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| US09861020B2 |
Multiple expansion card insertion and extraction tool
A device comprises a rail configured to span and detachably couple to a housing. The device includes a plate that engages the housing and a mechanism securing the tool to the housing. The housing contains a printed circuit board configured with at least one row of slots, each slot configured with a retainer mechanism. A jaw assembly slides along the rail over more than one card positioned in the row of slots. The assembly includes a pair of inserts that perform either seating or extracting more than one card positioned in more than one slot. The device includes a lever for biasing the jaw assembly, where the inserts engage a selected one of more than one card positioned in more than one slot and the retainer mechanism for performing either simultaneously seating more than one card into or simultaneously extracting more than one card from more than slot. |
| US09861019B2 |
Deterministic EMI grid layout for controlling optical diffraction
An electromagnetic interference shield is disclosed. The electromagnetic interference shield includes an optically transparent substrate and a metallic coating on the optically transparent substrate. The metal coating is characterized by a plurality of apertures aligned in a pattern that is defined by a deterministic relation. Distances between each of the plurality of apertures and an observation point in an associated image plane are uncorrelated. |
| US09861016B2 |
Device for attenuating electromagnetic pulse generated in a power laser installation
A device attenuates an electromagnetic pulse generated in an installation in which a high-power laser beam is sent to a target mounted on a target support. The device includes an electrically conductive plate, electrically connected to an electric earth of the installation and to which the target support is fixed, a plate of material which absorbs electromagnetic waves fixed to one face of the electrically conductive plate located on the target support side and a device for passing a discharge current, which is the result of an interaction of the laser beam with the target, between the target and the electrically conductive plate, where the device for passing the discharge current is equipped with a device for attenuating the current. |
| US09861014B2 |
Automatic control system and method of chillers for data center
An automatic control system and method of chillers for a data center are provided. The control system includes: a plurality of servers; a plurality of first temperature sensors, mounted at air inlets of the plurality of servers, respectively, and configured to detect temperatures at the air inlets of the plurality of servers in a real-time manner, respectively; a controller, configured to receive detected temperatures sent by the plurality of first temperature sensors, calculate an average temperature in the data center according to the detected temperatures, and generate a control instruction according to the average temperature in the data center; and an air conditioner, configured to receive the control instruction sent by the controller, and adjust a working mode of the air conditioner according to the control instruction. |
| US09861009B2 |
Valve diverter with heat sink
A valve-type arrester includes a heat sink for dissipating heat from the interior of the valve-type arrester into the surroundings of the valve-type arrester. The heat sink has a circular-cylindrical main body with a base surface, a top surface parallel to the base surface and a casing surface connecting the base surface and the top surface. The heat sink additionally has a plurality of fins disposed on the main body, in which each fin is formed in the shape of a sheet or a leaf and disposed on the casing surface of the main body. |
| US09861007B2 |
Digital signage
There is disclosed a digital signage including a display panel, a housing having the display panel arranged in one surface, the housing comprising a closed inner space, a cooling unit provided in a predetermined portion of the housing, the cooling unit comprising a hole configured to suck and exhaust external air, a heat pipe comprising one end positioned in the inner space of the housing to be coupled to a back surface of the display and the other end positioned in the cooling unit, with a liquid flowing therein to move heat, and a driving circuit board coupled to a back surface of the heat pipe to control driving of the display panel, such that the digital signage having a slim design can exhaust the heat generated from a display panel and a driving circuit board effectively. |
| US09861006B2 |
Systems and methods for thermoelectrically cooling inductive charging stations
In some embodiments, a cooling system for an induction charger includes a thermal conditioning module in fluid communication with an induction charging assembly, which includes a dock and an induction charging module. The dock can be configured to receive a portable electronic device, such as a cell phone, that is configured to accept inductive charging from the induction charging module. The thermal conditioning module can include a fan or other fluid encouraging assembly, ducting, and a thermoelectric device (e.g., a Peltier device). A fluid, such as air, can flow from the fan and across and/or through the thermoelectric device, thereby conditioning the fluid. The conditioned fluid can be provided to the dock to at least partially offset the heat generated by the inductive charging and/or the portable electronic device. |
| US09861003B2 |
Mounting clip
A flexible mounting clip is configured for engaging with a circuit board for removably attaching the circuit board to a mounting surface. A rib on an arm of the mounting clip engages with an opening in the circuit board to position and hold the circuit board in place, allowing easy replacement of the circuit board without tools. |
| US09860999B1 |
Bendable display apparatus and supporting device
A supporting device includes a hinge module and two buffering modules respectively installed on two opposite sides of the hinge module. Each buffering module includes an external linking member fixed on the hinge module, an internal linking member movably disposed on the external linking member, a driving member installed on the hinge module and movably disposed on the external linking member, and a transmitting member installed on the external linking member and driven by the driving member to move the internal linking member. The hinge module is bendable between an unfolded position and an inwardly folded position. When the hinge module is bent from the unfolded position toward the inwardly folded position, the driving member of each buffering module moves the corresponding internal linking member away from the pivots by using the transmitting member. |
| US09860997B2 |
Image display device
Provided is an image display device including: a first case that is formed to support a display unit; a second case that is formed to cover a rear surface of a middle case; and a coupling module that couples the first case and the second case to each other, in which the coupling module includes a first member that is formed on the rear surface and has a predetermined length, a second member that is formed on one surface of the second case that faces the rear surface and is formed in parallel with the first member, and a slide member that is formed in such a manner that the slide member is inserted and is able to be moved in a sliding way. |
| US09860990B1 |
Circuit board structure with chips embedded therein and manufacturing method thereof
A circuit board structure with chips embedded therein includes a multi-layer board and a power module embedded in the multi-layer board. The power module includes an insulating material, a power unit covered by the insulating material, and a circuit layer disposed on the insulating material. The power unit includes an electrically and thermally conductive carrier and a plurality of power chips. The electrically and thermally conductive carrier includes a transmitting portion and a carrying portion perpendicularly connected to the transmitting portion. Each power chip has a first electrode layer and an opposite second electrode layer. The first electrode layers are fixed on and electrically connected to the carrying portion in parallel, and the power chips are disposed at one side of the transmitting portion. The circuit layer is electrically connected to the electrically and thermally conductive carrier and the second electrode layers. |
| US09860986B2 |
Circuit arrangement for vehicles and use of a circuit arrangement
Circuit arrangement for vehicles with at least one semiconductor element 30 and at least one first metal carrier plate 2a and a metal circuit board 2b. A multifaceted scope of application is provided if the carrier plate 2a is electrically insulated from the circuit board 2b and the carrier plate 2a is electrically linked with at least one of the circuit boards 2b by means of at least one semiconductor device 30 so that the carrier plate 2a and the circuit board 2b form an electrical three-pole. |
| US09860984B2 |
Circuit board structure and manufacturing method thereof
A circuit board structure includes an inner circuit structure and a first build-up circuit structure. The inner circuit structure includes a core layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, a first patterned circuit layer disposed on the upper surface, a second patterned circuit layer disposed on the lower surface and a conductive through hole connecting the first and the second patterned circuit layers. The first build-up circuit structure at least has a cavity and an inner dielectric layer. The inner dielectric layer has an opening communicating the cavity and a pad of the first patterned circuit layer is located in the opening. A hole diameter of the opening is smaller than a hole diameter of cavity. An inner surface of the inner dielectric layer exposed by the cavity and a top surface of the pad are coplanar or have a height difference. |
| US09860978B1 |
Rigid-flex board structure
A rigid-flex board structure includes a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board, a substrate, a reinforcing layer, a patterned circuit layer and a plurality of conductive vias. The FPC board includes at least one exposing area. The substrate is disposed on the FPC board and includes an opening exposing the exposing area. The reinforcing layer is embedded in the substrate and a rigidity of a material of the reinforcing layer is greater than a rigidity of a material of the substrate. The patterned circuit layer is disposed on the substrate. The conductive vias are configured to electrically connect the patterned circuit layer and the FPC board. |
| US09860975B2 |
Thermal relief pad
A printed circuit board (PCB) having a thermal relief pad around at least one via. The thermal relief pad includes at least four thermal cut-outs and at least four conductive bands. The at least four conductive bands are formed between the at least four thermal cut-outs such that adjacent conductive pads are orthogonal to each other. Each pair of mutually opposite conductive bands have substantially equal lengths and each pair of adjacent conductive bands have unequal lengths. |
| US09860974B2 |
Systems and apparatus for controlling electrostatic discharge on electronic circuit board
Systems and apparatus for controlling electrostatic discharge on an electronic circuit board. A voltage surge attractor comprises a cylindrical main body having a bottom end configured to be mounted to a substrate for an electronic circuit board and a top end. A cone portion comprising a conical frustum has a base disposed on the top end of the main body and the cone portion tapers upward from the base to a cone top. A cap extends upward from the cone top. The cap has one of spherical shape, a spheroidal shape or an ellipsoidal shape. An electronic device comprises a substrate having a plurality of electronic components mounted on the substrate and a chassis ground disposed on the substrate. One or more voltage surge attractors are mounted on the substrate in electrical connection to the chassis ground. |
| US09860965B2 |
Cloud connected lighting system
A cloud connected lighting system may include a wireless lighting network of coordinated lighting devices and a bridge to provide connectivity to external devices such as a cell phone, home automation system or security system. The cloud connected lighting system may be implemented locally with a cell phone communicating with the bridge for control, status and alerts. The cloud connected lighting system may operate over the cloud via an Internet connection allowing the bridge to communicate with a server on the Internet that may implement software for the interface with the wireless lighting network and to capture data regarding activity detected by motion sensor associated with the wireless lighting network. |
| US09860961B2 |
Lighting fixtures and methods via a wireless network having a mesh network topology
In embodiments of the present invention, a method and system is provided for commissioning improved intelligent, LED-based lighting systems. The LED based lighting systems may include fixtures with one or more LED light bars, integrated sensors, onboard intelligence to send and receive signals and control the LED light bars, and network connectivity to other fixtures. |
| US09860957B1 |
CCT tuning daylighting system and method based on luminosity measurements
Systems and methods of adjusting a correlated color temperature (CCT) of a color-tunable light source based on one or more luminosity (lux) sensors, and without a CCT sensor, comprise receiving, at a controller, one or more signals from one or more lux sensors, the one or more signals representative of a luminous flux of natural light; determining, with the controller, a CCT of the natural light based on, at least in part, the luminous flux of the natural light; and transmitting an output signal from the controller based, at least in part, on the determined CCT of the natural light, the output signal configured to control the CCT of the color-tunable light source. |
| US09860956B2 |
Systems for providing tunable white light with high color rendering
The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within blue, yellow/green, red, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output. |
| US09860955B2 |
LED driving apparatus and lighting apparatus including same
A light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus includes: a power supply circuit supplying driving power to a first LED group and a second LED group, the first LED group and the second LED group being configured to emit light having different color temperatures; a current controlling circuit controlling a first magnitude of a first current flowing through the first LED group and a second magnitude of a second current flowing through the second LED group; and an LED controller concurrently controlling on/off switching operations of a first LED of the first LED group and a second LED of the second LED group. |
| US09860953B2 |
Control features of imitation candle devices
Devices and methods for facilitating the operations and usage of electronic candle devices are disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, an imitation candle device is disclosed. The imitation candle device comprises a body; a flame element protruding from top of the body; one or more light sources positioned to illuminate the flame element to produce an appearance of a true fire flame; a plurality of touch sensitive segments positioned on, or embedded in, a peripheral section of the body, wherein each of the plurality of touch sensitive segments is operable to produce an electrical signal in response to sensing a touch; and an electronic control circuitry operable to receive the electrical signal produced in response to sensing the touch by one or more of the plurality of touch sensitive segments and to control at least an output of the one or more light sources based on the electrical signal. |
| US09860952B2 |
Control device having buttons with automatically adjustable backlighting
A control device may comprise a plurality of buttons, a plurality of light sources located behind the respective buttons and configured to illuminate the buttons, a light detector circuit configured to measure an ambient light level around the control device, and/or a control circuit configured to control the light sources to adjust surface illumination intensities of the respective buttons in response to the measured ambient light level. Each button may comprise indicia indicating a function of the button. The control circuit set the first button as active and the second button as inactive in response to an actuation of the first button. The control circuit may, based on the measured ambient light level, control the light sources to illuminate the first button to an active surface illumination intensity, and to illuminate the second button to an inactive surface illumination intensity that is less than the active surface illumination intensity. |
| US09860951B1 |
Systems and methods for balancing current among light-emitting diode boards
A lighting system includes various LED boards. The LED boards are connected to a power source via an LED driver that regulates power from the power source to the LED boards. The LED driver includes a positive output and a negative output. The positive output of the LED driver is connected to a positive connection point of a first LED board and the negative output of the LED driver is connected to a negative connection point of a last LED board to distribute power or current approximately evenly across the LED boards. Distributing power or current approximately evenly across the LED boards or balancing current through the LED boards can cause the brightness or intensity of various LEDs in the lighting system to be approximately the same. |
| US09860948B1 |
Techniques for providing environmental lighting using network infrastructure
A network switch and luminaire provide environmental lighting via network infrastructure. The network switch operates in a communication mode that communicates, via a network interface, data with the luminaire over a network. Some portion of the data may be lighting control information for the luminaire that is produced by a control device. The network uses a network protocol that provides power to the luminaire using a network cable, where the luminaire uses the power to illuminate a lighting element. In response to a signal received by an emergency control input on the network switch, the emergency circuitry switches the network switch from the communication mode to an emergency lighting mode. The emergency lighting mode bypasses the processor used for communicating data via the network interface, and provides, via the network cable attached to the network interface, only power to the luminaire. |
| US09860947B2 |
Driver circuit for illuminants, particularly LEDs
The invention proposes a driver circuit (1, 20) for illuminants, particularly LEDs, having: —a circuit (2), such as an inverter in the form of a half-bridge circuit that has a resonant circuit (3), that is clocked by means of at least one switch (FET1, FET2), —a transformer (L2) that follows the resonant circuit (3) and from whose secondary winding (L2b) the illuminants can be supplied with power, and —a control circuit (ST) that clocks the switches (FET1, FET2) of the clocked circuit (2), wherein an actual signal (ILED_PRIM) that indirectly reproduces the current through the illuminants and that is inductively output on the secondary side (L2/2) of the transformer (L2) is fed back to the control circuit (ST), wherein the control circuit (ST) is designed: —to regulate the current through the illuminants by clocking at least one switch (FET1, FET2) of the clocked circuit (2) on the basis of the actual signal (ILED_PRIM), and/or —to use the actual signal (ILED_PRIM) to record a fault state following the secondary winding (L2b) of the transformer (L2) and/or the illuminants and to take this as a basis for outputting a fault signal and/or for altering the actuation of the clocked circuit (2). |
| US09860945B2 |
Digitally-controlled switch-mode start-up circuit for LED-based lights
Power consumption in a start-up circuit for a LED-based light bulb may be reduced by digitally switching a transistor of the start-up circuit coupled to the input voltage. When the transistor is digitally switched between on and off, a reduced amount of power is dissipated by the transistor, because it may not enter a saturation region of operation where the resistance of the transistor between drain and source terminals increases. The transistor may be coupled to a voltage regulator for generating one or more output voltages, including a supply voltage for a host controller IC. The transistor may be switched on and off by a digital signal generated by logic circuitry, which may decide to switch the transistor on and off based on a voltage level at an output of the voltage regulator. |
| US09860944B2 |
LED driver circuit
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an LED driving circuit with which it is possible to easily manage the color temperature by adjusting light. An LED driving circuit, characterized in having: a first LED group in which a plurality of first LEDs are serially connected, the first LED group contributing to emission of light having a first color temperature; a second LED group in which a plurality of second LEDs are serially connected, the second LED group contributing to emission of light having a second color temperature; a third LED group in which a plurality of second LEDs are serially connected, the second LED group contributing to emission of light having the second color temperature; and a control unit for switching, in response to an increase in a rectified output voltage, from illumination of only the first LED group to illumination of only the second LED group and then from illumination of only the second LED group to illumination of the second LED group and the third LED group, the number of first LEDs included in the first LED group being less than the number of second LEDs included in the second LED group. |
| US09860940B2 |
Methods and systems for alignment of a high performance heater
Systems and methods are provided for a high performance heater. In an embodiment, the high performance heater comprises a first stackable tray comprising a first alignment pin that insulates a first heating element disposed in the first stackable tray; a second stackable tray comprising a second alignment pin that insulates a second heating element disposed in the second stackable tray, wherein a top of the first alignment pin fits in to a cut out of a bottom of the second alignment pin when the first and second stackable trays are stacked, and wherein the first and second stackable trays comprise one or more materials, an outer diameter and an inner diameter, and wherein an area between the outer diameter and the inner diameter of the stackable trays comprises at least one cut out portion that allows expansion of the material(s) when the high performance heater is at high temperatures. |
| US09860938B2 |
Power cabling connections for remote radio heads and related methods
Power cabling connections for supplying power from a power supply to a plurality of remote radio heads include a trunk power cable having a trunk power supply conductor and a trunk return conductor that are enclosed within a cable jacket and electrically insulated from each other; and a plurality of remotely-controlled switches that are interposed between the trunk power cable and the respective remote radio heads that are configured to selectively electrically connect the trunk power supply conductor and the trunk return conductor to a respective one of the radio heads. |
| US09860937B2 |
System and method for bridging to a LTE wireless communication network
A system and method for bridging user devices communicating according to a 3rdGeneration (3G) communication protocol to a LTE wireless communication network, thereby enabling user devices that do not have sufficient signal strength for directly coupling to the LTE wireless communication network to nevertheless access such wireless communication systems and methods via a bridging system. |
| US09860935B2 |
Selection of RRC configuration in a wireless communication network based on network state
A method and wireless device (700) for applying a Radio Resource Control, RRC, configuration in a radio communication between the wireless device and a serving base station (702a) of a wireless communication network (702). The wireless device (700) obtains a set of RRC configurations (704), each RRC configuration comprising a plurality of radio parameters dictating how the wireless device should operate in the network (702). The wireless device (700) further receives an indication (706) from the serving base station reflecting a network state of the wireless communication network (702), and then selects and applies an RRC configuration out of the set of RRC configurations, based on the received indication. Thereby, capacity and performance can be improved in the network by reduced signalling with the wireless device (700) and more flexible usage of RRC configuration suitable for the network state. |
| US09860933B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting data in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) establishes dual connectivity with at least one first cell and at least one second cell, receives an indication which indicates that a data transmission path of a radio bearer is to be configured for the at least one first cell, configures the data transmission path of the radio bearer for the at least one first cell, and transmits data via the data transmission path on the at least one first cell. |
| US09860929B2 |
User equipment, a network node, and methods for device discovery in device to-device (D2D) communications in a wireless telecommunications network
A method in a first user equipment for adjusting a beacon signal to be detected by at least one second user equipment in a wireless telecommunications network is provided. The beacon signal is transmitted in order to enable an establishment of Device-to-Device, D2D, communication between the first user equipment and the at least one second user equipment. The method is characterized in that the method comprises adjusting, prior to transmitting the beacon signal, the transmit power of the beacon signal based on a requirement of an application in the first user equipment for which the D2D communication is to be established.A user equipment, a network node, and a method in a network node for enabling a D2D communication between a first user equipment and at least one second user equipment are also provided. |
| US09860928B2 |
Pairing consumer electronic devices using a cross-body communications protocol
A wireless device, such as a mobile device, for example, pairs with a peripheral device, such as a wristlet, for example, worn by the user. One or both of the wireless device and the peripheral device, each of which contact the user's skin, determine whether the other is in contact with the body of the same user. If both devices are in contact with the same body, the devices will pair with each other. |
| US09860925B2 |
Wireless LAN connection method using signal strength
A wireless LAN connection method using signal strength is provided. The wireless LAN connection method is carried out by an access point, and includes the steps of: measuring wireless signal strength of a signal which is received from a terminal having transmitted a connection request; determining whether the wireless signal strength is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold; checking whether the terminal is registered in an available list which is information on terminals having had signal strength equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold when the wireless signal strength is less than the predetermined threshold; and permitting connection of the terminal to a wireless LAN only when the terminal is registered in the available list. |
| US09860923B2 |
Emergency radio communications system incorporating integral public safety radio bridging capability
A communication system and method is provided for handling emergencies wherein public safety radios are used to directly communicate with normally incompatible radios used by organizations such as schools. The system includes a radio communication bridge that is selectively activated by emergency personnel to contact an organization undergoing an emergency. The bridge is activated via a TCP/IP command over an IP network or alternatively sent by a pre-programmed digital radio. Computer software or firmware at communication endpoints, emergency responder locations, and at an emergency call center facilitates functionality of the system to include emergency notifications, dissemination of information associated with a particular emergency, and the status of the system to include activation and deactivation of the radio bridge. |
| US09860921B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data based on aggressive spatial reuse
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving mobile data based on an ASR is provided. The mobile data transmission method of a first mobile terminal including transmitting a dRTS frame and creating an ASR list; performing channel access to a certain channel based on an ASR back-off process; transmitting an srDATA frame from the certain channel to a second mobile terminal based on the ASR list; and receiving an srACK frame from the second mobile terminal in response to the srDATA frame, wherein the certain channel is a channel to/from which a third mobile terminal transmits and receives a data frame, the srDATA frame and data frame are transmitted from the certain channel at a certain point, and the ASR list is information on a mobile terminal that does not collide with the data frame when the first mobile terminal transmits the srDATA frame and receives the srACK frame. |
| US09860915B2 |
Apparatus and method for moving a receive window in a radio access network
A method of moving a receiving window in a wireless mobile communication system, wherein the AM RLC of the transmitting side sends information of the last discarded SDU regardless of continuity of the discarded SDUs. The AM RLC of the receiving side checks whether all SDUs from the start point of the receiving window up to the last discarded SDU are successfully received, delivers the SDUs that are successfully received to an upper layer, and discard only those SDUs that are not successfully received. |
| US09860913B2 |
Reduction of false alarms in PDCCH detection
Methods and systems for determining scheduling information of a base station in a network operating according to the Long Term Evolution (“LTE”) standard include monitoring transmissions on the PDCCH of the wireless base station, maintaining a list of active Radio Network Temporary Identifiers (“RNTI's”) assigned by the wireless base station to user equipment, extracting PDCCH detections from the monitored transmissions, applying at least one false alarm reduction strategy to eliminate invalid PDCCH detections from the extracted PDCCH detections, said false alarm reduction strategy including determining an RNTI that is valid for an extracted PDCCH detection and determining if the valid RNTI is included in the list of active RNTI's. Scheduling information of the wireless base station is determined from the extracted PDCCH detection. |
| US09860911B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system
A wireless communication system, method and apparatus cooperate to use a wireless coordination signal from a control station in a first frequency band to establish direct links in a second frequency band between different terminals. Once established, the direct links in the second frequency band operate without further needing intervention by the control station. The first frequency band is 1 GHz or higher, and the second frequency band is at a higher frequency than the first frequency band. |
| US09860907B2 |
First and second base stations and methods performed therein
According to embodiments herein a method, performed by a first base station (12), is provided for handling scheduling of Time Division Duplex, TDD, uplink and/or downlink subframes for a wireless terminal (10), which wireless terminal (10) is in dual connectivity with a first cell served by said first base station (12) and a second cell served by a second base station (13). The first base station 12: identifies a subframe in which an uplink/downlink scheduling conflict will occur between the first cell and the second cell due to a difference between a TDD configuration of the first cell and a TDD configuration of the second cell; determines a scheduling for the identified subframe based on at least one scheduling parameter; and sends, to the second base station (13), a scheduling instruction comprising the determined scheduling for the identified subframe. |
| US09860906B2 |
Method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for processing machine-to-machine communications
A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for processing a machine-to-machine communication. For example, the method receives a request for transmission of the machine-to-machine communication in the communications network, wherein the machine-to-machine communication is between two dedicated machines operated by a customer of the communications network, determines an overall priority of the request, wherein the overall priority is based on a plurality of priority parameters, wherein the plurality of priority parameters comprises at least two of: a level of delivery service priority, a customer type priority, a location type priority, a sensor type priority, a registration status priority, a transmission status priority, and a bearer establishment priority, and transmits the machine-to-machine communication over the communications network to a destination, wherein the transmitting is based on the overall priority. |
| US09860905B2 |
Method and system for providing service in a wireless communication system
A method and an apparatus for providing a service in a next-generation wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting, upon recognizing an initial access by a Subscriber Station (SS), resource allocation information indicating resources allocated for channel quality reports by the SS to the SS by a master Base Station (BS) serving the SS, determining at least one slave BS that serves the SS and constitutes a first cloud cell, using the channel quality reports received from the SS, and exchanging data with the SS together with the at least one slave BS. |
| US09860897B2 |
Techniques for transmitting uplink control information for a component carrier
Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes determining a set of uplink (UL) component carriers (CCs) to use for a user equipment (UE). The set of UL CCs may include at least one UL CC in a first radio frequency spectrum band and at least one UL CC in a second radio frequency spectrum band. The method further includes identifying, for a subframe, uplink control information (UCI) due for transmission, the UCI associated with one or more CCs, and limiting available UL CCs for transmission of the UCI to the at least one UL CC in the first radio frequency spectrum band. |
| US09860895B2 |
Mobile station, network node, and methods for assigning resource blocks to the mobile station
A method in a network node for assigning resource blocks to a Mobile Station, MS, served by the network node. The MS is capable of downlink multicarrier operation. The network node receives from the MS an indication of a maximum number of consecutive downlink timeslots that the MS is capable of receiving on a given carrier during a TTI. The network node receives, from the MS, an indication of a maximum number of resource blocks that the MS is capable of processing during a TTI. The network node receives, from the MS, an indication of a maximum number of carriers supported by the MS. The network node assigns resource blocks to the MS, based on the received indication of a maximum number of consecutive downlink TS, the received indication of a maximum number of resource blocks and the received indication of a maximum number of carriers. |
| US09860890B2 |
Method and terminal for receiving bundle of EPDCCHs
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving EPDCCH by an MTC device. The method comprises: a step for determining a first search space and a second search space for receiving EPDCCH on a first subframe and a second subframe, respectively, from among N-number of subframes, if a bundle of EPDCCHs in which the same EPDCCH is repeated on the N-number of subframes should be received, wherein each of the first and second search spaces is determined on the basis of the number of EPDCCH candidates, and determined by any one of a first case, a second case and a third case classified on the basis of a DCI format and whether a CP being used is a normal CP or an extended CP; and a step for decoding the EPDCCH in the second search space if the cases for determining the first search space and the second search space are the same. |
| US09860889B2 |
Methods for indicating and determining uplink/downlink configuration, base station and terminal
The present disclosure provides methods for indicating and determining uplink/downlink configuration, a base station and a terminal. A base station transmits uplink/downlink configuration information to at least one terminal via a DCI message, the DCI message is provided with at least one uplink/downlink configuration information domain for carrying the uplink/downlink configuration information, and at least one of the uplink/downlink configuration information domains in the DCI message is parsed by the at least one terminal. The at least one terminal parses the received DCI message in accordance with predetermined DCI configuration information, and acquires its own uplink/downlink configuration from a corresponding position in the DCI message. |
| US09860887B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling data in wireless comminication system
A method for and apparatus for controlling data transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device acquires information including a monitoring subframe configuration, which is a subset of subframes including that control information are transmitted; determines monitoring subframes of a cell based on the information; detects control information for the data transmission according to the monitoring subframes; and rate matches data in a corresponding subframe with the detected control information. |
| US09860885B2 |
Terminal device, base station device, communication method, and integrated circuit using reference signals for demodulation
According to the present invention, there is provided a base station device, a terminal device, a communication method, an integrated circuit, and a radio communication system enabling a base station and a terminal device to decide a parameter related to a reference signal and efficiently communicate. A terminal device receives a reference signal associated with a physical downlink shared channel, the terminal device including means that receives the reference signal generated on the basis of a physical layer cell identity in a case in which a predetermined downlink control information format is used for scheduling of the physical downlink shared channel, and means that receives the reference signal generated on the basis of a parameter configured by a higher layer in a case in which a downlink control information format other than the predetermined downlink control information format is used for scheduling of the physical downlink shared channel. |
| US09860882B2 |
Variable downlink-uplink boundary
A method of operating an end node to communicate with a central node, the method comprising: wirelessly receiving, a beacon signal periodically-transmitted from the central node; each beacon signal denoting the start of a single frame; each frame being organized to include a downlink (DL) phase which precedes an uplink (UL) phase; and a payload of the beacon signal including an offset which represents a starting time of the UL phase. The method further comprises: generating a message; selecting, unbeknownst to the central node, at least one UL logical-channel, respectively; and wirelessly transmitting, during the UL phase, at least a portion of the message from the end node over the selected at least one UL logical-channel according to a slotted ALOHA technique. |
| US09860878B2 |
Base station apparatus and control channel allocating method
A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part allocates allocation information allocated to a PDCCH received from modulation parts to a particular one of a plurality of search spaces that is corresponding to a CCE aggregation size of the PDCCH. A placement part then places the allocation information in one of downstream line resources, reserved for the PDCCH, that is corresponding to the CCE of the particular search space to which the allocation information has been allocated. A radio transmission part then transmits an OFDM symbol, in which the allocation information has been placed, to the mobile station from an antenna. |
| US09860876B2 |
Best-effort scheduled access
Embodiments of the invention provide a best-effort scheduled access method and system that enable nodes to request, and a hub to assign, tentative, but not committed, scheduled allocations, referred to as unscheduled bilink allocations, in which data traffic is transferred between the nodes and the hub on a best-effort basis. The tentative allocations will be available if the network of the hub still has enough bandwidth, but will be shifted or reduced otherwise. This invention unifies tentative and committed scheduled allocations in the same access framework, thereby facilitating access scheduling and offering access flexibility. |
| US09860875B2 |
Method for controlling DSRC resource allocation, base station, and vehicle communications terminal
Embodiments of the present invention are applicable to the field of the Internet of Vehicles, and provides a method for controlling DSRC resource allocation, a base station, and a vehicle communications terminal. The vehicle communications terminal includes a dedicated short range communications (DSRC) processor and a cellular mobile communications processor. The DSRC processor and the cellular mobile communications processor are connected to each other by an interface. The DSRC processor is configured to be in a wireless connection to a DSRC processor in another vehicle communications terminal to implement wireless communication between vehicles. The cellular mobile communications processor is configured to send and receive messages for the DSRC processor. According to the present invention, a base station can control a DSRC resource, and flexibly adjust a resource configuration parameter, thereby implementing DSRC congestion control, and adjusting a configuration according to a scenario. |
| US09860874B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating resource in wireless communication system
A 5th-Generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to support a higher data rate beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) is provided. The method for operating resources by a device included in a first network among a plurality of networks in a wireless communication system where the plurality of networks overlap includes transmitting, to terminals included in the first network, at least one of a beacon signal and a request signal requesting resource allocation information related to adjacent devices respectively included in networks adjacent to the first network, receiving the resource allocation information related to the adjacent devices from the terminals, and reserving a resource to be used for communication based on the received resource allocation information related to the adjacent devices. |
| US09860873B2 |
D2D data transmission method and device
Disclosed are a D2D data transmission method and device. The method comprises: determining, by a D2D data sending end, a state of each sending opportunity in a sending window in the same manner as a D2D data receiving end, wherein the sending window is uniformly divided into a plurality of sending opportunities, and the state of each sending opportunity comprises a data sending state and a silent state; and sending D2D data to the D2D data receiving end in the sending opportunity of each data sending state in the sending window. By means of the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application, a D2D data sending end sends data on different resources (sending opportunities) or becomes silent, so that different D2D data sending ends are staggered on the resources, thereby alleviating the influence of “near-far” effects. |
| US09860868B2 |
Method and system for providing enhanced location based information for wireless handsets using dead reckoning
Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include improved dead reckoning solutions in which the mobile device performs location determination calculations with the aid of network components or global positioning systems (GPS). The network aided location information may be provided to the processor and utilized in measuring the accuracy of sensor based location calculations. The mobile device may utilize local sensors to obtain a set of combined sensor output location information, which may seed execution of dead reckoning. To ensure that most accurate location information is provide to the enhanced location based service, the dead reckoning location information may be compared to a current best estimate. Results of the comparison may be passed to the enhanced location based service and the methods, systems, and devices may reiterate the location determination. |
| US09860865B2 |
Roaming encoded information reading terminal
A portable encoded information reading (EIR) terminal for incorporation in a data collection system having a host computer, a plurality of peer EIR terminals, and a plurality of interconnected networks including one or more wireless networks, can comprise a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, an encoded information reading (EIR) device configured to output raw message data containing an encoded message or decoded message data corresponding to an encoded message, and at least one wireless communication interface. The EIR terminal can provide IEEE 802.11-conformant wireless distribution system services, including association, disassociation, distribution, integration, and re-association, to the peer EIR terminals. The EIR terminal can be associated with a home network and have a home address belonging to the address range associated with the home network. |
| US09860863B2 |
Static delay compensation in a telecommunications system
Certain features relate to compensating for a roundtrip delay caused by a distributed antenna system. A delay unit communicatively coupled to a base station can intercept the delay compensation signaling communicated between the digital baseband unit of the base station and the radio transmitter unit of the base station. The delay unit can adjust the delay compensation signaling by adding to the delay compensation signaling the pre-determined fiber delay caused by the DAS. In some aspects, the delay unit can delay the control words for a base station operating under the Common Public Radio Interface standard. In other aspects, the delay unit can delay the roundtrip time measurement message for a base station operating under the Open Base Station Architecture Initiative standard. |
| US09860861B2 |
Timing offset estimation in an OFDM-based system by SINR measurement
A method for timing synchronization of an OFDM signal is useful for a sniffing base station (BS) to establish BS synchronization with another BS in a mobile communication system. The method comprises estimating a timing offset of the signal from a reference sampling instant. In estimating the timing offset, first determine a maximum detection range of an estimable timing offset estimated solely by an observed phase difference between two pre-selected pilot symbols in the signal. Then the timing offset is determined as an integer multiple of the maximum detection range plus a residual timing offset. The multiplying integer is determined from a set of candidate integers. According to a candidate integer under consideration, a portion of an OFDM-signal sample sequence is masked out and a resultant signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is computed. The multiplying integer is determined by identifying the candidate integer having the greatest SINR. |
| US09860854B2 |
Power efficient control of uplink carrier usage by mobile terminal
In data transmission between a mobile terminal and a cellular network, a network component, e.g., a base station, establishes a downlink connection from the cellular network to the mobile terminal. The downlink connection uses one or more downlink carriers. Further, the network component identifies multiple uplink carriers which are available for establishing an uplink connection from the mobile terminal to the cellular network. The network component estimates impact of usage of the uplink carriers on power consumption of the mobile terminal. Depending on the estimated impact, the network component selects at least one of the uplink carriers for establishing the uplink connection. |
| US09860851B2 |
Managing access to transmission medium in a wireless environment
An apparatus and method for managing interference in a transmission medium are disclosed. A apparatus and method may be used to detect a condition experienced by only one of first and second wireless nodes, and modify an operational parameter of one of the first and second wireless nodes, if the condition is detected, such that both the first and second wireless nodes experience the condition or neither the first and second wireless nodes experience the condition. |
| US09860847B2 |
Using an integrated services for digital network message header to convey a battery state
This disclosure includes a method and system for conveying battery state information about a mobile communication terminal to a third-party caller using a voicemail system and an Integrated Services for Digital Network (ISDN) message. A battery state indicator corresponding to the battery state of a mobile communication terminal is inserted into ISDN header and transmitted to a voicemail system. The voicemail system extracts the ISDN header and determines which voicemail message to send to third-party callers based on the battery state of the mobile communication terminal. |
| US09860843B2 |
Wireless communication device
A wireless communication device for packet communication is provided. When a battery is mounted, a control signal for obtaining information necessary for packet communication is received, and the information is stored in a first communication information storage unit, along with a reception frequency of the control signal. In a waiting state, main components for wireless communication are powered off. The main components for the wireless communication are powered on at the time of sensor detection. The packet communication is performed using the information in the first communication information storage unit. |
| US09860840B2 |
System, method, and server for keeping wireless local area network terminal online all the time
A system and method for keeping a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal always online is provided. The method includes: the WLAN terminal, configured to receive and execute an online/offline strategy formulated by an online state server, and notify the online state server of its own state change when its own state has been switched into an online state or is about to be switched into an offline state; the online state server, configured to formulate and send the online/offline strategy to the WLAN terminal; and an online data caching server, configured to receive a notice about the online/offline state of the WLAN terminal, cache data sent by each data source to the WLAN terminal after the WLAN terminal is switched into the offline state, and transmit the cached data to the WLAN terminal after the WLAN terminal is switched into the online state. |
| US09860832B2 |
M2M platform apparatus and communication service execution method
An M2M platform apparatus 100 includes: data repositories 230, 240 configured to store data transmitted from M2M devices 20A, 20B; a data format processing unit 210 configured to determine in which format to store the data into the data repositories; a data analysis proposal unit 220 configured to analyze the stored data and, based on the data, propose the content of a service to be executed; a service execution-start unit 360 configured to request control on the M2M devices or communication equipment based on the content of the service proposed; and a rule-policy management unit 320 configured to cause the data to be stored into the data repositories based on a rule or a policy for the handling of the data to be stored into the data repositories. |
| US09860829B2 |
Management apparatus and method for wireless communications, apparatus for wireless communications
The present disclosure provides a management apparatus and a method for wireless communication as well as an apparatus and a method for wireless communication. The management apparatus includes: a determining module, configured to select a communication unit satisfying a predetermined condition from among a communication unit cluster managed by the management apparatus, and determine interference information or load information of at least part of resource blocks corresponding to the communication unit. |
| US09860825B2 |
Mobile hardware identity in an environment with multiple radio access networks
A device may receive, from a mobile device and via a first radio access network, a request for a service. The device may receive a mobile device identifier that identifies the mobile device on a second radio access network. The second radio access network may be a different type of radio access network than the first radio access network. The device may provide the mobile device identifier to an equipment identity register. The device may receive, from the equipment identity register, an authentication indicator that indicates whether to permit or deny access to the service by the mobile device and via the first radio access network. The device may selectively permit or deny the mobile device access to the service, via the first radio access network, based on the authentication indicator. |
| US09860818B2 |
Resource allocation for self-organizing networks
A self-organizing network includes one or more tools. Such tools may be configured to determine, based on one or more performance indicators, that network usage in a first portion of a frequency spectrum satisfies a first usage threshold of the first portion. Such tools may also be configured to transition, in response to the determining, the plurality of users from the first portion to a second portion of the frequency spectrum different from the first portion. Such tools may further be configured to hinder the plurality of users from returning to the first portion from the second portion. |
| US09860816B2 |
Managing usage of radio access technologies in a multimode communication device
Various embodiments include multimode communication devices and methods for managing usage of radio access technologies (RATs). In various embodiments, the multimode communication device may prevent scanning for a signal of higher priority RATs when a communication link is established with a lower priority RAT and the multimode communication device determines that the device is stationary. Signal characteristics of the communication link and/or other resources that can detect when the multimode communication device has moved may be monitored. In response to a change in signal characteristics or another indication that the multimode communication device has moved, scanning of higher priority RATs may be reactivated. |
| US09860812B2 |
Dynamic steering of traffic across radio access networks
Intelligent radio access technology sensing and selection are applied in a dynamic traffic steering network. Network characteristics and network policies are determined. A server sends network characteristics and network policies to user equipment devices. User equipment devices can determine a radio access technology to connect to based on network policies and network characteristics. Further, it can be determined how to select user equipment devices for connection to a radio access network via a radio access technology. User equipment devices can dynamically select a radio access network for connection based on real-time or near real-time radio access network conditions. A self-organizing network can monitor and determine radio access network conditions and the radio access network conditions can be sent to user equipment devices in given cellular broadcast area. |
| US09860810B2 |
Cell change based on uplink configuration
The presently disclosed techniques and apparatus include techniques by which a cell change for a UE is based on the target cell's uplink transmission configuration, including, for example, the maximum number of allowed UL physical channel (e.g., UL resource blocks) for the target cell. An example method, such as might be performed in a network node, comprises determining (1010) an uplink transmission configuration related to uplink physical channels that can be transmitted by the wireless device on the second cell on the second frequency, and comparing (1020) a parameter of the determined uplink transmission configuration with a threshold or with a corresponding parameter of a determined uplink transmission configuration related to uplink physical channels that can be transmitted by the wireless device on the first cell on the first frequency. This example method further comprises performing (1030) a cell change to the second cell, based on the comparison. |
| US09860808B2 |
Method for handover judgment in coordinated multiple point
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a handover method and a related user equipment and system, which are used for handover judgment in a CoMP handover scenario. The method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a first reference signal parameter Mn of a target node in a macro neighboring cell and second reference signal parameters Mp corresponding to multiple nodes in a macro serving cell, where the macro serving cell is a cell serving a user equipment UE and the macro neighboring cell is a cell adjacent to the macro serving cell; selecting a preferred Mp that meets a predefined requirement from the Mps corresponding to the multiple nodes; and triggering a handover procedure if the preferred Mp and the Mn meet a preset handover condition. By implementing the solutions in the present invention, throughput of a communications system after a UE handover can be increased. |
| US09860807B2 |
Handover in high speed scenario
A handover procedure is described where a user equipment, UE, is pre-configured by a network node of a source cell with one or more target cells and associated conditions to be fulfilled for the UE to autonomously decide when to execute the handover. The UE may be pre-configured while in good radio conditions, being connected to the source cell, and hence the UE does not risk going out of source cell coverage before being handed over to a target cell. |
| US09860804B2 |
Priority management of a measurement event timer and low-power period
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices are described for transmitting a measurement report during wireless communications. When, for example, a low-power period (e.g., CDRX OFF period) is scheduled to begin during a time defined by a measurement event timer (TTT timer), a UE may modify the low-power period. The low-power period may be modified based, at least in part on determining the low-power period of the UE will begin during a time defined by a measurement event timer, a duration of the measurement event timer, and a duration of the low-power period. Modifying the low-power period may include delaying the start of the low-power state until after transmission of the MR associated with the measurement event timer or skipping the low-power period altogether. The UE may transmit the MR based, at least in part, on the modification. |
| US09860802B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting mobility of UE in local network
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing a Local IP Access (LIP A) connection in a local network system. The method of managing a LIP A connection of UE in a connected state according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of a source home base station for UE determining a handover of the UE; when the handover of the UE is determined, determining whether a target home base station is a Long Term Evolution (LTE) release 10 or a Pre Rel-11 HeNB; and when the target home base station is a Pre Rel-11 HeNB, disconnecting the LIP A connection of the UE. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the mobility of UE having a LIPA PDN connection can be efficiently controlled in a local network where a Rel-11 H(e)NB and a Pre Rel-11 H(e)NB exist together. |
| US09860800B2 |
Method and apparatus for mobility management
A method of operating a target base station in a wireless communication network to determine an addressing information for a source base station. |
| US09860797B2 |
Efficient status reporting for UEs in dual connectivity during mobility
The invention relates to a method for efficiently performing a Se NB change for a UE in dual connectivity. When reconfiguring a data radio bearer going via the Se NB to another target base station, the UE may compile a PDCP status report comprising status information for all of the data radio bearer going via the Se NB, accompanied respectively by a radio bearer ID to identify the radio bearer to which the status report information pertains. Further, the PDCP status report is directly transmitted by the UE to the Me NB to avoid the backhaul delay between the Se NB and the Me NB; this may be done by using a signaling radio bearer (e.g. RRC message), or data radio bearer to the Me NB (e.g. PDCP control PDU), or by using a physical channel transmission to the Me NB (e.g. MAC CE). |
| US09860796B2 |
Secure WiFi using predictive analytics
Aspects automatically direct data requests from a specific application of a mobile programmable device to a designated WiFi network pathway without interaction from a mobile device user in response to determining that an initial data network pathway does not meet a satisfactory service threshold for forwarding the data requests to an event web server. Aspects also predict total attendance within a venue of the event and within a communication range of a designated WiFi service node by device users as function of real-time levels of social media following activity associated with the event and an available venue occupancy, a historical attendance at similar events within similar venues, and a time of the event. Aspects predicting a bandwidth requirement for usage of a WiFi pathway of the WiFi node for requests as a function of the predicted attendance. |
| US09860791B1 |
Long term evolution communication policies based on explicit congestion notification
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software to control wireless communication policies and rules based on congestion. In one example, a method of operating a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network includes, in a LTE base station, identifying congestion data for one or more communicating wireless communication devices, and identifying that the congestion data meets a congestion criteria. The method further includes, in the LTE base station and responsive to meeting the congestion criteria, setting an explicit congestion notification (ECN) flag for a wireless communication device communication, and transferring the ECN flag for delivery to a LTE gateway. The method further provides, in the LTE gateway, receiving the ECN flag, and identifying a congestion policy for at least one wireless communication device communicating with the LTE base station. |
| US09860789B2 |
Load balancing for a cloud-based wi-fi controller based on local conditions
Load balancing for cloud-based monitoring of Wi-Fi devices on local access networks is based on local conditions. Requests for connection are received from Wi-Fi devices of the plurality of WLANs exceed a threshold. An indication of at least one condition for each of the WLANs is also received either with the connection request or separately. Example conditions include, without limitation, a number of local connections, network security breaches, guaranteed service levels, local latency or congestion, power outages or reboots, and the like. In response, at least one Wi-Fi device is prioritized and scheduled based on a corresponding at least one condition. |
| US09860784B2 |
Techniques for scheduling communications in wireless networks with traffic aggregation
Certain aspects of the described aspects relate to scheduling communications in wireless networks using traffic aggregation. A UE communicates with a first access point using a first RAT over a first connection to access a first wireless network, and with a second access point using a second RAT over a second connection. The UE can receive, from the first access point, one or more parameters for scheduling communications with the second access point. The UE can also schedule communications with the second access point based at least in part on the one or more parameters. |
| US09860782B2 |
Routing of signals in a mesh network to reduce burden on intermediary nodes
Aspects include a method, system and computer product for routing a signal in a mesh network. The method includes identifying a first intermediate node and a second intermediate node disposed between a first node and an access point, the first node being coupled for communication to both the first intermediate node and the second intermediate node. A first set of parameters is determined associated with the first intermediate node. A second set of parameters is determined associated with the second intermediate node. A route is determined for transmitting a signal from the first node to the access point using at least one of the first intermediate node and the second intermediate node, the route being chosen based at least in part on the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters. The signal is transmitted on the route from the first node to the access point. |
| US09860781B2 |
Dynamic bundling of uplink data sessions based upon network signaling conditions and application interactivity states
Concepts and technologies are described herein for dynamic bundling of uplink data sessions based upon network signaling conditions and application interactivity states. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device can receive signaling load information from a base station. The mobile device can determine a characteristic of an uplink data flow request. The mobile device can determine whether the uplink data flow request should be bundled based, at least in part, upon the signaling load information and the characteristic of the uplink data flow request. |
| US09860778B2 |
Method and system for optimization of measurement reporting in wireless networks
A controller of a layered radio environment map of a wireless communication system. The controller configures a mobile terminal to make a measurement associated with a wireless signal from the mobile terminal to a base station. The mobile terminal constructs a minimization of drive test (MDT) measurement report from the measurement, and uses a network connection to transmit the MDT measurement report. The network connection is selected based at least in part on information related to the mobile terminal. As such, the power consumption in the mobile terminal is minimized. |
| US09860775B2 |
Network based determination of whether to add a device to a system using CSMA
The present disclosure relates to wireless networks, and more specifically to multiple access networks. The present disclosure relates to methods implemented by a wireless network node, to which a number of wireless devices are already connected of determining admission of a further wireless device. The disclosure provides for a method implemented by a wireless network node, to which a number of wireless devices are already connected and are communicating using an access method, of determining admission of a further wireless device. The method comprises calculating a measure of the performance of a possible future connection between the wireless network node and the wireless device under ideal network condition estimating an expected performance of a possible future connection between the wireless network node and the further wireless device, as the calculated measure of the performance while taking into account effects of the used access method; and determining admission of the further wireless device based on the estimated expected performance. It further relates to a wireless network node configured to perform the methods. |
| US09860774B2 |
Test apparatus, radio communication test apparatus, method for testing and computer program product
The present invention relates to a for testing user equipment. The test apparatus comprises an emulation module which is configured to emulate the functionality of a first user equipment and to establish a D2D link between the first user equipment and an externally arranged second user equipment which forms a user equipment under test. The test apparatus also comprises a test module which is configured to test at least one second user equipment after being connected to the emulated first user equipment of the emulation module via the established D2D communication link. The present invention further relates to a radio communication test apparatus, a method for testing user equipment and a computer program product. |
| US09860768B2 |
System and method for load based optimization in communication networks
Systems and methods for providing load based optimizations in communication networks are provided. A network device that provides network management and exchanges control messages with other network devices in the communication network can be modified to masquerade as a radio access transceiver to obtain radio access transceiver load information. The network device can be modified to include a radio-related interface and can communicate messages with the radio access transceivers to setup a radio access transceiver connection for exchange of load information. The radio access transceiver load information can then be used in the core network to provide optimizations for the loaded radio access transceivers. The optimizations can include modifying packet flows to decrease the bandwidth needed and switching one or more packet flows to another radio access transceiver. |
| US09860759B1 |
Incomplete navigation data of indoor positioning systems
A method is disclosed comprising: determining, using a processor, whether a radio model of at least one radio node associated with a data set is incomplete based on a comparison between the coverage area of the radio model of the at least one radio node and a cumulative coverage area generated out of radio models of the at least one radio node associated with a plurality of data sets, wherein a data collection comprises the plurality of data sets and the data collection is indicative to at least one indoor radio map. Further disclosed are a corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system and a corresponding software program. |
| US09860758B2 |
Systems and methods for placing virtual serving gateways for mobility management
Methods and systems for determining placement of a virtual serving gateway. The method includes obtaining a set of input information. The input information includes network information and configuration information providing one or more parameters for placing the virtual serving gateway, and includes at least one mobility insensitivity criterion. Placement of the virtual serving gateway at one or more physical hosts is determined in accordance with the network information and the configuration information. The virtual serving gateway is distributively placeable across physical hosts. A set of output information is generated. The output information includes information identifying placement of the virtual serving gateway at the physical hosts, and a hosting percentage for each physical host. |
| US09860754B2 |
Coexistence operation method and related wireless system
The present invention provides a coexistence operation method for a wireless system, wherein the wireless system is capable of establishing a first wireless link and a plurality of second wireless link. The coexistence operation method comprises applying different time slots to the first wireless link and a first link of the second wireless links; and applying a different frequency band to a second link of the second wireless links when is the different time slots are applied to the first wireless link and the first link of the second wireless links. |
| US09860753B2 |
Method and apparatus for bandwidth request/grant protocols in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system is disclosed. One embodiment uses a self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol. The self-correcting bandwidth request/grant protocol utilizes a combination of incremental and aggregate bandwidth requests. CPEs primarily transmit incremental bandwidth requests to their associated base stations, followed by periodic transmissions of aggregate bandwidth requests. The use of periodic aggregate bandwidth requests (that express the current state of their respective connection queues) allows the bandwidth allocation method and apparatus to be “self-correcting”. Another embodiment utilizes an abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol to allocate bandwidth. The abridged bandwidth request/grant protocol system utilizes padding packets to request a reduction in bandwidth allocation to a CPE. A base station modem alerts a base station CPU when the BS modem receives a padding packet from a CPE. After alerting the BS CPU the method can reduce the associated CPE's bandwidth allocation. |
| US09860749B2 |
Systems and methods for verification conducted at a secure element
Systems and methods for verification conducted at a secure element are disclosed. In a method of verification conducted at a secure element interacting with a mobile device, the secure element receives at least one of an identifier of a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) and an identifier of the mobile device. The secure element then compares each of the received at least one identifiers against a registered identifier of corresponding form stored in a non-volatile memory of the secure element. If the received at least one identifiers match corresponding registered identifiers stored in the non-volatile memory, the secure element permits further interaction with the mobile device. If at least one of the received identifiers do not match corresponding registered identifiers stored in the non-volatile memory, the secure element denies further interaction with the mobile device. |
| US09860746B2 |
Operation management system, control system and operation control method
An operation management system includes an authentication system and a control system. The authentication system includes a first terminal identification information reception unit that receives terminal identification information from an operation portable terminal device as the terminal device enters an authentication zone, and a terminal identification information transmission unit that transmits the identification information to the control system. The control system includes a second terminal identification information reception unit that receives the identification information from the terminal identification information transmission unit, a first terminal identification information storage unit that stores the identification information, a third terminal identification information reception unit that receives the identification information from the terminal device, and a permission unit that permits operation of the control system by the terminal device as the identification information received by the third terminal identification information reception unit is stored in the first terminal identification information storage unit. |
| US09860745B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for NAN data link group formation and data frame address settings
Systems and methods for communication in a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes generating a medium access control (MAC) address for a first group of wireless devices, storing the MAC address for the first group of wireless devices in an address field of a first message, and transmitting, by a first wireless device of the first group of wireless devices, the first message to a second wireless device of the first group of wireless devices. In some aspects, the wireless network comprises a neighbor aware network (NAN). In some aspects, a wireless device may be able to determine a method of encryption or decryption for the first message based at least in part on the MAC address for the first group of wireless devices. |
| US09860744B1 |
Electronic content requests
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing electronic content requests. For example, a user device may collect usage information associated with use of the user device. The user device may transmit data corresponding to a first category of usage information to a service provider. In some examples, a file that comprises a plurality of electronic content items can be received. The file may also contain logic for determining which of the content items to display. The logic may be executed to determine a particular item of the content items to display based at least in part on additional data corresponding to a second category of the usage information. In some examples, the user device may prepare the particular content item for display. |
| US09860741B2 |
Environmental configuration for improving wireless communication performance
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication, a display unit, and at least one processor, which implements the method, including in response to detecting a request to enter a wireless communication maximization mode, controlling the display unit to display an option for configuring the wireless communication maximization mode, detecting a selection input to the option, and changing a configuration of at least one component of the electronic device to reduce noise from the at least one component generated in a wireless communication frequency band according to the selected option. |
| US09860740B2 |
Apparatuses, methods and systems for configuring a trusted java card virtual machine using biometric information
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are provided for securely configuring a Java Card virtual machine operating on a cellular device's application processor. In one embodiment, a connected device with an integrated cellular modem, a virtual universal integrated circuit chip and an integrated fingerprint scanner are used. In another embodiment, the cellular device's built-in camera is used, instead of an integrated fingerprint scanner, to capture the user's facial image. |
| US09860737B2 |
Communication system and method
The invention relates to a communication system which comprises at least one user equipment having a plurality of identities associated therewith. The user equipment has means for storing at least one of the identities. Storage means are provided for storing at least one of the plurality of identities and means for receiving identity information from the user equipment, for obtaining from the storage means at least one identity associated with the received identity information and for sending to the user equipment the at least one obtained from the storage means. |
| US09860731B1 |
Systems and methods for controlling wireless devices
Disclosed is a system for managing wireless transmitting devices in which a wireless transmission from a transmission device is detected within or about a set area and an allowability of the transmission device to continue transmitting is based on an identification information, of the device, a location of the device and a number being called by the device. |
| US09860730B2 |
Network discovery by battery powered devices
Disclosed are techniques to minimize the electricity consumption of battery powered devices during network communications and performance of other functions. Example techniques include efficiently discovering other mains powered and battery powered devices within communication range of the battery powered device. In another example, techniques enable a battery powered device to serve as a relay for one or more other battery powered devices. In another example, techniques ensure that transmissions to and/or from battery powered devices are delivered efficiently and with low latency. In yet another example, techniques determine whether and under what conditions a battery powered device should migrate from one network to another. In the event of migration, example techniques minimize battery consumption associated with the migration. |
| US09860729B2 |
Communication system
AS-B (810) measures a telephone call time from a time point when a telephone call, which is audio-originated by UE (100), starts. When a time obtained by subtracting the telephone call time from a time for which the UE (100) can telephone-call becomes a predetermined time, the AS-B (810) issues a multiplex instruction to FAP (200). When having received the multiplex instruction, the FAP (200) multiplexes a sound, which is based on a sound source file stored in advance, with audio data to be transmitted to the UE (100), and transmits the audio data, with which the sound has been multiplexed, to the UE (100). |
| US09860728B2 |
Methods, systems, and products for security services
Security systems are warned of earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. When an early warning system detects a natural disaster, the early warning system alerts a central server. The early warning system alerts the central server to the natural event and its associated geographic area. The central server may then consult a database and determine the security systems operating in a vicinity of the geographic area experiencing the natural event. The central server may thus warn the security systems of the natural event. The security systems may then implement pre-programmed procedures to protect life and property during earthquakes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. |
| US09860724B2 |
Communicating location specific emergency information to a mobile device
An occurrence of an emergency situation pertinent to people presently located within a venue can be identified. Responsive to identifying the emergency situation pertinent to the people located within the venue, location specific emergency information can be automatically communicated to a first mobile device. The location specific emergency information can describe an emergency plan for exiting the venue from a present location of the first mobile device within the venue. The location specific emergency information can be configured to be presented by the first mobile device to a user of the first mobile device to safely guide the user from the present location to an exit of the venue. |
| US09860723B2 |
Method of notification of fire evacuation plan in floating crowd premises
A system is provided that includes a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a near field or Bluetooth device proximate an entry of the secured geographic area that captures an identifier of a wireless portable device carried by a user as the user enters the secured geographic area, a sensor of the security system that detects a threat within the secured geographic area, and a processor of the security system that transmits an evacuation map to the wireless portable device based upon the captured identifier, wherein the evacuation map depicts safe geographic exits from the secured geographic area on the evacuation map. |
| US09860720B2 |
Digital mobile radio cellular messaging
Facilitating communication between cellular and digital mobile radio devices is presented herein. In one aspect, a digital mobile radio messaging gateway is deployed within a cellular network that allows cellular devices to send and/or receive data to digital mobile radio devices. Moreover, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway provides transparent messaging access from devices to digital mobile radio switches and/or gateways essentially making the cellular network an extension of the digital mobile radio network. As an example, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway converts data received from the digital mobile radio network to a message that conforms to a protocol supported by the cellular network. Similarly, the digital mobile radio messaging gateway converts data received from the cellular network to a message that conforms to a protocol supported by the digital mobile radio network. |
| US09860705B2 |
Fingerprint matching in massive MIMO systems
The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining a location of a device on a massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network. An exemplary method comprises receiving, from a device, a first signal and a second signal at a base station; measuring a first signal characteristic for the first signal and a second signal characteristic for the second signal; comparing and matching the first measured signal characteristic to a first reference signal characteristic for a first reference signal and the second measured signal characteristic to a second reference signal characteristic for a second reference signal; and determining a location of the device based on the first measured signal characteristic and the second measured signal characteristic. |
| US09860704B2 |
Venue identification from wireless scan data
In non-limiting examples, wireless scan data collected from a processing device is directly mapped to venues. Wireless scan data is received from a processing device where the wireless scan data comprises at least a first identifier of a wireless connection. Venues associated with the first identifier are identified from a mapping of wireless identifiers to venues based on active validation data associated with particular venues including historical wireless scan data of the particular venues. The plurality of venues are ranked according to a likelihood that the processing device is located at a particular venue based on evaluating the active validation data including the historical wireless scan data from the mapping. A predicted venue that the processing device is located at is determined based on the ranking of the plurality of venues. Other examples are also described. |
| US09860703B2 |
Determining the last location of lost and stolen portable electronic devices when wireless communications access to the lost or stolen devices is lost or intermittent
The last known location of a lost or stolen device can be determined based on the device's last communication with a data network. A portable device can be set up to communicate its location to or through a server to a second client after the portable device after at least one of the portable device obtains a wireless connection to a data network and registers a most recent location with the server. A device location based on data network router IP address or GPS. A location can be stored until a subsequent location and/or wireless connection is obtained. The server can be programmed to send at least one of “lost” message, ringtone, lock code and wipe command to a lost or stolen portable device. The server or lost device can be programmed to provide map location information to the second client for last known location of the lost portable device. |
| US09860701B1 |
Indoor positioning system and method thereof
An indoor positioning method for use in an indoor positioning system is provided. The indoor positioning system includes beacon devices, a mobile device, and a positioning server. The method includes the steps of: utilizing the mobile device to receive a positioning signal from each beacon device and determine distance information between the mobile device and each beacon device; determining a specific primary region in which the mobile device is located according to the distance information between the mobile device and the top beacon devices; determining a precise location in the specific primary region according to the distance information between the mobile device and the planar beacon devices corresponding to the specific primary region; and reporting the precise location to the mobile device, so that the precise location is illustrated on a plan view of the indoor space displayed on the mobile device. |
| US09860697B2 |
Methods and systems for automatic adjustment of a geofence size
A mobile device with a display and location services may store information pertaining to a geofence. With the aid of the location services of the mobile device, a geofence crossing may be detected when the mobile device crosses the stored geofence and, if a geofence crossing is detected, the mobile device may transmit a corresponding geofence crossing event to a remote location via a transmitter of the mobile device. The size of the geofence may be automatically adjusted when a predetermined abnormality is suspected in the detected geofence crossing events. In some cases, a query is provided to the user to verify the presence of the predetermined abnormality before the size of the geofence is automatically adjusted, or a user-initiated menu may be employed to verify the presence of the predetermined abnormality and/or to adjust the size of the geofence. |
| US09860696B2 |
System and controlling method
A system includes circuitry configured to: acquire first display information corresponding to a first object included in image data captured by an apparatus, determine whether second display information corresponding to a second object, which is not included in the image data captured by the apparatus, is to be provided to the apparatus, acquire the second display information corresponding to the second object when it is determined that the second display information is to be provided to the apparatus, and transmit, to the apparatus, the first display information corresponding to the first object and the second display information corresponding to the second object. |
| US09860690B2 |
Method, apparatus and product for determining presence-related roles
Automatic determination of presence-related roles. Presence data of a plurality of users in a space comprised of one or more zones is received. For each user of the plurality of users a value of a target metric in a zone is computed based on the presence data, the target metric defining a measure of user presence. A presence-related role is assigned to a user with respect to the zone, the presence-related role being comprised in a set of one or more presence-related roles describing categories of spatiotemporal occupancy relation between the user and the zone, wherein said assigning comprises applying a mapping function on the value, the mapping function maps between values of the target metric and the one or more presence-related roles, the mapping function is affected by analytics of the presence data. |
| US09860687B2 |
Building sensor array
A method for determining the locations of sensor devices in a sensor array in a structure is disclosed. The method may include placing a sensor device at a location. The method may also include receiving, at a mobile device, an identifier of the sensor device. The method may further include determining, by the mobile device, a compass direction and elevation angle from the sensor device to a base station. The method may additionally include determining a distance between the sensor device and the base station. The method may moreover include determining a location of the sensor device based at least in part on the compass direction and the elevation angle from the sensor device to the base station, and the distance between the sensor device and the base station. The method may furthermore include storing the location of the sensor in association with the identifier of the sensor device. |
| US09860682B2 |
Communication apparatus and control method therefor
A communication unit communicates with another apparatus through a network. A communication control unit uses the communication unit to transmit information indicating a role of the communication apparatus to another apparatus, receives information indicating a role of another apparatus from the other apparatus, and searches for another apparatus capable of communication. The role of the communication apparatus is set based on a role of a partner device selected as a communication partner from at least one apparatus capable of communication detected by the communication control unit so as to control transmission and reception of an image between the communication apparatus and the partner device. |
| US09860676B2 |
Process instrumentation with wireless configuration
A method of automatically configuring a remote indicator is provided. The method includes placing the remote indicator within near field communication range of an operating field device. Configuration information is wirelessly exchanged between the remote indicator and the field device. The remote indicator is coupled to receive process information. Process information is received through the coupling and displayed on a display of the remote indicator. A field device and remote indicator are also provided. |
| US09860671B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing safety services relating to mobile devices
An approach for providing feature configuration management is described. A service controller platform, monitors at least one environmental parameter of a mobile device; determines an event according to a threshold, the event being based on at least a change in the at least one environmental parameter; determines a feature configuration setting associated with at least one of the threshold or the event according to a device profile, wherein the device profile specifies a feature configuration setting that includes at least one of locking the mobile device, limiting access to at least one predetermined application, or disabling the mobile device; and causes the mobile device to change a feature configuration according to the feature configuration setting. |
| US09860670B1 |
Spectral correction using spatial calibration
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spectral calibration using an applied spatial calibration. An example implementation may include receiving data representing spatial filters that correspond to respective playback configurations. The implementation may also involve causing the audio drivers to output calibration audio that is divided into a repeating set of frames, the set of frames including a respective frame for each playback configuration. Causing the audio drivers to output the calibration audio may involve causing an audio stage to apply, during each frame, the spatial filter corresponding to the respective playback configuration. The implementation may also include receiving data representing spectral filters that correspond to respective playback configurations, the spectral filters based on the calibration audio output by the audio drivers. When playing back audio content in a given playback configuration, the audio stage may apply a particular spectral filter corresponding to that configuration. |
| US09860669B2 |
Audio apparatus and method therefor
An audio apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive audio data and audio transducer position data for a plurality of audio transducers; and a renderer configured to render the audio data by generating audio transducer drive signals for the audio transducers from the audio data. Further, a clusterer is configured to cluster the audio transducers into a set of clusters in response to the audio transducer position data and to distances between audio transducers in accordance with a distance metric. A render controller is configured to adapt the rendering in response to the clustering. The apparatus is configured to select array processing techniques for specific subsets that contain audio transducers that are sufficiently close and allow automatic adaptation to audio transducer configurations thereby, e.g., allowing a user increased flexibility in positioning loudspeakers. |
| US09860667B2 |
Vehicle sound enhancement
Methods and systems for enhancing vehicle sound are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a vehicle includes a powertrain, one or more sensors, and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to measure a sound, a vibration, or both, produced by one or more vehicle components pertaining to the engine. The processor is configured to enhance the sound for audible display for one or more individuals within or in proximity to the vehicle. |
| US09860665B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing audio signal based on speaker location information
A method of processing an audio signal is provided. The method includes acquiring location information and performance information of a speaker configured to output an audio signal, selecting a frequency band based on the location information, determining a section to be strengthened from the selected frequency band with respect to the audio signal based on the performance information, and applying a gain value to the determined section. |
| US09860658B2 |
Media content playback system and method
A media apparatus for selecting a media source to provide media content to a playback device that plays back the media content as at least one of audio and video content may include a controller programmed to detect a media zone that includes a playback device, detect a presence of a portable user device that provides media content, determine a number of media sources that are available in the media zone, select a first media source of the number of media sources as a preferred media source based on a hierarchy table, determine whether the preferred media source includes the media content that is provided by the portable user device, and control the preferred media source to provide the media content to the playback device. |
| US09860657B2 |
Zone configurations maintained by playback device
Systems and methods to control a plurality of multimedia players in one or more groups are disclosed. For example, in a network including a plurality of independent playback devices, an example method includes maintaining, by an independent playback device, a zone configuration, the zone configuration characterizing one or more zone scenes. Each zone scene identifies a group configuration associated with two or more of the plurality of independent playback devices. The example method includes transmitting, by the independent playback device via a network interface, the zone configuration to a controller device. Additionally, an example playback device is disclosed which is configured to maintain a zone configuration, the zone configuration characterizing one or more zone scenes, each zone scene identifying a group configuration associated with two or more of a plurality of independent playback devices; and transmit, via a network interface, the zone configuration to a controller device. |
| US09860650B2 |
Hearing assistance device comprising a location identification unit
The application relates to a hearing assistance device adapted for being located in or at a specific one of a left or a right ear of a user, and comprising an input unit for receiving an input signal and an output unit for providing an output signal. The application further relates to a method and to a hearing assistance system. The application aims at providing an improved scheme for detecting left/right placement of a hearing device. The hearing assistance device further comprises a memory unit wherein information about the intended location of the hearing assistance device is or can be stored, a location identification unit configured to extract an intended location from said memory unit, and a user interface configured to convey information related to the intended and/or current location of the hearing assistance device. A user is thus informed, if the hearing assistance device(s) is/are not located as intended. |
| US09860648B2 |
Elevator system and method for implementing a sound system for an elevator
Improvement to a sound system for an elevator system and method for implementing the sound system for an elevator. The elevator sound system is improved by replacing at least one loudspeaker to be used in the sound system with a plate-like electrostatic actuator producing a directed sound field. The patent application also contains an independent claim for a method for implementing a sound system for an elevator. |
| US09860645B1 |
Multi-driver air-tube earphone
An earphone assembly with a manifold at the earpiece having a first driver directly coupled and second driver coupled through a tube, both driven by a common signal source such, which results in a propagation time differential in the arrival of first emitted signals and second emitted signals from the drivers, respectively, at the earpiece. |
| US09860641B2 |
Audio output device specific audio processing
A source device uses a profile of an audio output device (e.g., headphones or speakers) to adjust the acoustic output of the audio output device. A database of audio output device profiles is stored in a cloud or locally on the source device. The profiles may include electroacoustic measurement data characterizing the audio output device or processing parameters for the audio output device. A program running on the source device selects a profile corresponding to the connected audio output device. The profile is used by the software running on the source device to determine processing for an audio stream played by the audio output device. The processing provides equalization to modify the unique audio output device frequency response, and compensation for human perception of sound at different listening levels, and dynamic range adjustment to better match the capabilities of the audio output device. |
| US09860639B2 |
Dynamic back-biasing in FD-SOI process for optimizing PSU ratio
A power control circuit for a hearing device is devised. The power control circuit has a switched-capacitor power supply, a substrate bias control circuit, a reference circuit, a performance monitor circuit, a first plurality of N-type semiconductors and a second plurality of P-type semiconductors. The performance monitor circuit is adapted to monitor the supply voltage, the first substrate bias control voltage and the second substrate bias control voltage, respectively, and is adapted to provide a measure of performance to the substrate bias control circuit. The substrate bias control circuit is adapted to optimize the current consumption of the circuit by continuously altering the levels of the first substrate bias control voltage and the second substrate bias control voltage based on the performance measurement. |
| US09860638B2 |
Acoustic device, acoustic system, moving body device, and malfunction diagnosis method for acoustic system
An inspection signal generator of an acoustic device outputs a first inspection signal. An amplifier receives a first reference signal, and outputs a second inspection signal according to the first inspection signal. A first detector is electrically connected to an output side of the amplifier, and outputs a first detection signal based on the second inspection signal. The first detector is electrically connected to the output side of the amplifier, and outputs the first detection signal based on the second inspection signal. A determiner compares a first detection signal output from the first detector with a preset determination reference signal so as to detect electrical abnormality between a ground terminal and an output terminal electrically connected to the output side of the amplifier. |
| US09860633B2 |
Baffle for line array loudspeaker
A loudspeaker baffle that provides variable sound patterns is described. The baffle may support non-low frequency sound sources and a waveguide to provide varying sound beam patterns. The baffle may include a center mount adapted to receive a plurality of audio outputs and a plurality of low frequency apertures to receive a plurality low frequency output. The waveguide may be formed from a front face of the baffle. The front face may be intermediate the center mount and the low frequency apertures. The front face may include a continuously varying waveguide surface with a first waveguide portion adjacent a first audio output of the plurality of audio outputs providing a first sound pattern and a second waveguide portion adjacent a second audio output of the plurality of audio outputs providing a second sound pattern that is different than the first sound pattern. |
| US09860632B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided which includes a first substrate, a speaker disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate, and a sound conditioner. The sliding groove is formed at the second substrate, and a first sound outlet and a second sound outlet are connected to the sliding groove. The sound conditioner is slidably disposed in the sliding groove between a first position and a second position. With the change of the position of the sound conditioner, sound produced from the speaker is transmitted to the outside via the first sound outlet or the second sound outlet. |
| US09860631B2 |
Sound recording module
A sound recording module including a sound-collecting space, a sound wave inlet, and a sound-receiving element is provided. The sound-collecting space at least has a reflecting zone. The reflecting area is adjacent to a first sound wave gathering zone and a second sound gathering zone, respectively. The first sound wave gathering zone appears in form of a hand web and defines a sound-receiving element fixing portion in the deepest position of the first sound gathering zone. The sound wave inlet is correspondingly formed on at least part of a periphery of the second sound gathering zone. The sound-receiving element is disposed at the sound-receiving element fixing portion of the first sound gathering zone. The sound-receiving element is configured to record a sound entering the sound-collecting space. |
| US09860630B2 |
Vibration damping and mounting assembly for a loudspeaker
A loudspeaker damping assembly can mechanically damp or isolate a loudspeaker transducer from a mounting surface. The damping assembly can include a loudspeaker housing or frame that receives a loudspeaker transducer, and a flexible, deformable, or conformable flange damper extending outward from an edge of the loudspeaker housing. The flange damper can be positioned against a loudspeaker wall or ceiling mounting surface. The damping assembly optionally includes a clamp damper opposite the flange damper, or a peripheral edge damper at an outer perimeter edge of the loudspeaker housing. In an example, a loudspeaker system includes a low frequency first transducer and an array of high frequency transducers overlapping a front face of the low frequency transducer. In an example, the transducer array has an arcuate profile, and an axis of the array is non-coaxial with a central axis of the first transducer. |
| US09860620B2 |
Method for forming a layered structural member
A method for forming a layered structural member may include providing a first outer layer of material and a second outer layer of material, placing between the first outer layer and the second outer layer a layer of core material, and placing between the first outer layer and the second outer layer a piezoelectric transducer, the piezoelectric transducer configured to convert an audio signal received by the piezoelectric transducer into at least one of a mechanical pressure, acceleration, strain and force causing the layered structured member to generate sound. |
| US09860617B2 |
Upstream frame configuration for ethernet passive optical network protocol over coax (EPoC) networks
A method and system for generating upstream frames in an Ethernet Passive Optical Network protocol over Coax (EPoC) network is provided. Upstream frame configuration parameters are received by a CNU from a CLT in a link info broadcast a message. The CNU can recover the upstream frame configuration parameters from the link info broadcast message and generate at least in part upstream frame. |
| US09860614B2 |
System and method for hybrid photonic electronic switching
A method includes comparing a length of a first packet to a threshold, determining that the first packet is a short packet when the length of the first packet is less than the threshold, and determining that the first packet is a long packet when the length of the first packet is greater than or equal to the threshold. The method also includes when the first packet is a long packet placing the first packet in a long packet container and transmitting the long packet container to a photonic switch. Additionally, the method includes when the first packet is a short packet placing a first portion of the first packet in a first short packet container, where the first short packet container includes a sequence number, a source top-of-rack switch (TOR) address, and a destination TOR address and transmitting the first short packet container to an electronic switch. |
| US09860609B2 |
Displaying advertising in an electronic program guide
Displayed program cells may be moved on an interactive program guide during a first time period based on a received first parameter. A displayed advertisement may be kept stationary during a second time period based on a second parameter. The second time period may be related to a subset of the displayed program cells which will move past the stationary advertisement. |
| US09860607B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving broadcast signal for providing trick play service
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal for a trick play are disclosed. The broadcast signal transmitting method includes encoding video data to create a video elementary stream (ES), creating a packetized elementary stream (PES) including the video elementary stream (ES), creating a transport stream (TS) including the created PES, wherein the TS includes PVR assist information for executing a trick play, the PVR assist information includes tier number information and maximum temporal identification information, and the tier number information indicates a tier number having a value obtained by adding 1 to a temporal identification information value of a picture different from a RAP picture and the maximum temporal identification information indicates a maximum temporal identification information value of the video elementary stream (ES) including the encoded video data, and transmitting the created TS. |
| US09860606B2 |
Maintaining a fixed delay while switching between light video compression ratios
Systems and methods for fixed delay video switching. One embodiment of the system describes a fixed delay video communication link, which includes: a real-time video encoder (RT-VE) that receives an incoming high-definition uncompressed video (HD-UV), compresses the incoming HD-UV into first or second HD compressed video, and transmits the HD compressed video over a communication link to a real-time video decoder (RT-VD). The RT-VD decompresses the HD compressed video into an outgoing HD-UV. And wherein on-the-fly switches between the first and second compression ratios, while continuing to receive the incoming HD-UV uninterruptedly, are both visually lossless and maintain the same fixed delay between corresponding pixels of the incoming HD-UV and the outgoing HD-UV. |
| US09860604B2 |
Systems and methods for internet video delivery
Systems and methods are disclosed for delivering video content over a network, such as the Internet. Videos are identified and pre-processed by a web service and then separated into a plurality of segments. Based on user interests, video segments may be pre-fetched and stored by a client associated with a user. Upon receiving a selection from a user to play a video, the first video segment may begin playing instantaneously from a local cache. While the first video segment plays, subsequent video segments are transmitted from the web service to the client, so that the subsequent video segments will be ready for viewing at the client when playback of the first video segment has finished. |
| US09860602B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing media content over a communications network
The present invention relates to broadcasting/multicasting of media content over a communication network using shared bandwidth available from peer-to-peer networking. The system of the present invention includes a plurality of broadcast devices, a plurality of receiving devices, a plurality of databases, and a control center. The control center provides a number of services, including but not limited to channel control, ad insertion, conditional access, program guide services, and the like. The broadcast device converts media content, which can be television, radio, and other data, received from various content providers, into digital data packets, having a suitable format for transmission. Each receiving device will request the relevant packets, decode the received packets, and display or present the media content contained in the packets via an associated device. Packets may be received directly from the broadcast devices or from peers (other receiving devices) on the network. |
| US09860596B1 |
Systems and methods for preventing corruption of user viewing profiles
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional media systems via a novel technique to prevent corruption of a user's viewing profile. In some aspects, a user of an interactive media guidance application may select a media asset for viewing on a user device. The interactive media guidance application may receive a user viewing profile for the user from a remote server. If the media asset is determined to not be consistent with the user viewing profile, the interactive media guidance application may retrieve another user viewing profile for another user of the user device. If the media asset is determined to be consistent with the other user viewing profile, the interactive media guidance application may update the other user viewing profile based on the media asset. |
| US09860594B2 |
Method and apparatus for image frame identification and video stream comparison
A method and apparatus 200 are provided for identifying image frames 10 in a video stream 20, and for comparing one video stream 20-1 against one or more other video streams 20-2. The or each video stream 20 is examined to produce a respective digest stream 320-1 comprising digest values 310-1, which may be recorded in a digest record 410. A candidate image frame 10-2 from a second video stream 20-2 provides a respective second digest value 310-2. A match of the digest values indicates matching images in the respective video streams. |
| US09860584B2 |
Interactive television program guide with simultaneous watch and record capabilities
An interactive television program guide system is provided in which a user may use the program guide to watch one program while simultaneously recording another program without interrupting the recording or viewing process. This interactive television program guide system also allows a user the to utilize all or some of the program guide features while in the watch and record mode depending on the embodiment that is being implemented. Further, this watch and record system may be implemented using a multiple tuner set-top box or a single tuner set-top box with a RF bypass or digital switch. In addition to a set-top box, the system may be implemented using a satellite receiver, an advanced television with a processor and memory, or a computer. The various implementations provide a very versatile watch and record environment for the user. |
| US09860583B2 |
Method and system to navigate viewable content
A method and system to navigate viewable content in the context of television entertainment is provided. In one example embodiment, the system comprises a presentation module to present main content on a display screen, a communications module to receive a first request associated with a first directional key on a remote control device, a navigation mode detector to determine a navigation mode associated with the first request; a margin menu module to activate a margin menu associated with the determined navigation mode. The margin menu may be presented along one of the margins of a display screen, while permitting viewing of the main content. |
| US09860578B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for recommending collaborators of media content based on authenticated media content input
Methods, systems, and media for recommending collaborators of media content based on authenticated media content input are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving a request from a content creator to initiate presentation of broadcasted media content using a media device, wherein the request invites a plurality of users to participate in the broadcasted media content; determining that a user of the plurality of users has interacted with the broadcasted media content, wherein the user has been permitted to interact with the broadcasted media content in response to providing user authentication information; determining collaborator information associated with the user based on the user authentication information; and automatically causing, without user interaction, the determined collaborator information to be presented to the content creator for associating with the broadcasted media content. |
| US09860574B2 |
Method and apparatus for transceiving broadcast signal
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for transceiving a broadcast signal including a subtitling service. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal, comprising the steps of: encoding video data to generate a video stream; generating a broadcast signal including the generated video stream and a subtitle stream; and transmitting the generated broadcast signal. According to the embodiment of the present invention, a transmission stream which provides a digital broadcast subtitling service using an XML subtitle can be transmitted. |
| US09860573B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing and receiving data
Provided are a method and apparatus for receiving and providing data. The method of receiving data includes: receiving first information including information about a first interval of a plurality of media data generated by encoding content in different qualities; acquiring renewal time information indicating a point of time for a first file to be renewed by using the first information; and receiving second information comprising information about a second interval of the plurality of media data based on the renewal time information. |
| US09860571B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal, apparatus for receiving broadcast signal, method for transmitting broadcast signal and method for receiving broadcast signal
The present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention supports future broadcast services in an environment supporting future hybrid broadcasting using terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet. In addition, the present invention provides efficient signaling methods capable of using both terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet in the environment supporting future hybrid broadcasting. |
| US09860570B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to identify media delivery
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to identify media delivery are disclosed. An example method includes providing a monitor to a media presentation device after a selection of a user as a panel member, the monitor to generate a log entry including first source address information, first destination address information, first source port information, first destination port information, and media identification information associated with a media receiving event. Processing a first log file received from the monitor that includes the log entry. Determining if the log entry corresponds to a reference log entry from a media provider. And in response to detecting the corresponding reference log entry, storing the media identification information from the log entry in association with the monitor and generating an exposure report that associates media identified in the media information with the media provider that provided the media to the media presentation device. |
| US09860569B1 |
Video file processing
A technology is described for processing video files using a software container cluster. An example method may include analyzing a video file to identify locations in the video file that may be used to divide the video file into video segments. Each of the video segments may be analyzed to determine an estimated amount of processing capacity used to process each of the video segments and each of the video segments may be assigned to a software container configured with a processing capacity that substantially aligns with the estimated amount of processing capacity used to process the video segment. The video segments may then be scheduled to be processed in parallel using the software containers. After the video segments have been processed, the video file may then be reconstructed from the processed video segments output by the software containers. |
| US09860567B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to generate a plurality of processed images by performing image processing on a plurality of input images, a determination unit configured to determine, as a reference image for encoding a processed image generated by the image processing on an input image, whether the input image corresponding to the processed image is to be used or another processed image is to be used, based on a parameter relating to the image processing, and an encoding unit configured to encode the processed image by referring to a reference image according to a determination by the determination unit. |
| US09860566B2 |
Image decoding apparatus and image decoding method
Circuitry configured to generate an ROI mask by determining whether each of quantized wavelet coefficients constituting quantized image data is associated with an ROI or a non-ROI in an original image on the basis of the scaling amount of the Max-shift method, generate first image data by performing inverse quantization on the quantized image data after being scaled down, generate second image data having a specified decomposition level by performing inverse wavelet transformation on the first image data, generate a restored ROI mask having the same decomposition level as that of the second image data by performing a predetermined process on the ROI mask once or a plurality of times, generate masked image data by applying the restored ROI mask to the second image data, and perform the inverse wavelet transformation on the masked image data until a decomposition level becomes zero. |
| US09860561B2 |
Data compression using spatial decorrelation
Methods and modules for spatial decorrelation and recorrelation are described. A block of data values can be spatially decorrelated in two dimensions efficiently by processing rows of the data values in a particular order such that if the results of spatially decorrelating a first row will be used for column-wise spatial decorrelation of a second row then the data values of the first row are processed in an earlier iteration to that in which the data values of the second row are processed. This allows for highly parallelised processing of the block of data values. Spatial recorrelation can be performed as an inverse process to the spatial decorrelation. |
| US09860557B2 |
Intra prediction method and apparatus using the method
An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method using a DC mode includes setting a bottom-right pixel to a DC-predicted value, interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th top reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-th column and interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th left reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-row, and performing bidirectional linear interpolation to derive predicted values of pixels included in a prediction unit other than the n-th row and the n-th column. |
| US09860555B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing video signal
The present invention relates to a method for processing a video signal, comprising the step of inducing an inter-view motion vector of a current texture block by considering priorities between inter-view motion vector candidates of the current texture block, wherein the inter-view motion vector candidates include an inter-view motion vector of a spatial neighboring block, an inter-view motion vector of a temporal neighboring block and/or a reference inter-view motion vector, and inter-view inter prediction is performed by using the induced inter-view motion vector. The present invention can increase the accuracy of the inter-view inter prediction by selectively using the inter-view motion vector of a spatial neighboring block, the inter-view motion vector of a temporal neighboring block and/or the reference inter-view motion vector to induce an accurate inter-view motion vector, and can improve coding efficiency by reducing the amount of residual data to be transmitted. |
| US09860552B2 |
Method and apparatus for derivation of motion vector candidate and motion vector prediction candidate
A method for deriving a motion vector predictor (MVP) receives motion vectors (MVs) associated with reference blocks of the current block. The method determines at least one first spatial search MV associated with a first MV searching order and at least one second spatial search MV associated with a second MV searching order for each neighboring reference block. Then, the method determines whether a first available-first spatial search MV exists for said at least one neighboring reference block according to the first MV searching order, and provides the first available-first spatial search MV as a spatial MVP for the current block. Finally, the method determines whether a first available-second spatial search MV exists for said at least one neighboring reference block according to the second MV searching order only if none of first spatial search MVs for said at least one neighboring reference block is available. |
| US09860551B2 |
Method for encoding and decoding image and device using same
A method for deriving a temporal motion vector predictor includes the steps of: selecting a reference picture for a current block; deciding a predictor block corresponding to a predetermined storage unit block, as a reference prediction unit for the current block, in the reference picture; and deriving the temporal motion vector predictor from motion information of the decided reference prediction unit. |
| US09860549B2 |
Inter-layer prediction method and encoding device and decoding device using same
The present invention relates to an inter-layer prediction method, and an encoder and a decoder using the same, the inter-layer prediction method including specifying a reference block in a reference layer and predicting a current block in a current layer using information on the reference block, wherein the specifying of the reference block includes specifying the reference block on the basis of a reference position which is a position in the reference layer corresponding to a current position in the current layer for specifying the current block. |
| US09860548B2 |
Method and apparatus for palette table prediction and signaling
A method and apparatus for predictive palette coding of image and video data are disclosed. Reuse flags are used to indicate whether individual palette values in the current palette table are used in the palette predictor table. The present invention applies run-length coding to the run-lengths to improve coding efficiency. According to one embodiment, a reuse flag is assigned a first value if a corresponding current palette value in the current palette table is not used in the palette predictor table, and the reuse flag is assigned a second value if the corresponding current palette value in the current palette table is used in the palette predictor table. For example, the first value corresponds to “0” and the second value corresponds to “1”. The run-lengths correspond to the number of consecutive reuse flags having the first value. |
| US09860544B2 |
Sample array coding for low-delay
The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively. |
| US09860538B2 |
Electronic device for encoding a buffer parameter
An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level. If the picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level, the electronic device generates at least one of a buffer size parameter and a buffer scale parameter. The electronic device sends at least one of the buffer size parameter and the buffer scale parameter. |
| US09860536B2 |
System and method for high-resolution storage of images
An image-creation method includes capturing an image as digital data, locating an area of interest of the captured image, extracting, from the digital data, at least some data corresponding to the located area of interest, digitally magnifying the extracted at least some data to yield digitally magnified data, and combining the digitally magnified data with at least some of the digital data of the captured image to yield combined data. |
| US09860528B2 |
Method and apparatus of scalable video coding
A method and apparatus for scalable video coding are disclosed, wherein the video data is configured into a Base Layer (BL) and an Enhancement Layer (EL) and wherein the EL has higher spatial resolution or better video quality than the BL. According to embodiments of the present invention, information from the base layer is exploited for coding the enhancement layer. The information coding for the enhancement layer includes CU structure, motion vector predictor (MVP) information, MVP/merge candidates, intra prediction mode, residual quadtree information, texture information, residual information, context adaptive entropy coding, Adaptive Lop Filter (ALF), Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO), and deblocking filter. |
| US09860527B2 |
High throughput residual coding for a transform skipped block for CABAC in HEVC
A system utilizing a high throughput residual coding mode for CABAC in HEVC is described. The system may include an electronic device configured to obtain a bitstream; recover a binary symbol from the obtained bitstream; determine whether the binary symbol is to be decoded using a high throughput residual coding mode; in response to determining that the binary symbol is not to be decoded using the high throughput residual coding mode, use a first coding technique to obtain a block of Transformed and Quantized Coefficients (TQCs); and, in response to determining that the binary symbol is to be decoded using the high throughput residual coding mode, use a second different coding technique to obtain a residual sample. |
| US09860523B2 |
Slit grating structure and display device
The present invention provides a slit grating structure and a display device, and relates to the field of stereo display technology. The slit grating structure of the present invention comprises a plurality of alternately arranged transparent strips and switching strips, and a drawing and injecting unit, wherein the drawing and injecting unit is configured to inject non-transparent liquid into the switching strips from a cavity and draw non-transparent liquid out of the switching strips. When the slit grating structure cooperates with a 2D display panel, 2D and 3D switching display can be achieved. |
| US09860519B2 |
Method for correcting image phase
A method for correcting an image phase of a depth camera with a lens is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) selecting a first reference point on an optical axis of the lens and a second reference point on an object, wherein a distance between the first and second reference points is the shortest than others; b) calculating the distance in the step a) to serve as a standard distance; c) selecting sample points on the object other than the second reference point and calculating distances between the sample points and the first reference point; d) calculating offsets and angles between a line through the first and second reference points and lines through the first reference point and sample points; and e) calculating real distances between the first reference point and sample points by values from the step d). |
| US09860516B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium
So as to obtain color parallax images, it has been necessary to prepare an image capturing optical system and an image capturing element that are complex, to capture the parallax images. In view of this, provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image obtaining section that obtains original image data including a pixel having a pixel value of any of primary colors constituting colors of a subject image and a pixel having a pixel value showing at least a parallax of the subject image; and an image generating section that generates, from the original image data, primary color image data made up of pixels having the pixel value of the primary color, and parallax image data made up of pixels having the pixel value showing the parallax. |
| US09860515B2 |
Apparatus and method for 3D content broadcasting with boundary information
A boundary information providing apparatus may include a boundary information generation unit to generate boundary information of a video, the boundary information through which a switching point between a 2D video and a 3D video is recognized, based on a switching mode between the 2D video and the 3D video, and a stream transmission unit to transmit a stream including the boundary information to a video receiving apparatus. |
| US09860512B2 |
Display apparatus and image display method thereof
A display apparatus and an image display method of the display apparatus are provided, and the image display method includes following steps. Video contents that include a plurality of single frame images are received. A detection zone of the single frame images is determined according to a current scale mode of the display apparatus, and the different scale modes correspond to the different detection zones. The detection zone of each single frame image is detected to determine an image format of the video contents. A play mode of the display apparatus is adjusted according to the image format, and the video contents which are scaled are displayed by the display apparatus in the play mode. |
| US09860510B2 |
Depth based modification of captured images
An imaging system processes images of a plurality of objects which have been captured by an image capture device for display. Normal processing of the images is modified as either a function of a depth corresponding to one or more of the plurality of objects appearing in the captured images relative to the image capture device or as a function of the depth and one or more image characteristics extracted from the captured images. A depth threshold may be used to avoid inadvertent modifications due to noise. |
| US09860498B2 |
Projector having a beam splitter device comprising a polarization beam splitter and projection optics having a beam splitter device
The invention relates to a projector (1) and to a projection optics (30) for a projector (1). In order to be able to operate the projector (1) as energy-efficiently as possible, it is provided, according to the invention, that the projector (1) comprises a beam splitter device (6, 6′) having a polarization beam splitter (7, 15), wherein the polarization beam splitter (7) is arranged at an object-side end (39) of the projection optics (30). |
| US09860493B2 |
Illumination device and projector
An illumination device includes: a light-emitting element that emits light in a first wavelength band; a substrate rotatable about a predetermined axis of rotation; a phosphor layer that is provided on the substrate at a first distance from the axis of rotation and excited by the light in the first wavelength band to emit light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band; a scattering layer that is provided on the substrate at a second distance, different from the first distance, from the axis of rotation and on which the light in the first wavelength band emitted from the light-emitting element is incident; a first pickup optical system that is provided on the side of the phosphor layer opposite to the substrate; and a second pickup optical system that is provided on the side of the scattering layer opposite to the substrate. |
| US09860489B2 |
System and method for graphically entering views of terrain and other features for surveillance
A surveillance system is disclosed that includes one or more data acquisition devices, an image database, and a processing system. The data acquisition devices are configured to acquire surveillance data from one or more geographic locations, and the image database stores image data for the one or more geographic locations. The processing system is configured to electronically display an image of one or more of the geographic locations using the image data stored in the image database. The processing system is further configured to accept input through a user interface to allow graphical manipulation of the displayed image in three-dimensional space to select a view of the geographical location that is to be subject to surveillance by the data acquisition devices. The displayed image selected by the user is employed to generate acquisition parameters for controlling the one or more data acquisition devices to surveil the geographical location corresponding to the displayed image. |
| US09860487B2 |
Video conference data generation
In one example embodiment, a method performed by a server may include: receiving user videos from a plurality of devices; generating conference video data that includes at least one portion of the user videos; assigning a first portion of the at least one portion a first security attribute for a first device that has a first security level; generating first security data corresponding to the first security attribute; streaming, to the first device, the conference video data with the first security data; and streaming, to a second device having a second security level higher than the first security level, the conference video data without the first security data. |
| US09860484B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system and information processing method
An information processing apparatus may include a detecting unit to detect a pointing object in a captured image, and a generation unit to generate pointing information based on detection of the pointing object by the detecting unit. The pointing information may indicate a position of the pointing object determined using a pointable range set based on a user in the captured image. The apparatus may further include a communication unit to transmit the pointing information to an external apparatus. |
| US09860482B2 |
Method and apparatus for classifying video data
A method of classifying video data representing activity within a space to be monitored. A method comprises storing video data obtained from a camera configured to monitor the space. Sensor data indicative of a condition occurring within the space is obtained, and a plurality of program elements are defined within the video data. Each program element has an associated classification code, and each classification code is selected using the sensor data. |
| US09860481B2 |
Information processing method and electronic device
The present invention provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The method is applied in a first electronic device and comprises: obtaining a first data; obtaining P frame images based on the first data, where P is an integer larger than or equal to 1; obtaining a second data based on a data channel with a second electronic device; obtaining Q frame images based on the second data, where Q is an integer larger than or equal to 1; generating a video stream of M frame images based on the P frame images and the Q frame images, where M |
| US09860479B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a display unit; a front cabinet including a frame portion in the form of a frame surrounding an outer edge of the display unit, a tab including a base portion connected to the frame portion and extending in a depth direction from the base portion, and a fixing portion provided in the tab; and a rear frame, and the fixing portion is fixed to the rear frame with a fastener in a direction crossing the depth direction. The fixing portion may be located deeper in the depth direction than the display unit or may be closer to the display unit than the base position is in the direction crossing the depth direction. |
| US09860472B2 |
Image sensor and image processing system that compensate for fixed pattern noise (FPN)
An image sensor operating in a skip mode and reading out a pixel signal provided by at least one of a plurality of pixels and compensating for fixed pattern noise (FPN) in column-parallel pipelines. The image sensor includes; a switch signal generator that generates a first switch control signal and a second switch control signal in response to FPN location information characterizing a first pipeline among the column-parallel pipelines as a noisy pipeline generating FPN, and characterizing a second pipeline among the column-parallel pipelines as a quiet pipeline not generating FPN, a binning switch block including a first switch controlled by the first switch control signal and a second switch controlled by the second switch control signal, wherein the first switch control signal causes the first pipeline to be inactivated and the second switch control signal causes the second pipeline to be activated, and a binning block that performs a digital binning operation on digital signals provided via the column-parallel pipelines including the second pipeline. |
| US09860466B2 |
Sensor with electrically controllable aperture for inspection and metrology systems
Pixel aperture size adjustment in a linear sensor is achieved by applying more negative control voltages to central regions of the pixel's resistive control gate, and applying more positive control voltages to the gate's end portions. These control voltages cause the resistive control gate to generate an electric field that drives photoelectrons generated in a selected portion of the pixel's light sensitive region into a charge accumulation region for subsequent measurement, and drives photoelectrons generated in other portions of the pixel's light sensitive region away from the charge accumulation region for subsequent discard or simultaneous readout. A system utilizes optics to direct light received at different angles or locations from a sample into corresponding different portions of each pixel's light sensitive region. Multiple aperture control electrodes are selectively actuated to collect/measure light received from either narrow or wide ranges of angles or locations, thereby enabling rapid image data adjustment. |
| US09860457B2 |
Image capturing apparatus and control method of the same
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an object, a display unit configured to display a video image captured by the capturing unit, an extracting unit configured to extract an area of the video image that is within a display range displayed by the display unit and is smaller than the display range, a detecting unit configured to detect a change in a position or attitude of the apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that an area of the video image that is within the display range displayed by the display unit and is not extracted by the extracting unit is larger on a side in a direction in which the position or attitude of the apparatus changes. |
| US09860447B1 |
Calibration of optical image stabilization module with motion sensor using image comparisons
In some embodiments, a plurality of images is captured through an image sensor of a camera during a period of time. The plurality of images is registered to calculate an image-sensor-based measure of movement of the camera during the period of time. The image-sensor-based measure of movement is compared to a motion-sensor-based measure of movement of the camera during the period of time, and a systematic offset between the motion-sensor-based measure of movement and the image-sensor-based measure of movement is calculated. |
| US09860446B2 |
Flare detection and mitigation in panoramic images
Lens flare mitigation techniques determine which pixels in images of a sequence of images are likely to be pixels affected by lens flare. Once the lens flare areas of the images are determined, unwanted lens flare effects may be mitigated by various approaches, including reducing border artifacts along a seam between successive images, discarding entire images of the sequence that contain lens flare areas, and using tone-mapping to reduce the visibility of lens flare. |
| US09860445B2 |
Dual node composite image system architecture
When employing a multi-node computing architecture for commercial articulated vehicles to generate a composite surround view of the vehicle, each processing node is associated with a vehicle segment. Each node has its own processor, memory and sensors. A master-slave relationship exists in the architecture. The segment processors collect, format, manage and package their local information. Communication between nodes is controlled by the master node, which can limit, adjust, subsample and alter the information and information flow from the slave nodes. The slave nodes can be freely recombined, using a pre-established communication standard or a format agreed upon at combination time. |
| US09860443B2 |
Monocentric lens designs and associated imaging systems having wide field of view and high resolution
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for capturing and forming large high quality images using monocentric optical imaging. In one aspect, an optical imaging system includes an optical imaging module that collects light to form an image on an imaging surface, one or more imaging sensors each including an array of optical detectors located away from the imaging surface to receive light representing the image initially formed on the imaging surface and to convert the received light into detector signals, and optical waveguides coupled between the imaging surface and the one or more imaging sensors to receive light from the imaging surface and configured to selectively deliver a desired portion of the received light to the one or more imaging sensors while suppressing undesired stray light from reaching the one or more imaging sensors so that the optical waveguides effectuate an optical aperture stop with a limited angle range for receiving light by the one or more imaging sensors. |
| US09860438B2 |
Image sensor and electronic apparatus
The present technology relates to an image sensor and an electronic apparatus which enable higher-quality images to be obtained. Provided is an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including one on-chip lens, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion layers formed below the on-chip lens. Each of at least two of the plurality of photoelectric conversion layers is split, partially formed, or partially shielded from light with respect to a light-receiving surface. The pixels are phase difference detection pixels for performing AF by phase difference detection or imaging pixels for generating an image. The present technology can be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example. |
| US09860431B1 |
Portable electronic device and image capturing module thereof
A portable electronic device and an image capturing module thereof are disclosed. The image capturing module includes a circuit substrate, a structure reinforcing frame, a plurality of image sensing chips, an adhesive body, and a plurality of lens modules. The circuit substrate has a plurality of first passing openings. The structure reinforcing frame is disposed on the circuit substrate, and the structure reinforcing frame has a plurality of second passing openings respectively communicated with the first passing openings. The image sensing chips are disposed on the circuit substrate and electrically connected with the circuit substrate, and the image sensing chips are coplanarly disposed on a datum plane. The adhesive body is connected between each image sensing chip and the structure reinforcing frame. The lens modules are disposed on the circuit substrate, and the lens modules respectively correspond to the image sensing chips. |
| US09860424B2 |
Image forming apparatus updating gamma correction table to thereby execute calibration and recording medium
An image forming apparatus includes: a printing device, a detection device, a processor, and a storage device. The printing device prints, with concentration corresponding to each input value, an image on a recording medium for the each input value. The detection device detects a concentration value of the each image. The storage device stores each variation information previously set for the each input value. The each variation information indicates a specific concentration value and a range of variation from the specific concentration value. The processor converts, of the concentration values detected by the detection device, the concentration value included in the corresponding variation range into the corresponding specific concentration value. The processor, based on the each concentration value obtained through the conversion process, generates a new gamma correction table. |
| US09860419B2 |
Image reading device, image forming apparatus, and image reading method
An image reading device includes an image reading portion, a detection processing portion, and a combination processing portion. The image reading portion is configured to read image data of a document placed on a document placement surface. The detection processing portion is configured to detect a corner portion of the document on the basis of the image data read by the image reading portion. The combination processing portion is configured to combine the respective image data read by the image reading portion until a total number of the corner portions of the document detected by the detection processing portion becomes a predetermined value. |
| US09860416B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing image data with multiple flip-flop storages
An image processing system includes a first flip-flop bank and a second flip-flop bank, and a control system configured to control JPEG processing of image data. The control system is further configured to, during a first period, use one of the first or second flip-flop banks as a write bank and the other of the first or second flip-flop banks as a read bank and, during a second period, alternate the use of the first and second flip-flop banks as the write bank and the read bank. Further, the control system is configured to, after alternating the use, initialize the read bank to zero. |
| US09860414B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and printing system
An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface to communicate data including image data with an image forming apparatus, a data storage device to store background pattern data, and circuitry. The circuitry causes the communication interface to transmit the background pattern data and a registration request command to the image forming apparatus, generates synthesis information, generates a background pattern synthesis drawing command for instructing the image forming apparatus to synthesize the background pattern data with each page data of the image data, based on the synthesis information of the page data, generates a printing command for printing the image data, generates print request information for requesting the image forming apparatus to print the image data, and causes the communication interface to transmit the print request information to the image forming apparatus. |
| US09860413B2 |
Systems and methods for printing a document using a graphical code image
A system comprises a server, a mobile device and an image forming apparatus. The server includes a storage manager for managing storage of documents and associated document identifiers, a mobile device interface for receiving a set request identifying a user from the mobile device and for providing associated document identifiers to the mobile device, and an image forming apparatus interface for receiving from the image forming apparatus a document request containing a document identifier and for providing in response a document associated with the document identifier to the image forming apparatus, the document identifier received by the image forming apparatus from the mobile device as a graphical code image. The image forming apparatus includes a scanner for scanning the graphical code image from the mobile device, and a server interface for sending the document request to the server and for receiving the document. |
| US09860408B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method, and computer program product
An information processing system includes one or more devices configured to operate based on setting information for controlling an operation; and at least one external device configured to change the setting information of the device. The external device includes circuitry configured to: acquire the setting information of the device, generate change information obtained by changing the acquired setting information, and set the change information in the device. The device includes circuitry configured to: acquire the setting information from a setting storage and transmit the acquired setting information to the external device, acquire the change information in the external device, and rewrite original setting information stored in the setting storage to the acquired change information. |
| US09860406B2 |
Processing apparatus
An image reading apparatus includes a pressing member having a pressing portion that is configured to move to a pressing position at an upper portion of a mounting area and to a retracting position away from the upper portion of the mounting area, independently from an edge guide, and presses a sheet. |
| US09860402B2 |
Recording apparatus capable of switching recording speed and non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by the same
A recording apparatus includes a controller configured to: decrease the number of recording pages which is stored in a storage in response to completion of recording on a recording medium on a page-by-page basis; increase the number of recording pages in response to an increase in an amount of image data in the storage; determine whether the number of recording pages is greater than or equal to a first number; control a drive source and a recording device to convey the recording medium at a first speed and perform recording when the number of recording pages is less than the first number; and control the drive source and the recording device to convey the recording medium at a second speed greater than the first speed and perform the recording when the number of recording pages is greater than or equal to the first number. |
| US09860394B2 |
Image reading apparatus, control method, and computer-readable, non-transitory medium
An image reading apparatus includes an image capturing module, a reference member, a light source for emitting light to the reference member, a foreign object determining module for determining whether or not a foreign object appears in a specific image, and a position determining module for determining whether the foreign object exists on the image capturing module side or on the reference member side, based on an absolute value of a difference between a gradation value in a region included in two images and corresponding to a region where the foreign object appears when the foreign object appears in the specific image. One image is an image of the reference member captured under illumination of light with a first light quantity from the light source, and other image is an image of the reference member captured under illumination of light with a second light quantity from the light source. |
| US09860393B2 |
Virtual computer system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for virtual computer system
A virtual computer system includes a potential failure-causing event detection controller, a saving unit, and a snapshot creation unit. The potential failure-causing event detection controller detects a potential failure-causing event relating to a printer provided external to a virtual computer having installed thereon a guest operating system on which an application program is installed or relating to control of the printer. The saving unit performs a saving process of saving information indicating the potential failure-causing event and information about a page for which printing is not completed by the printer. The snapshot creation unit creates a snapshot of the guest operating system including the application program after the saving unit has performed the saving process. |
| US09860388B1 |
Automatic handshaking to improve call processing and performance
Techniques for a central monitoring station (CMS) of a monitoring system to establish communications with a remote alarm panel more quickly and efficiently are provided. A signal from a remote alarm panel can be received by the CMS. The CMS can identify the remote alarm panel based on information related to the received signal. The CMS can determine if the remote alarm panel is known or unknown based on any prior interaction with the remote alarm panel. The CMS can store information regarding known remote alarm panels from prior interactions. Handshake signals and data formatting information determined from prior interactions with the known remote alarm panel can be stored and used on subsequent calls. Additional operational information related to the remote alarm panel can also be updated after each call to further customize future interactions with the remote alarm panel. |
| US09860386B2 |
Communication apparatus and method
A second terminal sends a request to initiate a communication session with a first terminal to a server. The server signals the first terminal to initiate the communication session. The first terminal determines an offset amount based upon the redirection timer information. The offset amount is added to or subtracted from a redirection timer value to determine a modified redirection timer value that takes into account time that elapses between messaging exchanged between the server and the first terminal that affects the first terminal determination of an amount of time remaining in a redirection timer of the server such that the determined modified redirection timer value is equal in value or substantially equal in value to the amount of time remaining in the redirection timer of the server. |
| US09860385B1 |
Methods and systems for providing communications services
The present invention is related to telecommunications. A call processing system receives a first call from a caller intended for a first person. A notification regarding the first call is transmitted over a network to a terminal associated with the first person. A user interface is displayed on the terminal via which the first person can indicate that a callback message is to be transmitted to the caller. The callback message is transmitted to the caller, wherein the callback message includes an identification of the first person, a callback control, and text indicating that the caller is to activate the control to initiate another call to the first person. At least partly in response to the caller activating the control, A second call to be placed via which the first person and caller are connected. |
| US09860384B2 |
Computer-implemented system and method for delivery of group messages
A computer-implemented system and method for delivering group messages is provided. Users that are signed-on to and signed-off from one or more discussion groups are tracked. A voice message is received from one of the users signed-on to one of the discussion groups. A list of users associated with the discussion group is obtained and a sublist of signed-on users including those users from the list that are signed-on to the discussion group is built. The voice message is provided to the signed-on users of the discussion group and a copy of the voice message is stored for later access by the users in the discussion group that are signed-off. |
| US09860381B1 |
Method and apparatus of processing speech dialog data of a user call
A method and apparatus of processing caller experiences is disclosed. One example method may include determining a call event type occurring during a call and assigning a weight to the call event type via a processing device. The method may also include calculating a caller experience metric value representing a caller's current call status responsive to determining the at least one call event type, the caller experience metric being a function of the current event type weight and a discounting variable that discounts a value of past events. The method may also provide comparing the caller experience metric to a predefined threshold value and determining whether to perform at least one of transferring the call to a live agent and switching from a current caller modality to a different caller modality. |
| US09860380B2 |
Agent rating prediction and routing
An agent rating prediction and routing mechanism provided by a contact center communication system for work assignment optimization is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The prediction system proposed herein analyzes past agent performance, agent attributes, contact attributes, and customer attributes to calculate an outcome value and to provide a performance prediction for use in work item routing to contact center resources. |
| US09860375B2 |
CTI system and CTI control method
In a CTI system, when a wireless terminal is called in response to a transmission request from a personal computer, a key telephone main unit adds to a call signal identification information indicating that a call is based on the transmission request from the personal computer. When the call is received, the wireless terminal judges whether or not the identification information is added to the call signal. When it is judged that the identification information is added, the wireless terminal automatically answers the call. Otherwise, the wireless terminal does not automatically answer. Thus, in case of transmission from a CTI application, operability and convenience are improved. |
| US09860374B2 |
Method for indicating the context of a call to a called party
In embodiments of the disclosed technology, a plurality of ratings of websites is received, wherein each rating is associated with a category and a rater and each rater is associated with at least one group. A selection of a category is received from the user, wherein the user is associated with at least one group. One website location (or a plurality of website locations) is provided in the category to the user based on at least one rating of the plurality of ratings provided by at least one of the raters, wherein at least one group associated with the rater and at least one the group associated with the user are the same group. |
| US09860371B2 |
Method, device and system of providing caller identification information to a user of a wireless device
The invention is a method, system, and computer-readable medium for gathering and communicating caller identification information on a wireless device. The invention includes receiving, at a wireless device, a calling party phone number to be communicated by the wireless device, determining that the calling party phone number and a corresponding caller identification are not stored on the wireless device memory, performing, in response to the determination that the calling party phone number and the corresponding caller identification are not stored on the wireless device memory, an external database search for the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification, and determining that the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification have been identified in the external database search. The invention further includes communicating, in response to the determination that the calling party phone number and corresponding caller identification have been identified in the external database search, the calling party phone number and caller identification. |
| US09860365B2 |
Providing setting adjustments to a communication device
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method to effect automated adjustments at a communication device is described. The method may include receiving first contextual data of the communication device. The first contextual data may indicate conditions of a first predetermined setting at the communication device and a setting adjustment associated with the conditions. The method may also generate a second predetermined setting, based on the setting adjustment. The method may also apply the second predetermined setting at the communication device in place of the first predetermined setting under conditions indicated by second contextual data that are similar to conditions indicated by the first contextual data. |
| US09860361B1 |
Wirelessly controlled inflator
A wirelessly controlled inflator is described herein that includes a pump, a hose, a programmable switch, and a wireless transceiver. The hose is fluidically coupled to the pump. The programmable switch is electrically coupled to the pump and stores instructions that, when executed, activate the pump until a desired pressure setting is reached. The wireless transceiver is electrically coupled to the programmable switch and relays pump operation information to the programmable switch. The inflator may be remotely controlled by one or more networked devices, such as directly or via a cloud-based network. |
| US09860358B2 |
Apparatus and method for sharing energy in wireless device
A method and apparatus to share energy in a wireless device are provided. A power sharing method between a wireless device and at least one neighboring wireless device, includes scanning, by the wireless device, the at least one neighboring wireless device. The power sharing method further includes determining to share power with the at least one neighboring wireless device. The power sharing method further includes sharing power with the at least one neighboring wireless device. |
| US09860356B2 |
Method for updating software of a measuring device, smart computer and computer readable program product
The present invention relates to a method for updating software of a measuring device in a RF sensitive environment is provided, the method comprising: providing a smart computer having a radio operation mode for wireless communication and providing a measuring device that is RF sensitive and that comprises software for the operation of the measuring device; downloading software update data from a software server by wireless coupling the smart computer to the software server via the Internet; decoupling the smart computer from the Internet after the software update data is downloaded; updating the software of the measuring device by directly connecting the smart computer to the measuring device and by uploading the software update data from the smart computer to the connected measuring device. The present invention also relates to a smart computer and to a computer readable program product. |
| US09860355B2 |
Call context metadata
A computer detects a connected voice or video call between participants and records a brief media sample. Speech recognition is utilized to determine when the call is connected as well as to transcribe the content of the audio portion of the media sample. The recorded media sample and transcribed content is associated with the connected voice or video call such that a user may reference it at a later point. The computer additionally suggests creating or editing contact information associated with the participants of the connected voice or video call based on the transcribed content. |
| US09860352B2 |
Headset-based telecommunications platform
A hands-free wireless wearable GPS enabled video camera and audio-video communications headset, mobile phone and personal media player, capable of real-time two-way and multi-feed wireless voice, data and audio-video streaming, telecommunications, and teleconferencing, coordinated applications, and shared functionality between one or more wirelessly networked headsets or other paired or networked wired or wireless devices and optimized device and data management over multiple wired and wireless network connections. The headset can operate in concert with one or more wired or wireless devices as a paired accessory, as an autonomous hands-free wide area, metro or local area and personal area wireless audio-video communications and multimedia device and/or as a wearable docking station, hot spot and wireless router supporting direct connect multi-device ad-hoc virtual private networking (VPN). The headset has built-in intelligence to choose amongst available network protocols while supporting a variety of onboard, and remote operational controls including a retractable monocular viewfinder display for real time hands-free viewing of captured or received video feed and a duplex data-streaming platform supporting multi-channel communications and optimized data management within the device, within a managed or autonomous federation of devices or other peer-to-peer network configuration. |
| US09860347B2 |
Data transfer method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transfer method and apparatus by establishing, at a source device, a plurality of data connections with a target device in response to a data connection establishment request from a client, the data connection establishment request carrying information on a plurality of receiving ports that have been enabled by the target device; and transferring data from the source device to the target device via the plurality of data connections, and data transfer/receiving method and apparatus according to the embodiments of the present disclosure leverage a plurality of parallel data connections from a source device to a target device to transfer data, thereby enhancing the speed and reliability of data backup or restoration. |
| US09860345B1 |
System and method for remote graphics display
A method and system for displaying graphics on a display of a second module remotely connected with a first module via a data communications medium. A first controller interfaces between a first graphics processor and the first module. A second controller interfaces between a second graphics processor and the first module via the data communications medium and the first controller. The first controller duplicates data returned to the first graphics processor by the first module in response to data requests, and transmits the duplicated data to the second controller. The second controller intercepts data requests by the second graphics processor to the first module, correlates the intercepted requests with the duplicated data received from the first controller and transmits the duplicated data to the second graphics processor based on this correlation. The second graphics processor uses the received duplicated data to generate graphics for display at the second module. |
| US09860340B2 |
Service function chaining branching
A system comprising a plurality of service nodes, a controller and a network device in communication with the controller. Each of the plurality of service nodes is configured to support one or more service functions to establish a service function chain that includes a plurality of service functions to be performed by routing traffic among the plurality of service nodes. The controller is configured to generate provisioning information for the service function chain. The provisioning information includes at least one condition upon which a service function reclassification or branching operation is to be performed by at least one service node. The network device is in communication with the controller, and is configured to distribute the provisioning information for the service function chain to the plurality of service nodes using a distributed routing protocol. |
| US09860339B2 |
Determining a custom content delivery network via an intelligent software-defined network
Determining a custom content delivery network is disclosed. This can comprise determining a custom content delivery network (CCDN) based on information determined by an intelligent software-defined network (ISDN). An ISDN can receive a content request and related information from a user equipment (UE). The ISDN can determine CCDN information that can be employed to provision a transport network corresponding to the CCDN information. The transport network can be customized based on the content request and the related information. Moreover, as the related information changes, the transport network can be correspondingly updated. Some embodiments disclose an ISDN operating on a virtual machine in a cloud-computing environment. |
| US09860337B1 |
Machine-based identification of content with differing opinions
Features are disclosed for enabling users to discover content with different opinions or sentiments regarding particular topics. In some embodiments, users may request content expressing an opinion regarding a topic that is contrary or otherwise different than the opinion expressed in a currently viewed or selected content item. A service or system can identify content items related to the same topic, analyze sentiments expressed regarding the topic, and provide the user with a listing or other data regarding content with differing opinions. In some embodiments, the service or system may proactively search for and classify content as expressing particular opinions about particular topics in the absence of a request from a user. In some embodiments, the service or system may proactively provide users with data regarding the availability of content items with contrary opinions. |
| US09860335B2 |
Method, device and system for delivering live content
The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for delivering live content. A pre-delivery request with respect to live content is sent to a CDN cache device, and the CDN cache device caches the live content according to the pre-delivery request with respect to the live content before a user views the live content, thereby solving the problems of a long delay and poor user experience in playing live content that is not cached because a part of live content cannot be cached in the prior art, ensuring the play quality of all live content, and improving user experience. |
| US09860331B2 |
Game service system and game service method for global game service
Provided are a game service system and a game service method for a global game service. A game service system for providing a multi-player game service for users connected to a game server and users connected to at least one proxy server includes: a game server constructed at a single base in a first local area, the game server configured to provide game progress data to users connected to a proxy server associated with the game server; and at least one proxy server constructed at a base in a second local area different from the first local area in which the single base is located, and configured to connect to the game server through an exclusive line. The game server is configured to provide the game service to users connected to the at least one proxy server through the at least one proxy server and the exclusive line. |
| US09860329B2 |
Determining customized audio services
In an approach for delivering customized messages, a computer receives a request to initiate a communication, wherein the request includes a caller and at least one recipient. The computer determines an identifier associated with the caller and an identifier associated with the at least one recipient from the received request. The computer identifies the caller and the at least one recipient based on the corresponding determined identifiers. The computer retrieves data associated with the identified caller and the identified at least one recipient, wherein the data includes personal information, Internet browsing trends, and listening preferences. The computer determines customized messages for the identified caller and the identified at least one recipient based on the retrieved data associated with the identified caller and the at least one recipient. The computer delivers the determined customized messages to one or more of the identified caller and the identified at least one recipient. |
| US09860327B2 |
Web-browsing recommendations based on aggregated path data
A method for generating website recommendations based on user web browsing. The method includes a computer processor tracking a sequence of two or more websites traversed by a user, wherein the sequence is based, at least in part, on a web-browsing session of the user. The method further includes a computer processor identifying a plurality of sequences of websites traversed by other users, wherein the plurality of sequences of web sites traversed by other users include at least one website in common with the tracked sequence of two or more websites traversed by the user. The method further includes a computer processor determining one or more recommended websites in the plurality of sequences of websites traversed by other users that are relevant to the tracked sequence of two or more websites traversed by the user. The method further includes a computer processor presenting the one or more recommended websites to the user. |
| US09860326B2 |
Duplex services residing in a messaging bus
An example method of integrating a plurality of heterogeneous peer-to-peer communication participants includes retrieving from a first input queue coupled to a duplex service a first message. The first message includes a message identifier and is from a sender. The method also includes applying a first operation on the first message, determining a first output of the first message based on the first operation, and sending the first output of the first message to a target. The method further includes retrieving from a second input queue coupled to the duplex service a second message. The second message includes the message identifier and is from a target. The method also includes applying a second operation on the second message, determining a second output of the second message based on the second operation, and sending the second output of the second message to the sender. |
| US09860325B2 |
Tunnel broker in a service oriented architecture
A computer device includes logic configured to implement a tunnel broker. The tunnel broker is configured to receive a request from a client device for a service in a system, the service having a requested service property; select a first node in the system that hosts a first service instance having the requested service property; and establish a communication tunnel with a first end at the client device and a second end at the selected first node. The tunnel broker is further configured to determine that the first node no longer hosts the first service instance having the requested service property or that the first node has become unreachable; select a second node in the system that hosts a second service instance having the requested service property; and move the second end of the communication tunnel from the first node to the second node. |
| US09860322B2 |
Stateless technique for distributing data uploads
The embodiments set forth a technique for providing a stateless technique for distributing uploads. According to some embodiments, a system can include various computing devices, authorization servers, and storage destinations. Within the system, an authorization server assigns weight properties to each storage destination, and generates a set of tokens for subsequent assignment to the different storage destinations in accordance with their weight properties. More specifically, the authorization server is configured to perform an initial token drafting process that involves assigning the tokens to different storage destinations. As the current health of each storage destination changes over time, the authorization server is also configured to periodically perform (e.g., at a set interval) a supplemental token drafting process that involves updating the weight properties of each storage destination and redistributing the tokens in view of the updated weight properties. |
| US09860320B2 |
Node and communication connecting method between nodes
A communication connecting method between nodes through a network, includes: storing communication connection information acquired through searching for communication entities of other nodes; determining whether communication connection information on a communication entity of a connection target node exists by searching for the stored communication connection information; and configuring communication connection with the communication entity of the connection target node based on the determination result. |
| US09860315B2 |
Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures
A coupling facility is coupled to one or more other coupling facilities via one or more peer links. The coupling of the facilities enables various functions to be supported, including the duplexing of structures of the coupling facilities. Duplexing is performed on a structure basis, and thus, a coupling facility may include duplexed structures, as well as non-duplexed or simplexed structures. |
| US09860314B2 |
Data synchronization system and methods in a network using a highly-available key-value storage system
A data synchronization method, in a network element operating in a network, includes generating an event at the network element that needs to be synchronized with other devices in the network; based on assigned tokens for the network element, generating a row key for the event; and providing the row key to a Highly-Available (HA) key-value storage system for synchronization therewith, wherein the HA key-value storage system includes a plurality of nodes including the network element and the other devices. |
| US09860311B1 |
Cluster management of distributed applications
A method includes performing at a lifecycle manager a first process. The first process includes determining nodes in a cluster to run an application, determining a difference between a cluster goal state and a cluster actual state for the application, determining goal state for each node and sending respective goal state to agents. The method also includes performing at each agent a second process. The second process includes determining a difference between the goal state of the node and an actual state of the node, determining actions to be performed based on the difference between the goal state of the node and the actual state of the node and sending actions to resource managers to perform based on the difference between the goal state of the node and the actual state of the node. |
| US09860310B2 |
System and method for providing data and application continuity in a computer system
A system and method for providing or maintaining data and application continuity in a computer system. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a communication interface for a client system, a network layer for receiving data from the client system, a hardware infrastructure for creating instances of the client system for replicating data, and an applications module for executing one or more applications on the replicated data. According to a further aspect, the system includes a portal and user interface configured for providing a remote user with control, audit and other functions associated with the user's system configuration. According to another aspect, the portal and user interface provides access and control based on user privileges for a multi-tenant, multi-instant architecture or configuration. |
| US09860309B2 |
Hybrid cloud network monitoring system for tenant use
Network traffic in a cloud computing system is monitored in response to a request to capture network traffic of a tenant port of a first virtual machine (VM) executing in the cloud computing system, wherein the first VM is associated with a first tenant organization different from a second organization managing the cloud computing system. A decapsulating VM having a first network interface and a second network interface is instantiated, wherein the decapsulating VM is inaccessible to the first tenant organization. An encapsulated port mirroring session from the tenant port of the first VM to the first network interface of the decapsulating VM is then established. A plurality of packets comprising captured network traffic received via the encapsulated port mirroring session are decapsulated, and the captured network traffic is forwarded via the second network interface of the decapsulating VM to a sniffer VM. |
| US09860306B2 |
Component-specific application presentation histories
In many computing scenarios, a computing environment of a device may present applications through various presentation components, such as displays, speakers, and headphones. However, navigating among the applications currently presented within the computing environment may be difficult for the user; e.g., for a device presenting many applications on many displays that share an application stack, the application that the user wishes to select may be buried deep within the shared application stack. In accordance with the techniques presented herein, the device may generate an application presentation history for each presentation component, indicating applications that have previously been presented through the presentation component. A request to transition a selected presentation component away from a current application presentation may be fulfilled by identifying a second application having an application presentation in the application presentation history of the selected presentation component, and transitioning the selected presentation component to the second application. |
| US09860301B2 |
File transfer using XML
A tangible, machine readable storage medium stores instructions and implements a method when the instructions are executed by a processor. A source file is received by a gateway engine. The source file is a binary file. The source file is portioned into multiple parts by a breakdown engine. The multiple parts are transferred by a reliable transfer engine using a single port according to a messaging protocol to transfer messages reliably between nodes in the presence of any of software failures, component failures, system failures, or network failures. The multiple parts are reassembled into a copy of the source file by a reassembly engine. |
| US09860296B2 |
System and method for end-to-end call quality indication
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating an end-to-end quality indication associated with a communication session. Based on a real-time transport control protocol message, the system identifies a media path associated with a communication session. Next, the system determines a respective media leg quality for a plurality of media legs in the media path. Based on the respective media leg quality, the system then determines a media path quality. The system can also generate a media quality indication based on the media path quality, and display the media quality indication. |
| US09860294B2 |
Media content streaming
Technology for receiving streaming media content is disclosed. A media presentation description (MPD) for the streaming media content can be received at a user equipment (UE). A streaming interval can be selected for the streaming media content. A power consumption level can be calculated for receiving the streaming media content at each of a plurality of media content representations that are described in the MPD. A media content representation can be selected from the plurality of media content representations based on: the power consumption level associated with receiving the streamed media content at the media content representation; and power status information for the UE, using the one or more processors of the UE. The streaming media content can be received at the selected media content representation, at the UE, in accordance with the streaming interval. The streaming media content can be played at the UE. |
| US09860292B2 |
Method and system for delivering data to a batch consumer and a streaming consumer
A method and system delivers data to a batch consumer and a streaming consumer. The method and system include retrieving data from a plurality of data centers, storing the data in a first directory, bundling the data into plurality of batches in the first directory, transferring each batch of the plurality of batches to the second directory, delivering the each batch of the plurality of batches in the second directory to the batch consumer and the streaming consumer and delivering the data in the first directory to the streaming consumer. |
| US09860290B2 |
System and method for adapting video communications
An apparatus may include one or more radio-frequency (RF) transceivers arranged to receive multimedia content during a session over a first link from a wireless wide-area network (WWAN) and to forward information over a second link to a display device. The apparatus may further include a processor circuit communicatively coupled to the one or more RF transceivers and a video adaptation module operative on the processor circuit to gather device capability information from the display device, and to modify device capability exchange signaling to the WWAN based upon the gathered device capability information, the device capability exchange signaling to define exchange of multimedia content between the apparatus and the WWAN. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. |
| US09860288B2 |
Synchronization of preferred perishable content
A user can specify particular news, weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. |
| US09860275B2 |
Systems and methods to rotate security assets used for secure communications
Systems and methods to rotate security assets used to for secure communications are disclosed. The system includes receiving a first certificate that includes a first subject name for the remote servers. The first certificate further includes a first public key. Next, the system receives a second certificate that includes the first subject name for the remote servers. The second certificate further includes a second public key that is different from the first public key. Next, the system stores the first and second certificates in a trust module. Next, the system receive a third certificate from a first server included in the plurality of remote servers. Next, the system identifies the first server is trusted. The identifying is based on the third certificate matching any one of the first certificate and the second certificate. Finally, the system establishes a secure communication session with the first server based on the identifying the first server is trusted. |
| US09860273B2 |
Logging encrypted data communications for QOE analysis
A device such as a smartphone may communicate with a server or other network entity using encrypted communications, making it difficult to examine such communications for purposes of identifying communication issues that may affect user QoE (quality of experience). In certain embodiments, an application may be modified to log communication data before encryption and after decryption. For example, the application program may be decompiled and logging instructions may be inserted before portion that result in data encryption and after portions where received data is decrypted. The modified application program may then be recompiled and executed on a device to produce an unencrypted log of data. In other embodiments, elements of the device operating system may be modified to log data before encryption and after decryption. |
| US09860272B2 |
System and method for detection of targeted attack based on information from multiple sources
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer programs for detecting targeted attacks on compromised computer from multiple sources. An example method includes obtaining data from multiple computer systems and devices connected with one another in a communications network to determine a possibility of a targeted attack from a network resource, the data comprising information relating to the network resource and a set of parameters of each computer system or device in accessing the network resource; detecting discrepancies in the obtained data; forming and sending queries to a group of computer systems and devices detecting the possibility of the targeted attack with the set of parameters of the group of computer systems and devices in accessing the network resource; and calculating a probability of the targeted attack from the network resource based at least upon information received from the group of computer systems and devices in response to the queries. |
| US09860271B2 |
Health monitor based distributed denial of service attack mitigation
Provided are methods and systems for mitigating a DDoS event. The method may comprise receiving an indication of a collapse of a collapsible virtual data circuit associated with network data traffic. In response to the received indication of the collapse, the collapse may be attributed to the DDoS event. Furthermore, the method may comprise redirecting the network data traffic to one or more DDoS mitigation services. The method may further comprise mitigating the DDoS event by the one or more DDoS mitigation services. |
| US09860269B2 |
Managing data traffic in the presence of a sensitive site
Website security may be managed based on known site attributes and placing limits on communication outside a site. One example may include at least one of identifying a site that is currently operating within a first process, comparing the site to known sensitive sites, and responsive to identifying the site as being a known sensitive site, enabling a data traffic limiting operation to limit data traffic in at least one other process apart from the first process. |
| US09860264B2 |
Multi-dimensional geometry for enhancement of simulations of network devices
A computer-implemented method for using multi-dimensional geometry in simulations of packet flows through network devices, is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving an input object for traffic simulation of network devices, comprising a source and destination host ranges and source and destination port ranges, and protocol, application and vulnerability ranges, targeted for the destination host ranges. The computer-implemented method further includes representing blocked traffic of the simulated traffic by an intersection of at least two n-dimensional cuboids in n-dimensional space. The computer-implemented method further includes subtracting an access control list shape from an input shape to obtain a concave form representing permitted host, port, protocol, application, and vulnerability combinations of ranges. The computer-implemented method further includes decomposing the obtained concave shape into multiple convex shapes that satisfy a set of predetermined input conditions. |
| US09860263B2 |
System and method for assessing data objects on mobile communications devices
A server receives from a mobile communication device information about a data object (e.g., application) on the device when the device cannot assess the data object. The server uses the information along with other information stored at the server to assess the data object. Based on the assessment, the device may be permitted to access the data object or the device may not be permitted to access the data object. The other information stored at the server can include data objects known to be bad, data objects known to be good, or both. |
| US09860262B2 |
Methods and systems for encoding computer processes for malware detection
A method for encoding computer processes for malicious program detection. The method includes the steps of (a) randomly sampling a trace of system calls collected over a predetermined interval, each system call including context information and memory addresses for the function being monitored; (b) computing system address differences from the trace of system calls and retaining the computed values; (c) forming a group of n-grams (words) of retained differences of system addresses from the trace of system calls; (d) forming a series of process snippets, each process snippet including context information and the retained differences of system addresses; (e) transforming each process snippet to form a compact representation (process dot) comprising a pair of elements c, a, wherein c includes the context information and a is a sparse vector that encodes information derived from the group of n-grams; (f) forming clusters of compact representations; (g) obtaining clusters of compact representations from one or more malicious program-free computers; and (h) comparing the clusters formed in step (f) to those obtained in step (g) and determining the presence of malicious program from the comparison. |
| US09860261B2 |
System for analyzing and maintaining data security in backup data and method thereof
A computer-implemented method and system for analyzing and maintaining data security in backup data, comprising of: accessing backup data of file systems on-site or remotely from a backup server; determining which data is present in a backup system; defining an abnormality data selection criteria to identify security components within the scope of said backup system; performing a data security analysis on backup data; if data abnormality in data are detected in backup data, determining compromised target files, identifying all other files created or modified associated with said compromised target files, including files having a parent-child relationship in both up and down directions of the parent-child tree, including files that are other children of the compromised files in the parent-child tree, including files created or modified by of the compromised files, and including data launched from those files. |
| US09860257B1 |
Anomaly detection and threat prediction through combined power and network analytics
A network device communicates network traffic in one or more network flows via a plurality of ports. Each port is connected to a corresponding computing device. The network device collects flow-based network data associated with each corresponding computing device. The network device supplies electrical power to the corresponding computing devices via one or more of the ports, and collects power data associated with each corresponding computing device based on the electrical power supplied to each of the ports. The network device combines the flow-based network data for each corresponding computing device and the power data for each corresponding computer device to generate combined data associated with each corresponding computing device. The network device then exports the combined data for the corresponding computing devices to a security server, which detects anomalous behavior in the computing devices. |
| US09860255B2 |
Shareable content item links with use restrictions
Shareable content item links with use restrictions. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving, from a client computing device used by an authenticated link submitter, a first request to access a server-stored content item at a shareable link; wherein the link submitter is authenticated according to a first authentication factor; responsive to receiving the first request, prompting the link submitter to enter/submit a second authentication factor; and providing access to the server-stored content item at the shareable link responsive to receiving the second authentication factor from the link submitter. |
| US09860252B2 |
System and method for maintenance of transitive closure of a graph and user authentication
A user authorization system may include a database server maintaining, in a database, a cached user rights list specifying associations between users and related entities from which the users inherit rights and an access control list specifying permissions of entities to access objects. A server may receive a request from a user to access an object and pass access information to the database server. The database server may filter the access control list based on the cached user rights list to generate a filtered access control list specifying permissions to the object for the user and return the filtered access control list to the server. The server may then utilize the filtered access control list returned from the database server to determine whether the user has permission to access the object. |
| US09860251B2 |
Dynamic encryption of a universal resource locator
A system and computer program product for implementing a method for restricting access to information transmitted over a computing network. A computer receives a resource request for a resource to be located. The resource request contains a universal resource locator (URL). The computer determines that the requested resource is available and in response, the computer locates the requested resource contained in the resource request. The computer determines whether encryption of the contained. URL is required. The computer may determine whether encryption is required for a return URL of the requested resource that is to be returned to a location of the resource request. After the computer determines that the requested resource is available, the computer may: determine that encryption of the requested resource is required and in response, determine an encrypted value of the requested resource. |
| US09860242B2 |
One-time access to an automation system
Methods and systems are described for managing one-time access to an automation system. According to at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method to grant a user access to an automation is described. The method may comprise receiving one or more access parameters to authorize one-time permission to the user to access the automation system. The method may further comprise granting one-time permission to the user to access the automation system based at least in part on the one or more access parameters. The method may additionally comprise generating a message comprising at least the one-time permission to access the automation system. The one or more access parameters may comprise at least one of a limited time frame, single use entry code, or a limited number of entries. |
| US09860241B2 |
Device registration, authentication, and authorization system and method
A system includes one or more processors to receive a registration request, the registration request comprising a representation of a username and a password, verify the username and the password and transmit a one-time-use password, receive the one-time-use password and first device identifier information from a mobile computing device, receive an access request from the mobile computing device comprising the representation of the username and the password, second device identifier information, and application key information, verify the username, the password, the second device identifier information, and the application key information, and transmit a token to the mobile computing device, and receive a resource request from the mobile computing device comprising the token and third device identifier information. |
| US09860237B2 |
Password-based authentication in server systems
A system of λ≧2 servers is provided. The server system comprises an access control server for communication with user computers via a network and controlling access by the user computers to a resource in dependence on authentication of user passwords associated with respective user IDs, and a set of authentication servers for communication with the access control server via the network. In this system, at least each authentication server stores a respective key-share Ki of a secret key K which is shared between a plurality of the λ servers. The access control server is adapted, in response to receipt from a user computer of a user ID and an input password, to produce a hash value h via a first hash function operating on the input password. The access control server blinds the hash value h to produce a blinded hash value u, and sends the blinded hash value u via the network to at least a subset of the set of authentication servers. Each authentication server is adapted, in response to receipt of the blinded hash value u, to produce a hash response vi from the blinded hash value u and that server's key-share Ki, and to send the hash response vi via the network to the access control server. The access control server is further adapted to produce, using the hash response vi from each authentication server, an input password hash comprising a predetermined function of said hash value h and said secret key K. The access control server compares the input password hash with a corresponding user password hash, produced from the user password for the received user ID and pre-stored by the access control server, to determine whether the input password equals the user password, if so permitting access to the resource by the user computer. |
| US09860232B2 |
Protecting network communication security
A method and apparatus for protecting a network communication security. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for protecting network communication security at a server. The method comprises: in response to a request from a client, determining whether a token from the client is included in a valid token queue, the valid token queue being a First-In-First-Out queue; in response to the token being included in the valid token queue, managing the valid token queue based on a position of the token in the valid token queue; and sending a response to the client based on the managing of the valid token queue. There is further disclosed a corresponding method and apparatuses at client side. |
| US09860231B2 |
Relay apparatus, communication apparatus and relay method
A relay apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus, a service providing apparatus and a browser-equipped apparatus. The relay apparatus includes: a registering unit registering provisional registration information, the provisional registration information being used in an authentication procedure performed between the service providing apparatus and the browser-equipped apparatus; an acquiring unit acquiring permission information representing that use of the service is permitted, the permission information being issued by the service providing apparatus in the authentication procedure; a communication unit transmitting the provisional registration information to the browser-equipped apparatus; a receiving unit receiving input information transmitted from the communication apparatus, the input information being generated in response to the provisional registration information; and a communication unit transmitting the permission information to the communication apparatus which has transmitted the input information if the receiving unit receives the input information. |
| US09860228B2 |
Pre-delivery authentication
Pre-delivery authentication may be required prior to routing and delivery of electronic content. A sender of the electronic content, for example, may require that a recipient authenticate to ensure legitimate use or identity. Should pre-delivery authentication be required, the electronic content is held at any networked device while the recipient authenticates. If the recipient correctly authenticates, then the electronic content is released for delivery. |
| US09860227B2 |
Identifying panelists based on input interaction patterns
A panelist identification device for determining an identity of a panelist based on an input interaction pattern of the panelist is provided. Additionally, a method for determining an identity of a panelist based on an input interaction pattern of the panelist is provided. Further, a computer-readable storage device having processor-executable instructions embodied thereon is provided. The instructions are for determining an identity of a panelist based on an input interaction pattern of the panelist. |
| US09860225B1 |
Network directory and access service
A network directory service, responsive to receiving a target device symbolic name from a client, identifies a network access server in communication with a network on which the target device resides, notifies the network access server of an expected connection from the client, and returns a device access token to the client. The network access server, responsive to receiving and validating the device access token, forwards the client-originated traffic to the target device by implementing a Network Address Translation (NAT) scheme. |
| US09860224B2 |
Systems and methods for secured entry of user authentication data
Techniques for improving security of transactions requesting user authentication data entry via mobile devices are described herein. The mobile device is configured to wirelessly communicate using a near field communications (NFC) standard used to communicate over very short distances. The mobile device includes a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to display a virtual keypad arranged in a randomly generated pattern, the pattern being configured to be changed in a random manner at each instance of displaying the virtual keypad. Security of transaction is improved by randomly changing positions of virtual keys of the virtual keypad configured to receive the user authentication data. |
| US09860220B2 |
Methods and devices having a key distributor function for improving the speed and quality of a handover
A key distributor node for a network includes a memory device with at least one first key, at least one data communication device that can exchange data with first and second access nodes for a terminal integrated wirelessly into the network, at least one processor connected to the memory device and the data communication device, wherein functions are provided for the processor(s) that allow authentication of the terminal at the second access node in response to a key request received by the second access node, a derivation of a second key from the first key, and triggered transmission of the second key through the data communication device to the second access node. Connections to the network's first and second access nodes with security relationships can be provided for the key distributor node when using the first key. |
| US09860216B2 |
Anonymous decisions in an access control system
A controller device may correspond to a physical access controller in a distributed physical access control system. The controller device may include logic configured to obtain access to a global database that include access control information for a plurality of controller devices. The logic may be further configured to derive a local access rules table from the global database, wherein the local access rules table relates users to access rules, and wherein the local access rules table is encrypted with a local access rules key; and derive a local credentials table from the global database, wherein the local credentials table relates hashed credentials to users, wherein the local credentials table stores, for a user, the local access rules key encrypted with unhashed credentials associated with the user, wherein the unhashed credentials are not stored in the controller device. |
| US09860214B2 |
Interconnecting external networks with overlay networks in a shared computing environment
A method includes obtaining, by one or more processor, data from a virtual network of a tenant and an identifier of the tenant, where the virtual network of the tenant is one of at least two virtual networks in a shared computing environment where the at least two virtual networks overlay a physical network. Based on obtaining the identifier of the tenant, the method includes setting, by one or more processor, the identifier in metadata of the data and based on the identifier in the metadata, identifying, by the one or more processor, a network connection associated with the tenant. The method also includes identifying, by the one or more processor, a policy of the network connection and processing the data with the policy to create processed data and transmitting, by the one or more processor, the processed data through the network connection. |
| US09860213B2 |
Method and system for securing and protecting smart devices within the internet of things ecosystem
A gateway device including a network interface having wired and/or wireless connections to smart devices and a network access point. The gateway device also includes a processor and a memory device having a local database. The processor is configured to execute a network controller for connecting and communicating with the smart devices and the network access point, a firewall engine for enforcing firewall rules stored in the local database for filtering communication between the smart devices and the network access point, and a management interface. The management interface generates internal firewall rules based on device profile information received from a remote database. |
| US09860210B1 |
Multi-layered application classification and decoding
An intrusion detection system is described that is capable of applying a plurality of stacked (layered) application-layer decoders to extract encapsulated application-layer data from a tunneled packet flow produced by multiple applications operating at the application layer, or layer seven (L7), of a network stack. In this way, the IDS is capable of performing application identification and decoding even when one or more software applications utilize other software applications as for data transport to produce packet flow from a network device. The protocol decoders may be dynamically swapped, reused and stacked (layered) when applied to a given packet or packet flow. |
| US09860207B2 |
Methods of using beacon messages to discover devices across subnets
A method of discovering a device to be discovered in a communication network having multiple interconnected nodes includes transmitting, by a discoverer, at least one beacon signal including an IP address to the network. The device to be discovered receives the at least one beacon signal. The device to be discovered configures the IP address located in the at least one beacon signal. Additionally, the device to be discovered transmits an advertisement to a server specified by the discoverer. |
| US09860204B2 |
Variable notification alerts
Approaches in accordance with various embodiments attempt to provide a user with less disruptive event notifications by being aware of a user's context. Before a notification is sent to multiple computing devices associated with the notifying account, contextual information for each device is determined. The contextual information can be determined by querying each device for information. The information can include how close each device is relative to other devices associated with the same user, if at least one of the devices is moving, whether the user's attention is focused on a particular device, whether the user is engaging multiple devices simultaneously, and the like. Once contextual information associated with each device is determined, an appropriate type of alert associated with the notification is determined for each device. Accordingly, upon determining the appropriate alert for the most probable context of each device, the notification is sent to each computing device with the determined appropriate type of alert. |
| US09860196B2 |
Increased fabric scalability by location based zoning
In a Fiber Channel SAN and its included routers, each router contains only the LSAN zones that contain devices attached to edge fabrics which are connected to the router. LSAN zone entries include the fabric ID (FID) of each device in addition to the WWN. When a router obtains a new zone database for a newly connected or changed fabric, the router scans the LSAN zone entries for fabric IDs matching a fabric connected to the router and stores those entries. All other LSAN zone entries are not stored. In this manner the size of the relevant tables are reduced, which allows for greater expansion of the SAN as a whole. |
| US09860186B1 |
Multiple-speed message channel of messaging system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving from a plurality of publishers messages of a first channel of a plurality of distinct channels wherein each channel comprises an ordered plurality of messages, storing messages of the first channel in one or more first buffers according to the order, each first buffer having a respective time-to-live, for one or more connections, determining a respective sampling rate based on a data type of the first channel and a determined latency of the connection, receiving from a subscriber through a first connection a request for messages of the first channel, selecting messages in the first buffers according to the order and the sampling rate, and sending the selected messages using the first connection to the subscriber according to the order. |
| US09860185B2 |
Intra switch transport protocol
In one implementation, a network device is configured to implement an intra switch transport protocol. The intra switch transport protocol is configured to determine a maximum window size according to a predetermined bandwidth and a round trip time between a plurality of ingress ports and an egress port. The network device is configured to calculate an assigned window value for the one of the plurality of ingress ports based on the maximum window size and generate an acknowledgment message including the assigned window value for the one of the plurality of ingress ports, and to delay successive acknowledgement messages according to fabric congestion and egress port occupancy. |
| US09860181B2 |
System and method for inferring traffic legitimacy through selective impairment
Described is a system and method for determining a classification of an application that includes initiating a stress test on the application, the stress test including a predetermined number of stress events, wherein the stress events are based on a network impairment. A response by the application to each stress event is identified and the application is classified as a function of the response into one of a first classification and a second classification, the first classification indicative of a normal application and the second classification indicative of an undesired application. If, the application is in the second classification, a network response procedure is executed. |
| US09860179B2 |
Data-connection aggregation
A method for security and/or automation systems is disclosed. The method may include identifying data being transmitted over a wired data-connection and parsing the identified data into two or more parts. The method may additionally include transmitting a first part of the identified data over a primary wireless data-connection and transmitting a second part of the identified data over an auxiliary wireless data-connection connected to the primary wireless data-connection via a wireless data-connection. |
| US09860178B2 |
Control message relay apparatus, control message relay method, and program
A control message relay apparatus is arranged between a switch that processes a packet(s) based on externally set control information and a control apparatus that sets the control information in the switch. The control message relay apparatus comprises a control information storage unit that stores control information received from the control apparatus and information indicative of a setting status of the control information in the switch; and a control information conversion unit that reflects a control content(s) received from the control apparatus in control information held in the switch based on a predetermined control policy(ies). |
| US09860173B2 |
General input/output architecture, protocol and related methods to implement flow control
A storage device is provided to maintain a count of flow control credits to be granted to a device in association with transactions over a channel to be implemented on a data link and control logic is provided to communicate, to the device, an indication of an amount of flow control credits for the device in association with a reset of the data link. |
| US09860171B2 |
Large scale message routing in a distributed network
Message routing is implemented by a computer device. A global ring is connected via a network, wherein the global ring is associated with a distributed hash table (DHT) and includes a plurality of nodes which are divided exclusively into groups in advance. A first group of nodes is determined from the plurality of grouped nodes. Using the DHT for a message to be routed, a first node is located from the first group of nodes, as a routing destination. |
| US09860169B1 |
Neighbor resolution for remote EVPN hosts in IPV6 EVPN environment
The techniques described herein may enable a particular PE router configured in an EVPN to share, rather than immediately discard, a CE router MAC address that is included in an IPv6 neighbor advertisement even though the particular PE router does not include a neighbor cache entry corresponding to the CE router. The techniques may include receiving, from a CE router that is locally coupled to the first PE router, an IPv6 neighbor advertisement from the CE router in response to an IPv6 neighbor solicitation from a second PE router that requested a MAC address of the CE router; determining whether an L2 destination addresses of the IPv6 neighbor advertisement match the L2 address of the bridging interface second PE router; and in response to determining a match, sending, to the second PE router, an EVPN route advertisement specifying at least the MAC address of the CE router. |
| US09860168B1 |
Network packet header modification for hardware-based packet processing
A packet processor may implement network packet modification. A network packet may be received at a packet processor. A packet header modification may be identified for the network packet. The packet processor may access a memory to traverse a dependency graph for the packet header modification to obtain an operation to apply the packet header modification and dependent operations to update fields in the packet header to be changed as a result of the packet header modification. The dependency graph may have been stored in the memory prior to receiving the network packet. The obtained operations may be performed according to the traversal of the dependency graph. The modified packet may then be transmitted. |
| US09860167B2 |
Classifying a message based on likelihood of spoofing
A technique for determining a boundary IP address is disclosed. The technique includes processing a header to extract candidate IP address, locating a gateway IP address, and selecting the boundary IP address based on the location of the gateway IP address. |
| US09860166B1 |
Stateful packet inspection and classification
Stateful inspection and classification of packets is disclosed. For a first packet associated with a network traffic flow, a differentiated services header value is determined. The differentiated services header value is used to perform a lookup of a quality of service treatment associated with the differentiated services header value. The treatment is applied to the first packet. A return traffic packet is received. A differentiated services header value is written in the header of the return traffic packet. |
| US09860162B2 |
Securing inter-autonomous system links
In one example, an autonomous system boundary router (ASBR) forms part of a first autonomous system (AS). The ASBR is between a first provider edge (PE) router of the first AS and a second PE router of a second, different AS. The first PE router and the second PE router form a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) path. The ASBR includes an interface communicatively coupled to a routing device external to the first AS, a memory configured to store a forwarding table associated with the interface, and one or more processing units configured to receive a packet via the interface, determine that the packet is encapsulated by an MPLS label, select a forwarding table based on the interface by which the packet was received, and forward the packet according to forwarding information of the forwarding table when the forwarding table includes the MPLS label. |
| US09860156B2 |
Accessing local network resources in a multi-interface system
A method is provided for selectively routing data packets on a client device having of plurality of network interfaces for communicating over a network. The method comprising the following steps. It is determined if the data packets should be routed to a network server accessible by a corresponding one of the network interfaces to access local resources offered thereon. If the data packets should be routed to the network server, the data packets are routed directly to the network server via the corresponding network interface. Otherwise, the data packets are routed via a default route. A client device configured to implement the method is also provided. |
| US09860153B2 |
Technologies for protocol execution with aggregation and caching
Technologies for protocol execution include a command device to broadcast a protocol message to a plurality of computing devices and receive an aggregated status message from an aggregation system. The aggregated status message identifies a success or failure of execution of instructions corresponding with the protocol message by the plurality of computing devices such that each computing device of the plurality of computing devices that failed is uniquely identified and the success of remaining computing devices is aggregated into a single success identifier. |
| US09860152B2 |
Non-intrusive method for testing and profiling network service functions
A method is implemented by a network device in a network for monitoring a segment of the network without direct access to an internal configuration or state of the segment. The method includes receiving a request to perform a monitoring task on a monitoring zone within the network. The monitoring zone includes a subset of network devices of the network. The monitoring zone has an ingress data path that carries ingress traffic into the monitoring zone and an egress data path that carries egress traffic out of the monitoring zone. The method further includes configuring the network to mirror the ingress traffic or the egress traffic to a configurable probe in the network and configuring the configurable probe to perform the monitoring task on the monitoring zone, where the configurable probe is configured to perform the monitoring task based on analysis of the mirrored ingress traffic or the mirrored egress traffic. |
| US09860151B2 |
Tracing network packets through logical and physical networks
Some embodiments provide a method for a first network controller that manages a set of logical forwarding elements implemented in several managed forwarding elements. The method receives a request to trace a specified packet having a particular source on a logical forwarding element. The method generates the packet according to the packet specification. The generated packet includes an indicator that the packet is for a trace operation. The method sends the packet to a second network controller that manages a managed forwarding element associated with the particular source. The method receives a first set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of network controllers that receives a second set of messages regarding operations performed on the packet from a set of managed forwarding elements that process the packet. |
| US09860150B2 |
Fast convergence of EVPN networks for multi homing topologies
In general, techniques of this disclosure may enable a remote provider edge (PE) router to improve convergence time in response to a link failure in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) by establishing per-Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) sessions with other PE routers that are coupled to the PE router in an EVPN. The remote PE may determine that at least two PE routers with the remote PE are locally connected to a multi-homed customer network by a particular Ethernet Segment. The remote PE may send, based on determining that the at least two PE routers are connected to the multi-homed customer network by the particular Ethernet Segment, an ESI Ping request packet through the intermediate network to one of the at least two PE routers, wherein the ESI Ping request packet includes at least a BFD discriminator and an ESI for the particular Ethernet Segment. |
| US09860149B2 |
Continuous monitoring of data servers using a shadowing proxy
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing monitoring of data servers are presented. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a computing device, a first polling request associated with a user account, while a client proxy associated with the user account is operating in a passive mode. Subsequently, the computing platform may forward the first polling request to a server associated with the user account. Next, the computing platform may detect that the computing device is asleep. In response to detecting that the computing device is asleep, the computing platform may initiate an active mode of the client proxy. Subsequently, the computing platform may send a second polling request to the server. Thereafter, the computing platform may determine to wake the computing device based on a polling response. In response to determining to wake the computing device, the computing platform may send, to the computing device, a notification. |
| US09860147B2 |
Method and device for generating CNM
The present invention discloses a method and a device for generating a CNM, so as to improve a processing rate of a congestion problem. The method includes: monitoring a data volume of an output queue at a congestion point CP; monitoring a rate of a data stream corresponding to at least one congestion reaction point RP connected to the CP, and when the data volume of the output queue at the CP reaches a congestion threshold, obtaining identification information of a data stream that currently has a highest rate; generating a CNM for the data stream having the identification information, and sending the CNM to an RP corresponding to the identification information, so that the RP reduces, according to the CNM, the rate of the data stream corresponding to the RP. |
| US09860145B2 |
Recording of inter-application data flow
Mechanism for two portions of an application to communicate so as to facilitate a transition from synchronous to asynchronous communication. In order to prepare for a possible transition, data flow is monitored between the two portions of the application, each portion interacting with a different hardware entity. The data flow between the first portion and the second portion of the application is recorded. If the second hardware entity is not available at the time, the recorded data flow from the first portion may be replayed by the second portion of the application for the benefit of the second hardware entity. If the second portion of the application is to be reassigned to another hardware entity, the target hardware entity may be sent the second portion of the application, as well as the recorded information. This allows the target hardware entity to replay what has happened thus far for context. |
| US09860144B2 |
Broadband cable network utilizing common bit-loading
A network for determining a common bit-loading modulation scheme for communicating between nodes in the network is disclosed. The network may include a transmitting node within the plurality of nodes where the transmitting node is capable of sending a probe signal to the nodes, and at least one receiving node within the plurality of nodes in signal communication with the transmitting node. The at least one receiving node is capable of transmitting a first response signal in response to receiving the probe signal. The first response signal includes a first bit-loading modulation scheme determined by the at least one receiving node. The transmitting node is further capable of determining the common bit-loading modulation scheme from the first response signal. |
| US09860143B2 |
System for providing information on the traffic on a group of websites
A system for providing information on the traffic on a group of websites includes a screen for showing the information and a computer programmed to receive data relating to the traffic on a group of websites comprising information specifying for each visit at least the date and/or time of visit, the website and the visitor; generate for at least one visitor a data line comprising representations of the websites visited by the visitor in a time ordered arrangement; and showing the data line on the screen. |
| US09860142B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of data collection after software removal
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to generating and delivering data elements out of the context of an application installation. Each data element generated by an application is transmitted to a collection server after a networked computing device has connected back to a network, and even after the application has been removed from the networked computing device. Each data element is associated with a globally unique transaction identifier. Each data element and its corresponding transaction identifier are packaged together for transmission to the collection server via one or more of a plurality of transmission pathways, including a messaging pathway. The collection server uses the transaction identifier to check whether a corresponding data element is already stored by the collection server. The data element is stored by the collection server, if not already stored. |
| US09860133B2 |
Configuration validation in a mixed node topology
Techniques for validating configuration changes in a mixed node topology are provided. In one embodiment, a device can identify a link to be removed from a topology comprising a plurality of nodes, where the plurality of nodes includes one or more nodes of a first type and one or more nodes of a second type. The device can then determine whether the removal of the link from the topology would require data traffic between two nodes of the first type to pass through a node of the second type. |
| US09860119B2 |
Dynamic management of restful endpoints
Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods, systems, and program products for dynamically managing RESTful endpoints. In one embodiment, an application server provides dynamic management of RESTful endpoint, including the ability to re-use the same resource information for multiple endpoints across multiple routers, allowing for applications aliases or sharing routing capability between applications. Yet other embodiments of the present invention can provide a high availability application server system and/or failover support for routers and resources, as well as the ability to remotely add new containers and resources to the application server. |
| US09860118B2 |
System for deployment of communication terminals in a cloud computing system
A communication system includes a redirect server and a deployment server configured to configure different terminal devices so that those devices are able to access a network of a service provider. A terminal device, computer readable medium and method are also disclosed that helps deploy such a service. In one embodiment, a communication system is configured so that a user of a terminal is provided with a code. The code is then communicated to a redirect server via a terminal associated with the user. The redirect server utilizes the code to determine the address of a deployment sever. The redirect server then provides the address to the terminal so the terminal can connect to a configuration management system so that the terminal may communicate with that system to be configured for accessing the network services hosted by the system. |
| US09860116B1 |
Physical network orchestration for data centers
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes creating a segment organization, which includes a configuration profile. The method also includes attaching the configuration profile to a server in the segment organization. The method further includes sending the attached configuration profile to a database in a physical network. |
| US09860114B2 |
Rapid provisioning in a dynamic network environment
Processes and apparatus are presented for associating an endpoint connection with a port to which it is connected, and for allowing configuration of the port. A notification is received from a network device. The notification includes an identifier of a provisioning trigger device connected to an endpoint connection that is in communication with a port of the network device. The notification further includes an identifier of a port of the network device. Configuration information is sent to the network device, wherein the configuration information specifies how the network device is to configure the port for networking services. |
| US09860113B2 |
Using an out-of-band network to reconfigure a bus interface port
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using an out-of-band network to coordinate a first node reconfiguring a bus interface port used by a second node to communicate on a bus. The first node configures the bus to enable the second node to link to the bus. The second node sends a join request to the first node over an out-of-band network separate from the bus in response to determining that the second node cannot join the bus. The first node reconfigures the bus to enable the second node to communicate on the bus in response to receiving the join request from the second node over the out-of-band network. |
| US09860112B2 |
Techniques for synchronizing operations between regions when a network connection fails
A technique for synchronizing operations in a transaction processing system includes identifying, by a first recovery management connector (FRMC) in a first region, a failure of a first network connection having a first network type during synchronization operations with a partner region. The FRMC queries connections defined to the transaction processing system to identify a replacement network connection that is connected to the partner region using a second network type that is different than the first network type. The FRMC collects relevant data for an interrupted synchronization operation. The FRMC issues a command to link to a specific program in a FRMC in the partner region. The command includes the relevant data for the interrupted synchronization operation. A second recovery management connector of the first region communicates the command to and a response from the partner region via the replacement network connection in order to continue the interrupted synchronization operation. |
| US09860110B2 |
Multicast only fast re-route over remote loop-free alternate backup path
Techniques are described for enhancements to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) to support multicast only fast re-route (MoFRR) over a remote loop free alternate (RLFA) backup path in a network. This disclosure describes a modified PIM control message having a new PIM message type and an additional field to indicate an address of a RLFA network device in the RLFA backup path. According to techniques of this disclosure, network devices along the RLFA backup path are configured to forward the modified PIM control message toward the RLFA network device instead of toward a source of a requested multicast group. When the RLFA network device receives the modified PIM control message, the RLFA network device is configured to forward a conventional PIM control message towards the source of the requested multicast group. In this way, PIM can be used to provide MoFRR over a RLFA backup path. |
| US09860109B2 |
Automatic alert generation
Improved techniques of identifying when a device needs of service involve using data analytics to determine conditions when a device administrator of a computerized device is to be sent an alert regarding that device. Along these lines, a device monitoring system receives state data from a device that indicates the device is in a particular state, e.g., running certain applications, using some percentage of the processor and memory capacity, etc. The device monitoring system maps the device state data to a decision of whether or not to send a device administrator an alert concerning the device. The decision itself is a result of applying a model to the state data that is derived from the application of data analytics on historical device state data and administrator login data. |
| US09860103B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting interference information for network assisted interference cancellation and suppression in wireless communication system
A method for transmitting interference related control information in order to improve a reception performance of a terminal that receives a downlink in a cellular mobile communication system based on the LTE-A system includes receiving a higher layer control message including probability information of a modulation scheme for an interference signal, from a base station, and performing error-correcting coding using a probability value of a modulation scheme for an interference signal, which is included in the higher layer control message. A base station in a mobile communication system, the base station includes a controller configured to generate probability information of a modulation scheme for an interference signal, and transmit, to the terminal, a higher layer control message comprising the probability information of the modulation scheme for the interference signal. |
| US09860101B2 |
Transmission method, transmitter apparatus, reception method and receiver apparatus
Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. |
| US09860100B2 |
Signal transmission method and device in wireless communication system
Provided is a method and device for signal transmission having good PAPR/CM characteristics. With regard to one aspect of said method, the method for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication signal comprises a step wherein a reference signal sequence is generated, a step wherein said reference signal sequence is divided with respect to each of multiple sub-blocks, a step wherein each of said plurality of divided reference signal sequence is subject to circular shifting, and a step wherein said plurality of circular shifted reference signals are transmitted via said plurality of sub-blocks. |
| US09860098B2 |
Ultra low power wideband non-coherent binary phase shift keying demodulator using first order sideband filters with phase zero alignment
An embodiment of the present invention relates to an ultra low power wideband asynchronous binary phase shift keying (BPSK) demodulation method and a circuit configuration thereof. The ultra low power wideband asynchronous BPSK demodulation circuit comprises a sideband division and upper sideband signal delay unit dividing a modulated signal into an upper sideband and a lower sideband by a first order high-pass filter and a first order low-pass filter; a data demodulation unit latching, through a hysteresis circuit, a signal generated by a difference between the analog signals in which a phase difference between the delayed upper sideband analog signal and the lower sideband analog signal is aligned at 0°, so as to demodulate digital data; and a data clock recovery unit for generating a data clock by using a signal digitalized from the lower sideband analog signal through a comparator and a data signal. |
| US09860095B1 |
Drift robust non-coherent demodulation scheme
This document describes techniques for performing non-coherent demodulation of a differentially modulated signal in a drift robust manner. A differentially modulated signal, including a plurality of symbols, may be received. Non-coherent domodulation of the differentially modulated signal may be performed. The non-coherent demodulation may include performing noise prediction using a high-pass filtered estimated error signal associated with the differentially modulated signal. In some embodiments, frequency offset estimation to reduce frequency offset of the differentially modulated signal may also be performed as part of the non-coherent demodulation. |
| US09860094B2 |
Method and apparatus for spectrum spreading of a pulse-density modulated waveform
Methods and systems are provided for spreading spectral density of pulse streams during digital to analog conversion. An example system may comprise an accumulator circuit, a bit generator circuit, and a feedback circuit. The accumulator circuit may be operable to receive a signal to be spread and generate an output based on the signal to be spread and on one or more inputs generated within the system. The bit generator circuit may be operable to input into the accumulator circuit sequences meeting at least one particular criterion. The feedback circuit may be operable to apply an adjustment to a signal corresponding to an output of the accumulator circuit to generate a feedback signal, and input the feedback signal into the accumulator circuit. |
| US09860091B2 |
Table design for 256 quadrature amplitude modulation
According to some embodiments, a method of determining a modulation coding scheme in a wireless network comprises receiving a CQI index, wherein the CQI index comprises a four-bit value associated with a channel quality of a wireless signal and identifying an entry in a CQI table based on the CQI index. The CQI table comprises: a first contiguous plurality of table entries associated with low SINR, each entry based on a first sampling grid; a second contiguous plurality of table entries associated with medium SINR, each entry based on a second sampling grid; and a third contiguous plurality of table entries associated with high SINR, each entry based on a third sampling grid. The method further comprises determining a modulation coding scheme based on the identified entry in the CQI table and encoding a transmission block according to the determined modulation coding scheme. |
| US09860089B2 |
High-speed signaling systems and methods with adaptable, continuous-time equalization
A receiver includes a continuous-time equalizer, a decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), data and error sampling logic, and an adaptation engine. The receiver corrects for inter-symbol interference (ISI) associated with the most recent data symbol (first post cursor ISI) by establishing appropriate equalization settings for the continuous-time equalizer based upon a measure of the first-post-cursor ISI. |
| US09860082B2 |
Packet extension for wireless communication
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s). |
| US09860078B2 |
Time domain ingress noise detection and cancellation
An apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive a primary signal that comprises a narrowband noise component and a broadband noise component, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine, in a time domain, an estimate of the narrowband noise component in real-time, determine a cancelled output signal in real-time that comprises an estimate of the broadband noise component, and determine an estimate of a power level of the narrowband noise component in real-time. |
| US09860075B1 |
Method and communication node for broadband distribution
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication node having a modem that receives first data streams from a source communication node via a first plurality of twisted pair transmission lines. A multiplexer selects a first subset of the first data streams and a second subset of the first data streams. A wireless transceiver wirelessly transmits the first subset of the first data streams as radio frequency signals via an antenna to at least one device. A distribution point unit transmits the second subset of the first data streams on a second plurality of twisted pair transmission lines to a destination communication node of a distributed antenna system. |
| US09860073B2 |
Maintaining charging state during final unit redirect in credit-control systems
A method is implemented in a credit control server (CCS). The method includes receiving, at the CCS from a credit control client (CCC), a message associated with a multiple services credit control (MSCC) session, where the message includes a request for service units associated with a service account. The method further includes determining, at the CCS, that insufficient service units are available in the service account and notifying the CCC that service units need to be added to the service account. The method also includes maintaining, at the CCS, MSCC session related parameters while the CCC adds service units to the service account. |
| US09860071B2 |
Power over ethernet injector
A midspan power over Ethernet (“PoE”) injector (20) connects via LAN cables (514) to remote PDs (518). Each cable (514) has a remote end; and a midspan end (516). The cables (514) includes receiving and transmitting conductors, and insulated electrical conductors. The injector (20) includes pairs of sockets (24) a first socket (24) of each pair is a powered socket, and a second socket (24) is unpowered and carries only data. A data-signal bus (188) interconnects the unpowered and powered sockets. Power switches (156), equal in number to the socket pairs, connect respectively to one of the powered sockets (24). Without negotiating with a PD (518) connected by the cable (514) to the powered socket (24), a controller (34) causes switches (156) to close thereby transmitting electrical power via the powered socket (24) connected thereto and the cable (514) mated therewith to the PD (518). The controller (34) also concurrently monitors operational status: a. of each connected PD (518); and b. internal conditions within the injector (20). |
| US09860070B2 |
Entity identification method, apparatus and system
The present invention provides an entity identification method, apparatus and system, and relates to: an entity A transmits an identification request message to an entity B, the identification request message includes the result SN1 of an XOR operation of a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) and the data from processing data N1 according to a first agreed rule, wherein data N1 is generated by entity A, and the PSK is a key shared by A and B; entity B receives the identification request message, performs an XOR operation on SN1 and PSK, performs a process according to a second agreed rule, then performs a process according to a third agreed rule, and then performs an XOR operation again with the PSK processed according to the third agreed rule and then processed according to a fourth rule to obtain SON1, and transmits SON1 through an identification response message to entity A. |
| US09860062B2 |
Communication arrangement and method for generating a cryptographic key
In various embodiments, a communication arrangement is provided. The communication arrangement includes a first communication device, and a second communication device. The first communication device includes a processing element configured to read out a device-specific number from a component of the first communication device, to mask the device-specific number by the random number and to transmit the masked device-specific number to the second communication device. The second communication device includes a mapping element configured to map the masked device-specific number to a codeword of a code and to transmit the codeword to the first communication device. The first communication device further includes a key generator configured to demask the codeword by the random number and to determine a cryptographic key based on the demasked codeword. |
| US09860060B2 |
Information processing method, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing apparatus
A method according to an embodiment includes transforming registered data on a user, which is encrypted with an encryption algorithm that enables a calculation of a Hamming distance in an encrypted state, such that a calculation result of a Hamming distance between the registered data and verification data that is encrypted with the algorithm includes a Hamming distance between the verification data and the user's registered data and a Hamming distance between the verification data and a random vector generated from the user's registered data; calculating a Hamming distance between the verification data and the registered data; and determining whether the input verification data is false based on a result of comparison of each of the Hamming distance between the verification data and the user's registered data and the Hamming distance between the verification data and the random vector included in the calculated Hamming distance with a threshold. |
| US09860059B1 |
Distributing token records
A method and system for use in distributing token records is disclosed. At least one token record comprises a unique seed associated with a one-time password (OTP) token. An encryption key and a corresponding decryption key are generated for assisting selective encryption and decryption of a token record associated with a OTP token. The encryption key and the decryption key being unique to an end user of the token record. The token record is encrypted with the assistance of the encryption key. One of the decryption key and the encrypted token record is provided to the end user of the token record. The other of the decryption key and the encrypted token record is provided to the end user in response to secure receipt of the one of the decryption key and the encrypted token record by the end user. The encrypted token record can be decrypted with the assistance of the decryption key. |
| US09860057B2 |
Diffie-Hellman key agreement using an M-of-N threshold scheme
A data processing system (DPS) supports exchange of digital keys. The DPS comprises a communication module which, when executed by the DPS, is operable to receive, via multiple different network routes, multiple copies of a seed message from a second DPS, as part of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange process with the second DPS, wherein each copy of the seed message includes a seed value. The DPS also comprises a security module which, when executed by the DPS, is operable to perform operations comprising (a) determining a prevalent seed value, based on the multiple copies of the seed message; (b) computing a prevalence metric to indicate how many of the seed messages contained the prevalent seed value; and (c) determining whether a seed exchange portion of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange process has been successfully performed, based on the prevalence metric. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09860055B2 |
Flexible architecture for processing of large numbers and method therefor
A method of implementing large number multiplication and exponentiation is provided upon a general purpose microprocessor. These large number multiplication and exponentiation processes being common to cryptography standards such as RSA and AES that typically employ numbers with 512-bits, 1024-bits, and 2048-bits. According to the invention the method establishes the size of the large number processes according to value stored within a control register, this control register and other registers storing data are configured according to this value and accessed as N-bit registers (i.e. as 1024-bit registers for 1024-bit encryption. Additionally, the multiplication and exponentiation processes are handled according to the size of an arithmetic primitive, which is established according to the hardware configuration upon which the process is operating. As such the invention allows for an encryption process to adjust both to the configuration of the host microprocessor and supporting hardware/firmware and dynamically according to degree of security determined from the value stored within the control register. |
| US09860053B2 |
Synchronization of SBS suppression modulation to enable small offset, OBI free, WDM signal transmission
Synchronizing SBS suppressing optical phase/frequency modulation of each of a plurality of optical transmitters can be achieved with a plurality of optical transmitters conveying a plurality of optical carriers; and a synchronizer coupled to each of the plurality of optical transmitters to synchronize the SBS suppressing optical phase/frequency modulation of each of the plurality of optical carriers. |
| US09860052B2 |
Digital predistortion for full-duplex radio
Techniques are disclosed relating to use of digital predistortion in the context of full-duplex radio. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes one or more antennas and is configured to simultaneously transmit and receive wireless signals via at least partially overlapping frequency resources using the one or more antennas. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes receive chain circuitry that is configured to process both wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and over-the-air wireless signals from one or more other computing devices. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more processing elements configured to determine one or more digital predistortion parameters based on the wireless signals transmitted by the apparatus via the one or more antennas and processed by the receive chain circuitry and apply predistortion to transmitted wireless signals based on the one or more digital predistortion parameters. |
| US09860048B2 |
Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink signal according to spectrum emission mask
One embodiment of the present specification provides a method by which user equipment (UE) transmits an uplink signal according to a spectrum emission mask (SEM). The method comprises a step of transmitting the uplink signal on a plurality of carriers when an RF unit of the UE is set to use inter-band carrier aggregation. Here, when the frequency range of a first SEM of a first carrier overlaps the frequency range of a second SEM of a second carrier, any one SEM allowing a higher power spectral density (PSD) can be selected and applied. |
| US09860046B2 |
Method of transmitting and receiving ACK/NACK signal and apparatus thereof
Disclosed is a method for transmitting an ACK/NACK signal for an HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) in a CA (Carrier Aggregation) system, the method including obtaining at least one transmission resource among first and second transmission resources; configuring a first table showing a relationship in which a combination of at least one of the first and second transmission resources and modulation symbols is mapped to an ACK/NACK signal, and transmitting modulation symbols corresponding to a transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table by using transmission resource corresponding to the transmission target ACK/NACK signal in the first table. |
| US09860045B2 |
Communication device and integrated circuit
Provided is a radio communication base station device which can suppress a use amount of an SRS communication resource. In this device, a correlation rule setting unit (102) sets a rule for correlating a preamble with an SRS transmission time interval so that the preamble transmission time band and the SRS transmission time band are in the same transmission time band. An SRS transmission band decision unit (103) decides a time interval of a transmission time band which can transmit the SRS according to the preamble transmission time interval inputted from a preamble transmission band decision unit (101) and the correlation rule setting unit (102). |
| US09860040B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating resources for reference signal in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for allocating resources for a reference signal in a wireless communication system are provided. A wireless device receives a configuration including the candidates resource element set (RES)s and indexes to be mapped to the candidates RESs for the reference signal; and receives an index indicating a RES selected according to a transmission point (TP) to perform a channel estimation by the reference signal received on the RES indicated by the index. |
| US09860039B2 |
Technique for assigning pilot signals to user equipments
A technique for assigning pilot signals to user equipments is described. The user equipments access a radio base station that provides radio access. As to a method aspect of the technique, an access burst including initial pilot signals is received from the user equipments, wherein at least two of the user equipments apply simultaneously the same initial pilot signal. A multicast channel to the at least two user equipments is estimated based on the received access burst. A combined signal power received at the radio base station is computed for the at least two user equipments based on the estimated multicast channel. A message to the at least two user equipments is sent using the multicast channel. The message is indicative of the combined signal power and assigns different pilot signals to the at least two user equipments, wherein the assignment depends for each of the at least two user equipments on the combined signal power and a signal power received at the respective user equipment. |
| US09860038B2 |
Resource configuration method, equipment and system for uplink control channel
The present invention disclosed a resource configuration method for uplink control channel, The method comprises: network side equipment determines downlink carrier that exists cell specific linkage in uplink carrier set and downlink carrier set of User Equipment UE; said network side equipment configures uplink control channel resource for downlink carrier which doesn't exist cell specific linkage according to said determinate result. The method of the present invention is simple and easy to implement, it could use the method in FDD and TDD system to advance system capability of Long Term Evolution multi-carrier update system, and advancing compatibility with the present LTE system primely. |
| US09860036B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for communication
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for communication are provided. In an aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to receive a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and receive a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information. In another aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to transmit a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and transmit a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information. |
| US09860034B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for communication
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for communication are provided. In an aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to receive a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and receive a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information. In another aspect, an apparatus for communication may include a processing system configured to transmit a frame configured to assign at least member information or position information for one or more identifiers, and transmit a data packet associated with a particular identifier and indicating a number of space-time streams for one or more position information. |
| US09860032B2 |
Inserting virtual carrier in conventional OFDM host carrier in communications system
A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers. The method comprises allocating transmission resources provided by a first group of the plurality of OFDM sub-carriers within a first frequency band to terminals of a first type; allocating transmission resources provided by a second group of the plurality of OFDM sub-carriers within a second frequency band to terminals of a second type, the second group being smaller than the first group and the second frequency band being selected from within the first frequency band; transmitting control information comprising resource allocation information for terminals of the first type over a first bandwidth corresponding to the combined first and second groups of OFDM sub-carriers; and then transmitting control information comprising resource allocation information for terminals of the second type over a second bandwidth corresponding to the second group of OFDM sub-carriers. |
| US09860031B2 |
Method and apparatus for data transmission on control channels from base station to user equipments in wireless communication system
A method for data transmission on control channels from a Base Station (BS) to a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes multiplexing a common control channel and a UE-specific control channel for the UE using at least one of time division multiplexing and frequency division multiplexing; and performing data transmission on the multiplexed common control channel and the UE-specific control channel to the UE. The UE-specific control channel is multiplexed with one or more UE-specific control channels for other UEs using at least one of time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing, spatial multiplexing, and code division multiplexing. |
| US09860029B2 |
Modification of secondary cells in carrier aggregation
A wireless device transmits channel state information (CSI) fields of a secondary cell on a first cell. The wireless device receives, in subframe n, a message comprising one or more configuration parameters indicating that CSI transmission resources for the secondary cell is on a second cell different from the first cell. The wireless device stops, in subframe n+p, transmission of CSI fields of the secondary cell on the first cell. The wireless device starts, in subframe n+k, transmission of CSI fields of the secondary cell on the second cell, wherein k is a number greater than p. |
| US09860026B2 |
Methods, user equipment and radio network node for HARQ ACK/NACK bundling on PUSCH in a dynamic TDD system
The present disclosure relates to a method for HARQ ACK/NACK bundling on a PUSCH in a TDD system. The method comprises choosing a scramble code selecting parameter from a predefined set of scramble code selecting parameters, wherein each scramble code selecting parameter is associated with one of one or more downlink subframes to be received and one or more HARQ ACK/NACK bits with respect to the one or more downlink subframes are to be transmitted in a predetermined uplink subframe, or calculating a scramble code selecting parameter based on the number of detected downlink subframes. The method also comprises scrambling one or more HARQ ACK/NACK bits using the chosen scramble code selecting parameter or the calculated scramble code selecting parameter for bundling on the PUSCH. The present disclosure also relates to corresponding UE and a radio network node for HARQ ACK/NACK bundling on a PUSCH in a TDD system. |
| US09860023B2 |
Method and device for receiving ACK/NACK in wireless communication system
Provided are a method by which a terminal receives ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system and the terminal using the method. The method comprises: transmitting data through a PUSCH; and receiving ACK/NACK for the data, wherein the ACK/NACK is received through downlink control information (DCI). |
| US09860022B2 |
Method, apparatus, and protocol for improving performance in a wireless network
A wireless network protocol (CORE) and related methods, systems, and circuits are disclosed that are capable of enhancing network performance. The protocol uses random linear network coding (RLNC) for intra-session coding in the network, while allowing nodes in the network to set up inter-session coding regions where flows intersect. Within the inter-session coding regions, combinations of coded packets associated with different unicast sessions are permitted. However, packets associated with multiple different unicast sessions are not allowed to be transmitted outside of the coding regions. |
| US09860021B2 |
Broadcast signal transmitting device, broadcast signal receiving method, broadcast signal transmitting method and broadcast signal receiving method
A broadcast signal transmitting device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: an encoder for forward error correction (FEC) encoding data pipe (DP) data transmitted via multiple DPs, wherein each DP transmits at least one service or at least one service component; a signaling encoder for encoding signaling data; an interleaver for interleaving the encoded DP data; a frame builder for mapping the interleaved DP data and the encoded signaling data and then generating at least one signal frame, wherein the interleaved DP data is mapped according to the type of the DPs transmitting the respective DP data, and wherein the encoded signaling data includes type information indicative of the type of each DP; a modulation unit for modulating the at least one generated signal frame in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme; and a transmitter for transmitting a broadcast signal including the at least one modulated signal frame. |
| US09860020B2 |
Method, system and device for error detection in OFDM wireless communication networks
A system, method and device for error detection/estimation in OFDM communications systems is proposed. The disclosed mechanism allows an efficient error prediction in a received data block (e.g. a packet) without using error detection codes that may impair spectral efficiency (due to the overhead) especially when very small size packets are used. In order to do that, it generates a decision variable with the aim to check whether a received block has errors or not, without resorting to the use of error-detection codes. |
| US09860014B2 |
System and method for jamming cellular signals using aerial vehicles
A system and method for jamming cellular signals using aerial vehicles is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the aerial vehicles are unmanned aerial vehicles. A plurality of aerial vehicles are coordinated together to send signals to a predetermined area to jam the cellular network. |
| US09860012B2 |
Optical data transmission
A routing and wavelength assignment method for use in an optical fiber system, comprising: (i) identifying a plurality of paths between a source node and a destination node, (ii) selecting one of the plurality of identified paths, (iii) defining within the spectrum band of the selected path one or more blocks of spectral resource, in which each block comprises either: one or more unused wavelength channels, or one or more wavelength channels having the same spectral width, (iv) obtaining an entropy value of the selected path defining the spectrum fragmentation across its spectrum band, based on a logarithm of the ratio of the number of wavelength channels in each of the one or more blocks, to the total number of wavelength channels across the spectrum band, (v) iterating (ii) to (v) until the entropy value of each of the plurality of identified paths has been determined, and (vi) choosing from the plurality of identified paths a path having the lowest entropy value. |
| US09860009B2 |
System having plastic waveguides
The present disclosure relates to a system having a plurality of electronic devices interconnected by way of dielectric waveguides. In some embodiments, the system has a plurality of electronic devices respectively including a data element and a transceiver element. The data element has a plurality of terminals configured to respectively output and receive data. The transceiver is configured to transmit or receive the data as a wireless signal that distinctly identifies data from different ones of the plurality of terminals. A shared resource component has a shared transceiver configured to generate a shared wireless signal that transmits a shared signal to the plurality of electronic devices by way of a plurality of dielectric waveguides. Respective ones of the plurality of dielectric waveguides are disposed between the shared resource component and one of the plurality of electronic devices. |
| US09860004B2 |
Network distributed packet-based synchronization
A transparent clock may be provided between edge nodes of a non-precision time protocol network, with an arrival time of a packet at an edge of the non-precision time protocol network carried in a reserved field of a packet. |
| US09860003B2 |
Method for providing time holdover in packet-based timing deployments
A packet network that includes the distribution of timing information (time and frequency) between server and client devices can continue to operate in a holdover mode even when the server loses its primary timing reference based on GNSS. This is achieved by populating the packet network with some client devices that also have access to the same timing reference. These devices are used in a reverse timing transfer mode to provide a hack-up reference to the server and thereby provide a graceful solution to the problem of loss of reference. |
| US09860001B2 |
Schedule subscription system with variable restrictions
A subscription system includes a national subscription server capable of tracking which local stations subscribe to particular radio station music formats, for example AC middays, Top 40 afternoons, morning programs, or overnight Contemporary AC. A local music scheduler can query the subscription server for a log of nationally scheduled content to fill one or more dayparts of a local broadcast schedule. The subscription system can determine where to obtain the requested log, and provide the log to the local scheduler for insertion into a particular daypart of the local clock, while leaving the remaining dayparts free for local scheduling. Trusted subscribers can also be permitted to alter portions of log of nationally scheduled items. Inserting the log of nationally scheduled items into the local clock provides local awareness of both local and national media items scheduled for broadcast. |
| US09859998B2 |
Apparatus and method for identifying and localizing vehicle occupant and on-demand personalization
A wireless mobile device for personalizing the control and IVI settings of a connected vehicle according to a seat position of a user of the mobile device. The wireless mobile device is configured to: i) receive a radio signal from each of a plurality of beacons in the vehicle; ii) determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value for each received radio signal; iii) apply a seat prediction model M to the RSSI value for each received radio signal to predict a seat position P; and iv) transmit a predicted seat position P to a server. The seat prediction model M is generated by a machine learning process and stored in a server. A beacon array configuration, data collection and generalization procedure optimizes the coverage and accuracy of the model M. The wireless mobile device is further configured to receive an identification (ID) value of the vehicle. The wireless mobile device retrieves the seat prediction model M from the server and caches in memory in the wireless mobile device. Once the vehicle knows the in-vehicle seat position of a user, on-demand personalization will follow automatically. The personalization can be for vehicle controls, IVI head unit or backseat entertainment system, etc., according to user's in-vehicle seat position. |
| US09859997B1 |
Receiving circuit capable of performing I/Q mismatch calibration based on external oscillating signal
A receiving circuit includes: a first receiving terminal for receiving a RF signal; a second receiving terminal for receiving an external oscillating signal generated by an external oscillator; a low-noise amplifier coupled with the first receiving terminal and the second receiving terminal and utilized for generating an output signal; a first switch element positioned between the second receiving terminal and the low-noise amplifier; an in-phase signal processing circuit for generating an in-phase detection signal based on the output signal; an quadrature signal processing circuit for generating an quadrature detection signal based on the output signal; and a calibration circuit for controlling the first switch element and capable of performing an I/Q mismatch calibration operation according to the in-phase detection signal and the quadrature detection signal when the first switch element is turned on. |
| US09859995B2 |
System and method for testing multi-user, multi-input/multi-output systems
A test system for testing a device under test includes: a signal processor configured to generate a plurality of independent signals and to apply first fading channel characteristics to each of the independent signals to generate a plurality of first faded test signals; a test system interface configured to provide the plurality of first faded test signals to one or more signal input interfaces of the device under test (DUT); a second signal processor configured to apply second fading channel characteristics to a plurality of output signals of the DUT to generate a plurality of second faded test signals, wherein the second fading channel characteristics are derived from the first fading channel characteristics; and one or more test instruments configured to measure at least one performance characteristic of the DUT from the plurality of second faded test signals. |
| US09859990B2 |
Telecoil hum filter
A system and/or method is provided for enhanced listening of audio signals acquired via a telecoil by performing hum filtering. The system may include a telecoil and a telecoil hum filter. The telecoil hum filter may include a comb notch filter. The comb notch filter may include a delay module and a comb notch filter summing module. The telecoil may be operable to receive a magnetic signal and convert the magnetic signal to an input audio signal. The delay module of the comb notch filter may be configured to generate a delayed signal by applying a delay to the input audio signal. The delay may be based on a fundamental hum frequency. The comb notch filter summing module may be configured to generate a comb notch filter output signal by adding the input audio signal and the delay signal. |
| US09859988B2 |
Communications apparatus
A versatile communications (comms) apparatus to provide a means to measure the audio (earphone) output of an electronic device (e.g. a music player in a smartphone), and/or to provide a means for wireless communications between a first electronic device (e.g. a smartphone) and a second electronic device (e.g. a hearing aid, pacemaker, etc). In some embodiments, the comms apparatus does not need power and in other embodiments, its power may be harvested from the first electronic device, or drawn from a battery that may be recharged by harvesting means or charged directly. The first electronic device typically includes an audio (earphone) output, a microphone input (with a voltage bias), a long-range communications transceiver (e.g. GSM), and where pertinent, a short-range transceiver (e.g. Bluetooth) and is internet enabled. In one embodiment, the comms apparatus provides a means where the audio output (earphone) of the electronic device is sampled by its microphone input, or by electronics in the comms apparatus. In other embodiments, the comms apparatus is an intermediary communications device between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The communications therein may be simplex and/or duplex, via either the audio output (earphone), microphone input, short-range transceiver, and/or a combination thereof. The communications data (via the comms apparatus) may be transmitted elsewhere, including via the internet by means of the internet enabled electronic device. |
| US09859976B2 |
OSNR margin monitoring for optical coherent signals
A method and an apparatus are provided, for monitoring OSNR system margin in optical networks, by relying on relationships that exists between the Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (OSNR) value and the Electrical Signal to Noise Ratio (ESNR) value. |
| US09859972B2 |
Broadband access to mobile platforms using drone/UAV background
Systems and methods for providing broadband internet access to mobile platforms such as vehicles, aircraft, and portable devices, using a network of one or more entities such as drones/unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In one embodiment, the drone communication system comprises an antenna sub-system, a radio sub-system and a data switching sub-system. The mobile platforms comprise antenna and radio sub-systems to communicate with the drones, detect changes in the mobile platforms azimuth and elevation changes, and adjust the mobile platform's antenna beam to compensate for the orientation changes to optimally point toward the drones. The exemplary mobile platform further comprises methods to detect the need for handoff to a different drone and to carry out the handoff. |
| US09859967B1 |
Systems and methods for performing beamforming during carrier aggregation
Systems and methods are described for performing beamforming during carrier aggregation. It may be determined that conditions at an access node and a first wireless device meet a beamforming criteria, wherein the access node and the first wireless device communicate using carrier aggregation including a first frequency band comprising a primary carrier and a second frequency band comprising a component carrier. Data may be communicated between the access node and a second wireless device over the second frequency band, wherein the second wireless device is proximate to the first wireless device. Beamforming signal conditions may be determined for the first wireless device on the first frequency band and the second wireless device on the second frequency band. Beam formed signals may be transmitted to the first wireless device over the first frequency band using the beamforming signal conditions for the first wireless device and over the second frequency band using the beamforming signal conditions for the second wireless device. |
| US09859964B2 |
Computing PMIs, particularly in wireless communications systems having a three-dimensional communications channel
A method for computing precoder matrix indicators (PMIs) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system includes a base station (eNB) which is operable to communicate with one or more user equipments (UEs), and a set of transmit antennas associated with the eNB that have been partitioned into multiple antenna subsets. The UE(s) are operable to compute and report multiple PMIs for the said multiple antenna subsets to the eNB for the eNB to use in precoding. The method comprises computing a PMI for a given antenna subset using other already-computed PMI(s) for other(s) of the antenna subsets, such that the PMIs reported by the UE to the eNB account for correlation between the antenna subsets. |
| US09859960B2 |
Method and system for indicating transmission parameter
A method and system for indicating a transmission parameter are provided in the present invention. The method includes: when multi-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) data are transmitted, using a newly-added indication signaling in a downlink control information format to indicate different joint encoded parameters when numbers of enabled transport blocks are different. Through adding new indication signaling in the present invention, different joint encoded parameters are indicated during the multi-user MIMO data transmission and the MIMO multi-user transmission based on the demodulation reference signal is supported. |
| US09859958B2 |
Frequency estimator for aeronautical communication
A method and device are provided suited to estimating a frequency value for aeronautical communication between a first station and an airborne system moving in relation to the first station, the data being transmitted in the form of a succession of frames, a frame comprising at least one first header field of known data followed by one or more fields of unknown data, and having at least the following steps: Step 1: performance of a supervised correlation on the known data (300) of the header, and estimation of a first frequency range centered on a frequency ; Step 2: production of a blind correlation on at least all of the unknown data of a field of data, by looking for a correlation peak over the frequency range +/−, as determined in step 1, and by retaining of the frequency corresponding to the correlation peak. |
| US09859956B2 |
Power supply control in wireless power transfer systems
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer and particularly wireless power transfer to remote system such as electric vehicles. In one aspect an apparatus for use with a wireless power transfer transmitter device comprising a first inductive element for generating a magnetic field, is provided. The apparatus comprises a direct current (DC) power source having an adjustable output voltage. The apparatus also comprises an inverter configured to convert the adjustable output voltage of the DC power source to alternating current. The apparatus also comprises at least one controller configured to receive an indication of current in the first inductive element and control the output voltage of the DC power source in response to the indication of current in the first inductive element. The apparatus reduces distortion signals in the alternating current output of the inverter while maintaining current in the inductive element substantially constant. |
| US09859954B2 |
File transmission/reception device and control method of file transmission/reception device
According to one embodiment, a file transmission/reception device includes a communication direction managing unit and an application unit. The communication direction managing unit, in near field communication, cuts off a connection with an opposing device in a case where a conflict occurs with the opposing device, and, after being reconnected to the opposing device, switches the file transmission/reception device to any one mode of a master mode and a slave mode. The application unit performs transmission, reception, or transmission/reception of a file between the opposing device and the file transmission/reception device in the master mode or the slave mode in accordance with a mode specified by the communication direction managing unit. |
| US09859945B2 |
Decoder for antenna switch
An antenna switch module includes a radio-frequency input port, a radio-frequency output port, a radio-frequency core connected between the radio-frequency input port and the radio-frequency output port, the radio-frequency core being configured to operate in each of a plurality of operational states, the plurality of operational states including a first subset of operational states and a second subset of operational states, and a decoder configured to receive an input signal indicating a first operational state of the radio-frequency core, the first operational state being of the first subset of operational states, generate an output control signal corresponding to the first operational state, detect a transition of the radio-frequency core to a second operational state, determine that the second operational state is of the second subset of operational states, and insert an intermediate output signal corresponding to an intermediate operational state of the radio-frequency core in response to said determination. |
| US09859941B2 |
Protective cover for electronic device
A protective cover for an electronic device includes a main body having a plurality of edges and an integral frame vertically extending from the plurality of edges of the main body and surrounding the main body. The main body and the integral frame form a first shell and a second shell, and the first shell and the second shell are connected by a flexible connecting portion, so that the second shell is able to rotate outward when the flexible connecting portion is stretched, to form an angle between the second shell and the first shell. Thereby a standing base, is formed to support the electronic device. |
| US09859933B2 |
Device for control by radiofrequency signals of a domestic electrical appliance, associated domestic electrical appliance and home automation installation comprising such an appliance
A device for control by radiofrequency signals (22) of a domestic electrical appliance powered by an electrical power supply network comprising a first electrical conductor (26) and a second electrical conductor (27) for powering the device (22), a coupler (31), a radiofrequency unit (23) comprising an output and/or an input for the radiofrequency signals (28) which is linked electrically to a point of connection (33) of the coupler (31). The coupler (31) is formed by a printed transmission line (32) on a printed circuit board (29), a first end (34) of the line (32) being linked electrically to the first electrical conductor (26) of the device (22), and a second end (35) of the line (32) being linked electrically to a first reference voltage. And the point of connection (33) of the coupler (31) is disposed between the first and second ends (34, 35) of the printed transmission line (32). |
| US09859932B2 |
Receiver circuit and system using the same
A receiver circuit may be provided. The receiver circuit may include a first duty cycle adjuster configured to correct a duty cycle of a first output signal pair. The receiver circuit may include a second duty cycle adjuster configured to correct a duty cycle of a second output signal pair, based on the first output signal pair, after the first duty cycle adjuster performs a correction on the duty cycle of the first output signal pair. |
| US09859930B2 |
Multi-path low-noise amplifier and associated low-noise amplifier module and receiver
A receiver is provided to support a plurality of carrier aggregation modes. The receiver includes a low-noise amplifier (LNA) module including a plurality of LNAs, wherein the LNAs are arranged to receive input signals from a plurality of input ports, respectively, and each of the LNAs generates and outputs a plurality of noise-cancelled signals at a plurality of output terminals of the LNA module. |
| US09859927B2 |
Communication-satellite system that causes reduced interference
A system of low-orbiting communication satellites that can share radio spectrum with geostationary satellites and methods mitigating interference to enable sharing are disclosed. In some embodiments, the satellite progressively tilts as it travels along its orbit, or its transmission beams are mechanically or electronically tilted. As a consequence of the tilting, as a satellite approaches the equatorial plane, its transmission beams are aimed more and more toward the equatorial plane, compared to when the satellite is far from the equatorial plane. Using this technique, an angular separation sufficient to prevent interference between the satellite's radio signals and GEO radio signals at all satellite positions is maintained, and, as a result good coverage is provided to all ground locations. |
| US09859924B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and signal processing method thereof
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding, an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword, and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver performs interleaving by dividing the LDPC codeword into a plurality of groups, rearranging an order of the plurality of groups in group units, and dividing the plurality of rearranged groups based on a modulation order according to the modulation method. |
| US09859921B2 |
Transmitting method and transmitting apparatus
A low-density parity check convolution code (LDPC-CC) is made, and a signal sequence is sent after being subjected to an error-correcting encodement using the low-density parity check convolution code. In this case, a low-density parity check code of a time-variant period (3g) is created by linear operations of first to 3g-th (letter g designates a positive integer) parity check polynomials and input data. |
| US09859918B1 |
Technologies for performing speculative decompression
Technologies for performing speculative decompression include a managed node to decode a variable size code at a present position in compressed data with a deterministic decoder and concurrently perform speculative decodes over a range of subsequent positions in the compressed data, determine the position of the next code, determine whether the position of the next code is within the range, and output, in response to a determination that the position of the next code is within the range, a symbol associated with the deterministically decoded code and another symbol associated with a speculatively decoded code at the position of the next code. |
| US09859916B1 |
Multistage noise shaping sigma-delta modulator
A sigma-delta modulator including at least first and second sub-modulators, each including an analog integration circuit, the analog integration circuit of the first sub-modulator having an output node connected to an input node of the analog integration circuit of the second sub-modulator, the modulator further comprising a coupling capacitor having a first electrode connected to an output node of the analog integration circuit of the second sub-modulator, and a comparator having its input coupled to the first electrode of the coupling capacitor by a first switch and to a second electrode of the coupling capacitor by a second switch. |
| US09859914B1 |
Delta-sigma modulator with delta-sigma truncator and associated method for reducing leakage errors of delta-sigma modulator
A delta-sigma modulator includes a receiving circuit, a loop filter module, a quantizer, a delta-sigma truncator, a digital filter module, and an output circuit. The receiving circuit is arranged for receiving a feedback signal and an input signal to generate a summation signal. The loop filter module is arranged for filtering the summation signal to generate a filtered summation signal. The quantizer is arranged for generating a first digital signal according to the filtered summation signal. The delta-sigma truncator is arranged for truncating the first digital signal to generate a second digital signal. The digital filter module is arranged for filtering the first digital signal and the second digital signal to generate a filtered first digital signal and a filtered second digital signal, respectively. The output circuit is arranged for generating an output signal according to the filtered first digital signal and the filtered second digital signal. |
| US09859908B2 |
Test and measurement instrument including asynchronous time-interleaved digitizer using harmonic mixing and a linear time-periodic filter
A test and measurement instrument, including a splitter configured to split an input signal having a particular bandwidth into a plurality of split signals, each split signal including substantially the entire bandwidth of the input signal, a plurality of harmonic mixers, each harmonic mixer configured to mix an associated split signal of the plurality of split signals with an associated harmonic signal to generate an associated mixed signal, a plurality of digitizers, each digitizer configured to digitize a mixed signal of an associated harmonic mixer of the plurality of harmonic mixers, and a linear time-periodic filter configured to receive the digitized mixed signal from each of the digitizers and output a time-interleaved signal. A first-order harmonic of at least one harmonic signal associated with the harmonic mixers is different from a sample rate of at least one of the digitizers. |
| US09859900B2 |
Jitter control circuit within chip and associated jitter control method
A jitter control circuit within a chip comprises an adaptive PDN, a current generator and a jitter generator. The adaptive PDN is capable of being controlled/modulated to provide difference impedances. The current generator is coupled to the adaptive PDN, and is arranged for receiving a supply voltage provided by the adaptive PDN and generating currents with different patterns. The jitter generator is coupled to the adaptive PDN, and is arranged for generating a plurality of jitters corresponding to the currents with different patterns, respectively, according to the supply voltage provided by the adaptive PDN. |
| US09859896B1 |
Distributed multi-die routing in a multi-chip module
In an example, a programmable integrated circuit (IC) includes external contacts configured to interface with a substrate and a plurality of configurable logic elements (CLEs) distributed across a programmable fabric. The programmable IC further includes interconnect circuits disposed between the plurality of CLEs and the external contacts. A plurality of the interconnect circuits is disposed in the plurality of CLEs. |
| US09859894B1 |
Level shifting circuit and integrated circuit
In exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a level shifting circuit and an integrated circuit using the level shifting circuit are provided. Compared to the conventional level shifting circuit, the level shifting circuit herein further has another pair of PMOS transistors and another pair of NMOS transistors, wherein the other pair of the PMOS transistors is connected to the pair of the PMOS transistors, and the other pair of the NMOS transistors is connected to the pair of the NMOS transistors. PMOS and NMOS transistors of the level shifting circuit are protected, the lifetime of the level shifting circuit is increased, and the damage probability of the level shifting circuit is decreased. The other pair of the PMOS transistors being turned on can be operated in the saturation region rather than in the linear region, such that the operation speed of the level shifting circuit is enhanced. |
| US09859892B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus reducing a parasitic capacitance
A semiconductor apparatus may include a transmission circuit, a reception circuit, and a pad commonly coupled to the transmission circuit and the reception circuit. When either the transmission circuit or the reception circuit is activated, parasitic capacitance of a line coupled to the transmission circuit, the reception circuit, and the pad is varied. |
| US09859891B1 |
Standard cell architecture for reduced parasitic resistance and improved datapath speed
A MOS device may include a first logic component with a first input located on a second track and a first output located on the third track. The MOS device may include a second logic component with a second input located on the fourth track and a second output located on a fifth track. For example, the MOS device includes a first interconnect on a Mx layer that is coupled to the first input on the second track. In another example, the MOS device includes a second interconnect on the Mx layer that is coupled to the first output on the third track. The MOS device includes a third interconnect on a My layer that is coupled to the second input on the fourth track. Still further, the MOS device includes a fourth interconnect on the My layer that is coupled to the second output on the fifth track. |
| US09859885B2 |
Electronic circuit and semiconductor device
An electronic circuit includes a first level shift circuit, a second level shift circuit, an internal circuit, a high voltage circuit, first and second transistors, and first and second protective circuits. The first and second protective circuits perform control the first and second transistors so as to make them non-conductive when at least one of a plurality of types of power supply voltages becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value. |
| US09859883B2 |
Gate driver and control method thereof
A gate driver and a control method thereof are provided. The gate driver is coupled to a capacitor. The gate driver includes a timing control circuit and a switch unit. The switch unit is coupled to the timing control circuit, the capacitor and a working voltage. The timing control circuit receives an input control signal and performs a timing control to the input control signal to generate a first control signal and a second control signal. The switch unit includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The second switch element controls a body voltage of the first switch element according to the second control signal. The switch unit enables the working voltage to charge the capacitor via the switch unit according to the first control signal and the second control signal. |
| US09859878B2 |
Control circuit for use with a sensor, and measurement system including such a control circuit
A control circuit for use with a four terminal sensor, such as a glucose sensor. The Glucose sensor is a volume product and typically its manufacture will want to make it as inexpensively as possible. This may give rise to variable impedances surrounding the active cell of the sensor. Typically the sensor has first and second drive terminals and first and second measurement terminals, so as to help overcome the impedance problem. The control circuit is arranged to drive at least one of the first and second drive terminals with an excitation signal, and control the excitation signal such that a voltage difference between the first and second measurement terminals is within a target range of voltages. To allow the control circuit to work with a variety of measurement cell types the control circuit further comprises voltage level shifters for adjusting a voltage at one or both of the drive terminals, or for adjusting a voltage received from one or both of the measurement terminals. |
| US09859874B2 |
Loop delay optimization for multi-voltage self-synchronous systems
A clock-receiving system may receive a host clock signal on a communications bus from a clock-sending system. Circuitry of a critical path of the clock-receiving system may communicate the clock signal to a multiplexer configured directly behind output driver circuitry. Core logic circuitry and data path circuitry may communicate pairs of phase-shifted data signals to the multiplexer. The multiplexer may use the clock signal and the pairs of phase-shifted data signals to generate an output pair of data signals, and send the output pair of data signals to the output driver circuitry. In turn, the output driver circuitry may generate an output data signal for communication on the communications bus. The clock-receiving system may enable the critical path and use the multiplexer to generate the output data signal when in a low operating voltage mode. |
| US09859865B2 |
Impedance matching element for voltage and/or current sensing devices
An impedance matching element is disclosed which can be used for voltage and/or current sensing or indicating devices used in medium voltage systems in order to improve signal integrity of output signals in comparison with known sensing devices. To enhance sensing accuracy and provide higher output signal immunity against interferences and impedance mismatches, the electric field sensor and/or the magnetic field sensor can be connected to the impedance matching element which allows connection to an independent analog measuring device and is powered from an energy harvester, with an impedance matching electronic board. |
| US09859859B2 |
Sound-effect setting method and electronic device
A sound-effect setting method and an electronic device are provided. The sound-effect setting method comprises decoding an audio data stream; performing sound-effect processing on the decoded audio data stream according to a sound-effect parameter to obtain sound-effect processed audio data; encoding the sound-effect processed audio data to obtain encoded data and outputting the encoded data and the sound-effect parameter. When the audio playing is switched from the current apparatus to the external apparatus, the sound-effect coordination is achieved, and the problem that the playing effect will become poor if there is no sound-effect coordination is prevented. |
| US09859858B2 |
Correction of unknown audio content
An unknown content audio signal that is input to an audio power amplifier and speaker that have a known gain and speaker sensitivity, is buffered. A portion of the buffered signal is provided to an automatic content recognition (ACR) system, and then a content identifier, of the unknown content signal, as provided by the ACR system is received. Previously determined metadata is also received, for a reference audio content signal that has been assigned to the content identifier. The metadata includes a previously determined reference measure of an audio signal characteristic for the reference content. An input measure of the audio signal characteristic is computed, for the unknown content, and compared with the reference measure. On that basis, and also based on the known gain and speaker sensitivity, at least one of a scalar gain and spectral shaping filtering that is being applied to the unknown content is adjusted. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US09859857B2 |
DC offset cancellation circuit
Disclosed herein is a DC offset cancellation circuit. The DC offset cancellation circuit includes a DC feedback unit configured to vary a DC feedback (DCFB) bandwidth to add at least one mid-bandwidth to the DCFB bandwidth and to provide a delay time in each case in order to reduce the DC droop error that occurs in switching from the high bandwidth (BW) to the mid-BW or from the mid-BW mode to the low BW mode, such that stable settling is ensured. |
| US09859856B1 |
Low supply class AB output amplifier
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a differential input amplifying stage including a current source and a first node; a first matched pair of transistors coupled to the first node, wherein one of the transistors of the first matched pair is coupled to an output node of a driving stage; a second matched pair of transistors coupled to a second node to bias the second matched pair of transistors, wherein one of the transistors of the second matched pair of transistors is coupled to the output node of the driving stage, and wherein the second node is to be charged according to a first bias of the current source; and a resistive device coupled to the first and second nodes. |
| US09859853B2 |
Output matching of power amplifiers
Apparatus and methods for output matching of power amplifiers are provided. In certain configurations, a mobile device includes a power amplifier that amplifies an RF signal to generate an amplified RF signal at an output, an envelope tracker that generates a power amplifier supply voltage based on an envelope of the RF signal, a supply voltage biasing circuit that provides the power amplifier supply voltage from the envelope tracker to the output of the power amplifier, and an output matching circuit connected to the output of the power amplifier via an input node. The output matching circuit includes a first capacitor and a first inductor connected in series between the input node and ground, a second capacitor connected between the input node and ground, a second inductor connected between the input node and an intermediate node, and a DC blocking capacitor connected between the intermediate node and an output node. |
| US09859852B2 |
RF power amplifier splitter
A novel and useful radio frequency (RF) front end module (FEM) circuit that provides high linearity and power efficiency and meets the requirements of modern wireless communication standards such as 802.11 WLAN, 3G and 4G cellular standards, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc. The configuration of the FEM circuit permits the use of common, relatively low cost semiconductor fabrication techniques such as standard CMOS processes. The FEM circuit includes a power amplifier made up of one or more sub-amplifiers having high and low power circuits and whose outputs are combined to yield the total desired power gain. An integrated multi-tap transformer having primary and secondary windings arranged in a novel configuration provide efficient power combining and transfer to the antenna of the power generated by the individual sub-amplifiers. |
| US09859849B2 |
Off-state isolation enhancement for feedback amplifiers
A feedback amplifier having an improved feedback network including two cross coupled switches that isolate the amplifier from extraneous undesired electrical signals present in a system or network when the amplifier is turned off (i.e., in an off-state). The cross coupled switches interconnect two feedback paths of a feedback network to enable out-of-phase differential signals to be summed and effectively canceled. Further, the feedback amplifier provides on-stage advantages to enable different amplifier characteristics and parameter to be selectively engaged by turning on or turning off certain feedback networks. |
| US09859847B2 |
Parallel combined output linear amplifier and operating method thereof
A parallel output linear amplifier is provided that includes a transconductance amplifier configured to receive an analog input signal from an input terminal and amplify the analog input signal. The parallel output linear amplifier also includes a first pre-amplifier connected to the transconductance amplifier and operated using a floating drive voltage, and a cascode class AB amplifier connected to the first pre-amplifier and configured to provide an amplified signal to an output terminal. The parallel output linear amplifier further includes a second pre-amplifier configured connected to the transconductance amplifier and operated using the floating drive voltage, and a cascade class AB amplifier connected to the second pre-amplifier and configured to provide an amplified signal to the output terminal. |
| US09859844B1 |
Power amplifier circuit and method of design
Structure and design methods of electrical power amplifiers suitable for broadband application such as television frequency or white spaces. An example broadband power amplifier passes a transmit carrier with modulations from BPSK to 256 QAM, on channel bandwidths from 6 to 32 MHz, over the entire UHF television band from 470 to 800 MHz using a low voltage, low power, narrowband power amplifier transistor. Based on a push-pull technique to lower the impedance level thus improving the match and doubling the power, the wide-band power amplification is performed with a balanced polynomial filter transform structure wherein the circuit impedance increases sequentially within the filter stage. The polynomial filtering makes high selectivity of out-of-band signals thereby cleaning up harmonic signals which prevent the need for additional high selective radio frequency filters. The invented power amplifier enables efficient broadband power amplifiers having a form factor within 300 square millimeters of space. |
| US09859839B2 |
Combined solar and wind power generation
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for power generation. A wind turbine is configured to drive an electrical generator. One or more solar panels are electrically coupled to the electrical generator to provide power from the electrical generator and/or the one or more solar panels. A base is configured for mounting the wind turbine to a structure. The wind turbine may be pivotally coupled to the base such that an angle of the wind turbine is adjustable relative to the structure. |
| US09859836B2 |
Motor control constant calculation device
By providing a configuration for calculating motor control constants to be set in a motor control apparatus automatically on the basis of a target response time constant obtained from a target response time constant input unit, waveform parameters obtained from a waveform parameter input unit, a normalized time constant obtained from a normalized time constant calculation unit, and a motor load inertia obtained from a motor load inertia input unit, it is possible to obtain a motor control constant calculation device that can determine appropriate motor control constants for obtaining a desired response characteristic by automatic calculation while avoiding variation and an increase in the number of steps due to differences in the abilities of users. |
| US09859835B2 |
Electric power conversion design for liquid fueled vehicles
A cylindrical direct drive AC induction electric motor and an adapter plate comprises an electric power conversion design for liquid fueled vehicles. For front-wheel drive vehicles, an adapter plate replaces the spindle, the motor is bolted to the adapter plate and the vehicle wheel is bolted directly to the lug studs. For rear-wheel drive vehicles, each end of the rear axle is cut off. Using the adapter plate, the motor directly attaches to the end of the “pipe.” Also, a single-piece, trailer type axle could completely replace the axle. For independent rear suspension, the adapter plate bolts in place of the wheel bearing assembly and the wheel is attached to the motor. In all of these cases, the original internal combustion engine, transmission, and all other drive components, along with the exhaust system and fuel tank, are removed to make room for batteries and components of the electric drive system. |
| US09859829B2 |
Motor control device
In a motor control device, a velocity feed-forward control portion includes a velocity-side acceleration input portion that outputs received high-order command acceleration as a velocity-side acceleration output; a velocity-side velocity input portion that outputs a received high-order command velocity as a velocity-side velocity output; velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions which are prepared so as to respectively correspond to boundary velocities, and to output velocity-side boundary velocity outputs from the velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions corresponding to the high-order command velocity, the boundary velocities being velocities at boundaries of preset adjacent velocity ranges obtained by dividing a limited velocity range; a velocity-side first weight learning portion that changes velocity-side first learning weights in accordance with a velocity deviation, the velocity-side first learning weights respectively corresponding to velocity-side first outputs; and a velocity-side output portion that outputs, as a second tentative command current, a value obtained by summing velocity-side first multiplication values. |
| US09859828B2 |
Power plant and energy storage system for provision of grid ancillary services
The present invention relates to method for operating a power plant, with at least one wind turbine generator arranged for supplying power to an electrical grid, at least one energy storage device arranged for supplying power to the electrical grid, and a power plant controller, the method comprises, measuring repetitively measurement sets of at least one electrical parameter from the electrical grid, and calculating, in respect the measurement sets of the at least one electrical parameter, a change in active and/or a required change in reactive power at a point of common coupling, and calculating and dispatching of a first control reference signal to the at least one wind turbine generator and a second control reference signal to the at least one energy storage device, for providing ancillary service functionalities to the electrical grid. The invention also relates to a power plant with at least one wind turbine generator for supplying power to an electrical grid, at least one energy storage device for supplying power to the electrical grid, and a power plant controller for providing ancillary service functionalities to the electrical grid. |
| US09859822B2 |
Control system for realizing the change of input power with load and rotating speed simultaneously, by driving multiple electric motors via one inverter bridge
A control system to realize input power changing along with both loads and rotate speed by an inverter bridge dragging many sets of motors, is composed of a stator voltage regulating unit (1), a motor unit (2), a rotor speed control unit (3), an inverter bridge unit (4), a control drive unit (5) and a signal processing unit (6). By setting a power factor sensor, the phase voltage and phase current of the motor stator are acquired as a control signal to regulate the input power so as to make it change with loads. At the same time, by setting a voltage sensor and a current sensor, motor rotor phase voltage, rectifier output current, overvoltage protection current and chopper working current are acquired separately as a control signal to regulate the input power so as to make it change with the rotate speed, thus realizing input power changing along with both loads and rotate speed. |
| US09859819B2 |
MEMS structure and method of forming same
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a substrate and a movable element at least partially suspended above the substrate and having at least one degree of freedom. The MEMS device further includes a protrusion extending from the substrate and configured to contact the movable element when the movable element moves in the at least one degree of freedom, wherein the protrusion comprises a surface having a water contact angle of higher than about 15° measured in air. |
| US09859818B2 |
Micro-device with a cavity
A micro-device includes a substrate with a cavity. The cavity is covered with a porous layer that is permeable to vapor hydrofluoric acid (HF) etchant. The micro-device comprises a Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) device with a component that is moveable in operational use of the MEMS device. The component is arranged within the cavity. |
| US09859816B2 |
Method for controlling modulation wave and three-phase three-wire three-level circuit
A method for controlling modulation wave and a three-phase three-wire three-level circuit are provided. The method for controlling modulation wave is applied in the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit. Three bridge arms of the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit correspond to three modulation waves. The three-phase three-wire three-level circuit is controlled by comparing said three modulation waves and a carrier wave. The method for controlling modulation wave includes: obtaining a primary modulation wave from said modulation waves based on currents corresponding to each phase of the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit; and adding a shifting quantity to said three modulation waves such that the primary modulation wave is shifted to a peak value, a valley value, or a middle value between the peak value and the valley value of the carrier wave. |
| US09859814B2 |
Method and apparatus for independent control of multiple power converter sources
A method and apparatus for independently controlling multiple power converter sources. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a ratio of a first set point for biasing a first DC source to a power converter and a second set point for biasing a second DC source to the power converter, wherein the first and the second DC sources are serially-coupled to one another and coupled to an input bridge of the power converter by a filter; and determining, based on the ratio, relative switching times for driving a first diagonal of an input bridge of the power converter and a second diagonal of the input bridge to bias the first DC source proximate the first set point and the second DC source proximate the second set point. |
| US09859813B2 |
Power converter and method for setting the operation and the start-up of a power converter
A power converter, for example, an inverter of a photovoltaic system, is designed to read out an exchangeable memory medium and to carry out an operation setting and/or a start-up of the power converter in accordance with the settings data, the settings data being read from the exchangeable external memory medium. A method for setting the operation and/or the start-up of a power converter, for example, for setting the operation and/or the start-up of an inverter, is performed in accordance with settings data read from an external memory medium. |
| US09859812B2 |
Auxiliary power supply for lighting driver circuitry
Techniques for supplying auxiliary power to lighting driver circuitry are disclosed. An auxiliary power supply can be used, for example, to provide auxiliary power to a current source that drives an LED string. In some embodiments, the LED string is effectively used as a series resistor to charge a capacitor that provides the auxiliary voltage Vaux. As soon as the capacitor is charged to a given threshold, the LED string can be disconnected from the capacitor and the current through the LED string bypasses the auxiliary supply circuit. Thus, the current source provides a current through the LED string, which in turn may be selectively fed to the auxiliary power supply to provide auxiliary power back to the current source or to provide auxiliary power to other circuitry. |
| US09859810B2 |
Power converter
A power converter (30) comprising components of a power converter circuit, the components including switching elements (31 to 36), smoothing capacitors (37 to 39), and circuit boards (66 and 67) on which drive circuit parts for driving the switching elements are mounted, wherein the components are housed in a case (65), input power is converted and output through high-voltage terminals (69 to 79), and the high-voltage terminals (69 to 79) and the circuit boards (66 and 67) are provided in a common plane area (E). |
| US09859809B2 |
Power conversion device
A first control unit outputs a closing-operation command signal to a first switch at a timing calculated based on either a first closing time or a second closing time, whichever is later. The first closing time is a time required for the first switch to transition to a closed state after the first control unit detects a first detection signal indicating that a voltage detected by a voltage detection unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The second closing time is a time required for a second switch to transition to a closed state after the first detection signal is detected by a second control unit. The second control unit outputs a closing-operation command signal to the second switch at a timing calculated based on a first time. This can suppress variations in an operating time between a plurality of switches. |
| US09859808B2 |
Power converter topology for use in an energy storage system
Systems and methods associated with example power converter systems are disclosed. For instance, a power converter system can include a power converter couplable to an input power source and configured to generate an output power substantially at a grid frequency. The power converter can include one or more inverter bridge circuits, each associated with an output phase of the power converter. Each inverter bridge circuit can include one or more first switching modules having a pair of switching elements coupled in series with one another, and an output coupled between the pair of switching elements. At least one switching element of each first switching module includes a reverse blocking transistor. The power converter further includes one or more input bridge circuits having a plurality of second switching modules coupled in parallel, each second switching module comprising a pair of silicon carbide transistors. |
| US09859807B2 |
Power transmission network
A power transmission network includes a plurality of converters. Each converter includes first and second electrical terminals, each first electrical terminal being connectable to an electrical network, each second electrical terminal being operatively connected to at least one other second electrical terminal. A first converter includes a first controller, the first controller configured to selectively operate the first converter to modulate a power flow at its first or second electrical terminal, and a second converter includes a second controller, the second controller being configured to selectively operate the second converter to modulate a power flow at its second electrical terminal to generate a power to compensate for an imbalance in power within the power transmission network caused by the modulation of power flow by the first converter, and thereby inhibit the modulation of power flow by the first converter from modifying a power flow in a third converter. |
| US09859806B2 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining electricity from offshore wind turbines
According to one aspect of the teachings herein, a system for obtaining electricity from wind turbines provides advantageous operation with respect to offshore wind turbines where the size and weight of electricity generation and collection equipment are key considerations. The contemplated system includes an apparatus that is configured for collecting wind-generated electricity at a fixed low frequency and at a desired collection voltage, based on the advantageous configuration and use of a modular multilevel converter or MMC. |
| US09859805B2 |
Subsea electrical architectures
The subject-matter of the present invention concerns an electrical architecture for power distribution to subsea equipment comprising at least one variable speed drive, VSD, module, wherein said at least one VSD module comprises at least one self commutated line side converter including power semiconductor. |
| US09859804B2 |
Power supply device
A power supply device includes: a rectifier having an input terminal connected to one end of a switching element configured to perform synchronous rectification; a coil having one end connected to an output terminal of the power supply device; and a second capacitor connected in series to a first capacitor, the first capacitor having one end grounded, the second capacitor having one end connected to a connection point between another end of the first capacitor and the one end of the coil, and the second capacitor having another end connected to an output terminal of the rectifier. |
| US09859799B2 |
Switching power supply unit
A switching power supply unit includes an N-number (N: an integer of 2 or greater) of transformers; an N-number of inverter circuits; a rectifying smoothing circuit including a {2×(N+1)}-number of rectifying devices, a choke coil, and a capacitor; an additional winding disposed to be interlinked with each of magnetic paths formed in the N-number of transformers; and a driver. In the rectifying smoothing circuit, a (N+1)-number of arms each have two of the rectifying devices, and are disposed in parallel to one another between the pair of output terminals, a secondary winding in each of the N-number of transformers is coupled between adjacent ones of the (N+1)-number of arms to individually form an H-bridge coupling, and the additional winding is coupled in series to one or more of the secondary windings in the N-number of transformers. |
| US09859798B2 |
Wireless power-feeding apparatus
A switching control circuit alternately turns on/off, at a switching frequency at which the impedance of a multi-resonant circuit becomes inductive, switching elements with a dead time therebetween. In an operation in the third quadrant of current-voltage characteristics of the switching elements, the switching elements are turned on by supplying a control signal to control terminals of the switching elements, and a dead time is determined so as to satisfy tc≦td<(tc+ta), tc representing a commutation period in which the voltages across both ends of the switching circuits change, ta representing a period corresponding to the operation in the third quadrant, and td representing the dead time. |
| US09859797B1 |
Synchronous rectifier design for wireless power receiver
Synchronous rectifier circuit topologies for a wireless power receiver receiving a supply of power from a wireless transmitter are disclosed. The synchronous rectifier circuit topologies include a half-bridge diode-FET transistor rectifier for rectifying the wireless power into power including a DC waveform, using a control scheme that may be provided by a delay-locked loop clock, or phase shifters, or wavelength links to control conduction of FET transistors in the synchronous rectifier circuit topology, and maintaining a constant switching frequency to have the diodes, coupled to FET transistors, to allow current to flow through each one respectively at the appropriate timing, focusing on high conduction times. The synchronous rectifier circuit topologies may enable power transfer of high-frequency signals at enhanced efficiency due to significant reduction of forward voltage drop and lossless switching. |
| US09859796B2 |
Buck-boost converter and operating method
A method of operating a buck-boost converter including an inductor and a capacitor includes; operating the buck-boost converter in boost mode until a level of an input voltage applied at an input node of the buck-boost converter reaches a desired level of an output voltage apparent at an output node of the buck-boost converter, and after the level of an input voltage reaches the desired level of the output voltage, operating the buck-boost converter in buck mode, wherein operating the buck-boost converter in buck mode and operating the buck-boost converter in boost mode overlap at least in part temporally proximate a point at which the level of the input voltage exceeds the level of the output voltage. |
| US09859795B2 |
Switching regulator for detecting a plurality of abnormalities using only one comparison circuit
To operate a plurality of abnormality detecting functions of a switching regulator with low power consumption and configure an occupied area of a semiconductor device to be reduced. A switching regulator is configured to be equipped with a comparison circuit, switch circuits, and a switch control circuit and to switch the switch circuits by control signals of the switch control circuit and realize a plurality of abnormality detecting functions by the one comparison circuit. |
| US09859792B2 |
Switching-capacitor regulator with charge injection mode for high loading current
A switching-capacitor regulator with a charge injection mode for a high loading current is used to generate an output voltage at an output node, where the switching-capacitor regulator includes a storage capacitor, a switch module, a current source and a control unit. The switch module is coupled between the storage capacitor, a first supply voltage, a second supply voltage and the output node. The current source is coupled to the output node, and is used for selectively providing a current to the output node. The control unit is coupled to the switch module and the output node, and is used for controlling the switch module to selectively charge or discharge the storage capacitor, and for controlling the current source to selectively provide the current to the output node, to adjust a voltage level of the output voltage |
| US09859788B2 |
Power factor correction circuit and switching power supply apparatus
When a standby signal is High, a Comp_stb signal that is overlapped with an AC waveform is output from an AC-COMP combining circuit in a COMP signal changing circuit, input into a PWM.comp, and compared with an output waveform of a ramp oscillator. Here, only when a peak of the Comp_stb signal is higher than a minimum voltage of the ramp oscillator is an OUT terminal output signal output from a control IC and a burst operation is performed. When the Comp_stb signal is lower than the minimum voltage of the ramp oscillator, the OUT terminal output signal is not output from the control IC because a reset signal of an RSFF remains High. Accordingly, a switching loss is reduced by operating a switching element in a burst mode when a switching power supply apparatus is in a lightly loaded or unloaded state. |
| US09859786B2 |
Resistorless precharging
A boost PFC converter includes a rectifier, a converter and an output stage comprising an output capacitor where the DC output voltage is provided across the output capacitor. The rectifier includes four rectifying elements connected in a full bridge configuration where the upper two of these four rectifying elements are thyristors and where the lower two are diodes. In that the thyristors are controlled such as to be open for only a part of each half period of the input voltage, the amount of current per half period that is passed to the output capacitor is controllable and can be made very small. Accordingly, the charge current for precharging the output capacitor can be controllably limited such that a bulky precharge resistor is not required anymore to avoid high inrush currents. |
| US09859782B2 |
Power supply apparatus for power converters
There is provided a power supply apparatus for power converters which convert power generated by power generators into power to be supplied to a power system. The power supply apparatus includes a photovoltaic power cell for the power converters, the photovoltaic power cells generating power for supplying power of the power converters. |
| US09859779B2 |
Linear vibrator
A linear vibrator includes a stator having a housing including a receiving space therein, a moveable unit, an elastic member suspending the moveable unit in the receiving space, and a protection member located between the stator and the moveable unit. The protection member forms a first bevel along a vibration direction of the moveable unit, one of the stator and the moveable unit includes a second bevel corresponding to the first bevel. The second bevel keeps a distance from the first bevel for rubbing each other when the linear vibrator falls. |
| US09859773B2 |
Ceiling fan motor
A ceiling fan motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor. The stator assembly includes an iron core. The rotor is rotatably coupled with the stator assembly and includes a housing, a first positioning member and at least one permanent magnet. The housing includes a lateral wall. The lateral wall is enclosed to form an inner space adapted to receive the iron core. The first positioning member is coupled with the lateral wall. The at least one permanent magnet is positioned by the first positioning member. The first positioning member includes a plurality of air-guiding blades. |
| US09859772B2 |
Motor
A motor includes a control part assembly having an air inlet through which air is inlet, an air flow path configured to communicate with the air inlet, and a printed circuit board; and a motor part assembly having a stator configured to generate magnetic flux when a current is applied, a rotor structured to be rotated while interacting with the stator electromagnetically, a motor shaft provided to be rotated together with the rotor, and an impeller coupled to the motor shaft and provided to be rotated to generate air flow, and is configured to be detachably coupled to the control part assembly. Through the structure as such, the performance of the motor may be improved. |
| US09859771B2 |
Motor device
A motor device may include a motor including a motor shaft protruded from a motor main body; a worm gear connected with the motor shaft through a transmission mechanism and is formed with a spiral groove; and a worm wheel engaged with the worm gear. The transmission mechanism may include a transmission member to transmit rotation of the motor shaft to the worm gear. One end face on the motor main body side of the worm gear and an end face on a worm gear side of the transmission member may be formed with two protruded parts protruded toward the other of the end faces, and a recessed part engaged with the protruded parts is formed in the other of the end faces. A compression coil spring may disposed between the worm gear and the transmission member between the two protruded parts. |
| US09859769B2 |
End plate for an electric machine, electric machine and method for assembling an electric machine
An end plate for an electric machine includes: a bearing receptacle in which a magnetic bearing which is configured for rotatably mounting a rotor of the electric machine can be accommodated; and a radially outwardly pointing circumferential contour on which a number of at least three supporting elements are provided, which supporting elements each protrude radially beyond the circumferential contour by a determined protruding amount, with the result that the supporting elements define a discontinuous external circumferential contour of the end plate. The respective protruding amounts of the support elements are dimensioned such that the end plate can be fitted in by making a center of the magnetic bearing correspond to at least one of a geometric longitudinal axis of the electric machine and a magnetic longitudinal axis of the electric machine. |
| US09859768B2 |
Vibration motor
A vibration motor includes a weight that rotates about a shaft, and has a centroid position different from a central axis of the shaft, a case with a protrusion portion that extends from a lower end of the circumferential surface portion, and a lower end portion of the shaft is fixed to a stator portion. A base of the vibration motor includes a concave portion that is recessed from a radially outer side of the base to a radially inner side of the base at a position overlapping the protrusion portion at a circumferential edge of the base. The entire protrusion portion or a portion of a tip end side in a direction in which the protrusion portion extends is bent radially inside the base so that a surface of the protrusion portion which is toward an upper side is in contact with the base. |
| US09859767B2 |
Electric motor
An electric motor has an end cap assembly having a ground connection. The motor has a housing, a brush assembly including brushes, electrical components and a terminal holder, an end cap, and a ground plate. The brush assembly is secured in an open end of the housing. The end cap is positioned on an outer side of the brush assembly and fixed to the housing. The ground plate is disposed between and is resiliently compressed by the brush assembly and the end cap. The plate includes a plurality of elastic structures. Each elastic structure resiliently bears against corresponding leads of at least some of the electrical components. The ground plate is electrically connected to at least one of the housing and the end cap to accomplish a ground connection. |
| US09859759B2 |
Stator assembly with dual coating layers on stator core thereof
Disclosed is a stator assembly, which includes a stator core having a circular base part, a plurality of teeth radially formed on an outer face of the base part, and a tooth end portion at the end of the teeth, the stator core comprising a first coating layer formed on an entire surface of the base part and the teeth; and a second coating layer formed on a surface of the first coating layer, wherein the entire surface of the base part and the teeth is coated with the first coating layer and the entire surface coated with the first coating layer is coated with the second coating layer, and wherein the first coating layer and the second coating layer are made of insulating powder. |
| US09859755B2 |
Device alignment and identification in inductive power transfer systems
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for wireless power transfer and particularly wireless power transfer to remote systems such as electric vehicles. In one aspect, a wireless power receiver includes a first inductive element, a power supply, and a communication receiver. The first inductive element is configured to receive wireless power from a first electromagnetic field generated by a wireless power transmitter including a second inductive element. The power supply is configured to supply a current to the first inductive element to generate a second electromagnetic field and induce a current in the second inductive element. The communication receiver is configured to receive an indication of a distance between the first inductive element and the second inductive element based on the induced current in the second inductive element. |
| US09859752B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply and method of use
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) includes a line terminal, a load terminal, a double-conversion circuit coupled in series, and further includes a bypass circuit, and a synchronize circuit. The line terminal couples to a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). The load terminal couples to a load having a demanded power. The double-conversion circuit regulates grid power from the line terminal to the demanded power at the load terminal. The bypass circuit is coupled between the line terminal and the load terminal, and configured to deliver regulated power generated by the DFIG to the load terminal when the grid power is lost. The synchronize circuit is coupled between the double-conversion circuit and the DFIG, and, when the grid power is lost, the synchronize circuit injects a current through the double-conversion circuit and into the DFIG, synchronizing the regulated power generated by the DFIG to the demanded power. |
| US09859749B2 |
UPS having a delta converter utilized as input power regulator in a double conversion system
An uninterruptible power supply includes a first power converter, a second power converter, and a DC-to-AC converter coupled to the first power converter and the second power converter. The first power converter includes a first AC-to-DC converter and a transformer having a primary winding coupled to the input and the output, and a secondary winding coupled to the first AC-to-DC converter. The first power converter is configured, during a first mode of operation of the UPS, to provide a first portion of the AC input power as the AC output power via the primary winding and convert a second portion of the AC input power into DC power via the first AC-to-DC converter. The second power converter includes a second AC-to-DC converter and is configured to convert the AC input power into DC power via the second AC-to-DC converter during a second mode of operation of the UPS. |
| US09859746B2 |
Wireless charging apparatus and method
Methods and apparatus for wireless charging are provided. Transmission power transmitted from a wireless power transmitter is received at a power receiver of a wireless power receiver. A battery of the wireless power receiver is charged with the received transmission power. It is determined whether the battery is fully charged. A packet from a communication unit of the wireless power receiver is transmitted to the wireless power transmitter when the battery is fully charged. An auxiliary charge of the battery is performed by receiving strength-reduced transmission power from the wireless power transmitter. |
| US09859744B2 |
Dual-mode wireless power receiver
A dual-mode receiver is provided that includes an electromagnetic resonator having one or more inductive elements that are arranged to form a receiver coil and a network of passive components arranged to form a matching network. |
| US09859743B2 |
Mobile wireless charging service
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide power to devices are disclosed. An example method includes determining an indication of visual media consumption of a display by a person; and enabling delivery of power to a device associated with the person in response to determining that the visual media consumption is associated with the person. |
| US09859740B2 |
Adapter, portable electronic device and charge control method thereof
An adapter, a portable electronic device and a charge control method thereof are provided. The adapter includes a connector and a controller. The connector includes a first terminal. The controller is electrically connected to the connector and determines whether to enter a quick charge mode according to a control signal from the connector. In the quick charge mod, the controller receives a charge control signal from the first terminal. The charge control signal has a plurality of pulses, and encoding information is formed by the plurality of pulses. The adapter is controlled by the controller according to the encoding information so as to provide a quick charge voltage. |
| US09859739B2 |
Load driver circuit including load model parameter estimation
A load driver circuit for driving an electric or electronic load is described. In accordance with one example, a circuit includes a power supply circuit operably coupled to the load and configured to provide a load current operably passing through the load in accordance with at least one control signal. A measurement circuit is coupled to the power supply circuit or the load and configured to measure, during operation of the load, at least one operation parameter of the load. A signal processing circuit receives the at least one operation parameter measured by the measurement circuit and is configured to estimate, based on the at least one operation parameter and a parametric model that characterizes the load, one or more model parameters of the parametric model. |
| US09859734B2 |
Power supply circuit and power supply method
The present invention provides a power supply circuit and a power supply method. The power supply circuit comprises: a charge control unit, a battery and battery protection unit, a voltage stabilizing unit and a voltage boosting unit; the voltage boosting unit comprises: a consumption reducing module for, at the moment of turning on or turning off a power device in the voltage boosting unit, enabling an electric current flowing through the power device to be zero. The present invention, by arranging the consumption reducing module, enables an electric current flowing through the power device to be zero at the moment of turning on or turning off the power device in the voltage boosting unit, which realizes zero current turn-on or turn-off of the power device, and reduces consumption of the electric energy. |
| US09859731B2 |
Alternate alarm notifications based on battery condition
Systems and methods for smart alarms are provided. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, an input including a set alarm time; determining, by the computing device, a battery drain condition of the computing device; and based on the determining the battery drain condition, performing a step including one of: sounding the alarm prior to the set alarm time based on determining that a user-defined condition is met at a time of the battery drain condition; displaying a message on the computing device indicating the battery drain condition; and providing an alternate alert based on a detected sleep stage of a user corresponding to a predefined acceptable sleep stage. |
| US09859728B2 |
System for securing a wireless power pad
A wireless power delivery system includes a wireless charging pad, a first security tie, and a device securing component. The wireless charging pad includes a first antenna to provide wireless power to a first information handling system. The first security tie having a first end connected to the wireless charging pad, and a second end to connect with a mounting plate, the first security tie to securely connect the wireless charging pad to mounting plate. The device securing component is in physical communication with the wireless charging pad. The device securing component includes a second security tie having a first end connected within the device securing component, and a second end to connect to the first information handling system. The second security tie to securely connect the first information handling system to the wireless charging pad. |
| US09859726B2 |
Detection circuit and method for starting charging
A detection circuit and a detection method for starting charging are provided. The detection circuit comprises a cell connector, a first controller, a second controller and a switch circuit. The first controller sends an anode contact signal, a cathode contact signal and an electric quantity signal received from the cell connector to the second controller; the second controller sends a start instruction to the first controller if a charging request signal is received, the anode of the cell is well contacted, the cathode of the cell is well contacted, and a voltage of the cell does not exceed a voltage threshold; the first controller sends a connection instruction to the switch circuit to control connection of a charging terminal and a cell terminal of the switch circuit, such that a charging adapter charges the cell through the switch circuit. |
| US09859722B2 |
Battery management system
A battery management method for one or more batteries in a healthcare delivery system is provided. The method includes determining when the healthcare delivery system is drawing power from the one or more batteries and controlling a display unit coupled to the controller to display an initial number corresponding to a time remaining on battery (TROB) when the healthcare delivery system is drawing power from the one or more batteries. The method also includes determining if the TROB is within a reserve range extending up to a reserve range maximum that is less than a maximum TROB, changing the TROB according to an operational state of the healthcare delivery system if the TROB is greater than the reserve range maximum, and decreasing the TROB to count down the TROB without regard for the operational state of the healthcare delivery system if the TROB is less than the reserve range maximum. |
| US09859718B2 |
Power supply unit, power receiving unit, and power supply system
Provided is a power supply system in which an electromagnetic leakage is prevented. A power supply side resonance coil provided to a power supply unit and a power receiving side resonance coil provided to a power receiving unit are housed respectively in a conductive power supply side shield case and power receiving side shield case. The power supply side shield case is formed of a bottom wall covering a side of the power supply side resonance coil spaced apart from the power receiving side resonance coil and a vertical wall erecting from a periphery of the bottom wall, and a ferrite is provided onto surfaces of the bottom wall and the vertical wall. |
| US09859717B2 |
Systems, apparatus, and methods for power management
Systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling power modes in electronic devices are provided. A system may include an electronic device and an input device that sends power mode selection information via a network to a power mode selection receiving component in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a first power component that powers a first component, and a switching component that controls the first power component. The electronic device may include a second power component that powers a second component. The switching component may control the second power component. The power mode selection receiving component and the switching component may be powered independently of the first and the second component. If the power mode selection information indicates an off mode, the electronic device may provide power to the power mode selection receiving component and the switching component and not to the first and the second component. |
| US09859715B2 |
Station-building power supply device and method of controlling the same
A station-building power supply device is provided in each station building and supplies low-voltage AC power to station building facilities of each station building. There are two mode therein: a regenerative mode in which, when regenerative power regenerated by a train to an overhead wire becomes surplus, the surplus regenerative power supplied from the overhead wire and power supplied from a high-voltage distribution line are used together to supply low-voltage AC power corresponding to an amount of normal power consumption of the station building; and a standby power supply mode in which, when a power outage of the high-voltage distribution line occurs, power supplied from the overhead wire is used to supply low-voltage AC power corresponding to an amount of emergency power of the station building. |
| US09859706B2 |
United power module and system using the same
A united power module having an external input and a first input is provided. The united power module includes a load block, a protection circuitry and a detection block. The detection block includes an analog circuitry. The load block and an end of the protection circuitry are electrically coupled to the external input. The load block, the first input, and another end of the protection circuitry are electrically coupled to the detection block. The load block is supplied by an external power received from the external input. The protection circuitry receives the external power and outputs an auxiliary power. The analog circuitry receives a first power from the first input under a normal power supply state, or receives the auxiliary power under an auxiliary power supply state. |
| US09859694B2 |
Insulating film removal method, insulating film removal apparatus, and rectangular conductor
An insulating film removal method according to the present disclosure includes first, second, and third removal steps. In the first removal step, an insulating film coated on a junction surface and an opposed surface opposed to the junction surface is removed, the junction surface being a surface where a rectangular conductor is joined with another rectangular conductor. In the second removal step, a corner of the rectangular conductor is removed so that a burr is formed on the junction surface and a side surface, the side surface adjoining the junction surface and the opposed surface. In the third removal step, the insulating film coated on the side surface is removed so that a burr is formed on the junction surface side. |
| US09859691B2 |
Switchgear assembly, and submersible electrical enclosure and method of manufacturing a submersible electrical enclosure therefor
A submersible electrical enclosure is for a switchgear assembly. The switchgear assembly includes a number of electrical switching apparatus. The submersible electrical enclosure includes: a plurality of sides defining an interior, the interior receiving each of the electrical switching apparatus, each side including: a conductive polymeric layer facing away from the interior, and an insulative polymeric layer molded to the conductive polymeric layer. The insulative polymeric layer faces the interior and substantially overlays the conductive polymeric layer. |
| US09859690B2 |
Ignition coil assembly with terminals connecting insert
An ignition system comprises an ignition coil assembly (100) that supplies a high voltage electric current to a resistor-type spark plug (20). The ignition coil assembly (100) includes an ignition coil (140), a high voltage coil terminal (120), a terminals connecting insert (30) and an insulator (40). The terminals connecting insert (30) conducts the high voltage current from the ignition coil (140) to the resistor-type spark plug (20) by connecting the high voltage coil terminal (120) of the ignition coil (140) to the electrode terminal (22) of the resistor-type spark plug (20). The conductor core (32) of the terminals connecting insert (30) is formed of electrically conducting elongated fibers of carbon fiber or graphite fiber. A conductor supporting body stem (34) of the terminals connecting insert (30) forms an insulating and protecting layer around the outside of the fiber conductor core (32). The insulator (40) provides a passageway to house the high voltage coil terminal (120), the terminals connecting insert (30), the electrode terminal (22) and portion of the resistor-type spark plug (20). The insulator (40) can be detachable as a separate component from the high voltage coil terminal (120) of the ignition coil (140) to form a detachable-insulator (42). The insulator (40) can be non-detachable from the high voltage coil terminal (120) to form a non-detachable-insulator (44). The non-detachable-insulator (44) is in a form of an integral part of an insulator (40) with the ignition coil (140). |
| US09859689B1 |
Spark plug
In a cross section including a central axis, a value L/D obtained by dividing an axial length L of an overlap portion where a metal contact surface located on a metal shell and on which a packing is in contact with the metal shell overlaps a projection plane located on the metal shell and on which a contact surface located on an insulator and on which the packing is in contact with the insulator is projected in a direction orthogonal to the central axis by a difference D between a radius of an outer circumference of a tube portion at a connection position to a step portion and a radius of an outer circumference of a leg portion at a connection position to the step portion is 1.2 or more. This ensures the force of constraint in the radial direction provided by the packing on the insulator. |
| US09859687B2 |
Lasers with beam-shape modification
A beam control structure for semiconductor lasers that allows modification of the shape of a beam allowing, for example, higher coupling into an optical fiber. The structure may comprise one or more of a tilted patio, a staircase, a reflective roof, and a reflective sidewall. |
| US09859685B2 |
Small aperture formation for facilitating optoelectronic device integration with defective semiconductor materials
In one example, a device includes a layered semiconductor material having material defects formed therein and an optoelectronic device formed in the layered semiconductor material. The optoelectronic device includes an active region comprising an aperture formed through the layered semiconductor material. The aperture is formed in a manner that avoids intersection with the material defects. |
| US09859681B2 |
Optical device and light irradiation apparatus
An optical device includes a semiconductor element configured to emit emission light or to receive incident light, including a first fitting part including a portion having a convex shape in a first region; an optical member arranged on an optical path of the emission light emitted from the semiconductor element or the incident light entering the semiconductor element, including a second fitting part fitted to at least a part of the portion having the convex shape, the first region being opposed to the optical member; and a joint part that joins the semiconductor element and the optical member, arranged between the first fitting part and the second fitting part. |
| US09859674B2 |
Laser oscillation cooling device
A laser oscillation cooling device (100) is provided with a light emitting section (1) that emits laser excitation light (Z1), a laser excitation section (2) that excites the laser excitation light (Z1) to emit laser light (Z2) and locally generates heat, a storage tank (3) capable of storing an extremely low temperature liquid (L), a pressurizing section (31) that brings extremely low temperature liquid (L) into a sub-cool state by pressurizing the inside of the storage tank (3), and a jetting supply section (4) that removes heat from the laser excitation section (2) by jetting the extremely low temperature liquid (L) in the sub-cool state to the laser excitation section (2). |
| US09859673B2 |
Laser device provided with function to determine feasability of opening door
The laser device of the present invention includes a first temperature sensor which is provided in a housing to detect the temperature of the portion to be cooled, a second temperature sensor and a humidity sensor which are provided outside the housing to respectively detect the temperature and humidity of the air outside the housing. The laser device further includes a judgment unit which judges the possibility of condensation forming on the portion to be cooled by the air outside the housing based on each of the detected results of the first temperature sensor, the second temperature sensor and the humidity sensor, and a notification unit which gives notification of the judgment result of the judgment unit, outside the housing. |
| US09859671B2 |
Canopy structurally and electrically mating with a plate for attaching an electrical fixture to an electrical source
Described herein is an apparatus for simplifying the connection of an electrical fixture to an electrical source. The system can include a plate element that attaches to an electrical source, such as a junction box. The plate element can mate with a canopy element that is attached to an electrical fixture, such as a light. The plate and canopy can structurally and electrically mate, allowing a user to easily connect various electrical fixtures using the plate and canopy system. |
| US09859663B2 |
Communications connector system
Shields, wire connectors, crimping devices, and wire managers. At least some of the shields are used with a cable that includes a jacket surrounding wire pairs, and a different pair shield surrounding each wire pair. Such shields include a compressible member positioned adjacent end portions of a portion of the wire pairs. The compressible member presses a conductive member against the pair shield surrounding each wire pair in the portion of wire pairs. At least some of the wire connectors include a conductive body positionable alongside a selected wire having a connector surrounded circumferentially by an insulating jacket. The body includes a receptacle with a tapered opening defined between first and second edge portions of the body. As a portion of the selected wire passes through the opening into the receptacle, the first and second edge portions cut through the insulating jacket to contact the conductor. |
| US09859658B2 |
Electrical connector having resonance controlled ground conductors
An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of ground wafers and signal wafers. A front side is configured to mate with a mating connector. The ground wafers and signal wafers are stacked next to one another along a stack axis. The ground wafers are interleaved between adjacent pairs of the signal wafers. Each signal wafer includes at least one signal conductor held by a signal holder that is composed of a first material. Each ground wafer includes at least one ground conductor held by a ground holder that is composed of second material. The second material is a lossy material and the first material is a low loss dielectric material that has a loss tangent that is lower than a loss tangent of the lossy material. The signal conductors and the ground conductors are configured to engage and electrically connect to the mating connector. |
| US09859656B2 |
Apparatus for prevention of plug slippage from a standard electrical socket
The present invention is generally related to an apparatus for use with an electrical outlet to improve electrical device fit and more particularly related to an apparatus for providing a tighter fit for electrical power blades of the plug portion of an electric powered device within a standard electrical outlet so as to prevent the electrical power blades from slipping out of the electrical outlet during use of the electrical device. |
| US09859654B1 |
Ejector mechanism for electrical assembly
An apparatus includes an electrical assembly (e.g., a contactor) configured to be inserted into an enclosure. The electrical assembly includes at least one first contact configured to mate with at least one second contact disposed in an enclosure when the contactor assembly is inserted in the enclosure. The apparatus further includes an ejector mechanism including at least one pivoting member attached to the electrical assembly and configured to pivot about a point of attachment to the electrical assembly to apply a force to a surface of the enclosure and thereby cause movement of the electrical assembly within the enclosure. The movement of the electrical assembly caused by the ejector mechanism may disengage the at least one first contact from the at least one second contact. The electrical assembly may include a wheeled undercarriage and the at least one pivoting member may be attached to the undercarriage. |
| US09859653B2 |
Card holding member and card connector
A card holding member is able to hold a card 101 with terminal members and able to be inserted into a card connector. Here, the card holding member includes a frame portion 161 facing a side surface 112 of the card 101, and a movable lock portion provided on the frame portion 161 which is able to engage and disengage a lock portion of the card connector. The movable lock portion is disengaged from the lock portion by an auxiliary portion which activates the ejection mechanism for ejecting the card holding member from the card connector. |
| US09859649B2 |
Plug adapter for an electrical device for plugging in supply lines, and system formed by a plug adapter and a device
A plug adapter for plugging in electrical supply lines on the device, the device connection contacts being in adjacent rows, and contacted by the supply line via screwless clamping devices, has a prismatic-like structure of insulating molded material, and an upper side parallel to the device upper side, an output side facing the device, and an access side facing away from the device. Between the output side and access side are parallel supply line core receiving channels, in adjacent rows and corresponding to the device connection contacts. An actuating bracket is on the plug adapter, associated with the device's unlocking device for positioning the plug connection between plug adapter and device. |
| US09859647B2 |
Two-part subsea bulkhead connector and method for rapid replacement or re-purposing of subsea bulkhead connector
A two-part subsea bulkhead connector may be replaced and/or re-purposed of without draining an enclosure or disconnecting hard wiring therein, the two-part subsea bulkhead connector a first bulkhead connector, a second bulkhead connector, and a substantially water tight mechanical seal disposed intermediate the first bulkhead connector. When mated, first and second bulkhead connectors are aligned and contacts received into a corresponding contact. The first bulkhead connector is secured to the second bulkhead connector sufficiently to allow the mechanical seal to prevent water ingress. If a first contact becomes damaged or if a differing functionality set is needed, the second bulkhead connector may be removed from the first bulkhead connector and replaced. |
| US09859644B2 |
Contact element
A contact element for insertion in an insertion direction into a contact chamber of a plug-in connector. The contact element includes a housing extending in the insertion direction. The contact element furthermore includes a latching element connected to the housing, for latching into the contact chamber of the plug-in connector. The latching element has a cantilevered end region, the cantilevered end region having a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first portion extends oppositely to the insertion direction, or the first portion points obliquely outward from the housing oppositely to the insertion direction. The second portion is bent over inward with respect to the first portion. At least one support element is provided between the first portion and the second portion, which element braces the second portion against the second portion upon said application of force onto the latching element. |
| US09859639B2 |
Connector
A connector is provided which has a housing, an actuator, and a plurality of primary terminals. The housing has an insertion passage for insertion of a flat cable from the front end. The actuator has a pressure-applying portion, and an engaging portion pushed upwards by the end portion of the flat cable as the flat cable is being inserted. Each of the primary terminals has an upper beam positioned above the insertion passage. Each upper beam has a contact portion for making contact with the flat cable, and a receiving portion positioned in front of the contact portion and arranged above the pressure-applying portion. The receiving portion makes contact with and is pushed upward by the pressure-applying portion when the engaging portion is pushed upward by the end portion of the flat cable. |
| US09859636B2 |
Linear edge connector with activator bar and contact load spring
An example apparatus for connecting linear edge cards includes a housing to hold at least one set of conductive contacts facing perpendicularly towards a mating plane. The apparatus further includes an activator bar coupled to the housing, the activator bar to hold two parts of the housing apart via two opposing normal forces. The apparatus also includes a contact load spring coupled to the housing, the contact load spring to apply two forces parallel to the direction of the conductive contacts and against the two opposing normal forces of the activator bar. The apparatus further includes an ejector spring coupled to the contact load spring and the activator bar. The ejector spring is to apply a force perpendicular to the two opposing normal forces of the activator bar and in a direction of an opening of the housing. |
| US09859628B1 |
Insulation piercing connector
An insulation piercing connector includes a body having a bore extending therethrough. One or more clamps secure the body to an electrical cable At least a portion of the bore is threaded or a threaded member is associated therewith. A piercing pin is threadingly engaged with the bore threads or the threaded member and includes a first end configured to pierce the insulation of the electrical cable and contact a conductor as the piercing pin is rotated in a first direction. The piercing pin includes a head that is configured to shear off as a result of torque exceeding a predetermined value after the first end contacts the conductor. The probe of a sensor can contact the second end of the piercing pin to obtain information from the conductor, such as voltage, current, and/or thermal information. |
| US09859615B2 |
Dual-band antenna
A dual-band antenna including a ground element, a short-circuit element, a feed element and a radiator is provided. The radiator includes a first connection segment, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element and a fourth radiation element. The dual-band antenna covers a first frequency band a second frequency band through the symmetrical first radiation element and second radiation element and the symmetrical third radiation element and fourth radiation element, so as to effectively decrease an antenna volume, and satisfy the requirement of a signal coverage range of a communication device. |
| US09859614B2 |
Multiple antenna system
The present invention relates to an antenna system including at least two antenna modules operable for transmitting and/or receiving radiation in certain common frequency band. The at least two antenna modules are collinearly arranged along a common axis so as to provide low gain along the axis, and are spaced apart from one another along this axis by a distance of at least a few nominal wavelengths of the common frequency band. Each two locally adjacent antenna modules of the at least two antenna modules operate with substantially mutually orthogonal polarizations of radiation, thereby suppressing electromagnetic coupling between the antenna modules in the common frequency band. |
| US09859612B2 |
Electronic device including antenna device
An electronic device and a method of operating an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first face and a second face that faces in a direction opposite to the first face; a display exposed through the first face of the housing; a ground member disposed between the first face and the second face; an antenna radiator at least partially disposed within the housing and/or on a portion of the housing; a communication circuit electrically connected to the antenna radiator; a conductive member disposed within the housing or forming a portion of the second face of the housing; and a control circuit electrically connected to the ground member and the conductive member, wherein the control circuit is configured to selectively connect the conductive member to the ground member if the antenna radiator and the communication circuit are electrically connected to each other. |
| US09859610B2 |
Antenna device and electronic apparatus
An antenna device includes an antenna coil, a magnetic sheet, and a metallic member. The antenna coil is formed on a flexible base. The antenna coil is wound into a loop or a spiral in which a winding central portion is a coil opening portion. The magnetic sheet is disposed at a back surface of the flexible base. A square opening is formed in the metallic member. The antenna coil is exposed from the opening of the metallic member. A first side of the antenna coil is hidden by the metallic member and part of the coil opening portion and a second side are exposed from the opening, so that a magnetic flux links with the second side. |
| US09859605B2 |
Antenna device, conversion adaptor, and receiver
An antenna device includes a round plug having a rotation mechanism section on one end thereof, where round plug is removably attached to a round jack arranged in an electronic apparatus; and a rod antenna element. In the antenna device, the rod antenna element is connected to the rotation mechanism section of the round plug and rotatable in a predetermined direction. |
| US09859602B2 |
Non-reciprocal circuit device and communication apparatus using the same
Disclosed herein is a non-reciprocal circuit device includes: a first substrates including a magnetic plate having a circular surface and a dielectric ring having an annular surface, the circular surface and the annular surface being substantially coplanar; a second substrate; a center conductor provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a permanent magnet that applies a magnetic field to the center conductor. The center conductor includes: a main conductor portion positioned on a straight line extending from a center of the circular surface to an outer periphery of the annular surface; and a protrusion portion having a width smaller than a width of the main conductor portion, and wherein at least a part of the protruding portion is positioned on the annular surface. |
| US09859599B2 |
Bandstop filters with minimum through-line length
Systems and methods are provided for creating higher order microwave bandstop filters with total through-line length of significantly less than one-quarter wavelength at the filter center frequency. The mixed electric and magnetic field coupling bandstop filter topologies provided by embodiments of the present disclosure can be used to reduce the size, weight, and throughline insertion loss of microwave bandstop filters. In an embodiment, if the relative field strengths are intelligently designed for each coupling structure, effective phase offsets can be produced between resonators along the through line. These phase offsets can be used to absorb some or all of the length of the λ/4 inverters between resonators. |
| US09859598B2 |
Electronic circuit
An electronic circuit includes at least two first conductors having line shapes which are arranged on a first plane of a substrate, a second conductor arranged on a second plane of the substrate, and a third conductor having a line shape, with at least part thereof being arranged on a third plane between the first plane and the second plane of the substrate. The open end of the third conductor is included in part of the third conductor which is arranged on the third plane, and the part is arranged to at least partly overlap one of at least the two first conductors and not to overlap the other first conductor when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate. |
| US09859596B2 |
Repeatedly chargeable and dischargeable quantum battery
The purpose of this invention is to provide a repeatedly chargeable and dischargeable quantum battery that is available for a long period of time without an aging change. The quantum battery is charged by causing an n-type metal oxide semiconductor to have a photo-exited structural change, thereby the electrode of quantum battery is prevented from being oxide and a price reduction and stable operation are possible. The repeatedly usable quantum battery is constituted by laminating; a first metal electrode having an oxidation preventing function, charging layer in which an energy level is formed in the band gap by causing an n-type metal oxide semiconductor covered with an insulating material to have a photo-exited structure change and electrons are trapped at the energy level; p-type metal oxide semiconductor layer; and a second metal electrode having the oxidation preventing function, the electrodes are passive metal layers formed of metals having passive characteristics. |
| US09859595B2 |
Electrode, method for manufacturing the same, and secondary battery
An electrode includes a plant-derived porous carbon material. When a peak value of an O(1s) spectrum of the porous carbon material obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is defined as PO, and a peak value of a C(1s) spectrum thereof is defined as PC, PO/PC≦0.05, or an oxygen-containing functional group has been removed from a surface of the plant-derived porous carbon material. |
| US09859592B2 |
Power storage apparatus and method of operating power storage apparatus
A battery chamber is formed inside a sealed container. A module battery and a charging/discharging path outside a battery are housed in the battery chamber. In the module battery, an electric cell chamber and an air chamber are formed inside a heat-insulating container. The electric cell chamber and the air chamber are divided by a heat transfer wall. An electric cell of a sodium-sulfur battery, and a charging/discharging path inside a battery are housed in the electric cell chamber. An intake path starts from outside of the sealed container and leads to the air chamber. An exhaust path starts from the air chamber and leads to the sealed container. The blower generates an air flow that sequentially flows through the intake path, the air chamber and the exhaust path. In a case where the cooling of the electric cell chamber is required, the air flow is generated. |
| US09859589B2 |
Method for producing secondary battery
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a secondary battery in which water in the outer package can be removed even when the secondary battery includes an electrolytic solution containing a halogen-containing compound. The present exemplary embodiment is a method for producing a secondary battery including an electrolytic solution containing a supporting salt, a nonaqueous solvent, and a halogen-containing compound, an electrode assembly including a negative electrode and a positive electrode, and an outer package, the method including (1) disposing a first solution containing at least the supporting salt and the nonaqueous solvent, and the electrode assembly in the outer package; (2) charging the electrode assembly; (3) emitting from the outer package a gas generated by the charge; and (4) injecting a second solution including at least the halogen-containing compound into the outer package after the gas is emitted, wherein the first solution does not contain the halogen-containing compound, and the electrolytic solution includes the first solution and the second solution. |
| US09859588B2 |
Electrolytes for lithium sulfur cells
Disclosed is an electrochemical cell comprising a lithium anode and a sulfur-containing cathode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The cell exhibits high utilization of the electroactive sulfur-containing material of the cathode and a high charge-discharge efficiency. |
| US09859584B2 |
Winding device, winding method, inspection device and structure manufacturing method in which a position of stuck together first and second wound sheets are detected via interference light generated using reflected reference light from a reference surface
Provided is a winding apparatus that is provided with a splitter that splits radiant light from a light source unit into measurement light applied to a side face part of a first sheet and a second sheet and reference light applied to a reference surface, an interference detector that detects interference light formed by interference between the reference light reflected by the reference surface and the measurement light reflected by the side face part, a position detector that detects the position of the first sheet and the position of the second sheet on the basis of the detected interference light, and a decision processor that decides the quality of the wound body on the basis of the detected positions of the first sheet and the second sheet. |
| US09859583B2 |
Polyarene mediators for mediated redox flow battery
The fundamental charge storage mechanisms in a number of currently studied high energy redox couples are based on intercalation, conversion, or displacement reactions. With exception to certain metal-air chemistries, most often the active redox materials are stored physically in the electrochemical cell stack thereby lowering the practical gravimetric and volumetric energy density as a tradeoff to achieve reasonable power density. In a general embodiment, a mediated redox flow battery includes a series of secondary organic molecules that form highly reduced anionic radicals as reaction mediator pairs for the reduction and oxidation of primary high capacity redox species ex situ from the electrochemical cell stack. Arenes are reduced to stable anionic radicals that in turn reduce a primary anode to the charged state. The primary anode is then discharged using a second lower potential (more positive) arene. Compatible separators and solvents are also disclosed herein. |
| US09859582B2 |
Solid oxide fuel cell device and system
The invention provides tubular solid oxide fuel cell devices and a fuel cell system incorporating a plurality of the fuel devices, each device including an elongate tube having a reaction zone for heating to an operating reaction temperature, and at least one cold zone that remains at a low temperature below the operating reaction temperature when the reaction zone is heated. An electrolyte is disposed between anodes and cathodes in the reaction zone, and the anode and cathode each have an electrical pathway extending to an exterior surface in a cold zone for electrical connection at low temperature. In one embodiment, the tubular device is a spiral rolled structure, and in another embodiment, the tubular device is a concentrically arranged device. The system further includes the devices positioned with their reaction zones in a hot zone chamber and their cold zones extending outside the hot zone chamber. A heat source is coupled to the hot zone chamber to heat the reaction zones to the operating reaction temperature, and fuel and air supplies are coupled to the tubes in the cold zones. |
| US09859580B2 |
Structure and method for indicating undesirable constituents in a fuel cell system
An optical detection system for detecting undesirable constituents in a fuel cell system includes a sensing material configured to change color in the presence of the undesirable constituents and at least one sensor configured to register the change in color of the sensing material. The sensor is coupled to a corresponding light source. The sensing material, the sensor and the light source are enclosed in a housing. |
| US09859576B2 |
Membrane humidifier for fuel cell
A membrane humidifier includes buffering and spacing structures each interposed between adjacent hollow fiber membranes of a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged in a housing of the membrane humidifier, wherein the buffering and spacing structures buffer a pressure of air supplied from an air blower and maintain a spacing between the adjacent hollow fiber membranes. |
| US09859574B2 |
Compressed air cooling apparatus of fuel cell system
A compressed air cooling apparatus of a fuel cell system is provided that includes i) a heat absorber installed at a first part of an air supplying system which supplies compressed air of a first compressed by an air compressor to a fuel cell stack, ii) a heat radiator installed at a second part of a stack cooling system which cools a coolant circulating to the fuel cell stack, iii) a heat pipe which connects the heat absorber and the heat radiator and is filled with the refrigerant therein, wherein the heat absorber is disposed at a lower position than the heat radiator for the refrigerant to flow from the heat radiator to the heat absorber. |
| US09859563B2 |
Carbon nanotube array bonding
Material compositions are provided that may comprise, for example, a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) array, a conductive layer, and a carbon interlayer coupling the VACNT array to the conductive layer. Methods of manufacturing are provided. Such methods may comprise, for example, providing a VACNT array, providing a conductive layer, and bonding the VACNT array to the conductive layer via a carbon interlayer. |
| US09859561B2 |
High-performance cathode materials for lithium sulfur batteries from lignosulfonate
Methods of making cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries are disclosed, in addition to cathodes and batteries containing the cathodes. A method of making a cathode is disclosed which includes extracting lignosulfonate from brown liquor, pyrolyzing the lignosulfonate, carbonizing the pyrolyzed lignosulfonate to form a carbon-sulfur compound, and forming the carbon-sulfur compound into a cathode. A cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery is disclosed which includes pyrolized lignosulfonate recovered from brown liquor, and carbon. The pyrolized lignosulfonate and carbon are suspended in a matrix having a substantially homogenous distribution of sulfur. A battery is disclosed in which an anode including an electrolye, lithium, is provided along with a membrane separate and a carbon comprising a carbon-sulfur compound derived from lignosulfonates. |
| US09859558B2 |
Metal-doped nickel oxide active materials
A primary battery includes a cathode having an alkali-deficient nickel oxide including metals such as Ca, Mg, Al, Co, Y, Mn, and/or non-metals such as B, Si, Ge, or a combination of metal and/or non-metal atoms; a combination of metal atoms; an anode; a separator between the cathode and the anode; and an alkaline electrolyte. |
| US09859553B2 |
Negative electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and battery pack
A negative electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes a carbonaceous material, a silicon oxide phase in the carbonaceous material, and a silicon phase in the silicon oxide phase. The negative electrode active material has a crack in the carbonaceous material, and the longest side of the crack has a length equal to or greater than ⅕ of the diameter of the negative electrode active material. |
| US09859551B2 |
Anode for secondary battery comprising additive for improving low-temperature characteristics, and secondary battery having the same
The present disclosure refers to an anode for a secondary battery that comprises a low-temperature additive, and an electrochemical device using the anode. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a carbon-based anode material comprising a low-temperature additive such as lithium titanium oxide (LTO) to improve low-temperature output characteristics, thereby providing high output at room temperature and even a low temperature, and an electrochemical device using the anode. |
| US09859544B2 |
Battery module
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells aligned in one direction, each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells including a terminal portion on a first surface of a respective battery cell, a bus-bar electrically connect between the terminal portions of the plurality of battery cells, and a bus-bar holder positioned on the first surfaces of the plurality of battery cells, the bus-bar holder including support portions configured to support two different surfaces of the bus-bar, respectively. |
| US09859543B2 |
Bipolar battery assembly
The invention relates to an article comprising: a) one or more stacks of battery plates comprising one or more bipolar plates; b) located between each plate is a separator and a liquid electrolyte; further comprising one of more of the features: 1) c) the one or more stacks of battery plates having a plurality of channels passing transversely though the portion of the plates having the cathode and/or the anode deposited thereon; and d) i) one or more seals about the periphery of the channels which prevent the leakage of the liquid elelctrolyte into the channels, and/or posts located in one or more of the channels having on each end an overlapping portion that covers the channel and sealing surface on the outside of the monopolar plates adjacent to the holes for the transverse channels and applies pressure on the sealing surface of the monopolar plates wherein the pressure is sufficient to withstand pressures created during assembly and operation of electrochemical cells created by the stacks of battery plates; 2) c) a membrane comprising a thermoplastic polymer is disposed about the entire periphery of the edges of the stack of plates; 3 wherein the separator is in the form of a sheet having adhered to its periphery a frame; and m4) c) an integrated valve and integrated channel communicating with the valve. |
| US09859535B2 |
Pouch-type battery and method of manufacturing the same
There is provided a pouch-type battery that includes an exterior packaging member having an accommodating space in which an electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated and which has a curved shape at least in a first direction. The exterior packaging member includes a first film member on which a cup section having the accommodating space inside is provided, a second film member disposed to face the first film member, and a sealing section around the cup section, with which the first and second film members are bonded to each other and the accommodating space is sealed. A top surface of the cup section of the first film member has a curved shape and is provided with a plurality of concave portions or convex portions, and the sealing section has a curved shape in the first direction and is configured of a flat surface on which neither concave portion nor convex portion is provided. |
| US09859534B2 |
Secondary battery
A thermal expansion coefficient of a battery case may be lower than those of an insulating film and a separator. Portions of the insulating film, which are held in contact with the electrode body and the battery case, may be adhered to the separator, which is positioned on the outermost surface of the electrode body, and the battery case, respectively. A first 90 degree peeling strength of an adhesion portion between the insulating film and the battery case is higher than a second 90 degree peeling strength of an adhesion portion between the insulating film and the separator. The first 90 degree peeling strength may be 15 mN/cm or higher, and the second 90 degree peeling strength may be 5 mN/cm or higher. |
| US09859533B2 |
Energy storage apparatus
An energy storage apparatus includes: one or more energy storage devices, each energy storage device having a side surface; and an outer housing that houses the one or more energy storage devices. The outer housing includes an attachment portion for attaching a partition plate adjacently to the side surface of the one or more energy storage devices. |
| US09859532B2 |
Battery module and method incorporating exterior casing and liner
A battery module includes a rigid external casing made, for example, of a metallic sheet material. Securement features, tabs, and so forth may be formed in the material of the casing. The casing may be made by stamping and bending metallic sheet. A liner is disposed in the casing, and one or more battery cells are disposed in the liner. The liner may comprise an insulative sheet material that is cut and folded to generally conform to the casing. The structure may include a bus bar assembly, compression members, a thermal component and other structural and functional elements. |
| US09859529B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device for reducing a color defect or a color difference which occurs in the front or side of the organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including at least one emission part. The organic layer is configured for a peak wavelength of an electroluminescence (EL) spectrum of the organic light emitting display device emitted from the at least one emission part to have a range from 10 nm less a predetermined peak wavelength to 10 nm more than the predetermined peak wavelength. |
| US09859525B2 |
Flexible display substrate and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a flexible display substrate and a method for manufacturing the same which can avoid break and peeling of film layers disposed on a flexible base and further reduce degree of a warpage occurred in the flexible base when separating the support substrate from the flexible base located above the support substrate. The flexible display substrate comprises the flexible base, a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer disposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the flexible base, respectively, a plurality of display modules disposed on the first buffer layer, each display module includes at least one thin film transistor and at least one electrode corresponding to the thin film transistor, and a plurality of auxiliary thin film transistors disposed on one side of the second buffer layer which is away from the flexible base, the auxiliary thin film transistors corresponding to the thin film transistors one by one, respectively. |
| US09859521B2 |
Flexible OLED and manufacture method thereof
The present invention provides a flexible OLED and a manufacture method thereof. The flexible OLED is capable of decreasing the resistance of the second electrode (12) and increasing the conducting ability to even the voltages of respective pixels, to improve the display homogeneity, and meanwhile, capable of reducing the thickness of the second electrode (12) and saving the material of the second electrode (12) by covering the auxiliary conducting layer (13) on the second electrode (12). The manufacture method of the flexible OLED is capable of decreasing the resistance of the second electrode (12) and increasing the conducting ability to even the voltages of respective pixels, to improve the display homogeneity, and meanwhile, capable of reducing the thickness of the second electrode (12) and saving the material of the second electrode (12) by forming the auxiliary conducting layer (13) on the second electrode (12) to cover the second electrode (12). |
| US09859512B2 |
Substrate having rugged structure obtained from hydrophobic sol/gel material
There are provided a fine concave-convex structure substrate which is hydrophobic and excellent in heat resistance, a solution used for producing the concave-convex structure substrate, and a method for producing the concave-convex structure substrate. The concave-convex structure substrate having the concave-convex structure includes a concave-convex structure layer made of a sol-gel material, and a contact angle of water on the sol-gel material in a flat and smooth film shape is not less than 80°. The concave-convex structure substrate according to the present invention has a hydrophobic surface, and thus, in the element in which the concave-convex structure substrate is incorporated, moisture adsorption onto the surface of the concave-convex structure substrate can be prevented, thereby making it possible to lengthen a service life of the element. |
| US09859511B2 |
Organoiridium complex for organic electroluminescent elements
The present invention provides an organometallic complex having a high quantum efficiency even in a polymer thin film as a emitting material for organic electroluminescent (EL) element. The present invention relates to an organoiridium complex for an organic electroluminescent element represented by the following Formula; wherein a C—N ligand including two atomic groups (A1, A2), and a β-diketone ligand in line symmetry having two tert-butyl-substituted phenyl groups are coordinated with an iridium atom. The organoiridium complex of the present invention has a high quantum efficiency even in a polymer thin film with respect to green to yellow electroluminescence. (In the aforementioned Formula, R1, R2, and R3 are each a tert-butyl group or a hydrogen atom, and have at least one tert-butyl group; they may bond each other to thereby form a saturated hydrocarbon ring, when having two tert-butyl groups; A1, A2 are each an unsaturated hydrocarbon ring, at least one is a single ring, and at least one is a heterocyclic ring). |
| US09859509B2 |
Thioxanthone aromatic amine compound and organic light emitting device using the same
The invention provides a thioxanthone aromatic amine compound and an organic light emitting device using the compound. The thioxanthone aromatic amine compound includes a compound expressed by formula (I) or formula (II): where Ar1 and Ar2 each are selected from ammonia compounds with structures respectively expressed by formula (III) to formula (VII), or hydrogen atom, thioxanthone aromatic amine compound of the invention has single structure, determinate molecular weight, and has better solubility and film-forming property, and also has low biochemical temperature and decomposition temperature, and stable film morphology. |
| US09859503B2 |
Organic light-emitting device
According to one or more embodiments, an organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer. The hole transport region includes a first compound represented by Formula 1A and a second compound represented by Formula 1B: |
| US09859502B2 |
Materials for electronic devices
The invention relates to compounds according to formula (1), said compounds being suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices. |
| US09859501B2 |
Organic compound and organic light emitting diode device including the same
A compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in the above Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R6 and Ar1 to Ar2 are as defined in the specification. |