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US09877619B1 Sponge apparatus
An improved sponge apparatus is a body washing sponge device with a liquid soap reservoir, which automatically releases liquid soap in controlled amounts onto the sponge-like material through apertures in the main body, and is able to be used multiple times before refilling the reservoir.
US09877618B2 Kemps easy scrub
A holder for body scrubbers or synthetic loofas, which consumers everywhere love to use while bathing and showering. Liquid soap can be added to the dispenser in the holder, and it will be distributed through the sponge, making it easier to enjoy the fragrance and feel of one's favorite liquid soap while bathing.
US09877617B2 Control for product dispenser energy storage device
An energy storage device, like for example a supercapacitor, is used to provide power to activate a motor for dispensing a dosed amount of hand care product. The energy storage device or supercapacitor is recharged from an energy supply source, e.g. batteries, integrated into the replaceable refill reservoir and/or mounted into the dispenser housing. A controller directs energy discharged from the energy supply source(s) at one of a plurality of discharge energy rates for recharging the energy storage device. Depending on the number of dispense events that occur with a given time interval, the controller may vary the rate at which the energy is discharged from the energy supply source(s) to recharge the energy storage device.
US09877616B2 Liquid soap filling device
A liquid soap filling device is provided. The liquid soap filling device includes a body member having an upper portion and lower portion. The upper portion includes an inner volume accessible through an opening in a top surface of the upper portion. The inner volume receives a measured amount of liquid soap through the opening. The lower portion includes a frustoconical shaped inner volume and a valve system, wherein the valve system controls the dispensing of the liquid soap from within the inner volume of the upper portion through the frustoconical shaped inner volume of the lower portion and through a fill port of the lower portion and into an under-counter dispenser container.
US09877614B1 Sink-based toiletry organizer with integrated drain
The sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain is an organizer adapted for use with toiletries. The sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain stores in an organized manner commonly used bathroom accessories including, but not limited to, soap, toothpaste, a plurality of toothbrushes and one or more razors. The sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain further comprises a drainage system to drain water that accumulates within the sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain directly into the sink. The sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain is a multi-section structure wherein each section of the multi-section structure is intended to contain a specific type of sanitary equipment or toilet accessory. The sink based toiletry organizer with integrated drain comprises a multi-section structure.
US09877604B2 Breathable blanket
A breathable blanket may be made from a breathable mesh material to improve airflow through the blanket. The breathable blanket may include a multi-layer material having a combination of light-weight liner fabric and a mesh fabric. The blanket may be have a shape similar to an animal and include attachments, such as a stuff polyfill head. Additionally, the blanket may include ornamental additions of satin to further convey the animal shape.
US09877601B2 Portable computing device holder
Described is a device for holding portable computing devices at a register of a retail store. The device for holding portable computing devices includes an elongate member with a first end and a second end. The first end has a coupler that couples to a pole. The second end is coupled to a register. In some embodiments, the elongate member includes a rod portion and a flat bar portion. The coupler couples the rod portion to the pole. The flat bar portion is coupled to the register. The rod portion is sized to conveniently receive portable computing device couplers so that the portable computing devices can be repeatably and removeably hung from the rod portion. Customers who have used the store's scanners while shopping can hang their borrowed scanner on the device when they are done using the scanner.
US09877599B2 Basket product display and related methods
A product display is providing having a vertical support and a product basket configured to mount to the vertical support and display product in a front-facing manner in which product from a rear of the product basket is automatically biased toward a front of the product basket, wherein at least one of the vertical support and the product basket are configured to display a particular product in order to improve product pack out in at least one of a vertical and a horizontal direction within the product display. In one form, both the basket and vertical support are dimensioned or sized based on the specific product being displayed so that product pack out is improved, if not maximized, in both the vertical and horizontal direction.
US09877598B2 Upright child high chair
An upright child high chair may include a seat configured to support the weight of the child and maintain an upright body position of the child. The seat may include two symmetrically opposed apertures for accommodating the child's legs extending in the upright body position below the seat. The high chair may further include a base structure attached to the seat and extending downward from the seat. A platform may be attached to the base structure and may be located below the seat. The platform may be configured to deflect from a resting position in response to a force applied to the platform by the child while the seat continues to substantially support the weight of the child.
US09877587B2 Folding chair with slide-out table
A folding chair includes a chair frame that is foldable about a plurality of laterally extending axes between a set up condition and a folded condition, and includes a table that is slidably attached to the chair frame for lateral motion between a deployed position outside a spatial envelope of the chair frame and a stowed position within the spatial envelope of the chair frame, and that is pivotally attached to the chair frame such that when the chair frame is in its set up condition the table is disposed below a seat of the chair frame, and when the chair frame is in its folded condition the table is disposed substantially coplanar with the seat of the chair frame.
US09877583B2 Furniture leg sock
A furniture leg protective sock is constructed of a stretchable/expandable non-friction material, which is double-layered to form an outer layer, an inner layer, and a gap therebetween. The furniture leg protective sock includes friction material which is located on the inner surface of the furniture leg protective sock.
US09877579B2 Cabinet and an associated method
The cabinet 1 has a base 3 that defines an opening 7, which is sized to receive the tynes of a lifting device, such as a fork lift of the like, for example. This facilitates transportation of the entire cabinet 1. The cabinet 1 has nine drawers 8, each having formations, in the form of a pair of slots 10 and 11, which are adapted for engagement with the tynes. Once the tynes have been inserted, the lifting device operator may then raise the tynes slightly, thereby supporting the drawer 8 on the tynes. The lifting device operator can then remove the drawer 8 that is being supported by the tynes from the cabinet 1.
US09877578B2 Storage rack
A rack has a frame and a plurality of shelves. Each shelf has an enclosing frame member that has two first sides connected by two second sides, a connecting bar that connects the first sides at about the center of the first sides, a plurality of slots provided on the inner surfaces of the second sides, and a plurality of slats, each slat having opposing ends that are fitted into opposing slots at the second sides, and with each slat being connected to the connecting bar. At least one connector is provided for removably connecting each shelf to a portion of the frame.
US09877575B2 Adjustable conductive brush assembly for cleaning metals
The present invention relates to a brush assembly for cleaning metal, the assembly comprising one or more brush heads, each brush head comprising a bundle of conductive filaments, having a working end adapted for contacting metal, and a terminal end, the brush head connectable to an electricity supply, and a housing connected to and retaining at least one sheath, each sheath at least partially surrounding at least one brush head, wherein each brush head and its respective sheath are movable in relation to each other by operating an adjustment mechanism and the working end of the brush head and the sheath are selectively fixable in relation to each other.
US09877573B2 Dental dispensing tip
A dental dispensing tip includes a body having a first body end, a second body end, and a fluid passageway extending between the first and second body ends. A brush cup is provided at the second body end and has a brush barrel defined therein. A brush applicator is secured within the brush barrel and includes a plurality of bristles, wherein a first end of the brush applicator is received within the brush barrel and a second end of the brush applicator extends out of the brush barrel. A delivery cannula is in fluid communication with the fluid passageway and has a bent end entering the plurality of bristles at an intermediate location between the first and second ends to deliver the dental solution to the plurality of bristles.
US09877572B2 High volume individual fluid transport device
The invention comprises devices and methods for carrying quantities of materials preferably fluids. The device of the invention is preferably a wearable garment such as, preferably a vest or poncho, with one or more bladders or compartments adapted to hold a fluid. Preferably the garment comprises fluid connections between the bladders. The connections allow for the distributing the load over the carrier, which is preferably a person. The invention is designed to be inexpensive to manufacture, capable of easy manufacture in large numbers, and, if desired, disposable or repurposed. The device significantly enhances the ability of an individual to provide water or other fluids or materials to individuals or groups such as families. Preferably the invention allows for the transport of potable water from a supply point to the point of end use with minimal or no discomfort to the wearer. Preferably the invention supports the heating and/or cooling of the fluid or other applications, including use of building materials.
US09877571B2 Articulated front accessible backpack
Backpacks and backpack systems which have at least a portion which is accessible from the front of a wearer. In one illustrative embodiment, a backpack system in accordance with the present invention includes a back portion with shoulder straps. A swing-around portion is formed as a storage compartment that is secured to the back portion in a carrying position. An articulated frame is secured to the back portion and the swing-around portion and allows a user wearing the backpack to pivot the swing around portion around the user's side and access the contents therein. A securing latch is used to secure the articulating frame to retain the swing-around portion in the carrying position. The entire storage compartment of the pack may be a swing-around portion, or the pack may include multiple storage compartments that are either fixed to the back portion or function as swing-around portions.
US09877562B2 Hair straightening brush
A brush is provided herein, the brush having heating elements dispersed on and protruding from its face and spacers arranged to maintain a specified distance between protruding ends of the heating elements and a scalp of a head that is being brushed. The spacers are dispersed on the brush's face at a specified density that assures maintaining the specified distance with respect to a resilience of the spacers.
US09877560B2 Weighted hair devices and methods for elongating curly, coily and kinky hair
Hair devices and methods which elongate curly hair by use of gravitational force, as the mass of the device weighs more than the hair section in order to transform curly hair into a wavy or straight coiffure. The device can be used as either a styling tool or an ornamental hair accessory that remains in the hair. The invented device is particularly advantageous for tightly coiled hair patterns of hair.The device can include a first and second curved metal form, each having a plurality of ventilation cut-outs and tab ends which allow each of the forms to attach to one another in an oval configuration, which can be wrapped about a hair bundle, or in which a hair bundle can be inserted therein. Concave curved recesses in the plates can allow for another pair of curved plates that forms a second oval shape to be attached to each other by pin type members.
US09877558B1 Customizable bag
A customizable bag for interchangeably displaying photos, business logos, and images of characters, such as superheroes, sports teams, celebrities, and the like on the exterior a bag. The customizable bag includes a main compartment and one or more secondary compartments for carrying objects therein. The bag further includes one or more pockets disposed within a main compartment or a secondary compartment, such that the exterior surface of the bag serves as a front wall for a pocket. The pocket includes a transparent window disposed on the front wall thereof, wherein the pocket can receive an insert having an image thereon. An opening is disposed on the pocket that enables the insert to be inserted into the pocket, wherein the image is then displayed through the transparent window. The opening is closable by a fastener in order to protect the insert from becoming wet.
US09877551B2 Customizable jewelry necklace
A necklace comprising links which are capable of allowing additional links to be added to thereby create a customizable necklace, with each of said links comprising an undulating silhouette and structural means to allow adjoining links to be connected together yet preventing adjoining links from rotating with respect to each other to prevent flipping of adjoining links.
US09877546B2 Device for creating smoke that emanates from an external foot covering
A device worn on a foot of an individual for creating smoke that emanates about the device as the individual walks or runs, the device having a tube with two end portions wherein one end portion is closed and the other end portion is open, an exhaust pipe having two end portions, one end portion is open and the other end portion is substantially closed and permits smoke to escape therefrom, the open end portion of the exhaust pipe connects to the open end portion of the tube, the exhaust pipe having an air chamber positioned at the open end portion of the exhaust pipe, an atomizer, a liquid cartridge and a battery, and an external foot covering that houses the tube and the exhaust pipe wherein the end portion of the exhaust pipe, which permits smoke to escape therefrom, protrudes outward from the exterior side of the shoe.
US09877545B1 High-heeled shoe with thickening cushion
A shoe includes a sole having an insert piece and a layer of material disposed on a top surface of the insert piece; and an upper extending above the sole. The insert piece extends from at least one of a front or middle portion of the shoe to a rear of the shoe, with the top surface of the insert piece inclined upwardly toward the rear of the shoe and then leveling off at a rear portion of the shoe. A top surface of the layer of material is inclined upwardly from the at least one of the front or middle portion of the shoe to the rear of the shoe, such that at the rear portion of the shoe an angle of inclination is significantly greater for the top surface of the layer of material than for the top surface of the insert piece.
US09877542B2 Rapid-entry shoe
A rapid-entry shoe allows the shoe to be rapidly entered and readied for wearing by the user. The shoe may be any of a wide variety of shoe types, including shoes of a wide variety of styles and functions. The rapid entry features of the shoes utilize various movable elements that are attached to a sole portion or other portion of the shoe and allow movement of a portion of the shoe under pressure to allow rapid entry of the user's foot into the shoe. The moveable elements may include flexible elements, elements having constructed to have a memory of a native position, magnetic elements, and/or elastic elements.
US09877541B2 Method to prevent irritation of deformed toes of a patient using an adjustable toe protector
A method to prevent irritation of deformed toes of a patient uses an adjustable toe protector formed from a loop of a tubular material with a pile layer on the inside where the length of the loop is adjustable, and pads the top the toes with a double thickness of the material so that shoe pressure straightens the toe out while a crest pad formed by a resilient insert into the tubular material beneath the toe lifts the toes.
US09877540B2 Assembly comprising a shoe, a shaped piece connected with the shoe to support the ankle, and a set of a shaped piece and fixing means for attachment to the shoe
An assembly includes a shoe and a device connected with the shoe to support the ankle, wherein the device includes a shaped piece which surrounds the ankle at least at the rear and is formed corresponding to the malleoli of the ankle. A shaped piece and a shoe suitable for use in the assembly and a set of the shaped piece and a fixing element for attachment to a shoe are also described.
US09877538B2 Ventilated shoe
A ventilated shoe is provided. The ventilation shoe includes a bottom pad (10) with a peripheral wall (11) that has a front part (12), a rear part (13), a right side part (14) and a left side part (15). A plurality of right and left side holes (142, 152) are formed in the right and left side parts (14, 15) of the peripheral wall (11). A ventilation pad (20) is disposed on the bottom pad (10) to be surrounded by the peripheral wall (11), in a wave-like layer with alternate crests (21) and troughs (22), forming a plurality of tunnel vaults (23) each of which extends from the right side part (14) to the left side part (15). A right belt (30) and a left belt (40) are disposed on the right and left side parts (14, 15) of the peripheral wall (11) to be slidable between two positions.
US09877537B2 Shoe with a high heel to low heel conversion
A shoe that is convertible between a high heel mode and a low heel mode. There is a rigid shank that is adjustable along the longitudinal axis of the shoe between the various layers of the sole. The proximal end of the adjustable shank may be slid further under the metatarsophalangeal joints to accommodate the sweeping higher arch of a high-heeled shoe or the distal end of the adjustable shank may be slid closer to the back of the calcaneus bone to reduce the arch of the shoe. The different height heels are lockably affixed to the sole.
US09877536B2 Method of making an article of footwear including knitting a knitted component of warp knit construction forming a seamless bootie with wrap-around portion
An article of footwear incorporates a seamless bootie or textile upper formed from a knitted component removed from a knitted textile element of unitary warp knit construction. The knitted component may include a first knitted component portion in the form of a seamless bootie and a second knitted component portion associated with the first knitted component portion. In some embodiments the second knitted component portion may be tucked-in or folded into a pocket of first knitted component portion, such as a knitted dynamic fit component portion or a knitted tongue component portion. In some embodiments the second kitted component portion may be wrapped around at least part of the first knitted component portion.
US09877533B2 Headwear item comprising hair locating sections for locating a bundle of hair at different positions on a wearer's head
A headwear piece for comfortably wearing with lengthy hair has a hair opening for passing a bundle of a wearer's hair therethrough. The headwear piece features at least one elastic member spanning across the hair opening, each of which divides the hair opening into separate hair locating sections. The hair locating sections are usable for locating the bundle of hair at different positions on the head of the wearer.
US09877531B2 System for displaying garments
A system for displaying garments. The system comprises: a model rendering control, a size selection control, a proportion control, a characteristic control, and a fabric rendering control.
US09877527B1 Interactive shirt
The true player interactive wear collection center pocket is a shirt like design invention to help people to Have a Hands free support storage interactive center pocket that is sewn and zipper open and close on to the center of the shirt. Different size pockets alone with the logo are sewn and attached using velcro on the inside of the Interactive wear collection center pocket to help store and carry items and other things. Like cellphone car key ID and other personal items. And will carry inflatable basketball games and other Inflatable items that are attached with velcro inside of the interactive wear collection center pocket. The logo Initially Yours Fashion Inc. True Player Interactive Wear Collection will be print and embroidered on shirts, pants, shorts. Shoes, jackets, hats, skirts and other marketing promotions items. The interactive center pocket was invented for hands free help and for storing items.
US09877526B2 Controllable thermal warming devices
A controllable thermal warming device for delivering heat to an object by radio frequency signal. The controllable thermal warming device may include a thermal ink heating element comprising a substrate and a conductive ink fixedly disposed on the substrate, a power source operatively coupled to the conductive ink, the power source adapted to deliver a voltage to the conductive ink to cause the conductive ink to radiate heat, a controller operatively coupled to the power source and the conductive ink, the controller adapted to control the voltage delivered to the conductive ink and to detect an operating characteristic of the conductive ink and adjust the voltage in response to the operating characteristic, and means for controlling the controller by radio frequency. The controllable thermal warming device may also include a sensor to provide the operating characteristic to the controller.
US09877523B2 Bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes controlled by a computer system using big data techniques and a smartphone device
A computer system using big data techniques including a Web site and/or a cloud array of computers configured to have a connection to a smartphone or other mobile computer device and use the device and connection to control a configuration of bladders, compartments, chambers and internal sipes located in both left and right footwear soles or removable inner sole inserts. The computer system can also use the device and connection to transmit data to the computer system for storage and/or shared or independent processing and/or analysis using big data techniques, process data from sensors located in both the right and left soles or removable sole inserts of the device user, in the device, and in, on, or near a center of gravity of the device user and a head of the device user, and use the processed data to alter a configuration of the bladders, compartments, chambers and internal sipes.
US09877522B1 Sensory stimulating garment
A sensory stimulating garment for engaging the senses of an infant includes an upper body portion defining a head opening and a lower body portion having a pair of leg members. A zipper is in operative communication with the upper and lower body portions, the zipper having a slider engaged with a plurality of teeth and configured to open the garment from the leg opening to adjacent the head opening. A first sensory member is positioned on the upper body portion adjacent the head opening that includes a first tactile surface and a second tactile surface different than the first tactile surface. Additional sensory members may be positioned on the upper body portion—each having tactile characteristics different than any other sensory member so as to stimulate different tactile senses of an infant who may touch them while wearing the garment.
US09877519B2 Electronic cigarette
An electronic cigarette including an electronic cigarette body is provided. The electronic cigarette body is provided with an atomizer assembly configured to atomize nicotine liquid and a battery assembly configured to power the electronic cigarette body. A communication assembly is disposed between the atomizer assembly and the battery assembly and is provided with a first connecting end detachably connected to the battery assembly, a second connecting end detachably connected to the atomizer assembly, and a conductive module configured to connect the battery assembly to the atomizer assembly. The communication assembly is further provided with a microcontroller configured to record smoking information of the electronic cigarette according to an electrical signal of the conductive module and control operation of modules of the communication assembly, and a wireless communication module configured to establish communication connection with the external terminal.
US09877514B2 Vaporizer with electronically heated nail
A vaporizer comprising a mouthpiece and battery. The mouthpiece preferably includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber separated by a small distance and providing an air pathway through the length of the mouthpiece, and a cooling liquid surrounding a portion of the lower chamber. Electrically connected to the battery is a pan that includes a heating element that heats the top surface of the pan to a desired temperature for vaporizing, but not combusting, a substance desired to be inhaled. A pan protector, made of an insulating material, surrounds the sides of the pan to prevent injury to a user. The vaporizer further includes a controller for ensuring that the pan is heated only to a pre-selected temperature sufficient to vaporize, but not combust, the chosen substance.
US09877511B2 Electronic smoking article
An electronic smoking article includes a liquid aerosol formulation, a heater operable to at least partially volatilize the liquid aerosol formulation and form an aerosol and a tubular filter segment downstream of the heater. The tubular filter segment is operable to selectively filter aerosol particles and vapors from the aerosol.
US09877504B2 Conditioning system for nutritional substances
Disclosed herein is a conditioning system for nutritional substances. The conditioning system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be conditioned, the desired conditioning, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the conditioned nutritional substance, and dynamically controls the conditioning in response to this information optimize the organoleptic properties of the conditioned nutritional substance, while minimizing any detrimental changes to the nutritional content.
US09877501B2 Stevia composition
Stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. The compositions are able to provide a superior taste profile and can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
US09877500B2 Natural beverage products
Natural beverage products and methods for making the same are disclosed. The natural beverage products comprise an acidulant comprising lactic acid and at least one of tartaric and citric acids, optionally other natural carboxylic acids and no phosphoric acid.
US09877497B2 Kit for making ice cream cake
An inexpensive, cost-effective kit for making ice cream cakes with interchangeable ice cream cake molds. The ice cream cake kit allows the user to simply, quickly, and inexpensively create ice cream cakes of varying sizes and shapes in the home environment by simply changing the ice cream cake molds used with a tray that serves as the bottom of the ice cream cake form and a serving tray.
US09877493B2 Aging delaying material for fruits and vegetables and producing method thereof
A producing method of an aging delaying material for fruits or vegetables has steps of: adding and blending a silicon material, with the silicon material having porous structures or layer structures; gradually adding an ethylene reducing material and water or solvent in the silicon material during blending; and gradually removing the water or the solvent during blending until the water or the solvent is partially removed from the silicon material and the ethylene reducing material to form a dry mixing powder which is able to postpone fruits or vegetables becoming over mature.
US09877489B2 Roller board assembly
Roller board assemblies and methods of manufacture and use. A roller board assembly may include a roller board having a first roller board insert which is removably coupled to a housing and a second roller board insert which is also removably coupled to a housing. The removability of the first and second roller board inserts may allow for variation in the desired roller board insert configuration such as shape and size of grooves in the roller board, thus allowing for variation in the shape and size of the item to be rolled. A first coupler may couple the first roller board to the housing through a hole in the housing. A handle on the housing may allow a user to grip the housing and apply the motion required to roll an item.
US09877488B2 Mixing paddle
A mixing paddle for mixing dough and for cutting and mixing dense ingredients such as butter and shortening into dry ingredients such as flour has roughened cutting blades oriented at many angles. Some blades are attached between a central blade support shaft and a symmetrical rim. The blades may have roughed cutting edges to increase variety in fat chunk size and to improve mixing.
US09877486B2 Methods of growing plants using modified biological control agents
Methods for improving the ability of a population of biological agents to compete and survive in a field setting are provided. By improving the population of biological agents, the modified population of agents is able to grow, compete with other microbial strains and fungi, and provide protection for plants from pathogens. In particular, modified biological agents and modified populations of such agents that are herbicide tolerant or resistant are selected or engineered. In this manner, the protection from disease-causing agents is enhanced. Such modified populations of biological agents can be added to soils to prevent fungal pathogens and the diseases they cause promoting plant growth. Therefore, the present invention is useful for enhancing the competitiveness of modified biological agents particularly over other microbial agents which are not herbicide resistant. Compositions of the invention include selected or engineered herbicide resistant biological agents and modified populations of biocontrol agents. These modified biological agents can be used as an inoculant or as a seed coating for plants and seeds.
US09877484B2 Pulvurent effervescent topical treatment composition
The pulvurent effervescent topical treatment compositions comprise: at least 50% wt. of a gas generating system which comprises both a gas generating constituent as well as a complementary reactive acid constituent, which constituents, when combined in the presence of water or another largely aqueous medium generates a gas, preferably carbon dioxide; 5-50% wt. of an anionic soap and/or anionic surfactant constituent; 0.0001-1.5% wt. of an antimicrobial constituent; 0.0001-3 an exogenous product of Sclerotium rolfsii, and, optionally one or more filler constituents, preferably based on materials which are inert with respect to the gas generating constituent and which also are inert with respect to the antimicrobial constituent; further optionally, one or more further constituents which may be included to provide a desired aesthetic benefit, e.g., a fragrance, colorant and/or a desired technical benefit, e.g. an abrasive, to the pulvurent effervescent topical treatment compositions of which they form a part. The invention also provides effervescing, foamed topical treatment composition which are used as topical treatment compositions.
US09877480B2 (S)-abscisic acid derivatives for enhanced grape coloration
The present invention is directed to the treatment of grapes with 3′-methyl-(S)-abscisic acid, 3′-propargyl-(S)-abscisic acid, and/or salts thereof in order to enhance the color of the grapes.
US09877479B2 Pamoic acid blocks ethelyne signaling
The disclosure provides methods and compositions for modulating ethylene and auxin signaling and ethylene production in plants.
US09877478B2 Encapsulation of herbicides to reduce crop injury
Methods of reducing injury to crop foliage and achieving weed control using encapsulated acetamide herbicides are described. Herbicidal microcapsules comprising herbicide core material and a shell wall encapsulating the core material are also described. The microcapsules provide reduced crop injury through controlled herbicide release.
US09877477B2 Compositions and methods for repelling coffee berry borer
Compositions and methods for repelling coffee berry borer. The compositions contain a substrate and a semiochemical capable of affecting the coffee berry borer intermixed within the substrate. The semiochemical may be verbenone.
US09877476B2 Gas depletion and gas addition devices for blood treatment
Devices for the preparation of depleted blood products that provide for the depletion of oxygen, carbon dioxide, or oxygen and carbon dioxide are described. In addition, devices for the replenishment of oxygen and other gases to an anaerobic blood product are described. Methods and systems incorporating depletion and addition devices are provided to optimize the preparation, storage and transfusion of blood products to a recipient are described.
US09877474B2 Method for maintaining organ or tissue for transplantation use for long period
The object of the present invention is to provide a technology that enables long-term preservation while maintaining the function of an organ or tissue for transplantation. A further object is utilizing this technology to provide a technology for suppressing tissue disorder accompanying warm ischemia and reperfusion as well as restoring an organ from a cardiac arrest donor to a level compatible for transplantation. A method that employs perfusion by a perfusate etc. is provided, comprising each of the following steps of: (a) connecting a perfusate instream cannula for streaming said perfusate into said “organ or tissue,” (b) connecting a perfusate outstream cannula for streaming said perfusate out from said “organ or tissue,” and (c) perfusing a perfusate comprising an oxygen carrier and a blood coagulation inhibitor into said organ or tissue.
US09877473B2 Turkey fan decoy
A kit of parts for making a turkey hunting decoy, the parts including right body portion, a left body portion and a fastener so that the skin portion of a turkey tail feather fan can be clamped between the right body portion and the left body portion by the fastener.
US09877471B2 Methods and apparatus for attracting rats
An acoustic signal for attracting rats comprising a playback recording or synthetic generation of vocalizations of rats or mice is provided. The vocalizations may be of rat pups, and may be characterized by sonic frequency components in the range of 1.8-7.5 kHz and/or ultrasonic frequency components in the ranges of 21-24 kHz, 40-50 kHz and/or 60-96 kHz. The vocalizations may be of adult male rats, including courting adult male rats, characterized by sonic frequency components in the range of 15-20 kHz and/or ultrasonic frequency components in the range of 20-100 kHz. The vocalizations may be of adult female mice, including nursing adult female mice, characterized by sonic frequency components in the range of 8-12 kHz and/or ultrasonic frequency components in the range of 25-100 kHz.
US09877469B1 Vertical tackle storage box
A vertical tackle box (1) in which leaders, lures and other fishing tackle may be hung in a vertical position from hooks (14) or pegs and further secured with straps or elastomeric cords (17) on opposing sides of the vertical tackle box. Flexible access covers (18) are preferably attached to the vertical tackle box by hinges (19) along upper edges to allow each access cover to be opened and folded back over the top of the vertical tackle box, thereby fully displaying the leaders, lures or other fishing tackle stored therein.
US09877462B2 Pet feeding robot . automatic pet wet food dispenser robot
An automatic pet wet canned food dispenser robot has a robotic arm comprised of mechanical elements and motors, a can opener and a programmed microprocessor. The programmed microprocessor guides the robotic arm to grasp a food can and utilize the can opener to open the can and invert it and shake out the food contents into a bowl for a pet at predetermined times setup by the pet owner whose presence is not required at time of feeding.
US09877460B2 Animal urinary function measuring device and animal urinary function measuring method
It is an object of the present invention to provide an animal urinary function measuring device and an animal urinary function measuring method each with high accuracy in sampling a urine amount of an animal. There are provided an accommodating portion which accommodates an animal other than humans, a collecting portion which is provided below the accommodating portion and collects urine discharged by the animal in the accommodating portion, a reticulated portion which is provided below the accommodating portion, allows the passage of the urine of the animal into the collecting portion, collects an object other than the urine, and whose wire diameter of a net thereof being not more than 0.5 mm and whose mesh size being not less than 1 mm2 and not more than the maximum mesh size determined by at least one of the excrement of the animal accommodated in the accommodating portion and a predetermined object used to accommodate the animal in the accommodating portion, a measuring portion which measures the weight of the urine collected by the collecting portion, and a data recording portion which records data measured by the measuring portion.
US09877456B1 Maize hybrid X05K734
A novel maize variety designated X05K734 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05K734 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05K734 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05K734, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05K734. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05K734.
US09877455B1 Maize hybrid X08K232
A novel maize variety designated X08K232 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08K232 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08K232 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08K232, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08K232. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08K232.
US09877453B1 Plants and seeds of corn variety CV345806
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV345806. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV345806, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV345806 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV345806 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV345806.
US09877451B2 Sweet corn hybrid SV7538SK and parents thereof
The invention provides seed and plants of sweet corn hybrid SV7538SK and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet corn hybrid SV7538SK and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another sweet corn plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the parts of such plants.
US09877445B2 Use of the naked-tufted mutant in upland cotton to improve fiber quality, increase seed oil content, increase ginning efficiency, and reduce the cost of delinting
Described is a naked-tufted seed mutant line of Gossypium hirsutum L., developed from lines initially produced by chemical mutagenesis, which significantly reduces the formation of linters on the surface of the cotton seed. In a preferred embodiment, the lines carrying the naked seed mutation have reduced seed coat neps, reduced short fiber content, improved yarn quality, increased seed oil content, and improved AFIS fiber maturity. The naked-tufted seed of the mutant line significantly reduces the time and energy required for ginning, oil extraction, and reduces the need to delint the cotton seed prior to planting. In a preferred embodiment, the mutant is incorporated into a well-adapted commercial cultivar of upland cotton.
US09877444B1 Sunflower hybrid P64ME01
A sunflower hybrid designated P64ME01 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof is provided. Methods for producing a sunflower plant that comprises crossing hybrid sunflower variety P64ME01 with another sunflower plant. Methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into P64ME01 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the sunflower seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the sunflower variety P64ME01, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sunflower variety P64ME01. This invention further relates to methods for producing sunflower varieties derived from wunflower variety P64ME01.
US09877443B2 Watering systems
A method of underground watering utilizes a pouch-like container product made by joining a first sheet having SAP particles adhered to a first surface with a second sheet to form a container partially filled with such particles. The application of pressure, for example by passing the product through a roll nip, facilitates joining of the sheets and causes the particles to break through at least the one of the sheets to create an opening whereby free volume is created to permit the particles to expand when in contact with a liquid. The resultant product is used to collect, store, and dispense water-containing liquids into the soil for watering of agricultural plants, trees, and the like. A composite underground watering element is also included in an embodiment of the invention. The inventive products may also be used as a pad, including a propagation pad, to collect, store, and dispense water-containing-liquids into plant vessels to provide watering of plants. Also included are underground watering of athletic fields and golf course greens, erosion control products and plant root balls having a watering collar.
US09877442B2 Drip line and emitter and methods relating to same
An irrigation emitter and drip line, and methods relating to same, are provided for reducing the flow and pressure of fluid via an emitter or plurality of emitters defined by two concentric tubes. In one form, the first tube defines an emitter inlet and connected pressure-reducing flow channel and the second tube is extruded over the first tube to enclose the emitter inlet and flow channel and defines an outlet connected to an end of the flow channel opposite the inlet to create an emitter for converting fluid flowing at a high flow rate in the lumen and at the first end of the inlet to a fluid with a low flow rate at the outlet of the emitter. In another form, a drip line is provided having a plurality of such emitters. Various other forms and methods relating to the emitter and drip line are also disclosed.
US09877441B2 Elastomeric emitter and methods relating to same
An irrigation drip emitter, and methods relating to same, are provided for delivering irrigation water from a supply tube to an emitter outlet at a reduced and relatively constant flow rate. The emitter having at least one movable member for compensating for fluctuations in supply line fluid pressure. In one form the movable member includes a tapered baffle section movable between a first position wherein fluid is allowed to flow over the tapered baffle section and a second position wherein fluid is prevented from flowing over at least a portion of the tapered baffle section and the tapered baffle section effectively lengthening the extent of a pressure reduction passage. In another form, first and second movable members are provided for compensating for such pressure fluctuations. In another form, a plurality of inputs are provided which are movable between first and second positions to compensate for such pressure fluctuations.
US09877439B1 Irrigation system, components, and method of their use
This invention provides a method for irrigating an area by providing a fluid conduit coiled on a spool. The conduit includes a plurality of sprinkler ports disposed spaced apart along a length axis of the conduit. Each sprinkler port has an affixed connection structure operable to removably connect, removably quick-connect, or quick-deploy a riser, and a portion of that connection structure is disposed inside the hydraulic cross-section of the conduit. The method includes uncoiling a length of the conduit to dispose that uncoiled length of conduit as a line across the area to be irrigated. The uncoiled conduit may then be used to irrigate the area as desired. When finished, the length of conduit may be removed from the irrigation area by again coiling it onto a spool.
US09877438B2 Segmented variable rate drip irrigation
A segmented variable drip irrigation system, comprised of a first horizontally disposed conduit and a second horizontally disposed conduit encompassing the first horizontally disposed conduit. The first horizontally disposed conduit passes through a forward end section, a middle section and exits through a rear end section of the second horizontally disposed conduit. The second horizontally disposed conduit contains a drain mounted to its end, at least one flow control valve and a plurality of drip emitters connected to the second horizontally disposed conduit.
US09877436B1 Pivoting hanging baskets assemblage weighted for gravity closure
Hanging baskets assemblage includes a plurality of vertically mounted baskets pivotally suspended in a support framework allowing them to swing freely. Freely pivoting hanging baskets in the assemblage allows the baskets to easily tilt down on one side to expose contents simply with the weight of a hand. The utility is further augmented by an optional ancillary member, which provides a counter balance weight hung on one side of a plurality of baskets to assist gravity to allow the baskets to pivot back to a neutral or closed position. The ancillary member also permits the simultaneous opening and closing of all the baskets offering further utility. One embodiment of said ancillary member has a series of insertion cutouts with lip-hooks that engage with the baskets through an insertion slot in the rigid basket brims, a second embodiment is attached directly to the baskets with coupled eye-screws or other bendable means.
US09877431B2 Auger for transverse crop material movement
An agricultural harvester includes: a chassis; a cleaning system carried by the chassis; a crop material elevator supplied with crop material that has passed through the cleaning system; and an auger supplying the crop material from the cleaning system to the crop material elevator. The auger includes: an auger axle configured to rotate and defining an auger axis of rotation; a first flighting having a first helical direction and configured to be rotated by the auger axle; a second flighting having a second helical direction opposite to the first helical direction, the second flighting configured to be rotated so as to direct crop material conveyed by the first flighting back toward the first flighting; and a thrower connected to the first flighting and the second flighting and configured to convey crop material transversely relative to the auger axis of rotation.
US09877429B2 Swather tractor with a compressor attachment
A swather includes a swath compression panel with a downwardly and rearwardly inclined undersurface for applying a downward compression force on the swath between the front and rear wheels. A mounting assembly includes an actuator operable in response to a speed and/or direction of travel of the tractor for raising the panel to a retracted position under the tractor. A bottom stop halts downward movement of the actuator before the panel engages the ground. The panel includes an upwardly and rearwardly inclined curved rear portion to smoothly release the compressed crop. The panel is mounted on the tractor frame at a position thereon rearward of a transverse beam connected to the front wheels so that the swath is released from the discharge opening of the header and can expand for discharge to the ground before the swath is engaged by the front end of the panel.
US09877422B2 Drawn agricultural machine
A drawn agricultural machine comprising a carrier frame for carrying processing members, the carrier frame supportable on the ground, at least during transport, by means of a wheel set comprising at least a wheel, a coupling frame for coupling the agricultural machine 1 to the three-point suspension of a tractor, the coupling frame comprising two lower coupling points and an upper coupling point and the coupling frame being rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation relative to the carrier frame. The machine also comprises a drawing element for exerting a force on the coupling frame, wherein the coupling frame, the carrier frame and the drawing element are interconnected in such a manner that a downward force component is exerted on the lower coupling points when the drawing element exerts a force on the coupling frame.
US09883620B2 Shielded electrical cable
A shielded electrical cable includes a conductor set and two generally parallel shielding films disposed around the conductor set. The conductor set includes one or more substantially parallel longitudinal insulated conductors. The shielding films include a parallel portion wherein the shielding films are substantially parallel. The parallel portion is configured to electrically isolate the conductor set.
US09883619B2 Shielding apparatus
A shielding apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board including a plurality of catching parts, a shield member configured to cover the printed circuit board, and at least one shield fastening part provided in the shield member and configured to be one of fastened to and separated from the plurality of catching parts by a resilient force while not protruding.
US09883617B2 Air-conditioning control apparatus for data center
An air conditioning system having an inlet air temperature calculating block that calculates a variation in air temperature at an inlet port of each unit based on position information and also calculate the air flow rate through each unit. A temperature sensitivity calculating block calculates temperature sensitivity of each unit obtained by dividing the variation in air temperature at the inlet port by a variation in air temperature at an outlet port of each unit. An inlet air temperature calculating block calculates the air temperature at the inlet port of each unit on the basis of the air temperature at the outlet port of each unit, and the temperature sensitivity.
US09883616B2 Manifold heat exchanger
A manifold for cooling electronic equipment, the manifold including a facility side coolant supply line, a facility side coolant return line, liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers, and pumps. The liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers are connected in parallel to the facility side coolant supply line. Each of the pumps is coupled to a liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger and regulates coolant flow through the coupled liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers.
US09883615B2 Semiconductor memory device having a heat conduction member
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a conductive region on a surface thereof, a semiconductor memory unit, a memory controller, at least one of the semiconductor memory unit and the memory controller being disposed on the substrate, a housing enclosing the substrate, and a heat conduction member in contact with and pressed between the conductive region and a portion of the housing.
US09883611B2 Fan control circuit
A fan control circuit drives and adjusts a rotation speed of a fan according to operating temperatures of a plurality of heat elements. The fan control circuit includes a plurality of temperature detection units, a temperature synthesizing unit, and a driving signal generation unit. Each of the temperature detection units respectively detects the operation temperature of each of the heat elements and outputs a temperature detection signal corresponding to each of the heat elements. The temperature synthesizing unit calculates and outputs mean temperature signals according to the plurality of temperature detection signals and a plurality of predetermined weighted values corresponding to the heat elements. The driving signal generation unit generates driving signals to the fan according to the mean temperature signals.
US09883610B1 Electronic device filter door
An electronic device may include a door filter that is moveable to transition between a first position that enables visibility of a display located behind or underneath the filter and a second position that causes air entering the electronic device to pass through an air filter. In some embodiments, the door filter may be moveable or rotatable relative to a door filter frame that is removably coupled to an electronic device housing and located over an aperture in the electronic device housing. The door filter may include a first portion that couples to a second portion to secure or at least partially enclose the air filter. When the door filter frame is decoupled from the electronic device, a security door may close the aperture by engaging the same coupling points in the electronic device housing as previously engaged by the door filter frame.
US09883608B2 Cooling device for cooling a switchgear cabinet
The invention relates to a cooling device for cooling of a switchgear cabinet, comprising an air inlet side for warm air and an air outlet side for cooled air, wherein a heat exchanger and at least one fan unit having a radial fan are located between the air inlet side and the air outlet side, and wherein the fan unit creates an air stream through the heat exchanger having a main flow direction between the air inlet side and the air outlet side, wherein the fan unit is located in the main flow direction behind the heat exchanger, characterized in that the fan unit comprises an air guide geometry, so that air exhausted from the radial fan is redirected into the main flow direction.
US09883607B2 Independent aisle containment system
An aisle containment system is disclosed. The aisle containment system includes a frame defined by wall beams, header frames, and a plurality of posts secured to the wall beams and header frames. The header frames extend the width of the frame and the wall beams extend the length of the frame. A plurality of blanking panels extend from the floor to one of the wall beams. The plurality of blanking panels have a top, a bottom, a first side and a second side. Vertical stiffeners are positioned along at least one of the first side and the second side of each blanking panel. The blanking panels overlap adjacent blanking panels along the length of the frame. The blanking panels are laterally adjusted to fill openings in the aisle containment system.
US09883606B1 Power supplies
In various examples, a system comprises a first plurality of power supplies comprising a first plurality of external electrical connectors, and a second plurality of power supplies comprising a second plurality of external electrical connectors. The first plurality of power supplies may be symmetric with the second plurality of power supply about an axis of symmetry. The system further comprises a common fan module. The common fan module comprises a fan to cool the first plurality of power supplies and the second plurality of power supplies, a power inlet, a third plurality of electrical connectors, a fourth plurality of electrical connectors. The third plurality of electrical connectors are capable of being electrically coupled to the first plurality of electrical connectors, and the fourth plurality of electrical connectors are capable of being electrically coupled to the second plurality of electrical connectors.
US09883601B2 Intelligent terminal with irregular shape battery
Provided is an intelligent terminal, which includes a battery and a main board, and the battery and the main board are mounted in the shell of the intelligent terminal, and the battery at least half surrounds the main board.
US09883596B2 Method for producing a switching device with a moisture-tight and electrically insulating cover and for producing an arrangement therewith
A method for producing a power electronic switching device comprising a substrate, having a power semiconductor component arranged thereon; a connection device, and terminal devices. The method comprises: Providing the substrate with an insulation ply and conductor tracks electrically insulated from one another, wherein a power semiconductor component is arranged on a conductor track and is cohesively connected thereto; Arranging the connection device embodied as a film stack; Arranging a thin pressure- and temperature-resistant and moisture-blocking insulation layer along a surface contour of the connection device and comprising a covering section and an overlap section, which overlaps the connection device circumferentially and covers the substrate in a circumferential contact region; Cohesively connecting the connection device to the substrate, whereby the connection device connects the switching device in a circuit-conforming manner internally; Connecting the covering section to the connection device; Connecting the overlap section to the contact region.
US09883592B2 Wiring board and method for manufacturing the same
A wiring board includes a substrate which has multiple opening portions and one or more boundary portions separating the opening portions, multiple electronic devices positioned in the opening portions of the substrate, respectively, a conductive pattern formed on a surface of the boundary portion, and an insulation layer formed on the substrate and the conductive pattern on the boundary portion of the substrate such that the insulation layer covers the electronic devices in the opening portions of the substrate. The boundary portion has a width which is in a range of approximately 0.05 to approximately 2.0 mm.
US09883588B2 Oriented copper plate, copper-clad laminate, flexible circuit board, and electronic device
According to this invention, an oriented copper plate which has a highly developed cube texture and has strength and breaking elongation greater than those of a conventional material having a cube texture, a copper-clad laminate, a flexible circuit board that is excellent in terms of folding flexibility, and an electronic device are provided, and a process for producing the oriented copper plate is established. This invention relates: an oriented copper plate, which contains 0.03% by mass to 1.0% by mass of Cr, the remainder of which is composed of copper and inevitable impurities, wherein the copper plate has a <100> main orientation so that the area percentage of a <100> preferred orientation region is not less than 60.0%, the region satisfying a condition that allows each of a thickness direction of the copper plate and a specific in-plane direction of the copper plate to have an orientation difference of not more than 15° with respect to a <100> basic copper crystal axis of unit lattice of copper, and wherein Cr precipitates having equivalent circle diameters of 4 nm to 52 nm are present at 300 precipitates/μm3 to 12000 precipitates/μm3; a copper-clad laminate and a flexible circuit board using the copper plate; and an electronic devices equipped with the flexible circuit board.
US09883586B2 Wiring substrate for bonding using solder having a low melting point and method for manufacturing same
There is provided a wiring substrate including an electrode including Cu or a Cu alloy, a plating film having a film including at least Pd, formed on the electrode, and a solder which is bonded onto the plating film by heating, has a melting point of lower than 140° C., and includes Pd dissolved therein, a Pd concentrated layer being absent between the solder and the electrode.
US09883584B2 Method of manufacturing a multilayer flexible printed circuit board
[Problem to be Solved]A multilayer flexible printed circuit board having a strip line advantageous to folding is provided.[Solution]A multilayer flexible printed circuit board 100 of an embodiment is a multilayer flexible printed circuit board having a strip line foldable at a folding part F1, the board including: a flexible insulative substrate 30; an inner layer circuit pattern 5 provided inside the flexible insulative substrate 30 and including a signal line 6 extending in a predetermined direction; a ground thin film 14a constituting a ground layer at least in the folding part F1 out of a ground layer of the strip line and constituted of a nonelectrolytic plating coat 14 formed on the flexible insulative substrate 30; and a protective layer 20 that covers the ground thin film 14a and is in close contact with an exposed part 19 from which the flexible insulative substrate 30 is exposed.
US09883582B2 Circuit boards and circuit board assemblies
A printed circuit board includes a body and a belly pad seated within with the body. The belly pad is electrically separated into a first pad and a second pad. The first pad and the second pad are arranged to be electrically connected to one another by an interconnect electrically connecting the belly pad to a conductive plane of an electrical component, thereby allowing continuity testing across an interface between the first pad and the interconnect.
US09883580B1 Printed circuit board that provides a direct thermal path between components and a thermal layer and method for assembly
A method of assembling a component to a printed circuit board that includes a thermal layer and a circuit layer separated by a dielectric layer. The circuit layer includes circuit pads that correspond to terminal surfaces on the component. The dielectric layer includes an aperture that exposes a portion of the thermal layer that correspond to a thermal pad on the component. Solder paste is applied to the circuit pads and the exposed thermal layer. Lower surfaces of the solder paste are in contact with the circuit pads and the thermal layer and upper surfaces of the solder paste are substantially coplanar. The component is placed on the solder paste. The printed circuit board and the component are heated to create solder joints between the terminal surfaces on the component and the circuit pads and between the thermal pad on the component and the thermal layer.
US09883579B1 Package structure and manufacturing method thereof
A package structure includes a circuit substrate, first and second build-up circuit structures, and a plurality of piezoelectric heat dissipation units. The circuit substrate includes a core layer, a plurality of electronic devices, and a conducting unit. The electronic devices are embedded in the core layer, and active surfaces of the two adjacent electronic devices respectively face a first surface and a second surface of the core layer. The conducting unit is disposed on the core layer and electrically connected to the electronic devices. The first and second build-up circuit structures are respectively disposed on the first and the second surfaces and respectively have at least one first and at least one second openings. The piezoelectric heat dissipation units respectively correspond to the active surfaces of the electronic devices and are electrically connected to the conducting unit exposed by the first and the second openings.
US09883572B2 Electronic device
An electronic device adapted for adjusting a light effect of a CCFL is provided. The electronic device is electronically connected to the CCFL. The electronic device comprises a PWM controller configured to receive at least a digital signal and to output a specific-frequency reference signal according to the digital signal, a driver electronically connected to the PWM controller and configured to output a first voltage signal according to the specific-frequency reference signal, and a transformer electronically connected to the driver and the CCFL. The transformer amplifies the first voltage signal to generate a second voltage signal and sends the second voltage signal to the CCFL. A light effect is generated by the CCFL according to the second voltage signal.
US09883561B1 Systems and methods for intelligent control related to triac dimmers by using modulation signals
System controller for a lighting system and method thereof according to certain embodiments. For example, the system controller includes a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal and a transistor including a first transistor terminal, a second transistor terminal, and a third transistor terminal. Additionally, the system controller includes a second controller terminal coupled to the first transistor terminal, and a third controller terminal coupled to the third transistor terminal. The system controller is configured to determine whether the first signal is associated with a leading-edge TRIAC dimmer based at least in part on the first signal, the leading-edge TRIAC dimmer being configured to receive an AC input voltage associated with at least a first half cycle from a starting time to an ending time.
US09883559B2 Light emitting diode lighting device
Disclosed is an LED lighting apparatus capable of performing lighting using a rectified voltage. The LED lighting apparatus may include a lamp divided into a plurality of light emitting modules, and perform lighting using a voltage obtained by lowering a rectified voltage, thereby preventing internal parts from being damaged by a surge voltage. Furthermore, the structure in which LED groups are arranged on a substrate can be improved to uniformize the light intensity.
US09883557B2 Two-terminal integrated circuits with time-varying voltage-current characteristics including phased-locked power supplies
A two-terminal IC chip and method thereof. For example, a two-terminal IC chip includes a first chip terminal and a second chip terminal. A first terminal voltage is a voltage of the first chip terminal, a second terminal voltage is a voltage of the second chip terminal, and a chip voltage is equal to a difference between the first terminal voltage and the second terminal voltage. The chip is configured to allow a chip current to flow into the chip at the first chip terminal and out of the chip at the second chip terminal, or to flow into the chip at the second chip terminal and out of the chip at the first chip terminal. The chip current is larger than or equal to zero in magnitude. The chip is further configured to change a relationship between the chip voltage and the chip current with respect to time. The chip is an integrated circuit, and the chip does not include any additional chip terminal other than the first chip terminal and the second chip terminal.
US09883552B2 Heat generator
A heat generator comprises a rotatable magnetic field and a heat exchanger (26) including a fluid path (45) for water set into an electrically conducting disc. An entry to and exit from the fluid path is provided for the water. Heat generated by rotating the magnetic field is transferred to water passing though the fluid path in the electrically conducting disc.
US09883551B2 Induction heating system for food containers and method
An induction heating system configured to sequentially heat a plurality of filled and sealed food containers is provided. The system includes an induction heating coil defining a lumen having a longitudinal axis. The lumen is configured to receive the containers during heating, and the induction coil is configured to generate an alternating magnetic field causing resistive heating of the container. The system includes a container moving device configured to move containers into the induction heating coil lumen prior to heating, to move containers while within the induction heating coil lumen and to move containers out of the induction heating coil lumen after heating.
US09883549B2 Substrate support assembly having rapid temperature control
A substrate support assembly comprises a ceramic puck having a substrate receiving surface and an opposing backside surface. The ceramic puck has an electrode and a heater embedded therein. The heater comprises first and second coils that are radially spaced apart. A base of the support assembly comprises a channel to circulate fluid therethrough, the channel comprising an inlet and terminus that are adjacent to one another so that the channel loops back upon itself. A compliant layer bonds the ceramic puck to the base.
US09883548B2 Dynamic adjustment of keep-alive messages for efficient battery usage in a mobile network
Systems and methods for maintaining an IP (Internet protocol) connection in a mobile network are disclosed. Techniques are disclosed wherein an optimal keep-alive interval is determined, and dynamic adjustments of keep-alive message interval are employed to prevent detection and counter measure. Keep-Alive schedule information may be determined at a first mobile terminal for a network, and subsequently used for a second mobile terminal when the second mobile terminal encounters that same network. In some embodiments, the Keep-Alive schedule information is stored at a network-node device. In some embodiments, the first mobile terminal and the second mobile terminal are cellular phones.
US09883546B2 Postponing a resending of a data service request
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for user equipment (UE) devices to perform a postponement of a data service request are described. A UE may detect a data service request failure during cell reselection and postpone a resend of the data service request based on a status of the cell reselection. The status may be an indication that the UE is attempting to camp on a cell or that the UE is monitoring one or more metrics associated with cell reselection. To postpone the data service request, the UE may postpone the data service request for a specified period of time or until the cell reselection is complete. The status may be monitored on a first layer of a protocol stack and the data service request may generated by a second layer of the protocol stack. The postponement may be for a fixed or variable time period.
US09883545B2 Apparatus and method for selecting channel in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for selecting a channel in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting information regarding a second channel and information regarding a third channel to a peer terminal in a first channel. The method also includes transmitting a first request signal for connection with the peer terminal in the second channel. The method further includes if a response signal for the first request signal is not received in the second channel, transmitting a second request signal for connection with the peer terminal in the third channel. The first channel belongs to a first band, and the second channel belongs to a second band. The present disclosure also includes other exemplary embodiments different from the aforementioned exemplary embodiment.
US09883544B1 Automatic wireless docking system
An automatic wireless docking system includes a source device that includes a source device display screen, a display device, and a sink device that is coupled to the display device. The sink device determines a location of the source device and determines a motion of the source device. The sink device then identifies a wireless docking intent of the source device with the sink device based on the location of the source device and the motion of the source device. In response to identifying the wireless docking intent, the sink device establishes a current wireless docking session between the source device and the sink device.
US09883535B2 Channel access method and apparatus therefor
Disclosed are a channel access method and an apparatus therefor. A channel access method in a wireless LAN includes the steps of determining whether an STA (station) changes a first access category for a probe request frame; and if a first access category is changed to a second access category, performing a back-off process for enabling the STA to transmit the probe request frame based on the second access category, wherein the second access category may have a lower priority than the first access category.
US09883530B2 Radio frame receiving method and device
Disclosed are a method and device for receiving the radio frame. The method comprises: a first functional entity of a station detects that a channel signal intensity reaches a preset threshold, and the first functional entity starts receiving a radio frame and sends an indication that a channel detection result is busy to a second functional entity of the station; the first functional entity determines that the station is not a target station for receiving the radio frame, and sends an indication of ending up receiving the radio frame to the second functional entity; and when transmission of the radio frame ends, the first functional entity sends an indication that the channel detection result is idle to the second functional entity. The disclosure provides a reception operation processing procedure of a station having the function of discarding the radio frame while not updating a network allocation vector (NAV).
US09883529B2 Controlling uplink transmissions in communication systems with scheduled trigger frames
Example methods disclosed herein for a station in a communication system include accessing a response frame received in response to a control frame transmitted to an access point. The response frame indicates a start time for a trigger frame to be transmitted by the access point to trigger the station to transmit an uplink transmission. Disclosed example methods also include controlling a receiver of the station to receive the trigger frame at the indicated start time. Example methods disclosed herein for an access point in a communication system include transmitting a response frame to a station in response to a control frame received from the station. The example response frame indicates a start time for a trigger frame to be transmitted by the access point to trigger the station to transmit an uplink transmission. Disclosed example methods also include transmitting the trigger frame at the indicated start time.
US09883525B2 Method and apparatus of configuring timing of uplink transmission
The present disclosure is to provide a method of configuring timing of uplink (UL) transmission, comprising, receiving, by a user equipment (UE), configuration information on carrier aggregation (CA) of at least one frequency division duplex (FDD) cell and at least one time division duplex (TDD) cell; and adjusting, by the UE, starting timing of a UL subframe in a cell participating in the CA.
US09883523B2 Method for managing wireless resource and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for scheduling a terminal in a wireless communication system permitting overlapping between base station clusters, and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: grouping a plurality of terminals into a plurality of groups satisfying predetermined conditions; and selecting one more terminals for scheduling by means of a group-based greedy algorithm for each of the plurality of groups, wherein, in the group-based greedy algorithm, a check is skipped for whether the total number of base station antennas corresponding to each group is equal to or greater than the number of terminals selected from each group.
US09883513B2 Scheduling of device-to-device scheduling assignment for mode1
Methods, systems, and devices are described for transmitting or receiving at least one grant to a device. The at least one grant may identify one or more scheduling assignment (SA) resources on which an SA is to be transmitted by the device for device-to-device (D2D) communications. The at least one grant may also identify one or more data resources on which data is to be transmitted by the device for D2D communications.
US09883512B2 Method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmit power of UE, UE, and base station
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for controlling uplink transmit power of UE, UE, and a base station, and the method includes: determining subframe configuration information, where the subframe configuration information is used to indicate base stations corresponding to all subframes in a radio frame; determining static power control parameters corresponding to all the base stations; determining a TPC adjustment value of a current subframe; and determining uplink transmit power of the current subframe according to a static power control parameter corresponding to a base station corresponding to the current subframe and the TPC adjustment value of the current subframe. In the embodiments of the present invention, when UE is connected to at least two base stations, control over uplink transmit power can be implemented when the UE sends data to different base stations.
US09883506B2 Apparatus and methods for a bandwidth efficient scheduler
Methods and apparatus for scheduling shared time resources. In one embodiment, Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 interfaces with overlapping frequency ranges are managed by an intelligent scheduler entity or process that schedules time slots for human interaction devices based on predictions on which Bluetooth device is active. By reducing the number of time slots reserved for inactive Bluetooth devices, the scheduler can free up time slots for IEEE 802.11 systems without significant perceptible impact on the Bluetooth devices. The freed time slots can increase in IEEE 802.11 performance by providing additional bandwidth (which can be perceptible by the user), thereby increasing user satisfaction and experience.
US09883504B2 Master-slave base station cluster, central unit, remote unit, and information processing method
Embodiments of the present invention provide a master-slave base station cluster, a central unit, a remote unit, and an information processing method. The master-slave base station cluster includes: a central unit and at least one remote unit, where each remote unit is connected to the central unit through a remote interface; the central unit includes: at least one of a MAC layer function module, an RLC layer function module, a PDCP layer function module, and an RRC function module, and a first interface function module; and each remote unit includes: a second interface function module, an L1 layer function module, and another function module of the MAC layer function module, the RLC layer function module, the PDCP layer function module, and the RRC function module except the function module included in the central unit.
US09883503B2 Method for setting search region for downlink control channel in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
A method for receiving an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) from a base station by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE receives a first EPDCCH for a first carrier by monitoring first EPDCCH candidates for the first carrier in a specific physical resource block (PRB) pair set. The UE receives a second EPDCCH for a second carrier by monitoring second EPDCCH candidates for the second carrier in the specific PRB pair set. A position of the second EPDCCH candidates is determined by applying an offset value for the second EPDCCH candidates into a position of the first EPDCCH candidate. The offset value for the second EPDCCH candidates is determined based on a carrier indicator field of the second carrier.
US09883501B2 Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO
A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.
US09883500B2 Method and base station for transmitting downlink signal and method and equipment for receiving downlink signal
A base station of the present invention configures resources in which a downlink signal is to be transmitted with zero power using resource sets defined for a specific number of antenna ports, regardless of the number of antenna ports actually configured in the base station, and transmits resource information indicating the configured resources to a user equipment. The user equipment of the present invention receives a downlink transmission from the base station, assuming that transmission power of resources corresponding to a resource set indicated by the resource information is zero.
US09883499B2 Downlink control for wireless heterogeneous telecommunications
A heterogeneous radio access network (20) comprises a macro layer (22) including at least one macro base station (24) and a micro layer comprising at least one micro base station (26). In an example embodiment a base station node comprises a scheduler (40) and a communication interface (42). The scheduler (40) is configured to prepare a subframe for transmission over a radio interface by configuring the subframe to include a micro layer downlink control channel region in addition to a macro layer downlink control channel region. The communication interface (42) is configured to transmit at least the subframe over the radio interface.
US09883497B2 Control signaling transmission and detection methods, base station, and terminal
A control signaling transmission method, a control signaling detection method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The transmission method includes: a base station determining an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) resource region of the terminal in a current subframe according to at least one of multiple parameters, and transmitting control signaling to the terminal on some or all of the resources in the ePDCCH resource region. The above technical scheme can adapt to the dynamically-changing transmission capabilities of subframes, improves the transmission performance of the control signaling on an ePDCCH, increases the accuracy of the terminal in searching for the control signaling, and conserves terminal consumption. Therefore, the present document has a great industrial applicability.
US09883495B2 Extending physical downlink control channels
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving at least one Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method for receiving includes receiving information representative of presence of carrier indicator by higher layer signaling from a Node B; receiving information representative of at least one cell indicator by higher layer signaling from the Node B; defining an UE specific search space based on aggregation level, an UE ID, and at least one carrier indicator value, where the UE specific search space includes a set of Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) candidates based on the aggregation level; decoding at least one PDCCH including at least one DCI respectively by the UE ID; and acquiring the at least one DCI, wherein the at least one carrier indicator value is based on the at least one cell indicator.
US09883494B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting control information are discussed. The method can include generating uplink control information (UCI) and transmitting the UCI through an physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a subframe, wherein when the subframe is configured for transmission of a scheduling request (SR) and when transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD)-acknowledgement (ACK) coincides with the subframe, transmission power of the PUCCH is determined based on a number of HARQ-ACK information bits and a SR bit. A value of the SR bit can be determined by whether or not the subframe is configured for a scheduling request.
US09883491B2 Aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting for carrier aggregation
Aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting is discussed. An example user equipment includes a receiver circuit, processor, and transmitter circuit. The receiver circuit receives transmissions from a plurality of serving cells via a carrier aggregation (CA) mode and receives an aperiodic CSI reporting request indicating a set for CSI reporting. The plurality of serving cells comprises at least six serving cells, and one or more of the plurality is associated with the indicated set. The processor is operably coupled to the receiver circuit and calculates one or more CSI parameters for each serving cell of the plurality that is associated with the indicated set; and generates an aperiodic CSI report based at least in part on the calculated CSI parameters for each serving cell associated with the indicated set. The transmitter circuit transmits the aperiodic CSI report to an Evolved NodeB (eNB) via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).
US09883489B2 Radio communication system, radio station, radio terminal, communication control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A radio terminal (3) can perform carrier aggregation using a first cell (10) of a first radio station (1) and a second cell (20) of a second radio station (2). The first radio station (1) performs, with the radio terminal (3), radio resource control for the first cell (10) and the second cell (20) in order to perform the carrier aggregation. Further, the first radio station (1) transmits, to the second radio station (2), update information regarding an update to a configuration related to the radio resource control for the second cell (20). It is thus, for example, possible to prevent or reduce data transmission/reception failures which would otherwise occur while a configuration of radio parameters or the like is being changed by a radio terminal in carrier aggregation of a plurality of cells served by different radio stations.
US09883487B2 Scalable WLAN gateway
A technique for combining transmission bandwidths of several communication devices, such as mobile stations (MS1, MS2) is disclosed. A master mobile station (MS1) establishes (7-0) a WLAN access point communicating with WLAN client terminals (CT). One or more slave mobile stations (MS2) may detect a predefined network identifier and join the WLAN network. The master (MS1) assigns IP addresses for the client terminals (CT) and slave mobile stations (MS2). The master also resolves DNS queries in cooperation with external DNS servers. Traffic, including internet packets (IP1-IP4), between the client terminals and various internet hosts (HO) is tunneled over multiple simultaneous transmission paths (7-6, 7-8; 7-18, 7-22) between the master (MS1) and a multiplexing/demultiplexing computer (SM). The inventive bandwidth combination technique is transparent to the client terminals (CT) and the internet hosts (HO).
US09883485B2 Evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service on enhanced component carriers
Methods, systems, and devices are described for evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) utilizing enhanced component carriers (eCCs). A wireless system may send unicast data using resources allocated for multicast transmissions (e.g., eMBMS transmissions). The presence of unicast data in a transmission time interval (TTI) scheduled for multicast transmission may be indicated by a control region within the TTI. A UE may monitor the control region to identify the presence of unicast information. A TTI scheduled for multicast transmission may also include reference signals to aid in the demodulation of multicast or unicast data. In some cases, the reference signals may be front-loaded at the beginning or embedded within the TTI. The embedded reference signals may be configured based on the type of data carried by the TTI scheduled for multicast transmission, or by length of the cyclic prefix used by the TTI scheduled for multicast transmission.
US09883483B2 Systems and methods for coexistence of MBMS and VoIP services
Systems and methods for coexistence of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a network node in a cellular communications network is provided. The method includes determining a number of MBMS subframes for an MBMS allocation period. The method also includes, for each MBMS subframe of the number of MBMS subframes, assigning a frame number and a subframe number for the MBMS subframe such that a probability of a VoIP packet transmission during the MBMS subframe is mitigated. By mitigating the probability that a VoIP packet transmission occurs during a scheduled MBMS subframe, a VoIP user equipment (UE) may miss fewer packets and/or experience reduced battery drain.
US09883481B2 Telematics control system and method
A telematics control system includes: a telematics unit in a vehicle including a modem unit that transmits vehicle information via an external mobile communication channel; and a telematics center transmitting and receiving channel change information of the modem unit based on a message indicating a channel state of a paging mode or a quick paging mode of a channel selected according to communication environment information acquired from the telematics unit.
US09883479B2 Generating and publishing validated location information
A system and method for locating a network device. A location provider determines, based on location data, a location of a wireless access point. The location data includes location data from each of a plurality of network devices, wherein the location data for each network device includes the network device's location and data representative of a distance between the wireless access point and each network device. The location provider generates, based on the location of the wireless access point, location information for the wireless access point, signs the location information with a credential to form signed location information, and communicates the signed location information to the wireless access point.
US09883474B2 Ring-shaped synchronous network system and time slave station
A time slave station includes a synchronization error detecting unit that includes: a CW synchronization error detecting counter that counts a synchronization correction cycle of a transmission path in which a frame is transmitted in a first direction; a CCW synchronization error detecting counter that counts a synchronization correction cycle of a transmission path in which a frame is transmitted in a second direction; a CW synchronization-enabled time period timer that counts a CW synchronization frame reception-enabled time period; a CCW synchronization-enabled time period timer that counts a CCW synchronization frame reception-enabled time period; a CW-based synchronization error determining unit that determines whether the CW synchronization frame is received in the CW synchronization frame reception-enabled time period; and a CCW-based synchronization error determining unit that determines whether the CCW synchronization frame is received during the CCW synchronization frame reception-enabled time period.
US09883472B1 Methods and apparatus for beaconing within a wireless network based on an indication of distance
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for beaconing within a wireless network based on an indication of distance. For certain example embodiments, in a wireless network in which a master device is a device configured to transmit a beacon within the wireless network, a first wireless communication device may determine, based on an indication of distance between two wireless communication devices, if the first wireless communication device is to act as a master device. For example, a wireless signal may be received. Based at least partially on the received wireless signal, an indication of distance between two wireless communication devices in a wireless network may be obtained. And based at least partially on the obtained indication of distance between the two wireless communication devices, it may be determined if a first wireless communication device is to act as a master device within the wireless network.
US09883469B2 Telecommunications apparatus and methods supporting a power boost operating mode
A wireless telecommunication system includes base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.
US09883468B2 Power control method for guaranteeing quality of service of device to device direct communication and apparatus therefor
Disclosed is a method of controlling, by a device, power for guaranteeing the quality of service of a device to device (D2D) direct communication. In detail, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information containing at least one of channel information and information of a receiving side device in a D2D communication; estimating an uplink channel with the base station on the basis of the received information; and selecting a transmission power by comparing the channel gain value of the uplink channel with a threshold value for determining the maximum transmission power, and transmitting data to the base station using the selected transmission power, wherein the channel information comprises at least one of channel information of the D2D communication, uplink channel information between the device and the base station, and interference channel information between the device and the receiving side device in the D2D communication.
US09883464B2 Radio communication system and user device
A user device receives, from a base station, a radio signal in which non-orthogonal signals are mixed. The user device recognizes, based on information transmitted from the base station, a parameter associated with the location of the user device. When the user device is at the edge of the cell area of the base station, a demodulator of the user device demodulates, as a signal directed to the user device, the radio signal in which an interference signal component has been suppressed by an interference rejection combining processor of the user device and a non-orthogonal signal canceller of the user device does not operate. When the user device is within the cell area and is not at the edge of the cell area, until the demodulator demodulates the signal directed to the user device, the interference rejection combining processor suppresses an interference signal component in a non-orthogonal signal outputted from the non-orthogonal signal canceller and the demodulator demodulates the non-orthogonal signal in which the interference signal component has been suppressed by the interference rejection combining processor.
US09883459B2 Channel sounding techniques for a wireless communication system
A technique of operating a wireless communication system includes determining respective geometries of multiple subscriber stations, which include a first subscriber station and a second subscriber station, with respect to a serving base station. Respective channel sounding bandwidths for sounding the channel between the multiple subscriber stations and the serving base station are then scheduled, based on the respective geometries. The respective channel sounding bandwidths include a first channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the first subscriber station) and a second channel sounding bandwidth (associated with the second subscriber station). The first channel sounding bandwidth is greater than or equal to the second channel sounding bandwidth and the first subscriber station has a lower geometry than the second subscriber station.
US09883454B2 Feedback message alignment for multicarrier systems with flexible bandwidth carrier
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for signaling alignment for multicarrier systems that may utilize one or more flexible bandwidth carriers. Tools and techniques are provided that may help ensure signaling alignment with respect to feedback messages, such as ACK/NACK messages, in multicarrier systems that may utilize one or more flexible bandwidth carriers and/or systems that may utilize multiple different flexible bandwidth carriers. Some methods may include identifying timing for one or more subframes that carry one or more feedback messages for a first cell; and/or adjusting a timing for one or more subframes that carry one or more feedback messages for a second cell to align with the one or more subframes that carry the one or more feedback messages for the first cell. The first cell and/or the second cell may include at least one of the one or more flexible bandwidth carriers.
US09883453B2 Method and apparatus for terminal to camp on cell, and mobile terminal
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for a terminal to camp on a cell. A method for a terminal to camp on a cell includes acquiring, by a mobile terminal, a signal of an available cell, where when the mobile terminal is not camped on a serving cell, the signal of the available cell includes a signal, detected by the mobile terminal, of the cell, or when the mobile terminal camps on the serving cell, the signal of the available cell includes a signal of the serving cell and a signal of a neighboring cell of the serving cell. When a cell signal value of the available cell meets a standard cell access criterion, selecting, by the mobile terminal according to a signal strength and a historical camp-on success rate, an effective cell from the available cell, and camping, by the mobile terminal, on the effective cell.
US09883448B2 Wireless communication system in which NodeB broadcasts identification information on relay apparatus
A wireless communication system includes a first NodeB that forms a cell; and a relay apparatus to which the first NodeB connects and which relays data transmitted and received between the first NodeB and a core network. The first NodeB broadcasts identification information on the relay apparatus to which the first NodeB connects.
US09883444B2 Method and device for evaluating network performance
The present application provides a method and device for evaluating network performance, which relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining statistical data characterizing network performance; according to the statistical data, obtaining performance of neighbor relationship adjustment, or obtaining a degree to which the neighbor relationship adjustment affects the network performance. The present application determines impact of ANR algorithm on a network or a UE by collecting related status data, and solves a problem that whether degradation of UE performance or user experience is caused by the ANR algorithm cannot be determined in the prior art. Then a factor of ANR operation may be excluded from numerous factors which may affect a system or user experience, analysis capability of automatic troubleshooting is improved, and problem solving capability of operators is improved.
US09883443B2 Program for adjusting channel interference between access points in a wireless network
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can perform automatic power adjustment so that multiple APs can operate on the same channel while minimizing interference with each other. Wireless stations are load balanced across APs so that user bandwidth is optimized. A movement detection scheme provides seamless roaming of stations between APs.
US09883442B2 Offload processing method, control unit, and system
A method includes: after a user equipment UE accesses a first-standard network, acquiring, by a control unit, first resource status information of the first-standard network and second resource status information of at least one second-standard network having an overlapping area with the first-standard network, where the first-standard network or the second-standard network includes a wireless fidelity WiFi network; and determining, by the control unit according to the first resource status information and the second resource status information, whether offload processing needs to be performed for the UE.
US09883441B2 Method and apparatus to route packet flows over two transport radios
A method includes receiving packets of a flow at a packet data convergence protocol layer; and based on at least one criterion, routing the flow to one or both of at least one cellular transport radio and a wireless local area network transport radio. Another method includes receiving at a packet data network gateway from an S 1 interface a dynamic host configuration protocol request for a station; one of creating an internet protocol configuration for the station or generating another dynamic host configuration protocol request to a dynamic host configuration protocol server to obtain the internet protocol configuration; and delivering the internet protocol configuration to the station. Apparatus for performing the methods are also disclosed, as are computer-readable program storage devices.
US09883438B2 Communication apparatus, control method thereof, and program
A communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with another communication apparatus using a first communication method, a setting unit configured to set priority to each of a plurality of communication processing included in a record which is used in communication using the communication unit for performing handover from the first communication method to a second communication method that is different from the first communication method and which is for designating the second communication method, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the record including the plurality of information indicating the priority set by the setting unit to the another communication apparatus via the communication unit. As a result, the priority of each of the plurality of auxiliary information included in the record for indicating the communication method to which handover can be performed can be notified.
US09883432B2 Delivery of multicast and broadcast services concurrently with unicast data
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, user equipment receives unicast services from a first carrier of a primary serving cell and determines if Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast services (MBMS) services are available on a second carrier based at least in part on information in a broadcast carrier channel that indicates the second carrier or an identification (ID) of the second carrier. If MBMS services are available on the second carrier, the user equipment at least temporarily switches to the second carrier to receive the MBMS services. The user equipment may provide feedback to the network or the primary serving cell when it starts and stops receiving MBMS services, and then may switch back to the primary serving cell when MBMS services have ended or the user equipment no longer desires to receive MBMS services.
US09883428B2 Wireless terminals, base stations, communication systems, communication methods, and integrated circuits
Wireless terminals, base stations, telecommunications systems, telecommunications methods, and integrated circuits whereby efficient selecting of network cells in which terminals are camped are made available. A base station includes an information element that relates to cell reselection, which indicates whether each neighboring cell is a coverage-enhancement cell, in system information on the cells that support coverage enhancement, and transmits the system information, and a terminal, in a case where a serving cell is a coverage-enhancement cell, performs, based on system information that relates to cell reselection, a cell-reselection using cell-reselection parameters that relate to the coverage-enhancement cells.
US09883419B2 Efficient uplink scheduling mechanisms for dual connectivity
The present disclosure mainly relates to improvements for the buffer status reporting and the logical channel prioritization procedures performed in the UE, in scenarios where the UE is in dual connectivity and the PDCP layer of the UE is shared in the uplink for MeNB and SeNB. According to the present disclosure, a ratio is introduced according to which the buffer values for the PDCP are split in the UE between the SeNB and the MeNB according to said ratio.
US09883418B2 Wireless network load and throughput estimation
This disclosure relates to determining load and estimating throughput of wireless networks by a wireless device. According to some embodiments, the numbers of active downlink and uplink nodes in a wireless network may be determined. Channel utilization of the wireless network may also be determined. An uplink data rate and a downlink data rate of the wireless device in the wireless network may be estimated. Based on the numbers of active downlink and uplink nodes, channel utilization, and the uplink data rate and a downlink data rate of the wireless device, the maximum possible uplink throughput and downlink throughput of the wireless device in the wireless network may be estimated. Such throughput estimates may be used to select a wireless network to join from among multiple available wireless networks.
US09883416B2 User equipment reporting of the detection of blindly configured secondary cell
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for reporting blindly configured carrier aggregation secondary cells. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, by the user equipment, a secondary cell configured for the user equipment to allow access for carrier aggregation, wherein the secondary cell is blindly configured by a network before the detecting by the user equipment; and sending, by the user equipment, a report representative of the detected secondary cell to notify the network of the detecting by the user equipment. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09883412B2 Verification of a wireless protocol implementation
The description relates to wireless protocol verification. One example can obtain information relating to a wireless protocol and receive information relating to wireless communications associated with a wireless device. The example can compare the wireless communications with the wireless protocol and generate a verification report that conveys whether the wireless communications comply with the wireless protocol.
US09883407B2 Radio wave propagation environment measuring apparatus, radio network construction system, and method for measuring radio wave propagation environment
A method for measuring a radio wave propagation environment includes installing radio signal transmission and reception apparatuses where a radio network system is to be constructed and obtaining an electromagnetic wave measured value of a signal between transmission and reception apparatuses; estimating an electromagnetic wave propagation state of the signal using an electrical property and information on a three-dimensional structure at the site to obtain an electromagnetic wave estimated value; making a comparison between measured and estimated values for each time of day to determine when errors between measured and estimated values exceed a reference value; obtaining an electromagnetic path between transmission and reception apparatuses; and modifying structure information in the wave path to re-obtain the estimated value; and comparing the measured re-obtained estimated value to modify the three-dimensional structure information so that the error value becomes smaller.
US09883399B2 Apparatus and method for accessing wireless networks
A method and apparatus are for automatically accessing a social network account that provides member information about each of a plurality of social network members. The member information about at least one of the social network members, denoted as a particular member, includes a network detection portion and a security portion. The network detection portion is retrieved from the social network for at least the particular member. A detection is made that the wireless device is within range of a secure wireless network associated with the particular member. The detection uses the network detection portion of the particular member as an input. The security portion of the member information of the particular member is retrieved from the social network. The security portion is used to derive access credentials for the secure wireless network. The derived access credentials are used to securely access the secure wireless network.
US09883393B2 Systems, apparatuses, and methods for secure beacon authentication via mobile devices
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for secure beacon authentication via mobile devices are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a verification element comprises: a memory storing a plurality of non-repeated verification codes; a wireless broadcast element; and a processing circuit electronically coupled to the memory and the wireless broadcast element, the processing circuit being configured to retrieve one of the non-repeated verification codes from the memory and to transfer the non-repeated verification code to the wireless broadcast element, the wireless broadcast element being configured to wirelessly broadcast the non-repeated verification code to a plurality of mobile devices for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices, the non-repeated verification code being different than any other non-repeated verification code previously retrieved from the memory and used for individual verification of the plurality of mobile devices.
US09883391B2 Wireless session configuration persistence
A wireless access point employs a wireless configuration database for retrieving a stored wireless profile corresponding to a subscriber device from a remote location that enables the user to establish an Internet connection using their subscriber device with the same network identifiers and settings employed from the home wireless profile. The network identifier is typically an SSID (Service Set Identification), and labels the wireless configuration using a mnemonic name familiar to the user. The wireless configuration also denotes authentication and security (passphrase) tokens required for access, and would therefore enable the user to sign on at the remote wireless access point using the passphrase already known from their home WiFi arrangement. Subsequent attempts automatically establishing a connection to the subscriber device upon detection and authentication using the retrieved wireless profile without broadcasting an open SSID receivable by other wireless devices within range.
US09883387B2 Authentication using application authentication element
Embodiments of the present invention can be directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing transactions through mobile communication devices using either telecommunications networks or proximity near-field communications systems. Embodiments may be directed to a mobile communication device displaying an application authentication element. The application authentication element may include a pre-selected authentication element and transaction data associated with a transaction conducted by a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device may obtain the pre-selected authentication element by either transmitting a request to a server computer or retrieving the pre-selected authentication element from a secure memory in the mobile communication device. A user authentication token may be received by the mobile communication device from the user. The mobile communication device may generate a secret token that is derived from the user authentication token. If the secret token is correlated to a secret reference token, then a transaction may be conducted.
US09883371B2 Trip anomaly detection system
An anomaly detection system is provided in connection with a transport service. The anomaly detection system can construct routine route profiles for individual users of the transport service using historical route data. The anomaly detection system can monitor a current route traveled by a user. The anomaly detection system can further identify a matching routine route profile of the respective user. The anomaly detection system can utilize the matching routine route profile to identify a probable anomaly in the current route. In response to detecting the probable anomaly, the anomaly detection system can enable a safety protocol to perform a number of actions.
US09883370B2 Security and public safety application for a mobile device with enhanced incident reporting capabilities
In a plurality of described embodiments, various modules of an application for a client device may operate to enhance personal security for an individual user, and promote public safety in general. An incident reporting module provides the capability for users to submit descriptive details and a location of an incident, with selective uploading of images, which may be transcoded for faster transmission, to be followed by uploading of high resolution images once bandwidth permits. Transmission of the incident report is authenticated by the application generating a unique watermark based on a serial number of the client device, and by transmitting of the incident report with the unique watermark included thereon. The application is configured for maintaining a chain of custody of the incident report, by authenticating an ID of a user transmitting the report.
US09883369B2 System and method for providing assistance during medical emergency
Various aspects of a system and method to provide assistance during a medical emergency are disclosed herein. The system comprises one or more circuits in an electronic device configured to receive sensor data associated with a user from one or more sensing devices. A change in health condition of the user is detected based on the received sensor data. Alert information that corresponds to the detected change is communicated to one or more other electronic devices associated with one or more other users. The one or more other users are selected based on profiles of the one or more other users.
US09883368B2 Firefighting resource identification/icon communication linking apparatus and method of use thereof
The invention comprises a method and apparatus used to establish a communication link via selection of a graphic of a person or group overlaid on a map, such as via use of a communication aircraft or satellite without timely knowledge by a caller, without lookup, of the called person's or group's identity and/or phone number. Communication is aided by personal communicators worn and/or carried by the caller and person or group called. The established communication is optionally and preferably supplemented with a local representation of the environment, such as terrain, natural resources, available man-made resources, identification of teams, weather, visibility, and/or competing elements. The communication link is optionally integrated into a firefighting command and control system, a friend network, a company group, and/or for a team so time is not spent looking up a phone number.
US09883367B2 Method of updating a location information representing a physical location of a communication device, a computer program product for executing the method, and a communication system for updating the location information
A method of updating a location information, which represents a physical location of a communication device (2), is generated by a location source (1), and sent from the location source (1) via a location object generating unit (1A, 2A) and a cache unit (3A) to a location consumer (4), comprises caching a first location information (6) in the cache unit (3A), monitoring of a second location information (60) received subsequently to the first location information (6) at the location object generating unit (1A, 2A) by the location object generating unit (1A, 2A) to detect an invalid location information, and, triggered by the detection of an invalid location information (30, 50, 70), sending a location object (31, 51, 61, 71, 81) generated by the location object generating unit (1A, 2A) from the location object generating unit (1A, 2A) to the cache unit (3A), wherein the location object (31, 51, 61, 71, 81) comprises an invalidation information (85-88) indicating that a location information (6, 83) sent prior to the location object (31, 51, 61, 71, 81) is invalid such that, when the location object (31, 51, 61, 71, 81) is received at the cache unit (3A), the cached first location information (6) is discarded by the cache unit (3A).
US09883364B2 Apparatus and method for transmitting handwriting animation message
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting a handwriting animation message. Handwriting animation message data is received from a transmitting mobile terminal. Specifications of a receiving mobile terminal, which is to receive the handwriting animation message data, are analyzed to determine whether the receiving mobile terminal is capable of reproducing the handwriting animation message. If the receiving mobile terminal is not capable of reproducing the handwriting animation message, the handwriting animation message data is converted into a data format which can be reproduced by the receiving mobile terminal, and transmitting the converted format. If the receiving mobile terminal is capable of reproducing the handwriting animation message, the received handwriting animation message data is transmitted.
US09883361B2 Delivering time synchronized arbitrary data in an RTP session
The disclosure relates to wireless communications. An aspect generates a plurality of packets of data, each packet comprising a header and a payload of media data, receives opaque data related to a payload of at least one packet, and embeds the opaque data in an extension header of the at least one packet. An aspect receives a plurality of packets of data, each packet comprising a header and a payload of media data, and receives opaque data related to a payload of at least one packet, the opaque data embedded in an extension header of the at least one packet.
US09883359B2 Circuit-switched services over SAE/LTE networks
A method and apparatus for providing both Mobile Terminated, MT, and Mobile Originated, MO, circuit switched (CS) services such as Short Message Service, SMS, services in networks utilizing CS Fallback and CSoLTE-I architectures. An extended SGs interface referred to as SGs+ is implemented between a Mobility Management Entity, MME, in an SAE core network and a Mobile Switching Center Server, MSC-S. The SGs+ interface supports transmission of upper layer CS packet data units while utilizing either connectionless or connection-oriented Signaling Connection Control Part, SCCP, operation. The non access stratum, NAS, signaling support between the User Equipment, UE, and the MME is extended to provide support for both MT SMS and MO SMS service.
US09883356B2 Node and method for private mobile radio services
Example embodiments described herein are directed towards a PTC node and wireless terminal, and corresponding methods therein, for extended PMR based services. According to some of the example embodiment, through use of a PTC node, a wireless terminal may be simultaneously registered with the public radio access based network and the PMR based network. Thus, a wireless terminal which is not directly connected (or is unable to connect to) a PMR based network may still receive messages originating from the PMR based network.
US09883354B2 Method and system for localizing a vehicle and vehicle with a device for carrying out vehicle-to-X communications
A method for localizing a vehicle using vehicle-to-X communications is disclosed which provides improved position data. Signals from at least one object arranged outside a vehicle are received using a receiving unit arranged in the vehicle. A signal strength of the received signals is respectively measured and first position data of the vehicle is obtained by utilizing a determined position of using object. Second position data is determined based on the first position data. The signal strength or a change in the received signal strength is incorporated into the determination of the second position data.
US09883353B2 Method to transmit real-time in-vehicle information to an internet service
A system includes an in-vehicle system containing vehicle data, a mobile device, and an interface configured to connect the mobile device to the in-vehicle system. The mobile device is configured to access the vehicle data through the interface and post the vehicle data to a user network. The mobile device is able to be mounted within the vehicle by a docking mechanism.
US09883350B2 Positioning method and device
A positioning method includes: collecting and analyzing wireless messages sent by at least one wireless device in a current space to obtain a first characteristic pattern associated with the current space; performing a matching process to match the first characteristic pattern to at least one of a plurality of preset characteristic patterns, each of the plurality of preset characteristic patterns being associated with one of a plurality of spaces; obtaining, if the preset characteristic patterns comprise a second characteristic pattern that matches the first characteristic pattern, space information corresponding to the second characteristic pattern; and determining a position of the current space by using the space information corresponding to the second characteristic pattern. Moreover, each characteristic pattern comprises a correspondence between an identifier of each wireless device in a corresponding space and a signal quality of the wireless device.
US09883347B2 Specific velocity estimation of wireless network devices
Techniques are disclosed for determining a specific velocity of a device attached to a wireless network. The specific velocity can be determined using a handover count of the base station boundary transitions over a time window and/or using a set of sojourn time samples that each denote the duration the device remains in the zone of a particular base station. Techniques operate effectively in cellular networks having high base station densities. The specific velocity estimates may be inputs to components on the device or network to adjust a local device function or performance behavior.
US09883340B2 Method and apparatus for providing group route recommendations
An approach is provided for providing alternative route recommendations for a group of nearby users in a privacy preserving manner. A recommendation platform determines at least one group of one or more users within proximity of at least one location-based service, at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof. A recommendation platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more datasets associated with the group to cause, at least in part, a determination of whether to recommend the at least one location-based service, the at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof to the group. A recommendation platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of the at least one location-based service, the at least one location-based event, or a combination thereof to the group, the one or more users, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the determination of whether to recommend.
US09883339B1 Method of social-fencing based on physical proximity
A system and method for establishing patterns of social behavior for users of mobile devices. An administrator registers a person of interest with a service by identifying a mobile device used by the person of interest and generates one or more rules. The registered mobile device monitors network traffic of other surrounding mobile devices and sends their unique identifiers to the service. The service accesses one or more registries to identify users associated with the other surrounding mobile devices. The service determines whether any rule infractions occur based on one or more of the identified users, distances between the registered mobile device and other surrounding devices, frequencies of occurrences of mobile devices being relatively near and detected time periods. If any rule infractions occur, then the service generates an alert and sends it to the administrator.
US09883337B2 Location based services for RFID and sensor networks
Systems and methods for generating sensor tag locations expressed in a three-dimension global coordinate system from sensor tag locations expressed in three-dimensional local coordinate systems of mobile readers that read each tag and for updating the paths of each mobile reader are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data from one or more mobile reader agents, receiving tag location data that describes the location of one or more sensor tags expressed in local coordinates of the subspace of the mobile reader agent that read the sensor tag, converting the tag location data into a global coordinate system that is common to all mobile reader agents, and updating one or more paths of one or more mobile reader agents to increase the coverage of reading tags in the subspace of the mobile reader agent.
US09883334B2 Method and system for location-based communication
A method and system for location-based communication. A selection of a source transceiver from a plurality of available transceivers associated with a source may be received. A telephony session may be initiated with the selected source transceiver. A mobile target transceiver may be geographically located. A result of the geographic location regarding the located mobile target transceiver may be provided. The located mobile target transceiver may be connected to the telephony session.
US09883330B2 Device pairing using a secure zone
A method and system of secure zone pairing. Using the method, a low-power broadcast message is generated by a pairing device and transmitted within a broadcast zone, where the low-power broadcast message includes pairing information. A host device that is within the broadcast zone receives the low-power broadcast message and transmits a first indication that the host device is within the broadcast zone. A guest device that is within the broadcast zone receives the low-power broadcast message and transmits a second indication that the guest device is within the broadcast zone. The method pairs the host device and the guest device based on the pairing information, the first indication, and the second indication.
US09883328B2 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium
An information processing apparatus includes a data format determination unit determining whether data read by near field wireless communications correspond to data read in a peer-to-peer mode; a data attribute determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on attribute information of the data when it is determined that the data correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; a communication method determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on a communication method used when the data are read, when it is determined that the data do not correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; and an application use processing unit performing processing so that the application identified by the data attribute determination unit or the application identified by the communication method determination unit can use the data.
US09883323B2 Efficient routing for energy harvest and quality of service in wireless sensor networks
A WSN has multiple sensor nodes, a bi-directional gateway sensor node, and a server. The WSN also includes circuitry configured to process a route request message from an origination sensor node to a destination sensor node. A message packet of each of the sensor nodes includes a minimum energy field, a minimum energy harvesting rate field, and a sum of energy field. The circuitry is also configured to determine a new delivery route based upon comparing a minimum energy and a minimum energy harvesting rate of an instant sensor node with a minimum energy and a minimum energy harvesting rate contained in the message packet, and select a lower minimum energy and a lower minimum energy harvesting rate from the instant sensor node or the message packet. The circuitry is also configured to broadcast the lower minimum energy and the lower minimum energy harvesting rate throughout the WSN.
US09883318B2 System and method for stereo field enhancement in two-channel audio systems
The present invention provides methods and systems for digitally processing audio signals in two-channel audio systems and/or applications. In particular, the present invention includes a first filter structured to split a two-channel audio input signal into a low frequency signal and a higher frequency signal. A M/S splitter is then structured to split the higher frequency signal into a middle and a side signal. A detection module is then configured to create a detection signal from the middle signal, which is used in a compression module configured to modulate the side signal to create a gain-modulated side signal. A processing module is then structured to combine the low frequency signal, middle signal, and the gain-modulated side signal to form a final output signal.
US09883317B2 Audio signal processing apparatus
An audio signal processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive input of audio signals of a plurality of channels, an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information of a sound source, a sound field effect sound generating unit configured to generate a sound field effect sound by individually imparting a sound field effect to an audio signal of each of the channels, and a control unit configured to control the sound field effect to be imparted in the sound field effect sound generating unit, based on the position information.
US09883316B2 Method of generating multi-channel audio signal and apparatus for carrying out same
A method of generating a multi-channel audio signal includes: representing locations of a plurality of speakers as a plurality of polygons whose vertices are located at locations of corresponding speakers; acquiring a location of an object sound; calculating distances between the plurality of polygons and the location of the object sound; selecting one of the plurality of polygons on the basis of the calculated distances; and generating a multi-channel audio signal that corresponds to speakers corresponding to the selected polygon by mapping the object sound to the speakers corresponding to the selected polygon.
US09883315B2 Systems and methods for calibrating speakers
Systems and method are disclosed for facilitating efficient calibration of filters for correcting room and/or speaker-based distortion and/or binaural imbalances in audio reproduction, and/or for producing three-dimensional sound in stereo system environments. According to some embodiments, using a portable device such as a smartphone or tablet, a user can calibrate speakers by initiating playback of a test signal, detecting playback of the test signal with the portable device's microphone, and repeating this process for a number of speakers and/or device positions (e.g., next to each of the user's ears). A comparison can be made between the test signal and the detected signal, and this can be used to more precisely calibrate rendering of future signals by the speakers.
US09883314B2 Auxiliary augmentation of soundfields
A method for altering an audio signal of interest in a multi-channel soundfield representation of an audio environment, the method including the steps of: (a) extracting the signal of interest from the soundfield representation; (b) determining a residual soundfield signal; (c) inputting a further associated audio signal, which is associated with the signal of interest; (d) transforming the associated audio signal into a corresponding associated soundfield signal compatable with the residual soundfield; and (e) combining the residual soundfield signal with the associated soundfield signal to produce an output soundfield signal.
US09883306B2 Intelligent amplifier activation
Embodiments are provided for intelligently activating an amplifier in a playback device based on proximity detection. The playback device may be in a quasi-idle state when the playback device is not rendering media content. The quasi-idle state of the playback device may involve an amplifier in the playback device being inactive, while some other components or modules of the playback devices remain active. The playback device may include a proximity sensor configured to detect movement relative to the playback device. If movement is detected indicating that a user input to cause the playback device to render media content is anticipated, the amplifier may be pre-emptively activated such that the playback device enters an active state from the quasi-idle state. In some cases, the playback device may send a message to one or more other playback devices to cause the other playback devices to enter an active state.
US09883305B2 Non-linear control of loudspeakers
A nonlinear control system includes a controller, a model updater, and a model. The controller is configured to accept one or more input signals, and one or more updates generated by the model updater to produce one or more control signals. The system is configured to drive one or more transducers with the control signals to produce a rendered audio stream therefrom. The model updater is configured to analysis one or more portions of the audio stream and to update one or more aspects of the controller so as to alter performance of the transducer.
US09883300B2 Method and apparatus for controlling a hearing instrument to relieve tinitus, hyperacusis, and hearing loss
A hearing instrument and a method for operating a hearing instrument for relieving tinnitus, hyperacusis, and/or hearing loss is provided. The hearing instrument and/or the method includes receiving and manipulating an audio signal at a signal processor to create a manipulated audio signal, providing a tinnitus relief sound having an operational level based on a present volume level from an audio signal, and generating an output signal based on the manipulated audio signal and the tinnitus relief sound.
US09883295B2 Hearing aid with an antenna
A hearing aid includes: a signal processor; a wireless communications unit, the wireless communications unit being connected to the signal processor; and an antenna for electromagnetic field emission and electromagnetic field reception, the antenna being connected to the wireless communications unit, the antenna having an excitation point; wherein a first branch of the antenna extends from the excitation point and a second branch of the antenna extends from the excitation point; and wherein the antenna has a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency.
US09883291B2 Portable terminal
There is provided a portable terminal capable of acquiring sound information successfully simply by being brought near to or into contact with the ear without the necessity of careful handling. The portable terminal includes at least a vibration member having a first surface exposed to an exterior, a vibration element operative to vibrate the vibration member in response to an electric signal corresponding to sound information, and electronic circuitry that outputs the electric signal, a difference in amplitude between individual places within the first surface of the vibration member in a vibrating state being less than or equal to 60 dB in terms of a ratio of maximum value to minimum value of amplitude. A portable terminal can be obtained that is capable of acquiring sound information successfully simply by being brought near to or into contact with the ear without the necessity of careful handling.
US09883290B2 Audio driver assembly, headphone including such an audio driver assembly, and related methods
An audio driver assembly comprises a driver housing and an audio driver secured within the driver housing. The audio driver comprises a magnet assembly, a flexible diaphragm overlying the magnet assembly, and a spacer between the magnet assembly and the flexible diaphragm. A headphone and a method of forming a headphone are also described.
US09883289B2 Acoustic generator, acoustic generation device, and electronic device
An acoustic generator according to an embodiment includes at least a plurality of piezoelectric elements (exciters) and a vibrating portion. The piezoelectric elements vibrate upon reception of input of an electric signal. The piezoelectric elements are attached to the vibrating portion. The piezoelectric elements are attached to the vibrating portion asymmetrically with respect to all the symmetry axes of a figure drawn by a contour of the vibrating portion when seen from the above.
US09883288B2 Compliant constrained headband spring
A compliant constrained headband spring for audio headphones includes a headband spring element and a stiffness enhancing element coupled to the headband spring element. The compliant constrained headband spring exhibits a first stiffness in an open position and a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness when closed beyond a predetermined point.
US09883287B2 3D five-channel stereo earphone
A 3D five-channel stereo earphone, comprising: a rear housing, a frame installed on the rear housing, a loudspeaker mounted at a bottom of the frame, a front housing installed on the rear housing; the frame and loudspeaker being sealed and installed in a cavity between the rear housing and the front housing; the front housing having an output; the frame including several mutually isolated output channels connected to the output; the output channels having input holes disposed at the bottom of the frames and on the same horizontal plane; the output channels having output holes disposed on an upper surface of the frame, and the vertical distances between the output holes and the output are different; the headphone enables the optimum sound effects, acoustic quality, stimulated 3D sound effects and the 5.1-channel stereo sound, without adding any electronic circuits or applications.
US09883282B2 Acoustic deflector for omni-directional speaker system
An omni-directional acoustic deflector includes an acoustically reflective body that has a truncated conical shape which includes a substantially conical outer surface that is configured to be disposed adjacent an acoustically radiating surface (e.g., a diaphragm) of an acoustic driver thereby to define an acoustic radiation path therebetween. The acoustically reflective body is profiled such that a cross-sectional area of the acoustic radiation path increases monotonically with respect to radial distance from a motion axis of the acoustic driver.
US09883272B2 Magnetic retention of earbud within cavity
A case for an earbud includes a receiving cavity sized and shaped to accept the earbud within the receiving cavity. The case includes one or more housing magnetic components configured to magnetically attract and secure the earbud within the receiving cavity. The one or more housing magnetic components can be configured to form a Halbach array to increase the magnetic force of the one or more housing magnetic components. The earbud includes a speaker magnet and a separate magnetic element that are arranged to be attracted to the one or more housing magnetic components such that the earbud is attracted into the receiving cavity.
US09883266B2 Loudspeaker module and electronic device comprising the loudspeaker module
A loudspeaker module comprises a loudspeaker unit and a module housing. A front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity are formed between the module housing and the loudspeaker unit. The upper and lower ends of the front acoustic cavity and the rear acoustic cavity are open. The upper and lower end surfaces of the module housing are combined with a terminal electronic device through sealing cushions. An electronic device is also disclosed. The upper and lower surfaces of the module housing are combined with the circuit board or the device housing through sealing cushions. Such a structure fully utilizes the spaces of the loudspeaker module and the electronic device, expands the internal space of the loudspeaker module, increases the sizes of the loudspeaker unit and the sound cavities, and accordingly improves the acoustical performance of the product.
US09883265B2 Wireless speaker and system
A wireless audio speaker system that includes a speaker main unit and multiple functions provided by exchangeable accessories is disclosed. The speaker main unit includes a top sleeve and a bottom sleeve that covers the external surface of a more internal enclosure that houses the main unit electronics and circuitry. External electrical and mechanical connectors are configured to be positioned on speaker unit and are adapted to being connected to the accessories. One external connector is positioned on the top sleeve for passing power and audio signals between the speaker main unit and an accessory component that is mounted to the top sleeve. A second connector is configured to be positioned on the bottom sleeve for passing audio signals between the speaker main unit and a second speaker that is stacked to the bottom sleeve via stacking plate. Multiple exchangeable accessory components are described to seamlessly supplement functionality and enhance user experience.
US09883262B2 Optical network system, optical switch node, master node, and node
An optical network system includes a master node and a plurality of optical switch nodes, allowing the number of nodes without depending on the number of wavelengths. The master node is configured to: divide a wavelength path having an arbitrary wavelength into time slots each having a predetermined time period; and allocate the time slots to each of the optical switch nodes. Each of the optical switch nodes is configured to: synchronize the time slots based on information delivered from the master node; and thereby transmit or receive a data or performs route switching.
US09883257B2 Smart grid appliance control
Systems and methods for controlling small grids of appliances are described. One sample method includes receiving consumption data from a plurality of electrical appliances that are plugged into outlets at a first location and monitoring power usage at the first location. The method includes evaluating the received consumption data to identify one or more predetermined conditions in one or more of the plurality of electrical appliances and evaluating stored data related to power consumption preferences at the first location. The power consumption preferences define conditions when a consumer associated with the first location has agreed to enable remote control of at least one designated appliance upon an occurrence of one or more predetermined conditions. The method includes determining that the one or more conditions are satisfied and to provide a first secure communication to the first appliance to control the power consumption.
US09883254B2 Adding to a remote playlist
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate discovery and remote configuration of content for playback via a multimedia playback network are disclosed. An example method includes facilitating identification of multimedia content being played, the identification including at least one of a content identifier associated with the content and the content itself. An example method includes relaying at least one of the content identifier and the content to a playback system located remotely from a location of the multimedia content playback, at least one of the content identifier and the content remotely added for playback at the playback system.
US09883249B2 Broadcaster tools for interactive shopping interfaces
Disclosed are various embodiments of broadcaster tools configured to manage interactive shopping interfaces presented in connection with a live video stream. A sequence of items scheduled to be featured within a live video stream is obtained. A user interface that facilitates editing the sequence of items is rendered. An edit to the sequence of items is received via the user interface. Item information transmitted to clients consuming the live video stream is modified based at least in part on the edit.
US09883244B2 Multi-source video navigation
A method of multi-source video navigation, comprising: receiving (402) an image sequence, each image of said sequence comprising a plurality of image parts (121, 122, 123, 24, 125, 126), the image parts of said plurality comprising image data arising from synchronized images of respective video streams, each video stream arising from a corresponding source, receiving (414) a selection parameter value (video_ch) arising from a user interface, said value corresponding to one at least of said video streams, and instructing (408) the displaying of the at least one image part, from among the image parts of this plurality, corresponding to the value of the selection parameter received.
US09883241B2 System and method for automatic content recognition and audience measurement for television channels and advertisements
The embodiments herein provide a system and method for measuring active participation of audience watching a TV programs and advertisements, in terms of age and gender. The system comprises a monitoring device which is configured to record TV audio, room audio and TV visual outputs, using an image sensor. The monitoring device is further configured to detect the audience engagement level, in watching the TV show, by monitoring the audience expressions and behavior. The audience engagement level is also detected by tracking the eye ball movement of the audience. The monitoring device is configured to continuously check and detect visitors who have joined along with already registered viewers to watch the TV programs. The monitored information is analyzed and visitor/viewer profile is created accordingly.
US09883240B2 Two-way television enabled therapeutic communication systems and methods
A communication method and system for providing a secure communication pathway between a user and a third-party is described. The system uses a telecommunications provider which has a controller for distributing and controlling electronic communications between a database, a translation server, a third-party provider of content and public identification information (PII), and at least one television of a user. The at least one television has a set-top box (STB) and a remote control. The STB has a unique electronic identifier (STB-ID). The STB communicates with the controller and the at least one television utilizing the STB-ID to ensure secure communications between the user, the telecommunications provider and the third-party.
US09883239B2 Method for transmitting broadcast service, receiving method thereof, and receiving device thereof
A method of a broadcast receiving device to receive broadcast service includes: receiving a broadcast table; receiving service signaling data corresponding to a service object; determining a consumption model of the service object on the basis of the service signaling data; receiving a content item configuring the service object on the basis of the service signaling data when the consumption model is a predetermined consumption model; displaying a guide on content on the basis of the broadcast table or the service signaling data; identifying one of the received content item according to an additional information request on the content; and controlling the guide on the basis of the identified content item.
US09883238B2 Asset conflict resolution for content on demand asset insertion
Systems and methods presented herein provide for conflict resolution of assets selected for insertion into COD content. In one embodiment, the system includes an interface operable to process a request for asset insertion into the COD content selection. The system also includes an asset conflict resolution module operable to identify asset timeslots within the COD content selection from the request, to evaluate the assets to determine conflicts among the assets, to remove conflicting assets, and to select at least a portion of the remaining assets for insertion in the asset timeslots of the COD content selection. For example, the asset conflict resolution module may determine that conflicts exist between certain assets based on various identifiers associated with the assets and/or content such that the conflicts between the assets may be resolved with the removal of one or more of the assets from potential asset insertion selection.
US09883237B2 System and method for providing information related to an advertisement included in a broadcast through a network to a client terminal
The present invention relates to a system and method for providing information related to an advertisement included in a broadcast over a network. The present invention provides a system for providing information related to an advertisement included in a broadcast to a client terminal, including a display unit, broadcast reception means and network connection means, over a network (hereinafter referred to as an “advertisement-related information provision system”), the system including a related information management unit configured to store related information corresponding to each advertisement included in a broadcast that is provided via a broadcast channel; an advertisement information identification unit configured to identify whether an advertisement stored in the related information management unit is being played during the broadcast that is provided via the broadcast channel; and a related information transmission unit configured to transmit related information, stored in the related information management unit for the advertisement identified by the advertisement information identification unit, to the client terminal over the network; wherein the client terminal includes a related information display unit configured to perform control so that the received related information is displayed on the display unit, and a method using the same.
US09883229B2 Cable modem apparatus, broadcasting signal receiving apparatus, broadcasting signal transmitting apparatus and control method thereof
A cable modem apparatus configured to switch between communicating over a plurality of channels and a channel different from the plurality of channels.
US09883228B2 Digital broadcast reception device and channel selection method
A digital broadcast reception device includes a first broadcast reception system, a second broadcast reception system, an audio similarity-degree detection processor, a service list storage unit, and a reception monitoring unit that sends a notification signal to the first broadcast reception system when a value representing reception status of a channel currently selected by the first broadcast reception system becomes low. Upon receiving the notification signal, the first broadcast reception system refers to values representing audio similarity-degree in a service list stored in the service list storage unit, thereby judges a program which is most similar to the program of the channel currently selected by the first broadcast reception system as an identical program, and switches the channel to a channel judged as the identical program.
US09883227B1 Audiovisual signal processing circuit and associated television signal processing method
A television signal processing circuit includes an audio/video (AV) signal generating circuit, an intermediate frequency (IF) mixer, a first filter, a radio-frequency (RF) mixer, a second filter and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The AV signal generator generates a digital AV signal. The IF mixer converts the digital AV signal to an IF AV signal. The first filter filters the IF AV signal to generate a filtered IF AV signal. The RF mixer converts the filtered IF AV signal to an RF AV signal. The second filter filters the RF AV signal to generate a filtered RF AV signal. The DAC converts the filtered RF AV signal to an analog AV signal and transmits the analog AV signal to an antenna.
US09883226B2 System and method for reconfiguration of an entertainment system controlling device
An entertainment device initiates a configuration process of a controlling device in response to a change in an audio visual entertainment system configuration in which at least one of a plurality devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source and at least one of the plurality of devices is connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device.
US09883225B2 Portable terminal, information processing apparatus, content display system and content display method
A portable terminal includes a receiving unit which receives content information, an external device communication unit which conducts communication with an external information device, a display unit which displays the content information received by the receiving unit, an acquiring unit which acquires identification information identifying the content information displayed by the display unit, an operation unit which receives an operation indication from a user, and a control unit which conducts control such that if a transmission indication of the identification information is received by the operation unit while the content information is being displayed, the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit is transmitted to the external information device and the display of the content information by the display unit is terminated.
US09883224B2 Take it with you premium video content
To allow a user to temporarily move access to premium content to another location, e.g. outside the vicinity of the home, while adequately protecting the rights of a broadcast content provider, the various examples implement a transfer of an object for an identified right of content usage between premium content reproduction devices and a mobile device. The mobile device enables such transfer to support viewing of the premium content by a user outside of the user's home.
US09883223B2 Apparatus and methods for multimedia coordination
Methods and apparatus for providing coordination between two or more different media distribution channels. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a server and associated client processes disposed of various components of a managed content distribution network (e.g., cable or satellite network). The server process coordinates with the client processes to obtain user interactivity data useful is assessing the efficacy of certain secondary content (e.g., advertisements). In one variant, input is received from, and provided to, other associated media campaigns (e.g., print, online, and/or telephonic) so as to allow rapid and effective coordination between the campaigns. Mechanisms for improving user engagement to the secondary content are also disclosed.
US09883220B1 Systems and methods for causing a stunt switcher to run a multi-video-source DVE
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for causing a stunt switcher to run a multi-video-source digital-video effect (DVE). An example method involves (i) selecting a first log-entry from a traffic log, wherein the first log-entry corresponds to a first video-component (VC) and a first start-time; (ii) selecting a second log-entry from the traffic log, wherein the second log-entry corresponds to a multi-video-source DVE, and a second start-time; (iii) causing the first VC to start being channeled through the stunt switcher proximate the first start-time; (iv) making a determination that a threshold time-period remains before the second start-time; and (v) responsive to making the determination, (a) causing a second VC to start being sent to the stunt switcher, and (b) causing the stunt switcher to run the multi-video-source DVE, thereby causing the stunt switcher to output a combined video, wherein the combined video includes the first VC and the second VC.
US09883211B2 Method and apparatus for selection of advertisements to fill a commercial break of an unknown duration
In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a user input requesting an event to be displayed; playing out the requested event; identifying a type of the requested event; estimating a duration of a next commercial break occurring in the requested event according to the type; selecting at least one advertisement having a duration corresponding to the estimated duration of the next commercial break; and playing out the at least one advertisement. Related systems, apparatus and methods are also described.
US09883210B2 Display device and method for operating the same
A method for operating a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of playing back a broadcast program; obtaining a user's watching status while the broadcast program is played back; and providing information of the display device if the obtained user's watching status is obtained as a non-visual watching status in which the user does not watch a display unit of the display device.
US09883204B2 Systems and methods for encoding source media in matroska container files for adaptive bitrate streaming using hypertext transfer protocol
Systems and methods for encoding source media in Matroska container files for adaptive bitrate streaming utilizing Hypertext Transfer Potocol (HTTP) in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a processor configured via a source encoding application to ingest at least one multimedia file containing a source video. In addition, the source encoding application further configures the processor to select a portion of the source video, transcode the selected portion of the source video into a plurality of alternative portions of encoded video, where each alternative portion is encoded using a different set of encoding parameters and commences with an intra frame starting a closed Group of Pictures (GOP), write each of the alternative portions of encoded video to an element of a different EBML container file, where each element is located within an EBML container file that also includes another element that indicates the encoding parameters used to encode the alternative portion of encoded video, and add an entry to at least one index that identifies the location of the element containing one of the alternative portions of encoded video within each of the EBML container files.
US09883202B2 Scaling video processing complexity based on power savings factor
A method of scaling complexity of a video processing system including determining a power saving factor based on an operating parameter and adjusting processing of video information based on the power saving factor to reduce computation complexity. The operating parameter may include available power and/or available processing capacity. A method of complexity scalability for a video processing system using prioritized layered coding including determining a power saving factor based on one or more metrics, such as power capacity and/or available processing capacity, and reducing processing complexity of multiple prioritized coding functions in a predetermined order of priority based on the level of the power saving factor. A video processing system including a power management circuit which determines the power saving factor and a video encoder system which correspondingly adjusts computation complexity.
US09883200B2 Method of acquiring neighboring disparity vectors for multi-texture and multi-depth video
The present disclosure relates to a method of acquiring neighboring disparity vectors for multi-texture and multi-depth video. The method belongs to the area of 3D-HEVC video coding technology. The method includes changing the standard associated with a disparity vector that is first searched as a final disparity vector. By deleting location which is minimum searched in candidate space and time location of the coding unit next to current coding unit to divide candidate space and time location of the coding unit into groups, the method takes searched disparity vector that is combined based on the proportion of adoption rate as final disparity vector. The method improves coding quality and at the same time maintaining origin fast algorithm efficiency. The embodiments of the present disclosure improve coding quality at least 0.05% and at the same time maintain origin fast algorithm efficiency while the decoding time is decreased to 97.1%.
US09883199B2 Coding method and apparatus with candidate motion vectors
Various embodiments for coding a current block of a picture are provided. A first candidate having a first motion vector predictor is derived from a first motion vector that has been used to code a first block. It is determined whether a total number of candidates having the first candidate is less than a predetermined maximum candidate number. A second candidate having a second motion vector predictor is derived when the total number of the candidates having the first candidate is less than the predetermined maximum candidate number. An index corresponding to a candidate having a motion vector predictor is coded. The candidate is one of a plurality of candidates having the first candidate and the second candidate. The predetermined maximum candidate number is fixed for all blocks in the picture.
US09883198B2 Video codec architecture for next generation video
Techniques related to video codec architecture for next generation video are described.
US09883197B2 Intra prediction of chroma blocks using the same vector
A device for coding video data is configured to: determine a coding unit of a picture of the video data is coded using an intra block copy mode; determine a vector for a first chroma block of the coding unit; locate a first chroma reference block using the vector, the first chroma reference block being in the picture; predict the first chroma block based on the first chroma reference block; locate a second chroma reference block using the vector, the second chroma reference block being in the picture; and predict a second chroma block of the coding unit based on the second chroma reference block.
US09883196B2 Video coding method, video decoding method, video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus
A moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.
US09883195B2 Image processing system and method for decoding during non-rendering period
An image processing apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to implement: a decoder which decodes input image data; and a rendering module which renders the decoded image data according to a rendering cycle which corresponds to a refresh rate of a display to display a plurality of image frames of the image data, wherein the decoder decodes the input image data only when the processor is not being in use for rendering by the rendering module.
US09883189B2 Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus for decoding flags indicating removal times
A decoding apparatus of decoding encoded data per unit from among units included in a picture is provided. The decoding apparatus includes at least one processor. A buffer is coupled to the processor and stores the encoded data. The processor decodes, from a bitstream including the encoded data, a first flag which indicates whether a removal time of the encoded data from the buffer is set per unit. A second flag indicates whether an interval between removal times of the units is constant when the removal time is set per unit. Control information of the bitstream includes common-interval information when the second flag indicates that the interval is constant. The common-interval information is distinct from the second flag and indicates a constant time interval between removal times of any two consecutive units.
US09883182B2 Method and apparatus for setting reference picture index of temporal merging candidate
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced.
US09883179B2 Measurement of IR emissions and adjustment of output signal
Various arrangements for monitoring and mitigating infrared (IR) interference from a display device are presented. IR emissions from a display device are measured the IR signaling characteristics may be adjusted to mitigate interference from the emissions. Calibration methods may be used determine display emission characteristics by displaying test patterns and video clips. Characteristics of the display patterns and video clips may be correlated to high IR emissions.
US09883178B2 Method for measuring performance parameters and detecting bad pixels of an infrared focal plane array module
A method for measuring performance parameters of an infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) module has steps of capturing continuous digital images from the IRFPA module, performing image division on each of the continuous digital images, and measuring multiple performance parameters of each divided digital image, including signal transmission function, a temporal noise equivalent temperature difference, a spatial noise equivalent temperature difference, non-uniformity and operability, thereby increasing accuracy in measuring the performance parameters of the IRFPA module. Also, a method for detecting bad pixels of an IRFPA module includes a gain value method, an offset value method, a temporal noise method and a spatial noise method, is applicable to the IRFPA module with more than two response areas, and avoids incorrect detection to treat pixels in different response areas as bad pixels.
US09883174B2 System and method for creating a navigable, three-dimensional virtual reality environment having ultra-wide field of view
The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing video of a real-world scene over a field of view that may exceed the field of view of a user, manipulating the captured video, and then stereoscopically displaying the manipulated image to the user in a head mounted display to create a virtual environment having length, width, and depth in the image. By capturing and manipulating video for a field of view that exceeds the field of view of the user, the system and method can quickly respond to movement by the user to update the display allowing the user to look and pan around, i.e., navigate, inside the three-dimensional virtual environment.
US09883172B2 Active 3D to passive 3D conversion
Various arrangements for using an active 3D signal to create passive 3D images are presented. An active 3D frame may be received. The active 3D frame may comprise a first perspective image and a second perspective image. The first perspective image may be representative of a different perspective than the second perspective image. The first perspective image may be tinted with a first color. The second perspective image may be tinted with a second color different from the first color. The first perspective image tinted with the first color may be displayed. The second perspective image tinted with the second color may be displayed.
US09883171B2 Autostereoscopic screen and method for the simultaneous reproduction of more than two different pictures
An autostereoscopic screen for the simultaneous reproduction of more than two different pictures, including a pixel matrix with a multitude of pixels, an optical element arranged on front of or behind the pixel matrix, and a control unit for activating the pixel matrix and the optical element. The optical element forms an optical grid with a family of strip-like structures which run next to one another, wherein a period length of the optical grid is changeable by way of activating the optical element. Thereby, for a change of a viewing distance (Ln, L; L′) the control unit is configured to increase or reduce the period length and to simultaneously change a distribution of picture information onto the pixel matrix. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding method for the simultaneous reproduction of more than two different pictures.
US09883168B2 Camera module having an array sensor
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an array sensor arrayed with a plurality of image sensors, and a plurality of lens units respectively mounted on the plurality of image sensors.
US09883164B2 Optimizing usage of image sensors in a stereoscopic environment
The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for optimizing usage of image sensors in a stereoscopic environment. The method includes: (a) providing a first image sensor, where the first image sensor is associated with a first image sensor area and a first imaging area; (b) determining a distance from the camera to an object to be captured; and (c) shifting the first imaging area along a length of the first image sensor area, where the amount of the shifting is based at least partially on the distance from the camera to the object, and where the first imaging area can shift along an entire length of the first image sensor area. The invention optimizes usage of an image sensor by permitting an increase in disparity control. Additionally, the invention reduces the closest permissible distance of an object to be captured using a stereoscopic camera.
US09883163B2 Method and system for determining camera parameters from a long range gradient based on alignment differences in non-point image landmarks
A system and method improves a camera calibration. The method includes receiving a camera image, a planar template pattern, a 3D geometry of a surface on which the planar template pattern is embedded, and a set of parameter values. The method includes rendering the planar template pattern into a camera perspective based on the parameter values to generate a warped template image. The method includes generating an error image including at least one non-zero difference between the camera image and the warped template image. The method includes adjusting the parameter values to reduce an error between the camera image and the warped template image.
US09883158B2 Systems, methods, and software for improved video data recovery effectiveness
Methods, systems, and software are provided herein that allow for storing a data file in a storage device. The storage system splits a video data file into a plurality of data segments, generates a plurality of recovery headers for the data segments, and combines ones of the recovery headers with ones of the data segments to form a plurality of storage packets.
US09883156B2 Techniques to display multimedia data during operating system initialization
Techniques for displaying multimedia data during operating system initialization are described. In some embodiments, a method may comprise initializing a computing system, initializing a media playback system of the computing system using a first processor circuit and initializing an operating system of the computing system using a second processor circuit. In various embodiments, during the operating system initialization, one or more multimedia streams may be outputted using the media playback system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09883154B2 Projection system, projector, and image adjustment method
A projection system includes a plurality of projectors adapted to project respective images arranged on a projection surface, a control device, and an imaging section, the plurality of projectors is classified into N (N is no smaller than 2) projector groups, the control device makes the projector groups project adjusting images on the projection surface at respective timings different from each other, and then makes the imaging section sequentially image the projection surface on which the adjusting images are projected, at least one of the N projector groups includes two or more projectors, and the two or more projectors project the adjusting images at respective positions not adjacent to each other in the projection surface.
US09883153B2 Image processing apparatus and method
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and a method capable of performing calibration of a correction amount in brightness correction more easily. The image processing apparatus according to the present technology performs blending calculation for correcting brightness of an image in accordance with a distance from a projection unit configured to project the image to a projection surface onto which the image is projected, and in accordance with a characteristic of the projection unit. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a projector, a camera, or an electronic apparatus including both function of a projector and a camera, a computer that controls these, and to a system in which an apparatuses having a projector and a camera are operating in cooperation.
US09883146B2 Communication system, communication apparatus and communication method
A communication system includes a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus includes a partial image data generation unit, configured to generate partial image data which is obtained by extracting a partial component from image data, and a transmission unit, configured to transmit the partial image data generated by the partial image data generation unit to the second communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus includes a reception unit, configured to receive the partial image data transmitted by the transmission unit of the first communication apparatus.
US09883145B2 Onboard camera automatic calibration apparatus
According to one embodiment, an onboard camera automatic calibration apparatus includes at least a road surface point selection unit, an amount-of-rotation-around-Z-axis calculation unit and a coordinate rotation correction unit. The road surface point selection unit selects multiple points not less than three on a road surface in a predetermined image among the multiple images obtained by an onboard camera and selects multiple combinations of two points from among the multiple points. The amount-of-rotation-around-Z-axis calculation unit determines, in a camera coordinate system with an optical axis as a Z axis, an amount of rotation around the Z axis such that the road surface is parallel to an X axis, based on the multiple combinations and motion vectors. The coordinate rotation correction unit performs rotation correction around the Z axis for the images obtained by the onboard camera based on the determined amount of rotation around the Z axis.
US09883143B2 Automatic switching between dynamic and preset camera views in a video conference endpoint
A video conference endpoint includes a camera to capture video and a microphone array to sense audio. One or more preset views are defined. Images in the captured video are processed with a face detection algorithm to detect faces. Active talkers are detected from the sensed audio. The camera is controlled to capture video from the preset views, and from dynamic views created without user input and which include a dynamic overview and a dynamic close-up view. The camera is controlled to dynamically adjust each of the dynamic views to track changing positions of detected faces over time, and dynamically switch the camera between the preset views, the dynamic overview, and the dynamic close-up view over time based on positions of the detected faces and the detected active talkers relative to the preset views and the dynamic views.
US09883139B2 Video conferencing over IP networks
A method for communication includes establishing multiple communication links over a packet network between a server and plurality of client computers that are to participate in a video teleconference. The client computers may also create secondary communication links that function similarly to links between the server and client computers. The server receives from the client computers uplink audio packets and uplink video packets, which respectively contain audio and video data captured by each of the client computers. The server determines the optimal bandwidth for each client computer. The server also mixes the audio data from the uplink audio packets so as to create respective streams of mixed audio data for transmission to the client computers and transmits to the client computers downlink audio packets containing the respective streams of mixed audio data. The server relays the video data to the client computers in downlink video packets. The client computers receive and synchronize the video data with the mixed audio data.
US09883138B2 Telepresence experience
The description relates to remote collaboration via a telepresence experience. One example can include an interactive digital display. The example can also include a virtual user presentation component configured to generate a graphical user interface that includes a virtual representation of a remote user on the interactive digital display. The graphical user interface can be configured to present the remote user in a side by side or mirror image relationship to a local user of the interactive digital display.
US09883136B2 System and method of outputting multi-lingual audio and associated audio from a single container
A method of storing and outputting associated audio. The associated audio and the main audio are stored in, and output from, a single multimedia container. In this manner, when the main language is changed, the associated audio automatically changes with minimal audio artifacts.
US09883135B2 Apparatus and method for converting operation mode in image display compound device
An operation-mode conversion apparatus for an image display compound device includes a power-state detector which detects a power state of the compound device, an operation-mode determination unit which determines a present operation mode of the compound device, and an operation-mode controller which converts the operation mode of the compound device based on the power state, the present operation mode, and whether one of an optical storage medium and a movable memory is detected by the compound device, in response to a user input signal, regardless of the preset operation mode.
US09883133B2 Broadcast receiving device and method for operating the same
Disclosed is a broadcast receiving device. A terrestrial broadcast receiving unit receives a terrestrial broadcasting service. A mobile receiving unit receives a mobile broadcasting service transmitted via a network for mobile communication. A control unit allows the terrestrial broadcasting service and the mobile broadcasting service to be selectively received.
US09883132B2 Remote control activation based on predicted events
Systems and methods for predicting trigger events, such as an advertisement during a video program, and activating a remote control device in response to the prediction are described. By activating the remote control device at a particular time, the remote control device may save energy when listening for data from one or more terminal devices. The time to activate the remote control may be based on one or more factors, including the current presentation position and/or presentation speed of the video program. A remote control device may take additional actions the next time it listens for data, including illuminating backlights, turning on a display, displaying content on the display, interacting with other devices, etc.
US09883131B2 Imaging device including photoelectric converter and charge transfer channel
An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter that generates charge; a first charge transfer channel having a first end electrically connected to the photoelectric converter and a second end, and transferring the charge in a direction from the first end to the second end; a second charge transfer channel diverging from the first charge transfer channel at a first position and transferring a first part of the charge; a third charge transfer channel diverging from the first charge transfer channel at a second position different from the first position in the direction and transferring a part of the second part of the charge; and first and second charge accumulators that accumulate at least a part of the first and second part of the charge respectively. The imaging device does not include a gate that switches between cutoff and transfer of charge, in the first charge transfer channel.
US09883128B2 Imaging systems with high dynamic range and phase detection pixels
An image sensor may include a pixel array with high dynamic range functionality and phase detection pixels. The phase detection pixels may be arranged in phase detection pixel groups. Each phase detection pixel group may include three adjacent pixels arranged consecutively in a line. A single microlens may cover all three pixels in the phase detection pixel group, or two microlenses may combine to cover the three pixels in the phase detection pixel group. The edge pixels in each phase detection pixel group may have the same integration time and the same color. The middle pixel in each phase detection pixel group may have the same or different color as the edge pixels, and the same or different integration time as the edge pixels. Phase detection pixel groups may also be formed from two pixels that each are 1.5 times the size of neighboring pixels.
US09883125B2 Imaging systems and methods for generating motion-compensated high-dynamic-range images
Electronic devices may include image sensors. Image sensors may be used to capture images having rows of long-exposure image pixel values that are interleaved with rows of short-exposure image pixel values. The long-exposure and short-exposure values in each interleaved image frame may be interpolated to form interpolated values. A combined long-exposure image and a combined short-exposure image may be generated using the long-exposure and the short-exposure values from the interleaved image frames and the interpolated values from a selected one of the interleaved image frames. The combined long-exposure and short-exposure images may each include image pixel values from either of the interleaved image frames in a non-motion edge region and image pixel values based only on the image pixel values or the interpolated values from the selected one of the interleaved images in a motion or non-edge region. High-dynamic-range images may be generated using the combined long-exposure and short-exposure images.
US09883124B2 Solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device includes a photodetecting unit, a row control unit, a column control unit, and a signal readout unit. The photodetecting unit includes M×N pixel units P(1,1) to P(M,N) two-dimensionally arrayed in M rows and N columns. Each pixel unit P(m,n) includes a photodiode PD, an amplifying transistor Tr1, a transfer transistor Tr2, a readout transistor Tr3, a first initialization transistor Tr4, and a second initialization transistor Tr5. One of the transfer transistor Tr2 and the first initialization transistor Tr4 performs an on/off operation based on a control signal output from the row control unit, and the other performs an on/off operation based on a control signal output from the column control unit.
US09883119B1 Method and system for hardware-based motion sensitive HDR image processing
System and methods for performing motion sensitive high dynamic range (HDR) image processing. A saturation analysis circuit is configured to receive a set of image data corresponding to portions of a set of image frames having different exposures time from a lowest exposure time to a highest exposure time, and select image data from a frame that does not exceed the saturation threshold value. A motion detection circuit may be configured to determine whether the image data is associated with movement, by comparing image data from pairs of frames of adjacent exposure times, and changing the selection to a lower exposure time frame if movement is detected. By selecting which exposure time is used based upon movement in the image frame, ghosting and blurring in HDR images containing movement can be reduced.
US09883117B2 Method and apparatus for creating motion effect for image
A method includes maintaining images and associated video streams; detecting a swipe gesture of a user on a touch sensitive display, wherein the swipe gesture comprises direction and speed information; and selecting an image based on the direction information of the swipe gesture. The method includes adjusting a playback of an associated video stream based on the direction and the speed information of the swipe gesture; providing the associated video stream on the display during the swipe gesture, for creating a motion effect relating to the image; and providing the image on the display after the swipe gesture.
US09883115B2 Method of determining whole-scene image by using multiple image-capturing devices
The present invention discloses a method of determining a whole-scene image by using multiple image-capturing devices, and the method has two main features including non-contact formation digital image method and the parallax elimination process for captured images. The former feature uses a concyclic fitting calculation to easily determine the locations and orientations of the image-capturing devices, so as to achieve the objective of assisting in capturing the whole-scene image. The latter feature can effectively improve the image quality, so as to effectively solve the problems in conventional technology.
US09883114B2 Control system for an autonomous garden tool, method and apparatus
The invention relates to a control system for an autonomous garden tool that is equipped with at least one camera and one motor. The control system comprises a camera control module and an image generation module. With the camera control module the camera settings are controlled that are used for capturing images. With the image generation module two consecutive images in a sequence of images that is captured by the camera is determined whereby theses two consecutive images are captured on the basis of different camera settings. The two determined pictures are used as a basis for generating an HDR image in an HDR mode of the control system.
US09883113B2 Imaging processing apparatus and method of imaging processing by controlling an imaging period
There is provided an imaging processing apparatus comprising: an imaging period controller configured, when driving an imager with an exposure time less than a standard imaging period, to generate a frame of the standard imaging period every certain frames and to control an imaging period so that one of a preceding frame and succeeding frame of the frame of the standard imaging period has an imaging period shorter than the standard imaging period and the other has an imaging period longer than the standard imaging period; a shutter controller configured to control reset timing of electric charges accumulated in the imager in accordance with the imaging period of the imager; a storage configured to store therein taken images by the imager with the reset timing controlled; and a reading controller configured to read and output the taken images stored in the storage with a reproduction speed corresponding to the standard imaging period.
US09883112B1 High dynamic range imaging
A high dynamic range video processing method performs merging and tone mapping techniques after a Bayer filter mosaic technique is performed and then converts it to red green blue (RGB) at the end as opposed to converting into RGB at the beginning and then performing merging and tone mapping after. The HDR processing is performed on Bayer-mosaic images and no de-mosaicing and color space conversions are required. The merging procedure has two modes: full-reset merging and LDR-updated merging. The first mode, full-reset merging, creates an HDR frame once the system has all image frames captured. The second mode, LDR-updating merging, means that any new HDR frame is obtained by an updating of a previous HDR frame with a new LDR frame data.
US09883111B2 Image processing device, imaging device, image processing method, and image processing program
Provided are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing program which can instantly switch display between a chromatic image indicating an in-focus state and an achromatic image indicating an out-of-focus state. A control unit performs control such that a chromatic split image, which is obtained by giving a chromatic color included in a normal image to an achromatic split image, is displayed in a case in which the result of comparison between an output value of a first image signal and an output value of a second image signal is less than a threshold value. In addition, the control unit performs control such that an achromatic split image, which is obtained based on a left eye image and a right eye image, is displayed in a case in which the comparison result is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
US09883100B2 Image processing method and image processing device for generating rectangular mask in image according to different field of views
An image processing method includes steps of obtaining a first image under a first field of view; generating a first rectangular mask in the first image; converting first X-Y plane coordinates of four end points of the first rectangular mask into spherical coordinates; obtaining a second image under a second field of view; converting the spherical coordinates into second X-Y plane coordinates corresponding to the second image; determining whether the second X-Y plane coordinates of the end points all are located in the second image; and if the second X-Y plane coordinates of the end points all are located in the second image, generating a second rectangular mask in the second image by a maximum X coordinate value, a maximum Y coordinate value, a minimum X coordinate value and a minimum Y coordinate value of the second X-Y plane coordinates of the end points.
US09883093B2 Network-based pathology system with desktop slide scanner
A method for processing, saving and viewing a digital image of a microscope slide includes inserting a microscope slide into a digital slide scanner connected to an acquisition computer. A pre-scan formed from a plurality of image tiles uploaded to a network server while the pre-scan is being generated. The network server analyzes the image tiles in realtime to identify an area of interest. The acquisition computer generates a high magnification local scan of the area of interest. The local scan is formed from a plurality of local image tiles that are uploaded to the network server while the local scan is being generated. Each local image tile is viewable by a client computer in communication with the computer network while the plurality of local image tiles is being uploaded. A raw final image is then saved on the network server independent of the acquisition computer.
US09883091B2 Device control based on attachment/detachment information
An imaging system is provided with a controller. The controller performs a status control of an imaging device depending on attachment/detachment information indicating whether the imaging device and an information processing device are in an attachment status in which the imaging device and the information processing device are attached to each other or in a detachment status in which the imaging device and the information processing device are detached from each other.
US09883089B2 Imaging unit
An imaging unit provided at a tip portion of an endoscope includes: an imaging element configured to receive light and perform photoelectric conversion on the light to generate an electrical signal; an oscillator configured to generate a clock signal for driving the imaging element; a photoelectric element configured to convert the electrical signal generated by the imaging element into an optical signal and to output the optical signal to outside; a regulator configured to convert electric power input from the outside into electric power depending on each of the imaging element, the oscillator, and the photoelectric element, and to supply the converted electric power thereto. The imaging element is spaced farther than the oscillator and the photoelectric element from the regulator.
US09883087B2 Objective for an image recording device
The invention relates to an objective for an image recording device for reproducing an image, which is created by a far-optical device. A housing, which is detachably connectable to an eyepiece of the far-optical device, has a greater inner diameter than the exterior diameter of an eyepiece housing. Both an exit pupil of the far-optical device and an entrance pupil of the objective are situated inside the housing. The objective has at least one lens, the optical axis of which is arranged to be parallel to the optical axis of the eyepiece of the far-optical device and to the middle axis of the eyepiece housing.
US09883086B2 Camera module for a motor vehicle and method of pre-focusing a lens objective in a lens holder
A camera module for a motor vehicle having a lens objective, a lens holder holding said lens objective, and a back plate connected to said lens holder and holding an image sensor in or close to an image plane of the lens objective. The materials, shapes and/or relative positions of the components of the lens objective are designed to keep the image plane in or close to the sensitive plane of the image sensor over an operating temperature range of the camera module.
US09883085B2 Miniature onboard camera device for sport
A miniature onboard camera device for sport. A miniature onboard camera device for hands-free filming of the view seen by the user. The device consists of a curved casing, formed from two wings that can be inclined around a central module, the assembly thus making it possible to conform to the shape of the support operating as an attachment and with no overhang. The central module comprises a tiltable ball joint incorporating the lens of the camera, making it possible to obtain the desired viewing angle. The device according to the invention is intended, in particular, to be positioned on helmets, protection visors or caps in order to safely film as close as possible to the action.
US09883084B2 Thermal imager
A handheld thermal imager includes a housing defining a cavity. A lens barrel has a first end portion and a second end portion. The lens barrel is at least partially disposed within the cavity. A lens is coupled to the lens barrel first end portion. A resilient buffer member supports the lens barrel within the cavity. A thermal sensor is coupled to the lens barrel second end portion. A processing module receives signals from the thermal sensor. A display is coupled to the processing module for displaying a temperature characteristic of a scene.
US09883081B2 Synchronized look-up table loading
Examples relate to providing synchronized look-up table loading. In some examples, a print job is processed using an initial look-up table in processor memory, in response to the processing of the print job reaching a buffer trigger row of a portion of the print job, look-up metadata is accessed to locate a next look-up table. At this stage, the next look-up table is dynamically loaded into the processor memory as the processor continues to process the print job, where the processing of the print job begins using the next look-up table after a target row of the portion of the print job is reached.
US09883077B2 Image forming apparatus and method of managing information thereof
An electronic apparatus includes a job processor to perform a job of the image forming apparatus, a storage unit to store apparatus use information on a user of the image forming apparatus and job performance of the job processor, a determination unit to determine whether the user is changed or not, and a controller to delete the apparatus use information on a previous user if it is determined that the user is changed.
US09883074B2 Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method
Provided are an image forming apparatus, an image forming system and a method of controlling the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus for conducting processing according to established settings thereon, includes: an output section for outputting a notification; and a control section. The control section is configured to monitor a change in at least one of states and settings of the image forming apparatus, where the change is to be made during a time period from a time when receiving a setting operation about a certain processing conducted by a user to a time when receiving an instruction to start the certain processing from the user, and the change comes from an action of another user. The control section is further configured to, in response to the change, output through the output section a notification that the change has been made.
US09883073B2 System and method for producing seesaw gloss effect and recording medium with seesaw gloss effect
A system and method render see-saw scalable gloss effect image patterns on a recording medium by using to two colors to provide one region with a relatively smooth surface, while a second region has a relatively rougher surface. A third region is added composed of a color different than the first two, wherein the third region has a relatively smooth surface where it intersects with the first region and a relatively rougher surface where it intersects with the second region. As the rendered recording medium is tilted at different angles, the image patterns thereon toggle to create a see-saw effect.
US09883071B2 Image processing apparatus, terminal device, and non-transitory data recording medium recording control program
A processor of an MFP generates a first additional image based on an image in a designated region of a document. Furthermore, the processor of the MFP generates a second additional image showing a difference between the document and a document before revision of the document. Then, the processor of the MFP registers the first additional image and the second additional image on a server in association with a marker image showing the revised edition number of the document.
US09883070B2 Image reading apparatus and method of controlling the same
An image reading apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The image reading apparatus includes a communication device configured to perform communication in a preset communication manner, a scanner configured to generate a scan image by scanning a manuscript, and at least one processor configured to control the communication device to transmit use information of the manuscript to an address corresponding to authorship information in response to a preset security pattern including the authorship information being detected in the generated scan image.
US09883069B2 Image reading device and printing apparatus
There are provided an image reading device and a printing apparatus that can reduce an influence of the shadows of suction holes. Suction holes, which are used to suck a sheet, are arranged on the peripheral surface of a drum that transports the sheet. The suction holes are arranged in grooves that are formed along a direction orthogonal to a transport direction. Accordingly, since an influence of the shadows of the suction holes can be reduced even in a case in which density unevenness is inspected on the basis of a read image, the false detection of density unevenness can be prevented.
US09883068B2 Imaging unit, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
An imaging unit includes an image pickup element extending along a surface parallel to an imaging surface, a circuit board including a circuit to drive the image pickup element, and a plurality of fixing members to fix the image pickup element and the circuit board. The circuit board includes at least one through hole on a straight line that extends in a longitudinal direction of the image pickup element and is provided with the plurality of the fixing members. The through hole is provided at a position between at least two of the plurality of the fixing members on the straight line.
US09883065B2 Image reading device, image forming apparatus, and image reading method
An image reading device includes a reading member and a skew detector. The reading member reads an image of a passing document at a read position preset in a document transport path. The skew detector detects a skew of the document by selecting one of a first skew detection mode and a second skew detection mode based on information that specifies a method for detecting the skew of the document. The first skew detection mode is a mode in which the skew of the document relative to a transport direction is detected based on an image of a leading-edge section, in the transport direction, read by the reading member. The second skew detection mode is a mode in which the skew of the document relative to the transport direction is detected based on an entire image read by the reading member.
US09883064B2 Image reader and image forming apparatus determining direction of document to be read
An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading section; a character detection section detecting, based on image data of a document obtained through reading by the document reading section, characters included in an image formed on the document; a character concentration detection section detecting concentration of the characters detected by the character detection section; a character direction detection section detecting a direction of the characters whose concentration detected by the character concentration detection section is in a preset specified concentration range; and a document direction determination section determining, based on the direction of the characters detected by the character direction detection section, a direction of the image formed on the document as a document direction, wherein the character direction detection section, upon determination that the image on the document is a monochromatic image, defines, as the specified concentration range, a concentration range higher than predefined first concentration.
US09883062B2 Image reader and image forming apparatus
Provided is an image reader including a transparent plate that supports an original document on which an image is recorded, a reading member that is disposed inside a housing and reads an image of the original document supported by the transparent plate while moving, a guide member that extends in a movement direction of the reading member and guides the moving reading member, and an endless belt that is wound around a driving pulley that performs rotational driving and a driven pulley that is driven to rotate, the endless belt being rotated around the driving pulley and the driven pulley to move the reading member guided by the guide member, wherein at least one of the driving pulley and the driven pulley is attached to the guide member.
US09883060B2 Apparatus, method and storage medium that stores program
In an apparatus, a reception unit receives information indicating an end of image process in an external apparatus or information indicating an occurrence of an error in the external apparatus. A display control unit causes a display unit to display predetermined information based on the information received by the reception unit. An acquisition unit acquires a constraint condition for causing the display unit to limit a display of the predetermined information. A determination unit determines whether an operating state of an apparatus capable of controlling the display unit meets the constraint condition. When the determination unit determines that the operating state meets the constraint condition, the display control unit limits the display of the predetermined information on the display unit based on the information received by the reception unit.
US09883058B2 Method of controlling pop-ups, image forming apparatus, and user terminal using the same
Provided are methods of controlling a pop-up, and image forming apparatuses and user terminals that use the control methods. Although an interruption occurs in a user terminal that is able to communicate with the image forming apparatus while an operation is performed in the image forming apparatus, the method may control the interruption without an error.
US09883057B2 Processing apparatus and program product for creating, in response to user instruction, process receiving portions to be displayed differently and to perform a different process
A processing apparatus includes: a processing unit that performs plural predetermined processes; a display unit; a creation unit that creates a first process receiving portion and a second process receiving portion, each of which receives an instruction to any one of the plural predetermined processes on the display unit; and an execution portion that executes the process, in a case where the instruction is received by the first process receiving portion, after receiving the instruction again, whereas, in a case where the instruction is received by the second process receiving portion, the execution portion executing the process without receiving the instruction again.
US09883056B2 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing system
An image processing apparatus includes a storage configured to store a setting of various functions of the image processing apparatus; a first receiver configured to receive operation information for changing the setting stored in the storage via a network; a changer configured to change the setting stored in the storage based on the operation information received by the first receiver; a second receiver configured to receive, through an input unit provided in the image processing apparatus, a display operation of displaying the setting stored in the storage; and a notifier configured to notify, when the second receiver receives the display operation after the setting is changed by the operation information, that the setting has been changed by the operation information.
US09883055B2 Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer-readable recording medium that receive a process request for performing a predetermined process from an apparatus
A system according to the present invention includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and an executing unit. The first communication unit is connected to a first network segment. The second communication unit is connected to a second network segment different from the first network segment, and receives a processing request, which requests to execute predetermined processing, from an apparatus via the second network segment and transmits the received processing request to the first communication unit. The executing unit executes the predetermined processing in response to the processing request received by the first communication unit.
US09883054B2 Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
There is provided an image forming apparatus. A transfer controller is capable of transferring an original document image read from an original document to a plurality of transfer destinations. A management unit manages the transfer controller in such a manner that after the original document image is transferred to one of the plurality of transfer destinations, the original document image is transferred to another transfer destination. The transfer controller reflects a result of transfer to the one transfer destination when transferring the original document image to the other transfer destination.
US09883050B1 Flexible online charging system
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) node for selecting an Online Charging System (OCS), the method including: receiving a session establishment request for a subscriber (subscriber session); selecting an OCS realm for the subscriber session based on, in order of priority: policy rules, subscriber attribute or system preference; selecting an OCS host for the subscriber session based on, in order of priority: policy rules, subscriber attribute or system preference; and creating an Sy session using the selected OCS realm and selected OCS host.
US09883048B2 Providing individual service functionality using specific actions
A method of provisioning a plurality of applications from different application developer systems to a network provider system comprises establishing a plurality of service accounts for a corresponding plurality of application service provider systems, receiving a plurality of API interfaces from the plurality of application service provider systems, integrating, by the processor system, each of the plurality of API interfaces with a unified services platform API interface, receiving a provider API interfaces for a network provider system, and integrating the provider API interface with the unified services platform API interface. The plurality of application service provider systems provide services for use in association with a telephone number of a subscriber of telecommunication services. At least two of the API interfaces are different, and at least one of the plurality of API interfaces from the plurality of application service provider systems is not compatible with the provider API interface.
US09883046B1 Retrofit digital network speaker system
Described herein is a retrofit digital speaker system comprising two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures, each of the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures (enclosures) comprising: at least one speaker; and an analog-and-digital interface adapted to receive digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals, and wherein the digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals are transmitted over existing two wire analog audio cables, and further wherein the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures are wired in a daisy chain fashion, via the existing two wire analog audio cables.
US09883045B2 Wireless docking system
A wireless docking system has a host (251) and a dockee device (220). The host is coupled to at least one peripheral (210, 230, 240) to constitute a wireless docking environment. The dockee is arranged for selecting a wireless docking environment from multiple available wireless docking environments (251, 252, 253), and for transmitting an identify request via the dockee communication unit to the docking host. The host is arranged for receiving the identify request via the host communication unit from the dockee device, and for responding to the identify request by generating a physical feedback at a peripheral of the host. The physical feedback, e.g. light signal or sound signal, enables a user of the dockee device at a remote distance to perceive the docking environment as selected.
US09883039B2 System and method for automatic intention evaluation and communication routing
A communication system and method for routing communications can include a communication device that is configured to route a communication connection based on empirical data relating to an attempted communication. For instance, in some embodiments the device of a communication system can be configured to utilize stored and classified empirical data for automatically determining a subject of an attempted communication made by a user via the user's communication terminal and dependencies the user for that attempted communication may have on a callee for use in establishing a connection for the caller based on the determined dependencies and determined subject of the attempted communication. Information regarding the determined subject of the communication attempt can be based on the stored empirical data. The attempted communication can also be rerouted to another user based on the empirical communication data if that attempted communication is not established within a pre-selected time period.
US09883038B2 Customer care mobile application
A system and method is provided for providing contact center services via a mobile application on a mobile device. Status of a service request that is transmitted to a contact center is monitored. When a change in the status is detected, a notification is automatically transmitted to the mobile application. An interaction request is received from the mobile application in response to the notification. The interaction request identifies the service request. A party handling the service request is identified in response to receipt of the interaction request. The identified party is invited for engaging in interaction with the mobile device.
US09883026B2 Method and apparatus for facilitating speech application testing
A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for facilitating speech application testing generate a plurality of test scripts. A test script is generated by initiating a voice call interaction with a speech application including a network of interaction nodes, and repeatedly performing, until a stopping condition is encountered, the steps of, executing the voice call interaction by traversing through interaction nodes until an interaction node requiring a response is encountered, selecting an utterance generation mode, determining a response to be provided corresponding to the interaction node, and providing the response to the speech application. The test script comprises instructions for traversing interaction nodes and for provisioning one or more responses during the course of the voice call interaction. One or more test scripts from among the plurality of test scripts are identified based on a pre-determined objective and provided to a user for facilitating testing of the speech application.
US09883024B2 Mobile phone
To provide a mobile phone which can be used without hampering convenience in a condition where functions of the mobile phone are switched and can improve operability. The mobile phone includes an optical sensor, a display element, a pixel circuit portion where a plurality of pixels having a plurality of transistors are arranged in matrix, an optical sensor control circuit which is connected to an optical sensor driver circuit for driving the optical sensor and reads a signal from the optical sensor, a display portion control circuit which is connected to a display element driver circuit for driving the display element and outputs an image signal for displaying an image on a display portion, a gradient detection portion for outputting a signal in accordance with a gradient of the mobile phone, and an arithmetic circuit for performing display in the pixel circuit portion by switching image signals output to the display portion control circuit with a signal from the gradient detection portion.
US09883016B2 Method and apparatus for portable device accessories
An apparatus including two user separable and joinable clips; and a retractable clip tensioner configured to enable a user to attach the apparatus against a side of a portable device by expanding and engaging the clips against different sides of the portable device so that the retractable clip tensioner maintains the clips engaged.
US09883014B2 Separated communications device
A separated communications device includes a body and a movable connector; the body includes an antenna and a first conductive strip, and the antenna is electrically connected to the first conductive strip; the movable connector includes a second conductive strip; when the movable connector is connected to the body, a part, covered by the movable connector due to the connection, on a surface of the body is a connection position of the body; and the antenna is disposed on the body near the connection position. When the body is connected to the movable connector, the second conductive strip is connected to the first conductive strip, so that the first conductive strip serves as a part of the antenna, and the second conductive strip serves as an extended part of the antenna.
US09883013B2 Receive window auto-tuning
Methods of tuning a receive window. A receiving device and a sending device may be in communication over a network. The receiving device may advertise a receive window to the sending device. The size of the receive window may be adjusted over time based on one or more connection parameters, application parameters and/or operating system parameters.
US09883012B2 Simplified notification of network triggered reporting—second core network node (e.g., SGSN) and method
A first Core Network (CN) node (e.g., Gateway GPRS Support Node), a second CN node (e.g., Serving GPRS Support Node) and a wireless access node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem) are described herein that are configured to efficiently deliver a network triggered report notification to a wireless device (e.g., Internet of Things device).
US09883011B2 Method and corresponding device for streaming video data
A method for streaming data corresponding to a video, each of a plurality of frames of the video being divided into n spatial tiles, the method includes transmitting, a description file to a client device, the description file including data about a spatial position of each of the n spatial tiles and including data about at least n URLs corresponding to the n spatial tiles, determining by the client device one or more URLs according to the data about the spatial position included in the description file, receiving from the client device, by a server, one or more request messages for requesting one or more spatial tiles, each request message comprising one of the URLs determined by the client device, and transmitting to the client device, by the server, video data corresponding to the one or more spatial tiles, in response to one or more the request messages.
US09883010B2 Method, apparatus, device and system for generating DHCP snooping binding table
A method, an apparatus, a device, and a system for generating a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol snooping (DHCP) Snooping binding table. The method includes: constructing a request packet for obtaining information about a DHCP client, and sending the request packet to a DHCP server; receiving a response packet corresponding to the request packet, and extracting the information about the client from the response packet, where the information about the client includes the client's Internet Protocol (IP) address and Media Access Control (MAC) address; and obtaining the client's virtual local area network (VLAN) number and ingress port number through the MAC address, and generating the DHCP Snooping binding table. The technical solutions solve the problem that traffic of some clients is lost due to a lack of a DHCP Snooping binding table of these clients in a process of enabling DHCP Snooping.
US09883007B2 Downloading an application to an apparatus
An apparatus for downloading an application from an application store comprises at least one processor and at least one memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive user input on a touch sensitive graphical user interface providing a view of applications stored on an apparatus, the user input initiating downloading of an application to the apparatus, recognize at least one application in an application store corresponding to the received user input, and download an application of the at least one application from the application store to a memory of the apparatus.
US09883005B2 Systems and methods for managing communications across multiple identities
Electronic communications are managed across multiple identities. A user is able to create an account as well as any desired, required, or appropriate number of profiles under the account. Text messages are exchanged between users using specific profiles. For example, some text messages can be exchanged using a personal profile while other text messages need to be exchanged using a professional profile. In some instances, exchanged text messages are saved to a centralized archive. As such, one or both of the users involved in an exchange can request to retrieve some or all of the exchanged messages at a later time.
US09883003B2 Meeting room device cache clearing
Meeting software on a meeting room device enables a meeting to be conducted. The meeting room device detects that a meeting has been terminated and, responsive to detecting that the meeting has been terminated, automatically deletes data associated with the meeting from multiple different locations.
US09883002B2 Method and system for accessing website
The present invention relates to the technical field of network and discloses a method and a device for accessing a website. The method comprises: constructing a first domain name query request according to a domain name in a webpage request of a client, and sending the request to a first domain name server; obtaining an identification IP address returned by the first domain name server, wherein the identification IP address is used to identify whether an target IP address corresponding to the domain name in the webpage request belongs to a predetermined IP address library or not; according to the identification IP address, judging to replace the target IP address corresponding to the domain name in the webpage request with an IP address of a proxy server, and according to the IP address corresponding to the proxy server, sending the webpage access request to the proxy server. For a webpage request that a client can directly access the webpage by itself, there is no need to access the webpage via the proxy server, and the proxy server is used only when the client needs to access the webpage via the proxy server, thus reducing the load of the proxy server, and improving the performance of the proxy server.
US09882997B2 Methods and apparatus to monitor online activity
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to monitory online activity. An example method includes collecting first uniform resource locators from a first client device having a meter. The example method also includes collecting second uniform resource locators from a second client device not having a meter. The example method also includes determining that ones of the second uniform resource locators from the second client device correspond to online activity of a user associated with the first client device based on ones of the first uniform resource locators matching at least portions of the ones of the second uniform resource locators. Additionally, the example method includes associating the second client device with the user of the first client device.
US09882995B2 Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide automatic wireless configuration
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide automated configuration of local playback devices and networks based on external input are disclosed. An example media playback device includes a control interface to receive and process, at the media playback device, network configuration information for a local network from an external source, the control interface to receive and process the network configuration from the external source without requiring user intervention. The example media playback device includes a wireless interface to communicate with the local network based at least in part on the network configuration information. The example media playback device includes a speaker to output audio based on audio information received via the local network.
US09882993B2 Creating services using service modules
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for creating services using service modules. A control system can detect a service creation request. The control system can identify service modules to be included in a service requested by the service creation request. A service control function can be created to manage the service requested by the service creation request. The service modules can be coupled together, and the service requested by the service creation request can be output.
US09882991B2 URL issuing device, URL issuing method, and URL issuing program
A URL issuing device includes a generation means configured to generate a URL containing information indicating a location of information to be accessed by one or more target users on a network, an accessible period during which the information is accessible being set to the URL, a notification means configured to notify the URL generated by the generation means to the target user, and a control means configured to control the generation means to update the generated URL to a URL composed of a different letter string from the generated URL and control the notification means to notify the updated URL to the target user when the accessible period has elapsed before a specified condition for stopping update of the URL is satisfied.
US09882986B2 Apparatus for capturing brushing habits
An apparatus that monitors the brushing history of a user is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus, such as a toothbrush, may capture brushing data when a user is brushing teeth, and store the captured brushing data in a database of the apparatus.
US09882985B1 Data storage path optimization for internet of things computing system
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture comprising processor-readable storage media are provided for data storage path processing. For example, in one method, a data block is received from a first device over a communications network, wherein the data block is specified to be sent to a second device located on the communications network. A distributed data storage system is accessed to store the data block in a first datastore associated with the first device, and to store a copy of the data block in a second datastore associated with the second device. A notification message is sent to the second device over the communications network to notify the second device that the data block is stored in the second datastore. The method may be performed by an application server that is implemented in an IoT (Internet of Things) cloud computing system.
US09882982B2 Datastore for aggregated measurements for metrics
A computing resource monitoring service receives a request to store a measurement for a metric associated with a computing resource. The request includes the measurement itself and metadata for the measurement, which specifies attributes of the measurement. Based at least in part on the metadata, the computing resource monitoring service generates a fully qualified metric identifier and, using the identifier, selects a logical partition for placement of the measurement. From the logical partition, the computing resource monitoring service transmits the measurement to an aggregator sub-system comprising one or more in-memory datastores. The computing resource monitoring service stores the measurement in an in-memory datastore within the aggregator sub-system.
US09882980B2 Managing continuous priority workload availability and general workload availability between sites at unlimited distances for products and services
A system for providing reliable availability of a general workload and continuous availability of a priority workload over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with the priority workload, wherein the first instance is designated as an active instance, a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, wherein the second instance is designated as a standby instance, a third computing site configured to restart a third instance associated with the general workload, and a workload availability module configured to synchronize a portion of data associated with the third instance with a corresponding portion of data associated with the second instance.
US09882974B2 Network-based collaboration for secure data interchange for image data records having confidential components
A network-based system (and method) is disclosed for the collaboration of transmission nodes and receiver nodes for secure data interchange for radiological image data records including confidential components. The processing node provides a set of virtual clients, wherein a virtual client is associated with a respective receiver node and is intended to provide the intended pseudonymized image data record. A connection message is sent to the respective receiver nodes. The connection message includes a reference to the address of the virtual client that the receiver node can use to retrieve the pseudonymized image data record if it is situated outside a security domain of the transmission node. Furthermore, the connection message includes a reference to a memory address in the local PHI share memory unit that the receiver node can use to provide the original image data record if the receiver node is situated inside the security domain.
US09882965B2 Techniques for network process identity enablement
Techniques for network process identity enablement are provided. Inter-server communications within a network are intercepted so that unique identity-based information is gathered and recorded before a sending process is permitted to release a communication over the network to a receiving process. Moreover, the receiving process cannot process the communication being sent until identifying information is gathered again and independently validated against the prior recorded information.
US09882964B2 Explicit strategy feedback in name-based forwarding
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates explicit strategy feedback in a Content-Centric Network (CCN). During operation, the system sends a first interest associated with an explicit strategy feedback request via an egress interface. This egress interface is in a plurality of egress interfaces associated with a same name in a forwarding table. An interest is location-independent and uniquely identifies the content object in the CCN and is routed based on the name in the CCN. The system stores one or more parameters received in response to the explicit strategy feedback request in an entry, which includes the name and the egress interface, in the forwarding table. The one or more parameters are associated with a first device. The system determines, for a second interest for a content object associated with the name, an egress interface from the plurality of egress interfaces based on the stored parameters.
US09882959B2 Managing requests to a high utilization website
In an approach to managing requests to a high utilization website, one or more computer processors receive a first resource usage load status from a first server computer. The one or more computer processors receive a request for content on the first server computer from a client. The one or more computer processors determine whether the first resource usage load is above a pre-defined threshold. Responsive to determining the first resource usage load is above the pre-defined threshold, the one or more computer processors create a queue of a plurality of content requesters, wherein the client is one of the plurality of content requesters. The one or more computer processors establish a bidirectional communication channel with the client.
US09882952B2 Bandwidth optimization for remote desktop protocol
The processing of a first data stream to generate a second stream conforming to a remote desktop protocol (RDP) is described. Operations may include facilitating storage of first data from the first stream at a first index indicated is the first stream, facilitating retrieval of second data from a second index included in the first stream, and facilitating generation of the second stream conforming to the RDP and including the first and second data. Additionally, the processing of a third data stream conforming to the RDP to stream a fourth stream is described. Operations include facilitating processing of the third stream to identify a package data unit (PDU), facilitating storing of a hash value corresponding to the PDU, and facilitating generating an altered PDU for inclusion in the fourth stream and including an index identifying a location in memory storing the hash value.
US09882946B2 Generating consolidated social content for a user of a social networking system
To generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a social networking system, at least one action of one or more members of the social networking system is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.
US09882945B2 Media sharing communications system
A system retrieves media content from a first media content provider for access by a sharing user, and receives an indication that the sharing user desires to share the media content with a receiving user. The system determines an identity of the receiving user and shares the media content by sending an intermediate link that identifies the media content to a computer system of the receiving user. The system receives an indication that the receiving user has selected the intermediate link, and communicates an identity of the media content and the identity of the receiving user to an intermediate server. The system obtains, from the intermediate server, a first universal resource locator (URL) that was determined based on the identity of the media content and the identity of the receiving user. The system retrieves the media content from a second media content provider using the first URL.
US09882944B1 Handling audio path failure and poor quality of service for voice calls in a contact center
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for handling an audio path failure and/or non-conformant QoS for a call between a contact center agent and remote party. Specifically, an audio path is established to a first telephony device being used by the agent and a call is bridged onto the audio path so that audio can be streamed back-and-forth between the first telephony device and a second telephony device being used by the party. Accordingly, various embodiments of the invention involve monitoring the audio path to detect an audio path failure and/or non-conformant QoS for the audio and bridging the call onto a second audio path when a failure or non-conformant QoS is detected so that the call is not disconnected from the second telephony device and a third device (e.g., IVR) can stream audio over the second audio path to the second telephony device.
US09882938B2 Composite ARS service providing method and apparatus
Methods and apparatuses are provided for operating a server apparatus for providing a composite Automatic Response System (ARS) service through a mobile communication network. An ARS scenario and composite ARS related information are received from a first terminal. The composite ARS related information includes video ARS related information and voice ARS related information based on the ARS scenario. The ARS scenario and the composite ARS related information are stored. A call establishment request message directed to the first terminal, is received from the second terminal. The composite ARS related information is provided to the second terminal in response to the received call establishment request message. A call is established between the first terminal and the second terminal in response to an input for a call connection request, directed to the first terminal, received while the composite ARS related information is provided to the second terminal.
US09882936B2 Methods systems, and computer program products for security protocol selection in internet protocol multimedia subsystem networks
A method includes receiving a first secured registration request message from user equipment at a registration server in an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem network, the first secured registration request message being secured using a first security protocol, determining at the registration server that the first secured registration request message cannot be decoded using the first security protocol, sending a message from the registration server to the user equipment proposing a second security protocol, and receiving a second secured registration request message from the user equipment at the registration server, the second secured registration request message being secured using the second security protocol.
US09882931B1 Systems and methods for detecting potentially illegitimate wireless access points
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting potentially illegitimate wireless access points may include (1) detecting, at a current point in time, an attempt by a computing device to automatically connect to a target wireless access point that resembles a known wireless access point with which the computing device has established a previous connection at a previous point in time, (2) detecting at least one suspicious discrepancy between the target wireless access point and the known wireless access point, and then (3) determining, based at least in part on the suspicious discrepancy, that the target wireless access point is potentially illegitimate. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09882930B2 Command injection protection for java applications
A method of enhancing secure operation of a computer is disclosed. The computer receives input data from an untrusted source and also operates an application program which can utilize the input data. The method involves creating a tainted value cache and storing the input data in that cache. In the event that the application program invokes a method which utilizes data from the cache, then that data is intercepted before it is utilized by the application program. The intercepted data is subjected to a data content test. If the intercepted data passes the data content test, then the intercepted data is forwarded to the application program to be utilized thereby. However, if the intercepted data fails the data content test, a security action is implemented.
US09882929B1 Dynamic selection and generation of a virtual clone for detonation of suspicious content within a honey network
Techniques for dynamic selection and generation of detonation location of suspicious content with a honey network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for dynamic selection and generation of detonation location of suspicious content with a honey network includes a virtual machine (VM) instance manager that manages a plurality of virtual clones executed in an instrumented VM environment, in which the plurality of virtual clones executed in the instrumented VM environment correspond to the honey network that emulates a plurality of devices in an enterprise network; and an intelligent malware detonator that detonates a malware sample in at least one of the plurality of virtual clones executed in the instrumented VM environment.
US09882926B2 Detecting stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in web applications
A system for detecting security vulnerabilities in web applications, the system including, a black-box tester configured to provide a payload to a web application during a first interaction with the web application at a computer server, where the payload includes a payload instruction and an identifier, and an execution engine configured to detect the identifier within the payload received during an interaction with the web application subsequent to the first interaction, and determine, responsive to detecting the identifier within the payload, whether the payload instruction underwent a security check prior to execution of the payload instruction.
US09882924B2 Systems and methods for malware analysis of network traffic
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for malware analysis. In one or more embodiments, a method can include copying application layer data traffic to create copied application layer data traffic, forwarding at least a portion of the application layer data traffic to a destination client prior to a malware analysis of corresponding copied application layer data traffic, determining whether the copied application layer data traffic includes a specified property, and in response to a determination that the copied application layer data traffic includes the specified property, storing the copied application layer data traffic determined to include the specified property for subsequent malware analysis, the stored copied application layer data traffic including context data of the copied application layer data traffic.
US09882923B2 Automatic context-sensitive sanitization
An automatic context-sensitive sanitization technique detects errors due to the mismatch of a sanitizer sequence with a browser parsing context. A pre-deployment analyzer automatically detects violating paths that contain a sanitizer sequence that is inconsistent with a browsing context associated with outputting an untrusted input. The pre-deployment analyzer determines a correct sanitizer sequence which is stored in a sanitization cache. During the runtime execution of the web application, a path detector tracks execution of the web application in relation to the violating paths. The correct sanitizer sequence can be applied when the runtime execution follows a violating path.
US09882920B2 Cross-user correlation for detecting server-side multi-target intrusion
Technologies are generally described for time-correlating administrative events within virtual machines of a datacenter across many users and/or deployments. In some examples, the correlation of administrative events enables the detection of confluences of repeated unusual events that may indicate a mass hacking attack, thereby allowing attacks kicking network signatures to be detected. Detection of the attack may also allow the repair of affected systems and the prevention of further hacking before the vulnerability has been analyzed or repaired.
US09882913B1 Delivering authorization and authentication for a user of a storage array from a cloud
Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a cloud-based security module from a client-side array services module, user credentials; authenticating, by the cloud-based security module, the user credentials; identifying, by the cloud-based security module, authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user; generating, by the cloud-based security module, a token representing the authentication of the user credentials and the authorized access privileges; and providing, by the cloud-based security module to the client-side array services module, the token.
US09882908B2 Transparent asynchronous network flow information exchange
A method for providing a transparent asynchronous network flow exchange is provided. The method may include receiving a query request from a requester, whereby the received query request is associated with a network packet. The method may also include determining if the network packet contains a plurality of defined signatures. The method may further include in response to determining that the network packet contains a plurality of defined signatures, authenticating a plurality of information associated with the network packet. The method may additionally include determining a plurality of flow related security information associated with the network packet based on the authentication of the plurality of information. The method may include sending the determined plurality of flow related security information to the requester.
US09882907B1 Apparatus and method for single action control of social network profile access
A computer implemented method includes allowing a user to access a user-controlled social network profile page with posts in a specified order. A user is permitted to traverse an interface element across the specified order to establish a set position for the interface element. Access to posts is provided on a first side of the set position to define a viewable profile. Access to posts is blocked on a second side of the set position to define a non-viewable profile.
US09882906B2 Recommendation schema for storing data in a shared data storage network
A shared data storage network, such as a peer-to-peer network, is managed according to individual member trust level. Members of the storage network make their local storage available to other members of the network. Members receive a storage-location recommendation based on (i) the type of data to be stored, and (ii) an individual trust level assigned to members providing storage resources in the network.
US09882902B2 Apparatus and method for secure provisioning of a communication device
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receiving an over-the-air programming message that includes programming data for use by the mobile communication device, decrypting the over-the-air programming message utilizing a first keyset to generate a decrypted over-the-air programming message, determining a schedule for providing messages from a secure device processor to a secure element of the mobile communication device where the secure device processor is separate from the secure element and in communication with the secure element, and providing the decrypted over-the-air programming message to the secure element according to the schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09882901B2 End-to-end protection for shrouded virtual servers
Technical solutions are described for securely deploying a shrouded virtual server. An example method includes sending, by a host manager, authentication information of a hosting system to a client device in response to a request from the client device. The \method also includes receiving a request to deploy a virtual server using a shrouded mode. The method also includes deploying a preconfigured hypervisor on the hosting system, where the preconfigured hypervisor is deployed in an immutable mode that disables changes to security settings of the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes deploying, by the preconfigured hypervisor, a preconfigured boot image as an instance of the virtual server on the preconfigured hypervisor. The method also includes sending, by the host manager, an identifier of the virtual server for receipt by the client device.
US09882896B2 System and method for secure login, and apparatus for same
Disclosed is a safe log-in system and method for allowing log-in of a user in association with a plurality of devices, and an apparatus for the same. The safe log-in method for allowing a safe log-in of a communication device which accesses a web site includes, by an authentication data providing device, determining whether the authentication data providing device and the communication device are located at the same place; by the authentication data providing device, acquiring authentication-related data of the communication device when the authentication data providing device and the communication device are located at the same place as a result of the determination; and by the authentication data providing device, providing the acquired authentication-related data to the communication device or the web site.
US09882894B2 Secure authentication service
A first device may receive a request from a second device. The request may include a device identifier associated with the second device. The request may be transmitted by the second device to obtain a signature, based on which to access a third device. The first device may determine that the device identifier is associated with a secure authentication service. The first device may generate a signature based on determining that the device identifier is associated with the secure authentication service. The first device may provide the signature to the third device. The signature may permit the third device to selectively permit or deny access by the second device based on a result of authenticating the signature. Access may be permitted when the third device successfully authenticates the signature, and access may be denied when the third device fails to authenticate the signature.
US09882891B2 Identity verification
A method, server processing system and computer readable medium for identity verification is disclosed. In one aspect, the server processing system is configured to: receive digitally signed data including rating data issued by a second server processing system in order for an entity to register for a service associated with the server processing system, the rating data is indicative of an identity verification rating for the entity; verify that the digitally signed data has been issued by the second server processing system; and use the identity verification rating to register the entity in the event that the rating data is successfully verified as being issued by the second server processing system.
US09882888B2 Revocable shredding of security credentials
Customers accessing resources and/or data in a multi-tenant environment can obtain assurance that a provider of that environment will honor only requests associated with the customer. A multi-tenant cryptographic service can be used to manage cryptographic key material and/or other security resources in the multi-tenant environment. The cryptographic service can provide a mechanism in which the service can receive requests to use the cryptographic key material to access encrypted customer data, export key material out of the cryptographic service, destroy key material managed by the cryptographic service, among others. Such an approach can enable a customer to manage key material without exposing the key material outside a secure environment.
US09882887B2 Single sign-on for managed mobile devices
Disclosed are various examples for providing a single sign-on experience for managed mobile devices. A management application executed in a computing device receives a single sign-on request from a managed client application executed by the same computing device. The management application determines that the client application is permitted to access a management credential for single sign-on use. The management application provides the management credential to the client application in response to the single sign-on request.
US09882886B1 Tracking user activity for digital content
High conversion rate content can be displayed with primary content from one or more publishers in order to determine whether the content is being displayed to human users or provided to automated processes such as robots. Convertible content such as advertising will generally result in conversions or other actions within an expected range of occurrences. Convertible content performing significantly below the range can be indicative of robotic traffic. Such determinations can be difficult for publishers with low volume traffic, however, as there may not be sufficient data to make an accurate determination. For such publishers, or users viewing content for such publishers, high conversion rate content can be displayed that will allow such determinations to be made with fewer data points. The rates can be used to determine robotic users, which can be blocked, as well as to determine poorly performing placements of the content by the publishers.
US09882882B2 Methods and systems of data security in browser storage
Mechanisms and methods are provided for managing OAuth access in a database network system, and extending the OAuth flow of authentication to securely store the OAuth encrypted refresh token in the storage available with current browsers or any other non-secure storage on user system.
US09882875B2 Regional firewall clustering in a networked computing environment
An approach for regional firewall clustering for optimal state-sharing of different sites in a virtualized/networked (e.g., cloud) computing environment is provided. In a typical embodiment, each firewall in a given region is informed of its peer firewalls via a registration process with a centralized server. Each firewall opens up an Internet protocol (IP)-based communication channel to each of its peers in the region to share state table information. This allows for asymmetrical firewall flows through the network and allows routing protocols to ascertain the best path to a given destination without having to take firewall placement into consideration.
US09882867B2 Providing content to devices in a cluster
Methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and include a method for providing content. The method includes receiving a request for content from a requesting device that includes an associated IP address and determining that the received request is appropriate for clustering based on the IP address. The method further includes determining whether the received request is already associated with a cluster including, and when not, returning a cluster cookie to the requesting device and storing cluster information including the IP address associated with the requesting device; otherwise creating a cluster including returning a cluster cookie to the requesting device and storing in a data set associated with the cluster information including the IP address associated with the requesting device. The method further includes providing a response to the received request based on the data set for an associated cluster.
US09882862B2 Techniques for coordinating a messaging experience across platforms
Techniques for coordinating a message experience across platforms are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging application operative on a processor circuit to receive a request from a remote web browser to login to the messaging application. The messaging application may comprise an access code generator to generate a first access code and present the first access code on a messaging application website; an authenticator to receive a second access code from a second device associated with a user identifier, compare the second and first access codes, and lookup an account associated with the user identifier; and a messaging component to retrieve message data for an account associated with the user identifier in response the second access code matching the first access code, and to transmit the message data to the remote web browser for presentation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09882859B2 Message-browsing system, server, terminal device, control method, and recording medium
A message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images to be displayed on a screen, each user image corresponding to respective ones of the multiple users, an input instruction unit providing a response in multiple response forms to a post, the response forms corresponding to multiple fixed response sentences that are different from one another, a motion storage unit storing pieces of motion information defining motions of the user images, each in association with respective ones of the multiple response forms, and a setting unit selecting a piece of motion information that corresponds to a response form of a response provided to a post, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to a user who has contributed the post, the user image being displayed on a screen of another user who has provided the response.
US09882858B2 Validating E-mails using message posting services
Validation of e-mails is provided. An e-mail is received. A sender of the e-mail is determined. A message posting service account that is associated with the sender is identified. The message posting service is queried for a first hash value that corresponds to the e-mail based, at least in part, on the account. A response is received from the message posting service. Whether the account includes the first hash value is determined based, at least in part, on the response. The e-mail is or is not validated based, at least in part, on the response from the message posting service.
US09882856B2 Method and device for prioritizing messages based on originating time zone
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and a communication device display an email message by receiving at least one incoming email message, determining the incoming email message originates from a different time zone than the time zone in which the communication device is currently located, and displaying the incoming email message in a prioritized position within a message listing. The incoming email may be displayed at a top of the message list, regardless of reception order. When a plurality of incoming email messages that originate from different time zones are received, each incoming email message is displayed in the message listing according to an absolute or relative time distance from the communication device. When the incoming email message has been read, the read email message is moved to a normal position within the message list.
US09882852B2 Techniques for escalating temporary messaging bans
Techniques for escalating temporary messaging bans are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging server component operative to receive one or more messaging interactions from a messaging client on a client device at a messaging service, the messaging client associated with a user account for the messaging service; and impose a restriction on the user account from transmitting messaging using the messaging service for a duration based on a messaging ban duration; and an abuse monitoring component operative to analyze the one or more messaging interactions based on a plurality of messaging abuse criteria to determine that the user account meets a messaging abuse threshold; retrieve a messaging abuse punishment history for the user account; and determine a messaging ban duration based on the messaging abuse punishment history and the determination that the user account meets the messaging abuse threshold. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09882851B2 User-feedback-based tenant-level message filtering
Embodiments maintain filtering criteria for classifying electronic messages in a multi-tenant environment, including maintaining global filtering criteria for all tenants, as well as tenant-level filtering criteria for each tenant. For each tenant, feedback regarding a messaging campaign is identified. When the messaging campaign has not been categorized, and the feedback signals the messaging campaign as undesirable, the tenant-level filtering criteria for the tenant is updated to signal the messaging campaign as undesirable. When the messaging campaign has previously been categorized as undesirable, and the feedback signals the messaging campaign as desirable, the tenant-level filtering criteria for the tenant is updated to signal the messaging campaign as desirable. A reputation score for each tenant is also calculated. The global filtering criteria is updated to signal desirability of the messaging campaign when a threshold number of tenants, each having a threshold reputation score, reach a consensus regarding desirability of the messaging campaign.
US09882850B2 Systems and methods for controlling email access
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to proxying at least one email resource from at least one email service to at least one client device, determining whether the email resources are accessible to the client devices via at least one unauthorized application on the client devices, and modifying the email resources to be inaccessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices in response to a determination that the email resources are accessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices.
US09882848B2 System and method of delivering notifications
A method includes associating an e-mail address with a media device at a server of a television network. The media device is associated with the television network and the e-mail address is associated with a network device outside of the television network. The method includes receiving, at the server, an e-mail message directed to the e-mail address. The method also includes sending an e-mail notification from the server to the media device responsive to receipt of the e-mail message. The e-mail notification indicates whether the e-mail message includes an attachment. The e-mail notification permits the media device to provide notification of the e-mail message and an indication of whether the e-mail message includes an attachment to an output device coupled to the media device.
US09882845B2 Using content based routing to scale cast iron like appliances
Routing messages to message queues may be provided. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a message may be routed to a message queue based on topic of the message, content of the message, application for which the message was intended, and/or a set of rules such as a rule based on queue length and queue balancing. A template integration process may subscribe to one or more topic queues, from which input parameters are obtained for invoking a service request from an application.
US09882844B2 Opaque message parsing
A computer-implemented method of parsing a message comprising a sequence of data fields, the method comprising evaluating program code for processing the parsed message to identify a first set of data fields of the message that are referenced in said program code; identifying the boundaries of the data fields in a schema defining the format of said message; identifying a second set of data fields in said schema related to the first set of data fields by reference, said second set further including the first set; and sequentially parsing the message using the identified data field boundaries, wherein said parsing step comprises skipping data fields in said sequence that precede the first data field belonging to the second set. A computer program product comprising program code for implementing this method and a data processing system adapted to implement this method are also disclosed.
US09882843B2 Managing unavailability notices
A computer-implemented method, carried out by one or more processors, for managing unavailability notices. In an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of initializing an out of office notice, wherein the out of office notice is associated with a first user of an e-mail service; receiving inputs for the out of office notice, wherein the inputs include one or more of: a duration of time selection, alternative contact information, and message content; receiving a list of one or more user to whom to send an out of office alert notice; and sending to the one or more users from the list the out of office alert notice with a reminder function, wherein the reminder function allows for each of the one or more users to receive a reminder about unavailability at another time.
US09882840B2 Scalable crosspoint switch
A crosspoint switch matrix may include a plurality of point cells provided at intersections between a plurality of input pathways and a plurality of output pathways. The input pathways may be partitioned into groups, each group defined by a demultiplexer that forwards an input signal to the point cells within the group and/or to a demultiplexer of a succeeding group. The output pathways may be partitioned into groups, each group defined by a multiplexer that forwards a signal from an active point cell to an output of the matrix. Multiplexers of groups in intermediate positions between the point cell and the matrix output may relay the output signal between the multiplexers along a bypass pass. When both the input pathways and output pathways are so partitioned, each point cell may be a member of one input pathway group and one output pathway group.
US09882837B2 Inquiry-based adaptive prediction
Predicting future utilization of a resource. The predicting future utilization of a resource may include receiving inquiries for a potential future utilization of the resource for different future points in time, recording time-based patterns of the received inquiries, recording a historic actual utilization value of the resource, and determining a future utilization of the resource using the recorded time-based patterns of the received inquiries, the recorded historic actual utilization value of the resource and a current inquiry pattern of the resource.
US09882835B2 Programming method and apparatus for core routing and switching system
A programming method and a programming apparatus for a core routing and switching system are provided. The method includes: obtaining a number of routing nodes and a number of resource types in each routing node in the core routing and switching system; judging whether a first requirement for resources in the routing nodes is changed to a second requirement; judging whether resources in a first routing node group corresponding to the first requirement meet the second requirement if the first requirement is changed; searching for a plurality of second routing node groups with resources meeting the second requirement if the resources in the first routing node group do not meet the second requirement; calculating a plurality of migration overheads corresponding to the plurality of second routing node groups; selecting a second routing node group corresponding to a smallest migration overhead from the plurality of second routing node groups.
US09882832B2 Fine-grained quality of service in datacenters through end-host control of traffic flow
Systems and methods are disclosed for traffic engineering and traffic flow control in a datacenter. Flow agents may be provided at hosts that may be operable to control a rate at which a traffic flow is sent from one point to another within a datacenter to facilitate differing levels of Quality of Service (QoS). The differing levels of QoS may be implemented by differing sizes of bandwidth allocations assigned remotely by a traffic engineering controller. The traffic engineering controller may distribute the differing allocations of bandwidth to the flow agents corresponding to the traffic flows to keep the traffic flow rates within the bandwidth allocation. An augmenting function may also be applied at the traffic engineering controller to maximize bandwidth utilization by checking for unutilized bandwidth and reallocating such bandwidth in accordance with one or more QoS.
US09882831B2 Maximizing bandwidth utilization in networks with high latencies and packet drops using transmission control protocol
Disclosed is a method of maximizing the utilization of currently available network path bandwidth by TCP transmissions. Embodiments of the present invention allow to automatically detect and utilize a larger portion of the currently available bandwidth (or even the entire bandwidth) for every specific connection and network path that utilizes the invention. Furthermore, some embodiments of the present invention provide that the software implementing the technology may be running only at the data sender side and may communicate with a standard receiver. According to embodiments of the present invention, the software implementing the invention may be placed between a TCP/IP protocol driver and a Network Interface driver. Such intermediate software may hide the real network state from TCP/IP driver and shift the TCP connection SWND edge by means of Preemptive Spoof Data Acknowledgment and Packet Loss Concealment.
US09882829B2 Orchestrating hybrid cloud services
A technique includes providing a first interface to manage a plurality of cloud services that are provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud. Each of the cloud resources is associated with an application programming interface. The technique includes using the first interface to orchestrate the cloud services, where the orchestration includes using the first interface to orchestrate the application programming interfaces to allow at least one cloud resource management function provided by the first interface to be performed across at least two of the cloud resources.
US09882827B2 Software defined infrastructures that encapsulate physical server resources into logical resource pools
A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.
US09882822B2 Data frame sending method and apparatus
A data frame sending method and apparatus for effectively improving sending efficiency by, acquiring a basic speed set, determining a current sending speed which is the maximum speed in a candidate speed set, and the candidate speed set is the set of elements from the basic speed set and whose packet sending success rate is greater than a threshold, acquiring an aggregation length value according to the current sending speed, where the aggregation length value is the maximum length of a frame that can be sent at the current sending speed, determining multiple medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) from to-be-sent MPDUs according to the aggregation length value, and aggregating the multiple MPDUs to obtain an aggregate MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU), where a length of the A-MPDU is less than or equal to the aggregation length value, and sending the A-MPDU at the current sending speed.
US09882820B2 Communication apparatus
A transmission apparatus includes: a sending unit configured to send data to a receiver apparatus via the network; a receiving unit configured to receive acknowledgement data including an acknowledgement and information on a receive window size from the receiver apparatus via the network; a transmission bandwidth controller configured to control a bandwidth for data to be sent from the sending unit; a transmission bandwidth restriction unit configured to restrict the bandwidth controlled by the transmission bandwidth controller in such a manner that a data size of data for which no acknowledgement is received from the receiver apparatus among data which is sent is equal to or smaller than an upper limit size determined from the receive window size; and a switching controller configured to switch activation and inactivation of the transmission bandwidth restriction unit based on the data size and the receive window size.
US09882814B2 Technologies for bridging between coarse-grained and fine-grained load balancing
Technologies for bridging between coarse-grained and fine-grained load balancing include a computing node of a cluster computing device and a network controller. The computing node may add a flow entry to a local flow table based on flow information received from the network controller. The computing node may transmit a multicast network packet including the flow information and next hop information to other computing nodes of the cluster device. The computing node may also add a different flow entry to the local flow table and a next hop entry to a local next hop table based on a multicast network packet received from another computing node of the cluster device. The computing node may locally process a network packet received from a remote computing device or forward the received network packet to another computing node of the cluster device based on the flow entries added to the local flow table.
US09882807B2 Network traffic classification
A computer implemented method and system comprising receiving a data packet from a network source, extracting source and destination data from the received data packet, determining a user from the extracted source and destination data from the received data packet. If a label does not exist for the extracted source and destination data from the received data packet, creating a label for the data packet, the label comprising the extracted source data and historic source data for the determined user, calling a chaotic function with the label for the received data packet. If the chaotic function returns false, calling an alternative function for an output with the label for the received data packet. If the chaotic function returns true, capturing the output of the chaotic function, and updating the label with the output of the chaotic function or with the output of the alternative function.
US09882805B2 Dynamic path selection policy for multipathing in a virtualized environment
Particular embodiments change a current storage I/O path used by a host computer to access networked storage to an alternative storage I/O path by considering traffic load at a networked switch in the current storage I/O path. The host computer transmits a request to the networked switch in the current storage I/O path to provide network load information currently experiences by the networked switch. After receiving network load information from the networked switch, the host computer then evaluates whether the networked switch is overloaded based on the received network load information. Based on the evaluation, the host computer selects a new alternative storage I/O path to the networked storage that does not include the networked switch, and then forwards future storage I/O communications to the networked storage using the new alternative storage I/O path.
US09882804B2 Co-existence of a distributed routing protocol and centralized path computation for deterministic wireless networks
In one embodiment, a device both communicates with a network operating a distributed proactive routing protocol, and participates in a centralized path computation protocol. The device communicates routing characteristics of the distributed proactive routing protocol for the network from the network to the centralized path computation protocol, and also communicates one or more computed paths from the centralized path computation protocol to the network, where the computed paths from the centralized path computation protocol are based on the routing characteristics of the distributed proactive routing protocol for the network.
US09882802B2 Auto management of a virtual device context enabled network infrastructure
In some embodiments, a virtual device context (vDC) domain may be advertised to other network devices. If at least a partition of each device is determined to belong to the same vDC domain, the network interface communicating with the at least one device may be activated.
US09882801B2 Providing full point-to-point communications among compute nodes of an operational group in a global combining network of a parallel computer
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing full point-to-point communications among compute nodes of an operational group in a global combining network of a parallel computer, each compute node connected to each adjacent compute node in the global combining network through a link, that include: receiving a network packet in a compute node, the network packet specifying a destination compute node; selecting, in dependence upon the destination compute node, at least one of the links for the compute node along which to forward the network packet toward the destination compute node; and forwarding the network packet along the selected link to the adjacent compute node connected to the compute node through the selected link.
US09882796B2 Apparatus and method for suppressing a delay in monitoring communication
A management apparatus acquires state information indicating a state of a monitoring target by communicating with the monitoring target through a first monitoring path at a monitoring timing for monitoring the monitoring target, and detects a use state of the first monitoring path. Upon determining, based on the use state, that a delay is expected to occur in at a next monitoring timing, the management apparatus changes the first monitoring path to a second monitoring path different from the first monitoring path, and communicates with the monitoring target through the changed second monitoring path.
US09882795B1 Signal loss detector
In an example, an apparatus for detecting signal loss on a serial communication channel coupled to a receiver includes an input, a detector, and an output circuit. The input is configured to receive decisions generated by sampling the serial communication channel using multiplexed decision paths in a decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The detector is coupled to the input and configured to monitor the decisions for at least one pattern generated by the multiplexed decision paths in response to absence of a serial data signal on the serial communication channel. The output circuit is coupled to the detector and configured to assert loss-of-signal in response detection of the at least one pattern by the detector.
US09882792B1 Filter component tuning method
Target mode frequencies are calculated for a defined filter component used as a reference for filter components to be tuned. The defined filter component has resonant mode(s), each having a mode frequency which can be tuned to a corresponding target mode frequency via physical adjustment of parameter(s) of the filter component. A tuning equation is formed by linearly relating, via a slope matrix, changes in the mode frequencies to corresponding physical adjustment in the parameter(s), and by using an inverse of the slope matrix as part of the tuning equation. A tuning procedure is performed for a filter component to be tuned, comprising: determining, using the tuning equation, adjustment information for parameter(s) of the filter component to adjust measured mode frequency(ies) of the filter component toward meeting corresponding target mode frequency(ies) for the resonant mode(s) within corresponding tolerance(s); and outputting the determined adjustment information for physical adjustment of the parameter(s).
US09882789B2 Service assurance platform as a user-defined service
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a service assurance platform. A service assurance platform can be provided by a computing device comprising a processor. The computing device can obtain a service order comprising a request for functionality. The computing device can initiate determination of service offerings available to provide the functionality and initiate presentation of the service offerings determined to be available. The computing device can obtain a selection of a service offering of the service offerings and initiate orchestration of the service offering to instantiate a service that provides the functionality.
US09882787B2 Service management in appliance-based solutions
System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation comprising deploying a first appliance including at least one service to a computing environment including a plurality of appliances, determining, for each service in the first appliance, whether the service is active on at least one other appliance of the plurality of appliances in the computing environment, and activating, on the first appliance, only each service not determined to be active on at least one other appliance of the plurality of appliances, so that each service determined to be active in at least one other appliance of the plurality of appliances is not activated on the first appliance.
US09882785B2 Social network content spread visualization
A system and method for content spread visualization includes obtaining activity data related to a content item of the social network, the activity data related to interactions by members of the social network with the content item. A processor generates the visualization based on the activity data, the visualization including indicia arranged in hierarchical branches, the branches extending radially from a primary indicia of the indicia, each of the indicia individually corresponding to one of the activity data and connected to at least one other one of the indicia with a couple based on a relationship between the corresponding ones of the activity data. The processor causes a user interface to display the visualization.
US09882784B1 Holistic validation of a network via native communications across a mirrored emulation of the network
A replication of a physical network is created in the cloud. The replicated network safely validates configuration changes for any hardware network device of the physical network and the physical network end state resulting from the changes without impacting the physical network steady state. The replicated network creates virtual machines on hardware resources provisioned from the cloud. The virtual machines emulate network device functionality and have the same addressing as the network devices. Nested overlay networks reproduce the direct connectivity that exists between different pairs of the network devices on the virtual machines. A first overlay network formed by a first Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) provides direct logical connections between the cloud machines on which the virtual machines execute. A second overlay network of VXLANs leverages the first VXLAN to establish direct logical connections between the virtual machines that mirror the direct connections between the network devices.
US09882783B2 Distributed network management using a logical multi-dimensional label-based policy model
Management instructions for a particular managed server within an administrative domain are generated according to an administrative domain-wide management policy that comprises a set of one or more rules. The administrative domain includes a plurality of managed servers. A determination is made regarding which rules within the set of rules are relevant to the particular managed server. Function-level instructions are generated based on the rules that were determined to be relevant. A determination is made regarding which managed servers within the plurality of managed servers are relevant to the particular managed server. The function-level instructions and information regarding the managed servers that were determined to be relevant are sent to the particular managed server. The particular managed server uses the function-level instructions and information regarding the managed servers to configure a management module so that the configured management module implements the administrative domain-wide management policy.
US09882781B2 Fast linkup arbitration
A data processing system comprising: first and second network ports each operable to support a network connection configured according to one or more of a predetermined set of physical layer protocols; and a processor configured to, on a network message being formed for transmission to a network endpoint accessible over either of the first and second network ports: estimate the total time required to, for each of the predetermined set of physical layer protocols, negotiate a respective network connection and transmit the entire network message over that respective network connection; select the physical layer protocol having the lowest estimate of the total time required to negotiate a respective network connection and transmit the network message over that respective network connection; and configure at least one of the first and second network ports to use the selected physical layer protocol.
US09882779B2 Software version maintenance in a software defined network
As disclosed herein a method includes a software defined networking controller identifying an element managed by the controller on which to perform a software version maintenance operation, de-activating the identified element in a software defined network (SDN), ensuring that there is an active backup for the element in the SDN while the identified element is de-activated, initiating the software version maintenance operation on the de-activated identified element, and in response to completion of the software version maintenance operation, re-activating the de-activated identified element in the SDN. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
US09882778B2 Remote electrical tilt antenna management apparatus, system, and method, remote controller, and base station
The present application provides a remote electrical tilt antenna management apparatus, system, and method, a remote controller, and a base station. The method includes: obtaining, by a remote control unit RCU, a first permission configuration file, where the first permission configuration file includes information about a first permission of a first base station to perform an operation on a first remote electrical tilt RET unit, and the first permission includes at least query or control; and configuring, by the RCU according to the first permission configuration file, the first permission of the first base station to perform an operation on the first RET. In this way, the first base station implements configuration of a management operation on the first RET, thereby implementing, by configuring different permission configuration files on the RCU, that a same base station manages different RETs, and further improving operability of managing a RET.
US09882775B1 Dependent network resources
In certain aspects, where a network resource is configured (e.g., created, launched, modified, etc.) the dependencies between the network resource and other resources can be determined and stored. Subsequently, then a request is made to reconfigure the network resource, the stored dependencies can be accessed to determine whether or not to allow such a requested reconfiguration.
US09882770B2 Apparent cloud access for hosted content items
Techniques for apparent cloud access of a hosted content item. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed at a personal computing device comprising a user agent comprises: receiving a block agent request for a content item from the user agent; determining content item block identifiers of content item blocks that make up the content item; determining which, if any, of the content item blocks that make up the content item are not stored in a local storage of the personal computing device; downloading, from a block server of an online content management system, any of the content item blocks that are not stored in a local storage of the personal computing device; and sending to the user agent, in a response to the block agent request, data of each of the content item blocks that make up the content item.
US09882769B2 System and method for registration of an agent to process management object updates
A method is disclosed for providing an updated management object to an agent. The method includes the agent specifying the updated management object, and a device management client providing the updated management object.
US09882763B2 Apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal and method of transmitting and receiving a signal
According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting at least one broadcasting signal having PLP (Physical Layer Pipe) data and preamble data includes: encoding the PLP data; encoding the preamble data; mapping the encoded PLP data to PLP data symbols by QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) modulations; mapping the encoded preamble data to preamble data symbols by QAM modulations; building a signal frame including the PLP data symbols and the preamble data symbols, wherein the preamble data symbols include first signaling information and second signaling information, wherein the first signaling information is for the second signaling information and includes size information of the second signaling information, and wherein the second signaling information is for the PLP data symbols; modulating the signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; and transmitting the modulated signal frame.
US09882759B2 Multiple receivers in an OFDM/OFDMA communication system
A signal receiver is configured to receive multiple time-domain input signals. A plurality of the input signals among the multiple time-domain input signals is selected and transformed into frequency-domain signals. The frequency-domain signals are shifted in phase by a negative value of a respective reference phase, and the phase-shifted signals are combined into one signal. The combined signal is then multiplied with a stored signal to generate a signal product and transformed into a time-domain signal. Peak detection is performed on the time-domain signal.
US09882756B2 Communication system with PAPR management using noise-bearing subcarriers
A communication system (20) includes a base station (22) and a number of peak-managed user equipment apparatuses (26) that simultaneously transmit peak-reduced FDMA communication signals (128) to the base station (22). The communication system (20) exclusively assigns payload subcarriers (44) to the apparatuses (26) and assigns a few noise-bearing subcarriers (48) for common simultaneous use by all apparatuses (26). Each user equipment apparatus (26) includes a peak reduction section (92) that distorts an otherwise undistorted modulated communication signal (86) into a distorted, peak-reduced communication signal (128) by generating and adding peak-reduction noise (131) to the undistorted signal (86). The peak-reduction noise (131) is primarily mapped onto the noise-bearing subcarriers (48) without conforming to an in-band noise constraint and may be mapped onto the assigned payload subcarriers (44) to the extent permitted by an in-band noise constraint. The peak-reduction noise (131) is blocked in unassigned payload subcarriers (46).
US09882755B2 Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes encoding service data of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); bit interleaving the encoded service data; building at least one signal frame including the bit interleaved service data; and modulating data in the at least one signal frame by Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; inserting a preamble at a beginning of each of the at least one signal frame after the modulating step; and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the preamble includes two OFDM symbols and each of the two OFDM symbols is generated by a sequence multiplication, and wherein each of the two OFDM symbols in the preamble includes information for an emergency alert.
US09882752B2 Method and apparatus for generating a multi-level pseudo-random test signal
The present invention relates to a method for generating multi-level PRBS patterns for testing purposes, wherein the method includes the steps of providing a binary PRBS signal with a binary bit pattern sequence and mapping each bit of the binary bit pattern sequence to a symbol of a multilevel output.
US09882751B2 Communication system, communication controller, communication control method, and medium
A communication system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a packet, a repeater configured to impose a bandwidth limit on the packet, a receiver configured to receive the packet on which the bandwidth limit is imposed, and a control device configured to set, when a reception interval of reception packets received by the receiver is longer than a transmission interval of packets transmitted to the repeater, a transmission rate in the transmitter in accordance with the reception interval.
US09882745B2 Method and apparatus for perfoming cell search and frequency offset estimation
Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing a cell search by a receiver in a communication system. A scrambling code is identified by correlating a common pilot channel with a first synchronization accumulation length based on a frame boundary and a code group. A multipath signal is sought by correlating the common pilot channel with a second synchronization accumulation length based on the frame boundary and the code group. A difference between, or a ratio of, a first maximum value of first correlation values acquired during identification of the scrambling code and a second maximum value of second correlation values acquired during searching for the multipath signal, is determined. It is determined whether a frequency offset exists by comparing the difference or the ratio with a predetermined threshold value. The frequency offset is estimated and the frequency offset is transmitted to a demodulator, when the frequency offset exists.
US09882740B2 Wireless acquisition of digital video images
A system can include a first transmitter unit having a first communication engine that controls a first local network, where the first transmitter unit is positioned at a first location. The system can also include a first remote device communicably coupled, using the first local network, to the first transmitter unit. The system can further include a receiver unit having a second communication engine that controls a second local network, where the receiver unit is positioned at a second location. The system can also include a smart device having an application that is communicably coupled, using the second local network, to the receiver unit. The system can further include a bridge network that wirelessly communicably couples the first transmitter unit to the receiver unit. The first local network and the second local network are wireless networks.
US09882739B2 Method for disabling a legacy loop detect circuit in a beta node
A method for disabling or removing a Legacy loop detect circuit to eliminate the circuit erroneously detecting a legacy loop during a IEEE-1394 serial bus initialization. The method includes providing a programmable code to the Legacy loop detect circuit for increasing a reset count to a value greater than three (3) to the Legacy loop circuit thus reducing the probability of an erroneous disconnect of a Beta node connection. This method provides for more robust Beta loop node operation during high frequency bus resets.
US09882735B2 Regional control system with manual override
A regional monitoring system can establish and store patterns of signals from sensors or patterns of signals coupled to actuators. Incoming patterns can be compared to pre-stored patterns, and in the presence of a disparity therebetween, a message can be sent wirelessly to a displaced individual associated with the region indicative of the disparity. The individual can override a pre-established action associated with one of the pre-stored patterns. Monitoring systems can include security monitoring systems, fire safety monitoring systems or HVAC-type systems.
US09882733B2 Migrating eMBMS into a cloud computing system
A method is executed by a multimedia broadcast multicast services gateway (MBMS-GW) to offload data plane traffic, where the data plane traffic is enhanced MBMS (e MBMS) downlink traffic for a data plane interface Internet Protocol (IP) multicast transport between the MBMS-GW and an enhanced node B (e Node B). The method includes allocating an IP multicast address and a common tunnel endpoint identifier (C-TEID) for an MBMS session between node B (e Node B) and a broadcast multicast service center (BM-SC). The method also includes configuring the at least one network element to match an IP address and a user datagram protocol (UDP) port of incoming data plane traffic, to modify the IP address and UDP port to the IP multicast address and associated UDP port, and to push a general packed radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) user data (GTP-U) header including the C-TEID onto the data plane traffic.
US09882726B2 Method and apparatus for initial certificate enrollment in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are provided for initial certification enrollment in a wireless communication system. A first mobile device establishes a first wireless connection with an infrastructure and a second wireless connection with a second mobile device. The first mobile device receives, from the second mobile device, a first certification request that includes a request for a digital certificate for the second mobile device and first biometric data associated with a user of the first mobile device. The first mobile device obtains second biometric data associated with a user of the second mobile device and conveys a second certification request to the infrastructure that includes the request for the digital certificate for the second mobile device and the first and second biometric data. The first mobile device then receives, from the infrastructure, the digital certificate for the second mobile device and forwards, to the second mobile device, the digital certificate.
US09882723B2 Method and system for authentication
A method and system of authenticating communications sessions between two or more parties over one or more simultaneous communications channels using one or more communicating devices is provided including having a first party create a first set of signatures, wherein the first set of signatures includes a signature for each communications channel, communicating with at a second party over at least one communications channel, whereby the second party authenticates the first party's signature associated with the at least one communications channel and accepts communication with the first party.
US09882719B2 Methods and systems for multi-factor authentication
This disclosure relates generally to multi-factor authentication, and more particularly to method and system for multi-factor authentication. In one embodiment, the method includes receipt of an audio input at a device, and a plurality of authentication parameters from at least one of the device and a server communicably coupled to the device. The plurality of authentication parameters are encrypted to generate a plurality of encrypted authentication parameters. The plurality of encrypted authentication parameters are embedded as watermarks into the audio input to generate a watermarked audio signal. The watermarked audio signal are encrypted to generate an authentication audio signal. The authentication audio signal is transmitted to an authentication server over an audio communication channel to authenticate the access at the device.
US09882716B2 Method and apparatus for generating and processing quantum signal in regular frame unit for quantum encryption key distribution
A transmitter for generating and processing quantum signals in regular frame units in a quantum key distribution system, includes: a photon pulse stream generator to generate quantum information in numbered frame units and periodically transmit the quantum information through a quantum channel; a public channel transceiver to communicate with a receiver of the quantum key distribution system through a public channel; a frame synchronization information generator to generate frame synchronization information for frame synchronization of the receiver, and transmit the frame synchronization information through the public channel transceiver to the receiver, in every frame or every several frames; and a signal processor to transmit and receive open information on the every frame or every several frames through the public channel transceiver, and process the quantum information in frame units.
US09882715B2 API key generation of a security system forming part of a host computer for cryptographic transactions
A key ceremony application creates bundles for custodians encrypted with their passphrases. Each bundle includes master key share. The master key shares are combined to store an operational master key. The operational master key is used for private key encryption during a checkout process. The operational private key is used for private key decryption for transaction signing in a payment process. The bundles further include TLS keys for authenticated requests to create an API key for a web application to communicate with a service and to unfreeze the system after it has been frozen by an administrator.
US09882712B2 Encrypted text matching system, method, and computer readable medium
An encrypted text matching system includes: an auxiliary data generating unit that generates first and second auxiliary data, which are for verification of matching between a first encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting at least one of a plurality of data segments into which input data is divided by segmenting unit and that is registered with a storage device and a second encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting at least one of a plurality of data segments into which input data to be matched is divided by segmenting unit, the verification being performed by using a Hamming distance between plaintexts; and a matching determining unit that takes a difference between the first and second encrypted text, and determines whether a Hamming distance between plaintexts that corresponds to the difference between the first and second encrypted text is equal to or less than a predetermined certain value.
US09882711B1 Device including single wire interface and data processing system including the same
A data processing system includes a master device and a slave device. The master device includes a first single pad, a first control circuit, a first frame generator configured, and a first processing circuit. The slave device includes a second single pad, a second control circuit, a second frame generator, and a second processing circuit. A clock source is configured to provide a clock signal to the master device and the slave device. The master device communicates with the slave device through a single wire, the single wire being connected between the first single pad and the second single pad, wherein the single wire is bidirectional. A first frame is transmitted from the master device to the slave device, and a second frame is transmitted from the slave device to the master device.
US09882710B2 Resolving interaction between channel estimation and timing recovery
System and method of timing recovery for recovering a clock signal with reduced interaction between an adaptive channel estimator and the overall timing loop for correcting clock phase. The channel response estimation in the timing recovery loop is dynamically adapted to the current channel response that varies over time. The channel estimator includes compensation logic operable to detect and compensate a correction of clock phase ascribed to the channel estimator. The compensation logic can calculate the offset between a center of filter (COF) value and a COF nominal value, the offset indicative of the amount and direction of clock phase correction contributed by the channel estimator. Based on the offset, the compensation logic adjusts the estimates channel response by adjusting the tap weights of the channel estimator to correct the offset, thereby compensating the clock phase correction.
US09882707B1 System and method for characterizing a receiver of a communication signal
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a sampling circuit configured to sample a first signal based on a sampling position signal received from an eye-scan controller to generate a sequence of sampled symbols. A data checker is configured to provide an error signal including an indication of errors in the sequence of sampled symbols to the eye-scan controller. The eye-scan controller is configured to sweep from an initial position of a unit interval (UI) of the first signal to a left sweep end to generate a first sequence of sampling positions and sweep from the initial position to a right sweep end to generate a second sequence of sampling positions. The left and right sweep ends are determined based on first and second sequences of bit error rate (BERs) corresponding to the first and second sequences of sampling positions respectively.
US09882701B2 Method and apparatus for allocating channel in wireless local area network
A method and apparatus for allocating a channel in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first frame including scheduling information with respect to a first interval from a second access point, generating a second frame including resource related information required for transmission and reception during a second interval which is continuous to the first interval, and transmitting the second frame to the second access point. Accordingly, performance of the WLAN can be improved.
US09882695B2 Master station and method for HEW communication using a transmission signaling structure for a HEW signal field
Embodiments of a transmission signaling structure for HEW are defined to carry packet information to configure OFDMA receivers for demodulation of a specific portion of the packet and/or to configure receivers for transmission using specific OFDMA and MU-MIMO resources. In some embodiments, the specific portion of the packet comprises one or more minimum bandwidth units of one or more 20 MHz channels. Each 20 MHz bandwidth structure may comprise several minimum bandwidth units to allow each 20 MHz channel to have a have smaller granularity than 20 MHz.
US09882690B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting information about a channel in a wireless communication system
A method and a user equipment (UE) configured with one or more cells for feeding back channel information are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes receiving information on a maximum number of ranks; transmitting first channel information generated based on rank information; and transmitting second channel information which is generated based on the same rank information as the rank information used for generating the first channel information. The maximum number of ranks is used to determine the rank information.
US09882688B2 Method, apparatus, and system for processing interference in massive multiple-input multiple-output system
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for suppressing interference in a massive multiple-input multiple-output system, which overcome a disadvantage of sensitivity to a backhaul delay during an inter-cell interference cancellation process in an existing massive multiple-input multiple-output system. A specific embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining channel correlation matrixes of all links, and further calculating a combined outer precoder set according to the channel correlation matrixes, where each combined outer precoder includes at least one outer precoder, and the outer precoder is a semi-unitary matrix and is not sensitive to a backhaul delay. Technical solutions of the present invention are mainly applied to a process of processing interference in a massive multiple-input multiple-output system.
US09882686B1 Data stream interleaving with different rotations applied to changed bit streams for spatially diverse transmission
Systems and techniques relating to processing multiple data streams include, according to at least one implementation, receiving a single bit stream during a SISO mode of transmission; receiving two or more bit streams during a MIMO mode of transmission, wherein different rotations are applied to dynamically changed second, third, and fourth ones of the two or more bit streams received during the MIMO mode of transmission to improve transmission robustness and transmission data rate; performing separate de-mapping of subcarriers in the two or more bit streams during the MIMO mode of transmission; performing separate de-interleaving of the two or more bit streams during the MIMO mode of transmission, wherein a first portion of a de-interleaver section that handles a first of the two or more bit streams employs a same de-interleaver operation as during the SISO mode of transmission; and combining the two or more bit streams.
US09882685B2 Wireless communication system with interference rejection mechanism and method of operation thereof
A method of operation of a wireless communication system includes: filtering a composite input from a radio frequency signal; developing a raw digital stream by applying an analog correction to the composite input; sampling an extracted signal, from the raw digital stream, by a primary analog-to-digital converter; and monitoring, by a correction control block, the extracted signal including adjusting the analog correction by a digital control from the correction control block.
US09882682B2 Message distributing system, message distributing apparatus, message distributing method and message distributing program
A message distributing system of the present invention includes: a mobile terminal; a service server which distributes a message to the mobile terminal; a message distributing apparatus which repeats the message and a request for distribution of the message that are provided by the service server; and a network apparatus which transmits the message, that is provided by the message distributing apparatus; to the mobile terminal. The message distributing apparatus sets a retransmission control time; which is used for controlling a time of retransmission of the message, on the basis of the request for distribution, and controls the time of retransmission to the network apparatus on the basis of the retransmission control time. According to the present invention, it is possible to solve a problem that a retransmission packet is transmitted while a packet is not lost and consequently a load of network becomes heavy, and a problem that a retransmission packet is not transmitted while a packet is lost and consequently an arrival of a push message becomes delayed.
US09882676B2 Link-adaptation in partly centralized radio access networks
A method and system provides for adapting a computational load in a partly centralized radio access network. A computational load of computational elements of a central processor is measured or estimated, which central processor communicates with a plurality of radio access points and user equipment in the partly centralized radio access network. It is determined, by the central processor, whether the computational load should be reduced or increased. The computational load is adjusted by changing at least one of a modulation and coding scheme of the user equipment or an uplink power.
US09882675B2 Time-reversal wireless systems having asymmetric architecture
In an asymmetric time-reversal wireless system, a base station includes an input circuit configured to, during a hand-shake period, receive a channel response signal derived from a probe signal sent from a first terminal device to the apparatus through multiple wireless propagation paths, and during an uplink transmission period, receive combined signals that include a signal from the first terminal device and a signal from a second terminal device. The base station includes a data processor configured to calculate a signature waveform for the first terminal device based on the channel response, and determine the signal sent from the first terminal device during the uplink transmission period based on the combined signals and the signature waveform for the first terminal device.
US09882670B2 Terminal communication apparatus, base station communication apparatus, communication reception method and communication transmission method
Provided is a terminal that is capable of avoiding a PHICH resource conflict where terminals having different UL-DL configurations coexist. When a response signal transmitted in a first sub-frame is in response to uplink data transmitted in a second sub-frame of a first configuration pattern, and a response signal transmitted in the first sub-frame is in response to uplink data transmitted in a third sub-frame of a second configuration pattern that is set on another terminal for which the configuration pattern setting cannot be changed, a first resource to be allocated to the response signal in the first sub-frame that is transmitted in response to the uplink data transmitted in the second sub-frame from the terminal; is different from a second resource to be allocated to the response signal in the third sub-frame that is transmitted in response to the uplink data transmitted from the another terminal.
US09882669B1 Activating interference signal rejection filter path based on detection of an interference signal in a wireless distribution system (WDS)
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to activating an interference signal rejection filter path based on detection of an interference signal in a wireless distribution system (WDS). In this regard, in one aspect, a filter path selection circuit is configured to activate an interference rejection filter path configured to suppress a predefined interference signal when the predefined interference signal is detected in a received radio frequency (RF) signal. In another aspect, the filter path selection circuit is configured to detect the predefined interference signal by comparing a measured power level of the predefined interference signal against a predefined power threshold. By activating the interference rejection filter path to suppress the predefined interference signal based on detection of the predefined interference signal, it is possible to dynamically respond to the predefined interference signal that may randomly appear in the WDS, thus providing an enhanced overall RF performance in the WDS.
US09882665B2 Method for decoding a service guide
A method for decoding a service guide by a decoder comprises: receiving a service description within said service guide; receiving a service media extension within said service description; receiving a major channel number, a minor channel number, and an icon within the service media extension; decoding the service guide including the service media extension, the major channel number, the minor channel number, and the icon. The service guide is associated with a service comprising a media bit stream and supported by the OMA Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (OMA BCAST).
US09882664B2 Interactive entertainment system
Disclosed here is an interactive audio system and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the interactive audio system comprises a processor and a receiving module for receiving a radio frequency (RF) carrier signal associated with a broadcast station. The audio system further comprises a memory storing computer-executable instructions, where the processing module is configured to access and execute the computer-executable instructions to perform a set of acts. The acts include shifting a frequency associated with the received RF carrier signal to an intermediate frequency (IF). The acts include demodulating the frequency shifted portion of the RF carrier signal associated with the broadcast station, the demodulation resulting in an output signal. The acts further include extracting an embedded data from the demodulated output signal. The acts further include serving the embedded data in conjunction with the demodulated audio signal.
US09882661B1 Closed loop calibration by frequency separation
Methods and systems for calibrating a transceiver using frequency separation are disclosed. A method configured to calibrate a transceiver that includes connecting an output of a transmitter to an input of a receiver. A receiver local oscillator signal having a receiver local oscillator frequency (fRXLO) is provided to a receiver mixer. A transmitter local oscillator signal having a transmitter local oscillator frequency (fTXLO) to is provided to a transmitter mixer. The receiver local oscillator frequency is separated from the transmitter local oscillator frequency by a nonzero intermediate frequency (fIF). The method includes upconverting a test signal having a baseband frequency (fBB) using the transmitter mixer and downconverting the output signal of the transmitter mixer with the receiver mixer to generate a calibration signal. The transceiver is calibrated based on the calibration signal.
US09882653B2 System and method of de-skewing electrical signals
A method and apparatus of a device that determines transmit and receive skew times between pairs of lanes of an electrical interface of a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receive a plurality of configurations corresponding to a plurality of electrical loopbacks that can each couple transmit and receive interfaces of the electrical interface via the plurality of lanes in different patterns. In addition, for each of the plurality of electrical loopbacks, the device couples this electrical loopback to the transmit and receive interfaces of the electrical interface and measures overall skew times for pairs of the plurality of lanes of the electrical interface. Furthermore, the device computes the transmit and receive skew times for the transmit and receive interfaces from the overall skew times.
US09882644B2 WDM link for radio base station
A radio base station has a baseband controller coupled to a radio head by an optical wavelength division multiplexed link to pass downlink signals on a first wavelength, and uplink signals on another wavelength. A compensating delay is applied to one of the signals to compensate for a difference in transmission times between the downlink and the uplink signals. The compensating delay can be controlled according to the difference in wavelengths. By compensating for such differences in transmission times, synchronization problems can be avoided or ameliorated, or transmission distances can be increased. This can result in more flexibility in choice of wavelengths, fiber types and fiber lengths, and greater resilience. This can enable simpler installation or configuration, or reconfiguration without needing to take care to restrict the selection of wavelengths on the WDM link or restrict the length of the link for example.
US09882642B2 Optical remodulator that remodulates modulated optical signal and optical remodulation method
An optical remodulator includes: a polarization diversity modulator configured to modulate an input optical signal to generate an output optical signal by using a first optical modulator implemented for a first polarization state and a second optical modulator implemented for a second polarization state that is orthogonal to the first polarization state; a photo detector configured to optical-to-electrical convert the input optical signal or the output optical signal or both of the optical signals into an electric signal; and a drive signal generator configured to generate a first drive signal that drives the first optical modulator and a second drive signal that drives the second optical modulator based on the electric signal generated by the photo detector.
US09882636B2 Monitoring apparatus for an optical signal to noise ratio, signal transmission apparatus and receiver
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a monitoring apparatus for an optical signal to noise ratio, a signal transmission apparatus and a receiver. The monitoring apparatus includes a selecting unit configured to select a time domain, and/or frequency domain range for calculating noise power of received signals according to a location of a pilot signal in the received signals in a time domain and/or frequency domain, and a calculating unit configured to calculate the noise power of the received signals according to the received signals in the selected range of the time domain and/or frequency domain, and calculate an optical signal to noise ratio of the received signals according to the noise power. The optical signal to noise ratio may be accurately estimated, with a process of calculation being simple and a scope of application being relatively wide.
US09882633B2 Methods and apparatus for self healing of an optical transceiver in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optical transceiver that includes a first set of electrical transmitters operatively coupled to a switch. Each electrical transmitter from the first set of electrical transmitters is configured to transmit an electrical signal from a set of electrical signals. In such embodiments, the switch is configured to switch an electrical signal from the set of electrical signals such that the set of electrical signals are transmitted via a second set of electrical transmitters. Each electrical transmitter from the second set of electrical transmitters is operatively coupled to an optical transmitter from a set of optical transmitters. The set of optical transmitters is operatively coupled to an optical multiplexer. In such embodiments, at least one electrical transmitter from the second set of electrical transmitters is associated with a failure within the optical transceiver.
US09882630B2 Overlaying an air to ground communication system on spectrum assigned to satellite systems
An air to ground communication system provides internet access to aircraft from ground based stations. The air to ground system shares spectrum with uplink portions of a satellite communication spectrum. Interference mitigation techniques are employed to avoid interference between the ground based communications and satellite communications. Fade mitigation techniques are employed to provide communication to aircraft at low angles of elevation in the presence of rain.
US09882621B2 Techniques using a first band of communication to synchronize beamforming for a second band of communication
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to send an indication in a first frequency band of communication, the indication sent in a beacon message and to indicate a capability to communicate in a second frequency band of communication. Embodiments may include techniques to send beamforming information for the second frequency band of communication in the first frequency band of communication, and perform a beamforming operation for the second frequency band of communication using the beamforming information communicated in the first frequency band of communication.
US09882619B2 Determining how to combine received signals
It is presented a method for determining how to combine received signals from a plurality of antennas in an antenna set. The method is performed in a network node and comprises the steps of: determining for each evaluation sector whether it is better to perform intra-sector IRC on received signals for all antennas of the evaluation sector than refraining from performing IRC; for each evaluation sector, when it is better to perform intra-sector IRC, forming a single antenna part; for each evaluation sector, when it is better to refrain from performing IRC on any of the received signals for the antennas, forming a separate antenna part for each antenna; determining for a sector group whether it is better to perform inter-sector IRC on all its antennas or to keep the previously formed antenna parts; forming a single combined antenna part for the sector group when it is better to perform IRC on the at least two evaluation sectors of the sector group.
US09882616B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving feedback information in mobile communication system based on 2 dimensional massive MIMO
A feedback information transmission/reception method for use in a mobile communication system is provided. The feedback information transmission method includes receiving configuration information on at least two reference signals and feedback configuration information for use in generating feedback information based on the at least two reference signals from a base station, receiving the at least two reference signals from the base station, measuring the at least two reference signals received, generating the feedback information based on the measurement result according to the feedback configuration information, and transmitting the feedback information to the base station.
US09882615B2 Method, system, and device for transmitting coding instruction information and for determining pre-coding matrix
A method, system, and device for transmitting coding instruction information, for use in solving the problem found in the prior art that, as current codebooks are designed for horizontal beamforming/pre-coding, direct application of the codebooks to a three-dimensional beamforming/pre-coding technology causes performance degradation. The method of embodiments of the present invention comprises: a user equipment determines and transmits to a network side first pre-coding instruction information and second pre-coding instruction information, where a first component pre-coding matrix is a block diagonal matrix, a submatrix on the diagonal is equal to the Kronecker product of two matrices, a second component pre-coding matrix is constituted by a weighted column selection vector, with the exception of a P-number of nonzero elements, the remainder of the weighted column selection vector is all zeros, and P is a positive integer. Employment of the method of the embodiments of the present invention increases the performance of the three-dimensional beamforming/pre-coding technology.
US09882612B2 Multi-sector antenna integrated radio unit
Embodiments of a system for a multi-sector base station in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an integrated unit, where the integrated unit includes multiple antennas and a radio unit (RU) coupled to the antennas. By integrating the multiple antennas and the radio RU into a single integrated unit, the system can, in some embodiments, reduce installation and operating costs of the multi-sector base station.
US09882600B2 Switching device, a communication device, and a method for processing a carrier
According to various embodiments, a switching device may include: an antenna terminal; a switch including a first switch terminal and a second switch terminal, the first switch terminal coupled to the antenna terminal, the switch including at least one transistor at least one of over or in a silicon region including an oxygen impurity concentration of smaller than about 3×1017 atoms per cm3; and a transceiver terminal coupled to the second switch terminal, wherein the transceiver terminal is at least one of configured to provide a signal received via the antenna terminal or configured to receive a signal to be transmitted via the antenna terminal.
US09882599B2 RF front-end circuitry with transistor and microelectromechanical multiple throw switches
This disclosure relates generally to radio frequency (RF) front-end circuitry for routing RF signals to and/or from one or more antennas. Exemplary RF front-end circuitry includes a multiple throw solid-state transistor switch (MTSTS) and a multiple throw microelectromechanical switch (MTMEMS). The MTSTS may be configured to selectively couple a first pole port to any one of a first set of throw ports. The MTMEMS is configured to selectively couple a second pole port to any one of a second set of throw ports. The second pole port of the MTMEMS is coupled to a first throw port in the first set of throw ports of the MTSTS. The MTSTS helps prevent hot switching in the MTMEMS since the first throw port of the MTSTS may be decoupled from the second pole port of the MTMEMS before decoupling the second pole port from a selectively coupled throw port of the MTMEMS.
US09882597B2 Communication system, tuner, and setting method
A mobile device includes a signal generating unit that generates a first signal and a transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits the first signal generated by the signal generating unit. The first signal includes frequency information that is used in wireless communication between the mobile device and a tuner. The tuner includes a setting processing unit that sets a receiving frequency of an antenna and a demodulation frequency of a phase synchronization circuit. The setting processing unit sets the receiving frequency and the demodulation frequency on the basis of the frequency information included in the first signal from the mobile device.
US09882596B2 Protective case for mobile electronic communication device
A protective case for a mobile electronic communication device includes a rear cover including a compressible member and a catch, the compressible member and the catch being spaced from each other to form an alcove; and a front cover including a rim configured to extend into the alcove, the rim having an inner surface configured to contact the compressible member and an outer surface opposite the inner surface configured to engage the catch.
US09882593B2 Coexistence between primary chains and auxiliary receiver chain in a WLAN device
A method includes, in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) device that includes one or more primary transmission/reception (TX/RX) chains and an auxiliary reception (RX) chain, defining a first operational mode in which priority is given to transmission of the primary TX/RX chains, and a second operational mode in which the priority is given to reception of the auxiliary RX chain. communication is performed on a given communication channel using the primary TX/RX chains, and evaluation of signal activity is performed on one or more alternative communication channels using the auxiliary reception (RX) chain, while operating the WLAN device alternately in the first and second operational modes.
US09882588B2 Matching network for load line change
An amplifier circuit that includes a first power amplifier configured to drive a load and a second power amplifier configured to drive the load through an impedance step-up network. The impedance step-up network is connected to an output of the second power amplifier. The impedance step-up network is configured to switch into a first mode to present an increased impedance to the first power amplifier, and switch into a second mode in which the impedance step-up network steps-up an impedance seen by the second power amplifier looking into the impedance step-up network.
US09882585B1 Systems and methods for partitioned root search for error locator polynomial functions in reed-solomon forward error correction decoding
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method of improving a speed of decoding digital data. The method may include receiving a digital communication that includes digital data; specifying a partition of a plurality of elements of a Galois field into a plurality of sets; specifying an error locator polynomial function for a Reed-Solomon forward error correction module; specifying, for each set of the plurality of sets, a second function dependent upon the error locator polynomial function and one or more characteristics of the respective set; computing the second function for each of the plurality of sets to find roots of the error locator polynomial function; outputting the roots of the error locator polynomial function to a Reed-Solomon forward error correction decoder module; and decoding the digital data included in the received digital communication using the roots.
US09882582B2 Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, encoding method, encoding device, decoding method, and decoding device
An encoding device generates static-encoded data from input text data, utilizing a static dictionary that associates a character strings and static codes, respectively the static-encoded data including a plurality of static codes corresponding to a plurality of character strings that are registered in the static dictionary, generates dynamic-encoded data from the static-encoded data by encoding a character string or the static code that occurs more than once in the static-encodes data into a dynamic code, creates a dynamic dictionary associating character strings or static codes with corresponding dynamic codes, respectively and creates a Huffman tree and data of a leaf in the Huffman tree based on an occurrence frequency of the dynamic codes and the static codes in the input text data.
US09882577B2 Circuitry for use in comparators
There is disclosed herein charge-mode circuitry for use in a comparator to capture a difference between magnitudes of first and second input signals, the circuitry comprising: a tail node configured during a capture operation to receive a charge packet; first and second nodes conductively connectable to said tail node along respective first and second paths; and control circuitry configured during the capture operation to control such connections between the tail node and the first and second nodes based on the first and second input signals such that said charge packet is divided between said first and second paths in dependence upon the difference between magnitudes of the first and second input signals.
US09882569B2 Synchronous processing system and semiconductor integrated circuit
A synchronous processing system having semiconductor integrated circuits. One of the semiconductor integrated circuits as a master chip includes a first synchronization controller and a first counter controller that allows a counter in the master chip to perform counting synchronously with a clock pulse in response to a synchronization control signal from the first synchronization controller. Another semiconductor integrated circuit as a slave chip includes a second synchronization controller that receives the synchronization control signal from the master chip, and a second counter controller that allows a counter in the slave chip to perform counting synchronously with the clock pulse in response to the synchronization control signal received. Each of the first and second counter controllers allows the counter to stop counting if the synchronization control signal is not supplied at the time point that a count value of the counter has reached a predetermined value.
US09882567B2 Programmable structured arrays
A programmable semiconductor device includes a user programmable switch comprising a configurable element positioned above a transistor material layer deposited on a substrate layer.
US09882563B2 Method for reducing overdrive need in MOS switching and logic circuit
The present disclosure relates to methods and circuits to lowering the signal range of switching or logic circuits below supply range. The circuits may have one or more stages. The supply levels can be set individually for each stage. This may realize amplifiers/attenuators, both digitally and analogically controlled, based on progression and/or modulation in the supply range from stage to stage. A chain of stages can provide the desired power gain by setting the supply progression according to the nature of the incoming signals. The signal levels are lowered by generic device networks comprising voltage sources providing voltages independent of currents flowing through. Decoupling the signal amplitude from DC biasing allows for the signal swing to be lower than threshold voltages of the active devices.
US09882561B2 Input device
An input device includes an insulation substrate, a switch element, and a detection portion. The switch element includes a fixed electrode portion that is provided on the substrate, and a movable electrode portion that is provided on a main surface side of the substrate, at least part of the movable electrode portion being elastically displaceable toward a direction approaching and leaving the fixed electrode portion. The movable electrode portion is displaceable toward a direction approaching the fixed electrode portion due to pressure from an object to be detected that is an electric conductor. The detection portion is capable of detecting a capacitance change caused by the object to be detected approaching and leaving the movable electrode portion and a capacitance change between the movable electrode portion and the fixed electrode portion produced by displacement of the movable electrode portion due to pressing.
US09882560B2 Touch panel
A touch panel includes a transparent dielectric substrate having a generally rectangular shape, a first conductive film formed on a first surface of the dielectric substrate, a second conductive film formed on a second surface of the dielectric substrate, four electrodes formed at four respective corners of the first conductive film, four current detecting units coupled to the four electrodes, respectively, and an alternating-current power supply configured to apply alternating-current voltage between the first conductive film and the second conductive film, wherein the alternating-current power supply is electrically coupled to the first conductive film through the four current detecting units and the four electrodes.
US09882553B2 Semiconductor device and circuit protecting method
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a clamping circuit. The first transistor is arranged to generate an output signal according to a control signal. The clamping circuit is arranged to generate the control signal according to an input signal, and to clamp the control signal to a predetermined signal level when the input signal exceeds the predetermined signal level.
US09882551B2 Frequency multiplier
A frequency includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a transistor having a gate terminal which receives input of a signal including a first frequency from the input terminal, a source terminal and a drain terminal connected to the output terminal by a main line, an output matching circuit provided in the main line, the output matching circuit shutting off the first frequency while allowing an output frequency multiplied from the first frequency to pass therethrough, a branch line including a power supply terminal for connection to a power supply, the branch line branching off from a branch point in the main line, and a first diode provided in the branch line, the first diode having an anode connected to the power supply terminal and a cathode connected on the branch point side.
US09882550B2 Wireless power transmitting apparatus and wireless power supply system
A wireless power transmitting apparatus transmits an electric power signal comprising any one from among an electric field, a magnetic field, and an electromagnetic field to a wireless power receiving apparatus. A reflector coil is arranged at a distance from a radiation coil. A driving power supply supplies a driving current to the radiation coil. A first phase control circuit controls the phase of the current that flows through the reflector coil so as to stabilize, to a predetermined value, the phase difference between the current that flows through the reflector coil and the current that flows through the radiation coil.
US09882546B2 Alkali-niobate-based piezoelectric thin film element
An alkali-niobate-based piezoelectric thin film element includes a substrate, a lower electrode film on the substrate, a piezoelectric thin film on the lower electrode film, and an upper electrode film on the piezoelectric thin film. The piezoelectric thin film is made of an alkali-niobate-based piezoelectric material represented by the formula (NaxKyLiz)NbO3, where 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦0.2, and x+y+z=1. The piezoelectric thin film has an element pattern and contains a metal element in a higher concentration near the upper electrode film than near the lower electrode film. The average concentration of the metal element is 5×1017 atoms/cm3 or less in a region within ±15% of the thickness of the piezoelectric thin film from a position corresponding to half the thickness of the piezoelectric thin film.
US09882544B2 Electronic component
An electronic component includes first through sixth LC parallel resonators and seventh through ninth capacitors. The first through sixth LC parallel resonators are arranged in this order in a first direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a stacking direction of a multilayer body of the electronic component, and define a band pass filter. The seventh capacitor is connected between the first and sixth LC parallel resonators. The eighth capacitor is connected between the first and third LC parallel resonators. The ninth capacitor is connected between the fourth and sixth LC parallel resonators.
US09882543B2 Magnetic structures for filtering amplifier outputs
The technology described in this document can be embodied in an apparatus that includes at least four magnetic cores, wherein each core is for supporting an inductor of a filter circuit. Each of the cores include a first section, and a second section separated from the first section by an adhesive layer. The apparatus also includes an air-core structure to store magnetic energy, the air-core structure including a set of focusing projections that define a hollow cavity. The individual focusing projections of the set are disposed on different sides of the hollow cavity to focus magnetic field from the at least four magnetic cores through the hollow cavity.
US09882541B2 Electronic component
An electronic component includes first through n-th inductors that turn around as viewed from a first direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a stacking direction of a multilayer body of the electronic component. An (n+1)-th inductor includes a linear (n+1)-th inductor conductive layer which is provided in a configuration in which it turns around, as viewed from the stacking direction, and which is located within a region surrounded by the first inductor, as viewed from the first direction. An (n+1)-th capacitor is electrically connected to a first outer electrode, and includes an (n+1)-th capacitor conductive layer which opposes a first inductor conductive layer defining the first inductor with an insulating layer of a plurality of insulating layers of the multilayer body interposed therebetween.
US09882538B2 Distributed output matching network for a radio frequency power amplifier module
Disclosed are systems and methods related to matching an impedance of the power amplifier to an impedance of the antenna in a power amplifier module that includes an amplifier circuit residing on a first semiconductor die and an output matching network (OMN) that includes a first partial OMN and a second partial OMN. The first partial OMN resides on the first semiconductor die and matches an output impedance of the amplifier circuit to an input impedance of the second partial OMN. The second partial OMN matches an output impedance of the first partial OMN with an input impedance of the antenna and is not part of the first semiconductor die.
US09882537B2 Opical coupling circuit including a light-receiving unit provided not to receive optical signal, and signal processing device
A light-emitting unit outputs an optical signal corresponding to an input electric signal. A light-receiving unit is electrically insulated from the light-emitting unit and outputs an electric signal according to the received optical signal as an output signal. In the light-receiving unit, a first light-receiving device outputs an optical current according to the optical signal. A second light-receiving device is provided not to receive the optical signal. A current duplication circuit duplicates a current flowing through the second light-receiving device. A current-voltage conversion circuit converts a current, which is generated by subtracting the current duplicated by the current duplication circuit from a current flowing through the first light-receiving device, into a voltage signal. A comparator output a result of a comparison between the voltage signal converted by the current-voltage conversion circuit and a threshold voltage as the output signal.
US09882536B2 Wireless apparatus and method for controlling voltage supplied to amplifier unit
Provided is a technique for effectively implementing DC removal during switching of transmission scheme or transmission data in a wireless apparatus equipped with a function for supplying a voltage to a power amplifier by ET control. When the ET control is not carried out in a power supply unit, more specifically, when an IQ signal is not present, a control unit outputs a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for a fixed voltage via a switch unit. In other words, the switch unit selectively supplies a PWM signal for ET and a PWM signal for the fixed voltage to a switching amplifier. The switching amplifier is controlled by a predetermined control signal from the control unit.
US09882532B1 Linear amplifier with extended linear output range
The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques for implementing a linear amplifier with extended linear output range. More specifically, the present disclosure discloses techniques for extending the output signal range of a linear amplifier with a minimum increase in power consumption and die area consumption. Some embodiments facilitate coupling boost amplifiers with adjustable independent biasing to a main amplifier to boost the output signal near the non-linear regions of the transfer curve to extend the linear range. Certain embodiments comprise a first boost amplifier biased to contribute to the output signal when the input signal is near a negative threshold voltage, and a second boost amplifier biased to contribute to the output signal when the input signal is near a positive threshold voltage. In certain embodiments, the threshold voltages and/or the bias currents can be controlled to adjust certain amplifier attributes.
US09882529B2 Multi-step drive signal for PIN diode based RF amplitude modulators
Methods and devices are disclosed driving one or more P-Intrinsic-N (PIN) diodes by receiving an input and generating a plurality of pulses based on the input, a first pulse of the plurality of pulses controls a rise time of an RF envelope generated by an RF interface and a second pulse of the plurality of pulses controls a fall time of the RF envelope generated by the RF interface. The methods and devices may further be disclosed combining the plurality of pulses to generate a drive signal, delivering the drive signal to the RF interface including one or more PIN diodes, and generating the RF envelope by driving the one or more PIN diodes with the drive signal, and the amplitude or a pulse width of the first pulse is independently adjustable from the amplitude or the pulse width of the second pulse.
US09882528B2 Distributed energy storage and power quality control in photovoltaic arrays
A solar electric system comprises photovoltaic elements having integrated energy storage and control, ideally on each PV-panel. The energy storage media may be primary or secondary cylindrical cells interconnected into a battery and/or an array of capacitors (or super-capacitors) and are accompanied by an electronic control circuit which may perform a variety of functions, including but not limited to power quality control, load following, pulse powering, active line transient suppression, local sensing, remote reporting, wireless or wired communications allowing two way programmable control through local or remote operation. The operation of the system may yield direct current or with the integration of bidirectional micro-inverters create distributed alternating current generation enhanced with energy storage and control two way energy flows between the solar system and the grid.
US09882526B2 Alternating bias hot carrier solar cells
Designs of extremely high efficiency solar cells are described. A novel alternating bias scheme enhances the photovoltaic power extraction capability above the cell band-gap by enabling the extraction of hot carriers. When applied in conventional solar cells, this alternating bias scheme has the potential of more than doubling their yielded net efficiency. When applied in conjunction with solar cells incorporating quantum wells (QWs) or quantum dots (QDs) based solar cells, the described alternating bias scheme has the potential of extending such solar cell power extraction coverage, possibly across the entire solar spectrum, thus enabling unprecedented solar power extraction efficiency. Within such cells, a novel alternating bias scheme extends the cell energy conversion capability above the cell material band-gap while the quantum confinement structures are used to extend the cell energy conversion capability below the cell band-gap. Light confinement cavities are incorporated into the cell structure in order to allow the absorption of the cell internal photo emission, thus further enhancing the cell efficiency.
US09882522B2 Power conversion device, electric power steering system, electric vehicle, electronic control throttle, and electric brake
A power conversion device is configured to convert power supplied from a power source into a driving current of a motor. A first semiconductor switching element of the power conversion device is disposed between a phase output of the power conversion device and the power source. A second semiconductor switching element of the power conversion device is disposed between the phase output of the power conversion device and a ground. The power conversion device further includes a first semiconductor switching element group.
US09882515B2 Method for making a motor quieter
The method is for making an electric motor more efficient by iteratively changing when a processor sends activation signals to transistors to minimize a current required to rotate a rotor at a constant rotational speed. The method is also for changing a rotational direction of the rotor by switching the order in which activation signals are sent to the transistors.
US09882510B2 Passive indexing of a movable element having teeth
The invention relates to a device including: a movable element (1) comprising teeth (11; 11i, i, 11i+1, 11i+2, 11i+3, 11i+4); a driving element (2) for engaging with the teeth (11; 11i, 11i+1, 11i+2, 11i+3, 11i+4) of the movable element (1) so as to set the movable element (1) in motion in a direction of movement; an actuator element (3) capable of generating an alternating movement so as to move the driving element (2) according to at least two phases, i.e. a driving phase, during which the driving element (2) is engaged with a tooth (11; 11i, 11i+1, 11i+2, 11i+3, 11i+4) of the movable element (1), and a return phase without driving, during which the driving element (2) is shifted with respect to the movable element (1); and a first indexing element (4), which includes a first indexing finger (41) to be positioned between two teeth (11; 11i, 11i+1, 11i+2, 11i+3, 11i+4) of the movable element (1), and which is connected to the actuator element (3) in order to move the driving element (2) and the first indexing finger (41) simultaneously.
US09882506B2 Multiple inductive component
A multiple inductive component (100) comprises:—a cylindrical drum core component (120) with at least two axially spaced circumferential grooves (131, 132) in its cylindrical outer surface (121), a separation disc portion (111) between said two circumferential grooves and two outer disc portions (112, 113) at the sides of the said two circumferential grooves, respectively, directed away from the separation disc portion;—at least one first winding (141) arranged in a first one (131) of said grooves;—at least one second winding (142) arranged in a second one (132) of said grooves;—a cylindrical shell core component (150) arranged coaxially around the cylindrical drum core component;—two outer air gaps (162, 163) between the cylindrical shell core component and said two outer disc portions, respectively. The separation disc portion is magnetically short circuited with the cylindrical shell core component.
US09882504B2 HVDC rectifier protection using estimated and measured power
An HVDC power increase controller includes a command output unit for outputting a current command value according to a disturbance signal to a main controller; a voltage drop determiner receiving an alternating current (AC) voltage and comparing a level of the AC voltage to a lowest level of a voltage causing a rectification failure; and a power tracking determiner receiving a direct current (DC) power and comparing a level of the DC power to an estimated power level corresponding to the current command value. The command output unit adjusts the current command value according to a comparison result of the voltage drop determiner and the power tracking determiner.
US09882496B2 Linearly approximated hershey's kiss frequency sweep for switching power supply device
A conducted EMI noise reduction effect close to that achieved by using an optimal modulating waveform as a modulating wave is achieved when employing a frequency spreading technique as a measure against noise when a conducted EMI standard is extended to a low-frequency range. A triangular wave/Hershey's Kiss approximation signal generating unit and a triangular wave generation control unit generate a fundamental triangular wave by a transistor charging a capacitor with a current and a transistor discharging the current from the capacitor. A slope switching signal generating unit generates signals expressing the start and end of a charge period and the start and end of a discharge period. An additional charge or additional discharge is carried out in response to the signals turning a transistor on, and the slope of the triangular wave temporarily increases in that period only.
US09882491B2 Power supply system
There is provided a power supply system including a first power supply and a second power supply. The power supply system includes a power conversion circuit capable of bidirectionally sending and receiving power by bidirectional voltage conversion between the first power supply and the second power supply, converting the first voltage from the first power supply to output a third voltage and a fourth voltage, and converting the second voltage from the second power supply to output the third voltage and the fourth voltage.
US09882484B2 Switching power supply device having pulse-by-pulse type overcurrent protection function
A switching power supply device includes: a switching output circuit configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage; an oscillation circuit configured to generate a clock signal; a control circuit configured to control driving of the switching output circuit in synchronization with the clock signal; a pulse-by-pulse type overcurrent protection circuit configured to detect an overcurrent flowing through the switching output circuit to generate an overcurrent protection signal for forcibly stopping a switching operation of the switching output circuit; and a pulse skip circuit configured to perform a pulse skip operation of the clock signal in response to the overcurrent protection signal.
US09882479B2 Switching regulator circuits and methods
In one embodiment, a switching regulator includes a first switching regulator stage configured between an input voltage and a first reference voltage and a second switching regulator stage configured between the first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. A first terminal of an inductor is coupled to an output of the first switching regulator stage and an output of the second switching regulator stage. The first switching regulator stage operates to produce an output voltage when the output voltage is configured above the first reference voltage, and the second switching regulator stage operates to produce an output voltage when the output voltage is configured below the first reference voltage.
US09882475B2 PWM calculation after light load to high load transition
A switchable power converter includes a switchable power stage comprising an inductor and a capacitor for generating an output voltage according to a switching signal and an input voltage via a switching element comprising a high-side switch and a low-side switch driven by a driver according to the switching signal generated either in a digital control path or a constant-on-time control path. A multi-mode controller is configured to toggle between a light load mode in which the constant-on-time control path is activated and a high load mode in which the digital control path is activated. The multi-mode controller is further configured to generate a control signal for turning on the high-side switch for an additional time when transitioning from the light load mode to the high load mode.
US09882469B2 Booster apparatus for a direct current voltage generator
To provide a booster apparatus capable of being configured without using a plurality of voltage generators and with a simple circuit. A booster apparatus is equipped with a voltage generator, a plurality of boosting capacitors connected in series with the voltage generator, intermediary capacitors, and switch circuits configured to perform switching control of connections between the voltage generator, the plurality of boosting capacitors and the intermediary capacitors.
US09882467B2 Method for controlling a power stage
In a control method for a power converter, an output voltage is generated according to a control law controlling a switched power stage. During ramp up of the power converter, at least one parameter of the power stage is identified, and the control law is adapted to the identified at least one parameter of the power stage for operating the power converter.
US09882463B2 In or relating to chain-link converters
A method of identifying a faulty sub-module of a chain-link converter is provided, wherein the chain-link converter includes a plurality of sub-modules with each sub-module including at least one switching element and an energy storage device which together are selectively operable to provide a voltage source. The method comprises the steps of: measuring a switching characteristic of each sub-module of the chain-link converter; establishing a switching characteristic signature of the chain-link converter; and identifying the or each sub-module with a switching characteristic that deviates from the switching characteristic signature as being a faulty sub-module.
US09882460B2 Linear actuator
The linear actuator includes an inner core (2), and an outer core (3) provided outside the inner core in a radial direction while being supported by a pair of flat springs (41 and 42). Permanent magnets (23 and 24) are formed at one of the inner core and the outer core, and magnetic pole portions (31a and 32a) are formed at the other of the inner core and the outer core to face the permanent magnet with predetermined gaps formed therebetween. Spacers (71 and 72) are respectively provided between the inner core and the flat springs, abutting portions are respectively configured by abutting facing surfaces of the spacers and the inner core and facing surfaces of the spacers and the flat springs adjacent to the spacers in the axial direction, and at least an engagement portion including a recess and a protrusion are arranged at the abutting portions.
US09882459B2 Vibrating motor
A vibrating motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibrating motor includes a shell providing a receiving cavity, a vibrating unit received in the receiving cavity, a pair of elastic members for elastically suspending two opposite ends of the vibrating unit to the shell, and a linking module. The linking module includes a pair of linking units rotably engaged with the two opposite ends of the vibrating unit respectively. Each of the linking units includes a linking rod and a guiding pin fixed to the shell. An end of the linking rod is engaged with the guiding pin, and the other end of the linking pod is engaged with a corresponding end of the vibrating unit.
US09882458B2 Method for producing a stator winding of an electric machine, in particular an AC generator
Method for producing a stator winding (18) of an electric machine (10), in particular an AC generator, wherein the stator winding (18) has at least n phase windings (120, 121, 122, 123, 124), and one phase winding (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) has a plurality of directly successive wound coils (82) with coil sides (88) and coil side connectors (91), wherein the coils (82) are divided into first coils (82.1) and second coils (82.2), with a forming tool (100), in which slots (105, 106; 105′, 106′) are provided which are suitable for accommodating the coils (82), wherein a first coil (82.1) is arranged in a slot (105; 105′), and a second coil (82.2) is arranged in another slot (105; 105′), characterized in that n−1 slots (105, 106; 105′, 106′) are arranged between the first coil (82.1) and the second coil (82.2).
US09882457B2 Method for producing a round stator and rolling device
A method for producing a round stator includes: inserting wound pole teeth into an insertion section of a rolling device to form a pole tooth row, pushing the pole tooth row into a ring section of the rolling device, which ring section reproduces a round end shape of the stator to form a round stator structure, removing the round stator structure from the rolling device while holding the stator structure together, and processing the stator structure further to form a finished stator unit.
US09882451B2 Automatic flush sensing assembly
An automatic flush sensing assembly has a driving device, a handle and a securing member. The hook end of the securing frame of the driving device is hooked onto the tank and the assembling aperture of the housing faces the assembling hole of the toilet tank. The handle is attached onto the front sleeve, the outer thread is inserted from outside the tank through the assembling hole and the assembling aperture of the housing, the signal cable of the sensor is connected to the power supply and the motor in the housing, and the rear sleeve connected to the linkage member and the control rod is inserted through the assembling aperture. The semi-circular portion of the handle is placed in the inner groove of the linkage member and the control rod is placed above the arm of the switch. Finally, the cover is placed to cover the housing.
US09882449B2 Electrically driven industrial vibrator with circumjacent eccentric weight and motor
An electrically driven eccentric weight industrial vibrator comprises a housing, a stator, a rotor, and at least one eccentric weight. The housing defines an internal chamber. The stator is positioned within the internal chamber of the housing and is fixed in rotation relative to the housing. The rotor encircles the stator and is rotationally connected to the stator and the housing in a manner such that the rotor is able to revolve around the stator within the internal chamber of the housing. The eccentric weight is mounted to the rotor in a manner such that the eccentric weight is able to revolve about the stator together with the rotor.
US09882448B2 Drive for an actuating unit
The invention relates to a drive for an actuating unit, especially for a power closing mechanism, preferably for a motor vehicle lock, comprising a motor housing part for accommodating an electric motor and a housing cover part for covering the motor housing part, a cable for electrically conducting current being electrically connected to a motor contact of the electric motor in the motor housing part and the cable comprising a diversion zone. The diversion zone of the cable is arranged outside or at least partially outside the housing. In this manner, the cable is not unduly bent during assembly when the housing is closed.
US09882445B2 Phase separators for electric machines
A phase separator for an electric machine includes a first insulator and a second insulator. The first and second insulators each include a leg portion and an endturn portion connected to the leg portion. The endturn portion is asymmetric with respect to an axis defined by the leg portion such that the second insulator can be inverted and disposed in an overlapping arrangement for electrically insulating endturn portions of adjacent phase windings.
US09882443B2 Direct-drive wind turbines
A direct-drive wind turbine comprises a wind turbine rotor and a generator mounted on a frame. The wind turbine rotor comprises a hub carrying blades and the generator comprises a generator stator comprising a track structure and a stator surface connected to the track structure, wherein the stator surface has coil windings, and carriages connected one after the other and adapted to run on the track structure, wherein the carriages carry an electrically magnetically active material facing the stator surface such that when the carriages run along the track structure a magnetic field is generated across an air gap provided between the carriages active materials and the stator coil windings, wherein one or more carriages are directly coupled to the wind turbine rotor by rigid connectors such that rotation of the wind turbine rotor causes displacement of the carriages along the track.
US09882436B2 Return coupled wireless power transmission
Aspects of return coupled wireless power transmission systems are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a guided surface waveguide probe including a charge terminal elevated at a height over a lossy conducting medium, a ground stake, and a feed network. The system further includes a conductor coupled to the ground stake that extends a distance away from the guided surface waveguide probe across the lossy conducting medium, and at least one guided surface wave receivers including a ground connection coupled to the conductor. The conductor can help to provide additional efficiency in power transfer between the guided surface waveguide probe and the guided surface wave receivers, especially when the operating frequency of the probe is in the medium, high, or very high frequency ranges.
US09882434B2 Non-contact power transmission device drive method and non-contact power transmission device
A primary coil (L1) is excited by selectively using: a first resonance frequency (AL) near a frequency determined by the primary coil (L1) and a primary-side capacitor (C), said primary coil (L1) being placed in a power-supply area (AR); and a second resonance frequency (BL) near a frequency determined by a secondary-side inductance component and a secondary-side capacitance component, said components existing when the primary coil (L1) faces a secondary coil (L2).
US09882423B2 Uninterruptible power supply control
Systems and methods of controlling an uninterruptible power supply are provided. In one aspect, an uninterruptible power supply includes a first input configured to receive input power from a first power source, a second input configured to receive input power from a second power source, an output configured to provide output power to a load derived from power from at least one of the first power source and the second power source, a power conversion circuit coupled with the first input, the second input and the output, and a controller coupled with the power conversion circuit. The controller is configured to control the power conversion circuit to provide an output voltage of the output power at a first voltage level, and to control the power conversion circuit to provide an output voltage of the output power at substantially a second voltage level.
US09882421B2 Method and apparatus for increasing current capacity of a distributed drive system
An improved system for connecting a DC bus cable and a remote motor drive includes a capacitance module and an extension module that may each be mounted adjacent to the remote motor drive. The capacitance module includes a first DC bus connector and a second DC bus connector. The first DC bus connector includes a terminal block configured to receive a pair of conductors for the DC bus. The first DC bus connector further includes a pair of intermediate bus bars where each of the intermediate bus bars are connected at a first end to the terminal block and at a second end to a circuit board contained within the capacitance module. Traces on the circuit board are routed between the second ends of the intermediate bus bars and the second DC bus connector. The second DC bus connector is configured to be connected to DC bus bars.
US09882420B2 Sensing temperature within medical devices
Devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring the temperature of a device used to charge a rechargeable power source are disclosed. Implantable medical devices may include a rechargeable power source that can be transcutaneously charged. The temperature of an external charging device and/or an implantable medical device may be monitored to control the temperature exposure to patient tissue. In one example, a temperature sensor may sense a temperature of a portion of a device, wherein the portion is non-thermally coupled to the temperature sensor. A processor may then control charging of the rechargeable power source based on the sensed temperature.
US09882419B2 Adaptive control of wireless power transfer
A method for wireless power transfer adapts to changing configuration of receivers, including changes in number of, location and/or orientation of, magnetic coupling to, and load of circuits (e.g., battery charging circuits) of one or more receivers. The adaptation can be performed without interrupting optimal or near-optimal power transfer to the receivers, and can provide a measure of fairness among multiple receivers.
US09882412B2 Non-contact type power receiver and non-contact type battery
A non-contact type power receiver may includes: a plurality of power receiving coils receiving power in a non-contact manner; a plurality of rectifying units switching to rectify the power received from the plurality of power receiving coils; and a control unit controlling the switching by the plurality of rectifying units to control respective levels of the power rectified by the plurality of rectifying units.
US09882411B2 Lithium-ion battery and charge/discharge control method
A lithium-ion battery includes a lithium-ion cell, a positive electrode terminal, a positive/negative electrode insulation sheet, a connector and a housing used as a negative electrode. The lithium-ion cell is arranged in the housing, the connector is arranged between the lithium-ion cell and the housing. The positive electrode terminal is installed on one end of the lithium ion cell. A circuit board is arranged between the battery positive/negative electrode and the lithium-ion cell. A voltage/current control and overcharge/over-discharge protection circuit is integrated on the circuit board. The voltage/current control and overcharge/over-discharge protection circuit can adjust the voltage of the lithium-ion battery to be a voltage of 1.5V/1.2V. The shape and size of the housing can be designed to be any shapes to replace traditional dry batteries according to requirements. The lithium-ion battery can be designed to be using the same port to do the discharging and charging work.
US09882406B2 Charging control method for lithium-ion battery, charging control apparatus for lithium-ion battery and lithium-ion battery system
A lithium-ion battery includes a cathode active material of the Olivine-type crystal structure. The lithium-ion battery is charged under control of a charging control apparatus, which performs a charging process for charging up to a target voltage according to a constant-current and constant-voltage charging method, a negative-electrode potential evaluation process for evaluating a potential change quantity at the negative-electrode, and a voltage setting process for setting the target voltage to a lower voltage based on the potential change quantity of the negative-electrode evaluated by the negative-electrode potential evaluation process. The charging voltage is changed from the target voltage to the set voltage even when the negative-electrode potential changes with an increase in the number of charging and aging deterioration. Thus a positive-electrode potential is suppressed from rising because of less susceptibility to the increase in number of charging and aging deterioration.
US09882396B2 Non-contact type power transmission apparatus and method thereof and location-based service system using the same
A non-contact type power transmission apparatus and method thereof, includes a control unit configured to provide assigned location information to a device. The apparatus also includes a display unit configured to display location-based service data provided to the device based on the location information.
US09882394B1 Systems and methods for using servers to generate charging schedules for wireless power transmission systems
The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. A wireless power network may include a plurality of wireless power transmitters each with an embedded wireless power transmitter manager, including a wireless power manager application. The wireless power network may include a plurality of client devices with wireless power receivers. Wireless power receivers may include a power receiver application configured to communicate with the wireless power manager application. The wireless power manager application may include a device database where information about the wireless power network may be stored.
US09882387B2 Reactive power compensation system and method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a reactive power compensation system includes a first measurement unit, a second measurement unit, a reactive power compensation unit, and a controller. The first measurement unit measures impedance of each of at least one load. The second measurement unit measures a voltage and current provided to the at least one load. The reactive power compensation unit compensates the leading reactive power or the lagging reactive power. The controller monitors a change of the impedance in real time, checks a change of the voltage or current according to the change of the impedance, and controls the reactive power compensation unit according to a result of the check to compensate the leading reactive power or the lagging reactive power.
US09882385B2 System for starting large-scale power load in micro-grid
A system for staring a large-scale power load in a micro grid comprises a PCC grid connection switch, a micro grid alternating-current bus, an active power filter (APF), an energy storage inverter, an energy storage battery, a current-limiting resistor R, contactors K1-K3, a time relay KT, a power supply relay board, a micro grid maser control system, a frequency converter rectifying circuit, a frequency converter filter circuit, and a frequency converter inverter circuit. There are the advantages: an output torque of a power load can be effectively improved by using a variable frequency starting apparatus, and a starting current is also small; the provided method can effectively reduce a harmonic current when a variable frequency starting apparatus starts a power load, the phenomenon that two power sources supply power on a direct-current side of the variable frequency starting apparatus at the same time is avoided, thereby improving the stability and the economy of a micro grid.
US09882384B2 Energy distribution system and method for operating same
In an energy distribution system, energy is fed through substations into subnetworks and the distribution is monitored by a central device superordinate to the substations. At least one substation is operated in an optimization mode for optimizing the operation of the entire energy distribution grid. The substation thereby investigates a modification action which could be performed by the substation in its subnetwork for the effect of the modification action on the operating state of the entire energy distribution system. The substation receives substation-individual sensitivity values, which indicate the change in the local operating state in the subnetwork assigned to the respective other substation if the modification action were to be implemented. The substation operated in the optimization mode checks, based on the sensitivity values, whether the modification action would result in an improvement of the operating state for the entire energy distribution grid.
US09882383B2 Smart power delivery network
Examples may include a smart power delivery network using voltage regulators to supply combined power sufficient to meet a peak load demand generated from one load from among multiple possible loads. A system of power gate devices having controllers may assist in dynamically steering current driven by the voltage regulators to the multiple possible loads.
US09882379B2 Power source system
A power source system for supplying DC (direct current) power to a load, including first and second power source apparatuses and a control apparatus. The first power source apparatus is connected to an alternating current (AC) power source, and configured to convert AC power received from the AC power source to first DC power. The second power source apparatus is connected to a battery, and configured to convert power of the battery to second DC power. The control apparatus is connected to the first and second power source apparatuses, and configured to so control the first and second power source apparatuses that the DC power supplied to the load is the first DC power in a normal mode, the second DC power in a back-up mode, and a combination of the first and second DC power in an assist mode.
US09882376B2 Electrostatic discharge power clamp with fail-safe design
Electrostatic discharge protection circuits and methods of fabricating an electrostatic discharge protection circuit, as well as methods of protecting an integrated circuit from a transient electrostatic discharge event. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a power clamp device, a first timing circuit with a first resistor and a first capacitor that is coupled with the first resistor at a first node, and a second timing circuit including a second resistor and a second capacitor that is coupled with the second resistor at a second node. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit further includes a logic gate with a first input coupled with the first node, a second input coupled with the second node, and an output coupled with the power clamp device. The logic gate responds to voltages at the first and second nodes to control the impedance state of the power clamp device.
US09882374B2 Lightning protection component
A lightning protection component, with at least one main input capable of transmitting a lightning signal, at least one main output designed to be connected to a piece of equipment (T) to be protected from the lightning signal, a branched output designed to be connected to a dissipation circuit (M), a direct line connecting the main input to the main output, a bypass circuit that is mounted between the direct line and the branched output, and that is provided with at least one bypass switch having an open state in which the branched output is isolated from the direct line and a closed state in which the lightning signal is conducted from the direct line to the branched output.
US09882371B2 Direct current voltage switch for switching a direct current in a branch of a direct current voltage network node
A device switches a direct current in a branch of a direct current voltage network node. The device contains a constant current path extending between two connection terminals, in which a mechanical switch is disposed. The device further has a switching current path bridging the constant current path and a power switching unit is disposed therein. The power switching unit has power semiconductor switches which can be switched on and off and configured to interrupt a short-circuit current in the event of a fault. The device contains a longitudinal voltage source for generating a counter-voltage in a loop formed by the constant current path and the switching current path. The device can be used economically over long periods of time to control the load flow on a network node. Accordingly, the longitudinal voltage source has a circuit for connecting and disconnecting the electrical power.
US09882370B2 Service restoration method for multi-faults in distribution network
A multi-faults service restoration method for a power distribution network overcomes the defect that a traditional service restoration method for the power distribution network cannot solve multi-faults. The method includes the steps of performing multi-faults judgment on multi-faults with processing unfinished, to form many multi-faults and many single-faults; then performing unaided fault recovery area division on the multi-faults, and performing power restoration on unaided fault recovery areas one by one; and after the multi-faults are processed, performing power restoration on each single-fault. By adopting the method, the service restoration efficiency is greatly improved, thus contributing to the real-time of service restoration; the factor of load balance is considered when common power restoration lines are decoupled, so that the load rates of the power restoration lines participating in service restoration are more similar after service restoration, and therefore the power supply reliability of the power distribution network is improved.
US09882369B2 Multi-layer heat shrinkable tubular sleeve
A multi-layer heat-shrinkable tubular sleeve (100) comprises an outer layer (110) and an inner layer (120). The outer layer (110) is arranged around the inner layer (120). The outer layer (110) comprises a partially crystalline thermoplastic material with a major part of partially crystalline thermoplastic material with a crystallinity of more than 60%. The inner layer (120) comprises a partially crystalline thermoplastic material or an elastomeric material.
US09882366B2 Electrical busway joint with self-adjusting braces
A busway system is provided. The busway system includes a first electrical busway section, a second electrical busway section, and a busway joint. The first and second electrical busway sections are disposed longitudinally offset from each other. The busway joint couples the first and second busway sections. The busway joint includes a first assembly coupled to the first busway section, a second assembly coupled to the second busway section, a plurality of conductors coupled to the first and second assemblies, a first movable brace coupled to the conductors, and a first brace locator coupled to the movable brace. The first and second assemblies move relative to each other between a collapsed position and an extended position. The first movable brace moves longitudinally along a length of the conductors. The first brace locator locates the first movable brace at a first position when the first assembly is in the extended position.
US09882364B2 Cable holding tool
Provided is a cable holding tool capable of reducing a size of a gap formed at a portion where soft members are sandwiching a cable to thereby increase air-tightness thereat. First sealing members (26a, 26b) having fluffs are attached to a first opposing surface of a soft member (25). Second sealing members (29a, 29b) having fluffs are attached to second opposing surfaces of soft members (28a, 28b). When a cable (17) is sandwiched between the first sealing members (26a, 26b) and the second sealing members (29a, 29b), the fluffs of the first sealing members (26a, 26b) and the fluffs of the second sealing members (29a, 29b) are in contact with each other.
US09882357B2 Power distribution panel connector having thermal management feature
An aircraft power distribution system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a power source, a load, and a power distribution panel receiving power from the power source and selectively providing power to the load. The power source is connected to the power panel by a lug having a heat sink portion. The heat sink portion has at least one increased dimension relative to the remainder of the lug.
US09882356B2 Spark plug
A spark plug includes an insulator having an axial hole extending along an axial line, a center electrode disposed in the axial hole, a tubular metallic shell surrounding the insulator, a ground electrode whose proximal end is fixed to the metallic shell, and a cylindrical noble metal tip fixed to the ground electrode via an intermediate tip so as to form a gap between the noble metal tip and the center electrode. A weld portion is provided between the noble metal tip and the intermediate tip. The weld portion has a diameter larger than that of a portion of the intermediate tip which is adjacent to the weld portion. The noble metal tip is located inside a virtual tapered cylindrical surface which extends from a peripheral edge of a gap-side end of the center electrode so as to contact an outer circumferential edge of the weld portion.
US09882355B2 Vertical cavity surface emitting laser
The invention describes a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser and a method of manufacturing such a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser. The Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser comprising a first electrical contact (105, 405, 505, 605, 705), a substrate (110, 410, 610, 710), a first distributed Bragg reflector (115, 415, 615, 715), an active layer (120, 420, 620, 720), a distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725), a second distributed Bragg reflector (130, 430, 630, 730) and a second electrical contact (135, 435, 535, 635, 735), the distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725) comprising a collector layer (125a), a light sensitive layer (125c), a base layer (125e) and an emitter layer (125f), wherein the distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725) is arranged such that there is an optical coupling between the active layer (120, 420, 620, 720) and the distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725) for providing an active carrier confinement by means of the distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725) such that an optical mode of the Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser is self-positioning in accordance with the active carrier confinement during operation of the Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser. It is the intention of the present invention to provide a VCSEL which can be easily and reliably processed by integrating the distributed heterojunction bipolar phototransistor (125, 425, 625, 725).
US09882354B2 Semiconductor laser device
A semiconductor laser device includes: a semiconductor laser array in which a plurality of active layers that emit laser lights with a divergence angle θS (>4°) in a slow axis direction are arranged; a first optical element that reflects first partial lights by a first reflecting surface and returns the first partial lights to the active layers; and a second optical element that reflects partial mode lights of second partial lights by a second reflecting surface and returns the partial mode lights to the active layers, the first reflecting surface forms an angle equal to or greater than 2° and less than (θS/2) with a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the active layers, and the second reflecting surface forms an angle greater than (−θS/2) and equal to or less than −2° with the plane perpendicular to the optical axis direction of the active layers.
US09882353B2 Gallium and nitrogen containing laser device having confinement region
A method for fabricating a laser diode device includes providing a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member having a surface region, forming a patterned dielectric material overlying the surface region to expose a portion of the surface region within a vicinity of an recessed region of the patterned dielectric material and maintaining an upper portion of the patterned dielectric material overlying covered portions of the surface region, and performing a lateral epitaxial growth overlying the exposed portion of the surface region to fill the recessed region and causing a thickness of the lateral epitaxial growth to be formed overlying the upper portion of the patterned dielectric material. The method also includes forming an n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material, forming an active region, and forming a p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material. The method further includes forming a waveguide structure in the p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material.
US09882350B2 Optical module
An optical module includes: a first thermoelectric cooler (TEC) disposed at least partially inside a laser, a second TEC is disposed on a housing of the laser, and a micro control unit (MCU). The first TEC is configured to perform heating or cooling according to an enabling signal input by a MCU. The second TEC is configured to perform heating or cooling according to an enabling signal input by the MCU. The MCU is configured to determine whether to input an enabling signal or a disabling signal to the first TEC and the second TEC according to a size of operating current input by a drive circuit of a laser chip to the laser chip.
US09882346B2 Laser module with simplified alignment
The invention describes carrier structure (100, 200) for assembling a semiconductor lighting module, comprising at least two sub carriers (110, 210) and an alignment structure (120, 130, 230, 232) mechanically coupling the sub carriers (110, 210). The alignment structure (120, 130, 230, 232) is adapted such that the mechanical coupling to at least a part of the sub carriers (110, 210) disappears during thermal mating the carrier structure (100, 200) on a carrier (110, 250). The alignment structure (120, 130, 230, 232) is further adapted to compensate a coefficient of thermal expansion of a material of the carrier (110, 250) being higher than a coefficient of thermal expansion of a material of the carrier structure (100, 200). The invention further describes a semiconductor chip comprising such a carrier structure (100, 200) and a semiconductor lighting module comprising the carrier structure (100, 200) or the semiconductor chip. The invention finally describes a corresponding method of manufacturing a semiconductor lighting module. The invention enables assembling of semiconductor lighting modules by thermal mating with reduced alignment effort.
US09882343B2 Narrow band laser apparatus
A narrow band laser apparatus may include: a laser resonator; a pair of discharge electrodes; a power supply; a first wavelength measurement device configured to output a first measurement result; a second wavelength measurement device configured to output a second measurement result; and a control unit. The control unit calibrates the first measurement result, based on a difference between the second measurement result derived when the control unit controls the power supply to apply a pulsed voltage to the pair of discharge electrodes with a first repetition frequency and the second measurement result derived when the control unit controls the power supply to apply the pulsed voltage to the pair of discharge electrodes with a second repetition frequency, the second repetition frequency being higher than the first repetition frequency.