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| US09907557B2 |
Vaso-occlusive devices including a friction element
Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. The vaso-occlusive implants described herein include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter as well as a friction element between the soft braided member and the coil. The friction element allows the relatively soft and elongate implant to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula. |
| US09907555B2 |
Guided detachable interlock and method of use
Described herein are various implant delivery methods and systems that include a detachable link for connecting an implantable device and a control wire. The detachable link can include an elongate body comprising a first arm with a mating surface having a slot extending the width of the elongate body and a second arm having a mating surface that includes a extension portion adapted to mate with the slot. A guide member can extend between the first and second arms and inhibit relative transverse and/or rotational movement between the first and second arms. |
| US09907553B2 |
Stapler for forming multiple tissue plications
A stapling device for forming multiple tissue plications without needing to reload the device between plications is described. The device includes staple and anvil housings that move toward and away from a tissue-capture position. A cartridge holder in the staple housing supports a cartridge with multiple groups of offset staple slots, where the slots in each group are circularly arrayed about a cartridge center axis. A staple driver in the staple housing carries a plurality of arms for engaging and ejecting the staples in a first group of staples in the cartridge, when a tissue fold is captured between the cartridge assembly and anvil in the anvil housing. When the staple driver is retracted, after a tissue plication is formed, the cartridge assembly and tissue drive are indexed to eject the next-up group of staples. |
| US09907545B2 |
Soft retractors
A soft material retractor includes at least two soft actuators, each actuator having at least one pressurizable interior space, wherein the actuator has a first flexible resting state and a second stiffer pressurized state; and a flexible sheet spanning the actuators such that the actuators can be spaced apart from each other by a distance selected to displace a volume of material of a body cavity. The retractor can be uses for holding open wounds or incisions, with trochars, or to displace anatomical features such as organs within a body cavity. |
| US09907532B2 |
Ultrasound inspection apparatus, signal processing method for ultrasound inspection apparatus, and recording medium
Provided is an ultrasound inspection apparatus ensuring the real-time property during ultrasound imaging, reducing the data amount to be stored, and making sound speed value correction after the imaging to allow improvement in image quality, tissue characterization, and so forth with high accuracy. The ultrasound inspection apparatus includes: a first reception signal memory storing element data; an image producer adapted to perform phasing and adding on element data based on a specified sound speed value to produce a sound ray signal, and produce ultrasound image data; a sound speed determiner adapted to determine the optimum sound speed value from a plurality of pieces of ultrasound image data produced using element data; a storage necessity determiner adapted to determine element data whether or not to satisfy a specified condition; and a second reception signal memory storing the element data as determined to satisfy the specified condition. |
| US09907531B2 |
Methods and systems for ultrasonic imaging
A method for ultrasonic imaging comprises: emitting Doppler pulses to a target to be detected; performing a Doppler scan with Doppler pulses; receiving echo signals from the target, wherein the echo signals include Doppler pulse echo signals; processing the echo signals, wherein processing comprises an imaging step, the imaging step comprising parallel processing steps including a 2D image processing step, a flow image processing step, and a spectrum image processing step, wherein the 2D image processing step is configured for processing the echo signals to obtain 2D image signals, the flow image processing step is configured for processing the echo signals to obtain flow image signals, and the spectrum image processing step is configured for processing the echo signals to obtain spectrum image signals; and displaying the processed echo signals. |
| US09907530B2 |
Automated control of image exposure parameters in an intra-oral x-ray system
Methods and systems for operating x-ray system. One system includes an x-ray source having a plurality of exposure parameters and a controller for the x-ray source. The controller for the x-ray source is configured to receive image characteristic information and automatically adjust the plurality of exposure parameters based on the image characteristic information. The image characteristic information can include an identifier of a predefined sequence of images, an identifier of an image type, a set of values of the plurality of exposure parameters, and a unique identifier of a holder for an x-ray receptor. |
| US09907521B2 |
Radiation sensor with X-ray detection
The invention relates to medical imaging and, more specifically, to intraoral dental radiology. The sensor according to the invention includes a series (SPHx) of detection photodiodes for detecting the arrival of an X-ray flash. The series of photodiodes occupies the location of a central column of the matrix of pixels. The signal of the missing pixel in each row can be reconstructed by interpolating the signals provided by the adjacent pixels of the row. The detection photodiodes are identical to the photodiodes of the active CMOS pixels. They are all electrically connected on one side to a reference potential and on the other side to a detection conductor (CD) extending along the series of photodiodes. This detection conductor is connected to a detection circuit (DX) delivering a signal for triggering the capture of an image when the detected current or the variation in this current exceeds a threshold showing that an X-ray flash has been initiated. |
| US09907520B2 |
Digital tomosynthesis systems, methods, and computer readable media for intraoral dental tomosynthesis imaging
Digital tomosynthesis systems, methods, and computer readable media for intraoral dental tomosynthesis imaging are disclosed. In some aspects, an intraoral tomosynthesis imaging system includes an x-ray source array for positioning outside a mouth of a patient, wherein the x-ray source array contains multiple x-ray focal spots that are spatially distributed on an anode, an area digital x-ray detector for positioning inside the mouth of the patient, a geometry calibration mechanism for connecting the x-ray detector to the x-ray source array, an x-ray collimator for confining x-ray beams to a region of interest, a controller for regulating x-ray radiation and synchronization of the x-ray radiation with the x-ray detector, such that multiple 2D projection images of the ROI are acquired without mechanical motion of the x-ray source array, the x-ray detector, or the mouth of the patient, and a computer program and workstation for 3D tomosynthesis image reconstruction and display. |
| US09907516B2 |
Extremity imaging apparatus for cone beam computed tomography
An apparatus for cone beam computed tomography can include a support structure, a scanner assembly coupled to the support structure for controlled movement in at least x, y and z orientations, the scanner assembly can include a DR detector configured to move along at least a portion of a detector path that extends at least partially around a scan volume with a distance D1 that is sufficiently long to allow the scan volume to be positioned within the detector path; a radiation source configured to move along at least a portion of a source path outside the detector path, the source path having a distance D2 greater than the distance D1, the distance D2 being sufficiently long to allow adequate radiation exposure of the scan volume for an image capture by the detector; and a first gap in the detector path. |
| US09907514B2 |
Monitoring device and system for providing an alert when an infant is unresponsive to stimulus
Described is an infant monitoring and alerting system capable of determining an absence of movement by an infant. When an absence of movement is detected the monitor attempts to stimulate movement using stimuli that may include a vibration, an audible alert, or a visual alert. If no movement is detected in response to the stimuli, the monitor may provide another instance of stimuli which may include stimuli at an elevated intensity or additional and/or different stimuli. The additional instance of stimuli may further attempt to stimulate movement by the infant and may also function as an alert to the caregiver that their attention may be required. |
| US09907511B2 |
System and method of identifying breaths based solely on capnographic information
Breaths of a subject are identified based on the concentration of carbon dioxide at or near the airway of the subject. Troughs corresponding to inhalation are identified and plateaus corresponding to exhalation are identified. A breath is identified responsive to a trough being followed by a plateau. |
| US09907504B2 |
Analyte monitoring systems and methods
A reagentless whole-blood analyte detection system that is capable of being deployed near a patient has a source capable of emitting a beam of radiation that includes a spectral band. The whole-blood system also has a detector in an optical path of the beam. The whole-blood system also has a housing that is configured to house the source and the detector. The whole-blood system also has a sample element that is situated in the optical path of the beam. The sample element has a sample cell and a sample cell wall that does not eliminate transmittance of the beam of radiation in the spectral band. |
| US09907503B2 |
Sensor systems and methods of using the same
Provided are sensor systems and methods for detecting analytes of bodily fluids. The systems can be used to reduce the administration volume of certain compounds and/or fluids during medical monitoring or other procedures by providing a calibration path configured to receive a first fluid, a sample path isolated from the calibration path, the sample path configured to receive a bodily fluid from a subject, and a sensor apparatus comprising at least one sensor selectively positionable between the calibration path and the sample path. |
| US09907501B2 |
Implantable electrochemical biosensor system and method
Correction for initial variation in thickness of a polymer layer and for changes in the coating thickness that occur after implantation of a biosensor and therefore provides substantial increase in the accuracy and lifetime of implantable sensors is done using a factor derived from the decay of potential. |
| US09907491B2 |
Method and/or system for multicompartment analyte monitoring
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring and/or controlling levels of an analyte in bodily fluid. In particular, estimation of a concentration of the analyte in a first physiological compartment based upon observations of a concentration of the analyte in a second physiological compartment may account for a latency in transporting the analyte between the first and second physiological compartments. |
| US09907490B2 |
Lancing device for taking blood samples
A lancing device comprising a lancet holder for holding an exchangeable lancet and comprising a drive element for driving the lancet holder. The drive element has two spring elements comprising a lancing spring element for accelerating the lancet holder in the lancing direction and a restoring spring element for accelerating the lancet holder counter to the lancing direction. The drive element has a carriage unit with a spring-tensioning carriage part and a lancing carriage part, and the spring-tensioning carriage part and the lancing carriage part are arranged to be displaceable in translation relative to one another and form a lancing spring element receiving region and a restoring spring element receiving region. The lancing spring element receiving region can be reduced by translational displacement of the spring-tensioning carriage part relative to the lancing carriage part, in order to pre-tension the lancing spring element within the lancing spring element receiving region. |
| US09907489B2 |
Systems and methods for hierarchical pattern recognition for simultaneous control of multiple-degree of freedom movements for prosthetics
This disclosure relates to a hierarchy of classifiers, including linear discriminant analysis (LDA) classifiers, arranged to provide simultaneous control of multiple degrees of freedom of a prosthetic. The high accuracy of the hierarchical approach allows pattern recognition techniques to be extended to permit simultaneous control, potentially allowing amputees to produce more fluid, life-like movements, ultimately increasing their quality of life. The hierarchy may also be used to control a biological interface that allows input to computers for persons with disabilities, used as a potential video-game controller, and used as an input interface for tablets, and phones. |
| US09907488B2 |
High intensity preparation, physical exercise and recovery system
A high intensity preparation, physical exercise and recovery system configured to prepare muscles for workout through vibration, accept muscular input of high intensity, recover muscles through vibration. Embodiments provide an exercise system that enables a user to obtain a high intensity workout in a small amount of time, for example 15 minutes, and yet increase the user's metabolic rate for hours. Embodiments of the invention may further perform an initial and/or ongoing analysis in terms of body composition analysis and/or extremity composition analysis/score in order to target particular muscles, fat and/or skeletal areas. In one or more embodiments the system may provide outputs including suggested alterations in physical activity and/or food to consume in order to achieve targeted goals for example as compared to the user's trends of change over time, or in comparison to other user's trends down to the granularity of extremities and not just overall body metrics. |
| US09907487B2 |
Non-invasive method and apparatus for determining lung tissue thermal properties and for extra vascular lung water measurement
The subject matter discloses a noninvasive method and device for detection, measurement and monitoring of Pulmonary Interstitial fluid—Extravascular Lung Water —volumes in inpatient settings: Intensive Care Units, Emergency Rooms, Internal Hospital Departments, and daily monitoring of chronic patient in outpatient settings: outpatient departments, rehab centers and Home monitoring. The disclosed method is based on the analysis of lung tissue thermodynamic properties, and their deviation from normal value. The device measures the rate of temperature change of a lung tissue by measuring the exhaled gas temperature changing rate during cooling/heating of lung tissue. The cooling/heating of lung tissue may be achieved by prompt changing one of the inhaled gas parameters temperature, and/or humidity, and/or rate of breathing, and/or tidal volume, and/or type of gas and etc. The change is performed at the beginning of measurement, and is kept during entire measurement time. |
| US09907486B2 |
Dynamic announcing for creation of wireless communication connections
Example electronic devices, including but not limited to implantable medical devices, and methods employing dynamic announcing for creation of wireless communication connections are disclosed herein. In an example, an electronic device includes a wireless communication interface to transmit announcement signals for creating a wireless communication connection with the external device. The electronic device also includes a sensor to detect a characteristic of an environment external to the electronic device, and a control circuit including an announcement timing control module to dynamically control timing of the announcement signals based on the detected characteristic. |
| US09907485B2 |
Targeted immunization and plaque destruction against Alzheimer's disease
A system and method for treating Alzheimer's disease by delivery of an agent within the brain. At least one image of a target region is acquired, and at least one magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (MR-DTI) scan of the target region is acquired. A diffusion tensor is calculated from the at least one MR-DTI scan, and at least one of an agent distribution and an agent concentration from the images and the calculated diffusion tensor is calculated. Using at least one of the calculated diffusion tensor, the images, the calculated agent distribution, and the calculated agent concentration, the placement of a delivery instrument is planned to deliver the agent to the target region to achieve a desired agent concentration and/or agent distribution within the target region. |
| US09907481B2 |
System and method for electro-cardiogram (ECG) medical data collection wherein physiological data collected and stored may be uploaded to a remote service center
A data collection unit obtains physiological data from a subject interface on a subject. The subject interface can be connected to the data collection unit. When the subject interface is connected to the data collection unit, subject interface contacts on the subject interface make contact with data collection unit contacts on the data collection unit. Some of the data collection unit contacts are for communicating physiological data from the subject interface to the data collection unit. Some of the contacts are for powering the data collection unit upon the subject interface being connected to the data collection unit and for powering down the data collection unit upon the subject interface being disconnected from the data collection unit. |
| US09907479B2 |
Contribution of oxidative stress to AF electrograms
The invention relates generally to methods of detecting reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cardiac tissue and treatment modalities for ablating ROS-associated tissue in cardiac disease. The methods rely upon targeting ROS-associated cardiac tissue for ablation and/or gene therapy in a subject using analytical tools based upon a plurality of recorded atrial EGMs for a tissue to assess ROS content and underlying AF organization as a function of ROS blockade conditions. |
| US09907473B2 |
Personal monitoring system
A system includes a processor; a cellular, WiFi, or Bluetooth transceiver coupled to the processor; an accelerometer or a motion sensor coupled to the processor; and a sensor coupled to the processor to sense mood, wherein text, image, sound, or video is rendered in response to the sensed mood. |
| US09907472B2 |
Disease diagnosis and skin age measurement apparatus using laser irradiation device and detachable handpiece used in the same
A disease diagnosis and skin age measurement apparatus includes: a first light collection unit; a second light collection unit; a spectrometer configured to measure a spectrum of the light which is collected by the second light collection unit; a spectrum data comparison unit for disease diagnosis configured to compare the spectrum measured by the spectrometer and reference spectrum data for disease diagnosis; a CCD; an image data comparison unit configured to compare the digital image converted by the CCD and a reference image; a disease diagnosis unit configured to determine whether there is a disease in the body tissue; and/or a spectrum data comparison unit for skin age measurement configured to measure skin age by comparing a spectrum measured by the spectrometer and reference spectrum data for skin age measurement, wherein the light projected onto the body tissue is collimate light. |
| US09907470B2 |
Analyte meter including an RFID reader
A glucose monitoring system, includes a glucose sensor strip or package of strips. The strip includes a substrate and a glucose monitoring circuit that has electrodes and a bodily fluid application portion of selected chemical composition. An antenna is integrated with the glucose sensor strip. A RFID sensor chip is coupled with the glucose sensor strip and the antenna. The chip has a memory containing digitally-encoded data representing calibration and/or expiration date information for the strip. |
| US09907469B2 |
Combining information from multiple formats
Techniques for combining physiological and health information are provided. An example method includes receiving one or more physiological parameters of a user from one or more devices in data formats specific to the devices, translating the received physiological parameters from their respective data formats into a common data format, storing the translated physiological parameters into a common data structure configured to store data in the common data format, retrieving the stored physiological parameters for display in a user interface, wherein the user interface displays one or more human-readable physiological characteristics of the user based on the retrieved physiological parameters, and repeating the translating, the storing and the retrieving, upon receipt of one or more other physiological parameters from the devices, to update the displayed human-readable physiological characteristics. |
| US09907468B2 |
Eye imaging apparatus with sequential illumination
An eye imaging apparatus can include a housing, an optical imaging system in the housing, and a light source in the housing to illuminate an eye. The optical imaging system can include an optical window at a front end of the housing with a concave front surface for receiving the eye as well as an imaging lens disposed rearward the optical window. The apparatus can comprise a light conditioning element configured to receive light from the light source and direct said light to the eye. The apparatus can further include an image sensor in the housing disposed to receive an image of the eye from the optical imaging system. In various embodiments, light conditioning element includes at least one multi-segment surface. In some embodiments, the housing is provided with at least one hermitic seal, for example, with the optical window. In some embodiments, time sequential illumination is employed. |
| US09907465B2 |
User interface for acquisition, display and analysis of ophthalmic diagnostic data
Improvements to user interfaces for ophthalmic imaging systems, in particular Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems are described to improve how diagnostic data are displayed, analyzed and presented to the user. The improvements include user customization of display and reports, protocol driven work flow, bookmarking of particular B-scans, accessing information from a reference library, customized normative databases, and ordering of follow-up scans directly from a review screen. A further aspect is the ability to optimize the contrast and quality of displayed B-scans using a single control parameter. Virtual real time z-tracking is described that maintains displayed data in the same depth location regardless of motion. |
| US09907464B2 |
Video laryngoscope
Disclosed is a video laryngoscope having a body, an insertion section extending from the body generally parallel to a median plane of the laryngoscope extending through the body, and a display screen assembly extending from the body generally perpendicular to the median plane, the body comprising a grip portion intermediate the display screen assembly and the insertion section. The display screen assembly, comprising a display screen, extends laterally from the body and the inner edge of the display screen falls within the lateral extent of the body. The grip portion is also of a minimum size to allow an adult to grip the laryngoscope, the hand abutting the screen assembly.Thus, the laryngoscope is of a minimum overall size, the screen is positioned as close as possible to the line of sight of a user directly viewing the distal end of the insertion section, during a medical procedure, facilitating the user alternating between direct and indirect viewing, whereas the screen does not prevent the user from manipulating the laryngoscope by applying thumb pressure to the body.The laryngoscope may optionally be provided with thumb operable controls on the body or the screen. The screen may be adjustable about an axis, and, by virtue of the configuration and size of the laryngoscope, adjustment may be effected by the user's thumb, without the need to adjust the grip of the remaining digits. |
| US09907463B2 |
Using an intraoral mirror with an integrated camera to record immersive dental status, and applications thereof
Disclosed embodiments integrate a camera into an intraoral mirror. Integrating a camera into an intraoral mirror provides an efficient way to record and display what is visible to the healthcare provider in the mirror. |
| US09907462B2 |
Endoscope tip position visual indicator and heat management system
The present specification discloses an endoscope having a tip section equipped with multiple viewing elements. Each of the viewing elements' field of view is illuminated by a discrete illuminator, such as a LED, being operated in a flash mode. The flash mode of operation of the LEDs enable doctors to obtain a position of the endoscope tip within a patient's body from outside by viewing the light emitted by the LEDs. Since the light is emitted for short pre-defined periods of time, the heat generated by the LEDs during their periods of operation is within a safe threshold value, and does not cause any burn injury inside the patient's body. |
| US09907461B2 |
Heater for surgical viewing instruments
A system and associated method are used for warming an endoscope, laparoscope, or other such instrument to minimize fogging. A flexible pad has a length, a width and a periphery for wrapping around the instrument. An activation disc and a mixture of water and sodium acetate are used to generate heat through an exothermic reaction initiated through manual manipulation of the disc. The disc may be exposed in a flexible tab in fluid communication with the pad. A housing includes an end bore to receive the instrument such that the instrument is surrounded by the folded or rolled pad within the housing. The housing may further include a slit or narrow opening enabling the tab and activation disc to extend therethrough and outside the housing for activation. |
| US09907460B2 |
Endoscope cleaning brush apparatus
A device (100) for cleaning and method of cleaning an endoscope distal end (128) is disclosed. The device (100) may include a sealed longitudinal chamber (110) that may contain a porous structure (132) with fluid, and a brush and a spring (121) loaded brush. A removable substantially airtight closure (146) may be removed to allow an endoscope distal end (128) to be placed into the longitudinal chamber (110) and contact the porous structure (132) and the brush prior to a full cleaning, thereby preventing contaminates from drying and hardening on the endoscope distal end (128) prior to a cleaning and sanitization process. The spring (121) loaded brush may be moved to clean portions of the endoscope distal end (128) including cavities such and tools including an elevator or lifter. A cap may be removed from a airtight connector (120) and a fluid source may be connected to the airtight connector (120) to assist in the endoscope (127) cleaning process. |
| US09907459B2 |
Image sensor with tolerance optimizing interconnects
Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed. |
| US09907457B2 |
Endoscope with pannable camera
An endoscope has a pannable camera at the distal end of its insertion shaft, the pannable camera assembly being pivotable to provide a range of a field of view that can be equal to or greater than 180 degrees. A terminal light emitting element may be mounted to the camera assembly in order to illuminate the immediate field of view of the camera sensor regardless of the rotational position of the camera assembly. A fluid-carrying conduit of the insertion section may also be used to house functional components, including the camera assembly, actuation cables, a communications cable connected to the camera sensor, and/or a fiberoptic cable providing light to the light emitting element. A distal section of the endoscope handle may be rotatable relative to a proximal hand-held section of the endoscope handle, a rotary encoder being provided to convert the rotational position of the insertion shaft relative to the handle into a signal for the purpose of image orientation correction by an electronic processor. |
| US09907455B2 |
Medical tools and related methods of use
Medical systems are disclosed and may include an elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end, one or more channels extending between the proximal end and the distal end, and a handle operably coupled to the proximal end. The handle may include one or more ports in communication with the one or more channels. The medical systems may further include a docking station supporting the proximal end of the elongate member. The docking station may include a receiver adapted to receive and secure the handle and an adaptor guide unit having a distal end, a proximal end, and one or more passages formed therethrough, the one or more passages communicating with the one or more channels. |
| US09907450B2 |
Dishwasher, a door assembly for the dishwasher, and an associated method for drying dishware
A dishwasher, a door assembly for the dishwasher and a method of drying the dishware in the dishwasher are provided. The dishwasher may include a tub portion adapted to hold dishware, a heating element proximate a bottom of the tub portion and configured to heat air inside the tub portion during a drying cycle, and a blower configured to direct the air and vaporized water into a duct having an inlet proximate the top of the tub portion. The heat causes the air to rise toward a top of the tub and collect vaporized water from the dishware. The duct is configured to receive the air and the vaporized water. The dishwasher includes a sensor configured to measure a humidity level. A control unit is in communication with the sensor and selectively actuates and de-actuates at least one of the heating element and the blower, based on the humidity level. |
| US09907449B2 |
Autonomous floor cleaning with a removable pad
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a robot body defining a forward drive direction, a controller supported by the robot body, a drive supporting the robot body and configured to maneuver the robot across a surface in response to commands from the controller, a pad holder disposed on an underside of the robot body and configured to retain a removable cleaning pad during operation of the cleaning robot; and a pad sensor arranged to sense a feature of a cleaning pad held by the pad holder and generate a corresponding signal. The controller is responsive to the signal generated by the pad sensor, and configured to control the robot according to a cleaning mode selected from a set of multiple robot cleaning modes as a function of the signal generated by the pad sensor. |
| US09907447B2 |
Electric vacuum cleaner
An electric vacuum cleaner in which a dust container inside an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaning unit can be fluidically connected to a station using propulsive force of the cleaning unit moving to a dust discharge position. The cleaning unit includes a body case, and a primary dust container including: a container body accumulating dust collected by the cleaning unit; a disposal port discharging dust from inside the container body; and a disposal lid opening and closing the disposal port. The station includes a dust transfer pipe connected to the disposal port of the primary dust container; a lever hooked by the disposal lid while the cleaning unit is homing, opening the disposal lid and connecting the disposal port and the dust transfer pipe; and a secondary dust container in which dust discharged from the primary dust container through the dust transfer pipe is accumulated. |
| US09907446B2 |
Floor tool for a vacuum cleaning appliance
A floor tool for a vacuum cleaning appliance comprising a body including a suction nozzle, a neck coupled to the body so as to pivot relative to it about an axis ‘A’, wherein the neck includes a base portion that defines a rail formation located at least partially about its circumference and the body includes a runner formation that is engaged with a discrete part of the rail formation, the rail formation being slidable relative to the runner formation thereby coupling the base portion to the body but permitting the base portion to pivot relative to the body. |
| US09907445B2 |
Ground brush for vacuum cleaner and vacuum cleaner with the same
A ground brush for a vacuum cleaner includes a ground brush body, brushroll cover, and brushroll. The ground brush body has a first locking member. The brushroll cover has a lower end rotatingly connected with the ground brush body through a rotating shaft, and an upper end provided with a snapping cooperating part. When the brushroll cover is rotated to be opened at a certain angle, the first locking member cooperates with a second locking member to lock the brushroll cover to the ground brush body. The brushroll is rotatably disposed on the brushroll cover, and has a lower end connected with the lower end of the brushroll cover and an upper end provided with a snapping part, in which the snapping part is configured to cooperate with the snapping cooperating part, such that the brushroll cover can drive the brushroll to rotate relative to the ground brush body. |
| US09907444B2 |
Surface cleaning apparatus with different cleaning configurations
An upright surface cleaning apparatus includes a surface cleaning head having a dirty air inlet. A support structure is moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head and a portable cleaning unit is removably mounted to the support structure. An above floor cleaning wand is provided. |
| US09907425B2 |
Reusable brewing cartridge
A reusable brewing cartridge includes a lid having a permanent injection nozzle passage and includes an extraction nozzle pocket permanently open at the top of the cartridge allowing use in a coffee maker configured to puncture a single use disposable cartridge lid with both the injection and extraction nozzles. The cartridge thus avoids puncturing contact with the extraction needle. The reusable brewing cartridge includes at least one passage in a cartridge base allowing brewed drink to escape the reusable brewing cartridge into a coffee container. |
| US09907424B2 |
Upper garment holding accessory
An accessory used to assist a disabled person to put on an upper garment, such as a coat, sweater or vest with two armholes. The accessory includes a rigid round member and a flexible arm each securely attached to the opposite ends of a rigid elongated base. The round member is configured to vertically support the upper garment when draped thereon and still allow disengagement of the upper garment from the round member when the upper garment is pulled downward. Attached to the distal end of the flexible arm is a clamping member configured to temporarily grip the upper, front edge or the lapel of the upper garment. The flexible arm may be bent and twisted in three axes enabling the upper garment to be stretched and held with its two armholes open and oriented at different locations to accommodate the restricted arm and shoulder movements of different users. |
| US09907423B1 |
Ballroom dance shoe aid
A tool has a lower component formed as a tool hook and an upper component formed as a handle. The handle has a configuration with a top, a bottom, a front, a back and sides. The handle has a chamber with a panel to provide access to the chamber. The tool hook extends downwardly from the bottom of the handle. The tool hook is fabricated of a rigid wire with parallel side portions and a semi-circular portion coupling the side portions. The side portions are spaced by a width. The semi-circular portion is spaced from the bottom by a length. The width is less than the length. An electrical assembly constitutes a portion of the handle. The electrical assembly includes a source of illumination, a source of potential, and a switch. |
| US09907419B1 |
Convertible reversible easy fold fitted bed sheet
This invention is a fitted bed sheet that converts to a completely flat bed sheet by releasing the elastic and zippers placed on each corner. This allows this bed sheet to be easily folded like a flat sheet and easy to store. This bed sheet is designed to be reversible and convertible—one side creates a more traditional look and the other has a more ornamental design. |
| US09907417B2 |
Display frame for collectables
Apparatus for displaying packaged collectables in a supportive and protective frame. A rear frame member is secured inside a front frame member with a latch. The front frame member has sidewalls that enclose the rear frame member. In one embodiment the latch relies upon magnetic coupling between the front and rear frame members. In another embodiment the latch includes a tab engaging a slot and at least one detent capturing the rear frame member inside the sidewalls of the front frame member. The front frame member has an opening to allow the protrusion of a blister if the collectable has a blister package. The rear frame member has a transparent pane or portion. The collectable is visible from the front and back of the frame. The front and rear frame members are separable by manipulating the rear frame member through at least one notch in the front frame member. |
| US09907416B1 |
Devices for removably mounting an interface device
A device configured to removably mount a point of sale terminal. The device includes an anchor portion with a base that is configured to anchor the device. A carriage support member with an upper section and a lower section is connected to the anchor portion. The carriage support member has a first connecting feature. A carriage with an upper side and a lower side is configured to be positioned on the upper section of the carriage support member and is configured to support an interface device operational as a point of sale terminal on the upper side. The carriage has a second connecting feature that is engageable with the first connecting feature of the carriage support member to removably connect the carriage to the carriage support member. |
| US09907412B2 |
Diaper changing apparatus
An apparatus for preventing a baby from interfering with a diaper changing process. The apparatus includes an underlay segment and a barrier panel. The underlay segment is positionable underneath at least one of the shoulders, the head, the back, and the buttocks of the baby lying in the supine position. The barrier panel is coupled to the underlay segment and is extendable around the chest of the baby to form a partition between an upper body portion and a lower body portion of the baby. A proximal edge of the barrier panel is shaped to contour and rest on the chest or abdomen of the baby so that engagement between the proximal edge and the baby supports a distal edge of the barrier panel to extend outwardly and upwardly from the upper body portion of the baby. The barrier panel is foldable. |
| US09907409B2 |
Bunk bed equipped with guard rail
A bunk bed equipped with a guard rail, has a bed board frame, two side bed frames respectively disposed at the front and rear sides of the bed board frame to support the bed board frame and a guard rail disposed at the side of the bed board frame. The guard rail includes a first rail frame, a second rail frame and a rotating mechanism. The rotating mechanism connects the first rail frame and the second rail frame, such that the two rail frames rotate relatively in the horizontal direction or the longitudinal direction. The first rail frame is locked to the second rail frame by a lock mechanism to form a guard rail entirety. The rotating mechanism moveably connects the first rail frame and the second rail frame, the first rail frame and the second rail frame are locked by a lock mechanism to form a detachable guard rail. |
| US09907408B2 |
Multi-layered support system
In various embodiments, a support system includes a multi-layer support system with a number of layers. Systems and methods of removing moisture vapor from an environment surrounding patient are disclosed that accomplish such removal without the use of powered air-movers. |
| US09907401B2 |
Sliding wall mount for an easel
A wall mounting device especially made for the 360 Degree Rotating Easel so that the easel can be mounted on a wall to save space and the need for a tripod-based floor or tabletop easel. The wall mount also enables variable height adjustments of the mounted work piece by means of a sliding inner arm encased by the wall mount chassis which then attaches to the wall and the easel. |
| US09907400B1 |
Retracting mechanism for a movable furniture part
A retracting mechanism for a movable furniture part includes a body, a catching member, a connecting member, a supporting member, and a resilient member. The catching member and the body are movable with respect to each other. The connecting member is connected to the catching member, and the supporting member is connected to the connecting member. The resilient member applies an elastic restoring force to the catching member. The supporting member is engaged with the body when the body reaches a predetermined position with respect to the catching member by being moved in a certain direction. The engagement helps reduce the pulling force the operator has to apply to move the body further in the same direction with respect to the catching member. |
| US09907398B2 |
Furniture docking system
A furniture docking system includes a dock and various dock supports, including freestanding and non-freestanding dock supports. The dock includes an upper rail having a primary channel and a pair of auxiliary channels opening upwardly from an upper surface of the upper rail, and a pair of side channels opening outwardly from opposite sides of the upper rail. |
| US09907394B2 |
Folding table
A folding table includes a first table top and a second table top that can move between a folding position and an unfolding position, as well as a first and second table leg component for supporting the second table top, wherein two sets of mutually hinged four-link mechanisms are formed by the first and second table leg component in virtue of table beams, table legs and inclined rods. The two sets of four-link mechanisms realize interference self-locking in the unfolding process. Two triangles are formed for supporting a table top stably, and the stress is uniform. The table top can be folded face to face in two parts, so that the table top after being folded is effectively protected, and scratches on the table top during the production, transportation and using processes are reduced. |
| US09907387B2 |
Straw-type adjustable cosmetic applicator
An adjustable cosmetic applicator including a handle unit with a rod unit coupled thereto and defining a rod with a rod central axis. An applying unit includes a brush rod with a brush central axis and a brush extending from the brush rod. A flexible portion interconnects the rod and the brush rod such that the applying unit may be rotated relative to the rod unit with the brush central axis angled relative to the rod central axis. |
| US09907383B2 |
Cosmetic application device
A cosmetic application device includes a base member having a first surface, a second surface, and a bore there between; a powder flow conduit; a brush member; a clip; a middle body; an o-ring; a variable flow mechanism; a cartridge having a first end and a second end; and an end cap. |
| US09907382B2 |
Spray head and body cleaning device
The embodiments of the present invention relate to a spray head and a body cleaning device, the spray head comprising: a spray head body comprising a panel provided with spray holes, the panel being provided with a plurality of brush rods, each of which forming a spheroid at an end portion thereof that faces away from the spray head body. The spheroid is made of an elastic material. The spray head, during its use, can penetrate through hair to thoroughly clean the scalp and the bottom portion of the hair near the scalp. |
| US09907370B2 |
Collapsible canopy apparatus
A collapsible canopy apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a canopy mounted onto a collapsible frame. The frame includes flexible and resilient spring members that are biased in an upright position. The spring members include arcuate regions that define the arcuate shape of the frame. The spring members are interconnected at flex points that enable the spring members to fold relative to one another by twisting and bending actions. These actions enable a user to collapse the frame into a folded, storable configuration. A harness disposed in an interior of the canopy includes a waistband and shoulder straps for enabling a user to fasten the canopy to his or her torso and suspend the canopy therefrom. The shoulder straps include fasteners configured to removably attach to the interior of the canopy. Slide ribs disposed on an interior of the canopy enable vertical adjustment of the waistband. |
| US09907369B2 |
Adjustable carrying pack
An adjustable carrying pack includes a main body having an outer surface with an upper portion, a lower portion, and a rear portion. A first strap having a plurality of loops is disposed along a first side of the outer surface of the main body and a second strap having a plurality of loops is disposed along a second side of the outer surface of the main body. A bottom strap includes a fixed end and a free end having an attachment element. In a first configuration, the attachment element of the bottom strap is attached to a loop of the first strap. In a second configuration, the attachment element of the bottom strap is attached to a loop of the second strap. |
| US09907367B2 |
Buckle
Provided is a buckle including a plug member and a socket member. The plug member includes a plate extending forward from a lower end of a base and having a first magnet embedded in a middle portion thereof, and a holder protruding from a front end of the plate. The socket member includes an upper plate extending forward from an upper end of a base and having a second magnet embedded in a middle portion thereof, side plates formed on opposite sides of the upper plate, and a accommodation region formed inside the upper plate and the side plates so as to accommodate the plate therein. The upper plate has a holder aperture formed therein so that the holder is seated in the holder aperture when the plug member and the socket member are coupled to each other. |
| US09907365B2 |
Method of providing decorative designs and structural features on an article of footwear
The invention relates to footwear and portions thereof having structural features and decorative designs thereon, and related systems and methods for manufacturing same. An example method for providing a feature on a surface of an object includes positioning a laser proximate the surface of the object, directing a laser beam from the laser to the surface of the object to mark or engrave at least a portion of the surface of the object, and moving at least one of the laser or the object to create a pattern on the surface of the object, the pattern providing at least one of an aesthetic or a structural feature on the surface of the object. |
| US09907363B2 |
Strap securing systems for articles of footwear and other foot-receiving devices
Articles of footwear or other foot-receiving devices include an upper/foot-covering member having medial and lateral strap tensioning components located on opposite sides of the ankle area. A securing system is provided that includes: (i) a first strap portion extending across the instep area, engaging the lateral strap tensioning component, and extending in front of the foot-insertion opening to the medial ankle side (where it may be secured), and (ii) a second strap portion extending across the instep area, engaging the medial strap tensioning component, and extending in front of the foot-insertion opening and to the lateral ankle side (where it may be secured). The first and second strap portions cross one another at two separated crossing locations. |
| US09907362B2 |
Articles of footwear
Articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include: (A) an upper; (B) a rear heel strap member engaged with or integrally formed with the upper and including: (i) a rear heel element, (ii) a lateral side strap element, and (iii) a medial side strap element; (C) a first strap member extending along the medial side of the upper, wherein the first strap member includes at least one structure for engaging a lace; (D) a second strap member extending along the lateral side of the upper, wherein the second strap member includes at least two structures for engaging the lace; (E) a tensioning system for engaging the medial side strap element with the first strap member; (F) another tensioning system for engaging the lateral side strap element with the second strap member; and (G) a sole structure. |
| US09907357B2 |
Fluid-filled chamber for an article of footwear
A fluid-filled chamber is provided and includes a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer, a foam structure, and a tensile member. The second barrier layer is secured to the first barrier layer to define an interior void between the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer. The interior void contains a predetermined volume of fluid. The foam structure and the tensile member are disposed within the interior void, whereby the tensile member includes a plurality of fibers extending in a first direction between the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer. |
| US09907356B2 |
Shoe sole with energy restoring device
The present disclosure describes a performance enhancing shoe sole that includes an anterior support structure and a posterior support structure that are connected by a first support structure. The anterior support structure and posterior support structure are flexible bent spring structures. The first support structure provides a plantar interface that includes a midfoot arch. The shoe sole is positionable in a shoe to provide shock absorption and controlled energy return from the posterior support structure to the first support structure. The shoe sole is an interconnected bent spring system that can be a single ribbon of flexible material defining multiple pivot angles or a multi-layered cantilevered flexible bent spring. The shoe sole can also include inserts that dampen shock. |
| US09907353B2 |
Energy return sole
A energy sole including a base structure extending a length of a shoe sole, a flexion extending from the base structure, a toe arm extending forward from the flexion, and a heel arm extend rearward from the flexion. |
| US09907351B2 |
Article of footwear having a textile upper
An article of footwear and a method of manufacturing the article of footwear are disclosed. The footwear may include an upper and a sole structure. The upper incorporates a textile element with edges that are joined together to define at least a portion of a void for receiving a foot. The textile element may comprise one or more of an inner layer, outer layer, or intermediate layer of the upper. Various warp or weft knitting processes, including flat knitting, may be utilized to form the textile element. |
| US09907350B2 |
Article of footwear having a textile upper
An article of footwear and a method of manufacturing the article of footwear are disclosed. The footwear may include an upper and a sole structure. The upper incorporates a textile element with edges that are joined together to define at least a portion of a void for receiving a foot. The textile element may have apertures formed by omitting stitches and non-textile elements on the lateral side and in the heel area. Various warp or weft knitting processes, including flat knitting, may be utilized to form the textile element. |
| US09907347B2 |
Flex spring helmet
A helmet can include a helmet body formed of a foam energy-absorbing material in which the helmet body includes inner and outer opposing surfaces. A plurality of lower slots can be formed completely through the helmet body and can be open at a lower edge of the helmet body. A plurality of upper slots can be formed completely through the helmet body and be open at a top portion of the helmet body to form a star shape. An S-shaped panel of the helmet body can include an undulating form from the alternating and overlapping positions of the plurality of lower slots and the plurality of upper slots. A reinforcing halo can be disposed within the helmet body to reinforce areas of weakness in the helmet body resulting from the plurality of lower slots and the plurality of upper slots. |
| US09907339B2 |
Electronic cigarette
An electronic cigarette comprises an electronic cigarette body which is provided with a smoking end, an oil reservoir, an atomization assembly, and a battery assembly. The oil reservoir is arranged at one end of the electronic cigarette body which is on an opposite side of the smoking end, and the atomization assembly is arranged in the oil reservoir, thus length of a whole electronic cigarette is shortened, and the electronic cigarette is portable. The oil reservoir is defined far away from the smoking end, so that a bad experience of sucking the tobacco tar by users can be effectively avoided. When smoking, the battery assembly close to the smoking end is held, and the oil reservoir is usually not supported by an external force, so that the oil reservoir outputs a uniform amount of the tobacco tar to the atomization assembly, and the stability of produced smoke is effectively ensured. |
| US09907338B2 |
Dosing control for an electronic smoking device
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling dosing of an electronic smoking device. An electronic smoking device comprises a body through which a flow path at least partially extends, an air inlet in the body that is fluidly connected to the flow path, a liquid compartment for storing a liquid within the body, a vaporizer positioned in the body and configured to receive liquid from the liquid compartment and air from the flow path to generate vaporized liquid, an outlet in the body configured to receive vaporized liquid from the vaporizer, and circuitry connected to the vaporizer and configured to control dosage of vaporized liquid. A method for controlling dosage in an electronic smoking device comprises sensing an airflow, releasing a liquid into the airflow, activating a vaporizer to generate vaporized liquid, and controlling flow of airflow, liquid or vaporized liquid to control dosage. |
| US09907332B2 |
Decorating system for edible items
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to decorating and printing of an edible design on a printable base media based on a user selected image. A central control device may provide, to a remote computing device, a graphical user interface for reviewing images, receive, from the remote computing device via the graphical user interface, selection of an image, generate print data based on the selected image, and transmit the print data to the remote computing device for printing with an edible media printer equipped with edible ink. |
| US09907329B2 |
Injectable protein product
Moisture is retained in cooked or thawed food by adding to the food an aqueous suspension of animal muscle protein obtained from animal muscle tissue. The aqueous suspension is obtained by mixing comminuted animal muscle tissue with a food grade base to form an aqueous basic solution of animal muscle protein. The basic solution is mixed with a food grade acid to precipitate the protein in an aqueous composition. The precipitated protein then is comminuted to form an aqueous suspension of comminuted animal muscle protein. |
| US09907327B2 |
Refrigerator with ultraviolet light emitting diode
A refrigerator with an ultraviolet LED may be provided that includes: a first wall surface; a second wall surface; a reflector disposed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface, and comprising an inner curved surface and an outer surface disposed on the first wall surface and the second wall surface; a first base disposed on a first end of the inner curved surface of the reflector; a second base disposed on a second end of the inner curved surface of the reflector; a first ultraviolet LED being disposed on the first base, and configured to emit ultraviolet lights to the inner curved surface of the reflector; and a second ultraviolet LED being disposed on the second base, and configured to emit ultraviolet lights to the inner curved surface of the reflector. |
| US09907325B2 |
Encapsulated weighting agents for beverage emulsions
Disclosed are emulsions including an aqueous phase with an emulsifier dissolved in the aqueous phase, an oil phase including oil droplets, and a solid weighting agent encapsulated in the oil droplets. The ratio of the solid weighting agent to the oil phase in the emulsion may be from about 1:5 to about 1:2000. The emulsions may be used with ready-to-drink and liquid concentrate beverages. Methods for making such emulsions are also disclosed. |
| US09907324B2 |
Effervescent composition for forming a gelled composition, tablet for forming a gelled composition, and method of making a gelled composition
A method of making a gelled composition that includes combining water and an effervescent tablet in a vessel, the effervescent tablet including at least 200 mg gelatin and an effervescent couple that includes an acid and a base, heating an aqueous composition (e.g., in a microwave oven), optionally adding cold water to the heated composition, and chilling the composition for a period sufficient for the composition to form a gel. |
| US09907322B2 |
Structured protein product
The invention provides protein compositions containing structured protein products having protein fibers that are substantially aligned. |
| US09907321B2 |
Separating crustacean polar phospholipid compositions without emulsification
Fluorine being present in the exoskeleton of crustaceans, and especially krill represents a problem for using krill as a source for food, feed, food additives and/or feed additives. There has been developed a process for removing such fluorine from krill material by subjecting the krill to disintegration and to an enzymatic hydrolysis process prior to or simultaneously with a removal of the exoskeleton particles producing a fluorine-reduced product. Inherent in the disclosed process is the ability to process krill material with a high polar lipid content for producing superior quality, low fluorine, products suitable for the food and feed as well as the pharmaceutical, neutraceutical and cosmetic industry. |
| US09907318B2 |
Cooling assembly for chilling or freezing liquid ingredients
Cooling assemblies having a sealable cooling chamber formed as the interior volume of a curved or spherical outer container and a sealable inner canister are disclosed. The outer container may be provided as a multi-layer container having an external elastomeric shell. The external elastomeric shell may have an inner framework including a plurality of longitudinal ribs and a reinforcing wall. A movable flap adjustable between a projecting condition in which the flap extends from the exterior surface of the outer container and a closed position in which the flap doesn't project may be provided for supporting the cooling assembly in a stationary condition and the flap may be used as a handle for opening a lid. |
| US09907314B2 |
Device and method for processing slaughter animals and/or parts thereof
The invention provides a device and a method for processing slaughter animals, in particular slaughtered poultry such as chickens, and/or parts thereof. The device comprises a driving system for driving an element to be driven of the device. The, driving system comprises a driving element, a transfer element, which is driven by the driving element in use and which is rigidly connected during normal operation to the element to be driven, as well as overload protection means which are configured to rigidly connect the processing element and the transfer element during normal operation and to allow relative movement between the processing element and the transfer element in an overload situation if a force that acts between the processing element and the transfer element exceeds a threshold value. The overload protection means comprise a first connecting element forming part of one of the transfer element and the element to be driven and a second connecting element forming part of the other one of the transfer element and the element to be driven, wherein the first connecting element is configured as a first magnet element (36) and the second connecting element is either magnetisable or configured as a second magnet element. |
| US09907313B2 |
System for overturning tanks of kneading machines
A system for overturning tanks, in particular tanks of kneading machines, includes a vertical supporting structure, an overturning unit, which is mobile along the structure between a lowered position and a raised position and can turn about an axis transverse to the vertical direction, and a system for driving the movement of said unit between said lowered position and said raised position. A further actuation system is provided for governing the movement of rotation of said unit independently of said movement between said lowered position and said raised position. |
| US09907312B2 |
Compositions comprising a biological control agent and an insecticide
The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biological control agent. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts. |
| US09907311B2 |
Anti-odour and antibacterial fabric in textile goods
This Invention Patent application consists of a fabric to be used in textile applications, which makes those items more comfortable and increases their bactericidal capacity, both in the number of types that it fights, and in the time that this capacity is effective, using a mixture of fibers and performing a series of treatments prior to the final manufacture of the textile goods that reinforce the properties of the fabric. |
| US09907310B2 |
High residual effect and low off-site movement auxin herbicide formulations
The present invention generally relates to high residual effect and/or low off-site movement anionic herbicide formulations and, more particularly, auxin herbicide formulations. Generally, the formulations of the present invention include an anionic herbicide (e.g., an auxin herbicide), a particulate sorbent (e.g., silica), a cationic surfactant, and water. |
| US09907307B2 |
Aromatic compound and uses thereof
A pest control agent comprising an aromatic compound represented by formula (1) wherein R1 represents a C1-C4 alkyl group, etc.; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; R7 represents a C1-C3 alkyl group, etc.; T represents the following group T1, T2, or T3; Z2 represents a halogen atom, etc.; Z3 represents a C1-C3 alkyl group, etc.; Q represents the following group Q1, Q2, or Q3; R5 represents a C1-C3 alkyl group, etc.; R10 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; R11 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; X1 represents an oxygen atom, etc.; X2 represents a direct bond, etc.; and R12 represents a C1-C3 alkyl group, etc. has excellent control activity. |
| US09907306B2 |
Compositions and methods for controlling nematode pests
Compositions and processes for controlling nematodes are described herein, e.g., nematodes that infest plants or animals. The compounds include certain 2,5-substituted tetrazoles. |
| US09907300B1 |
Mosquito abatement system
A mosquito abatement system comprising a fabric and an embedded network of components containing one or more orifices with rigid edges wherein the rigid edges of the orifices trap, damage, or sever the mouthparts of the mosquito such that the mosquito is unable to bite future hosts. |
| US09907299B2 |
Catapult system
A catapult system for casting a lure from a fishing pole includes a fishing rod that has a line and a reel. The line has a lure that is coupled thereto such that the lure may be cast outwardly from the fishing rod. A catapult is removably coupled to the fishing rod. The catapult engages the lure such that the catapult selectively casts the lure outwardly from the fishing rod. |
| US09907297B2 |
Removable support assembly for an aquarium
A removable support assembly for an aquarium is disclosed along with a method of securing the removable support assembly to an aquarium. The removable support assembly includes frame members positioned around an upper periphery of the aquarium. At least two of the frame members or a portion thereof, are oppositely aligned to one another. The removable support assembly also includes a divider, a pair of brackets and fasteners. The divider is sized and configured to span across and mate with the two oppositely aligned frame members. The divider is physically secured to the pair of brackets by the fasteners. Each of the pair of brackets has a first portion which mates in a recess of one of the two oppositely aligned frame members. The method recites the steps required to position and secure the removable support assembly to the frame members positioned around the upper periphery of the aquarium. |
| US09907292B2 |
Neckwear for pets
Pet neckwear can be created to close around a pet's neck or to enclose a standard pet collar, so that the apparel may fit to the specific size required by the pet. When used as a cover for a standard pet collar the neckwear may completely cover the collar underneath and yet still allow for leash attachment since it connects through the leash hook instead of over the top of it. The neckwear may be made of materials that can be wiped cleaned or machine washed and may have additional design elements attached in such a way as they could be detached and exchanged for different design elements to form a new style. It is also easy to attach so that even people with dexterity issues such as arthritis can use it to individualize their pet. |
| US09907288B2 |
Lettuce cultivar zorro
A lettuce cultivar, designated Zorro, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Zorro and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Zorro with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Zorro, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Zorro and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Zorro with another lettuce cultivar. |
| US09907287B2 |
Lettuce cultivar oracle
A lettuce cultivar, designated Oracle, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Oracle and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Oracle with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Oracle, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Oracle and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Oracle with another lettuce cultivar. |
| US09907282B1 |
Soybean cultivar 60371632
A soybean cultivar designated 60371632 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 60371632, to the plants of soybean cultivar 60371632, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 60371632, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 60371632. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 60371632. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 60371632, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 60371632 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US09907279B1 |
Soybean cultivar 63282422
A soybean cultivar designated 63282422 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 63282422, to the plants of soybean cultivar 63282422, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 63282422, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 63282422. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 63282422. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 63282422, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 63282422 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US09907278B1 |
Soybean cultivar CW1410185
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CW1410185 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CW1410185 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CW1410185 in a breeding program. |
| US09907269B2 |
Soybean variety 01050536
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01050536. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01050536. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01050536 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01050536 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907266B2 |
Soybean variety 01057255
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01057255. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01057255. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01057255 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01057255 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907263B2 |
Soybean variety 01050612
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01050612. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01050612. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01050612 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01050612 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907262B2 |
Soybean variety 01051117
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051117. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051117. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051117 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051117 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907260B2 |
Soybean variety 01063906
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01063906. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01063906. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01063906 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01063906 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907248B2 |
Soybean variety 01057390
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01057390. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01057390. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01057390 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01057390 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US09907244B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH533621
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH533621. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH533621, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH533621 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH533621. |
| US09907239B2 |
Substrate intended to act as a cultivation support and use for the preparation in particular of sport surfaces
A culture support substrate comprising: a first part, making up the backbone of the substrate and representing more than 70% of the total volume of the substrate, composed of particles P>100 μm with particle size greater than 100 μm, the particles as a whole consisting of hard particles PH>100 and/or of resilient particles PR>100, wherein the resilient particles make up a proportion by volume PV of between 0% and 100% by volume of this first part; a second part of corpuscular components P<100 with a particle size of less than 100 μm, and making up from 0 to 450 g/l of the substrate; a third part, making up from 0 to 200 g/l of the substrate, composed of fine fibers between 3 mm and 100 mm in length and between 5 μm and 35 μm in diameter; and a fourth part, making up from 0 to 200 g/l of the substrate. |
| US09907234B2 |
Battery-powered backpack blower
The battery-powered backpack blower includes a back support assembly including a back plate configured to permit a user to mount the blower to the user's back, and a volute assembly including a first volute portion and a second volute portion. The backpack blower further includes a housing assembly including a battery assembly and a motor assembly therein, the housing assembly is provided intermediate to the back assembly and the volute assembly. |
| US09907224B2 |
System for variable-ratio blending of multiple agricultural products for delivery via a ported opener
A system to meter multiple agricultural products according to an independently prescribed rate for each in a variable-ratio blend of the agricultural products from a single opener in a plurality of such systems and openers across an applicator such as a drill. Bulk storage compartments associated with the applicator deliver multiple agricultural products to metering assemblies mounted in clusters or pods across the applicator. The agricultural products are fed from the metering assemblies, via a flow re-director, into a manifold, and then into a corresponding single opener having conduits to transport the agricultural product into the soil. Controllers independently regulate metering by the metering assemblies. The flow re-director and manifold provide blending of combinations of the agricultural products for each opener according to a field prescription. |
| US09913418B2 |
Process of an embedded component structure
A wiring board is provided, wherein electrical function of the wiring board is normal, the wiring board has a front side, a reverse side opposite to the front side, an opening and an interconnection layer, the opening penetrates the wiring board and connects the front side and the reverse side, and the interconnection layer is located on the front side and extends toward the opening. A component is bonded to the wiring board, wherein electrical function of the component is normal, the component has an active surface, a back surface opposite to the active surface, and a working area located on the active surface, the active surface is bonded to the interconnection layer, the component is located in the opening, and the active surface and the front side of the wiring board face in a same direction. An encapsulant is filled into the opening, so as to cover the component and expose the working area. |
| US09913414B2 |
Method and apparatus of implementing a magnetic shield flux sweeper
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of protecting magnetically sensitive devices with a shield, including: a non-superconducting metal or lower transition temperature (Tc) material compared to a higher transition temperature material, disposed in a magnetic field; means for creating a spatially varying order parameter's |Ψ(r,T)|2 in a non-superconducting metal or a lower transition temperature material; wherein a spatially varying order parameter is created by a proximity effect, such that the non-superconducting metal or the lower transition temperature material becomes superconductive as a temperature is lowered, creating a flux-free Meissner state at a center thereof, in order to sweep magnetic flux lines to the periphery. |
| US09913413B2 |
Multi-piece shield
This disclosure relates to a multi-piece shield comprising a fence, a lid, and an insert. The lid attaches to the fence, which is attached to the circuit board. The lid is a relatively thick, flexible material for supporting the insert. The lid has a recess so that the insert can be recessed into the lid to position the insert closer to the circuit for enhanced heat absorption. The insert is made of a thicker heat absorbing material than the lid, again to facilitate heat absorption. The insert can be press-fit into the recess of the lid. The lid can have a dovetail configuration to retain the insert in the lid. |
| US09913409B2 |
Intrusion detection for submerged datacenters
Examples of the disclosure provide a datacenter configured for operation while submerged in water. The datacenter includes one or more physically separable modules. The datacenter also includes an intrusion detection system that has one or more intrusion detection modules. |
| US09913407B2 |
Energy efficient vertical data center
The vertical data center module is a multistory compact footprint data center unit that exploits vertical air movements, both downward and upward, to efficiently sustain conventional low-cost air-cooled computing systems. It integrates a hybrid cooling system that can benefit from an air-side economizer without compromising its compact footprint. For polluted urban environments, this air-side economizer comprises an air-to-air heat exchanger to effectively limit the amount of outside air that can enter the module and come into contact with sensitive computing systems. Through side-to-side, side-to-back or back-to-back juxtaposition, multiple units can be assembled in clusters on a colocation site to create large-scale vertical data center complexes, effectively maximizing real estate use and cost effectiveness by fully exploiting all three dimensions. |
| US09913406B2 |
System and method for controlling ambient temperature at a power-consuming site
A system and method for controlling ambient temperature at a power-consuming site includes a hybrid generator-battery power system. The generator-battery power system includes an engine-generator set and one or more DC-powered batteries that alternately share the site load. Thus, the method includes providing one or more temperature sensors communicatively coupled to a battery management system at the power-consuming site. Another step includes monitoring the ambient temperature of the power-consuming site via the one or more temperature sensors when one or more of the DC-powered batteries are discharging (i.e. when the engine-generator set is off). The method also includes sending, via the battery management system, a start-up command to the engine-generator set when the ambient temperature of the power-consuming site reaches a threshold temperature such that the engine-generator set can provide AC power to an air conditioning unit at the power-consuming site. |
| US09913405B2 |
Glass interposer with embedded thermoelectric devices
The present invention relates generally to integrated circuit (IC) chip packaging, and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a glass interposer having one or more embedded peltier devices, alongside electrically conductive vias, to help dissipate heat from one or more IC chips in a multi-dimensional chip package through the glass interposer and into an organic carrier, where it can be dissipated into an underlying substrate. |
| US09913404B2 |
Cooling apparatus
A cooling apparatus has: an opening formed in a cooling plate for cooling an electronic component; and an electronic component accommodating section formed in the opening. A cooling pipeline is disposed in a manner to surround an outer side surface section of the electronic component accommodating section, whereby the electronic component and the cooling pipeline are arranged at substantially the same height as a top of the cooling plate to realize a low profile. In addition, the electronic component accommodating section, which is joined to the cooling plate, is configured that a side surface section thereof is in contact with a side surface section of the electronic component via a potting material. In this way, an area that contributes to heat radiation is increased. |
| US09913398B1 |
Cable management assembly and cable management device thereof
A cable management device is applicable to a cable management assembly. The cable management device includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes a wall. A cable management space is defined by the first component and the second component. The second component is configured to be opened or closed relative to the first component. The second component includes two portions. When the second component is closed relative to the first component, the wall of the first component is engaged between the two portions of the second component. |
| US09913392B2 |
Flexible display stack-up and method for arranging
A display stack-up for an electronic device has: multiple layers that include a display layer and a second layer; and an outer seal. Each layer has first and second base surfaces and a thickness therebetween defining a height of a lateral surface at a periphery of the layer. The multiple layers are stacked along an axis perpendicular to their base surfaces and parallel to their lateral surfaces, and the outer seal is positioned along the lateral surface of at least some of the multiple layers. The outer seal is composed of a flexible material and is arranged to bind the second layer and at least one other layer of the multiple layers. The outer seal also contains a non-adhesive liquid between the second layer and the at least one other layer to allow relative sliding between at least two layers of the multiple layers. |
| US09913391B2 |
Electronic component case
Disclosed is an electronic component case which includes a case body in which a rotationally engaging boss and a rotation prevention protrusion are disposed; and a bracket having a bracket body and an engaging portion formed at an end portion of the bracket body, wherein the engaging portion includes a rotationally engaging hole aligned with the rotationally engaging boss and a rotation prevention portion formed to be spaced apart from the rotationally engaging hole to form a contacting surface that is caught by the rotation prevention protrusion, and provides an advantageous effect of preventing the bracket from rotating in a process of tightening a screw to the bracket. |
| US09913385B2 |
Methods of making stackable wiring board having electronic component in dielectric recess
A method of making a stackable wiring board is characterized by positioning an electronic component in a dielectric recess to realize the thickness reduction of the wiring board and sidewalls of the recess can confine the dislocation of the electronic component to avoid misalignment between buildup circuitry and the electronic component. An array of metal posts that provide vertical electrical connections are formed by using the same metal carrier that forms the recess, so that the predetermined distance and relative location between metal posts and pads/bumps of the electronic component can be maintained. |
| US09913382B2 |
Method for anchoring a conductive cap on a filled via in a printed circuit board and printed circuit board with an anchored conductive cap
The present invention relates to forming an anchored cap in a filled via in a PCB. The cap is formed by making an anchor opening in the filled via, depositing copper into the anchor opening to form an anchor portion, and subsequently depositing a cap portion over the filled via and the anchor portion, so that the anchored cap is anchored to the filled via by the anchor portion. In another embodiment, the anchor portion and cap portion may be deposited in one step. |
| US09913379B2 |
Component-embedded substrate
A component-embedded substrate includes: a resin substrate having a mount surface and a peripheral surface surrounding a perimeter of the mount surface; a first mounted component mounted on the mount surface; a second mounted component mounted on the mount surface and spaced from the first mounted component; a first chip-type electronic component disposed in the resin substrate; and a second chip-type electronic component disposed in the resin substrate and spaced from the first chip-type electronic component. The first and second chip-type electronic components are spaced from each other along a cross direction crossing an arrangement direction along which the first mounted component and the second mounted component that are arranged with respect to each other. The first and second chip-type electronic components are each arranged to cross the cross direction. |
| US09913372B2 |
Wiring board
The wiring board of the present disclosure includes an insulating layer, and a wiring conductor existing so as to be adjacent to both main surfaces of the insulating layer; the insulating layer includes at least two particle-containing resin layers containing insulating particles in an insulating resin, and a particle-free resin layer formed of an insulating resin; and the particle-free resin layer is interposed between the particle-containing resin layers. |
| US09913371B2 |
Printing complex electronic circuits using a patterned hydrophobic layer
A programmable circuit includes an array of printed groups of microscopic transistors or diodes. The devices are pre-formed and printed as an ink and cured. A patterned hydrophobic layer defines the locations of the printed dots of the devices. The devices in each group are connected in parallel so that each group acts as a single device. Each group has at least one electrical lead that terminates in a patch area on the substrate. An interconnection conductor pattern interconnects at least some of the leads of the groups in the patch area to create logic circuits for a customized application of the generic circuit. The groups may also be interconnected to be logic gates, and the gate leads terminate in the patch area. The interconnection conductor pattern then interconnects the gates for form complex logic circuits. |
| US09913370B2 |
Tamper-proof electronic packages formed with stressed glass
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass enclosure enclosing, at least in part, at least one electronic component within a secure volume, and a tamper-respondent detector. The glass enclosure includes stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer, and the tamper-respondent detector monitors, at least in part, the stressed glass to facilitate defining the secure volume. The stressed glass fragments with an attempted intrusion event through the stressed glass, and the tamper-respondent detector detects the fragmenting of the stressed glass. In certain embodiments, the stressed glass may be a machined glass enclosure that has undergone ion-exchange processing, and the compressively-stressed surface layer of the stressed glass may be compressively-stressed to ensure that the stressed glass fragments into glass particles of fragmentation size less than 1000 μm with the intrusion event. |
| US09913361B2 |
Integrated circuit device assembly
A method for assembling an integrated circuit device includes positioning a thermal interface material (TIM) on top of an electronic component, positioning a load frame onto a printed circuit board, the load frame having an open region for the electronic component to extend through, and positioning a heat sink onto the TIM. The method further comprises fastening a first screw fastener, resulting in a TIM bond line between the heat sink and the electronic component, and actuating a second screw fastener disposed within a bore of the heat sink and threaded into the load frame. The second screw fastener, upon being tightened expands radially to lock the heat sink into the load frame. The first screw fastener, upon the tightening of the second screw fastener, connects the heat sink and the load frame to the printed circuit board. |
| US09913359B1 |
Krypton-85-free spark gap with cantilevered component
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a spark gap device that includes a first electrode having a first surface and a second electrode having a second surface offset from and facing the first surface. The spark gap device also includes a cantilevered component coupled to the first electrode that is configured to generate a field emission, a corona discharge or both, to emit light toward at least the first surface such that photons are incident on the first surface and cause electron emission from the first surface. The spark gap device may not include a radioactive component. |
| US09913357B2 |
Radiation source, metrology apparatus, lithographic system and device manufacturing method
A radiation source apparatus comprising: a container comprising walls for defining a space for containing a gaseous medium in which plasma which emits plasma emitted radiation is generated following excitation of the gaseous medium by a driving radiation; and a thermal load applicator adapted to apply a thermal load to at least part of the walls of the container to reduce stresses in the walls. |
| US09913355B2 |
Method of forming a sequencing system and structure therefor
In one embodiment, a sequencing system includes a plurality of integrated circuits connected in a daisy chain arrangement, where each integrated circuit has an LED load connection. The system includes a diagnostic circuit which signals to the control unit that an open circuit condition has been detected, thereby turning off all LED loads. |
| US09913354B1 |
Unpowered tuning interface circuit for an LED driver
An LED driver circuit capable of being tuned via an unpowered tuning process and associated methods are provided. A radio frequency (RF) coupling circuit receives an RF tuning signal having a plurality of cycles of an RF carrier. The RF coupling circuit outputs a coupled RF tuning signal to a direct current (DC) generator circuit which rectifies the coupled RF tuning signal and outputs a rectified RF tuning voltage. A RF demodulation circuit receives the rectified RF tuning signal and selectively converts each burst of the rectified RF tuning signal to a single DC pulse. The RF demodulation circuit includes a Zener diode limiting the emitted voltage from the RF demodulation circuit. The microcontroller receives the output of the RF demodulation circuit, receives the regulated voltage, and controls one or more tuning operations of the LED driver circuit. |
| US09913349B2 |
Display apparatus and method for controlling region for luminance reduction
A display apparatus includes a sight line detection sensor that detects a sight line of a user; a distance measurement sensor that measures a distance between a display panel and a user; and a control unit that determines a control region set in separate light emitting parts arranged on the display panel, where an amount of light emission is controlled in the control region, based on the sight line detected by the sight line detection sensor and the distance measured by the distance measurement sensor. Typically, the control unit determines the control region in a manner such that the longer the distance measured by the distance measurement sensor, the smaller the control region, and the shorter the distance measured by the distance measurement sensor, the larger the control region. |
| US09913348B2 |
Light fixtures, systems for controlling light fixtures, and methods of controlling fixtures and methods of controlling lighting control systems
A fixture comprising a light sensor and an actuator for assigning the fixture to at least one zone. A fixture comprising a light source, a motion sensor and a light sensor. A fixture comprising a motion sensor, a light sensor and a wireless transmitter (optionally also a wireless receiver). A fixture configured to detect light brightness values over a time-span, and identify a period of time with smallest average brightness. A fixture configured to dim at a first rate when a motion sensor senses no motion for a designated period of time, and optionally also configured to brighten at a second rate when the motion sensor detects motion. A fixture configured to dim to not less than a designated percentage unless motion is detected during the dimming. A lighting control system, comprising fixtures and an actuator configured to assign fixtures to zones. Also, other lighting control systems and methods. |
| US09913346B1 |
Surge protection system and method for an LED driver
A protection system for an LED driver includes a voltage rail, an input voltage source, and a surge protector connected between the input voltage source and the voltage rail. The voltage change sensing block detects a change in a voltage associated with the input voltage source. The protection system further includes a voltage sensing block connected to the voltage change sensor. A half-bridge switching circuit may include a switch controller, a first switching element, and a second switching element. The switch controller controls an operating state of each of the first switching element and the second switching element. A reset block disables at least one of the switch controller, the first sensing element, and the second switching element, responsive to a control signal associated with at least one of the voltage change sensing block and the voltage sensing block. |
| US09913340B2 |
Method and device for controlling illumination levels
Disclosed are method and device for controlling illumination, belonging to the field of display control technology. The method includes acquiring an environmental brightness, determining a illumination parameter of a visual indicator disposed at a mobile device based on the environmental brightness, and controlling the visual indicator to illuminate based on the illumination parameter. |
| US09913334B2 |
Timing device
A timing device, which comprises at least two time setting display lights, with each of the time setting display lights representing an AC power supply time, and, after pressing a selection control button so as to light on at least two time setting display lights, by pressing the total time setting control button, the central control module can sum up the power supply times represented by all of the lighting time setting display lights to a total power supply time, and start the AC power supply to the load end as well as the power supply time countdown. Moreover, the central control module can further, based on the remaining power supply time, drive one or more time setting display lights to light on thereby indicating the remaining power supply time. |
| US09913332B2 |
Two-channel LED driver and the control method thereof
A two-channel LED driver adopts one power stage to provide a constant drive current to drive a first channel LED and a second channel LED, and to provide a power supply voltages to power a smart module. The two-channel LED driver controls the total current flowing through the first channel LED and the second channel LED according to a first dimming signal input by users through the smart module, and controls the dimming ratio between the two channels according to a second dimming signal. The two-channel LED driver provides high performance with simple circuit structure. |
| US09913330B2 |
Solid-state lighting operable with compact fluorescent ballasts and AC mains
A light-emitting diode (LED)-based solid-state lamp using an LED driving circuit with an electric current control operates normally for a regulated power from either a compact fluorescent (CFL) electronic ballast or AC mains. The LED driving circuit together with a matching circuit is configured to optimize resonant characteristics of the CFL electronic ballast used and enhance lamp compatibility without flickering, which in turn reduces possibility of overheating and fires due to incompatibility. With a cycle-by-cycle current control and power switching at a constant on-time and varied off-time, an over-rated surge current is limited, preventing occasional fire hazards occurred in both the CFL electronic ballast and the LED lamp. |
| US09913328B2 |
Lighting circuits, luminaries and methods compatible with phase-cut mains supplies
Lighting circuits and luminaires and methods are disclosed which are operable with a phase-cut dimmer, A circuit can include a rectifier having a low side output and a high side output, a switched mode converter including a switch and an inductor, having a high side input connected to a bus rail, and having a configuration to draw current across a complete mains cycle a controller for the switched mode converter, a filter circuit connected between the rectifier high side output and the bus rail and including a capacitor connected between the high side output of the mains rectifier and ground, and a resistance connected between the low side output of the rectifier and ground. The value of the resistance may be such the RC time constant of the resistor and filter circuit is greater than the time required for any ringing in the circuit to fall to no more than 20 mA. |
| US09913325B1 |
LED direct AC drive circuit
A light emitting diode (LED) direct AC drive (DACD) circuit includes LED groups that are connected in series. An LED DACD controller includes current regulators that regulate the LED current of the LED groups. The LED DACD controller measures an on-time of an LED group, and regulates the LED current of the LED groups based on the measured on-time of the LED group. |
| US09913323B2 |
Door for a microwave appliance
A door for a microwave appliance. The door includes an outer glass panel ranging over a complete outer side of the door and an inner glass panel ranging over at least a central portion of an inner side of the door. The door includes a door frame covering at least the circumferential sides of the oven door and a wave choke system. The outer glass panel, the inner glass panel and the door frame form a casing of the door, wherein the wave choke system is arranged inside the casing of the door. The wave choke system is arranged in an outer portion of the interior of the door and circumferentially enclosed by the door frame. The wave choke system is arranged adjacent to an outer side of the inner glass panel. |
| US09913322B2 |
Controlled door opening in domestic appliances
The invention provides a door opening mechanism for a domestic appliance, for example a microwave door. The domestic appliance includes a housing, a front door, and a resilient member for urging the door open. The mechanism is adapted to be located within the housing and includes a retention mechanism which is engagable with the door and is movable between a first configuration where there door is retained in a closed position and a second configuration where the door is in a non-retained, open, position. The door also includes a cam with a plurality of cam surfaces. The door includes a door key with an inclined portion engagable with an edge of a sloping section of a hollow slot in the door molding, arranged such that a user is able to manually over-ride the opening mechanism and open the door by means of pulling. |
| US09913321B2 |
Energy harvesting container
A container that experiences vibrations when transported allows an inner container which defines a chamber holding a substance to move relative to an outer shell under the influence of vibrations. An energy generator such as a magnet and a corresponding coil or a piezoelectric generator that does not move with the inner container is juxtaposed with the inner container to cause an electrical current to be introduced in the inner container when the inner container moves relative to the magnet. The electrical current is dissipated as heat to transfer heat into the substance in the chamber. |
| US09913316B2 |
Connected discontinuous reception (CDRX) management in multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) wireless communication devices
Embodiments described herein relate to extending an awake period (on duration) or an inactivity timer duration in a Connected Discontinuous Reception (CDRX) mode for a first subscription based on activities of a second subscription. A method according to some embodiments includes determining that the awake period of the CDRX cycle associated with the first subscription collides with the activities of the second subscription, and extending the awake period by an extended awake period in response to determining that the awake period collides with the activities of the second subscription. In addition, a method according to some embodiments includes determining that the inactivity timer duration collides with the activities of the second subscription, and extending the inactivity timer duration for an extended inactivity timer duration in response to determining that the inactivity timer duration collides with the activities of the second subscription. |
| US09913313B2 |
Method for using legacy Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi P2P simultaneously
A method for using legacy Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) simultaneously is provided. The method includes entering a device discovery process of Wi-Fi P2P, if use of a Wi-Fi P2P function is requested while using a legacy Wi-Fi function, acquiring a Group Owner (GO) right of Wi-Fi P2P in the device discovery process, performing a listen state over the same channel as a channel where the legacy Wi-Fi function is in use, through the acquisition of the GO right, and performing a search state over a social channel of Wi-Fi P2P, and repeating the listen state and the search state until the device discovery process is ended. |
| US09913311B1 |
Methods for TxPool selection for LTE-D code transmission
In device-to-device (D2D) communication in a licensed spectrum, selection of a transmit pool and distribution of codes to be transmitted to the transmit pools for more efficient transmission is desired, for a given period. The apparatus may a user equipment (UE) for D2D communication in a licensed spectrum. The UE sets a discovery epoch to a shortest discovery period among discovery periods of a plurality of transmit resource pools, each transmit resource pool of the plurality of transmit resource pools associated with a respective frequency. The UE estimates a channel utilization of each transmit resource pool of the plurality of transmit resource pools based on one or more previous transmissions on each transmit resource pool of the plurality of transmit resource pools. The UE selects a transmit resource pool among the plurality of transmit resource pools for a D2D transmission within the discovery epoch based on the estimated channel utilizations. |
| US09913310B2 |
Method for establishing layer-2 entities for D2D communication system and device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for establishing layer-2 entities for D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring a sidelink radio bearer over which the UE transmits data to a peer UE; establishing RLC (Radio Link Control) and PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) entities for the sidelink radio bearer; and transmitting configuration information of the sidelink radio bearer via a sidelink to the peer UE, wherein the UE is directly connected to the peer UE via the sidelink. |
| US09913305B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for congestion control on a mobile network
A user equipment (UE) is configured to send one or more service requests to a third party server via a mobile communications network, such as an evolved packet core (EPC). The UE is configured to determine that there is an error or delay in receiving a response to the one or more service requests from the third party server, and to send a wake-up request to a network element in the mobile communications network requesting notification when the third party server is available. |
| US09913303B2 |
Systems and methods for network curation
Systems and methods for network curation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises scanning, by a mobile device, an area to identify a network device for accessing a network, receiving, by the mobile device, a network identifier associated with the network device, providing a curation indicator request to a curation server, the curation indicator request comprising the network identifier, receiving a curation indicator from the curation server, the curation indicator being retrieved, based on the network identifier, from a database of a plurality of curation indicators, the curation indicator associated with a likelihood of intent to publicly share the network by the network device, comparing the curation indicator to an access setting, the access setting indicating acceptability of network access based on the likelihood of intent to publicly share the network by the network device, and accessing the network via the network device based on the comparison. |
| US09913298B2 |
Methods and apparatus to establish groupcast with retries service for wireless communications over bridged links
A disclosed example method to setup a Groupcast with Retries service for use with wireless communications involves receiving an association response at a wireless station from an access point. The association response is responsive to a General Link capability of the wireless station sent in an association request from the wireless station to the access point. The example method also involves confirming a General Link and the Groupcast with Retries service between the wireless station and the access point based on the association response indicating that the access point has successfully associated the wireless station with the access point. |
| US09913296B2 |
Method for performing backoff in wireless LAN system and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method for enabling a station (STA) to perform a backoff in a wireless LAN system and an apparatus therefor. In a wireless LAN system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for enabling a station (STA) to perform a backoff includes the steps of: performing a first backoff procedure at a first primary channel for a transmission of a data unit having a size of a first channel width; performing a second backoff procedure at a second primary channel for a transmission of a data unit having a size equal to or greater than a second channel width; if a transmission opportunity (TXOP) is permitted as a result of the first backoff procedure, transmitting the data unit having a size of the first channel width; and if a TXOP is permitted as a result of the second backoff procedure, transmitting the data unit having a size equal to or greater than the second channel width. |
| US09913295B2 |
System and method of controlling network traffic using preamble detection and automated optimization of random access channel parameters
Detecting physical random access channel (RACH) preambles is accomplished by computing a correlation power profile based on received RACH preambles, where the correlation power profile values may be sorted. A weight factor is computed for each of the correlation power profile values based on a normalized RACH detection threshold. Outlier peaks of the correlation power profile values are selected based on the weight factor. The outlier peaks to the first set of RACH signatures are mapped in order to identify a user equipment (UE) that is associated with one of the received RACH preambles. Network traffic is then controlled for network communications associated with the identified UE. |
| US09913294B2 |
Radio communication system and terminal device
A radio communication system includes a radio base station and a terminal device. The radio base station and the terminal device share correspondence information about subsets of preamble sequences obtained by segmenting preamble sequences available in the radio communication systems into groups, each of the subsets being associated with a received signal level at the terminal device and a number of repetitions for transmitting the preamble sequences of each of the subsets. Based upon a receive level of a signal transmitted from the radio base station, the terminal device selects a subset corresponding to the receive level by referring to the correspondence information and transmits a preamble sequence included in the selected subset at the number of repetitions associated with the selected subset. |
| US09913292B2 |
Method and device for restricted access window-based channel access in WLAN system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, a method and a device for restricted access window-based channel access in a WLAN system are disclosed. The method whereby a station (STA) performs channel access in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving restricted access window (RAW) cross-border transmission allowance (CBTA) information from an access point (AP) in case an RAW is allocated to the STA; and performing transmission by the STA on the basis of the RAW CBTA information. In case the RAW CBTA information is configured as a first value, transmission by the STA beyond the border of the RAW may be allowed. |
| US09913282B2 |
Recommending channels for accessing an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band
A device may receive channel monitoring information associated with an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum band. The device may determine channel availability information associated with one or more channels of the unlicensed RF spectrum band based on the channel monitoring information. The channel availability information may include one or more channel availability parameters, corresponding to the one or more channels, that indicate availability for communicating via the one or more channels. The device may receive, from an access point that provides network access via the unlicensed RF spectrum band, a request for a channel recommendation associated with the unlicensed RF spectrum band. The device may determine a set of recommended channels of the unlicensed RF spectrum band based on the channel availability information and the request for the channel recommendation. The device may provide, to the access point, information that identifies the set of recommended channels. |
| US09913277B2 |
Method and device for performing beamforming
A scheme to perform beamforming in a wireless communication network. A method implemented by a first device in the wireless communication network provides for determining a target beam based on a plurality of predefined beams for data transmission to a second device performing discontinuous reception. The data is then transmitted over the target beam to the second device in an active duration of the second device. In this way, beam mismatching may be mitigated and transmission quality in the wireless communication network may be improved. |
| US09913276B2 |
Providing a downlink control structure in a first carrier to indicate information in a second, different carrier
A mobile station receives a downlink control structure in a first carrier, where the downlink control structure indicates that control information for the mobile station is on a second, different carrier. The mobile station decodes the control information in the second carrier, where the control information specifies resource allocation of a wireless link for the mobile station. More specifically, according to some implementations, the control channel in the first carrier specifies the resource allocation for an extended control channel in the second carrier, where the extended control channel specifies the resource allocation for traffic data of a wireless link for the mobile station. |
| US09913275B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending feedback for a downlink shared service transmitted to a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units
A wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) receives a downlink transmission from a Node-B and decodes the downlink transmission. If the decoding is not successful, the WTRU sends a pre-defined burst signifying a negative acknowledgement (NACK) to the Node-B via a contention-based shared feedback channel. The pre-defined burst may be sent only once without requiring an acknowledgement. The Node-B calibrates a downlink transmit power so that the downlink transmission is transmitted to the WTRUs with a high likelihood. The Node-B may send a downlink transmission including multiple data streams processed using different modulation and coding schemes so that a WTRU having a high signal quality decodes all data streams while a WTRU having a low signal quality decodes less than all data streams. The Node-B sends a channel quality indicator (CQI) threshold so that each WTRU determines a data stream to report feedback based on the CQI threshold and a measured CQI. |
| US09913269B2 |
Handover signaling in wireless networks
According to some aspects, a first base station may communicate with a second base station (e.g. during a handover process) regarding support of new carrier types by a wireless device. The first base station may receive parameters from a wireless device via a legacy carrier indicating whether the wireless device supports a new carrier type, and information about these parameters may be transmitted to the second base station. The first base station may receive messages for configuring communications between the wireless device and the second base station, which may include identification of legacy carriers and associated new carrier type carriers. The configuration information may be transmitted to the wireless device and the second base station may communicate with the wireless device based on the configuration information. |
| US09913266B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scheduling a narrowband response to wideband data in a high-efficiency wireless local area network
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for scheduling a narrowband uplink transmission from a wireless station to a wireless access point in response to a station-specific wideband downlink transmission from the access point to the station. A station-specific downlink frame includes a station identifier associated with the station, and further includes resource allocation information associated with an uplink transmission channel over which the station is to transmit an uplink frame. The station-specific downlink frame is transmitted from the access point to the station over a downlink transmission channel having an associated downlink bandwidth. Based on the resource allocation information, the access point receives the uplink frame from the station over the uplink transmission channel. The uplink transmission channel has an associated uplink bandwidth that is narrower than the downlink bandwidth of the downlink transmission channel. In some disclosed examples, the uplink transmission channel is a sub-channel of the downlink transmission channel. |
| US09913263B2 |
Association request for narrowband communications in a telecommunication environment
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to operational association between communication devices in the presence of a link-budget imbalance between an upstream link and a downstream link at one of the communication devices. The association relies on a request for a narrowband resource block sent from the communication device having the link-budget imbalance to a remote communication device that can schedule and/or allocate the narrowband resource block. The request can be modulated according to an on-off keying modulation scheme or can be encoded according to a multi-repetition encoding scheme. In response to the narrowband resource block being allocated, an association request can be sent to the remote communication device in the narrowband resource block. |
| US09913256B2 |
Conditional uplink timing alignment in a mobile station device of a radio communication system
A mobile station device transmits a random access preamble to a base station device. The base station device receives the random access preamble from the mobile station device and transmits, to the mobile station device, a Random Access-Radio Network Temporary Identity (RA-RNTI) which notifies a resource assignment of a random access response. The mobile station device further monitors downlink control channels while detecting both a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identity (C-RNTI) and the RA-RNTI, in which a downlink control channel includes the RA-RNTI and a downlink control channel includes the C-RNTI which notifies a resource assignment of downlink data. Upon detection of the C-RNTI and the RA-RNTI in a same sub-frame, the mobile station receives both the random access response and the downlink data, or receives either the random access response or the downlink data. |
| US09913252B2 |
Communication system and method for multi-line, multi-device service with user capability discovery
Communication systems and methods suitable for use with multiple lines associated with one or more devices are disclosed. Exemplary systems and methods provide multi-line, multi-device device capability discovery that allow capability discovery of devices with shared lines. |
| US09913246B1 |
Intelligent notification redirection
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving, by a mobile device, an indication to output a notification, determining an orientation of the mobile device, determining a location of a wearable device relative to the mobile device, and selecting, based on the determined orientation of the mobile device and the location of the wearable device relative to the mobile device, at least one of the mobile device and the wearable device to output the notification. |
| US09913244B2 |
Partially synchronized multilateration or trilateration method and system for positional finding using RF
Systems and methods for determining a location of user equipment (UE) in a wireless system can comprise receiving reference signals via a location management unit (LMU) having two or more co-located channels, wherein the two or more co-located channels are tightly synchronized with each other and utilizing the received reference signals to calculate a location of the UE. Some systems may include multichannel synchronization with a standard deviation of less than or equal 10 ns. Some systems may include two LMUs, with each LMU having internal synchronization, or one LMU with tightly synchronized signals. |
| US09913243B2 |
Positioning method and electronic device
A positioning method includes: obtaining a cell identity of a to-be-positioned terminal; determining at least one neighboring terminal of the to-be-positioned terminal according to the cell identity of the to-be-positioned terminal, where a cell identity of each neighboring terminal of the at least one neighboring terminal is the same as the cell identity of the to-be-positioned terminal; obtaining geomagnetic information of a location of each neighboring terminal of the at least one neighboring terminal and geomagnetic information of a location of the to-be-positioned terminal, to generate a geomagnetic information group of the to-be-positioned terminal; and obtaining, geographic location information of the to-be-positioned terminal. |
| US09913242B1 |
Long term evolution (LTE) network selection of a serving gateway (S-GW)
A first Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives a tracking area update from the User Equipment (UE) indicating a first tracking area for the wireless relay that serves the UE and indicating a second tracking area for the evolved NodeB (eNodeB) that serves the wireless relay. The first MME determines if the first tracking area and the second tracking area are different responsive to the tracking area update, and if the first tracking area and the second tracking area are different, then determines if the wireless relay is controlled by a second MME that also controls the eNodeB. If the wireless relay is not controlled by the second MME that also controls the eNodeB, then the first MME transfers UE context data to the second MME that serves the eNodeB. The second MME selects the Serving Gateway (S-GW) for the UE based on the second tracking area for the eNodeB. |
| US09913237B2 |
Presence indication in a wireless communication system
Embodiments of the present invention provide a new way for a UE to autonomously indicate to the network from which transmission points (TPs) it is able to receive certain broadcast signals. As an example, by receiving in a broadcast signal in the form of a synchronization sequence, the physical identity of a particular TP, a UE infers when it should, if it wishes, send on an UL an indication of its ability to receive the broadcast signal from that TP—i.e., an indication of its presence in the coverage of the TP. The network is then able to take suitable action in response to this, such as adjusting network coverage, enabling or disabling other broadcast channels and controlling paging. |
| US09913228B2 |
Allocating energy resources in a network signaling node
A method of allocating energy resources in a network signalling node during an interval of time the network signalling node having internal processing components for maintaining operation of the node and relaying components for relaying data between other nodes in the network. The method comprises determining an amount of energy available for use by the node during the interval, determining a willingness parameter that defines the willingness of the node to supply energy to the relaying components during the time interval, determining, based on the willingness parameter, a portion of the available energy to allocate to the internal processing components during the time interval; and allocating the remainder of the available energy to the relaying components. |
| US09913225B2 |
Edge transceiver for in-band on-channel broadcasting (IBOC) mesh network
Digital content can be broadcast in a sideband of an analog broadcast channel using multiple digital in-band on-channel (IBOC) transceivers connected in a mesh configuration to form an IBOC mesh network. The digital IBOC transceivers are positioned at various geographic locations, so that unlike traditional “HD” radio broadcasts, the IBOC broadcast transmission is spread out over a wide area, using multiple low power digital IBOC transceivers rather than being broadcast from the same location as the analog signal. An edge transceiver can limit IBOC transmission power of the IBOC transceivers to a desired portion of the power used to broadcast the analog signal. The edge server can make this determination based on measurements taken at the geographically distributed digital IBOC transceivers. The IBOC mesh network provides bi-directional communication between a mesh transceiver and a user device, and can be used to deliver user feedback. |
| US09913222B2 |
Method and apparatus for uplink power control in communication system
Disclosed is a method for uplink power control in a communication system that includes determining a power control offset for controlling power for traffic to be transmitted by a subscriber station, according to whether a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) is applied to the traffic, and transmitting the power control offset to the subscriber station. |
| US09913219B2 |
Power management for wireless networks
Embodiments provide techniques for device power management in wireless networks. For instance, an apparatus may include a power management module, and a transceiver module. The power management module determines a beacon interval and a wakeup interval. The transceiver module to send a transmission to one or more remote devices that includes the beacon interval and the wakeup interval. The beacon interval indicates a time interval between consecutive beacon transmissions of the apparatus, and the wakeup interval indicates a time interval between when the apparatus receives two consecutive beacons from a peer device. |
| US09913217B2 |
Transmission feedback mechanism for polling wireless devices
This disclosure describes methods, devices, and systems related to generate a trigger frame including one or more resource block identifications (RBIDs), each RBID being associated with a respective resource unit of one or more resource units on a communication channel; cause to transmit the first trigger frame to each of one or more devices; process a received power save poll (PS-poll) bit from a first device of the one or more devices on a spatial stream and a first resource unit of the one or more resource units; cause to transmit an acknowledgment to each of the one or more user devices; cause to transmit data buffered in the at least one processor to the first device; and process a received acknowledgment from the first device confirming receipt of the data. |
| US09913216B1 |
Techniques to reduce power consumption in mobile device during low-power mode
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Techniques for communicating between an access point and a mobile device via a low-power radio access technology different than a normal radio access technology used for communication are described. During a first negotiation, it is determined whether the access point and the mobile device are capable of communicating via the low-power radio access technology. During a second negotiation, communication parameters for using the low-power radio access technology are agreed upon between the access point and the mobile device. Communications via the low-power radio access technology may be made while the mobile device is in a low-power mode. |
| US09913215B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordinating a wireless PAN network and a wireless LAN network
Devices of a personal area network (PAN) use a wireless medium that is shared with a wireless local area network (WLAN). WLAN devices communicate using protocols of the WLAN and PAN devices communicate using PAN protocols allowing for lower power transmissions over the wireless medium relative to transmissions over the WLAN. A PAN coordinator device obtains access to the wireless medium for the PAN devices by signalling a reservation of the medium by the PAN coordinator device, such that the other devices defer use of the wireless medium, including at least one WLAN device, for a reservation period. During the reservation period, the communication is done using the PAN protocol. The signalling can be implicit in that the PAN coordinator device transmits one or more frame using the PAN protocol but that is at least partially understandable by WLAN devices such that they defer upon receipt of one or more of the PAN protocol frames, which may be a standard or modified HCCA-CF poll frame, a CTS frame with an increased duration field, or other variation. A PAN coordinator might also signal an access point to set up a DLS link between the PAN coordinator and itself and use the DLS period for PAN traffic. |
| US09913214B2 |
Network power optimization via white lists
The white list generator identifies wireless sensor nodes that communicate via a wireless sensor network, to identifies time slots assigned for with each of the identified wireless sensor nodes, and to create and maintain a list of the identified wireless sensor nodes and corresponding time slots. The white list generator provides power control information to power a transceiver for reception of transmissions from each identified wireless sensor node based on the identified time slots corresponding to the identified wireless sensor node provided in the list. |
| US09913213B2 |
Methods, devices and computer program products providing for RAN based LGW selection
The present invention proposes methods, devices and computer program products in relation to enhancements for providing for RAN based LGW selection. Two basic options for the RAN based improved solution are presented for scenarios in which HeNB sends a list of the available LGW addresses/identities and the APNs supported by the different LGWs. According to option 1, if more than one LGW can support a given APN, then the H(e)NB only sends the address of the preferred LGW (e.g., based on local network topology) for the given APN. According to option 2, the HeNB sends priority value (s) with the addresses of the LGWs (for the LGWs only (irrespective of supported APNs) or for (only) the APNs supported by each LGW. Then, the MME/SGSN may consider this priority value (s) at the LGW selection. |
| US09913212B2 |
Carrier network access for multi-SIM devices
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-SIM user equipment (UE) devices to perform data operations with a packet data network of a carrier associated with a first SIM of the UE. An indication of a requested data operation with the packet data network of the carrier associated with the first SIM of the UE may be received. The UE may be operating in a dual SIM mode in which the packet data network of the carrier associated with the first SIM of the UE is unavailable. It may be determined if one or more conditions for performing the requested data operation are present and if a data path to perform the requested data operation is available. The requested data operation may be performed if the one or more conditions for performing the requested data operation are present and if a data path to perform the requested data operation is available. |
| US09913211B2 |
Global e-marketplace for mobile services
A method for providing an online market place for purchasing service from a variety of servers is provided. A GUI or application having a page having a list of carriers for the user to select is sent to a mobile device. A selection of a carrier is received. In response, an encrypted IMSI and Ki are sent to the mobile device. The GUI or application may include other pages for the user to manage service. |
| US09913209B2 |
System and method for basic service set association
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a station (STA) from an access point (AP), a frame including a device type indicator and comparing the device type indicator with a device type accepted by a basic service set (BSS) of the AP to produce a comparison. The method also includes determining whether to associate the STA with the AP in accordance with the comparison, associating the STA with the AP upon determining to associate the STA with the AP, and not associating the STA with the AP upon determining not to associate the STA with the AP. |
| US09913205B2 |
Information transmission method, base station, and user equipment
The present invention provides a method for transmitting common information, a base station, and user equipment, where the method includes: generating additional information according the common information, where the common information is a paging message and/or system information, and data packets of the additional information and data packets of the common information are the same at a Media Access Control MAC layer; and sending the common information and the additional information to the user equipment. In embodiments of the present invention, because the additional information and the common information carry same MAC layer data packet content, in a case of receiving the common information and the additional information, the user equipment may determine a data packet at the MAC layer according to the common information and the additional information; therefore a probability of correct detection of the common information may be increased. |
| US09913204B2 |
System and method for selecting a message transport for a multi-mode communication device
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for selecting a network for use by a communication device to process a data transmission. The method comprises: determining whether an amount of data sent by the communication device over a first network in communication with the communication device has reached a data limit; and if the amount of data has reached the data limit, selecting a second network for use by the communication device. |
| US09913203B2 |
Wireless communication unit, access point and method for providing a presence service in a wireless communication system
A presence service can be provided by an access point 101 serving a small cell 100 by rejecting a request for registration from a user equipment 103 after acquiring its IMSI and sending the IMSI to a presence database 105. The user equipment determines if the cell is a presence cell by comparing the cell's location area code (LAC) with LACs stored in a list and looking for a match. It the cell is a presence cell then the user equipment, rather than placing the LAC in a forbidden list, re-tries registration again but only after a pre-set time period of 5-10 minutes has elapsed. This has the advantage that a presence service can be notified of subscribers who linger in a particular area or return to that area at regular intervals. |
| US09913200B2 |
Dead zone for wireless communication device
A communication system illustratively comprising: a wireless communication device; a network for controlling wireless communication over said network, said network tracking a location of said wireless communication device based on location data pertaining to said wireless communication device, said network comprising a no communication zone register including a database of predetermined zones in which predetermined communication by, to, or by and to said wireless communication device is to be disabled; wherein when said wireless communication device is in one of said predetermined zones in which communication by, to, or by and to wireless communication device is not permitted, said network disables said predetermined communication by, to, or by and to said wireless communication device. The “dead zones” where the wireless device may be disabled illustratively may include a speeding zone, a hospital zone, a movie theater zone and a church zone. |
| US09913195B2 |
Mesh path selection
A mesh network comprising an originator station and a target station wherein each station comprises a controller and memory for storing a first path table for storing one or more paths to be used for sending data packets and a second path table for storing one or more alternative paths for sending data packets. The originator station is configured to broadcast a path request data packet for the target station and receive a first path reply data packet comprising a first alternative path to the target station.Then the originator station is further configured to store the first alternative path in the second path table of the originator station and receive at least one second path reply data packet comprising at least one second alternative path to the target station.Then the originator station is further configured to retrieve a best path, based on one or more signal parameters pertaining to each path, to the target station from the second path table of the originator station, store the best path to the target station in the first path table of the originator station and use the best path for sending data packets to target station.An originator station, an intermediate station and a target station in a mesh network is also disclosed. As well is a method of a station in a mesh network and a computer program product. |
| US09913194B2 |
Method and system for baseband predistortion linearization in multi-channel wideband communication systems
An efficient baseband predistortion linearization method using effective multiplexing modulation technique such as wideband code division multiple access and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention is based on the method of piecewise pre-equalized lookup table based predistortion, which is a cascade of a lookup table predistortion and piecewise pre-equalizers. |
| US09913189B2 |
Switching between radio access technologies at a multi-mode access point
A multi-mode access point supports different radio access technologies (e.g., Wi-Fi and cellular) for serving multi-mode access terminals. To provide improved service for such an access terminal, the access point may redirect the access terminal from a first type of radio access technology to a second type of radio access technology under certain circumstances. A decision to invoke such a redirection may be based on, for example, at least one of: traffic conditions on the first type of radio access technology, traffic conditions on the second type of radio access technology, and whether a backhaul for the access point is currently a bottleneck for access point communication. |
| US09913186B2 |
SNR-based blind fast return to LTE after a CSFB or SRVCC call
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for switching between a first radio access network (RAN) using the first radio access technology (RAT) and the second RAN using a different, second RAT are provided. The method includes switching a wireless device operating at a first signal frequency in the first RAN to a second RAN and switching from the second RAN back to the first RAN. In an aspect, the wireless device is switched to one of the cells operating at the first signal frequency in the first RAN if each signal parameter from the one of the cells satisfies a criterion. The wireless device is otherwise switched to another one of the cells operating at a second signal frequency in the first RAN based on parameters from the another one of the cells. The first signal frequency is different from the second signal frequency. |
| US09913182B2 |
Radio communication system, base station, network management device, handover control method and program
The base station notifies each mobile station of reporting conditions for causing the mobile station to transmit a measurement report containing measurement results of the radio quality. The reporting conditions include a first reporting condition and a second reporting condition in which the offset value added to the measurement result of the radio quality is greater than that of the first reporting condition and in which the guard time, that is a time from when the reporting condition is satisfied until the measurement report is transmitted, is shorter than that of the first reporting condition. The base station detects a mobile station that has transmitted a measurement report as a result of satisfaction of the second reporting condition as a handover required of mobile station whose radio quality becomes lower than a predetermined value within a predetermined period and performs a handover process of the mobile station. |
| US09913181B1 |
Reference signal power variation to indicate load information
Described embodiments can help a user equipment (UE) participate in a handover procedure that is carried out by the UE's serving base station. In particular, when a neighbor sector is heavily loaded, the base station that serves the neighbor sector may vary the power in at least one reference signal in each subframe in the neighbor sector, thereby providing an indication of the heavy traffic load to UEs that receive the subframe. When a UE is being served by a different base station than the base station that serves the neighbor sector, and the UE detects such load information for a neighbor sector, the UE may report the load information to its serving base station, or may simply refrain from sending a signal strength report that could trigger a handover to the neighbor sector. |
| US09913174B2 |
Method, device and system for implementing optimized inter-rat handover
A method, device and system for implementing optimized inter-RAT handover are disclosed. In the method, a user equipment or a source network decides to prepare for a handover to a target network. A corresponding target network ID is obtained from a configured mapping between cell IDs and target IDs according to a received cell ID. Target network bearers are set up after determining an access node of the target network. The user equipment is connected to the target network after handover preparation is complete. |
| US09913170B2 |
Wireless communication methods and apparatus
In an embodiment, a method of managing resources in a cell cluster of a wireless network is disclosed. The cell cluster comprises a plurality of cells, each cell having an inner region and an outer region. The method comprises: setting, for each cell, a power ratio, the power ratio being the ratio of the power level to be used for transmission of signals to wireless devices located in the inner region of that cell to the power level to be used for transmission of signals to wireless devices located in the outer region of that cell; allocating network resources from a plurality of network resources to wireless devices located in the outer regions; for each cell, allocating network resources to wireless devices located in the inner region of that cell from network resources of the plurality of network resources that are not allocated to wireless devices located in the outer region of that cell; receiving, for each cell, indications of a first data throughput rate for transmission of data to the wireless devices located in the outer regions; comparing, for each cell, the first data throughput rate with a threshold data rate; and decreasing the power ratio for cells in which the first data throughput rate is less than the threshold data rate. |
| US09913167B2 |
Systems and methods for assigning bit rate
A system comprising: a plurality of network modems configured to communicate wirelessly with a base station; and a plurality of subsystems corresponding respectively to the plurality of network modems, each subsystem in the plurality of subsystems being configured to provide data packets to the corresponding network modem to be transmitted wirelessly to the base station, the subsystem comprising at least one video encoder configured to receive at least one input video signal and provide at least some of the data packets based on the at least one input video signal; and at least one controller configured to assign respective bit rates to at least some subsystems in the plurality of subsystems. |
| US09913165B1 |
Wireless relay quality-of-service in a data communication network
A wireless relay attaches to a communication network. A relay control system receives a relay attachment message and transfers a create relay session message to the wireless relay indicating a data gateway. The wireless relay receives the create relay session message and transfers a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP) message to the data gateway. The wireless relay transfers a media service message to the control system. The control system receives the media service message and transfers a relay bearer message to the wireless relay indicating a media gateway. The wireless relay receives the relay bearer message and transfers a media PMIP message to the media gateway. The wireless relay and data gateway exchange internet data for User Equipment (UE) over a PMIP data tunnel having an internet quality-of-service. The wireless relay and media gateway exchange media data for the UE over a PMIP media tunnel having a media quality-of-service. |
| US09913164B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically configuring customer premises equipment (CPE) in a converged network
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamically configuring customer premises equipment (CPE) in a converged network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein comprises a method performed at a mobility offload gateway that includes receiving cell site change notification message from a mobile network, determining, based on the change notification message, whether user equipment (UE) can be offloaded to a Wi-Fi network, and in response to determining that the UE can be offloaded, dynamically configuring consumer premises equipment (CPE) associated with the identified Wi-Fi network to support a predetermined quality of service (QoS) for the UE. |
| US09913163B2 |
UE control of downlink data
The present invention relates to control of downlink data in a packet based telecommunications network and in particular to UE control of downlink data. This is provided in devices and methods for handling such control, for instance a user equipment (101), UE, in a telecommunications network (100). The UE has an associated Internet Protocol, IP, address. The UE comprises at least one processing unit (201), at least one computer readable storage unit (202), at least one communications interface (203), and wherein the processing unit is arranged to execute instructions sets stored in the storage unit for determining that no downlink data is to be received on the communication interface and sending a message using the communication interface to an infrastructure node (103, 104) indicating that no downlink data is to be transferred to the UE. |
| US09913161B2 |
Communication scheme for channel quality information
A user equipment (UE) includes a processor to determine channel quality information and a transmitter, coupled to the processor, that transmits first channel quality information reports reporting channel quality information determined for resource blocks at a first reporting frequency. The transmitter also transmits second channel quality information reports reporting channel quality information determined for a subset of resource blocks between transmission of the first channel quality information reports. A plurality of second channel quality information reports for the subset of resource blocks are transmitted at a second reporting frequency different from the second reporting frequency. |
| US09913159B2 |
Adjusting operating windows of a dual-mode device operating as an access point and a wireless station in time division multiplexed manner
A dual-mode device may compute an expected time instance of arrival of a first beacon based on prior received beacons. If the first beacon is received at an actual time instance which is in variance with the expected time instance, the device re-computes a sequence of future time instances of arrival of respective future beacons and schedules a sequence of station windows, with each station window to cover the corresponding future time instance of the sequence of future time instances and to have a desired first period. The dual-mode device operates in station mode in the sequence of station windows and in the AP mode in a sequence of AP windows, wherein each station window of the sequence of station windows is operated alternately with each AP window of the sequence of AP windows in a TDM manner, with each AP window having a desired second period. |
| US09913157B1 |
Techniques for generating a composite color to represent values of a communication metric
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a device may receive information identifying a plurality of measurements of a communication metric related to a network at a plurality of time intervals. The device may determine a plurality of colors corresponding to a plurality of values of the communication metric. The plurality of values may correspond to the plurality of measurements of the communication metric at the plurality of time intervals. The device may combine the plurality of colors to generate a composite color for the communication metric. |
| US09913150B2 |
Method and device for implementing microwave device trusteeship
Disclosed are a method and device for implementing a microwave device trusteeship. The method includes: a plurality of all-outdoor units (AOUs) are configured into a trusteeship mode; res the AOUs already configured into the trusteeship mode are respectively connected to the ports of the service units of an IP device; by accessing the IP device by the AOUs configured into a trusteeship mode, the connected AOUs are configured at the corresponding ports of the service unit of the IP device, and the virtual slot numbers of the connected AOUs are generated; and the IP device selects at least two AOUs from the plurality of AOUs already configured into a trusteeship mode to form a protection group, and sets a transmission unit number for each selected corresponding AOU, so as to virtually set each of the selected AOUs as a transmission unit of the IP device. The present invention enables a user to achieve the management of protection configuration, XPIC configuration, PLA configuration and other configurations, thereby achieving the unified management and quick configuration of all-outdoor devices, and facilitating the cooperative usage of the devices. |
| US09913148B2 |
Data processing apparatus that discriminates a network formed by a normal access point from a network formed by a simple access point function
A communication apparatus capable of participating in a network formed by a relay apparatus establishes communication with a data processing apparatus via a first network, receives a notification indicating whether the data processing apparatus forms the first network as the relay apparatus from the data processing apparatus, and controls whether to transmit or receive data via the Internet according to contents of the notification received from the data processing apparatus via the relay apparatus forming the first network in which the communication apparatus participates at present. |
| US09913136B2 |
Method and apparatus for applying security information in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for applying security information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) obtains first security information and second security information, applies the first security information to a first set of radio bearers (RBs) which is served by a master eNodeB (MeNB), and applies the second security information to a second set of RBs which is served by a secondary eNodeB (SeNB). |
| US09913135B2 |
System and method for electronic key provisioning and access management in connection with mobile devices
Novel systems and methods are disclosed for electronic key provisioning and access management in connection with mobile devices. The electronic keys can be time-denominated and event-denominated, thereby increasing the security and ease of use of access management for physical or virtual resources. The access management is granted in a protocol based on biometric features, contextual data, electronic keys, or a combination thereof. |
| US09913129B2 |
Antenna control system and its operating method
The present disclosure in some embodiments provides an antenna control system wherein multiple primaries perform selective communications with antenna line devices (ALDs) and its operation method. Some embodiments provide an antenna control system including a switching unit which is interconnected between at least one functional unit for controlling an antenna of a radio base station and a plurality of control devices for transmitting a control signal to the functional unit so as to control as well as power the functional unit, and is configured to selectively electrically connect any of the plurality of control devices to the functional unit. |
| US09913122B2 |
SDN EPC network-based charging method, system and storage medium
Disclosed is a charging method and system based on a SDN EPC network, which includes: receiving, by a controller, a charging rule from a charging rule generator, and establishing, through binding, a correspondence between a flow table of the controller and the charging rule; setting, by the controller, entries for the flow table bound to the charging rule, and sending the set flow table to a UGW; and receiving, by the controller, a statistical result, reported from the UGW, regarding traffic and/or duration consumed by a service in the flow table, and charging for the service according to the statistical result and the charging rule bound to the flow table. |
| US09913121B2 |
Systems, devices and methods to communicate public safety information
Systems, devices and/or methods include communication of information, such as real-time rich media (e.g., video and audio) to, from and/or between a mobile first responder, such as remote public safety field personnel for public safety applications. Sensor data may be captured, stored, or transmitted and disseminated in real-time or on a schedule from field officers or their vehicles, based on one or more defined rules. In some examples, communication priority may be determined in response to detecting one or more events at a location of a mobile first responder. |
| US09913117B2 |
Electronic device and method for exchanging information using the same
A method and an apparatus are provided for exchanging information is an electronic device. Object data is received at an input unit. Object information associated with the object data is received at a communication unit via contact between a first medium and a second medium. The first medium directly contacts the electronic device. The object data is associated with the object information. |
| US09913108B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing group communications
A method and apparatus for managing group communications are disclosed. A base station may provide multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data for transmission to groups of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). The WTRUs may be divided into groups based on a respective MBMS service to be received by each respective group. The base station may assign a respective logical channel for the respective MBMS service of each respective group. The base station may then transmit, to one of the groups, a group assignment message indicating physical resources for a transmission of MBMS data for the group's MBMS service. Also, the base station may further transmit MBMS data of the group's MBMS service using the respective logical channel of the group using the indicated physical resources. The physical resources may include subcarriers. Each respective group may have a respective assigned group identification. The base station may be an eNode-B. |
| US09913106B2 |
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, generating plural input streams, wherein each of the plural input streams include plural input packets; link layer processing the input packets in the plural input streams to generate link layer packets; physical layer processing the link layer packets in physical layer, to generate the broadcast signals; and transmitting the generated broadcast signals. |
| US09913105B2 |
Communication system, service platform, communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of broadcasting and distributing various types of messages. The communication system according to the present invention includes a network operator device (21) disposed in a network (20) managed by a carrier; and a service platform (30) disposed between the network operator device (21) and a plurality of application servers that provide an application service. The service platform (30) transmits, to the network operator device (21), distribution data transmitted from any one of the application servers according to an event notification transmitted from a communication device (10_1), and a distribution policy used to distribute the distribution data. The network operator device (21) distributes the distribution data to a plurality of communication devices (10_1) to (10_3) based on the distribution policy. |
| US09913104B2 |
Vehicle location services
A vehicle communication system and method of improving location services for a user in a vehicle are described. The method includes the steps of: receiving at a backend system a first message from the vehicle based on a determination of a malicious attack associated with global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data received by the vehicle; receiving from a wireless carrier system (WCS) location data associated with a position of the vehicle; providing the location data to the vehicle from the backend system in response to the receipt of the first message; receiving a second message from the vehicle indicating that the malicious attack is no longer viable; and in response to receiving the second message, ceasing to provide the location data from the backend system. |
| US09913102B2 |
Operating unmanned aerial vehicles to maintain or create wireless networks
Embodiments herein use a real-time system to conduct a line of sight (LOS) survey between radio sites. The system includes a drone controlled by a UAV LOS System (ULS) server to gather information regarding the LOS path between the radio sites. In one embodiment, the ULS server instructs the UAV to travel a LOS path between a first location and a second location, and determine a Fresnel radius at one or more defined locations along the LOS path between the first location and the second location. The ULS server determines a Fresnel zone between the first location and second location based in part on the determined Fresnel radius for each of the defined locations along the LOS path. The ULS server evaluates the Fresnel zone to determine if the LOS path can support a LOS wireless communication link. |
| US09913101B2 |
Telematics furtherance visualization system
A method and apparatus for use in a mobile device telemetry system is disclosed. The method and apparatus relate to a telematics furtherance visualization system. The system can sense mobile device remote observation misalignment risk and reconcile mobile device remote observation alignment by communicating a subsequent log of mobile device vector data for rendering a sequence of next positions in the furtherance of a mobile device. The system can also provide an adaptive rendering based upon a phase shift, a log of mobile device vector data, or predictive rendering until receipt of the next subsequent log of mobile device vector data. |
| US09913100B2 |
Techniques for generating maps of venues including buildings and floors
Techniques for storing information representing a venue are described. A venue data provider may upload venue data to a venue data service. The venue data can include locations, geometries, and business categories of the buildings and floors. The venue data service can validate the venue data, and request a survey service to survey the venue using the validated venue data. A survey can include recording measurements of an environment variable at various locations of the venue. The location service can generate location fingerprint data from the survey. The location fingerprint data can include expected measurements of the environment variable at various locations of the building. The venue data service can provide the location fingerprint data to a mobile device such that the mobile device can determine a location of the mobile device in the venue using sensor readings of the environment variable. |
| US09913098B2 |
Mobile device and geographic information system background and summary of the related art
The present invention provides a system and mobile device for providing geographic information to a user. The system includes a mobile device that is wirelessly connected to a geographic database. The mobile device includes a plurality of sensors for determining a first location and a first direction. A controller is adapted to provide information requested based on local queries and distal queries. In addition, the controller can respond to thematic queries of each variety, wherein the database search is limited to objects, entities or features that fit within a selected theme. Finally, the controller is adapted to select and order query results based upon two- and three-dimensional query windows. |
| US09913097B2 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining location information
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for obtaining location information, and pertains to the field of mobile communications. The method includes: receiving signal features and an identity of a to-be-positioned terminal that are sent by all base stations in multiple base stations, where the signal feature of a base station includes a signal power and an additional feature, and the additional feature includes at least a base station identity of the base station and signal transmission time; determining a relative power set according to signal powers sent by the multiple base stations, where the relative power set includes a relative power between any two base stations in the multiple base stations; and determining, according to the relative power set and additional features sent by the multiple base stations, location information of a terminal corresponding to the identity of the to-be-positioned terminal. |
| US09913095B2 |
Enhanced mobile base station
Systems and methods for an in-vehicle base station are described. In one embodiment, a mobile base station is disclosed comprising a first access radio for providing an access network inside and outside a vehicle; a second backhaul radio for providing a backhaul connection to a macro cell; and a global positioning system (GPS) module for determining a location of the mobile base station, and for transmitting the location of the mobile base station to a core network, wherein a transmit power of the first access radio is configured to increase or decrease based on a speed of the vehicle. |
| US09913092B2 |
Mitigating signal noise for fingerprint-based indoor localization
Locating mobile devices based on a junction of signal tiles is disclosed herein. Mobile devices are mapped to a convex hull within which the mobile device is likely to be located in based on a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) associated with an access point (AP). Using the RSSI from a set of APs, the mobile device can be located within a junction of a set of convex hulls, or tiles using a linear programming function. To mitigate signal noise and improve the accuracy of the location determination, the localization system can use the RSSIs of the APs that have signals with a predetermined signal dynamic range that leads to smaller tiles. Additionally, the localization system can reduce the search complexity of matching fingerprints to APs by partitioning the space into clusters with reference points that have similar signal vectors. |
| US09913089B2 |
Responding to a status for a user based on nearby electronic devices
A method for determining a status of a user of an electronic device. The method includes a computer processor determining information associated with a first user of an electronic device. The method further includes identifying a plurality of electronic devices that are within a range of wireless communications to the electronic device. The method further includes defining an area monitored by the electronic device. The method further includes monitoring a group of the identified plurality of electronic devices that are within the defined area. The method further includes calculating a first safe-threshold value for the electronic device based on information associated with a first user of an electronic device and monitored information from the group of the identified plurality of electronic devices. The method further includes determining a status for the first user based, at least in part, on the calculated first safe-threshold value for the electronic device. |
| US09913082B2 |
Method and system for broadband near-field communication utilizing full spectrum capture (FSC) supporting screen and application sharing
A wireless communication device (WCD) establishes an ad-hoc communication link with a second WCD within operating range. A replica of at least a portion of a display of the first WCD may be shared with the second WCD utilizing wireless broadband signals that are communicated via the established one or more ad-hoc communication links. The first WCD and the second WCD are operable to communicate the wireless broadband signals at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask. The transmitted wireless broadband signals are spread so they occupy a designated frequency spectrum band. The shared replica of at least a portion of the display of the first WCD includes one or more applications, text, video and/or data content. A user of the first WCD may interact with content that is displayed on a display of the second WCD and vice-versa. |
| US09913081B1 |
Method and device for communicating with a vehicle system module while conserving power by using two different short range wireless communication (SRWC) protocols
A vehicle gateway module adapted to communicate using short range wireless communication (SRWC) and a method of receiving data from a wireless source via a SRWC chipset in a vehicle. The method includes the steps of: detecting the wireless source using a first SRWC chipset in a gateway module in the vehicle; in response to detecting the wireless source with the first SRWC chipset, triggering a second SRWC chipset in the gateway module to wake-up by exiting a POWER OFF mode, wherein the first and second SRWC chipsets are configured to communicate according to different SRWC protocols; and in response to the triggering step: exiting the POWER OFF mode at the second SRWC chipset; and receiving content data from the wireless source at the gateway module via the second SRWC chipset. |
| US09913078B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, data acquisition method, and program
An information processing system includes a first apparatus information acquiring unit acquiring apparatus information of an electronic apparatus, an output request unit sending an output request to the information processing apparatus by using the apparatus information, a memory unit storing a storing destination of the electronic data output by the electronic apparatus and identification information of the electronic apparatus while associating these upon receipt of the output request, an acquisition request processing unit sending to a second terminal apparatus the electronic data based on the storing destination stored in the memory unit in association with the identification information in a case where an acquisition request is received, a second apparatus information acquiring unit acquiring the apparatus information, and an acquisition request unit sending the acquisition request for the electronic data to the information processing apparatus and acquires the electronic data based on the apparatus information. |
| US09913074B2 |
Identifying resources from a device in a communications network
A method and apparatus for identifying resources available at a device in a communication network. A Resource Directory Proxy node receives a first message from the device. The first message relates to a change in at least one resource available at the device. The Resource Directory Proxy then sends, to a Resource Directory node selected from a set of Resource Directory nodes, a second message. The second message includes the change in the at least one of the resources available. There is also provided a method and apparatus for providing data from the device is provided. A Mirror Proxy Proxy node receives from the device a data message that includes an identity of the device and data obtained by the device. The Mirror Proxy Proxy node selects, from a set of Mirror Proxy nodes, a Mirror Proxy node, and sends to the selected Mirror Proxy node a further data message, the further data message including the identity of the device and the data obtained by the device. |
| US09913073B2 |
Service control method for machine type communications device and related apparatus and system
A service control method for a machine type communications (MTC) device and a related apparatus, where the method includes receiving, by an access-network network element, a paging request message from a core-network network element, wherein the paging request message carries device type indication information of a paged user equipment (UE), determining a device type of the UE according to the device type indication information of the UE, and paging the UE using a dedicated paging resource allocated to an MTC device when the UE is the MTC device. |
| US09913071B2 |
Controlling functions of a user device utilizing an environment map
A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. This determination may be used to control and manage the actions that the device is asked to carry out by or on behalf of the user. |
| US09913068B2 |
Apparatus and a method for supplying information
An apparatus is provided with a first receiver for receiving changing information relating to a plurality of different sets of data such as financial data and a second receiver for receiving said changing information in synchronism with said first receiver means. A data base is provided to store information received by the first receiver and a subscriber profile store stores information associating a subscriber with a group of said different sets of data. The apparatus is arranged to supply, via the mobile telecommunications network, information from the data base for the group of data sets associated in the subscriber profile store with a subscriber when communication with that subscriber is first established and thereafter to supply changing information relating to the group of data sets associated with that subscriber directly to the subscriber from the second receiver. |
| US09913067B2 |
Processing of multi device audio capture
It is inter alia disclosed to select, by a first apparatus, one or more recording devices to obtain a set of selected recording devices, or to receive, at the first apparatus, information on a set of one or more selected recording devices. The selected recording devices in the set of selected recording devices are selected from a set of recording devices at least based on relevance levels determined for the recording devices of the set of recording devices. A combination of audio signals recorded by the selected recording devices of the set of selected recording devices in an audio scene to obtain one or more combined audio signals for rendering is performed or caused by the first apparatus. |
| US09913065B2 |
Simulating acoustic output at a location corresponding to source position data
An audio system includes a plurality of speakers and an audio signal processor. The audio signal processor receives an audio signal and source position data associated with the audio signal; and applies a set of speaker driver signals to the plurality of speakers. The set of speaker driver signals causes the plurality of speakers to generate acoustic output that simulates output of the audio signal by an audio source at a location corresponding to the source position data in each of a plurality of discrete acoustic areas. |
| US09913064B2 |
Mapping virtual speakers to physical speakers
In general, techniques are described for mapping virtual speakers to physical speakers, having first adjusted the position of one of the virtual speakers based on a relative position of the one of the virtual speakers to one of the physical speakers. A device comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to determine a difference in position between one of a plurality of physical speakers and one of a plurality of virtual speakers arranged in a geometry, and adjust a position of the one of the plurality of virtual speakers within the geometry based on the determined difference in position and prior to mapping the plurality of virtual speakers to the plurality of physical speakers. |
| US09913062B2 |
Method and apparatus for decoding stereo loudspeaker signals from a higher order ambisonics audio signal
Decoding of Ambisonics representations for a stereo loudspeaker setup is known for first-order Ambisonics audio signals. But such first-order Ambisonics approaches have either high negative side lobes or poor localization in the frontal region. The invention deals with the processing for stereo decoders for higher-order Ambisonics HOA. The desired panning functions can be derived from a panning law for placement of virtual sources between the loudspeakers. For each loudspeaker a desired panning function for all possible input directions at sampling points is defined. The panning functions are approximated by circular harmonic functions, and with increasing Ambisonics order the desired panning functions are matched with decreasing error. For the frontal region between the loudspeakers, a panning law like the tangent law or vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) are used. For the rear directions panning functions with a slight attenuation of sounds from these directions are defined. |
| US09913057B2 |
Concurrent multi-loudspeaker calibration with a single measurement
An example implementation may involve a computing device detecting a trigger condition that initiates concurrent calibration of multiple playback devices. The implementation may further involve the computing device sending, to at least one of the multiple playback devices, one or more commands that instruct each playback device of the multiple playback devices to repeatedly output a calibration sound according to a sequence. The sequence involves the calibration sound cycling through frequencies of a calibration frequency range and the one or more commands instruct the multiple playback devices to stagger emission of the calibration sounds such that each successive calibration sound is outputted at a delay relative to output of a preceding calibration sound. During the output of the calibration sounds, the implementation may also involve the computing device detecting, via at least one microphone, an audio signal comprising the outputted calibration sounds. |
| US09913054B2 |
System and method for mapping and displaying audio source locations
The present invention relates generally to a method and system for defining a reference sound position and producing an indicia proximate thereto in relation to one or more sound characteristics. The present invention, in one or more embodiments, provides for displaying a holographic image at a reference sound location which is determined in relation to the identification of one or more target sounds being associated with one or more identified sound characteristics. In other embodiments, the present invention provides for an indicia to appear to be interactive with a reference sound location and may be used in a variety of environments including but not limited to rock theatrics, homeland security and residential security. |
| US09913052B2 |
Solderless hearing assistance device assembly and method
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for solderless assembly for hearing assistance devices. One aspect of the present subject matter includes a method of manufacturing a hearing assistance device. According to various embodiments, the method includes providing a molded interconnect device (MID) housing and inserting a flexible circuit module having conductive surface traces into the MID housing. One or more hearing assistance electronic modules are connected to the MID housing using direct compression without the use of wires or solder, according to various embodiments. In one embodiment, the MID housing includes a laser-direct structuring (LDS) housing. |
| US09913050B2 |
Power management features
A method performed by an electronic controller includes determining a charge level of a power supply configured to provide power to a medical device, and estimating, based on the charge level of the power supply, a first power supply life for operating the medical device according to a first mode. Further, the method includes estimating, based on the charge level of the power supply, a second power supply life for operating the medical device according to a second mode. As recited, operating the medical device according to the first mode has a different power use or consumption characteristic from operating the medical device according to the second mode. The method also includes generating a notification indicative of the first power supply life and the second power supply life. |
| US09913049B2 |
Method of self-tuning the voltage of a rechargeable battery of an electronic device and an electronic device operating according to such method
An exemplary method of compensating for a circuit offset error to a measure of a battery voltage of a rechargeable battery of an electronic device is described wherein the battery powers an electronic circuitry of the device and the electronic circuitry introduces the circuit offset error to the measure of the battery voltage. A corresponding electronic device is also described. |
| US09913048B2 |
MEMS-based audio speaker system with modulation element
Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to a MEMS-based audio speaker system configured for generating an audio signal. The speaker system includes one or more apertures in the speaker system positioned to receive the ultrasonic carrier signal and one or more movable and over-sized obstruction elements that are configured to modulate the ultrasonic carrier signal and thereby generate an audio signal. Because the movable obstruction elements are configured to overlap one or more edges of the apertures when in the closed position, modulation depth of the generated audio signal can be substantially improved or otherwise varied. |
| US09913044B1 |
Audio speaker enclosure assembly
An audio speaker enclosure assembly that includes a first enclosure portion, a second enclosure portion, a speaker magnet, and a cone assembly. The first enclosure portion has a magnet receiving structure with the speaker magnet being fully installed and supported therein. The second enclosure portion has a main wall with an opening. The cone assembly is installed to the main wall with a cone portion of the cone assembly extending through the opening such that a coil portion of the cone assembly extends into a gap of the speaker magnet. The first enclosure portion supports the speaker magnet and the second enclosure portion supports the cone assembly independent of the first enclosure portion with the first and second enclosure portions attached to one another. |
| US09913040B2 |
Capacitive silicon microphone and fabrication method thereof
A capacitive silicon microphone comprises: a first dielectric layer sets on a substrate with a back cavity, a lower polar plate which is located over the back cavity, a first elastic member of which an inner edge is connected with the edge of the lower polar plate and an outer edge is located on the upper surface of the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer which is located on the outer edge of the first elastic member and right above the first dielectric layer, an upper polar plate which has a plurality of release holes and is formed above the lower polar plate with an air gap in between, a second elastic member of which an inner edge is connected with the edge of the upper polar plate and an outer edge is located on the upper surface of the second dielectric layer. |
| US09913039B2 |
Audio adaptor and method
An audio adaptor and method of communication is provided. The audio adaptor includes a first connector for connecting to a source of audio, a second connector for connecting to a telephone, a third connector for connecting to an audio output device, and a microcontroller. The method involves receiving a first audio signal at a line level from the source of audio, receiving a second audio signal at the line level from a telephone, transmitting the first audio signal and the second audio signal at the line level to an audio output device, attenuating the first audio signal from the line level to a microphone level and transmitting the attenuated first audio signal. |
| US09913038B2 |
Multi-channel headphone
A multi-channel headphone has a housing, multiple independent sound channels formed in the housing, and at least one speaker unit mounted inside the housing. The at least one speaker unit produces sound directly passing through one of the sound channels and refracted through the rest of sound channels. As the refracted sound is slower than the directly travelling sound, multiple layers of auditory feeling can be provided and a stereo sound effect can be generated for users to enjoy better auditory feeling. |
| US09913037B2 |
Acoustic output device
[Object] To provide an acoustic output device capable of reproducing a more natural stereophonic sound giving a realistic sensation regardless of the influence of individual differences in the shapes of ears or an imperfection of the recording system or the reproducing system, through a combination of an air conduction sound and a bone conduction sound produced through bone conduction. [Solution] Provided is an acoustic output device including: an air conduction sound providing unit configured to provide an air conduction sound; and a bone conduction sound providing unit configured to provide a bone conduction sound. The bone conduction sound providing unit is positioned on a portion other than near an ear of a user when worn by the user. According to the an acoustic output device, it is possible to reproduce a stereophonic sound regardless of the influence of individual differences in the shapes of ears or an imperfection of the recording system or the reproducing system. |
| US09913035B2 |
Speaker system
A speaker system may include a dome-shaped shell defining an internal cavity, a receiver configured to receive audio signals from a wireless-enabled device and positioned in the internal cavity, and a plurality of speakers positioned at least partially within the internal cavity and in audio communication with the receiver, wherein the wireless receiver and speakers are configured to project audio outward of the dome-shaped shell. At least some of the plurality of speakers are facing outward of the dome-shaped shell. Some of the plurality of speakers could also be downward facing. The shell can take the form of a sports helmet. |
| US09913034B2 |
Method for determining a connection order of nodes on a powered audio bus
A method for determining a connection order of nodes on a powered audio bus by having the nodes draw power from the powered audio bus, measure the power consumed downstream, determine who is the last node on the bus, and transmit an identifier of the last node to the bus driver. |
| US09913030B2 |
Beamforming method based on arrays of microphones and corresponding apparatus
A beamforming method employs a plurality of microphones arranged in an array with respect to a reference point. The method includes acquiring microphone signals from the microphones and combining the microphone signals (x1 . . . xM) to obtain Virtual Microphones, combining the microphone signals to obtain a pair of directional Virtual Microphones having respective signals determining respective patterns of radiation with a same origin corresponding to the reference point and rotated at different pattern direction angles, defining a separation angle between them, obtaining a sum radiation signal of a sum Virtual Microphone with a sum radiation pattern, associating a respective weight to the signals of the pair of directional Virtual Microphones, obtaining respective weighted signals of radiation and summing the weighted signals, computing respective weights as a function of a determined pattern direction angle of the pattern of radiation of the pair of directional Virtual Microphones and of the separation angle. |
| US09913025B2 |
High musical definition acoustic resonator
The present invention relates to a high-efficiency, full range acoustic resonator that functions as a high musical definition loudspeaker. It does not require electrical filters (crossover filters). The electrical signal from the amplifier directly passes to a single speaker, without energy losses and added distortions. Further, the acoustic resonator of the present invention does not require a loudspeaker enclosure to accommodate the speakers. |
| US09913023B2 |
Multi-sound audio interface system
A computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to associate, for an audio interface, a first sound with first information, and associate, for the audio interface, a second sound with second information, wherein the second sound shares at least one perceptual property with a first plurality of perceptual properties based at least in part on a relationship between the first information and the second information. The at least one module may be operable to output in parallel, using an audio output device, the first and second sounds in the audio interface; receive an indication of user input that selects at least one of the first or second information; and perform, based at least in part on the indication of user input, at least one operation corresponding to the at least one of the first or second information. |
| US09913009B2 |
Transmitter, receiver, transmission method, and receiving method
[Object] To propose a transmitter, a receiver, a transmission method, and a receiving method through which it is possible to implement good data transmission even under conditions in which connection failure may occur in a part of transmission paths.[Solution] A transmitter includes a transmission processing unit configured to associate each of a plurality of pieces of data with any transmission path among a plurality of transmission paths and cause a transmission unit to transmit the data to an external device through the transmission path, a transmission quality information acquisition unit configured to acquire transmission quality information indicating transmission quality of each of the plurality of transmission paths, and a switch configured to switch a connection relation between the transmission processing unit and the plurality of transmission paths based on order information indicating a weight among the plurality of pieces of data and the acquired transmission quality information. |
| US09913008B1 |
Multicast wavelength selective switch
A wavelength selective switch (WSS) may include a first port array including input ports, each to launch a respective beam of light, and a dispersive element to separate, in a lateral direction, a beam of light, launched by one of the input ports, into dispersed wavelength channel sub-beams. The WSS may include a switching array to direct the dispersed wavelength channel sub-beams, at respective angles in a vertical direction. The dispersive element may converge groups of dispersed wavelength channel sub-beams in the lateral direction to form wavelength channel sub-beams. The WSS may include a splitting element to split, in the lateral direction, a wavelength channel sub-beam, of the wavelength channel sub-beams, into split wavelength channel sub-beams. The WSS may include switching elements to direct the split wavelength channel sub-beams at respective angles in the vertical direction, and output ports associated with the switching elements. |
| US09913000B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for presenting supplemental content relating to media content based on state information that indicates a subsequent visit to the content interface
In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for presenting recommended media content items are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for supplemental content relating to a program being presented by a media device; causing a content interface to be presented on a mobile device; identifying the program that is being presented on a media device; determining keywords associated with the program, wherein each of the keywords is associated with a particular portion of the program; obtaining and storing supplemental content items corresponding to the program based on the keywords; causing the content interface to present a first supplemental content item; receiving state information associated with the mobile device that indicates a subsequent visit to the content interface; and causing the content interface to present a second supplemental content item based on the state information. |
| US09912999B2 |
System for managing media services
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including detecting an indication that a first device that has established wireless communications with a second device by way a personal area network. The first device is authenticated based on the indication and according to a predetermined association between the first device and the second device. Information is provided to the second device to facilitate management of operations of the second device by the first device. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09912991B1 |
Overlay content and aggregation of viewing data
A processing device for generating a viewing data report is disclosed. The processing device may include a memory device and a processor. The memory device may store instructions. The processor may be operatively coupled to the memory device. The processor may execute the instructions to: determine first viewing data associated with a first ACR event; determine second viewing data associated with a second ACR event; determine that a data field of a plurality of data fields in the first viewing data is incomplete; derive new data for the data field using other data fields of the first viewing data; aggregate the first viewing data and the second viewing data into a single data model to obtain aggregated viewing data of viewing behavior of a first viewer and a second viewer; and create a viewing data report as a compilation of the aggregated viewing data. |
| US09912988B2 |
Predictive conditioning of multimedia for device synchronization
Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate anticipatory conditioning of multimedia content for delivery to one or more devices. A multimedia device may track and record correlations between each of a plurality of devices, wherein the correlations are based on the order in which one or more devices request synchronization of a piece of content following a request by a first device for synchronization of the same piece of content. The multimedia device may update device correlations with each subsequent content synchronization request. When the multimedia device receives a synchronization request for a piece of content, the multimedia device may identify a device correlated with the requesting device and may initiate a conditioning of the piece of content for delivery to the correlated device without first receiving a request for synchronization of the piece of content from the correlated device. |
| US09912987B2 |
Sharing television and video programming through social networking
In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine information associated with a product displayed on a display device and access a database of known products. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, by comparing the database of known products with the determined information associated with the product, an identity of the product displayed on the display device. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system provide one or more instructions to display media content related to the identified product. |
| US09912986B2 |
System for distributing metadata embedded in video
A method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and reception apparatus for extracting metadata, and an information providing apparatus for providing the metadata. The method for extracting metadata includes processing, by circuitry of the reception apparatus, content that includes the metadata embedded therein. The metadata is embedded as a watermark in a first portion of a video frame of the content. The circuitry determines symbol values of the watermark from the video frame based on luminance values in pixels of the first portion of the video frame of the content to extract the metadata. At least one of the luminance values is less than 16. |
| US09912979B2 |
System and method for flexible video construction
System and method for flexible video construction, particularly of a personalized video clip which provides instructions to a viewer with regard to health and wellness. An ordered list of video input files is chained together, to create a single output video file using a chosen container. Timestamp values are tracked, to ensure synchronization of multiple joined clips, optionally using adjustments of the audio channel or the video channel. A video construction server utilizes information from multiple sources, to construct the video clip. |
| US09912975B2 |
Method and system for secure over-the-top live video delivery
A method is provided for managing key rotation (use of series of keys) and secure key distribution in over-the-top content delivery. The method provided supports supplying a first content encryption key to a content packaging engine for encryption of a first portion of a video stream. Once the first content encryption key has expired, a second content encryption key is provided to the content packaging engine for encryption of a second portion of a video stream. The method further provides for notification of client devices of imminent key changes, as well as support for secure retrieval of new keys by client devices. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server infrastructure in accordance with the provisions of the method. |
| US09912969B1 |
Live streaming video sharing system and related methods
A live streaming video sharing system. Implementations may include a video camera, portable computing device, video streaming server, database, application server, web server, and a portable computing device associated with a user operatively coupled together. The video camera sends a live stream of video data wirelessly to the portable computing device. The computing device associated with a user receives a live stream of video data from the web server, processes the live stream of video data, and generates a computer interface. The computer interface may include a public computer interface including a public channel and an invisible computer interface including an invisible shares channel associated with the user including an icon corresponding with one or more invisible shares, each invisible share corresponding with a live stream of video data and each invisible share not retrievable using a search form in the computer interface, the application server, and the database. |
| US09912963B2 |
Picture decoding device, picture decoding method and picture decoding program
In a picture coding device for coding picture signals including a brightness signal and a color-difference signal in a block unit using intra-prediction and coding information regarding an intra-prediction mode, when aspect ratios of pixels of the brightness signal and the color-difference signal are different from each other, a bitstream generator converts a mode number of a first intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are equal to each other into a scaled mode number and derives a second intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are different from each other. |
| US09912958B2 |
Content adaptive motion compensated precision prediction for next generation video coding
Techniques related to adaptive precision and filtering motion compensation for video coding may include, for example, determining, via a motion compensated filtering predictor module, a motion compensation prediction precision associated with at least a portion of a current picture being decoded, where the motion compensation prediction precision comprises at least one of a quarter pel precision or an eighth pel precision. Predicted pixel data of a predicted partition associated with a prediction partition of the current picture may be generated, via the motion compensated filtering predictor module, by filtering a portion of a decoded reference picture based at least in part on the motion compensation prediction precision. Prediction partitioning indicators associated with the prediction partition and a motion vector indicating a positional difference between the prediction partition and an associated partition of the decoded reference picture may be coded, via an entropy encoder, into a bitstream. |
| US09912955B2 |
Video encoding/decoding method using motion information candidate group for batch mode
A video decoding method, includes: reconstructing a syntax corresponding to at least one of a first block, a second block and a third block, wherein the first block is generated by dividing a frame for decoding, the second block corresponds to a unit of a prediction and is generated by dividing the first block, and the third block corresponds to a unit of transformation and is generated by dividing the first block in a tree structure; and reconstructing a prediction block corresponding to at least one of the first block, the second block and the third block, wherein the second block includes a batch mode flag for indicating whether a batch mode is used. |
| US09912954B2 |
Video coding and decoding methods and video coding and decoding devices using adaptive loop filtering
A method of decoding video, the method including receiving and parsing a bitstream which includes encoded video; extracting encoded image data relating to a current picture, which image data is assigned to at least one maximum coding unit, information relating to a coded depth and an encoding mode for each of the at least one maximum coding unit, and filter coefficient information for performing loop filtering on the current picture, from the bitstream; decoding the encoded image data in units of the at least one maximum coding unit, based on the information relating to the coded depth and the encoding mode for each of the at least one maximum coding unit; and performing deblocking on the decoded image data relating to the current picture, and performing loop filtering on the deblocked data, based on continuous one-dimensional (1D) filtering. |
| US09912953B2 |
Method of constructing merge list
An image decoding method in a merge mode, can include constructing a merge candidate list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates, and deriving motion information using a merge index and the merge candidate list; generating a prediction block using the motion information; generating a quantization block by inverse-scanning quantized coefficient components according to a diagonal scan, inverse-quantizing the quantization block using a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix, and inverse transforming the inversely-quantized quantization block to generate a residual block; and deriving a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. |
| US09912951B2 |
Video-encoding method and apparatus for same and video-decoding method and apparatus for same using a selective scan mode
Provided are encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for a video by selectively determining and using a scan mode. The video encoding method includes: generating transformation coefficients by performing transformation based on a transformation unit to encode an image; determining a scan mode, from among a plurality of scan modes, indicating a scanning direction of the generated transformation coefficients, based on characteristics of the transformation coefficients; and determining and outputting an encoding order of the generated transformation coefficients based on the scanning direction of the determined scan mode. |
| US09912949B2 |
Method of deriving motion information
Provided is a method extracts a merge index from a bit stream, constructs a merge candidate list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates, selects a merge predictor among merge candidates using the merge index, and sets motion information of the merge predictor as motion information of the current prediction unit. The temporal merge candidate includes a reference picture index and a motion vector, and a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate block of a temporal merge candidate picture is set as the motion vector of the temporal merge candidate. Accordingly, the coding efficiency of the motion information is improved by including various merge candidates. Also, the computational complexity of an encoder and a decoder is reduced maintaining improvement of coding efficiency by adaptively storing motion information of reference picture and adaptively generating a temporal merge candidate. |
| US09912945B2 |
Hybrid backward-compatible signal encoding and decoding
Computer processor hardware: parses a data stream into first portions of encoded data and second portions of encoded data; implements a first decoder to decode the first portions of encoded data into a first rendition of a signal; implements a second decoder to decode the second portions of encoded data into reconstruction data, the reconstruction data specifying how to modify the first rendition of the signal; and applies the reconstruction data to the first rendition of the signal to produce a second rendition of the signal. |
| US09912940B2 |
Stereoscopic image display device and method for driving the same
A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel, a scan driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes pixels coupled to data lines and scan lines. The pixels do not emit light during a data pre-addressing period and pixels emit light during a data addressing period. The scan driver supplies scan signals to the scan lines. The data driver supplies data voltages to the data lines in synchronization with the scan signals. The scan driver supplies first scan signals to the scan lines during the data pre-addressing period, and supplies second scan signals to the scan lines during the data addressing period. Each of the first scan signals has one pulse, and each of the second scan signals has a plurality of pulses. |
| US09912937B2 |
Driving signal generating circuit, driving signal generating method and 3D display device
The present disclosure provides a driving signal generating circuit, a driving signal generating method and a 3D display device. The driving signal generating circuit includes a voltage conversion unit, an output unit and a control unit. The voltage conversion unit is configured to convert an external input voltage into a plurality of polarization voltages for driving a polarization control panel in an active polarization 3D display device, and transmit the plurality of polarization voltages to the output unit. The control unit is configured to generate a control signal. The output unit is configured to output one of the polarization voltages or a zero voltage to the polarization control panel in a time-division manner according to the control signal. |
| US09912936B2 |
Apparatus and method for adjusting stereoscopic image parallax and stereo camera
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for adjusting stereoscopic image parallax and a stereo camera. The parallax adjusting method includes obtaining a depth range of a current scene. A preset parallax range may also be obtained according to a current viewing condition. Expected camera parameters of the current scene are calculated according to the depth range of the current scene and the preset parallax range. The stereo camera is adjusted according to the expected camera parameters and used to capture preprocessed stereoscopic images. Further, the captured preprocessed stereoscopic images are processed according to the expected camera parameters to make the preprocessed stereoscopic images suitable for being viewed under the current viewing condition. The disclosed method and apparatus can jointly adjust parameters of the stereo camera and captured stereo images to obtain images or videos with a maximum parallax as well as desired display effect under a specified condition. |
| US09912933B2 |
Road surface detection device and road surface detection system
A road surface detection device that detects a road surface region based on disparity information obtained from a captured image of an area around a vehicle that is captured by an onboard camera, includes a path estimating portion that estimates a travel path where the vehicle will travel, based on driving information of the vehicle; and a detecting portion that weights the disparity information, and detects a road surface region in the captured image based on the weighted disparity information, wherein when the detecting portion weights the disparity information, the detecting portion gives less weight to the disparity information positioned on a side away from the travel path in the captured image than to the disparity information positioned on a side near the travel path in the captured image. |
| US09912928B2 |
Systems and methods for generating a digital image
A system, method, and computer program product for generating a digital image is disclosed. The system includes a first image sensor configured to capture a first image that includes a plurality of chrominance values, a second image sensor configured to capture a second image that includes a plurality of luminance values, and an image processing subsystem configured to generate a resulting image by combining the plurality of chrominance values with the plurality of luminance values. The first image sensor and the second image sensor may be distinct image sensors optimized for capturing chrominance images or luminance images. |
| US09912923B2 |
Optical micro-projection system and projection method
An optical micro-projection system comprising the following components: at least one laser light source (200, 400, 402, 600); at least one movable mirror (102, 103, 203) for deviating light from said light source to allow generation of images on a projection surface (104, 301, 303, 306, 603); a self mixing module for measurement of the distance (604) between the projection source and a projection surface, said self mixing module comprising: —at least one photodiode (401, 601) for monitoring the light emission power of the laser light source; —an optical power variation counter for counting optical power variations (605); successive displacements of said mirror allowing the self mixing module providing successive projection distance measurements of a plurality of points of said projection surface. A projection method for optical micro-projection system and a distance measurement method are also provided. |
| US09912919B2 |
Wearable camera system and recording control method
Communication is performed between a wearable camera and a vehicle-mounted recorder, the wearable camera captures an image of a capturing area, and the vehicle-mounted camera captures an image of the capturing area. The vehicle-mounted recorder records first image data of the capturing area captured by the vehicle-mounted camera according to a recording start request from the wearable camera, and transmits a recording start instruction to the wearable camera simultaneously with the recording. The wearable camera starts the recording of second image data of the capturing area captured by the wearable camera after the recording start instruction is received. |
| US09912917B2 |
Visualization apparatus for a surgical site
A visualization apparatus for a surgical site includes a recording unit for recording an image of an object arranged in a focal plane of the recording unit. The recording unit has a lens having an optical axis that intersects the focal plane at a point P. An electronic image representation unit has an image surface for reproducing the recorded image and point P is reproduced at image point P′. A mirror unit has a mirror surface, which has a center point S and is arranged relative to the image surface such that the reproduced image is reflected by the mirror surface. The focal plane, image surface and mirror surface are arranged relative to one another such that an observation point B results for which the following applies: −2 D<Φ1−Φ2<+2 D; wherein: Φ1=−1/d1 Φ2=−1/d2 d1=distance PB d2=distance P′S+distance SB. |
| US09912912B2 |
Camera unit for a motor vehicle
Camera unit (3, 3′) having a protective element (4, 4′) for recording images of an external region for a motor vehicle (1), which camera unit is connected to a display apparatus, which is arranged within the motor vehicle (1), via a controller, wherein the camera unit (3, 3′) is arranged within a recess (5, 5′), which is provided in the motor vehicle (1), such that it is covered by means of the protective element (4, 4′) in an inactive operating position, and the camera unit (3, 3′) and/or the protective element (4, 4′) can be moved into an enable position, which serves as the active operating position for recording images of the external region, by a drive element after activation of a first operating element, in particular by the activation of the reverse gear, which is in the form of the first operating element, of the motor vehicle (1), and at least a second operating element (6, 6′) is provided, wherein the camera unit (3, 3′) and/or the protective element (4, 4′) can be moved into the enable position which is suitable for recording images of the external region by the drive element after activation of the second operating element (6, 6′), wherein the second operating element (6, 6′) can be operated by the user only outside the motor vehicle (1). |
| US09912911B2 |
Inter-module link interface
A multi-function cable, and more particularly, a multi-function cable having components permitting its interchangeable use with a variety of modules, the modules including endoscopes, cameras input units and display units. The multi-function cable is capable of receiving inputs from multiple different types of modules having diverse data and signal formats and may generate diverse output signals compatible with differing modules. The multi-function cable is used in a medical operating room. |
| US09912909B2 |
Combining installed audio-visual sensors with ad-hoc mobile audio-visual sensors for smart meeting rooms
A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors. |
| US09912905B2 |
Method and device for implementing analog high-definition image capturing
Provided in embodiments of the present invention are a method and device for implementing high-definition image capturing, comprising: collecting and acquiring image data of a first set format by using an image sensor, image processing the image data then encoding into modulated data of a second set format, converting the modulated data into an analog electric signal of a third set format by using a synchronous clock, and filtering the analog electric signal by using a filter circuit then transmitting via a coaxial cable. The above series of operations is capable of implementing the collection and processing of a high-resolution video, and solves the problem that existing high-definition camera are incapable of ensuring timeliness during a video transmission process and provides poor stability and reliability, while at the same time, employment of the present invention also allows an existing analog camera to use a cable device for video transmission, thus implementing full utilization of existing resources. |
| US09912904B1 |
Adapter device for television screen or channel extension
The present invention relates to a television extender adapter device (102) that enables users to extend a television (101) screen or channel to their portable devices such as mobile phones (112), laptops (113) and tablets (114) with a multichannel viewing option. The adapter device (102) provides a Wi-Fi network (111) for all portable device users to connect and view the television (101) screen or channels of their choice on their Wi-Fi-enabled portable devices consisting of a compatible browser using an intranet network thereby eliminating the requirement of an internet connection. Further, a user can stream the audio content alone through Bluetooth network (110) using the speakers or headphones compatible with their respective portable devices. The adapter device (102) provides the users an option to choose any channel from a list of available channels irrespective of the channel playing on the television (101). |
| US09912901B2 |
Body camera
Described herein is a body camera, a method of operating a body camera, a system for a body camera, and methods and systems for configuring a body camera. The body camera may include a digital camera configured to capture video. The body camera may also include one or more sensors for sensing data about the environment experienced by the body camera. The body camera may also include a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. The body camera may also include a transceiver for streaming video and sensor data. |
| US09912899B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying a video signal on a computer system
A system that displays a video signal on a display for a computer system is presented. During operation, the system receives a signal to switch from displaying a video signal from an internal video source to displaying a video signal from an external video source. In this system, the internal and external video sources are coupled to a bi-directional video port for the computer system, wherein the internal video source generates an output video signal and the external video source generates an input video signal. The system then determines whether the external video source is coupled to the bi-directional video port. If so, the system couples the external video source to the display and determines whether the external video source is a valid video source. If the external video source is a valid video source, the system displays the video signal from the external video source on the display. |
| US09912896B2 |
Latch based parallel-to-serial readout circuitry and image sensor utilizing the circuitry
A latch-based parallel to serial readout circuitry includes latches connected to each other in series and to data inputs in parallel. The latches read in values from the data inputs in parallel, and then output the values serially. A readout control circuitry of the latch-based parallel to serial readout circuitry may cause the latches to read in the values in parallel by switching an active input connection of the latches to the data inputs and enabling the latches simultaneously. The readout control circuitry may cause the latches to readout the values serially by switching an active input connection of the latches to the output of a next latch and sequentially enabling the latches. |
| US09912893B2 |
Driving method for an image pickup apparatus
A driving method for an image pickup apparatus includes accumulating a signal generated during a first charge accumulation period by a first sub pixel, accumulating a signal generated during a second charge accumulation period partially overlapped with the first charge accumulation period by a second sub pixel, and controlling column circuits such that, after processing of the signal generated during the first charge accumulation period is performed, processing of the signal is performed which is generated during the second charge accumulation period of the second sub pixel included in the pixel where the signal processing of the first sub pixel is performed, and the column circuits are put into a non-operating state during at least part of a period after the processing of the signal generated during the first charge accumulation period is ended until the second charge accumulation period is ended. |
| US09912891B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus
The present technique relates to a solid-state imaging device, a solid-state imaging device manufacturing method, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of providing a solid-state imaging device that can prevent generation of RTS noise due to miniaturization of amplifying transistors, and can achieve a smaller size and a higher degree of integration accordingly.A solid-state imaging device (1-1) includes: a photodiode (PD) as a photoelectric conversion unit; a transfer gate (TG) that reads out charges from the photodiode (PD); a floating diffusion (FD) from which the charges of the photodiode (PD) are read by an operation of the transfer gate (TG); and an amplifying transistor (Tr3) connected to the floating diffusion (FD). More particularly, the amplifying transistor (Tr3) is of a fully-depleted type. Such an amplifying transistor includes an amplifier gate (AG) (gate electrode) extending in a direction perpendicular to convex strips (33) formed by processing a surface layer of a semiconductor layer (11), for example. |
| US09912890B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and method for producing the same, and electronic apparatus
Provided is a solid-state imaging device including: an effective pixel region of a substrate, effective pixels being arranged in the effective pixel region; an interconnection region around the effective pixel region, electrodes or interconnects being provided in the interconnection region; a peripheral region outside the interconnection region; and a film formed on the substrate. A cross-sectional height of the film in the effective pixel region is smaller than a cross-sectional height of the film in the interconnection region, and a cross-sectional height of the film in the peripheral region and a cross-sectional height of the film in at least a portion of a middle region between the effective pixel region and the interconnection region, the portion being closer to the interconnection region, are between the cross-sectional height of the film in the effective pixel region and the cross-sectional height of the film in the interconnection region. |
| US09912888B2 |
Pixel power noise cancelling apparatus and method for copying and superimposing pixel power noise of pixel column on ramp signal
A pixel power noise cancelling apparatus may include: a ramp signal generator suitable for generating a ramp signal according to control of a controller; a pixel power noise copy unit suitable for copying a pixel power noise of a pixel column of a pixel array to superimpose on the ramp signal fed from the ramp signal generator to the pixel column and output a ramp signal with added pixel power noise; and a comparator suitable for comparing a pixel signal output by the pixel column with the ramp signal with added pixel power noise from the pixel power noise copy unit. |
| US09912885B2 |
Image pickup apparatus having partial readout function or skip readout function and photographing apparatus including the same
Provided is an image pickup apparatus capable of reading out and outputting pixel data of a partial area of a rolling shutter type image sensor. The image pickup apparatus includes: a readout condition setter configured to set a readout condition from the image sensor; a charge time setter configured to set charge time of the image sensor; a controller configured to control charging of the image sensor and readout from the image sensor so as to achieve constant charge time irrespective of the readout condition; and an image signal output unit configured to output a pixel signal read out by the controller. |
| US09912884B2 |
Methods and apparatus for superpixel modulation
In illustrative implementations, a set of separate modulation signals simultaneously modulates a plurality of pixels in a superpixel by a set of separate modulation signals, such that each pixel in the superpixel is modulated by a modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel to vary over time. Each superpixel comprises multiple pixels. In some implementations, the sensitivity of a pixel to incident light is controlled by storage modulation or by light modulation. In some implementations, this invention is used for 3D scanning, i.e., for detection of the 3D position of points in a scene. |
| US09912882B2 |
Imaging apparatus and method
An imaging apparatus and method are provided for improving discrimination between parts of a scene enabling enhancement of an object in the scene. A camera unit is arranged to capture first and second images from the scene in first and second distinct and spectrally spaced apart wavebands. An image processing unit processes the images so captured and processes polarimetric information in the images to enable better discrimination between parts of the scene. An image of the scene, including a graphical display of the polarimetric information, may be displayed on a visual display unit thus enhancing an object in the scene for viewing by a user. Correlation parameters indicating, possibly on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the correlation between the actual image intensity at each angle of polarization and a modelled expected image intensity may be used to enhance the visibility of an object. |
| US09912877B2 |
Imaging apparatus for continuously shooting plural images to generate a still image
An imaging apparatus performs search processing for shooting frame images while moving the focus lens and obtaining a frame image which is focused on each AF area, performs moving image shooting processing for recording a moving image while moving the focus lens after ending the search processing, and performs still image generation processing for generating a still image from among a plurality of frame images composing the recorded moving image data, by referring to a result of the search processing after the moving image shooting processing. When a user performs an operation of changing a focus position on a subject during a period from an end of the search processing to an end of the moving-image shooting processing, the imaging apparatus displays a message that calls user's attention on the display unit. |
| US09912870B2 |
Method for transmitting image and image pickup apparatus applying the same
An image transmitting method and a photographing apparatus using the same are provided. According to the image transmitting method, a face included in an image is recognized and contents to be transmitted or a transmission destination is determined using a recognized face. Accordingly, a user may transmit a photographed image to another person easily using the photographing apparatus. |
| US09912868B2 |
Image-blur correction apparatus, tilt correction apparatus, method of controlling image-blur correction apparatus, and method of controlling tilt correction apparatus
A tilt correction apparatus includes a manipulation unit configured to designate a level of an effect of first tilt correction of an imaging apparatus having an optical axis as a rotary axis and a level of an effect of second tilt correction of the imaging apparatus having an axis orthogonal to the optical axis as a rotary axis, an electronic correction unit configured to execute at least one of the first tilt correction and the second tilt correction by moving an image clipping range set within an imaging screen, and a calculation unit configured to vary a ratio of a first tilt-correctable range and a ratio of a second tilt-correctable range from the electronic correction unit according to the level of the effect of the first tilt correction and the level of the effect of the second tilt correction. |
| US09912867B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus and storage medium storing image processing apparatus
The image processing apparatus performing a process for displaying a still image acquired by an image capturing apparatus during its panning to follow a moving main object. The image processing apparatus includes a vector acquiring unit configured to acquire, from multiple motion vectors detected in a moving image acquired by the image capturing apparatus during the panning, a background motion vector, and a processing unit configured to determine, using the background motion vector, a background area of the still image where a background object is captured and to perform a magnification display process for magnifying the background area as compared with a case where the display unit displays the entire still image and causing the display unit to display the magnified background area. |
| US09912865B2 |
Methods and apparatus for supporting burst modes of camera operation
In various embodiments a camera with multiple optical chains, e.g., camera modules, is controlled to operate in one of a variety of supported modes of operation. The modes include a non-motion mode, a motion mode, a normal burst mode and/or a reduced data burst mode. Motion mode is well suited for capturing an image including motion, e.g., moving object(s) with some modules being used to capture scene areas using a shorter exposure time than other modules and the captured images then being combined taking into consideration locations of motion. A reduced data burst mode is supported in some embodiments in which camera modules with different focal lengths capture images at different rates. While the camera modules of different focal length operate at different image capture rates in the reduced data burst mode, images are combined to support a desired composite image output rate, e.g., a desired frame rate. |
| US09912864B2 |
Methods and apparatus for using a camera device to support multiple modes of operation
In various embodiments a camera with multiple optical chains, e.g., camera modules, is controlled to operate in one of a variety of supported modes of operation. The modes include a non-motion mode, a motion mode, a normal burst mode and/or a reduced data burst mode. Motion mode is well suited for capturing an image including motion, e.g., moving object(s) with some modules being used to capture scene areas using a shorter exposure time than other modules and the captured images then being combined taking into consideration locations of motion. A reduced data burst mode is supported in some embodiments in which camera modules with different focal lengths capture images at different rates. While the camera modules of different focal length operate at different image capture rates in the reduced data burst mode, images are combined to support a desired composite image output rate, e.g., a desired frame rate. |
| US09912858B2 |
Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
An image capturing apparatus comprises an object detection unit, a focus control unit, a shooting control unit, a focus detection unit, a prediction unit which predicts a position of the object, a setting unit which sets a focus detection area with respect to the position of the predicted object, a reliability acquisition unit which obtains a reliability regarding the focus detection area and an object moving amount acquisition unit which obtains a moving amount of the object based on the in-focus positions of the imaging optical system. Until the object detection result is obtained before the real shooting processing during continuous shooting, the focus control unit drives the imaging optical system based on the in-focus position indicated by detection results up until the previous real shooting processing, the reliability and the moving amount of the object. |
| US09912857B2 |
System and method for controlling an equipment related to image capture
A method and system for controlling a setting of an equipment related to image capture comprises capturing position data and orientation data of a sensing device; determining position information of a region of interest (i.e. a node) to be treated by the equipment, relative to the position and orientation data of the sensing device; and outputting a control signal directed to the equipment, in order to control in real-time the setting of the equipment based on said position information of the region of interest. |
| US09912856B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, control apparatus, and control method for distributing captured images to a terminal via a network
An image pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes image pickup means; holding means for holding a coordinate system used to represent an image capturing direction of the image pickup means or a region in an image capturing range of the image pickup means; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means or a captured image cut out from the region in the image capturing range by a certain angle, a second command for rotating the coordinate system held in the holding means about the origin by the certain angle, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system; and change control means for executing control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information. |
| US09912852B2 |
Real-time, ultrafast framing optical imaging device with high spatial resolution
The present application relates to the technical field of ultrafast imaging, and provides an ultrafast framing optical imaging device with a real-time high spatial resolution. The optical imaging device includes an ultrashort pulse laser system with a magnitude of femtosecond, a frequency multiplier, a wavelength splitter, a continuous illumination laser, a sampling plate, a calibration camera, a first imaging record module, and a second imaging record module. The present application mainly utilizes continuous light illumination ultrafast events and non-collinear light parameter amplifying technology that uses ultrashort pulse laser to pump/sample events at different moments, and adopts a plurality of CCD cameras to receive corresponding idle light images simultaneously and respectively and thereby realize ultrafast framing optical imaging with a high time resolution. |
| US09912845B2 |
Video information reproduction system and video information reproduction device
A video information reproduction system includes first and second video information reproduction devices. A first synchronization signal processor of the video information reproduction device as a master device generates a phase synchronization signal including a first vertical synchronization signal and a first counter value and sends it to the second video information reproduction device. A second synchronization signal processor of the second video information reproduction device as a slave device compares the phase synchronization signal with a second vertical synchronization signal on the basis of a second video clock signal, and a second clock generator changes the frequency of a second decode reference clock signal on the basis of a result of the comparison. |
| US09912841B2 |
Vehicle vision system utilizing camera synchronization
A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of cameras disposed at the vehicle and having respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle and being operable to capture frames of image data. Image data captured by each of the first camera is provided to an ECU via a respective ETHERNET link from the respective camera to the ECU. Control signals controlling operation of each camera are provided from the ECU to the respective camera via the respective ETHERNET link. Each camera receives from the ECU via the respective ETHERNET link a camera control signal that regulates timing of the respective camera to be synchronous with reference timing of the ECU. Regulation of timing of each camera includes starting the respective camera synchronous to the ECU reference timing and holding the respective camera synchronous to the ECU reference timing. |
| US09912835B2 |
Image forming apparatus
Provided is an image forming apparatus including a receiver, the image forming apparatus being controlled based on a copy mode for copying an original read by a reading device that is connectable to the image forming apparatus and a print mode for printing image data received by the receiver. The image forming apparatus further includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a measurement image formed by the image forming unit, a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form the measurement image, and to control the measurement unit to measure the measurement image, and a detector configured to detect a connection state of the reading device. The measurement image includes a first measurement image for the copy mode and a second measurement image for the print mode. |
| US09912832B2 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of the same
An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit, an image reading unit, an image forming unit, and a setting changing unit. The setting unit sets copying conditions. The image reading unit reads images from sheets to generate image data and writes the image data into a memory unit. The image forming unit forms images on sheets based on the image data written into the memory unit. The setting changing unit changes the setting of the copying conditions when a new copying condition is set during the image forming of the image data written into the memory unit. |
| US09912830B2 |
Data processing apparatus, control method, and program
A data processing apparatus determines whether or not administrator authority of a user is set, and whether access is made locally or from the network. When the access is made locally, even if the user has the administrator authority, folders of all users are not displayed. The folders of all users are displayed only when the user having the administrator authority accesses from the network. |
| US09912829B2 |
System, apparatus and method to process documents according to document processing profile
Tools (for example, system, apparatus, application software, a method, etc.) can be provided for processing scan images corresponding to a hardcopy document that has been scanned according to a document processing profile. For example, when such profile specifies a division size, the scan images corresponding to the scanned hardcopy document may be assembled into multiple divided image files (each no greater than the division size) and such multiple divided image files are sent to a specified scan image target as a grouping of divided image files associated with the hardcopy document. |
| US09912827B2 |
Information processing apparatus for managing setting values of client device, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus stores, in association with configuration information of an image processing apparatus, specification information used to determine settings information that is used for an operation of the image processing apparatus and is to be shared between the information processing apparatus and the image processing apparatus, obtains the configuration information of the image processing apparatus receives, in a case where specification information corresponding to the configuration information that the obtaining unit obtained is not stored in the storage unit, the specification information corresponding to the obtained configuration information from an external storage device, and transmits to the image processing apparatus settings information to be shared with the image processing apparatus, which is determined based on the specification information received from the external storage device among the settings information stored by the storage unit. |
| US09912826B2 |
Business customized multifunction peripherals
A system and method for customized multifunction peripherals includes a document processing controller including a processor and a memory, a scanner, a scanner engine, a printer, a user input and a display. The memory stores electronic customization groups, each corresponding to a unique business type. Each electronic customization group includes electronic files, such as forms, applications, screen backgrounds, company logos, screen positioning information, and labels. The memory also stores device customization data sets, each corresponding to document processing in the multifunction peripheral. Indicia on the display identify each of the customization groups by business type, and the user input receives a selection of a selected customization group. A customizations menu on the display lists available customizations from the selected customization group. A document processing options menu on the display includes document processing options corresponding to a portion of the device customization data sets associated with the selected customization group. |
| US09912825B2 |
Incompatible setting processing apparatus, incompatible setting processing method, and computer program product
An incompatible setting processing apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting options of setting items; an extracting unit that extracts, for each of the options of each of the setting items, a first option that is an option of a setting item satisfying an incompatible setting condition on a basis of incompatible setting condition information associating incompatible setting conditions for the options of the setting items with display character strings indicating the respective incompatible setting conditions; an input unit that selects an option of each setting item in the setting screen in accordance with a received operating input; a prohibiting unit that prohibits selection of the first option by the input unit; and a display control unit that displays a display character string associated with the incompatible setting condition corresponding to the first option, which is acquired from the incompatible setting condition information. |
| US09912824B2 |
Triggering workflows from a multifunction device
In response to user selection of a workflow from among workflow menu options presented on a graphic user interface of a multifunction device, methods and systems automatically and dynamically create device-specific user interface screens that are used in execution of the selected workflow. The device-specific user interface screens comply with unique formatting requirements of the graphic user interface of the multifunction device upon which they are displayed. The device-specific user interface screens provide data input instructions on the graphic user interface, to which the user responds, allowing these methods and systems to receive workflow data into the graphic user interface. These methods and systems transmit the workflow data from the multifunction device to a computerized device over a computerized network. Thus, these methods execute the workflow (through the computerized device and/or the multifunction device) using the workflow data. |
| US09912820B2 |
Method and apparatus for policy and charging control decisions based on radio spectrum blocks
A policy determination function (PDF) makes policy and charging control decisions based on radio spectrum blocks. More particularly, the PDF: receives radio spectrum block data via an interface; and determines, using the radio spectrum block data, a first radio spectrum block for use during a session for a subscriber, wherein the first radio spectrum block is one of a plurality of radio spectrum blocks, and wherein the subscriber has a unique set of policy and charging control (PCC) rules corresponding to each of the radio spectrum blocks in the plurality. The PDF further selects and provides to a policy enforcement function the set of PCC rules for the subscriber corresponding to the first radio spectrum block, for applying to communications with the subscriber during the session. |
| US09912819B2 |
Audio capture and transmission device having sound attenuation
Provided is a device for simultaneously communicating with a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. A microphone is housed within the device and circuitry therefor is included in the device, and preferably housed within the device. The device form-fits generally over a user's mouth and nose and has an air tube extending substantially the length of the device, within the interior of the device, to relieve back-pressure. The device is shaped to promote attenuation of sound within the device, and is constructed to reduce uptake of outside, extraneous sound by the microphone. The circuitry comprises one or more processors, an audio capture module, power management module, listening output module, and data storage module. The device also has a touch screen interface. |
| US09912817B2 |
Presence enabled call center
Techniques described herein may use presence information to enhance the user experience when contacting entities such as call centers. In one implementation, a method may include receiving presence information relating to a state of a voice line. The presence information may include a wait time associated with the voice line, the wait time corresponding to an estimated time that a caller to the voice line will wait before reaching a human operator. The method may also include providing, by the one or more devices and to a user device that includes the voice line in a contact list, the presence information for display as part of the contact list. |
| US09912815B2 |
System and method for performance-based routing of interactions in a contact center
A system and method for performance-based routing of interactions in a contact center. A routing server receives information on an interaction to be routed, and identifies a call reason for the interaction. The identification of the call reason may be based, for example, speech analytics. The routing server identifies one or more agents having experience in handling the topic. The routing server further determines a proficiency level of the identified agents in handling the topic, and selects one of the identified agents having at least a minimum level of proficiency. The routing server transmits a message for routing the interaction to the selected agent. |
| US09912812B2 |
Graphical user interface for configuring contact center routing strategies
A system and method for composing a routing strategy for a contact center via a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface provides a plurality of selectable blocks and a workspace for assembling selected ones of the plurality of blocks. Each of the plurality of blocks is associated with logic for managing an interaction with the contact center. A processor receives identification of one of the blocks and identification of a location in the workspace area relative to other blocks in the workspace area, and places the identified block in the identified location. The processor generates the routing strategy based on the blocks in the workspace area and location of the blocks relative to each other in the workspace area. The processor also stores a layout of the blocks in the workspace area as a routing diagram for the routing strategy. The processor activates the routing strategy for managing the inbound interaction according to the activated routing strategy. |
| US09912810B2 |
System and method for chat automation
In a system for managing chat automation, the system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a signal indicating a communication is being initiated by an end user operating an end user device; receive information from the end user device regarding the communication; select a conversation path based on the information regarding the communication; invoke an automated chat resource for engaging in a chat communication session with the end user device, wherein the automated chat resource is configured to follow the conversation path during the chat communication session; monitor confidence levels of automated chat responses during the chat communication session; and redirect the chat communication session to a second conversation path in response to at least one of the confidence levels falling below a threshold level. |
| US09912808B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a multi-channel communication service
A multi-channel communication services uses an object-oriented approach to processing communications. The multi-channel communication service is capable of recording conversations that a calling party has with one or more called parties in one continuous recording, even when multiple called parties are conferences into a call, and even when the calling party is transferred between multiple different called parties. In some embodiments, recording may include two or more tracks of recorded data. In that instance, the audio and/or video originating from the calling party is recorded in a first track, and the audio and/or video originating from all of the called parties is recorded in a second track. |
| US09912803B1 |
Recording detection during a communication session
A method of identifying recording of a conversation during a communication session, including establishing a communication session between a first participant and one or more remote participants, transmitting audio packets from a communication device of the first participant to the one or more remote participants, receiving audio packets from the one or more remote participants, including echo packets responsive to the transmitted audio packets, analyzing the received audio packets by an analysis application to identify delays in the echo packets relative to the transmitted packets providing an indication of the presence of a recording application at a communication device of a remote participant, notifying the communication device of the first participant. |
| US09912798B2 |
Wearable device with receptacle to receive an audio device and method of operating same
An apparatus includes a first transceiver of a wearable device. The first transceiver is configured to communicate using a first communication network having a first communication range. The apparatus further includes a second transceiver of the wearable device. The second transceiver is configured to communicate using a second communication network having a second communication range that is less than the first communication range. The apparatus also includes a receptacle of the wearable device. The receptacle is configured to receive an audio device that is configured to communicate with the second transceiver using the second communication network. |
| US09912794B2 |
Vehicle mobile terminal manipulation system
A vehicle mobile terminal manipulation system that manipulates a mobile terminal brought in a vehicle includes: a mobile terminal; a manipulation device to which a user inputs manipulation; and a notification portion that notifies the mobile terminal of manipulation information indicative of manipulation which has been input to the manipulation device. The mobile terminal includes a terminal-side display portion and a terminal-side manipulation portion. The mobile terminal has a user interface displayed on the terminal-side display portion at a time when independently operating according to manipulation conducted on the terminal-side manipulation portion. The mobile terminal causes the terminal-side display portion to display a user interface different from a case where the mobile terminal independently operates, when operating according to manipulation conducted on the manipulation device different in manipulation mode from the terminal-side manipulation portion of the mobile terminal. |
| US09912793B2 |
Computer terminals biometrically enabled for network functions and voice communication
The invention provides a handset that includes a finger-image sensor that provides finger-image-related signals or data for authentication purposes and functions as a telephone handset for use with a computer terminal. A system, including handsets and computer terminals, enables the terminal and/or the handset to access or otherwise participate in at least one network-related function and voice communication in response to authentication of finger-image data provided by the handset. |
| US09912792B2 |
Mobile terminal
The present invention provides a mobile terminal comprising: a terminal body having a display part on the front side thereof; and a back input part exposed to the back side of the body and having a first button part for receiving a push input of a first function, wherein the first button part comprises: an exposed part having a colored layer and exposed to the outside; a knob part formed on the back side thereof so as to fix the exposed part; and a body part covering the knob part and formed to be integrated with the exposed part. |
| US09912791B2 |
Watch type terminal and method of controlling the same
A watch type terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to perform communication with an external server; a second communication unit configured to perform communication with an external device; and a control unit configured to provide control to perform communication with the external server through a communication unit of the external device when the watch type terminal interworks with the external device through the second communication unit, and to deactivate the first communication unit. |
| US09912786B2 |
Wireless communication device and method to detect header information errors
A demodulation section demodulates a received signal. A decoding section decodes an output from the demodulation section. A buffer temporarily stores a portion of the received signal. A header analyzing section gives the buffer timing at which demodulation and decoding of a payload of the received signal are initiated, on the basis of a result of combination of a plurality of header sequences included in a header of the received signal and results of processing of the demodulation section and the decoding section. An improved SNR is achieved by means of combination of the plurality of header sequences, so that an iterative decoding count used for decoding the header become smaller. |
| US09912783B2 |
Securing internal services in a distributed environment
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to secure internal services in a distributed environment. A service call initiated by a client process of a client is intercepted. In this example, the service call is a request for an internal service provided by a server deployed in a target appliance. The client is deployed in a source appliance. The service call includes an identifier, and the identifier identifies the internal service. If one or more rules are specified for the identifier, a service packet is generated by multiplexing client information associated with the client process as well as information in the service call. The service packet is forwarded to the target appliance. |
| US09912782B2 |
Method and apparatus for recovery in a communication system employing redundancy
A method and apparatus are disclosed that provide expedited recovery in a communication system employing redundancy. The method includes establishing connections between a second server and each of a first mobile device and a second mobile device; receiving, by the second server from the first mobile device, an indication that a first server has recovered, wherein the first server and the second server are redundant servers and wherein the second server acts as a backup server for the first server; and based on the indication received from the first mobile device, informing, by the second server, a second mobile device of the recovery of the first server, thereby expediting a connecting, or a re-connecting, of the second mobile device to the first server. |
| US09912780B2 |
Method and apparatus for module remote request handling
A system includes a processor configured to receive a request from a vehicle module and identify a receiving entity for the request. The processor is further configured to send the request to the identified entity and to receive a response from the identified entity and forward the received response to the vehicle module. |
| US09912779B2 |
Communication method and node device for communication between adjacent clusters
A selection device is selected from a first group in a first cluster. The node devices of the first group can communicate with a node device in a second cluster adjacent to the first cluster. The selection device performs transmission and reception of a report frame that reports an identifier of a node device included in the first group. The selection device selects from the first group a first relay device that relays a relay frame used for a communication between a node device in the first cluster and a node device in the second cluster. The first relay device determines anode device adjacent to the first relay device to be a second relay device that relays the relay frame to a node device in the second cluster. |
| US09912778B2 |
Method for dynamically displaying a personalized home screen on a user device
A method and system for dynamically generating and displaying a home screen on a display of a user device are provided. The method includes receiving a portion of a query; determining a query based on the portion of a query and a user experience; determining at least one estimated user intent based on the query and at least one input variable; selecting a plurality of resources of information based on the at least one estimated user intent; providing the plurality of resources to the user device; receiving a selection of a desired resource from the user device; determining a definitive user intent from the at least one estimated user intent based on the selection; generating a new home screen respective of the definitive user intent; and causing the user device to replace a current home screen with the new generated home screen. |
| US09912773B2 |
Systems and methods to prioritize and schedule notifications with user behaviour and contextual data analysis
Disclosed are a system, apparatus, and method for prioritizing and scheduling of notifications to a user on a user device based on the user's behavior profile and user state. The method includes collecting user related data by a plurality of data collectors. The data may be collected by the user's device and a server connected to the user's device. The data collected by the user's device and the server may be different. The collected data is analyzed to generate user states data and user behavior data. The prioritizing and scheduling of the messages is done based on the user states data and the behavior data. |
| US09912771B2 |
Real time key collection in device provisioning
A method of pushing data from a client to a key collector, comprising preparing one or more SOC keys and one or more SOC IDs at a client, pushing the one or more SOC keys and one or more SOC IDs from the client to one or more key collectors, receiving an acknowledgement at the client from the one or more key collectors in response to pushing the one or more SOC keys and one or more SOC IDs to the key collectors, and installing the one or more SOC keys and one or more SOC IDs on a system-on-chip. |
| US09912768B1 |
Measuring content consumption
Techniques to measure consumption of content pages comprising a plurality of distinct content assets are disclosed. In various embodiments, content consumption signal data gathered by a plurality of clients, the content consumption signal data reflecting for at least a subset of content pages user engagement by content asset comprising the content page, is received. The received content consumption signal data and content attribute data associated with each respective content page are used to compute for each content page a content consumption metric reflecting an amount of content determined to have been consumed. |
| US09912767B1 |
Third-party cross-site data sharing
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for third-party tracking of user data. Instructions provided in association with a first document cause a client at which the first document is viewed to load a second document in a tracking document container associated with the first document. The second document belongs to a third-party domain that is different than a first domain to which the first document belongs. Instructions provided in association with the second document cause the client to retrieve a particular identifier from a local storage area for the third-party domain at the client. The instructions provided in association with the second document further cause the client to send a message to a server comprising the particular identifier. |
| US09912765B2 |
Network system and method for providing location targeted content to a mobile computing device
A network system for providing content to a mobile computing device of a user based upon the location of the mobile computing device. A wireless internet access point provides access to a single vendor web site such that upon connecting the wireless internet access points to the user's mobile computing device, a processor determines whether the device is associated with a user and if so, said device is directed to the landing page of the vendor web site when the user mobile computing device's device location is within a predetermined proximity to the wireless internet access point of that vendor. |
| US09912764B2 |
Method and apparatus for robust localization in outdoor environments
A method and apparatus for robust localization in outdoor environments is provided. The localization method includes the steps of receiving scanner data from localization means and receiving angle information of a mobile device from an angle sensor, correcting the scanner data based on the received angle information, performing an Iterative Closest Point (ICP) mechanism for the corrected scanner data and generating a first constraint, and localizing the mobile device based on a graph structure under the first constraint. |
| US09912760B2 |
Dynamically generating solution stacks
Embodiments of the present disclosure dynamically generate solution stacks. In one embodiment, a request to deploy a service in a cloud computing environment is received. A service repository is queried for data that describes one or more requirements of the service. One or more prerequisite services are identified based, at least in part, on the requirements of the service. A solution stack model is dynamically generated from (i) a stack service model of the service and (ii) the one or more prerequisite services, wherein the solution stack model is based, at least in part, on the requirements of the service. |
| US09912759B2 |
Dynamically generating solution stacks
Embodiments of the present disclosure dynamically generate solution stacks. In one embodiment, a request to deploy a service in a cloud computing environment is received. A service repository is queried for data that describes one or more requirements of the service. One or more prerequisite services are identified based, at least in part, on the requirements of the service. A solution stack model is dynamically generated from (i) a stack service model of the service and (ii) the one or more prerequisite services, wherein the solution stack model is based, at least in part, on the requirements of the service. |
| US09912757B2 |
Correlation identity generation method for cloud environment
This invention relates to a method for generating correlation identity with respect to a client to establish, integrate and communicate to a server within a cloud environment (e.g. Inswit™ Cloud). A service location identity can be generated with respect to a remote client by getting at least one service node of an appropriate service request made by the client device within the cluster of the cloud environment. A correlation ID/source ID can be thereafter generated based on the service location identity to serialize the payload and establish a connection with the server. The integration services with respect to the client device can be instantiated to permit authenticated information flow within the cloud network. The messages including the information on the destination end points can be finally emanated out of the source end points to the destination end point by efficiently authenticating the client devices using the correlation ID. |
| US09912756B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically saving a state of a communication session
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for automatically saving and presenting a state of a communication session are presented. The communication session may be established between a client device of a user and an application server of a content publisher. In some embodiments, the method may include determining that the communication session includes a typical process flow of the user. Session data representative of a state of the communication session may then be selected and stored in response to performance of a particular operation that is at least similar to an operation included in the sequence of operations of the typical process flow of the user. The method may further include generating and presenting an interface that includes an element that allows a user to return to the saved state of the communication session. |
| US09912755B2 |
Connecting public cloud with private network resources
The automatic provisioning of a connection between a public cloud and an on-premises resource in a private network. This allows a connection to be more easily made when an application in the public cloud is to access that on-premises resource in the private network. The automatic provisioning is initiated upon determining that an application running in the public cloud is to access the on-premises resource. The provisioning occurs by identifying a bridging infrastructure that provides access to the on-premises resource. Credentials are then accessed for later use in connecting to the bridging infrastructure. Application-specific credentials are securely provided to the application. The application-specific credentials are usable by an agent on the public cloud to connect to the identified bridging infrastructure. A configuration packages is then created that includes resource-specific credentials, the identity of the on-premises resource and an executable. |
| US09912753B2 |
Cloud storage brokering service
Systems and methods for brokering storage services are disclosed. In one embodiment, the brokering system is configured to receive, from a client device, a request indicating a desired configuration for storing target data in at least one of the plurality of cloud storage services. The system can determine a first selection comprising at least one storage service from the plurality of cloud storage services based on the request, provision storage in the plurality of cloud storage services based on the determined first selection and provide, to the client device, a temporary manifest indicating the provisioned storage, wherein the temporary manifest comprises access data that enables the client device to access the provisioned storage in the cloud storage services. The system can then store the temporary manifest and determine whether the client device completed storing the target data on the provisioned storage based on a presence of the temporary manifest. |
| US09912748B2 |
Synchronization of snapshots in a distributed storage system
A method includes storing data generated in a source node by sending write requests to multiple destination nodes. The destination nodes are requested to create snapshots of the data. The write requests are marked at the source node with marks that indicate to each destination node which of the write requests are pre-snapshot write requests that were issued before a snapshot request for a snapshot that the destination node is currently storing, and which of the write requests are post-snapshot write requests that were issued after the snapshot request for the snapshot that the destination node is currently storing. The snapshots are synchronized with one another at the destination nodes based on the marks. |
| US09912746B2 |
Content distribution system
Network delivery of digital content decreases bandwidth requirements at a source and facilitates the transfer of digital content to consumers from one or more sources. The digital content includes an identifier that permits the digital content to be recognized even when distributed to more than one source. |
| US09912744B1 |
Lending digital items to identified recipients
Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions. |
| US09912742B2 |
Combining application and data tiers on different platforms to create workload distribution recommendations
A method that provides for the grouping under a same workload of both application instances in an application tier, and data sharing members in a data tier. This grouping enables a workload manager to make recommendations (to load balancer appliances) about how to distribute workload connections, e.g., based on metrics gathered from both the application and data tiers. In this approach, both applications and data sources are grouped into a workload grouping, and health, status and capacity information about both of these tiers (application and data) is then used to determine an overall distribution policy for the workload. These different tiers can reside on the same or different operating system environments. |
| US09912739B1 |
Open virtualized multitenant network scheme servicing virtual machine and container based connectivity
A multitenant network scheme system includes a system includes a memory, a physical processor in communication with the memory, an isolated guest on a host, a virtual switch, and a network interface controller. The isolated guest includes a virtual network interface controller (vNIC). The virtual switch includes a plurality ports, which include a northbound port, a communication port, and a southbound port. The northbound port is connected to a network having a respective network name. Additionally, the northbound port is associated with a virtual local area network (VLAN). The communication port is connected to the vNIC of the isolated guest and is associated with the VLAN. The network interface controller is connected to the southbound port. |
| US09912737B2 |
Method and system for modular interoperable distributed control
A distributed control system (DCS) for controlling an industrial process using a plurality of distributed control nodes (DCNs) can include a plurality of Device DCNs, each Device DCN including an I/O interface coupled with a field device for single channel input or output, a plurality of Application DCNs, and one or more Ethernet switches. The plurality of Device DCNs and the plurality of Application DCNs can be adapted to host a software runtime and communicatively coupled via the one or more Ethernet switches. The DCS architecture can include of two types of DCNs; Application DCNs and Device DCNs. The software runtime can be configured to selectively provide control application level communication and function block execution services. |
| US09912734B2 |
Identifying content items for inclusion in a shared collection
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing pooled collections of content items, such as photos, in a content management system. An example system can first receive, from a first user device, images uploaded to a first account at a synchronized online content management system, and cluster at least some of the images as a collection. The system can receive, from the first user, a request to share the collection with a second user having a second account at the content management system, and generate, in response to the request, a pooled collection at the content management system from the collection. The system can transmit an invitation to the second user to join the pooled collection, and, upon acceptance, link the pooled collection to the second user account so that the first user and the second user have access to images in the persistent pooled collection and have permission to contribute content to the pooled collection. |
| US09912731B2 |
Dynamic transaction coordination
A first computer of a distributed computing system, which is an object-oriented enterprise based application server, receives a request for a transaction. The first computer generates a unique identifier for the transaction and associates an indicator with the transaction. The indicator indicates whether coordination of transaction processing can be performed by a second computer, of the distributed computing system, that is any application server apart from an object-oriented enterprise based application server. The first computer sends the unique identifier and the indicator to the second computer which enables the second computer to participate as the coordinator for the processing of that transaction if coordination of transaction processing is permitted to be performed by the second computer. |
| US09912730B2 |
Secured communication channel between client device and device management service
Systems and methods are described that comprise issuing a request to a client device from a platform. The request is an electronic message that includes an electronic link. An acknowledgement is received from the client device, and the acknowledgement is generated upon activation of the electronic link. A secure channel is established between the platform and a client application of the client device upon receipt of the acknowledgement. Establishment of the secure channel comprises the client application logging into a care application of the platform with a device identification that was received from the platform during an enrollment transaction. A session is conducted over the secure channel, and the session comprises the care application remotely controlling the client device via the client application. |
| US09912728B2 |
Message switch file sharing
Embodiments relate to message switch file sharing. A file is accessed by a computer processor of a client producer device to share with a plurality of client consumer devices across a network. The computer processor partitions the file into a sequence of message payloads associated with a topic and a scheme. The scheme defines a sequence identifier to establish an order to reassemble the sequence of message payloads into the file. A sequence of messages is formed including the topic and the sequence of message payloads. The sequence of messages is published to a message queue associated with the topic in a message switch in the network. The message switch provides the client consumer devices with access to the sequence of message payloads based on subscriptions to the topic. Subscription information is stored on the message switch in one or more access control lists associated with the message queue. |
| US09912720B2 |
Context aware browser policy
Systems and methods for a web event framework include receiving at a framework plugin an event from a web browser, wherein the framework plugin is coupled to the web browser, generating, by the framework plugin, a framework event based on the event, forwarding the framework event to a framework server coupled to the framework plugin, receiving at the framework server the framework event from the framework plugin, determining, at the framework server, a framework action based on the framework event and a framework policy, forwarding the framework action to the framework plugin, and executing the framework action by the framework plugin, wherein executing the framework action includes modifying one or more settings for the web browser, wherein the modified settings are based on the framework policy and sending an instruction to the web browser to cause the web browser to reload at least one web page under the modified settings. |
| US09912717B2 |
Systems and method for virtual reality video conversion and streaming
A video server is configured to convert frame data of a spherical image to frame data of a equirectangular image such that a first area corresponding to a field of view received from a client device is a middle area of the equirectangular image. The video server is further configured to scale the first area at a first resolution, scale a second area of the equirectangular image adjacent to the first area at a second resolution smaller than the first resolution, scale a third area of the equirectangular image that is adjacent to the first area and is not adjacent to the second area, at a third resolution smaller than the first resolution, and rearrange the scaled first area, second area and third area such that the scaled second area and the scaled third area are adjacent to each other, to generate reformatted equirectangular image frame data to be encoded. |
| US09912712B2 |
Method and apparatus for use in tracking playback of media streams while in stand-by mode
Some embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing playback of content. Some of these methods comprise: maintaining, at a playback device, a first media stream in a stand-by mode; continuing to acquire, from over a distributed network while in the stand-by mode, one or more index files of the first media stream, where the one or more index files identify a plurality of media files of the first media stream configured to be played back at the playback device, while not acquiring the media files of the first media stream while the first media stream is in the stand-by mode; and tracking the one or more index files relative to a playback timing of the first media stream while in the stand-by mode, where the playback timing continues to increment while the first media stream is in the stand-by mode. |
| US09912703B1 |
Security compliance framework usage
A method and system for improving usage of a security compliance framework is provided. The method includes authenticating a user for: access to the security compliance frame work, access to an authoritative source component of the compliance framework, and access to a data store component of the compliance framework. A functionality status of the security compliance framework and a request associated with contents of the data store are presented to a user via a dashboard interface. In response, the request is triggered and associated results are generated. |
| US09912701B2 |
Administration of a context-based cloud security assurance system
A cloud infrastructure is enhanced to provide a context-based security assurance service to enable secure application deployment. The service inspects network and cloud topologies to identify potential security capabilities and needs. Preferably, these options are then surfaced to the user with easy-to-understand, pre-configured templates representing security assurance levels. When a template (e.g., representing a pre-configured assurance level) is selected by the user, the system then applies specific capabilities and controls to translate the user-selected generalized specification (e.g., “high security”) into granular requirements for a specific set of security resources. Preferably, the identification of these security resources is based on system configuration, administration, and information associated with the pre-configured template. |
| US09912700B2 |
System for escalating security protocol requirements
Disclosed is a system for escalating security protocol requirements. The system typically includes a processor, a memory, and a security protocol module stored in the memory. The module is typically configured for: monitoring electronic activities associated with a user and collecting device identification information for local network devices associated with the electronic activities; receiving from the user a request to perform a subsequent electronic activity using a first computing device in communication with a first local network; collecting device identification information associated with the first computing device; identifying one or more local network devices in communication with the first local network and collecting device identification information associated with the local network devices in communication with the first local network; and denying the subsequent electronic activity or increasing or decreasing a level of authentication required to complete the subsequent electronic activity based on the collected device identification information. |
| US09912691B2 |
Fuzzy hash of behavioral results
A computerized method for classifying objects in a malware system is described. The method includes detecting behaviors of an object for classification after processing of the object has begun. Data associated with the detected behaviors is collected, and a fuzzy hash for the received object is generated. The generation of the fuzzy hash may include (i) removing a portion of the data associated with the detected behaviors, and (ii) performing a hash operation on a remaining portion of the data associated with the detected behaviors. Thereafter, the fuzzy hash for the received object is compared to a fuzzy hash of an object in a preexisting cluster to generate a similarity measure. The received object is associated with the preexisting cluster in response to determining that the similarity measure is above a predefined threshold value. Thereafter, the results are reported. |
| US09912687B1 |
Advanced processing of electronic messages with attachments in a cybersecurity system
A system manages computer security risks associated with message file attachments. When a user of an electronic device with a messaging client attempts to open an attachment to a message that is in the client's inbox, the system will analyze the message to determine whether the message is a legitimate message or a potentially malicious message without the need to actually process or analyze the attachment itself. If the system determines that the received message is a legitimate message, the system will permit the attachment to actuate on the client computing device. If the system determines that the received message is not or may not be a legitimate message, the system will continue preventing the attachment from actuating on the client computing device. |
| US09912684B1 |
System and method for virtual analysis of network data
A system is provided with one or more virtual machines and a replayer. The virtual machine(s) are configured to mimic operations of a first device. The replayer is configured to mimic operations of a second device. Herein, the replayer receives a portion of network data under analysis, dynamically modifies the portion of the network data, and transmits the modified portion of the network data to at least one virtual machine of the one or more virtual machines in accordance with a protocol sequence utilized between the first device and the second device. |
| US09912679B1 |
System, method, and computer program for managing security in a network function virtualization (NFV) based communication network
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for providing security in a Network Function Virtualization based (NFV-based) communication network. In operation, a security attack is identified. Additionally, a first hardware unit attacked by the security attack is identified. Further, a hardware unit in which to initiate a security defense software program is identified. Moreover, the security defense software program is initiated in the identified hardware unit. |
| US09912673B2 |
Method and device for secure network access
In a hotspot Wi-Fi network, users can access the Internet from a variety of access points. The users' credentials are centrally authenticated within the network core to ensure they are allowed on the hotspot network. To improve security and provide selective access, a further authenticator function in the network manages access to private and/or restricted network resources. |
| US09912672B2 |
Access permissions entitlement review
A system for operating an enterprise computer network including multiple network objects, said system comprising monitoring and collection functionality for obtaining continuously updated information regarding at least one of access permissions and actual usage of said network objects, and entitlement review by owner functionality operative to present to at least one owner of at least one network object a visually sensible indication of authorization status including a specific indication of users which were not yet authorized by said at least one owner of said at least one network object. |
| US09912666B2 |
Access management for controlling access to computer resources
A method and system for controlling access to computer resources of a computer data center. A received request to manage an initial service request targets one computer resource and in response: (i) the initial service request is mapped to standard operating procedures pertaining to the one computer resource; (ii) it is determined, based on the standard operating procedures, that additional service requests are to be spawned to service the initial service request and in response, additional service requests are spawned; (iii) the initial service request and the spawned additional service requests are correlated to the one computer resource; and (iv) for each service request (SR) of the initial service request and the spawned additional service requests, the user is granted the requested access of the one computer resource to enable the user to execute the SR, based on selection criteria for selecting a user to execute the SR. |
| US09912664B1 |
Media content filtering
Allowing a subscriber of media content services or products to receive filtered content based on the current viewer's profile (i.e., age, gender, maturity, etc.) as opposed to the viewer's physical location is provided. Media content for which filtering may apply may be in the form of movies, television shows, music for listening/downloading, video games, internet browsing, and the like. Upon logging in from the endpoint device interface (television/set-top-box, desktop computer, laptop computer, smart-phone, touch computer, etc.), log-in information may be compared with predefined profiles set up by the primary account holder and filtered media content may be delivered to match the profile of the current logged in end user. |
| US09912663B2 |
Enabling secure network mobile device communications
Methods and systems of communicating with secure endpoints included within a secured network from a mobile device external to the secured network is disclosed. The method includes initiating a VPN-based secure connection to a VPN appliance, and initializing a stealth-based service on the mobile device. The method further includes transmitting user credential information from the mobile device to a VDR broker via the VPN appliance, and receiving status information from the VDR broker identifying a VDR associated with the mobile device and providing a connected status. The method also includes communicating with one or more secure endpoints within the secured network via a VPN connection to the VDR via the VPN appliance and through the VDR to the one or more secure endpoints within a community of interest based on the user credential information transmitted to the VDR broker. |
| US09912662B2 |
Indoor location server provision and discovery
Techniques are presented for receiving, at a discovered secure user platform location (SUPL) server (D-SLP) a request from a device for authorization to access a second D-SLP, where the D-SLP provides location services to a first service area comprising a venue or building. The second D-SLP provides location services to a second service area larger than the first service area authenticating information from a Home SLP (H-SLP) received as part of the request to access the second D-SLP. Techniques involve communicating an authorization to access the second D-SLP to the device after authenticating the information from the H-SLP. |
| US09912656B2 |
Trust metrics on shared computers
Particular embodiments of a verification authority associated with a web service may receive a request to access the web service. The request may comprise data uniquely identifying a client device. The request may have been received from a shared device, wherein the shared device is configured for use by a plurality of users. The verification authority may access a social graph of a user associated with the client device to determine whether one or more social-networking users have previously accessed the shared device. The verification authority may then transmit to the client device information indicating which of the social-networking users have previously accessed the shared device. |
| US09912655B2 |
Unmanned vehicle message exchange
Two unmanned vehicles come within communication range of one another. The unmanned vehicles exchange logs of messages each has received. Each of the unmanned vehicles analyzes the messages that it received from the other unmanned vehicle to determine whether any of the received messages warrants changing a set of tasks it was planning to perform. When a message indicates that a task should be changed, the task is updated accordingly. |
| US09912654B2 |
IP security certificate exchange based on certificate attributes
Architecture that provides Internet Protocol security (IPsec) certificate exchange based on certificate attributes. An IPsec endpoint can validate the security context of another IPsec endpoint certificate by referencing certificate attributes. By facilitating IPsec certificate exchange using certificate attributes rather than solely certificate roots, it is now possible to build multiple isolated network zones using a single certificate authority rather than requiring one certificate authority per zone. Moreover, the ability to use certificate attributes during the IPsec certificate exchange can be leveraged for more focused communications such as QoS (quality of service). Certificate attributes can be utilized to identify the security context of the endpoint. The IPsec certificate use can be locked down to a single IP or group of IPs. |
| US09912651B2 |
Authenticated server views
An example computer implemented method to create an authenticated server view includes sending a client secret to an online-synchronized content management system and receiving an authentication key. The example method can then include generating a server view of the online-synchronized content management system using instantiation data. The instantiation data can include a resource address and the authentication key. The server view can be configured to request server elements from the online-synchronized content management system using the instantiation data and render the server elements. |
| US09912647B2 |
Vehicle wireless internet security
Methods, systems, and computer program products for vehicle wireless internet security are provided. A connection request is received from a mobile device. A data request is transmitted to the mobile device. The data request includes a request for location-based data of the mobile device. A first data is received from the mobile device that corresponds to the data request. A vehicle data is generated that comprises location-based data of the vehicle. A match between the first data and the vehicle data is determined. A match is determined where the location based data of the mobile device is with a pre-determined threshold of the location-based data of the vehicle. |
| US09912646B2 |
Automatic security parameter management and renewal
A method of automatic security parameter renewal includes determining if a security parameter satisfies a renewal condition, and automatically updating the security parameter when the renewal condition is satisfied. The automatically updating the security parameter includes modifying a certificate in dependent components of an application of the security parameter, by a central certification server, upon receipt of a new certificate. |
| US09912636B1 |
NAT traversal in VoIP communication system
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for VoIP communication with VoIP-enabled devices via a network address translator (NAT). A set of proxy servers is configured to relay communications through mapped paths of the NAT during operations including VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices and during other operations not involving VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. The mapped paths are susceptible to being unmapped by the NAT if the mapped path is unused for a threshold duration of time. The proxy servers maintain the mapped paths through the NAT by prompting the VoIP-enabled devices to communicate data to the set of proxy servers. More specifically, a VoIP-enabled device is prompted to communicate data to the set of proxy servers, in response to the VoIP-enabled device not communicating with the set of proxy servers for a duration of time exceeding the threshold duration of time. |
| US09912633B2 |
Selective IP address allocation for probes that do not have assigned IP addresses
Systems and methods for managing communication in an IP network between a server and a probe that does not maintain an IP address by selectively restricting which IP addresses that are identified as active in the network may be borrowed for the probes. Restriction of IP addresses may include a black list to exclude specific IP addresses, a white list from which IP addresses can be drawn or both. This permits control over which IP addresses may be borrowed by probes, reducing false alarms, alerts or other network concerns caused by unexpected IP traffic on a particular IP address in the network. |
| US09912626B2 |
Method and device for transferring and receiving message in roaming system
A method of transferring and receiving data by a mobility management entity (MME) in a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving, from equipment, a message that includes the address of an XML configuration access protocol (XCAP) and is used to access an Internet packet data network (PDN); checking any one of subscription information on the equipment and a network carrier policy, on the basis of the received message; and delivering a create session request message to a gateway on the basis of the received message if the equipment is accessible to the PDN as the result of the check, wherein the create session request message includes an indicator that accesses the XCAP server. according to an embodiment, roaming equipment may transfer and receive an XCAP related message. Moreover, as the roaming equipment receives the XCAP related message, the present invention has an effect of being able to prevent undesired traffic due to another data packet from occurring. |
| US09912622B2 |
Electronic messaging system involving adaptive content
An electronic messaging system is provided to generate and send electronic messages that contain adaptive content to customize the electronic messages for each recipient. The system operates to receive an adaptive content asset and a content rule, select a set of adaptive content elements from the adaptive content asset based upon the content rule, and send a content locator to an author computing device to permit the author computing device to include the content locator in the electronic message and send the electronic message to a recipient computing device. |
| US09912616B2 |
Grouping tunnel endpoints of a bridge cluster
Some embodiments provide a method for a first managed forwarding element (MFE). The method receives a packet from a data compute node that connects to the MFE. The packet has a destination address that corresponds to a data compute node in a remote network. The method determines (i) a group of MFEs that form a bridge cluster for sending packets to the remote network and (ii) multiple tunnel endpoints for the group of MFEs, wherein each MFE in the group has at least one of the plurality of tunnel endpoints. The method selects one of the plurality of tunnel endpoints as a destination tunnel endpoint for the packet. The method encapsulates the packet with a source tunnel endpoint associated with the first MFE and the selected destination tunnel endpoint. |
| US09912612B2 |
Extended ethernet fabric switches
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a fabric switch module and a learning module. The fabric switch module maintains a membership in a first fabric switch. A fabric switch includes a plurality of switches and operates as a single switch. The first fabric switch is in an extended fabric switch which further comprises a second fabric switch. The learning module identifies from a notification message from the second fabric switch a media access control (MAC) address learned at the second fabric switch. The learning module stores the MAC address in a local MAC table in association with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the second fabric switch. |
| US09912606B2 |
Apparatus and method to secure acquisition and contention burst activity in a communication network
An apparatus and method of communication in a network includes a hub having a burst time plan generating section to generate a burst time plan including time slot allocation information that allocated transmission time slots in a subsequent frame to remote terminals. The allocation information identifies at least one time slot in the subsequent frame as a dummy time slot assigned to at least one remote terminal already acquired in the network. The hub also includes a transmitter to transmit the burst time plan including the allocation information. A corresponding remote terminal and computer readable media are also discussed. |
| US09912605B2 |
System for prioritized resource allocation across a distributed platform
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for utilizing dynamic trait compilation and recognition to respond to requests for finite resources associated with a distributed platform are allocated across the distributed platform in a prioritized manner. |
| US09912598B2 |
Techniques for decreasing multiprotocol label switching entropy label overhead
A method is provided in one embodiment and includes receiving at a network element an encapsulated packet and determining whether both an ECMP/LAG Existing (“ele”) flag and an Entropy Label Capability (“elc”) flag are set for an egress node of the packet in a Label Distribution Protocol (“LDP”) database of the network element. If both the ele and elc flags are set for the egress node of the packet in the LDP database, the method further includes determining whether the network element is an ingress node for the packet and, if the network element is the ingress node for the packet, pushing an Entropy Label (“EL”) and an Entropy Label Indicator (“ELI”) onto an MPLS stack of the packet. |
| US09912597B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling traffic of radio access network in a wireless communication system
Provided is a method for controlling traffic of a Radio Access Network (RAN) in a wireless communication system. The method includes acquiring at least one of subscription class information of a User Equipment (UE) user and type information of an application or content; determining whether a congestion situation has occurred in the RAN; and controlling traffic for the UE based on the acquired information, if the congestion situation has occurred in the RAN. |
| US09912594B2 |
Probabilistic message filtering and grouping
Systems and methods for generating and using probabilistic filters are provided. One example method includes obtaining a plurality of beacon identifiers respectively associated with a plurality of beacon devices. The operations include determining a plurality of filter shards for each beacon identifier by applying a plurality of hash functions to each beacon identifier. The operations include providing the plurality of filter shards for each beacon identifier for local storage in a probabilistic filter at an observing entity, such that the observing entity can query the probabilistic filter to receive an indication of whether a received identifier is a member of a set that includes the plurality of beacon identifiers. One example system includes a plurality of beacon devices, at least one observing entity, and at least one verifying entity. |
| US09912593B2 |
Selective distribution of routing information
A distributed system for collecting and processing packet routing information is provided. A service provider, such as a content delivery network service provider, can maintain multiple Points of Presence (“POPs”). Routing computing devices associated with each POP can forward information about the packet routing information to a packet routing management component. The packet routing component can process the information provided by the various POPs. The packet routing component can then update, or otherwise modify, packet routing information used by one or more of the POPs. Accordingly, the packet routing management component can then selectively distribute the updated or modified packet routing information, including the distribution to all POPs, the targeted distribution to specific POPs and the creation of centrally accessible routing information. |
| US09912592B2 |
Troubleshooting openflow networks
Provided is a method of troubleshooting an OpenFlow network. A test packet is sent to a test node on the OpenFlow network. A response from the test node is validated against an expected response. If the response is consistent with the expected response, a modified test packet is sent to a further test node on the OpenFlow network. If the response is inconsistent with the expected response, a notification is provided to a user. |
| US09912583B2 |
Methods and apparatus to selectively assign routing tables to router linecards
An example involves determining a first cost associated with assigning routing information for a subset of virtual private networks (VPNs) to a first subset of linecards of a router by determining a cost as a sum of: a first product of (1) a first number of routes associated with a first VPN of the first subset of the VPNs and (2) a number of the linecards included in the first subset of the linecards; and a second product of (1) a second number of routes associated with a second VPN of the first subset of the VPNs and (2) the number of the linecards included in the first subset of the linecards. The first subset of the linecards is configured with routing information for the first subset of the VPNs when the first subset of the VPNs is assigned to the first subset of the linecards based on the cost. |
| US09912582B2 |
Multi-tenant isolation in a cloud environment using software defined networking
Systems and methods for ensuring multi-tenant isolation in a data center are provided. A switch, or virtualized switch, can be used to de-multiplex incoming traffic between a number of data centers tenants and to direct traffic to the appropriate virtual slice for an identified tenant. The switch can store tenant identifying information received from a master controller and packet forwarding rules received from at least one tenant controller. The packet handling rules are associated with a specific tenant and can be used to forward traffic to its destination. |
| US09912580B2 |
Link fallback
Various embodiments of the invention provide systems, devices, and methods of configuring and controlling the operation of fallback links within a network. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by selecting an operationally active port and internally configuring it to be part of an uplink LAG to achieve minimal L2 connectivity. Compared with existing designs, the presented invention has reduced delay time, minimal impact on network traffic, increased fallback bandwidth, faster convergence, and prevents link flaps of downstream server ports. In line with the IOA's plug- and play philosophy, no administrator intervention or reprogramming of VLANs is required in selecting fallback links. |
| US09912579B2 |
Techniques to manage presence information based on routing rules
Techniques to manage presence information based on routing rules are described. An apparatus may comprise a presence management component operative to manage presence information for a presentity. The presence management component comprises a presence interface module operative to receive a routing rule for a communication event for a presentity node used by a presentity. The presence management component also comprises a presence control module communicatively coupled to the presence interface module, the presence control module operative to determine presence state information based on the routing rule. The presence management component further comprises a presence publish module communicatively coupled to the presence control module, the presence publish module operative to publish the presence state information to multiple watcher nodes. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09912578B2 |
Image communication apparatus, control method for the same, and computer-readable storage medium
When a forwarding destination of image data is set, the forwarding destination can be designated via an input screen for inputting destination information or the forwarding destination can be designated via an address book. When setting of the forwarding destination via the input screen for inputting destination information is instructed, connection confirmation based on destination information input via the input screen is performed, and when this connection confirmation is made, the destination information input via the input screen is set and registered as the forwarding destination. |
| US09912575B2 |
Routing network traffic packets through a shared inline tool
Introduced herein is a technology for a network switch device to route network packets through a inline tool, without introducing additional information to the network packets. The technology records an association between an input network port and a signature (e.g., source MAC address) of the network packet, before forwarding the packet to the inline tool. When receiving the packet back from the inline tool, the network device recognizes that the packet signature is associated with the input network port, and that the input network port is paired with a particular output network port. Thus, the network device identifies the output network port for sending the packet, without modifying contents of the packet. |
| US09912572B2 |
Decomposing application topology data into transaction tracking data
In an approach for generating transaction tracking data that is used to simulate a customer environment or test case scenario, a processor receives user input data, wherein the user input data includes, at least, an application topology constructed using a graphical user interface. A processor validates the user input data for, at least, supported environments of components of the application topology. A processor generates transaction tracking data based on, at least, the user input data. |
| US09912569B2 |
Data communication method for a set of hard-real time applications within a network
A data communication method for a set of hard real-time applications with an associated set of predefined network requirements (PNR) is provided. The method comprises configuring the physical layer of the network with a set of static modulation parameters (SMPs) to guarantee the PNRs are met at worst-case operating conditions for the network. The method further comprises measuring the current network performance within the network based on a given network performance monitoring schedule and, whenever the current network performance exceeds the PNRs by predefined amounts, adjusting the physical layer of the network by selecting a set of dynamic modulation parameters (DMP's) to increase the bandwidth availability within the network. Advantageously, the invention further allows for the allocation of the excess bandwidth to a set of non-hard real-time applications, whenever the current network performance exceeds the PNR. |
| US09912567B2 |
Method of handling NFC device with non-fixed low power polling number and NFC device using the same
A method of handling a near field communications (NFC) device includes setting a low power polling number, wherein the low power polling number is non-fixed; detecting whether any NFC device is nearby; performing low power polls until either at least one NFC device is detected or the number of low power polls reaches the low power polling number; performing a full power polling; and adjusting the low power polling number after the full power polling. |
| US09912566B1 |
Method and apparatus for tracing paths in service function chains
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a trace request packet at a service node in a service chain, the trace request packet comprising a service path identifier, a service index, and a service index limit, processing the trace request packet at the service node, generating a trace report packet at the service node, the trace report packet comprising service function information for the service node, and transmitting the trace report packet. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein. |
| US09912565B2 |
Methods and systems for determining performance capacity of a resource of a networked storage environment
Methods and systems for a networked storage system are provided. One method includes filtering performance data associated with a resource used in a networked storage environment for reading and writing data at a storage device; and determining available performance capacity of the resource using the filtered performance data. The available performance capacity is based on optimum utilization of the resource and actual utilization of the resource, where utilization of the resource is an indicator of an extent the resource is being used at any given time, the optimum utilization is an indicator of resource utilization beyond which throughput gains for a workload is smaller than increase in latency and latency is an indicator of delay at the resource in processing the workload. |
| US09912564B2 |
Methods and systems to identify bottleneck causes in applications using temporal bottleneck point detection
Methods and systems are provided for determining performance characteristics of an application processing system. The method comprises monitoring throughput of a plurality of resources of the system in a selected time window. A change rate is detected in the throughput of the resources, respectively, representative of a change to constancy of workload in at least some of the resources. Such a change in constancy comprises a knee point of a plot of resource usage comprising load relative to throughput. The time of the change rate is identified within the time window. A relatively first to occur of a plurality of resources knee points is determined wherein the resource corresponding to the first to occur is determined to have a fully loaded throughput within the multi-tier processing system. The determination of the first to occur knee point comprises pinpointing a bottleneck starting point within the application processing system. |
| US09912562B2 |
Measuring latency in an interactive application
Embodiments are directed to determining latency in an interactive application. In one scenario, a computer system generates an indication that an input has been triggered. This indication identifies the input. The computer system sends the indication to an interactive application that receives and accesses the indication. The computer system further receives an output from the interactive application that includes an indication of the input, and determines an amount of latency between the sending of the generated indication and the receiving of the interactive application output. |
| US09912554B2 |
End-to-end policy enforcement in the presence of a traffic midpoint device
A global manager computer generates management instructions for a particular managed server within an administrative domain according to a set of rules. A global manager computer identifies a traffic midpoint device through which the provider managed server provides a service to a user device. The global manager determines a relevant rule from the set of rules that is applicable to communication between the provider managed server and the user device and generates a backend rule that is applicable to communication between the provider managed server and the traffic midpoint device. The global managed generates a backend function-level instruction including a reference to an actor-set authorized to communicate with the provider managed server to use the service. The global manager sends the backend function-level instruction to the provider managed server to configure the provider managed server to enforce the backend rule on communication with the actor-set including the traffic midpoint device. |
| US09912551B2 |
Virtual service control point in a network
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for implementing a virtual service control point in a telecommunications network. In one embodiment, the system and methods involve implementing the functions of a service control point (SCP) device on one or more computing devices, such as application servers of the network, of the telecommunications network to create a virtual service control point device. In one embodiment, the virtual SCP may translate toll-free communications, such as 8xx based telephone communications, into a destination address associated with a customer of the network. In addition to resolving communications into a destination address or number, a virtual SCP instantiated in a network may provide one or more routing rules or features for such communications to a customer. |
| US09912548B2 |
Enhanced tracing and/or monitoring of the network nodes of a communication network
A method for enhanced tracing and/or monitoring of network nodes of a communication network includes tracing or capturing, by at least one tracing functionality agent corresponding to at least one virtual machine, first data packets being sent by at least one virtual machine and/or second data packets being received by the at least one virtual machine; and transmitting, by the at least one tracing functionality agent corresponding to the at least one virtual machine, the first data packets and/or the second data packets to a monitoring entity or to a data layer of the communication network. |
| US09912537B2 |
System and method for network provisioning
Implementations described and claimed herein provided for a system for provisioning network resources. The system includes a network provisioning abstraction layer having an application interface for receiving network provisioning requests from applications and determine provisioning instructions for fulfilling the requests. Each of the received provisioning instructions is queued in a priority queuing system according to a request priority. The provisioning instructions for the highest priority requests are removed from the front of the queue and sent to a resource interface that relays the requests to the appropriate network resources. |
| US09912535B2 |
System and method of performing high availability configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Certain aspects direct to system for performing high availability (HA) configuration and validation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The system includes a plurality of computing devices functioning as computing nodes, and a virtual desktop controller. Each computing device includes at least one network interface card (NIC), and each computing node includes at least one computing device. The virtual desktop controller includes a processor, a memory, and a storage device storing computer executable code. The code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: discover the computing devices; configure the NICs of the computing devices; configure hardware and software components of the computing devices; configure at least one cluster of the system, where each cluster includes at least one computing node; execute a hypervisor, and execute a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) on the executed hypervisor; and configure additional features related to the VMs of the system. |
| US09912532B2 |
Port group configuration for interconnected communication devices
Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for configuring ports of interconnected communications equipment include, defining configuration parameters for at least one port of a plurality of ports of a plurality of interconnected communications devices; defining a group of the at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices into a configuration group; and creating an explicit link mirroring the defined configuration parameters of the at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices to the defined configuration group of at least one port of the plurality of ports of the plurality of interconnected communications devices, such that changes made to the defined configuration parameters are replicated and synced to the defined configuration group. |
| US09912530B2 |
Method and apparatus for hitless failover in networking systems using single database
A device includes a master control card that performs control plane processing, a backup control card, where the backup control card takes over control plane processing if the master control card goes out of service, and a database card that connects to the master control card and the backup control card, where the database control card stores information relating to control plane processing. A method of achieving hitless failover in a network element includes detecting that a master control card of the network element has gone out of service, designating the backup control card as a new master control card of the network element, establishing communication with a database card of the network element, and retrieving protocol states information from the database card. |
| US09912529B2 |
Tenant-specific log for events related to a cloud-based service
A method, system, and/or computer program product establishes and utilizes a tenant-specific log for events related to a cloud-based service. A metamodel is created for a cloud-based service running on a cloud. The cloud-based service is provided to a specific tenant of the cloud, and the metamodel describes types of resources, on the cloud, that are providing the cloud-based service for the specific tenant. The metamodel is appended to the cloud-based service. In response to the cloud-based service being executed for the specific tenant of the cloud, the metamodel is used to identify a set of resources that are actually providing the cloud-based service for the specific tenant. A tenant-specific log for events related to the cloud-based service is established, where the tenant-specific log tracks events that occur on each actual resource on the cloud that provides the cloud-based service to the specific tenant. The tenant-specific log is then retrieved. |
| US09912528B2 |
Security content over a management band
There is disclosed in one example, a computing apparatus, having: first one or more logic elements comprising at least a processor and a memory to provide an operational environment; and second one or more logic elements providing an out-of-band management engine to function independently of the operational environment, and to: provide an out-of-band communication driver; determine that the operational environment has encountered an error that inhibits network communication; receive security content from a server via the out-of-band communication driver into a third-party storage area; and apply the security content to the computing apparatus. There is also disclosed a method of providing an out-of-band management engine, and one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums having stored instructions for providing an out-of-band management engine. |
| US09912527B2 |
Communication device, communication system, method for determining path, and program
A communication device communicates with a counterpart device via a working path or any of a plurality of backup paths. The communication device includes: a plurality of selection units which select either one of two paths, the plurality of selection units including a main selection unit and an auxiliary selection unit being different from the main selection unit; and a path determination unit which determines a path selected by one of the plurality of selection units which has last performed path selection to be a path to be used for communicating with the counterpart device. The main selection unit selects one path from between the working path and one of the plurality of backup paths. The auxiliary selection unit selects one path from between a path selected by one selection unit of the plurality of selection units and one of the plurality of backup paths, the one selection unit being different from the auxiliary selection unit. |
| US09912526B2 |
System and method for replacing media content
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first tuning state of a media processor of a subscriber. The first tuning state includes a satellite service channel of a number of channels, wherein the satellite service channel provides a first media content item that is processed by the media processor for presentation. A terrestrial service channel is identified that provides a second media content item. The terrestrial service channel is accessed, but not at a time of access processed by the media processing device for presentation. An unavailability is determined of the satellite service channel to the media processor, and subsequent processing of the second media content item by the media processor is facilitated by replacing the first media content item, responsive to the determining of the unavailability of the satellite service channel. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09912521B2 |
Systems and methods for managing connections in an orchestrated network
An information handling system is provided. The information handling system includes a network infrastructure, the network infrastructure comprising a plurality of network switches in communication with a network controller and a first network server with a network orchestrator running thereon and generating network infrastructure requirements. The information handling system further includes a second network server that has a connection manager running thereon. The connection manager is configured to receive the network infrastructure requirements from the network orchestrator and to convert the specified network infrastructure requirements to instructions suited to the network controller. An associated method for facilitating communication between one or more network orchestrators and network infrastructure is also provided. The information handling system and associated method decouple the network orchestrator from the management of the network infrastructure. |
| US09912520B2 |
Techniques for accessing local networks via a virtualized gateway
Disclosed are various embodiments for receiving, via a network, a request from a client to establish a network tunnel over the network. A credential is received from the client in order to establish the network tunnel. The client is authenticated based upon the credential. The client negotiates, via the network, to establish the network tunnel. |
| US09912517B1 |
Optimized deployment and execution of programs in a distributed computing environment
The execution of a distributed program including one or more program components may be optimized in an automated manner. A runtime optimization policy and/or a meta-description of the distributed program may be received. The runtime optimization policy may define metrics, constraints and/or preferences for use in optimizing the deployment and execution of the components of the distributed program. The meta-description may include data defining one or more consumable interfaces exposed by the program components and one or more dependency adapters utilized by the program components of the distributed program. The runtime optimization policy and/or the meta-description may be utilized to optimize the distributed program at build time, runtime and/or execution time of the components of the distributed program. Dynamic optimization might also be performed during runtime of the distributed program. An optimization component might optimize the deployment and execution of the distributed program in an automated fashion. |
| US09912514B2 |
Method and device for transmitting data based on different pilot tone patterns in wireless LAN
Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting data based on different pilot tone patterns in a wireless LAN. The method for transmitting data based on the different pilot tone patterns in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: an AP transmitting, to a first STA, a first data field generated based on a first pilot tone pattern, from a first frequency bandwidth; and the AP transmitting, to a second STA, a second data field generated based on a second pilot tone pattern, from a second frequency bandwidth, wherein the size of the first frequency bandwidth is n times larger than the size of the second frequency bandwidth, the size of IFFT applied to the first data field and the size of IFFT applied to the second data field are identical, the first pilot tone pattern includes a plurality of first pilot tones, wherein the plurality of first pilot tones are respectively allocated to each of a plurality of first pilot tone indexes, the second pilot tone pattern includes a plurality of second pilot tones, wherein the plurality of second pilot tones are respectively allocated to each of a plurality of second pilot tone indexes, and wherein a portion of the first pilot tone indexes may be identical to the plurality of second pilot tone indexes. |
| US09912511B2 |
Systems and methods for time synchronization between transmitters and receivers in a communication system
Systems and methods which provide training sequence or preamble-based synchronization with respect to non-coherent modulated signals and/or differentially coherent modulated signals are described. Embodiments provide for time synchronization using a technique for mitigating the effect of carrier frequency offset (CFO) with respect to the received signal. Embodiments of the present invention provide for frequency synchronization using a technique for estimating CFO using a constant bias induced with respect to the received signal by CFO. Additionally or alternatively, embodiments of the present invention provide for frequency synchronization using a technique for estimating CFO using phase rotation caused by CFO. The time synchronization and frequency synchronization of embodiments may be performed independently, without requiring the results of one synchronization operation for performing the other synchronization operation. |
| US09912509B2 |
OFDM transmission method and device in wireless LAN system
An apparatus and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is disclosed, in which the apparatus for OFDM transmission in the WLAN system includes a signal repetition unit to repeat an encoded signal based on a block unit and output the encoded signal and a repeated signal, an interleaver to interleave the encoded signal and the repeated signal and output an interleaved signal, a modulator to modulate the interleaved signal and output modulated symbols, and a phase rotation unit to phase shift the modulated symbols. |
| US09912508B2 |
Information processing apparatus, network node, and information processing method
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing apparatus, a network node, and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus may include an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module, a precoding module, and a determining module. The IFFT module is configured to separately perform IFFT processing on N frequency-domain data streams to acquire N time-domain data streams, where N is a positive integer. The precoding module is configured to perform precoding processing on the N time-domain data streams to acquire a precoding processing result. The determining module is configured to determine, according to the precoding processing result, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbol to be sent over each antenna of M antennas. |
| US09912507B2 |
Orthogonal time frequency space communication system compatible with OFDM
A system and method for orthogonal time frequency space communication and waveform generation. The method includes receiving a plurality of information symbols and encoding an N×M array containing the plurality of information symbols into a two-dimensional array of modulation symbols by spreading each of the plurality of information symbols with respect to both time and frequency. The two-dimensional array of modulation symbols is then transmitted using M mutually orthogonal waveforms included within M frequency sub-bands. |
| US09912504B2 |
System and method for multiple carrier transmission
A method includes transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), a first data block on a first carrier and transmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, a first downlink control information (DCI) to initiate a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process associated with the first data block. The method also includes retransmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, the first data block and transmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, a second DCI, where the second DCI includes a first transmission indicator and an indicator of the first carrier, and where the second DCI continues the HARQ process. |
| US09912503B2 |
Bluetooth signal receiving method and device using improved carrier frequency offset compensation
Disclosed herein are a Bluetooth signal receiving device and method. The Bluetooth signal receiving device includes a frequency shift demodulator circuit, a sampler circuit, a training bit pattern discriminator circuit, and a frequency offset compensation circuit. The frequency shift demodulator circuit generates a baseband signal by performing frequency shift demodulation on a received signal, and generates a frequency proportion signal having a value proportional to the frequency of the baseband signal. The sampler circuit generates a plurality of series of bit streams from the frequency proportion signal. The training bit pattern discriminator circuit determines whether the plurality of series of bit streams generated by the sampler circuit satisfies a training bit pattern condition. The frequency offset compensation circuit compensates the frequency proportion signal by using a measured error metric as a effective error metric when the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition. |
| US09912497B2 |
Signal detection in a communication system
There is provided a computer-implemented method of estimating transmitted signals in a communication system, the signals being transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver over a communication channel having a channel response, the method comprising estimating the transmitted signals based on generated trial sequences minimizing the channel response between adjacent received signals. There is also provided a receiver, a signal detector device and a communication system adapted to estimated transmitted signals in a communication system by generating trial sequences and determining the generated trial sequences minimizing the channel response between adjacent received signals. The present invention is particularly adapted for OFDM communication systems. |
| US09912494B2 |
Distributed application hosting environment to mask heterogeneity
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives data from one or more other devices in the network via one or more protocol adaptors. The device transforms the received data into a common data model. The device executes a containerized application. The device exposes the transformed data to the application. |
| US09912490B2 |
Method and device for deleting smart scene
A method and a device are provided for deleting a smart scene in the field of smart home. The device receives an unbundling notification message indicating that a designated smart device has been successfully unbundled. The device detects whether a target smart scene set with the designated smart device exists among established smart scenes. When a target smart scene set with the designated smart device exists among the established smart scenes, the device deletes the target smart scene. A smart scene set with a smart device is deleted after the designated smart device is successfully unbundled. |
| US09912489B2 |
Multiple-user request-to-send frames in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW)
Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for sending and receiving multi-user request-to-send frames in a high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) are disclosed. HEW frames are sent with frame types and subtypes the same as legacy frames with a length field greater than a legacy length to indicate the frame is a HEW frame. An apparatus of a high-efficiency (HE) wireless local-area network device is disclosed. The apparatus including transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry configured to receive a frame comprising a legacy frame type, a legacy frame sub-type, and a length in a legacy signal field (L-SIG), and determine the frame is an HE frame if the length is greater than a threshold length, wherein the threshold length is greater than a second length of a legacy frame of the legacy frame type and legacy frame sub-type. |
| US09912487B2 |
DC power distrubution system
The invention relates to a DC power distribution system, especially an EMerge DC power distribution system (1). The system is adapted such that power conductors (3, 4) electrically connected to different groups (5, 6) of ports (14) belong to separate power line communication (PLC) channels, wherein several electrical loads (7 . . . 10; 11 . . . 13) are in power line communication with a group of ports of a same PLC channel. The separation of the different PLC channels allows for a relatively simple determination to which group of ports which electrical loads are electrically connected. This information can be used by, for instance, a user to commission the electrical loads. For example, if the locations of the power conductors, which are electrically connected to certain groups of ports, are known, the information about which electrical loads are connected to which groups of ports can be used for determining the location of the respective electrical load. |
| US09912486B1 |
Countersigned certificates
A digital certificate for an entity is issued and signed by a certificate authority. One or more counter signing entities are identified in an extension to the digital certificate. Each countersigning entity adds a countersignature to the digital certificate using a private cryptographic key maintained by each countersigning entity. A client that receives the digital certificate validates the digital certificate by in part validating the digital signature of the issuing certificate authority and validating the digital signatures of the countersigning entities. In determining whether the digital certificate is valid, the client may consider the geographic regions, legal jurisdictions, and identity verification processes of the certificate authority and of the countersigning entities. In some examples, the client requires that the issuing certificate authority and the countersigning entities represent a minimum amount of geographic and jurisdictional diversity. In other examples, the client requires a minimum threshold number of countersigning entities. |
| US09912476B2 |
System and method for content protection based on a combination of a user PIN and a device specific identifier
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encryption and key management. The method includes encrypting each file on a computing device with a unique file encryption key, encrypting each unique file encryption key with a corresponding class encryption key, and encrypting each class encryption key with an additional encryption key. Further disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for encrypting a credential key chain. The method includes encrypting each credential on a computing device with a unique credential encryption key, encrypting each unique credential encryption key with a corresponding credential class encryption key, and encrypting each class encryption key with an additional encryption key. Additionally, a method of generating a cryptographic key based on a user-entered password and a device-specific identifier secret utilizing an encryption algorithm is disclosed. |
| US09912472B2 |
Homomorphic database operations apparatuses, methods and systems
The HOMOMORPHIC DATABASE OPERATIONS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“HEDO”) transform transaction storage requests and homomorphic model queries using HEDO components into homomorphic model query results. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of securely querying a shared homomorphically encrypted data repository and performing cross-table homomorphic joins. |
| US09912469B2 |
Phase control block for managing multiple clock domains in systems with frequency offsets
A circuit for performing clock recovery according to a received digital signal 30. The circuit includes at least an edge sampler 105 and a data sampler 145 for sampling the digital signal, and a clock signal supply circuit. The clock signal supply circuit provides edge clock 25 and data clock 20 signals offset in phase from one another to the respective clock inputs of the edge sampler 105 and the data sampler 145. The clock signal supply circuit is operable to selectively vary a phase offset between the edge and data clock signals. |
| US09912467B2 |
Full duplex technique
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communications. The apparatus comprises an interface configured to output a first signal for transmission via at least one first antenna, to output a second signal for transmission via at least one second antenna, to receive the transmitted first signal via the at least one second antenna, and to receive the transmitted second signal via the at least one first antenna. The apparatus also comprises a processing system configured to measure a phase of the received first signal and a phase of the received second signal, to determine a phase correction for the at least one first antenna based on the measured phase of the received first signal and the measured phase of the received second signal, and to shift a phase of a transmit signal by the phase correction, wherein the interface is configured to output the transmit signal for transmission via the at least one first antenna after the transmit signal is phase shifted. |
| US09912466B2 |
Method and system for a low-power client in a wide area network
A network device may be operable to receive an indication from a cable modem termination system (CMTS) that media access control (MAC) management messages will be transmitted by the CMTS at fixed intervals. Subsequent to receiving the indication, the network device may be operable to power down one or more components of the network device and set a sleep timer to a value equal to an integer multiple of the fixed interval minus a transition period. The network device may power up the one or more components of the network device upon expiration of the sleep timer. The network device may power up the one or more components of the network device upon an amount of traffic in a buffer of the network device reaching a threshold. |
| US09912464B2 |
Interference relationship characterization in full duplex cable network environments
An example method for characterizing interference relationships in full duplex cable network environments is provided and includes generating a global interfered list for a plurality of cable modems in the cable network and for a plurality of frequency ranges, generating a global interfering list for the plurality of cable modems and for the plurality of frequency ranges, assigning respective downstream reception frequency ranges and upstream transmission frequency ranges for the plurality of cable modems based on the global interfered list and the global interfering list, and transmitting to the cable modems corresponding assignment information comprising the respective assigned downstream reception frequency ranges and upstream transmission frequency ranges. |
| US09912463B2 |
Full duplex transmission setup and release mechanism
In a wireless network, full duplex communication is established using a half-duplex mechanism. During a full duplex communication opportunity, a first quantum of data is transmitted from a first station to a second station and a second quantum of data is received by the first station from the second station. The full duplex transmission opportunity is implicitly or explicitly established and ended using a transmission mechanism understood by half duplex wireless stations. |
| US09912460B2 |
Control and data multiplexing in communication systems
Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communication. First offset information and second offset information are identified. A size of uplink data for a user equipment (UE) is identified. The uplink data is transmitted with at least one of acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) information and channel quality indicator (CQI) information on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A number of symbols for the ACK/NACK information is determined based on the first offset information and the size of uplink data. A number of symbols for the CQI information is determined based on the second offset information and the size of uplink data. |
| US09912454B2 |
Systems and methods for efficient file transfer in a boot mode of a basic input/output system
An information handling system may include a processor, a network interface communicatively coupled to the processor, a storage resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The BIOS may be configured to, during a pre-boot environment of the information handling system: receive a datagram at the network interface from a network communicatively coupled to the network interface; determine if a variable is set within a header of the datagram indicating that a data payload of the datagram is to be bypassed by at least a portion of a network stack and a storage stack of the BIOS; and responsive to determining the variable is set, bypass the data payload by at least a portion of the network stack and the storage stack of the BIOS. |
| US09912449B2 |
Internet protocol interface selection for routing data traffic
A technology for a user equipment (UE) that is operable to select an internet protocol (IP) interface in a communications network is disclosed. Local policy information and access network selection information can be received from an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) operating on a server in an evolved packet core (EPC). At least one IP interface on which to route an IP flow using inter access point name routing policies (IARP) can be determined prior to implementing other routing policies. The IP flow from the UE on at least one IP interface selected can be routed using the IARP. |
| US09912444B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink data in a wireless access system
A method of channel coding for transmitting data in a wireless access system includes: calculating a number C of code blocks by an equation of C=┌B/(Z−L)┐, wherein B denotes a size of an input bit sequence, wherein Z denotes a maximum size of the code blocks, and wherein L denotes a size of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) which is to be attached to each of the code blocks; calculating a size B′ of a modified input bit sequence by an equation of B′=B+C*L; generating the code blocks based on the number C of the code blocks and the size B′ of the modified input bit sequence; and channel-coding the code blocks. |
| US09912439B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending channel state information using subframe-dependent control channel formats
Techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) for multiple cells (e.g., carriers) using multiple control channel formats are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may be configured for operation on a plurality of cells. The UE may be configured to periodically report CSI for the plurality of cells and may also report CSI whenever requested. The UE may be configured with a plurality of control channel formats for sending CSI and possibly other control information in different subframes. The plurality of control channel formats may be associated with at least two different capacities. The UE may report CSI for the plurality of cells in the plurality of subframes based on the plurality of control channel formats. |
| US09912437B2 |
Optical transmitters
An optical transmitter may include a transmit laser assembly configured to emit multiple light beams. The optical transmitter may additionally include an isolator configured to rotate a corresponding polarization state of each of the multiple light beams. The optical transmitter may additionally include a power multiplexing combiner configured to receive the multiple light beams from the isolator and combine the multiple light beams into a combined light beam. The optical transmitter may additionally include a lens configured to focus the combined light beam onto an optical fiber for transmission. |
| US09912433B2 |
Method and apparatus for increasing performance of communication links of communication nodes
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining performance parameters in a communications network, identifying a degradation in performance of one or more nodes of the communications network according the monitored performance parameters, and initiating corrective action to mitigate the degradation in performance of the one or more nodes of the communications network. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09912432B2 |
Terminal apparatus and sequence assigning method
Provided is a sequence allocation method capable of reducing inter-cell interference of a reference signal when a ZC sequence is used as the reference signal in a mobile communication system. In the sequence allocation method, R×M sequences specified by a ZC sequence number r (r=1 to R) and a cyclic shift sequence number m (m=1 to M) are divided into a plurality of sequence groups X (X=1 to R) in accordance with the transmission band width of the reference signal, so that the ZC sequence is allocated to each cell in each sequence group unit. When it is assumed that R=9 and M=6, the number of sequences is 54. Each of the sequence groups is formed by two sequences. Accordingly, the number of sequence groups is 27. The 27 types of sequence groups are allocated to each cell. |
| US09912427B2 |
Reception apparatus and system
A reception apparatus for receiving data from a transmission apparatus includes a data receiver configured to receive a synchronization packet including clock information generated by the transmission apparatus and data from the transmission apparatus, a storage memory, storing the received data, a clock adjuster configured to correct a clock of the reception apparatus based on a deviation between a clock of the transmission apparatus and the clock of the reception apparatus by using the clock information generated by the transmission apparatus, a controller configured to control a clock correction amount of the clock adjuster based on a storage amount of data in the storage memory, and a data output circuit configured to retrieve the data from the storage memory to output the retrieved data in synchronization with the corrected clock. |
| US09912426B1 |
Time correction using extension fields
A network device receives a packet that conforms to a protocol that i) defines a time stamp field, ii) does not define a dedicated field for time correction information, and iii) defines a plurality of general purpose extension fields. The packet includes a time stamp generated by a source node in the time stamp field. The network device determines that the packet conforms to the protocol. The network device adds to the packet a new general purpose extension field. The new general purpose extension field specifies time correction information indicating a residence time of the packet in the network device, where the time correction information is for correcting the time specified by the time stamp. |
| US09912422B2 |
Radio information system and method for remote locations
A radio broadcast system and method can assist employees in a hydrocarbon field that is compliance monitored using a checkpoint monitor installed therein. A radio transmitter located on the checkpoint monitor is configured to transmit a broadcast signal including a radio program, in a selected radio broadcast band, to be received by a radio device on a vehicle occupied by the employees of the compliance monitored hydrocarbon field. The radio program includes company rules and regulations, safety related information and employee activity status and assignment status information for the hydrocarbon field. |
| US09912421B2 |
Broadcast seeding for peer-to-peer networks
The distribution of content over a peer to peer (P2P) network can be improved by utilizing at least one broadcast of the content in order to quickly seed the P2P network. When content is first to be distributed across the network, a broadcast can be scheduled that each peer device with broadcast receiving capability and within range of the broadcast is able to receive. As soon as a peer device receives at least a portion of the broadcast content, that peer can begin redistributing the content across the P2P network. Any errors or missing portions of the received broadcast content can be corrected by requesting a copy of the missing or incorrect portion from another peer on the P2P network. |
| US09912419B1 |
Method and apparatus for managing a fault in a distributed antenna system
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a first antenna system of a distributed antenna system, a first wireless signal from a second antenna system of the distributed antenna system, the second antenna system included in a first series of antenna systems of the distributed antenna system, detecting an operational fault in the second antenna system, and redirecting, by the first antenna system, a first wireless transmission to a third antenna system of the distributed antenna system, the third antenna system included in a second series of antenna systems of the distributed antenna system, the first series of antenna systems providing first communication services, the second series of antenna systems providing second communication services, and the second communication services utilized at least in part as backup communication services when a communication fault is detected in the first series of antenna systems. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09912418B2 |
Distributed system for radio frequency environment simulation
In some embodiments, an electromagnetic measurement system to perform radio frequency, RF, downlink testing of a device under test, DUT, in a chamber is provided. Exterior to the chamber is an emulator core configured to introduce an impairment in each of at least one transmit signal to produce at least one impaired signal for each of at least one emulated channel. Within the chamber, for each of the at least one emulated channel, an up-converter is configured to up-convert an impaired signal of the emulated channel to produce a radio frequency, RF, signal. |
| US09912416B2 |
Communication device and biological signal monitoring device
A communication device includes a ground unit, a dielectric plate, a communication circuit, a conductor, and a capacitance element. The ground unit has a reference potential applied to the ground unit. The dielectric plate is provided on the ground unit. The communication circuit is provided on the dielectric plate and performs a transmission and a reception of a signal. The conductor is connected to the communication circuit. An end of the capacitance element is connected to the conductor. An another end of the capacitance element is connected to the ground unit. A capacitance of the capacitance element is smaller than a capacitance formed between the conductor and the ground unit. The capacitance of the capacitance element is bigger than a capacitance formed between the conductor and the ground unit being caused by a human body touching or approximating to the conductor. |
| US09912410B1 |
Optical radio-frequency down-conversion and remoting
A system for optically down-converting a radio-frequency signal includes phase modulators in a push-pull configuration. Separately tuned optical bandpass filters pass through one or more harmonics and inverse harmonics based on the RF signal to produce a local oscillator. A balanced photo-detector receives a coherent interference signal and derives the down-converted local oscillator from a filtered harmonic and inverse harmonic. |
| US09912403B2 |
Apparatus for transceiving signals in accordance with a frame structure supportive of a plurality of carriers in a wireless communication system and method thereof
Apparatus for transceiving signals in accordance with a frame structure supportive of a plurality of carriers in a wireless communication system and method thereof are disclosed. The method includes transceiving the signal using at least one carrier in accordance with the frame structure supportive of the carriers. The frame structure includes the carriers. First carrier among the carriers includes a downlink static assignment region assigned statically for a user equipment to receive the signal from a base station, a downlink dynamic assigned region assigned in a manner of being flexibly changed and an uplink transmitting region for the user equipment to transmit an uplink signal. Second carrier among the carriers includes an uplink transmitting region for the user equipment to transmit the uplink signal. The first or second carrier includes an uplink static assignment region assigned statically for an uplink transmission of the user equipment. |
| US09912402B2 |
Satellite reception assembly installation and maintenance
A direct broadcast satellite (DBS) reception assembly may receive a desired satellite signal and process the desired satellite signal for output to a gateway. The DBS assembly may also receive one or more undesired satellite signals and determine a performance metric of the one or more undesired satellite signals. The elevation angle of the assembly and/or the azimuth angle of the assembly may be adjusted based on the performance metric(s) of the undesired satellite signal(s). The adjusting of the elevation angle and/or the azimuth angle may comprise electronically steering a directivity of a receive radiation pattern of the DBS reception assembly and/or mechanically steering one or more components of the assembly via motors, servos, actuators, MEMS, and/or the like. The performance metric may be received signal strength of the undesired signals, received signal strength of the desired signal, SNR of the desired signal, and/or SNR of the undesired signals. |
| US09912400B1 |
Concurrent mobile user objective system streaming
A computer defined radio includes a Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) terminal configured to instantiate two or more virtual terminals. Each of the two or more virtual terminals provides all of the functionality of a MUOS terminal with satellite communication through a single antenna. Each of the two or more virtual terminals may join a separate group as defined by MUOS specifications, and give the single MUOS terminal access to the disparate groups. Each of the two or more virtual terminals is configured to operate at a different bitrate such that the total power consumption of the MUOS terminal is less than the same number of physical terminals operating separately. |
| US09912398B2 |
Transmission method, detection method and equipment for control channels of a relay system
A configuration method, detection method and equipment for control channels of a relay system are provided in the present invention. The configuration method comprises: the network side transmits a Relay-Physical Downlink Control Channel (R-PDCCH) of a control channel to its service relay equipment, the related control information of said relay equipment is included in said R-PDCCH, said R-PDCCH is a dedicated R-PDCCH of said relay equipment. In the present invention, the dedicated control channel of the relay system is configured according to the number of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols occupied by a R-PDCCH, and the mapping from a R-PDDCH/Relay-Physical Downlink Shared Channel (R-PDSCH) to a Resource Element (RE), and the demand that one relay node dedicates a R-PDCCH is satisfied. |
| US09912391B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information
A communication method of a user equipment in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a control signal from a base station, the control signal comprising at least one of: a first information element or a second information element; determining, if a field of the first information element is set to a predetermined value and a channel state information (CSI) reporting mode determined based on the second information element is a redetermined mode, a codebook based on the CSI reporting mode; generating a CSI based on the determined codebook, the CSI comprising at least one of a rank indicator (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI), or a second PMI; and reporting the generated CSI to the base station. |
| US09912390B2 |
Method for guaranteeing channel phase continuity of pre-coded RB groups, base station and computer-readable storage medium
A method for guaranteeing channel phase continuity of pre-coded RB groups, a base station and a computer-readable storage medium are described. The method includes that: a base station implements a channel estimation through a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) measurement to obtain an uplink channel and obtains a corresponding downlink channel based on reciprocity of uplink and downlink channels; the base station calculates a weight phase correction factor based on the obtained downlink channel and corrects a pre-coding weight with the weight phase correction factor; and the base station pre-codes data according to the corrected pre-coding weight and sends the pre-coded data. |
| US09912388B2 |
Sub-channel allocation in orthogonal frequency division multiplex WLAN
A method for simultaneous communication with multiple communication devices in a wireless local area network is described. Respective sub-channels of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication channel are allocated to two or more second communication devices for simultaneous OFDM transmission to the two or more second communication devices, including allocating first and second sub-channels to first and second ones of the two or more second communication devices, respectively. Respective downlink OFDM data units are generated using the corresponding allocated sub-channels. The downlink OFDM data units are transmitted using the corresponding allocated sub-channels. At least first and second uplink OFDM data units transmitted by the respective second communication device in response to the corresponding downlink OFDM data unit are received. The first and second uplink OFDM data units are transmitted from the respective second communication device via the corresponding allocated sub-channel. |
| US09912387B2 |
Distributed antenna system including crest factor reduction module disposed at optimum position
A distributed antenna system includes a plurality of head-end units for each receiving mobile communication signals from at least one corresponding base station, a hub unit communicatively coupled to the plurality of head-end units, and a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the hub unit, wherein the hub unit configured to distribute the mobile communication signals received from each of the plurality of head-end units to the plurality of remote units, wherein each of the plurality of remote units is remotely disposed to transmit the distributed mobile communication signals to a terminal in service coverage, and wherein the hub unit includes a mixing processing stage configured to perform digital mixing processing on the mobile communication signals respectively received from the plurality of head-end units, and a crest factor reduction (CFR) module disposed posterior to the mixing processing stage, with respect to a signal transmission direction. |
| US09912386B2 |
Method for operating object capable via contactless communication
A method for managing the operation of an object capable of contactless communication with a reader, magnetically coupled to the object, includes at least one phase for transmission of information from the object to the reader, including a modulation of the impedance of a load connected across the terminals of the antenna of the object. The method furthermore comprises a control phase that includes an estimation of the distance between the object and the reader and an adjustment of the impedance of the load as a function of the estimated distance. |
| US09912384B1 |
Tracking personnel access to aircraft on the ground
A system and method are provided for tracking access. At least one passive wireless identification device is provided at a personnel access point. Communication is established between a mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device when the mobile device passes the personnel access point. Occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device are separately communicated to a remote data collection device. The occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device are recorded in the remote data collection device. Data based on the recorded occurrences of the established communication between the mobile device and the at least one passive wireless identification device is output from the remote data collection device. |
| US09912376B2 |
Managing crosstalk in vectored transmissions
Methods, systems, and apparatus for crosstalk avoidance in a telecommunications network are disclosed. In one aspect a telecommunications device includes a transceiver and a vectoring engine coupled to the transceiver. The vectoring engine can include a vectoring processor and vectoring control entity (e.g., apparatus). The vectoring engine is configured to instruct the transceiver to transmit, over a given line pair of a given vectoring group, initialization symbols at one or more configurable locations of a Time-Division Duplex (TDD) frame. For example, the vectoring engine can instruct the transceiver to transmit the initialization symbols beginning at a first symbol time following transmission, over other line pairs of the given vectoring group, of a Robust Management Channel (RMC) symbol. |
| US09912373B1 |
Techniques to detect echoes using audio fingerprinting
Techniques to detect echoes using audio fingerprinting are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a streaming component operative to establish a audio connection between the first client device and a second client device; and receive a far-end audio stream at the first client device from the second client device via the audio connection; an audio capture component operative capture a near-end audio stream at the first client device; and an echo processing component operative to compare the near-end audio stream and the far-end audio stream to determine whether a far-end audio segment is present in the near-end audio stream; and use an echo-cancellation module at the first client device where the far-end audio segment is present in the near-end audio stream. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US09912372B2 |
Multicarrier communication system employing explicit frequency hopping
Variable bandwidth assignment and frequency hopping are employed to make efficient use of radio resources. Variable bandwidth assignment is achieved by dynamically allocating different numbers of subcarriers to different wireless communication devices depending on their instantaneous channel conditions. The frequency hopping patterns are determined “on-the-fly” based on the current bandwidth assignments. The bandwidth assignments and frequency hopping patterns are signaled to the wireless communication devices in a scheduling grant. |
| US09912370B2 |
High-frequency module and communication device
In a high-frequency module, SAW duplexers are connected to a selection target terminal. A phase circuit is connected between a first SAW duplexer and the selection target terminal and a phase circuit is connected between a second SAW duplexer and the selection target terminal. The phase circuits make the second SAW duplexer side, when seen from the selection target terminal side, be in a substantially open state at a high frequency in the frequency bands of fundamental waves of first communication signals and make the first SAW duplexer side be in a substantially open state in the frequency bands of fundamental waves of second communication signals. The phase circuit is a band elimination filter having an attenuation pole near a third harmonic frequency band of the first transmission signal. |
| US09912369B1 |
Methods and apparatus for adaptively maintaining a communications link during idle mode
An integrated circuit for adaptively maintaining a communications link during an idle mode is disclosed. The integrated circuit may operate in a first (active) mode and a second (idle) mode. The integrated circuit includes a transceiver circuit that establishes a communications link with an additional transceiver circuit of an external integrated circuit. The transceiver circuit may receive data packets from the additional transceiver circuit during the first mode. The integrated circuit further includes monitoring circuitry that monitors a health metric associated with maintaining the communications link between the transceiver circuit and the additional transceiver circuit during the second mode. A control circuit may generate keep-alive signals and adaptively adjusts the frequency of the keep-alive signals such that the health metric is satisfied. |
| US09912366B2 |
Mobile phone glove
A method and apparatus for managing a mobile phone. In one illustrative example, an apparatus comprises a garment having a glove-type shape, a pocket attached to a side of the garment, and a receptacle for holding a mobile device that has a touchscreen. The receptacle is attached to the garment through the pocket. The receptacle is comprised of a material that enables a user to interact with the touchscreen of the mobile device. |
| US09912363B2 |
Short-range wireless communication apparatus
A short-range wireless communication apparatus is disclosed. The short-range wireless communication apparatus comprises: multiple connection devices and a control device. The connection devices are capable of simultaneously connecting multiple communication interfaces to a communication counterparty apparatus to enable sound data transfer. When the control device determines that, in cases where the communication interfaces are communicably connected, there arises a request to start outputting the sound data transferred by one of the communication interfaces, the control device disconnects another one of the communication interfaces while keeping the one of the communication interfaces connected and causes a sound data output device to output the sound data transferred from the communication counterparty apparatus by the one of the communication interfaces. |
| US09912358B2 |
Method of and apparatus for transmit noise reduction at a receiver
A method of reducing the noise from a transmitter at an associated receiver is disclosed. Noise contributions in active channels are identified and used to update a shared noise cancellation filter. Excluding signals from inactive channels speeds up the filter convergence to a near optimal solution. Sharing a filter across multiple channels reduces component count and power consumption. |
| US09912357B1 |
Digital polar transmitter having a digital front end
A digital polar transmitter arrangement having a digital front end (DFE) and a transmit chain is disclosed. The DFE is configured to resample a baseband signal relative to a carrier frequency at a carrier frequency related sample rate, calculate zero crossing positions of the resampled signal, generate delay to time converter (DTC) commands based on the zero crossing positions, calculate amplitude values for the zero crossing positions and generate dynamic phase alignment (DPA) commands based on the amplitude values. The transmit chain is configured to generate an output signal having amplitude and phase modulation based on the DTC and DPA commands. |
| US09912356B2 |
Transmitting apparatus and mapping method thereof
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme. |
| US09912355B2 |
Distributed concatenated error correction
In one embodiment, a distributed concatenated error correction logic is disposed on separate integrated circuit dies to facilitate efficiency. In one embodiment, an inner error correction code logic of the distributed concatenated error correction logic is disposed on an integrated circuit die of a memory circuit and an outer error correction code logic of the distributed concatenated error correction logic is disposed on an integrated circuit die of a memory controller. In one aspect, it is believed that such an arrangement may be employed to increase the usefulness of memory controllers for later generation memory circuits. Other aspects are described herein. |
| US09912353B1 |
Systems and methods for generating soft information in a flash device
Systems and methods are provided for generating a soft information metric corresponding to a bit stored in a memory. The systems and methods include comparing a symbol value associated with the stored bit to a plurality of decision thresholds to obtain a plurality of binary values. One of the plurality of binary values is selected to obtain a reference value. Further, a frequency metric is computed, which corresponds to the number of times each of the plurality of binary values equals a predefined value. The soft information metric is then determined based on the frequency metric and the reference value. |
| US09912347B2 |
Ad converter and ad conversion method
A successive approximation ADC capable of reducing deterioration in AD conversion accuracy due to noise is provided. An AD converter according to an embodiment includes: a DA converter that generates a comparison voltage based on a sampling value obtained by sampling an analog signal, and a successive approximation control signal; a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a reference voltage used for the successive approximation process; a comparator that compares the comparison voltage with the reference voltage and outputs a successive approximation result; a successive approximation processing unit that generates the successive approximation control signal based on the successive approximation result; and a storage unit that stores an expected value of the AD conversion process. The reference voltage generation circuit generates the reference voltage based on the expected value stored in the storage unit. |
| US09912345B2 |
Method and system for frequency generation
Methods and systems for frequency generation may comprise a circuit with a first input coupled to receive a first satellite signal at a first satellite downlink frequency, a second input coupled to receive a second satellite signal at a second satellite downlink frequency, and a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an input coupled to receive the first satellite signal. The first ADC may be configured to create a first digital output signal representing the first satellite signal. A second ADC having an input coupled to receive the second satellite signal may be configured to create a second digital output representing the second satellite signal. The circuit may comprise a dielectric resonator oscillator having an output and a clock generator circuit having an input coupled to the oscillator output and configured to output one or more clocks used by the first and second ADCs. |
| US09912343B1 |
Analog to digital converter with background calibration techniques
Various techniques that can provide a capability to background calibrate ADC linearity error, e.g., due to capacitor mismatch drift and other parameter drift, during normal ADC operation in which analog-to-digital signal conversions are ongoing. A method can include grouping capacitors of an ADC into multiple clusters and calibrating under an arbitrary signal condition. To quickly converge the calibration result, the same arbitrary signal can be converted twice, and the capacitor(s) being calibrated can be modulated after first conversion. The difference between the results of the first and second conversions can contain the error information that can be used for calibration, and the signal component can be removed by this process. These techniques can provide improved linearity at 20-bit level and beyond. |
| US09912339B2 |
Atomic oscillator
An atomic oscillator includes a gas cell that has metal atoms sealed therein, a heating unit that heats the gas cell, a heat transmission unit that is positioned between the gas cell and the heating unit, is thermally connected to the gas cell, and transmits heat generated by the heating unit to the gas cell, and a light absorbing unit that is thermally connected to the gas cell so as to be separated from the heat transmission unit and absorbs heat of the gas cell. The heat transmission unit includes a gas cell accommodation portion including at least a pair of gas cell accommodation walls disposed outside the gas cell, and a thermal conductive elastic member which is interposed in a gap formed by the gas cell and the gas cell accommodation walls of the heat transmission unit. |
| US09912338B1 |
Apparatus and method for reduced latency signal synchronization
A circuit to sample an input signal in an asynchronous clock domain. The apparatus includes a first latch configured to favor resolving to a logical high level and a second latch configured to favor resolving to a logical low level. The circuit includes a pullup pMOSFET, and first and second pMOSFETs. The first pMOSFET has a source terminal coupled to the drain terminal of the pullup pMOSFET, a gate coupled to a first input port of the first latch, and a drain terminal coupled to a second output port of the second latch. The second pMOSFET has a source terminal coupled to the drain terminal of the pullup pMOSFET, a gate coupled to the second output port of the second latch, and a drain terminal coupled to the first input port of the first latch. |
| US09912337B2 |
Systems and methods for configuring an SOPC without a need to use an external memory
Systems and techniques for configuration of a system on a programmable chip (SOPC) are described. By configuring the SOPC, during power-up, with a voltage input instead of with a flash memory or another non-volatile memory, the systems and techniques may save cost and board space. |
| US09912335B2 |
Configurable power domain and method
Aspects of this disclosure are directed to level-shifting approaches with communications between respective circuits. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments characterized herein, a voltage level of communications passed between respective circuits are selectively shifted. Where the respective circuits operate under respective power domains that are shifted in voltage range relative to one another, the voltage level of the communications is shifted. This approach may, for example, facilitate power-savings for stacked circuits in which a low-level voltage of one circuit is provided as a high-level voltage for another circuit. When the respective circuits operate under a common power domain, the communications are passed directly between the respective circuits (e.g., bypassing any level-shifting, and facilitating fast communication). |
| US09912334B2 |
Method and circuit for detection of a fault event
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit includes a Correlated Electron Switch (CES) element and a programming circuit. The CES element includes a first input. The first input of the CES element is coupled to an input signal to be monitored. The CES element is programmed in a first impedance state. The programming circuit coupled to the CES element is configured to switch the CES element from the first impedance state to a second impedance state in response to a voltage transition on the input signal. The voltage transition indicates a fault event. The output element coupled to the first input of the CES element determines that the transition has occurred responsive to the CES element switching to the second impedance state. |
| US09912331B2 |
Gate driver that drives with a sequence of gate resistances
A gate driver integrated circuit for driving a gate of an IGBT or MOSFET receives an input signal. In response to a rising edge of the input signal, the integrated circuit causes the gate to be driven in a first sequence of time periods. In each period, the gate is driven high (pulled up) via a corresponding one of a plurality of different effective gate resistances. In response to a falling edge of the input signal, the integrated circuit causes the gate to be driven in a second sequence of time periods. In each period, the gate is driven low (pulled down) via a corresponding one of the different effective gate resistances. In one example, the duration of each time period is set by a corresponding external passive circuit component. The different effective gate resistances are set by external gate resistors disposed between the integrated circuit and the gate. |
| US09912330B2 |
Control circuits of collector current of substrate bipolar junction transistors and circuits of compensating for base current for generating a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) voltage using the control circuits
A circuit for controlling a collector current of a substrate bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is provided. The circuit includes a first current mirror configured to generate a first mirroring base current corresponding to a replicate current of a base current of the substrate BJT, a current transmitter configured to transmit the first mirroring base current, a second current mirror configured to generate a second mirroring base current corresponding to a replicate current of the first mirroring base current received from the current transmitter and configured to supply the second mirroring base current to an emitter of the substrate BJT, and a current source configured to supply a drive current corresponding to a collector current of the substrate BJT to the emitter of the substrate BJT. |
| US09912322B2 |
Clock generation circuit that tracks critical path across process, voltage and temperature variation
Clock generation circuit that track critical path across process, voltage and temperature variation. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit device includes an oscillator electronic circuit on the integrated circuit device configured to produce an oscillating signal and a receiving electronic circuit configured to use the oscillating signal as a system clock. The oscillating signal tracks a frequency-voltage characteristic of the receiving electronic circuit across process, voltage and temperature variations. The oscillating signal may be independent of any off-chip oscillating reference signal. |
| US09912321B2 |
Data output circuit
Provided is a data output circuit including: a control code generation unit suitable for generating a control code; and a driving unit suitable for driving an output pad with driving power determined by the control code in response to a data signal, wherein the control code generation unit generates an initial value of the control code in an initialization section, a calibration value of the control code in a calibration section, and a blocking value of the control code before the initialization section, wherein the calibration value is adjusted by a calibration operation in the calibration section, and wherein the driving unit is blocked by the blocking value. |
| US09912317B2 |
Apparatus and method for selecting frequency band
A switching circuit is provided. The switching circuit includes at least one Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter, a Single-Pole n Throw (SPnT) switch connected to an input port of each of the at least one SAW filter, and a Dual-Pole n Throw (DPnT) switch connected to an output port of each of the at least one SAW filter. |
| US09912315B2 |
Composite electronic component and board having the same
A composite electronic component includes a composite body including a common mode filter and a resistor that are coupled to each other, the common mode filter including a common mode choke coil; and a plurality of input terminals disposed on a first side surface of the composite body, a plurality of output terminals, and a ground terminal. |
| US09912314B2 |
Single crystal acoustic resonator and bulk acoustic wave filter
A method of wafer scale packaging acoustic resonator devices and an apparatus therefor. The method including providing a partially completed semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of single crystal acoustic resonator devices provided on a silicon and carbide bearing material, each having a first electrode member, a second electrode member, and an overlying passivation material. At least one of the devices to be configured with an external connection, a repassivation material overlying the passivation material, an under metal material overlying the repassivation material. Copper pillar interconnect structures are then configured overlying the electrode members, and solder bump structures are form overlying the copper pillar interconnect structures. |
| US09912310B2 |
Differential signal conditioner with common mode voltage error compensation
A differential signal conditioner circuit with common mode voltage (CMV) compensation is provided. The circuit includes a signal multiplexer that receives a input signal that includes a high and low signal and a reference CMV signal, a differential amplifier coupled to the signal multiplexer that receives the reference CMV signal and outputs a CMV error value during a first cycle, and receives the input signal and outputs an amplified difference signal during a second cycle. The circuit also includes a CMV measurement circuit that receives the reference CMV signal and outputs a confirmation value during the first cycle, and receives the input signal and outputs a CMV compensation value during the second cycle, and a processing element that receives the CMV error value, the amplified difference signal, the CMV compensation value, and a differential amplifier gain value and generates a CMV compensated output based on the received signals and values. |
| US09912308B2 |
Tube amplifier assembly having a power tube and a capacitor assembly
Tube amplifier assembly including a power tube that is configured to be coupled to a grounding deck and positioned within an opening of the grounding deck. The tube amplifier assembly also includes a tube adapter that is configured to be coupled to the grounding deck. The tube adapter has a capacitive plate that extends parallel to the grounding deck and an adapter wall that is coupled to the capacitive plate. The tube adapter has an adapter opening that is aligned with the deck opening to form a tube passage. The tube adapter includes flexible conductive elements that are electrically coupled to the capacitive plate and surround the tube passage. The flexible conductive elements engage the power tube in the tube passage and electrically couple the power tube to the capacitive plate. The grounding deck and the capacitive plate form a capacitor assembly. |
| US09912306B1 |
Power supply circuit of wireless mobile device
Provided is a power supply circuit for a wireless mobile device having a plurality of power amplification components. The power supply circuit includes: a first DC-DC converter, for providing at least one constant output voltage (which is provided to the power amplification components) and/or at least one DC intermediate voltage; a second DC-DC converter, for providing a DC component of at least one time-varying output voltage; and at least one linear amplifier. When the at least one linear amplifier receives the at least one DC intermediate voltage from the first DC-DC converter, the at least one linear amplifier provides at least one AC component of the at least one time-varying output voltage. The DC component and the at least one AC component of the at least one time-varying output voltage are combined into the at least one time-varying output voltage and provided to the power amplification components. |
| US09912304B2 |
Two-input amplifier
A two-input amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier can include an amplification path for a first input signal that can have adjustable flatness or high-frequency peaking, and an amplification path for a second input that can be substantially independent of the frequency-shaping aspect of the first-input path. The first-input amplification path can include an operational amplifier as an active device and a plurality of passive elements for frequency shaping. The second-input amplification path can include a device that injects its output current into a node of the first path. The signals of the two paths can be combined and appear substantially independently of each other at the output of the amplifier. |
| US09912303B2 |
RF-input / RF-output outphasing amplifier
A power combining and outphasing system and related techniques for simultaneously providing both wide-bandwidth linear amplification and high average efficiency is described. Providing linear amplification encompasses the ability to dynamically control an RF output power level over a wide range while still operating over a wide frequency bandwidth. The system and techniques described herein also operate to maintain high efficiency across a wide range of output power levels, such that a high average efficiency can be achieved for highly modulated output waveforms. |
| US09912300B2 |
Bias control circuit and power amplification module
Provided is a bias control circuit that includes: a reference voltage circuit that generates a reference voltage; a resistor; a temperature dependent current generating circuit that generates a temperature dependent current, which changes depending on temperature, on the basis of the reference voltage and that supplies the temperature dependent current to one end of the resistor; a reference voltage buffer circuit that applies the reference voltage to the other end of the resistor; a constant current generating circuit that generates a constant current, which is for driving the reference voltage buffer circuit, on the basis of the reference voltage and that supplies the constant current to the other end of the resistor; and a bias generating circuit that generates a bias voltage or a bias current for a power amplification circuit on the basis of the voltage at the one end of the resistor. |
| US09912298B2 |
Systems and methods related to linear load modulated power amplifiers
Systems and methods related to linear load modulated power amplifiers. A power amplifier (PA) system can include an input circuit configured to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal and split the RF signal into a first portion and a second portion. The PA system can further include a Doherty amplifier circuit including a carrier amplifier coupled to the input circuit to receive the first portion and a peaking amplifier coupled to the input circuit to receive the second portion. The first portion and the second portion can have different phases and/or different powers. The PA system can further include an output circuit coupled to the Doherty amplifier circuit. The output circuit can be configured to combine outputs of the carrier amplifier and the peaking amplifier to yield an amplified RF signal. |
| US09912296B1 |
High loop-gain pHEMT regulator for linear RF power amplifier
Voltage regulator circuitry includes a first gain stage, a second gain stage, and a feedback stage. Feedback is provided between the feedback stage, the second gain stage, and the first gain stage in order to tightly regulate an output voltage of the voltage regulator circuitry such that the output voltage is independent of process variations present in the devices therein. The voltage regulator circuitry is fabricated using a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process in order to reduce the size thereof and provide short turn-on times and low quiescent current. |
| US09912293B2 |
Sub-harmonic mixer and a method therein for converting radio frequency signals to intermediate frequency signals
A sub-harmonic mixer two or more cascaded stages for converting a Radio Frequency signal to an Intermediate Frequency signal. Each stage comprises a common-emitter transistor or a common-source transistor and each stage having an input and an output, the output of each stage is coupled to the input of a next stage by a capacitor. An Alternating Current choke is coupled at a collector or drain of each transistor. An LO input is coupled to the input of a first stage of the two or more stages; an RF input is coupled to the output of the first stage of the two or more stages; and an IF output is coupled to the output of a last stage of the two or more stages. |
| US09912290B2 |
High current burn-in of solar cells
A method of high reverse current burn-in of solar cells and a solar cell with a burned-in bypass diode are described herein. In one embodiment, high reverse current burn-in of a solar cell with a tunnel oxide layer induces low breakdown voltage in the solar cell. Soaking a solar cell at high current can also reduce the difference in voltage of defective and non-defective areas of the cell. |
| US09912286B2 |
Foldable parasol
A foldable parasol having a top surface with a plurality of rigid surfaces, each having at least one solar cell fixed thereto, and at least one mechanical hinge disposed between each adjacent two rigid surfaces, for allowing folding one rigid surface in relation to the other, the at least one mechanical hinge comprising an electrical conductor, for electrically conducting between poles of solar cells of the adjacent rigid surfaces, thereby electrical conduction between solar cells of different rigid surfaces is applied through mechanical hinges, being durable to folding. |
| US09912284B2 |
Self-sealing mounting bracket for roof mounted structures
A self-sealing mounting bracket includes an outer shell that defines at least one downwardly facing chamber. A plunger is located in the downwardly facing chamber and is slidable within the chamber. The chamber is filled with sealant either at the manufacturing facility or in the field. Larger openings are formed in the top of the outer shell that align with and provide access to bolt holes in the top of the plunger. Smaller openings in the top of the outer shell are for attaching the shell to a roof with lag bolts. The mounting bracket is located on a shingled roof and lag bolts are inserted through the larger openings and threaded into the roof deck. The heads of these lag bolts pass through the larger openings and engage the plungers to press the plungers down in their chambers. This, in turn, compresses, squeezes, and extrudes sealant between the mounting bracket and the roof below forming a water tight seal. The outer shell is then firmly attached to the roof with additional lag bolts inserted through the smaller openings and their aligned bolt holes and threaded into the roof deck. Mounting hardware for items such as solar panels can then be secured to the bracket. |
| US09912277B2 |
Method of forming a semiconductor device and structure therefor
In one embodiment, a control circuit for a linear vibration motor may be configured to drive the linear vibration motor to vibrate using a closed loop run mode followed by an open loop run mode, and may be configured to control the linear vibration motor to stop vibrating using an anti-drive signal wherein the frequency is adjusted to be near to an estimated value of the natural frequency of the linear vibration motor. |
| US09912270B2 |
Motor drive device
A motor drive device includes: a drive circuit unit having a plurality pair of switching elements and a plurality pair of free wheel diodes connected in parallel to the plurality pair of switching elements respectively; and a controller that turns on/off the switching elements. The controller performs a synchronous rectification control in which at least one pair of the switching elements is complementarily turned on/off, or performs an asynchronous rectification control in which the synchronous rectification control is not performed. The controller has a variation restriction portion that restricts a variation in current that is caused by a switch from one of the synchronous rectification control and the asynchronous rectification control to the other. |
| US09912268B2 |
Sensor-less circuit and method for detecting a rotor position
In accordance with an embodiment, a sensor-less detection circuit is provided that includes a first voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving an induced voltage and a second voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving a common voltage. A differential amplifier has an inverting input terminal coupled to the first voltage adjustment circuit and a noninverting input terminal coupled to the second voltage adjustment circuit. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for detecting a motor rotor position is provided that includes receiving a first back electromotive force that is at a first voltage level and shifting the first back electromotive force from the first voltage level to a second voltage level. The first back electromotive force is filtered to generate a first filtered voltage; and a first motor rotor position signal is generated in response to comparing the first filtered voltage with a reference voltage. |
| US09912264B2 |
System and method for limiting vibration of electric motor
A system and method for limiting the vibration of an electric motor so as to avoid situations in which extreme vibration may result in damage to the motor or other equipment. A motor control subsystem runs the motor in accordance with a command specifying a speed or torque. A vibration sensor, such as a three-axis accelerometer, senses a vibration of the electric motor, or, alternatively, software indirectly detects the vibration based on phase or torque ripple. Such vibration may be caused by, e.g., a broken fan blade or an accumulation of snow or ice. A control element receives data regarding the vibration, determines whether the vibration exceeds a pre-determined limit, and if so, takes action to reduce the vibration of the electric motor below the pre-determined limit. Such action may involve slowing or stopping the motor, thereby avoiding damage, increasing reliability, and reducing cost. |
| US09912263B2 |
Controller and method for transitioning between control angles
A control system for a refrigeration system motor includes an angle determination module that generates an output rotor angle indicating a desired angle of a rotor of the motor. A control module controls the motor based on the output rotor angle. An estimator module determines an estimated rotor angle. A transition module generates a transition signal in response to convergence of the estimator module. Upon startup, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on a first rotor angle. Upon generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on the first rotor angle and the estimated rotor angle. After generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module reduces a contribution of the first rotor angle to the output rotor angle over time until the output rotor angle is based on the estimated rotor angle independent of the first rotor angle. |