromagnetic waves on an outer surface of a transmission medium having a non-hybrid wave mode and a cutoff frequency, detecting a degradation of a signal quality of the electromagnetic waves, generating adjusted electromagnetic waves having a hybrid wave mode and a non-optical frequency range responsive to the detecting, and directing the adjusted electromagnetic waves having the hybrid wave mode and the non-optical frequency range to the outer surface of the transmission medium for guiding propagation of the adjusted electromagnetic waves without utilizing an electrical return path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09853684B2	High radiation efficiency antenna systems A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication device including a matching network for impedance tuning and pairs of antennas that can be utilized as primary and diversity antennas, respectively, and can provide high radiation efficiency. An RF switch can be utilized for re-configuring the primary and diversity antennas. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09853681B2	Arbitrator for multi-radio antenna switching A user equipment device (UE) may be configured to collect first performance information from antennas of a first plurality of antennas. The first plurality of antennas may be coupled to a first radio of the UE that may be configured to perform wireless communications according to a first RAT. The UE may determine, based on at least the first performance information, a highest performing antenna of the first plurality of antennas to use for communications according to the first RAT. Additionally, the UE may determine, also based on at least the first performance information, a first antenna of a second plurality of antennas to use for communications according to a second RAT. The second plurality of antennas may be coupled to a second radio of the UE that may be configured to perform wireless communications according to the second RAT.
US09853680B2	Circuits and methods related to adjustable compensation for parasitic effects in radio-frequency switch networks Circuits and methods related to adjustable compensation for parasitic effects in radio-frequency switch networks. In some embodiments, an adjustable compensation circuit for a radio-frequency (RF) circuit can include an inductive circuit that couples a selected node of the RF circuit with a reference node. The inductive circuit can be configured to provide a plurality of inductance values. In some embodiments, the RF circuit can be, for example, a switch network having a plurality of switchable RF signal paths, the reference node can be a ground node, and the selected node can be a common node such as an antenna port.
US09853678B2	Electronic device Electronic devices are disclosed. The electronic device includes a circuit board. The circuit board contains a first transceiver module pad configured for soldering a first transceiver module thereon; and a second transceiver module pad configured for soldering a second transceiver module thereon. The first transceiver module is different from the second transceiver module, and layouts of the first and second transceiver module pads are the same.
US09853677B2	Method for controlling the tuning to a communications frequency of an antenna connected to a component designed for contactless communication and corresponding system A system includes an antenna, and a contactless component for receiving and/or transmitting information via the antenna according to a contactless communications protocol. An inductive-capacitive network is connected between the antenna and the contactless component and includes a configurable filter for filtering electromagnetic interference. A processor modifies an impedance of the configurable filter for filtering electromagnetic interference to control frequency tuning of the antenna.
US09853675B1	Multisensory phone case A mobile phone cover having a phone back, phone front, and a manipulable objects affixed to the phone back. The manipulable objects are configured to provide a user with sensory feedback that is tactile, visual, or audible or a combination of two or of three. A first tactile feedback includes a depress/release button and a corresponding audible feedback is a clicking sound. A second tactile feedback is rotary turning-in-place, and a corresponding audible feedback is a clicking sound or no sound. A third tactile feedback is a rocker motion and a corresponding audible feedback is a snapping sound. A fourth tactile feedback is an omnidirectional rolling ball and a corresponding audible feedback is no sound. A fifth tactile feedback is turnable gears and the corresponding audible feedback is a snapping sound. A sixth tactile feedback is depress/release half-domes and the corresponding audible feedback is a popping sound.
US09853674B2	Electronic device case with a friction surface A case for use with an electronic device includes a base portion with side portions extending therefrom forming a pocket. The case also includes a first material generally at an exterior of the pocket, forming a majority of an exterior surface of the base portion, and a second material secured to and having a higher coefficient of friction than the first material, generally at an interior of the pocket. The second material protrudes through aperture(s) in the first material at the base portion to protrude from the interior to the exterior of the base portion, and outward from the first material such that the second material contacts a support surface when the base portion is placed thereon. The protruding second material extends away from the aperture(s) on opposing surfaces of the first material at the exterior and interior of the pocket to provide securement between the first and second materials.
US09853672B2	Mobile terminal Disclosed is a mobile terminal having a differentiated structure from the conventional one. The mobile terminal includes a neck band unit configured to be wearable on a user's neck, and having a main power supply unit; and a glass unit having a frame configured to be wearable on a user's head, having an input/output module installed at the frame, and electrically-connectable to the neck band unit so as to be provided with power from the main power supply unit, wherein the neck band unit is provided with accommodation recesses formed such that at least part thereof corresponds to the frame, and wherein the glass unit is coupled to the neck band unit when two ends thereof are inserted into the accommodation recesses, respectively, and wherein the glass unit is separated from the neck band unit when the two ends thereof are withdrawn from the accommodation recesses, respectively.
US09853671B2	Compact ejectable component assemblies in electronic devices Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies. The ejectable component assembly may include a tray that can be loaded with one or more removable modules, wafers coupled to circuit boards, cages and retaining plates to assist in retaining the tray within the assembly. The ejectable component assembly may include springs operative to engage detents in the tray to retain the tray in the assembly. The ejectable component assembly may include a tray ejector mechanism for ejecting the tray from the assembly.
US09853670B2	System and method for portable infotainment via dynamic SIM twinning with temporary service plan transferring in connected car An apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to determine that a primary user equipment (UE) entered a vehicle. The processing circuitry is configured to initiates transmission of an entrance notification to a carrier network server notifying that the primary UE entered the vehicle. The processing circuitry is configured to receive an assignment message from the carrier network server. The assignment message indicates that twinning has been configured between the primary UE and the apparatus. The twinning configuration includes a transfer of assignment of a service plan corresponding to the primary UE from the primary UE to the apparatus.
US09853661B2	On-the-fly evaluation of the number of errors corrected in iterative ECC decoding A decoder includes an interface and circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a code word that was encoded using a Quasi-Cyclic Low Density Parity Check (QC-LDPC) Error Correcting Code (ECC) represented by multiple check equations that are defined over multiple variables. The circuitry is configured to decode the code word by iteratively processing multiple layers that each includes a respective subset of the variables of the code word, and producing per each layer one or more count updates, and to generate a total number of errors corrected over the entire code word by accumulating the count updates.
US09853660B1	Techniques for parallel data compression Techniques and apparatus for parallel data compression are described. An apparatus to provide parallel data compression may include at least one memory and logic for a compression component, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to provide at least one data input sequence to a plurality of compression components, determine compression information for the plurality of compression components, and perform a compression process on the at least one data input sequence via the plurality of compression components to generate at least one data output sequence, the plurality of compression components to perform the compression process in parallel based on the compression information.
US09853658B1	Digital to analog converter circuit and digital to analog conversion method A DAC circuit includes: a PWM encoding circuit for converting a digital signal to first and second PWM signals, whereby a combination of the first and second PWM signals becomes a PWM encoded signal of at least 3 levels including a positive, a zero and a negative level, wherein the digital signal represents a number in a numerical range; and a demodulation circuit for generating the analog signal according to the first and second PWM signals. The first and second PWM signals have a minimum duty larger than 0 when the digital signal represents a middle number in the numerical range. The zero level of the combination of the first and second PWM signals has a duty which decreases as a difference between the number represented by the digital signal and the middle number increases.
US09853657B2	Delta sigma modulator with dynamic error cancellation The disclosure provides a delta sigma modulator that includes a first input port and a second input port. These ports receive a differential input signal. A DAC is coupled to the first input port and the second input port, and receives a differential feedback signal and a plurality of selection signals. A loop filter generates a differential filtered signal in response to a differential error signal. The differential error signal is proportional to a difference in the differential input signal and the differential feedback signal. A quantizer generates a quantized output signal in response to the differential filtered signal. A modified DWA block coupled between the quantizer and the DAC, generates the plurality of selection signals in response to a chop clock, a regular clock, the quantized output signal and a plurality of selection index signals. A selection index signal is dependent on previously generated plurality of selection signals.
US09853650B1	Method and apparatus of frequency synthesis An apparatus having a digitally controlled timing adjustment circuit configured to receive a first clock and a second clock and output a third clock and a fourth clock in accordance with a noise cancellation signal and a gain control signal, an analog phase detector configured to receive the third clock and the fourth clock and output an analog timing error signal, a filtering circuit configure to receive the analog timing error signal and output an oscillator control signal, a controllable oscillator configured to receive the oscillator control signal and output a fifth clock, a clock divider configured to receive the fifth clock and output the second clock in accordance with a division factor, a modulator configured to receive a clock multiplication factor and output the division factor and the noise cancellation signal, wherein a mean value of the division factor is equal to the clock multiplication factor, a digital phase detector configured to receive the third clock and the fourth clock and output a digital timing error signal, wherein the digital phase detector is self-calibrated so that a mean value of the digital timing error signal is zero, and a correlation circuit configured to receive the timing error signal and the noise cancellation signal and output the gain control signal.
US09853638B2	Touch on glass A touch-sensitive glass barrier has a conductive coil affixed to the first side of a glass barrier, a capacitor connected to the conductive coil to form a resonator, and an inductance-to-digital converter (LDC) connected to drive an alternating current through the resonator. The LDC determines whether a conductive target has touched the second side of the glass barrier at a point opposite the conductive coil; and responsive to determining that the conductive target has touched the second side of the glass barrier at the point, provides a signal.
US09853634B2	Systems and methods of phase frequency detection with clock edge overriding reset, extending detection range, improvement of cycle slipping and/or other features Systems and methods associated with phase frequency detection are disclosed. In one illustrative implementation, a phase frequency detection (PFD) circuit device may comprise first circuitry and second circuitry having a set input, a reset input, and an output, wherein the set input has a higher priority than the reset input, and additional circuitry arranged and operatively coupled to provide advantageous operation of the PFD circuit device. According to some implementations, for example, systems and methods with clock edge overriding reset features, extended detection range(s), and/or reduction of reverse charge after cycle slipping are provided.
US09853633B1	Systems and methods involving lock-loop circuits, clock signal alignment, phase-averaging feedback clock circuitry Systems and methods associated with reducing clock skew are disclosed. In some exemplary embodiments, there is provided circuitry associated with lock loop circuits such as a phase lock loop (PLL). Such circuitry may comprise output clock tree circuitry and phase averaging circuitry. In other exemplary embodiments, there is provided circuitry associated with delay lock loop (DLL) circuits. Such circuitry may comprise output clock tree circuitry and/or phase averaging circuitry.
US09853631B2	High power pulse generator having a substantially quadrangular shape with an adjustable slope A high-power pulse generator (1), belonging to the LTD family, includes two series of power modules, one series of standard modules (3s) and one series of modified modules (3m), each including a switch (6s; 6m), provided with a trigger electrode (9s; 9m), positioned in series between two capacitors (4s; 4m), the modified modules being designed to produce a pulse at a frequency substantially three times the frequency of the standard modules, and a trigger device (13) designed to control the standard and modified switches (6s; 6m) via a single trigger signal applied to the trigger electrode (9s; 9m) of same. The trigger signal is applied to the switches through a trigger impedance (10m; 10s) that is different between the standard and modified modules, and the plateau slope of the generated pulse depends on the difference between the value of the standard impedance and that of the modified impedance.
US09853629B2	Oscillator circuit An oscillator circuit may include a multivibrator for generating an oscillator signal, a supply circuit having a first, second and third current path, and a current mirror for mirroring a current through the second current path into the first current path, the third current path and a current path of the multivibrator. A first transistor in the first current path is operated in weak inversion and saturation on the basis of a first gate voltage. A second transistor in the second current path may be operated in weak inversion and saturation on the basis of the first gate voltage. A third transistor in the second current path may be operated in strong inversion and in the linear region on the basis of a second gate voltage. A fourth transistor in the third current path may be operated in strong inversion and in saturation on the basis of the second gate voltage.
US09853623B2	High-selectivity low-loss duplexer A high-selectivity low-loss duplexing system includes a first duplexer having a first port, a second port, a transmit port and a receive port. A second duplexer has a third port, a fourth port, an inverted transmit port and the receive port. The first port and the third port are connected to an antenna by a balun. The transmit port and the inverted transmit port are connected to at least one power amplifier. The receive port is connected to a low noise amplifier. A phase shifter includes a lattice filter configured to short the second port to the third port and the fourth port to the first port at a receive frequency, and short the second port to the first port and the fourth port to the third port at a transmit frequency.
US09853621B2	Transformer filter arrangement A transformer filter arrangement including a transformer having a first winding and a second winding is provided. Both of the first and the second windings are located between an outer border and an inner border, which is inside the outer border. The transformer filter arrangement further includes at least one reactive sub circuit, each including at least one inductor. The first winding of the transformer is divided into a plurality of winding segments. At least a first one of the at least one reactive sub circuit being connected in series with the winding segments of the first winding between two such winding segments, and having at least one of the at least one inductor located inside said inner border.
US09853619B2	Electrostatic capacitance element and resonance circuit A capacitance element body is configured by two or more capacitors, the capacitors being formed of a dielectric layer and at least three internal electrodes, the internal electrodes each being laminated via the dielectric layer and arranged to allow a center of gravity of an electrode body forming electrostatic capacitance to be arranged on a straight line in a lamination direction. In the capacitance element body, said two or more capacitors are serially connected in a lamination direction of the internal electrodes. Furthermore, external terminals, each being electrically connected to an electrode body forming electrostatic capacitance, are formed in side surfaces of the capacitance element body.
US09853615B2	Linearized dynamic amplifier A differential amplifier includes a positive leg, a negative leg, and biasing circuitry. The positive leg includes at least one positive leg transistor, a first positive leg degeneration capacitor, and positive leg degeneration capacitor biasing circuitry configured to bias the first degeneration capacitor during a reset period. The negative leg includes at least one negative leg transistor, a negative leg degeneration capacitor, and negative leg degeneration capacitor biasing circuitry configured to bias the negative leg degeneration capacitor during the reset period. The biasing circuitry biases current of both the at least one positive leg transistor and the at least one negative leg transistor based on capacitance of the first positive leg degeneration capacitor, capacitance of the first negative leg degeneration capacitor, and a sampling time during an amplification period. The differential amplifier may be a stage amplifier in an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC).
US09853613B2	Apparatus and methods for protecting radio frequency amplifiers from overdrive Provided herein are apparatus and methods for protecting radio frequency (RF) amplifiers from overdrive. In certain configurations, an RF amplification system includes a plurality of RF amplification stages including a first amplification stage and a second amplification stage subsequent to the first amplification stage in a signal path. The first amplification stage includes a first stage field-effect transistor (FET), and the second amplification stage includes a second stage FET and a gate-to-drain feedback circuit electrically connected between a gate and a drain of the second stage FET. The RF amplification system further includes an overdrive detection circuit that senses a drain current of the first stage FET to detect when an overdrive condition is present, and that decreases an impedance of the gate-to-drain feedback circuit in response to detection of the overdrive condition such that a gain of the second stage FET is reduced.
US09853610B2	Systems and methods related to linear and efficient broadband power amplifiers Systems and methods related to linear and efficient broadband power amplifiers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for amplifying a radio-frequency signal includes providing a Doherty amplifier circuit having a carrier amplification path and a peaking amplification path. The method includes receiving an radio-frequency signal and splitting the radio-frequency signal into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion provided to the carrier amplification path, the second portion provided to the peaking amplification path. The method further includes combining, using a balance to unbalance circuit, outputs of the carrier amplification path and the peaking amplification path to yield an amplified radio-frequency signal.
US09853608B2	Temperature compensation technique for envelope tracking system Disclosed is an envelope tracking (ET) system having a transmit (TX) section, a power amplifier (PA), a fast switched-mode power supply (Fast SMPS), and control circuitry. The TX section receives an input signal and provides a modulated signal to the PA. The TX section also generates an ET signal based on a modulation envelope of the modulated signal. The TX section provides an envelope control (EC) signal based on the ET signal to modulate a supply signal provided to the PA by the Fast SMPS. The control circuitry provides a transmit TX gain signal and an ET gain signal to the TX section based on a PA temperature signal, a TX temperature signal, a target power signal, a measured power signal. The control circuitry is configured to maintain the efficiency and linearity of the PA over a wide operating temperature range.
US09853607B1	Low-noise amplifier, receiver and method in a low-noise amplifier A low-noise amplifier comprises first and second input ports respectively configured to receive a positive and negative input voltages; first and second resonance circuit, first and second transistor; wherein a first voltage output port of the first resonance circuit is connected to the second transistor, and a second voltage output port of the second resonance circuit is connected to the first transistor, the first and second voltage output ports are crossed coupled to a second node of both the first transistor and the second transistor via a first and second capacitor respectively; the second node of the second transistor is connected to both the second input port via a third capacitor and a third node of the first transistor, and the second node of the first transistor is connected to both the first input port via a fourth capacitor and a third node of the second transistor.
US09853604B2	Amplifier circuit and method An amplifier arrangement comprises N amplifier stages, wherein N is an integer equal or greater than four. The amplifier arrangement comprises a cascade of quarter wavelength transmission lines coupled between an output of an amplifier of a first amplifier stage and an output node of the amplifier arrangement, wherein the cascade comprises N−1 quarter wavelength transmission lines. An amplifier of the Nth stage is coupled to the output node, and remaining amplifiers between the first and Nth stages coupled to successive junctions in the cascade of quarter wavelength transmission lines. The amplifier arrangement is further configured such that the amplifier of the Nth stage is coupled to the output node via a connecting quarter wavelength transmission line, and whereby each of the remaining amplifiers of the N−2 stages closest to the output node is coupled by a respective connecting quarter wavelength transmission line to a respective junction of the cascade of quarter wavelength transmission lines.
US09853601B2	Method, apparatus and system for envelope tracking This disclosure relates generally to the field of wireless communication infrastructure, and more particularly to a method, apparatus and system for envelope tracking. The system for envelope tracking comprising: a transistor; an RF transistor; a driver; a switcher current source; and a subtracting network; wherein the system is configured such that when an envelope voltage is less than a predetermined voltage value, the RF transistor is configured for decreasing an amount of absorbed biasing current, and when the envelope voltage is greater than a predetermined voltage value, the RF transistor is configured for increasing an amount of absorbed biasing current. The goal of RF transistor sinking is to absorb the redundant biasing current generated by the envelope tracking supply modulator to eliminate distortions.
US09853600B1	System and method for adaptive power modulation for power amplifier A method includes determining one or more characteristics of a system that uses a power amplifier. The method also includes determining, based on the one or more determined characteristics, a switching speed and a supply voltage for the power amplifier. The method further includes modulating a power supply of the power amplifier according to the determined switching speed and supply voltage.
US09853593B2	Solar panel mechanical connector and frame A bracket for coupling frames of solar panels includes a spacer for positioning between frames. An elongated body passes through a slot in the spacer and is positionable within channels formed in the frames. A clamp secures to the spacer and is biased toward the slot and elongated body, such as by means of a spring. The clamp defines seats for receiving portions of the frames of the solar panels. Sloped portions on end portions of the clamp facilitate insertion of the frames between the elongated body and the clamp. Another type of bracket includes a spacer and clamp, the spacer having protuberances for insertion into channels in the frames. A flange extends from the spacer such that it extends between the frames when the protuberances are positioned within the channels. An L-foot or other fixture may secure to the flange to secure the solar panels to a structure.
US09853592B2	Method and device for controlling an energy-generating system which can be operated with a renewable energy source A method and a device for controlling an energy-generating system are operated with a renewable energy source. In the method, a prediction about an energy yield of the energy-generating system is made for a predefined prediction time period, and a predefined area, using a learning system with an input vector and an output vector. The output vector includes operating variables for a multiplicity of successive future times of the time period. The input vector includes variables, influencing the operating variables, for a point in time from a multiplicity of points in time of a predefined observation time period. The input variables include at least three items of information for the observation time period and the predefined area. The energy-generating system is controlled on the basis of the generated prediction such that weather-conditioned fluctuations in the energy yield of the energy-generating system are reduced.
US09853591B2	Inverter control device An inverter control device for controlling a rotating electric machine drive device that includes an inverter and a DC link capacitor, the inverter being connected to a DC power supply via a contactor, being connected to an alternating current rotating electric machine, and performing power conversion between direct current and three-phase alternating current, an arm for each alternating current phase being formed by a series circuit including an upper side switching element and a lower side switching element, and the DC link capacitor smoothing a DC link voltage, which is a DC-side voltage of the inverter, the inverter control device performing switching control on the switching elements that form the inverter.
US09853589B2	Electric power system for controlling an electric machine An electric power system including a front-end converter that is supplied electric power from a high-voltage DC power source, and an associated motor control system is described. A control method includes monitoring the electric machine and determining a reference current based upon the electric power supplied from the high-voltage DC power source. A motor current is determined based upon the monitoring of the electric machine, and a feed-forward current is determined based upon the motor current and the monitoring of the electric machine. A first duty cycle is determined based upon the reference current, the motor current and the feed-forward current, and a feed-forward duty cycle is determined based upon the monitoring of the electric machine. A second duty cycle is determined based upon the feed-forward duty cycle and the first duty cycle, and the front-end converter is controlled based upon the second duty cycle.
US09853588B2	Motor drive control using pulse-width modulation pulse skipping A control circuit for a motor of a compressor includes an inverter control module configured to control power switching devices of an inverter to generate output voltages from a DC power supply. The output voltages are applied to windings of the motor. A current control module is configured to generate voltage signals based on a torque demand. The inverter control module controls the power switching devices according to the voltage signals. A selector is configured to output one of an open loop torque value and a closed loop torque value as the torque demand. An open loop torque module is configured to generate the open loop torque value. The open loop torque module is configured to apply an upper limit to the open loop torque value. The upper limit is based on a voltage of the DC power supply.
US09853585B2	Motor control apparatus, motor control method and motor control program A control apparatus for controlling a motor performing pressure control includes circuitry which calculates a detected speed of a motor based on an input pressure command, sensor reaction force, movable part viscous damping force and movable part mass, outputs the detected speed, calculates the movable part viscous damping force by multiplying the detected speed by a movable part viscous damping coefficient to calculate the detected speed, calculates a detected position of the motor by integrating the detected speed, outputs the detected position, calculates a sensor viscous damping pressure by multiplying the detected speed by a sensor viscous damping coefficient, calculates a sensor spring pressure by multiplying the detected position by a sensor spring constant, calculates a detected pressure of a pressure sensor by adding the sensor spring pressure to the sensor viscous damping pressure, and outputs the sensor reaction force which is the detected pressure to calculate the detected speed.
US09853579B2	Rotatable heated electrostatic chuck An electrostatic chuck includes a dielectric disk having a support surface to support a substrate and an opposing second surface, wherein at least one chucking electrode is disposed within the dielectric disk; a radio frequency (RF) bias plate disposed below the dielectric disk; a plurality of lamps disposed below the RF bias plate to heat the dielectric disk; a metallic plate disposed below the lamps to absorb heat generated by the lamps; a shaft coupled to the second surface of the dielectric disk at a first end of the shaft to support the dielectric disk in a spaced apart relation to the RF bias plate and extending away from the dielectric disk and through the RF bias plate and the metallic plate; and a rotation assembly coupled to the shaft to rotate the shaft and the dielectric disk with respect to the RF bias plate, lamps, and metallic plate.
US09853578B2	Ultrasonic generator An ultrasonic generator that is capable of increasing output sound pressure is provided.An ultrasonic generating element is accommodated in an accommodation space that is formed by a first case member and a second case member. The ultrasonic generating element is secured to the first case member via a plurality of first supporting members. The first supporting members are provided so that, in a first acoustic path that includes a space formed between a bottom surface of the ultrasonic generating element and a top surface of the first case member and that extends to sound-wave emission holes, a transverse section of the acoustic path has a portion that becomes smaller than another portion thereof.
US09853574B2	Voltage source converter A voltage source converter including a DC terminal for connection to a DC electrical network, and a converter limb operatively connected to the DC terminal. The converter limb including at least one limb portion operatively connected to an AC terminal. The limb portion including a valve, the valve including at least one module, the module including at least one switching element and at least one energy storage device, the switching element and each energy storage device in the module combining to selectively provide a voltage source. A controller including a valve voltage demand sub-controller. The controller being configured to provide AC and DC output voltage demands to the valve voltage demand sub-controller. And, a switching control unit configured to control switching of the switching element in the module so as to generate a voltage across the valve.
US09853572B2	Bridge leg circuit A bridge leg switching a DC voltage to produce an AC voltage at its output terminal for supply to an inductive load. The bridge leg has first, second, third, and fourth switch assemblies, and at least a first inductive element. The first and second switch assemblies are serially connected between the bridge leg input terminals, the bridge leg output being formed at a point of interconnection of the first and second switch assemblies. The third and fourth switch assemblies are serially connected between the bridge leg input terminals, the inductive element being connected between a point of interconnection of the third and fourth switch assemblies and the bridge leg output. The third and fourth switch assemblies are controlled such that reverse current through either of the first or second switch assembly is reduced compared to bridge leg output current prior to the moment the bridge leg output is switched.
US09853568B2	Power conversion device The resonant inverter circuit includes two or more switch elements. A detector detects an output current of the switch elements. A resonance frequency determiner determines that the resonance frequency of the resonant inverter circuit is abnormal when a number of times an absolute value of a current detected by the detector at turn-off of the switch elements is equal to or greater than a threshold is equal to or greater than a predetermined number of times that is two or more during a predetermined period that is equal to or longer than two switching periods of the switch elements. A controller causes the resonant inverter circuit to stop a switching operation when the resonance frequency determiner determines that the resonance frequency of the resonant inverter circuit is abnormal.
US09853566B2	System for driving inverters in parallel In some embodiments, a system for driving inverters in parallel includes a master controller, a plurality of slave controllers, and a plurality of inverters controlled correspondingly by each of the slave controllers. The system may further include a control signal creation unit to create control signals for the slave controllers by using data transmitted and received between the master controller and the slave controllers to enable the plurality of inverters to create balanced output currents.
US09853564B2	Synchronous rectifier and control circuit thereof A synchronous rectifier includes: a rectifying circuit including transistors, the rectifying circuit being configured to generate rectified power by rectifying input power input to an input terminal of the rectifying circuit depending on switching operations of the transistors, and output the rectified power to an output terminal of the rectifying circuit; and a controller configured to apply a gate signal to each of the, and adjust a pulse width of the gate signal depending on a difference between the input power and the gate signal.
US09853563B2	Isolated synchronous rectification control circuit, control device, and control method The present invention provides an isolated synchronous rectification control circuit, a control device, and a control method. The control circuit includes a power supply module, a reference module, a comparator module, a primary side turn-on determination unit, a secondary intermittent burst estimation unit, a logic unit, and a driver unit. The control device includes a transformer, a bypass capacitor configured to provide a stable voltage, a time constant setting resistor configured to configure a primary side turn-on time constant and a secondary intermittent burst time estimation determination, a synchronous rectification control circuit configured to determine the primary side turn-on based on the current flowing into a time setting terminal, predict a secondary side intermittent burst time, and generate logic control signals to drive the turn-on or turn-off of the synchronous rectifier, and an output capacitor connected to the rectification control circuit to provide an output capacitance.
US09853561B2	Load control device for high-efficiency loads A two-wire load control device (such as, a dimmer switch) for controlling the amount of power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load (such as, a high-efficiency lighting load) includes a thyristor coupled between the source and the load, a gate coupling circuit comprising two MOS-gated transistors, and a control circuit. The control circuit generates first and second drive voltages for individually controlling the MOS-gated transistors, and controls the gate coupling circuit to cause the MOS-gated transistors to conduct a pulse of current through a gate terminal of the thyristor to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a present half cycle of the AC power source, and to allow the MOS-gated transistors to conduct at least one other pulse of current through the gate terminal after the firing time during the present half cycle.
US09853559B2	Power conversion device with reduced current deviation Disclosed herein is a power conversion device including a storage and a power conversion controller. The storage stores multiple values, each correlated to a disturbance that causes distortion in a current to a power converter, in association with a phase angle of a voltage of an AC power supply. The power conversion controller controls ON/OFF operations by using the values stored in the storage to compensate for a manipulated variable of control performed by the power converter in association with the phase angle of the voltage of the AC power supply.
US09853555B2	Universal power adapter and an associated method thereof A universal power adapter includes a power converter configured to generate an output power based on a switching frequency of the power converter. The universal power adapter also includes a frequency controller operatively coupled to the power converter and configured to control the switching frequency of the power converter. The universal power adapter further includes a switch capacitor circuit having a plurality of capacitive elements, operatively coupled to the power converter. The switch capacitor circuit is configured to switch between the plurality of capacitive elements. The universal power adapter also includes a capacitance controller operatively coupled to the switch capacitor circuit and configured to control the switch capacitor circuit to control switching between the plurality of capacitive elements to maintain a control parameter within a threshold range of.
US09853552B2	Programming controller parameters through external terminals of a power converter A method of operating a power converter includes applying a first signal sequence to one or more terminals of the power converter to unlock a controller of the power converter and cause the controller to enter a programming mode, applying a second signal sequence to the one or more terminals of the power converter to program a controller parameter of the power converter, and applying a third signal sequence to the one or more terminals to lock the controller of the power converter and cause the power converter to enter a locked mode. The one or more terminals of the power converter includes one or more input terminals of the power converter that converter are adapted to be coupled to a programmable ac or dc supply, or one or more output terminals of the power converter that are adapted to be coupled to a programmable electronic load.
US09853551B2	Isolated DC-DC power conversion circuit A power transfer system includes DC-DC power conversion circuitry that has a first switch and a second switch on either side of a first transformer and a first capacitor and a second capacitor on either side of a second transformer that is connected in parallel with the first transformer. Primary secondary sides of the DC-DC power conversion circuitry are aligned based a direction of power transfer. A quantity of power transfer through the DC-DC power conversion circuitry is determined based on power and voltage characteristics of electrical components. A duty cycle and a switching frequency for the first switch or second switch is determined based on the quantity of power to be transferred. The primary and secondary switches are controlled using switching.
US09853550B2	Systems and methods for a variable frequency multiplier power converter A power converter for converting DC power to DC power includes an inverter stage having two or more switched inverters configured to receive DC power from a source and produce a switched AC output power signal. A transformation stage is coupled to receive the switched output power signal from the inverter stage, shape the output power signal, and produce a shaped power signal. A rectifier stage having two or more switched inverters coupled to receive the shaped power signal and convert the shaped power signal to a DC output power signal is included. A controller circuit is coupled to operate the power converter in a variable frequency multiplier mode where at least one of the switched inverters is switched at a frequency or duty cycle that results in an output signal having a frequency that is a harmonic of the fundamental frequency being generated by the power converter.
US09853548B1	Accurate high-side current emulation with auto-conversion for smart power stage applications A current detection circuit for detecting a current in a Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) having a first switch and a second switch coupled in series and an output filter including an inductor and a capacitor coupled to a switch node formed by the first and second switches, has a current sensing circuit for sensing a current across the second switch and generating a current sensing signal indicating current information of the second switch, and a current emulation circuit for emulating current information of the first switch. The current emulation circuit includes an inductance sensing circuit for acquiring a real-time rate of change in inductor current and an AC emulation circuit for computing the AC portion of the current information of the first switch based on the real-time rate of change in inductor current.
US09853547B2	Methods and apparatus for adaptive timing for zero voltage transition power converters An example apparatus includes a first switch having a control terminal, coupled to a voltage source and coupled to a switch node; a second switch having a control terminal, coupled to the switch node and to a voltage reference; a first inductor coupled to the switch node and to a load; a third switch having a control terminal, coupled to the voltage source and to an auxiliary node; a fourth switch having a control terminal, coupled to the auxiliary node and to the voltage reference; a second inductor coupled to the switch node and the auxiliary node; a fifth switch having a control terminal, coupled to the switch node and to the auxiliary node; and timing circuitry configured to output signals to the control terminals of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, the fourth switch and the fifth switch to supply current to the load.
US09853546B2	Method and apparatus for reducing overshoot and undershoot using a reconfigurable inductor for switching mode voltage An apparatus and methods for reducing overshoot and undershoot using a reconfigurable inductor in a switching voltage regulator. Specifically, the switching voltage regulator includes a reconfigurable inductor, the reconfigurable inductor has a conductive control ring, and the conductive control ring has an adjustable enclosed area controlled by at least a first switch, wherein the reconfigurable inductor has a varying inductance based on a state of at least the first switch and the adjustable enclosed area of the conductive control ring is shown.
US09853545B2	Power regulator having current and voltage modes A power supply is configured to automatically and rapidly switch from a voltage maintaining mode to a current limiting mode (at times that are unpredictable from a point of view of the power supply) when supplying replenishing current to a combination of a power insulated gate switching device and power capacitor that drive relatively large surges of pulsed power through a load such as a laser emitter of a Time of Flight (TOF) determining system. The current limiting mode is automatically activated by the start of each train of large surges of pulsed power and it replenishes charge to the power capacitor on a time averaged basis such that the capacitor develops a temperature appropriate voltage for providing the time averaged current to the power insulated gate switching device and its load and causing the load (e.g., laser) to output a desired amount of output power. The current limiting mode automatically stops when the time averaged current is detected to drop below a threshold and then the voltage maintaining mode automatically begins. The voltage maintaining mode maintains a stored voltage across the capacitor slightly greater than a maximum voltage needed to drive the load (e.g., laser emitter) to the desired magnitude of output power (e.g., output luminance).
US09853543B2	Switched mode power supply control An illustrative example embodiment of a method is for controlling a switch. The switch is used to charge a capacitor that provides an output voltage. The switch has an inductor on an input side between a power source and the switch. The method includes: initiating a switching cycle including turning on the switch, sensing a voltage representing current through the inductor, using a reference voltage as a basis for turning off the switch during the switching cycle when the sensed voltage exceeds the reference voltage, and setting an initial value of the reference voltage at a beginning of the switching cycle based on at least one feature of an activation of the switch during at least one previous switching cycle.
US09853541B2	Switched-capacitor DC-to-DC converters and methods of fabricating the same A switched-capacitor DC-to-DC converter includes a logic cell and a capacitor cell vertically overlapping with the logic cell. The logic cell has a plurality of active elements disposed over a first substrate. The capacitor cell has a capacitor over a second substrate. A first interlayer insulation layer disposed over the first substrate is bonded to a second interlayer insulation layer disposed over the second substrate. A first through via connected to any one of interconnection patterns of the logic cell and a second through via connected to a lower electrode pattern of the capacitor cell are connected to each other through a first external circuit pattern. A third through via connected to an upper electrode pattern of the capacitor cell and a fourth through via connected to another one of the interconnection patterns of the logic cell are connected to each other through a second external circuit pattern.
US09853540B2	Power supply circuit A power supply circuit is intended to suppress power consumption when a load is not driven and to shorten a required time to be taken until a boosted voltage to be supplied to a high-side MOS transistor is stabilized when the load is changed from a deactivated state to an activated state.The power supply circuit (power supply circuit 3) supplying power to a load driving circuit (motor driving circuit 2) that drives a load by controlling a high-side MOS transistor M1 on the basis of an input load control signal includes a booster circuit (charge pump 23) configured to boost a voltage of input power and supplies the power of which the voltage is boosted as power for driving the high-side MOS transistor. The booster circuit has power supply capability which varies depending on the load control signal.
US09853537B2	Multilevel converter for power factor correction and associated operating method A method operates a multilevel converter for power factor correction of a polyphase mains voltage. Each phase of the polyphase main has an associated phase module with a plurality of sub modules which are connected in series and each have an electrical energy store. Each sub module can be connected to the phase of the mains voltage or disconnected there from by an electronic switch. A circuit breaker is provided for disconnecting the converter from the mains voltage. The converter has a regulation system by which the voltages of the phase modules are balanced when the circuit breaker is open.
US09853534B2	Converter circuit arrangement and conversion method A converter circuit arrangement is provided, including a converter switch controller, a converter switch, a load circuit interface and an inductor. The converter switch controller may include a control input. The converter switch may be coupled between a first power supply potential and the control input. The inductor may be coupled between a second power supply potential and the load circuit interface. The load circuit interface may be coupled between the control input and the inductor.
US09853532B2	Magnetic transmission An electromagnetic transmission assembly. The electromagnetic transmission assembly includes a stator having a central axis and a plurality of selectively-energized electromagnetic poles. A first rotor assembly is rotatably supported for rotation about the central axis. The first rotor assembly including a first rotor shaft and a castellated rotor including a plurality of radially arranged ferromagnetic pole portions disposed in a housing. A second rotor assembly is rotatably supported for rotation about the central axis. The second rotor assembly includes a second rotor shaft and a permanent-magnet rotor. The first rotor assembly is at least partially magnetically coupled to the second rotor assembly when the plurality of electromagnetic poles are energized.
US09853530B2	Linear motor unit A linear motor unit includes at least one first linear motor in which an armature is disposed spaced from a shaft guide supporting section which is provided at a distal end of a frame, and a shaft guide is disposed on a proximal side of the shaft guide supporting section; and at least one second linear motor in which an armature is disposed in contact with the proximal side the shaft guide supporting section which is provided at the distal end of the frame, and the shaft guide is disposed on the distal side of the shaft guide supporting section, wherein the first linear motors and the second linear motors are alternatively arranged in a width direction of the frame with the respective shaft guides of the linear motors aligned with each other, the shaft guide is rotated by a rotary motor.
US09853528B2	Spherical induction motor Systems and methods are provided for an induction motor. An induction motor includes a spherical rotor and a plurality of curved inductors positioned around the spherical rotor. The plurality of curved inductors are configured to rotate the spherical rotor continuously through arbitrarily large angles among any combination of three independent axes.
US09853525B2	Magnetic bearing assembly and arrangement of position sensors for a magnetic bearing assembly The subject matter described herein includes a magnetic bearing assembly and an arrangement of position sensors for the magnetic bearing assembly. In one example the magnetic bearing assembly includes a rotor for fixedly coupling to a shaft for rotating with the shaft. The assembly further includes at least one stator assembly located adjacent to the rotor and circumferentially surrounding the shaft. The stator assembly includes a control coil for magnetically supporting the rotor. The stator assembly further includes a plurality of position sensors that are circumferentially spaced from each other and that extend radially from the stator assembly for measuring an indication of axial displacement of the rotor.
US09853522B2	Electrical rotating machine having a cooling fan and exhaust ports A cooling fan is provided at an axial end portion of a rotor. The cooling fan generates a cooling air when rotated integrally with the rotor. On a stator core arranged at a position on a radially outer side of the rotor, a plurality of stator coils are arrayed in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Each stator coil includes a coil end that protrudes from an axial end surface of the stator core. A front housing covering the cooling fan includes: an exhaust port for passing the cooling air therethrough, at least part of the exhaust port being located at a position on a radially outer side of the coil end; and a recess portion opposed to the coil end in an axial direction.
US09853518B2	Cantilevered-shaft electric motor This cantilevered-shaft electric motor has no bearing on the load side, and since there also is no end bracket, which is present in ordinary electric motors, the internal stator and rotor are in an unprotected state in a bare state. The present invention provides a cantilevered-shaft electric motor that prevents damage to the stator and rotor during transport, causes handling properties during transport and during coupling to a load side to be favorable, and prevents contaminants from infiltrating. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor is provided with: a stator that is affixed at the inner diameter side of a housing; and a rotor that is rotatably borne disposed facing the inner peripheral side of the stator. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor has a structure such that the rotor is provided with a bearing at the reverse side from the load and the shaft at the load side is supported at an apparatus side. The cantilevered-shaft electric motor is characterized by being provided with a partition plate having a hole through which the rotary shaft penetrates at the load side of the rotor, the partition plate being provided with: a role as an affixing jig that supports the rotary shaft in a manner so that the rotor does not contact the stator during transport; and a role as a protective member that prevents the infiltration of contaminants from the outside.
US09853517B2	Ceiling fan motor structure A ceiling fan motor structure includes a housing, a magnetic ring, and a cover. The housing has an annular wall and a shielding plate which jointly define a receiving room. The open side of the annular wall forms an opening. The housing has an annular edge around the opening. The annular wall has a plurality of projections projecting from the inner wall surface of the receiving room. The magnetic ring has a plurality of recesses on its outer periphery and is placed into the receiving room of the housing in a way in which the recesses are respectively aligned with the projections and in which each projection is placed in the corresponding recess to prevent relative rotation between the magnetic ring and the housing. The cover closes the opening and is fixedly connected to the housing.
US09853511B2	X-ray tube rotor with carbon composite based material The present invention relates to a rotor for an X-ray tube. In order to provide further possibilities for weight reduction in X-ray tubes for providing an increase of rotation frequency, a rotor (10) for an X-ray tube is provided, comprising a rotational structure (12) with a plurality of electrically conducting elements (14), the ends thereof connected to each other and provided such that an external stator magnetic field generated by a stator induces a current in the electrically conducting elements, which current generates a rotor magnetic field to interact with the stator magnetic field. At least the plurality of electrically conducting elements is made from carbon composite based material.
US09853508B2	Synchronous reluctance motor and rotor for synchronous reluctance motor A synchronous reluctance motor includes: a rotor shaft; a rotor core fixed to the rotor shaft and on which a plurality of flux barriers are formed; a stator core on which a plurality of protruding stator teeth are formed; and multiphase armature windings of a plurality of poles wound around the plurality of stator teeth. The flux barriers include a plurality of first flux barriers formed to be spaced out in the circumferential direction from each other and extend in a radial direction, and a plurality of second flux barriers formed in each of circumferential angular regions sandwiched between the first flux barriers to form a curved surface convex toward the center of the rotation-axis and to spread and be spaced out in the circumferential direction from each other.
US09853503B2	Wireless power feeding system In a case where a power transmission device operating as a master disappears, a wireless power feeding system selects a power transmission device to operate as a master instead based on predetermined priority levels.
US09853501B2	Electromagnetic wave transmission sheet and electromagnetic wave transmission device An edge portion which defines a planar shape has two long end sides (108a, 108b) which extend in parallel to each other, and two short end sides (107, 109) which have parallel portions extending in parallel to each other. The two long end sides and the two short end sides are reflection terminals. The parallel portion of the first short end side (107) includes a first portion (107a) and a second portion (107b). The positions of the antinodes of a first standing wave formed by a traveling wave directed toward the first portion (107a) and a reflected wave of the traveling wave and a second standing wave formed by a traveling wave directed toward the second portion (107b) and a reflected wave of the traveling wave in a direction substantially parallel to the long end sides (108a, 108b) are deviated by ¼ of the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave propagating through an electromagnetic wave transmission sheet.

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