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| US09980742B2 |
Medical ultrasonic cauterization and cutting device and method
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a shaft, a first jaw having a proximal end at the distal end of the shaft, a second jaw and an ultrasonic waveguide. The first jaw has an internal trough running through the proximal end of the first jaw and a surface on either side of the trough. The second jaw has a surface facing the surface of the first jaw. The waveguide extends beyond the shaft and slidably engages the trough and has a blade with a tissue compressing surface upwardly sloping proximally from a distal end thereof the blade and having an upper portion and a substantially horizontal top surface portion at the upper portion. The tissue compressing surface and/or the top surface portion forms a cutting surface. When the jaws compress tissue therebetween, the blade slides within the trough to further compress and cut the compressed tissue as the blade moves distally. |
| US09980739B2 |
Reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligaments
Apparatus for locating an attachment position for a reconstructed anterior cruciate ligament on an attachment surface of a bone comprises locating means 51, 61 arranged to locate at least one reference surface 4 of the bone and guide means 53, 54 arranged to define the attachment position in two dimensions on the attachment surface relative to the reference surface. |
| US09980738B2 |
Surgical tool monitoring system and methods of use
A device for simultaneously monitoring the health of surgical drills and detecting proximity to critical structures during surgery is described herein. By using various sensors (e.g. microphones, accelerometers, temperature sensors, etc.), signals from the drill can be measured and analyzed. The processed signals can then be used to indicate the proximity of the drill bit to critical structures, such as the patient's brain, and identify drill health issues (e.g. worn bearings, misaligned rotational axis, etc.). |
| US09980735B2 |
Force sensing distal femoral alignment system and method of use
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for facilitating the aligning and balancing of the knee during total knee replacement surgery. A femoral assembly is engaged with a distal femur. The positions of medial and lateral portions of the femoral assembly relative to a stationary portion of the femoral assembly can be separately adjusted to adjust the alignment of the knee. A force sensor will be provided to sense the forces in the medial and lateral portions of the knee, and the medial and lateral portions of the femoral assemblies will be adjusted so that the sensed forces are balanced. The alignment of the knee is visually verified using a knee alignment verification member coupled to the femoral assembly. The knee alignment verification member may emit laser beams along the mechanical axes of the femur and tibia, or the knee alignment verification member may couple to alignment rods aligned along these axes. |
| US09980734B2 |
Embolic framing microcoils
An embolic microcoil can be formed into a complex shape for use in treating aneurysms and other vascular disorders. The microcoil features a distal portion including several loops that together comprise a substantially spherical shape, and an elongated proximal portion that is deployable within the distal portion. The distal portion can create a stable frame with adequate loop coverage across a neck of the aneurysm. The proximal portion can include a series of substantially omega-shaped loops, which can apply a force against the interior of the substantially spherical shaped distal portion, expanding it into apposition with additional portions of the aneurysm wall. Methods of treating vascular disorders and methods of manufacturing certain microcoils are also disclosed. |
| US09980730B2 |
Loading unit locking collar with rotational actuated release
A loading unit includes a shell assembly and a locking collar. The shell assembly has an annular ring that defines a locking slot and a proximal opening. The proximal opening configured to receive a distal end portion of the surgical instrument. The locking collar is rotatably disposed about the annular ring. The locking collar has a body including a flexible tab that has an inwardly extending lock. The locking collar is moveable about the annular ring between a locked and unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration, the lock passes through the locking slot and into the proximal opening of the annular ring. In the unlocked configuration, the body of the locking collar is rotated about the annular ring from the locked configuration to move the lock from within the proximal opening. |
| US09980726B2 |
Surgical instrument with articulation mechanism
A surgical instrument for surgically joining tissue is disclosed. The instrument comprises a handle assembly, an elongated portion, an end effector, and an articulation mechanism. The elongated portion extends distally from the handle assembly. The end effector is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the elongated portion. The articulation mechanism is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the end effector for articulating the end effector. The articulation mechanism comprises a lever, a knob, a plate and a lower clutch. The plate is disposed at least partially within a portion of the knob. The lower clutch is disposed in mechanical engagement with the plate. The plate is disposed at least partially between the lower clutch and the knob. The lower clutch is keyed to the plate to limit rotation therebetween. The lower clutch is keyed to the knob to limit rotation therebetween. |
| US09980725B2 |
Through the scope tension member release clip
A hemostatic clip assembly for mounting on a delivery device comprises a capsule and a clip slidably mounted within the capsule so that, when the clip is drawn proximally into the capsule, arms of the clip are drawn together to a closed position, an abutting surface of at least one of the arms contacting a corresponding surface of the capsule when the clip is drawn to a predetermined position within the capsule to provide a first user feedback indicating closure of the clip in combination with a tension member connected to the clip arms and biasing the clip arms toward an open, tissue receiving configuration and a yoke slidably received within the capsule and releasably coupled to the tension member, the yoke including a ball cavity for receiving a ball connector of a control element of the delivery device to maintain the clip assembly coupled to the delivery device, wherein the control element is frangible to detach the yoke from the delivery device and to provide a second user feedback and, wherein release of the yoke from the tension member provides a third user feedback. |
| US09980719B2 |
Non-invasive suture cutter and related methods for cutting a suture below the skin
A suture cutting device including a housing, a cutting member, a suture recess, and an actuator. The cutting member is positioned in the housing. The suture recess is formed in the housing and configured to releasably connect the housing to the suture. The actuator is accessible outside of the housing and operable to move the cutting member laterally relative to the suture within the housing from a first position out of contact with the suture to a second position cutting the suture. |
| US09980715B2 |
Anchor devices and methods of use
An anchor device for attaching materials within bone including a body having a distal end region, a proximal end region, and a plurality of struts extending between the distal end region to the proximal end region and at least partially surrounding an interior volume of the body. The anchor device includes an attachment feature positioned within the interior volume of the body and coupled near the distal end region. The attachment feature is configured to secure material to the body. Upon removal of a constraint and after delivery of the anchor device into bone, the body passively transitions from a constrained, delivery configuration that is radially contracted and axially elongated to a relaxed, deployment configuration that is radially expanded and axially shortened. |
| US09980714B2 |
Apparatus and method for enlarging an incision
A retraction system and method are provided for retracting tissues surrounding a surgical site. In one aspect, a method including engaging slide connections between a guide dilator and a plurality of tissue engaging members and sequentially enlarging an incision using the guide dilator and the plurality of tissue engaging members. In another aspect, a method of inserting a plurality of tissue engaging members into an incision including fixing tip portions of the plurality of tissue engaging members in an insertion configuration, advancing the tip portions into an incision, and restricting movement of the tip portions away from the insertion configuration. A guide dilator system comprising an elongate body, a plurality of tissue engaging members, and slide connections between the elongate body and the tissue engaging members is also provided. |
| US09980709B2 |
Percutaneous catheter directed intravascular occlusion device
Embodiments of the present invention provide medical devices and methods for occluding a target site are provided. For example, the medical device may include a tubular member having proximal and distal ends and at least one plane of occlusion. The at least one plane of occlusion may be configured to substantially occlude the patent ductus arteriosus in less than about 1 minute. In addition or alternatively, the tubular member may consist of a single layer of material and be configured to be constrained within a catheter having an outer diameter of less than about 4 French for percutaneous delivery to the patent ductus arteriosus. |
| US09980705B2 |
Tissue biopsy device with selectively rotatably linked thumbwheel and tissue sample holder
A biopsy system comprising a probe and a holster. The probe comprises a rotatable needle portion a rotatable thumbwheel coupled with the needle portion and a rotatable tissue sample manifold. The holster is removably coupled to the probe. The holster comprises a selective engagement mechanism configured to selectively link rotation of the thumbwheel with rotation of the tissue sample manifold. A method of collecting tissue samples using a biopsy system unlinking rotation of the thumbwheel with rotation of the tissue sample manifold by actuating the selective engagement mechanism; and obtaining a tissue sample after the unlinking. |
| US09980701B2 |
Reciprocating internal ultrasound transducer assembly
A device for endoluminal therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound procedures includes a motor which rotates a drive shaft and ultrasound transducer. In one example, conductors attach to the transducer and extend through a hollow drive shaft. In another example, a bias member conducts electric signals and stores energy. The device includes an operational state in which the motor rotates the drive shaft alternatingly between a first direction and an opposite second direction. |
| US09980699B2 |
Shaped echogenic needle groove
Disclosed are embodiments of devices and methods for providing enhanced echogenicity to medical devices. At least two adjacent echogenic features with an intervening section positioned between the echogenic features are formed as a helical groove in a medical device surface. Each of the echogenic features has a depression that spans between first and second transition lips. In one form, each depression includes a steep portion adjacent a shallow portion wherein the steep portion has a first radius and the shallow portion has a second radius that is larger than the first radius such that the radii capture different wavelengths of ultrasound. The intervening section has a planar surface in which the first and second transition lips do not extend above. In one form, each of the at least two echogenic features has a length that is within 0.1 mm of a length of the intervening section. |
| US09980694B2 |
X-ray CT apparatus and image calculating device for X-ray CT apparatus
In order to provide a technique capable of restoring measured data from projection data with high accuracy and removing system noise included in the measured data, a signal processing device obtains measured data x including signal values of 0 or less by processing an output signal from a data acquisition system, and performs a conversion process on the measured data x by using a predefined function including a logarithmic function so as to generate projection data (logarithmically converted data z), in which the predefined function is a function of which an inverse function is present for values of a predetermined negative number s or more, and the measured data x including signal values of 0 or less within a predetermined range is restored from the projection data by applying the inverse function to the projection data. |
| US09980685B2 |
Radiation imaging apparatus and control method of the same
A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of sensors arrayed to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns on a substrate and a driving unit configured to drive the plurality of sensors row by row, wherein the driving unit performs a first operation of driving the plurality of sensors while selecting the plurality of rows in a first order, and a second operation of driving the plurality of sensors while selecting the plurality of rows in a second order different from the first order after the first operation, such that a time difference is produced between a sensor in each row and a sensor in a neighboring row from the selection in the first order to the selection in the second order. |
| US09980684B2 |
Stationary SPECT imaging
A collimator for a SPECT system, the collimator being adapted for absorbing and collimating gamma rays emitted by a radiation source within a field of view the collimator, said collimator having an alignment direction for directing along a longitudinal axis of a measuring cavity of the SPECT system and said collimator comprising at least one collimator body of radiation absorbing material, the collimator body comprising a plurality of apertures being formed in the collimator body, the plurality of apertures being arranged in a plurality of groups separated from each other in said alignment direction. The apertures of each group are oriented such as to define at least one projection view along a corresponding at least one projection direction. The plurality of said projection directions corresponding to each and every of said plurality of groups cover an angular range sufficiently large for sufficient image information for artifact-free reconstruction. |
| US09980680B2 |
Respiratory detection device
A respiratory detection device detects a behavior of breathing of an occupant on a seat of a vehicle. A seatbelt is equipped by the occupant to retain the occupant at the seat. A detection belt is mounted to the vehicle or the seat at one-end side. The detection belt is further connected to the seatbelt at the other-end side. The detection belt is equipped by the occupant together with the seatbelt when the occupant equips the seatbelt. A sensor is connected to the detection belt to detect the behavior of breathing. The detection belt retains the sensor at a position of an abdomen of the occupant when the occupant equips the seatbelt. |
| US09980677B1 |
System for estimating fractional fat content of an object
A system for estimating fractional fat content of an object of interest. An energy emitter is used to direct an energy signal toward the region of interest, wherein the region of interest has an object of interest, a reference with known properties, and a boundary area with one or more boundary locations between the object of interest and the reference. Next, a plurality of thermoacoustic or ultrasonic transducers is used to receive a plurality of thermoacoustic bipolar signals from the one or more boundary locations, wherein the thermoacoustic bipolar signals are induced by the energy signal. A machine configured to accept data from the energy emitter and the plurality of thermoacoustic or ultrasonic transducers and calculate a fat concentration that is a function of a difference between two peaks of the thermoacoustic bipolar signal at each respective boundary location and a distance or distances between each respective boundary location. |
| US09980673B2 |
SEM scanner sensing apparatus, system and methodology for early detection of ulcers
A handheld, conforming capacitive sensing apparatus configured to measure Sub-Epidermal Moisture (SEM) as a mean to detect and monitor the formation of pressure ulcers. The device incorporates an array of electrodes which are excited to measure and scan SEM in a programmable and multiplexed manner by a battery-less RF-powered chip. The scanning operation is initiated by an interrogator which excites a coil embedded in the apparatus and provides the needed energy burst to support the scanning/reading operation. Each electrode measures the equivalent sub-epidermal capacitance corresponding and representing the moisture content. |
| US09980672B2 |
Single-chambered sweat rate monitoring sensor
Technologies are generally described to monitor a sweat rate of an area of a skin. A hydration status of a human or non-human entity is monitored based on the sweat rate. The sweat rate is monitored when the sweat rate monitor is detected as sealed against the surface of the skin. The sweat rate monitor is attached to the surface of the skin with an adhesive, or a tape among other schemes to hold the sweat rate monitor in place during a measurement. The sweat rate monitor includes a container to capture an initial amount of sweat that comes out of the surface of the skin. When, the container is detected as filled with the initial amount of sweat, a pump of the sweat rate monitor is actuated to compress the container. The container is compressed to force a volume of the initial amount of sweat in the container out of an ejection port of the sweat rate monitor. |
| US09980671B2 |
Systems and methods for management of medical condition
Embodiments of the invention relate to a self-contained kit for medical condition monitoring and maintenance, such as the monitoring and maintenance of blood sugar levels. The kit is compact and includes components structurally retained therein for use without removal, wherein these components are normally separate and loose. Such components could include a glucose meter, an insulin pen and a lancing apparatus. Other embodiments of the invention relate to a computer system and method for monitoring a medical condition, monitoring a medical condition over time, correlating recorded results with environmental factors such as location, time and meals consumed. A method may also enable individual users to share information to provide support to one another. |
| US09980669B2 |
Analyte monitoring device and methods
Methods and devices for providing application specific integrated circuit architecture for a two electrode analyte sensor or a three electrode analyte sensor are provided. Systems and kits employing the same are also provided. |
| US09980656B2 |
Hybrid model and diagnostic process for atrial fibrillation
A hybrid model and diagnostic process for atrial fibrillation is provided. The present invention includes performing a combination of tests including an electrocardiogram signal analysis and a systolic pressure test. The results of the tests produce biomarkers for early detection of atrial fibrillation as well as for evaluating the severity of the disease. |
| US09980653B2 |
Valve view map
A method, including generating a three-dimensional (3D) map as a plurality of points illustrating a characteristic of a 3D heart chamber, the 3D heart chamber having an opening bounded by a perimeter. The method further includes transforming the perimeter into a closed two-dimensional (2D) figure having an interior. The plurality of points illustrating the characteristic are projected onto the interior of the 2D figure so as to generate a 2D map of the characteristic of the 3D heart chamber. |
| US09980651B2 |
Method for the optical three-dimensional measurement of a dental object
The invention relates to a method for the optical three-dimensional measurement of a dental object, wherein a first region of the dental object is measured using a first optical three-dimensional measurement method, wherein the first optical three-dimensional measurement method is based on a triangulation method and on a fringe projection method. According to the invention, a powdering occurs at least on the first region, wherein first image data are generated. Using a less precise, second optical three-dimensional measurement method, a second region of the dental object is subsequently measured without previous powdering, wherein second image data are generated. Afterwards, the first image data are combined with the second image data to form an overlapping three-dimensional exposure. |
| US09980650B2 |
System and method for determining vital sign information of a subject
A remote photoplethysmography system includes a filter (10) for application to a detection unit. The filter further includes a first filter area (11) configured to transmit light (A) at a first wavelength and a second filter area (12) configured to transmit light (D) at a second wavelength. The detection unit (22) detects radiation received from the first filter area and from the second filter area of the filter. An analysis unit (6) determines the vital sign information of the subject from the detected radiation from the first filter area and from the second filter area. |
| US09980646B2 |
Remote monitoring of analyte measurements
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for remote monitoring. In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a remote monitor, a notification message representative of an event detected, by a server, from analyte sensor data obtained from a receiver monitoring an analyte state of a host; presenting, at the remote monitor, the notification message to activate the remote monitor, wherein the remote monitor is configured by the server to receive the notification message to augment the receiver monitoring of the analyte state of the host; accessing, by the remote monitor, the server, in response to the presenting of the notification message; and receiving, in response to the accessing, information including at least the analyte sensor data. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. |
| US09980645B1 |
High-contact density electrode and fabrication technique for an implantable cuff design
A method and an electrode for monitoring electrical activity in a nerve are provided along with a method of fabricating such an electrode. The electrode includes a cuff formed from a chronically-implantable material that, when implanted, extends at least partially around an external periphery of the nerve. A plurality of contacts are supported by the cuff to be arranged adjacent to different regions of the nerve distributed along a transverse direction of the nerve when the cuff is implanted. A multiplexer is coupled to the cuff to be implanted for receiving electrical signals introduced to the contacts by the nerve and multiplexing, in vivo, the electrical signals to be transmitted to an external receiver over a shared communication channel. |
| US09980637B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform, on a luminance distribution acquired in at least one direction crossing a vessel region in a fundus image of a subject's eye, a first smoothing operation for each first size and a second smoothing operation for each second size smaller than the first size; a first identifying unit configured to identify a position of a vascular wall in the fundus image on the basis of the luminance distribution obtained by performing the first smoothing operation; and a second identifying unit configured to identify positions of inner and outer boundaries of the vascular wall in the fundus image on the basis of the luminance distribution obtained by performing the second smoothing operation. |
| US09980630B2 |
Minimally invasive surgical system
The distal end of a surgical instrument is movable in all six Cartesian degrees of freedom independently of other components of a telemanipulated surgical system. The surgical instrument extends through a guide tube. The distal end is moved by actuators that are telemanipulatively controlled. |
| US09980629B2 |
Video capture and streaming diagnostics metadata
A system and method for diagnosing problems in a medical imaging system. In some implementations, problems with the medical imaging system are determined by encoding information into an image relating to system settings or other data, and using the information to diagnose possible problems with the image and/or the medical imaging system. |
| US09980624B2 |
Variable position diverter for an appliance
A variable position diverter that provides wash fluid to selected combinations of outlet ports and spray assemblies. The diverter includes a housing having a plurality of outlet ports and a valve disk having a plurality of apertures. The valve disk is rotated relative to the housing to align one or more of the plurality of apertures with one or more of the plurality of outlet ports to selectively control the flow of wash fluid through a plurality of spray assemblies. Selectively diverting wash fluid in this manner can improve wash performance and reduce cycle time while meeting government regulations regarding water usage. |
| US09980621B1 |
Fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows or a liquid squeeze bottle incorporated into a flat mop
A fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows which is incorporated into a flat mop. This embodiment includes an exterior wall, an interior chamber surrounded by an exterior wall and a cap on the liquid intake member. The exterior wall includes a suction bellows to create a suction within the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle. A downward force on the handle activates a suction bellows to create a suction on the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle enabling fluid retained in the interior chamber to flow out of a duck-bill valve and into flexible tubing which will then flow through the tubing and out an opening of a yoke so that the fluid can flow onto a front of a scrubbing portion of the mop to facilitate cleaning. An alternative embodiment replaces the liquid release bottle with a liquid squeeze bottle. |
| US09980620B2 |
Bagless vacuum cleaner with filter cleaning member
A bagless vacuum cleaner with a main housing, a dust bin releasable from the main housing upon relative movement between the dust bin and the main housing in a release direction, a filter unit, and at least one cleaning member arranged to perform a cleaning action on the filter unit upon relative movement between the at least one cleaning member and the filter unit. The relative movement between the filter unit and the at least one cleaning member is created by relative movement between the main housing and the dust bin in the release direction. |
| US09980618B2 |
Dust collecting device
A dust collecting device includes a tank and a main body housing a motor and detachably attachable to an upper part of the tank. A handle and a cover are both provided in an upper part of the main body. The handle is capable of being raised and turned down around a handle rotation shaft. The cover is capable of being opened and closed around a cover rotation shaft and covers a housing portion provided in the main body in a closed position. The cover rotation shaft is provided in parallel to the handle rotation shaft. The cover rotation shaft is positioned closer to a grip portion of the handle than the handle rotation shaft so as to overlap with a part of the handle. The handle rotation shaft is positioned closer to the cover than the cover rotation shaft so as to overlap with a part of cover. |
| US09980617B2 |
Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner includes a suction nozzle, a source of suction in fluid communication with the suction nozzle for generating a working airstream through the suction nozzle, an agitator provided within the suction nozzle, and a sole plate provided on a lower side the suction nozzle, wherein the sole plate comprises a plurality of upwardly curved cross ribs. |
| US09980615B1 |
Automatic foam soap dispenser
An automatic foam soap dispenser, for dispensing a liquid soap contained in a liquid reservoir in form of foam soap, includes a mixing passage, a liquid soap dispenser, an air dispenser, and an outlet nozzle. The liquid soap dispenser has a liquid soap pump communicated with the mixing passage to upwardly pump the liquid soap to the mixing passage, and a first power source associated with the liquid soap pump and used for driving the liquid soap pump, wherein the liquid reservoir is operatively coupled with the liquid soap pump and located below the liquid soap pump to store the liquid soap. The air dispenser has an air pump communicated with the mixing passage to synchronically and upwardly pump the atmosphere air to the mixing passage, and a second power source associated with the air pump and used for driving the air pump. The outlet nozzle is connected with the mixing passage and having at least a foam maker adapted for generating the foam soap. |
| US09980612B2 |
Cooking thermometer suspension device and method
A device for suspending a cooking thermometer includes a cooking vessel interface having a cooking vessel attachment, a thermometer receiver, and an extension member. The device for suspending a cooking thermometer is useful for placing a cooking thermometer within a cooking vessel at a distance away from the outer walls of the cooking vessel such that the thermal effects of the heat from the outer walls of the cooking vessel are reduced to provide a more accurate temperature reading for the contents of the cooking vessel. |
| US09980607B2 |
Multi-section oversized skillet apparatus
A multi-section skillet apparatus for providing a cooking surface for a conventional range of increased size includes two mirror image skillet sections which are removably attachable to one another. Both skillet sections include four short legs which raise the bottom of the skillet sections uniformly so that the cooking surface is level when disposed over multiple stove burners while still keeping the skillet section's close enough to the burners for the burners to can heat the skillet sections. The skillet sections are selectively connected together through the inclusion of corresponding portions of a clamp fastener on thereon. When the sides of the skillet section are pressed together, the clamp fasteners engage so as to fasten the skill sections together. The multi-section skillet apparatus can be separated back into two discrete skillet sections through the application of manual force in a separating direction sufficient to disengage the clamp fasteners. |
| US09980606B2 |
Multipurpose cooking appliance
A cooking appliance includes at least one multisided element that has more than one cooking surface, the multisided element being mounted on a base so that it can be oriented to present one of the surfaces for cooking. The element can be rotated to present another cooking surface whereby a user can choose a surface to grill food, bake food, smoke food all with the one appliance. As well, the sources of heat can be gas, wood, charcoal, or other sources. |
| US09980605B2 |
Air fryer
The present invention relates to food preparation. In order to provide an apparatus for preparing food with hot air with an improved flow characteristic, an apparatus (10) for preparing food is provided, comprising a food preparation chamber (12), an air movement device (14), a heating device (16), and air guiding means (18). The food preparation chamber is provided by a container structure (22) at least partly enclosing a receiving volume (24) for receiving food to be prepared by a through-streaming of hot air; wherein the container structure comprises sidewalls (26) and a bottom wall (28), wherein the bottom wall and/or one of the side walls is air-permeable providing an air entry opening (30) for entering of hot air into the receiving volume, and wherein the container structure comprises an air discharge opening (32). The heating device is configured to heat air of an air flow provided by the air movement device. The air guiding means provide an air duct arrangement (34) from the discharge opening via the heating device and the air movement device to the air entry opening. The air movement device is a fan (36) with an air inlet (38) and an air outlet (40), and the fan is provided sidewards of the food preparation chamber. |
| US09980595B2 |
Device for preparing a beverage by centrifugation
Device for preparing a beverage from a beverage ingredient contained in a receptacle (17) by driving the receptacle in centrifugation comprising: —a holding part (16) arranged for holding the receptacle in a position enabling it to be driven in rotation along a longitudinal axis of rotation (I), —a liquid interfacing part (8) arranged for supplying water in the receptacle and/or extracting the beverage from the receptacle, —a collecting part (44) for collecting the beverage obtained by the interaction between the ingredient and water in the receptacle, wherein the holding part and liquid interfacing part (8, 16) are connected together by connection means in such a manner that these parts (8, 16) rotate together with the receptacle during centrifugation, wherein the connection means comprise at least a first engaging surface (48; 86) of the holding part (16) and a second engaging surface (23; 87) of the liquid interfacing part (8) engaged in contact together during connection in a manner preventing the holding part (16) and the liquid interfacing part (8) from moving away from each other, at least in the axial direction of rotation (I), and the connection means further comprising at least one mass of inertia (20, 21, 31; 80) arranged to be moveably connected to at least one of the parts (8, 16) with at least one degree of freedom in a least one radial direction for enabling the engagement forces to increase between the two engaging surfaces as a result of the increase of the centrifugal forces. |
| US09980594B2 |
Garlic press
Described herein is a garlic press which includes a pair of handles joined together at a pivot point so that the handles may be rotated apart and towards each other. A first (piston) handle includes a hopper for receiving a garlic clove to be pressed, while the opposing second (hopper) handle is formed with a complementary piston that is sized and configured to be forced into the cavity to crush the clove of garlic. |
| US09980591B2 |
Playmat
A playmat system includes a series of isosceles right triangle tiles and edge tiles. Advantageously, the triangle shaped tiles and edge tiles have one or of two color or patterns or more. The triangle shaped tiles and edge tiles have complementary edges which allow the triangle tiles to be interlockingly engaged with one another along either hypotenuse edges or like edges to thereby produce a number of different patterns when laid out and interconnected. |
| US09980588B2 |
Wine decanter device
A device is set out which considerably increase the exchange surface for aerating or oxygenating wine compared to prior art devices or decanters. In the invention, a series of components are mounted on top of each other, whereby wine poured from a bottle flows in sequential order, by force of gravity, through these components until it flows into glasses to be served to consumers. The structure of these components is such that each component enhances exposure to air and maximum oxygenation of the wine flowing through it. |
| US09980584B2 |
Quilt formed in two separate parts which can be joined together
The disclosed “Quilt” is in two “Parts”, each Part having a level of insulation which is independent of the other Part. For example, one “Part” can be extremely warm, and the other “Part” can be extremely cool. Both “Parts” can then be joined together to form a “Quilt”. When juxtaposed the two separate “Parts” of the “Quilt”, are a reverse image of each other, sharing both Negative and Positive componentry of a joiner. In this instance a Hook and Loop fastener is sewn into the joining “Channel Wall” of each “Part”. The Hook Fastener tape is sewn along one half of the edge of the joining “Channel Wall” to the middle of the “Channel Wall”, and the other half of the joining “Channel Wall” is sewn with a Loop Fastener tape. This arrangement permits both “Parts” can be purchased separately, and joined together allowing the individual to choose their own level of thermal resistance independently, while still being joined up with another individual's chosen thermal resistance. |
| US09980579B2 |
Child carrying units
A child carrying unit (4) comprising a base portion (6) and a wall portion (8) substantially surrounding the base portion (6), the wall portion (8) comprises first and second pliable members, which meet end-to-end at a jointed region, the arrangement being such that at least a portion of one part of the child carrying unit (4) including one of the pliable members is locatable in an opposite part by way of the jointed region in the wall portion (8). |
| US09980576B2 |
Device for opening of adjustable sofa without pausing and mechanical stretching device thereof
Disclosed are a device for the opening of an adjustable sofa without pausing and a mechanical stretching device thereof. The device for the opening of an adjustable sofa consists of a leg drive connector (4), a first limit push connector (3), an expansion front swing limit (1), a second limit push connector (10), a back swing limit (6), a transmission connector (9), a third limit push connector (8), a limit push slide groove block (7) and a folding front swing limit (11). The leg drive connector (4) is rotatably connected to the first limit push connector (3). The transmission connector (9) is rotatably connected to the second limit push connector (10). The second limit push connector (10) is rotatably connected to the first limit push connector (3) and the third limit push connector (8). The back swing limit (6) is fixed on the third limit push connector (8) and located in a limit push slide groove (15). The expansion front swing limit (1) is fixed on the second limit push connector (10). The expansion front swing limit (1) cooperates with a front swing connector (12) and the back swing limit (6) cooperates with a back swing connector (5). |
| US09980575B2 |
Universal adjustment drive with Bowden cable
Electric motor furniture drive for adjusting parts of a piece of furniture relative to one another has a drive unit which has at least one electric motor and is in drive connection with at least one tensioning unit. Furniture drive has a base body which is preferably configured as a housing and is accommodated in or on the tensioning unit. At least two Bowden cables are operatively associated with each tensioning unit, traction cables of Bowden cables being in operative connection with associated tensioning unit. Traction cables are guided or guidable to tensioning unit(s) through at least one recess in the housing. The sheathings of the Bowden cables are fixed or fixable to the base body. |
| US09980570B2 |
Headrest folding apparatus
Provided is a headrest folding apparatus. An oblique face is formed on a support for supporting a headrest. When the headrest is in an upright position, the oblique face comes into contact with a first member. The headrest folding apparatus prevents a loose gap from occurring in an upright state, simplifies components to be made compact, and allows a seat to be easily assembled and a manufacturing cost to be cut down. |
| US09980565B2 |
Slide rail assembly and rail kit thereof
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, an engagement element and an operating element. The first rail has a blocking feature. The second rail is movable relative to the first rail. The engagement element is arranged on the second rail. When the second rail is moved to a predetermined position relative to the first rail, the engagement element abuts against the blocking feature. The engagement element is configured to be moved away from the blocking feature of the first rail in response to operation of the operating element. |
| US09980564B2 |
System and method for assembling and using assisted storage
A storage system and associated method of assembling the storage system. The storage system includes one or more rails for attaching the storage system to a structure. The storage system further includes one or more arms attached to the one or more rails. The storage system further includes a counterbalance mechanism attached to the one or more arms configured to provide a force to assist lifting or lowering a load applied to the one or more lift arms. The storage system further includes a release for engaging the counterbalance mechanism to assist a user in raising or lowering the one or more lift arms. |
| US09980561B1 |
Mobile multimedia workstation with novel clamp
A mobile multimedia workstation comprises a base and a mobile component attached to the base bottom side. First and second upright members are attached to the top side and spaced apart to define an opening. A clamp having first and second clamp faces is connected by an adjustable member extending through the opening. The adjustable member is adjustable to urge the first and second clamp faces toward each other to apply a compressive force to first and second upright members and thereby hold a vertical position of the clamp. The clamp further comprises a first and a second protrusion each extending inwardly from the respective first and second clamp face and disposed within the opening between the first and second upright members. |
| US09980559B2 |
Combination foldable and adjustable workstation
A workstation includes a frame supporting a work surface upon which a task can be completed and/or an item can be stored. The workstation can include a drive system for adjusting a height of the work surface above a surface supporting the workstation. The workstation can also be configured such that the work surface and other components of the workstation can be moved between an in use mode and a lower profile storage and/or transportation mode. |
| US09980556B2 |
Floor cleaning implement with improved driving interface for use with a floor maintenance machine
A floor cleaning implement, such as a disc brush, for use in a floor maintenance machine includes a core providing a female portion of a mating interface. The female portion has a central recess with a plurality of pockets extending radially outward from the central recess. Each of the plurality of pockets has a head section that is radially distal from the central recess and has a neck section that is radially intermediate the respective head section and the central recess. Each head section is wider in an angular direction than the corresponding neck section. |
| US09980551B2 |
Cosmetic eyelid-reshaping tape and method for manufacturing same
A cosmetic eyelid-reshaping tape including a tape-like member, which is formed of a long narrow extensible base material piece having elastic contractility even after being extended, an adhesive applied to both surfaces of the tape-like member, and release sheet pieces, which are attached to the adhesive on both surfaces of the tape-like member, where the release sheet pieces are formed in the same shape as the tape-like member and have easy-to-tear portions in the middle thereof. The cosmetic eyelid-reshaping tape includes wave-shaped protruding portions formed, so as to protrude, over the entire side edges of the tape-like member in the longitudinal direction. |
| US09980549B2 |
Hair dryer
A hair dryer includes a fan motor, a heater unit, and a body case arranged to cover the fan motor and the heater unit, and arranged to extend in a front-rear direction around a central axis. The fan motor includes an impeller arranged to rotate about the central axis, and a motor arranged to rotate the impeller. The body case includes an intake case portion including an air inlet, a discharge case portion including an air outlet, and an admission case portion arranged between the air inlet and the air outlet, and including an admission inlet. The intake case portion includes a suction tube portion arranged to extend toward the admission inlet. The intake case portion and the admission case portion are arranged to together define an expansion chamber arranged between the admission inlet and the air inlet and radially outside of the suction tube portion and the admission inlet. |
| US09980547B2 |
Writing instrument case
A writing instrument case includes a base having a first member and a second member rotatably attached to the first member via a hinge. A flap is attached to the base and includes at least one button adapted to fit within at least one dimple of the second member. The flap further includes a plurality of grooves, at least one groove having a knob to secure a portion of a writing instrument to the flap. The second member of the base is rotatably moveable between a closed position, in which the flap fits within the second member of the base, and an open position, in which the projection of the second member fits into the slot of the first member of the base upon rotation of the second member toward the first member, forming a locking mechanism. |
| US09980545B2 |
Contact lens case with predetermined life span for safety
A contact lens storage case of limited life and predetermined usage to further the safe and effective use of contact lenses by ensuring patient compliance through both limiting case use over a set period of time and discouraging reuse and topping-off of the disinfecting and storage solution. Generally, the self-destruction consists of the case developing a leak in a pre-determined fashion as a result of the change in properties of a material in a limited area of the case following exposure of the case to the storage solution. |
| US09980539B2 |
Segmented attachment device
A wrist band for attaching a portable electronic device to a user includes articulating segments which may be releasably connected so as to provide the user the capability of sizing the wristband by adding or removing links as desired. A clasp is also disclosed for securing the wristband to a user. A manufacturing device and method are disclosed for machining complex surfaces on the segments and clasp. |
| US09980536B2 |
Article of footwear with a tensioning system
An article of footwear including a tensioning system is disclosed. The tensioning system is adjustable and includes a first layer and a second layer that is moveable and extends over the first layer. The article can include elements that are capable of distributing tension over the article. The article may include a tensile element, guide elements, and one or more strap guides attached to an underside of the second layer. |
| US09980534B2 |
Spacer textile material with tensile strands that intersect
A spacer textile material has at least a portion of multiple tensile strands located between a first layer and a second layer of the spacer textile material where the first layer and second layer have been joined together to form channels in which the tensile strands move freely. In one or more locations, a first tensile strand and a second tensile overlap at an intersection region. Further, the spacer textile material may be incorporated into an article of footwear. |
| US09980532B2 |
Proper posture high-heeled shoes
A high-heeled shoe for a human foot which enables a person wearing it to stand and walk in an anatomically correct (suitable) position, i.e. to walk just like when she walks with heelless flat shoes; enables the body to stand in balance and the foot to rest on all points. The high-heeled shoe is formed with a curving inclined supporting sole which extends into the heel with the curve being adjusted with arctangent values and a correction factor and toe and heel angles appropriate for a human foot to provide perfect conformity with the human foot for straight body posture suitable to anatomy. |
| US09980531B2 |
Protective helmet with energy storage mechanism
A protective helmet having multiple protective zones, including an inner shell having a first inner surface and a first outer surface, a padded inner lining attached to the first inner surface, an outer shell having a second inner surface and a second outer surface, the outer shell functionally attached to the inner shell, an elastomeric zone between the first outer surface and the second inner surface, a plurality of energy dissipation devices arranged between the inner and outer shells, and a plurality of sinusoidal springs positioned in the elastomeric zone. Each of the plurality of sinusoidal springs includes a first end, and a second end connected to one of the plurality of energy dissipation devices. |
| US09980529B1 |
Helmet/hood assembly with an accessory light
A helmet/hood assembly includes a housing, a support ring subassembly configured to hold the assembly on a human head, a face shield, and a flexible hood attached to the housing and to the face shield, with the assembly being received, stored, used, and disposed as a single unit. The support ring subassembly pivots on the housing between a position suitable for shipping and storing the assembly and a position in which the assembly is worn. An accessory light powered by a battery may be held in place on the housing by magnetic attraction through the hood. |
| US09980528B2 |
Configurable headwear assembly
An article of headwear including a crown component, a brim component, and an elongated attachment component is provided. The attachment component is configured to attach the brim component to the crown component. The attachment component may include a female-type engagement element along a first elongated edge of the attachment component and a flange element along a second elongated edge of the attachment component. The second elongated edge is opposite to the first elongated edge. The female-type engagement element has first and second arms defining therebetween an elongated channel having a length and a depth. The flange element extends in a direction transverse to the length of the channel. The crown component is attached to the flange element. The brim component includes a connection region configured for insertion into the channel. An article of headwear having an attachment component for attaching decorative elements to the headwear is also provided. |
| US09980527B2 |
Garment pattern engineering utilizing two-dimensional imagary of the human form
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for computer assisted pattern drafting in garment development. In an embodiment of the invention, a pattern making method includes initially acquiring a multiplicity of different two-dimensional image slices of a human form. Thereafter, a panel of a portion of a pattern of a garment is selected for processing in a data processing system and a metric computational rule for the selected panel is mapped to one of the two-dimensional image slices. A measurement of the one of the two-dimensional image slices is then acquired and the mapped metric computational rule is applied using the acquired measurement to produce a measurement for the selected panel. |
| US09980525B2 |
Low profile medical kit
In a first-aid system including an ultra compact first-aid pouch configured to fit behind the ballistic plates of a protective vest, the first-aid kit is protected from shrapnel and tearing, is easily locatable and removable and does not effect the user's freedom of movement. When the first-aid pouch is removed from its protected location, it presents the first-aid equipment in a logical and easily viewable manner. |
| US09980521B2 |
Aerosol-generating system with improved piercing member
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device in cooperation with an aerosol-generating article. The aerosol-generating article includes at least one container housing a nicotine source and at least two seals sealing the at least one container, wherein each seal includes a deformable material. The aerosol-generating device includes an outer housing configured to receive the aerosol-generating article and an elongate piercing member configured to pierce the at least two seals. The elongate piercing member includes a piercing head at a distal end of the elongate piercing member and a hollow shaft portion including at least two apertures. At least one aperture of the at least two apertures is in fluid communication with the at least one container when the aerosol-generating article is received in the aerosol-generating device. |
| US09980511B2 |
Electronic cigarette, battery rod and atomizer
The present invention discloses an electronic cigarette, a battery pole and an atomizer. Wherein, the electronic cigarette comprises an atomizer and a battery rod, a first connecting element and a second connecting element; the first connecting element includes a first external electrode, a first internal electrode formed in one piece and an elastic element; the first internal electrode extends through the first external electrode and is electrically insulated from the first external electrode; the elastic element abuts against the first internal electrode and is configured to provide an elastic force that is oriented towards the second connecting element to the first internal electrode; a through-hole is defined in the elastic element; the elastic element is sleeved between the first external electrode and the first internal electrode; and a groove is defined on the peripheral face and/or end face of the elastic element. |
| US09980508B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring of fractional gluconeogenesis and targeting of fractional gluconeogenesis via nutritional support
Systems, techniques and methods for estimating the metabolic state or flux, e.g., the body energy state (“BES”) of a patient, are disclosed. The BES provides a deep insight into the nutritional needs of the patient, thus allowing for a sort of exquisite glycemic control with regard to the patient. The invention discloses systems and methods for estimating fractional gluconeogenesis. The invention also discloses systems and methods for estimating and targeting patient blood lactate concentration, both as a target itself and as an intermediate step to estimating and targeting patient fractional gluconeogenesis glucose production. Nutritional support methods and formulations are also disclosed. The invention is suitable for any sort of patient, including those who are injured, such as with traumatic brain injury, ill, or have other conditions that stress the metabolic system. |
| US09980504B2 |
Inner door system for soft serve machine
A soft serve dispensing machine includes a refrigerator cabinet. A door is hinged to the refrigerator cabinet. A freezer compartment is defined in the refrigerator cabinet and receives a soft serve product mix. Product pumps are linked with the soft serve product mix for moving the product to a dispensing portion of the soft serve dispensing machine. The product pumps are positioned proximate the front portion of the refrigerator cabinet and above the freezer compartment. A removable inner door panel is moveable between stored and deployed positions. In the deployed position, the door is in an open position and the inner door panel is attached to the refrigerator cabinet and defines a seal relative to the refrigerator cabinet and cold air within the freezer compartment is maintained in the freezer compartment while the product pumps are accessed. |
| US09980498B2 |
Hybrid bacon cooking system
A method of making precooked meat pieces using a hybrid cooking system comprises preheating meat pieces to a temperature of at least approximately 140° F. to create preheated meat pieces. The preheated meat pieces are transferred to an oven heated with an external heating source. The oven includes internal surfaces, and the external heating source assists in keeping the internal surfaces at a temperature below a smoke point of fat from the meat pieces. The preheated meat pieces are cooked in the oven to a water activity level of 0.92 or less to create precooked meat pieces. Optionally, flavoring could be applied to the precooked meat pieces after the precooked meat pieces have been removed from the oven and before the precooked meat pieces have cooled. |
| US09980497B2 |
Antimicrobial-antibiofilm compositions and methods of use thereof
Compositions comprising chelating agents, metal ion salts, gelling agents or a buffer, antimicrobials, antibiofilm agents and a pH adjuster or a buffer for the prevention and treatment of wound infections and food-borne diseases involving bacterial biofilms are disclosed. The anti-infective properties of a composition include reduction or killing of anaerobic/aerobic/facultative gram-negative and gram-positive wound infection associated bacteria occurring in polymicrobial biofilms. The composition may be in the form of lotion, cream, ointment, dressing, bandage, rinse, soak, gel, spray, or other suitable forms, including certain devices. Additionally, the invention offers an efficient method of delivering the formulated composition containing one or two chelating agents or chelating agents alone or in combination with a metal ion salt using either a nanoparticle or other efficient delivery systems. |
| US09980496B2 |
Trimming system for trimming fish
A trimming system for fish which is placed with belly sides on opposite sides of a supporting structure. A force supplying means applies opposite forces onto the belly sides towards the supporting structure. A profile measuring means determines the profile of the belly sides, and a cutting means trims the belly sides. Opposite forces are supplied by the force supplying means while the belly sides are measured by the profile measuring means, and the opposite forces are supplied while the belly sides are simultaneously trimmed. |
| US09980494B2 |
Dough proofing apparatus and related methods
A dough proofing apparatus includes a proofing chamber for holding dough during proofing operations and having a door for accessing the proofing chamber. An air duct assembly includes at least one inlet opening and at least one fan for drawing in air from the proofing chamber. At least one heating element is located within the air duct assembly for heating the air and a flow path for delivering the heated air back to the proofing chamber. A vent chamber is divided into an exhaust side and an intake side, the exhaust side fluidly connected to the air duct assembly, the intake side fluidly connected to the proofing chamber. |
| US09980493B2 |
Dumpling producing method and device
The present invention provides a dumpling producing method and a dumpling producing device. The method comprises the following steps: cutting a mechanically sheeted dough sheet of a unidirectional texture into dumpling wrappers of a pre-defined shape, filling the stuffing into the dumpling sheet, and wrapping the dumpling wrapper along a fold line at an angle of 0 to 20 degrees to the texture orientation of each dumpling wrapper to produce the dumplings. The device comprises: a cutting mechanism consisting of a cutting unit and a rotating unit, wherein the rotating unit is configured to cause an angle formed between the texture orientation of the dumping wrapper and the fold line to be within 0 to 20 degrees. |
| US09980492B2 |
Lure useful to obtain census on local buck deer and in deer hunting
A deer lure and a method for making a deer lure that allows hunters and photographers to easily attract deer, primarily bucks, in specific locations for the purpose of collecting census data on the bucks. The lure is a pre-orbital gland lure where left and right pre-orbital glands are matched together to provide a total DNA of that specific family of deer. |
| US09980491B2 |
Probiotic compositions and methods of use
A probiotic composition and methods for the mitigation, inhibition, and/or exclusion of microorganisms. |
| US09980489B2 |
Stabilized bio-available soluble silicate solution
The present invention relates to dissolved silicate compositions in which the dissolved silicate is stabilized by at least two selected osmolytes and is therefore bioavailable. The composition and its dilutions are stable over a long period of time and are used in a wide field of applications for the benefit of living organisms such as plants, animals and humans. |
| US09980486B2 |
Herbicidal quinolines
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein A1a, A1b, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants. |
| US09980484B2 |
Chitosan based high performance filter with self-regenerating ability
A self-regenerating chitosan based filter medium for disinfecting and purifying organic pollutants and other pollutants in a gas or liquid is disclosed herein. Porosity and surface charge of said filter medium is manipulative/tunable by varying one or more of the following parameter(s): concentration of chitosan, crosslinking density, amount of copolymers and additives, freezing temperature, freezing profile, and/or types of crosslinker used. The present filter medium is capable of self-regenerating under exposure to ultra-violet light for sufficient time and removing over 90% of the pollutants from each influent flowing through the filter medium. |
| US09980482B2 |
Synergistic compositions with plant protection agents
The present invention relates to new, highly efficient synergistic compositions comprising mixtures of essential oils, metal ions, detergents and organic acids in combination with plant protection agents. That is, applied as an adjuvans or additive, said mixtures significantly increase the efficacy and biocompatibility of conventional plant protection agents for plant protection products. The new synergistic composition thereby allows significant reduction of active ingredients of conventional plant protection agents. |
| US09980479B2 |
Method of reducing nematode damage
A method of reducing damage to plant propagation material and plant organs which grow at a later time by a representative of the class Nematode, which method comprises (I) treating the propagation material with (A) a chelating agent, and optionally (B) a macrocyclic lactone compound or another pesticide, before the material is sown or planted, or (II) applying (A) a chelating agent, and optionally (B) a macrocyclic lactone compound or another pesticide, to the locus of the material or the treated material defined in (I) before its planting, and/or at its planting and/or during its growth. |
| US09980478B2 |
Device and method for vaporizing game attractants
A device and method for vaporizing game liquid attractants are provided. The vaporizing device has a container suitable for holding vaporizable liquid therein, a wick, a transducer operably connected to a power supply, and a controller. Vaporizable liquid, preferably game attractant or a mixture thereof is drawn to the transducer by the wick. When supplied with electrical current from the power supply, the transducer oscillates at a high frequency sufficient to vaporize the vaporizable liquid drawn to the transducer via cavitation. Once vaporized, game attractant vapor may be diffused or propelled through an outlet in the container to the external hunting environment. |
| US09980471B2 |
Miniature swine transgenic for one or more coagulation factors
Transgenic swine that express human coagulation factors, e.g., human coagulation factor VII, and/or one or more of human coagulation factors II, X and XII, and do not express the corresponding porcine coagulation factor or factors, as well as cells, tissues and organs derived therefrom, and their use in transplantation procedures. |
| US09980467B2 |
Data network for monitoring animals
The invention relates to a data network for automatically monitoring voluntary behaviors of individual animals of an animal herd. The individual animals of the animal herd each have a node of the data network. A further node is attached at a location which an animal preferably approaches in the course of a behavior to be monitored. In the event that the animal approaches the node, communication occurs between the nodes, in which communication one node is identified by the other node and a central data-processing system is informed that the two nodes have come into contact. The communication between the two nodes occurs by means of the transfer of electrical signals in a closed electrical alternating-current circuit, which also passes, among other things, through the body of the animal as an electrical conductor. |
| US09980466B1 |
Wireless lighted animal restraint for illuminating an entire length of the restraint
An illuminated animal restraint includes an elongated leash which has a housing having a selectively enabled wireless lighting assembly. The wireless lighting assembly has a light source connected via a wireless connection to a light transmitting member extending through said tube thereby illuminating the entire length and all sides of the leash. The wireless light assembly may include at least one Light Emitting Diode assembly and a light transmitting member may include fiber optics. |
| US09980465B2 |
Exercise equipment
An exercise equipment exercise equipment that can readily switch arrangement of a person exercise apparatus and a dog exercise apparatus between the state where a person and a dog run facing each other and/or the state where the person and the dog run side by side. The person exercise apparatus includes a frame, a crank mechanism having a crank shaft rotatably supported by the frame, a crank coupled to the crank shaft, and a pedal rotatably supported by the crank, and a joint rotatingly driven by the crank mechanism. An annular travelling belt travels with a dog, a roller drives the travelling belt, and a transmission mechanism transmits rotational motion of the joint to the roller An input shaft is aligned with a rotary shaft of the joint with respect to a mounting face of the exercise equipment. A coupling mechanisms is detachably engageable with the joint at each end. |
| US09980464B2 |
Orbit-type cat toy with sensing function
An orbit-type cat toy with a sensing function includes a chassis with a circular orbit (track) and a small toy capable of rolling along the circular orbit. A plurality of sensing devices are evenly distributed along the circumference of the chassis, and an inside of the chassis is provided with a signal sending module configured to send a signal after a sensing device is triggered. The bottom of the small toy is provided with a roller wheel, and the inside of the small toy is provided with a motor to drive the roller wheel to rotate. The small toy further includes a signal receiving module, a calculation module, a comparison module, and a control module to control the motor to rotate. |
| US09980462B2 |
Vertical urine pad holder for canines
A vertical urine pad holder that is comprised of a rectangular frame that has width a height and a length, the frame has two arms, each arm is perpendicular to the length of the frame and has a length of at least four inches. The width of the frame is at least 1 inch. The invention is further comprised of a urine pad. In an embodiment of the present invention, the urine pad is pre-marked by a scent that will encourage dogs to spray in the location in which the urine pad is draped or placed. The urine pad holder is used by placing or fitting the urine pad over the arms of the holder and then sliding or mounting the holder over a corner wall or door frame so that the urine pad covers the wall or door frame that is to be protected. |
| US09980461B2 |
Collapsible pet crate
A collapsible pet crate is provided that includes a top; a bottom base; and a plurality of walls including a first wall pair. The first wall pair includes a first wall pivotably connected to the bottom base for pivoting about a first horizontal axis and a second wall pivotably connected to the first wall for pivoting about a first vertical axis. The collapsible pet crate being configured for arrangement in a crating orientation in which the top is removably connected to at least one of the walls and a collapsed orientation in which the top is removably connected to the bottom base. A method of providing a collapsible pet crate is also provided. |
| US09980455B1 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH785771
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH785771. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH785771, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH785771 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 CH785771. |
| US09980454B1 |
Maize hybrid X95K902
A novel maize variety designated X95K902 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95K902 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95K902 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X95K902, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95K902. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95K902. |
| US09980453B1 |
Maize inbred PH2DNS
A novel maize variety designated PH2DNS and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2DNS with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2DNS through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2DNS or a locus conversion of PH2DNS with another maize variety. |
| US09980451B2 |
Sweet corn line SHY-6RLAL196
The invention provides seed and plants of the sweet corn line designated SHY-6RLAL196. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet corn line SHY-6RLAL196, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant produced by crossing a plant of sweet corn line SHY-6RLAL196 with itself or with another sweet corn plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of sweet corn line SHY-6RLAL196, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants. |
| US09980449B2 |
Melon variety NUN 22521 MEM
The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of melon, NUN 22521 MEM. |
| US09980448B2 |
Cotton variety 15R515B2XF
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 15R515B2XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 15R515B2XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 15R515B2XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 15R515B2XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods. |
| US09980446B2 |
Tomato line FDRXJ11-7001
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line FDRXJ11-7001. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line FDRXJ11-7001 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants. |
| US09980443B2 |
Emitter and drip irrigation tube
An emitter (120) includes a flow path from a water intake path (221), which is for taking in irrigation liquid within a tube, to a recessed part (251). This flow path includes a recessed surface part (242) closed, without contact, by a film (300). A channel (243) that forms a reduced pressure flow path included in the above flow path is formed on the surface of the recessed surface part (242). If the film (300) is pressed by the pressure of the irrigation liquid in the tube (110) and adheres to the recessed surface part (242), the flow rate of the irrigation liquid inside the emitter (120) is controlled to an amount that can pass through the channel (243). |
| US09980442B2 |
Method and apparatus for programming a decoder-based irrigation controller
A method and decoder-based irrigation controller, and method and programming chart, are provided. In some embodiments, a decoder-based irrigation controller comprises a microcontroller; and a first connector coupled to the microcontroller and configured to couple to a reader, wherein the reader comprises an optical reader configured to read an optically readable pattern, wherein the first connector is further configured to couple an input from the reader to the microcontroller; and wherein the microcontroller is configured to interpret the input from the reader and perform an action at the decoder-based irrigation controller according to the input. |
| US09980439B2 |
Modular magnetic container system
A vessel in a modular magnetic storage system is set forth. The vessel includes at least one magnet housing assembly configured to securely store a magnet therein. The magnet housing assembly is provided on, within a portion, or within a wall of the vessel. An interior wall of the vessel is configured to form a compartment and to selectively store at least one object therein. The magnet housing assembly is configured to hold the vessel securely in a suspended configuration through a cover provided on the magnet housing assembly. The vessel is mounted in the suspended configuration by selectively connecting the magnet to a surface. |
| US09980437B2 |
Baling system having a bale position sensor
A system includes a baling chamber designed to form a round bale and a tailgate rotatably coupled to the baling chamber. The tailgate rotates between a closed position that facilitates formation of the round bale and an open position that facilitates ejection of the round bale from the baling chamber. The system includes a ramp coupled to the baling chamber. The ramp is designed to receive the round bale upon ejection from the baling chamber and to direct the round bale away from the baling chamber to a cleared position on the ramp that enables the tailgate to rotate from the open position to the closed position without contacting the round bale. The system also includes a sensor coupled to a distal end of the ramp. The sensor is designed to detect presence of the round bale in the cleared position. |
| US09980435B2 |
Self adjusting concave clearance system
An agricultural combine (102) includes a rotor (114), a concave (116), a force sensor (134) to indicate the force applied to a crop mat located between the rotor and the concave, a position sensor (132) to indicate the size of a gap (130) between the rotor (114) and the concave (116), an actuator (122, 124) to position the concave (116) with respect to the rotor (114), and an ECU (144) coupled to the sensors (132, 134) and the actuator (122, 124). The ECU (144) contains an economic operating curve (154, 156, 158) that relates the force to the size of the gap. The ECU (144) is configured to receive a signal from the force sensor (134) and a signal from the position sensor (132), and based upon those signals, to control the actuator (122, 124) to change the force and the size of the gap (130) to a point on the economic operating curve (154, 156, 158). |
| US09980434B1 |
Network for placing a plurality of lawnmower components in operative communication
A network system is disclosed for use on a utility vehicle to connect multiple electronic components, such as input devices such as joysticks or similar mechanisms, motor controllers, sensors, switches, gauges and the like. The network system provides flexibility in the manner and order in which each of the components are connected while permitting each component to communicate with certain other components even when such components are not directly linked together. |
| US09980430B2 |
Ready-to-use hose end sprayer
A ready-to-use sprayer comprises a container defining an interior compartment for containing a liquid product and having a pin receiver located near the rear portion and an opening located near the front portion, a housing having a main chamber and a grip portion, a nozzle in selective fluid communication with the outlet of the fluid chamber, a pivot switch on the exterior of the housing for selecting a fluid flow condition for the main chamber, and the housing being coupled to the container at the container opening and the pin receiver. |
| US09980428B2 |
Molded ribs for an agricultural implement tank
A seed tank assembly for an agricultural implement including an exhaust opening configured to exhaust seeds from the seed tank assembly. The seed tank assembly further including at least one angled rib molded into the seed tank assembly, in which the at least one angled rib is configured to provide structural rigidity to the seed tank assembly and to direct the seeds toward the exhaust. |
| US09980426B2 |
Air seed meter with adjustable singulator
A seed metering system, for use on a row crop planter, selects individual seeds from a seed reservoir and dispenses the seeds singularly at a controlled rate. A direct drive seed metering system includes a seed disc having a plurality of suction apertures with a recessed pocket adjacent to an aperture. The recessed pockets act to agitate seeds in the seed reservoir and to direct seed flow towards the apertures. A seed path relief system provides for allowing the placement of the seeds such that they are released from an outer edge of the seed disc. An adjustable seed singulator is mounted adjacent to the face of the seed disc where inner and outer blades are adjusted radially to compensate for the singulation of various seed sizes and shapes. The seed disc is driven via engagement of an internal gear with the external gear of an independent drive motor. |
| US09980425B2 |
Air entrainment device for seed delivery
A seed delivery device including a frame defining at least one seed chamber. The frame includes a sidewall and an air permeable floor. Seed can be received and deposited on the air permeable floor through an input port. An air input channel is utilized to introduce an air stream into the seed chamber and direct it through the air permeable floor such that seed is lifted from the air permeable floor to an outlet port. An air bypass channel is configured to separate the air stream into a first stream that is directed through the air permeable floor and a second stream that is directed through the bypass channel and recombined with the first stream, at a point prior to the output port. |
| US09986670B2 |
Flexible assembly machine, system and method
A dispensing head is disclosed including a control system located in the dispensing head, an encoder read head located in the dispensing head, and a light-capture sensor located in the dispensing head configured to detect a light flash of a stationary camera when the light flash illuminates a component on the dispensing head or an element of the dispensing head. The control system is configured to determine a precise encoder position with the encoder read head at a moment of the light flash. The dispensing head is configured to at least partially assemble an unfinished product. An assembly machine having the dispensing head and a method of at least partially assembling an unfinished product with the dispensing head is further disclosed. |
| US09986669B2 |
Transparency including conductive mesh including a closed shape having at least one curved side
A transparency includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of electrically conductive lines on the transparent substrate, at least one of the electrically conductive lines intersecting at least one other electrically conductive line, and at least one of the electrically conductive lines having a width of no more than 50 μm to reduce distraction resulting from optical diffraction of light transmitted through or reflected by the transparency as compared to a transparency comprising electrically conductive lines having a width greater than 50 μm. A coated substrate includes: a substrate; a dielectric layer on the substrate; and a sensor including a conductive layer on the dielectric layer, where at least one layer selected from the dielectric layer and the conductive layer is formed by at least one method selected from lithography, inkjet printing, and aerosol jet printing. |
| US09986659B2 |
Rotating shaft, fan, and electronic device
One embodiment provides rotating shaft, including: a spindle comprising an internal first channel; a wheel casing operatively coupled to the spindle, wherein the wheel casing comprises an internal second channel; and a bearing housing the spindle, comprising a third channel located between the bearing and the spindle; wherein the first channel, the second channel, and the third channel are located to form an enclosed annular channel configured to hold a substance. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US09986653B2 |
Shielding arrangement for enclosures
A apparatus for securing a shield body to one or more enclosures can include a plurality of mounting members configured to retain a plurality of fasteners at any of a plurality of locations along the mounting members. A first set of the mounting members can be secured to a second set of the mounting members, using a first set of the fasteners, at any of a plurality of locations along the mounting members of the first set. One or more enclosures can be secured to the second set of the mounting members, using a second set of the fasteners, at any of a plurality of locations along the mounting members of the second set. |
| US09986652B1 |
Facility including externally disposed data center air handling units
Described herein is an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, as well as efficient wire routing. |
| US09986650B2 |
Solderable conductive polymer thick film composition
A conductive polymer thick film composition suitable for lead-free soldering comprising metallic particles and an organic vehicle comprising at least one phenolic resin and a solvent is provided. A method of soldering to the conductive polymer thick film composition of the invention is also provided. An article comprising a substrate and a cured polymer film on a surface of the substrate formed of the conductive polymer thick film composition of the invention is provided. |
| US09986647B2 |
Apparatus for manufacturing electronic devices
This invention provides a method and apparatus for manufacturing electronic devices. The method includes: providing a substrate having a first surface; providing an electronic device having bumps; mounting the bumps to the first surface to form an integrated unit; applying a capillary underfill to multiple sides of the electronic device, enabling the underfill to creep along and fill the gap between the electronic device and the substrate; placing the integrated unit into a processing chamber; raising the temperature in the chamber to a first predetermined temperature; reducing the pressure in the chamber to a first predetermined pressure of a vacuum pressure, and maintaining the vacuum pressure for a predetermined time period; raising the pressure in the chamber to a second predetermined pressure higher than 1 atm, and maintaining the second predetermined pressure for a predetermined time period; and adjusting the temperature in the chamber to a second predetermined temperature. |
| US09986643B2 |
Circuit board for display and display module with display and circuit board
A display circuit board is provided with at least one section being configured as flexible circuit board, wherein the at least one flexible section of the display circuit board has at least one electrode being coupleable with a capacitive sensor device. Furthermore, a display module is provided with a display and a display circuit board. In addition, a method for the production of a display module is provided, wherein the display circuit board is inserted in a module housing together with the display in such a way that the flexible section is at least partially arranged between a side wall of the display and a side wall of the module housing. Finally, an electrical hand-held device, such as a cell phone or the like, is provided with a display module. |
| US09986633B2 |
Embedding discrete components having variable dimensions in a substrate
Embodiments are directed to a method of embedding a discrete component in a substrate. The method includes forming a cavity in the substrate. The method further includes inserting a discrete component into the cavity, wherein the discrete component comprises a top terminal and a bottom terminal. The method further includes positioning the discrete component within the cavity such that the top terminal is above the bottom terminal and below a front face of the substrate. The method further includes forming an intermediate conductive material within the cavity and over the top terminal. The method further includes forming a top conductive material over the intermediate conductive material such that the top conductive material is electrically coupled through the intermediate conductive material to the top terminal. |
| US09986629B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus
An extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus may include: a chamber including a plasma generation region to which a target is supplied, the target being turned into plasma so that extreme ultraviolet light is generated in the chamber; a target supply part configured to supply the target to the plasma generation region by outputting the target as a droplet into the chamber; a droplet detector configured to detect the droplet traveling from the target supply part to the plasma generation region; an imaging part configured to capture an image of an imaging region containing the plasma generation region in the chamber; and a controller configured to control an imaging timing at which the imaging part captures the image of the imaging region, based on a detection timing at which the droplet detector detects the droplet. |
| US09986621B2 |
Lighting system for growing plants which provides a location indication
A lighting system includes an LED controller, and an LED array which includes first and second LED sub-arrays, wherein the LED array is operatively coupled to the LED controller. The lighting system includes an antenna in communication with the LED controller. First and second wavelength spectrums are provided by the first and second LED sub-arrays, respectively, and are adjustable in response to adjusting an input signal provided to the antenna. |
| US09986616B2 |
Lamp control device
A lamp control device includes a lamp including an LED module which has a plurality of LED channels; and a controller configured to detect respective feedback voltages of the plurality of LED channels, and determine, when at least any one feedback voltage among the feedback voltages is retained to be lower than a predetermined reference voltage and a generation count of an over voltage protection signal reaches a predetermined reference count, an LED channel corresponding to the feedback voltage, as an open. |
| US09986614B2 |
Controller for light-emitting devices
The present invention relates to a controller (30) for controlling the light-output of two light-emitting devices (10, 20). The two light-emitting devices are adapted to provide a McCandless effect on an illuminated object (40). The controller (30) comprises a first user interface for a user to set a first color (11) to be output by a first light-emitting device (10) and second user interface for a user to set a desired mixed color (81) of a common area (80) being illuminated by both light-emitting devices (10, 20). The controller (30) further comprises a processing circuitry for determining first lighting parameters resulting in said first color (11) when provided to the first light-emitting device (10), and for determining second lighting parameters resulting in a second color (21) when provided to a second light-emitting device (20). A mix of the first color (11) and the second color (21) provides the mixed color (81). The first color (11) and the mixed color (81) are represented in a color space chromaticity diagram such that they define a line and the second color (21) is determined such that it is located on said line in the color space chromaticity diagram on an opposite side of the desired mixed color (81) relative to the first color (11). Further, the second color (21) is determined by the processing circuitry such that the desired mixed color (81) is achieved when the first (11) and the second (21) colors are mixed. |
| US09986607B2 |
Light emitting diode control circuit with hysteretic control and low-side output current sensing
An LED control circuit controls a switching operation of a switch by hysteretic control. The LED control circuit includes a controller integrated circuit (IC) that senses a current sense voltage from a current sense resistor that is on a low-side of the switch. The LED control circuit senses the current sense voltage during on-time of the switch to determine when to turn off the switch. During off-time of the switch, the controller IC determines when to turn on the switch by comparing a sawtooth voltage to a turn-on threshold that is generated from the on-time of the switch. |
| US09986604B2 |
Driver arrangement
The invention describes a driver arrangement (1) for driving a semiconductor lighting load (2), which driver arrangement (1) comprises a first power converter (10) arranged to drive a portion (2_10, 2_10_11) of the lighting load (2); a second power converter (11) arranged to drive a portion (2_11, 2_10_11) of the lighting load (2); a monitoring arrangement (12) realized to monitor an operating characteristic (12A, 12B, 12C, IR3O) ° f the second power converter (11); and a control signal generator (13) for generating a control signal (130, Vshunt) for the first power converter (10) on the basis of the monitored operating characteristic (12A, 12B, 12C, IR3O). The invention also describes a lighting arrangement (100), which lighting arrangement (100) comprises a semiconductor lighting load (2); and such a driver arrangement (1) for driving the semiconductor lighting load (2). The invention also describes a method of driving a semiconductor lighting load (2). |
| US09986603B2 |
Multilayered optical film and display device including optical film
An optical film includes: a liquid crystal coating; and a base layer on the liquid crystal coating, wherein the liquid crystal coating has reversed wavelength dispersion and in-plane retardation for a reference wavelength ranging from 126 nm to 153 nm, and the base layer has in-plane retardation ranging from about 0 to about 50 nm and out-of-plane retardation ranging from about 0 nm to about 100 nm. |
| US09986601B2 |
Window glass for vehicle and mounting structure for same
To provide a vehicle window glass, in which heater wires and a conductor wire, such as an antenna, intersect, and a mounting structure for the window glass for a vehicle. The heater wires are not noticeable and have a good appearance. A window glass for a vehicle, comprising a glass main body, a plurality of heater wires formed to extend in a horizontal direction when mounted to a vehicle, and an antenna wire formed to intersect at least one of the heater wires, wherein the smallest line width “a” of the heater wires is at most 0.4 mm, and the largest line width “b” of the antenna wire is smaller than the line width “a” in a range of intersection of the antenna wire and the heater wires extending from one end of the antenna wire to the other end of the antenna wire. |
| US09986596B2 |
Connecting control devices and the V2X unit via WLAN or Bluetooth, and V2X unit which has update memory
A vehicle system including a V2X unit for operating a vehicle-to-X communication, having a communications module for wireless data transfer, and a control device for controlling a user application, having a communications module for wireless data transfer which can be coupled with the communications module of the V2X unit, wherein the V2X unit and the control unit can be activated into a data transfer mode in order to couple the communications modules of the V2X unit and of the control device with each other for a data exchange. |
| US09986594B2 |
IOT device to enable fast connection between low energy IOT devices
Systems and methods for connecting a proxy device to a mobile device are disclosed. In an aspect, the proxy device continuously scans for the mobile device, wherein the mobile device broadcasts advertising messages to connect to the proxy device, connects to the mobile device in response to the mobile device coming into communication range of the proxy device, and sends information to the mobile device, the information configured to enable the mobile device to connect to a low energy device. |
| US09986593B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling duplicated E-RABs for dual connectivity in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for handling duplicated evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) radio access bearers (E-RABs) for dual connectivity in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobility management entity (MME) receives an E-RAB modification indication message including several E-RAB identifiers (IDs) set to the same value, and triggers a user equipment (UE) context release procedure with a cause value. |
| US09986592B2 |
Discontinuous reception operation of a mobile terminal
The disclosure relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes. |
| US09986590B2 |
Method for concurrently accessing plurality of cells and user equipment
A method and user equipment (UE) are provided for concurrently accessing a plurality of cells. The UE sets a connection with any one cell corresponding to a primary cell among frequency division duplex (FDD)-based cells and time division duplex (TDD)-based cells, and receives, from the any one cell, first cell indexes for the FDD-based cells and second cell indexes for the TDD-based cells. The UE further sets a connection with a secondary cell indicated by any one index among the first cell indexes and the second cell indexes. At least one value among the first cell indexes overlaps with at least one of the second cell indexes. |
| US09986583B2 |
Channel sounding for frequency division duplex system
System and method embodiments are provided for channel sounding in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system. The embodiments enable a transmission point (TP) to determine channel information about a downlink channel from an uplink channel sounding signal received on the downlink channel frequency band during a time window reserved for uplink channel sounding on the downlink channel frequency band. In an embodiment, a method in a controller includes determining with the controller a schedule for an uplink sounding window in a downlink frequency band, wherein the uplink sounding window comprises a transmission window in at least a partial downlink frequency band that is reserved for uplink channel sounding, instructing a TP to signal the schedule to at least one wireless device in a coverage area of the TP, receiving a channel sounding signal in the downlink frequency band, and obtaining downlink channel state information from the channel sounding signal. |
| US09986576B2 |
Steering connection requests for an access point to a best-serving access point
Network devices are steered to preferred access points using a probability function. A probe request for connection is received from a network device. The probe request can be from a network device attempting to use a wireless network (e.g., a IEEE 802.11-type network or other suitable type of network). A probability function that defines a likelihood of granting the network device a connection is used to determine whether to accept or deny the response. The probe response is then sent to the network device. |
| US09986572B2 |
Method for channel state report in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method for reporting channel state information by a UE having an interference removal ability in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a serving cell, information for removal of interference by an adjacent cell; removing the interference or calculating the channel state information and transmitting the calculated channel state to the serving cell, wherein the information for removal of interference may comprise information indicating whether interference by a transmission signal of the adjacent cell exists in a CSI-interference measurement (IM) resource of the serving cell. |
| US09986571B2 |
Hybrid automatic repeat request with feedback dependent bit selection
A multi-bit HARQ feedback is transmitted by a receiver to a transmitter. The multi-bit feedback is a function of a level of convergence reached by a decoder when the previously transmitted coded data bits were decoded. The transmitter is configured to select a set of coded data bits for a retransmission as a function of the multi-bit feedback. In some embodiments, different redundancy versions of the coded data bits may be selected as a function of the multi-bit feedback. In other embodiments, a bit puncturing or bit repetition pattern may be selected as a function of the multi-bit feedback. |
| US09986568B2 |
Mobile communication equipment and method for allocating system information among virtual carriers for machine-type communications
A mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for communications devices. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier. First and second sections of communications resources within respective first and second frequency ranges for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices form respective first and second virtual carriers. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range, wherein the communications device is configured with a reduced capability to receive the signals only within a frequency bandwidth less than the host frequency range and equal to at least one of the first or second frequency range. The communications device is configured to receive the first signalling data from the control channel and the common system information from the one or more communications resources identified by the first signalling data. |
| US09986565B2 |
WiFi management interface for microwave radio and reset to factory defaults
WIFI management interfaces for microwave radio and reset to factory defaults are provided herein. Methods may include transmitting or receiving, on a dedicated management interface antenna of the wireless radio management signals, signals in a dedicated band for controlling operations of the wireless radio, and transmitting or receiving, on at least one additional antenna of the wireless radio management signals, signals that are not used for controlling operations of the wireless radio. The dedicated management interface antenna and the at least one additional antenna being physically separated from one another. |
| US09986557B2 |
Communication method in wireless communication system on basis of carrier aggregation
Disclosed is a communication method in a wireless communication system on the basis of a carrier aggregation. The communication method on the basis of a carrier aggregation comprises the steps of: receiving a PDSCH from a base station via a subframe n of a TDD cell; and transmitting, to the base station, a PUCCH including a response to the PDSCH via a subframe n+4 of an FDD cell. Accordingly, an HARQ process may be performed efficiently. |
| US09986551B2 |
Wireless communication terminal, base station device, and resource allocation method
A wireless communication terminal capable of increasing the utilization efficiency of ACK/NACK resources and suppressing unnecessary PUSCH band reduction while avoiding ACK/NACK collision. The wireless communication terminal has a configuration provided with: a reception unit for receiving a control signal including ARI via an E-PDCCH set from among one or a plurality of E-PDCCH sets; a control unit for determining an offset value indicated by the ARI on the basis of whether or not a resource region that may be taken by a dynamic ACK/NACK resource corresponding to the E-PDCCH set that has received the control signal and a resource region that may be taken by a dynamic ACK/NACK resource corresponding to another E-PDCCH set overlap, and imparting an offset to the ACK/NACK resource according to the value of the ARI; and a transmission unit for transmitting the ACK/NACK signal using the determined ACK/NACK resource. |
| US09986541B2 |
Uplink control information transmission methods for carrier aggregation
A method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) for Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) using carrier aggregation is disclosed. Methods for UCI transmission in the uplink control channel, uplink shared channel or uplink data channel are disclosed. The methods include transmitting channel quality indicators (CQI), precoding matrix indicators (PMI), rank indicators (RI), hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK), channel status reports (CQI/PMI/RI), source routing (SR) and sounding reference signals (SRS). In addition, methods for providing flexible configuration in signaling UCI, efficient resource utilization, and support for high volume UCI overhead in LTE-A are disclosed. |
| US09986538B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving uplink channel sounding reference signals in a wireless communication system
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The uplink control information is transmitted in a sub-frame comprising a first slot and a second slot by applying a first orthogonal sequence in the first slot and a second orthogonal sequence in the second slot. A reference signal is transmitted in the first slot. A length of the first orthogonal sequence is shorter than a length of the second orthogonal sequence. |
| US09986536B2 |
Mobile station for uplink carrier aggregation using component carriers
To execute appropriate process when “Time-Switched UL CA” is executed and even when transmission of uplink information using a plurality of CCs has been scheduled in a same TTI. A radio base station eNB according to the present invention includes a UL transmission processing unit 11 configured to transmit uplink information at TTI#n+4 using a CC allocated over a PDCCH to the mobile station UE at TTI#n. The UL transmission processing unit 11 is configured to transmit the uplink information at each of TTIs using only one CC, and when a plurality of CCs is allocated at TTI#n, the UL transmission processing unit 11 is configured to select uplink information to be transmitted at TTI#n+4, based on a priority corresponding to the uplink information to be transmitted using each of the plurality of CCs allocated. |
| US09986533B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing communication
A method for communication in an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining whether to control a communication module of the electronic device based on information related to communication between the electronic device and an external device, determining a control value for the communication module based on the determination, and controlling the communication module using the control value. |
| US09986532B2 |
Electronic device group paging method and electronic device thereof
Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device group paging method and an electronic device thereof, and an electronic device operating method can comprise the steps of: converting, in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, the electronic device from an idle state into a wakeup state when it is time to check group paging; analyzing, in the wakeup state, the validity of a group paging message received through machine type communication (MTC); and performing a specific function according to the group paging message if the group paging message is valid. In addition, the various examples of the present invention also include the aforementioned example and other examples. |
| US09986531B2 |
Positioning information processing method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a positioning information processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a test terminal, a cell-specific reference signal sent by a base station, and obtaining an original cell-specific reference signal; obtaining, by the test terminal, a multipath characteristic quantity according to the received cell-specific reference signal and the original cell-specific reference signal; and sending, by the test terminal to a server, RSRP, timing information, and a multipath characteristic quantity that are corresponding to each test site, so that the server implements a positioning service. |
| US09986528B2 |
Method and device for measuring position using heterogeneous network signal in wireless access system
The present invention relates to a method of measuring the position of a terminal by using a heterogeneous network signal. The method comprises receiving transmission time information that represents a time at which a signal for measuring the position of a terminal is transmitted; receiving a first signal from a reference cell at a time represented by the transmission time information; receiving a second signal from a measurement cell at a time represented by the transmission time information; calculating the difference between the time at which the first signal is received and the time at which the second signal is received to generate measurement information; and reporting the measurement information. |
| US09986520B2 |
Method and system for cell synchronization and synchronization cell indication
Provided is a synchronization cell used in a wireless communication system. Also provided is an SCI, synchronization cell indicator. A mobile network includes a processor that identifies one or more suitable synchronization cells for a user equipment (UE) and sends the SCI to the UE so that the UE can at least partially synchronize with a synchronization cell. The SCI advantageously includes a cell-id and other synchronization parameters and characteristics in various embodiments. The SCI may include a cell-directed UE action for the UE to carry out with a target cell. The UE carries out cell-directed UE actions with the target cell either after having obtained synchronization with the synchronization cell or to continue the synchronization process. |
| US09986508B2 |
Method for operating a terminal device
The present invention relates to a method for operating a terminal device configured to establish a data communication upon receiving a request for establishing the data communication from a base station of a telecommunication network. According to the method, a usage state of the terminal device is determined. The usage state indicates a current usage of at least one function or application of the terminal device. Depending on the determined usage state a data traffic inactivity signal is sent to the base station. The data traffic inactivity signal instructs the base station to avoid sending the request for establishing the data communication to the terminal device for a predetermined amount of time. |
| US09986507B2 |
Short-range wireless controller filtering and reporting
Methods and systems for filter data packets using an advertising data packet content filter are disclosed. An example method involves maintaining, by a Bluetooth device, an advertising data content filter. The advertising data content filter includes at least one content filter having at least one respective delivery mode that specifies when to deliver data packets matching the at least one content filter to a host Bluetooth stack. The method also involves receiving, by the Bluetooth device, a data packet from an advertising Bluetooth device. The method further involves determining, by the Bluetooth device, that content of the data packet matches a particular content filter of the advertising data content filter. And the method involves providing a portion of the data packet to the host Bluetooth stack in accordance with a particular delivery mode corresponding to the particular content filter. |
| US09986506B2 |
Global positioning system (GPS) signal piggyback in a distributed device environment
An application configured to provide a service using a particular type of sensor data can be executed by a first mobile device. The application attempting to access the particular type of sensor data from the first mobile device can be detected. Responsive to detecting the application attempting to access the particular type of sensor data from the first mobile device, the first mobile device can receive first sensor data from at least a second mobile device via at least a first low energy communication link, wherein the first sensor data received from the second mobile device is the particular type of sensor data the application is attempting to access, and the first mobile device can execute program code configured to provide the particular type of sensor data, and providing the first sensor data received from the second mobile device to the application. |
| US09986504B2 |
Time division multiple access (TDMA) media access control (MAC) adapted for single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications
Time division multiple access (TDMA) media access control (MAC) adapted for single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Various com systems may include smart meter stations (SMSTAs) and/or wireless stations (STAs). Appropriate coordination is made with respect to such communication devices to ensure appropriate uplink (and/or downlink) communications between a network manager or coordinator (e.g., an access point (AP)) and the SMSTAs and/or STAs. With respect to SMSTAs, the relative duration of time that such communication devices are awake and operative versus asleep (or in a reduced power and/or functionality state) can be significant. Certain implementations may include a relatively large number of such communication devices (e.g., 10s, 100s, 1000s, or more), and appropriate coordination and scheduling of such communications to/from them is made using one or more variations of TDMA signaling (e.g., including different respective service periods (SPs), communication medium access operational modes, adaptation thereof, etc.). |
| US09986503B1 |
Systems and methods for adapting operation of mobile and fixed nodes in a network of moving things
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting dynamically re-configurable and adaptable network devices in a communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things). |
| US09986501B2 |
Dynamic cell cluster interference management scheme using dynamic point selection (DPS) or semi-static point selection (SPSS) for enhanced interference management and traffic adaptation (EIMTA)
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for interference management. The interference management is based on dynamic point selection or semi-static point selection. The method includes determining interference at a plurality of network nodes. The method includes selecting a transmission point from the plurality of network nodes for a transmission to at least one mobile entity based on the determined interference. |
| US09986496B2 |
Method in a network node of a wireless communications network
A method and network node for selecting a most suitable gateway for a User Equipment (UE) located in a wireless communications network. The network includes the network node and at least two gateways configured to provide packet data network connectivity to the UE located within a served cell. The network node detects a presence of a local gateway among the gateways and obtains UE information including a type of the UE. The UE type is either a stationary/fixed type or a mobile type, and the UE type is determined based on UE mobility behavior in relation to a local gateway service area. The network node selects the detected local gateway or another gateway among the at least two gateways for providing packet data network connectivity to the UE based on the determined UE type. |
| US09986488B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling a terminal accessing a base station in broadband wireless communication system
A circuit includes a controller to determine whether to prohibit entry of an end unit to a base station in a wireless communication network, the controller configured to process a media access control (MAC) management message that includes a timer value, the timer value designating a time period during which entry is prohibited. |
| US09986486B2 |
Data transmission method according to battery use pattern
A data transmission method of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: identifying a probability density function for battery consumption by time by accumulating information on a user's battery consumption pattern; identifying information on next charging time (T); identifying the battery depletion probability using the probability density function and the next charging time (T); and transmitting data if the battery depletion probability is less than a predetermined threshold value. |
| US09986485B2 |
Feedback control for D2D communications
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a wireless communication user equipment (UE). The apparatus transmits information in a device-to-device (D2D) communication to a second UE, the information indicating whether the second UE should use a direct feedback path to the UE or an indirect feedback path to the UE. The apparatus receives feedback through one of the direct feedback path or the indirect feedback path based on the information indicated in the D2D communication. The apparatus receives a D2D communication from a second UE. The apparatus determines whether to transmit feedback in response to the D2D communication via a direct feedback path to the second UE or via an indirect feedback path to the second UE. The apparatus transmits the feedback in response to the D2D communication in the determined feedback path. |
| US09986484B2 |
Maintaining information facilitating deterministic network routing
In a wireless network that includes a plurality of nodes, a method of maintaining, by a first node, information regarding communications links between nodes in the wireless network includes: for each communications link that is established with another node, recording an identification of the other node; and for each message received by the first node from the other node through the communications link with the other node, recording a network pathway by which the message has been sent in the wireless network, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent. Another method includes recording, by a server, for each message that is received by the server from the wireless network, a network pathway by which the message has been sent, the network pathway identifying the nodes and the communications links therebetween by which the message has been sent. |
| US09986481B2 |
Handover apparatus and method for avoiding in-device coexistence interference
The present disclosure relates to a handover apparatus and method capable of avoiding in-device coexistence interference. In order to prevent handover failure due to in-device coexistence interference, an SeNB provides TDM information (including TDM pattern information or TDM activation information) to a UE during a handover procedure, and the UE performs the handover with a TeNB according to the provided TDM information. By the disclosure, the UE can perform ISM signal transmission/reception and LTE signal transmission/reception with the TeNB in a discriminated manner according to a particular TDM pattern, so as to prevent handover failure due to the in-UE coexistence interference. |
| US09986479B2 |
Carrier prioritization for tune-away
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to performing a tune-away from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT. These techniques include, for example, a method in which one or more radio resources of a user equipment are tuned away from the first RAT (e.g., LTE technology) to the second RAT (e.g., legacy 2G/3G technology and/or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth technology). Based on detecting a need to tune away one or more radio resources, the UE may then determine a tune-away metric for each serving cell based on one or more performance impact factors associated with the serving cell being tuned away. The UE may select one or more of the cells to be tuned away based on the determined tune-away metrics. The UE may then tune one or more radio resources corresponding to the selected at least one cell away from the first RAT to the second RAT. |
| US09986474B2 |
Interference and load aware dynamic point selection
Apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding connection establishment robustness optimization are disclosed. Some example versions include calculating, at a base station, a switching metric for a user equipment served by the base station, the switching metric indicating whether the user equipment is to switch from a source cell to one of multiple target cells. The switching metric is calculated for a combination of the user equipment with a source cell and one of the multiple target cells. The base station determines whether to switch the user equipment from the source cell to one of the multiple target cells based on the switching metric, which includes spectral efficiencies of the user equipment for both the source cell and one of the multiple target cells, current cell load values for both the source cell and one of the multiple target cells and a correction factor. |
| US09986473B2 |
User equipment panic state(s) under connected mode discontinuous reception state in long term evolution
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication, and more particularly, to methods and apparatus that utilize one or more user equipment (UE) panic states under connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode in long term evolution (LTE). |
| US09986469B2 |
Switch supporting method
The present application discloses a switch supporting method comprising: an eNB sends a path switching request message to an MME to notify the MME of information on a bearer remaining unchanged; the MME reserves the bearer remaining unchanged and does not trigger a deactivation process for the bearer remaining unchanged; the MME sends a modify bearer request message to an SGW. With the present application, data loss can be avoided and service continuity is ensured when a UE moves in a small cell scenario. |
| US09986468B2 |
Remove TCP deadlock caused by wireless device cross technology handover
A mobile device comprises physical layer circuitry including a transceiver configured to communicate information via the cellular communication network; a modem of the mobile device configured to: control communication according to a first cellular communication protocol standard; detect a change in the communication to a second cellular communication protocol standard different from the first cellular communication protocol standard; and communicate an indication of completion of the change in the cellular communication protocol standard; and a transport control protocol (TCP) layer of the mobile device configured to initiate transmission of three duplicate acknowledgment (ACK) packets according to the second cellular communication protocol standard in response to receiving the indication of completion of the change in the cellular communication protocol standard. |
| US09986465B2 |
Method and system for returning to long term evolution network and mobile switching center
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a mobile switching center and a system for returning to a long term evolution network, which may prevent a UE which does not need to return to the LTE network from mistakenly returning to the LTE network. The method includes: receiving a first CSFB indication corresponding to a UE that is sent by a MME after the UE initiates CSFB, wherein the first CSFB indication is used for identifying that the UE needs to return to a LTE network after circuit service of the UE is finished; and sending, according to the first CSFB indication, a second CSFB indication corresponding to the UE to an RNC/BSC when the circuit service of the UE is finished, wherein the second CSFB indication is used for indicating that the RNC/BSC is to notify the UE of returning to the LTE network. |
| US09986462B2 |
Double-connection implementation method and base station
A method for implementing dual connectivity includes: a first base station which a user equipment accesses completing related management of a connection of the user equipment in a second base station through a dual connectivity management interface between the present base station and second base station, thereby realizing dual connectivity of the user equipment to the first base station and the second base station. The base station includes a management module, configured to: when the present base station serves as the first base station which the user equipment accesses, complete the related management of the connection of the user equipment in the second base station through the dual connectivity management interface; an acceptance module, configured to: when serving as the second base station, accept related management of the first base station for the connection of the user equipment in the present base station through the dual connectivity management interface. |
| US09986457B2 |
Mobile terminal device, wireless communication method for mobile terminal device, carrier server device, and communication speed control method in carrier server device
Excellent communication is to be enabled even in a communication environment with poor line quality.A mobile terminal acquires communication state information indicating a state of communication with a base station, and sends this communication state information to a carrier server device through the base station. The carrier server device receives this communication state information, and, based on this communication state information, controls the communication speed of content data to be transmitted from a web server to the mobile terminal device through the base station. The carrier server device sends this content data having the controlled communication speed to the mobile terminal through the base station. |
| US09986456B2 |
System and method for data forwarding in a communications system
A method for operating a transmitting device includes receiving a first packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) associated with a first remote device (RD), the first PDCP PDU including at least a first PDCP header, generating a first nested PDCP PDU in accordance with the first PDCP PDU, the first nested PDCP PDU including a second PDCP header and the first PDCP PDU, the second PDCP header comprising a first PDU type indicator indicating that the first nested PDCP PDU includes a first relayed PDCP PDU and a first identifier associated with the first RD, and sending the first nested PDCP PDU on a radio bearer. |
| US09986454B2 |
Method for setting interference measurement resource in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a terminal to perform interference measurement in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a first interference measurement resource setting and a second interference measurement resource setting for one channel state estimation process (Channel State Information Process); and performing interference measurement on an interference measurement resource based on the first interference measurement resource setting and the second interference measurement resource setting, wherein the first interference measurement resource setting is set for an aggregation of first downlink subframes, in which the use of a wireless resource is set not to be changed by a repurposing message, and the second interference measurement resource setting is set for an aggregation of second downlink subframes, in which the use of the wireless resource is set not to be changed by the repurposing message. |
| US09986449B2 |
Mobile terminal test device and method
At the beginning of the operation of a mobile terminal 1 to be tested, link establishment means 211 performs a process of establishing a link to the mobile terminal 1. When the link is established, test mode change means 213 transmits a message “downlink Direct Transfer (Activate RB Test Mode)” for setting test mode connection from a base station, returns a response message to a message transmitted from the mobile terminal 1 to be tested, thereby changing the mobile terminal 1 to be tested to a test mode, and performs a transmission and reception test. |
| US09986446B2 |
Providing special radio provisions to link budget limited user equipment at activation
System and methods for providing special radio provisions to link budget limited devices. Before establishing a cellular connection with a cellular network, a user equipment device (UE), such as a link budget limited UE, may negotiate the special radio provisions with the network by presenting requested profile information to the network, and receiving back approved profile information from the network. The UE may perform these communications either directly, via a non-cellular communication connection with the network, or indirectly, via a companion or proxy device. When the UE initiates a cellular connection with the network, both entities may use information specified in the approved profile information, which may improve efficiency of the connection. In some scenarios, the approved profile information may identify a class of devices to which the UE belongs. The approved profile information may also be used in establishing connections with other devices of the same class. |
| US09986442B2 |
Relay nodes
A method, including receiving, at a donor access node from a relay node associated with the donor access node, an identification of one or more other access nodes detected at the relay node and sending configuration information about said relay node from said donor access node to at least one of said one or more other access nodes in advance of an indication that a user equipment associated with the relay node has detected said at least one other access node, without at the same time sending said configuration information to at least one further access node that is detected by one or more other relay nodes or user equipments associated with the donor access node but not detected by said relay node. Wherein said configuration information includes information for setting up a communication with the relay node other than via a core network associated with the donor access node. |
| US09986437B2 |
Code verification for wireless display connectivity
A computing device is provided, which includes a processor configured to, detect a plurality of display devices configured for wireless communication, send a request to the plurality of display devices to cause the plurality of display devices to each display different associated codes, receive user input of one of the codes associated with a target display device of the plurality of display devices, send the one of the codes to the plurality of display devices, receive an identification message from the target display device associated with the one of the codes, establish a display session via a wireless connection with the target display device, and send display content to the target display via the wireless connection. |
| US09986436B2 |
Random password forced failure
A forced failure mode may be activated if a predetermined number of incorrect passwords are received at an apparatus. In forced failure mode, the apparatus determines if a forced failure is to be performed in response to a received password. If a forced failure is to be performed, an access failure is forced. When subsequent passwords are received the determine operation is repeated. When it is determined that a forced failure is not to be performed in response to a password entry, access may be granted if the password is correct, or denied if the password is incorrect. The apparatus may then leave forced failure mode or repeat forced failure mode. The apparatus may be configured in a mobile device and the access attempted may be unlocking of the device. The apparatus may also be configured in a network server and the access attempted may be network access. |
| US09986435B2 |
Autonomous, non-interactive, context-based services for cellular phone
Examples include autonomously authenticating a financial transaction, on behalf of the user, without interacting with the user, via wireless communication link. In various embodiments, the user's cellular phone may be configured to process a message that provides at least partial service context and autonomously authenticate the financial transaction. |
| US09986434B2 |
System for accelerated network route update through exclusive access to routing tables
A route update system (RUS) may support increased efficiency and speed for performing a routing table update. The RUS may include a control plane processor device, which may implement update snoop module circuitry. The RUS may also include a data routing switch, which may implement update inject module circuitry. The RUS may include one or more RUS connectivity systems that link the update snoop module circuitry and the update inject module circuitry. |
| US09986429B2 |
Privacy protection method and apparatus for mobile terminal
A privacy protection method and apparatus for a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes specifying basic information, privacy protection indication, and fictitious information of a contact item to be recorded in a contact list, determining, when a contact is received from an external terminal, whether a privacy protection function is activated for the external terminal, and outputting, when the privacy protection function is activated for the external terminal, a contact reception screen and a contact handling screen that include pre-specified fictitious information of the external terminal and exclude pre-specified basic information thereon. As a result, when a contact is received from a counterpart, information on the counterpart can be prevented from being displayed on the screen. Hence, it is possible to prevent inadvertent disclosure of counterpart information. |
| US09986426B2 |
Service in WLAN inter-working, address management system, and method
A mobile terminal associated with a first wireless communication network includes a transceiver that sends a service request message to a first wireless communication network element via a second wireless communications network. The request message requests a service from the second wireless communications network. The transceiver receives service from the first wireless communication network without requiring the mobile terminal to perform an access control procedure with the second wireless communications network. |
| US09986425B2 |
Apparatus and method for routing in a network
A mechanism for routing in a network is described. The mechanism comprising receiving a request from a node; obtaining, based on the received request, an identifier relevant to said node; allocating a first local prefix; setting a first timer indicating a length of time the first local prefix or an address comprising the first local prefix is valid; setting a second timer indicating a length of time the first local prefix or the address comprising the first local prefix is preferred when the first local prefix or the address is valid; and sending a first message comprising said identifier, said first local prefix and said first timer to a network element. |
| US09986419B2 |
Social reminders
Techniques for providing reminders based on social interactions between users of electronic devices are described. Social reminders can be set to trigger based on social interactions of users. For example, a user may request to be reminded to discuss a certain discussion topic with a particular phonebook contact, when the user next encounters the contact. |
| US09986416B2 |
MTC device ping messages via tracking area updates
A computer device may include logic configured to intercept a tracking area update response from a wireless network device to a user equipment device and trigger a device ping process for the user equipment device, in response to intercepting the tracking area update response. The logic may be further configured to generate a device ping message based on the triggering; send the device ping message to an application system associated with the user equipment device; receive a device ping response from the application system; incorporate information from the device ping response into the intercepted tracking area update response; and send the tracking area update response with the incorporated device ping information to the user equipment device. |
| US09986414B1 |
Dynamic CSCF assignment
Ways for performing servicing a service request from a communications device that is normally associated with a first domain are disclosed. An illustrative method includes dynamically assigning a CSCF (Call Session Control Function) associated with a second domain to receive service requests from the device in an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) networking environment, receiving the requests by way of the dynamically assigned CSCF. |
| US09986413B2 |
Enhanced roaming services and converged carrier networks with device assisted services and a proxy
A multiple wireless network service system allows a given Internet data service, according to a service policy, to be accessed by each of a plurality of wireless end-user devices from either of two wireless provider access networks. Proxy servers provide the data service according to the policy, as supplied by a service controller. The service controller facilitates the configuration of elements in the access networks to allow the devices to connect through either access network to the proxy servers. A service processor on each of the devices communicates data traffic for the data service with the proxy servers. |
| US09986412B2 |
Discovery in a wireless communications system
There is provided discovery in a wireless communications network. A communications device wirelessly receives, using a short-range communications technology, at least one beacon signal from at least one wireless device in the wireless communications network. The communications device wirelessly transmits, using the short-range communications technology, information relating to the received at least one beacon signal in at least one message such as to allow for discovery of the wireless device. |
| US09986411B1 |
System, method and apparatus for node selection of a sensor network
A system, method and apparatus for node selection of a sensor network. Multiple sensor networks can operate in or around a monitored location. Nodes can be organized amongst the multiple sensor networks using remote configuration updates that are provided by a host system to a sensor network node. |
| US09986407B2 |
Method and system for determining performance of an application installed on mobile stations
The present disclosure is related in general to performance assessment and a method and a system for determining performance of an application installed on mobile stations. An application performance detection system configures each of the mobile stations upon receiving a performance assessment request to ensure deactivation of hardware and software modules that cause additional network traffic and resource utilization. Further, the application performance detection system receives application data from the mobile stations thus configured and determine Key Performance. Indices (KPIs) based on the application data. Rating of the application is determined based on the KPIs that can efficiently detect low rated application design that requires re-engineering. Finally, performance of the application is verified that helps in achieving significant reduction in operational data costs, improved device battery life, improved user experience and efficient network resource usage. Further, the present disclosure suggests an optimized application to users based on their geographic location. |
| US09986402B2 |
Commandeering wireless access points during emergencies
Systems and methods are described herein for providing emergency personnel and other users access to a communications network during an emergency situation, event, or scenario. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide mobile devices with access to a communications network during an emergency situation, by receiving, at an access point to the communications network, a request from a mobile device to connect to the communications network via the access point, determining the request includes user credentials associated with authorizing a user of the mobile device to use services provided by the communications network during the emergency situation, and connecting the mobile device to the communications network via the access point based on the user credentials. |
| US09986397B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing call services in mobile terminal
An apparatus and method for processing call services in a mobile terminal are provided. The method for processing call services in a mobile terminal includes entering into, when a call is generated, a call handling mode, recognizing and analyzing voice signals sent and received in the call to produce speech analysis information, detecting a state change of the mobile terminal using a sensing unit to produce user behavior information, and predicting, when a state change of the mobile terminal is detected, an application corresponding to the speech analysis information, and activating the application as a follow-up service. |
| US09986392B1 |
Delivering short message service (SMS) messages via an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS)
Disclosed is a method and system to help avoid performing third-party registration of a UE with an SMS gateway of an IMS, the IMS including a P-CSCF, an S-CSCF, and an HSS. In an example implementation, when registering for service with the IMS, the UE provides UE-capability data to the P-CSCF, the P-CSCF sends the data to the S-CSCF, and the S-CSCF sends the data to the HSS. The S-CSCF does not send the UE-capability data to the SMS gateway. Rather, when the SMS gateway receives a request to send an SMS message to the UE, the SMS gateway queries the HSS to obtain the UE-capability data. Based on the UE-capability data, the SMS gateway makes a determination of whether the UE is capable of receiving SMS messages over IP and routes the SMS message over an appropriate access network based on the determination. |
| US09986391B2 |
Automated generation of recommended response messages
An electronic device providing a message service includes: a communication unit configured to exchange a message with another device; a display configured to display a message received from the another device, a message input by the electronic device, and at least one response message generated by the electronic device, all together on a message service screen of the display; and a processor configured to determine whether the received message includes an inquiry, and provide at least one piece of recommended content based on the inquiry in response to the received message being determined as including the inquiry, and transmit the at least one response message comprising the at least one piece of recommended content to the other device. |
| US09986390B2 |
Video cell phone messenger
A video cell phone messenger that provides caller ID streaming with sound and/or video, and provides a virtual greeting that users get when a call or text. A customized message is sent as part of an outgoing communication to another user who is being contacted by the user, in place of a numerical caller ID. The phone also sends text messages, and a second picture and sound forms a second customized message for texts. |
| US09986389B2 |
Method and system for processing information
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for transmitting information. During operation, the system receives, by a server from an initial mobile device, a request for transmitting information. The request does not specify a recipient for the information. The system obtains location and/or orientation information associated with the initial mobile device and location and/or orientation information associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The system selects from the plurality of mobile devices a subset of mobile devices based on the location and/or orientation information associated with the initial mobile device and the location and/or orientation information associated with the plurality of mobile devices, and transmits the information to the selected subset of mobile devices. |
| US09986388B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data
An apparatus and method are provided for receiving data by a first transceiver. The method includes receiving information for at least one transmission mode through higher layer signaling from a second transceiver; and receiving data on a first sub-frame based on a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS), if the at least one transmission mode is transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 and the first sub-frame is a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) sub-frame. |
| US09986387B2 |
Associating position information collected by a mobile device with a managed network appliance
Systems and methods for obtaining and managing network appliance position information are provided. According to one embodiment, a network appliance controller establishes a network connection with a mobile device. The network appliance controller receives via the network connection from the mobile device identification information associated with a network appliance and position information. The network appliance controller associates the identification information with the position information as a deployment position of the network appliance within the wireless local area network (WLAN). |
| US09986383B2 |
Dynamically creating fitness groups
In an approach to locating nearby computing device users to participate in a fitness activity, one or more computer processors receive from a first computing device of a first user, a selection of a fitness activity and a request to locate at least one second computing device associated with at least one second user in a vicinity of the first computing device to join in a fitness activity. The approach includes one or more computer processors determining the at least one second computing device associated with the least one second user is located in the vicinity of the first computing device. Furthermore, the approach includes one or more computer processors determining directions for the first user and the at least one second user to meet. |
| US09986380B2 |
Proximity and interest determination by a wireless device
A first wireless device determines whether the first wireless device is in a specified proximity to a second wireless device based on a signal wirelessly transmitted by the second wireless device. Based on information transmitted by the second wireless device, it is determined whether the first wireless device shares a common interest with the second wireless device. |
| US09986378B2 |
Systems and methods for defining and implementing rules for three dimensional geofences
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for enforcing at least one rule within a geofence. The rule is enforced by a fencing agent on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The geofence is defined by a plurality of geographic designators, with the plurality of geographic designators each being associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address, preferably an IPv6 address. |
| US09986376B1 |
Surfacing real-time notifications based on location
A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to determine an identification for a user; determine a location of the user; retrieve a first set of information related to the location and the identification; retrieve relationship information using the identification for the user; determine notification information by filtering the first set of information using the relationship information; generate a notification related to the location of the user and including the notification information; and provide the notification for presentation to the user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products. |
| US09986374B2 |
Personnel crisis communications management system
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing personnel communications management within an enterprise or group of related enterprises during crisis situations. In particular, the systems and methods provide event management, shared situational awareness, personnel tracking, and unified crisis notification management to multiple users. |
| US09986373B2 |
LTE-A systems and method of DRS based positioning
A Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) location server, user equipment (UE) and evolved Node-B (eNB) are generally described. Information may be transmitted to the UE from the location server. The transmission may be triggered by the location server or another entity requesting the UE location. The information may permit the UE to receive a discovery reference signal (DRS) from at least one eNB. The information may contain an indication of measurements to be performed using the DRS. The UE may measure Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) or Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) of the DRS. The UE may send the measurement information to the location server where the UE location is estimated. The UE location may be based on measurements of the DRS and a positioning reference signal (PRS) from one or more eNBs to obtain the Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) or Enhanced Cell ID (ECID). |
| US09986371B2 |
NFC power management device and method
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an NFC device is provided which comprises: a transceiver unit configured to establish a communication channel between the NFC device and a further NFC device, said further NFC device being external to the NFC device; a power management unit configured to detect an inactive communication state of said communication channel and to cause the transceiver unit to enter into a power management mode in response to a detection of said inactive communication state. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method for managing power in an NFC device is conceived. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program product is provided. |
| US09986370B2 |
Connection switching for bluetooth headsets
Connection switching for Bluetooth headsets is disclosed. A Bluetooth headset includes a Bluetooth transceiver configured to receive a message from a first Bluetooth device over a first Bluetooth connection with the first Bluetooth device. The message includes a command to establish a second Bluetooth connection with a second Bluetooth device. The Bluetooth headset also includes a processor configured to cause the Bluetooth transceiver to (i) release the first Bluetooth connection and then (ii) establish the second Bluetooth connection with the second Bluetooth device responsive to the Bluetooth transceiver receiving the message. Computer-readable media for the Bluetooth devices is also disclosed. |
| US09986363B2 |
Applications and format for immersive spatial sound
An electronic inertial measurement unit (IMU) coupled to headtracking headphones. The IMU may track any movement of the user's head, such as the pitch, yaw, roll angles, acceleration, and elevation and record this information as position data. The position data may be transmitted to tools that use routing schemes contained within authoring applications to decode user orientation and create high quality interactive multichannel biphonic audio without any additional processing or filtering. If horizontal, vertical, and tilt orientating audio is required, the MI emitters may be moved around (giving them x,y,z coordinates) within a cube representing a three dimensional space to generate “M1 Cube Format” audio. For horizontal orienting audio, fewer mono bus outputs may be used to generate “M1 Cube Format” audio. |
| US09986355B2 |
Assembly aid for miniature transducer
An electroacoustic transducer comprises a sleeve extending along a longitudinal axis; a diaphragm coupled to the sleeve at a first end of the sleeve; a subassembly in the sleeve; and an alignment element extending from the subassembly in a direction substantially away from the diaphragm. |
| US09986352B2 |
Acoustic processing device, acoustic processing method, and acoustic processing program
An acoustic processing device comprises: a resonant band detecting means that detects a resonant band of sound output from a speaker based on a measurement result of a predetermined measurement signal reproduced through the speaker; an analyzing means that analyzes the measurement result of the predetermined measurement signal; a control parameter generating means that generates a control parameter for controlling the resonant band detected by the resonant band detecting means based on an analysis result by the analyzing means; and an audio signal controlling means that controls an audio signal input from a predetermined audio signal reproducing device based on the control parameter generated by the control parameter generating means such that a resonant band component of reproduced sound of the audio signal is suppressed to be short on a time axis. |
| US09986350B2 |
System and method for improving data integrity and power efficiency
A method performed by a device includes generating a first signal in accordance with a first set of one or more operational settings, and determining whether the signal has an acceptable data integrity. If the device determines that the signal has an acceptable data integrity, the method includes maintaining a configuration of the device with the first set of one or more operational settings. If the device determines that the signal does not have an acceptable data integrity, then the method includes automatically configuring the device with a second set of one or more operational settings. The configuration of the device ith the first set of one or more operational settings is associated with greater power efficiency than the configuration of the device with the second set of one or more operational settings. |
| US09986348B2 |
Antenna unit
An antenna unit is disclosed. A hearing device, such as a hearing aid, having an antenna device is disclosed. The antenna unit allows wireless communication to and from the hearing device. |
| US09986347B2 |
Radio frequency MEMS devices for improved wireless performance for hearing assistance devices
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for wireless electronics using a MEMS switch for a hearing assistance device. The present application relates to a hearing assistance device configured to be worn by a wearer. The hearing assistance device includes a housing for electronics of the hearing assistance device, including wireless electronics. The wireless electronics include a plurality of radio frequency (RF) MEMS switches, in various embodiments. A hearing assistance processor is adapted to process signals for the wearer of the hearing assistance device. In various embodiments, the hearing assistance device includes an antenna, and a switchable capacitor bank configured for tuning the antenna, the switchable capacitor bank including one or more of the plurality of RF MEMS switches. The plurality of RF MEMS switches include an electrostatically deformed RF MEMS membrane, in an embodiment. Different configurations and approaches are provided. |
| US09986345B2 |
Mounting structure of electronic device for shutting off power and case, electronic device thereof
An electronic device, a case, and a case mounting structure of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a body and a cover for rotating based on a hinge portion in the body and opening and closing at a specified angle. The case includes a mounting portion for receiving at least part of an electronic device and a pressing projection for protruding outwards from the mounting portion and opening the cover in the electronic device by pressing at least part of the cover of the mounted electronic device. When the electronic device is mounting in the mounting portion and one side of the hinge portion is pressed by the pressing projection, the cover is opened at a specified angle and power of the electronic device is shut off. |
| US09986340B2 |
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is disclosed. The loudspeaker includes a magnetic circuit system including a first magnetic part, a second magnetic part surrounding the first magnetic part, and a magnetic gap formed by the first and second magnetic parts. At least one of the first and second magnetic parts is a magnet. The first magnetic part includes a body and an avoiding part formed surrounding an edge of the body. |
| US09986338B2 |
Reflected sound rendering using downward firing drivers
Embodiments are directed to speakers and circuits that reflect sound off a wall surface (114) to a listening location at a distance from a speaker. The reflected sound (103) provides direct audio cues to reproduce audio objects that have direct audio components without the need for direct firing speakers. The speaker comprises sideward firing drivers (108) to reflect sound off of the wall surface (114) and represents a virtual direct speaker (116). A virtual direct filter is applied to the sideward-firing driver signal to improve the perception of direct audio transmitted by the sideward firing speaker (108) to provide optimum reproduction of the reflected sound. The virtual direct filter may be incorporated as part of a crossover circuit that separates the full band and sends high frequency sound to the sideward-firing driver (108). |
| US09986335B2 |
Sound-modulating device
A sound-modulating device used in a confined space is provided. The sound-modulating device includes an event detector and an audio module in communication with each other. The event detector detects an event and generates a trigger signal in response to the detected event. The audio module plays a music segment in response to the trigger signal. The frequencies of the music segment range from 20 Hz to 20000 Hz. The intensities of the music segment are smaller than or equal to 75 dB. |
| US09986330B2 |
Audio device including jack detector
An audio device includes a channel detection electrode and a jack detector configured to determine whether the channel detection electrode is in contact with a jack according to voltage variation of a detection node. The jack detector includes a first resistor coupled between the detection node and a first node to which a first voltage is supplied, a second resistor coupled between the detection node and the channel detection electrode, a third resistor coupled between the detection node and a second node, and a comparator configured to compare a voltage at the detection node with a reference voltage. |
| US09986327B2 |
Detection circuit
Circuitry detects properties of an accessory removably connected thereto via a multi-pole connector. The circuitry has first, second and third circuit terminals for coupling to respective first, second, and third poles of said connector, and has an output for providing evaluation values from which properties of the accessory may be derived. In the circuitry, first current sourcing circuitry is coupled to said first circuit terminal for providing a first current. A switch network comprises first, second, third and fourth switch network terminals, said first switch network terminal coupled to a reference potential, said second switch network terminal coupled to said second circuit terminal, and said third switch network terminal coupled to said third circuit terminal. Comparator circuitry provides a comparison signal, its first input terminal being coupled to said first circuit terminal. Second current sourcing circuitry having a monitor node coupled to said second comparator input terminal and an output node coupled to said fourth switch network terminal provides a second current to said switch network. At least one of said first current sourcing circuitry and said second current-sourcing circuitry is responsive to a digital control word for varying said first or said second current. Control logic is provided for operatively controlling the state of the interconnections of said switch network, for adjusting said digital control word in response to said comparison signal until a voltage at said first circuit terminal is equal to a voltage at said monitor node, and for supplying said adjusted digital control word associated with the state of the interconnections to said output as an evaluation value. |
| US09986325B2 |
System with wireless earphones
Apparatus comprises adapter and speaker system. Adapter is configured to plug into port of personal digital audio player. Speaker system is in communication with adapter, and comprises multiple acoustic transducers, programmable processor circuit, and wireless communication circuit. In first operational mode, processor circuit receives, via adapter, and processes digital audio content from personal digital audio player into which adapter is plugged, and the multiple acoustic transducers output the received audio content from the personal digital audio player. In second operational mode, wireless communication circuit receives digital audio content from a remote digital audio source over a wireless network, processor circuit processes the digital audio content received from remote digital audio source, and the multiple acoustic transducers output the audio content received from the remote digital audio source. |
| US09986323B2 |
Earphones with attachable expansion pack
A wearable device and methods for using the same provided. In one embodiment, a wearable device includes a pair of earphones with a controller and an expansion pack. The controller includes a first set of electrical contacts and a first set of modules. The expansion pack includes a second set of electrical contacts and a second set of modules. The controller is configured to electrically couple at least one module of the first set of modules to at least one module of the second set of modules when the controller is electrically coupled to the expansion pack. The expansion pack may further include a USB energy storage device to provide the earphones with an extended battery life when the expansion pack is coupled to the chargeable batteries of the controller. |
| US09986317B1 |
Systems and methods modeling optical sources in optical spectrum controllers for control thereof
Systems and methods for modeling non-visible optical sources in a spectrum controller for control thereof include receiving channel routing information and signal characteristics for the non-visible channels separately from visible channels, wherein the visible channels are formed by optical transceivers communicatively coupled to the spectrum controller and the non-visible channels are formed by optical transceivers without communication to the spectrum controller; utilizing a combination of the channel routing information and signal characteristics for both the visible channels and the non-visible channels as input to the spectrum controller; performing control of optical spectrum based on the input; and providing output adjustments based on the control. |
| US09986315B2 |
Method and system for monitoring biometric data
A method of monitoring biometric data for an individual includes detecting that the individual has moved within a predetermined range of a fixed display device. The method further includes wirelessly receiving a sensed biometric parameter of the individual at a receiver associated with the fixed display device. After determining that the individual has moved within the predetermined range and that the sensed biometric parameter is an authorized parameter for display based on a user profile of the individual, the sensed biometric parameter is displayed on the fixed display device. The method further includes detecting that the individual has moved outside of the predetermined range, and removing the sensed biometric parameter from the fixed display device. |
| US09986310B2 |
Multi-stage sensing/control/identification device having protected communication and remote power
Sensing/control/identification devices for machines are provided. The devices include a first stage having a rectification and power conditioning module configured to receive electromagnetic (EM) transmissions via waveguide confinement and convert said EM transmissions to electrical power, a communication interface module configured to receive power from the rectification and conditioning module and at least one of receive or transmit EM transmissions/communications via waveguide confinement, and a control module configured to receive EM transmission data from the communication interface for processing and/or preparing EM communications for transmission. The devices further include a second stage having a tunable control module configured to process and convert instructions or commands from the control module of the first stage into analog or digital signals and generate and transmit an output signal. At least one connection is between the first stage and the second stage to enable communication between the first and second stages. |
| US09986309B2 |
Apparatus and methods for providing interactive extras
Apparatus and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing supplemental information and interactive features for content, such as a movie. In one implementation, a content provider builds a package of information and interactive features (“interactive extras”) using a defined structure and API (application programming interface). The content provider gives the package of extras to several distributors (or provides access to some or all of the package through a network resource). Each distributor uses the package in the distributor's content distribution platform or system by conforming to the API for the package. In this way, the content provider can provide the same package of extras to multiple distributors that may have incompatible platforms without having to build custom packages for each platform. This allows the content provider to build the package once and also provides a more consistent experience across the distributor services. |
| US09986308B2 |
Method and device to embed watermark in uncompressed video data
A system and method to watermark an uncompressed content received at a client device in a compressed form and encrypted by at least one content key, said content key as well as watermark instruction forming Conditional Access Module (CAS) data, said CAS data being encrypted by a transmission key and comprising at least one signature to authenticate the CAS data, said client device comprising a CAS configured to process the CAS data, a descrambler having an input to receive the encrypted compressed content and an output to produce an compressed content, a decoder to convert the compressed content into uncompressed content, a watermark inserter connected to the output of the decoder, a secure activation module connected with the watermark inserter, a secure element connected with the watermark inserter and the secure activation module. |
| US09986307B2 |
Interactive video viewing
A method and apparatus for providing an interactive video viewing experience for a user. The user has an internet enabled device and launches an interactive watching application (IWA) on his device. Using the IWA, he brings up a list of available video content and selects a video for viewing. As the user is viewing the video, an overlay display appears on the lower portion of the screen and overlays a portion of the still running video. The overlay displays “Touch for information regarding this program.” When the user touches the display, the video pauses and a web page containing information regarding or relating to the program or its subject matter is displayed. Utilizing various similar overlays, an interactive video viewing experience is provided to the user. The experience can include various overlays and associated experiences, such as obtaining information regarding new characters or consumer products as they appear. |
| US09986304B2 |
System for managing a configuration of a media content processor
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to transmit to a web server one or more configurations of said media content processor. The web server can record said one or more configurations to perform one among re-provisioning of the media content processor after it experiences a loss of configuration information and provisioning of another media content processor. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09986303B2 |
Video image coding data transmitter, video image coding data transmission method, video image coding data receiver, and video image coding data transmission and reception system
A transmission rate acquisition unit acquires the transmission rate of a network. A predictive transmission structure setting unit sets a transmission structure including a basic hierarchy and a supplementary hierarchy. A first transmission unit transmits basic video image coding data of the basic hierarchy. A memory unit stores supplementary video image coding data of the supplementary hierarchy. A second transmission unit transmits the supplementary video image coding data stored in the memory unit. A transmission control unit controls the second transmission unit according to the transmission rate. |
| US09986300B2 |
Social delivery of IPTV streams
Delivery of internet protocol television (IPTV) content, in one aspect, may comprise monitoring social media streams. Trends may be identified from the social media streams, the trends describing interests in IPTV content by location, time and subscriber types. Information may be received associated with a schedule for delivering the IPTV content. The trends may be compared with the received information to predict an expected demand of the IPTV content at the time at different locations and by different subscriber types. Resources may be reallocated to meet the expected demand in delivering the IPTV content to the different subscriber types at the different locations and the time. |
| US09986297B2 |
Methods and apparatus that support easy access and browsing of program and channel listings in a program guide
Methods and apparatus for improving channel browsing experience for users by presenting an automatically appearing and automatically scrolling program guide are described. The methods and apparatus are well suited for use with remote control devices with limited numbers of input buttons, e.g., under five buttons, but can be used with remote controls with more buttons. The program guide can be used to allow access to a grid guide to users of hospital remotes or other remotes with limited input keys, e.g., an up down arrow and/or a power button. The method in some embodiments uses time spent on a channel in combination with user selection of an input key to determine an action to be taken, e.g., enter or display the program grid guide and/or select a channel and/or corresponding program being displayed in the grid guide. |
| US09986294B2 |
Display device for displaying contents, server device for providing service based on ratings of contents, and methods thereof
A display device and method of displaying content on the display device are provided. The display device includes: a communicator configured to transmit information related to content displayed on a display to a server device and receive information on a highest rating content from the server device; and a controller configured to display a user interface (UI) object, which enables a user to change the content to the highest rating content on the display, in response to determining that the content is not the highest rating content. |
| US09986293B2 |
Device access control
Access to an electronic media device may be controlled based on media settings of users experiencing content using the electronic media device. Users or attributes of the users experiencing content using the electronic media device may be automatically identified and access to the electronic media device may be automatically controlled based on media settings associated with the identified users and/or attributes. |
| US09986292B2 |
Method and apparatus for presenting media programs
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device, including a controller to: transmit a client program having a graphical user interface to a media device operating in an interactive television network, wherein the client program presents a symbolic overlay that superimposes onto media content received by the media device and enables the media device to associate commentary with the media content received at the media device; and conduct searches for one of consumer products or consumer services associated with the media content based on the commentary regarding the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09986290B2 |
Video censoring
Censoring a video recording of an environment, the environment containing a protected entity displaying protected content to be censored. Video of the environment is processed in accordance with an entity recognition process to identify the presence of at least part of an entity in the environment. It is determined if the identified entity is to be censored based on based on entity information of a received VLC signal. Based on the identified entity being determined to be censored, the video recording is modified to replace at least a portion of the identified entity with a graphical element adapted to obscure the portion of the identified entity in the video stream. By modifying a video stream to obscure an entity, protected content in the environment may be prevented from being displayed to a viewer of the video recording. |
| US09986289B2 |
Methods and apparatus to count people
Methods and apparatus to count people are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a populator to populate a list with first characteristic datasets obtained from first image data representative of an environment during a first period of time, respective ones of the first characteristic datasets representative of a face detected in the environment during the first period of time; a comparator to compare the first characteristic datasets to each other to determine a first number of unique faces in the environment during the first period of time; and a discarder to delete the first characteristic datasets from the list when the first period of time has ended, the populator to re-populate the list with second characteristic datasets obtained from second image data representative of the environment during a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time. |
| US09986285B2 |
Set future video recordings from audiovisual content
Embodiments are directed towards analyzing content, such as Timed Text data that separately accompanies program content, to detect a future program. When a future program is detected in the content, a tag or other data structure is generated with identifying information for the future program. The tag is stored and later used to schedule a recording for the future program. An electronic program guide may be analyzed based on the identifying information in the tag to determine if the future program has been added to the electronic program guide. |
| US09986283B2 |
Display device, method of providing personalized object, and method of providing information
A method and an apparatus of a display device for providing a personalized object are provided. The method including reproducing content, receiving an input from a first user selecting a first section of the content being reproduced, and generating a first personalized object corresponding to reproducing the selected first section, based on information about the selected first section, link information of the content, and information about an image corresponding to the content, is provided. |
| US09986282B2 |
Content recognition and synchronization using local caching
Supplemental network services are synchronized with a program using the program's audio signal. A synchronization method employs local caching of portions of a fingerprint database to manage network services for identifying which programs a user's mobile device is exposed to and the timing of events within the program. The system enables background recognition and synchronization of network services in a way that consumes less device power and bandwidth. |
| US09986273B2 |
Extracting media content from social networking services
Systems and methods are disclosed for extracting media content from social networking services and presenting the extracted content to an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) user in a personalized and easy-to-consume manner. One or more feeds from social networking services that contain data pertaining to the user's social graph are monitored by a service in the IPTV domain for media content that meets preset criteria and preferences of the user. A social networking dashboard application is hosted in the IPTV environment and includes a user interface arranged with tools to enable the user to set preferences and specify tags that control various aspects of the media content extraction. The service can also monitor the social networking feeds in a real-time manner that enables creation of a knowledge base that is usable to present media content “trends” to the IPTV user. |
| US09986271B2 |
Method and apparatus for accessing higher privileged functions from lower privileged functions
The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution. |
| US09986269B1 |
Maintaining stream continuity counter in a stateless multiplexing system
Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for maintaining a packet count in stateless multiplexing systems. Multimedia streaming formats employ roll-over packet counters, such as the continuity counter (CC) for stream data associated with a particular packet identifier (e.g., a packetized elementary stream) in an MPEG transport stream. In one embodiment, an input stream is broken into segments of a given duration. Output segments are generated based on input segments (e.g., as in distributed transcoding systems). For a given output segment, additional packets are generated and inserted into the stream to force the packet counter for each packet identifier (PID) to end on a predetermined value. The ending predetermined value is preferably contiguous to the starting predetermined value at which the counter began that output segment. The first packet for a given PID in output segments can thus start the packet counter on a known value—i.e., the starting predetermined value. |
| US09986267B2 |
Methods and systems for dynamically editing, encoding, posting and updating live video content
There is provided a method for use by a system. The method includes receiving live broadcasting of a segment of a video content from a live encoder; recording the segment in a video database of the non-transitory memory, receiving edits to the segment from a producer to produce an edited segment, encoding the edited segment to produce an encoded edited segment, and transmitting a network address of the encoded edited segment to a content management system (CMS) for distribution to a plurality of user devices. |
| US09986266B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for playing multimedia file
At a mobile terminal coupled to a control apparatus using an interface provided by the mobile terminal: receiving a user instruction to play a main multimedia file; playing a pre-arranged multimedia file associated with the main multimedia file before playing all or a portion of the main multimedia file; while playing the pre-arranged multimedia file, receiving an operation signal from the control apparatus through the interface, wherein the control signal is sent to the mobile terminal in response to a user operation received at the control apparatus, and the control signal corresponds to a control instruction regarding playback of the pre-arranged multimedia file; in response to receiving the control signal: if a user account associated with the mobile terminal meets authorization criteria with respect to the control instruction, executing, according to the control instruction, a control operation on the pre-arranged multimedia file that is being played. |
| US09986259B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing video signal
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal, the method comprising: receiving a multiview video signal; identifying whether a current picture including a first layer and a second layer is decoded by using alpha data within the multiview video signal; obtaining the alpha data corresponding to the first layer and the second layer when the current picture is identified to be decoded by using the alpha data; and decoding a current block included in the current picture by using the alpha data, wherein the alpha data may include information concerning transparency information of the current picture. |
| US09986254B1 |
Tiling in video encoding and decoding
Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture (826), accessing information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined (806, 808, 822), decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures (824, 826), and providing the accessed information and the decoded video picture as output (824, 826). Some other implementations format or process the information that indicates how multiple pictures included in a single video picture are combined into the single video picture, and format or process an encoded representation of the combined multiple pictures. |
| US09986253B2 |
Reproduction device, reproduction method, and recording medium
The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of an aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device outputs data of the extended video after adding frame information including the brightness characteristic information to frame data when information acquired from a display device that is to be an output destination of the video includes information representing a display performance of the extended video, and when no information representing the display performance of the extended video is included, outputs the data of the standard video. The present technology can be applied to a player that reproduces content. |
| US09986251B2 |
Reference layer and scaled reference layer offsets for scalable video coding
A process for determining the selection of filters and input samples is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system to improve quality in Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). It is proposed that a single scaled reference layer offset be derived from two scaled reference layer offset parameters, and vice-versa. It is also proposed that a single scaled reference layer offset or a single reference layer offset be derived from a combination of a scaled reference layer offset parameter and a reference layer offset parameter. |
| US09986249B2 |
Method and system for improving compressed image chroma information
Methods, systems, and computer programs for improving compressed image chroma information. In one aspect of the invention, a resolution for a red color component of a color video image is used that is higher than the resolution for a blue color component of the color video image. Another aspect includes utilizing a lower or higher value of a quantization parameter (QP) for one or more chroma channels as compared to the luminance channel. Another aspect is use of a logarithmic representation of a video image to benefit image coding. Another aspect uses more than two chroma channels to represent a video image. |
| US09986248B2 |
Palette mode coding for video coding
Receiving a plurality of syntax elements that are indicative of a palette that was used to encode a block of video data, the plurality of syntax elements including a first syntax element that indicates a number of palette values for the palette that are explicitly signaled in the encoded video bitstream, wherein the first syntax element is encoded using one or more Golomb codes such that the length of the encoded first syntax element is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum number of bits, decoding the plurality of syntax elements, including decoding the first syntax element using the one or more Golomb codes, reconstructing the palette based on the decoded plurality of syntax elements, and decoding the block of video data using the reconstructed palette. |
| US09986243B2 |
Image processor
In the multi mode, the software processing unit notifies the hardware processing unit by batch of multiple settings information sets about multiple output pictures before the hardware processing unit starts to encode an input picture, and the hardware processing unit performs continuous encoding for the output pictures, based on the settings information sets notified of by the software processing unit, without a notification signifying a completion for every picture, and upon completion of encoding for all of the output pictures, sends an interrupt notification signifying a completion of encoding to the software processing unit. |
| US09986240B2 |
Method for extracting features from a flow of digital video frames, and corresponding system and computer program product
In an embodiment, digital video frames in a flow are subjected to a method of extraction of features including the operations of: extracting from the video frames respective sequences of pairs of keypoints/descriptors limiting to a threshold value the number of pairs extracted for each frame; sending the sequences extracted from an extractor module to a server for processing with a bitrate value variable in time; receiving the aforesaid bitrate value variable in time at the extractor as target bitrate for extraction; and limiting the number of pairs extracted by the extractor to a threshold value variable in time as a function of the target bitrate. |
| US09986237B2 |
Method for motion estimation and apparatus for processing image
Provided are a method for motion estimation and an apparatus for processing an image. The method includes extracting a pattern from any one frame, classifying the extracted pattern as any one of predetermined basic patterns, counting basic patterns of regions included in macroblocks according to types of the basic patterns to set representative basic patterns of the macroblocks, calculating at least one of a sum of absolute difference (SAD) term coefficient and a smoothness constraint (SC) term coefficient from a correlation between representative basic patterns of macroblocks included in a macroblock group, and calculating a cost function result using at least one of the calculated SAD term coefficient and SC term coefficient. |
| US09986233B1 |
Camera calibration using fixed calibration targets
Methods and systems for collecting camera calibration data using at least one fixed calibration target are described. Calibration parameters of a camera that is attached to a vehicle may be accessed. A set of calibration instructions for the camera may be determined based at least in part on the calibration parameters. The set of calibration instructions may include navigational instructions for the vehicle to follow to present the camera to the at least one fixed calibration target. Calibration data collected by the camera viewing the at least one fixed calibration target may be received. The camera may be calibrated based at least in part on the calibration data. |
| US09986229B2 |
Method, system and module for adjusting interpupillary distance of head-mounted 3D displays
The present disclosure discloses methods, systems and modules for adjusting an interpupillary distance of a head-mounted 3D display. The method comprising: receiving a signal to start the head-mounted 3D display, after receiving the signal, scanning an interpupillary distance of a user wearing the head-mounted 3D display; setting centers of left and right eye images of a display screen based on the interpupillary distance of the user, wherein the centers of the left and right eye images are symmetrical about a physical midline of the display screen; and playing the same left and right eye guiding images by taking the centers of the left and right eye images as their centers, respectively, on the display screen to guide the user to adjust positions of left and right eye lenses. A head-mounted 3D display adopting the technical solution of this invention has an interpupillary distance adjustment function, making it suitable for different users. |
| US09986228B2 |
Trackable glasses system that provides multiple views of a shared display
Embodiments present different images to multiple viewers of a shared display using glasses with lenses that transmit only selected images from the display. The images viewed by each of the glasses may be based on the tracked position and orientation of the glasses, so that the images correspond to the user's viewpoint. Different images may also be presented to left and right eyes for 3D stereoscopic viewing. The position and orientation of the lenses of the glasses may be tracked by analyzing images from one or more cameras observing the glasses. Glasses may have distinctive geometric shapes or features, such as circular lenses or rims, or recognizable blobs or patterns, to facilitate tracking. The lenses of the glasses may combine multiple barriers such as anaglyph filters, polarizing filters, and shutters, to select images from the display. Glasses may also be used as pointing devices to select and manipulate 3D objects. |
| US09986227B2 |
Tracked automultiscopic 3D tabletop display
An apparatus for displaying three dimensional (3D) images to a viewer without the need for 3D glasses. The apparatus includes a display element with a lenticular display surface that is supported to be horizontal and face upward into a viewing space. The apparatus includes a location tracking element tracking a location of a viewer in the viewing space relative to the lenticular display surface. The apparatus includes a display controller generating reprojected content for operating the display element to display 3D images via the lenticular display surface. The reprojected content is generated by determining for each pixel of the display element the content or images passing through tracked and/or determined eye locations and then remapping content delivered to each of the pixels of the display element to achieve a predefined pattern of content in viewpoints of fixed camera positions for the display element. |
| US09986225B2 |
Techniques for cut-away stereo content in a stereoscopic display
A computer-implemented method for stereoscopically displaying content includes determining a first position of an object within in a region of display space proximate to a stereoscopic display device and calculating a second position of a virtual object in the region. The method further includes determining an occluded portion of the virtual object that is occluded the object when the virtual object is disposed at the second position and causing the display device to stereoscopically render for display one or more portions of the virtual object that do not include the occluded portion. One advantage of the disclosed method is that a viewer can perform direct touch operations with stereoscopically displayed (3D) content with reduced visual discomfort. |
| US09986224B2 |
System and methods for calibration of an array camera
Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera are disclosed. Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera in accordance with embodiments of this invention include the capturing of an image of a test pattern with the array camera such that each imaging component in the array camera captures an image of the test pattern. The image of the test pattern captured by a reference imaging component is then used to derive calibration information for the reference component. A corrected image of the test pattern for the reference component is then generated from the calibration information and the image of the test pattern captured by the reference imaging component. The corrected image is then used with the images captured by each of the associate imaging components associated with the reference component to generate calibration information for the associate imaging components. |
| US09986217B2 |
Magneto photonic encoder
A magneto photonic encoder, in plane, includes a set of periodic structures of magneto photonic crystals for rotating a polarization of a beam of light responsive to a controllable magnetic field as it is transmitted through the periodic structures. The rotated polarization, in cooperation with a non-reciprocal-mode conversion device produces an encoded signal without use of crossed polarizers. Path optics guide the light beam into the periodic structures for polarization rotation and then to direct the modified beam of light into the non-reciprocal-mode conversion device. Depending upon the implementation, the encoded output may serve as display image primitive precursor to produce an image constituent signal. |
| US09986215B1 |
Laser scan beam foveated display
An apparatus includes one or more MEMS mirrors, a light source driver and a controller. The light source driver selectively drives one or more light emitting elements of a light source to thereby produce a light beam that is directed towards a same MEMS mirror. The controller controls rotation of the MEMS mirror(s) in a fast-axis direction and a slow-axis direction in order to raster scan an image using the light beam reflected from the MEMS mirror(s). In order to achieve a first line density in a first portion of the image being raster scanned and to achieve a second line density, that is less than the first line density, in a second portion of the image being raster scanned, the controller dynamically adjusts a speed at which one of the MEMS mirror(s) is rotated in the slow-axis direction. Related systems and methods are also disclosed herein. |
| US09986214B2 |
Display systems and methods employing time multiplexing of projection screens and projectors
An immersive display system is disclosed that includes screens configured to mitigate reduction in contrast ratio due at least in part to peripheral light incident on the screens. The immersive display system includes at least two screens and at least two projector systems. The screens have a multi-layered structure configured to selectively reflect light for controlled periods of time. Adjacent screens can be configured to selectively reflect light during different periods of time. The projector systems can be configured to project video onto their respective screens while the associated screen is configured to selectively reflect light rather than absorb light. |
| US09986209B2 |
Method and system for managing data from digital network surveillance cameras
A computer implemented method of establishing and managing an arbitrarily large, geographically distributed video surveillance network is provided. The method comprises a plurality of independent video processing components operatively coupled by a data network, each independent video processing component configured to implement one or more tasks, the one or more tasks comprising video capture, relaying, recording, processing, storage, analysis and event-monitoring of video and audio files and information. |
| US09986206B2 |
User experience for conferencing with a touch screen display
A video conference system includes two cameras placed on opposite sides of a touch screen display. Multimedia processing is performed in order to automatically switch between the cameras and to display items on the touch screen display based on user position or user interactions with the system. |
| US09986201B2 |
Method and apparatus for exchanging protocol
A method and apparatus for exchanging a protocol is provided. A protocol may be indicated in a preset section of a vertical blanking interval (VBI) of an analog video and thereby transmitted. A protocol transmission apparatus may transmit an analog video signal in which a protocol signal is indicated to a protocol reception apparatus. The protocol reception apparatus may detect a protocol by receiving the analog video signal from the protocol transmission apparatus. |
| US09986195B2 |
Method and device that simulate video delivered by video instrument
A method of simulating how output video from a video instrument that presents video appears under a given viewing environment includes: inputting an environmental illuminance in a viewing environment in which output video is viewed; inputting a set condition with regard to the video instrument, the set condition including at least optical output; and calculating and outputting, by using the environmental illuminance and the set condition, a video contrast based on a ratio between an illuminance of the output video and the environmental illuminance at a video formation plane on which the output video is formed. |
| US09986188B2 |
Unit pixel of image sensor and image sensor having the same
A unit pixel of an image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a mode control unit, a first signal generation unit and a second signal generation unit. The photoelectric conversion unit generates photo-charges in response to incident light and provides the photo-charges to a first node. The mode control unit prevents the photo-charges from being discharged from the first node in a first operation mode, and generates a sensing current by discharging the photo-charges and generates a sensing voltage proportional to the sensing current in a second operation mode. The first signal generation unit generates an analog signal based on an amount of the photo-charges accumulated in the first node in the first operation mode. The second signal generation unit generates an on signal and an off signal based on a change of the sensing voltage in the second operation mode. The unit pixel provides various sensing outputs effectively. |
| US09986185B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit and image capturing apparatus
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes multiple signal processing circuits including a constant current source, a first bias source that generates first bias voltage, a second bias source that generates second bias voltage, a first bias circuit that supplies a first reference current to the first bias source, a second bias circuit that supplies a second reference current to the second bias source, a bias wiring that supplies the first bias voltage and the second bias voltage to a plurality of gates of a transistor that constructs the constant current source, a power source wiring that supplies a power source voltage to each of the first bias source, the second bias source, and the constant current source, a first voltage supplying source that applies a first power source voltage to the power source wiring, and a second voltage supplying that applies a second power source voltage to the power source wiring. |
| US09986183B2 |
Lens distortion correction device and application processor having the same
A lens distortion correction device and an application processor having the same include a distortion correction unit configured to correct a distorted image into an undistorted image and an image enhancement unit configured to improve the undistorted image using a high-frequency component of the distorted image. |
| US09986181B2 |
Digital pixel exposure method by using multiple ramp voltage as reference voltage
The present invention relates to a CMOS image sensor. The present invention provides a digital pixel sensor capable of maintaining consistency between two reference voltage changing rates. To this end, the invention proposes a technical solution in which a digital pixel exposure method by using multiple ramp voltage as reference voltage is provided. Said method includes the following steps: by means of PWM pixel array, a PWM pixel is composed of a photodiode PD, a reset transistor MRST, a pixel or column level comparator, and a pixel or column or array level memory; the two input ends of the pixel level comparator are connected with PD node voltage and a predefined reference voltage Vref; after being reset, the PWM type digital pixel undergoes an exposure period; the exposure time includes a reset sampling period Trs and an integration sampling period Tis; in resetting sampling period, reference voltage Vref linearly rises from Vref_rsl to Vref_rsh; The integration sampling period is divided into several sub periods. The present invention mainly applies to design and manufacture of CMOS image sensors. |
| US09986180B2 |
Image pickup apparatus and method for controlling image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus including are, image pickup nit configured to employ a first mode and a second mode, and a controller configured to read out, in the first mode, a first row, and read out, in the second mode and a mode different from the second mode, a second row, the first row being read out in the first mode during a first read-out period, the second row being read out in the second mode during a second read-out period, the second row read out in the mode different from the second mode during a third read-out period, and the first to third read-out periods having the same length. |
| US09986179B2 |
Sensor architecture using frame-based and event-based hybrid scheme
A hybrid camera sensor offers efficient image sensing by periodically evaluating pixels at a certain frame rate and disregarding values of pixels that have changed less than a threshold amount. Because only a fraction of pixels in the camera sensor may change values from frame to frame, this can result in faster readout times, which can optionally enable increased frame rates. |
| US09986178B2 |
Solid-state image pickup apparatus, signal processing method for a solid-state image pickup apparatus, and electronic apparatus
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section that has at least one pixel with a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge detection unit. A driving section is configured to read out a signal of the pixel, a first portion of said signal being based on signal charge, a second portion of said signal being based on a reset potential. A signal processing section is configured to read out the first portion of the signal as a reference voltage, with the reference voltage being adjusted to cause the first and second portions of the signal to be within an input voltage range. |
| US09986177B2 |
Spectral enhancements to mobile devices
A method for capturing and consolidating multi-spectral image data for regions of interest using one or more spectral boost mechanisms or techniques is disclosed. A first multi-spectral or hyperspectral workflow comprising time-stamped two-dimensional pixelated images of a region of interest is obtained by a first computer-enabled imaging device. Each of the images corresponds to image data captured for a respective frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands. First meta data is associated with the images of the first workflow and includes: a plurality of first positions and first orientations of the first imaging device indicating first positional and orientation data for the first imaging device, and indications of a respective frequency band for each of the images of the first workflow. A consolidated multi-spectral workflow for the region of interest is generated, which includes spectrally and spatially consolidating the images of the first workflow using the first meta data. |
| US09986176B2 |
3D imaging method and system
A system for generating a three-dimensional model of an object, the system including a portable hand-held imaging device including a housing, a plurality of sensors attached to the housing and at least one electronic processing device coupled to the plurality of sensors. The electronic processing device determines from the plurality of sensors, while the imaging device is in at least two different poses relative to the object, range data indicative of a range of the object and thermal infrared data indicative of a thermal infrared image of the object, generates a three-dimensional model based at least partially upon the range data from the at least two different poses and associates model data derived from the thermal infrared data from the at least two different poses with the three dimensional model to thereby provide a three dimensional thermal infrared model of the object. |
| US09986172B2 |
Semiconductor device including control signal generating circuit
A semiconductor device including a control signal generating circuit that outputs an exposure time switching pulse and a sweep period pulse, the exposure time switching pulse indicating a length of an exposure time in which light-receiving elements receive incident light, and the sweep period pulse specifying a time in which a ramp signal generating circuit sweeps a ramp signal; and a ramp waveform control circuit that stores a short-time exposure slope setting value and a long-time exposure slope setting value, switches between the short-time exposure slope setting value and the long-time exposure slope setting value according to the exposure time switching pulse, and outputs the switched one of the short-time exposure slope setting value and the long-time exposure slope setting value, the short-time exposure slope setting value setting a slope of the ramp signal used when the exposure time switching pulse indicates a short-time exposure period. |
| US09986171B2 |
Method and apparatus for dual exposure settings using a pixel array
An electronic device is provided including an image sensor that includes a pixel array, and a processor configured to control operations of: obtaining an image data set; processing the image data set to identify a first portion of the pixel array that is associated with a first subject and a second portion of the pixel array; and capturing an image by operating the first portion of the pixel array in accordance with a first exposure setting value and operating the second portion of the pixel array in accordance with a second exposure setting value. |
| US09986170B2 |
Method and apparatus for sensing spatial information based on vision sensor
Apparatuses and methods for sensing spatial information based on a vision sensor are disclosed. The apparatus and method recognize the spatial information of an object sensed by the vision sensor that senses a temporal change of light. The light being input into the vision sensor is artificially changed using a change unit configured to change the light being input to the vision sensor. |
| US09986169B2 |
Exposure control method and system for an image capture device
Improved exposure control processes, devices, and systems are provided for wide angle lens imaging systems that suffer from image distortion. The exposure control uses a model of the wide angle lens distortion that estimates the weights that respective pixels of the image would have when producing an undistorted version of the image signal, and then scales pixel intensity values by the respective weights to produce weighted pixel values. The weighted pixel values are provided to an exposure control pixel counting process to produce one or more exposure feedback control signals, which control exposure features of the imaging system. |
| US09986168B2 |
Image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus of the disclosure includes a body, a display section, and a display controller. The display section is pivotable on the body between a first state in which a display surface is oriented to rear surface side of the body and a second state in which the display surface is oriented to front surface side of the body. The display controller varies an arrangement state of a predetermined icon depending on orientation of the body, when the display section is in the second state. The predetermined icon is displayed on the display section. |
| US09986163B2 |
Digital photographing apparatus and digital photographing method
A digital photographing apparatus includes: an image sensor including a first pixel group and a second pixel group each pixel group including a plurality of pixels for generating an imaging signal by photoelectrically converting incident light, the image sensor being configured to acquire the imaging signal two or more times in the second pixel group and to acquire the imaging signal once in the first pixel group; and a processor configured to acquire an image in which a motion of a subject appears based on the imaging signal acquired by the image sensor, and to generate a motion-corrected image based on the imaging signal acquired in the second pixel group. |
| US09986160B2 |
Network camera system and illumination device thereof
A network camera system includes a network camera and an illumination device. The illumination device is connected to the network camera. The illumination device includes an illumination unit and a processing unit. The illumination unit is used for providing illumination light to the network camera. The processing unit is connected to the illumination unit for detecting a practical operation power of the network camera, calculating a maximum illumination power according to an electrical power received by the illumination device and the practical operation power, and transmitting the practical operation power and the maximum illumination power to the network camera and the illumination unit respectively. |
| US09986158B2 |
Method and apparatus for photographing a panoramic image
A method and apparatus for photographing a panoramic image. The method includes detecting a Motion Vector (MV) of a plurality of images captured through a photographing unit, selecting regions to be included in the panoramic image from the plurality of images, based on the MV, and generating the panoramic image including the selected regions. |
| US09986157B2 |
Imaging optical system, camera apparatus and stereo camera apparatus
A single focal imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group with a positive power, an aperture stop, and a second lens group with a positive power. The first lens group includes a first front lens group and a first rear lens group. The first front lens group includes a negative lens having a concave surface on an image side and a positive meniscus lens having a concave surface on the object side. The first rear lens group includes a biconvex lens. The second lens group includes a second front lens group with a negative power and a second rear lens group with a positive power. The system satisfies a following condition: 3.2 |
| US09986149B2 |
Determining settings of a camera apparatus
Methods and computer program products for determining one or more settings of a camera apparatus are provided. The methods include obtaining one or more parameters of the camera apparatus and determining one or more settings of the camera apparatus using the one or more parameters and an image repository. The image repository may include images with image parameters associated with the images, which may be correlated with the one or more parameters of the camera apparatus, and the images may also have an associated rating attribute. One or more images may be identified for inclusion in a subset of images, based on an image's image parameters and/or based on an image's rating attribute. The camera settings of one image of the subset of images, corresponding to the settings used to create the one image, may be used to automatically adjust the one or more settings of the camera apparatus. |
| US09986146B2 |
Imaging device having autofocus capability
Herein disclosed is an imaging device having an imaging optical system, the device including: an imaging element configured to include a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a first processor configured to execute focal detection processing by a phase difference detection system based on charge signals obtained from the plurality of second pixels; and a second processor configured to execute specific processing based on charge signals obtained from the plurality of first pixels, the specific processing being different from the focal detection processing by a phase difference detection system and being necessary for a function of the imaging device. |
| US09986137B2 |
Image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus includes a first exterior member made of a conductive material, a second exterior member made of a nonconductive material, and an antenna covered by the second exterior member and configured to provide a wireless communication. The antenna includes a feeder configured to supply a current, an oscillator configured to oscillate the current as a radio wave, and an intermediate part located between the feeder and the oscillator. The feeder and the oscillator are farther from the first exterior member than the intermediate part. |
| US09986134B2 |
Profile creation apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing profile creation program and color matching method
Provided are a profile creation apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a profile creation program and a profile creation method. The profile creation apparatus includes a standard-color-profile obtaining section that obtains a standard color profile and a reference-device-profile obtaining section that obtains a reference-device profile. The profile creation apparatus further includes a color-conversion-table creation section that creates a color conversion table by combining the standard color profile and reference-device profile with being weighted such that a weighed ratio of the standard color profile increases as chroma calculated from input color values of the color conversion table increases, in a predetermined chroma region. The profile creation apparatus further includes a color conversion section that performs color conversion on a print image by using the color conversion table and outputs the print image to a certain printing device. |
| US09986132B2 |
Technique for communicating authentication information for acquiring print data from server
A terminal device may send to a server a registration request requesting the server to register virtual printer relation information related to a virtual printer, receive authentication information from the server, acquire adaptability information indicating whether execution of a server print function is permitted or not from an existent printer, and in a case where the adaptability information indicates the execution of the server print function is permitted, send the authentication information to the existent printer. In a case where the adaptability information indicates the execution of the server print function is not permitted, the sending of the authentication information may not be performed. The authentication information may be associated with the virtual printer relation information in the server, and configured to be used when the existent printer acquires print data of a print target stored in the server from the server. |
| US09986130B2 |
Image reading apparatus that ensures high SN ratio by sufficient use of performance of image sensor, image reading method, and recording medium therefor
An image reading apparatus includes a light source, a light-source control unit, a line sensor, an image data generating unit, and an image analysis unit. The line sensor includes a plurality of light receiving elements, a plurality of charge coupled devices, and a shift register. The image data generating unit generates image data according to electric charges output from the shift register. The image analysis unit determines whether transfer of the electric charges is normal, based on a contour reproduction status, being the status of reproduction of contours in test image data generated by reading of a test image having contours oriented intersecting an orientation whereby the plurality of light receiving elements are arranged. The light-source control unit adjusts the amount of light from the light source based on the determination by the image analysis unit. |
| US09986129B2 |
Scanner and image production method for sequentially storing image correction value in plurality of storage regions
A scanner includes a transport mechanism that continuously transports a plurality of documents, a sensor, a control unit that performs correction of a read image which the sensor reads by using a correction value, a calculation unit that calculates the correction value based on a result from which the sensor reads a reference region between the documents, and a storage unit that sequentially stores the correction value in any of a plurality of storage regions, in which the control unit switches the storage region where the correction value used for the correction is read out to the storage region where the calculated correction value is stored, if storing of the calculated correction value is completed. |
| US09986128B1 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method facilitating processing color
There is provided an image forming apparatus of an embodiment including a resolution converting unit, a color information calculating unit, and a color pixel determining unit. The resolution converting unit decreases image resolution of read image data. The color information calculating unit calculates color information that is used in determination of whether a pixel is a color pixel or a non-color pixel, based on a value of an RGB signal of the pixel which configures the image data. The color pixel determining unit determines whether the pixel is either the color pixel or the non-color pixel, based on the color information, and changes a criterion of selecting the color pixel based on the color information. |
| US09986120B2 |
Environment management apparatus for inside of machine, electronic machine, image forming apparatus, environment management method for inside of machine, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An environment management apparatus for inside of a machine includes an estimator and a generator. The estimator estimates an environment state in the machine in a case of executing a process under a predetermined control condition, from process execution data for instructing execution of the process. The generator generates, for the environment state estimated by the estimator, a time-series scheme for environment control during the execution of the process from a calculation result obtained by calculating a control condition which maintains the environment state to be less than or equal to a predetermined target value. |
| US09986118B2 |
Image forming apparatus that ensures reduced waste of recording sheet when performing trial printing
An image forming apparatus includes a processor, a storage unit, a paper sheet feeder, an image forming unit, and a postprocessing unit. The postprocessing unit performs postprocessing on the recording sheet following image formation by the image forming unit. When a print/postprocessing job in which a plurality of copies is printed and postprocessing is performed on each copy is executed by the print-job execution unit, the postprocessing-position marking unit labels image data for at least the head page of the first copy with predetermined marks respectively in a position where postprocessing is to be performed and in a position where postprocessing is performable. The print-job execution unit, when executing the print/postprocessing job, performs control such that the first copy is printed without postprocessing, an image in which at least the head page has been labeled with the marks is printed, and the print/postprocessing job is temporarily halted. |
| US09986115B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a screen, a touch sensor for detecting a contact position of an operation element on the screen, and an input auxiliary device capable of being moved by sliding by a user between a position above the screen and a standby position beyond the screen. |
| US09986114B2 |
Image forming system transmitting setting information, image forming apparatus, and recording medium
An image forming system includes multiple image forming apparatuses and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal establishes communication connection in a remote operation mode with a parent apparatus (one of the image forming apparatuses), the remote operation mode being a mode in which the mobile terminal operates as a remote operation apparatus of the parent apparatus. The mobile terminal displays an operation screen received from the parent apparatus, accepts a user operation provided through the operation screen, and transmits first setting information based on the user operation to the parent apparatus. The parent apparatus receives the first setting information from the mobile terminal and determines a setting target child apparatus. The parent apparatus transmits second setting information based on the first setting information to the setting target child apparatus, and the setting target child apparatus sets setting content based on the second setting information received from the parent apparatus. |
| US09986109B2 |
Information processing apparatus for facsimile transmission, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus capable of instructing a facsimile transmission by controlling a device capable of transmission and receiving of a facsimile, and a method of controlling the apparatus are provided. The apparatus specifies address information indicating a transmission destination of a designated document, and determine whether or not the specified address information includes information of a communication mode. If the address information includes the information of the communication mode, in a case where a driver, that instructs the device to perform the facsimile transmission, supports the communication mode, the apparatus performs the facsimile transmission in accordance with the address information and the communication mode, and if the specified address information does not include the information of the communication mode, the apparatus performs the facsimile transmission in accordance with a communication mode that the driver supports. |
| US09986102B1 |
Remote actuation safety
Embodiments of a remotely actuatable device are described herein. Such a device may include an electronically actuatable component, a communications module, and a controller. The communications module may include one or more of a receiver, a transmitter, and a transceiver. The controller may electronically communicate with one or more of the electronically actuatable component and the communications module. The controller may store and execute instructions for a set-signal-strength-threshold mode. The instructions may include: receiving at least three signal strength test signals at irregular intervals over a time span ranging from five seconds to five minutes; determining one or more of a mean signal strength and a mode signal strength of the signal strength test signals; and setting a signal strength threshold based on one or more of the mean signal strength and a mode signal strength. |
| US09986100B2 |
Message forwarding and retrieval with a single messaging service
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a method and system of integrating a user's voice mail onto a single voice messaging service, e.g., a Unified Messaging (UM) service, such that a client may access this single source for voice mail retrieval, even where such voice mails are from a variety of sources, e.g., work, mobile phone, etc. A user, or the user's mobile operator, need only agree to accept the service, and the registration and configuration requirements for providing the service and forwarding calls to the service are automatically configured. The user's existing “speed dial” key or other setting for retrieving voice mail may also be automatically configured to the access number(s) for the service. Configurations may monitor the status of the service and update access and/or forwarding numbers. Voice mail forwarding and settings may also be automatically reverted back to the user's original service. |
| US09986099B2 |
Voicemail proxy server
Methods and systems directed to retrieving voicemails from a voice mailbox server. In particular embodiments, a mailbox server may receive a notification from the voice mailbox server and connect to the voice mailbox server providing the credentials of a client device, and pull new voicemails for storage at the mailbox server. In particular embodiments, mailbox server periodically polls voice mailbox server for new voicemail messages. In particular embodiments, a client device polls or receives notification of new voicemails, and transmits a downloaded message to the mailbox server. |
| US09986094B2 |
Customer journey management
Systems and methods of managing customer journeys are implemented using one or more processors in a computing system. Each journey may comprise a succession of interactions at interaction points such as telephone conversations, responses to an interactive voice response “IVR” system and viewing a web page. Customer journey scores are determined for customers at one or more interaction points along the customer journey and the customer journey score is used to determine whether and when an intervention should take place. Models for determining customer journey scores may be created for a set of customers based on one or both of subjective and objective data relating to a subset of the set of customers that have made some or part of the journey, e.g. customers that have responded to polls. An intervention may take place during the journey or after completion of the journey. |
| US09986093B2 |
System and method of integrating to an external search application in an employee desktop web client
In the field of government engagement management, for users of an employee desktop web client, it is now possible, within the web client application, to search and read articles and/or knowledge content that has been authored to external locations. Due to this integration to external, third-party applications, content and/or articles can be displayed to an agent on the employee desktop web client graphical user interface. Agents can enter free text into a specific search field and review the results in summary form, and then select an article in HTML format to progress the current interaction with the client. This functionality adds value to the agent experience and enables the agent to provide an improved service to the end client. Results may be filtered by the search engine as well. Moreover, this system and method improves the operation of the computer in that the computer running such a system in the past was not able to integrate in such a fashion in a web client format. This system and method also enables an agent to handle calls with the web client more efficiently, and allows agents on the web client to automatically classify. |
| US09986092B1 |
Agent application and integrated call processing platform
Agents operating at call centers or other customer support service networks may assist large numbers of customers consecutively and in a dynamic manner. One example may include populating a portion of a first agent user interface of a first agent device with a first customer profile, identifying a second agent device currently assigned a second customer call with second customer call information related to the first customer call information, comparing the first customer call information to the second customer call information, determining the second customer call information exceeds a relevancy threshold when compared to first customer call information, populating a portion of a second agent user interface of the second agent device with the portion of the first agent user interface, and updating the first agent user interface by removing the first customer call information and providing another customer call to the first user agent device. |
| US09986084B2 |
Context-based mobility stoppage characterization
Systems and methods are provided for context determination. In one implementation one or more indications can be received, each of the one or more indications corresponding to a perception of one or more access points in relation to a user device. The one or more indications can be processed to determine one or more characteristics of at least one of the one or more access points. Based on the one or more characteristics, a context of the user device can be determined. |
| US09986082B2 |
Interface device and method between electronic device and external device using ear jack of the electronic device
An interface device and method between an electronic device and an external device using an ear jack of a smart device are disclosed in order to implement an interface that is capable of automatically recognizing an ear jack insertion type appcessory. The interface device includes: an electronic device including an ear jack including a plurality of audio signal input and output terminals; an external device including an interface unit including a connector unit configured to be inserted into the ear jack, the connector unit including a plurality of terminals that correspond to the plurality of audio signal input and output terminals provided in the ear jack of the electronic device, respectively; and a recognizing unit on the connector unit of the interface unit configured to recognize whether the external device is connected to the ear jack of the electronic device through a plurality of detections. |
| US09986080B2 |
Mobile device and method for displaying information about files stored in a plurality of storage devices
A mobile device with a unified media-centric user interface is provided. In one embodiment, the user interface contains one or more of the following features: a unified view of the home screen, navigating between various storage locations, dragging items to collection/folder, pinch and zoom feature, stats shown for each file type, storage usage view from the app, manual and automatic backup, and magic move (keeping a low-resolution version of the original files while moving). Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination. |
| US09986079B1 |
Virtual telephony assistant
Examples are disclosed for screening an inbound telephony call to a called party. At a communications server, an inbound telephony call intended for a called party's telephone number is received and checked against a whitelist database and a blacklist database. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the blacklist database, the communications server automatically routes the call to a voicemail system or spam folder associated with the called party's telephone number. When the caller ID of the inbound call matches a telephone number contained in the whitelist database, the communications server determines whether the called party is available to receive the call. Otherwise, when the caller ID of the inbound call does not match a telephone number contained in either the whitelist database or the blacklist database, the communications server prompts the caller for additional information. |
| US09986077B1 |
Providing hands-free service to multiple devices
Techniques for providing audio services to multiple devices are described. For instance, connections between a hands-free unit and multiple wireless devices are established. The connections are themselves used to establish active communication channels, such as active audio communication channels, between the hands-free unit and the wireless devices, such as during a phone call. Upon establishment of an active communication channel with one of the wireless devices, the connections to the other wireless devices are disconnected—and/or additional connections refused—for the duration of the active communication channel. Furthermore, a routing module in various embodiments permits multiple hands-free units to route active communication channels to each other depending on user location. |
| US09986074B2 |
Color-variable terminal
A color-variable terminal includes a touchscreen, a display screen, a circuit board, and a liquid crystal light adjustment film. The touchscreen is located above the display screen. The circuit board is located below the display screen, and the circuit board includes a drive circuit. The liquid crystal light adjustment film is disposed on the touchscreen. The drive circuit is configured to apply a control voltage to the liquid crystal light adjustment film. The liquid crystal light adjustment film is in a transparent state when an amplitude of the control voltage is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, or the liquid crystal light adjustment film is in a non-transparent state when an amplitude of the control voltage is less than the preset threshold, and a color of the liquid crystal light adjustment film in the non-transparent state is different from a color of the display screen. |
| US09986072B2 |
Mobile terminal
There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a case comprising an electric control unit in which electronic components are loaded; a display unit coupled to a front surface of the case; a frame coupled to the case and supporting a rear surface of the display unit, the frame comprising a metallic material; a mainboard loaded in the case; a drive chip loaded in the mainboard; a shield can covering components loaded in the mainboard, the shied comprising a hole formed, corresponding to the drive chip; a thermal conductivity sheet comprising one surface in contact with a top surface of the drive chip and the other surface in contact with an inner surface of the frame; and a flexible material insertedly filling in a space formed between the thermal conductivity sheet and the frame, so that the heat generated in the drive chip of the mobile terminal may be effectively emitted and that only the portion of the mobile terminal, where the drive chip is loaded, may be prevented from being heated when the user is using the mobile terminal and the other components may be prevented from being damaged by the heat. |
| US09986071B2 |
Virtual communication protocol built in physical communication protocol
A virtual communication protocol built in a physical communication protocol for solving the problem of conventional IoT devices of different physical communication protocols that fail to communicate with each other by building a virtual communication protocol in present existing physical communication protocols and at a position equivalent to the seventh layer (application layer) of the OSI model. With this virtual communication protocol, any one of the IoT devices is capable of transmitting an IoT command to an IoT console, and then the IoT console transfers the IoT command to a target IoT device, so that the two IoT devices of different physical communication protocols can communicate with each other and achieve the effect of transmitting control commands with each other. |
| US09986068B2 |
Safety networking protocol and method
A distributed networking system and protocol is provided to a networking system with a modular design. The distributed networking system may include a networking system, modules, control module, user interface module, input/output module, network module, data transmission network, hybrid modules and composite modules. A method to interface with accessories of a system with a modular design using the distributed networking system and protocol is also provided. |
| US09986066B2 |
Collective output system, collective output method and terminal device
A collective output system includes an information processing device and a plurality of terminal devices. The information processing device holds content containing multiple elements in association with time information, generates a map that associates each piece of position information with each of the elements, receives output position information from a terminal device, acquires, on the basis of the map, an element associated with the position information corresponding to the output position information, acquires the time information associated with the content, and transmits the element and the time information to the terminal. Each of the terminal devices acquires the output position information, transmits the output position information to the information processing device, receives the element and the time information that are transmitted from the information processing device according to the transmitted output position information, and outputs the element at the timing indicated by the time information. |
| US09986063B2 |
Receiving terminal and receiving method
A receiving terminal (400) has: a reception stack unit (410) which connects to a communication network; an issuance management unit (440) which transmits a data request packet; and an H-RTT measurement unit (450) which determines a timeout period until retransmission of the data request packet, and in accordance with the determined timeout period, performs retransmission of the data request packet until data is received by the reception stack unit (410). The reception stack unit (410) connects to the communication network via a plurality of communication interfaces. The issuance management unit (440) transmits the data request packet from each of the plurality of communication interfaces. The H-RTT measurement unit (450), for each of the communication interfaces, measures the RTT between the communication interface and a data-bearing node, and on the basis of the RTT, determines a timeout period. |
| US09986060B2 |
Persistent caching of map imagery and data
The present disclosure relates to a geographic information system (GIS) for collecting data for future usage. In operation, a spatial server receives an image request to a client device, applies a hash function to the image request to generate a standardized identifier. The GIS client device uses the standardized identifier, attributes of GIS data associated with the standardized identifier or the GIS data, or attributes of GIS data associated with a stored identifier that corresponds to the standardized identifier to determine whether to retrieve or cache a GIS data associated with the standardized or stored identifier for display on the client device. |
| US09986056B2 |
In-server redirection of HTTP requests
A method and system for HTTP request service identify a true URL content regardless of whether the target URL is redirected, and send the true URL content to a client. The requesting and sending of the redirected URL content is done internally in the HTTP server system and do not require the client to have the ability to receive and execute a URL redirection command. The server system receives a URL request from the client and generates within the server a response to the URL request. If the response does not contain any redirection information, the true URL content includes the target URL content; and if the response contains redirection information indicating a redirected URL, the true URL content includes a redirected URL content associated with the redirected URL. The client receives the true URL content in either case by submitting a request for the target URL once. |
| US09986051B2 |
Method and system for creation and distribution of narrated content
The electronic content generation and distribution method and system includes designating a written content for audio translation by a narrator and determining the narrator. The method and system provides written content to the narrator to generate an audio narration, receiving the audio narration back from the narrator. The method and system therein assigns a plurality of content identifiers to the audio narration based at least one the written content, accesses a subscriber database including subscriber information and subscriber preference data and electronically compares the plurality of content identifiers to the subscriber preference data to determine a distribution list. The method and system distributes the audio narration to subscribers designated in the distribution list so that the subscriber can engage the audio narration via a content interface, where the content interface is operative to monitor the subscriber engaging the audio narration. |
| US09986050B2 |
Updating time-related information in post to make it more relevant for the requester on subsequent retrieval of post
A method, system and computer program product for updating the time-related information in a post to make it more relevant for the requester on a subsequent retrieval of the post. A post with a reference to an event or activity (e.g., “leaving for Florida in 3 days”) is identified using natural language processing. Upon receiving a request from a requester to retrieve the post prior to the expiration of the event/activity, the post is updated by substituting a time countdown in the post with an up-to-date time countdown or with a current status of the referenced event/activity. If, however, the request is received after the expiration of the event/activity, then the post is removed or updated with an indication that the referenced event/activity has expired. In this manner, the requester will be receiving more accurate and relevant time-related information concerning the event or activity referenced in the post. |
| US09986042B2 |
Zero client device with cached connections
Systems and methods for maintaining zero client sessions between different servers and a zero client device are presented herein. |
| US09986040B2 |
Communications management system with a separate peripherals server
Systems and methods for managing an airport passenger processing system. The system includes a computing device and a peripheral device at an airport, a peripherals interface in communicative connection with the peripheral device and operable to execute a second client application, and a network outside the airport. The network includes a virtualization server for virtualizing an application for a first client application executed by the computing device and a peripherals manager in communication with the virtualization server. The first client application is configured to establish a first communication channel with the virtualization server for communication with an application virtualized on the virtualization server. The second client application is configured to establish a second communication channel with the peripherals manager. At least part of the network is configured to store an association between the first and second communication channels to associate the peripheral device with the computing device. |
| US09986034B2 |
Transferring state in content centric network stacks
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates the transfer of the state of a stack in a content centric network. During operation, the system receives, by a communication component from a coordinating entity, a command message to store a current state of the component, wherein the communication component is used in processing messages based on a name, and wherein a name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier (HSVLI) which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system determines a current state for the communication component. Subsequently, the system stores the current state for the communication component in a data structure. |
| US09986033B2 |
Facilitating access to remote cloud services
The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for facilitating access to a remote cloud service via a cloud controller for a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in the cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers ensure data consistency for the stored data, and each cloud controller caches portions of the distributed filesystem. During operation, a cloud controller detects a request from a co-located client to access a network address that is in the same subnet of their local network. The cloud controller determines that the network address is associated with the remote cloud service (which executes in a cloud storage environment) and forwards the request to the remote cloud service. |
| US09986032B2 |
Client calculation of links to network locations of files to upload
A link to a file to be stored at a network location is calculated using a client before the file is uploaded to the network location. The client may calculate the link to the network location either while online or offline. In response to determining to upload a file, a link to the file at the network location is calculated before uploading the file. The created link may be a direct link that specifies the file at the network location as the destination of the link and/or a redirect link that when used redirects the user to the file at the network location. The link may be created using various information (e.g. a default location, filename, and/or a unique key). When online, the client may reserve a specific link with the network location before the file is uploaded. |
| US09986029B2 |
File replication using file content location identifiers
Systems and methods for file replication using file content location identifiers. An example method may comprise: receiving an identifier of a data structure associated with a file residing on a first file server, the data structure referencing a physical location of the contents of the file; identifying a file system operation to be performed with respect to a replica of the file residing on a second file server; and performing the file system operation by accessing the replica of the file using a file name alias comprising the identifier of the data structure. |
| US09986028B2 |
Techniques to replicate data between storage servers
Examples are disclosed for replicating data between storage servers. In some examples, a network input/output (I/O) device coupled to either a client device or to a storage server may exchange remote direct memory access (RDMA) commands or RDMA completion commands associated with replicating data received from the client device. The data may be replicated to a plurality of storage servers interconnect to each other and/or the client device via respective network communication links. Other examples are described and claimed. |
| US09986027B2 |
System and method for peer-to-peer communication in cellular systems
Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication. |
| US09986023B1 |
Virtual data storage appliance with platform detection by use of VM-accessible record
A method of establishing a platform-specific configuration of a virtual machine functioning as a virtual storage appliance includes, in a deployment operation, creating a virtual platform on host computer(s), the virtual platform being a collection of virtualized hardware resources having a selected configuration from among multiple possible configurations. A description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform is stored in a record accessible to the virtual machines during a later virtual-machine initialization process. The virtual machines are instantiated and their operation initiated, and the virtual machines perform the virtual-machine initialization process to (1) read the record to obtain the stored description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform and (2) use the description of the selected configuration of the virtual platform to self-configure into the platform-specific configuration for operation compatible with the virtual platform. |
| US09986020B2 |
Yunten's web application methodology and web programming language (YWAM and WPL)
This invention introduces a structured software engineering methodology for developing interactive network application systems that use a web browser as a user-dialog engine. The methodology uses two server types: an Application Server for instantiating and executing an application instance in binary code, and an HTTP Server for delivering to the user's browser the textual HTML+Javascript user-dialog documents used by this application instance during its execution. An application is accessed by executing at the user's browser an Application Instantiation Page (AIP) which is a part of this invention. The methodology is built into a notational programming language. |
| US09986019B2 |
Intelligent route management for diverse ecosystems
An intermediating network is adapted to intermediate between an originating network and a servicing network. A first set of communications addresses in the originating network that can be used to originate communications to the servicing network are identified. A second set of communications addresses in the servicing network that can be used to service communications originating in the originating network are identified. The first set of communications addresses and the second set of communications addresses are analyzed. Based on the analyzing, incompatibilities between the first set of communications addresses and the second set of communications addresses that would prevent a communication from one of the first set of communications addresses from reaching the second set of communications addresses are determined. A processor of a computer is used to adapt the intermediating network so that the communication from the first set of communications addresses can be sent to the second set of communications addresses via the intermediating network. The communication from the originating network is received at the intermediating network and the communication is routed through the intermediating network to the servicing network. |
| US09986017B2 |
Migration of data storage
An operable mechanism implements a stub utility to facilitate the migration of stub files, where the stub utility is integrated with a data storage product and a data storage technique of an existing storage site containing the stub files. The stub utility identifies the stub files and uses virtualization to migrate the stub files to a new storage site without concomitantly recalling or accessing source files linked to the stub files. |
| US09986014B2 |
Systems and techniques for web communication
Systems and techniques for web communication are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computing device may include logic to receive a first data set representative of a web page, wherein the first data set includes a portion that is associated with a platform feature not supported by a platform of a web server that is to serve the web page; generate a second data set by removing the portion from the first data set; generate a third data set by performing at least one minification operation on the second data set; and provide the third data set to the web server. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. |
| US09986013B2 |
Systems and methods for space management in file systems
Apparatus and methods for space management in file systems provide a mechanism to enhance user interaction with multimedia devices. In some aspects, updated metadata of media content stored in a server is retrieved. A representation of the media content stored in the storage device and the media content stored in the server is outputted to the display. Selection of an action associated with the media content stored in the server when the mobile device is not connected to the server is enabled. The action, once selected, remains pending until the mobile device is connected to the server. Execution of the pending action when the mobile device is connected to the server is enabled. The pending action includes one of deleting a media file from the server or downloading a media file from the server. |
| US09986011B2 |
Method and apparatus for computing the perceived quality of a multiparty audio or audiovisual telecommunication service or system
A method for estimating a quality of multiparty telecommunication with a computing device includes: (a) determining individual connection quality scores of individual connections of each participant in a multiparty telecommunication call; and (b) determining a quality score for the multiparty telecommunication call from the perspective of each participant using a function of the individual connection quality scores. |
| US09986008B2 |
Methods and devices for efficient adaptive bitrate streaming
Methods and systems for a content server to select sets of video streams having different encoding parameters for transmitting the sets of video streams to a media device are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for transmitting video streams for a media program from a server to a media device includes: selecting, by the server, first encoding parameters including a first bitrate for a first set of video streams for the media program based on a first estimated bandwidth capacity for a network linking the server and the media device, transmitting the first set of video streams from the server to the media device, determining, by the server, second encoding parameters including a second bitrate for a second set of video streams for the media program, and transmitting the second set of video streams from the server to the media device. |
| US09986002B2 |
Multifusion of a stream operator in a streaming application
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for fusing a stream operator into more than one processing element within a streaming application. The method includes receiving an instruction to concurrently fuse, into a second processing element, a stream operator of interest that is fused into a first processing element. The method includes determining whether the stream operator of interest is stateful. The method includes compiling, in response to determining the stream operator of interest is stateful, a clone of the stream operator of interest into the second processing element so that the clone is synchronized with the stream operator of interest. |
| US09985999B1 |
Changing an application between a single-user session and a multi-user session
Functionality is disclosed herein for changing an application between a single-user session and multi-user session. An application enters a multi-user session in response to additional users being detected and authorized. The application may enter the multi-user session in response to another user being detected as being in proximity to a first user. Data indicating that an application is to switch between the single-user session and the multi-user session may be provided by a network-based multi-user service or another application. The application may communicate and send and receive data via an API. During the multi-user session, the application uses one or more preferences associated with users of the multi-user session instead of using just the preferences of a first user. One or more displays associated with the application might also be updated to reflect the multi-user session. |
| US09985990B2 |
Security information interaction system, device and method based on active command of secure carrier
The invention proposes a security information interaction system, apparatus and method based on security carrier's active command. The method comprises: an information interaction terminal, based on a user's command, establishes a security dialog channel between the information interaction terminal and a security carrier so as to perform a security information interaction process, wherein the user's command indicates a target application associated with the security information interaction process; and the security carrier activates the target application during the establishment of the security dialog channel and then executes the security information interaction process based on the security dialog channel. In the security information interaction system, apparatus and method based on security carrier active command disclosed in the invention, the security carrier can initiate an active command to the information interaction terminal. |
| US09985988B2 |
Deception to detect network scans
Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for using deceptions to detect network scans. In various implementations, a network device, configured as a decoy network device can be configured to determine a particular network address. The network device can determine that the particular network address is unassigned. The network device can configure itself with the particular network address, wherein the network device uses the particular network address to monitor network activity for a network scan. The network device can receive a packet addressed to the particular network address. The network device can determine that received packet is associated with a scan of the network, including associating the received packet with other packets in the monitored network activity. The network device can configure one or more security settings for the network when the received packet is determined to be associated with a scan of the network. |
| US09985986B2 |
Unconditional secure communication method based on beam-forming and security code
The present invention discloses an unconditional secure communication method based on beam-forming and security code, which comprises the following steps of: Legitimate users send to the signal pie-encoded and modulated, meanwhile eavesdropper receives signals and calculates the bit error rate; computing security coding parameters, legitimate received users send pilot sequence, and legitimate sending users estimate legitimate channel, and extract information on legal channel coding and modulating signal was SVD pre-coding and sending; the signal was decoded, that will be judgment and demodulation then the signal after decoding do security code is transmitted to message or tapping, due to lack of legal channel information, eavesdropper cannot lift pre-coding processing of the received signal with the high bit error rate. This method can establish advantages channel of the wiretap model channel and to ensure that legitimate users can receive signals at the lower bit error rate. |
| US09985985B2 |
Method of distributed denial of service (DDos) and hacking protection for internet-based servers using a private network of internet servers by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium
A method of DDoS and hacking protection for internet-based servers using a private network of internet servers utilizes multiple data streams sent over a network of proxy servers to mitigate malicious attacks and ensure fast connections from a user to a destination server. The destination server is hidden from the user and the redundancy of the proxy network serves to maintain security and connection quality between the user and the destination server. |
| US09985983B2 |
Systems for network risk assessment including processing of user access rights associated with a network of devices
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for network risk assessment. One of the methods includes obtaining information describing network traffic between a plurality of network devices within a network. A network topology of the network is determined based on the information describing network traffic, with the network topology including nodes connected by an edge to one or more other nodes, and with each node being associated with one or more network devices. Indications of user access rights of users are associated to respective nodes included in the network topology. User interface data associated with the network topology is generated. |
| US09985980B1 |
Entropy-based beaconing detection
A method includes (a) collecting information on times at which domains were contacted by each device of a set of devices on a network, (b) for each domain contacted by the set of devices, recording a list of time gaps between subsequent contacts to that domain by each device, (c) for each domain, calculating an entropy for the list of time gaps for that domain, a lower entropy indicating that that domain has been accessed at more regular intervals, while a higher entropy indicates that that domain has been accessed at more random intervals, (d) selecting a subset of the set of domains having smaller entropies relative to other domains of the set of domains, and (e) presenting the selected subset to an administrator with directions to review domains of the subset for potential contact with malware installed on devices of the computer network. |
| US09985975B2 |
Hardware secret usage limits
A hardware secret is securely maintained in a computing device. The device operates in accordance with a usage limit corresponding to a limited number of operations using the hardware secret that the device is able to perform. Once the device reaches a usage limit, the device becomes temporarily or permanently unable to perform additional operations using the hardware secret. |
| US09985973B2 |
Context sensitive security help
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing security in a computing environment. These systems and methods can be applied to cloud computing environments. Interfaces allow a user to request and gain user access to applications (and their equivalents) even if the applications prior to implementing the present invention do not allow the user to request or gain user access to the applications. The embodiments of this invention can operate at the granular computing level. |
| US09985972B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling sign-on to web applications
The described technology provides a single sign-on capability so that a user who is already signed on to a web application from a client application may not be required to sign-on again when he/she later needs access to the web application from the same or another client application. The technology also provides a multiple login prevention capability to detect multiple sign-on events using the same credentials and disable one or more of the associated multiple sessions. |
| US09985965B2 |
Security verification method, apparatus, and system
A security verification method, apparatus, and system relate to the field of computer security technologies, and are used to improve reliability of the verification code technology. In the method, an image capture request carrying an image capture parameter is sent to a server end after a verification page starts; a live view picture returned by the server end is received, where the live view picture is obtained by the server end by performing live view image capture according to the image capture parameter and prestored street view tile information; and a security verification operation is performed according to the live view picture. |
| US09985962B2 |
Authorization server, authentication cooperation system, and storage medium storing program
An authorization token verification request including a second authorization token is received from an application server having received a processing request along with the second authorization token from a client device, and, in a case where the authorization token is verified successfully on basis of the received second authorization token and the authorization token information, the local user information included in the authorization token information is responded to the application server. |
| US09985961B2 |
Information processing system and authentication method
An information processing system includes a service utilizing device and at least one information processing device to provide a service for the service utilizing device. A temporary code issuing unit to issue a temporary code is provided in the information processing device. A device authentication token generation unit is provided in the service utilizing device and generates a device authentication token by using the temporary code obtained from the information processing device. A device authentication ticket issuing unit is provided in the information processing device and verifies whether the device authentication token obtained from the service utilizing device is valid by using the temporary code and issues a device authentication ticket depending on a verification result. An access unit is provided in the service utilizing device and accesses a resource in the information processing device by using the device authentication ticket obtained from the information processing device. |
| US09985957B2 |
Digital certificate with software enabling indicator
A system and method of enabling software features on apheresis machines and/or infusion pumps uses a license server disposed outside of a medical facility and a local server disposed at the medical facility. The method includes generating a software enabling indicator at the license server, the software enabling indicator comprising multiple letters and a numerical code, the numerical code representing a number of licenses to be allocated for a software feature. The method includes transmitting the software enabling indicator and a certificate signing request to a third party certificate authority. The method includes transmitting the electronic document from the license server to the local server, authenticating the license server at the local server, generating a plurality of second digital certificates, transmitting the second digital certificates to each of a plurality of the medical devices and enabling a software feature on the medical devices based on the second digital certificates. |
| US09985954B2 |
Sponsored trust relationship management between multiple racks
A new management node associated with a new rack sends at least a public key of the new management node to a first management node associated with a first rack and a plurality of autonomous management nodes. The first management node sends the new management node an access token trusted by at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes and a set of public keys corresponding to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. The new management node can send its public key and the access token to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. In response, the new management node can establish a mutual trust relationship with at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. |
| US09985952B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatuses for determining proximity of communication device
The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing device configured for ensuring its proximity to a communication partner. In one aspect, the computing device may comprise a communication port and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a request from the communication partner via the communication port, send a response to the request to the communication partner, generate a secondary value that includes a selected portion of the request and a selected portion of the response, generate authenticating data to authenticate the secondary value and send the generated secondary value and authenticating data to the communication partner via the communication port. In another aspect, the communication partner is configured to ensure proximity of the computing device. |
| US09985951B2 |
User terminal and method for screen sharing
A user terminal 10 for screen sharing with a destination user terminal 100 receives a connection request for screen sharing from a user; issues an authentication number to specify the destination user terminal 100 with which the user terminal 10 is to perform screen sharing, in response to the connection request; directly connects with the destination user terminal 100; allows the destination user terminal 100 to display a prompt to ask for an input of the authentication number; authenticates the authentication number in response to receiving the authentication number from the destination user terminal 100; and sequentially transceives shared screen data to and from the destination user terminal 100 if the authentication number is appropriate. |
| US09985949B2 |
Secure assertion attribute for a federated log in
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for authenticating a user. The application server receives a user log in request and determines if a unique identification accompanies the received user log in request. The application server uses the unique identification to authenticate the identity of the user. The application server determines if the unique identification has been previously received by searching a first database to see if the unique identification was already stored in the first database. If the unique identification is not in the first database then the application server stores the unique identification and grants the user access to the one or more applications hosted on the application server. |
| US09985945B2 |
Spoofing protection protocol for network-connected things
A protocol controller may execute a spoofing protection protocol for verifying a message received over a network from a network-connected thing, in the presence of a spoofed message transmitted from a spoofed thing illicitly representing the network-connected thing. The protocol controller may include a message handler configured to implement the spoofing protection protocol, including receiving a message identified as originating from the network-connected thing, executing a verification of a transmission characteristic of the message against an expected transmission characteristic previously stored with respect to the network-connected thing within a transmission characteristic repository, and determining whether the message originated from the network-connected thing, based on the verification. |
| US09985943B1 |
Automated agent detection using multiple factors
Online retailers may operate one or more services configured to detect request generated by automated agents. A security check may be generate and transmitted in response to requests generated by automated agents. The security checks may be transmitted to a second device registered with the online retailer. The second device may transmit the completed security check to the online retailer for verification before the online retailer processes the request. |
| US09985938B2 |
User control over WIFI network access
A wireless communication device controls access to a geographically-distributed Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network. The wireless communication device graphically presents WiFi network data to receive user selections of multiple WiFi access systems, a network name, and a user password. The wireless communication device receives configuration data that associates broadcast identification signals for the WiFi access systems with the network name. The wireless communication device detects a broadcast identification signal for one of the WiFi access systems and responsively presents the network name and a password prompt to receive the user password. The wireless communication device transfers the network name and the user password to the WiFi access system, and in response, the wireless communication device exchanges user data over the WiFi access system. |
| US09985936B2 |
Method and system for the supply of data, transactions and electronic voting
A system and a computer program product are disclosed. The system is configured to generate a digital empowerment certificate of a voter. The digital empowerment certificate includes an indication of identification data that uniquely identifies the voter to the authentication body, references to sources for the identification data or the identification data itself, and an indication of a voting key. The system is further configured to sign the digital empowerment certificate with an electronic signature of the voter. Moreover, the system is configured to generate a voting message including a vote of the voter. In addition, the system is configured to generate a signature block combining the digital empowerment certificate and the voting message. Furthermore, the system is configured to send the encrypted digital empowerment certificate, the encrypted voting message, and the signature block to the authentication body. |
| US09985934B2 |
Semantically aware network services and method
A method and apparatus where network-layer devices use host-provided, detailed, per-packet, semantic information (DPPS information), which describes the content, meaning, importance, and/or other attributes of particular application data and is associated with each packet, to provide enhanced network services. In some embodiments of the above method, network-layer devices use DPPS information that includes QoS-related information to provide fine-grained, content-aware, and/or complex QoS assurances or similar services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide network-based, application-protocol-independent, rate-adaptation services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide highly efficient, application-protocol-independent, publish/subscribe dissemination services. |
| US09985933B2 |
System and method of sending and receiving secret message content over a network
The proliferation of personal computing devices in recent years, especially mobile personal computing devices, has led to increased concerns regarding the safety and security of documents and messages that are sent over networks. Users desire a system that provides for the setting of custom, content-agnostic, permissions at a message, document, and/or sub-document-level through communications networks. Such a system may allow users to apply customized privacy settings and encryption keys differently to particular parts of documents and/or messages. Such a system may also allow the user to manipulate outgoing message objects of pre-existing formats, so as to “hide” the encrypted document and/or message content within one or more portions of the message object that are not displayed in existing message viewer applications, e.g., metadata fields or unused headers. As such, only authorized message viewing applications may know where to look for (and have the necessary keys to decrypt) such hidden content. |
| US09985930B2 |
Reverse proxy for accessing local network over the internet
Embodiments of the present invention provide a reverse proxy mechanism for securely exposing, displaying and interacting with electronic content associated with a local network though a redundant service bus to the internet over secure socket layer (SSL). |
| US09985926B2 |
Address acquiring method and network virtualization edge device
An address acquiring method includes receiving an address resolution request packet sent by a source host, where the address resolution request packet includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a destination host; determining another network virtualization edge (NVE) device, where the another NVE device stores a correspondence between the IP address of the destination host and a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the destination host and a correspondence between the IP address of the destination host and an IP address of a destination NVE device corresponding to the destination host; obtaining the MAC address of the destination host and the IP address of the destination NVE device corresponding to the destination host from the another NVE device according to the IP address of the destination host. The technical solutions provided in the present disclosure are intended to reduce processing pressure on a physical network. |
| US09985924B2 |
Posting content to social medium
A computer-implemented method of posting content to a social medium comprises receiving content posted by a user along with an associated posting time which indicates when the user selected an option to post the content to the social medium; determining that publication of the content posted by the user is dependent on a trigger; and in response to determining that publication of the content is dependent on the trigger, storing the content with the associated posting time and suspending publication of the content until the trigger is satisfied such that the posting time published with the content indicates a time prior to transmission of the content from an electronic device to a server for publishing. |
| US09985923B2 |
Mobile social interaction
A question associated with a first user may be obtained. A search link may be determined based on content of the first question. A response may be obtained. Updates to a content graph may be initiated, including an addition of a question node and a first link indicating asking of the question by the first user, and an addition of a response node and a second link indicating an answer relationship between the question and the response, and a third link indicating answering of the question from a second user, the second user associated with the first user via a friend link indicating a friend connection relationship between nodes associated with the first user and the second user. |
| US09985919B2 |
Event notification
In an approach to event notification, one or more computer processors determine a baseline for a volume of activity on a social media website in a geographic location. One or more computer processors determine whether a deviation from the baseline for the volume of activity occurs. Responsive to determining a deviation from the baseline occurs, one or more computer processors identify an event that caused the deviation. One or more computer processors calculate an estimate of population for the geographic location. One or more computer processors identify based, at least in part, on the identified event and the estimated population, a relevant party to be notified of the event. One or more computer processors generate a recommendation based, at least in part, upon one or more of the identified event, the estimate of population, and the identified relevant party. |
| US09985915B2 |
Divided mulitmedia messaging delivery
Method and apparatus for sending a large Multimedia Message, such as a MMS from a first terminal (10) to at least one second terminal (14) via a first network node (12) comprised in a communication network. The first network node (12) receives (30) the Multimedia Message from the first terminal (10) and divides (31) the Multimedia Message into a first part and at least one additional part. Next the first network node (12) adds (32) to the first part a reference to the at least one additional part and sends (33) the first part to the at least one second terminal (14). The first network node (12) then sends (34) the at least one additional part to the at least one second terminal (14) when requested by the at least one second terminal. |
| US09985914B2 |
Rich attachment regeneration
Rich attachments in emails (or other modes of communication) may be regenerated when an email with a rich attachment is sent to an application incapable of handling the rich attachment and then returned or forwarded to an application capable of handling the rich attachments. In some examples, the rich attachment may be along with a link (e.g., a hypertext markup language “HTML” link) or similar construct by the application capable of handling the rich attachment. A receiving/forwarding (or replying) application that is incapable of handling the rich attachment features, may simply keep the link in the email without processing the rich features. When the email comes back or is forwarded to the application capable of handling the rich attachment, the HTML link may be recognized, the attachment and associated metadata extracted, and presented to the recipient as rich attachment (e.g., in an attachment well). |
| US09985912B1 |
Shared memory switch fabric system and method
A system and method of transferring cells through a switch fabric having a shared memory crossbar switch, a plurality of cell receive blocks and a plurality of cell transmit blocks. The system determines, based on a number of cells queued up in respective output buffers in the cell transmit blocks, output buffers in the cell transmit blocks that can receive cells on a low latency path. The cells transferred include first cells that can be transferred on the low latency path and second cells that cannot be transferred via the low latency path. The first cells are transferred via a bypass mechanism in shared memory to the output buffers. The second cells are transferred by writing the second cells to shared memory, reading the second cells from shared memory and transferring the second cells read from shared memory to the output buffers in the cell transmit blocks. |
| US09985911B2 |
Methods and apparatus related to a flexible data center security architecture
In one embodiment, edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a multi-stage switch fabric and peripheral processing devices. The edge devices and the multi-stage switch fabric can collectively define a single logical entity. A first edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a first peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The second edge device from the edge devices can be configured to be coupled to a second peripheral processing device from the peripheral processing devices. The first edge device can be configured such that virtual resources including a first virtual resource can be defined at the first peripheral processing device. A network management module coupled to the edge devices and configured to provision the virtual resources such that the first virtual resource can be migrated from the first peripheral processing device to the second peripheral processing device. |
| US09985907B2 |
Managing devices within a vehicular communication network
A network node module within a vehicle operates to manage devices coupled to a vehicular communication network of the vehicle based on a use mode defining rights and privileges for operating in the vehicular communication network. Upon being configured in accordance with a particular use mode of a set of use modes, the network node module can identify a device coupled to the vehicular communication network and enable the device to operate within the vehicular communication network in accordance with the use mode. The network node module is securely reconfigurable to any use mode in the set of use modes. |
| US09985906B2 |
Estimating time duration of bandwidth availability
In one embodiment, a device in an access network receives network condition data regarding the access network and requested flow characteristic data. The requested flow characteristic data is indicative of one or more flow characteristics requested by one or more subscribers for different periods of time. The device trains a machine learning-based classifier using the network condition data and the request flow characteristic data and receives a particular flow characteristic request from a particular subscriber node. The particular request indicates one or more requested flow characteristics for a specified time period. The device determines a probability of the access network being able to accommodate the particular flow characteristic request by classifying the particular flow characteristic request using the trained classifier. The device sends a flow characteristic response to the node of the particular subscriber node based on the determined probability. |
| US09985905B2 |
System and method for cloud enterprise services
Novel methods and systems are provided for integrating multi-vendor cloud computing operations and architectures by using service-oriented orchestration to create a vendor and platform agnostic cloud computing framework. This approach aggregates core cloud computing functions including service provisioning, automating work flows, and data and usage monitoring across integrated services, thereby improving a data centers ability to execute operations quickly, under standardized protocols and with consistent quality of service. |
| US09985902B2 |
Method and system for providing deterministic quality of service for communication devices
A method and system for transmitting data based on deterministic quality of service by at least one peripheral device in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes exchanging reservation information with peripheral devices in the communication network, negotiating traffic specification (TSPEC) with the at least one peripheral device for at least one traffic type, based on the reservation information, establishing a quality of service associated with the at least one traffic type, using the TSPEC, reserving a wireless medium based on the established quality of service associated with the at least one traffic type and transmitting data through the reserved wireless medium, based on the quality of service and reservation information. |
| US09985900B2 |
Method and system for determining a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be discarded
A method for determining a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be discarded, wherein a work cycle of a vehicle-to-X communication unit involves vehicle-to-X messages being received, wherein the work cycle involves a number of received vehicle-to-X messages being determined, wherein the work cycle involves an existent computation power being available and wherein the work cycle involves the number of vehicle-to-X messages to be discarded being determined on the basis of the number of received vehicle-to-X messages. The invention additionally relates to a corresponding system and to a use for the system. |
| US09985899B2 |
Re-marking of packets for queue control
A method and apparatus for changing a packet tag status value from a first value to a different value upon said packet arriving at a buffer if there already is a packet in the buffer queue having the same first status value. A sequence of tag status values (112) in packets received at an end node is used to determine the queue length of the buffer in the packet network. An end node can thereafter adapt its sending rate to the rate of the buffer. |
| US09985897B2 |
Integrated circuit radio devices
Disclosed is a semiconductor device 2 comprising a radio transmitter hardware section 10 and a processor 4, the device 2 being arranged to transmit information via said transmitter hardware section 10 from a first application running on the processor 4 in accordance with a first communication protocol or from a second application running on the processor 4 or a further processor using a second communication protocol, wherein the first application is configured to generate a first transmit request 24 when it requires to send a data packet and wherein the second application is configured to generate a second transmit request 34 when the second application requires to send a data packet, the device further comprising control logic 22 for allocating a transmission timeslot for said transmitter section 10 to said first or second application upon receipt of said first 24 or second 34 transmit requests respectively. |
| US09985894B1 |
Exclude filter for load balancing switch
In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus for providing load-balanced switching, including a switching network; one or more logic elements operable for providing network switching or routing; and one or more logic elements providing a load balancing engine operable for: load balancing at least some incoming network traffic; receiving an exclude list identifying a network node excluded from load balancing; identifying a network packet directed to the network node excluded from load balancing; and directing the network packet to the network. |
| US09985893B2 |
Load sharing method and apparatus, and board
Embodiments of the present invention provide a load sharing method and apparatus, and a board. The method includes: receiving, by a built-in forwarding unit, to-be-transmitted data; obtaining, by a management control unit, current load ratios of forwarding units; and if it is determined that a current load ratio of any forwarding unit of the forwarding units is less than a preset load ratio threshold, determining that the forwarding unit is a unit for forwarding the to-be-transmitted data, where the built-in forwarding unit and the management control unit are located in a same board, and the forwarding units include the built-in forwarding unit and another forwarding unit outside the board. The present invention can solve a problem of low data transmission reliability in an existing load sharing method. |
| US09985889B2 |
Normalized flow value-based congestion control
At an application executing in conjunction with a vSwitch in a host system, using a processor assigned to the vSwitch in the host system, a CWND value corresponding to a flow from a VM is computed using a period measured by a timer and a number of packets of the flow received and acknowledged in response packets, the number being counted by a counter, the timer being associated with a packet of the flow. A set of flow parameters is extracted, at the application, from the flow. At the application, a normalized value corresponding to the flow is computed. At the application, the CWND value is reduced according to the normalized value of the flow to form a reduced CWND value. The reduced CWND value is applied to the flow at the vSwitch such that the vSwitch transmits, from the flow to a network, only a number of packets up to the reduced CWND value. |
| US09985886B2 |
Technologies for network packet pacing during segmentation operations
Technologies for pacing transmission of network packets by a computing device to a remote computing device include performing a segmentation offload operation to segment a payload of a network packet into a plurality of network packet segments in response to a determination that a size of the payload is greater than a maximum allowable payload size. The computing device additionally determines a packet pacing interval and transmits the plurality of network packet segments to the remote computing device at a transmission rate based on the packet pacing interval. |
| US09985884B2 |
Data transmission method, apparatus, device, and base station
The present invention provides a data transmission method, apparatus and device, and a base station, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method of the present invention includes: receiving data sent by a radio unit; acquiring a standard identity of the data, where the standard identity is used to identify a standard type of the data; routing the data according to the standard identity of the data; and sending the routed data to a digital unit corresponding to the standard identity of the routed data. |
| US09985881B2 |
Apparatus and method for accessing a back-end service
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a first network element in local communication with a gateway of a core network portion of a mobility network. Establishment of a first logical network connection is facilitated between the first network element and a second network element in local communication with a remotely accessible system, such as a back-end system of an enterprise data center or cloud service provider. A request from a mobile device serviced by the mobility network is detected for access to a service of the remotely accessible system. The request and/or a translation of the request is forwarded to the second network element by way of the first logical network connection. The second network element forwards the translated request to the remotely accessible system. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US09985878B2 |
Processing rule modification method, apparatus and device
Various embodiments provide a method including receiving, by a forwarder, rule modification information sent by a controller. The rule modification information includes rule description match information and action instruction modification information. The rule description match information is used to determine a to-be-modified processing rule. Rule description information of the to-be-modified processing rule accords with the rule description match information, and the action instruction modification information is used to instruct to modify an action instruction specified in an instruction set of the to-be-modified processing rule. The method also includes modifying, by the forwarder, when the forwarder determines that rule description information of a first processing rule meets the rule description match information, an action instruction specified in an instruction set of the first processing rule according to the action instruction modification information. |
| US09985875B1 |
Route signalling based resilient application overlay network
A system and method for handling critical events in service delivery gateways. Events are defined that cause a transition from a master redundancy state to a standby redundancy state in service delivery gateways and a plurality of signal-routes are stored. Each signal-route is associated with one or more of the defined events. A first defined event is detected in the first service delivery gateway and causes a transition from the first master redundancy state to the first standby redundancy state in the first service delivery gateway and a change in a first signal-route from the plurality of signal-routes in the first service delivery gateway. The change in the first signal-route is advertised and a second service delivery gateway transitions from the first standby redundancy state to the first master redundancy state. |
| US09985873B1 |
Data storage system providing asymmetric multipath storage access
A data storage system provides asymmetric multi-path access to a storage device from a host computer using a storage protocol such as SCSI. Device state information is maintained indicating that one path of set of paths between the host computer and the storage device is a non-fully-functional path. In response to receiving device discovery commands from the host computer on the one path and the one path being indicated to be a non-fully-functional path, the data storage system returns respective good responses indicating that the storage device is accessible to the host computer via the non-fully-functional path. However, in response to receiving a test unit readiness command from the host computer on the one path and the one path being indicated to be a non-fully-functional path, an error response is returned which causes the host computer to select an alternative path of the set of paths for the data transfer. |
| US09985871B2 |
Operation of a data network
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for operating a data network (10), the data network comprising a plurality of network ingestion points (12, 14) via which data traffic (38) may be received from another data network, and a plurality of network attachment points (16) via which data traffic may be forwarded. The method comprises receiving data traffic (38) via said network ingestion points (12, 14), assigning ingestion point indications indicative of a characteristic of the network ingestion points (12, 14); forwarding the traffic via said network attachment points (16); and in respect of data traffic being forwarded via said network attachment points (16), determining traffic information indicative of a characteristic of the data traffic; and selecting a traffic management policy in dependence on said traffic information and the characteristic of the network ingestion point via which the data traffic was received. |
| US09985870B2 |
Network service method and system based on software defined networking
A network service method based Software Defined Networking (SDN) assigns forwarding devices according to network addresses and identification of a client and provides the client with an optimum route according to user requirements and current network states. A continuous monitoring process is continuously performed for route optimization based on network states, topology variations, and user feedbacks. |
| US09985866B1 |
Task performance with virtual probes in a network function virtualization (NFV) software defined network (SDN)
A Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Software Defined Network (SDN) performs a network task. An NFV management system processes Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify the network task and to direct an NFV orchestration system to install a virtual Probe (vProbe) with filter criteria to collect additional KPIs for the network task. The NFV orchestration system directs an NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) to install the vProbe. The vProbe sends the filter criteria to a virtual Switch (vSW) in the NFVI, and the vSW applies the filter criteria to Virtual Network Function (VNF) traffic and transfers the filtered data to the vProbe. The vProbe processes the filtered data to generate the additional KPIs for the NFV management system. The NFV management system processes the additional KPIs to perform the network task. |
| US09985863B2 |
Graphical user interface for adjusting weights of key performance indicators
Techniques are disclosed for providing an aggregate key performance indicator (KPI) that spans multiple services and for providing user adjustment to KPI factors via a GUI that enables a user to configure an aggregate KPI with feedback that better characterizes the performance of the services. The GUI may enable a user to select KPIs and to adjust weights (e.g., importance) associated with the KPIs. The weight of a KPI may affect the influence a value of the KPI has on the calculation of an aggregate KPI value (e.g., score). The GUI may provide near real-time feedback concerning the effect the weights have on the aggregate KPI value by displaying the aggregate KPI value (e.g., score) and updating the aggregate KPI value as the user adjusts the weights. |
| US09985862B2 |
MEP configuration method and network device
In the communications field, an MEP configuration method and an Ethernet device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by an Ethernet device, a CCM message and parsing the CCM message to acquire configuration information in the CCM message and a virtual local area network VLAN of the CCM message; and determining, by the Ethernet device according to configuration information, whether the CCM message is MEP configuration that needs to be configured, and if it is determined that the CCM message is the MEP configuration that needs to be configured, complete the MEP configuration according to the configuration information and the VLAN of the CCM message. A method provided in a specific implementation manner of the present invention has an advantage of configuring MEP configuration automatically. |
| US09985861B2 |
SGT feature trace using netflow
Tracing of networking feature data may be provided for networking features running on network devices such as routers and switches. Examples of this feature tracing include “SGT tracing”, “Access Control Entry (‘ACE’) tracing”, and “Equal Cost Multipath (‘ECMP’) tracing.” In ACE tracing, a network administrator may desire to trace all the ACEs of Access Control Lists (“ACLs”) a particular packet is subject to. In ECMP, tracing information may be collected as to the ECMP links a particular packet is sent through at each of a plurality of network devices. |
| US09985859B2 |
Method and system for managing servers
A method of managing servers includes at a central server having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs to be executed by the processors: obtaining configuration file for clustering servers; classifying each server into one layer of a hierarchical structure based on business logic associated with the server defined in the configuration file; receiving an operation command from an administrator; analyzing the operation command to identify a target server for executing the operation command; and forwarding the operation command to the target server through a path in the hierarchical structure defined in the operation command. |
| US09985856B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for measuring network packet loss
Provided are a method, apparatus and system for measuring network packet loss, the method includes: acquiring data packet measurement information measured by at least one target logical port to a traffic stream, transmitting the data packet measurement information to a measurement control point, so that the measurement control point determine the condition of network packet loss according to the data packet measurement information. As a data collecting point acquires the data packet measurement information measured by at least one target logical port to the traffic stream, and uniformly transmits the data packet measurement information to the measurement control point, when multiple target logical ports respectively perform measurement to acquire respective data packet measurement information, the measurement control point uniformly determines condition of packet loss of the traffic stream. Therefore, accurate packet loss measurement can be performed on the traffic stream under the scenario of point-to-point, point-to-multipoint or multipoint-to-multipoint networks. |
| US09985854B2 |
Communication system and communication apparatus
A communication system including a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus is provided. The first communication apparatus includes a communication portion. The second communication apparatus includes a communication portion. The first communication apparatus includes a first transmission portion. The first transmission portion transmits a first signal to another communication apparatus. The first signal at least includes information enabling to specify the first communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus includes a second transmission portion. The second transmission portion transmits a second signal to the first communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus includes a malfunction determination portion. The malfunction determination portion determines whether the communication portion of the first communication apparatus is out of order. The communication system includes a congestion determination portion. At least one of the first signal and the second signal is transmitted. |
| US09985849B2 |
Network flow analysis
Systems and methods for a network flow analysis service that facilitates collection, analysis and sharing of information regarding network flows are provided. According to one embodiment, a network flow analysis service provider collects network traffic information of network flows from a plurality of different network sources, analyzes at least one attribute associating with the network flows based on the network traffic information; and distributes the at least one attribute to subscribers of the network flow analysis service. |
| US09985848B1 |
Notification based pricing of excess cloud capacity
Methods and apparatus for notification-based pricing of excess cloud capacity are disclosed. A system includes a resource manager and a plurality of resource instances, each of which has an interruptibility setting. In response to a first acquisition request, the resource manager allocates a first instance with a first interruptibility setting to a first client, allowing the resource manager to revoke the first client's access to the first instance without a notification. In response to an approval of a second acquisition request, the resource manager allocates a second instance with a second interruptibility setting to a second client, allowing the client to retain access to the instance for a delay interval after the second client receives an access revocation notification. Respective billing amounts for the clients' use of the instances are determined based on the interruptibility settings used. |
| US09985847B2 |
Cloud service monitoring system
A cloud services monitoring system (CSMS) helps a consumer of cloud computing resources determine the state of the cloud computing resources available to the consumer. The CSMS is particularly effective for cloud models where the consumer of the cloud computing resources is not the same as the provider of the cloud resource. The CSMS also provides mechanisms for adjusting operations actions to preserve service guarantees for the consumer. In that regard, the CSMS dynamically adjusts operations actions in response to the state of the cloud, rather than executing fixed predetermined operations actions that are not tailored to the monitored conditions. |
| US09985845B2 |
Generic user interface client for software logistics processes
A system, a method, and a computer program product for providing a generic user interface client. At least one common process in a plurality of processes performed by a plurality of software programs is determined. A user interface client for managing the common process is executed. The common process is managed using the user interface client. |
| US09985842B2 |
Bus bar power adapter for AC-input, hot-swap power supplies
Provided is a device, including: a first interface to couple the device to a direct current (DC) bus-bar power interface of a rack configured to hold computing equipment; a second interface to couple the device to an alternative (AC) power input interface of the computing equipment; a powerline modem; and a controller operative to execute commands form the powerline modem. |
| US09985840B2 |
Container tracer
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for presenting container tracing information (CTI). More specifically, CTI represents the union of container-server mappings, provided by a third-party container management system (CMS), and server-port mappings obtained by a network element using neighbor information. As a solution, CTI may be useful to administrators who require locating containers in a network or datacenter for troubleshooting. |
| US09985837B2 |
Refresh of the binding tables between data-link-layer and network-layer addresses on mobility in a data center environment
A method for assisting communication of a source host upon movement from a first Data center (DC) to a second DC is disclosed. The method includes identifying that the source host has moved from the first DC to the second DC, ensuring that packets identifying a source as the source host in the second DC are copied to a control plane network element, and, for a first destination host identified in a first packet copied to the control plane network element and identified as a host that is not in the second DC, updating an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)/Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) cache of the source host by sending, to the source host, a first ARP message/unsolicited neighbor advertisement specifying a Media Access Control (MAC) address of an edge router associated with the source host in the second DC as a destination MAC address for the first destination host. |
| US09985834B1 |
Methods and systems for auto-configuration of digital subscriber line (DSL) modems in wireline broadband networks
A method and system for auto-configuration of a DSL modem in a wireline broadband network is disclosed. The method includes initiating, at a Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card, a configuration request for configuring the DSL modem, wherein the SIM card is located within the DSL modem. After initiating, the configuration request is transferred from the SIM card to a configuration server over a mobile communication network. Thereafter, a configuration data corresponding to the configuration request is transferred to the SIM card over the mobile communication network from the configuration server, wherein the configuration data is determined based on at least one parameter associated with the configuration request. The SIM card receives the configuration data sent by the configuration server and automatically configures the DSL modem in response to receiving the configuration data from the configuration server. |
| US09985831B2 |
Method and apparatus for remote modification of system configuration
A method and apparatus for updating the system configuration settings of a computer system. Embodiments include a remote system configuration system that enables a user to update the system configuration of a target machine from a server machine over a network or similar communications system. Another embodiment includes a system configuration method using a bus master device to write system configuration data into a target computer system. |
| US09985819B2 |
Coordination in self-organizing networks
To decide, whether or not a SON function instance is allowed to execute, a priority, an impact time and an impact area for the SON function instance is determined, and priorities of other SON function instances scheduled to be run during the impact time of the requesting SON function instance and having an overlapping impact area are compared to the priority of the requesting SON function instance. |
| US09985818B2 |
Forwarding ethernet packets
Forwarding Ethernet packets is disclosed, including: receiving an incoming packet; determining a value based at least in part on performing a hash operation on at least a portion of a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address included in the incoming packet; comparing the value against a pre-established look-up table to determine whether a corresponding index value is found, wherein the pre-established look-up table stores index values and corresponding data sets to respective ones of the index values; determining a destination media access control (MAC) address associated with the incoming packet based at least in part on whether the corresponding index value is found in the pre-established look-up table; and forwarding the incoming packet to a virtual machine associated with the determined destination MAC address. |
| US09985817B2 |
System and method for a universal phone number service
A universal phone number service and method of providing a universal phone number service that allows a user to receive phone calls on any phone service with a single phone number. A telephone is disclosed that is associated with more than one phone number and a universal phone number, wherein any phone call placed to the universal phone number results in the call being completed to the telephone regardless of the service associated with the more than one phone number. |
| US09985814B2 |
Method and device for transmitting data unit in WLAN
Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting data unit in a WLAN. A method for transmitting data unit in a WLAN comprises: a step of an STA generating a PPDU; and a step of the STA transmitting the PPDU to an access point (AP), wherein the PPDU comprises a first field and a second field, wherein the first field is transmitted on the basis of a first and the second field is transmitted on the basis of a second IFFT. |
| US09985813B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals, the method comprises encoding service data, encoding signaling data, MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) precoding the encoded service data, building at least one signal frame including the MIMO precoded service data and the encoded signaling data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data. |
| US09985812B1 |
Systems and methods for IQ demodulation with error correction
Generally, in accordance with the various illustrative embodiments disclosed herein, an RF receiver can include an error correction system that executes a signal processing procedure upon a multi-tone digital I-signal and a multi-tone digital Q-signal to derive a wideband correction matrix. The wideband correction matrix can be used to correct one or more of: an amplitude error in any one or more frequency components of an RF input signal provided to the RF receiver, a phase error in any one or more frequency components of the RF input signal, a gain mismatch error between an analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and an analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver, or a phase mismatch error between the analog I-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver and the analog Q-signal circuit portion of the RF receiver. |
| US09985810B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for electronic spectrum management for identifying open space
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of open space in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the open space based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real-time. |
| US09985807B1 |
Channel parameter recovery
A system may comprise a finite impulse response circuit configured to receive one or more samples of a first signal and generate an equalized signal based on the plurality of samples of the input signal and one or more updatable tap coefficients. The system may include an adaptation circuit configured to update the one or more updatable tap coefficients based on the plurality of samples of the input signal. The system may further comprise a recovery circuit configured to accumulate one or more retuning values based on the plurality of samples of the input signal and, in response to an error condition, generate one or more retuned tap coefficients for the finite impulse response circuit based on the one or more retuning values and replace the one or more updatable parameters with the one or more retuned parameters. |
| US09985805B1 |
Adaptive filter with recursive processing
An adaptive recursive filter is disclosed. The filter includes a filtering device to iteratively apply a recursive filter to signal frames corresponding to portions of a sampled broadband signal. Each iteration of the recursive filter may include generating an autocorrelation signal of an input signal frame, calculating a ratio of a magnitudes of a pair of successive points of the autocorrelation signal, comparing the ratio to a selected signal detection threshold such that a value of the ratio greater than a threshold indicates at least one signal of interest, calculating an energy-weighted average frequency of the input signal frame as a frequency of interest, comparing a spectral energy of the input signal frame at the frequency of interest to spectral energies of surrounding frequencies to identify a frequency of a narrowband interference signal, and filtering the input signal frame at the identified frequency to remove the identified narrowband interference signal. |
| US09985797B2 |
Appliance state recognition device and methods
Embodiments herein relate to recognition of an appliance state based on sensor data and determination of a response based at least in part on the appliance state. In various embodiments, an apparatus to recognize an appliance state may include a sensor data module to identify sensor data in one or more signals relating to data from one or more sensors associated with an appliance, an appliance state recognition module to determine an appliance state of the appliance based at least in part on the sensor data, a response module to determine a response based at least in part on the appliance state, and a transmission module to send the response to at least one of an appliance controller for the appliance or a presentation device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US09985795B2 |
Method and apparatus for optical network unit ONU overall rate limiting
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for ONU overall rate limiting. The method includes: receiving a multicast program sent by a multicast program server; making N+M copies of the multicast program; sending N copies of the multicast program to N passive optical network PON ports that request the multicast program on demand; and sending M copies of the multicast program to M ONU rate limiting units corresponding to M ONUs that request the multicast program on demand, discarding the M copies of the multicast program. In the method, after the rate limiting is performed on the multicast program, the multicast program is discarded, so that real-time rate limiting is performed on each ONU without affecting bandwidth of a PON. |
| US09985791B2 |
Physically unclonable function generating systems and related methods
A physically unclonable function generating system and related methods. Implementations may include comparing at least one physical parameter of a memory cell with a threshold value of the physical parameter and identifying a relationship of the at least one physical parameter of the memory cell to the threshold value. Implementations may also include associating one of a 0, 1, or X state to the memory cell based on the relationship of the at least one physical parameter to the threshold value and programming at least one state storage memory cell to store a programmed value corresponding with the associated 0, 1, or X state. Implementations may include including the programmed value of the at least one state storage memory cell in a PUF data stream. |
| US09985786B1 |
Cross-device authentication
Provided is a process, including: receiving a request to authenticate a user to access resources from a first computing device; in response to receiving the request, sending, with one or more processors, instructions that cause the first computing device to display a machine readable image, wherein: the machine readable image is configured to, upon being sensed with a camera of a second computing device, cause the second computing device to present, with a display of the second computing device, a user interface with a user-credential input configured based on the machine readable image displayed by the first computing device; receiving from the second computing device, a value demonstrating possession of a user credential and an identifier of the second computing device, the user credential being entered into the second computing device via the user interface configured based on the machine readable image displayed by the first computing device. |
| US09985784B2 |
Efficient smooth encodings for modular exponentiation
Various embodiments relate to a method of encoding data and a related device and non-transitory machine readable storage medium, including: determining a factor set, S, to be used for encoding the value, h, wherein the factor set includes a plurality of subsets that are associated with respective digit positions in the value, h; selecting a plurality of factors from the factor set, S; and computing a product of the plurality of factors to produce an encoded value. Various other embodiments relate to a method of encoding data and a related device and non-transitory machine readable storage medium, including: determining a factor set, S, and weight, w, to be used for encoding the value, h; selecting a set, T, of w factors from the factor set, S, to represent the value, h; and computing a product of the set, T, to produce an encoded value. |
| US09985782B2 |
Network bound decryption with offline encryption
A method relates to receiving, by a processing device, a first request to decrypt encrypted data stored on an encrypted portion of a drive, transmitting, to a decryption server, a second request comprising an encrypted first encryption key, wherein the encrypted first encryption key is produced by encrypting a first encryption key using a public key of an asymmetric key pair, receiving the first encryption key from the decryption server, decrypting an encrypted second encryption key using the first encryption key to produce a second encryption key, and decrypting the encrypted data using the second encryption key to produce data. |
| US09985781B2 |
Ensuring authenticity in a closed content distribution system
A technique for maintaining encrypted content received over a network in a secure processor without exposing a key used to decrypt the content in the clear is disclosed. |
| US09985777B2 |
Multi-layer time-interleaved analog-to-digital convertor (ADC)
A radio frequency (RF) receiver may comprise a first sampling module that is operable to sample in a first level at a particular main sampling rate; a plurality of second-level sampling modules, wherein each of the plurality of second-level sampling modules is operable to sample in a second level, an output of the first level, at a second sampling rate that is reduced compared to the main sampling rate; and a plurality of third-level modules, each comprising a plurality of third-stage sampling sub-modules that are operable to sample at a third sampling rate that is reduced compared to the second sampling rate, and a plurality of corresponding analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) sub-modules. |
| US09985771B2 |
Methods and apparatus for cooperating between wireless wide area network radios and wireless local area network radios
A method of wireless communication includes communicating using a first radio based on a first radio technology; configuring a second radio based on a second radio technology different from the first radio technology to assist the first radio with a first-radio operation; and performing at least a portion of the first-radio operation at the second radio. The first-radio operation includes at least one of multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) page monitoring and page/data processing, higher order diversity data acquisition and processing, interference measurement and management, E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) determination and reporting, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement, beacon detection for small cell identification, a minimization of drive test (MDT) measurement, and a speed estimation measurement. The first radio technology is a wireless wide area network (WWAN) technology and the second radio technology is a wireless local area network (WLAN) technology. |
| US09985770B2 |
Uplink data transmission method and apparatus
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides an uplink data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a size of a to-be-sent data packet; obtaining a time-frequency resource and a data transmission format that correspond to the size of the to-be-sent data packet; and sending the to-be-sent data packet to a base station on the time-frequency resource according to the data transmission format. |
| US09985769B2 |
Method of generating channel quality indicator adaptively in downlink status and user equipment for the same
A method for generating a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a mobile communication system is presented. The method includes grouping a number of subcarriers to form at least one channel quality indicator subband for generating a channel quality indicator, and generating a channel quality indicator in each channel quality indicator subband, wherein a size of each channel quality indicator subband is dependent on a system bandwidth value and is an integer multiple of a downlink frequency resource unit size, wherein the downlink frequency resource unit size is prescribed according to the system bandwidth value. |
| US09985766B2 |
Virtual gateway for a connected device
A virtual gateway software application may comprise a graphical user interface, and be configured to receive immediate command instructions for local connected devices from each of: a user, via the graphical user interface; a remote server on the Internet; and a physical network bridge of at least one of the connected devices via a wireless LAN or a short-range communication protocol. The application may relay the immediate command instructions to one or more of the connected devices via the wireless LAN or the short-range communication protocol while the device on which the application resides is within the particular building environment. It may store delayed command instructions for the local connected devices from each of: the user, via the graphical user interface; and the remote server on the Internet; and relay one or more of the delayed command instructions from the mobile communication device to one or more of the connected devices via the wireless LAN or the short-range protocol. |
| US09985763B2 |
Method for configuring channel state information reference signal, and base station
The present invention discloses a method for configuring a channel state information reference signal, and a base station. The method includes: obtaining location information of a user equipment; determining, according to the location information, that the user equipment is located in a cross coverage area in which at least two nodes provide service, or in a centralized coverage area in which one node provides service; when it is determined that the user equipment is located in the cross coverage area, determining, according to transmitting capabilities of the at least two nodes and a receiving capability of the user equipment, the number of ports for sending downlink signals to the user equipment; and sending CSI-RS configuration information to the user equipment, where the CSI-RS configuration information includes the number of ports. |
| US09985761B2 |
Method and device for transceiving device-to-device terminal signal in wireless communication system
One embodiment of the present invention discloses a method by which a terminal receives a device-to-device (D2D) signal in a wireless communication system, the D2D signal receiving method comprising the steps of: receiving a subframe; receiving a first reference signal in a preset symbol of the subframe; and receiving reference signal pattern information in a symbol neighboring the preset symbol on the basis of the received reference signal, wherein if the reference signal pattern information indicates the transmission of a second reference signal, the terminal performs a linear interpolation during a channel estimation for a D2D signal demodulation in the subframe. |
| US09985760B2 |
System and method for an adaptive frame structure with filtered OFDM
Different filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (f-OFDM) frame formats may be used to achieve the spectrum flexibility. F-OFDM waveforms are generated by applying a pulse shaping digital filter to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Different frame formats may be used to carry different traffic types as well as to adapt to characteristics of the channel, transmitter, receiver, or serving cell. The different frame formats may utilize different sub-carrier (SC) spacings and/or cyclic prefix (CP) lengths. In some embodiments, the different frame formats also utilize different symbol durations and/or transmission time interval (TTI) lengths. |
| US09985759B1 |
Method and system for coordinated multipoint transmission concurrently to multiple user equipment devices from multiple base stations
A method and system for coordinated multipoint transmission concurrently to multiple user equipment devices (UEs) from multiple base stations. When multiple base stations each serve a respective UE and each base station has a separate bit stream to communicate to its respective served UE, bit groups will be defined across the base station's bit streams, such that each bit group includes at least one bit from each base station's bit stream. And the base stations will then engage in CoMP transmission of each bit group, with all of the base stations transmitting the bit group at the same time and frequency as each other, such as on the same resource element, using the same modulation scheme. Each UE may then receive that transmitted bit group and process just the appropriate bit(s) destined to the UE, discarding the others. |
| US09985757B2 |
Method, system, access point and computer program product for enhancing the usable bandwidth between of a telecommunications network and a user equipment
A method for enhancing usable bandwidth between an access point of a radio access network of a telecommunications network and a User Equipment of a subscriber of the telecommunications network, in which the User Equipment and the access point are configured to mutually communicate based on a standardized mobile communication technology using carrier aggregation of at least a first communication carrier having a first carrier frequency and a second communication carrier having a second carrier frequency. The first carrier frequency is a standardized and licensed frequency and is related to the standardized mobile communication technology. The second carrier frequency is an unlicensed frequency. |
| US09985755B2 |
Data transmission method, apparatus, and device
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: receiving a Pth piece of hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process data sent by a data transmit end at an Nth moment, where P is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and sending Q pieces of hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment HARQ-ACK information to the data transmit end at an Mth moment, where the HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the Q pieces of HARQ process data is feedbacks corresponding to Q pieces of HARQ process data whose HARQ-ACK information is not received by the data transmit end before the Mth moment, Q pieces of HARQ-ACK information include a Pth piece of HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the Pth piece of HARQ process data, and M is a positive integer greater than N. |
| US09985754B2 |
Information processing apparatus and communication device
An information processing apparatus comprises a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry first/second demand response requests from first/second communication devices. The second circuitry creates first request content information representing contents of the first demand response request, sends it to a time-stamping authority, and acquires first time certification information containing a time stamp that the time-stamping authority issues for the first demand response request. The second circuitry stores the first time certification information in a storage device to be associates with the first demand response request; and determine, when the second demand response request is received, whether the second demand response request is retransmission of the first demand response request. When it is the retransmission, the second circuitry causes the first circuitry to send the second demand response request and the first time certification information associated with it in the storage device, to a second communication device. |
| US09985753B2 |
Integrated circuit controlling downlink HARQ
Provided is a terminal device with which deterioration in hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission performance can be inhibited by continuing a downlink (DL) HARQ process for DL data before and after changing the uplink link-DL configuration. In this device, a decoder stores, in a retransmission buffer, DL data transmitted from a base station, and decodes the DL data, and a wireless transmitter transmits a response signal generated using a DL-data-error detection result. A soft buffer is partitioned into a plurality of regions for each retransmission process on the basis of the highest values among retransmission process numbers respectively stated in a plurality of configuration patterns which can be set in the terminal. |
| US09985752B2 |
Operating method and apparatus according to data duplicate retransmission in mobile communication system
An operating method and an apparatus according to data duplicate retransmission in a mobile communication system are provided. A method of a User Equipment (UE) according to data duplicate retransmission in a mobile communication system includes storing a Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU) received from an Evolved Node B (ENB) in a soft buffer, decoding the MAC PDU, determining whether the decoding is a first successful decoding of data of the corresponding soft buffer, and determining whether to forward the decoded MAC PDU to an upper layer according to the determination result. |
| US09985750B2 |
System and method for HARQ for cellular integrated D2D communications
System and method embodiments are provided to support network communications with groups of UEs. The embodiments include a two-level group-based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism and acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) feedback. An embodiment method includes receiving, at a UE within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) comprising UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the ViMP node, decode the data packet, and upon successfully decoding the data packet, broadcasting the data packet to the UEs within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an ACK message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node. In an embodiment, broadcasted data received in the ViMP node is re-broadcasted upon receiving a negative acknowledgment (NACK) message from the TUE, a beacon UE, or any of the UEs within the ViMP node. |
| US09985749B2 |
Method and system for improving wireless link efficiency
A transmission system can improve transmission efficiency of a wireless link using multi-TID aggregate frames. The system can receive a block acknowledgement from a destination device, in response to sending a first multi-TID aggregate frame to the destination device via a wireless link. The system can compute a packet error rate for a respective TID based at least on the block acknowledgement. If the system determines that the packet error rate for the respective TID is greater than a predetermined threshold, the system can reserve a number of packet slots in a second aggregate frame for duplicate packets of the respective TID. The system may then generate the second multi-TID aggregate frame that includes duplicate packets for the respective TID in the number of reserved packet slots, and can send the second multi-TID aggregate frame to the destination device via the wireless link. |
| US09985747B2 |
Apparatus and method for receiving broadcast signals
Disclosed is a broadcast signal receiver. The broadcast signal receiver includes a synchronization and demodulation unit configured to perform signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a reception signal comprising layer division multiplexing (LDM) data, a frame parsing/deinterleaving unit configured to parse the signal frame of the reception signal and to deinterleave the LDM data, a first demapping/decoding unit configured to obtain the data of a first layer by demapping and forward error correction (FEC)-encoding the LDM data, an interference removal unit configured to remove the data of the first layer from the LDM data and to output the data of a second layer, and a second demapping/decoding unit configured to demap and FEC-decode the data of the second layer. |
| US09985742B2 |
Transmission power control for an uplink control channel
Methods and apparatus are provided for a base station to indicate to a user equipment (UE) configured for operation with carrier aggregation a resource for a transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that conveys acknowledgement information from the UE, and for the UE to determine the resource and a transmission power for the PUCCH format. |
| US09985741B2 |
Method for adjusting parameters of sending device and receiving device, and terminal device
The present invention discloses a method for adjusting parameters of a sending device and a receiving device, and a terminal device. In the method, a new precoding parameter that needs to be used by a sending device on a line when a precoding matrix in a downlink direction of the line changes, and a new signal recovery parameter that needs to be used by a receiving device and matches the new precoding parameter are first acquired; and then the new precoding parameter, the new signal recovery parameter, and a set moment and/or symbol at which the sending device starts to use the new precoding parameter are sent to the sending device, and the new signal recovery parameter and the set moment and/or symbol are sent to the receiving device by using the sending device. |
| US09985740B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of multi-user wireless communication
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of multi-user (MU) wireless communication. For example, a wireless station may generate a MU Physical Layer Convergence Protocol (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) including a header field and a plurality of Spatial Streams (SSs) of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) to a plurality of users, the header field including an indication of a plurality of modulation schemes corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of users; and process transmission of the MU PPDU to the plurality of users over a wireless communication band. |
| US09985735B1 |
Broadcast near field communication to mobile device
A broadcasting system having a transmitter that broadcasts a one-way signal is provided. The one-way signal is embedded with data that is transmitted to a device that is enabled with near field communication (NFC) technology. The NFC-enabled device may then transfer at least a portion of the transmitted embedded data to another NFC-enabled device by bringing the NFC-enabled devices into close proximity to each other. |
| US09985734B2 |
Warning control information processing method, warning information receiving method, and terminal
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing warning control information, a method for receiving warning information, a terminal, and a base station. Wherein, the method for processing warning control information includes: a base station receiving warning information from a core network; and the base station notifying, through an RRC layer message, a UE of whether warning information broadcast in a cell changes or will change. |
| US09985733B1 |
System and method for performing over-the-air (OTA) testing of a device under test (DUT) having an integrated transmitter-antenna assembly
A test system for testing a DUT includes a first array of probe elements located in the near field of the DUT antenna that is either mechanically translated or electrically scanned in a first direction while being electrically scanned in a second direction that is different from the first direction to sense a bounded radiation surface comprising RF signals transmitted by the DUT antenna. A test system receiver receives first near field values contained in the RF signals and inputs them to processing logic of the test system. A reference measurement apparatus of the test system detects the RF signals and obtains reference information therefrom. Processing logic of the test system uses the reference information to correct near field phase values contained in or derived from the first near field values for phase shift between the local oscillator (LO) of the DUT and the LO of the test system. |
| US09985731B1 |
Power cables with integrated wireless communication components
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for power cords with integrated wireless communication components. In one embodiment, an example power cable may include a first portion having a first connector, a second portion having a second connector, and an integrated radio module with a ZigBee radio. The integrated radio module may be coupled between the first portion and the second portion. |
| US09985725B2 |
Network unit and method for monitoring a fiber line
Embodiments herein relate to a method in a network unit for monitoring a fiber line between a radio base station and a radio head in a Fiber to the Radio Head communications network. The Fiber to the Radio Head communications network comprises a ring architecture or a tree architecture of fiber, with Subcarrier Multiplexing, SCM, downstream transmissions and Wavelength Division Multiplexing, WDM, upstream transmissions. The monitoring comprises that the network unit detects an indication of a fault along the fiber line based on monitoring power. The network unit initiates, in response to detect the indication, an Optical×Domain Reflectometry, O×DR, measurement over the fiber line. Additionally, the network unit analyses a trace from the O×DR measurement for localizing the fault or for deciding that the indicated fault is not a fault along the fiber line. |
| US09985721B2 |
Method and system for automatically calculating cable attenuation between a satellite terminal and a radio across a frequency spectrum
A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) installation tool is provided having the ability to measure cable loss along an interfacility link (IFL) between an outdoor unit and an indoor unit of the VSAT. Radio frequency (RF) signals can be transmitted from the indoor unit to the outdoor unit, where the RF signals are intercepted along the IFL prior to reaching the outdoor unit, and the output power is determined. The determined output power is compared to an expected output power at the indoor unit. The delta between the determined output power and the expected output power can be used to adjust the power of the indoor unit such that the outdoor unit can operate without reaching its compression point. The determined output power can be extrapolated based upon measured of the output power performed over a range of frequencies at which the indoor unit operates. |
| US09985719B2 |
Apparatuses, systems and methods for obtaining information about electromagnetic energy emitted from the earth, such as for locating an interference source on earth
An observation satellite is used for obtaining information about electromagnetic energy emitted from the earth. The observation satellite orbits the earth in an orbit having an inclination larger than 90° and smaller than 270°. Further, the observation satellite comprises at least one receiving antenna, the at least one receiving antenna having a receiving pattern directed towards the earth, and suitable for receiving electromagnetic energy in the radio frequency range as the observation satellite is orbiting relative to the surface of the earth. The observation satellite also comprises a transmitter configured for at least one of: (i) retransmitting the received electromagnetic energy, (ii) transmitting information representing the received electromagnetic energy, and (iii) transmitting information derived from the received electromagnetic energy. The invention also relates to systems and methods therefor. |
| US09985717B2 |
Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network
A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol. |
| US09985714B1 |
Systems and methods for simultaneous backhaul management for multiple relay nodes
In systems and methods for establishing communication between a wireless device and a communication network, one or more sounding signals are received from one or more relay nodes. One or more parameters of beam formation are determined based on the received one or more sounding signals. Formation of one or more beams is initiated from two or more antennas to the one or more relay nodes based on the determined one or more beam formation parameters. The total number of the formed beams and the formation of the beams are adjusted dynamically based on the received sounding signals from the relay nodes. |
| US09985713B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating boundaries of satellite coverage beams
An apparatus for defining and generating boundaries of satellite coverage. The apparatus includes a processor that is configured to select a plurality of beam points, from a set of points on a coordinate system, to be included within a beam definition, and determine a number of ellipses capable of enclosing the selected beam points while excluding all remaining points of the set of points. The processor then assigns the selected beam points to a corresponding ellipse, and optimizes geometric information for each ellipse to enclose the beam points assigned thereto. A coverage beam is then defined based on a contour resulting from the combined shape of all the ellipses using the optimized geometric information. |
| US09985712B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes at least one service data, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave each the service data, wherein the time deinterleaving is performed depending on a number of physical paths for each the service data, a damapper to demap the time deinterleaved data and a decoder to decode the demapped service data. |
| US09985707B2 |
Multiple beamforming training
A method for the multiple beamforming training and an apparatus using the same are provided. An initiator determines a candidate sector to be used for a transmission during a sector sweep. After the initiator exchanges with a responder an information request frame and an information response frame about the multiple beamforming training through the candidate sector, the responder performs a plurality of beam refinement protocol (BRP) processes using a plurality of polarized channels through the candidate sector. |
| US09985704B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating beamformed reference signal in communication system
The present disclosure relates 5G or pre-5G communication systems for supporting higher data transmission rate than those by LTE or other post-4G communication systems. According to the present disclosure, a method for operating a beamformed reference signal by a base station and terminal in a communication system, and the terminal, are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, control information indicating whether a first codebook is used for generating feedback information on a downlink reference signal. The first codebook is used if generating feedback information on the beamformed reference signal and is generated based on a number of antenna ports and a number of ranks. |
| US09985703B2 |
Method and system for performance testing
Disclosed is a method and system for performance test. The method includes: configuring a static channel between a transmitting end and a receiving end in a system configured with M transmitting antenna ports and N receiving antennas, wherein singular values of a N*M channel matrix of the static channel are equal, wherein, M=4 and N=4; or M=8 and N=4; or M=8 and N=8. The transmitting end transmits data to the receiving end by the static channel. When the M=4 and the N=4, the N*M channel matrix is a 4×4 channel matrix as follows: [ 1 j 1 j 1 - j 1 - j 1 j - 1 - j 1 - j - 1 j ] ; or a matrix obtained after any row swap or column swap operation is performed on [ 1 j 1 j 1 - j 1 - j 1 j - 1 - j 1 - j - 1 j ] . |
| US09985696B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, storage medium having stored therein information processing program, and information processing method
Based on data acquired from a server via a predetermined network, a predetermined content is acquired. Further, based on data acquired from an information storage medium by performing near field communication with the information storage medium, a content that can be used in the same application as an application in which a content that can be acquired from the server via the predetermined network is used, or the same content is acquired. |
| US09985690B2 |
Telemetry equipment for multiphase electric motor systems
An electric submersible pump system can include a multiphase electric motor operatively coupled to a fluid pump where the multiphase motor includes a wye point; telemetry circuitry operatively coupled to the wye point where the telemetry circuitry generates AC telemetry signals; a multiphase power cable operatively coupled to the multiphase electric motor; and a tune filter operatively coupled to the multiphase power cable where the tune filter passes and amplifies AC telemetry signals generated by the telemetry circuitry, the AC telemetry signals being transmitted to the multiphase power cable via the wye point. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. |
| US09985685B2 |
Power spectrum density optimization
A method comprising allocating one or more detection tones of a sync symbol for crosstalk-free feedback data estimation, wherein the one or more detection tones are a quiet signal; transmitting the one or more detection tones to a computing device, receiving the crosstalk-free feedback data from the computing device, wherein the crosstalk-free feedback data comprises data associated with a background noise detected during the detection tones; determining an optimized PSD based at least in part on the crosstalk-free feedback data; and adjusting a transmission PSD of a plurality of tones based at least in part on the optimized PSD. |
| US09985683B2 |
Method and apparatus for canceling interference
Provided are a method and an apparatus for canceling interference, to resolve a problem that performance of interference cancellation is poor because accuracy of equalizer coefficients obtained by a CMTS through calculation is not sufficiently high. A specific solution is as follows: (101) A CMTS calculates L equalizer coefficients of an L-tap filter according to a preamble sequence by using an adaptive algorithm, and performs adaptive equalization on a received signal by using the L equalizer coefficients, where L is a positive integer greater than 24; and (102) the CMTS selects K equalizer coefficients from the L equalizer coefficients, and sends a ranging response message carrying the K equalizer coefficients to a cable modem CM, so that the CM performs pre-equalization on a to-be-sent signal according to the received K equalizer coefficients, where K is a positive integer less than or equal to L. |
| US09985678B1 |
Smartphone case with hook
The smartphone case has a compartment for a smartphone and also includes a hook which can be moved between a collapsed orientation adjacent to a rear surface of the smartphone case and a deployed orientation. In the deployed orientation, the hook can be placed over a wall or other elevated structure and the smartphone within the case can be suspended below. Alternatively, the smartphone can rest up from an edge thereof placed upon an underlying surface, and the hook positioned to also rest upon the underlying surface. The hook can both pivot and swivel in preferred embodiments, so that it can be positioned optimally to support the smartphone in a desired orientation. An optional second hook can also be provided. The rear surface preferably includes a recess therein to allow at least portions of the hook to be nested within the recess when in the collapsed orientation. |
| US09985676B2 |
Multi-channel mixing console
A battery powered, portable multi-channel audio mixing console is disclosed. The mixing console is configured to be easily held in a user's hand like a remote control. The console is configured to wirelessly receive, via separate channels, two or more independent stereo input audio signals from separate audio sources such as cellular phones, iPads, iPods, or other computing or media player devices, independently equalize the frequencies of those input signals, independently adjust the volume of those input signals, and then mix those audio signals into a combined output signal. The console further includes user controls that can vary the relative magnitude of the first and second input signals in the combined output signal. The console is further adapted to transmit the combined output signal to one or more speakers via independent channels. |
| US09985675B2 |
Tray device and electronic device having the same
An electronic device including a housing that encloses a space between opposing faces and has an opening in a side face of the housing, the opening including a hole portion. A tray is configured to be inserted into the hole during mounting of the tray and removed therefrom when the tray is demounted. The device further includes a first fixing structure disposed substantially parallel to a side face of the tray inside the hole, and configured to be at least partially rotated about an axis in a direction outwardly from the hole. Further, including two terminals vertically arranged inside the hole with the tray being interposed therebetween so the terminals do not contact the tray, and a control circuit electrically connected to at least one of the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein, when the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically connected to each other, the control circuit is configured to detect demounting of the tray, and when the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically separated from each other, the control circuit is configured to detect mounting of the tray from the hole portion. |
| US09985673B2 |
Transmission-reception apparatus and reflected signal suppressing method
An amplitude phase parameter calculator in a control unit or circuit in a transmission-reception apparatus calculates an amplitude difference voltage and a phase difference voltage between a transmission detection signal and a reflected detection signal. Adjustment factors including a combination of an amplitude control voltage and a phase control voltage corresponding to a combination of the amplitude difference voltage and the phase difference voltage are discretely stored in an adjustment factor determination table in the control unit. An adjustment factor determiner in the control unit determines the adjustment factors using the combination of the amplitude difference voltage and the phase difference voltage and the adjustment factor determination table. If the adjustment factors do not exist in the adjustment factor determination table, the adjustment factor determiner calculates target adjustment factors using the relationship among the adjustment factors stored in the table, the amplitude difference voltage, and the phase difference voltage. |
| US09985671B2 |
System, device, and method for improving radio performance
A device includes circuitry configured to detect one or more properties of an image signal based on outputs from one or more (analog-to-digital converter) ADC configurations of a transceiver, determine a VCO frequency corresponding to an ADC sampling frequency independently from a carrier frequency, and control the VCO frequency of at least one of a transmitter or receiver based on the one or more properties of the image signal. |
| US09985669B2 |
Mitigating signal interference in a wireless network
A method, communication apparatus, and computer program product is provided for mitigating interference experienced by a wireless communication device, WCD (102). The interference is caused by signals transmitted by an interfering node (106). The communication apparatus determines information related to the interfering node (106). The communication apparatus selects, based at least in part on the determined information related to the interfering node (106), a WCD receiver configuration from a set of available WCD receiver configurations. The set of available WCD receiver configurations comprises i) a first WCD receiver configuration that mitigates only interference caused by physical signals transmitted by the interfering node (106) and ii) a second WCD receiver configuration that mitigates only interference caused by physical channels transmitted by the interfering node (106). |
| US09985667B1 |
Inter-band CA digital transmitter with multi-stage out-of-band noise canceller
A radio frequency transmitter for wireless communication includes a plurality of input ports to receive a plurality of sequences of baseband symbols to be transmitted on a plurality of disjoint frequency bands, a power encoder to modulate and encode the plurality of sequences of baseband symbols to produce an encoded multi-band signal including the plurality of disjoint frequency bands carrying the plurality of sequences of baseband symbols, a first power amplifier for amplifying the encoded multi-band signal to produce an amplified encoded multi-band signal, a first noise canceller to generate a first noise mitigation signal from the encoded multi-band signal and the plurality of sequences of baseband symbols, a first power combiner to combine the amplified encoded multi-band signal and the first noise mitigation signal to produce an RF multi-band signal, and an antenna for transmitting the RF multi-band signal. |
| US09985663B2 |
Method and system for multi-band transceiver front-end architecture with reduced switch insertion loss
Methods and systems for a multi-band transceiver front-end architecture with reduced insertion loss may comprise, in a transceiver comprising a first plurality of switches (each with a common terminal coupled to a transmit signal path), a second plurality of switches (each with a common terminal coupled to a receive signal path), and a plurality of communications links: operatively coupling the transmit signal path to one of the communications links using one of the first switches when the transceiver is in a transmit mode, and operatively coupling the receive signal path to one of the communications links using one of the second switches when the transceiver is in a receive mode. An off capacitance of at least one of the switches may be reduced utilizing an operatively coupled inductive element. The inductive element may comprise an inductor operatively coupled in series with the transmit signal path. |
| US09985662B2 |
Systems and methods for improving WLAN range
Various embodiments disclose systems and methods for employing a Sub1G signal (e.g. a signal in the range of approximately 500 Mhz or 800 mHz) for use with internal and/or external components of various user devices. The Sub1G region may provide a path loss advantage over traditional 2.4 and 5 Ghz systems because of the lower frequency in free-space path loss model. Sub 1G may also present less interference compared to 2.4 GHz (e.g., better QoS for applications such as VOIP, Gaming, etc.). In some of the disclosed embodiments, Sub1G may be employed using current 2.4G or 5G Wireless LAN chipset with RF Up/Down Converters. In some embodiments, the Sub1G approach may be used to create a Long Range Bridge, Long Range Extender, Long Range Client, Long Range Hotspot, etc. |
| US09985661B1 |
Reed-Solomon erasure code decoder
Techniques for decoding potentially corrupted Reed-Solomon encoded messages are provided. To decode a message, an incoming message is classified into a group based on which symbols of the message have survived (a “survival pattern”). The same inversion matrix may be used for each survival pattern associated with a single group. This reduces the amount of work required and data that is to be stored in order to perform the matrix multiplication that decodes the message. |
| US09985657B2 |
Memory control module and control method
This invention discloses a memory control module and its associated control method. The memory control module includes a storage unit, an ECC unit, and a read/write control unit. The storage unit is to store a target data. The ECC unit includes multiple first encoders and a second encoder. The first encoders perform an encoding operation on the target data and generate multiple first sets of parity check bits, which comprise at least two lengths. The second encoder performs an encoding operation on the target data and the multiple first sets of parity check bits and generates a second set of parity check bits. The read/write control module converts the target data, the first sets of party check bit sets and the second set of parity check bits into a data format of a memory module. |
| US09985655B2 |
Generating ECC values for byte-write capable registers
Embodiments described herein include a computing system that permits partial writes into a memory element—e.g., a register on a processor. For example, the data to be written into the memory element may be spread across multiple sources. The register may receive data from two different sources at different times and perform two separate partial write commands to store the data. Embodiments herein generate an ECC value for each of the partial writes. That is, when storing the data of the first partial write, the computing system generates a first ECC value for the data in the first partial write and stores this value in the memory element. Later, when performing the second partial write, the computing system generates a second ECC value for this data which is also stored in the memory element. |
| US09985654B1 |
High-throughput low-latency erasure error correction in an integrated circuit
An example method of erasure error correction in an IC includes receiving input data from a channel coupled to the IC, determining a bit pattern indicating survived blocks and erased blocks of a plurality of blocks in the input data and determining a number of integers, in a finite set of integers, greater than or less than an integer representing the bit pattern, the finite set of integers representing a finite set of possible values of the bit pattern based on an (m, k) erasure coding scheme. The method further includes generating an address for a memory, which stores a plurality of pre-computed decoding matrices based on the (m, k) erasure coding scheme, from the determined number of integers to obtain a pre-computed decoding matrix associated with the bit pattern. The method further includes recovering the erased blocks through matrix multiplication using the pre-computed decoding matrix and the survived blocks as parametric input. |
| US09985648B1 |
Methods for accelerating hash-based compression and apparatuses using the same
The invention introduces a method for accelerating compression, performed in a compression accelerator, including: repeatedly executing a loop for determining the longest matched-length between a first string and a second string. Each iteration of the loop includes: obtaining n successive characters from the first string as a source string, wherein n is greater than 1; comparing each character of the source string with all characters of the second string, so as to generate n first-match-results corresponding to the n successive characters of the source string respectively; generating a second-match-result according to the n first-match-results; and determining whether a continuous match of the n successive characters is presented according to the second-match-result. If so, n is added to the matched length and the next iteration of the loop is continued to execute. Otherwise, a matched length is updated and output and the loop is exited. |
| US09985646B1 |
Analog-to-digital converter verification using quantization noise properties
Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying and reporting failures of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Specifically, the systems and methods described herein evaluate quantization noise properties of ADCs, including delta-sigma ADCs and successive approximation register (SAR) ADCs, to verify functionality and/or identify failures. Quantization noise properties can be evaluated in the frequency domain by, for example, comparing RMS values, magnitudes, frequency spectrums, and the like, in various frequency bands to threshold values and/or to verify an expected noise shape. Quantization noise properties can additionally or alternatively be evaluated in the time domain by, for example, comparing counts of pulse widths, average pulse widths, and/or number of transitions within a sequence of pulses to threshold values and/or to similar identifiable characteristics in other pulse width bands. |
| US09985644B1 |
Digital to-time converter and method therof
A DTC (digital-to-time converter) includes: an inverter configured to receive an input clock at an input node and output an output clock at an output node, and a variable source degeneration network controlled by a digital word, wherein the inverter includes a transistor with a gate terminal connected to the input node, a drain terminal coupled to the output node, and a source terminal connected to the variable source degeneration network, and the variable source degeneration network includes a parallel connection of a resistor and a digitally-controlled capacitor of a capacitance controlled by the digital word. |
| US09985642B2 |
Angle encoder and a method of measuring an angle using same
An angle encoder has first and second components rotatable with respect to each other, and an encoder pattern having codewords for indicating the angle between the first and second components. The encoder pattern has a set of base encoder channels coded with a conventional Gray code, and a set of Booster channels for improving the resolution of angle measurement. |
| US09985641B1 |
Systems and methods for evaluating errors and impairments in a digital-to-analog converter
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention pertain to circuitry provided in a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for carrying out measurements indicative of various performance characteristics of the DAC. In one exemplary implementation, a control circuit containing one or more switches is used to controllably route into a measurement system, a portion of a signal that straddles a boundary between a first digital data bit and a second digital data bit in a sequence of digital data bits that are received in a DAC cell of the DAC. The control circuit, which can be included in one or more DAC cells of the DAC, is connected to a branch of a differential circuit that is provided in each of the DAC cells of the DAC, in a manner that does not affect digital-to-analog conversion in the DAC cells. |
| US09985637B2 |
Phase frequency detector
Described is an apparatus comprising: a first phase frequency detector (PFD) to determine a coarse phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the first PFD to generate a first output indicating the coarse phase difference; and a second PFD, coupled to the first PFD, to determine a fine phase difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal, the second PFD to generate a second output indicating the fine phase difference. |
| US09985623B2 |
Pulse area modulation method and pulse area modulator using thereof
Provided is a pulse area modulation apparatus including: a register configured to receive and store PCM data having n+m bits per a sample; an amplitude shaping unit configured to shape an amplitude of an output pulse to correspond to the n bits; a duration forming unit configured to form duration of the output pulse to correspond to the m bits; and a charge accumulation means providing an output pulse, wherein a pulse area of the output pulse defined by the amplitude and the duration is modulated according to the sample. |
| US09985620B2 |
Fast pre-amp latch comparator
A fast latched comparator may include an amplifier portion and a latch portion. A switch activated by a reset pulse may short together outputs of the latched comparator. |
| US09985616B2 |
Programmable delay circuit including hybrid fin field effect transistors (finFETs)
Embodiments relate to programmable delay circuit. An aspect includes a first stage comprising a first hybrid fin field effect transistor (finFET) comprising a first gate corresponding to a first control FET, and a second gate corresponding to a first default FET, and a first plurality of fins, wherein the first gate and the second gate of the first stage each partially control a first shared fin of the first plurality of fins. Another aspect includes a second stage connected in series with the first stage, the second stage comprising a second hybrid finFET comprising a first gate corresponding to a second control FET, and a second gate corresponding to a second default FET, and a second plurality of fins, wherein the first gate and the second gate of the second stage each partially control a second shared fin of the second plurality of fins. |
| US09985615B2 |
On-chip randomness generation
An on-chip true noise generator including an embedded noise source with a low-voltage, high-noise zener diode(s), and an in-situ close-loop zener diode power control circuit. The present invention proposes the use of heavily doped polysilicon and silicon p-n diode(s) structures to minimize the breakdown voltage, increasing noise level and improving reliability. The present invention also proposes an in-situ close-loop zener diode control circuit to safe-guard the zener diode from catastrophic burn-out. |
| US09985611B2 |
Tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) based high-density and low-power sequential
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first p-type Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor (TFET); a first n-type TFET coupled in series with the first p-type TFET; a first node coupled to gate terminals of the first p-type and n-type TFETs; a first clock node coupled to a source terminal of the first TFET, the first clock node is to provide a first clock; and a second clock node coupled to a source terminal of the second TFET, the second clock node is to provide a second clock. |
| US09985608B2 |
Small area and low power IIR filter structure
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a digital filter module for use in receivers, particularly suitable for use in a narrow-band electromagnetic receiver. Design of the module is based on a recognition that providing to the module samples of a signal received by a receiver and sampled at a sampling frequency equal to four times the intermediate frequency of the receiver, eliminating zeros in the filter, and implementing the filter module as a resource-shared second-order filter structure that includes two sections advantageously enables saving some hardware components, particularly some multipliers and adders, in implementing a versatile digital filter module that can function either as two real filters or one complex filter. In this manner, substantial reduction of area and power consumption of the filter module may be achieved, while maintaining sufficiently high filtering performance. |
| US09985607B2 |
Multiplexer having fewer intermodulation products
A multiplexer (MUL) having fewer intermodulation products is specified. For this purpose, the multiplexer (MUL) comprises a transmit and/or receive filter (Tx, Rx), which operates with acoustic waves, and blocker electrodes (EL1, EL2) for diverting undesired frequency components to ground (GND). The blocker electrodes (EL1, EL2) are arranged in this case on the same chip (CH) as the filter which operates with acoustic waves. |
| US09985605B2 |
Filter circuit and wireless communication apparatus
A filter circuit includes a serial arm connected between ports (P1-P2), a parallel arm having a resonator connected in series between ports (P1-P3), and another parallel arm having another resonator connected in series between ports (P2-P3). The serial arm includes a switching circuit, and the switching circuit connects an inductor or a capacitor to the serial arm in series using a switch. |
| US09985601B2 |
Step attenuator with constant input capacitance
A step attenuator with constant input capacitance and having good performance is disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes a step attenuator having a constant input capacitance for different amounts of attenuation. The step attenuator receives an input signal, provides a variable amount of attenuation for the input signal, and provides an output signal. The step attenuator may include a plurality of attenuator sections coupled in series. Each attenuator section may include a plurality of capacitors and may have the constant input capacitance. At least one of the plurality of attenuator sections may be selected or unselected to obtain a selected amount of attenuation for the step attenuator. An attenuator section may provide a predetermined amount of attenuation or a variable amount of attenuation when selected. The apparatus may further include a power detector that receives and determines the power of the output signal from the step attenuator. |
| US09985599B2 |
Quartz vibrator manufacturing method and quartz vibrator
A method capable of manufacturing a quartz vibrator by disposing a metallic bonding material on one main surface of a ceramic plate having a quartz vibrating element mounted thereon. Thereafter, the bonding of a cap having a recess to the ceramic plate by disposing the cap on the one main surface of the ceramic plate so that an open side of the recess faces the ceramic plate, melting the bonding material, and then allowing the bonding material to set, is carried out. |
| US09985592B2 |
High gain RF power amplifier with negative capacitor
A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier circuit includes an input and an output. A power amplifier transistor has a first terminal connected to the input, a second terminal connected to the output, and a third terminal defined by a degeneration inductance. A first capacitor is connected to the third terminal of the power amplifier transistor, along with a negative capacitance circuit connected in series with the first capacitor. The negative capacitance and the first capacitor define a series resonance at a predefined operating frequency band, which shunts the degeneration inductance of the third terminal. |
| US09985590B2 |
Adaptive power amplifier supply with pre-distortion mechanism
According to at least one aspect, a communication system is provided. The communication system includes a power amplifier configured to amplify an input signal to generate an amplified output signal and provide the amplified output signal to an antenna, a power supply coupled to the power amplifier and configured to provide power to the power amplifier based on a power supply control signal, and a controller coupled to the power supply. The controller is configured to identify a target transmit power level for transmission of a wireless signal, generate the power supply control signal based on the target transmit power level using information indicative of a relationship between the target transmit power level and a setting of the power supply, generate performance information indicative of a characteristic of the communication system when the wireless signal is transmitted, and update the information indicative of the relationship using the performance information. |
| US09985589B2 |
System and method for improving total harmonic distortion of an amplifier
A voltage-to-current converter includes a first differential pair of transistors, a second differential pair of transistors, and a first resistor. The first differential pair of transistors includes a first transistor and a second transistor. An emitter of the first transistor is directly connected to an emitter of the second transistor. The second differential pair of transistors includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor. An emitter of the third transistor is directly connected to an emitter of the fourth transistor. The first resistor is connected to the emitter of the first transistor, the emitter of the second transistor, the emitter of the third transistor, and the emitter of the fourth transistor. |
| US09985588B2 |
Distortion correction in cascode power amplifiers
A radio-frequency (RF) module includes a driver transistor having a base, collector and emitter, an RF input port coupled to the base of the driver transistor, a cascode transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the emitter of the cascode transistor being coupled to the collector of the driver transistor, an RF output port coupled to the collector of the cascode transistor, and a coupling path connecting the base of the cascode transistor to the emitter of the cascode transistor, the coupling path including a capacitor. |
| US09985587B2 |
Switched mode converter with variable common mode voltage buffer
A switching power stage for producing a load voltage at a load output of the switching power stage, wherein the load output comprises a first load terminal having a first load voltage and a second load terminal having a second load voltage such that the load voltage comprises a difference between the first and the second load voltages, that may include: a power converter comprising a power inductor and a plurality of switches, wherein the power converter is configured to drive a power converter output terminal; a linear amplifier configured to drive a linear amplifier output terminal; and a controller for controlling the plurality of switches and the linear amplifier in order to generate the load voltage as a function of an input signal to the controller such that energy delivered to the load output is supplied predominantly by the power converter. |
| US09985586B2 |
Front end circuit
A front end circuit includes a bypass circuit comprising a first bypass switch and a second bypass switch configured to bypass a signal to a first terminal according to switching operations of the first bypass switch and the second bypass switch; and an amplifier connected in parallel to the bypass circuit and configured to amplify the signal. |
| US09985582B2 |
Thermal management of systems with electric components
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for thermal management of a system of one or more electric components. In some examples, the system includes a housing, one or more electric components, one or more temperature sensors on or in the housing, and a thermal management circuit coupled to the electric components and the temperature sensors. The thermal management circuit is configured to monitor the temperature sensors and, based on monitoring the temperature sensors, cause at least a first electric component to curtail power consumption, thereby reducing heat generating by the first electric component. |
| US09985578B2 |
Systems for attaching mounting rails onto photovoltaic mounting posts
A system for connecting a photovoltaic mounting rail onto a mounting post using a connection system with a pair of interlocking grasps having interdigitated fingers that can be locked into the mounting rail when moved by a fastening system. |
| US09985577B2 |
Assembly for locking and grounding solar panel modules to mounting components
In various representative aspects, an assembly for securing array skirts and solar panel modules in an array on a roof by utilizing semi-rigid and resilient spring tabs as locking mechanisms that both secure the solar panel modules to mounting plates and splices as well as provide a grounding path between the solar panel modules and the entire array. A method of installation of the assembly is also provided. |
| US09985568B2 |
Motor control apparatus
An integrated IC provided in an SBW-ECU has plural functions such as a receiving function of receiving output signals of an encoder and a current supply function of supplying current to each phase of the motor. A microcomputer checks individually whether the signal receiving function and the current supply function are potentially abnormal and checks whether the integrated IC is abnormal based on the check results about the signal receiving function and the current supply function. For example, when it is determined that only the signal receiving function of the integrated IC is potentially abnormal, the encoder is determined to be abnormal. When it is determined that the signal receiving function and the current supply function of the integrated IC are both potentially abnormal, the integrated IC is determined to be abnormal. |
| US09985567B2 |
Electric motor drive device and control method therefor
The present invention relates to an electric motor drive device where a first inverter and a second inverter both supply power to one electric motor and to a control method for the electric motor drive device. A control unit for controlling an output of each inverter increases an output of the inverter of which a drive control system has first completed an initial diagnosis, ahead of the other inverter. If either inverter is about to overheat, the control unit decreases an output of the inverter that is about to overheat while keeping or increasing an output of the other inverter having the normal temperature. |
| US09985566B2 |
Dual three-phase electrical machine and drive with negligible common-mode noise
A system and/or method for controlling a dual-three-phase machine with respect to a power electronics inverter is provided. The dual-three-phase machine includes six phase windings divided into at least two windings groups configured to provide a combination of six voltages that achieve zero common-mode voltage and a significantly reduced common-mode noise current. |
| US09985565B2 |
Sensorless motor drive vector control with feedback compensation for filter capacitor current
Disclosed examples include motor drive power conversion systems with an inverter, as well as a controller methods to drive a motor in which output filter capacitor currents are computed and used to compensate the motor control in consideration of damping resistance values of an output filter. |
| US09985564B2 |
Flux estimation for fault tolerant control of PMSM machines for EPS
A system for estimating flux linkage in an electric motor includes a flux estimation module that generates estimated flux linkages based on a back electromagnetic force and estimated velocity of the electric motor, the flux linkages having an alpha flux linkage component and a beta flux linkage component, and a velocity estimation module that generates an estimated motor velocity based on the back electromagnetic force and the estimated flux linkages. |
| US09985563B2 |
Method and system for controlling angular speeds of motors in speed sensorless induction motors
Angular speed of a rotor of an induction motor without an encoder for rotor position and speed sensing is controlled by first sensing stator currents and voltages of the induction motor. A dynamic gain estimator is designed by applying a state transformation to a model of the induction motor. A states of the induction motor is estimated by applying the dynamic gain estimator to the currents and the voltages, and then the state is used to control the angular speed of the rotor of the induction motor. |
| US09985560B2 |
Motor controller and method for controlling motor
A controller of a motor controller operates to perform a process including: controlling the H bridge circuit to switch to the charge mode; controlling the H bridge circuit to switch to the high-dissipation mode when the zero-cross detector detects that the back electromotive force voltage of the motor coil connected to a phase of the H bridge circuit shortly before the H bridge circuit is zero-crossed; controlling the H bridge circuit to switch to the low-dissipation mode after a predetermined time has elapsed; and controlling the H bridge circuit to switch to the free mode when the motor current detector detects that the motor current flowing in the motor coil connected to the H bridge circuit flows in a direction opposite to that in the charge mode. |
| US09985558B2 |
Electrical serially-connected control system
An electrical serially-connected control system for driving motors in series includes a control device, at least one processing device, and a transmission medium connected between the two devices for mutual communication. The control device includes a power rectifier transforming an external power, a signal converter converting each external command signal, and an integration unit connected to the rectifier and the converter for integrating the transformed power with each converted command signal to create commands. The processing device includes a voltage regulator connected to the transmission medium for stabilizing the power come from the command, a power storage module connected to the voltage regulator and each motor, a signal filter connected to the transmission medium for processing the command signal come from the command, a controller connected with the voltage regulator, the power storage module and the signal filter, and a signal generator connected to the controller. |
| US09985557B2 |
Control system and method for power plant
A method of operation of a thermal power plant having an air separation system with a plurality of air storage unit (ASU) compressors and a liquid oxygen/liquid air (LOX/LA) storage facility for oxyfuel firing of fossil fuel and a power plant having a control system to perform the same are described. The method is characterized by the step of controlling the net power output of the plant in response to short term variations in grid demanded net plant output by dynamically adjusting the works power of the ASU compressors preferably in conjunction with co-ordinated changes in firing demand. The method is in particular a method to produce an improved primary and secondary response to transient changes in grid demand and to provide accurate response to load dispatch ramps. |