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US10136565B2	Apparatus for controlling water system fouling An apparatus for controlling water system fouling includes a control panel including a display and a plurality of push buttons; a power assembly disposed below the control panel; and a heat dissipation device disposed on two sides of both the control panel and the power assembly. The power assembly includes two polarity sockets, two conductivity sockets, a power socket, an on/off switch, a backup socket, a pump socket, and a drain socket.
US10136564B2	Power converter A power converter includes a stack of a plurality of semiconductor modules, each of which incorporates semiconductor elements, and a plurality of cooling conduits, though each of which a coolant flows to cool the semiconductor modules, at least one electronic component electrically connected to the semiconductor modules, and a cooling plate for cooling the at least one electronic component. The stack, the at least one electronic component, and the cooling plate are arranged in a stacking direction of the stack. The cooling plate is connected to the cooling conduits and has an intra-plate pathway formed therein thorough which the coolant flows in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction. The cooling plate has a larger area than each cooling conduit when viewed from the stacking direction.
US10136562B2	Underwater data center An underwater data center includes an electronic device; a housing member that houses the electronic device and that is configured to be disposed under water; and a heat exchanger that is provided at the housing member and that is configured to discharge, into the water, heat discharged from the electronic device, with a face of the heat exchanger that discharges the heat making contact with the water, an opening being formed in a bottom face of the housing member and placing an inside of the housing member in communication with the water.
US10136557B2	Thermal management systems and methods for heat generating electronics According to one embodiment, a thermal management system is provided that includes at least one chassis frame configured to minimize a thermal spreading resistance of the thermal management system. The chassis frame included at least one chassis body, at least one thermal skeleton embedded into the chassis body, and a working fluid contained within the thermal skeleton and used to dissipate heat from the chassis body.
US10136555B2	Power conversion apparatus having a metal plate for heat dissipation An inverter (300) is disposed toward an opening in a motor side metal housing (201). A power module (301) is disposed on a metal cover (207) that is in contact with the metal housing (201). The power module (301) includes a semiconductor element, a metal terminal connected to the semiconductor element, and resin that seals the semiconductor element and the metal terminal. A metal plate (306) is disposed on a surface of the power module (301) that is positioned opposite the metal cover (207). Heat generated by the power module (301) is dissipated from the metal cover (207) and from the metal plate (306). This improves the heat dissipation performance. Thus, the size of the power module can be reduced.
US10136542B2	Electromechanical function unit for a battery-operated, handheld work apparatus An electromechanical function unit is for a battery operated, handheld work apparatus that has an operating switch for putting the work apparatus into operation. The operating switch is to be actuated by an actuating element of the work apparatus. The operating switch is connected to a control unit for operating the work apparatus. The control unit includes a circuit board having electronic components, and has a first circuit board side, and a second circuit board side that faces away from the first circuit board side. In order to avoid wiring and to reduce the tolerance chain, provision is made to dispose the operating switch on the second circuit board side. The operating switch is supported statically via a support arrangement, independently of the circuit board. The support arrangement has no mechanical connection to the circuit board, and leads from the second circuit board side to the first circuit board side.
US10136540B2	Method for plugging an electronic card of an electronic module into the connector of a chassis, associated system and associated module A method for plugging into a connector (6) of a chassis (2), an electronic board (3) housed in a unit (10) of an electronic module (1), involving: rectilinear translation of the module (1), relative to the chassis (2), in a first direction (H) so as to insert module (1) into the chassis (2), rectilinear translation of the board (3), relative to the chassis (2), in a second direction (V) different than the first direction (H), so as to plug the board (3) into the connector (6), the rectilinear translation of the board (3) in the second direction (V) in relation to the chassis (2) also being a rectilinear translation of the board (3) in the second direction (V) relative to the housing (10) of the module (1).
US10136536B2	Resilient shielding member for device A resilient shielding member for a device (10) is disposed in a facing space (300) between a conductive motor case (10) of a motor (100) and an inverter case (201) of an inverter device (200). The resilient shielding member surrounds first terminal fittings (102) and second terminal fittings (202) connecting the motor (100) and the inverter device (200) over the entire circumference and is formed by integrating a waterproofing component (11) configured to resiliently contact the motor case (101) and the inverter case (201) in a liquid-tight manner over the entire circumference and a shielding component (13) configured to conductively contact the motor case (101) and the inverter case (201).
US10136534B2	Receptacle cover A cover for an electrical receptacle including a faceplate. The cover also includes a first transmission tab configured to be electrically connected to a first power line of the electrical receptacle and a second transmission tab configured to be electrically connected to a second power line of the electrical receptacle. Additionally, the cover includes a device (such as a light source, circuit, port, or sensor) in communication with the first transmission tab and the second transmission tab.
US10136531B2	Measurement device with single control circuit A measurement device can be attached to an outer wall of a movable object or of a stationary object arranged in a flow of air in order to measure physical quantities. The measurement device includes a mounting which has recesses having an opening leading to the outside in which sensors are provided. The mounting comprises a cavity in which a flexible printed circuit is housed, on which a single circuit for controlling the sensors is provided. The device has multiple advantages, in particular that of providing a simple measurement device which offers a system for control and interconnection of sensors that is accessible and less complex while offering numerous advantages.
US10136528B2	Coupling unit and industrial control system A coupling unit for an industrial control system has two module connections for making electrical contact with control modules, a field connection for making electrical contact with an industrial field device, a data transmission medium for the transmission of communication data, and a signal transmission medium for the transmission of field signals. Each of the two module connections comprise electrical contact elements which form a communication signal region and a field signal region. Contact elements of the communication signal regions of each of the two module connections are connected in an electrically conductive manner to the data transmission medium, and contact elements of the field signal regions of each of the two module connections are connected to the field connection via the signal transmission medium.
US10136520B2	Methods of forming a microelectronic device structure, and related microelectronic device structures and microelectronic devices A method of forming a microelectronic device structure comprises coiling a portion of a wire up and around at least one sidewall of a structure protruding from a substrate. At least one interface between an upper region of the structure and an upper region of the coiled portion of the wire is welded to form a fused region between the structure and the wire.
US10136519B2	Circuit layouts of tamper-respondent sensors Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include a tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure. The tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure includes, for instance, a tamper-respondent sensor having at least one flexible layer and paired conductive lines disposed on the at least one flexible layer. The paired conductive lines form, at least in part, at least one tamper-detect network of the tamper-respondent sensor. The tamper-respondent electronic circuit structure further includes monitor circuitry electrically connected to the paired conductive lines to differentially monitor the paired conductive lines for a tamper event. In enhanced embodiments, multiple interconnect vias electrically connect to two or more layers of paired conductive lines and are disposed in an unfolded interconnect area of the tamper-respondent sensor when the sensor is operatively positioned about an electronic component or assembly to be protected.
US10136517B2	Electronic component mounting package and electronic device An electronic component mounting package includes a body portion which accommodates an electronic component; a flexible substrate. The body portion comprises a notched portion which is open to a lower surface and a side surface thereof, and is provided with a projecting ridge portion which extends along a side end portion of the notched portion on a side surface side of the notched body portion. The flexible substrate extends from an interior of the notched portion to an exterior of the notched portion, and comprises a fixed end portion joined to a terminal of a coaxial connector disposed on a bottom surface of the notched portion, and a free end portion extending to the exterior of the notched portion. The flexible substrate abuts on the projecting ridge portion to be bent.
US10136514B2	Extensible flexible printed circuit board and method for manufacturing extensible flexible printed circuit board An extensible flexible printed circuit board sets one or a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards each including a plurality of conductive layers and an insulating layer as a base circuit board, and includes: component mounting parts which are provided at least at parts of the base circuit board, and capable of mounting electronic components; an extensible conductive part which is provided at least at a part of the base circuit board, includes a plurality of joint parts each intersecting a center line in an extension/contraction direction and a plurality of curved parts each continuing from an end part of each joint part and curve, and exhibits extensibility by the curved parts curving to open or close; and a covering member whose material is a flexibly deformable elastomer, and which covers the component mounting parts and the extensible conductive part.
US10136512B2	Avoiding reflections in PCB signal trace Embodiments are disclosed for a printed circuit board. An example printed circuit board includes a ground plane comprising a pattern of an electrically conductive material. The example printed circuit board further includes a circuit trace disposed adjacent to the ground plane, where one or more characteristics of one of more of the pattern of the electrically conductive material in the ground plane and the circuit trace vary based upon a directional change of the circuit trace.
US10136511B2	Circuit assembly and method for manufacturing circuit assembly A circuit assembly includes a circuit board, a heat dissipation member on which the circuit board is placed and that is configured to release heat of the circuit board, an insulating layer that is formed on a surface on the circuit board side of the heat dissipation member, a bonding portion made of a bonding agent that is arranged in a predetermined region between the circuit board and the heat dissipation member, and an adhesive portion that is arranged in a region other than the predetermined region between the circuit board and the heat dissipation member and that is made of an adhesive with which the circuit board and the heat dissipation member are bonded to each other with lower bonding force than with the bonding agent.
US10136510B2	Extreme ultraviolet light generation device An extreme ultraviolet light generation device may include a chamber in which extreme ultraviolet light is generated from plasma, the plasma generated by irradiation of a target supplied in a plasma generation region inside of the chamber with laser light; a condenser mirror collecting the extreme ultraviolet light and guiding it to outside of the chamber; a first etching gas supply unit blowing an etching gas to a reflective surface of the condenser mirror and the plasma generation region; a magnet forming a magnetic field in the chamber; a port that intersects a central axis of the magnetic field and that takes in suspended substances generated in the chamber; and an ejection path that is in communication with the port and that ejects the suspended substances taken from the port to the outside of the chamber.
US10136507B2	Silicon based ion emitter assembly An embodiment of the invention provides a method for low emission charge neutralization, comprising: generating a high frequency alternating current (AC) voltage; transmitting the high frequency AC voltage to at least one non-metallic emitter; wherein the at least one non-metallic emitter comprises at least 70% silicon by weight and less than 99.99% silicon by weight; wherein the at least one emitter comprises at least one treated surface section with a destroyed oxidation layer; and generating ions from the at least one non-metallic emitter in response to the high frequency AC voltage. Another embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus for low emission charge neutralization wherein the apparatus can perform the above-described operations.
US10136505B2	Lighting apparatus and lighting system supporting a mesh network Lighting apparatuses each include an apparatus communicator and an apparatus controller. The apparatus communicator wirelessly transmits and receives information on operations of the lighting apparatuses. The apparatus controller interprets: a mesh profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus to transmit and receive the information to and from another lighting apparatus and a communication terminal forming a mesh network, and a user profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus and the communication terminal to communicate with each other, the user profile being set depending on the communication terminal.
US10136502B2	Thermal sensing A controller comprising: an output for controlling one or more outdoor lighting device to illuminate an outdoor environment; an input for receiving temperature information from a temperature sensor comprising a plurality of temperature sensing elements; and a control module. The control module is configured to: use the temperature information received from the temperature sensor to detect motion in a sensing region of the temperature sensor and control the one or more lighting device based on the detected motion, and additionally use the temperature information received from the temperature sensor to detect conditions of the environment in the sensing region and further control the one or more lighting device based on the detected conditions.
US10136501B2	High intensity LED illumination device with automated sensor-based control A lighting control system includes a device controller containing control circuitry that is configured to control drive currents delivered to a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) of a lighting device. The control circuitry generates commands to compensate for failed LEDs in the plurality of LEDs by controlling drive currents delivered to a group of LEDs so that the illuminance level of light detected by an illuminance sensor will not substantially change because of the failed LED, if the voltage across the group of LEDs is less than the threshold amount. The control circuitry also controls the plurality of LEDs in response to data received from a sensor configured to measure a characteristic value of light received from the lighting device, by controlling drive currents delivered to the LEDs if the detected characteristic value of light from the lighting device has moved above or below a threshold.
US10136500B2	Isolated driver The invention describes an isolated driver (2) comprising a converter module (21) realized to provide voltage and current output to a load (3); a feedback arrangement (22) realized to monitor voltage and/or current during operation of the driver (2); and a converter controller (1) for providing converter control signals (CI, CF, VCON) to the converter module (21), and wherein the converter controller (1) comprises a single optocoupler (10) connected by input terminals to the feedback arrangement (22); and a switching circuit arrangement (11) connected to output terminals of the optocoupler (10), comprising a number of semiconductor switches (Q20, Q25, Q30, . . . , Q34) arranged to generate a converter control signal (CI, CF, VCON) for placing the converter module (21) of the driver (2) into a low-output mode (MLO) when a voltage across the optocoupler output terminals indicates a fault condition. The invention further describes an LED lighting arrangement (5) comprising such an isolated driver (2) for driving an LED lighting load (3) from a mains power supply (4). The invention also describes a converter controller (1) for an isolated driver (2), and a method of operating an isolated driver (2).
US10136499B2	Light-emitting module and lighting apparatus provided with same A lighting apparatus disclosed in an embodiment comprises: a circuit board; a light-emitting module arranged on the circuit board and comprising a light source part having first to third light source parts emitting red, green and blue light; a control unit for providing current control signals to the first to third light source parts; a driver for controlling the current in the first to third light source parts by means of the control unit; and a memory unit having compensation data storing input current strength values for the first to third light source parts so that same emit white light having a previously configured correlated color temperature (CCT). The first, second and third light source parts comprise a plurality of first, second and third light-emitting elements for emitting red, green and blue light. The control unit controls the current in the first to third light source parts by means of the input current strength value corresponding to the compensation data so as to control the white light discharged from the light-emitting module is emitted as white light meeting the CCT criterion.
US10136498B2	Actuation of coloured luminaires for the brightness channel The present invention is directed to a lighting arrangement having a control input for a control variable and having a luminaire as a multicolored luminaire having an input interface for a color variable and a brightness variable contains a control unit having an output interface for the color variable and the brightness variable, wherein the control unit assigns a brightness value and a color value to a received control value on the basis of a mapping rule.The present invention is further directed to a vehicle containing such a lighting device and a method for converting a vehicle having a light control infrastructure for connecting luminaires to a control output for a single control variable involves such a lighting device being connected to the control output.
US10136494B2	Method of monitoring the operating status of a light emitting diode in a vehicle lamp array A method of monitoring the operating status of one or more LEDs contained in a vehicle lamp array includes an initial step of calculating which of the LEDs are to be turned on (and/or at what PWM rate those LEDs are to be illuminated) using the desired brightness signals. The PWM rates that correspond with desired brightness signals are stored in a memory device. The stored PWM rates are then sent to one or more switching elements connected between the LEDs and a source of electrical energy. The operating statuses of the LEDs are sent back to the memory device and stored therein. The actual brightness of the LEDs is compared with a predetermined minimum brightness for that LED(s). Lastly, an alarm is generated if the actual brightness of the LEDs is not at least equal to the predetermined minimum brightness for the same LED(s) stored in the memory device.
US10136493B2	Brightness monitoring for LED failures and daylighting target adjusting A system monitors operational status of a lighting element. A lighting fixture processor instructs a lighting element to illuminate at a predetermined time, receives sensed light level information from the light sensing element, and transmits a message including information representing the sensed light level. A room controller can control some or all of these steps. A daylighting arrangement includes a room controller that instructs the lighting fixtures of a lighting group to illuminate their lighting elements at a predetermined time of day. Sensed light level information is obtained and transmitted to the room controller, which determines an initial daylighting target for the lighting fixture group based on an average of the sensed light level information. The room controller instructs the lighting fixtures to illuminate their respective lighting elements in accordance with the initial daylighting target.
US10136480B2	Circuit arrangement A circuit arrangement (1), a detection circuit (50, 70) and an LED driver circuit (100, 110) is disclosed for operating at least one lighting unit, such as an LED unit, with a phase-cut operating voltage. The circuit arrangement (1) comprising at least an input (6) for receiving a phase-cut operating voltage from said power supply and/or an output (7) for connection to said at least one lighting unit and a pulse injection circuit, configured to determine a phase-cut operation of said power supply and to draw a current pulse from said power supply within a delay time between 200-700 μs after said phase-cut operation to provide a stable operation of said LED unit with the phase-cut power supply. The detection circuit (50,70) comprises at least an input (6) for receiving a phase-cut operating voltage from said power supply and a lamp compatibility detector (52, 72), configured to determine the presence of a parallel lamp (57), connected in parallel with the detection circuit (50, 70) to said phase-cut power supply during operation and to provide a compatibility signal to a LED driver circuit (100, 110) corresponding to the determination of said parallel lamp (57), so that said driver circuit (100, 110) is set between a normal operating mode and a compatibility mode in dependence of the presence of said parallel lamp (57).
US10136479B2	Hob with free configurable heating array and touchscreen control, method for operating a hob with free configurable heating array and touchscreen control and computer program product The invention discloses a hob (100) with free configurable heating array (115) and touchscreen control (130). A user may combine graphic representations (145) and (150) of a first and a second pot in order to combine a control operation of a first and a second heating zone (107, 112) associated to the respective pots. In this manner, plural heating zones can be combined by a single input, and visibility on the touchscreen control is improved by uniting both representations of the pots on the touchscreen control display. Combining/separating heating zones can be effected by the synchronous movement of two fingers uniting the two graphic representations of the pots on the touchscreen respectively diverging the two graphic representations of the pots on the touchscreen (130). A computer program product (500) allows to easily and freely configure the hob (100) and to perform maintenance and mass production.
US10136476B2	Inductive heating device, method for controlling inductive heating device, and program A control is performed so that phase angles of outputs from resonant inverters fall within a predetermined range under a mutual induction environment. An inductive heating device (100) includes: a plurality of resonant inverters (30a, 30b) that supply power to a plurality of inductive heating coils (La, Lb), respectively, under a mutual induction environment; and a control circuit (40) that aligns drive frequencies so as to be in common among the resonant inverters and controls the drive frequencies commonly so that phase angles of the outputs from the plurality of the resonant inverters fall within a predetermined range. In addition, the control circuit individually controls coil currents flowing through the inductive heating coils so that the phase angles fall within a predetermined range.
US10136472B2	Terminal for mechanical support of a heating element A terminal for mechanical support of a heating element, includes a base device, a mounting device, the mounting device adapted to support the heating element, and a support device connecting the base device to the mounting device, the support device allowing displacement of the heating element about a radial axis and less than about 10% displacement of the heating element about a tangential and/or axial axis.
US10136471B2	Communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for communication device, and method executed by communication device A communication device may shift an operation state of the communication device from a parent station state for operating as a parent station of a first wireless network to a specific state different from the parent station state, in a case where a predetermined communication with an external device not belonging to the first wireless network is executed under a first state where the communication device is operating as the parent station of the first wireless network; and after the operation state of the communication device has been shifted to the specific state, establish a first wireless connection with the external device operating as a parent station of a second wireless network via a first wireless interface of the communication device, so as to cause the communication device to participate in the second wireless network as a child station.
US10136468B2	Communication control device, radio communication device, communication control method, and radio communication method There is provided a control device including a communication unit configured to perform communication with a radio communication device of a radio communication system in which communication is possible using a plurality of access schemes including at least one of the access schemes of a multiple access scheme that uses orthogonal resources and a multiple access scheme that uses non-orthogonal resources, and a control unit configured to perform allocation of resources relating to the access schemes to be used by the radio communication device.
US10136459B2	Method, device, and system for establishing wireless network connection A mobile terminal for establishing a wireless network connection is disclosed. The mobile terminal may comprise a processor and a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor. The processor may be configured to acquire a network configuration parameter of a repeater and send the network configuration parameter to target equipment through a first communication link established between the mobile terminal and the target equipment. The target equipment may establish a first wireless network connection with the repeater by using the network configuration parameter.
US10136458B2	Method and arrangement for controlling connection in communication networks Method and arrangement for enabling a UE (User Equipment) to access a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network). The UE detects a need for the UE to access the WLAN. Furthermore, the UE creates an ARC (Association Reason Code) based on the detected need, and sends the ARC to a WLAN node of the WLAN, such that the UE is thereby enabled to connect to the WLAN in accordance with the ARC. By implementing functionality in a UE to create an association reason code and send the association reason code to a WLAN node, an operator of a communication network will be able to influence and control connection of the UE to the WLAN node. Thereby, the operator will be able to effectively make use of installed communication resources.
US10136455B2	Machine to machine communications in a multiple M2M device group zone environment A method and a system apparatus for providing Machine to Machine (M2M) communications in a multiple M2M device group zone environment are provided. The method for performing communication by an M2M device in an M2M communication system includes determining zone indexes corresponding to one or more zone identifiers assigned to one or more M2M device group zones of the base station, selecting a zone index corresponding to a zone identifier of the M2M device group zone associated with a M2M device group of a M2M device from the determined zone indexes, and performing communication with the base station by using the selected zone index and a M2M device group identifier associated with the M2M device group of the M2M device.
US10136452B2	Enhanced PRACH for standalone contention based communications including unlicensed spectrum Additional improvements to the design of enhanced physical random access channel (ePRACH) procedures are disclosed for communications systems having contention-based shared spectrum including unlicensed frequency bands. The additional improvements address the uncertainty of transmission in listen before talk (LBT)-based communications and cooperation with other radio access technologies competing for the same frequency spectrum.
US10136450B2	Multiuser frame transmission method in wireless lan system An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for performing a clear channel assessment (CCA) by STA in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a frame including a coloring bit; changing a CCA level to a first level when the coloring bit indicates a basic service set (BSS) to which the STA belongs, and changing a CCA level to a second level when the coloring bit indicates a BSS to which the STA does not belong; and performing the CCA according to the first level or the second level, wherein when the frame has an OFDM-based format, the frame includes a coloring disable bit, and when the coloring disable bit indicates that the frame is a multiuser transmission-related trigger frame, the STA does not perform a change of the CCA level without regard to information indicated by the coloring bit.
US10136449B2	Wireless local area network with zero-wait dynamic frequency selection The present disclosure is directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for operating a wireless local area network (WLAN) modem to perform WLAN channel change in a WLAN environment that is inhabited by radar devices, and therefore subject to a Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) requirement defined by the appropriate WLAN governing standards. Specifically, the present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for reducing or eliminating the amount of time in which a WLAN transceiver cannot transmit/receive data traffic while listening for radar signals on a channel allocated to radar devices for the minimum listening time specified by DFS.
US10136448B2	Methods for adapting over-the-air synchronization to radio conditions Methods for enabling and disabling of muting patterns in Radio Access Network, RAN, nodes allow better detection and use of reference symbols used for synchronization. In some embodiments, coordination of muting patterns amongst different nodes is enabled, so that muting of multiple nodes results in increased protection from interference for the node in need of detecting the synchronization reference symbols. An example method is implemented in a base station operating in a wireless communications network, for facilitating over-the-air synchronization by a neighboring base station. This method includes receiving (1210) a request for activation of a reference signal muting pattern for a cell supported by the base station and activating (1220) the reference signal muting pattern in response to the request. The method further includes sending (1225) a message requesting activation of a reference signal muting pattern for a cell supported by a second base station, in response to the request.
US10136444B2	Communication method using outdated channel state information in two-cell, K-user cellular network Disclosed is a communication method of a terminal utilizing outdated channel information in a two-cell, three-user network environment, the method comprising: transmitting nine different first linear combinations to a first base station in each time slot during a first time interval; receiving a first feedback signal from a second base station which has received the first linear combination as an interference signal; transmitting four different second linear combinations to the first base station during a first sub-time interval of a third time interval; receiving a second feedback signal from the second base station which has received the second linear combinations as an interference signal; and transmitting reconfiguration signals consisting of eight data symbols to the first base station during a third sub-time interval of the third time interval. Further, a communication method of a base station corresponding to such a terminal is also disclosed.
US10136432B2	Infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods An infrastructure equipment for a mobile communications network includes plural antennas, and is configured in a first mode of operation to transmit, from each of the plural antennas, reference signals in communications resource elements of the wireless access signals allocated to the plural antennas. The reference signals are transmitted in different communications resource elements of the wireless access interface for each antenna, so that a receiver can estimate a communications channel for each of the antennas, from the antennas to the receiver, from the transmitted reference signals. The infrastructure equipment is configured to switch between transmitting signals representing different data segments between subsets of the plural antennas to a second communications device, the signals being transmitted from each antenna subset representing different data segments for transmission to the second communications device, the transmitted signals being switched in at least one of time or frequency in accordance with a mapping.
US10136429B2	Method for transmitting and receiving audio data in wireless communication system supporting bluetooth communication and device therefor A method for transceiving audio data by using Bluetooth low energy in a wireless communication system supporting Bluetooth communication by a first device, includes: establishing at least one isochronous channel for transmitting isochronous data with at least one second device; and transmitting the audio data to at least one second device through at least one established isochronous channel during a first interval.
US10136427B2	Partitioning a time-division-based communications link for communicating multiple types of communications signals in a wireless distribution system (WDS) Embodiments of the disclosure relate to partitioning a time-division-based communications link for communicating multiple types of communications signals in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS is configured to communicate multiple types of communications signals over a time-division-based communications link. For example, the WDS may be configured to communicate a digital baseband signal as a first type of communications signal and an Ethernet signal as a second type of communications signal. In this regard, a protocols division routing circuit(s) is provided in the WDS and configured to partition the time-division-based communications link between multiple types of communications signals based on a link configuration ratio. By partitioning the time-division-based communications link based on the link configuration ratio, it is possible to partition the time-division-based communications link according to actual capacity needs of the multiple types of communications signals, thus optimizing throughput and performance of the WDS.
US10136422B2	Method of receiving downlink signal and apparatus for the same Provided herein is a method of receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system, the method being implemented by a cellular-IoT (Internet of things) (CIoT) mobile terminal and including searching for control information directed to the mobile terminal in a plurality of candidate downlink control channel resource regions corresponding to a coverage class of the mobile terminal on a part of a downlink resource, and receiving a downlink data channel indicated by control information received in at least one of the plurality of candidate downlink control channel resource regions, wherein the plurality of candidate downlink control channel resource regions is configured to have a period set for each of coverage classes, wherein each of the plurality of candidate downlink control channel resource regions is configured to have a duration configured for each of the coverage classes.
US10136420B2	Methods and systems for signaling dynamic network assisted information to a user equipment At least one example embodiment discloses a system including a network element configured to transmit at least first downlink control information and second downlink control information to a first user equipment (UE) being served by a serving cell, the first downlink control information associated with a first identification and the second downlink control information associated with a second identification, and the second downlink control information corresponding to at least one interfering source.
US10136409B2	Method and apparatus for providing notification An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a transceiver configured to receive, from at least one wearable device, information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn; and a processor configured to determine whether the at least one wearable device that is being worn, based on the received information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn, and to provide a notification to the at least one wearable device in response to determining that the at least one wearable device is being worn.
US10136408B1	Determining high value geographic locations The present invention is a method and system of determining and assigning a geographic location such as a work or home location to the owner or user of a mobile device. Mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, internet computers, and other hand held mobile devices may be preferentially targeted for ads based upon the geographic location of the owner or user of the mobile device. The home or work location is determined based upon startup events associated with the mobile device as tracked by startup activations of the mobile device, beacon activations, tile activations, or any other Bluetooth or near field communication device activation, during either day time or night time hours.
US10136407B2	Base station device, first location management device, terminal device, communication control method, and communication system Provided are a communication control method and the like for enabling a terminal device to connect to a core network and move in a communication system in which multiple core networks are overlaid. A base station device receives a tracking area update request, determines a location management device to connect to on the basis of a setting in the base station device, and transmits a tracking area update request. The location management device requests information pertaining to a terminal device to the location management device to which the terminal device was connected prior to moving, and then the location management device to which the terminal device was connected prior to moving or the location management device which received the tracking area update request from the base station device determines whether resetting of the location management device is necessary. Thus, it is possible to control which core network the terminal device connects to.
US10136406B2	Communication method for dual-card user equipment and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method for a dual-card user equipment and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first network side device, an access request from a dual-card UE, and establishing a first bearer according to the access request; acquiring, by the first network side device, association information between a first card of the dual-card UE and a second card of the dual-card UE; establishing, by the first network side device, a second bearer according to the association information; splitting, by the first network side device, first data to be transmitted into second data and third data; sending, by the first network side device, the second data to the dual-card UE by using the first bearer, and sending the third data to the dual-card UE by using the second bearer.
US10136405B2	System and method for RSRP measurement in an LTE UE receiver Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modem chips for UE), systems, and methods for calculating more accurate Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements and/or detecting/eliminating ghost cells from a list of (supposed) neighboring cells are described. In one method, the cross-correlations between adjacent Cell-specific Reference Signals (CRSs) are used to calculate the RSRP and to detect any ghost cells in a list of (supposed) neighboring cells. Any detected ghost cell may be deleted from any searches and measurements by the UE, and may also be reported to the network.
US10136400B2	Apparatus and method for controlling transmission power in wireless communication system Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for controlling transmit power for a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: searching for a peer UE; determining transmit power of a D2D communication signal to be transmitted to the peer UE; and transmitting the D2D communication signal to the peer UE based on the determined transmit power.
US10136398B2	Communication apparatus with antenna attenuation compensation The present disclosure relates to communication systems for a motor vehicle. In some embodiments, a communication device may provide, for example, car-to-car communication (vehicle-to-vehicle communication). A communication system for a motor vehicle, the system may include: a transceiver unit for generating transmission signals where at least two of the transmission signals differ in their signal power; a cable to transmit the transmission signals to an antenna via a controllable amplifier device; a power detector device capturing a respective power value correlated with a power of the transmission signals at a tapping point between the cable and the antenna; and a control device controlling the amplifier device on the basis of the captured power values. The transceiver device generates at least one of the transmission signals with a predetermined reference power. A reference value describing the reference power is permanently predefined in the control device. The control device selects one of the power values as an actual value of the power of the transmission signal generated with the reference power at the tapping point and sets a transmission gain value of the amplifier device on the basis of a discrepancy between the reference value and the actual value.
US10136397B2	Base station apparatus and terminal apparatus In downlink non-orthogonal access, favorable transmission characteristics are achieved without significantly increasing the amount of control information. A base station apparatus includes a first modulation symbol generation unit which generates a first modulation symbol, a second modulation symbol generation unit which generates a second modulation symbol in consideration of a bit sequence configuring the first modulation symbol, a power assignment unit which assigns different transmit powers to the first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol, and a signal addition unit which adds the first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol.
US10136392B2	Big telematics data network communication fault identification system method Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for identifying in real time unpredictable network communication faults based upon pre-processed raw telematics big data logs that may include GPS data and an indication of vehicle status data, and supplemental data that may further include location data and network data.
US10136387B2	Method and apparatus for configuring event-triggered DRX in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for suspending a discontinuous reception (DRX) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a DRX suspend configuration including a DRX suspend triggering condition from a base station (BS), detects an occurrence of the DRX suspend triggering condition, performs an action according to the DRX suspend triggering condition, and suspends a DRX.
US10136386B2	Wireless network device A wireless network device with a communication assembly, which is rotatable for better signal strength, includes a power supply module and the communication assembly. The communication assembly is powered by the power supply module. The power supply module includes a base and a first electrode unit. The first electrode unit is positioned in the base. The first electrode unit partially extends out of the base. The communication assembly includes a case and a second electrode unit. The second electrode unit is positioned in the case. The second electrode unit partially extends out of the case towards the first electrode unit. The case is detachably installed on the base. The case can be rotated relative to the base. The second electrode unit is electrically connected to the first electrode unit.
US10136385B2	Information processing device and information processing method Modes on power consumption are suitably set. There is provided an information processing device including a control section. When the information processing device in a first mode transitions to a second mode in which the information processing device consumes power differently than in the first mode, the control section performs control to transmit at least one frame. Upon transmitting the frame, the control section inserts into the frame information for notifying a first device compatible with the second mode that the information processing device will transition to the second mode, and information for causing a second device incompatible with the second mode to suppress transmission.
US10136377B1	Mobile device handoff optimization The invention is directed to optimization of a seamless transition of a mobile device from a 3G eHRPD network to a 4G network in a failure scenario. The mobile device is authenticated and attached to the 3G eHRPD network. Upon the mobile device initiating a first handoff attempt to access and access the 4G network, the subscriber profile database is accessed to determine whether a packet gateway identifier is stored on the database. If the identifier is not stored on the database, the first handoff attempt of the mobile device to access the 4G network is denied. Upon being denied, the packet gateway is triggered to communicate the packet gateway identifier in an authorization request so that the identifier can be stored in the subscriber profile database. A subsequent attempt of the mobile device to handoff to the 4G network is allowed, as the packet gateway identifier is now stored on the database.
US10136376B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring internet connection status in wireless communication system A method and mobile station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether there is a packet that is at least one of transmitted and received for each of time intervals, determining a traffic status of at least one of transmission and reception based on a result of the determining of whether there is the packet that is the at least one of transmitted and received for each of the time intervals, and determining the internet connection status based on the determined traffic status of the at least on transmission and reception.
US10136374B2	Methods, network nodes and user equipments for controlling IP flow mobility in a communication network A method for controlling IP flow mobility is performed in a communication network comprising 3GPP and non-3GPP access networks, wherein a UE has an IP flow mobility PDN connection set up towards the communication network. The method comprises triggering sending to the UE, a number of IP flow specific RAN assistance parameter values for controlling the UE to route an IP flow of the IP flow mobility PDN connection either over the 3GPP access network or the non-3GPP access network. The IP flow specific RAN assistance parameters may be threshold parameters setting a limit for when to route an IP flow to the 3GPP access network or when to route the IP flows to the non-3GPP access network.
US10136373B2	Soft handover method using gateway sites diversity and implemented in a space telecommunication system A soft handover method with gateway site diversity between a first nominal gateway to a relay satellite of a space telecommunication system and a second redundant gateway to the same satellite comprises a soft handover preparation phase, and a soft handover execution phase that are executed in succession. During the execution phase, a first switchover of the traffic at the ground segment level to the second redundant gateway, and a second switchover at the level of the segment on board the satellite between a first nominal access link of the first nominal gateway and a second redundant access link of the second redundant gateway are finely synchronized.
US10136370B1	Method and system for using public land mobile network identifier to maintain device service in a network Disclosed herein is a method and corresponding system for controlling operation of a user equipment device (UE) in a communication system comprising a first network and a second network interconnected with the first network. The UE may detect a public land mobile network identifier (PLMN ID) broadcast by a base station of the first network, where the base station does not support circuit switched fallback (CSFB) between the two networks The UE may determine, based on the detected PLMN ID, whether to operate in a first mode or a second mode, where (i) the first mode comprises, in response to the base station not supporting CSFB, the UE declining to be served by the base station and the UE instead being served directly by the second network and (ii) the second mode comprises the UE being served by the base station. The UE may then operate in the determined mode.
US10136368B2	Handover at spectrum release for licensed shared access Embodiments of Evolved Node-B (eNBs), user equipment (UE) and methods for licensed shared access (LSA) handover are generally described herein. An eNB includes hardware processing circuitry to receive a command to release spectrum resources in a LSA band over which the eNB serves an LSA cell; to determine whether user equipment (UEs) served by the eNB are permitted to skip a random access process (RAP) to be handed over to a target cell operating on a band separate from the LSA band; and to transmit a message to a UE served by the eNB instructing the UE that the UE is to be handed over to the target cell, the message including one or more indicators based on the determination. Other apparatuses, systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10136364B2	Media and communications in a connected environment Switching the providing of a conversation among communication links is described. An electronic device can determine that a mobile device is being used to provide a conversation (e.g., a phone call) using a first communication link. The mobile device can enter an environment that includes a second communication link. The conversation can be switched to the second communication link that provides more content than the first communication link (e.g., audio and visual content rather than just audio content).
US10136363B2	Facilitation of mobility management across various radio technologies A more efficient network can be achieved using software-defined networking to configure routing tables to route data traffic to and from proper cells. User equipment address data and network device internet protocol address data can be utilized to define locators specific to a user equipment device in relation to various network devices. For instance, broadcasted network address data representative of a mobile device identifier address can be received by a first network device from the mobile device, wherein the mobile device identifier address comprises network address data related to an internet protocol address of a second network device, the first network device can determine a third network device capable of a communication with the mobile device, and the communication with the mobile device can be routed by the first network device to the third network device.
US10136360B2	Direct rate adaptation for an end-to-end communication path by a cellular network node Systems and methods relating to direct bit rate adaptation for end-to-end communication via a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of operation of a radio access node in a cellular communications network includes obtaining a bit rate associated with a radio bearer between the radio access node and a wireless device. The radio bearer between the radio access node and the wireless device is part of an end-to-end communication path between the wireless device, as a first end-point of the end-to-end communication path, and a second end-point. The method further includes transmitting the bit rate associated with the radio bearer to the wireless device. By transmitting the bit rate associated with the radio bearer to the wireless device, the radio access node controls a bit rate for the end-to-end communication path between the wireless device and the second end-point.
US10136359B2	Traffic flow migration in backhaul networks Aspects of the disclosure relate to network management and routing protocols in communication networks, including but not limited to wireless communication networks including Integrated-Access-Backhaul (IAB) nodes within an IAB network. In some examples, one or more traffic flows between an IAB node and a remote network may be migrated from a first tunnel associated with a first network routing domain to a second tunnel associated with a second routing domain in accordance with route information pertaining to each of the network routing domains. In various examples, the migration may be performed in response to a failure of a wireless link in the IAB network, while in other examples, the migration may be performed in response to congestion or overloading of an IAB node.
US10136356B2	Method for data transmission in wireless network environment and data transmitter A method of transmitting data via a data transmitting device in a wireless network environment is provided. The method includes determining whether traffic is saturated or not based on an access category (AC) into which the data is classified according to a type of application that transmits the data, a queue size, and a predetermined threshold value and determining a transmission scheme according to a determination result of whether traffic is saturated or not and the AC of the data.
US10136355B2	Reducing signaling load on a mobile network One or more packets associated with a wakeup event for a mobile user device is/are delayed, thereby extending the duration of the wakeup event. Because the duration of the wakeup event is extended, the start of the next wakeup event for the mobile user device is delayed by a time interval, and therefore the signaling load on the mobile network is reduced during this time interval compared to the signaling load that would have been on the mobile network if the start of the next wakeup event had not been delayed. If the delayed packet(s) is/are data packet(s), then the disclosure presents a solution which involves data to solve a problem relating to signaling.
US10136354B2	Apparatus and methods for improved packet flow mobility Methods and apparatus for improved packet data flow mobility and packet data distribution and collection across heterogeneous networks. In one embodiment, a source device with one or more wireless interfaces receives data to be transmitted to a target device. The device sequences the received data with corresponding packet sequence numbers according to characteristics of the service providing the data. The sequenced data is classified according to application/service requirements (e.g., minimum Quality of Service requirements, service type, etc.). The classified data is assigned to available network interfaces, which can support the classifications of the data. The data is transmitted over the assigned network interfaces to the corresponding receiving interface. The data is collected and reassembled according to the packet sequence number at the target destination.
US10136352B2	Method and device for preventing mobile-terminated call drop Provided is a method of sending and receiving signals for a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system. The method may include: receiving a service reject message from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) under congestion; sending a message containing at least one piece of information determined based on the service reject message to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC); receiving a message containing camping cell information from a base station (eNB); and camping on a cell indicated by the camping cell information. In one embodiment, when an MM back-off timer is applied to the UE utilizing CSFB (or SMS over SGs) at the time of network congestion, the MSC or 2G/3G RAN node is notified that the MM back-off timer is running in the UE, so that the UE may camp not on an LTE cell but on a 2G/3G cell after CS service reception. Hence, it is possible to prevent call drops for MT services that may be caused by UE location registration failure due to the MM back-off timer.
US10136347B2	Method for reporting state of relay function performed by terminal in radio communication system and terminal using same Provided are a method for reporting a state of a relay function for another network node in a radio communication system and an apparatus using the method. The method detects a state of a relay function of a first network node and transmits a report for the detected state of the relay function to a second network node.
US10136344B2	Commercial power restore indicator for sites, such as for cellular telecommunications sites Systems and methods are described herein for determining the restoration of power at a site, such as the restoration of commercial power to a cell site within a telecommunications network. The systems and methods may be utilized to determine whether power is restored at a cell site when a generator is currently or temporarily providing power to the cell site (e.g., during a power outage on a utility grid that provided the power to the cell site), such as by determining the presence of a generator is running alarm message and the absence of a commercial power failure message, among other messages.
US10136343B2	Method and system for testing network's data transmission performance An approach for testing performance of a data transmission between a first node and a second node of a data communications network is provided. A permanent test connection is established between the first node and the second node. One or more additional test connections are established, as a temporal connections, between the first node and the second node, according to a predefined time duration test pattern, in parallel with the permanent test connection, in order to achieve an increased accumulated data throughput over the permanent and temporal test connections.
US10136339B2	Operation method for access point and operation method for relay An operating method of an access point (AP) and an operating method of a relay are disclosed in which the AP may determine whether to associate with the relay based on at least one of first information indicating whether use of an overlapping channel is restricted, second information indicating whether an operation using a non-overlapping channel is supported by the relay, and third information indicating whether use of a channel identical to a channel used by the AP is requested.
US10136331B2	Enhancing coexistence on unlicensed frequency bands using adaptive clear-to-send-to-self messages A base station operates according to a first radio access technology (RAT) that requires synchronization on timing synchronization boundaries. The base station acquires a channel of an unlicensed frequency band and generates a clear-to-send message that is decodable by access points that operate according to a second RAT that does not require synchronization on the timing synchronization boundaries. The base station transmits the clear-to-send message during a time interval between acquisition of the channel and a subsequent timing synchronization boundary.
US10136328B2	Methods and apparatus for activating and deactivating secondary cells in a carrier aggregation environment A method and an apparatus for activating and deactivating secondary cells in a carrier aggregation environment are provided. In one embodiment, a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) command is received from a base station for activating/deactivating a secondary cell associated with a User Equipment (UE). The secondary cell configured for the UE is activated/deactivated based on the MAC CE command. Further, a first uplink grant is received from the base station upon activation/deactivation of the secondary cell. Accordingly, quality information (e.g., channel quality information, sounding reference signal information, and the like) associated with the cell(s) is transmitted to the base station in the received first uplink grant over a physical uplink shared channel. Furthermore, a hybrid automatic repeat request entity associated with the secondary cell is reset.
US10136327B1	Location verification based on environmental sensor data Techniques are described for determining and/or verifying the location of a device based on environmental data. A device may provide location information describing its location, e.g., determined using a satellite-based navigation system. Environmental context data (e.g., temperature, air pressure, air quality, pollen count, ambient light, etc.) may also be received from the device, having been generated by sensor(s) incorporated into the device. The environmental context data may be compared to corresponding elements of other context data that is generated independently of the device. Based on the comparison, a confidence metric may be determined that indicates a level of confidence that the device's communicated location is its actual location. The confidence metric may be employed to make a security determination regarding a user of the device.
US10136326B2	Mobile device locking Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device; transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first computer device based on the determining; and establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.
US10136325B2	Method for implementing access stratum security, user equipment, and small radio access network node A method for implementing access stratum security is provided. The method includes: performing end-to-end user plane access stratum security between a UE and a gateway node; and performing end-to-end control plane access stratum security between the UE and an initial access node when the UE only has a micro communication path; when the UE has the micro communication path and a macro communication path, performing end-to-end control plane access stratum security between the UE and a macro base station in the macro communication path. The micro communication path is a communication path in which the UE accesses a small radio access node via a radio access link and then accesses a core network finally. The macro communication path is a communication path in which the UE accesses the macro base station via the radio access link and then accesses the core network finally.
US10136322B2	Anonymous authentication system A system and method anonymously authenticate utilizing multiple pre-shared identification keys with external visual identifier. Two keys are pre shared with a server and are integrated into memory on a controller, and external visual identifiers are affixed to the outside of the controller. The server authenticates the mobile device by checking that the external visual identifiers are appropriately linked to the pre-shared keys within a control memory structure, and a second control memory structure is initiated utilizing the shared key and no user-identifying information.
US10136320B1	Authentication of users at multiple terminals An authentication system which uses an authentication priority list based on dynamic and virtual grouping of terminals used for authentication, resulting in an efficiency improvement of authentication priority sequence in 1:N type authentication, and hybrid authentication by switching authentication logic between 1:1 and 1:N authentication. Masking of pre-logged-in users for the authentication priority list in 1:N authentication improves the efficiency of the authentication priority sequence in 1:N type authentication.
US10136318B1	Authentication device selection to facilitate authentication via an updateable subscriber identifier Steering an authentication request to a determined authentication device based on a correlation between a user equipment (UE) identity and an authentication device is disclosed. The authentication request comprises an updateable subscriber identity. The authentication request can be associated with the UE identity, which can be correlated to an authentication device as a result of a prior authentication event. The updateable subscriber identity can have been updated during the prior authentication event, such that the authentication device has record of the updated subscriber identity. Therefore, the authentication device can to perform an authentication based on the updated subscriber identity while other authentication devices lacking record of the updated subscriber identity would be unable to perform the authentication. The disclosed subject matter can be operable with existing deployed authentication systems with little to no modification of those systems.
US10136317B2	Information pushing method, server, sharer client and third-party client Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application is an information pushing method, comprising: a wireless network sharer client obtaining a first identifier of a wireless network selected from a wireless network list scanned/stored by a wireless network sharer terminal, and sending the same to a server; the server generating a second identifier and sending the same to the wireless network sharer client; the wireless network sharer changing the first identifier of the wireless network into a third identifier based on the second identifier; the wireless network sharer client obtaining a wireless network list updated by a wireless network sharer mobile terminal and sending the third identifier of the selected wireless network in the list to the server; and the server comparing the second identifier with the third identifier, and allowing successful authentication when the two identifiers are consistent, and registering information about the devices of the wireless network.
US10136314B2	BCC enabled key management system A system with a wireless communication device and one or more wearable communication devices utilizing Body coupled communication, BCC, technology for managing digital keys to a lock. The key management system comprises a wireless communication device and at least one wearable communication device, for managing digital keys, wherein the wireless communication device and the wearable communication device are Body Coupled Communication, BCC, enabled. The method comprises receiving, in the wireless communication device, one or more digital keys to a lock from an external server, detecting, in the wireless communication device, one or more wearable communication devices using BCC, sending, using BCC, the one or more digital keys from the wireless communication device to the detected one or more wearable communication devices and receiving, using BCC, the one or more digital keys from the wireless communication device in the one or more wearable communication devices, thereby enabling the wearable communication device to open the lock.
US10136313B2	Method and device for control of a lock mechanism using a mobile terminal The invention relates to a method and a device for the control of a locking mechanism (2) by a user (5) by means of a mobile terminal (1) comprising a user interface (4), means for establishing a local data connection (3) and means for establishing a connection to a network (6), in particular the Internet, wherein the locking mechanism (2) can be connected to the local data connection (3), wherein an identity provider (7) that can be connected to a network (6) and an authorization entity (8) that can be connected to a network (6) are provided, and wherein the mobile terminal (1) is designed to log in to the identity provider (7). In order to achieve a particularly simple and flexible control, the authorization entity (8) is designed for the issuance of a key (10) after the transmission of an authentication information from the identity provider (7) to the mobile terminal (1) and from the mobile terminal (1) to the authorization entity (8) in the network (6) and after verifying the authenticity of the user (5), with which key (10) the locking mechanism (2) can be opened.
US10136301B2	Radio communication system, base station, mobile station, communication control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A first base station (1) that operates a first cell (10) is configured to receive, from a mobile station (4) through a signaling radio bearer in the first cell (10), a signal containing a NAS message that causes a setup of a data bearer in a data transfer apparatus (7) within a core network (5). The first base station (1) is also configured to forward the NAS message from the mobile station (4) to a mobility management apparatus (6) within the core network (5) and transmit, to the mobility management apparatus (6), base station information indicating a selected base station that has been selected from at least one second base station (2) and terminates a data bearer for the mobile station (4). It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to a simple establishment of a U-Plane bearer in a dual-connectivity scenario.
US10136298B2	Device-to-device content delivery method through interworking with service control apparatus The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting content between terminals through a service control device link. To this end, A method for content delivery between devices through interworking with a service control apparatus, the method performed by a device, the method comprising: creating a neighboring device list containing connectable neighboring devices by searching for the connectable neighboring devices; transmitting, to the service control apparatus via a network, the created neighboring device list and a domain query message for content; receiving, from the service control apparatus and as a response to the transmitted domain query message, information on a content providing device for providing the content among the connectable neighboring devices contained in the neighboring device list; and requesting and receiving the content from the content providing device.
US10136297B2	Radio communication device, radio communication method, computer-readable recording medium, and peripheral which change a time interval of low power communication protocol discovery messages A radio communication device, which performs radio communication with another radio communication device, includes: a radio communication unit configured to send identification information at a predetermined interval and receive a scan request sent by the another radio communication device that has received the identification information; and a control unit configured to change the predetermined interval in the case where the radio communication unit receives the scan request sent by the another radio communication device.
US10136296B1	Situational awareness systems and methods Systems and methods for implementing a situation- and industry-agnostic situational awareness platform, which provide a suite of data services to client applications. The platform uses geographical and/or geo-temporal data associated with various endpoint devices in combination with real-time inputs from sensors and other connected devices, such as legacy systems or data sources, to identify urgent and emergent events and determine the appropriate endpoint devices to notify, and the content of notification, based on user-defined roles of users associated with each device as compared to the nature of the event, according to user-defined rules. The platform thus provides a common operational picture of a session of devices and integrates multiple point solutions into a single platform for decision support.
US10136291B2	Low-power wireless content communication between devices Low-power wireless content communication techniques between devices are described. In one or more implementations, a method is described of controlling transfer of content to a wearable device from one or more computing devices over a lower power wireless communication connection. The method includes initiating a transfer of content to the wearable device over the lower power wireless communication connection to support playback of the content at the wearable device, in which the low power wireless communication connection does not support streaming of the content in an amount sufficient to support real time playback of the content at the wearable device. The transfer is managed of a plurality of portions of the content to the wearable device over the lower power wireless communication connection in which individual ones of the plurality of portions are transferred from the one or more computing device responsive to availability of the lower power wireless communication connection with the one or more computing devices. The plurality of portions of the content are caused to be stored locally at the wearable device.
US10136288B2	Determining service provider performance with ranged transmissions A network system receives an order request from a requesting device including a list of requested items and a delivery location. The network system may create an order entry by selecting a source location and a provider for the order. The network system sends order information from the order entry to a provider device of the selected provider and a source device corresponding to the source location, where the order information includes an order identifier, a source identifier, and a provider identifier. The provider device broadcasts a beacon including the source identifier and the order identifier. The provider device detects a short range beacon signal from the source device and determines whether the detected source identifier and order identifier match the received source identifier and order identifier from the order information. Responsive to a successful match the provider device verifies its proximity to the source device.
US10136287B2	Method and apparatus for close proximity communications A method and apparatus for close-proximity communication. The close-proximity communication method performed by a transmitter includes generating a physical layer (PHY) frame including a PHY preamble, a frame header, and a payload field, and transmitting the generated PHY frame to a receiver, in which the frame header may include a media access control (MAC) header, a header check sequence (HCS), and a Reed-Solomon (RS) parity bit.
US10136285B2	Bluetooth alert notification service A central wireless communication device communicates with a peripheral wireless communication device to provide an interactive alert notification service. The central wireless communication device obtains alert notification settings for application categories for the peripheral wireless communication device. In response to receiving an alert notification belonging to an application category enabled for the peripheral wireless communication device, the central wireless communication device sends an alert notification message that includes a unique identifier associated with the alert notification to the peripheral wireless communication device. In response to receiving an information request message that includes the unique identifier and one or more parameters, the central wireless communication device sends one or more information response messages that include the unique identifier and values for at least one of the one or more parameters to the peripheral wireless communication device.
US10136284B2	Coordinated grouping for machine type communications group based services A system is disclosed for the coordinated grouping of devices for receipt of network layer group based services. A service layer system such as an SCS generates a request to generate a group of devices to receive network layer services. The request is received at a network layer system such as, for example, an MTC-IWF. Network layer systems such as, for example, an HSS, identifies a manner of communicating the requested service to identified devices and communicates with the devices to provision the devices so as to be included in the requested group. The network layer systems communicate an identifier to the service layer system which the service layer may subsequently use to request execution of the service by the identified group of devices.
US10136283B2	Methods for providing a response to a command requesting the execution of a proactive command A communication method includes receiving a first message of a Short Message Service containing a first command that requests execution of a proactive command. The first message is decrypted according to protocol SCP80 to extract the first command. The execution of the proactive command is requested in order to obtain a response to the proactive command. A second message of the Short Message Service is transmitted to the remote server and indicates that the response to the proactive command has been obtained. A third message of the Short Message Service is received and contains a second command from the remote server. The third message is decrypted according to the protocol SCP80. A response message is generated as a function of the response and encrypted according to the protocol SCP80 to generate a fourth message of the Short Message Service transmitted to the remote server.
US10136280B2	Parallel user interaction with physical and modeled system A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for supporting parallel user interaction with physical and modeled system. A computerized digital model representing a real world physical system is obtained. An indication of a physical component of the system being subject to engagement by a user is received. A model component corresponding to the physical component is automatically determined. An interaction of the user with the model component is controlled based on at least one of the model and data obtained through engagement with the physical component.
US10136273B2	Tagging geographical areas A method of tagging a geographical area includes obtaining, with a processing device, attribute information and mobile tracking data of a plurality of mobile objects, wherein the mobile tracking data comprises sampling time and corresponding sampling point locations of the mobile objects; converting the mobile tracking data of the plurality of mobile objects into new mobile tracking data according to the correspondence relationship between the sampling time and a time slices, wherein the new mobile tracking data include time slices and corresponding sampling point locations; and obtaining a set of attribute information of at least one geographical area with respect to the time slices based on the new mobile tracking data, wherein the at least one geographical area is obtained by clustering the sampling point locations.
US10136268B2	Mobility management entity handling SMS-related signal A Mobility Management Entity (MME) having MSC functionality implemented therein, performs a scheme of MTC device triggering has been conceived. A PS and CS combined location update is sent to the HSS/HLR by means of piggybacking of CS domain information over an interface between the MME and the HSS/HLR as part of a “combined” EPS/IMSI attach procedure or a “combined” TA/LA update procedure. The, SMS signaling is received from an SMS-SC (GMSC/IWMSC) to transfer an SMS message for an LTE-only device or a single-mode E-UTRAN device. Here, the SMS signaling is received from the SMS-SC (GMSC/IWMSC) via an interworking function (IWF) that provides interworking between a MAP interface and a Diameter interface. As a result, M2M or MTC devices can be supported for an LTE network or the like.
US10136260B2	Selectively providing mobile experiences at multiple locations Disclosed herein are, among other things, systems and methods for providing location-based digital stories to a user of processing a device system, such as a mobile device. In some embodiments, a user profile associated with the user and data indicating a plurality of location-specific digital stories related to a common theme at a plurality of locations may be stored. A processing device system may be configured to determine a current location of the mobile device and to provide a first or second digital story to the mobile device based on an analysis of the stored user profile and the current location.
US10136258B2	Location-transmitting device for determining location of a wireless communication device In a wireless communication device, an example method of transmitting location data for a location of the wireless communication device includes using a short-range radio communication protocol to receive, without prior interrogation, radio signals from any nearby autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, detecting the location data in a radio signal from a nearby autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, wherein the radio signal is the strongest radio signal that includes location data, measuring a received signal level of the radio signal from the autonomously transmitting radio-transmitting device, and transmitting the location data and the received signal level of the radio signal to a third party.
US10136254B2	Integration of wired information and wireless information to locate a wireless device One embodiment described herein includes a method of determining the location of a wireless device. The method includes capturing wired information about wired components in a network. Capturing wired information includes one or more of: reading information from a storage device associated with a connector of a wired communication media, or communicating a signal over an out-of-band conductor included in a cable in addition to the in-band conductors. The method also includes capturing wireless information about a wireless device communicatively coupled to the network, and integrating at least some of the wired information and the wireless information. The integrated wired information and wireless information is used to locate the wireless device.
US10136250B2	System and method for lower power data routing A system for data routing includes a set of beacons, an object, and a data routing system. A method for data routing can include: generating a routing table, determining a data routing path based on the routing table, and routing data to an endpoint based on the data routing path.
US10136246B2	Selective pairing of wireless devices using shared keys A system, a method, and a computer program product for selective pairing of wireless devices are provided. A pairing device scans for an advertising packet. The pairing device checks each scanned advertising packet for a shared key. The pairing device responds to the scanned advertising packet only when the advertising packet contains the shared key.
US10136243B2	System and method for creating mobile application store A system and method for creating mobile application store are disclosed. The system includes a mobile application support system including an application supply module, wherein the application supply module is configured to supply a mobile application file to a respective mobile application store, the mobile application file is a mobile application file obtained from a mobile application being processed in a processing manner corresponding to types of mobile application store, supported mobile device operating system and mobile application, and then supplied to the respective mobile application store, including the identification information of the mobile application store, or a mobile application file capable of acquiring the identification information of the mobile application store when the mobile application file is supplied to the mobile application store or is supplied to a mobile terminal store through the mobile application store, and the mobile application identifies the mobile application store where the mobile application is, according to the identification information of the mobile application store. The present disclosure can create a mobile application store easily and improve efficiency in the release and application of the mobile application.
US10136236B2	Method and apparatus for reproducing three-dimensional audio A three-dimensional (3D) audio reproducing method and apparatus is provided. The 3D audio reproducing method may include receiving a multichannel signal comprising a plurality of input channels; and performing downmixing according to a frequency range of the multichannel signal in order to format-convert the plurality of input channels into a plurality of output channels having elevation.
US10136235B2	Method and system for audio quality enhancement Provided is a method and system for audio quality enhancement. The audio quality enhancement method may include determining whether a software audio quality enhancement function is desired and/or required by analyzing a microphone input signal that is input to the electronic device and a speaker output signal that is output from the electronic device; and activating or inactivating the software audio quality enhancement function based on a result of determining whether the software audio quality enhancement function is desired and/or required.
US10136226B2	Top-port MEMS microphone and method of manufacturing the same A top-port MEMS-microphone has an upper side and a bottom side. The microphone includes a MEMS chip with a monolithically connected protection element at the upper side, a backplate, and a membrane. The microphone also includes a sound inlet at the upper side and a mechanical or electrical connection at the bottom side.
US10136225B2	Systems and methods for communicating through a hard plastic mask The present disclosure relates generally to providing a flexible patch and system for communicating through hard plastic masks such as CPAP/BiPAP® masks. Using electronic circuitry and novel designs, the present systems and methods can detect speech vibrations and output audible speech from hard plastic mask wearers. For example, in certain embodiments, the present systems and methods can recognize speech through a CPAP/BiPAP® mask, filter out non-human voice related noise, and output the resulting speech of the mask wearer.
US10136220B2	Bluetooth neck band headset including vibration speaker A Bluetooth neck band headset comprises a tube frame maintaining a shape of the neck band, base frames provided on both sides of the tube frame, a Bluetooth module provided in the base frame and performing two-way data communication by interworking with the terminal of the user, a vibration speaker provided on one surface of each base frame, an earphone coupled to one side of each base frame and outputting sound, a control module controlling any one or more of the vibration speaker, the earphone and the Bluetooth module, a power button provided on one surface of the base frame, and a volume button controlling the intensity of sound output of any one or more of the earphone and the vibration speaker.
US10136219B2	System for selecting a loudspeaker based on its low frequency rendering A system for selecting a loudspeaker based on its low frequency rendering. The system comprises a plurality of synthesizers for generating a corresponding plurality of signals. The system comprises a plurality of filters for band-pass filtering the plurality of generated signals. Each filter filters the signal generated by one of the plurality of synthesizers. Each filter is configured for performing the band-pass filtering in a dedicated frequency band. The system comprises a plurality of loudspeakers for playing the plurality of filtered signals. Each loudspeaker plays the signal filtered by one of the plurality of filters. The system comprises a channel configurator for selecting one among the plurality of loudspeakers based on a reference amplitude spectrum of a model signal and a low frequency response of each one of the plurality of loudspeakers.
US10136214B2	Pairing of media streaming devices Among other things, this document describes a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a first device, an indication of user input to cause the first device to establish a wireless data connection with another device. A determination can be made at the first device that one or more sensors on the first device are oriented toward a second device. In response to at least one of (i) receiving the indication of user input to cause the first device to establish a wireless data connection with another device and (ii) determining that the one or more sensors on the first device are oriented toward the second device, a first wireless data connection can be established between the first device and the second device. A first stream of audio data can be received and played at the first device.
US10136211B2	Method of customizing speaker for hearing protection earcup Embodiments relate generally to methods for customizing speakers in hearing protection earcups in conjunction with an amplifier so that the maximum speaker output may be capped, for example to acceptable OSHA or other such standards. By customizing such speaker(s), the maximum speaker output may be set precisely at the desired cap level. Thus, hearing may be protected, while also ensuring that maximum speaker output will not undershoot the desired cap level (which might negatively affect performance).
US10136208B2	Headset with multimedia capabilities An apparatus that can be used as a headset and as a personal surveillance device contains a main body, a pair of earpieces, a microphone, and a camera. The main body is designed to be worn around the neck. The pair of earpieces extend from the main body allowing the user to utilize the apparatus as a headset. The microphone and the camera are externally mounted onto the main body. The positioning of the microphone is beneficial when making a phone call and for recording audio when the apparatus is used as a personal surveillance device. The camera is positioned to capture activity in front of the user. The different functionalities of the apparatus are managed with a control unit that is electronically connected to the electronic components of the present invention. The user utilizes a plurality of controls to control the different functionalities of the apparatus.
US10136207B2	Printed circuit board used as voice coil, method for manufacturing the same and loudspeaker with the same A printed circuit board used as a voice coil includes N board units stacked over one another, each board unit having a first electrically connecting region and a second electrically connecting region, all of the first electrically connecting regions being stacked over one another, all of the second electrically connecting regions being stacked over one another, each board unit having a first circuit structure, a base, and a second circuit structure arranged from top to bottom, in each two adjacent board units, the first electrically connecting region of the second circuit structure of an upper board unit being electrically connected in series with the first electrically connecting region of the first circuit structure of a lower board unit, in each board unit, the first circuit structure being electrically connected in series with the second circuit structure in the second electrically connecting region.
US10136204B1	Audio assemblies for electronic devices Voice-controlled devices that include one or more speakers for outputting audio. In some instances, the device includes at least one speaker within a cylindrical housing, with the speaker aimed or pointed away from a microphone coupled to the housing. For instance, if the microphone resides at or near the top of the cylindrical housing, then the speaker may point downwards along the longitudinal axis of the housing and away from the microphone. By pointing the speaker away from the microphone, the microphone will receive less sound from the speaker than if the speaker were pointed toward the microphone). Because the voice-controlled device may perform speech recognition on audio signals generated by the microphone, less sound from the speaker represented in the audio signal may result in more accurate speech recognition, and/or a lesser need to perform acoustic echo cancelation (AEC) on the generated audio signals.
US10136201B2	Speaker system charging station A speaker assembly is provided with a housing, at least one transducer supported by the housing, and a controller. The controller is adapted to receive a first audio signal from a first audio source and a second audio signal from a second audio source. The controller is programmed to prioritize the first audio signal and the second audio signal based on a location of the housing relative to a charging station, and to provide the highest priority audio signal to the at least one transducer.
US10136196B2	Connector brick for cable communication system A connector brick for a cable communication system includes a header frame including end spacers and side spacers defining a header opening. The header frame is configured for mating with a circuit card. A plurality of cable connectors are received in the header opening and connected to the header frame. Each cable connector has cables extending therefrom. Each cable connector has a header holding signal contacts at a mating end of the header and configured for mating with a corresponding card connector of the circuit card. Float mechanisms extend from the header frame. The float mechanisms allow limited movement in at least two directions of the header frame. The float mechanisms allow alignment of the header frame with the circuit card. The cable connectors float with the header frame as a unit for mating with the corresponding card connectors.
US10136192B2	Device, system and method to provision, configure and operate video generation equipment A video generation device, system and method. The device, system and method may perform the configuration of the video generation device, and thus may include a configuration file and a file format. The device, system and method may include at least one processing unit communicative with at least one cable modem, at least one application specific output generated from the processing unit, and a plurality of inputs to at least one processing unit for receiving at least a video input, a management input, and a configuration input, wherein the configuration input may include configuration information for processing the other received inputs. In embodiments, the video input, the management input, and the configuration information may be processed by at least one processing unit to at least one application specific output.
US10136190B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for song play using a media device having a buffer Systems and methods control presentation of audio-only content that is broadcast to a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives media content that is currently received in a channel of a broadcasted media content stream; determines whether the currently received channel is a type of channel that provides audio/visual content or a type of channel that provides audio-only content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio/visual content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio/visual content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio-only content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio-only content, wherein the at least one audio/visual content control function is different from the at least one audio-only content control function.
US10136189B2	Method and system for re-aggregation and optimization of media A media system for providing community and behaviorally driven content selection and bundling based on user consumption data and an analysis of user affinity. The media system performs user affinity representations and analyzes content affinity. The media system performs content affinity representations and maps content analysis into groups. The media system creates multi-dimensional arrays and uses for user content, maps pricing choices to subscriber value, and, using algorithms which may include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches, maps groups to pricing choices.
US10136183B2	Dynamic video overlays A client device accesses a video input stream from an intermediate device for display. The client device analyzes the video input stream to determine that the video input stream matches a template indicating a change of content source. The analysis is performed while the client device is generating a video output stream that replaces video content received from a content source via the intermediate device. Based on the video input stream matching the template, the client device ceases replacement of the video input stream. The client device continues to analyze the video input stream and determines that the video input stream matches a second template indicating a return to the original content source. Based on the video input stream matching the second template, the client device resumes replacement of the video input stream.
US10136181B2	Playback method and playback device A playback method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is performed by a playback device connected to a display device. The playback method includes obtaining a type of the display device; selecting each of a version of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and a version of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), according to the obtained type of the display device; obtaining a video signal of content recorded on a recording medium; decoding the obtained video signal; encrypting the decoded video signal using the selected version of HDCP; and outputting the encrypted video signal to the display device using the selected version of HDMI.
US10136175B2	Determining user subscriptions In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a list of media subscriptions offered by a content source, providing one or more questions for display on a display device of a user, receiving one or more answers to the one or more questions, and determining a media subscription based on the one or more answers.
US10136174B2	Programmatic TV advertising placement using cross-screen consumer data The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content to consumers' TV's using a programmatic TV bidding model. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which an advertiser can access relevant information about inventory and success of a given placement.
US10136173B2	Conditional display of hyperlinks in a video Systems and methods are provided for dynamically displaying hyperlinks in a video based on various factors associated with a device at which the video is played and/or a user of the device. In one or more aspects, a system includes a request component configured to receive a request to play a video hosted by a media provider. The system further includes a selection component configured to select a subset of links included in a set of links associated with the video to provide with the video when it is played in response to the request based in part on a number of links included in the set of links, wherein graphical elements respectively representative of the links included in the subset of links are configured to be displayed over the video when the video is played in response to the request.
US10136172B2	Apparatus and methods for content delivery and message exchange across multiple content delivery networks Methods and apparatus for providing protected content to subscribers of a managed (e.g., MSO) network via a content source accessible via an internetwork such as the Internet. In one embodiment, a user accesses a programmer website, and requests content. The programmer determines whether the requesting user is permitted to access the content, and what rights or restrictions are associated with the user. This includes authenticating the user as a subscriber of the MSO, and determining the subscriber's subscription level. In another embodiment, a user's account with the MSO and programmer may be federated, thus a given user will have MSO-specific information regarding its identity (such as login information, GUID, etc.) and/or information regarding subscription level and service details, stored at the programmer. Messages received from the MSO representing permission for the user to access content may also be stored at the programmer site for later reference.
US10136167B1	System and method for selecting a video for insertion into an online web page A system for selecting a video to be inserted into an article displayed at a web page includes a blackboard. The blackboard stores extracted values for operation thereon by one or more workers. An article extractor creates an article feature as a function of information extracted from the article and inputs the article feature to the blackboard. A threshold extractor determines a threshold factor as a function of the relevance of the video to the article, and inputting the threshold factor to the blackboard. A more like this recommender receives the article feature and outputs to the blackboard, as a function of the article feature, a more like this recommendation as a list of videos to be placed in the article. A more like this decider determines, as a function of the threshold factor and the more like this recommendation, which video to select as a more like this decision.
US10136165B2	Distributed scalable encoder resources for live streams Live media streams are delineated for distributed encoding and fragmentation in a dynamically scalable distributed resource system. In some examples, live MPEG-2 media streams are separated into groups of pictures (GOPs) and converted into jobs for encoding and fragmentation systems. Multiple jobs may be created for the same live media stream to provide for different quality levels for each fragment of each channel. Shared resources such as a pool of dynamically scalable virtual machines can be used to process the individual jobs. Encoded fragments may be H.264 fragments maintained on shared storage. A particular live stream corresponding to a particular quality level can be reconstructed using the encoded fragments.
US10136161B2	DMM prediction section, image decoding device, and image coding device Since the size of a lookup table necessary to retain a partition pattern list is large in DMM 1 prediction, it is difficult to dispose the lookup table in a cache. For this reason, access to an external memory occurs at each time of access to the lookup table, and thus a problem may occur in that a processing speed is lowered.In the DMM 1 prediction, the lookup table for retaining a partition pattern of a first size is deleted, a partition pattern of a second size smaller than the first size is scaled to the first size, and the partition pattern of the first size is generated.
US10136156B2	Directional motion vector filtering An appropriate motion vector to assign to a pixel in a digital video frame is performed by a comparison of motion vectors of particular surrounding pixels. Direction of at least one of color transition or color brightness transition in the digital video frame is detected to detect direction of object boundaries in the digital video frame. The particular surrounding pixels are selected and grouped (filtered) according to the detected object boundary direction at each pixel. A comparison of the motion vectors of the surrounding pixels then provides information on which group of pixels to assign a current pixel being processed based in part on how close the motion vectors of the surrounding groups match a group pixels to which the pixel being processed belongs.
US10136154B2	Video coding apparatus, video coding method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A motion estimator that divides an image into a plurality of blocks and estimates motion information including a motion vector of each block includes: independent processing units, a dependent processing unit, and a motion vector buffer. The independent processing units can operate in parallel, search for a motion vector of each block using a reference image and a current image without using motion information on neighboring blocks, and record the motion vector in the motion vector buffer. The dependent processing unit determines whether or not to change motion information on a processing target block by referring to motion information on neighboring blocks held in the motion vector buffer, and when it is determined that it is necessary to change the motion information, the dependent processing unit performs processing for recording the changed motion information in the motion information buffer and outputting the changed motion information to outside.
US10136150B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding A method for decoding a scalable bitstream comprising a base layer and at least one enhancement layer, the method comprising obtaining information regarding a set of tiles in an enhancement layer picture; obtaining information regarding a set of tiles in a base layer picture; obtaining coding constraints for said set of tiles in the enhancement layer picture, the coding constraints comprising at least inter-layer prediction constraints in with respect to the base layer picture; and decoding said set of tiles in the enhancement layer picture according to the coding constraints as an independently decodable region.
US10136148B2	Methods, receiving device and sending device for managing a picture A method for managing a picture including pixels. In one aspect, a receiving device converts pixel values of the pixels represented with a first bitdepth into pixel values represented with a second bitdepth where the first bitdepth is smaller than the second bitdepth. The receiving device identifies a first group of pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel. The receiving device identifies a first and second edge pixel, derives a first and second pixel values based on the edge values of the first and second edge pixels, and estimates a first estimated pixel value for the first pixel based on the derived first pixel and second pixel value.
US10136146B1	Metadata optimizations for encoding of media content Techniques for encoding media content are described that reduce the overhead associated with metadata when the encoded content is streamed over a network. Some of these techniques involve the selection of parameters or consolidation of information to ensure consistency or uniformity of metadata values. Others relate to the recognition and removal of redundancies or optional information. Still others take advantage of characteristics of specific bit rate scenarios to more efficiently represent information.
US10136142B2	Image coding device, image coding method, storage medium, image decoding device, image decoding method, and storage medium The image quality and coding efficiency are improved in a higher hierarchical layer such as a base layer while independence of coding and decoding of a tile is ensured even during hierarchical coding.An image coding device of the present invention that performs hierarchical coding on an image, which forms a movie, for a plurality of hierarchical layers, includes a first acquiring unit configured to acquire at least one of first and second images of different hierarchical layers from the image; a coding unit configured to code at least one of the first and second images; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an independent region, which is coded without reference to other region in an image, is set for each of the images of the respective hierarchical layers. The coding unit codes an image of a coding subject based on a determined result of the determination unit.
US10136136B2	Encoding and decoding of significant coefficients in dependence upon a parameter of the significant coefficients A data encoding method for encoding an array of data values as data sets and escape codes for values not encoded by the data sets, an escape code including a unary coded portion and a non-unary coded portion, the method including: setting a coding parameter defining a minimum number of bits of a non-unary coded portion; adding an offset value of 1 or more to the coding parameter to define a minimum least significant data portion size; generating one or more data sets indicative of positions, relative to the array of data values, of data values of predetermined magnitude ranges, to encode the value of at least one least significant bit of each data value; generating respective complementary most-significant data portions and least-significant data portions; encoding the data sets; encoding the most significant data portions; and encoding the least-significant portions.
US10136132B2	Adaptive skip or zero block detection combined with transform size decision Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of innovations in the area of encoding pictures or portions of pictures and determining whether and how certain encoding operations should be performed and flagged for performance by the decoder in the bitstream. In particular examples, various implementations for selectively encoding picture portions (e.g., blocks) in a skip mode (e.g., as in the skip mode of the H.265/HEVC standard) are disclosed. Embodiments of the disclosed techniques can be used to improve encoder efficiency, decrease overall encoder resource usage, and/or improve encoder speed. Such embodiments can be used in encoder modes in which efficient, fast encoder performance is desired (e.g., during encoding of live events, such as video conferencing).
US10136131B2	Video coding apparatus and method By one approach a control circuit receives video information to be encoded, uses a particular rounding control value when processing the video information, and detects when color banding occurs when processing the video information using the particular rounding control value and responsively reprocesses the video information using a different rounding control value. By another approach, the control circuit has a plurality of different intra prediction types, including a planar intra prediction type, available to use when encoding the video information and wherein the control circuit determines when the planar intra prediction type can be employed without testing use of all of the plurality of different intra prediction types. By yet another approach, the control circuit selects block coding parameters, at least in part, by comparing corresponding mode costs, detects a smooth area in the video information, and then modifies mode costs as a function of having detected the smooth area.
US10136130B2	Apparatus for decoding an image Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.
US10136126B1	Seine net calibration target for image sensor A seine net calibration target for an image sensor can include a given set of seine nets connected to form a polygon and another set of seine nets. Each seine net of the other set of seine nets is coupled to a vertex of the polygon at a given end and coupled to a respective one of a plurality of boats at another end. The seine net calibration target can also include a plurality of light sources arranged along a top edge of the given set of seine nets and the other set of seine nets. The plurality of light sources emits light at a predetermined wavelength.
US10136125B2	Curved multi-view image display apparatus and control method thereof A curved multi-view image display apparatus is provided. The curved multi-view image display apparatus includes: a curved display panel which includes a plurality of sub-pixels and has a curvature; a viewing zone divider provided on in front of the display panel and configured to divide a viewing zone and provide a plurality of optical views; a renderer configured to render a multi-view image to be output to the display panel; and a controller configured to determine a rendering pitch for each of the plurality of optical views based on the curvature, and control the renderer so that at least some of the plurality of sub-pixels to output a pixel value corresponding to a plurality of multi-view images based on the determined rendering pitch.
US10136124B2	Stereoscopic display of objects Stereoscopic display technologies are provided. A computing device generates a stereoscopic display of an object by coordinating a first image and a second image. To reduce discomfort or to reduce diplopic content, the computing device may adjust at least one display property of the first image and/or the second image depending on one or more factors. The factors may include a time period associated with the display of the object, the vergence distance to the object, the distance to the focal plane of the display, contextual data interpreted from the images and/or any combination of these and other factors. Adjustments to the display properties can include a modification of one or more contrast properties and/or other modifications to the images. The adjustment to the display properties may be applied with varying levels of intensity and/or be applied at different times depending on one or more factors and/or contextual information.
US10136121B2	System, method and software for producing virtual three dimensional images that appear to project forward of or above an electronic display A system, method and software for producing a virtual scene to be viewed on an electronic display. A virtual reference plane is defined. The reference plane has peripheral boundaries. A virtual object is positioned above the reference plane in the virtual scene. Stereoscopic camera viewpoints are calculated that enable the virtual object to be imaged with the reference plane within the peripheral boundaries of the reference plane. The virtual object is digitally altered before and/or after being stereoscopically imaged. The altering includes bending, tapering or tilting a portion of the virtual object, and/or tilting a portion of the reference plane. A common set of boundaries are set for a superimposed image to create a final image.
US10136113B2	Projection image display apparatus for reducing unnecessary light in the projected image The projection image display apparatus of the disclosure includes a light source, a projection optical system that projects light entering an incident port, an optical modulator element, and wavelength selection filter. The optical modulator element includes multiple mirrors on its base. These mirrors are driven to switch, based on an image signal, between the ON state for reflecting a light entering from a light source toward the incident port of the projection optical system and the OFF state for reflecting a light entering from the light source in a direction other than the incident port of the projection optical system. In light entering from the light source to irradiate the optical modulator element, the wavelength selection filter reflects a light wavelength component that will be planar reflection light after being reflected on the base and entering the incident port of the projection lens.
US10136107B2	Imaging systems with visible light sensitive pixels and infrared light sensitive pixels An image sensor may have an array of image pixels arranged in color filter unit cells that each have at least one red image pixel that generates red image signals, at least one blue image pixel that generate blue image signals, at least one clear image pixels that generate clear image signals, at least one infrared image pixel that generates infrared image signals, and optionally at least one green image pixel that generates green image signals. The image sensor may be coupled to processing circuitry that performs chroma demosaicking operations on the image signals. The processing circuitry may generate an infrared image using the infrared image signals and a luminance value using the clear, red, blue, and infrared image signals. The processing circuitry may perform point filter operations on the image signals based on the generated luminance value to produce corrected visible light image signals having improved image quality.
US10136105B2	Vehicle driver information method A driver information method is provided, wherein an image of the surrounding area is captured by at least one side camera attached to the motor vehicle. The image contains an image capturing area that lies essentially laterally relative to the motor vehicle. A display unit, which is visible to the driver of a motor vehicle, outputs a screen image that contains a reproduction of the image of the surrounding area, the reproduction being graphically processed, if desired, and being preferably in essence photo-realistic. The output of the screen image is only temporary; and an obstructed view situation, in which an obstructed lateral view of the driver is to be assumed, is detected on the basis of distance signals of at least one environment detection system that is not based on a camera. The output of the screen image is automatically started when an obstructed view situation is detected.
US10136101B2	Information processing apparatus, communication system, and information processing method An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a receiver unit that acquires information relevant to a sight line of a user of a communication partner from a communication partner terminal that performs remote communication; a face detection unit that detects information relevant to a position and a size of a face of the user of the communication partner, on the basis of a video signal that includes the face of the user of the communication partner; and a superimposition unit that displays and superimposes a sight line position of the user of the communication partner on the video signal including the face of the user of the communication partner, based on the information relevant to the sight line of the user of the communication partner and the information relevant to the position and the size of the face of the user of the communication partner.
US10136096B2	Method for playing demo video on television, television and storage medium The disclosure discloses a method for playing a demo video on a television and a television so as to play the demo video on the television automatically. The method includes: detecting whether there is an external storage device connected with the television; searching an external storage device connected with the television for a demo video file with a preset file name and in a preset file format upon detection of the external storage device; and starting a player to read and play cyclically the demo video file stored in the external storage device when the demo video file is searched.
US10136089B2	Display panel, display device and method for making the same A display panel, a display device including the same and a method for making the display panel are disclosed in the embodiments of the disclosure. The display panel includes: a drive module and a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit of the plurality of pixel units has a plurality of sub-pixel units and a plurality of image sensing units, each of the plurality of sub-pixel units being corresponding to each of the plurality of image sensing units respectively; each sub-pixel unit of the plurality of pixel units and each image sensing unit of the plurality of image sensing units are connected to the drive module, each sub-pixel unit being arranged to be adjacent to an image sensing unit corresponding thereto; and the drive module is configured to drive the plurality of image sensing units so as to take images, and to drive the plurality of sub-pixel units as so to display the images.
US10136084B1	HDR skimming photodiode with true LED flicker mitigation Apparatuses and methods for a skimming photodiode with high dynamic range (HDR) and reduced Light Emitting Diode (LED) flicker in imaging system are disclosed herein. A voltage generator provides a transfer gate voltage to a transfer transistor. The transfer gate voltage is a voltage selected one of a transfer-on, a transfer-off, and a skimming voltage. The transfer transistor transfers charges generated on a Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) photodiode (PD) to a floating diffusion (FD). The voltage on transfer gate controls the amount of the charges that can be transferred from the PD to the FD. A reset transistor precharges the PD and FD to an AVDD. A first enable transistor controls the amount of charges transferred from the FD to a first capacitor. A second enable transistor controls the amount of charges transferred from the FD to a second capacitor. The first and second enable transistors receive their individual periodical control pulses once activated. Charges collected on the first and second capacitors are transferred to the FD. A source follower transistor amplifies voltage appeared on the FD. A row select transistor sends the amplified voltage to the bitline for signal readout.
US10136082B2	Method of driving an image sensor, image sensor employing the same, and portable electronic device including the same An image sensor includes a pixel array including at least one unit pixel configured to generate accumulated charges, a correlated double sampler configured to perform a correlated double sampling operation to extract an effective signal component based on a signal component and a reset component from the unit pixel for at least first and second read-out periods, the correlated double sampler configured to read out an image signal during the first read-out period and to read out a light noise signal during the second read-out period, an analog-digital converter configured to convert the image signal into a first digital signal and to convert the light noise signal into a second digital signal and an image compensator configured to generate a compensated image signal based on the second digital signal and the first digital signal.
US10136080B2	Image generating apparatus In an image generating apparatus, an image combining unit combines, for each of first and second processes in sequence, first and second images to generate a composite image having a digital pixel value representing a luminance level of the corresponding pixel by a first bit width. A range setter sets, for each of the first and second processes, a target luminance-level distribution range of at least one target with respect to the composite image; the distribution range represents a range within which luminance levels of the at least one target are distributed. A dynamic range adjuster adjusts a dynamic range of the composite image generated for one of the first and second processes such that the dynamic range of the composite image generated for the corresponding one of the first and second processes matches with the target luminance-level distribution range set for the first process.
US10136079B2	Method and apparatus for imaging an object An apparatus for imaging an object has an image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels is matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions. The apparatus also has an image sensor driver that drives the image sensor, and the image sensor driver is capable of reading image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals. The apparatus also has a pixel addition setting processor that sets the number of pixel addition with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column. The pixel addition setting processor sets different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas. The image sensor driver reads the image-pixel signals in response to the set number of pixel addition.
US10136067B2	Observation apparatus providing an enlarged display for facilitating changing an image-pickup condition An observation apparatus includes an image-pickup control unit configured to set an image-pickup condition of an image-pickup unit so as to control the image-pickup unit, and an enlargement control unit configured to conduct control so that display enlargement is conducted for part of an observation image picked up by the image-pickup unit when a prescribed manipulation is made while the observation image is displayed and to control the image-pickup control unit so that at least a portion of the image-pickup condition set on the basis of an observation image that is not enlarged is changed and set on the basis of a target for which the display enlargement is to be conducted.
US10136061B2	Automatic processing of automatic image capture parameter adjustment In one example, a plurality of image frames captured by a digital camera unit is received. It is determined that a condition is met that requires a switch between image capture states. In response, automatic adjustment of at least one image capture parameter without user input is enabled or disabled.
US10136060B2	IP camera control method, apparatus, and system An Internet Protocol (IP) camera control method, apparatus, and system to prevent the IP camera from being always in a working state, where the method includes waiting, by the IP camera, for receiving a standby instruction, where the IP camera is currently in the working state, and switching, by the IP camera, from the working state to a standby state when the IP camera receives the standby instruction from a server, such that power consumption of the IP camera is reduced.
US10136059B2	Electronic apparatus, method for control rolling electronic apparatus, and control program To reduce power consumed when the display magnification of an image is changed. A digital camera includes a display unit having a first display region in which a first image is displayed and a second display region in which a second image is displayed, an image capture unit having a first image capture region in which first image data indicating the first image is generated and a second image capture region in which second image data indicating the second image is generated, magnification change units that change the display magnifications of the first and second images displayed on the display unit, and an image capture control unit that when the magnification change units change the display magnifications, changes the charge accumulation conditions or reading conditions of the first and second image capture regions.
US10136057B2	Image management system, image management method, and computer program product The present invention is concerning to an image management system that communicates with a first communication terminal via a communication network, the image management system comprising: an image storage unit configured to store image data; a receiving unit configured to receive, from the first communication terminal, link information that includes image identification information for identifying the image data and includes predetermined-area information that indicates a predetermined area in the image data; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the first communication terminal, the image data that is indicated by the image identification information included in the link information received by the receiving unit and the predetermined-area information included in the link information.
US10136054B2	Image processing device for compositing panoramic images, image processing program and recording medium An image processing device includes an input unit, a selection unit, a matching unit, an estimation unit and a merging unit. The input unit sequentially inputs images. The selection unit selects a reference image from among the input images. The matching unit calculates a correspondence relationship between a feature point of the reference image and a feature point of a target image. The estimation unit estimates an equation that causes a coordinate system of the reference image to correspond to a coordinate system of the target image using positional information of a pair of the feature points whose correspondence relationship has been calculated by the matching unit by regarding a motion between the reference image and the target image as only a rotational motion of the imaging element. The merging unit merges the input image and the target image to generate the composite image based on the equation.
US10136048B2	User interface for camera effects The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device transitions between user interfaces for capturing photos based on data received from a first camera and a second camera. In some examples, the electronic device provides enhanced zooming capabilities that result in visual pleasing results for a displayed digital viewfinder and for captured videos. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for transitioning a digital viewfinder between a first camera with an applied digital zoom to a second camera with no digital zoom. In some examples, the electronic device prepares to capture media at various magnification levels. In some examples, the electronic device enhanced capabilities for navigating through a plurality of values.
US10136046B2	Imaging and sensing during an auto-focus procedure A method comprising: selecting one of a plurality of read start positions for an image sensor; during a first auto-focus frame, moving a focused region of an optical system relative to an image sensor in accordance with an auto-focus control signal and then after moving the focused region of the optical system relative to the image sensor and during the first auto-focus frame, starting reading of the image sensor from the read start position. An apparatus that can perform the method.
US10136044B2	Method, apparatus, and system for communicating information of selected objects of interest displayed in a video-chat application A method, apparatus and system for sharing object information which executes a video-chat session between an agent and a mobile client using an application hosted by a server. There is presented a view in common executed by a server application to both the agent and the mobile client for viewing objects captured by the mobile client during the video-chat session. There is identified by the agent a viewed object captured by the mobile client where the captured objected has been viewed by the agent in the common view during the video-chat session. The captured objected may be selected by the agent during the video-chat session and the agent may retrieve information remotely about the selected object to send to the mobile client.
US10136041B2	Camera module, molded circuit board assembly, molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demolding and avoiding stray lights.
US10136038B2	Lens bracket assembly and gimbal used therewith The present invention discloses a lens bracket assembly for supporting an imaging device. The imaging device includes a body and a lens connected to the body. The lens bracket assembly includes a supporting plate and a bracket. The supporting plate is used for mounting the imaging device, and the supporting plate includes a first side. The bracket includes a supporting portion of which the shape matches the lens of the imaging device and a fixing portion connected with the supporting portion. The fixing portion is fixedly arranged at the first side. The supporting portion is used for supporting the lens. The present invention further relates to a gimbal that uses the lens bracket assembly.
US10136032B2	Method for monitoring a color standard in a printing machine A method monitors a color standard for a machine for processing printing material. The color standard results from various parameters of the printing operation and correspondingly associated set points. The color standard may be modified and individually adapted to every machine. The machine is equipped such that current values of the parameters of the color standard are measured and forwarded to a computer. The computer compares these values and predefined set points of the color standard, and based on this information, makes an assessment of the color and quality level achieved in the printing operation. The computer outputs control signals based on the monitoring. The control signals influence the machine control and/or the determining of the current values of the parameters of the color standard in a feedback loop. The color standard is modifiable by the operator by a different selection and weighting of the parameters and the set points.
US10136022B2	Image forming system and image forming system control method for outputting history information of executed jobs including information indicating print speeds An image forming system capable of changing a print speed includes an execution unit that executes a print job in accordance with a set print speed, and an output unit that displays or prints history information of the print job including information representing the print speed set when the print job was executed.
US10136020B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus includes an illumination unit that illuminates light on an image surface of a sheet, and a photoelectric conversion element that converts reflected light from the sheet illuminated by the illumination unit into an electric signal. The illumination unit includes a circuit board including a light emitting element, and a light guide that guides light, emitted from the light emitting element, to a sheet read surface. In the image reading apparatus, the light guide includes a positioning surface that abuts against a first surface of the circuit board and that performs positioning of the light guide and the circuit board, and a pressing portion that abuts against a second surface of the circuit board on an opposite side of the first surface and that presses the circuit board against the positioning surface.
US10136018B2	Function execution method, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium storing instructions for information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus has a display device, a touch panel, a communication device, and a controller. A default icon is displayed on the display device as a startup icon. Function information is received from the image processing apparatus, the function information indicating multiple functions of the image processing apparatus. When a particular status is occurring in relation to at least one of the multiple functions, particular status information is received from the image processing apparatus, the particular status information indicating the particular status and display the startup icon displayed on the display device to a function icon corresponding to the received particular status information, and display a status icon indicating the particular status.
US10136015B2	Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus and image processing method According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a read image processor, a write image processor, an image path selector, and a communication controller. The read image processor is configured to execute an image processing module corresponding to read of image data. The write image processor is configured to execute an image processing module corresponding to write of image data. The image path selector is configured to select a path for transmitting image data output from the image processing modules corresponding to read and write of image data to an external apparatus, and select a path for inputting image data processed by the external apparatus to an image processing module in a subsequent stage. The communication controller is configured to control transmission and reception of image data to and from the external apparatus.
US10136013B2	Document reading device, image processing device, document reading method and recording medium A document reading device includes: a conveying unit configured to convey a document; a background member having a mark for correcting an inclination of the document; a color reading unit configured to read an image of the document and to output color image data; a monochrome reading unit configured to read the image of the document and to output monochrome image data; a switching unit configured to switch between a first state and a second state; and a hardware processor configured to switch into the first state at the time of a color mode, and to switch into the second state at the time of the monochrome mode, configured to detect the inclination of the document, and configured to correct the inclination of the color image data, and to correct the inclination of the monochrome image data, in accordance with the detected inclination of the document.
US10136011B2	Automatic scanning of document stack with a camera Automatically scanning multiple document sheets with a camera includes receiving a video stream while the camera is pointed at the multiple document sheets, detecting presence of a first top page of the multiple document sheets based on the video stream, taking a still photograph of the first top page in response to detecting presence of the first top page, detecting presence of a second top page based on the video stream by confirming that the second top page is different from the first top page and by waiting a predetermined amount of time for an image of the second top page to stabilize, and taking a still photograph of the second top page in response to detecting presence of the second top page. Detecting the pages may include determining that the camera is pointing at the stack of documents and a detected page is not obstructed.
US10136010B2	Position measurement reference sheet, image forming apparatus, and image position measurement method A position measurement reference sheet for image position measurement on a recording medium includes a body having a front face to face an image reading face of a reading device, a recording medium detection window in the body to measure a position of an end of the recording medium, and an image detection window in the body to measure a position of an image on the recording medium. The position measurement reference sheet is interposed between the image reading face and the recording medium.
US10136008B2	Image processing system that performs preview display, image processing apparatus, display control apparatus, display control method, and storage medium An image processing system capable of positively performing preview display of contents corresponding to a printed result to be obtained by executing processing based on print data. An MFP acquires a preview image generated based on the print data and bibliography information for managing specification of the print data indicated by the preview image, from a server, and transmits the acquired preview image and bibliography information to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal performs preview display of the printed result based on the received preview image. The MFP determines whether or not the bibliography information is compatible with the apparatus information indicative of specifications of the MFP, and if the bibliography information is not compatible with the apparatus information, the MFP manipulates the preview image based on the apparatus information, and transmits the manipulated preview image to the mobile terminal.
US10136007B2	Display device, electronic device and image processing apparatus including the display device, and method of displaying information On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.
US10136002B2	Cloud-based document quality assurance The present disclosure relates to cloud-based document quality assurance. One example embodiment includes a method for evaluating document quality. The method includes receiving, by a cloud server, document data associated with an image forming device. The method also includes accessing, by the cloud server, a cloud service. Further, the method includes performing, by the cloud service, a data-segment comparison between the document data and reference document data from a quality assurance database. In addition, the method includes generating, by the cloud service, a quality assurance report based on the data-segment comparison between the document data and the reference document data.
US10135998B2	Key telephone system, control method, terminal, and program A key telephone system includes a terminal and a primary device. The primary device transmits a command for transition into a power-saving state to the terminal, together with a power-saving duration time datum and/or a power-saving deactivating time datum, when the time reaches a power-saving state transition time. The terminal specifies the power-saving duration time and/or the power-saving deactivating time in the timekeeper means, and halts the communication means for communicating with the primary device at the time of receiving the command for transition into the power-saving state from the primary device, and activates the communication means being halted at a time when the timekeeper means has measured the lapse of the power-saving duration time and/or the power-saving deactivating time.
US10135996B2	Image formation apparatus, image processing system, and control method An image formation apparatus remotely operable smoothly using a terminal device is provided. In an image processing system including a plurality of terminal devices and an MFP capable of wireless communication, when the number of terminal devices connected to the image formation apparatus via wireless communication has reached a threshold value representing a number based on the number of terminal devices with which the MFP can wirelessly communicate, the MFP determines that, of the connected terminal devices, one or more terminal devices satisfying a previously stored condition as a candidate to be disconnected, and the MFP sends notification to request severing the wireless communication. When the MFP obtains permission for disconnection from a terminal device that is a destination of the notification, the MFP severs the wireless communication.
US10135992B2	Automating notifications for modification of events based on geographic positioning Provided are systems and methods for operating a mobile device of a first user that may include accessing a data repository to retrieve a first location of a future event scheduled at an event time to be attended by the first user and a second user, obtaining, from a position determination circuit of the mobile device, a second location of the mobile device, initiating transmission of a query to a route server to responsively obtain a time of arrival message including an arrival time for the first user to arrive at the first location from the second location, and, responsive to a difference in the arrival time and the event time exceeding a threshold duration, initiating transmission of a notification message that triggers a change in attendees that are physically present at the first location of the event without altering the event time of the event.
US10135990B2	Method and apparatus for controlling visitor call in home network system Disclosed is a technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure can be used for intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the technology. A method of controlling a visitor's call by a first terminal in a home network system includes: reading home information pre-stored in the communication module when communication with a communication module installed inside the home is possible; transmitting a visit request message including the home information and identification information of the first terminal to the smart home server or a at least on second terminal from among a plurality of second terminals; and communicating with the at least one second terminal when at least one of the plurality of second terminals accepts communication with the first terminal.
US10135989B1	Personalized support routing based on paralinguistic information Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for inferring the current emotional state of a user based on paralinguistic features derived from audio input from that user. If the emotional state meets triggering conditions, the system provides the user with a prompt which allows the user to connect with a support agent. If the user accepts, the system selects a support agent for the user based on the predicted emotional state and on attributes of the support agent found in an agent profile. The system can also determine a priority level for the user based on the score and based on a profile of the user and determine where to place the user in a queue for the support agent.
US10135988B2	Techniques for case allocation Techniques for case allocation are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for case allocation comprising receiving, by at least one computer processor, at least one case allocation allocated using a first pairing strategy, and then reassigning, by the at least one computer processor, the at least one case allocation using behavioral pairing.
US10135986B1	Techniques for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system Techniques for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system and communicatively coupled to the operating system comprising determining, by at least one computer processor configured to operate in the contact center system, contact data; partitioning, by the at least one computer processor, the contact data into a first plurality of types; determining, by the at least one computer processor, a first measure of the quality of the partitioning of the contact data into the first plurality of types; and outputting, by the at least one computer processor, a computer-processor generated behavioral pairing model based on the quality of the partitioning.
US10135982B2	System and method for customer experience management A system and method for managing a customer's experience with a contact center that takes available data about the customer, the agents of the contact center, and the organization represented by the contact center, for identifying opportunities for additional conversations/interactions with the customer and engaging in those additional conversations/interactions at a time and with a resource predicted to maximize outcomes for the organization. A processor is configured to identify express and/or implied intents for an interaction between the customer and the contact center. A business goal related to the express and/or implied intents is also identified for determining a current performance of the contact center and for identifying any performance gaps. Contact center targets are identified based on their performance in handling the express and/or implied intents, and the identified performance gaps. An available one of the identified targets is then selected for routing the interaction to the target.
US10135981B2	Routing during communication of help desk service Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe insight-based routing that is used to improve processing during a communication of a help desk service. Real-time signal data is collected from a communication between a customer and a first support agent. The real-time signal data is evaluated to generate real-time insights for the communication. A determination is made as to whether the first needs assistance based on an evaluation of the real-time insights. A second support agent is identified to assist the first support agent based on a determination that the first support agent needs assistance. The second support agent is identified based on an application of a model that analyzes support agent data for a pool of support agents in correlation with the real-time insights. The second agent is then added to the communication to provide additional assistance in resolving a help desk case.
US10135979B2	System and method for monitoring and visualizing emotions in call center dialogs by call center supervisors A method, system, and a computer program product are provided for monitoring an emotional state of a conversation by monitoring a communication between first and second persons to determine an emotional state of the communication, providing a visual representation of the emotional state of the communication for display to a person having access to the communication, and performing an intervention action to improve the emotional state of the communication in response to detecting the emotional state of the communication meets one or more specified intervention criteria.
US10135975B2	Call holding management A system or a method may be provided that automatically distinguishes between a hold status and when someone live is talking on the phone. For example, the caller's phone may detect when the call holding has ended and a customer service representative is now actually on the line. The phone may alert the user to pick up the call at that time, such as utilizing a call-back mechanism. In an embodiment, the system may analyze and learn the various call holding music or recordings of call centers. The system may detect when the call holding music or recording ends in a telephone call and may alert the user.
US10135973B2	Using CNAM injection to deliver caller information A carrier platform sends a query requesting CNAM information associated with a call to a CNAM database. A caller reputation server intercepts the query from the carrier platform to the CNAM database. The caller reputation server determines reputation information for the call. The reputation information indicates the likelihood that the call is a nuisance call. The caller reputation server further generates a reputation message describing the reputation information and sends the reputation message to the carrier platform in response to the query. As a result, the carrier platform sends the reputation message to a called device.
US10135972B2	Telecommunication call management and monitoring system with voiceprint verification Disclosed is a secure telephone call management system for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users is accomplished by using a personal identification number, preferably in conjunction with speaker independent voice recognition and speaker dependent voice identification. When a user first enters the system, the user speaks his or her name which is used as a sample voice print. During each subsequent use of the system, the user is required to speak his or her name. Voice identification software is used to verify that the provided speech matches the sample voice print. The secure system includes accounting software to limit access based on funds in a user's account or other related limitations. Management software implements widespread or local changes to the system and can modify or set any number of user account parameters.
US10135971B2	Congestion detection and dynamic throttling of automated telephone call attempts during mass call events A device is configured to detect congestion and throttle phone calls in a telephone communication system. The device receives, from a telephone dialing system, an indication indicating that a call to a phone number has successfully ended. In response to the indication, the device determines that a set of initial digits of the phone number matches a flooding group number of a flooding group, where the flooding group has a capacity limit. The device determines that a maximum number of concurrent active calls for the flooding group during a predefined period of time is within a predetermined threshold from the capacity limit of the flooding group and that no failed calls have occurred for the flooding group during the predefined period of time. In response to the determining, the device increases the capacity limit of the flooding group.
US10135970B2	Active undetectable monitoring system A system for the active silent and undetected monitoring of the video and audio communication session involving one or more video and audio participants may alternately engage, intervene or participate in the video/audio communication session. Such monitoring and engagement may include multiple and various locations with the monitoring participant having capacity to manage them from a first location.
US10135965B2	Use of a digital assistant in communications A digital assistant operating on a device is configured to be engaged as an active participant in communications between local and remote parties by listening to voice and video calls and participating in messaging sessions. The digital assistant typically can be initiated by voice using a key word or phrase and then be requested to perform tasks, provide information and services, etc. using voice or gestures. The digital assistant can respond to the request and take appropriate actions. In voice and video calls, the interactions with the digital assistant (i.e., the request, response, and actions) can be heard by both parties to the call as if the digital assistant was a third party on the call. In a messaging session, messages are generated and displayed to each participant so that they can see the interactions with the digital assistant as if it was a participant.
US10135964B2	Touch and device orientation-based device pairing Systems and methods are provided for pairing a mobile device with a second device based on the mobile device being placed flat against a touch screen of the second device. The mobile device determines that is has been placed in a predetermined orientation that matches the orientation of the display of the second device. The second device detects the contact of the mobile device with its touch screen. Both devices send timestamps of their respective determinations to a server that compares the timestamps. If the timestamps match within a predetermined threshold, the server initiates pairing of the devices.
US10135962B2	Method and system to intercept accidental emergency calls in a device repair facility A system for intercepting accidental emergency calls in a facility, the system including at least one dead air network element configured within the facility, the at least one dead air network element providing a cellular signal stronger than live cellular signals as seen by electronic devices within the facility, wherein electronic devices connecting to the at least one dead air network element cannot reach emergency services.
US10135957B2	Methods and apparatus for communicating high efficiency control information Methods, devices, and computer program products for traffic information signaling in a wireless communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes selecting, from a variable number of control fields, one or more control fields for inclusion in a frame. The method further includes generating the frame comprising the selected number of control fields, each control field comprising an end of control field, the end of control field storing an indicator indicative of an end of the selected number of control fields or a presence of another control field in the frame. The method further includes transmitting the frame.
US10135956B2	Hardware-based packet forwarding for the transport layer This document describes, among other things, improved methods, systems, and apparatus for relaying packets on computer networks. Preferably, the relay function is accelerated at a host by implementing selected forwarding functions in hardware, such as the host's network interface card, while upper software layers at the host retain at least some access to the packet flow to handle more complex operations and/or monitoring. In a so-called “split TCP” arrangement, for example, a relay host terminates a first TCP connection from a given host and forwards packets on that connection to another given host on a second TCP connection. The relay host has a TCP forwarding table implemented at the device level, configurable by a relay management application running in the kernel or user-space. Special forwarding table modes may be used to enable full-TCP protocol support while also taking advantage of hardware acceleration.
US10135954B2	Access dock device content on a remote client device wirelessly Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with accessing dock device content on a remote client device wirelessly are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry to receive UoIP packets originating from a UoIP client at a wireless network interface of the dock device. The UoIP packets may be associated with an access of a local storage device coupled to a storage interface of the dock device using a non-USB protocol. The one or more processors, devices, and/or circuitry may be to translate the UoIP packets for the storage interface.
US10135953B2	Self-describing diagnostic data for presentation on mobile devices Industrial devices are configured to provide their associated industrial data to client-side user interface applications in a self-describing manner that instructs the interface applications how the data is to be rendered. In response to a request for a data item from a user interface application, the industrial device sends the requested data item together with presentation metadata that identifies a widget or graphical objects to be used by the interface application to render the data item on a user interface. By providing the industrial data in a self-describing manner, additional data or services can be added to the industrial device without requiring a corresponding update to the client-side interface application.
US10135951B2	Methods and apparatus for providing one-arm node clustering using a port channel Methods and apparatus for providing one-arm node clustering using a port channel are provided herein. An example application node may be communicatively connected to at least one application node, and the application node may be connected to a network through a port channel. The application node may include: a link included in the port channel for accommodating the network data being communicated between the remote client and server; and a processor configured to send/receive a cluster control packet to/from the at least one application node through the link included in the port channel.
US10135950B2	Creating a cinematic storytelling experience using network-addressable devices Systems and methods are provided for creating a cinematic storytelling experience using network-addressable technologies. A user sends a request through a client application to retrieve a story from a story database on a server facility. The client device downloads from the server facility the story, a corresponding lexicon, and a set of coordination instructions. Responsive to the user beginning narration of the selected story, a client or a server application detects and interprets the user input and compares the input to a limited set of keywords contained in the lexicon and associated with a specific coordination instruction. When the application detects recitation of a keyword associated with a coordination instruction, the application directs the corresponding network-addressable device to carry out the instruction.
US10135947B1	Wireless multicast transmission and recovery A transmission system that sends data to multiple devices simultaneously using multiple access points (APs). The system may send multicast data (e.g., original transmission of multicast data) to the multiple devices using a first AP and may send recovery data (e.g., retransmission of portions of the multicast data) to individual devices using a second AP. As the second AP handles requests for the recovery data and sends the recovery data, the first AP may send the multicast data using all available bandwidth and an efficiency of transmission does not depend on the number of devices connected to the first AP. The recovery data may be determined based on an original manifest of the multicast data, such as a bitmap or other representation, and the device may generate a recovery manifest indicating the recovery data and send the recovery manifest to the second AP.
US10135946B2	Sending messages to mobile devices A device may receive a request for a mobile device to obtain an application. The request may include a mobile device identifier for the mobile device. The device may send, to the mobile device, a link to a web page. The device may receive, from the mobile device, a request for the web page. The device may send, to the mobile device, a redirect to a software distribution platform to obtain the application from the software distribution platform. The device may receive a registration identifier for the mobile device after the mobile device obtains the application from the software distribution platform. The device may send, to a message server, a request for a message to be sent to the mobile device. The request may be based on the registration identifier and the application.
US10135935B2	Interactive tracking virtual world system An Interactive Tracking Virtual World (ITVW) system, may be utilized with other systems accessible through the Internet and/or a communications network. The ITVW system may be operable as an online game and/or to provide a virtual environment. ITVW system users (i.e., ITVW users) may be individuals or groups, such as parents and/or their children, which utilize the ITVW system for tracking an identity within the ITVW system. The ITVW system may also include ITVW system participants (i.e., ITVW participants), such as commercial business establishments, individuals and/or other entities associated with the ITVW system. The ITVW system collects an ITVW user's location information and location history.
US10135930B2	System and method for discovering internet protocol (IP) network address and port translation bindings A system and method for discovering Internet Protocol (IP) network address and port translation bindings is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system for creating IP data records, includes a carrier grade network address and port translation (CGNAPT) node in communication with a private network on an internal side and a public network on an external side. The system further includes a private Ethernet span port disposed on the internal side of the CGNAPT node that receives packet streams traversing the CGNAPT node. A public Ethernet span port is disposed on the external side of the CGNAPT node that receives packet streams traversing the CGNAPT node. The private Ethernet span port and the public Ethernet span port copy packet streams traversing the CGNAPT node and deliver the copied packet streams to a deep packet inspection host.
US10135929B2	Fault-tolerant data processing computer system and method for implementing a distributed two-tier state machine A fault-tolerant data processing computer system and method for implementing a distributed two-tier state machine aimed for distributed (replicated) data stores, in which consistency is maintained despite the failure of any number of replicas and communication paths. In the distributed two-tier state machine, one process (device) in a network of processes (devices) is chosen as the leader, and that leader is responsible for executing functions that return state machine commands, and for broadcasting the commands to the other processes. The processes execute the commands in the logical precedence order that corresponds to the order of function executions that return these commands. The system and method ensures that each of the processes issues exactly the same sequence of commands for execution, such that each command in the sequence, except the first one, has a precedent command on which the command logically depends.
US10135927B1	ARINC 661 display system and methods incorporating non-ARINC 661 protocols System and methods for incorporating virtual network computing (“VNC”) into a cockpit display system (“CDS”) are disclosed. A system and method for incorporating VNC into the CDS is comprised of a non-aircraft remote system and a CDS, where the non-aircraft remote system is comprised of a VNC client and a remote display unit, and the CDS comprised of, in part, a VNC server and a PM configured with a method employing an aviation-industry standard protocol (e.g., ARINC 661) and a VNC protocol. A Second method for incorporating VNC into the CDS is comprised of a non-aircraft remote system and a CDS, where the non-aircraft remote system is comprised of a VNC server and a remote display unit, and the CDS comprised of, in part, a VNC client and a processing module (“PM”) configured with a method employing an aviation-industry standard protocol and a VNC protocol.
US10135926B2	Shuffle embedded distributed storage system supporting virtual merge and method thereof Provided herein is a shuffle embedded distributed storage system and method supporting virtual merge, the system and method including a distributed shared storage configured to store a virtual merged file; a plurality of map servers connected to the distributed shared storage via a network, and configured to perform a map function and record a map result data computed as a result of the map function in the distributed shared storage by means of a map result file; and a plurality of reduce servers connected to the distributed shared storage and the map servers via the network, wherein the virtual merged file includes a list of the map result files recorded by the plurality of map servers, and an identifier of a reduce server to which the virtual merged file is to be transmitted.
US10135920B2	Opportunistic crowd-based service platform A method and apparatus for providing an opportunistic crowd based service platform is disclosed. A mobile sensor device is identified based on a current location and/or other qualities, such as intrinsic properties, previous sensor data, or demographic data of an associated user of the mobile sensor device. Data is collected from the mobile sensor device. The data collected from the mobile sensor device is aggregated with data collected from other sensor devices, and content generated based on the aggregated data is delivered to a user device.
US10135917B2	Systems and methods for allocating customers to network elements A method and system for allocating customers in a network includes (a) in a network having a set of N sites, determining a value of N; (b) determining a number of demand requests to be provisioned in the network; (c) determining a currently available capacity of each site of the set of N sites; (d) determining a number of site failures M to be tolerated; (e) Setting a value for a variable X corresponding to a number of sites equal to M+1 where X≤N; (f) identifying a topology Tx comprising X sites; (g) calculating a number of concurrent demand requests to be provisioned on each of the X site; and (h) identifying for the topology Tx a subset Sx of the set of N sites having available capacity to provision the number of demand requests to be provisioned on each site. if X
US10135915B2	System, method and apparatus of data interaction under load balancing The present disclosure discloses a system, a method and an apparatus of data interaction under load balancing to solve the problem of heavy workload of a server load balancer under existing technologies. The system includes a server load balancer, a real server, and a conversion apparatus. A data package, which is sent from a client to a real server, is processed and sent by the server load balancer to the real server. A data package, which is sent from the real server to the client, is processed and sent by the conversion apparatus to the client. Since the traffic flowing from the real server to the client does not pass through the server load balancer but is processed and sent by the conversion apparatus to the client in the above system that is provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, the workload on the server load balancer is thus effectively reduced.
US10135906B2	UICC SMS routing to device application Information regarding the status of an update to a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) being performed across a mobile wireless communication network is provided to a server involved in the update process and/or to a user of the mobile communication device having the UICC. The UICC update server sends an update trigger to the mobile communication device, and the UICC initiates establishment of a communication link to receive the update. The UICC further causes a baseband processor of the mobile communication device to send a proof-of-receipt of the update trigger by short message service (SMS) messaging back to the update server. Additionally or alternatively, the UICC causes the baseband processor to send a wakeup message to a mobile device application executing on the mobile device. The wakeup message includes status information relating to the UICC update which can be provided to a user of the mobile device.
US10135905B2	Remote user interface Target electronic devices can be remotely controlled using a personal electronic device are disclosed. The personal electronic device can identify target devices that are responsive to remote control. The personal electronic device displays graphical user interface objects that, when selected, cause the personal electronic device to instruct the target electronic device to perform an operation.
US10135904B2	Network attack detection on a mobile API of a web service Techniques to validate web service requests from applications executing on wireless communication devices are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, an application that generates a web service request is executed on a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device executes a client security component of the application to collect security information and include the security information in the web service request, and utilizes a mobile application programming interface to transfer the web service request including the security information for delivery to a web server. The web server executes a server security component of a web service to extract the security information from the web service request, validate the web service request based on the security information, and provide the web service request to the web service upon successful validation.
US10135890B2	Latency-dependent cloud input channel management Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for establishing an assistance output that takes into account client device latency information and sending the assistance output from the server to the client device. Client device information or the assistance output may include a stream of encrypted data packets.
US10135878B2	Method for accessing a digital network by way of one or more Internet service providers Described herein is a method for accessing a digital network. For example, the method may include receiving a message from a network access device at a first Internet service provider, and sending at least a portion of the received message through a network to an access service provider. The method may also include receiving the portion of the message at the access service provider, and sending network access data, based at least partially in response to receiving the portion of the message at the access service provider, to the network access device. The network access data may include log-in information and an identified Internet service provider. A communication may be received at the identified Internet service provider that originated from the network access device based at least partially on the network access data obtained from said access service provider. A temporarily assigned network address may be assigned to the network access device.
US10135876B2	Security compliance framework usage A method and system for improving usage of a security compliance framework is provided. The method includes authenticating a user for: access to the security compliance frame work, access to an authoritative source component of the compliance framework, and access to a data store component of the compliance framework. A functionality status of the security compliance framework and a request associated with contents of the data store are presented to a user via a dashboard interface. In response, the request is triggered and associated results are generated.
US10135874B1	Compliance management system and method for an integrated computing system A integrated computing system compliance management system includes a computer-based system to obtain an integrated computing system object instance of an integrated computing system that is generated from an object model comprising a unified entity representing the integrated computing system. The integrated computing system object instance has multiple hierarchally arranged sub-object instances representing hierarchally arranged resources of the integrated computing system. The system receive security hardening policies associated with an established security hardening standard, modify those sub-object instances to include the security hardening policies that are associated with those sub-object instances to form a security hardening-based object instance. Using the security hardening-based object instance, the system determines, for each security hardening policy, whether the configuration of the resources meets the security hardening policy using the security hardening-based object instance. Once determined, the system may then output the result of the determination.
US10135870B2	System for external validation of secure process transactions A closed-loop system is operatively connected with a block chain distributed network for using the block chain distributed network for facilitating operation of a transaction record sharing system between member institutions comprising a host system and a source system. Host and source institutions function to share the transaction records from member institutions such that a host institution that is a member of the block chain may obtain the transaction records of all source institutions of the block chain. The transaction records are validated on the block chain such that the transaction records are secure represent a source of truth.
US10135868B1	Defeating wireless signal interference hacks by manipulating signal strength A method for defeating wireless signal interference hacks is described. The method may include monitoring operations associated with user input of a user into an application on a mobile computing device. The user input may include physical interaction by the user's fingers with the mobile computing device causing signal interference by the fingers with a wireless signal transmitted by the mobile computing device such that a position of the fingers is detectable by a third party receiving the wireless signal. The method may include detecting an information entry event based on the monitored operations, modifying a wireless signal strength of the wireless signal transmitted by the mobile computing device from a standard signal strength level such that the position of the fingers of the user on the mobile computing device is not detectable by the third party receiving the wireless signal in response to detecting the information entry event.
US10135866B2	Method of preventing drive-by hacking, and apparatus and system therefor The present disclosure relates to a method of preventing drive-by hacking, and an apparatus and a system therefor. A method of preventing drive-by hacking in a vehicle system linked with a vehicle head unit through a communication network in a vehicle may include receiving a predetermined external terminal access notification message reporting access by an external terminal from the vehicle head unit, verifying whether fixed data recorded in an application memory is consistent with fixed data recorded in a backup memory, and transmitting a predetermined hacking detection message to the vehicle head unit based on a result of verification. Therefore, the present disclosure has an advantage of strengthening security of a vehicle when an external terminal is linked with a vehicle head unit.
US10135863B2	Malicious software detection in a computing system A computer system identifies malicious Uniform Resource Locator (URL) data items from a plurality of unscreened data items that have not been previously identified as associated with malicious URLs. The system can execute a number of pre-filters to identify a subset of URLs in the plurality of data items that are likely to be malicious. A scoring processor can score the subset of URLs based on a plurality of input vectors using a suitable machine learning model. Optionally, the system can execute one or more post-filters on the score data to identify data items of interest. Such data items can be fed back into the system to improve machine learning or can be used to provide a notification that a particular resource within a local network is infected with malicious software.
US10135861B2	Mitigation of anti-sandbox malware techniques Static analysis is applied to unrecognized software objects in order to identify and address potential anti-sandboxing techniques. Where static analysis suggests the presence of any such corresponding code, the software object may be forwarded to a sandbox for further analysis. In another aspect, multiple types of sandboxes may be provided, with the type being selected according to the type of exploit suggested by the static analysis.
US10135860B2	Security aware email server A security aware email server and a method of managing incoming email are described. The server includes a memory device configured to store rules, instructions, and user preferences. The processor makes a determination of whether a sender of an incoming email used a secure or unsecure sending network to send the email and determines an action to take with the email based on the determination and the user preferences.
US10135857B2	Structuring data and pre-compiled exception list engines and internet protocol threat prevention Blocking high-risk IP connections in real-time while allowing tailoring of an acceptable risk profile to match the security requirements of network resources. By acquiring IP threat information about IP addresses, traffic from IP addresses posing unacceptable levels of risk is blocked. A computer executed method is disclosed for sorting a plurality of internet protocol (IP) addresses. The method includes dividing the range of IP addresses into a plurality of clusters representing a plurality of contiguous sub-ranges, assigning each IP address to the cluster associated with the sub-range that includes that IP address, and assigning the IP addresses in each cluster to one of a plurality of pages. A network appliance incorporating aspects of the method is also disclosed.
US10135855B2	Near-real-time export of cyber-security risk information This disclosure provides an apparatus and method for near-real-time export of cyber-security risk information, including but not limited to in industrial control systems and other systems. A method includes monitoring, by a risk manager system, a plurality of connected devices that are vulnerable to cyber-security risks. The method includes detecting a cyber-security risk to one or more of the devices being monitored. The method includes identifying an external system to be notified of the detected cyber-security risk. The method includes sending cyber-security risk data to the external system according to the detected cyber-security risk and at least one filtering option.
US10135852B2	Bot detection based on behavior analytics A system automatically detects bots and/or botnets.
US10135850B2	Data resource anomaly detection Anomaly detection is provided. A first component of a first data resource of a plurality of data resources is identified. Each data resource of the plurality of data resources includes one or more components. A score of the first component is determined based, at least in part, on underlying data of the first component and underlying data of one or more other components of data resources of the plurality of data resources that correspond to the first component. An interest level of the first data resource is determined. A relationship between the score of the first component and the interest level of the first data resource is modeled.
US10135842B2	Content-based isolation for computing device security The subject disclosure is directed towards securing a computing device using content-based isolation. When the computing device requests content data having different ownership, a monitor component identifies and groups trusted portions of the content data into one or more isolation containers such that only trusted programs are permitted access. Other programs are, therefore, untrusted and can be denied access in order to prevent malicious activity, unless access is approved by the content owner.
US10135841B2	Integrated security system having threat visualization and automated security device control Techniques are described for taking direct actions, such as selectively blocking or allowing traffic and applications, while monitoring events from a graphical representation of threats. As such, the administrator in an enterprise interacts with the graphical representation of threats rendered by the security management system to automatically invoke a policy/rule module of the security management system to configure and update security policies for the security devices deployed throughout the computer networks of the enterprise. An administrator may, for example, interact with the representation of threats rendered by the threat control module based on the data aggregated from the distributed security devices and, responsive to the interaction, the security management system may identify a relevant set of the security devices, automatically construct security policies having ordered rules within the policies for the identified set of security devices, and automatically communicate and install the policies in the identified set of security devices.
US10135840B2	System and method for speed dialing information handling system configuration changes Methods and systems for receiving speed dial configuration changes may involve receiving a packet, determining whether the packet is associated with a valid command, determining whether a username in a header of the packet is a valid user, validating a signature using a public key, decrypting encrypted data using a first factor key, and executing the valid command associated with the decrypted data. The packet includes the header, encrypted data, and the signature, and is sent without a one-to-many management console and without prior group configuration. The validation of the signature may be based on the determination that the packet is associated with a valid command and that the username in the header of the packet is a valid user.
US10135824B2	Method and system for determining whether a terminal logging into a website is a mobile terminal Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and system for determining whether a terminal logging into a website is a mobile terminal. The method includes receiving a login request to access a website from a terminal, generating a first token, sending information including a redirect script to the terminal, the redirect script configured to cause the terminal to execute the redirect script and to access an activation link, receiving a verification request from the terminal, determining whether the version of the first token included in the verification request is valid relative to the generated first token, sending an indication that the first token is valid to the terminal, receiving an access request, the access request including the second token, determining whether the second token is valid, and determining whether the terminal is a mobile terminal according to whether the second token is valid.
US10135818B2	User biological feature authentication method and system The disclosure discloses a user biological feature authentication method and system. The method includes the following: a client sends an authentication request to a server; the client receives a speech password; acquires speech information and a face image of a user to be authenticated; the client judges whether the speech information is the same as the speech password, and judges whether the face image is valid; the client associates a speech information fragment to the face image under the condition that a judgment result is YES; the client calculates a digest value of the speech password, the speech information, a target image, associated information and a first moment; and the client sends an authentication content to the server. By the disclosure, the effect of improving ID authentication security in a biological feature recognition process is further achieved.
US10135815B2	System and method for biometric authentication in connection with camera equipped devices The present invention relates generally to the use of biometric technology for authentication and identification, and more particularly to non-contact based solutions for authenticating and identifying users, via computers, such as mobile devices, to selectively permit or deny access to various resources. In the present invention authentication and/or identification is performed using an image or a set of images of an individual's palm through a process involving the following key steps: (1) detecting the palm area using local classifiers; (2) extracting features from the region(s) of interest; and (3) computing the matching score against user models stored in a database, which can be augmented dynamically through a learning process.
US10135814B2	Self-authenticating chips A self-authenticating chip includes first and second memory regions storing, respectively, first and second authentication codes. The second memory region is adapted to be unreadable and unmodifiable by the chip or a chip reader. The chip also includes a comparator for providing an indicator of whether given input matches the second authentication code. The chip also includes an authentication circuit that is operable to read the first authentication code from the first memory region, present the first authentication code to the comparator, and in response to receiving an indicator from the comparator indicating that the first and second authentication codes match, unlock at least one of (i) a communication interface of the chip to allow data to be transmitted therethrough to a chip reader and (ii) a third memory region of the chip to allow data to be read therefrom.
US10135813B2	Computing device with integrated authentication token Disclosed are various embodiments for a computing device with an integrated authentication token. The computing device includes first circuitry having a processor and a memory and providing general-purpose computing capability. The computing device also includes second circuitry configured to generate data. The first circuitry is incapable of determining the data due to a separation from the second circuitry, and the first and second circuitry may be in a single enclosure.
US10135810B2	Selective authentication system A method and authentication mechanism is provided. A request is sent to authenticate a user of the application from a mobile device to an authentication server. The authentication server identifies a user profile for the user containing one or more authentication schemes available to authenticate the user. The authentication schemes comprise a direct scheme in which the user provides a password and a federated authentication scheme. The authentication server determines a favored authentication scheme from one or more authentication schemes available based on a policy associated with the user profile. The mobile device displays a menu showing the authentication schemes available to allow the user to select an authentication scheme. The favored authentication scheme is displayed ahead of a remainder of the authentication schemes. The authentication server verifies credentials for the user profile using the selected authentication scheme to authenticate the user.
US10135807B2	Storage and distribution of secure or cryptographic material A user having remote device wants to access an application that requires that the user possess a user application cryptographic credential. If the application needs to verify the identity of the user, the user's remote device performs a cryptographic operation using the user application cryptographic credentials, and sends the result to the application. A configuration for securely distributing the user application cryptographic credentials includes at least one gateway located at an enterprise that is under the control of an enterprise administrator, and a controller that is not located at the enterprise but can be configured by the enterprise administrator to cooperate with the at least one gateway.
US10135804B2	Mobile application based account aggregation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automating the collection of user information for account aggregation. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a server computer system from a mobile device of a user, a first user request to access account information; receiving, at the server computer system from a provider computer system, a plury of mobile device applications; for each respective establishment of the plurality of establishments: storing, at the server computer system, establishment login credentials of the user to access account information of the user at a computer system of the respective establishment, and obtaining account information of the user at the respective establishment; aggregating, on the computer system, all the account information of the user from the respective mobile device application of each establishment; and providing to the mobile device the aggregated account information of the user.
US10135798B2	Systems and methods for implementing a proximity lock using bluetooth low energy Systems and methods for implementing a proximity lock using Bluetooth Low Energy are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a Bluetooth low energy proximity lock system may include a host electronic device comprising a computer processor; a peripheral electronic device interfacing with the host electronic device that may include a controller and a first Bluetooth low energy component; and a user device comprising a second Bluetooth low energy component. The controller may, using the first Bluetooth low energy component, identify the second Bluetooth low energy component, determine a radio signal strength between the first Bluetooth radio component and the second Bluetooth low energy component; and generate a command that renders the host electronic device temporarily inoperable in response to the radio signal strength being below a predetermined threshold.
US10135795B2	Downlink control channel encryption for jamming resilience Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The methods, systems, and devices may employ mechanisms for encrypting downlink control channels for jamming resilience. The methods, systems, and devices may include or may be configured to generate and receive a security configuration, obtain a downlink control channel encryption key, transmit a control channel message, and decrypt the transmitted messaged based on the encryption key.
US10135791B2	Secure communications with internet-enabled devices A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.
US10135785B2	Network security system to intercept inline domain name system requests Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a network security system. The network security system intercepts inline DNS requests. It is determined whether a domain name associated with one of the inline DNS requests corresponds with one or more domain names. A security action is performed based on the determination.
US10135783B2	Method and apparatus for maintaining network communication during email data transfer Methods and apparatus provide for network communication to be maintained during transfer of email data between two devices. In one aspect a method includes receiving a request via a network connection with a mobile device for email data, determining a network timeout value of the request from the mobile device, producing the email data in response to receiving the request, in parallel with the production of the email data and while the processing of the email data is incomplete, determining an interval less than the network timeout value of the request, and sending a portion of a response to the request over the network connection to the mobile device at the interval, completing the response to the mobile device over the network connection in response to completion of the production of the email data.
US10135778B2	Custom encoded messages amongst a customized social group A system and method for sending custom encoded messages amongst a customized social group. A selection of intended recipients within a subgroup from a list of contacts is received on a client device. It is determined whether all of the selected recipients are capable of receiving a custom encoded message. If it is negative, the method includes sending an invitation email to one or more of the selected recipients. If it is affirmative: the method includes receiving a message from the user intended for the selected recipient. An assignment of a graphical symbol to an alphabet is received from the user. The assignment associating with all of the intended recipients is stored in a memory of the client device. The assignment and the message are transmitted to a remote processor for converting the message to the custom encoded message based on the assignment and transmitting them to the device.
US10135777B2	Leveraging an internet of things to initiate a physical object to perform a specific act that enhances an interaction of a user with the physical object A first community Internet of Things (IoT) concentrator can receive first data corresponding to an interaction of a user with at least one of a first plurality of physical objects, the first plurality of physical objects communicatively linked to one another within a first device domain. Responsive to receiving the first data corresponding to the interaction of the user with the at least one of the first of the plurality of physical objects, the first community IoT concentrator or a second IoT concentrator can initiate, based at least in part on the first data, at least one of a second plurality of physical objects to perform a specific act that enhances an interaction of the user with the at least one of the second plurality of physical objects. The second plurality of physical objects can be communicatively linked to one another within a second device domain.
US10135774B2	Methods and apparatus for targeting communications using social network metrics A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social network relationship factors for the second group of users with respect to the first user, and providing the communication to at least a subset of users in the second group of users in response to the first plurality of social network relationship factors.
US10135773B2	Communications system An electronic communications method includes receiving, by an electronic communications platform, a request to create an electronic communications event. The electronic communications platform is electronically operating within a client device. The electronic communications method also includes requesting, by the electronic communications platform, content associated with the electronic communications event. The electronic communications method also receiving, by the electronic communications platform, the content, wherein the content includes a photo, a title, text, and a time limit for interacting with the electronic communications event. The electronic communications method also includes electronically generating and posting, by the electronic communications platform, an electronic communications post associated with the electronic communications event, based on the received content.
US10135772B2	Systems and methods for message prompting Systems and methods are provided for message prompting. For example, a communication client corresponding to a first user acquires a first communication message pushed by a communication server; the communication client acquires avatar information of a second user related to the first communication message; and the communication client displays a prompt of the first communication message in a preset prompting area, wherein the prompt contains the avatar information of the second user.
US10135769B2	Electronic communication system An electronic communication system for sending, receiving, storing, organizing, displaying, and sharing electronic messages and content (e.g., text, image, audio, and video) is described. The electronic communication system provides a platform where users can communicate and share information with each other. For example, a user can create a conversation thread and invite other users to join the thread. They can send messages and other content via the thread and protect them by assigning different confidentiality levels and expiration restrictions. Furthermore, the electronic communication system provides a “two-dimensional” messaging mechanism, through which a user can select a particular message communicated with another user in a first Thread to follow up on that particular message with the same other user in a new Thread.
US10135768B2	Method and computer-readable recording medium for managing sent message in messenger server A method and computer readable recording medium having a program for managing sent messages in a messenger server includes receiving a message to be transmitted to a user terminal associated with a user account, the message received from a second user terminal associated with a second user account, inserting into the message information indicating an inactive status, and transmitting the message including the information to the user terminal, wherein the information causes the user terminal to disable a message notification function.
US10135767B2	Method and system for sender-controlled messaging and content sharing An access-control device that controls access to encrypted messages. During operation, the access-control device can receive an access key for a corrupted message, and can receive a cover message digest associated with the corrupted message. The access-control device stores the access key in association with the cover message digest, and stores the cover message digest in a block chain. A respective block of the block chain includes at least one cover message digest, and a hash value of a previous block of the block chain.
US10135758B2	Chip and transmission scheduling method A chip is provided, where the chip is formed by packaging at least two dies, and the at least two dies form at least one die group. The die group includes a first die and a second die. A first processing unit and n groups of ports are disposed on the first die, and a second processing unit and m groups of ports are disposed on the second die. The first processing unit is configured to: switch at least one group of first type ports in the n groups of ports from input to output and switch a second type port that is in the m groups of ports and that is coupled to each group of the first type ports from output to input.
US10135753B2	System to share network bandwidth among competing applications The present invention pertains to the allocation of bandwidth on a global large scale network. Systems and methods are provided to base bandwidth allocation on the predicted bandwidth demands of the network users. In allocating bandwidth, each user is assigned a user weight value, and is to be allocated bandwidth in proportion to that value. In addition, the bandwidth allocation is enforced so as to ensure that bandwidth allocation policies are maintained.
US10135746B2	Cross-session network communication configuration In a general aspect, a method for data communication over a data channel on a data path between a first node and a second node includes maintaining data characterizing one or more current or previous data communication connections traversing the data channel and initiating a new data communication connection between the first node and the second node including configuring the new data communication connection at least in part according to the maintained data.
US10135742B2	Data transmission apparatus and method Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission apparatus and method. The data transmission apparatus includes: a processor, configured to, record a link quality indication value corresponding to received data and add 1 to a count value, if the data is received within a preset period of time; if it is learned by comparison that the count value is not less than a quantity N of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in a current period, calculate an average value of link quality indication values; and compare the average value with a threshold to determine a quantity of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in a next period The apparatus also includes a transceiver, configured to reply with a periodicity acknowledgment frame that carries the quantity of pieces of data allowed to be transmitted in the next period.
US10135740B2	Method and apparatus for limiting rate by means of token bucket, and computer storage medium Provided is a token-bucket-based rate limiting method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes that: network node equipment acquires a token bucket parameter according to an attribute of a message, then obtains a current token amount according to a time threshold and the token bucket parameter, compares the current token amount with a current message length, and processes the message according to a comparison result.
US10135735B2	Method and system for managing flows in a network A method for managing flows in a network with a plurality of forwarding elements routing the flows between network entities of a network or network domain includes marking flows between network entities with congestion information by at least one of the forwarding elements such that the highest congestion level prevailing on the respective flow path is indicated, identifying locations of one or more possible and/or present bottlenecks and/or congestions in the network based on the congestion information, and performing one or more actions to avoid, mitigate, and/or resolve the identified possible and/or present bottlenecks and/or congestions.
US10135733B2	Receiver circuit, related integrated circuit and apparatus A receiver circuit extracts data from a serial data signal. The serial data signal contains a data packet having a first format with a first number of bits or a second format with a second number of bits based on a selection signal. The second format comprises the bits of the first format followed by one or more additional bits. The receiver circuit has at least one shift register having a total number of bits equal or greater than the number of bits of the second format and a switching circuit that selectively connects the serial data signal to one of the shift register serial inputs as a function of the selection signal. When the first format is selected and the respective bits received, the bits are stored in given positions of the one or more shift registers. The switching circuit also, when the second format is selected and the respective bits received, stores the bits of the first format included at the beginning of the second format in the same given positions of the one or more shift registers.
US10135731B2	Remote memory access functionality in a cluster of data processing nodes A server apparatus comprises a plurality of server on a chip (SoC) nodes interconnected to each other through a node interconnect fabric. Each one of the SoC nodes has respective memory resources integral therewith. Each one of the SoC nodes has information computing resources accessible by one or more data processing systems. Each one of the SoC nodes configured with memory access functionality enabling allocation of at least a portion of said memory resources thereof to one or more other ones of the SoC nodes and enabling allocation of at least a portion of said memory resources of one or more other ones of the SoC nodes thereto based on a workload thereof.
US10135725B2	Data packet forwarding method, apparatus, and system A data packet forwarding solution, which relates to the field of network transmission. A virtual switch in the solution saves a flow entry as an aging flow entry deleted from a flow table in a switch, and receives a reporting data packet generated according to a forwarding data packet when the forwarding data packet fails to match each flow entry in the flow table in the switch and a secure channel between the switch and the controller is faulty, delivers an aging flow entry matching the reporting data packet from an aging flow table to the switch, where the aging flow table includes one or more flow entries that are deleted as aging flow entries from a flow table in the switch.
US10135721B2	Apparatus and method for synchronized networks An apparatus and method for network routing is provided. Synchronized networks are disclosed which enable fast connection set up and release in a tiered hierarchy of circuit switched nodes. Nodes in the network can aggregate and disaggregate data according to a transform algorithm allowing for dynamic frame and frame segment sizing. Connections within the network can be organized by paired connections performing aggregation and disaggregation according to control vectors.
US10135720B2	System and method for virtual multipath data transport A computer system splits data to be transmitted into a plurality of reliable connections which are multiplexed through a smaller number of unacknowledged connections, such as connections that do not require acknowledgment and which may be VPN tunnels. A receiver then demultiplexes data received to obtain data flows over the reliable connections and transmits separate acknowledgements for each reliable connection. The computer system demultiplexes the acknowledgments and provides them to the corresponding reliable connections, which then retransmit any unacknowledged data. Delivery controllers executing on the computer system may be coupled to corresponding controllers executing on the receiver, with traffic between the delivery controllers (payload and acknowledgments) being multiplexed over one or more unacknowledged connections. In some embodiments, acknowledgments may be transmitted over a connection that is not multiplexed over the unacknowledged connections.
US10135716B2	Latency optimized segment routing tunnels A method and related apparatus for providing latency optimized segment routing tunnels is described herein and includes obtaining a latency metric for each segment that links respective pairs of nodes in a network, determining a tunnel through the network between a first endpoint and a second endpoint that is optimized for latency, and, once such a tunnel is determined, causing a packet to travel along the tunnel that is optimized for latency by encoding the packet with segment routing instructions for the network, wherein the network is configured to provide shortest paths according to a metric other than latency.
US10135715B2	Buffer flush optimization in Ethernet ring protection networks A method and system for buffer flush optimization in Ethernet ring protection (ERP) networks includes generating ERP control messages to include a sub-ring identifier (SUB RING ID) and a topology change notification sequence number (TCN#). When the ERP control messages are received with the sub-ring SUB RING ID and the TCN#, the recipient is enabled to disambiguate multiple redundant ERP control messages. Additionally, a do not flush attribute bit is set for subsequently sent ERP control messages.
US10135709B1	Tracking work in an asynchronous application or service during load testing Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for evaluating an asynchronous application using a test framework. The test framework may perform a load test of an asynchronous application or service composed from a collection of applications or services. To do so, the test framework may submit transactions to a distributed application at a specified transaction rate and monitor how the distributed application operates at that transaction rate. An aggregate load test component may evaluate the remaining work pending at work accumulation points of the distributed application to determine whether the distributed application can sustain the specified transaction rate. A transaction tracking component may initiate transactions to generate load at the specified transaction rate without blocking while the transactions are processed by the distributed application.
US10135704B2	Identification of candidate problem network entities The detection of network communication problems in networks that have multiple end nodes, and multiple transit nodes in between. One or more of the end nodes monitors one or more flows, creates associated flow information including performance information for each flow, and then reports the flow information. A system then estimates, for each of multiple flows within the network, a likely path that network traffic takes through that network. The system might then use performance information for each of the reported flows to identify at least one candidate problem network entity that is common amongst the estimated paths of the at least the subset of the plurality of flows.
US10135703B1	Generating creation performance metrics for a secondary index of a table A data storage system may implement generating creation performance metrics for a secondary index of a table. Metrics may be collected from different partitions of a table and different partitions of a secondary index in a table store upon initiating creation of the secondary index for the table that utilize provisioned resources for creating the secondary index. The metrics may be analyzed to generate performance metrics for the creation of the table. The performance metrics may be provided to clients of the data store or to monitoring systems. Monitoring systems may send performance event notifications to clients or automatically perform modifications to the provisioned throughput capacity.
US10135701B2	Context-aware virtualized control decision support system for providing quality of experience assurance for internet protocol streaming video services Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-aware virtualized control decision support system (“DSS”) for providing quality of experience (“QoE”) assurance for Internet protocol (“IP”) streaming video services. A QoE assurance DSS can monitor QoE event and context data to be utilized for QoE assurance analytics, measure QoE performance, perform QoE assurance analytics, and determine whether the QoE assurance analytics indicate that the QoE has been degraded, and if so, construct a fault correlation information model to be utilized for root cause analysis to determine a root cause of the QoE being degraded. The QoE assurance DSS also can determine, based upon the fault correlation information model, whether the root cause of the QoE being degraded is due to a capacity reduction, and if so, the QoE assurance DSS can identify a new network resource for capacity reallocation to accommodate a virtual machine migration.
US10135700B2	Enterprise application integration on client computing devices Systems and methods of facilitating computer telephone integration between customer relationship management (CRM) applications on client computing devices in a contact center environment are provided. A client computing device in the contact center environment can include a processor and memory. The client computing device can have a user workstation including a contact toolbar application and a CRM application to provide computer telephony integration data for display by the client computing device. The contact toolbar application can provide a connection point within the user workstation. The user workstation can establish an integration channel over a data network via the connection point between the contact toolbar application and the CRM application for real time exchange of the computer telephony integration data between the contact toolbar application and the CRM application.
US10135699B2	Symmetric coherent request/response policy enforcement A set of service level agreement (SLA) policies and service level definition (SLD) policies that are applied to a request message of a correlated request/response message pair are tracked. A response message of the correlated request/response message pair is detected. A corresponding set of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules that are used to enforce the set of SLA policies and SLD policies on the response message are identified using the tracked set of SLA policies and SLD policies applied to the request message. The set of SLA policies and SLD policies are enforced on the response message using the identified corresponding set of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules.
US10135697B2	Multi-level peering in a content delivery framework A computer-implemented method is operable in a network comprising multiple delivery service endpoints running on a plurality of devices where each of the delivery service endpoints is constructed and adapted to deliver resources. A plurality of the delivery service endpoints comprise a group, wherein each node in the group has at least one kind of responsibility relating to delivery of resources. The method includes receiving a request at a node; and, based on what kind of responsibility the node has for the request, attempting to process the request outside the group.
US10135696B2	Control and monitoring of battery-backed emergency lighting systems The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.
US10135693B2	System and method for monitoring performance of applications for an entity Embodiments of present disclosure disclose a method for monitoring performance of applications for an entity. The method comprises retrieving performance information associated with an application from one or more sources. Then, performance of the application is analyzed using the retrieved performance information. Then, the method comprises identifying one or more entity variables affecting the performance of the application from the analyzed performance of the application. Then, at least one of trends of the performance of the application, deviations in the performance of the application, performance data related to the performance of the application and prediction data related to predicted performance of the application is determined based on the identification for monitoring the performance of the application for the entity.
US10135689B2	Position parameterized recursive network architecture with topological addressing A digital data communications network that supports efficient, scalable routing of data and use of network resources by combining a recursive division of the network into hierarchical sub-networks with repeating parameterized general purpose link communication protocols and an addressing methodology that reflects the physical structure of the underlying network hardware. The sub-division of the network enhances security by reducing the amount of the network visible to an attack and by insulating the network hardware itself from attack. The fixed bandwidth range at each sub-network level allows quality of service to be assured and controlled. The routing of data is aided by a topological addressing scheme that allows data packets to be forwarded towards their destination based on only local knowledge of the network structure, with automatic support for mobility and multicasting. The repeating structures in the network greatly simplify network management and reduce the effort to engineer new network capabilities.
US10135686B2	Communication interface An interface for communicating between two device is provided that includes an interface input for receiving an input signal as well as a comparator circuit coupled to the interface input. The comparator circuit is adapted to provide a clock signal and a data signal based on the input signal to a first memory device having a first input for receiving the data signal and a second input for receiving the clock signal.
US10135685B2	Undoing changes made to a communication network Systems and methods for undoing changes or modifications made to a communication network are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a request to rollback one or more changes made to parameters of managed objects associated with a communication network within a given time period, retrieve information identifying the one or more changes made to the parameters of the managed objects within the given time period, and, for each managed object, determine a cumulative changetype (e.g., add, deleted, or update) associated with the one or more changes made to the parameters of the managed object and perform an action to apply the determined cumulative changetype to the managed object.
US10135683B1	Dynamically generating application-layer traffic optimization protocol endpoint attributes In general, techniques are described for dynamically generating attributes from routing topology information and assigning dynamically generated attributes to network map entries to further characterize PIDs described therein. For example, a provider or other entity assigns, within a network device, endpoint types to one or more address prefixes for which the network device originates or forwards route advertisements. For each typed prefix, the network device adds an endpoint type identifier for the assigned endpoint type to route advertisements that traverse or originate with the network device and specify the prefix. An ALTO server peers with router advertisers to receive route advertisements. When the ALTO server receives a route advertisement that includes an endpoint type identifier, the ALTO server maps the endpoint type identifier to a PID attribute and assigns the PID attribute to a PID that includes a prefix identified in the route advertisement.
US10135682B2	Method and system for service group management in a cable network A cable modem termination system (CMTS) may determine, for a plurality of cable modems served by the CMTS, a corresponding plurality of SNR-related metrics. The CMTS may assigning the modems among a plurality of service groups based on the SNR-related metrics. For any one of the modems, the CMTS may configure physical layer communication parameters to be used by the one of the modems based on a SNR-related metric of a service group to which the one of the modems is assigned. The physical layer communication parameters may include one or more of: transmit power, receive sensitivity, timeslot duration, modulation type, modulation order, forward error correction (FEC) type, and FEC code rate. The CMTS and the modems may communicate using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) over a plurality of subcarriers, and the physical layer communication parameters may be determined on a per-subcarrier basis.
US10135680B2	Assessing computing environment changes using specification documents According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes an environment specification document that specifies a proposed configuration of a full-stack environment for a computing system and that describes infrastructure, middleware, and application elements. The system correlates the environment specification document with an environment instantiated on the computing system from the environment specification document. The system determines an impact of changes in the proposed configuration on the environment instantiated on the computing system, and configures the computing system in accordance with the proposed configuration based on the determined impact. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing an environment specification document in substantially the same manners described above.
US10135677B1	Deployment of network-related features over cloud network Briefly, methods and/or apparatuses of virtual deployment of network-related features are disclosed.
US10135676B2	Using transactions to minimize churn in a distributed network control system A particular network controller receives a first set of inputs from the first controller and a second set of inputs from the second controller. The particular controller then starts to compute a set of outputs using the first set of inputs. After a failure of the first controller, the particular controller receives a third set of inputs from the second controller. The third set of inputs and the first or second set of inputs makes up a group of inputs for being processed together and separately from another group of inputs. The particular controller then receives an indicator from the second controller, which indicates that all inputs of the group of inputs have arrived at the particular controller. After receiving the indicator and after computing the set of outputs completely, the particular controller sends the set of outputs to a fourth controller or to a managed forwarding element.
US10135673B2	Communicating data associated with different personas of a user An electronic device has a plurality of environments including respective communication stacks. The environments correspond to respective different user personas. Data associated with the different user personas are communicated in corresponding separate transport flows over the network.
US10135671B2	Policy-based M2M terminal device monitoring and control method and device The present document discloses a method and device for monitoring and controlling an M2M terminal device based on a policy. An M2M platform obtains a state monitoring and control policy, stores a state control policy of the state monitoring and control policy, issues a state monitoring policy of the state monitoring and control policy, receives reported state information, and triggers a state control operation according to the state information and the state control policy. An M2M terminal device receives the state monitoring policy, triggers a state monitoring operation according to the state monitoring policy, reports monitored state information, receives operation information, and executes the state control operation according to the operation information.
US10135661B2	Phase noise estimation and cancellation Phase noise estimation and cancellation as disclosed herein may allow cost-efficient increase of capacity in communications by enabling very high QAM levels. The proposed solution is potentially applicable to any single carrier applications where phase noise is a limiting factor and a required order of modulation is very high. For example, disclosed embodiments may enable high QAM levels for microwave backhauls despite severe phase noise sensitivity. One embodiment involves a pilot-aided and BCJR-based sequential search algorithm that accurately estimates and subtracts fast-varying phase noise symbol-by-symbol. Residual BER performance is evaluated under the most challenging phase noise scenarios. FPGA emulation results show detection and removal of a significant amount of phase noise and zero BER performance even for complex 1K-QAM and above.
US10135660B1	Sampling frequency offset tracking based on decision feedback channel estimation A Sampling Frequency Offset (SFO) tracking and estimation circuit performs SFO compensation on incoming data. A SFO acquisition module makes an initial coarse estimate using a Network Time Base (NTB) from the Media-Access-Controller (MAC) layer, or from the physical layer using adjacent synchronization symbols. A preamble channel estimator compares a frequency-domain preamble symbol to a reference symbol to generate a first channel estimate. As additional symbols are received, converted to the frequency domain, demodulated, and error corrected, the resulting data are re-error-encoded and compared to the same symbol stored before error correction and demodulation to generate a decision feedback channel estimate. The conjugate of the decision feedback channel estimate is multiplied by the last channel estimate to generate a new SFO estimate that is scaled by a filter constant and used to adjust SFO compensation. Each symbol generates a new estimate without using pilots.
US10135659B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals A method and apparatus are provided for receiving/transmitting broadcast signals. One method includes receiving broadcast signals; demodulating the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, wherein signal frames in the received broadcast signals include physical signaling data and service data; MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) processing the demodulated broadcast signals based on at least one of a phase-hopping matrix with a phase rotation angle and a rotation matrix with a rotation angle, wherein a value of the rotation angle depends on a modulation order and a code rate of the service data; demapping data in the MIMO processed broadcast signals; and decoding the demapped data based on the code rate, wherein when the modulation order is Non-Uniform Constellation (NUC) 16 Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and the code rate is one of 2/15, 3/15, 4/15, or 5/15, then the value of the rotation angle is zero degrees.
US10135658B2	Method and apparatus for reception of control signaling A method and apparatus provide reception of control signaling in a wireless communication network. A preamble transmission can be detected from a second device in a first set of at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol starting with a first OFDM symbol in a subframe received on a secondary serving cell operating on an unlicensed carrier, the first OFDM symbol having a first Cyclic Prefix (CP). A second OFDM symbol in the subframe can be determined such that the second OFDM symbol immediately follows the first set of OFDM symbols. Downlink Control Information (DCI) containing a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource assignment can be decoded in a second set of OFDM symbols beginning with the second OFDM symbol, the second set of OFDM symbols having a second CP. The duration of the first CP is larger than the duration of the second CP.
US10135656B2	Transmitter and method of transmitting A transmitter transmitting payload data using OFDM symbols includes a frame builder configured to receive the payload data and to receive signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and to form the payload data and the signalling data into frames for transmission. A modulator can modulate a first OFDM symbol with the signalling data forming a first of the frames and modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data forming one or more other frames, and a transmission unit transmits the first and second OFDM symbols. The first OFDM symbol is combined before transmission with a signature sequence that can be configured to allow for detection of the first OFDM symbol at the receiver and decoding the signalling data before the one or more second OFDM symbols carrying the payload data and at lower signal to noise ratios.
US10135655B2	Indication information transmission method and apparatus The present disclosure discloses an indication information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a first signature sequence and a first modulation constellation that are used to transmit an uplink data stream by a terminal device; determining indication information that is used to indicate the first signature sequence and the first modulation constellation; and transmitting the indication information to the terminal device. In this way, a system network capacity can be effectively increased.
US10135653B2	System and method for communication using ambient communication devices Interactive communication devices in communication with a central server support ambient communications between two or more remotely located users. Each device has a sensor and a feedback device. The sensors allow the device to sense ‘outgoing’ interaction (e.g., a squeeze or hug), and the feedback devices allow the device to demonstrate ‘incoming’ interactions. A central device is activated when someone interacts with any of the other devices within the network. The other devices in the network—the peripheral devices—are activated both when the interaction originates from the central device as well as from the other peripheral devices. When the server determines that a user has interacted with one of the devices, messages are sent to other devices in the network to reflect the user interaction. The communication devices allow the users in the network to send messages to each other by simply squeezing their respective devices.
US10135652B2	System and method for setting cyclic prefix length A method for communicating in a wireless communications system includes receiving scheduling information including information for an uplink transmission scheduled for the station, and determining a first length of a first cyclic prefix for a transmission in accordance with the scheduling information. The method also includes transmitting the transmission with the first cyclic prefix.
US10135643B1	Decision feedback equalizer with distributed R-C network An embodiment includes a first feedback tap, a second feedback tap, and a summation circuit. The summation circuit may include a first load and a second load coupled to each other at an internal circuit node, and coupled in series between a power supply node and an output node. The summation circuit may be configured to receive, via a serial communication link, an input signal indicative of a series of data symbols, and to generate an output voltage level on the output node based upon a current data symbol. The first feedback tap, coupled to the output node, may be configured to sink a first current from the output node based upon a first previously received data symbol. The second feedback tap, coupled to an intermediate circuit node, may be configured to sink a second current from the intermediate circuit node based upon a second previously received data symbol.
US10135642B2	Serial link receiver with improved bandwidth and accurate eye monitor A receiver includes a decision circuit, a circuit to adjust an input signal of the decision circuit, a correction circuit and a control circuit. The decision circuit makes a data decision based on an input signal of the decision circuit. The circuit to adjust the input signal of the decision circuit adjusts the input signal of the decision circuit based on an input correction signal. The correction circuit combines a plurality of signals corresponding to different input correction parameters into a preliminary input correction signal. An input of the correction circuit is coupled to an output of the decision circuit. The control circuit maps the preliminary input correction signal into the input correction signal using a nonlinear code mapping.
US10135640B2	System and method for reducing interference from neighboring wireless devices A technique is disclosed for reducing interference in a communication system including a plurality of wireless devices. A first device transmits an RTS-TRN frame including a Request to Send (RTS) portion and a first beam training sequence to determine whether a communication medium is available to communicate with a second device. If the communication medium is available, the second device transmits a CTS-TRN frame including a Clear to Send (CTS) portion and a second beam training sequence. One or more neighboring devices that receive the RTS-TRN frame and/or the CTS-TRN frame configure their respective antennas to generate one or more nulls aimed at the first and second devices when transmitting signals, as long as the first and second devices are communicating based on a duration field in the RTS-TRN frame and/or CTS-TRN frame. This reduces interference at the first and/or second devices.
US10135638B2	Protection of ranging sounding signals from physical level attacks Generally, the described techniques provide for protection mechanisms for sounding training signals transmitted between wireless devices when performing ranging sounding estimation. For example, sounding training signals may be encoded to include a sequence of phase rotations or cyclic shifts to protect the sounding training signal from peer devices. In some cases, encoding information associated with a long training field (LTF) may be transmitted either before or after the LTF is transmitted. Additionally or alternatively, a time delay may be introduced to the sounding training signal, where timing information may be removed from one or more fields of the sounding training signal and the time delay may be appended to an interframe spacing. Alternatively, a frame may be split into multiple frames with the sounding training signal in a first frame, and timing information in a second frame that is offset in time from the first frame.
US10135636B2	Method for generating forwarding information, controller, and service forwarding entity The present application discloses a method for generating forwarding information. The method includes: determining, by a controller, a first SFE and a second SFE that are used to forward a service stream, where the first SFE and the second SFE are on a service function chain corresponding to the service stream; generating, by the controller, first forwarding information for the first SFE and generating second forwarding information for the second SFE; and sending, by the controller, the first forwarding information to the first SFE and sending the second forwarding information to the second SFE. According to the method for generating forwarding information, the controller generates forwarding information for the SFE, so that a service chaining technology can be applied to a service environment in which a large quantity of services and a large quantity of service processing function units exist.
US10135635B2	Encoding control plane information in transport protocol source port field and applications thereof in network virtualization A novel method that uses the source port field in the transport or connection layer (L4) header to encode control plane information is provided. Specifically, the method encodes control plane information in UDP or TCP source port field of data plane tunnels in an overlay network such as VXLAN. Network virtualization is implemented by a network controller over an overlay network on the physical fabric. The network controller provides a mapping table to the data plane hosts for mapping the encoded bits in the source port field to semantically richer information. The data plane hosts in turn uses the encoded source bits and the mapping table to infer this semantically richer information. This semantically richer information is used to allow receivers of proxied traffic to learn the address of the original sender. The semantically richer information can also be used to enable ECMP for the transmitted packets.
US10135633B2	Network security analysis for smart appliances A method and system for detecting malicious behavior from smart appliances within a network. Smart appliances have a certain level of intelligence that allows them to perform a specific role more effectively and conveniently. Network traffic data and appliance identification data is collected about smart appliances within a network. The data is sent to a behavior analysis engine, which computes confidence levels for anomalies within the network traffic that may be caused by malicious behavior. If the behavior analysis engine determines that malicious behavior is present in the network, it sends an instruction to a network traffic hub to block network traffic relating to the anomaly. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked based on source-destination pairs. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked from a device outside the network that is determined to be malicious.
US10135627B2	System for avoiding traffic flooding due to asymmetric MAC learning and achieving predictable convergence for PBB-EVPN active-active redundancy In one example, a method includes performing L2 learning of a C-MAC address included in a first L2 data message by a first provider edge (PE) router included in an Ethernet Segment of a Provider-Backbone Bridging Ethernet Virtual Private Network (PBB-EVPN); sending to a second PE router within the Ethernet Segment an L2 control message comprising the C-MAC address and a B-MAC address corresponding to the Ethernet Segment of the PBB-EVPN, wherein the L2 control message informs the second PE router of the reachability of the C-MAC address through the first PE router; receiving, by the first PE router and from the second PE router, a second L2 data message as unicast traffic destined for the C-MAC address; and forwarding the second L2 data message to the first CE router.
US10135621B2	Method to reduce the latency of ECDSA signature generation using precomputation In order to reduce latency of elliptical curve digital signature generation a portion of the digital signature is pre-calculated before receipt of the message hash using an unmodified ECDSA computing engine. After the message hash is received, the digital signature is completed without using the ECDSA computing engine. Applications include generating digital signatures for the safety messages in Intelligent Transport Systems.
US10135620B2	Managing secure content in a content delivery network A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing secure content by CDN service providers are provided. A network storage provider stores one or more resources on behalf of a content provider. A CDN service provider obtains client computing device requests for secure content. Based on processing first signature information, the CDN service provider determines whether the secure content is available to the client computing device. If the CDN service provider does not maintain the requested content, the CDN service provider transmits a request to the network storage provider. Based on second signature information and an identifier associated with the CDN service provider, the network storage provider processes the request based policy information associated with the identifier.
US10135617B2	Device and method for managing electronic facilities of buildings A device and a method for managing electronic facilities of buildings. The device may include one or more interface elements for connecting the device to one or more electronic facilities of a building, a connection element for the connection of a portable storage device, and a control unit for reading files from the portable storage device, in which the reading of the files from the portable storage device is based on cryptography techniques, and in which the control unit is adapted to operate the electronic facilities by means of the interface elements on the basis of the result of the reading of the files from the portable storage device. The device according to the present disclosure enables a user to manage various types of electronic facilities of buildings simultaneously in a simple manner and by using a single portable storage device.
US10135616B2	Revocation of cryptographic keys in the absence of a trusted central authority A method and apparatus are presented for revoking cryptographic keys within a distributed ledger system in which no central trusted authority is available. A key revocation message is sent by a network connected device to other network connected devices over a peer-to-peer network for inclusion in a ledger. In one embodiment the revocation message is signed using a private key of a public/private key pair to be revoked. In another embodiment an authorization for future revocation of the public/private key pair by a plurality of other public/private keys is sent for inclusion in the ledger, and subsequently the key revocation message is signed with one of the private keys of the plurality of other public/private key pairs before sending the key revocation message. Once a valid key revocation message is included in the ledger, any future request to include a message signed by a cryptographic key revoked by the valid key revocation message is rejected.
US10135615B2	Voltage and temperature compensated device for physically unclonable function Systems and methods for providing assistance for performing a physically unclonable function (PUF) are provided. Disclosed systems can include a PUF bitcell including at least two voltage-compensated proportional-to-absolute (PTAT) generators, each of which can be configured to generate a first voltage and a second voltage that is different from the first voltage by a voltage difference. The voltage difference can be resistant to temperature variations and variations, if any, in the supply voltage. The system can further include a comparator, which can be electrically coupled to each of the at least two PTAT generators, and can be configured to receive the first voltage and the second voltage generated therefrom, determine a polarity of each of the voltage differences, and generate a random bit.
US10135613B2	Method and apparatus for generating a privilege-based key Disclosed is a method for generating a privilege-based key using a computer. In the method, a privilege is received from an application, and verified as being associated with the application. The computer cryptographically generates a second key using a first key and the privilege. The second key is provided to the application.
US10135605B2	Clock data recovery circuit and receiver including the same A clock data recovery circuit configured to generate frequency step that is uniform regardless of operational conditions of the clock data recovery circuit.
US10135603B2	Carrier frequency offset tracking circuit and method A carrier frequency offset (CFO) tracking circuit includes: a CFO estimation circuit, generating an estimated CFO signal; a loop filter, coupled to the CFO estimation circuit, performing a loop filter operation on the estimated CFO signal according to an initial value to generate a loop filtered result; and an averaging circuit, coupled to the CFO estimation circuit and the loop filter, performing an average operation on the estimated CFO signal to generate the initial value as an average of the estimated CFO signal.
US10135602B2	Method, apparatus, and system for time synchronization of XDSL The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for time synchronization of an xDSL. The method includes: transmitting, by a customer premises equipment, a first symbol to a central office equipment, and obtaining time Ts2 indicating the moment that the first symbol is transmitted; receiving, by the CPE, a second symbol transmitted by the CO, and obtaining time Ts1 indicating the moment that the second symbol is received; obtaining, by the CPE obtains time Tm2 indicating the moment that the first symbol is received by the CO and time Tm1 indicating the moment that the second symbol is transmitted by the CO; the CPE calculates an offset between a clock of the CPE and a clock of the CO according to Ts1, Ts2, Tm1 and Tm2; and the CPE adjusts the clock of the CPE according to the offset to achieve synchronization.
US10135600B2	Multiplexers There is disclosed herein multiplexer circuitry. In particular, there is disclosed a latch circuit for use as a multiplexer to multiplex information carried by respective pairs of input information signals onto an output information signal, each pair of input information signals comprising a first input information signal and a second input information signal, and each pair of input information signals carrying information values based on signal values of those input information signals and interleaved with information values carried by the other pair or pairs of input information signals.
US10135598B2	Joint parameter determination and separate cqi generation reporting for LTE-A multicarrier Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for determining and reporting channel information feedback for multi-carrier operation. In one aspect, channel information feedback parameters may be determined jointly across component carriers, and channel information feedback reports may be generated and reported individually per component carrier.
US10135596B2	Narrow band ACK / NACK transmissions The present disclosure provides various modifications to existing techniques for transmitting ACK and/or NACK in an narrow band communications system. For example, in a first aspect, an apparatus receives a downlink transmission and transmits a single tone ACK on an ACK channel using time-spreading. In another aspect, an apparatus determines whether an ACK has been received from a UE within a threshold amount of time, and when an ACK has not been received from the UE for at least the threshold amount of time, transmitting an indication to the UE to transmit regarding the ACK.
US10135595B2	Uplink control information (UCI) mapping indicator for long term evolution (LTE) carrier aggregation A system and method to instruct a User Equipment (UE) how Uplink Control Information (UCI) on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) should be transmitted with carrier aggregation. A semi-static signaling of a UCI mapping bit (via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter) is used by a base station such as an eNodeB to require the UE to transmit UCI using one of two pre-determined UCI transmission modes. The bit can be decided by the base station, considering, for example, the available bandwidth or quality of different Uplink Component Carriers (UL CCs) associated with the UE. This network-based solution allows the network to either configure a general rule of UCI transmission by the UE or to enforce the UCI transmission on the Uplink Primary cell (UL Pcell). Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US10135592B2	Terminal apparatus and method for transmitting a reference signal Provided are a radio communication terminal apparatus and a radio transmission method by which intersymbol interference of DM-RS of a CoMP terminal and a Non-CoMP terminal can be reduced. A CoMP set setting unit (102) sets the cell IDs of all cells in the CoMP set in a cell selection unit (104), and a serving cell setting unit (103) sets the cell ID of the serving cell in the cell selection unit (104). The cell selection unit (104) selects the cell ID having a number closest to the cell ID of the serving cell from the cells in the CoMP set. A sequence information calculation unit (106) derives a sequence group number from the selected cell ID, and the sequence information calculation unit (106) calculates a sequence number from the derived sequence group number and a transmission bandwidth of the DM-RS.
US10135590B2	Method and apparatus for configuring long training field in wireless local network system Provided is a method and an apparatus of configuring a LTF sequence in a wireless LAN system. In specific, a transmitting apparatus configures a LTF sequence of a second wireless LAN system by using a LTF sequence of a first wireless LAN system. The transmitting apparatus transmits the LTF sequence of the second wireless LAN system via a PPDU including a first field region and a second field region. The LTF sequence of the second wireless LAN system includes a first LTF sequence obtained by up-scaling a frequency index of the LTF sequence of the first wireless LAN system by four times and a second LTF sequence obtained by adding a frequency index which an optimized coefficient is applied. A phase rotation is applied to the LTF sequence of first wireless LAN system as per a first frequency band.
US10135584B2	Communication control apparatus, communication control method, communication system, and wireless terminal There is provided a communication control apparatus including a communication controller that controls cooperative communication linked to other communication control apparatuses depending on whether the communication control apparatus or the other communication control apparatuses perform terminal grouping to distinguish an operation to a specific wireless terminal and to other wireless terminals.
US10135581B2	Method, UE and basestation for reporting/receiving HARQ ACK/NACK for PDSCH in dynamic TDD configurations The present disclosure relates to a method used in a User Equipment (UE) for reporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/non-acknowledgement (NACK) for Physical Downlink Shared Channels (PDSCHs) in dynamic time division duplex (TDD) configurations. In the method, a plurality of PDSCHs are received in DownLink (DL) subframes associated with an UpLink (UL) subframe and indicated by a DL reference TDD configuration. The DL subframes are divided into a first subset of DL subframes and a second subset of DL subframes. The first subset of DL subframes is also indicated by an UL reference TDD configuration. A first set of Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource indices are assigned based on resources used in transmission of Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) corresponding to the PDSCHs received in the DL subframes of the first subset of DL subframes. A second set of PUCCH resource indices are assigned based on resources used in transmission of PDCCHs corresponding to the PDSCHs received in the DL subframes of the second subset of DL subframes. For each of the received PDSCHs, HARQ ACK/NACK is reported by using PUCCH resources in an order of the assigned first set of PUCCH resource indices for PDSCHs received in the DL subframes of the first subset of DL subframes and in an order of the assigned second set of PUCCH resource indices for PDSCHs received in the DL subframes of the second subset of DL subframes. The present disclosure also relates to a UE and BS for respectively reporting and receiving HARQ ACK/NACK for PDSCHs in TDD configurations.
US10135580B2	Apparatus and method for retransmission in a wireless communication system An apparatus and method for retransmission in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting data to a Mobile Station (MS), identifying if there is an error in the transmitted data through a control message, if there occurs an error in the data, allocating resources for retransmitting data for erroneous data, transmitting information on the resources allocated for retransmission, to the MS, and retransmitting the data for the erroneous data to the MS.
US10135578B2	Method of re-transmitting data and electronic device therefor Disclosed is a first electronic device and the first electronic device includes: a transmitter transmitting data to a second electronic device; a receiver receiving a feed-back (hereinafter, referred to as a first feed-back) for the transmitted data from the second electronic device; and a processor deciding whether to transmit the data again or another data to the second electronic device, based on the first feed-back, in which when the first feed-back is negative, the transmitter retransmits the data under a predetermined condition, and when a feed-back (hereinafter, referred to as a second feed-back) received from the second electronic device is negative with respect to the data retransmitted under the predetermined condition, the transmitter re-retransmits at least a part of the data to the second electronic device.
US10135575B2	Base station, user equipment, and adaptive retransmission method The present application relates to a base station, user equipment, and an adaptive retransmission method. The base station includes a sending unit, configured to send a data packet to user equipment by using a radio resource on a first frequency band, The base station also includes a receiving unit, configured to receive feedback information sent by the user equipment, where the feedback information is used to indicate whether the data packet is successfully sent. The sending unit is further configured to, if the feedback information indicates that the data packet fails to be sent, send the data packet to the user equipment by using a radio resource on a second frequency band. The first frequency band and the second frequency band have an overlapping coverage area, and the user equipment is within the overlapping coverage area.
US10135572B2	Physical layer frame format for WLAN In a method for generating a data unit conforming to a first communication protocol, a first field and a second field to be included in a preamble of the data unit are generated. The first field includes a first set of one or more information bits that indicate a duration of the data unit and is formatted such that the first field allows a receiver device that conforms to a second communication protocol to determine the duration of the data unit. The second field includes a second set of one or more information bits that indicate to a receiver device that conforms to the first communication protocol that the data unit conforms to the first communication protocol. The first field and the second field are modulated using a modulation scheme specified for a field corresponding to the first field and the second field, respectively, by the second communication protocol.
US10135570B2	PHY error indication messaging This disclosure introduces an advancement to the error indication message to provide detailed information about errors in configurations that are arriving from the Layer 2 to the Layer 1. A method is disclosed, comprising: performing physical layer control (PHY) of a wireless signal at a Layer 1 (L1) software module; performing medium access control (MAC) of the wireless signal at a Layer 2 (L2) software module; providing an application programming interface between the L1 software module and the L2 software module for receiving L1 configuration messages and providing error codes to the L2 software module; receiving a L1 configuration message at a Layer 1 software module; and providing an enhanced error code progressively from a L1 software module to the Layer 2 (L2) software module.
US10135568B2	Method for transmitting a digital signal for a marc system with a plurality of dynamic half-duplex relays, corresponding program product and relay device A relaying method performed by a half-duplex relay for a telecommunications system includes a reception stage of receiving codewords from sources during N uses of the transmission channel. The successive codewords correspond to B blocks, the first of which can be decoded independently of the other blocks. This stage includes a decoding step of estimating a message from each source based on received codewords. The relay performs an error detection and decision-taking step on messages decoded without error. The relay performs a stage of encoding a signal and forwarding it to a destination. The signal is representative of only messages decoded without error and includes channel encoding by an incremental redundancy code to obtain a channel encoded codeword. The relay passes from non-selective reception to selective reception after receiving B1 blocks and switches from the reception stage to the encoding and forwarding stage under control of the decision step.
US10135566B2	Baseline wander correction A receiver frontend having a high-frequency AC-coupled path in parallel to a low-frequency feed-forward path for baseline correction. The low-frequency path blocks the DC common-mode voltage of the input differential signal pair, but passes low-frequency differential signal components (e.g., long strings of a single value, or disparities in the number of 1's and 0's over a long period of time.) The low-frequency path can include a passive network for level shifting and extending the range of acceptable common-mode input voltages. The low-frequency path can also include a differential (e.g., transconductance) amplifier to isolate the common-mode input voltage from the output of the baseline wander correction circuit.
US10135554B1	Robust super-resolution processing for wireless ranging An interface circuit in an electronic device may receive samples of wireless signals in a time interval, where the wireless signals are associated with the second electronic device. Then, the interface circuit may generate, based at least in part on the samples and a number of paths in a channel in a wireless environment of the electronic device, a signal spectrum corresponding to a set of estimated wireless-communication parameters. Moreover, the interface circuit may select a lower wireless-communication parameter in the set of wireless-communication parameters having an associated regression model with a fit to the signal spectrum that exceeds a statistical confidence threshold. Next, the interface circuit may identify, based at least in part on the selected lower wireless-communication parameter, samples of the wireless signal in the wireless signals associated with the line of sight between the electronic device and the second electronic device.
US10135553B2	Measuring system for over-the-air power measurements A measuring system for measuring a high frequency signal is provided. The measuring system comprises an antenna module, adapted for receiving the high frequency signal. Moreover, the system comprises a detector module adapted for deriving a measuring signal from the high frequency signal. Finally, the system comprises a sensor module adapted for measuring the measuring signal. The sensor module is arranged in a housing, while the detector module is not arranged in the housing. The detector module is connected to the sensor module by a first cable, which is adapted to transmit the measuring signal from the detector module to the sensor module.
US10135552B2	Access point signal estimation Examples relate to access point signal estimation. In one example, a computing device may: receive a first pathloss value in a first frequency, the first pathloss value indicating a difference in transmit power of a particular access point and a received signal strength observed by a first access point; receive a second pathloss value in the first frequency, the second pathloss value indicating a difference in transmit power of the particular access point and a received signal strength observed by a second access point; receive a third pathloss value in a second frequency, the third pathloss value indicating a difference in transmit power of the particular access point and a received signal strength observed by the second access point in the second frequency; and generate, using the first, second, and third pathloss values, an estimated pathloss between the first access point and the particular access point in the second frequency.
US10135551B2	Method of identifying faulty antenna elements in massive uniform linear antenna arrays The method of identifying faulty antenna elements in massive uniform linear antenna arrays is a compressive sensing-based method that takes advantage of the reduction of the measurement matrix for a uniform linear antenna array to a partial discrete Fourier transform (DTF) matrix, whose rows correspond to the measurements' locations. Particularly, the method of identifying faulty antenna elements in massive uniform linear antenna arrays allows the measurements to be taken to reduce the measurement matrix's worst-case coherence, a factor which affects the detection probability of the defective antenna elements. The method constructs a measurement matrix with fewer distinct inner product values to reduce the worst-case coherence. In an alternative embodiment, the method focuses on bounding the inner product between any pair of measurement matrix columns.
US10135550B1	Wireless transmitter calibration A calibration signal is transmitted from a transmitter antenna. A receiver antenna receives a loopback signal that results from an air coupling of the receiver antenna and the transmitter antenna. The loopback signal is compared to a target. If the loopback signal does not meet the target, then a gain of the calibration signal is adjusted and the loopback signal is again checked against the target. When the loopback signal meets the target, the gain is taken as a calibrated transmitter gain.
US10135547B2	Method and system for shortening wireless pairing connection time by detecting an object or body Embodiments of the invention are directed to control devices configured for use with computing devices. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and devices for shortening wireless reconnection time by determining the presence of an object or body near a device. When the control device detects an object or body in proximity to the device, the control device may automatically establish a wireless connection with a host devices, such that when the control device receives any user interactions, the wireless connection has already been established, preventing loss of data.
US10135546B2	Methods and apparatus for inducing a fundamental wave mode on a transmission medium Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for generating electromagnetic waves having a fundamental wave mode, and directing the electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium for guiding propagation of the electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10135545B2	Optical receiver module and optical module An optical receiver module includes a light receiving element that has a first electrode and a second electrode for receiving a bias and converts an optical signal inputted into an electrical signal to output the electrical signal via the first electrode. A signal line extends from the first electrode through the light receiving element-side signal pad and the second wire to the amplifier-side signal pad. A bias line extends from the second electrode through the light receiving element-side bias pad, the first wire, and the third wire to the first and second amplifier-side bias pads. The signal line three-dimensionally intersects with the bias line at an interval in a direction of the loop height of the first wire and that of the second wire.
US10135544B1	Methods and apparatus for radio frequency (RF) photonic spectrometer using optical frequency combs A radio frequency (RF) photonic spectrometer may include a laser and a receiver branch including an optical modulator optically coupled to the laser and configured to modulate laser light based upon a radio frequency (RF) input signal, and an optical bandpass filter optically coupled to the optical modulator. The spectrometer may further include optical comb branches optically coupled to the laser and each including a frequency comb generator coupled to a respective RF reference signal, with the RF reference signals having different frequencies associated therewith. Furthermore, an output stage may be configured to determine a frequency of the RF input signal based upon outputs of the receiver branch and the optical comb branches.
US10135543B2	Clock recovery method, device and system and computer storage medium A clock recovery method is provided. The method has the following operations: performing clock balance pre-filtering on an input time/frequency domain signal according to a self-adaptive balance coefficient input currently, to obtain a balance pre-filtering signal; according to the balance pre-filtering signal, acquiring a phase error of the input time/frequency domain signal; and performing phase adjustment on the input time/frequency domain signal according to the phase error, and outputting a new self-adaptive balance coefficient after self-adaptive balance processing is performed on the phase-adjusted time/frequency domain signal. A clock recovery device and system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also provided.
US10135542B2	Optical modulators An optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device operable to provide a PAM-N modulated output, the device comprising: M optical modulators, M being an integer greater than 1, the M optical modulators being arranged in a cascade, the device being configured to operate in N distinct transmittance states, as a PAM-N modulator, wherein, in each transmittance state of the N distinct transmittance states, each of the M optical modulators has applied to it a respective control voltage equal to one of: a first voltage or a second voltage.
US10135541B1	Analog-to-digital converter using a timing reference derived from an optical pulse train An analog-to-digital converter can produce a digital signal representative of an analog input electrical signal. An optical amplitude modulator can modulate an input optical pulse train using the analog input electrical signal to produce a first modulated optical pulse train. An optical splitter can split the first modulated optical pulse train into a plurality of modulated optical pulse trains. A plurality of detectors can convert the plurality of modulated optical pulse trains into respective modulated voltage pulse trains. A plurality of comparators and a decoder, arranged in a flash converter topology, can receive the modulated voltage pulse trains and output the digital signal representative of the analog input electrical signal using a timing reference derived from the input optical pulse train. Using a relatively high-precision input optical pulse train, such as a Kerr Comb, can produce a relatively high-accuracy analog-to-digital converter.
US10135535B2	Optical communication interface utilizing N-dimensional double square quadrature amplitude modulation The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using nDSQ format(s) over optical communication networks. In certain embodiments, the communication interface is used by various devices, such as spine switches and leaf switches, within a spine-leaf network architecture, which allows large amount of data to be shared among servers.
US10135534B2	Methods, systems, and devices for integrating wireless technology into a fiber optic network The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic network configuration having an optical network terminal located at a subscriber location. The fiber optic network configuration also includes a drop terminal located outside the subscriber location and a wireless transceiver located outside the subscriber location. The fiber optic network further includes a cabling arrangement including a first signal line that extends from the drop terminal to the optical network terminal, a second signal line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver, and a power line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver.
US10135529B2	Automotive light based communication system for user equipment A vehicle and a method of communication for a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes an on-board gateway for communication using visible light communication (VLC) and a visible light transceiver that is operated by the on-board gateway to enable VLC data communication. The transceiver can communicate with a VLC-enabled device that is within a communication range of the vehicle. The VLC-enabled device can be internal to or external to the vehicle. In one embodiment, a VLC signal is communicated between the vehicle and another vehicle having an on-board VLC gateway and transceiver. The on-board gateway and VLC transceiver enable provide traffic management. A traffic management signal is transmitted from a signal origination device and received at the vehicle using visible light communication, allowing the vehicle to be driven according to the traffic management signal.
US10135525B2	Fiber-cut detection method, apparatus, and system for distributed Raman fiber amplifier The present invention provides a fiber-cut detection method, apparatus, and system. When a fiber cut occurs, power of input signal light decreases quickly at a fiber-cut location. When the fiber-cut location is relatively far away from an amplifier, pump light consumption of the input signal light in the remaining fiber reduces due to reduction of the input signal light, which causes an increase of remaining pump optical power in the fiber and an increase of an actual gain value of the amplifier. A gain-locking function of the amplifier works, which decreases pump power of the pump light and maintains a gain of the amplifier unchanged basically. Output optical power of the amplifier decreases quickly with decrease of input optical power, and when power of an output optical signal decreases to power that is lower than preset power of the output optical signal, it is determined that a fiber cut occurs.
US10135523B2	Hitless rearrangement of a satellite-hosted switch via propagated synchronization An apparatus includes an analog front end to receive an analog input including user data, and an analog-to-digital converter to convert the analog input to digital signals including the user data. A digital channelizer may process the digital signals to generate frequency slices of user data, and a digital combiner may assemble the frequency slices to form output sub-bands of user data. A digital switch may route the frequency slices from the digital channelizer to the digital combiner according to a selected map of a plurality of available maps. The apparatus also includes a map selector to communicate map select data that indicates the selected map. The digital channelizer may receive and insert the map select data into the frequency slices in-band with the user data thereof. And the digital switch may interpret the map select data inserted into and route the frequency slices according to the selected map.
US10135520B2	System and method for communicating via a satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit A hub terminal and remote client communicate via a target satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit. As the target satellite ascends or descends away from the geostationary arc, the signal strength of the uplink channel is increased without increasing the level of interference with geostationary satellites. The increased angular separation from geostationary satellites also decreases downlink interference. The resulting increase in signal strength permits adjustment of the modulation and coding parameters to increase spectral efficiency. The antenna gain pattern is modeled based on antenna characteristics and the model may be supplemented with measurements of a signal relayed by other satellites. The method permits intermittent communication with an inclined satellite sharing a geostationary slot with a station-kept satellite, or from locations where the geostationary arc is blocked, or while using disadvantaged antennas that would be impractical for use with geostationary satellites. In some circumstances, it is desirable to deliberately mis-steer the antenna slightly away from the target satellite.
US10135518B2	Echo cancellation in communication transceivers A method includes, in a transceiver (28, 160), receiving from a repeater (32, 168) a received signal that includes a desired signal for reception and an undesired replica of a transmitted signal that was transmitted from the transceiver and retransmitted by the repeater. A local copy of the transmitted signal is generated in the transceiver. The local copy is matched with the undesired replica of the transmitted signal in the received signal, by adapting the received signal while retaining the local copy non-adaptive. An interference caused by the undesired replica to the desired signal is canceled, by subtracting the local copy from the adapted received signal.
US10135517B2	Relay link HARQ operation A method for preventing a first network node from missing a transmission from a second network node. The method includes, when a ten millisecond periodicity is used for Multicast/Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframes, setting a time between an uplink grant from the second network node to the first network node and an acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement message (ACK/NACK) from the second network node to the first network node equal to ten milliseconds. The method further includes, when a forty millisecond periodicity is used for MBSFN subframes, the second network node sending the first network node an asynchronous grant for an uplink retransmission when a data packet is missed, and when the first network node receives the grant for the uplink retransmission, the first network node retransmitting the missed data packet.
US10135515B2	Antenna beam training and tracking protocol for 60 GHz operation A particular communications protocol is used for antenna training to accomplish directional communications in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, pertinent information for various requests, responses, and status reports, is included in information elements.
US10135513B2	Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information The method and the apparatus for reporting CSI are provided. The method comprises receiving reference signal on downlink channel, selecting CQI corresponding to a channel state based on the reference signal and transmitting CSI report comprising the selected CQI, wherein the step of selecting CQI includes selecting CQI index on a CQI table where the CQI index specifies modulation.
US10135505B2	Predistortion for hybrid digital/analog precoders A 5G base station transmitter at least partially precodes data for beam forming, and generates digital precoded baseband signals. Cross product circuitry coupled to the digital precoder, generates digital cross products of the digital precoded baseband signals. Both the baseband signals and the cross products are put through digital-to-analog converters (DACs), then provided to an analog non-linear precoder. The analog non-linear precoder combines the analog baseband signals, the cross products, with pre-distortion and precoder coefficients to generate a signal that is pre-compensated for power amplifier non-linearity. The pre-compensated signal is amplified by the power amplifier and transmitted via a phased antenna array. The number of extra DACs required for inserting pre-distortion when a hybrid digital/analog precoder is used can be limited to approximately N RF ⁡ ( N RF - 1 ) 2 , where NRF is the number of outputs of the digital precoder. This is significantly fewer than the number of extra DACs used by other methods.
US10135500B2	Graph-based determination of initial-synchronization beam scanning Techniques for determining beam-sweeping patterns for synchronization signals transmitted in a region by several access nodes in a network, where each access node is connected to a corresponding array of antenna elements. An example method includes modeling a total power function for the power transmitted in the synchronization signals, as a factor graph having a plurality of check nodes and variable nodes, each check node corresponding to a virtual wireless device in the region and each variable node corresponding to an available beam for an access node. The virtual wireless devices are emulated so as to implement quality-of-service constraints on synchronization signals received by the virtual wireless devices. An iterative message-passing algorithm, such as a min-sum algorithm, is applied to the modeled total power function, to determine a sequence of power levels, for each access node, for sweeping synchronization signal beams, so as to minimize the total power function.
US10135498B2	Wireless power transfer method, apparatus and system The present disclosure relates to a wireless power transmission method, a wireless power transmission apparatus, and a wireless charging system in a wireless power transmission field, and there is provided a communication method of a wireless power transmitter capable of the transmission of power in a wireless manner, and the communication method may include receiving communication information indicating whether or not a second communication mode is available using a first communication mode from a wireless power receiver, determining whether or not communication in a second communication mode is available using the communication information, notifying either one of the first communication mode and second communication mode to the wireless power receiver based on the determination result, and performing communication with the wireless power receiver using a communication mode notified to the wireless power receiver.
US10135497B2	Near field communication device A near field communication device includes an amplifier that amplifies a signal received through an antenna and outputs the signal as an amplified receive signal, a gain control block that adjusts a gain of the amplifier based on a level of a noise included in the amplified receive signal during a noise reception sequence, and a data determination block that determines a noise threshold voltage based on the level of the noise of the amplified receive signal after the gain is completely adjusted and determines data from the amplified receive signal by using the noise threshold voltage.
US10135493B2	System and method for controlling radio base station, and related device In a system for controlling a radio base station, an out-of-band emergency channel based on a power cable is established between a BBU and an RRU, so that even if a unique communications interface CPRI between the BBU and the RRU is abnormal, the BBU can still effectively control the RRU using the out-of-band emergency channel. In another system for controlling a radio base station, out-of-band emergency channels based on power cables are established among multiple RRUs, so that even if a unique communications interface CPRI between a BBU and a target RRU is abnormal, the BBU can still effectively control the target RRU using an out-of-band emergency channel between any RRU (a unique communications interface CPRI of the RRU is normal) and the target RRU. In the present disclosure, the BBU can effectively control the RRU.
US10135489B2	Multi-stage equalisation method and apparatus for use in telemetry An inspection apparatus for use in wellbores in the oil and gas industries relates in general to the field of transmission of data between downhole module in a wellbore and a controlling module at the surface. The invention provides a method and apparatus for determining analog filter parameters for an analog front end comprising a plurality of filter stages receiving signals from a telemetry module, by repeating the steps of; receiving a signal of a known frequency and processing said signal by determining the magnitude of the frequency of the received signal until a plurality of signals have been received and processed; calculating an optimum set of filter parameters in dependence upon the measured frequency magnitudes and a predefined set of filter stage frequency responses.
US10135488B2	Method for deinterleaving radar signals Disclosed is a method for deinterleaving radar signals, the method including: —the reception of electromagnetic signals by a receiver (12) and the extraction of the pulses from the received signals, and —the formation of pulse trains grouping together at least three pulses spaced apart by a same pulse repetition interval, each pulse train being defined by the pulse repetition interval. The method further includes: —the grouping together of the pulse trains having a same pulse repetition interval according to a predefined grouping law in order to form pulse plateaus, and —the association of the pulse plateaus according to at least one predefined association law in order to obtain deinterleaved radar signals formed from the concatenation of the pulse trains of the associated pulse plateaus.
US10135479B2	Power supply for vehicle based trainable transceiver One embodiment of the invention relates to a trainable transceiver. The trainable transceiver includes a transceiver circuit, a user input device, a battery, and a voltage regulator circuit. The transceiver circuit is configured to reproduce and transmit control signals for operating a plurality of remote electronic devices. The user input device is configured to accept user input. The voltage regulator circuit includes a DC-DC converter configured to step up the battery voltage level, a low leakage switch configured to couple the battery and the DC-DC converter, and a temperature-sensitive current source configured to control the low leakage switch. The battery is configured to power the transceiver circuit, the user input device, and the voltage regulator circuit.
US10135477B2	Signal cancellation of amplitude/angle modulation noise using feedforward and feedback topologies A method for cancellation of amplitude modulation noise using feedforward or feedback topologies. The method is adaptable to cancel amplitude modulation noise (contamination) of an input signal, including: receiving an input signal including an amplitude modulation noise signal; demodulating the amplitude modulation noise signal to generate a baseband amplitude modulation noise signal; signal processing the baseband amplitude modulation noise signal to generate a amplitude re-modulation signal; and re-modulating the input signal based on the amplitude re-modulation signal to generate an output signal, the output signal having less amplitude modulation noise than the input signal. In a feedforward embodiment, the methodology includes: signal processing the baseband amplitude modulation noise signal based on signal inversion to generate the amplitude re-modulation signal; and feeding forward the amplitude re-modulation signal to re-modulate the amplitude re-modulation signal with the input signal. In a feedback embodiment, the methodology includes: receiving the input signal in a gain controlled amplifier, generating a gain-controlled output signal; detecting the amplitude of the amplitude noise modulation signal in the gain-controlled output signal to generate a feedback amplitude noise signal; integrating the feedback amplitude noise signal to generate a gain control signal; and adjusting the gain controlled amplifier based on the gain control signal, such that the gain-controlled output signal has less amplitude modulation noise than the input signal.
US10135471B2	System, method, and apparatus for reducing power dissipation of sensor data on bit-serial communication interfaces A communication system receives a binary sequence from a sensor, identifies a power consuming characteristic of the binary sequence, and determines an error component configured to reduce the power consuming characteristic of the binary sequence. The system compares the error component to an error tolerance deviation, and if the error component is below the error tolerance deviation, combines the error component with the binary sequence to produce an output sequence and transmits the output sequence via a serial interface to a receiver configured to receive the output sequence. The error threshold is based in part on an error tolerance characteristic of the receiver.
US10135467B2	Methods and systems for applying an improved interleaver for modems operating on power grid Methods and systems are disclosed for applying an interleaver that better distributes signal errors to be used in devices operating on low voltage power grids. One embodiment of a method comprises: determining a frequency cycle of the communication medium; setting an interleaver block size based on the frequency cycle of the communication medium; re-arranging bits in a data packet based on the interleaver block size; transmitting the re-arranged data packet over the communication medium to a receiver. Specifically, according to an embodiment, the interleaver block size is set to one-half of the frequency cycle of the communication medium.
US10135462B1	Deduplication using sub-chunk fingerprints A computer-implemented method and system for deduplicating sub-chunks in a data storage system selects a data chunk to deduplicate and generates a sketch for the selected data chunk. A similar data chunk is searched for using the sketch. A set of fingerprints corresponding to sub-chunks of the similar data chunk is loaded. The set of fingerprints for the similar data chunk is compared to a set of fingerprints of the selected data chunk and the selected chunk is encoded as a set of references to identical sub-chunks of the similar data chunk and at least one unmatched sub-chunk.
US10135461B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for decompression using hardware and software Detailed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for decompression using hardware and software. In hardware, an input buffer stores incoming input records from a compressed stream. A plurality of decoders decode at least one input record from the input buffer out output an intermediate record from the decoded data and a subset of the plurality of decoders to output a stream of literals. Finally, a reformat circuit formats an intermediate record into one of two types of tokens.
US10135459B2	ADC with capacitive difference circuit and digital sigma-delta feedback A low power high precision mixed signal analog to digital converter is provided for processing biometric signals in the presence of a large interferer signal for cableless patient monitoring; a capacitive difference circuit produces an analog difference signal by differencing an analog feedback loop signal and an input signal; an analog-to-digital converter sigma delta converter produces a digital version of the difference signal, a digital feedback loop includes a digital integrator and a capacitive digital-to-analog converter configured to produce the analog loop feedback signal based upon the digital version of the difference.
US10135456B2	High bandwidth oscilloscope A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, the use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques. In an illustrative embodiment the technique involves separating an input signal into a high frequency content and a low frequency content, down-converting the high frequency content in the analog domain so that it may be processed by the oscilloscope's analog front end, digitizing the low frequency content and the down-converted high frequency content, and forming a digital representation of the received analog signal from the digitized low frequency content and high frequency content.
US10135452B2	Digital frequency synthesizer with robust injection locked divider The disclosure is directed to a frequency synthesizer circuit including digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) and an injection locked digitally controlled oscillator (ILD). The ILD outputs a signal with a frequency that is some fraction of the frequency of the DCO output signal and locked in phase to the DCO output signal. The frequency synthesizer circuit drives the ILD with the same modulation input signal that drives the DCO, with the modulation input signal scaled to account for any mismatch between the gains of the DCO and ILD. Driving the ILD with the same, scaled modulation signal as the main DCO minimizes the frequency offset between the DCO output signal and the divided natural oscillation frequency of the ILD. Minimizing the frequency offset makes the lock of the ILD more robust and reduces jitter contribution from the ILD.
US10135449B2	Phase detection method based on a plurality of consecutive values of a receiving signal The invention relates to a phase detection method. A plurality of consecutive values of a receiving signal with a known sampling frequency fs are received as a reaction to a transmitting signal having a known transmitting frequency fw. Two differential values are determined, each coming from two consecutive values out of three consecutive values of the receiving signal. A phase real part and a phase imaginary part of the receiving signal are determined based on a linear relation between the phase real part, the phase imaginary part and the two differential values.
US10135447B2	Compensation memory (CM) for power application A memory block integrated in a programmable logic device (PLD) is disclosed. The memory block includes: one or more lookup tables storing pre-populated data. The PLD includes a programmable fabric and a signal wrapper configured to provide signals between the memory block and the programmable fabric. The memory block is configured to receive input signals from the signal wrapper and generate output signals to the signal wrapper by looking up the pre-populated data corresponding to the input signals. The pre-populated data stored in the one or more lookup tables are programmably changed by programming a plurality of parameters of the programmable fabric and loading the pre-populated data to the one or more lookup tables via the signal wrapper.
US10135445B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device, including a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a first well region of a second conductivity type, a second well region of the second conductivity type, and a third well region of the first conductivity type. The device further includes an isolation region electrically isolating a predetermined region in the first well region, a first high-concentration region of the second conductivity type, disposed outside the isolation region and inside one of the first well region and the second well region, and a second high-concentration region of the second conductivity type, disposed inside the isolation region and inside one of the first well region and the second well region. The first and second high-concentration regions each have an impurity concentration that is higher than that of the first well region.
US10135444B2	Semiconductor device with booster part, and booster The booster precharges a boost-voltage-output terminal to a predetermined voltage before voltage-boosting start by a charge-pump circuit in the booster. While alternately switching one capacitive electrode of a pumping capacitance between first and second voltages, the charge-pump circuit periodically applies a third voltage to the other capacitive electrode, in which the voltage is boosted by lifting up the third voltage each switching. The resultant boost voltage is successively supplied to a stabilization capacitance through a MOS switch circuit for output. Thus, a boost voltage boosted to a sum voltage of the second and third voltages can be obtained. Using a precharge voltage produced by the precharge circuit in the booster as the third voltage can make a MOS switch circuit operable to supply the third voltage and the MOS switch circuit for boost voltage output smaller than a voltage under the sum voltage of the second and third voltages.
US10135443B1	Extended voltage range coldspare tolerant off chip driver An off chip driver circuit includes a bias circuit and a driver sub-cell circuit. The bias circuit and off chip driver sub-cell circuit are in electrical communication with each other. The bias circuit includes two serially aligned diodes which are in an off-state when the driver sub-cell is in a functional mode and which are in an on-state when the driver sub-cell is in a cold spare mode. The arrangement of the diodes enables the off chip driver circuit to handle similar voltage signals in both the functional mode and the cold spare mode.
US10135442B2	Current-mode logic circuit A current-mode logic circuit is provided. The current-mode logic circuit includes a transmitter module. The transmitter module includes an output impedance circuit, a switch circuit, and a current source. The output impedance circuit provides an adjustable output resistor. The adjustable output resistor includes floating resistors and/or pull-up resistors. The switch circuit is coupled to the output impedance circuit. The switch circuit receives differential input signals, outputs differential output signals, and controls high-low level switching of the differential input signals and the differential output signals according to the adjustable output resistor. The current source is coupled to the output impedance circuit and the switch circuit. The current source provides currents to the output impedance circuit and the switch circuit. The floating resistors are resistors coupled between the differential output signals, and the pull-up resistors are resistors coupled between the differential output signals and a power source.
US10135441B2	Key input apparatus A key input apparatus includes a key top capable of moving up and down through a pressing operation; a first substrate, which includes a first surface, which is positioned on the key top side, and a second surface, which is opposite to the first surface, and the first substrate supports the key top and is provided to be movable up and down along with the key top; a second substrate, which is provided between the key top and the first substrate in the direction of the up-and-down movement of the key top, and the second substrate includes a first surface, which is positioned on the first substrate side, and a second surface, which is opposite to the first surface; a magnetic field generation unit; a magnetic sensor unit, which includes a magnetic detection element that detects a magnetic field generated from the magnetic field generation unit; and an adhesion unit, which includes a soft magnetic material capable of adhering to the magnetic field generation unit. The magnetic sensor unit and the adhesion unit are provided on one of the first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate, and the magnetic field generation unit is provided on the other of the first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate, opposite to the adhesion unit.
US10135439B2	Current limiting I/O interface and isolated load switch driver IC Disclosed examples include isolated load switch driver circuits to drive a load, including an impedance circuit that receives a digital input voltage signal from a signal source, and selectively allows a current signal to flow from the signal source to charge a buffer capacitor. An impedance control circuit controls the impedance circuit to limit the current signal in response to the buffer capacitor reaching a first threshold voltage, and an output circuit provides an output isolated from the digital input voltage signal to switch the load. A signaling circuit selectively enables the output circuit to draw power from the buffer capacitor in response to the voltage of the buffer capacitor reaching the first threshold voltage.
US10135436B2	Reset circuit and electronic device A reset circuit includes a detect circuit, a maintain circuit and an output circuit. The detect circuit and the maintain circuit are coupled to the output circuit, wherein the detect circuit is arranged to detect at least an input power provided to a loading, and make the output circuit output a reset signal when a voltage of the input power goes into an abnormal state, and the maintain circuit is arranged to stop the output circuit from outputting the reset signal when the loading is in a standby state. The reset circuit is applied within an electronic device.
US10135435B2	Switching device with surge recirculation device and surge recirculation line A high side transistor is coupled between a high potential side power source node and an intermediate node, and a recirculation diode is coupled between a low potential side power source node and the intermediate node, thereby forming a recirculation path when the high side transistor is OFF. A power source supply line couples the high potential side power source node with one end of the high side transistor. A surge recirculation device causes a current to flow in one direction, and a surge recirculation line couples the one end of the high side transistor to the high potential side power source node through the surge recirculation device, and causes a surge generated at the one end of the high side transistor to recirculate toward the high potential side power source node.
US10135433B2	Method for compensation of manufacturing tolerances of at least one electric parameter of a power transistor and associated system The system (21) includes: a power transistor (22), a data medium (60) including data relating to the manufacturing tolerance (Tol) of at least one electric parameter of the transistor (22), an electric circuit (26) for controlling the transistor adapted so as to operate for a reference value of the parameter (VREF), an electric circuit (64) having an inductance of less than 100 nH and such that the assembly (70) formed with the circuit (64) and the transistor (22) has a value for the parameter, for which the deviation in absolute with the reference value is strictly less than the manufacturing tolerance (Tol).
US10135432B2	Methods and apparatus for low current control for a power connection Described examples include a controller having a first current source. The first current source has an output terminal coupled to a control terminal of a switch. A second current source has an output terminal coupled to the control terminal of the switch. The second current source provides current to the control terminal when the voltage on the control terminal is below a threshold. In accordance with another example, the switch is a field effect transistor. In another example, the first current source is driven by a charge pump. Methods are disclosed.
US10135429B2	Clock correction device and clock correcting method A clock correction device performs skew adjustment and duty correction of an input clock concurrently or in parallel. The clock correction device includes a correction circuit that performs skew adjustment of an input clock by analog control using a skew adjustment signal based on a phase difference between an output clock and a reference clock, receives a duty control signal, and performs duty correction of the input clock by digital control, a skew detection circuit that receives inputs of the output clock and the reference clock and, when only the reference clock is in a predetermined state, outputs a detection signal that changes to the predetermined state, an integration circuit that integrates the detection signal and generates a first voltage signal, and a comparator that compares the first voltage signal and a first reference signal to thereby generate the skew adjustment signal.
US10135426B1	Gate charge and discharge regulating circuit for gate control device A gate charge and discharge adjustment regulating circuit for a gate control device belongs to the power electronics technology field. The switch control signal is connected to the control terminals of the four analog switches. The gate control signal is loaded on the gate of the correct field effect transistor under the action of the four analog switches to control the switching-on degree so as to achieve the purpose of adjusting the gate driving signal current, that is, regulating the gate charge and discharge currents of the gate control device to realize the change of the switching characteristics and conduction characteristics. The switch control signal is connected to the input terminal of the gate driving module to control the gate driving module to generate the gate driving signal.
US10135420B2	Quartz crystal blank and quartz crystal resonator unit A rectangular quartz crystal blank having long sides substantially parallel to a Z′ axis of the quartz crystal blank, and short sides substantially parallel to an X axis of the quartz crystal blank. The quartz crystal blank includes a first center region, a second region and a third region that are adjacent to the first region along a long-side direction, and a fourth region and a fifth region that are adjacent to the first region along a short-side direction. A thickness of the second region and a thickness of the third region are smaller than a thickness of the first region, and/or a thickness of the fourth region and a thickness of the fifth region are smaller than the thickness of the first region, and 19.87≤W/T≤20.36, where W is a length of a short side and T is a thickness.
US10135419B2	Surface acoustic wave device A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode, support layers, and a cover layer. A distance from a first end of a first partition-support layer to one of the outer-periphery-frame support layers closest to the first end is smaller than a distance from a second end of the first partition-support layer to one of the outer-periphery-frame support layers closest to the second end, and a distance from a first end of a second partition-support layer to one of the outer-periphery-frame support layers closest to the first end is larger than a distance from a second end of the second partition-support layer to one of the outer-periphery-frame support layers closest to the second end.
US10135417B2	Coupling circuits with capacitors The network filtering circuit includes a cable side for connection with a network cable, a physical side for connection with a mother board, and a plurality of transmission channels connected between the cable side and the physical side. Each of the transmission channels includes a first transmission line and a second transmission line with a CMC linked therebetween. Two filtering (Y type) capacitors are further linked between the first transmission line and the second transmission line with a middle line connected between the two filtering capacitors and having an extension line wherein in such an extension line there are a resistor and an optional adjusting capacitor to a ground node at the end in series connection.
US10135416B2	Composite electronic component and board having the same A composite electronic component includes a composite body in which a common mode filter and a multilayer ceramic capacitor array are coupled to each other, the common mode filter including a first body having a common mode choke coil, and the multilayer ceramic capacitor array including a second body in which a plurality of dielectric layers are stacked.
US10135412B2	Information processing apparatus, storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing system, and information processing method An information processing apparatus sets an amount of adjustment for adjusting an output in accordance with a user operation and generates a sound signal so that a sound volume of sound to be output from a sound output apparatus changes in accordance with the set amount of adjustment. Then, the information processing apparatus generates a vibration signal so that a magnitude of vibration to be imparted by a vibration apparatus changes in accordance with the set amount of adjustment.
US10135411B2	Patrol vehicle communications system for users of both mobile and portable radios In a communications system for an individual who has access to a vehicle-mounted two-way radio and a portable two-way radio which includes a speakermic having a speaker through which audible messages are transmitted for the individual to hear, there is provided a volume control arrangement associated with the speakermic through which the audio volume of the speakermic speaker can be adjusted. The system also includes a transmitter for transmitting a signal to the volume control arrangement that the individual is seated in the vehicle, and further includes a transmitter for transmitting a signal to the volume control arrangement that the mobile radio is energized. A receiver is associated with the volume control arrangement of the speakermic so that upon receipt of the signals transmitted from the two transmitters, the audio volume of the speaker of the speakermic is automatically lowered.
US10135406B2	On-chip resistor divider compensation with a 2VRMS input A new compensation system for an audio input reduces noise by matching feedback ratios in the positive and negative paths. A variable resistance network allows for fine control of resistance trimming in one of the signal paths, which allows for compensation between tolerance of resistors that are external to an integrated circuit and those that are internal to the integrated circuit.
US10135405B2	Dynamic tuning of a transformer-based radio frequency power amplifier Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) systems include a power amplifier having a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding can be biased in different states in transmit and receive modes such that a difference between center frequencies of the primary winding and the secondary winding are significantly different in the different modes.
US10135403B2	Power amplification module A power amplification module includes: a first bipolar transistor in which a radio frequency signal is input to a base and an amplified signal is output from a collector; a second bipolar transistor that is thermally coupled with the first bipolar transistor and that imitates operation of the first bipolar transistor; a third bipolar transistor in which a first control voltage is supplied to a base and a first bias current is output from an emitter; a first resistor that generates a third control voltage corresponding to a collector current of the second bipolar transistor at a second terminal; and a fourth bipolar transistor in which a power supply voltage is supplied to a collector, the third control voltage is supplied to a base, and a second bias current is output from an emitter.
US10135402B1	Grounding structure and grounding method of vacuum tube audio amplifier The invention provides a grounding structure and a grounding method for a vacuum tube audio amplifier, the grounding structure and the grounding method including: with respect to a power source, utilizing a power circuit without a choke, an anti-coupling circuit, and a filament voltage regulator circuit; and with respect to the grounding method, utilizing an negative output terminal of an audio output transforming circuit or a negative terminal of a filter capacitor in the power circuit as a single ground terminal of the vacuum tube audio amplifier, and not arranging a grounding metal bottom plate therein, in order to achieve a compact, lightweight desktop model of a vacuum tube audio amplifier.
US10135399B2	Common-mode feedback circuit, corresponding signal processing circuit and method A common-mode feedback circuit includes a transconductor input stage with differential input terminals, and a frequency-compensated gain stage coupled to the transconductor input stage with differential output terminals. The common-mode feedback circuit also includes a feedback loop having a comparator configured to produce a feedback error signal for the transconductor input stage by comparing with a reference a common-mode sensing signal indicative of a common-mode voltage level sensed at the differential output terminals. In addition, the common-mode feedback loop includes a converter for converting the common-mode voltage level sensed at said differential output terminals into a current signal coupled to the comparator.
US10135398B2	Power amplification module A power amplification module includes first and second amplifiers for first and second communication modes, a bypass line that bypasses the first or second amplifier, an input switch circuit that supplies a radio frequency signal to the first or second amplifier in accordance with a communication mode when a desired output level is equal to or greater than a reference level and supplies a radio frequency signal to the bypass line when the desired output level is less than the reference level, and an output switch circuit that outputs a first amplified signal from the first amplifier or a second amplified signal from the second amplifier in accordance with the communication mode when the desired output level is equal to or greater than the reference level and outputs a radio frequency signal output from the bypass line when the desired output level is less than the reference level.
US10135395B2	Power amplifier circuit A power amplifier circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first bias circuit supplying a first bias current or voltage, a second bias circuit supplying a second bias current or voltage, a first inductor, and a first capacitor. A power supply voltage is supplied to a collector of the first transistor, and an emitter thereof is grounded. A radio frequency signal and the first bias current or voltage are supplied to a base of the first transistor. The power supply voltage is supplied to a collector of the second transistor, and an emitter thereof is connected to the collector of the first transistor via the first capacitor and is grounded via the first inductor. The second bias current or voltage is supplied to a base of the second transistor. An amplified radio frequency signal is output from the collector of the second transistor.
US10135388B2	Fluidic actuator system and method A pneumatically actuated solar panel array system that includes a plurality of separate actuator assemblies that each have a top plate and bottom plate and a first and second bellows that each extend between and are coupled to the top and bottom plates at a respective top head and bottom head, the first and second bellows being configured to be separately pneumatically inflated, where the pneumatic inflation expands the bellows along a length. The pneumatically actuated solar panel array system can also include a plurality of solar panels coupled to the actuator assemblies with the solar panels being configured to be actuated based on inflation of one or more bellows associated with the plurality of actuator assembles.
US10135383B2	Current sensing in electric machines An electric machine includes a phase lead and a winding set with first and second windings. The first and second windings are connected to the phase lead and are connected electrically in parallel with one another. A current sensor is coupled to the first winding and is arranged to measure a portion of current flowing through the phase lead which flows through the first winding.
US10135380B2	AC rotary machine control apparatus An AC rotary machine control apparatus is provided with: predriver ICs for giving drive signals to the gates of power converting switching elements bridge-connected to the respective phases of an AC rotary machine; predriver IC output cutting-off switching elements for operating on the basis of a cut-off signal from a calculation processing device having detected an abnormality state of the predriver ICs, and cutting off drive signals given from the predriver ICs to the gates of the power converting switching elements; and a gate driver circuit for becoming conductive on the basis of a signal from the calculation processing device and giving drive signals from a power source circuit to all the gates of the lower arm elements of the power converting switching elements, when drive signals from the predriver Ics are being cut off by the predriver IC output cutting-off switching elements.
US10135377B2	Method and apparatus for operating an electric motor Apparatus and methods of operating an electric motor are provided, comprising energizing a plurality of stator coils in sequence to rotate a rotor. Each said coil is energized with a repeating pulse sequence comprising at least a first portion and a second portion, the first and second portions repeating alternately to form the repeating pulse sequence. The first portion comprises a first pattern of pulses, each pulse in the first pattern having either a first polarity or second polarity, and at least two consecutive pulses in the first pattern having the same polarity. The second portion comprises a second pattern of pulses, the second pattern of pulses having the same pattern as said first pattern of pulses, but having inverted polarity with respect to said first pattern of pulses.
US10135376B2	Regenerative energy system for ground transportation vehicles Present example embodiments relate generally to a ground transportation system for interacting with one or more vehicles, the vehicle comprising at least one magnetic element fixedly attached to the vehicle, each magnetic element operable to generate a magnetic field having a first magnitude and a first direction, the system comprising a magnetic coil assembly fixedly positioned near an area traversable by the vehicle and comprising a core and a magnetic wire coil wrapped around the core, the magnetic coil assembly operable to generate a magnetic field having a second magnitude and a second direction; and an energy storage unit operable to release energy to and store energy from the magnetic coil assembly.
US10135374B2	Permanent magnet motor, position estimating device, and motor driving controlling device To manufacture a permanent magnetic motor having saliency at a low cost, a permanent magnet motor includes a stator provided with an armature winding configured to form a plurality of phases, a rotor having a surface facing the stator, the rotor including a permanent magnet disposed to face the stator, the permanent magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a conductive member made of a conductive material and disposed on the surface of the rotor facing the stator.
US10135373B2	Apparatus and method for controlling permanent magnet motor An apparatus and a method for controlling a permanent magnet motor are provided. An apparatus for controlling a permanent magnet motor, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a current control unit for generating a control current so as to drive a motor according to an initial set current or a current corresponding to an estimated magnetic flux; a motor driving unit for driving the motor according to the control current of the current control unit; a measurement unit for measuring a driving voltage and current of the motor; and a magnetic flux estimation unit preliminarily driving the motor with the initial set current or the current corresponding to the estimated magnetic flux, so as to estimate the magnetic flux of the motor on the basis of the current measured when the motor is preliminarily driven and a voltage model of the motor according to the measured voltage, and adaptively controlling the magnetization current or demagnetization current of the motor such that the estimated magnetic flux is within an error range.
US10135366B2	Electromagnetic field generator and method to generate an electromagnetic field The electromagnetic field generator includes a shell, an electrostatic generator, a power plant, a thermoelectric generator, and an electric motor. The shell has embedded polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramic material which is polarized such that the ceramic material exhibits strong Piezoelectric Effect properties thus inducing high frequency vibrations. The shell may be further doped with radioactive elements which under high frequency vibrations induce gamma ray emission. The electrostatic generator is for charging up the shell and is disposed within the shell. The power plant is to generate thermal power, and is disposed within the sphere. The thermoelectric generator is to convert the thermal power generated by the power plant to electrical energy. The electric motor powered by the electrical energy generated by the thermoelectric generator, and supplies input voltage such that the shell spins at high angular speeds, vibrates at high frequencies, and generates an electromagnetic field.
US10135361B2	Residential electrical energy installation An improved residential electrical energy system is described based on the use of a smart load center or power distribution panel configured to select the use of utility power or power derived from storage batteries independently for each of a number of load circuits based on availability of utility power and battery charge state information.
US10135357B1	Threshold detection with tap A controller for use in a power converter includes a power switch including a drain, a source, a control input, and a tap. The power switch includes a first transistor coupled to a second transistor, a drain of the first transistor is coupled to the drain of the power switch and the source of the first transistor is coupled to the tap. A tap sense circuit is coupled to the tap. A drive circuit is coupled to receive an indicator signal from the tap sense circuit. The indicator signal is indicative of a voltage at the tap or the current through the first transistor. The drive circuit is coupled to receive a feedback signal representative of an output quantity of the power converter. The drive circuit is coupled to generate a drive signal to control switching of the power switch in response to the indicator signal and the feedback signal.
US10135356B2	Power conversion apparatus A power conversion apparatus includes a capacitor and a heat dissipation member for cooling the capacitor. The capacitor and the heat dissipation member are pressed in an arranging direction in which the capacitor and the heat dissipation member are arranged. The capacitor includes a capacitor element which includes a dielectric body and a metal layer formed on a surface of the dielectric body, an electrode part connected to the metal layer and a bus bar connected to the electrode part. Part of the bus bar is interposed in the arranging direction between the heat dissipation member and the capacitor element.
US10135354B2	DC-link reference voltage determination for wind turbine converter systems A method of setting a reference DC-link voltage of a wind-turbine converter system is provided. At least at least one DC voltage demand from at least one generator-side inverter and at least one DC voltage demand are received from at least one grid-side inverter. A generator-side DC voltage demand value on the basis of the at least one DC voltage demand received from the at least one generator-side inverter. Also a grid-side DC voltage demand value is determined on the basis of the at least one DC voltage demand received from the at least one grid-side inverter. The highest DC voltage demand value out of the generator-side and grid-side DC voltage demand values is chosen. This chosen value corresponds to the set reference DC-link voltage.
US10135349B2	Power supply device and power supply method A power supply device includes a first voltage conversion unit and a second voltage conversion unit. The first voltage conversion unit performs a step-down operation according to a first voltage to output a first output voltage via a first connection interface. The second voltage conversion unit includes a first rectifying circuit and a power delivery circuit. The first rectifying circuit performs a first rectifying operation based on load information of a load and the first voltage to generate a second voltage. The power delivery circuit determines, according to the load information and the second voltage, whether to output the second voltage as a second output voltage to the load via a second connection interface. The first connection interface is different from the second connection interface, and the second output voltage is higher than or equal to the first output voltage.
US10135344B2	Lossless snubber circuits The combined voltage regulator and snubber circuit generally has a voltage regulator device in parallel with the energy storage element of the snubber circuit operatively connectable in series with a leakage inductance current path; the leakage inductance being part of a magnetic component utilized in a switch-mode power supply having an input voltage source, controllable semiconductor switches, freewheeling semiconductor switches, feedback controller, reactive energy storage components and a load; the voltage regulator generally providing constant or variable voltage to the gate driver of the controllable semiconductor and/or feedback controller; the snubber circuit generally recycling leakage inductance energy to the input capacitor of a neighboring cell in a multi-cell stacked converter.
US10135341B1	Dual ramp modulation for a switch-mode power supply A switch-mode power supply includes a transformer, a power transistor, pulse generation circuitry, and a dual ramp modulation (DRM) circuit. The power transistor is coupled to a primary coil of the transformer. The pulse generation circuitry is configured to generate a power transistor activation signal. The DRM circuit is coupled to the pulse generation circuitry. The DRM circuit is configured to generate a leading edge blank time signal that disables inactivation of the power transistor activation signal for a predetermined interval (a leading edge blank time) after a leading edge of the power transistor activation signal. The DRM circuit is also configured to generate a reset signal that inactivates the power transistor activation signal while the leading edge blank time signal is activated.
US10135337B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device including a DC/DC converter circuit, wherein the DC/DC converter circuit includes a transistor of a normally-off type, having a first drain electrode connected town input terminal and a first source electrode connected to an output terminal, which is formed in a first compound semiconductor substrate having a two-dimensional electron gas layer, and a transistor having a second drain electrode connected to the first source electrode and a grounded second source electrode.
US10135336B2	Control architecture with improved transient response A power supply system includes a power source; a load device configured to receive power from the power source; and a power interface device coupled to the power source and the load device and configured to change a first voltage provided by the power source to a second voltage for operating the load device. The power interface device include a main switching converter configured to operate at a first switching frequency and source low frequency current to the load device and an auxiliary switching converter coupled in parallel with the main switching converter and configured to operate at a second and different switching frequency and source fast transient high frequency current to the load device.
US10135334B1	Buck-boost converter with secondary circuit A switching power conversion system includes a main power circuit structured to convert power from a power source at an input voltage to an output voltage using a first inductive current. The power conversion system also includes a secondary power circuit structured to scale the first inductive current to a second inductive current smaller than the first inductive current by a scaling factor. A controller is configured to control operations of the main power circuit and the secondary power circuit. Zero voltage switching (ZVS) and zero current switching (ZCS) is detected by sensing voltages across switches on the secondary power circuit. Accuracy can thus be improved. Output current of the conversion system is also determined by monitoring the voltage across a sense resistor in the secondary power circuit, which is a scaled representation of the output current, thus power loss can be reduced.
US10135331B2	Power factor correction for LED drivers A power factor correction circuit, and methods of operation, is described, that can downconvert AC mains power to a lower power suitable for driving one or more LEDs. The power factor correction circuit can provide a regulated current, in a single-stage embodiment, and a regulated voltage, in a dual-stage embodiment. The power factor correction circuit can include an isolation transformer along with a switch for controlling downconversion. The power factor correction circuit can alternatively include a switch without isolation. Either way, the switch can have a duty cycle proportional to a desired downconversion from the AC mains signal, and can skip half cycles of the AC mains signal in order to reduce the downconverted output of the power factor correction circuit.
US10135330B2	Control circuit and control method for a power converter A control circuit for a power converter can include: a current detection circuit configured to generate a current detection signal that represents an input current; a control signal generator configured to generate a switching control signal such that the current detection signal is directly proportional to a voltage conversion function; and a power stage circuit of the power converter being controlled by the switching control signal, where the voltage conversion function is a ratio of an input voltage and an output voltage of the power converter.
US10135329B2	Virtual impedance comprehensive control method for inductive power filtering system The disclosure discloses a virtual impedance comprehensive control method for an inductive power filtering (IPF) system. According to the disclosure, harmonic damping control at grid side and zero impedance control of filters are organically combined according to a technical problem which is unsolved and process difficulty in equipment manufacturing in an existing filtering method, so that the problem of performance reduction of passive filtering equipment caused by a change in an impedance parameter of a power grid system is solved on one hand, optimization control over a quality factor of the passive filtering equipment may be implemented to reduce dependence on an equipment production process level on the other hand, a quality factor of the single-tuned filters may meet a design requirement, and an overall filtering characteristic is further improved.
US10135325B2	Voice coil motor Disclosed is a voice coil motor, the motor including a mover having a bobbin equipped with a lens and a coil block secured to an outer circumference of the bobbin; a stator having a magnet that is disposed in such a way as to face the coil block; elastic members coupled to a lower end of the bobbin and connected to both ends of the coil block; a base supporting the elastic members and the stator; and a cover can covering the mover, the stator and the base, with an opening being formed in the cover can to expose the lens therethrough, wherein each of the elastic members includes a terminal portion that extends between the cover can and a side surface of the base, the terminal portion including a short-circuit prevention portion so as to inhibit a short-circuit between the terminal portion and the cover can.
US10135323B2	Capacitive-discharge electromagnetic propulsion system The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for electromagnetic spacecraft propulsion. The apparatus includes capacitor assemblies bracketed by electromagnetic solenoids configured in Helmholtz Coil geometries. The action of magnetic fields generated in the solenoids on segmented currents in conductive discharge elements during capacitor discharge produces unidirectional forces, while reaction momentum is carried away by Poynting Vector electromagnetic fields in conformity with the currently understood principles of electrodynamics.
US10135316B2	Stator assembly and magnetic bearing or electric motor having such a stator assembly A stator assembly that provides a concentric housing and stator, the stator radially positioned inside the housing, the housing having an inner surface, the stator having an outer surface radially facing the inner surface. One of the outer surface of the stator and the inner surface of the housing has recessed shapes and the other one of the outer and inner surface has protruding shapes. When the two shapes are arranged in a first relative position, the protruding shapes are inserted in the recessed shapes so that the stator can be mounted radially inside the housing along a central axis of the assembly, and in a second relative position that is angularly shifted relative to the first position around the central axis, the protruding shapes exert, against the one of the housing and the stator that bears the recessed shapes, a radial force that angularly and axially locks the stator.
US10135315B2	Generator assembly and bearing equipped with the same A generator assembly for harvesting energy in a bearing arrangement having a first component and a second component, wherein the first component is configured to rotate in relation to the second component. The generator assembly includes a plurality of coils attached to the first component, wherein the coils are configured to interact with a magnet ring with alternating magnetization directions attached to the second component. In order to achieve an adaptable and flexible design, the coils are placed and oriented such that a winding axis of the coils is oriented in an essentially circumferential direction in relation to a rotation axis of the bearing arrangement.
US10135311B2	Stator for electric motor, molded electric motor, and air conditioner A stator for an electric motor includes: a stator core that includes a plurality of teeth on which insulating portions are provided; and a coil formed by winding a wire around each of the teeth. A lead-in opening and a lead-out opening are formed in insulating portions provided on an outside diameter side of the stator core. The lead-in opening leads in a crossover wire of the coil routed to an outer peripheral side of the insulating portions to the side of the teeth. The lead-out opening leads out the crossover wire of the coil from the side of the teeth to the outer peripheral side of the insulating portions. The length from an axial end portion of the stator core on an insulating portion side to the lead-in opening is different from the length from the axial end portion to the lead-out opening.
US10135307B2	Rotor, permanent-magnet-embedded motor, and compressor An end of each of slits of a rotor on a magnet insertion hole side has a triangular shape. A slit inner-side line of each of the slits includes an apex and a pair of side ends. An interval between each of the pair of side ends and the magnet insertion hole is larger than an interval between the apex and the magnet insertion hole, and an interval between the apex and the magnet insertion hole is larger than a plate thickness of each of steel plates forming a rotor core.
US10135297B2	Wireless power feeder A wireless power feeder includes a plurality of coils and a controller that determines a first coil from the plurality of coils based on power transmitted from each of the plurality of coils to an external apparatus. The first coil receives power from a power source.
US10135295B2	Systems and methods for nullifying energy levels for wireless power transmission waves Systems and methods to generate and transmit power waves are disclosed herein. An example method includes: receiving, by a transmitter, from one or more sensors, location data about a location associated with one or more objects within a transmission field of the transmitter. The one or more sensors may include a proximity sensor configured to send the location data of the one or more objects, and the one or more objects are associated with a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) level. The method also includes: transmitting, by the transmitter, one or more power waves to converge to form a pocket of energy at a location of an electronic device; and transmitting, by the transmitter, one or more power waves to converge destructively to form a null space at the location of the one or more objects, the null space having a power density level that is below the MPE level.
US10135294B1	Systems and methods for preconfiguring transmission devices for power wave transmissions based on location data of one or more receivers Embodiments disclosed herein may generate and transmit power waves that, as result of their physical waveform characteristics (e.g., frequency, amplitude, phase, gain, direction), converge at a predetermined location in a transmission field to generate a pocket of energy.An example method disclosed herein includes: receiving, by a transmitter, from a tagging device, a first device tag containing first data indicating a first location of a first receiver. The method also includes: determining, by the transmitter, one or more characteristics of one or more first power waves to be transmitted to the first receiver based upon the first data indicating the first location as contained in the first device tag. The method additionally includes: transmitting, by the transmitter, the one or more first power waves having the one or more characteristics to the first location indicated by the first device tag.
US10135292B2	Method and system for simultaneously charging an energy storage device from multiple energy input devices A system for simultaneously charging an energy storage device from multiple energy input devices includes energy input devices in the form of solar and non-solar modules and an energy storage device in the form of a rechargeable battery, which is part of an energy storage module. A first solar module is able to generate solar power and delivers this power to the energy storage module, while the non-solar module delivers, for example, electrochemically generated electricity to the energy storage module via the first solar module, which acts as a backplane. The system may also include additional solar modules that can be connected to the first solar module in collapsed or expanded states to adjust the amount of electricity generated from solar power.
US10135288B2	Electronic control module and driver module for controlling an electronic lock module Example wireless power transfer systems and methods are described. In one implementation, an electronic control module is configured to generate a signal to be communicated to a transmitter coil. A driver module configured to receive the signal and compensate for any degradation in signal quality is electrically coupled to the electronic control module. The driver module is further coupled to the transmitter coil. A receiver coil, wirelessly electrically coupled to the transmitter coil, is configured to receive a wireless charging signal from the transmitter coil. The implementation also includes an electronic lock module electrically coupled to the receiver coil. The electronic lock module receives the wireless charging signal from the receiver coil and uses the wireless charging signal to charge a rechargeable battery electrically coupled to the electronic lock module.
US10135287B2	Vehicle wireless power transfer using metal member with high permeability to improve charging efficiency A bottom portion of a vehicle includes a metal member formed of a metal having a higher magnetic permeability than aluminum, and a power reception coil including a low-turn-count portion with a smaller number of turns and a high-turn-count portion with a larger number of turns than the low-turn-count portion. In plan view as seen from below the metal member and the power reception coil, the low-turn-count-portion is located in at least a part of a facing portion of the power reception coil, the facing portion facing the metal member.
US10135286B2	Near field transmitters for wireless power charging of an electronic device by leaking RF energy through an aperture offset from a patch antenna Disclosed are devices and methods of wirelessly charging an electronic device. An example device disclosed is a near-field transmitter. The near-field transmitter includes a plurality of unit cells configured to radiate one or more radio frequency (RF) power transmission waves, each unit cell in the plurality of unit cells including: (i) a metal portion having an interior perimeter that surrounds an aperture defined by the metal portion and (ii) a patch antenna that is separate from and positioned underneath the aperture defined by the metal portion, the patch antenna being configured to radiate one or more RF power transmission waves for wirelessly charging an electronic device. The one or more RF power transmission waves are leaked at least in part through the aperture when an antenna of the electronic device is positioned in a near-field distance from the unit cell.
US10135283B2	Method and power transmitter for controlling power transmission against overvoltage at power receiver Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling power transmission in a power transmitter against overvoltage at a power receiver. The power transmitter receives a subscription request to subscribe to a wireless power network, from the power receiver. It is determined whether power transmission is available for the power receiver. The power receiver is informed that the power transmission is beginning, when the power transmission is available. The transmission power is increased and transmitted. It is determined whether a stop request to stop increasing voltage is received at the power transmitter from the power receiver. The increase of the transmission power is stopped when the stop request is received at the power transmitter. Charging of the power receiver is started by transmitting a start charging command from the power transmitter to the power receiver.
US10135281B2	Charging a battery with frequency-modulated pulses based on battery measurements Disclosed is pulse charging of a battery that uses frequency modulation to vary the pulse periods of the charging pulses. Battery measurements can be made to determine the duty cycles of the charging pulses.
US10135273B2	Electronic device, power feeding device and electronic device system An electronic device that is driven by a battery and is capable of being attached to a power feeding device that feeds power to the electronic device, including: a surface opposite to the power feeding device when the electronic device is attached to the power feeding device; an electrode provided on the surface; and any one of a groove and a projection provided on the surface.
US10135272B2	Switched mode power supply circuit A switched mode power supply circuit includes a switching converter receiving an input voltage and generating an output voltage from the input voltage in accordance with a switching signal. A switching controller unit is configured to generate the switching signal in accordance with a control parameter set such that the output voltage matches a set-point.
US10135255B2	Motor control apparatus in which power regeneration are adjusted, controller for converter, machine learning apparatus and method thereof A machine learning apparatus includes a state observation unit which observes a state variable including at least one of data associated with the value of a DC voltage in a DC link, data associated with the amount of power supply regeneration representing the amount of power returned from the DC link to an AC power supply by a power supply regeneration operation by a converter, and data associated with the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an overvoltage alarm indicating that the DC voltage of the DC link has exceeded a preset overvoltage alarm level, and a learning unit learns conditions associated with the power supply regeneration operation by the converter, in accordance with a training data set defined by the state variable.
US10135254B2	High reliability power over ethernet A method includes receiving a signal to maintain uninterrupted power to a device over a power over Ethernet line. The power over Ethernet line is configured to carry data and power. Power delivery is maintained for the device regardless of a power disruptive event associated with a power source device. Carrying the power to the device over the power over Ethernet line is interrupted in absence of the receiving the signal. According to one embodiment, the signal is generated in response to a user command or it may be generated from the device automatically. The signal may classify the device as a critical device. The power disruptive event may include initialization of a data path, alteration to a data path associated with the power over Ethernet line, a software update associated with the power source device, reset of power source device, etc.
US10135253B2	System, method and computer program product for enhancing commercial value of electrical power produced from a renewable energy power production facility A method, system and computer program product enhance the commercial value of electrical power produced from a wind turbine production facility. Features include the use of a premier power conversion device that provides an alternative source of power for supplementing an output power of the wind turbine generation facility when lull periods for wind speed appear. The invention includes a communications infrastructure and coordination mechanism for establishing a relationship with another power production facility such that when excess electrical power is produced by the wind turbine facility, the excess may be provided to the power grid while the other energy production facility cuts back on its output production by a corresponding amount. A tracking mechanism keeps track of the amount of potential energy that was not expended at the other facility and places this amount in a virtual energy storage account, for the benefit of the wind turbine facility. When, the wind turbine power production facility experiences a shortfall in its power production output it may make a request to the other source of electric power, and request that an increase its power output on behalf of the wind turbine facility. This substitution of one power production facility for another is referred to herein as a virtual energy storage mechanism. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is the use of a renewal power exchange mechanism that creates a market for trading renewable units of power, which have been converted into “premier power” and/or “guaranteed” by secondary sources of power source to provide a reliable source of power to the power grid as required by contract.
US10135248B2	Control apparatus, control system, control method, and recording medium for controlling devices to charge or discharge electricity storage apparatus A control apparatus is configured to control a control target device among load devices for which power supply from an electricity storage apparatus is controlled based on total power consumption of the load devices. The control apparatus includes a power monitor and a device controller. The power monitor is configured to acquire a value of the total power consumption of the load devices. The device controller is configured to control the control target device to change the power consumption of the control target device so that the value of the total power consumption changes to a value having a level where the electricity storage apparatus supplies the power to the load devices when the value of the total power consumption acquired by the power monitor is at a level where the power is not supplied from the electricity storage apparatus to the electrical devices.
US10135247B2	Methods and systems for integrated Volt/VAr control in electric network A method and system for use in controlling an electric network are provided. The system includes an Integrated Volt-VAr Control (IVVC) component configured to determine optimization parameters for slow dynamics electromechanical devices and fast dynamics DER devices coupled to the network. The slow dynamics devices are controlled by a present state of the electric network and a voltage rise table that is adaptively updated in real-time using a command output, or a power flow-based complete optimization routine that generates optimal setpoints for the traditional controllable assets and for at least some of the fast dynamics DER devices. The fast dynamics devices are controlled locally using a control algorithm that uses a reactive power contribution based on IVVC settings, based on photo-voltaic (PV) plant active power variations, based on power factor, or based on a voltage of the local electric network.
US10135246B2	Device control apparatus and demand response method A apparatus includes: a detector that detects a parameter that indicates a state of an electric power system; a first communication interface that communicates with a device that receives power supplied from the electric power system; a second communication interface that receives a demand response signal from a server that monitors a state of the electric power system; and a control circuit that controls the device via a first communication interface. The demand response signal contains either first information indicating an instruction for increasing the amount of power supplied from the electric power system to the device or second information indicating an instruction for decreasing the amount of power supplied from the electric power system to the device, and the control circuit determines whether control of the device is performed in accordance with the demand response signal based on the first information or second information contained and the detected parameter.
US10135244B2	Decentralized supply of power The invention relates to the supplying power by means of a switching device (COM) connected to a plurality of facilities (A, B, C) by means of cables capable of transporting power (IeA, IeB, IeC). Said method comprises in particular the connection (120) of one of the cables (IeA), connected to one of said facilities (A), referred to as the requesting facility, to at least another one of the cables (IeB, IeC), connected to at least another one of said facilities (B, C), referred to as supply facilities, by means of the switching device, in accordance with at least one negotiation message consistent with a telecommunications signalling protocol, exchanged between energy-management device (EGEA, EGEB) installed in said demand and supply facilities. Following said connection, an amount of power is transported (130) from the at least one supply facility to the requesting facility, via the cables connected by means of the switching device.
US10135242B2	Smart cartridge wake up operation and data retention An electronic system for a surgical instrument is disclosed. The electronic system comprises a main power supply circuit configured to supply electrical power to a microprocessor, a supplementary power supply circuit configured to supply electrical power to a sensor, and an over current/voltage protection circuit coupled between the main power supply circuit and the supplementary power supply circuit. The over current/voltage protection circuit comprises a current limit switch. The current limit switch comprises a current resistor coupled to an amplifier, wherein, when the amplifier detects a surge current above a predetermined threshold, the amplifier activates a circuit breaker to interrupt the surge current, and wherein when the surge current is remedied, the supplementary power supply circuit rejoins the main power supply circuit and is configured to supply power to the sensor.
US10135240B2	Stacked switch circuit having shoot through current protection An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a stacked switch circuit having protection circuitry to prevent shoot through current when the switch is in an off state and respective voltages at the terminals of the switch change such that before the change one of the terminals of the switch has the higher voltage and after the change the other terminal of the switch has the higher voltage.
US10135239B2	Integrated circuit chip protection against physical and/or electrical alterations An integrated circuit chip and a method for protecting the integrated circuit chip against physical and/or electrical alterations are disclosed. The chip comprises at least one semiconductor layer including semiconductor components and conductive tracks, at least one layer formed by a first type of conductive tracks extending over all or part of a surface of the chip and at least one second type of conductive track connected to at least one detection circuit configured to detect an alteration of the at least one second type of conductive track. The chip is characterized in that the at least one first type of conductive track is mixed within the at least one second type of conductive track, the material and the layout of at least one second type of conductive track being indiscernible, by an observation device, from the material and the layout of the at least one first type of conductive track.
US10135237B2	Systems and methods for exploiting current capability in static ups A system is provided. The system includes a plurality of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), each UPS of the plurality of UPSs including an inverter, a ring bus, and at least one controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of UPSs, the at least one controller configured to control at least one bridge current in each UPS, the at least one bridge current controlled such that the inverter of each UPS operates in a partial current limiting regime between a full current limiting regime and a linear mode.
US10135236B2	Auto-triggered methods and systems for protecting against direct and indirect electronic attack Methods and systems for preventing direct and indirect electronic attacks, cyber attacks, and/or minimizing the impact of high voltage pulses are disclosed. In an aspect, an example system can comprise an electromagnetic plasma disrupter device. The electromagnetic plasma disrupter device can comprise a gas pressurized enclosure such a waveguide, grounded metal enclosure, or Faraday shield having a first pair of opposed electrodes at least partially enclosed in the enclosure. A first electrode of a first pair of the opposed electrodes can be connected to ground. A second electrode of the first pair of opposed electrodes can be coupled to a voltage source. The system can optionally comprise a second pair of opposed electrodes. The second pair of electrodes can allow, under normal operation, for signals to enter and leave an electronic circuit that is being protected.
US10135234B2	Preventive apparatus A current flows between the drains of FETs, which function as a switch. A first constant current circuit causes a constant current to flow from the FET side of a resistor to the other side thereof. A first comparator outputs a high level voltage to the control section if the electric potential at the drain of the FET is higher than the electric potential at one end, on the first constant current circuit side, of the resistor. Furthermore, the first comparator outputs a low level voltage to the control section if the electric potential at the drain of the FET is lower than the electric potential at one end, on the first constant current circuit side, of the resistor. The control section turns the FETs off when the first comparator outputs the low level voltage. Furthermore, the control section changes the current that is caused to flow through the resistor by the first constant current circuit.
US10135227B1	Electron beam pumped non-c-plane UV emitters An ultraviolet (UV) radiation emitting device includes an epitaxial heterostructure comprising an AlGaInN active region. The AlGaInN active region includes one or more quantum well structures with Al content greater than about 50% and having a non-c-plane crystallographic growth orientation. The AlGaInN active region is configured to generate UV radiation in response to excitation by an electron beam generated by an electron beam pump source.
US10135226B2	Resonant cavity strained Group III-V photodetector and LED on silicon substrate and method to fabricate same A structure includes an optoelectronic device having a Group IV substrate (e.g., Si); a buffer layer (e.g. SiGe) disposed on the substrate and a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) disposed on the buffer layer. The first DBR contains alternating layers of doped Group IV materials (e.g., alternating layers of SiyGe(1-y), where 0.8
US10135221B2	Spatial division multiplexed optical communication systems and amplifiers for the same Optical amplifier assembly for spatial division multiplexing (SDM) optical communication systems. Each optical amplifier assembly includes a single pump assembly configured for causing amplification of signals traveling on separate fiber paths in different directions. Each fiber path includes a plurality of spatial dimensions. The single pump assembly includes a plurality of pump sources to provide redundancy and the optical amplifier assembly further includes splitters for splitting outputs of the pump sources to amplifiers coupled to the different spatial dimensions. Different modulation formats may be used on the different spatial dimensions with different pump power being provided to each of the modulation formats. Amplifiers with complementary outputs may be coupled to average out gain deviations.
US10135220B2	Synchronized tunable mode-locked lasers A synchronized laser system for illuminating a sample with first and second laser light pulses, said system comprising: a trigger, said trigger being operative to issue first and second trigger signals, said first and second trigger signals being emitted at an adjustable frequency with a predetermined delay therebetween; a first tunable mode-locked laser operative for emitting said first laser light pulses in response to receiving a train of said first trigger signals, a first wavelength of said first laser light pulses being dependent on said adjustable frequency in accordance with a first wavelength-frequency relationship; a second tunable mode-locked laser operative for emitting said second laser light pulses in response to receiving a train of said second trigger signals, a second wavelength of said second laser light pulses being dependent on said adjustable frequency in accordance with a second wavelength-frequency relationship; wherein said predetermined delay is such that said first and second laser light pulses are emitted so as to arrive substantially simultaneously in said sample; and said first and second wavelength-frequency relationships are selected to result in a predetermined relationship between said first and second wavelengths at each frequency.
US10135209B1	Busway stab assemblies and related systems and methods A plug-in device for use with a busway system comprising a busway housing defining a longitudinal axis includes a stab base housing having first and second opposite sides, one or more stab conductors extending out of and away from the stab base housing at each of the first and second sides of the stab base housing, and a first alignment tab on the first side of the housing and a second alignment tab on the second side of the housing. The stab base housing is configured to be received through an opening at a bottom portion of the busway housing and positioned in a first position and then rotated from the first position to a second position. The first and second alignment tabs are configured to allow rotation from the first position to the second position in only one rotational direction.
US10135203B2	Connection method of RF cable end connector and coaxial cable and internal terminal used thereof A connection method of an RF cable end connector and a coaxial cable and an internal terminal used thereof are provided. An insulator is formed outside a body of the internal terminal by embedded molding, making the internal terminal have a composite structure integrated with the insulator. The internal terminal can be connected to the coaxial cable by, for example, clamping. This allows connection between the RF cable end connector and the coaxial cable to be easily accomplished by automatic processes, thereby reducing fabrication costs of RF cable end connector jumpers.
US10135201B2	Cover body that fixes a light guide bar and enhances the structural strength of the covered connector A connector cover module adapted to be disposed on a connector on a mother board is provided. The connector cover module includes a cover body and at least one light guide bar. The cover body includes a top surface, a plurality of lateral surfaces, and at least one arm extending from one of the lateral surfaces and bending outward to form an accommodating groove. The light guide bar is disposed beside one of the lateral surfaces, held by the arms, and located in the accommodating groove bent and formed by the arms. A cover body is further provided.
US10135199B1	Electrical connector An electrical connector includes an insulating body provided with multiple accommodating holes penetrating through the insulating body vertically, multiple terminals used for contacting a chip module, and at least one shielding sheet accommodated in the insulating body. The accommodating holes include signal accommodating holes and ground accommodating holes. Each signal accommodating hole is provided with a stopping portion. The terminals include signal terminals accommodated in the signal accommodating holes and ground terminals accommodated in the ground accommodating holes. Each shielding sheet or each terminal is provided with an urging portion. The ground terminals and the shielding sheet contact each other through the urging portion, and the stopping portions stop the urging portion to prevent the signal terminals and the shielding sheet from contacting each other.
US10135191B1	Apparatus for locking USB port Disclosed is an apparatus for locking a USB port. The apparatus is configured to be coupled with the USB port including a connection part with recessed grooves, and includes: a main body including first and second mounting portions; a port coupling part coupled with the second mounting portion, and inserted into and coupled with the USB port; a locking part movably provided in the port coupling part and being movable between a lock position where the locking part is coupled with the recessed grooves and a release position where the locking part is separated from the recessed grooves; and a locking and releasing part provided in the first mounting portion to be movable reciprocally, the locking and releasing part controlling locking and releasing motions of the locking part relative to the recessed grooves by interfering with the locking part when the locking and releasing part moves.
US10135188B2	Enclosure assembly for an electrical connector and same An enclosure assembly for an electrical connector is disclosed. The enclosure assembly comprises a housing body having a catch securing the housing body to a portion of the electrical connector and a lock. The lock is movable between an unlocking position and a locking position in which the lock prevents movement of the catch, and pivotable from the locking position into a secured position preventing movement of the lock back to the unlocking position.
US10135182B1	Connector latch for a housing Connector latch for a housing used to securely hold together a connector apparatus. The connector apparatus has at least a first housing and a second housing. The first housing has the connector latch. The first and second housings can be mated together. Initially, after the connector latch is manufactured, the connector latch is in an undeflected position. After manufacture, the connector latch is subjected to a pre-mating deflection process, in order to deflect the connector latch into a preloaded position. After the pre-mating deflection process has been completed, the connector latch is locked in the preloaded position. The preloaded connector latch provides a number of desirable characteristics, including at least an extra loud “click” sound when the first housing and the second housing are mated together.
US10135181B2	Cable connector A connector including a latch hingeable about a hinging section. The latch has a latch end at one side of the hinging section and a rear end at the opposite side of the hinging section. The connector includes one or more resilient spring elements engaging the rear end to bias the latch end to a latching position.
US10135180B2	Contact element A contact element comprises at least two strips and a row of webs, which are arranged between the strips and are contiguous with the strips, wherein the webs are connected resiliently to one of the strips via torsion sections and are inclined with respect to the strips in the deformed state, with the result that a first contact section extends above the strip and a second contact section extends below the strip, wherein the webs each have a front web rim and a rear web rim, which front web rim has a bulge, and which rear web rim has an indentation, which fits or is complementary to the bulge of a directly adjacent web rim, wherein the bulge provides said front contact section, and wherein the webs, to the side of the indentation, have two rear web sections, which provide the second contact section.
US10135177B2	Cable termination with an integrated monitoring device A cable termination including a cable terminal and a cable joint assembly. The cable terminal includes: a terminal conductor; a monitoring device including a capacitive voltage sensor around the terminal conductor; and an electrically insulating body fitted around the terminal conductor, including a bell-shaped end portion in which the voltage sensor is at least partially embedded. The cable terminal alternatively includes: a terminal conductor; a monitoring device including a capacitive voltage sensor around the terminal conductor; and an electrically insulating body fitted around the terminal conductor, including a bell-shaped end portion in which the voltage sensor is at least partially embedded and a stem end portion, the terminal conductor extending beyond the stem end portion.
US10135175B2	Water stop structure of shield connector In a water stop structure of a shield connector, a rear holder includes a main body disposed at a position facing the inner circumferential surface of the end portion of a shield shell in the connector extraction direction, and a protrusion formed to protrude from the main body along the electric wire in the connector extraction direction between the electric wire and the braided body. The braided body is disposed to cover the outer circumferential surface of the protrusion such that the end portion in the connector insertion direction reaches the connecting part. The tape is wrapped around the braided body in a spiral shape to cover at least the portion from the end portion of the rear holder in the connector extraction direction to the connecting part.
US10135174B2	Detachable industrial network module A detachable industrial network module, including: a housing in which a plurality of through holes are formed; and a communication module embedded in the housing and including a plurality of terminal portions to be electrically connected to an external device, wherein the through holes of the housing are provided in a lattice pattern and the housing is selectively detachable from or attachable to an outer surface of the actuator module, at least one guide groove is provided in the housing to prevent wiring bundles coupled to the terminal portions of the communication module from interfering with each other, and the communication module is electrically connected to the actuator module by a sub-connector as a medium.
US10135170B2	Contact geometry for contacts in high speed data connectors A connector system includes a first connector element and a second connector element. The first connector element includes a first contact that has a first contact region and a first wipe region. The second connector element includes a second contact that has a second contact region and a second wipe region. When the first connector element is mated with the second connector element, the first contact region makes a first point electrical contact with the second wipe region such that the first contact does not form a first tuned electrical stub.
US10135168B2	Spring-actuated electrical connector for high-power applications The present invention is a high-power, spring-actuated connector device. The device has a male terminal and a female connector. The male terminal has a metallic tubular member that provides a contact surface for the female connector. The female connector fits inside the male terminal, when making an electrical connection. The female connector has a contact element, with a plurality of contact beams. A spring actuator is nested inside the contact element. The spring has spring arms that map, one-to-one, to the contact beams. The spring-actuator spring arms force the contact beams into electrical contact with the inner surface of the metallic tubular member of the male terminal. Thermal expansion and residual material memory create a more secure connection in this configuration.
US10135159B1	Board-to-board connectors and mounting structure A circuit card assembly includes a first printed wiring board with a first receiving feature and a trace attached to the first printed wiring board. The three dimensional trace is formed by layer-by-layer additive manufacturing. The three dimensional trace includes first and second ends. The first end of the three dimensional trace engages with the first receiving feature of the first printed wiring board. The second end of the three dimensional trace is configured to engage with a second printed wiring board.
US10135153B2	Phased array antenna panel with configurable slanted antenna rows A phased array antenna panel includes a plurality of antennas and a master chip. The antennas are arranged in a plurality of antenna rows. At least one antenna row in the plurality of antenna rows is configured to be slanted in a desired angle based on signals received from the master chip. Additionally, the phased array antenna panel can include a plurality of row-shaped lenses. At least one row-shaped lens has a corresponding antenna row, and is configured to increase a gain of the corresponding antenna row. The row-shaped lens can increase a total gain of the phased array antenna panel. The row-shaped lens is configured to be slanted in a desired angle based on signals received from the master chip.
US10135151B2	Segmented structure, especially for a satellite antenna reflector A segmented structure includes at least two panels, a first panel, called the main panel, a second panel, called the secondary panel. The structure further includes at least one deployment device configured to move secondary panel into a storage position or a deployed position. The deployment device has a translation system having an assembly with articulated arms, wherein the translation system is able to generate a movement of the secondary panel in translation in relation to the main panel. The translation system is connected to the secondary panel by an outer end. A rotation system is able to generate a rotation of the translation system and of the secondary panel connected to the translation system, in relation to the main panel.
US10135149B2	Phased array for millimeter-wave mobile handsets and other devices An apparatus includes an antenna element. The antenna element includes a first portion of a multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) and a cap covering at least part of the first portion of the multi-layer PCB. The multi-layer PCB includes multiple substrates, and the first portion of the multi-layer PCB includes a first slot through the multiple substrates. The cap includes a second slot and defines a space between the first portion of the multi-layer PCB and the cap. The cap and a conductive layer of the multi-layer PCB form a waveguide structure through which wireless signals radiate from the antenna element.
US10135148B2	Waveguide feed structures for reconfigurable antenna A reconfigurable holographic antenna includes a waveguide and a metamaterial layer. The metamaterial layer includes an array of tunable slots. In one embodiment, the array of tunable slots is configurable to generate holographic diffraction pattern(s) to steer received communication signals.
US10135142B2	Electrically tuned, meandered, inverted L antenna The system and method for a tunable, slow-wave meander line antenna having a plurality of coplanar alternating high and low impedance traces. The tunable inverted L meander line antenna being suitable for space-constrained uses. Electronic switches, including solid state switches being used to tune the slow-wave meander-line inverted L antenna. Configurations of more than one antenna element providing polarization diversity, increased gain, and larger impedance bandwidths.
US10135138B2	Coupled multiband antennas An antenna includes at least two radiating arm structures made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material. The two arms are coupled through a region on first and second superconducting arms such that the combined structure forms a small antenna with broadband behavior, multiband behavior or a combination thereof. The coupling between the two radiating arms is obtained via the shape and spatial arrangement thereof, in which at least one portion on each arm is placed in close proximity to each other (e.g., at a distance smaller than 1/10 of the longest free-space operating wavelength) to allow electromagnetic fields in one arm to be transferred to the other through close proximity regions. The proximity regions are spaced from the feeding port of the antenna (e.g., greater than 1/40 of the free-space longest operating wavelength) and specifically exclude the feeding port of the antenna.
US10135137B2	Low cost space-fed reconfigurable phased array for spacecraft and aircraft applications A phased array antenna system including a front-end circuit having a plurality of antenna channels, each including a front antenna element and a rear antenna element, that provides a spatially combined beam. Each antenna channel includes a beam scan phase shifter and a true time delay phase shifter through which the receive signals or the transmit signals propagate. The system further includes a back-end circuit spaced from the front-end circuit and including an antenna receiving the receive signals from the rear elements or transmitting the transmit signals to the rear elements. The back-end circuit further includes an ortho-mode transducer that separates the transmit signal or the receive signal into orthogonally polarized signals, and a pair of couplers and a pair of polarization phase shifters that combine to adjust the polarization of the transmit signal or the receive signal. The spatially combined beam is reconfigurable in beam shape and its location.
US10135126B2	Methods and systems for mitigating interference with a nearby satellite In one embodiment, an antenna system is described. The antenna system includes a primary antenna on an aircraft. The primary antenna is mechanically steerable and has an asymmetric antenna beam pattern with a narrow beamwidth axis and a wide beamwidth axis at boresight. The antenna system also includes a secondary antenna on the aircraft, the secondary antenna including an array of antenna elements. The antenna system also includes an antenna selection system to control communication of a signal between the aircraft and a target satellite via the primary antenna and the secondary antenna. The antenna selection system switches communication of the signal from the primary antenna to the secondary antenna when an amount of interference with an adjacent satellite reaches a threshold due to the wide beamwidth axis of the asymmetric antenna beam pattern.
US10135123B1	Systems and methods for tunable medium rectennas An antenna system includes a tunable medium, rectifier circuitry, combining circuitry, and control circuitry. The tunable medium includes antenna elements corresponding to lumped impedance elements and variable impedance control inputs configured to enable selection of an impedance value for each of the lumped impedance elements. The control circuitry is configured to determine a scattering matrix (S-matrix) relating field amplitudes at lumped ports including internal lumped ports and lumped external ports. The internal lumped ports correspond to the lumped impedance elements, and the lumped external ports correspond to at least one of the rectifier circuitry inputs, the combined output of the combining circuitry, and the at least one transmitting element. A method includes determining at least a portion of component values of a desired S-matrix, and adjusting the variable impedance control inputs to at least approximate at least a portion of the desired S-matrix.
US10135122B2	Super directive array of volumetric antenna elements for wireless device applications Antenna arrays that provide directive radiation over multiple frequencies, multiple polarizations, and/or operate in modes that reduce unnecessary radiation into a nearby human body. The arrays are particularly adapted for use with handheld wireless devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and cellular phones.
US10135120B2	Method of providing antenna by using component in electronic device and the electronic device therefor An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a control signal generation unit configured to generate a control signal corresponding to a user input, a signal transmission unit configured to transmit the generated control signal to a signal processing unit, the signal processing unit configured to process the transmitted control signal, and a ground connection unit configured to connect a ground plate of the signal transmission unit and a ground plate of the signal processing unit, wherein the ground plate of the signal transmission unit and the ground plate of the signal processing unit are spaced from each other and the ground plate of the signal transmission unit is used as a radiator.
US10135119B2	Smart antenna and wireless device having the same A smart antenna comprises a dipole antenna, a first reflector unit, a first diode, a first RF choke unit and a second RF choke unit. The dipole antenna has a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The first radiating portion is used for feeding an RF signal and a DC voltage signal controlling the conduction status of the first diode simultaneously. The first reflector unit is disposed on a first side of the dipole antenna and parallel to the dipole antenna. A first section and a second section of the first reflector unit are electrically connected by the first diode. The first RF choke unit is electrically connected between the first radiating portion and the first section of the first reflector unit. The second RF choke unit is electrically connected between the second radiating portion and the second section of the first reflector unit.
US10135116B2	Antenna apparatus and electronic device with the same A handheld electronic device is provided. The handheld electronic device includes a front cover forming the front of the handheld electronic device, a back cover forming the back of the handheld electronic device, a side member at least partially surrounding a space between the front cover and the back cover, a display module, housed in the space, with a screen area exposed through the front cover, and a ground plate housed in the space. At least part of the side member and/or the back cover includes a conductive material. The handheld electronic device includes first and second connection terminals electrically connected to the at least part. The at least part forms at least part of an antenna of the handheld electronic device, and comprises first and second areas which are spaced apart from each other. The first area is electrically connected to the second area and the first connection terminal.
US10135115B2	Integrated module having antenna An integrated module having an antenna comprises a module substrate, a camera module and the antenna disposed on the module substrate. The antenna comprises a grounding portion connected to ground plane, a low-frequency radiating arm, a high-frequency radiating arm, a feed-in line and a shorting portion. A connection portion of the low-frequency radiating arm and a connection portion of the high-frequency radiating arm are connected to the grounding portion. A free-end portion of the high-frequency radiating arm and a free-end portion of the low-frequency radiating arm are back-to-back and extend towards opposite directions. The feed-in line is perpendicular to an edge of the ground plane and extends away from the ground plane. The feed-in line crosses and connects the high-frequency radiating arm to provide a second feeding-point. The end of the feed-in line is connected to the connection portion of the low-frequency radiating arm to provide a first feeding-point.
US10135114B2	MIMO antenna and MIMO antenna arrangement structure A MIMO antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements respectively including a plurality of conductive elements that are connected to different feeding points from each other; and one or more base members each being directly or indirectly provided at an upper edge portion of a windshield of a vehicle, the conductive elements being provided at either of the base members, wherein D/W, where “W” is a width of an open portion of a window frame at which the windshield is provided and “D” is a minimum distance between the conductive elements of the antenna elements in a direction parallel to the direction of “W”, is less than or equal to 0.35.
US10135113B2	Satellite communication terminal with reconfigurable support structures Techniques and mechanisms for enabling the positioning of a communication terminal in or on a vehicle, building or other structure. In an embodiment, the communication terminal includes an electronically steerable antenna which is disposed in a housing. A plurality of support legs, coupled to the housing, are each configured to rotate about a respective first axis, and to further rotate about a respective second axis. For a given support leg, an orientation of the respective second axis varies with rotation of that support leg about the respective first axis. Two such support legs are mechanically coupled to one another with respect to their respective first axis rotations or with respect to their respective second axis rotations. In another embodiment, the communication terminal is operable by a user to selectively enable or disable first axis rotation and/or second axis rotation of a given support leg.
US10135111B2	Combine harvester antenna mounting An antenna mounting apparatus for a combine harvester where the apparatus includes a first grain tank extension panel mounted to a frame so as to be moveable between an open, extended, position and a closed, retracted, position. An antenna-supporting bracket is pivotally mounted to the grain tank extension panel around a first pivot axis. Actuation means are provided to pivot the antenna-supporting bracket with respect to the grain tank extension member when the grain tank extension panel moves between the open position and closed position.
US10135109B2	Method of forming a coaxial line microstructure having an enlarged region on a substrate and removing the coaxial line microstructure from the substrate for mounting on a mounting substrate Provided are coaxial transmission line microstructures formed by a sequential build process, and methods of forming such microstructures. The microstructures include a transition structure for transitioning between the coaxial transmission line and an electrical connector. The microstructures have particular applicability to devices for transmitting electromagnetic energy and other electronic signals.
US10135106B2	Balun circuit The present disclosure is directed to a balun circuit adapted to operate at a frequency of between about 5 GHz to about 110 GHz. The balun circuit includes first and second output striplines and an input stripline formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a slotline formed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface. The slotline has first and second ends, the first end overlapping the first output stripline and the second end overlapping the second output stripline, and the input stripline overlapping the slotline midway between the first end and the second end.
US10135104B2	Waveguide gasket The present disclosure relates to a waveguide gasket (1) arranged for electrically sealing a waveguide interface (2) between a first contact end (7) and second contact end (8) of the waveguide gasket. The waveguide gasket (1) comprises a plurality of electrically conducting members (3) that are positioned along a circumference (4) along which the waveguide gasket (1) extends. Each electrically conducting member (3) has a first end (5) and a second end (6) compressibly separable by a variable first height (h1) along a first direction (d1). Each first end (5) faces the first contact end (7) and each second end (6) faces the second side contact end (8), where each first contact end (7) and each second contact end (8) are separated by a variable second height (h2) along the first direction (d1), At least one electrically conducting member (3) is arranged to expand only along said circumference (4) when compressed.
US10135101B2	Power storage module A power storage module includes storage batteries, separators, a temperature measuring component, and a temperature measuring component holder. Each of the storage batteries includes a terminal surface, a positive terminal, and a negative terminal. The positive terminal and the negative terminal are provided on the terminal surface. The temperature measuring component is to measure a temperature of a measured storage battery among the storage batteries. The temperature measuring component holder is provided on a terminal surface side of the measured storage battery between the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the measured storage battery to hold the temperature measuring component. The temperature measuring component holder includes a temperature measuring component guide via which the temperature measuring component is inserted into the temperature measuring component holder in a direction from the positive terminal toward the negative terminal or in a direction from the negative terminal toward the positive terminal.
US10135097B2	Construction of non-rectangular batteries The disclosed embodiments relate to a battery cell which includes a set of electrode sheets of different dimensions arranged in a stacked configuration to facilitate efficient use of space inside a portable electronic device. For example, the electrode sheets may be arranged in the stacked configuration to accommodate a shape of the portable electronic device. The stacked configuration may be based on a non-rectangular battery design such as a toroidal design, an L-shaped design, a triangular design, a pie-shaped design, a cone-shaped design, and/or a pyramidal design.
US10135096B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing same A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided with a wound electrode assembly (40), a battery case (20) housing the wound electrode assembly (40), and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution (80) contained in the battery case (20). The nonaqueous electrolyte solution (80) includes an internal electrolyte solution and an external electrolyte solution. The internal electrolyte solution is contained in the interior of the wound electrode assembly (40). The external electrolyte solution (80a) is collected at the bottom of the battery case (20). The viscosity of the internal electrolyte solution is greater than the viscosity of the external electrolyte solution (80a).
US10135087B2	Matching state of charge in a string A method of operating a redox flow battery string including at least first and second redox flow batteries and an outside power source includes: providing a least first and second redox flow batteries in a string electrically connected in a string, and each redox flow battery having a state-or-charge (SOC) and an electrical load, wherein the electrical load for at least one of the first and second redox flow batteries in the string is powered by the outside power source; obtaining an SOC value for each redox flow battery in the string; identifying a target SOC value in the string; and adjusting the SOC value for at least one of the first and second redox flow batteries to correspond to the target SOC value by using a portion of stored energy in the at least one first or second redox flow battery to supply power to the electrical load.
US10135086B2	Redox flow battery A redox flow battery including: a cathode cell including a cathode, a catholyte, and a bipolar plate; an anode cell including an anode, an anolyte, and a bipolar plate; and an ion exchange membrane interposed between the cathode cell and the anode cell, wherein at least one of the cathode and the anode comprises a carbon-coated metal foam, wherein the ion exchange membrane includes a porous substrate and a polymer disposed in pores of the porous substrate, wherein the polymer is a polymerization product of a composition for preparing an ion exchange membrane, and wherein the composition for preparing an ion exchange membrane includes a first aromatic vinyl monomer including a halogenated alkyl group or a quaternary ammonium group, and wherein the bipolar plate includes Ni, Cu, Fe, Cr, Al, W, Ti, or a mixture thereof, or an alloy thereof.
US10135085B2	Flow battery with hydrated ion-exchange membrane having maximum water domain cluster sizes A flow battery includes a cell that has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and an electrolyte separator layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. A supply/storage system is external of the at least one cell and includes first and second vessels that are fluidly connected with the at least one cell. First and second fluid electrolytes are located in the supply/storage system. The electrolyte separator layer includes a hydrated ion-exchange membrane of a polymer that has a carbon backbone chain and side chains extending from the carbon backbone chain. The side chains include hydrophilic chemical groups with water molecules attached by secondary bonding to form clusters of water domains. The clusters have an average maximum cluster size no greater than 4 nanometers, with an average number of water molecules per hydrophilic chemical group, λ (lambda), being greater than zero.
US10135084B2	Solid ion conductor, solid electrolyte including the same, lithium battery including solid electrolyte, and method of manufacturing lithium battery A solid ion conductor including a garnet oxide represented by Formula 1: L5+xE3(Mez,M2-z)Od Formula 1 wherein L includes Li and is at least one of a monovalent cation and a divalent cation; E is a trivalent cation; Me and M are each independently one of a trivalent, tetravalent, pentavalent, and hexavalent cation; 0
US10135083B2	System for adsorbing thin film sheet to prevent from drooping in fuel cell system A system for adsorbing a thin film sheet includes a main frame and first and second auxiliary frames connected to respective ends of the main frame. At least one of the first and second auxiliary frames is movably connected to the main frame to increase or decrease a distance between the first and second auxiliary frames. Adsorbing parts are disposed under the first and second auxiliary frames, respectively, to draw or inject air and to adsorb both sides of the thin film sheet. A tension adjusting part adjusts a location of the at least one of the first and second auxiliary frames to adjust a tension applied to the thin film sheet.
US10135080B2	Turbine for decompression of exhaust gas and a fuel cell system including same A turbine for decompression of air, including a spiral housing, including a spiral housing inlet for inflow of an airflow, a turbine wheel chamber situated in the spiral housing, in which at least one turbine wheel is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation and which has at least one turbine outlet, a circulation channel situated in the spiral housing and extending azimuthally to the axis of rotation in at least some sections for guiding the airflow onto the turbine wheel, the circulation channel having an inside surface in which at least one outlet channel extending azimuthally to the axis of rotation is situated, the outlet channel having an outlet duct and the circulation channel having a circumferential line in its cross section, the circumferential line being subdivided so that a first partial length of the circumferential line of the circulation channel being shorter than a second partial length.
US10135079B2	Fuel cell system equipped with a hydrogen leakage detector A fuel cell system includes a stack of electrochemical cells, a sensor, and a microcontroller. Each cell of the stack includes an electrode plate having a face in electrical contact with an electrolyte. At least one tube is connected to the face of each cell in a circuit for exchanging a gas with an area exterior to the stack. The sensor is sensitive to a concentration of the gas in air surrounding the stack. A sensitive unit of the sensor is exposed directly to an in situ quantity of a component of the gas. The microcontroller generates and outputs an analog signal corresponding to concentration information, based on a concentration measurement, and generates and outputs an analog signal indicating an operation status of the sensor.
US10135078B2	Current collector for fuel cell, and fuel cell stack In order to reduce corrosion of metal plates of a current collector which is comprised of the stacked metal plates made of different materials, a current collector for a fuel cell is provided, which includes a first metal plate that has a terminal portion and is conductive, and a second metal plate and a third metal plate that are metal plates having a higher corrosion resistance than the first metal plate and pinch the first metal plate therebetween. The current collector includes a first through-hole penetrating the first metal plate, the second metal plate, and the third metal plate, wherein fluid exists in at least either one of between the first metal plate and the second metal plate, and between the first metal plate and the third metal plate, and the first through-hole guides the fluid outside the current collector, and a first seal member blocking an end face of a perimeter of the current collector. A hole wall surface of the first through-hole is not blocked.
US10135075B2	Water-activated power bank structure A water-activated power bank structure, comprising: a bottle body with a top opening and a bottom opening, wherein the bottle body is configured to accommodate a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure. The water-activated power bank structure further comprises: a top cap configured to mate with the top opening of the bottle body; a first bottom cap configured to mate with the bottom opening of the bottle body; a second bottom cap configured to mate with the first bottom cap; and a power output module disposed in the second bottom cap; wherein the first electrode structure has a cylindrical shape and the second electrode structure has a mesh shape, and wherein the power output module is electrically connected to the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure.
US10135074B2	Carbon powder for catalyst, catalyst, electrode catalyst layer, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell using the carbon powder The present invention is to provide a carbon powder that can provide a catalyst having excellent durability and a catalyst. A carbon powder for catalyst of the present invention is a carbon powder containing as a main component carbon, which has a BET specific surface area per unit weight of 900 m2/g or greater, and a ratio R′ (D′/G intensity ratio) of peak intensity for a D′-band (D′ intensity) measured in the vicinity of 1620 cm−1 to peak intensity for a G-band (G intensity) measured in the vicinity of 1580 cm−1 by Raman spectroscopy of 0.6 or less.
US10135068B2	Cathode active material for sodium secondary battery and method for manufacturing the cathode active material for sodium secondary battery Provided are a cathode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery that is excellent in alkali ion diffusivity, structural stability, and cycle performance, and a synthesis method therefor. The cathode active material for a sodium ion secondary battery includes a melt-solidified body or oxide glass represented by the general formula NaxMyP2O7 (where M represents at least one or more kinds of transition metal elements selected from Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, x satisfies a relationship of 1.20≤x≤2.10, and y satisfies a relationship of 0.95≤y≤1.60).
US10135063B2	Crumpled graphene-encapsulated nanostructures and lithium ion battery anodes made therefrom Capsules comprising crumpled graphene sheets that form a crumpled graphene shell encapsulating an internal cargo comprising nanostructures of a second component are provided. Also provided are anode materials for lithium ion batteries comprising the capsules, wherein the nanostructures are composed of an electrochemically active material, such as silicon.
US10135061B2	Composite for anode active material, anode including the composite, lithium secondary battery including the anode, and method of preparing the composite A composite anode active material, the composite including: a metal particle; a carbon-containing material, and a garnet-type lithium ion conductor, wherein an amount of the garnet-type lithium ion conductor is greater than 1 part by weight and less than 5 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of a total weight of the metal particle, the carbon-containing material, and the garnet-type lithium ion conductor.
US10135060B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode paste preparation step, a positive electrode sheet preparation step, a construction step, and an initial charging step. In the positive electrode paste preparation step, a positive electrode paste is prepared by dispersing a positive electrode active material, a binder, and a metal phosphate in a solvent. The metal phosphate includes a first metal phosphate and a second metal phosphate having an average particle size which is more than that of the particles of the first metal phosphate by 1.3 μm or more.
US10135057B2	Electrode assembly and secondary battery having the same An electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate having a first electrode active material coated on at least one surface thereof, a second electrode plate having a second electrode active material coated on at least one surface thereof, a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, and at least one support member between the first electrode plate and the separator and outwardly protruding farther than an outermost end of the separator. A secondary battery includes the electrode assembly.
US10135049B2	Vehicular lead storage battery and vehicle equipped therewith A vehicular lead storage battery according to the present invention includes a battery container provided with at least one cell chamber; and a cover plate 1 for covering an upper opening of the battery container. A guide path 8 for discharging gases within a cell chamber to the outside is formed in the cover plate 1. The guide path 8 includes a first guide portion 9B for horizontally guiding gases from the cell chamber; a second guide portion 9C connected to the first guide portion 9B to downwardly guide the gases from the first guide portion 9B; and a third guide portion 10A connected to the second guide portion 9C to horizontally guide the gases from the second guide portion 9C and discharge the gases from an exhaust vent 4K formed in the cover plate 1 to the outside. A corner portion 9K is formed by the first guide portion 9B and the second guide portion 9C, and a corner portion 10K is formed by the second guide portion 9C and the third guide portion 10A. The guide path 8 is formed so that the angle θ of a straight line L having internal contact with the two corner portions 9K and 10K from a horizontal line is greater than the maximum angle of inclination at which the inclined angle of a vehicle is maximum during driving on a sloping ground.
US10135047B2	Battery pack Provided is a battery pack with the heat buildup associated with battery damage can be reduced while increasing the battery capacity. This invention provides a battery pack having an array of power-generating elements comprising rechargeable single batteries. Each single battery comprises a casing and an electrode body in the casing. In the electrode body, the outermost circumference of the negative electrode is outside the outermost circumference of the positive electrode. The power-generating element further comprises a protection plate placed along the outer surface of the single battery. The protection plate has a metal layer and an insulating layer. The metal layer has first and second surfaces on the single battery side and on the side opposite from the first surface, respectively. The insulating layer is placed on the second surface side of the metal layer. The metal layer is electrically connected to the positive electrode with a given positive potential.
US10135044B2	Multi-functional battery box The present invention discloses a multi-functional battery box, belonging to the field of power supply devices; a multi-functional battery box, comprising: a case, having an accommodating cavity; a printed circuit board, located in the accommodating cavity and permanently connected with the case; a power source, located in the accommodating cavity and in contact with the printed circuit board; an electro-acoustic transducer, permanently arranged on the printed circuit board and electrically connected with the printed circuit board; a spring piece, arranged on the case and in contact with the printed circuit board; a change-over switch, flexibly connected with the printed circuit board; the present invention has two switching modes that can be flexibly switched, making the battery box easier and more flexible to use, reducing the loss to the switch and prolonging the life of the battery box.

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