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| US10258054B2 |
Conveying and distributing apparatus for slaughtered fish
The present invention relates to a conveying and distributing apparatus for delivering fish slaughtered by means of a plurality of slaughtering machines to at least one distributing device, comprising longitudinal conveyors downstream of each of the slaughtering machines, which are configured to receive the slaughtered fish longitudinally in a head to tail orientation, wherein each of the longitudinal conveyors comprises a weighing device for detecting the weight of the slaughtered fish, at least one first transfer device is arranged on each of the longitudinal conveyors, which are designed and configured to transfer the slaughtered fish to at least one transverse conveyor, wherein the at least one transverse conveyor is adapted to receive the slaughtered fish transversely with respect to the head to tail orientation, a feed device arranged on the end of the transverse conveyor, which is designed and configured to remove the slaughtered fish from the transverse conveyor and to feed the same to a distributing device, and a control device, wherein the control device comprises a position tracking means for tracking the respective positions of slaughtered fish and an allocation means for allocating the detected weights to the respective tracked positions of the slaughtered fish, and wherein the control device is designed and configured to control the distributing device on the basis of the detected weights when the slaughtered fish enter the distributing device according to a predefined distribution rule. The invention further relates to a corresponding arrangement and a corresponding method. |
| US10258052B2 |
Method and device for longitudinally cutting poultry legs along a contour defined by an inwardly extending bone structure
Method and apparatus (1, 11) for longitudinally cutting poultry legs along a contour defined by an inwardly extending bone structure. The method comprises the steps of, and the apparatus (1, 11) having means (25) for, suspending at least one poultry leg at its ankle joint, and conveying the thus suspended poultry leg along a predefined path of conveyance (21). At least one cutting unit (1) with a directionable knife (73) is provided in the predefined path of conveyance (21). The at least one poultry leg is positioning such that it is lined-up for a longitudinal cutting engagement by the directionable knife (73), and the directionable knife (73) is brought into cutting engagement with the thus positioned poultry leg. During cutting engagement, position and cutting direction of the directionable knife are continuously adjusted to follow the contour defined by the bone structure of the poultry leg, while the positioned poultry leg is conveyed past the directionable knife (73). |
| US10258050B2 |
Household appliance mixing arragement
A household mixer appliance having an open top mixing container, a hook and a drive arrangement. The mixing container has a side wall portion with a through hole for the drive arrangement and the hook is arranged to be rotatable around an axis of rotation within the mixing container via the drive arrangement. A seal is arranged between the drive arrangement and the side wall portion of the mixing container, and the drive arrangement includes a quick-release mechanism to which the hook is attachable. |
| US10258049B2 |
Hot air oven
In order to improve the transfer of heat from a warm fluid inside a heat exchanger tube (333) including an elongated tube with a wall with an exterior surface and an interior surface, the interior surface is provided with at least one longitudinally extending interior wall (363′, 363″) which extends from one side of the interior surface towards another side of the interior surface. |
| US10258048B2 |
Bacillus sp. strain with antifungal, antibacterial and growth promotion activity
Disclosed herein is a Bacillus strain, Bacillus sp. isolate F727, that produces metabolites with pesticidal activities. Also provided are bioactive compositions and metabolites derived from cultures of Bacillus sp. isolate F727 capable of controlling pests; as well as methods of use of the strain and its metabolites for controlling pests. |
| US10258045B2 |
Molecules having pesticidal utility and intermediates, compositions and processes related thereto
This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in Phyla Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Nematoda, processes to produce such molecules, intermediates used in such processes, pesticidal compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such pesticidal compositions against such pests. These pesticidal compositions may be used, for example, as acaricides, insecticides, miticides, molluscicides, and nematicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”). |
| US10258043B2 |
Pesticide compositions and methods for controlling invertebrate pests
The present invention discloses a pesticide composition comprising a juvenoid, such as pyriproxyfen or hydroprene, and a chitin synthesis inhibitor, such as novaluron. The composition containing the combined actives provides an increased efficacy not exhibited by either active when used alone. |
| US10258036B2 |
Extract of Euodia suaveolens Scheff, repellent compositions and use thereof
The invention relates to an extract of Euodia suaveolens Scheff. The invention is characterized in that the extract is obtained from the airborne portions of the plant by means of at least one extraction step using an organic or hydro-alcoholic solvent, and in that it comprises evodone at a concentration of between 0.1 and 35% by weight of the total weight of the extract, and in that it has an insect repellent activity. The invention also relates to a repellent composition, characterized in that it comprises, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, evodone at a concentration of between 0.1 and 25% by weight of the total weight of the composition, and to the use of evodone as an active agent for repelling insects, in particular mosquitoes and more particularly the European/Mediterranean mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. |
| US10258035B2 |
Ether amines for enhanced sporicidal performance
A composition and method are used to treat articles suspected of contamination with bacterial spores. The composition and method are effective against bacterial spores selected from C. diff., C. botulinum, C. sporogenes, B. cereus, and B. subtilis. The article can be a textile or a hard surface. The method includes preparing a first use solution by mixing ether amine in water and a second use solution by mixing percarboxylic acid in water; applying the first use solution to the article; and applying the second use solution to the article. An alternative method includes preparing a mixture of ether amine, percarboxylic acid, and water, and applying the mixture to the article. |
| US10258024B2 |
Fishing lure system and kit having replaceable features and construction
A flexible fishing lure is provided that includes a outer shape having a transverse opening for receiving a plurality of alternatively formed lure fin members allowing a user to change the action of a lure by fin selection without replacing the lure. Multiple internal channels within the lure are adaptively provided for receiving a variety of scent sticks, sound generators, light generators, flavor generating means. Flow internal channels extend from a front opening to gill openings allowing a water flow along an inserted scent or flavor stick member to pass through the lure body and exit proximate fin, nair, belly, or other locations simulating an injured or wounded fish leaking bodily fluids or blood. Other features to simulate wounded features. Replacement fins and weighting constructions allow a user to tailor a weight and action enabling a circling or injured motion during retrieval. The lure includes a flexible holographic-type attractive film and physical shape having a level-maintaining physical shape. |
| US10258018B2 |
Animal toilet
An animal toilet includes: a front-rear direction, a right-left direction, and a height direction; an upper container that is to be placed with excrement treating material on a bottom portion having a plurality of holes through which urine passes, the bottom portion being a part positioned lowest inside the upper container, in a state where an absorbent body has been placed in a tray, a central position of the bottom portion of the upper container being arranged nearer to a rear side than a central position of the absorbent body, in the front-rear direction; the tray that is to be placed with the absorbent body that absorbs urine that has passed through the holes; and a lower container put below the upper container, the lower container storing the tray. |
| US10258016B2 |
Cleaning system and method for an automatic milking system
A cleaning system for an automatic milking system includes a water supply arrangement alternatively serving first and second cleaning arrangements. The first cleaning arrangement is configured, in milking mode, to clean the teat cups of the automatic milking system and/or the teats of milking animals prior to being milked. The first cleaning arrangement includes at least one cleaning module, at least one feed line interconnecting the cleaning module with a tank, and a feed pump for feeding water from the tank to the cleaning module. The second cleaning arrangement is configured, in system cleaning mode, to clean the automatic milking system and includes a detergent supply system connected to the tank for supplying detergent to the tank, and a supply line interconnecting the tank with the automatic milking system allowing the cleaning liquid to be supplied to the automatic milking system. |
| US10258014B1 |
Soybean cultivar 76051047
A soybean cultivar designated 76051047 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 76051047, to the plants of soybean cultivar 76051047, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 76051047, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 76051047. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 76051047. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 76051047, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 76051047 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US10258013B1 |
Soybean cultivar 64442216
A soybean cultivar designated 64442216 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 64442216, to the plants of soybean cultivar 64442216, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 64442216, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 64442216. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 64442216. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 64442216, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 64442216 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US10258005B1 |
New Guinea impatiens variety SAKIMP045
A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP045 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid impatiens seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP045 with another impatiens variety. |
| US10258003B2 |
Lettuce variety ‘PRO 1632’
New lettuce variety designated ‘PRO 1632’ is described. ‘PRO 1632’ exhibits stability and uniformity. |
| US10258000B2 |
Inbred corn line BC143
Inbred corn lines, designated BC143 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn lines BC143 to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn lines BC143 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn lines BC143 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BC143 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn lines BC143. |
| US10257994B2 |
Soybean variety 01068143
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01068143. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01068143. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01068143 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01068143 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US10257993B2 |
Soybean variety 5PYQB84
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PYQB84 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PYQB84, cells from soybean variety 5PYQB84, plants of soybean 5PYQB84, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PYQB84. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PYQB84 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PYQB84, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PYQB84, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PYQB84. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PYQB84 are further provided. |
| US10257991B1 |
Hybrid tomato plant name CLX37935
A novel hybrid tomato plant, designated CLX37935 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of tomato hybrid CLX37935, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato CLX37935, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato CLX37935 with itself or another tomato plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other tomato plants derived from the hybrid tomato plant CLX37935. |
| US10257983B2 |
Crop processing apparatus in a combine harvester
A combine harvester includes a grain pan arranged to catch a crop stream, the grain pan being driven in an oscillating manner to convey the crop stream rearwardly to a rear edge. A cleaning unit includes a fan for generating a cleaning airstream which is directed under the rear edge. The grain pan includes a floor profile which defines a transverse profile having ridges and troughs. The troughs provide a plurality of longitudinal channels, wherein the ridge-to-trough height increases in the direction of conveyance. Crop material conveyed by the grain pan experiences channels that deepen towards the rear edge of the pan. |
| US10257982B2 |
Wear-inhibiting clip for draper cleat or slat of a crop harvesting header
A clip for a draper of a crop header is arranged to cover a portion of a cleat of a draper where the lower run of the draper comes into contact with a lower support track which confines the lower run to a location clear of the cutter bar and a forwardly extending beam of the crop header frame. The clip forms a channel which features teeth presented at an inside of the channel for biting into the cleat so as to retain the clip thereon with the teeth forming ramped surfaces which can slide along the cleat upon installation of the clip, for example by press fitting the clip downwardly onto the cleat. |
| US10257980B1 |
Nut row harvester
A nut row harvester has a nut hopper attached to a conveyor system. The nut row harvester has first and second frame sections that are pivotable relative to each other. A delivery end of the conveyor is moveable from a lower or harvesting position to an upper or dumping position. The nut hopper moves between the upper and lower positions with the end of the delivery conveyor. |
| US10257977B2 |
Dual engine agricultural harvesting combine
An articulated harvesting combine includes of a forward power processing unit (PPU, 12) and a rear grain cart (14), wherein the PPU carries dual axially mounted engines (36 and 38) with oppositely opposed crankshafts (100 and 102) with one toward the rear grain cart and the other engine away from the rear grain cart, wherein the dual engines share a common radiator, single air conditioning condenser, single alternator, common batteries, common fuel tank and exhaust fluid tank; but have separate hot exhaust treatment system, separate hot exhaust manifolds, and separate side-mounted charge air coolers. |
| US10257975B2 |
Multiple agricultural product application method and systems
A method and system for planting one of a plurality of seed types, hybrids and/or varieties includes planter with a plurality of row units. The row units include metering systems, which can include multiple seed meters at a particular row unit, as well as a queuing system. The metering systems including more than one seed meters are configured such that the seed meters will plant a different seed types or varieties. The operation of one or more of the seed meters at a time will provide for the planting of a particular seed variety. The invention provides for on-the-go changing of a seed being planted by changing the operation of one or more of the seed meters at each of the row units and provides for almost infinite variation among the row units for planting particular seed varieties or not planting at all. |
| US10257972B2 |
Flexible wing sections for a field cultivator
An agricultural tillage implement for use in a field. The agricultural tillage implement including a frame section and a plurality of wing sections. The frame section has a pull hitch extending in a travel direction. Each of the plurality of wing sections are coupled to the frame section and/or a wing section. The wing sections each have an articulated portion pivotal about an axis substantially perpendicular to the travel direction. |
| US10264718B2 |
External-leadwire crimping apparatus
An external-leadwire crimping apparatus is provided by embodiments of the present invention, including: a heating base provided with a heating rod and a temperature sensor; a crimping tool tip which is connected with the heating base and supplied with heat from the heating base, the crimping tool tip being configured to to crimp a leadwire of a flexible printed circuit board onto a printed circuit board assembly, by curing a conductive adhesive after receipt of heat, and the crimping tool tip comprising a crimping tool tip body. The crimping tool tip body is provided with at least one heat dissipation slot on an upper surface thereof, the heat dissipation slot being configured to extend in a thickness direction of the crimping tool tip body and to penetrate therethrough at both ends; and the crimping tool tip body is provided with at least one heat dissipation hole penetrating the thickness direction thereof. |
| US10264714B1 |
Auxiliary cooling by automated cooling unit
A facility containing electronic components can be cooled by one or more automated cooling units. One or more automated cooling units are automatically deployed to respond to temperature events at one or more electronic components by moving the automated cooling unit to the electronic component and operating a cooling assembly to pass air through an affected component, or by moving the automated cooling unit to a designated air handler or air source and supplementing a flow of air generated by the air handler. Multiple automated cooling units can be employed at the same time. |
| US10264712B2 |
Harvesting facility water for pumping secondary fluid flow
The embodiments described herein relate to generating fluid flow. A pump is positioned adjacent to a heat source. The pump includes a primary chamber having a primary rotational element configured to rotate on an axis, and a secondary chamber having a secondary rotational element configured to rotate on the axis, with a heat transfer element positioned between the primary chamber and the secondary chamber. The primary rotational element is coupled with the secondary rotational element along the axis. A primary fluid is received in the primary chamber with a primary fluid flow, which rotates the primary rotational element. A secondary fluid flow is generated in the secondary chamber by the primary rotational element causing a rotation of the secondary rotational element on the axis. |
| US10264710B2 |
Thermal material within a device
In an embodiment, thermal conductive material within a device having electrical component is described. In an embodiment, a device is disclosed comprising: a printed circuit board comprising electrical components; a housing of the device, wherein the housing substantially encloses the printed circuit board; a thermal conductive material coated on the printed circuit board, wherein the thermal conductive material is configured to coat an interface between an electrical component and the printed circuit board, and wherein the thermal conductive material is located between the printed circuit board and a portion of the housing according to both a three dimensional topography of the printed circuit board and a three dimensional shape of the portion of the housing. |
| US10264709B1 |
Power output end structure of power supply
A power output end structure of a DC power supply is disclosed. The power supply includes a casing provided with a plurality of power modules. Output terminals of the power modules are electrically connected to a positive busbar and a negative busbar, respectively. The positive busbar and the negative busbar are in the form of a thin plate and arranged horizontally. The power modules are electrically connected in parallel or in series. Because the positive busbar and the negative busbar are in the form of a thin plate and arranged horizontally, the heat dissipation path in the casing won't be blocked so as to provide a better heat dissipation space and achieve a better heat dissipation effect. |
| US10264708B2 |
Electronic device and heat dissipation module thereof
An electronic device includes a chassis, a heat source, a thermal diffusion plate, at least one heat pipe and a partition plate. The thermal diffusion plate is thermally connected to the heat source. The heat pipe includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is fixedly connected to the thermal diffusion plate. The partition plate is arranged between the chassis and the heat pipe, and is thermally connected to the chassis and the heat pipe. The heat pipe is completely separated from the chassis. |
| US10264707B2 |
Flat plate pulsating heat pipe applicable at various angles and method of manufacturing same
Disclosed is a flat plate pulsating heat pipe (FP-PHP) serving as a power-free high efficiency heat transfer system for small electronic devices such as mobile phones and laptop computers. The FP-PHP is manufactured using MEMS technology and configured to have a single-turn loop or a multi-turn loop, each having a single diameter channel or a dual diameter channel. Further, since a working fluid used in a flat plate pulsating heat pipe exhibits different characteristics according to the main working temperature, provided is a flat plate pulsating heat pipe which includes a working fluid having optimum efficiency in the main working temperature. In addition, the flat plate pulsating heat pipe applicable at various installation angles, of the present invention which is for achieving the above purpose, includes: a silicon lower wafer plate having a rectangular shape; a capillary tube comprising a channel which has a constant depth on the upper surface of the silicon wafer lower plate and is formed in the form of a straight line along the longitudinal direction of the silicon wafer lower plate, wherein the channel forms a closed loop which is bent at both ends of the silicon wafer lower plate and is connected; a wafer upper plate which is coupled on top of the silicon wafer lower plate and seals the capillary tube; and a working fluid filled inside the capillary tube, wherein the capillary tube is made of a combination of a dual-diameter tube including a pair of channels having different widths and a single diameter tube including a pair of channels having the same width. |
| US10264697B2 |
Protective cabinet for storage and protection of equipment in general
A protective cabinet for storage and protection of equipment, wherein the cabinet (1) includes lateral (1a), upper (1b) and lower (1c) walls, and is provided with swivel rollers (2) and leveling support feet (3), as well as with front (4) and posterior (5) doors. The upper wall (1b) of the cabinet (1) is inclined and provided with external integrated hooks (7), and the cabinet (1) is further internally provided with sets of vertical profiles (8) provided with orifices (8a), as well as with vertical supports (9) provided with shafts (9a), the orifices (8a) and shafts (9a) adapted to receive the installation and the fixing of several types of components/devices. The protective cabinet (1) is provided with a mobile rear compartment (11), which may provide accommodation for a ventilation/refrigeration/acclimatization system of the cabinet. The rear compartment (11) includes lateral (11a), upper (11b), lower (11c) and posterior (11d) walls, with the upper wall (11b) being inclined, and the posterior (11d) wall being provided with openings (11e) for passing of electrical wiring and of components of the ventilation/refrigeration/acclimatization systems of the cabinet. The compartment (11) may further include swiveling rollers (12). |
| US10264692B2 |
Protective casing for an electrical energy reader including a glass lens
The present invention discloses a protective casing reader power polycarbonate where said casing is places crystal inserts in areas of reading and consumption data area, of said inserts meter feature a beveled periphery, whereby an adhesion to the glass with glue, the crystal inserts are integrated by plastic injection to allow a simple and clear reading, also has a front peripheral ring in which gives a greater resistance to shock, for which has a plastic casing with crystal reading areas which gives the advantage that even though is plastic it will opaque it will opaque due to the sun rays, the reading area will always be visible. |
| US10264689B2 |
Vapor ports for electronic devices
An electronic device that has components is provided with a housing that defines an exterior and an interior of the electronic device. The housing includes a vapor port that prevents ingress of liquid through the vapor port from the exterior of the electronic device to the interior of the electronic device. The vapor port also permits egress of vapor through the vapor port from the interior of the electronic device to the exterior of the electronic device. The vapor port may include a breathable, but water-resistant or waterproof barrier to prevent water from entering through the barrier while enabling water vapor to exit through the barrier and, thus, the vapor port. |
| US10264688B2 |
Earthing arrangement for electrical panel
A rigid electrical panel has both a flexible printed circuit and an electromagnetic protection layer embedded therein. The flexible printed circuit has an integral electromagnetic shield. The integral electromagnetic shield and the electromagnetic protection layer are electrically isolated, so as to provide independent grounding paths. The independent grounding paths are individually tested for safe operation. |
| US10264685B2 |
Multi-part electronic device housing having contiguous filled surface
A housing for an electronic device that allows electromagnetic waves to pass through the housing is disclosed. The housing may include a first portion having an opening, a second portion positioned within the opening, and an insert including a protrusion extending into at least a portion of a gap formed between the first portion and the second portion. The housing also may include a first ink layer disposed within the gap and substantially surrounding the protrusion, and a second ink layer disposed within the gap and over the first ink. The first portion, second ink layer, and second portion may cooperate to form a substantially contiguous surface, and the second ink layer may be positioned approximately 5 microns (μm) or less below an exposed surface of the first portion and an exposed surface of the second portion. |
| US10264684B2 |
Conductivity inspection method of printed circuit board and manufacturing method of printed circuit board
First and second measurement probes come into contact with first and second electrode pads, respectively, and third and fourth measurement probes come into contact with the first and second electrode pads, respectively. A current flows in a current path including the first and second electrode pads and a plurality of lines through the first and second measurement probes. A value of the current in the current path is measured, and a value of a voltage between the third and fourth measurement probes is measured. Conductivity between the first and second electrode pads is inspected based on the measured value of the current and the measured value of the voltage. |
| US10264677B2 |
Electronic component and manufacturing method therefor
An electronic component includes an electronic component element including first and second main surfaces, a heat-dissipation accelerating member on the first main surface, a sealing resin layer sealing the electronic component element, and a shielding member provided on the sealing resin layer and electrically connected to the heat-dissipation accelerating member. The heat-dissipation accelerating member includes fourth and fifth main surfaces. The electronic component includes a connecting member disposed on the fifth main surface of the heat-dissipation accelerating member and electrically connecting at least one portion of the heat-dissipation accelerating member and the shielding member. The connecting member has a higher thermal conductivity than the sealing resin layer. The contact area between the heat-dissipation accelerating member and the connecting member is smaller than the area of the fifth main surface. |
| US10264673B2 |
Board and electronic device
A board includes a substrate having a bending property, a wiring pattern formed over the substrate and having a bending property, a conductive member formed over the wiring pattern, an electronic component; and a bonding member that bonds the conductive member and the electronic component to each other. And an electronic device includes a board having a bending property, a wiring pattern formed over the substrate and having a bending property, a conductive member formed over the wiring pattern, an electronic component; and a bonding member that bonds the conductive member and the electronic component to each other. |
| US10264668B2 |
Component vertical mounting
A circuit component arrangement includes a base and a plurality of circuit components mounted to the base. A bonding agent adheres the circuit components in intimate contact to the base. The bonding agent is disposed in a respective open channel defined in an outward facing surface of the base in contact with each of the circuit components. A method of assembling a circuit component arrangement includes temporarily fastening a plurality of circuit components to a base. A bonding agent is injected into a respective open channel defined in the base to adhere each of the plurality of circuit components to the base. The plurality of circuit components are unfastened from the base. Injecting a bonding agent can include ceasing injection of bonding agent upon appearance of bonding agent in a window opening in fluid communication with the open channel. |
| US10264666B2 |
Method of providing compartment EMI shields on printed circuit board using a vacuum
A method is provided for forming an internal electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield in a mold cap formed over a printed circuit board (PCB). The method includes forming a trench in the mold cap, the trench extending continuously from a first edge of the mold cap to a second edge of the mold cap, where the trench defines a trench pattern corresponding to desired locations of the internal EMI shield. The method further includes sealing an elastomeric pad on a top surface of the mold cap to form a channel, the channel including at least the trench formed in the mold cap; and filling the channel with a conductive epoxy using a vacuum configured to draw the conductive epoxy from a dispenser, connected to the first edge of the mold cap, through the channel to the second edge of the mold cap based on pressure differential. |
| US10264665B2 |
Tamper-respondent assemblies with bond protection
Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include at least one tamper-respondent sensor having unexposed circuit lines forming, at least in part, one or more tamper-detect network(s), and the tamper-respondent sensor having at least one external bond region. The tamper-respondent assembly further includes at least one conductive trace and an adhesive. The conductive trace(s) forms, at least in part, the one or more tamper-detect network(s), and is exposed, at least in part, on the tamper-respondent sensor(s) within the external bond region(s). The adhesive contacts the conductive trace(s) within the external bond region(s) of the tamper-respondent sensor(s), and the adhesive, in part, facilitates securing the at least one tamper-respondent sensor within the tamper-respondent assembly. In enhanced embodiments, the conductive trace(s) is a chemically compromisable conductor susceptible to damage during a chemical attack on the adhesive within the external bond region(s). |
| US10264662B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus
Provided is a capacitively coupled plasma processing apparatus which improves a controllability of the RF bias function and reliably prevents unwanted resonance from being generated on a RF transmission line between a counter electrode and ground potential to enhance reliability of the plasma process. In the capacitive coupled type plasma processing apparatus, three kinds of RF powers from a first, second and third RF power supplies (35, 36, 38) are superimposed and applied to susceptor (lower electrode) (16). In such a three-frequency superimposing and applying application scheme, the frequency-impedance characteristic around upper electrode (48) is considered to prevent a serial resonance from occurring on an RF transmission line around upper electrode (48) in consideration of all the low order frequencies of the IMD relevant to and affecting the plasma process. Since the fluorocarbon layer by itself functions as an antireflective film and a harm mask, the reliability of processing can be improved, while reducing the cost. |
| US10264658B2 |
Lighting device
A lighting device which can produce various fade operations without significantly consuming memory capacity is provided. Duty ratios for a plurality of steps are recorded in a ROM of a slave ECU. The slave ECU sets an interval time for 1 step, reads out from a map brightness of a next step at each set interval time, and outputs a pulse with the read out duty ratio to a LED. A change duty ratio, a pre-change interval time and a post-change interval time are recorded in the ROM. The slave ECU sets the interval time for 1 step to the pre-change interval time before the duty ratio of the LED reaches to the change duty ratio, and changes the setting by setting the interval time for 1 step to the post-change interval time after the duty ratio of the LED has reached to the change duty ratio. |
| US10264657B2 |
Intelligent lighting module for a lighting fixture
A lighting fixture includes an LED light source that outputs light for general illumination in response to a drive signal, and a driver module configured to provide the drive signal in response to an intelligent lighting module (ILM) instruction. An ILM that is separate from the driver module is provided and has a first plurality of sensors, a first communication interface, a second communication interface, and first control circuitry. The control circuitry of the ILM is configured to communicate with at least one remote entity via the first communication interface as well as generate the ILM instruction for the driver module based on sensor data gathered from the first plurality of sensors, remote entities, or a combination thereof. The ILM instruction is provided to the driver module via the second communication interface and used by the driver module to control the drive signal for the LED array. |
| US10264656B2 |
Method of controlling lighting sources, corresponding system and computer program product
According to the present disclosure, lighting sources, having operating parameter(s) which is controllable in lighting sequence(s) as a function of a time code data set coupled with the sequence, are controlled: by providing a repository of operating data files for the lighting sources coupled with lighting sources, with each data file including time code data set(s) for lighting sequence(s) for one of the lighting sources, by detecting ambient lighting level signal(s) at the ambient where the lighting sources are located, by retrieving in the data repository operating data file(s) coupled with a selected one of the lighting sources, and by operating the selected lighting source by controlling the operating parameter(s) as a function of the operating data included in the operating data file retrieved and as a function of the ambient lighting level signal. |
| US10264649B2 |
Control set for adjusting light source
A control set for adjusting the light source is provided. The control set includes a control module. The control module includes a control chip and a storage. The control chip controls the brightness of the lamp. The storage connected with a timing unit and stores a fine tuning signal. The fine tuning signal stored in the storage is generated and output to the adjust signal by turning off and turning on the adjustable power switch, the timing unit sets a preset time period in which the fine tuning signal maintains effective, and the fine tuning signal controls the lamp to have a brightness the same as the brightness when the lamp is turned off last time, or the brightness of the lamp is gradually increased to the preset brightness and then decreased. |
| US10264636B2 |
Light source and light emitting module
A light source and a light emitting module thereof are provided. The light source drives and controls the light emitting module containing numerous light emitters by linear constant current drivers and a switch, and all the light emitters can be turned on or turned off simultaneously by utilizing a manner of full-balance series-parallel conversion, which result in the superior light uniformity and even the low flicker requirement can be met. |
| US10264633B2 |
Optoelectronic circuit with light-emitting diodes
An optoelectronic circuit for receiving a variable voltage containing alternating increasing and decreasing phases. The optoelectronic circuit includes assemblies of light-emitting diodes mounted in series; a current source connected to each assembly by a switch; for each switch, a first comparison module for comparing the current passing through the switch with a current threshold; a second comparison module for comparing a voltage representing the voltage at the terminals of the current source with a voltage threshold; and a control module connected to the first and second comparison modules and designed to control the opening and closing of the switches, during each increasing phase and each decreasing phase, according to signals supplied by the first and second comparison modules. |
| US10264631B1 |
Light set circuit with time control function
A light set circuit with time control function includes a power supply module, a plurality of light emitting modules and a time control module. A first wire receives a positive voltage and a second wire receives a negative voltage, or the first wire receives a negative voltage and the second wire receives a positive voltage, from the power supply module. A first positive pin of a first light emitting module and a second positive pin of a second light emitting module are connected to the second wire, and a first negative pin of the first light emitting module and a second positive pin of the second light emitting module are connected to the second wire. The time control module counts time and controls light emitting states of the light emitting modules. |
| US10264630B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and method for processing object
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber including a sidewall; a mounting table including a lower electrode and provided in the processing chamber; an upper electrode arranged to face the lower electrode in a first direction; a high frequency power supply configured to apply a high frequency power for plasma generation to the upper electrode; a gas supply system for supplying a processing gas into the processing chamber; and a grounding unit connected to a ground potential. A first space is defined between the mounting table and the sidewall. A second space is defined between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. The grounding unit is configured to move independently from the upper electrode in the first direction in a third space which extends to the first space in the first direction and also to the second space in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. |
| US10264628B2 |
Gripping apparatus
A gripping apparatus is disclosed for gripping and holding electrically conductive, textile materials. The gripping apparatus includes a gripping device which has a gripping face for gripping and holding the textile material. With the aid of an electrical contact device, electrodes can be brought into contact with the textile material in order to bring about a current flow in the textile material. |
| US10264624B2 |
Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, and reception method
The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that enable channel selection information and time information to be transmitted effectively.A transmission apparatus acquires channel selection information for selecting a service and time information used for synchronizations on a transmission side and a reception side, generates, as a physical layer frame constituted of a preamble and a data portion, the physical layer frame in which specific information including at least one of the channel selection information and the time information is arranged at a head of the data portion right after the preamble, and transmits the physical layer frame as digital broadcast signals. The present technology is applicable to IP packet broadcasting, for example. |
| US10264620B2 |
Policy determination system, policy determination method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
A policy determination system (500) according to an aspect of the present invention is arranged in a core network (10) and capable of communicating with a control apparatus (100) arranged in a radio access network (20). The control apparatus (100) is configured to perform control related to a state transition between a CONNECTED state and an IDLE state of a mobile terminal (300) based on a state control policy supplied from the policy determination system. The policy determination system (500) includes a policy determination unit (502) that determines a state control policy according to a situation of the mobile terminal (300), and a notification unit (503 or 205) that notifies the control apparatus (100) of the state control policy. This enables, for example, to reduce the number of signalings which are caused due to repetition of state transition (CONNECTED-IDLE transition) of the mobile terminal and are to be processed by the core network, based on the determination by the core network. |
| US10264617B2 |
Wireless relay device, control device, wireless communication system, and joining method
A wireless relay device that performs relay of data over a wireless network includes: a manager that manages a second wireless network different from a first wireless network that the own device joins; and a transfer controller that transfers data transmitted to the own device over the second wireless network, to a preset transfer destination over the first wireless network. |
| US10264616B2 |
LTE transmission in unlicensed bands
A method of receiving LTE data by a user device, the data being transmitted on a channel of an unlicensed band comprising the steps of receiving a cell ID from a primary LTE cell, receiving system information from the primary LTE cell for access to an unlicensed channel, receiving LTE data on the channel of an unlicensed band. |
| US10264610B2 |
System, method and apparatus for communication with occupants of a vehicle
A method of communicating between a person within a target vehicle and a law enforcement person includes establishing a connection between a law-enforcement transceiver and a target vehicle transceiver using a protocol and encoding an audio signal into an encoded audio signal by the law-enforcement transceiver using the protocol, The encoded audio signal is transmitted from the law-enforcement transceiver and received by the target vehicle transceiver where the encoded audio signal is accepted by the target vehicle transceiver through a feature in the protocol, the feature in the protocol allowing limited access to an audio transducer of the target vehicle, the encoded audio signal is decoded back into the audio signal by the target vehicle transducer and the audio signal is reproduced on the audio transducer within the target vehicle. |
| US10264608B2 |
Data transmission method, base station, and user equipment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, a base station, and user equipment, where the method includes: receiving bundling capability information sent by user equipment, where the Bundling capability information includes: information used to indicate that the user equipment has a capability of transmitting first data for M times, where M is a maximum quantity of transmission times that is supported by the user equipment for the first data, and M≥2; and performing transmission of the first data with the user equipment for N times according to the Bundling capability information, where N≤M. |
| US10264607B2 |
Method and device for performing random access in wireless communication system
A method and a device for performing a random access in a wireless communication system are provided. Specifically, a wireless resource for transmitting a first random access request is selected, and the first random access request is transmitted through the wireless resource. The first random access request includes a transmission period of the first random access request, the frequency of retransmission, and an allowable error of the transmission period. Uplink resource allocation information is received in response to the first random access request. The uplink resource allocation information includes information on an indicator bit and a wireless resource shift. When the indicator bit is a preset value, a second random access request is transmitted through a wireless resource shifted from the wireless resource. |
| US10264606B2 |
Access point (AP) controlled uplink RTS/CTS configuration and disablement
The present disclosure provides techniques for configuring the utilization of request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) protocol procedures based on varying conditions at the STA. For example, an AP may identify one or more conditions, when satisfied, may trigger the STA to either enable or disable uplink (UL) transmissions associated with a RTS/CTS protocol procedure. In some aspects, an AP may determine a transmit opportunity (TXOP) threshold for an STA and may determine whether to broadcast a message having the TXOP threshold to multiple STAs including the STA or unicast the message to the STA. An STA may receive a message from an AP having a TXOP threshold and may replace, based on an indication in the received message, a current TXOP threshold in the STA with the TXOP threshold in the received message. The STA may transmit an UL RTS frame in response to a determination that a planned TXOP duration satisfies the TXOP threshold. |
| US10264605B2 |
Listen-before-talk based medium access
There is provided a method, performed by a communication station, for Listen-Before-Talk, LBT, based medium access. The method comprises the step (S1) of performing an LBT-based medium access procedure including sensing a radio-based medium on a shared radio spectrum during a sensing duration, deferring transmission if an on-going transmission is detected during the sensing, and transmitting on the radio-based medium if no on-going transmission is detected during the sensing. The method further comprises the step (S2) of waiting, when the communication station has transmitted, for a waiting duration that is based on a time duration between consecutive sensing occasions for at least one other communication station, also operating according to an LBT-based medium access procedure on the shared radio spectrum, before performing the LBT-based medium access procedure again. |
| US10264603B2 |
Coordination method between access points using unlicensed frequency band
A coordination method between access points using unlicensed frequency bands and a network control node using this method are disclosed. The method includes: the first access points adjusting transmission parameters thereof to increase channel access probability of the first access points; and the second access points adjusting transmission parameters thereof to decrease the channel access probability of the second access points; wherein the degree to which channel access probability of the third access points is decreased due to adjustment of the transmission parameters of all the first access points is equivalent to the degree to which the channel access probability is increased due to adjustment of the transmission parameters of all the second access points. Through coordination between multiple access points in the same network, fair coexistence with other networks using unlicensed frequency bands can be ensured while user QoS is improved. |
| US10264601B2 |
Downlink control information transmission method and apparatus
The present disclosure describes a downlink control information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining multiple terminal devices used for downlink scheduling; determining downlink control information used by the multiple terminal devices to receive downlink data flows, where the downlink control information includes common control information shared by the multiple terminal devices, dedicated control information of each of the multiple terminal devices, and device identifier information of each terminal device, and an order of the device identifier information of each terminal device is the same as an order of the dedicated control information of each terminal device; and sending the downlink control information to the multiple terminal devices. |
| US10264595B2 |
Traffic-priority based silencing techniques for interference mitigation
Techniques are described herein to provide priority traffic grant-less access to pre-defined communication resources that are semi-persistently scheduled. A set of semi-persistent communication resources may be reserved for use by priority traffic. If not used for priority traffic, the semi-persistent resources may be scheduled for use by other types of traffic. As priority traffic is identified, the priority traffic may be transmitted using the semi-persistent resource without having those communication resources granted by a scheduling entity. Such grant-less access to the semi-persistent resources may result in interference between the scheduled traffic and the priority traffic communicated without first scheduling the specific communication resources. To mitigate interference between different traffic types, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a device-to-device silencing message to other UEs. Upon receiving the silencing message, the other UEs may release any scheduled communication resources that at least partially overlap with the semi-persistent resources. |
| US10264590B2 |
Channel allocation among multiple radio frequency networks
Methods, systems, and storage media for dynamic allocation of communication channels among multiple wireless networks are disclosed. The example embodiments may provide interference mitigation and control among a plurality of wireless protocols operating in an environment. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. |
| US10264584B2 |
Controlling uplink transmission power using offset value based on antenna number or diversity scheme
Disclosed are a terminal device for controlling uplink transmission power and a method therefor. A receiving antenna receives uplink transmission mode change information from a base station. A processor determines a transmission power value to be used for the uplink transmission by means of an offset value corresponding to the uplink transmission mode change information. A transmitting antenna transmits an uplink signal with the determined transmission power value. |
| US10264581B1 |
Providing cellular service on partially-overlapping carriers
A method and system to help facilitate efficient use of frequency spectrum. A base station will provide service on two carriers that partially overlap with each other in frequency. To facilitate this, the base station could shift the frame timing of one carrier in relation to the other carrier, so as to minimize or avoid overlap of the carriers' downlink control channels. Further, the base station could control service on each carrier in a manner that helps avoid resource conflicts within the overlapping frequency region. |
| US10264579B2 |
Communication method, user equipment, and base station
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method, a UE, and a base station. The method includes: acquiring, by the user equipment UE, on an anchor carrier, synchronization information to synchronize with the base station, where a frequency resource between the UE and the base station includes N subcarriers, where the N subcarriers include the anchor carrier and at least one supplementary carrier, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; acquiring, by the UE, on the anchor carrier, system information, where the system information includes information about identities and frequency locations of the subcarriers; selecting, by the UE, the anchor carrier or a supplementary carrier according to the system information; and accessing, by the UE, the base station on a selected subcarrier, and communicating with the base station. |
| US10264576B2 |
Method for uplink data transmission, terminal, and wireless communication node
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field, and disclose a method for uplink data transmission, a terminal, and a wireless communication node, which can ensure that a HARQ mechanism between a terminal and a wireless communication node works normally. The method includes: determining, by a first wireless communication node, whether a terminal is within downlink coverage of a second wireless communication node; and when the first wireless communication node determines that the terminal is not within the downlink coverage of the second wireless communication node, instructing, by the first wireless communication node, the terminal to use a non-feedback mode; and/or instructing, by the first wireless communication node, the second wireless communication node to use a non-feedback mode. |
| US10264575B2 |
Control channel in a wireless device and wireless network
A wireless device may communicate with a plurality of base stations. Information about signals received from a first base station may be used to improve communications with a second base station. The wireless device may generate and process a first signal corresponding to the first base station. The processed first signal may be used to generate a second signal corresponding to the second base station. The second signal may be used to determine system parameters associated with the second base station. |
| US10264574B2 |
GSM Evolution packet data traffic channel resource transmission management—flexible downlink allocation technique
A radio access network node (e.g., Base Station Subsystem), a wireless device (e.g., a mobile station), and various methods are described herein for improving the allocation of radio resources in wireless communications. In one embodiment, the radio access network node and wireless device implement a fixed uplink allocation technique. In another embodiment, the radio access network node and wireless device implement a flexible downlink allocation technique. |
| US10264567B2 |
Data transmission method and device in wireless communication system
A method for mapping uplink data to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method includes receiving a configuration for a UE-specific aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) subframe from a base station; and mapping the uplink data to the PUSCH in the UE-specific aperiodic SRS subframe, wherein the UE-specific aperiodic SRS subframe includes a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol reserved for an aperiodic SRS, wherein the aperiodic SRS is selectively transmitted in the reserved SC-FDMA symbol to the base station, and the aperiodic SRS is transmitted in the reserved SC-FDMA symbol when triggered by the base station, and wherein the uplink data is mapped to SC-FDMA symbols other than the SC-FDMA symbol reserved for the aperiodic SRS in the UE-specific aperiodic SRS subframe in a case when the aperiodic SRS is not transmitted in the reserved SC-FDMA symbol. |
| US10264565B2 |
Method for receiving system information in wireless communication system that supports narrowband IoT and apparatus for the same
A method for receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system supporting a Narrow Band (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT), the method performed by a terminal comprising: receiving a narrowband synchronization signal (NBSS) on a first NB-IoT carrier from a base station; acquiring, based on the NBSS, time synchronization and frequency synchronization with the base station; receiving the system information related to the NB-IoT on the first NB-IoT carrier from the base station; being assigned a second NB-IoT carrier from the base station; and receiving the downlink data on at least one of the first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoT carrier from the base station. |
| US10264557B2 |
User terminal and processor performing D2D communication
A user terminal according to the present embodiment comprises: a controller configured to perform control of transmitting at least one or more group identifiers among a plurality of group identifiers comprising of an identifier associated with each of a plurality of D2D groups in D2D communication being direct inter-terminal communication to a base station as an identifier of a destination of data in the D2D communication. |
| US10264556B2 |
Resource element usage in control channel elements
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for efficient RE usage in CCEs. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a control channel frequency region including a set of CCEs in a TTI. Each CCE of the set of CCEs includes a set of REs. The processor determines a subset of CCEs of the set of CCEs not used for transmission of control information. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives data on the REs in the subset of CCEs. |
| US10264551B2 |
Mobile vibratory device, system, and method for physiotherapeutic applications
A method and apparatus for providing vibration physiotherapy includes a vibration accessory that can produce vibrations over a range of frequencies, and is controlled by a communication device. The communication device executes a physiotherapy application program via which a user can select various operating modes to control vibration of the vibration accessory. The vibrations can be selected to be a constant frequency or the vibrations can be controlled to vary over time. |
| US10264542B2 |
Wirelessly synchronized clock networks
An apparatus includes a first independently clocked device and one or more second independently clocked devices. The first independently clocked device may comprise a clock generator. The clock generator may be configured to generate a clock signal. The first independently clocked device may be configured to wirelessly broadcast a synchronization signal based on the clock signal. The one or more second independently clocked devices may each comprise respective clock generators. The one or more second independently clocked devices may (a) be configured to receive the synchronization signal from the first independently clocked device and (b) synchronize the respective clock generators to the clock signal of the first independently clocked device in response to the synchronization signal. |
| US10264539B2 |
Method and device by which NAN terminal transmits NAN service discovery frame in wireless communication system
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method by which an NAN terminal transmits an NAN service discovery frame on a discovery window (DW) in a wireless communication system, and the method for transmitting an NAN service discovery frame comprises the steps of: determining a time that a packet is available for transmitting; starting a countdown according to a backoff counter of an NAN discovery frame from the time at which a packet is available for transmission; and transmitting the NAN service discovery frame when the countdown is finished, wherein if the NAN terminal transmits a synch beacon frame on the DW, the NAN service discovery frame is capable of being transmitted only when the synch beacon frame is transmitted. |
| US10264538B2 |
Listen-before-talk mechanism
Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses are described for a listen-before-talk (LBT) mechanism. A wireless node, e.g., a base station, may determine that a channel is available based on completing a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure. The wireless node may be associated with a first operator. The wireless node may transmit a first message on the channel in a subframe based on the CCA procedure. The first message may include a header portion that precedes a data portion. The first message may be time aligned with a second message transmitted from a second wireless node that is associated with the first operator. |
| US10264534B1 |
Power control for high power class wireless devices
Systems, methods, and processing nodes for performing uplink power control of a high-powered wireless device in a wireless network based on first determining that a wireless device is capable of operating in a high-powered transmission mode, performing real-time adjustments to one or both of a pathloss scaling parameter or a power headroom level scaling parameter associated with the high-powered wireless device, and instructing the high-powered wireless device to utilize a transmit power level based on the adjusted one or both of the pathloss scaling parameter or the power headroom level scaling parameter. |
| US10264531B1 |
Optimizing mobile network traffic coordination across multiple applications running on a mobile device
A mobile device is configured for entering a power save mode based on received user input to enter the power save mode. The received user input is a user selection at a user interface of the mobile device. When the mobile device is in the power save mode, the mobile device is configured for blocking outgoing network traffic related to a first application and receiving a message directed towards the first application. The message is received from an intermediary server that provides connectivity between an application server for the first application and the mobile device. |
| US10264530B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for rendering an information bearing function of time
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for partitioning an energy or power source. The energy source may be, for example, a battery or batteries or other power supply or power supplies for an electronic device, such as a cell phone, or mobile device. The energy source (battery for example), or power supply, provides power to a cell phone, or mobile device or any other load or power consuming device. Partitioning this energy source is a technique for controlling its operation so that power is provided to the power consuming device, such as a cell phone more efficiently, thereby extending the length of time the phone can be used between re-charging. |
| US10264528B2 |
Portable terminal apparatus
A portable terminal apparatus according to an embodiment includes a power supply and a power receiving circuit that wirelessly receives electric power for charging the power supply. A first communication circuit transmits and receives information relating to receiving the electric power. A second communication circuit includes a communication antenna, a near field radio communication circuit and a switch arranged between the communication antenna and the near field radio communication circuit. The second communication circuit is selectively configured to communicate with a separate terminal device via near field radio communication. A controller controls the switch to disconnect the communication antenna from the near field radio communication circuit in response to the first communication circuit receiving the information relating to receiving the electric power. |
| US10264527B2 |
System and method for conserving power for a wireless device while maintaining a connection to a network
A system, device and method are described for operating a communication device communicating with a wireless network. The method comprises in a power save mode wherein a communication subsystem of the communication device has been deactivated: for a first period beginning at a first instance, re-activating the subsystem, executing an action relating to a link layer connection condition, and then de-activating the subsystem; and for a second period beginning at a second instance, re-activating the subsystem, executing an action relating to a network layer connection condition, and then de-activating the subsystem. For the method, the first period is repeated on a cycle based on a first frequency timed to allow the communication device to process a beacon signal from the wireless network; and the second period is repeated on a cycle based on a second frequency of occurrence of an Address Resolution Protocol request in the wireless network. |
| US10264522B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and program
In an information processing apparatus, a transmission unit transmits information stored by a storage unit to a communication apparatus when an access point corresponding to the information stored by the storage unit is an access point to which the communication apparatus is connectable, and transmits to the communication apparatus information on an access point selected using a displayed list when an access point corresponding to the information stored by the storage unit is not an access point to which the communication apparatus is connectable. The information processing apparatus communicates with the communication apparatus via an access point corresponding to information transmitted by the transmission unit. |
| US10264520B2 |
Method of supporting mobility of UE supporting/using D2D communication in wireless mobile communication system
Disclosed is a method of supporting/using Device-to-Device (D2D) communication supporting user equipment (UE) mobility in a wireless mobile communication system. A method and an apparatus for performing D2D communication includes receiving system information of at least one of a serving cell and an adjacent cell of the UE. The method and apparatus for performing D2D communication also includes determining whether cell redirection is required to perform the direct communication based on the system information. The method and apparatus for performing D2D communication further includes performing the cell redirection on the adjacent cell when the cell redirection is required according to a result of the determination. |
| US10264519B2 |
Estimating signal strength at a target wireless device
Operations include estimating a signal strength of a wireless signal as if received by a target wireless device. One or more relationships between detected signal strength values, measured channel utilization values, and/or actual channel utilization values are determined. The estimation is made based on applying detected signal strength values received at other wireless devices, measured channel utilization values at other wireless devices, and/or actual channel utilization values at other wireless devices to the relationships. |
| US10264515B2 |
Enhanced access network query protocol (ANQP) signaling to scale to support large numbers of service providers at an access point (AP)
A client device may determine whether to obtain an element of information related to a service parameter from an access node. The access node may be associated with a plurality of connectivity access networks. The element of information can be selected and associated with a query. The query can be derived and configured according to one of a plurality of modes. The query can be sent as an over-the-air message to the access node. A service query protocol (SQP) server may be coupled to the access node. The query may be obtained at the SQP server from client device via the access node. A response to the query may be derived based on the element of information associated with the query and the mode of the query. The response may be sent from the access node to the client device. |
| US10264513B2 |
Method of data communication in wireless ad hoc network
A method of data communication for a communication device in a wireless ad hoc network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a service publish message and a service subscribe message from a first communication device of a first service cluster and a second communication device of a second service cluster respectively, wherein the second communication device subscribes a service from the first communication device, and establishing a third service cluster including the first communication device and the second communication device, wherein a schedule of the third service cluster for the communication device, the first and second communication devices of the third service cluster to wake up for data transmission and reception is determined by the communication device or coordinated by the communication device, the first and the second communication devices. |
| US10264509B2 |
Mobile network node routing
A telecommunication system includes a resource manager programmed to determine a future location of a first mobile node and a future location of a second mobile node. The resource manager updates a routing table with the future location of the first mobile node and the future location of the second mobile node and transmits the routing table for upload to the first mobile node and the second mobile node. |
| US10264503B2 |
Method and apparatus for assisting terminal in measuring
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for assisting a terminal in measuring, which relate to the field of communications network technologies and may implement correct measurement on signal strength of a micro base station, thereby preventing UE from incorrectly determining the signal strength of the micro base station. In embodiments of the present invention, a first base station receives a measurement result for a second base station sent by UE, where the first base station provides a service for the UE; the first base station determines, according to the measurement result, whether a handover operation needs to be started; when the handover operation needs to be started, the first base station instructs the second base station to start up, and hands over the UE to the second base station for a service provided by the second base station. |
| US10264501B2 |
Bearer handover control device and control method
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a bearer handover control device and control method. The method includes: receiving, by a network side device, a bearer handover message; and determining, by the network side device according to the bearer handover message, a bearer needing to be handed over in all bearers, so that an end marker End Marker message is sent to a source base station only for the bearer needing to be handed over. By using the foregoing solutions, for a multi-connection scenario, a network side device can determine a bearer needing to be handed over, so that an end marker message is sent only for the bearer needing to be handed over, which can prevent discarding of subsequent data of a bearer that is not to be handed over, and ensure multiple connections between a UE and base stations, thereby improving stability of a system. |
| US10264498B2 |
Methods and apparatus for selection of dedicated core network
Methods and apparatuses for redirecting a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a dedicated core network (CN) node are described. An apparatus is configured to initiate a Service Request with a non-dedicated network node. The apparatus is configured to receive a special identifier in response to the Service Request, which indicates the apparatus should be redirected to a dedicated CN node based on subscription information. Radio access network resources associated with the apparatus may be released and the apparatus may then perform a tracking area update (TAU) request which is then forwarded to the dedicated CN node. |
| US10264493B2 |
Processing state information
A method of processing state information relating to user equipment in a communications system comprising a radio access network, the method comprising: maintaining current state information relating to the user equipment; and on the basis of a change of connection of the user equipment from a first cell to a second cell: transmitting a current value associated with a given state information part to the target radio access node in response to detecting at least one of one or more predetermined triggers that indicate that the target radio access node may not have received the current value from the source radio access node; or relying on the target radio access node having received the current value from the source radio access node if said at least one of said one or more predetermined triggers is not detected. |
| US10264492B2 |
Apparatus, method and system of establishing a transmission opportunity (TxOP)
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a wide-bandwidth data frame. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to generate at least one wide-bandwidth data frame to be transmitted over a wide-bandwidth millimeter-Wave (mmWave) channel, the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel including a plurality of mmWave channels; and a transmitter to transmit a plurality of reservation frames over the plurality of mmWave channels, a reservation frame of the plurality of reservation frames including a duration value corresponding to a duration of the wide-bandwidth data frame and a wide-bandwidth indication to indicate that the wide-bandwidth data frames are to be transmitted over the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel, the transmitter to transmit the at least one wide-bandwidth data frame over the wide-bandwidth mmWave channel. |
| US10264490B2 |
Service flow with robust header compression (ROHC) in a WiMAX wireless network
A robust header compression (ROHC) controller provides for service flow processing of a ROHC channel in a WiMAX wireless communication system. The ROHC controller controls the negotiations of the MS ROHC capabilities during its registration and the negotiations of the ROHC channel parameters during ROHC enabled service flow setup; the MS ROHC capabilities including ROHC compression and decompression capabilities and ROHC channel and feedback strategies; the channel parameter negotiation covers the ROHC profile set and feedback channel information in addition to the 16e/12D standard. The ROHC controller receives a service flow request for a ROHC enabled service flow, wherein the request includes a QoS profile. |
| US10264488B2 |
Multi-channel communication scheme for medical body area network (MBAN) to meet duty cycle regulation
A system and a method maintain a medical body area network (MBAN). Devices of the MBAN are communicated with over one or more channels of the MBAN. The one or more channels include a primary channel, and each of the devices is assigned to one of the one or more channels. Further, a duty cycle of each of the one or more channels is continuously monitored. In response to the duty cycle of the primary channel meeting or exceeding a duty cycle limit, a device of the devices is moved to a secondary channel. |
| US10264487B2 |
Method and apparatus for steering traffic between cellular network and wireless local area network (LAN) network in mobile communication system
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond 4G communication systems such as LTE. More specifically, a method for transmitting and receiving signals by a base station of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises: a step of determining whether to steer a traffic related to a terminal to a wireless LAN; a step for determining a traffic to be steered to the wireless LAN; a step for transmitting, to the terminal, a first message including information for an uplink transmission of the traffic to be steered; and a step for transmitting, to a gateway, a second message including information for a downlink transmission of the traffic to be steered. According to an embodiment of the present specification, in a network and a terminal using both a cellular and a wireless LAN, presented is a method for transferring, via an access network considering the signal strength between the terminal and each access network, a load condition of each access network, a policy of a provider etc., traffic which are sent and received by the terminal and the network. |
| US10264484B2 |
Method for calculating and reporting an amount of data available for transmission and a device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for calculating and reporting a data available for transmission in a PDCP entity in a dual connectivity system, the method comprising: triggering an event for reporting an amount of data available for transmission in a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) entity, wherein the PDCP entity is mapped to two RLC (Radio Link Control) entities and two MAC (Medium Access Control); and reporting the amount of data available for transmission in the PDCP entity as zero to the first BS and the second BS. |
| US10264481B2 |
Techniques for managing power operation modes of a user equipment (UE) communicating with a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs)
Certain aspects described herein relate to wireless communications. A first connection can be established with a first serving node using a first radio access technology (RAT), and a second connection can be established with a second serving node using a second RAT. An indication of a power consumption mode for the first connection can be received, and a power operation mode of the second connection can be determined based at least in part on the indication. |
| US10264478B2 |
Methods and apparatus to enhance reliability in millimeter wave wideband communications
A network node in a wireless network performs a method for enhancing reliability in wireless communication. The method includes determining, at a first network node, that a current link with a second network node is broken. The method also includes attempting, at the first network node, to recover the current link. The method further includes, upon a determination that the current link is not recoverable, establishing, at the first network node, a new link with the second network node according to one of a plurality of switching rules, the switching rules ordered according to a priority among the switching rules. |
| US10264473B2 |
Communication control apparatus, communication control method, and communication system
There is provided a communication control apparatus including a communication controller that controls communication with other communication control apparatuses, the communication exchanging information about terminal grouping to distinguish operations to a specific wireless terminal and to other wireless terminals. |
| US10264471B2 |
Adaptive multi-antenna data transmission method, apparatus, and system
An adaptive multi-antenna data transmission method, apparatus, and system are provided. The adaptive multi-antenna data transmission method includes: acquiring, at a current time interval, a beam adjustment parameter of user equipment UE; adjusting a beam width of the UE according to the beam adjustment parameter of the UE; and performing precoding processing on to-be-transmitted data of the UE according to an adjusted beam width of the UE and direction information of the UE, so as to perform data transmission. A beam width of UE is adjusted, so that a direction of a beam during data transmission can better match a direction of the UE. Therefore, a status or quality of a link for the UE is improved and a performance loss is reduced. |
| US10264466B2 |
User terminal, processor, and mobile communication system
A user terminal according an embodiment, comprises: a controller configured to execute measurement based on a radio signal in a secondary cell in an unlicensed band; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to a base station, a report of measurement results based on the radio signal. The controller is configured to determine whether or not identification information to which a predetermined scramble is applied is detected from a predetermined radio signal in the secondary cell. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the base station, the report of measurement results not including a predetermined measurement result based on the predetermined radio signal, in response to no detection of the identification information from the predetermined radio signal. |
| US10264465B2 |
Radio terminal, radio station, and method thereof
A radio terminal (3) operates to perform a predetermined process regarding a first cell (Cell #2) on an unlicensed frequency (F2) based on a predetermined relationship between a frame timing of a first serving cell (Cell #1) using a licensed frequency (F1) and a frame timing of the first cell (Cell #2) using the unlicensed frequency (F2). This contributes, for example, to enabling a radio terminal to differentiate among two or more cells when these cells use the same cell identifier. |
| US10264459B2 |
Automobile data transmission of encrypted data to a server via a base station
An automobile device transmits data to a server in a communication network. The automobile device records the data received from one or more transmitters located in an automobile. The automobile device transmits a random access preamble on an uplink carrier to a base station when a pre-defined condition is met. The automobile device encrypts the data and transmits the encrypted data to a server via a base station. |
| US10264449B2 |
Method of SIM-less subscription mechanism for mobile cellular networks
Apparatus and methods are provided for sim-less subscription mechanism for mobile cellular networks. In novel aspect, the mobile device supporting the e-SIM is provisioned with the assistance the UE by obtaining subscription information from the UE. In one embodiment, UE retrieves an ID from the mobile device. The UE sends a subscription request to the e-SIM platform, wherein the subscription request includes information of the retrieved ID of the mobile device and the subscription information of the UE. In another embodiment, the mobile device retrieves subscription information from the UE. The mobile device sends a subscription request to the e-SIM platform, wherein the subscription request includes information of the subscription information retrieved from the UE and the ID of the mobile device. The mobile device receives a subscription response from the e-SIM platform and enables the mobile device through mobile device's e-SIM based on the subscription response. |
| US10264448B2 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating use of services available via wireless connection
A method is disclosed for facilitating service usage by a wireless terminal. The method is implemented by a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon. The BLE beacon obtains service information describing a service available via a non-BLE wireless connection to a wireless access point. The BLE beacon also obtains connectivity information for establishing the non-BLE wireless connection, for utilizing the service via the non-BLE wireless connection, or both. The BLE beacon periodically broadcasts the service information and connectivity information via BLE transmissions to a wireless terminal that lacks the non-BLE connection. A corresponding BLE beacon operative to implement the method is also disclosed. |
| US10264447B2 |
Communication record privacy protection validation
The implementation of anonymization validation protects the privacy of subscribers that uses the telecommunication services of a wireless telecommunication network. The anonymization validation checks the data in an anonymized communication record table to ensure the data is properly filtered or encrypted. The anonymized communication record table contains data pertaining to at least one of telephone calls, messages, and data connectivity sessions that are initiated or received by multiple subscribers of a wireless telecommunication network. The anonymized communication record is generated from an original communication record table via filtering out or encryption of the data pertaining to one or more subscribers. The performance of the anonymization validation includes performing opt-out filtering validation, network cell anonymity filtering validation, and telephone number encryption validation on the anonymized communication record table. |
| US10264444B2 |
Feature configuration apparatus and method
A feature configuration apparatus including an indication configured to send a first reservation indication of a configuration information element to user equipment (UE), where the first reservation indication instructs the UE to reserve the configuration information element saved in a first radio resource control connection state, and an enable unit configured to, when the UE reenters the first radio resource control connection state, send a first enable indication of the configuration information element to the UE, where the first enable indication is used to instruct the UE to use the configuration information element to perform feature configuration. |
| US10264439B2 |
Method and apparatus for discovering devices and application users
A method, apparatus and computer program for discovery of network devices and application user. An example method for use in an access point or station may comprise receiving a discovery request from an application, the application running thereon, the discovery request including at least one application level identifier, causing monitoring of a discovery channel for at least one device within a proximate distance, and upon discovery of a device associated with the application level ID, providing an indication to the application of the discovery of the device. |
| US10264438B2 |
Method and system for modifying behavior of an internet-of-things device based on proximal presence of a mobile device
A server performs a method for modifying behavior of an Internet-of-things device based on proximal presence of a mobile device. The method includes receiving a first presence code that indicates proximal presence of a first mobile device without identifying a user of the first mobile device, providing the first presence code to a first network that manages user profiles, and receiving, from the first network, a first profile for the user of the first mobile device. The method further includes determining, based on the first profile, first adaptation data for an Internet-of-things device in proximity to the first mobile device. The first adaptation data is used to modify behavior of the Internet-of-things device based on the proximal presence of the first mobile device. |
| US10264432B2 |
Method and system for broadband near-field communication (BNC) utilizing full spectrum capture (FSC) supporting bridging across wall
A communication system may include a first broadband wireless device and a second broadband wireless device. Signals may be wirelessly communicated from the first broadband wireless device to the second broadband wireless device at a power level that is below a spurious emissions mask. The communicated signals may be transmitted over a designated frequency band. A barrier separates the first broadband wireless device from the second broadband wireless device. The first broadband wireless device may be paired with the second broadband wireless device. Usable channels may be detected within a frequency spectrum band designated for use by the first and the second broadband wireless device. The signals may be wirelessly communicated from the first to the second broadband wireless device via one or more of the detected usable channels. Two or more of the plurality of the detected usable channels may be aggregated and utilized for the communication. |
| US10264431B2 |
Work site perception system
A short range peer-to-peer communications system includes a first perception sensor and a first peer-to-peer communications system on a first machine and a second perception sensor and a second peer-to-peer communications system on a second machine. A first controller generates a first electronic map of a first perceived work environment associated with the first machine and transmits first data associated with first electronic map to the second machine through the first peer-to-peer communications system. A second controller generates a second electronic map of the second perceived work environment associated with the second machine based upon the plurality of second raw data points, receives the first data from the first machine through the second peer-to-peer communications system, and supplements the second electronic map based upon the first data. |
| US10264427B1 |
Differentiated wireless communication service provisioning and connecting alternate pathways
A method of wireless communication. The method comprising receiving by an application executing on a mobile communication device a provisioning payload comprising a zero-rated access point name (APN) from a wireless communication network, where the zero-rated APN is used by the wireless communication network to provide a distinctive communication service to the mobile communication device without counting data tonnage associated with the distinctive communication service against a data limit of a wireless communication service plan associated with the mobile communication device, receiving by the application a command to initiate the distinctive communication service, engaging the distinctive communication service to use the zero-rated APN in conducting the distinctive communication service, and providing the distinctive communication service to the mobile communication device at a lower quality of service (QoS) by a wireless communication network node relative to a standard QoS provided to standard communication service in the wireless communication network. |
| US10264426B2 |
System and method for facilitating carrier-specific configuration of a user device based on pre-stored information for multiple carriers
In certain embodiments, carrier-specific configuration of a user device may be facilitated based on pre-stored information for multiple carriers. In some embodiments, a user device may store information for limited access (that allows the user device to obtain carrier-specific parameters from carrier networks). During activation, the user device may select one of the carrier networks on which the user device is to be configured to operate. Responsive to the selection, the user device may provide, to a carrier-side computer system on the selected carrier network, a request for limited access to the selected carrier network for configuring the user device, wherein the request comprises the stored access information that allows the user device to obtain carrier-specific parameters via the selected carrier network. Responsive to the limited access being granted, the user device may obtain a configuration package from the carrier-side computer system comprising parameters for configuring the user device. |
| US10264423B2 |
Tracking building locations of fixed wireless devices
A system for generating a database containing the internal locations (e.g., floor, compass direction, room number, nearest fixed landmark, etc.) of fixed wireless devices within a building. To collect data for the database, a report-provider traverses a building with a mobile reporting device. As the provider traverses the building, the mobile reporting device directs the reports-provider to detected wireless devices (e.g., WiFi access points, Bluetooth beacons, Internet-connected appliances, etc.) and instructs the provider to enter information regarding the internal location of each device. When a walk-thru of a building is complete, the mobile reporting device generates a building report that contains the building's location and the internal locations of the detected wireless device. Multiple such reports may be combined by the system to generate the database of internal locations of wireless devices in various buildings. |
| US10264409B1 |
Virtual dynamic pool of SIM-based devices
A method of transmitting data to a virtual group consisting of multiple user devices. A plurality of network-connected user devices are grouped together into a virtual group using their International Mobile Subscriber Identification (IMSI) or Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) contained within a SIM card residing within each user device. An application programming interface (API) and a single identification are established for the virtual group and are exposed to an application server. Data packets sent to the virtual group via a communications protocol from the application server are intercepted and directed to each user device within the virtual group. The plurality of user devices within the virtual group can simultaneously receive the data stream. |
| US10264407B2 |
Intelligent multi-bean medium access control in ku-band for mission-oriented mobile mesh networks
A MAC design for Ku-band mobile wireless mesh network with multi-beam smart antennas is disclosed. This MAC includes an overlay control that separates the collision domain. It also has lower layer CSMA-like scheme. The disclosed design includes an enhanced PCF and an enhanced DCF for two purposes: (1) exploiting multi-beam concurrent communication capability (2) supporting QoS and mission-based communications. An efficient time synchronization scheme is also disclosed to ensure all beams can concurrently send data to the star node. Finally, ARMA or HMM based prediction schemes are disclosed to predict future traffic profile in each beam. This helps the star node to better prepare the queue content and schedule information. |
| US10264394B1 |
Proximity services
In some implementations, data specifying (i) identification information, (ii) a beacon identifier associated with a wireless proximity beacon, and (iii) a proximity of a client device to the wireless proximity beacon is received. A path of movement is determined based on the received data. Data specifying a pattern of movement that is associated with an action is accessed. The path of movement of the client device is determined to satisfy a particular pattern of movement associated with a particular action. An application instance operating on the client device is authorized to perform the particular action based at least on determining that the path of movement of the client device satisfies the particular pattern of movement associated with the particular action. Data enabling the application instance operating on the client device to perform the particular action is transmitted. |
| US10264390B2 |
Latency reduction and range extension system for radio networks
A radio access network system is described that determines a signal metric associated with a user equipment or device. The user equipment device can implement an altered transmission policy. The altered transmission policy can alter a strength of transmissions by increasing power consumption per transmission, increasing a length of timer per transmission, and altering other parameters of transmissions. The altered transmission policy can also alter an error correction policy. The error correction policy can indicate that error correction transmissions are to be decreased. The altered transmission policy can be implemented until the signal metric changes to a more desirable level. |
| US10264389B1 |
Optimizing pickup locations for transportation requests based on context information
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system receives a session indicator and device-based location. The system utilizes the received request and device-based location to identify and analyze historical transportation matching system information. The system then generates a confidence score based on this information that indicates a level of confidence that the device-based location is a pickup location associated with the request. If the generated confidence score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system provides display components to a requestor computing device that enable confirmation of the transportation request with a single user interaction. |
| US10264388B2 |
Performance of a location response action
A method comprising receiving information indicative of an incoming communication, determining a notification that signifies the incoming communication, causing rendering of the notification, receiving information indicative of a point of interest selection input that identifies a selected point of interest, and causing performance of a location response action associated with the incoming communication, based at least in part, on the selected point of interest is disclosed. |
| US10264387B2 |
Out-of-head localization processing apparatus and out-of-head localization processing method
An out-of-head localization processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes headphones, left and right microphones, a measurement unit configured to measure left and right headphone transfer characteristics, respectively, an inverse-filter calculation unit configured to calculate inverse filters of the headphone transfer characteristics, a correction unit configured to calculate correction filters by correcting the inverse filters, and an input unit configured to receive a user input. The correction unit corrects the inverse filters by using a predefined correction function in a first frequency band. The correction unit corrects the inverse filters according to a correction pattern selected based on the user input in a second frequency band. |
| US10264381B2 |
Multichannel audio signal processing method and device
Disclosed are a multi-channel audio signal processing method and a multi-channel audio signal processing apparatus. The multi-channel audio signal processing method may generate N channel output signals from N/2 channel downmix signals based on an N-N/2-N structure. |
| US10264380B2 |
Spatial audio for three-dimensional data sets
A head mounted display (HMD) device is provided that includes a display, a position and orientation sensor, and speakers. The HMD device includes a processor configured to receive map data of a three-dimensional environment, receive a three-dimensional data set, detect a predefined feature in the three-dimensional data set, place a spatial audio emitter anchor in the three-dimensional environment in a location where the feature was detected, the spatial audio emitter having an emitter boundary, determine a current location of a user in the virtual environment based on a signal from the sensor, display the map data of the three-dimensional environment with a graphical representation of the three-dimensional data set based on the determined current location of the user, and responsive to determining that the location of the user is outside of the boundary, play the spatial audio emitter in a spatial audio mode via the near-ear speakers. |
| US10264375B2 |
Vehicle sound processing system
A sound system for a vehicle includes a plurality of microphones to detect sounds emanating from outside of the vehicle. A sound processor is operable to process microphone output signals of the microphones to identify a source of at least some sounds detected by the microphones. The sound processor processes microphone output signals to identify a sound of interest outside of the vehicle, which includes at least one of (i) a siren of an emergency vehicle and (ii) a horn of another vehicle. Responsive to identification by the sound processor of the sound of interest, a plurality of speakers disposed in the cabin of the vehicle generate sound representative of the identified sound of interest. While the speakers are generating sound representative of the identified sound of interest, sounds generated by the speakers based on audio signals from other sound systems in the vehicle are diminished. |
| US10264368B2 |
Hearing aid having an adaptive classifier
A hearing system includes a hearing aid (10) and personal communication device (20) connected via a short range data communication link. The hearing aid (10) has a signal processor (13) processing an audio signal according to audio processing parameters, a sub-system applying respective sets of processing parameters for at least two modes, a classifier component (51) statistically analyzing the environment by comparing specific characteristics of an electrical input signal to one or more thresholds. A program selector component (16) selects automatically an appropriate mode for the signal processing sub-system according to the classifier output. The personal communication device (20) offers the user an interface for controlling and interacting with the program selector component (16) of the hearing aid (10), and for generating and transmitting a notification to the hearing aid (10). Upon reception of the notification, the processor (13) adjusts at least one of the one or more thresholds used by the classifier component (51). |
| US10264362B2 |
Electroacoustic transducer and electroacoustic transduction system
Provided are an electroacoustic transducer capable of stably reproducing a sound with high acoustic quality and widening a frequency band that is able to be reproduced, and an electroacoustic transduction system. In the electroacoustic transducer including: an electroacoustic transduction film including a polymer composite piezoelectric body in which piezoelectric body particles are dispersed in a viscoelastic matrix formed of a polymer material having viscoelasticity at a normal temperature, and two thin film electrodes laminated on both surfaces of the polymer composite piezoelectric body; and an elastic supporter which is disposed to be closely attached to one principal surface of the electroacoustic transduction film so as to cause the electroacoustic transduction film to be bent, a bent portion of the electroacoustic transduction film has a quadrangular shape, a length of a short side of the bent portion is less than or equal to 10 cm, and a length of a long side thereof is greater than or equal to 30 cm. |
| US10264361B2 |
Transducer with a high sensitivity
An assembly including a transducer, such as a capacitive transducer, a vibration sensor or a microphone, and an amplifier for receiving and amplifying an output of the transducer, where the amplifier is supplied with a voltage being at least 60% of a voltage corresponding to an electrical field between two elements of the transducer. When the transducer is a biased transducer, the amplifier is supplied with a voltage being at least 60% of a biasing voltage of the transducer. |
| US10264360B2 |
Structure for detecting vibration displacement of a speaker and acoustoelectric inter-conversion dual-effect device
Disclosed is a structure for detecting the vibration displacement of a speaker, including: a vibration system having a movable pole plate; a magnetic circuit system; and a fixed pole plate provided under the vibration system and opposite to the movable pole plate, the movable pole plate and the fixed pole plate constituting a capacitor. Also disclosed is an acoustoelectric inter-conversion dual-effect device, further including an impedance transformer connected to the capacitor and including a field effect transistor and a diode. In the present invention, a movable pole plate of a capacitor is provided on a vibration system and a fixed pole plate is provided under the vibration system and fixed in position. When the vibration system vibrates, the change in capacitance is detected to calculate the actual displacement of the vibration system, which can reduce the power of the speaker device when the actual displacement of the vibration system exceeds a safety threshold. For an electronic device adopting such a speaker structure, the displacement of the vibration system of a speaker product can be detected in real time at the system end of the electronic device. |
| US10264351B2 |
Loudspeaker orientation systems
An audio system embodiment includes a loudspeaker cabinet having at least one loudspeaker transducer and defining a longitudinal axis. Several microphones are distributed around the longitudinal axis, defining an array of microphones. A reference microphone is positioned in the loudspeaker cabinet, e.g., in a rear chamber of the at least one loudspeaker transducer. The audio system includes a processor and a memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the audio system to receive an audio signal from each distributed microphone and the reference microphone, and therefrom to estimate a direction, relative to the plurality of microphones, of a nearby, acoustically reflective surface. Responsive to the estimated direction, the audio system affects a mode of operation, e.g., beam forms an audio output in a selected direction corresponding to the estimated direction of the acoustically reflective surface. Related principles are described by way of reference to exemplary embodiments. |
| US10264350B2 |
Sound source probing apparatus, sound source probing method, and storage medium storing program therefor
A sound source probing apparatus, including storage and processing circuitry, is provided that probes a direction of a sound source. The processing circuitry performs operations including determining a first correlation matrix that is a correlation matrix of acoustic signals acquired as observation signals by a microphone array including two or more microphones disposed apart from each other. The operations also include determining, by learning, weights such that a linear sum of a plurality of second correlation matrices multiplied by the respective weights is equal to the first correlation matrix where the plurality of second correlation matrices are correlation matrices, which are determined for respective directions determined based on an array arrangement of the microphone array and which are stored in advance in the storage. The operations further include determining, using the determined weights, a spatial spectrum of the observation signal indicating sound pressure intensities in the respective directions. |
| US10264349B2 |
Combined-type phase plug, and compression driver and speaker using same
This application provides a combined-type phase plug, and a compression driver and a speaker using same. The combined-type phase plug of this application includes a first phase plug and a second phase plug. The first phase plug includes a cone, a plurality of fins, and a base ring. The plurality of fins is located on an outer surface of the cone. The base ring is located below the cone, and the plurality of fins extends downward to the base ring. The base ring is connected to the plurality of fins but is not connected to the cone. That is, the cone and the base ring are connected only by the plurality of fins. The second phase plug is located under the first phase plug. The second phase plug includes a tapered cone and a base. The tapered cone is located inside the base ring, and a first space is formed between the tapered cone and the base ring. A second space is formed between the tapered cone and the cone, and the second space extends to the first space. The base extends horizontally outward from the tapered cone, so that the base ring is located on the base. Multiple channels are formed by means of extensions of the first space and the second space to improve the acoustic performance. |
| US10264346B2 |
Wearable audio accessories for computing devices
Wearable audio accessories for computing devices are described. In one embodiment the wearable audio accessory provides a speech based interface between the user and a nearby computing device for the performance of user-initiated or computing device initiated microtasks. Information is provided to the user via a loudspeaker and the user can provide input via a microphone. An audio sensing channel within the accessory continuously monitors the audio signal as detected by the microphone and in various embodiments will trigger more complex audio processing based on this monitoring. A wireless communication link is provided between the accessory and the nearby computing device. To mitigate any delay caused by the switching between audio processing techniques, the audio accessory may include a rolling buffer which continuously stores the audio signal and outputs a delayed audio signal to the audio processing engines. |
| US10264345B1 |
Dynamic on ear headset detection
A method and device for detecting whether a headset is on ear. Microphone signals from a plurality of microphones are used to derive a plurality of signal feature measures, which are normalized to a common reference scale. The signal feature measures are weighted based upon detected signal conditions in the microphone signals. The normalized and variably weighted signal feature measures are then combined to produce an output indication of whether a headset is on ear. |
| US10264344B2 |
HIFI system based on digital connection
The present disclosure provides a HIFI system based on digital connection, which includes an audio outputting device and a HIFI module, the audio outputting device is detachably connected with the HIFI module, when the audio outputting device is connected with the HIFI module, the audio outputting device is electrically connected with the HIFI module, the HIFI module includes a digital analog conversion circuit and a digital interface electrically connected with the digital analog conversion circuit, the digital interface transmits a received digital signal from external to the digital analog conversion circuit to be converted to an analog signal. The present disclosure only need to connect the HIFI module connected with the audio outputting device with the sound source device, and overcomes the problem that user cannot listen to the sound source due to the losing or forgetting to carry the digital analog converter. |
| US10264342B2 |
Open headphone
Disclosed is an open headphone, comprising a front cover, a loudspeaker unit and a rear housing. A front headphone chamber is formed between the front cover and the loudspeaker unit. A rear headphone chamber is formed between the loudspeaker unit and the rear housing. The front cover is provided with several sound output holes. The loudspeaker unit has a middle loudspeaker hole which is through in a front-rear direction. The rear housing is also provided with a sound guide tube. The rear end of the sound guide tube is in communication with the external space of the headphone. The front end of the sound guide tube is inserted in the middle loudspeaker hole and at a distance from a vibrating diaphragm, and the distance is larger than a maximum vibration displacement of the vibrating diaphragm. The open headphone of the present disclosure has high-quality bass performance, and other advantages, such as that the sound field is open and natural, that the user is not easy to become fatigue after long-term use, and that it will not cause damage to people's hearing. By inserting the front end of the sound guide tube in the middle loudspeaker hole, which is able to reduce the volume of the rear headphone chamber, so as to make the whole headphone small and easy to carry. |
| US10264340B1 |
Modularized track lighting assembly
A modularized track lighting assembly includes a track unit, and a lighting unit or sound module. The track unit includes a housing, a first connecting terminal, a second connecting terminal, a circuit board and a multifunctional operator. The multifunctional operator is rotatable on the housing to change the output state of the circuit board during rotation. Thus, the track unit cooperates with either the lighting unit or the sound module by connection of the multifunctional operator to have either an illuminating function or an audio playing function, so that the modularized track lighting assembly has illuminating and audio playing functions. |
| US10264339B2 |
Wearable vibration device
A wearable haptic device is provided. The wearable haptic device includes a band having at least one haptic device attached to the band. A power source is operatively connected to the vibration device. The vibration device may further include an input configured to connect to a music playing device. The vibration device produces a vibration based on the output of the music playing device. |
| US10264337B2 |
Speaker device
The field of the invention relates to speaker devices, to speaker panels for speaker devices, to mechanical assemblies and mountings for speaker devices, to uses of speaker devices for example as products or as components for products, and to computer program products operable to control speaker devices. There is provided a speaker device, the speaker device including a body and a speaker panel assembly, the speaker panel assembly movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration, wherein in the open configuration the speaker panel assembly is displaced relative to the body, and in the closed configuration the speaker panel assembly is retracted into the body. The speaker device may be a smart device. The speaker device may be one configured to receive and to store a mobile device. |
| US10264335B1 |
Speaker box and method for assembling same
The present application discloses a speaker box. The speaker box includes an upper cover, a lower cover forming an accommodation space with the upper cover, and a speaker received in the accommodation space. The speaker includes a frame and a diaphragm positioned by the frame. The upper cover forms a supporting wall extending toward the lower cover for fixing the speaker. The speaker box further includes an elastic cushion arranged between the frame and the supporting wall. A method for assembling the speaker box is also provided. Due to the elastic cushion, the consistency of the speaker is ensured, and the acoustic performance of the speaker box is accordingly improved. |
| US10264333B1 |
Method and apparatus for intelligent dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) decoding and identification
A dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) decoder may decode DTMF symbols received in an audio input and transfer the symbols to a buffer. A volume accumulator may determine whether the audio input includes audio with volume above a predetermined threshold. The buffer may receive instructions from the timer or volume accumulator to transfer stored DTMF symbols to a filter, which may identify a characteristic of information conveyed by the DTMF symbols and send the identified characteristic information to an output device. The timer may determine a time associated with when each DTMF symbol was received and transfer each associated time to the buffer, which may transfer each associated time to a group boundary detector that may determine a predetermined number of longest time durations in between the DTMF symbols. The presence of a predetermined number of longest time durations in between the DTMF symbols may indicate a telephone number format. |
| US10264331B2 |
Method device assembly and system for facilitating the interconnection of communication bearing cables
Disclosed is a method device assembly and system for facilitating the interconnection of communication bearing cables connected cable connectors. An interconnect-point support structure comprising two or more cable connector slots, wherein in each of the two or more slots is adapted to host a cable connector attached to a respective cable. A mechanical arm functionally associated with the interconnect-point support structure is adapted to release a cable connector, mobilize and mate it to another connector. |
| US10264330B1 |
Scene-by-scene plot context for cognitively impaired
To improve cognitive comprehension of plots in videos and thus assist not only people with cognitive issues but also inattentive people that have trouble following along with the plot, information is sent about each scene in a video. Image recognition or speech recognition may be implemented on a video to recognize where in the video the viewer currently is at, and ancillary information pertaining to that spot in the video presented immediately or at a convenient scene break. |
| US10264329B2 |
Descriptive metadata extraction and linkage with editorial content
Embodiments provide techniques for distributing supplemental content based on content entities within video content. Embodiments include receiving video data containing an embedded watermark at a first position within the video data. The embedded watermark is detected at the first position within the video data. Embodiments also include transmitting, to a remote content server, a message specifying a time stamp corresponding to the first position within the video data. In response to transmitting the message, supplemental content corresponding to a content entity depicted within the video content at the first position within the video content is received from the remote content server. Embodiments also include outputting the video data for display together with at least an indication of the supplemental content. |
| US10264326B2 |
Optimized delivery techniques
Systems and methods are described that relate to on-demand compression for electronic data, such as media content, through a communication pathway. The communication pathway may be a configured to multicast media content to a plurality of end-users in a service group. In certain embodiments, the service group may comprise a service group node having a quadrature amplitude modulation device. In one exemplary method, it may be determined whether the amount of media content being transmitted meets a first utilization threshold. The determination may be based on, at least in part, by measurements taken at one or more electronic devices located throughout a network or system. If the first bandwidth utilization threshold is not met, media content may be transmitted in a first format. If the first bandwidth utilization threshold is met, at least a portion of the media content may be transmitted in a first optimized delivery technique. |
| US10264318B2 |
Methods and apparatus to improve viewer assignment by adjusting for a localized event
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to improve viewer assignment by adjusting for a localized event are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, heavy tuning data associated with panelists in a first area based on (1) a first number of households tuned to first media in the first area and (2) a first percentage of exposure minutes tuned to the first media in the first area. The example method also includes determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, if the heavy tuning data represents a local bias based on a second percentage of exposure minutes tuned to second media in a second area. |
| US10264314B2 |
Multimedia content management system
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for the collection, distribution, and/or reporting of media content. According to an embodiment, media content items from one or more content providers are ingested into a content distribution system implemented by one or more server computer devices. These items of media content may comprise a variety of constituent elements, such as one or more video data units, one or more audio data units, descriptive metadata, subtitle units, thumbnails, or other information, which may be ingested all at once, or separately over time. Items may be processed using various workflows to refine content item components and/or generate new content items. Various publishing rules may be utilized to determine when the system is ready to publish a content item and distribute the item to client devices. Clients may request content items from various published listings, or search for content items by metadata and/or subtitles. |
| US10264311B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing information in conjunction with media content
An apparatus and method for providing information in conjunction with media content, including a receiver, wherein the receiver receives at least one of a transmission of media content and a broadcast of media content, wherein the media content includes at least one of broadcast media content and entertainment media content, and further wherein the receiver receives information regarding the media content, a processor for processing at least one of the received media content and the received information regarding the media content, a display device for visually displaying the information regarding the media content, and/or a speaker device for audibly announcing the information regarding the media content. |
| US10264310B2 |
Method for uninterrupted playback of content recording on set top box during head end failures
Various implementations described herein are directed to technologies for providing uninterrupted playback of a content recording on a set top box during head end failures. The set top box detects a head end failure. An unavailability mode is entered during the detected head end failure. A head end recovery is detected. The unavailability mode is exited. A content unavailability skipper associated with the recorded content is updated. The content unavailability skipper includes instructions for playback of the recorded content. |
| US10264306B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for recommending collaborators of media content based on authenticated media content input
Methods, systems, and media for recommending collaborators of media content based on authenticated media content input are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving a request from a content creator to initiate presentation of broadcasted media content using a media device, wherein the request invites a plurality of users to participate in the broadcasted media content; determining that a user of the plurality of users has interacted with the broadcasted media content, wherein the user has been permitted to interact with the broadcasted media content in response to providing user authentication information; determining collaborator information associated with the user based on the user authentication information; and automatically causing, without user interaction, the determined collaborator information to be presented to the content creator for associating with the broadcasted media content. |
| US10264305B2 |
Delivery of encoded media content
A, method, apparatus, system, computer readable medium, and article of manufacture provide the ability to deliver a media content deliverable. Media content is selected. One or more clients that will receive the selected media content are selected. Independently from additional user input, one or more files are automatically and dynamically selected based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients. The selected files are scheduled for delivery to the clients. Delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients is then confirmed. |
| US10264304B2 |
Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers
A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file. |
| US10264288B2 |
Method for video coding and an apparatus, a computer-program product, a system, and a module for the same
A method includes encoding information of at least two short-term reference picture sets into a bitstream; encoding into the bitstream a structure of pictures description with an indication being indicative of which one of the at least two short-term reference picture sets to be used for decoding by a picture in question within the structure of pictures, the structure of pictures including one or more consecutive pictures in decoding order; encoding pictures according to the structure of pictures description into the bitstream. |
| US10264287B2 |
Inverse luma/chroma mappings with histogram transfer and approximation
An SDR CDF is constructed based on an SDR histogram generated from a distribution of SDR codewords in SDR images. An HDR CDF is constructed based on an HDR histogram generated from a distribution of HDR codewords in HDR images that correspond to the SDR images. A histogram transfer function is generated based on the SDR CDF and the HDR CDF. The SDR images are transmitted along with backward reshaping metadata to recipient devices. The backward reshaping metadata is generated at least in part on the histogram transfer function. |
| US10264283B2 |
Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal using adaptive transform
The present invention relates to a technique for encoding and decoding an image, and a method for encoding the image, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: performing a prediction with respect to a current block; and transforming a residual which is generated by the prediction, wherein in the step of transforming, a first transform is performed on the residual, and then a second transform is performed on a lower frequency area, and wherein a mode of the second transform can be decided on the basis of a mode of the first transform. |
| US10264275B2 |
Inter-prediction candidate index coding independent of inter-prediction candidate list construction in video coding
Methods are provided for inter-prediction candidate index coding independent of the construction of the corresponding inter-prediction candidate list, i.e., a merging candidate list or an advanced motion vector predictor list. A maximum allowed number of inter-prediction candidates for an inter-prediction candidate list is used for encoding the inter-prediction candidate index in an encoded bit stream. The maximum allowed number may be pre-determined or may be selected by the encoder and encoded in the bit stream. A decoder may then decode the index using the maximum allowed number of inter-prediction candidates independent of the construction of the corresponding inter-prediction candidate list. |
| US10264266B2 |
Non-linear display brightness adjustment
Display brightness adjustment apparatus and methods are described in which the average brightness of a display may be scaled up or down using a non-linear function. When applying the non-linear function to scale down brightness, the contrast of the output signal may not be reduced so that the dynamic range and highlights are preserved. The non-linear brightness adjustment may be performed automatically, for example in response to ambient light level as detected by sensor(s), but may also be applied in response to a user adjustment to a brightness control knob or slider. The non-linear brightness adjustment may be performed globally, or alternatively may be performed on local regions of an image or display panel. The non-linear function may be a piecewise linear function, or some other non-linear function. |
| US10264265B1 |
Compression encoding of images
Techniques are generally described for compression encoding of images. In various examples, the techniques may comprise receiving image data. In some examples, the techniques may further comprise generating a first compressed representation of luminance values of the image data by encoding luminance values of the image data with reference to a luminance palette. In some examples, the techniques may further include generating a second compressed representation of chrominance values of the image data by applying a frequency domain based image transform to the chrominance values of the image data. In various further examples, the techniques may further comprise combining the first compressed representation and the second compressed representation to generate compressed image data. |
| US10264264B2 |
Multi-bin decoding systems and methods
Systems and methods for improving decoding of encoded image data using parallel multi-bin decoding are provided. In one embodiment, multiple context bins per cycle are decoded for a set of syntax elements, by decoupling and/or retiming particular syntax parsing and/or arithmetic decoding tasks of the decoding process. |
| US10264263B2 |
Systems and methods for compressing image data generated by a computed tomography (CT) imaging system
A compression device for compressing image data generated by a computed tomography (CT) imaging system is described herein. The compression device is configured to compress the image data by implementing a method including receiving image data from the CT imaging system and requantizing the image data in a square root domain. The method further includes identifying a group of projections (GOP) in the image data, including a first projection and a plurality of subsequent projections, and performing spatial-delta encoding on the first projection and temporal-delta encoding on each of the plurality of subsequent projections. The method also includes identifying a signed value in the GOP, and converting the signed value to an unsigned value. The method further includes entropy coding the image data in the GOP, and packetizing the GOP for transmission or storage. |
| US10264260B2 |
Moving picture encoding in which base quantization is based on corrected macroblock complexity
A video encoding device includes: circuitry configured to perform an orthogonal transform on a target picture to obtain an orthogonal transform coefficient; quantize the orthogonal transform coefficient for each macroblock of the target picture; and calculate, for a target macroblock in the target picture, a base quantization step which is a variable for matching a generated code size of the target picture with a target code size set for the target picture, determine a quantization step to be applied to quantizing for the target macroblock by weighting the calculated base quantization step with an activity of the target macroblock, and provide the quantization step. |
| US10264259B2 |
Encoding, decoding, and representing high dynamic range images
Techniques are provided to encode and decode image data comprising a tone mapped (TM) image with HDR reconstruction data in the form of luminance ratios and color residual values. In an example embodiment, luminance ratio values and residual values in color channels of a color space are generated on an individual pixel basis based on a high dynamic range (HDR) image and a derivative tone-mapped (TM) image that comprises one or more color alterations that would not be recoverable from the TM image with a luminance ratio image. The TM image with HDR reconstruction data derived from the luminance ratio values and the color-channel residual values may be outputted in an image file to a downstream device, for example, for decoding, rendering, and/or storing. The image file may be decoded to generate a restored HDR image free of the color alterations. |
| US10264258B2 |
Image processing device and method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a scaling list.An image processing device of the present disclosure sets a replacement difference coefficient that is a difference between a replacement coefficient and a coefficient located at the beginning of a quantization matrix whose size is limited to not greater than a transmission size that is a maximum size allowed in transmission, the replacement coefficient being used to replace a coefficient located at the beginning of an up-converted quantization matrix which is obtained by up-converting the quantization matrix to the same size as a block size that is a unit of processing in which dequantization is performed, quantizes an image to generate quantized data, and transmit encoded data obtained by encoding the generated quantized data, replacement coefficient data obtained by encoding the replacement coefficient, and replacement difference coefficient data obtained by encoding the set replacement difference coefficient. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device. |
| US10264257B2 |
Video encoding
A system can include a given video processing engine to determine an estimated Quantization Parameter (QP) for a given row of Coding Tree Units (CTUs) in a frame of a video. The given processing engine can also encode the given row of CTUs in the frame of the video. A CTU in the given row of CTUs can be encoded with a QP equal to the estimated QP. The system can include another video processing engine to determine an estimated QP for another row of CTUs of the frame of the video. The other processing engine can also set a running QP to the estimated QP for the given row of CTUs prior to the given video processor encoding a last CTU in the given row of CTUs. The other processing engine can further encode the other row of CTUs. CTUs encoded by the given video processing engine and the other video processing engine can be stored in a non-transitory machine readable medium. |
| US10264254B2 |
Image coding and decoding method, image data processing method, and devices thereof
A method for coding an image, a method for decoding an image, a method for processing image data, and devices thereof. The method for coding the image includes determining a current intra coding block that uses a constrained intra prediction method among current inter coded frames; determining that neighboring coding blocks that are adjacent to the current intra coding block include a neighboring inter coding block; updating image data in the neighboring inter coding block based on an invariable value or image data in a neighboring intra coding block included in the neighboring coding blocks; and coding the current intra coding block based on the updated image data in the neighboring inter coding block. Using the methods and devices, the error recovery capability of an intra coding block may be improved, and the image data decoding quality may be improved. |
| US10264252B2 |
Method and apparatus for setting reference picture index of temporal merging candidate
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting a reference picture index of a temporal merging candidate. An inter-picture prediction method using a temporal merging candidate can include the steps of: determining a reference picture index for a current block; and inducing a temporal merging candidate block of the current block and calculating a temporal merging candidate from the temporal merging candidate block, wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merging candidate can be calculated regardless of whether a block other than the current block is decoded. Accordingly, a video processing speed can be increased and video processing complexity can be reduced. |
| US10264250B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining spectral characteristics of an image captured by a camera on a mobile endpoint device
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for determining spectral characteristics of an image captured by a camera on a mobile endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving the image of a color calibration card comprising a plurality of color patches and a quick response (QR) code, wherein each one of the plurality of color patches has a known spectral reflectance, determining spectral characteristics from the image of the color calibration card, wherein the spectral characteristics are used to analyze additional images that are received from the camera on the mobile endpoint device and transmitting an activation signal to activate an incentive associated with the QR code to the mobile endpoint device in response to receiving the image of the color calibration card. |
| US10264248B2 |
Display apparatus, vehicle having the same and method for controlling the same
A display apparatus configured for displaying different images at the same time, a vehicle having the same, and a method for controlling the same, may include a backlight device; and a display panel separate from the backlight device and configured to output an image using light of the backlight device, and the backlight device includes a first light source device configured to emit light; a second light source device separate from the first light source device, and a light guide plate disposed between the first light source device and the second light source device, and provided with a light guide portion configured to guide light in a first optical path when the light of the first light source device is incident and configured to guide light in a second optical path when the light of the second light source device is incident. |
| US10264244B2 |
Display panel and a display driving method thereof, a display driving device and a display device
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel and a display driving method thereof, a display driving device and a display device. The display panel comprises a pixel array and a grating array blocking in the light outgoing direction of the pixel array, wherein the pixel array is periodically arranged in order of a first color sub-pixel column, a second color sub-pixel column and a third color sub-pixel column, each sub-pixel column comprising a plurality of rectangular sub-pixels; and the pixel array comprises four view pixel groups for displaying four views. |
| US10264241B2 |
Complimentary video content
A method and system for viewing video content is described. In one aspect a first data stream including video content in a 2D format may be received. The first data stream may include embedded first data identifying tuning data for accessing the video content in a 3D format. The video content may be outputted in the 2D format. A notification of availability of the video content in the 3D format may be displayed to a viewer, and an instruction to tune to the video content in the 3D format may be received. The video content in the 3D format then may be outputted. |
| US10264239B2 |
Method for producing a digital photo wherein at least some of the pixels comprise position information, and such a digital photo
Method for producing a digital photo comprising pixels, wherein at least some of the pixels comprise position information, the method comprising of: taking a photo with a known geometry of the optical system with which the photo is taken; recording the position from which the photo has been taken; recording the direction in which the photo has been taken; providing a three-dimensional model comprising points which are comprised by at least an outer surface of an object in the field of view of the position where the photo has been taken, wherein the points comprise position information; relating a pixel on the one hand and a corresponding point in the three-dimensional model on the other; and recording, in a manner associated with the pixel, the position information of the corresponding pixel. |
| US10264236B2 |
Camera device
A camera device includes a camera head that captures an observation image of a target site which is obtained by a surgical microscope, and a camera control unit that processes a signal of the observation video captured by the camera head. The camera head captures right and left observation images having a parallax from the surgical microscope to obtain a high-resolution observation video including right and left parallax videos for one screen, and the camera control unit cuts out the right parallax video and the left parallax video from the observation video including the right and left parallax videos to generate a high-resolution 3D video which is displayed on a monitor in 3D and with which stereoscopic observation can be performed. |
| US10264235B2 |
Compatible stereoscopic video delivery
Stereoscopic images are subsampled and placed in a “checkerboard” pattern in an image. The image is encoded in a monoscopic video format. The monoscopic video is transmitted to a device where the “checkerboard” is decoded. Portions of the checkerboard (e.g., “black” portions) are used to reconstruct one of the stereoscopic images and the other portion of the checkerboard (e.g., “white” portions) are used to reconstruct the other image. The subsamples are, for example, taken from the image in a location coincident to the checkerboard position in which the subsamples are encoded. |
| US10264233B2 |
Content reproducing apparatus and content reproducing method
A memory portion stores automated reproducing setting data that associates content input sources with necessariness/unnecessariness of automated reproduction of content. A control portion, when an operation-display portion or a remote control reception portion accepts selection of a content input source, judges whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on content that is inputted from the currently selected input source, based on the automated reproducing setting data. Also, the control portion starts outputting, at an audio signal output portion and a video signal output portion, a reproducing signal on the content that is inputted from the currently selected input source, when judging that automated reproduction of the content is necessary. |
| US10264231B2 |
Dynamically scaling the color temperature and luminance of a display output
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for dynamically scaling the color temperature and luminance of a display output according to a user preference. For instance, in one example, a video output signal comprising a plurality of image frames is delivered to a display device. A time is detected at which to adjust an amount of blue light emitted by the display device, in accordance with a user preference. The color temperature of a subset of the plurality of image frames that have yet to be delivered to the display device is adjusted from a default color temperature to an adjusted color temperature that scales the amount of blue light emitted by the display device. The subset of the plurality of image frames is then delivered to the display device, subsequent to the adjusting. |
| US10264226B2 |
Illumination device and electronic device
Light is made more expressive by a simple configuration of an illumination device. An illumination device (10) includes: a projection section on which beams of light which beams are emitted from a first LED (1A) and a second LED (1B), respectively, are to be projected; and a light emission control section (3) configured to control the first LED (1A) and the second LED (1B) so as to temporally change intensities of the beams of light. The first LED (1A) and the second LED (1B) are provided so that the beams of light which beams are emitted from the first LED (1A) and the second LED (1B), respectively, overlap in part in the projection section, and assuming that a part of the projection section in which part the beams of light overlap is an overlapping part, the light emission control section (3) changes the intensities of the beams of light so that at least any one of a size, a location, and a shape of the overlapping part is temporally changed. |
| US10264224B2 |
Device and method for changing the texture of projected light
A lighting template usable in connection with standard theatrical lights is provided. The lighting template contains a LCD adapted to receive and reproduce video output thereon. The lighting template provides a body adapted to mount to a theatrical light so that the LCD is disposed within the focal plane thereof. Thereby a lighting designer may selectively control the video output so as to manipulate the projected light through the LCD, affordably creating animated projections from the theatrical light. |
| US10264218B2 |
Method, system, and apparatus for receiving, processing and rendering content responsive to user and device parameters
Content is received by a device through a port and is analyzed based on a set of predetermined criteria to determine if it matches the characteristics of the device and/or the preferences of a user. The content characteristics are recognized by analyzing the content itself or from tags attached to, associated with or embedded into the content. Acceptable content is then rendered to the user. |
| US10264213B1 |
Content amplification system and method
A digital content conference sharing system comprising a first large common emissive surface arranged for viewing by users within a conference space, a first conference table assembly located in the conference space and including at least a first worksurface member and at least first and second user stations including first and second station worksurfaces and first and second indicator devices, the first indicator device controllable to indicate at least first and second visually distinct states, the second indicator device controllable to indicate at least the first visually distinct state and a third visually distinct state that is distinct from the first and second states, a processor programmed to perform the steps of, while a source device is associated with the first station or the second station and capable of sharing but is not sharing content on the common emissive surface, controlling the first and second indicators to indicate the first state, respectively and, while a source device is associated with the first station and the second station and is sharing content on the common emissive surface, controlling the first indicator to indicate the second state and the second indicator to indicate the third state, respectively. |
| US10264210B2 |
Video processing apparatus, method, and system
A video processing apparatus includes a camera to continuously capture an image of an object to acquire video data, a memory, and circuitry to identify, from among a plurality of users appearing in the video data, a user who is speaking at a point in time when the video data is acquired as a currently-speaking user, store, in the memory, speech history information that associates, for each point in time when the video data is acquired during at least a predetermined time period, the currently-speaking user with time information indicating the point in time when the video data is acquired, and based on the speech history information, identify a first user currently speaking and a second user who is to be displayed enlarged together with the first user. |
| US10264208B2 |
Layered display content for wireless display
A source device of a wireless display system composites display content of a plurality of layers to form composite display content. The source device may output the composite display content for display. Furthermore, the source device may generate a transport stream comprising a plurality of sub-streams. Each respective sub-stream of the plurality of sub-streams comprises data representing the display content of a respective layer of the plurality of layers. The source device may wirelessly transmit the transport stream to one or more sink devices for display by the one or more sink devices. |
| US10264206B1 |
Accessibility remote control for the blind
A remotely controlled device receives a first command from a remote control (RC) but does not execute the command. Instead, the remotely controlled device waits to receive the first command within a threshold period, and if not received twice within the period, the first command is then executed. However, the first command is not executed if it is received twice, at which point the name of the corresponding RC key is announced. A second double command caused by a second double press of the same key on the RC causes the remotely controlled device to announce the function of the key. The logic may be executed in the RC as well as or in lieu of executing it in the remotely controlled device. |
| US10264203B2 |
Image sensor, electronic device, control device, control method, and program
The present technology relates to an image sensor capable of achieving both higher S/N and higher frame rate, an electronic device, a control device, a control method, and a program.An AD converter has a comparator in which differential pairs are provided at an input stage. The differential pairs have a plurality of transistors as first transistors and second transistors paired to configure the differential pairs. The AD converter compares a level-changing reference signal with an electric signal output by a shooting unit for performing photoelectric conversion and outputting the electric signal, thereby performing AD conversion on the electric signal. The comparator is controlled such that a transistor to be operated is selected as active transistor from among the transistors depending on the amount of light incident in the shooting unit and the active transistor operates. The present technology is applicable to an image sensor for shooting an image, and the like, for example. |
| US10264202B2 |
Readout circuit and sensing device
A readout circuit is provided to generate an image datum representing an image sensed by a sensing array. The readout circuit includes a sample and hold circuit, an analog-digital conversion circuit, first and second memory banks, and an output circuit. The sample and hold circuit performs a sample and hold operation on at least one output signal from the sensing array to generate first and second sample-hold signals. The analog-digital conversion circuit generates first and second output datums according to the first and second sample-hold signals respectively. When the readout circuit operates in a first mode, the output circuit outputs the first and second output datums, received from the first and second memory banks, sequentially to serve as the image datum. When the readout circuit operates in a second mode, the output obtains difference between the first and second output datums to serve as the image datum. |
| US10264199B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, method for producing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus using photoelectric conversion elements
A solid state imaging device has: a photosensitive part containing a plurality of charge transfer parts that transfer, in column units, the signal charges of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed in a matrix; a conversion/output unit that converts, to an electrical signal, the signal charges forwarded by the charge transfer parts; a peripheral circuit part that performs a predetermined process with respect to the electrical signals from the conversion/output part; a relay part that relays the forwarding to the peripheral circuit part of the electrical signal from the conversion/output part; a first substrate where a photosensitive part and the conversion/output part are formed; and a second substrate where the peripheral circuit part is formed. The first and second substrates are stacked together, and the relay part electrically connects the conversion/output part formed at the first substrate to the peripheral circuit part formed at the second substrate. |
| US10264194B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable easy generation of a motion picture in which performers imaged at different locations have been composited in a balanced manner. Processing of performing an image analysis on a second motion picture to set, as an analysis result, a position of a second subject appearing in the second motion picture, and on the basis of the analysis result, adjusting, as a compositing condition, a composited position at which a first motion picture is composited into the second motion picture avoiding a first subject from overlapping the second subject is performed. Moreover, processing of setting, as an analysis result, a face size of a first person appearing in the first motion picture as the first subject and a face size of a second person appearing in the second motion picture as the second subject. |
| US10264192B2 |
Video processing device
A video processing device detects, as a characteristic region, a region having a prescribed characteristic in each frame of a video and performs specific image processing on either the characteristic region in the frame or a region other than the characteristic region in the frame with a specified processing strength. The processing strength is specified so as to be altered stepwise in at least two steps that involve an intermediate value between a minimum value and a maximum value when there is a change in whether or not a characteristic region has been detected. |
| US10264191B2 |
Calibration of pixels for producing super resolution images
A method of producing super resolution images includes a detector array capturing images of a scene in which detector array provides pixels for respective portions of the scene, and the detector array captures the images in increments in each of which a lens or the detector array is moved a length of an individual detector. The method also includes a processing unit determining light intensities of the pixels, and calibrating the pixels to a reference pixel based on the light intensities and thereby compensate for any differences in sensitivity of the individual detectors. This calibration is based on a comparison of light intensities of the reference pixel and an other pixel in respectively one and an other of the images in which the portion of the scene is the same for the reference pixel in the one of the images and the other pixel in the other of the images. |
| US10264187B2 |
Display control apparatus, display control method, and program
A display control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store image data associated with positional information, a determination unit configured to determine whether information representing a type of satellite used for determining the positional information associated with the image data stored in the storage unit is associated with the image data, and a display control unit configured to control, in accordance with a result of the determination performed by the determination unit, display of information representing a type of satellite used for determining the positional information associated with the image data in a form in which the type of satellite is recognizable. |
| US10264186B2 |
Dynamic control of camera resources in a device with multiple displays
Methods and devices for dynamically controlling mirroring of a preview image may include receiving physical location information of a selected camera resource on the computer device, wherein the physical location information corresponds to a static orientation of the camera resource. The methods and devices may include determining a dynamic orientation of the selected camera resource based on sensor information for the selected camera resource and determining a camera role of the selected camera resource based on the dynamic orientation and the static orientation of the selected camera, wherein the camera role comprises a front facing camera role or a rear facing camera role. The methods and devices may include displaying a mirrored preview image when the camera role of the selected camera resource is the front facing camera role and displaying a non-mirrored preview image when the camera role of the selected camera resource is the rear facing camera role. |
| US10264182B2 |
Lens moving apparatus, camera module and mobile device including the same
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin having a lens barrel, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin, an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a first coil disposed on the bobbin, a first magnet disposed on the housing, a circuit board disposed below the housing, a second coil disposed on the circuit board, a first sensor to output a first output signal based on a sensed result of a magnetic field strength of the first magnet, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first sensor. |
| US10264181B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus, which captures and records a moving image and which can generate still image data from moving image data, evaluates validity of image capturing conditions related to imaging parameters such as focus, exposure, white balance, and image blur, generates a degree of appropriateness corresponding to each imaging parameter, and based on at least one of the degrees of appropriateness, changes characteristics of control of imaging parameters corresponding to the other degrees of appropriateness. |
| US10264177B2 |
Methods and systems to obtain desired self-pictures with an image capture device
Aspects relate to computer implemented methods and system to obtain self-pictures with an image capture device. The methods include receiving, by a processor, an input regarding a selected picture type to be captured, receiving, by an image sensor, a live image capture, identifying a subject in the live image capture, comparing the live image capture of the subject with a reference set based on the selected picture type, determining, based on the comparison, if the live image capture matches with the reference set, and providing feedback instructions regarding an adjustment to be made to improve matching between the live image capture and the reference set. |
| US10264175B2 |
Facial recognition for event venue cameras
An event venue with a performance area (e.g., a sport field or auditorium stage) and an eventgoer area (e.g., stadium seating or bleachers) may include a set of eventgoer cameras trained on various sections of the eventgoer area and a set of performance cameras trained on the performance area. The event venue may also include sensors. When an event occurrence (e.g., a goal or touchdown) is detected using the cameras and/or sensors, at least one photo or video of the event occurrence may be captured by the performance cameras, and at least one photo or video of the eventgoer reaction may be captured using the eventgoer cameras. Facial recognition may then be used to identify particular eventgoers in each photo or video. Identified eventgoers can then receive photos or videos in which they are identified along with performance photos or videos that were captured at roughly the same time. |
| US10264170B2 |
LED light has adjustable-angle sensor to cover 180 horizon detect-range
A LED Light device having built-in camera-assembly is powered by AC or-and DC power source by (1) prongs or (2) AC Plug-wires or (3) another conductive-piece or (4) wired. The device has built-in camera-assembly has plurality function(s) for desired combination to make different products. The LED light device has at least one of (a) camera or DV to take minimum MP4 format image, (b) digital data memory kits or cloud storage station, (c) wireless kits, Bluetooth or USB set for download function, (d) motion/moving/other sensor, (e) assembly for contact Wi-Fi, 3G/4G/5G network or even settle-lite channel, (f) system to transmit or-and receiving wireless signal, (g) APP or other platform software to operation related device, (h) LED lighting, (i) movable sensor(s), camera, light-beam direction, or (j) other electric or mechanical parts & accessories to get desired function(s) for the said LED light device. The said motion/moving sensor unit has desired part or all of digital data related module or circuit(s) or backup power and unit may in separated housing with light-source assembly so people can upgrade the non-camera device to has built-in camera and digital device for their old non-camera security light. One of practical application is for angle adjustable LED light with prong to plug-into wall so can aim sensor, or-and camera, or-and LED light-beam to desired areas. |
| US10264169B2 |
System to synchronize flashes between mobile devices
Systems, apparatuses and methods for conducting collaborative sessions between mobile devices may provide for identifying the external mobile devices within a predetermined range of a local mobile device. One or more of the identified external mobile devices may be selected to provide an enhanced flash performance to an internal flash of the local mobile device. In response to receiving and detecting an optical transmission or a wireless transmission from the local mobile device, the flash device of the one or more external devices may be activated to generate a flash that is synchronized with the capture of an image by the local mobile device. |
| US10264166B2 |
Intracorporeal-monitoring camera system, support tube for intracorporeal-monitoring camera system, and cable holder for intracorporeal-monitoring camera system
An intracorporeal-monitoring camera system provided with a support tube whose one end is introduced in a body, an imaging portion that is joined to the support tube in the body, a joining portion that joins the imaging portion and the support tube together, a cable that is connected with the imaging portion and drawn out to an outside of the body through the support tube, and a control system that is provided on the outside of the body, connected with the cable, and includes at least a display device. A slit is formed in the support tube so that the cable is placed in the support tube from a side of the support tube. |
| US10264163B2 |
Display apparatus and control method thereof
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a tuner configured to receive a broadcast signal including a plurality of frames by tuning a channel, a display configured to display the received broadcast signal, an interface comprising interface circuitry configured to receive a channel change command, communication circuitry configured to receive timing information of the reference frame of the broadcast signal provided through a channel tuned according to the channel change command from an external apparatus, and a processor configured to, in response to the channel change command being received, predict timing for receiving the reference frame through the tuner based on the timing information of the reference frame received through the communication circuitry, to determine timing for performing channel tuning according to the channel change command based on the predicted timing, and to delay the channel tuning until the determined timing. |
| US10264161B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit, a use authority information acquisition unit, and a transmission controller. The image processing unit processes an image in accordance with an instruction from a terminal apparatus. The use authority information acquisition unit acquires use authority information in which, for each user, use authority is set for a resource that the image processing apparatus has. The transmission controller transmits, in a case where a change has occurred in a state of the resource, resource-state information, which is information regarding the state of the resource, to a terminal apparatus of a user who has authority to use the resource, in accordance with the use authority information acquired by the use authority information acquisition unit. |
| US10264155B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus that displays images associated with contents stored in an external storage device
A wireless communication apparatus includes a memory device in which data associated with a storage device are stored, wherein the data is acquired through a wireless communication; an image capturing device; a display; and a controller configured to: identify an external storage device corresponding to a code captured by the image capturing device, responsive to identification of the external storage device, generate a display image from the data stored in the memory device if the data stored in the memory device are associated with the identified external storage device, and control the display to display a display image, wherein the data stored in the memory device include thumbnail image data of image data stored in the external storage device, and the display image includes one or more thumbnail images that are generated from the thumbnail image data. |
| US10264149B2 |
Information processing device and image forming apparatus
An information processing device includes a first unit that is a base of the information processing device, a second unit that is disposed above the first unit and rotates around a first rotation shaft which is horizontally arranged, an input part that accepts an operation input by a user, and a wireless reading unit containing part that is disposed next to the input part and contains a wireless reading unit. The wireless reading unit containing part is provided with a containing part to contain the wireless reading unit, and an open/close lid that opens and closes the containing part. |
| US10264147B2 |
Operation console, and electronic device and image processing apparatus provided with the operation console
An operation console provided on an apparatus that operates in accordance with a user operation, including a surface including a first area and a second area. A display and a home key for requesting display of a home screen are provided in said first area. A plurality of operation keys other than said home key are provided in said second area. |
| US10264144B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a power unit that accommodates a battery; a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with an external device; and a printer unit that prints print data obtained by the communication unit on a recording paper, wherein an outer appearance of the electronic device is a cylindrical shape. |
| US10264140B2 |
Billing engine and method of use
A wireless communication device associated with a mobile operator network transmits an authentication request for network access via a wireless access point (AP) using a transceiver other than the cellular network transceiver. Device authentication can occur directly with the mobile operator network or via a proxy server. Upon authentication, the requesting device may access a wide area network in a data off-load operational mode and the data flow to and from the device via the AP is monitored and reported to mobile operator network associated with the requesting device. The wireless communication device can communicate with any of a plurality of APs distributed in a venue during the data off-load operational mode. |
| US10264139B2 |
Cost allocation for derived data usage
A system and method that allows for information relating to data and communication resource usage to be gathered and analyzed such that particular data transactions and usage can be classified based on purpose and/or type. Further, the system and method provide reporting based on amount of usage and/or purpose or type of usage so that associated costs and usage can be calculated applied and allocated to particular accounts, divisions, groups or individuals within and outside of a company or entity. Further, the system may restrict data usage of devices to data usage that can be allocated to particular accounts based on purpose, source, destination or other. |
| US10264138B2 |
Mobile device and service management
A wireless end-user device, comprising one or more modems enabling the wireless end-user device to communicate with a network system over a wireless access network, a touch-screen user interface, and one or more processors configured to execute one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to detect a user input through the touch-screen user interface, the user input comprising a request to remove the wireless end-user device from an existing device group account, the existing device group account being associated with one or more devices including the wireless end-user device, and send a message to the network system over the wireless access network, the message conveying the request to remove the wireless end-user device from the existing device group account. |
| US10264135B2 |
Echo cancellation method and apparatus, and computer storage medium
The present disclosure discloses an echo cancellation method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a far-end signal and a near-end signal; detecting whether a speech signal exists in the near-end signal; processing the far-end signal according to a normalized least mean square adaptive filtering (NLMS) algorithm to obtain an estimated signal, and subtracting the estimated signal from the near-end signal to obtain a residual signal; after it is detected that the speech signal exists in the near-end signal, detecting whether the residual signal meets a preset output condition; and when it is detected that the residual signal does not meet the preset output condition, multiplying the residual signal by a first attenuation factor to obtain an output signal. |
| US10264133B1 |
Remote management of VoIP device contact lists
An apparatus is disclosed for providing voice-over-IP (VoIP) services to and configuring contact lists for a plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. The apparatus includes a VoIP server communicatively connected to the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. The VoIP server can includes a device management circuit configured to maintain a list of IP addresses for each of the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. In response to receiving a first data message, from a first device not included in the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices, that includes contact information and identifies one of the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices, the device management circuit adds a new contact having the contact information to the respective contact list of the identified one of the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. |
| US10264132B2 |
Method and apparatus for communications between carriers
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, responsive to determining that a second device is associated with a first carrier network, obtaining a first record associated with a called number of the second device from a first carrier network telephone number mapping equipment server of the first carrier network, and transmitting a first internet protocol address for the second device from the first record to a terminating call session control function server of the first carrier network to initiate the internet protocol call session. Responsive to a second determination that the second device is associated with a second carrier network, obtaining a second record associated with the called number according to a pointer to a second carrier network telephone number mapping equipment server of the second carrier network, and transmitting a second internet protocol address for the second device derived from the second record to a session border controller of the first carrier network to initiate the internet protocol call session. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10264131B2 |
Transmission control system, transmission system, and method of transmission control
A transmission control system capable of transmitting data received from a first transmission terminal to a second transmission terminal, includes a receiver unit to receive identification information to identify the second transmission terminal or a user of the second transmission terminal, the data, and first type information that represents a type of the data, from the first transmission terminal; and a transmission control unit to control the received data not to be transmitted to the second transmission terminal in a case where the received first type information is not included in second type information corresponding to the received identification information, the second type information being managed in a management unit configured to have identification information to identify a predetermined transmission terminal or a user of the transmission terminal, associated with the second type information that represents a type of data processable by the predetermined transmission terminal. |
| US10264126B2 |
Contact center system and method for advanced outbound communications to a contact group
A method for managing outbound communications for a contact center includes: detecting, by a processor associated with the contact center, a trigger for transmitting outbound messages to a customer of the contact center, determining, by the processor, a notification strategy for the customer in response to the detected trigger, identifying, by the processor, a contact group designated for the customer, initiating, by the processor, first and second conversations with respectively first and second contacts in the contact group for transmitting first and second outbound communications according to the notification strategy, monitoring, by the processor, progress of the first and second conversations, and modifying, by the processor, a state of the second conversation with the second contact based on the progress of the first conversation with the first contact. |
| US10264123B2 |
System for facilitating loosely configured service worker groups in a dynamic call center environment
A system for soliciting and activating one or more groups of workers to service contact center business includes an interface accessible to the one or more groups for accepting group registration data, publishing contact center business and for enabling the groups to subscribe to receive business; a data repository for storing the registration data for subscribing groups; and a routing server for specifying routing strategies for event routing to the groups. The system is characterized in that the one or more groups of workers may be activated during contact center business activity to perform services based on need. |
| US10264121B2 |
Message transcription for emergency call prioritization
A method of prioritizing emergency calls received at a public safety answering point (PSAP) management system, New emergency calls can be placed on hold and added to a call queue. An audio emergency description message can be recorded from the caller while the emergency call is on hold, and a transcript of the audio emergency description message can be generated using automatic speech recognition. The transcript can be displayed to users in a dashboard while the emergency call is on hold, and a priority level of the emergency call can be adjusted within the call queue based on the transcript, such that urgent emergency calls can be prioritized and answered before less urgent emergency calls. |
| US10264115B1 |
Determining if a mobile device is being used by a driver of a vehicle
A computer system determines whether a location of a computing device corresponds to a vehicle that is in motion. In response to determining that the location of the computing device corresponds to the vehicle that is in motion, and determining that the location of the computing device corresponds to an area in the vehicle that is associated with a driver of the vehicle, the computer system imposes one or more restrictions on a usage of the computing device. |
| US10264109B2 |
Contact synchronization between related devices of a subscriber account
Synchronization between related devices is described. A group of related devices includes devices that are associated with the same subscriber account, share the same cellular telephone line, and so forth. In an example, a related device that is a browser-enabled device may register with a service that enables the browser-enabled device to share a same account and/or same line with other related device(s). Based partly on the browser-enabled device registering with the service, the browser-enabled device may retrieve data associated with contacts (i.e., contact data) that is associated with at least one other related device that is a cellular communication device. Additionally, a user associated with the browser-enabled device and/or a user associated with the at least one other related device may make modifications to the contact data and techniques described herein may enable synchronization of such modifications between the related devices. |
| US10264107B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving frame, and wireless device implementing the same method
A method for transmitting a frame is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device compensates a carrier frequency using a value of carrier frequency offset (CFO), and transmits a frame with the compensated carrier frequency to a receiver. The value of the CFO is indicated in TXVECTOR. A method for transmitting a frame is provided by a device in a wireless communication network. The device allocates data tones for a last symbol based on a payload size, generates the last symbol having repeated waveforms and transmits a frame including at least one period waveform of the repeated waveforms in the last symbol. |
| US10264106B2 |
Configuring generation of multiple event streams from a packet flow
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, a first protocol classification for a first packet flow captured by the remote capture agent. Next, the system uses configuration information associated with the first protocol classification to build a first event stream from the first packet flow at the remote capture agent, wherein the first event stream comprises time-series event data generated from network packets in the first packet flow based on the first protocol classification. The system then transmits the first event stream over a network for subsequent storage and processing of the first event stream by one or more components on the network. |
| US10264101B2 |
Application dependency monitoring for cloud applications
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for monitoring cloud applications. The method may include receiving an indication to monitor a cloud application; obtaining metadata regarding the cloud application, the metadata comprising at least one path to at least one dependent service; selecting, based on the obtained metadata, a plugin to enable creation of a test version of the cloud application; causing, based on the plugin and the obtained metadata, the creation of the test version to enable monitoring the at least one path to the at least one dependent service; and providing to a user interface an indication regarding a status of the monitored at least one path to the at least one dependent service. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. |
| US10264099B2 |
Method and system for content closures in a content centric network
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates content closures in a CCN. During operation, the system generates, by a client computing device, an initial interest with a name that is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level, wherein the initial interest indicates a request for a result of a computation. The system receives from a content producing device a content object which indicates a function that outputs the requested result and data to be used as input to the function. The system performs the function based on the indicated data, which outputs the requested result, thereby facilitating a content producing device to offload computation of the function to the client computing device. |
| US10264094B2 |
Processing incoming messages
A method and system for processing incoming messages. An incoming message is scanned, wherein the incoming message is an email message sent by a sender. One or more resource links in the scanned incoming message are detected, wherein the one or more resource links are in the sender's email signature in the email message. In response to detecting the one or more resource links in the scanned incoming message, it is determined that users of the computer are likely to request a content of the detected one or more resource links, based at least on: a type of the one or more detected resource links, a type of network to which the computer is connected, and a determination that the detected one or more resource links are pointing to one or more files and are not pointing to a corporate website. |
| US10264089B2 |
Rule configuration framework for communication protocols
A system and method are provided for rule configuration for communication protocols. A set of rules associated with a plurality of network resources associated with a server is received at the server from another server. The set of rules is stored in a data storage associated with the server. A request is received at the server from a computing device, for accessing a network resource. One or more rules associated with the network resource are determined from the rules in the data storage. A mapping between the request and each of the one or more rules is determined. If the mapping provides one or more matches between one or more parameters of the request and the one or more rules, a modified request is generated based on the one or more matches. Access to the network resource is provided to the computing device based on the modified request. |
| US10264088B1 |
Lamp capable of pushing information, electronic device and passing information pushing system
A passing information pushing system is provided. The system includes a plurality of lamps, and an electronic device. Each of the lamps continuously identifies a signal type of power, calculates a remaining duration corresponding to the current signal type, and pushes a passing state and the remaining duration corresponding to the current signal type. The electronic device receives a first information from a first lamp, and identifies a first lamp direction. The electronic device receives a second information from a second lamp, and identifies a second lamp direction. Furthermore, the electronic device notifies a corresponding passing state and remaining duration according to the first information or the second information by determining whether a current moving direction is parallel to the first lamp direction or the second lamp direction. |
| US10264081B2 |
Contextual people recommendations
Techniques for providing a people recommendation system for predicting and recommending relevant people (or other entities) to include in a conversation based on contextual indicators. In an exemplary embodiment, email recipient recommendations may be suggested based on contextual signals, e.g., project names, body text, existing recipients, current date and time, etc. In an aspect, a plurality of properties including ranked key phrases are associated with profiles corresponding to personal entities. Aggregated profiles are analyzed using first- and second-layer processing techniques. The recommendations may be provided to the user reactively, e.g., in response to a specific query by the user to the people recommendation system, or proactively, e.g., based on the context of what the user is currently working on, in the absence of a specific query by the user. |
| US10264079B2 |
Fastpath web sessions with HTTP header modification by redirecting clients
A handshake procedure to establish a first connection between a client and a server is monitored at an intermediate network device. A request message sent to the server from the client is received at the intermediate network device. The request message includes parameters defining a manner of receiving information from the server. The parameters defining the manner of receiving information from the server are modified to produce modified parameters. A redirect message is sent from the intermediate network device to the client to induce or cause the client to establish a second connection with the server based upon the modified parameters, wherein the redirect message contains the modified parameters. |
| US10264074B2 |
Information management of data associated with multiple cloud services
A method and system for providing information management of data from hosted services receives information management policies for a hosted account of a hosted service, requests data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, receives data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, and provides a preview version of the received data to a computing device. In some examples, the system indexes the received data to associate the received data with a user of an information management system, and/or provides index information related to the received data to the computing device. |
| US10264073B2 |
Cloud service utilization
Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server. |
| US10264070B2 |
System and method for synchronizing media presentation at multiple recipients
A network media delivery system includes client devices and a host device. Each client device has a network interface, an engine for processing media data, and a media interface. The host device, which can be a computer, establishes network communication links with the client devices, which can be networked media stations, and sends media data to the client devices. The media data can be sent wirelessly as packets of media data transmitted at intervals to each client device. In one embodiment, the host device controls processing of media data such that processed media is delivered in a synchronized manner at each of the client devices. In another embodiment, the host device controls processing of media data such that processed media is delivered in a synchronized manner at the host device and at least one client device. |
| US10264067B2 |
Content item sharing and synchronization system with team shared folders
A content item sharing and synchronization system providing team shared folders is described. Users of the system have access to the team shared folder simply by being a member of a team. A team account manager of the team can grant access to the team shared folder simply by inviting selected users to the team. Similarly, the team account manager can revoke access to the team shared folder simply by removing a user from the team. Unlike typical network file server folders, separate access control list management for the team shared folder apart from user team membership management is not needed to grant and revoke access to the team shared folder, thereby reducing administrative steps necessary to effectively manage access to the team shared folder. |
| US10264063B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling cloud server
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for scheduling a cloud server. A specific implementation mode of the method comprises: monitoring whether current time is in a first pre-set time period; in response to the monitoring that the current time is in the first pre-set time period, scheduling a cloud server in a first cloud server cluster having a running state being an idle state, as a target cloud server, to a second cloud server cluster, so that the target cloud server executes a task obtained by the second cloud server cluster; monitoring whether the current time is in a second pre-set time period; in response to the monitoring that the current time is in the second pre-set time period, rescheduling the target cloud server to the first cloud server cluster, so that the target cloud server executes a task obtained by the first cloud server cluster. |
| US10264061B2 |
User service access allocation method and system
A service access allocation method is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of access points for an entire region divided into a plurality of divided areas, where each divided area includes one or more access points. The method also includes, based on the divided areas and a total number of service accessing users corresponding to each divided area, obtaining a weighting coefficient of each divided area. Each divided area has a plurality of service accessing users. Further, the method includes using the weighting coefficient corresponding to each divided area to perform a weighted random calculation to determine one of the plurality access points allocated to a current user to access a service at nearest proximity, such that the current user accesses the allocated access point to obtain the service provided by the allocated access point. |
| US10264060B1 |
Automated load balancing for private clouds
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of balancing Input/Output (I/O) loads for cloud data storage systems including a plurality of hosts and a plurality of data storage arrays, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method including monitoring, via a first host of the plurality of hosts, a status of a first data storage array of the plurality of data storage arrays, upon detecting a performance issue with the first data storage array, notifying a cloud manager of the first data storage array, wherein the cloud manager is in communication with each of the plurality of hosts and each of the plurality of data storage arrays, monitoring, via the cloud manager, the performance issue, and determining, via the cloud manager, whether to move at least one LUN from the first data storage array. |
| US10264058B1 |
Defining virtual application templates
This disclosure relates to a system for defining enterprise applications operating in virtual datacenter. Application templates may be created containing the necessary information for provisioning and securing virtual applications in a tenant's virtual datacenter. The templates may define roles, service accounts, and scripts necessary for the datacenter to operate. |
| US10264057B2 |
Hybrid cloud integration systems and methods
In one embodiment, first and second computer systems are integrated to exchange information and coordinate processing of data. A first computer system may access data in a database for a document ready for external processing. The data may be stored in a queue and retrieved by the second system using a request. The second system sends an acknowledgement when the data is received. The data in the queue may be locked until a confirmation is received in the first system that processing on the second system is complete. In particular embodiments, the first system may be a cloud computer system and the second system a backend computer system. |
| US10264053B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for data transmission between multiple devices
A method for reducing data transmission pressure of a server and to save network bandwidth resources includes sending advance backup data corresponding to multimedia files to N types of user terminals, where N>1; receiving a data request that is sent by an (N+1)th type of user terminal and is used for requesting a multimedia file; and sending, to the (N+1)th type of user terminal, a link address, of advance backup data corresponding to the multimedia file, in the N types of user terminals, the link address being used for instructing the (N+1)th type of user terminal to acquire, from the N types of user terminals, data corresponding to the multimedia file. |
| US10264052B2 |
Enveloping for device independence
A system comprises a plurality of personal devices identified by at least one remote storage network as belonging to a user. A personal device comprises a first folder for storing a known a priori digital file, a second folder for storing a data file, a processor, and a network interface. The processor performs an M-to-M waveform multiplexing transformation on M input files, M>1, and generates M output files. Each output file comprises a respective linear combination of the M input files. The M input files comprise the data file and the known a priori digital file. Each of the M output files appears to human perception as having substantially identical visual or audio features to the known a priori digital file. The network interface sends at least M−1 of the M output files to at least one destination in the at least one remote storage network for storage. |
| US10264050B2 |
Predictive analysis of computing patterns for preloaded data to reduce processing downtime
There are provided systems and methods for predictive analysis of computing patterns for preloaded data to reduce processing downtime. A user may utilize a computing device to interact with a service provider over a network connection, for example, to utilize one or more services or processes of the service provider. Based on the user's actions and/or historical data for the user, the service provider may determine potentially required data and/or processes of the user. The service provider may preload the data or processes, for example, by storing data to the communication device's cache or by executing some of the processes. The service provider may preload data to the communication device while the communication device has available bandwidth or network connectivity so that the data is available in an offline environment. Processes may be executed before requirement by the user during times of low processing load. |
| US10264047B2 |
Dynamic codec negotiation
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to store data that provides mappings between criteria information and lists of codecs; receive an indication that one of an audio session, a video session, or an audio and video session is to be initiated with another device; obtain one or more criteria metric values in response to a receipt of the indication; select one of the lists of codecs from the data based on one of the mappings and the one or more criteria metric values; transmit the one of the lists of codecs to the other device via a wireless network; receive a response, via the wireless network, from the other device, wherein the response indicates one of the codecs; and use the one of the codecs during the one of the audio session, the video session, or the audio and video session. |
| US10264046B2 |
Transition points in an image sequence
Techniques are proposed for embedding transition points in media content. A transition point system retrieves a time marker associated with a point of interest in the media content. The transition point system identifies a first position within the media content corresponding to the point of interest. The transition point system embeds data associated with the time marker into the media content at a second position that is no later in time than the first position. The transition point system causes a client media player to transition from a first image quality level to a second quality level based on the time marker. |
| US10264044B2 |
Apparatus and method for sending content as chunks of data to a user device via a network
An apparatus, method and computer-readable medium are provided for sending content from a source to a user device. The content is obtained from the source by an intermediate device as a plurality of fragments and a manifest, converted into larger chunks of data, encapsulated into a single file, and then sent over a network connection to the user device. |
| US10264043B2 |
Outage notification with client control modification in an ABR streaming network
A scheme for modulating an adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming client engaged in a current ABR streaming session. In one implementation, a determination is made whether a wireless UE device executing the ABR streaming client is approaching a radio white spot area. If so, a video buffer of the ABR client is configured to preload lower quality video segments to last for the duration of the radio white spot area. One or more ABR client controls may be selectively deactivated while the wireless UE device is in the radio white spot area. |
| US10264042B2 |
Manifest file configuration based on manifest request characteristics
Techniques for serving a manifest file of an adaptive streaming video include receiving a request for the manifest file from a user device. The video is encoded at different reference bitrates and each encoded reference bitrate is divided into segments to generate video segment files. The manifest file includes an ordered list of universal resource locators (URLs) that reference a set of video segment files encoded at a particular reference bitrate. A source manifest file that indicates the set of video segment files is identified based on the request. An issued manifest file that includes a first URL and a second URL is generated based on the source manifest file. The first URL references a first domain and the second URL references a second domain that is different from the first domain. The issued manifest file is transmitted to the user device as a response to the request. |
| US10264037B2 |
Classroom messaging
In one example, a presentation control device may allow a presenter, such as a teacher, to control interactions between audience members and the presenter. The presentation control device may display a presentation controlled by a presenter to a presentation audience as part of a group presentation session. The presentation control device may receive from the presenter a communication rule controlling an interaction between an audience member device and the presentation control device as part of controlling the presentation. The presentation control device may receive a communication regarding the presentation from an audience member in the presentation audience via the audience member device. The presentation control device direct the communication based on the communication rule. |
| US10264032B1 |
Method and system for enabling a communication device to remotely execute an application
A communication system capable of enabling one or more communication devices to remotely execute one or more applications includes one or more communication devices that are coupled to a data connection. At least one of the one or more communication devices is operable to communicate a request to establish a communication session over the data connection. The system also includes one or more application servers that are coupled to the data connection. At least one of the one or more application servers is adapted to execute an application to establish the requested communication session with the at least one communication device. The at least one application server resides at a location remote from the at least one communication device. The at least one application server communicates a request for processing service to the at least one communication device. The request for processing service is communicated to the at least one communication device over the data connection. |
| US10264022B2 |
Information technology governance and controls methods and apparatuses
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for automated change audit of an enterprise's IT infrastructure, including independent detection of changes, reconciliation of detected changes and independent reporting, to effectuate a triad of controls on managing changes within the IT infrastructure, preventive controls, detective controls and corrective controls. |
| US10264021B2 |
Method and apparatus for distributing firewall rules
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for specifying firewall rules. In some embodiments, the method provides the ability to specify for a particular firewall rule, a set of network nodes (also called a set of enforcement points) at which the particular firewall should be enforced. To provide this ability, the method of some embodiments adds an extra tuple (referred to below as the AppliedTo tuple) to a firewall rule. This added AppliedTo tuple lists the set of enforcement points at which the firewall rule has to be applied (i.e., enforced). As the AppliedTo tuples of the firewall rules can refer to dynamically modifiable constructs, the application of the AppliedTo firewall rules (i.e., rules that are specified to include an AppliedTo tuple) can be dynamically adjusted for different locations within a network by dynamically adjusting the membership of these modifiable constructs. |
| US10264014B2 |
Systems and user interfaces for dynamic and interactive investigation based on automatic clustering of related data in various data structures
In various embodiments, systems, methods, and techniques are disclosed for generating a collection of clusters of related data from a seed. Seeds may be generated based on seed generation strategies or rules. Clusters may be generated by, for example, retrieving a seed, adding the seed to a first cluster, retrieving a clustering strategy or rules, and adding related data and/or data entities to the cluster based on the clustering strategy. Various cluster scores may be generated based on attributes of data in a given cluster. Further, cluster metascores may be generated based on various cluster scores associated with a cluster. Clusters may be ranked based on cluster metascores. Various embodiments may enable an analyst to discover various insights related to data clusters, and may be applicable to various tasks including, for example, tax fraud detection, beaconing malware detection, malware user-agent detection, and/or activity trend detection, among various others. |
| US10264012B2 |
User behavior profile
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for generating a cyber behavior profile comprising monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions into electronic information representing the user interactions, the electronic information representing the user interactions comprising multi-layered electronic information, each layer of the multi-layered electronic information corresponding to a respective layer of user interaction; and generating a unique multi-dimensional cyber behavior profile based upon the multi-layered electronic information representing the user interactions. |
| US10264010B2 |
Method and apparatus for testing a security of communication of a device under test
A test apparatus (1) for testing a security of communication of a device under test, DUT, (4), wherein the test apparatus (1) comprises an RF unit (2) having an RF interface adapted to receive from the device under test, DUT, (4) an RF signal carrying Internet Protocol, IP, data including at least one IP address; and an IP unit (3) adapted to analyze IP data carried in the received RF signal to check communication security of the device under test, DUT, (4) using at least one security criterion, SC-CEP, related to a communication endpoint, CEP, addressed by the IP address. |
| US10263993B2 |
Access guards for multi-tenant logging
A multi-tenant logging system that allows a user to have an individual profile that controls the user's access to tenant logs is provided. The system includes a plugin that adds features of an access control list (ACL) to indexes of a logging stack based on a user's access role. The stack is an aggregate of logs for nodes that are stored globally in the system. When a user requests a particular index to logs in the logging stack, an authorization token associated with the user is provided. Before the user request is allowed to proceed, the access guard plugin performs access control on the stack by referencing the ACL using the authorization token to determine which tenants a user can access in view of the user's current access role. The plugin uses the token and the user identifier to construct the ACL to enable each user's access to the stack. |
| US10263992B2 |
Method for providing browser using browser processes separated for respective access privileges and apparatus using the same
A method for providing a browser using browser processes separated based on access privileges and an apparatus using the method. The method includes acquiring a first address corresponding to a first webpage; acquiring a first set of terminal access privileges based on the first address from a privilege control list and executing a first browser process corresponding to the first set of terminal access privileges; determining whether to allow rendering by comparing the first set of terminal access privileges with a second set of terminal access privileges corresponding to a second webpage when the first browser process attempts to render the second webpage; and if the rendering is not allowed, blocking the first browser process from rendering and rendering the second webpage by executing a second browser process corresponding to the second set of terminal access privileges. |
| US10263987B2 |
Techniques for sharing virtual machine (VM) resources
Techniques for sharing virtual machine (VM) resources are provided. A relative location for a resource within a VM is created; the relative location dynamically resolves to a particular physical location when a principal requests access to the resource at runtime. The principal is located outside an environment associated with the VM. Authentication and access restrictions are dynamically enforced against the requests made by the principal before a connection is permitted between the principal and the resource (the resource located within the environment of the VM). |
| US10263983B2 |
Image forming apparatus having transmission function, and control method and storage medium therefor
An image forming apparatus capable of maintaining user's convenience in performing transmission while utilizing a transmission setting even when destinations usable for the transmission according to the transmission setting are restricted to a predetermined destination such as an authenticated user's address in order to enhance security. In a case where destinations usable for the transmission according to the transmission setting are restricted to an authenticated user's address and where at least one transmission destination registered in the transmission setting differs from the user's address, the at least one transmission destination registered in the transmission setting is rewritten to the authenticated user's address. |
| US10263981B1 |
Public authentication systems and methods
Techniques provided herein relate to electronic authentication on public systems. A backend system receives at least one electronic data action request from a publicly available client system that is shared amongst a plurality of users. At least a portion of the primary authentication information is received from a secondary device separate from the publicly available client system. The electronic data action request is authenticated by determining if the primary authentication information matches expected primary authentication information that is expected to complete the electronic data action request. Performance of the electronic data action request is facilitated when the primary authentication information matches the expected primary authentication information. |
| US10263980B2 |
Network node, device and methods for providing an authentication module
The invention relates to a method, for providing an Authentication Module (AM) to a device. The method comprises computing an authentication parameter to be stored in the AM, using an identifier (ID) associated with the device, authentication data associated with the device and an encryption parameter associated with the device. The method also comprises providing the AM to the device. The invention also relates to a method, for updating an AM and to a method to authenticate a device using an AM. The invention further relates to a device and network node executing the methods. |
| US10263979B2 |
Identification code generating system and method thereof using virtual reality process
An identification code generating system and method thereof using a virtual reality process includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device displays an identification frame with identification information. The second electronic device further acquires the identification frame by an image acquiring unit, and overlaps an overlapping frame on the identification frame so as to provide an identification code. |
| US10263976B2 |
Method for excluding a participant from a group having authorized communication
A method for excluding a participant from a group of multiple participants, in which certificates are used for an authorized communication of the participants among each other, a withdrawal request being received by one participant of the group, the withdrawal request making an identification of the participant to be excluded possible by the participant to be excluded itself, and the authorized communication being terminated by the participant when it is identifiable as the participant to be excluded based on the withdrawal request, as well as a communication system for carrying it out. |
| US10263975B2 |
Information processing device, method, and medium
A network monitoring device including: a communication acquiring unit which acquires communication before the communication reaches an opposite party's terminal; a protocol analyzing unit which identifies a message for session establishment by analyzing a protocol of the acquired communication, the message being included in the communication and including a digital certificate of a communication partner in a session to be kept confidential; a certificate extracting unit which extracts a digital certificate from the identified message for session establishment; and an inspecting unit which inspects the extracted digital certificate. |
| US10263972B1 |
Authenticating by labeling
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for authenticating by labeling are provided herein. A method includes identifying each of one or more graphical-based input elements to be associated with a computing device in response to user activity in connection with the computing device; identifying each of one or more graphical-based labels to be assigned to the one or more graphical-based input elements; displaying (i) the one or more graphical-based input elements and (ii) the one or more graphical-based labels via an interface of the computing device; generating a prompt via the computing device interface; and processing input cryptographic information entered via the computing device interface in response to the prompt against (i) the one or more graphical-based input elements and (ii) the one or more graphical-based labels. |
| US10263968B1 |
Security measure for exchanging keys over networks
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for exchanging keys within a peer-to-peer network. Exchanging keys within a peer-to-peer network may include generating one or more keys for encrypting and decrypting content that is communicated between one or more client computing devices of a network. The one or more keys may be transmitted over the peer-to-peer network between the one or more client computing devices. A security measure value for each key that has been transmitted may be generated and/or updated based on at least one condition associated with transmitting the one or more keys over the peer-to-peer network. Content may be encrypted and decrypted using one of the one or more keys based on a desired security measure value of the key. All copies of the key used to encrypt and decrypt the content may be deleted such that the content is unrecoverable. |
| US10263963B2 |
Method and apparatus for mediating communications
A method of mediating communications between a first computing device and a second computing device, by an intermediary computing device, comprising establishing a communications link to each of the first and second computing devices, receiving a first message from the first computing device, the content of the first message comprising information in a protected format, converting at least part of the information in the protected format to an unprotected format, and transmitting a second message to the second computing device, the content of the second message comprising at least part of the information in the unprotected format. |
| US10263958B2 |
Internet mediation
A system for mediating Internet service includes a DNS server and a DNS policy engine associated with the DNS server. The DNS policy engine can be configured to apply one or more DNS policies selected by the DNS policy engine to DNS queries received by the DNS server from a client, analyze the DNS query based on predetermined criteria, and based on the analysis, and selectively redirect a data request associated with the client to a proxy server for further mediation. The system can further include a proxy server and a proxy policy engine associated with the proxy server. The proxy policy engine can be configured to apply one or more proxy policies selected by the proxy policy engine to at least one of data requests received by the proxy server from a client and data responses returned to the proxy server from an IP address. |
| US10263957B2 |
System and method for a fallback access control list port configuration
A method and apparatus of a device that installs a new access control list for a port of a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a network element receives an indication that the first access control list for the port is to be updated with a second access control list and the port processes data communicated with port with the first access control list. In addition, the network element configures the port to use a fallback access control list, where the fallback access control list includes a plurality of rules and the port uses the fallback access control list to process data communicated with the port. Furthermore, the network element loads the second access control list for the port. The network element additionally configures the port to use the second access control list, wherein the port uses the second access control list to process data communicated with the port. |
| US10263947B2 |
LDAP to SCIM proxy service
An LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) proxy service is provided. The LDAP to SCIM proxy service receives an LDAP request from an LDAP-based application running on an LDAP-based application server, translates the LDAP request to a SCIM request, and forwards the SCIM request to a SCIM server within the IDCS. The LDAP to SCIM proxy service then receives a SCIM response from the SCIM server within the IDCS, translates the SCIM response to an LDAP response, and forwards the LDAP response to the LDAP-based application. |
| US10263946B2 |
Enterprise message management system and method
The present invention is a system and method for managing a plurality of messages generated by an organization for delivery to various recipients. Said system and method configured to optimize the messages to reduce duplication and conflicting message content based on the organizations collective messaging activity and the characteristics of the recipient. |
| US10263942B2 |
Method and system for providing personalized network based dialogues
Systems and methods for personalizing dialogs are disclosed. A dialog system can provide a user interface to allow a first user to specify a second user to participate in an automated dialog, a specific response option, and a maximum time period for responding. The dialog system can send a message to the second user with the specific response option. The dialog system can branch the dialog based on the occurrence of an event or combination of events occurring in conjunction the second user. In a first branch, the dialog system is configured to send a second communication to the second user using a second communications channel, the second communication containing the specific response option. In a second branch, the dialog system is further configured to execute a third instruction associated with the dialog. |
| US10263940B2 |
Sending notifications about other users with whom a user is likely to interact
To provide more contextually and temporally relevant information to its users, a social networking system may surface relevant information about a target user with whom an recipient user is likely to interact. The social networking system predicts whether the recipient user is likely to be in contact with a target user, either currently or in the near future. If contact is predicted, the system determines information about the target user that that the recipient user may find of interest for their interaction. To determine what information may be of interest, the system determines a relevance score for information items about that target user. The system can then use the relevance scores to decide whether and which information items to surface to the recipient user, e.g., in the form of notifications. |
| US10263936B2 |
Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one email communication from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one email communication. |
| US10263934B2 |
Proxied outgoing message transmission
In particular embodiments, a mailbox server is operable to receive, from a client, a message to be delivered to an endpoint; store the message in a mailbox associated with the user; access a set of policies for the client or the endpoint; determine a delivery channel for the message based on the policies; and transmit the message to the endpoint through the delivery channel. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit SMS messages via a special bind with a recipient's SMSC, or via a carrier short code. In particular embodiments, the mailbox server may transmit the message as an email or via an internal messaging system over a packet data connection. |
| US10263933B2 |
Incorporating selectable application links into message exchange threads
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for incorporating application links into message exchange threads. One or more cues emanating from a message exchange thread involving two or more message exchange clients may be detected. The one or more cues may trigger incorporation, into the message exchange thread, of a selectable link to a distinct application. At least one candidate application that is installed on a given client computing device operated by a message exchange thread participant may be identified. The candidate application may be associated with content of the message exchange thread. A selectable link may be incorporated into a transcript of the message exchange thread displayed in a graphical user interface of a message exchange client operating on the given client computing device. The selectable link may be operable by the participant to expose to the participant an interface associated with a respective candidate application. |
| US10263932B2 |
Comment management in shared documents
Anonymous comments and comment rooms can improve privacy and facilitate user activity in a collaboration content item system. Some embodiments include a method for anonymous comments that can include receiving a request to add an anonymous comment to a collaboration content item. The method can further include generating an anonymous user identifier for a user associated with the request. The method can further include inserting the anonymous comment in the collaboration content item with a representation of the anonymous user. The representation can include an anonymous avatar generated based on the anonymous user identifier. Some embodiments may include comment rooms for collaboration content items. Multiple users are associated with a comment room. Comments, annotations, or content updates to a collaboration content item performed within a comment room are visible only to the users associated with the comment room. |
| US10263928B2 |
Systems and methods for recording and broadcasting audio messages between users
A computer system for recording and broadcasting audio messages between users configured to (a) store a plurality of channel data for a plurality of channels; (b) receive, from a channel owner computer device associated with a channel owner, a first audio message; (c) store, in the database, the first audio message in a first channel associated with the channel owner; (d) transmit a first notification to one or more subscriber computer devices of the first channel, where the first notification includes the first location of the first audio message; (e) receive, from a subscriber computer device associated with a subscriber of the first channel, a second audio message in response to the first audio message; and (f) transmit a second notification to the channel owner computer device wherein the second notification includes a second location of the second audio message. |
| US10263927B2 |
Decluttering general communication message for specific audience
A communication system obtains a message intended for one or more recipients. The message contains one or more content elements. The communication system determines, based on the message, a first recipient of the one or more recipients. The communication system detects a first content tag associated with a first content element of the one or more content elements. The communication system alters the first content element based on the first recipient and the first content tag. |
| US10263926B2 |
Information processing apparatus and cellular phone terminal
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit. |
| US10263924B1 |
Message selection and presentation in a real-time messaging platform
A system and message for message selection and presentation, including: receiving a request for content, wherein the request is associated with a context account of a messaging platform; identifying a set of unviewed messages associated with the context account; identifying grouping criteria for grouping content based on messages; applying, by a computer processor, the grouping criteria to the unviewed messages to generate a content group, wherein the content group is associated with a subset of the unviewed messages; and providing at least a portion of the content group in response to the request. |
| US10263921B2 |
Method and device for composing electronic mail messages starting from existing messages in an electronic mail program
A method for composing electronic mail messages in an electronic mail program or service includes (a) activating a merge function for merging two or more existing messages, including creating an empty merge message; (b) selecting a first message of the two or more existing messages; (c) automatic entry of the contents of at least a part of the text and subject fields of the selected first message into the text and subject fields of the merge message, as well as of at least one of the addresses in the sender's address field (“From:”) and the recipients' address fields (“To:”, “Cc:”, “Bcc:”) of the first message into at least one of the recipients' address fields (“To:”, “Cc:”, “Bcc:”) of the merge message; (d) selecting at least a second one of the two or more existing messages; (e) automatic entry of the contents of at least a part of the text and subject fields of the selected second message into the text and subject fields of the merge message, as well as of at least one of the sender's address (“From:”) and the recipients' addresses (“To:”, “Cc:”, “Bcc:”) of the at least one second message into at least one of the recipients' address fields of the merge message; (f) automatic entry of any attachments of the first message and at least one second message into the attachments field of the merge message, and (g) storing in a non-volatile manner, discarding, or sending the merge message thus created. |
| US10263917B1 |
Apparatus, system, and method for improving the energy efficiency of routers
The disclosed apparatus may include a set of router components that are consuming electrical power in connection with a router that facilitates network traffic within a network. The apparatus may also include a power-optimization unit communicatively coupled to the set of router components. The power-optimization unit may detect at least one router component included in the set of router components that is not currently being used by the router to facilitate the network traffic within the network. In response to detecting the router component that is not currently being used by the router, the power-optimization unit may shut off the router component such that the router component no longer consumes electrical power in connection with the router. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10263916B2 |
System and method for message handling in a network device
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for achieving enhanced performance for application message handling. The disclosed system includes a device and is configured to receive, at a first processing layer implemented by the device, a message addressed to a first port. The system is further configured to modify the message to be addressed to a second port indicated in a body of the message prior to forwarding the message to a second processing layer implemented by the device. Furthermore, the system is configured to forward, by the first processing layer to the second processing layer, the modified message addressed to the second port. |
| US10263915B2 |
Method for processing event between controller and network device
A method for processing an event between a controller and a network device is disclosed. A method for processing an event in a network device comprises the steps of: receiving an event notification registration request from a controller; monitoring the occurrence of an event corresponding to the event notification registration request and; when an event occurs, notifying the event occurrence to the controller. Thus, the controller can reduce the load through reducing the number of times of message transmissions for monitoring the event by a switch. |
| US10263913B2 |
Tunnel consolidation for real-time communications
A system performs tunneling for real-time communications (“RTC”). The system determines a quantity of available tunnels at a tunneling server. The system then determines that the quantity of available tunnels is below a threshold, and that two or more tunnels established with the tunneling server correspond to a user equipment (“UE”). The system indicates to the UE to consolidate the two or more tunnels into a target tunnel within the two or more tunnels, and performs the RTC with the UE over the target tunnel. |
| US10263910B2 |
Resource calling for hybrid applications
Invoking a resource is provided, comprising: sending a page request message to a server; receiving page data sent back by the server in response to the page request message; analyzing the page data to obtain an address of the resource; generating a resource-calling request using the address of the resource; acquiring native version information of the application client; using the native version information of the application client to modify the resource-calling request; and acquiring the resource according to the modified resource-calling request. |
| US10263906B2 |
Flow scheduling device and method
A method for traffic scheduling includes: authorizing a transmitting module to generate total authorization, allocating the total authorization to each stream queue according to weights preconfigured for each port and a stream queue mounted to each port, and transmitting the allocated authorization to a stream queue management module; the stream queue management module receiving data packets and storing the data packets in each stream queue, maintaining an authorization surplus barrel for each stream queue, storing the received authorization in the authorization surplus barrel of the stream queue, and if the authorization surplus and the queue depth in the authorization surplus barrel are greater than a preset threshold, notifying a scheduling module to output a data packet in the stream queue; and after receiving the notification from the stream queue management module, the scheduling module outputting a data packet in the stream queue according to a preset scheduling policy. |
| US10263900B2 |
Programmable packet processor (PPP)-based adaptive network function chaining
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for dynamically applying PPP-based network functions to traffic flows based on heuristics, policy conditions, and client-specified conditions. A network monitors a network traffic flow to determine whether the network traffic flow meets a first criterion of a first rule. The criterion specifies that when the first criterion is met, a PPP-based network function be used to analyze or process the network traffic flow. When the network traffic flow is determined to meet the first criterion, the network determines a first route through the network to a PPP-based router that provides the PPP-based network function and configures one or more routers along the first route to forward the network traffic flow to the PPP-based router for analysis or processing. |
| US10263897B2 |
Method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth for a network
A method and apparatus for performing traffic engineering, e.g., allocating bandwidth, on a wireless access network are disclosed. For example, the method determines a number of subscriber stations (SSs) that a Base Station (BS) is capable of supporting in accordance with at least one performance objective for voice traffic, wherein the at least one performance objective for voice traffic comprises a type of codec. The method then allocates bandwidth by the base station in accordance with the number of subscriber stations that the base station is capable of supporting. |
| US10263896B1 |
Methods and apparatus for load balancing communication sessions
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a gateway device that can be operatively coupled to a switch via a set of links. The gateway device can operatively couple a network node during a communication session with the switch, and can store an association between the communication session of the network node and a link such that data sent via the communication session of the network node is sent via the link. In such embodiments, the gateway device can receive, from a virtual port associated with the network node, a login request. The gateway device can send the login request to the switch to initiate a communication session between the virtual port and the switch. The gateway device can also associate the communication session of the virtual port with the link based on the communication session of the network node being associated with the link. |
| US10263890B2 |
Synthetic supernet compression
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for compressing a forwarding table. The technique includes selecting, from a listing of network prefixes, a plurality of network prefixes that are within a range of a subnet. The technique further includes sorting the plurality of network prefixes to generate one or more subgroups of network prefixes and selecting a first subgroup of network prefixes included in the one or more subgroups of network prefixes. The technique further includes generating a synthetic supernet based on the first subgroup of network prefixes. |
| US10263889B2 |
Data forwarding method, device, and system in software-defined networking
Data forwarding method, device, and system are provided for software-defined networking. An SDN control device delivers a proactive flow entry according to network topology information, where the proactive flow entry is unrelated to a service, and instead related to the network topology information. The proactive flow entry may be reused during data forwarding. After data is received, the SDN control device delivers reactive flow entries to some switching devices, where the reactive flow entries are related to the service, but are delivered to a subset of switching devices. This reduces flow entries delivered by the SDN control device to some switching devices, so that occupation of resources of the SDN control device and a switching device by flow entries is reduced. |
| US10263888B2 |
Sticky order routers
A sticky order routing system may include multiple order routers in communication with an electronic exchange for communicating transaction messages. Each of the order routers communicates transaction messages between multiple associated trading sessions and the electronic exchange, where of the associated trading sessions is assigned to the order router in communication with the electronic exchange. Transaction message traffic between the order routers and the electronic exchange is monitored, such as randomly, based on round-robin assignment, and/or trading data. In response to transaction message traffic exceeding a threshold, the trading session may be assigned to a new order router. |
| US10263887B2 |
Propagating flow characteristics in service function chaining (SFC) headers
In one embodiment, a service function classifier device determines a classification of a packet using one or more packet classification rules. The device selects a service function path based on the classification of the packet. The device determines one or more traffic flow characteristics based on the classification of the packet. The device generates a service function chaining (SFC) header that identifies the selected service function path and the determined one or more traffic flow characteristics. The SFC header is configured to cause a device along the service function path to forward the encapsulated packet based on the identified service function path and the determined one or more traffic flow characteristics. The device sends the packet along the selected service function path as an encapsulated packet that includes the generated SFC header. |
| US10263886B2 |
Mobile endpoint network interface selection using merged policies
Methods, systems and computer readable media for mobile endpoint network interface selection using merged policies. |
| US10263884B2 |
Coordinated content distribution over network
A coordinated multi-cast content distribution process is used to distribute content, e.g., files, from a source node of a network to target nodes of the network. A minimum spanning tree is identified for the network based on costs of edges connecting the nodes. The minimum spanning tree includes the source node and all target nodes; the minimum spanning tree distinguishes leaf target nodes from non-leaf target nodes. Content parts are moved along the spanning tree in an iterative process in which, for each iteration, the highest-cost leaf nodes are identified and content parts are moved toward the identified leaf nodes. This process reduces avoids network congestion and reduces the total bandwidth consumption required to supply the content to all target nodes. |
| US10263883B2 |
Data flow configuration in hybrid system of silicon and micro-electro-mechanical-switch (MEMS) elements
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for communicating data flows. The method generally includes receiving control flow information corresponding to a data flow for communication from a first device to a second device, and determining one or more characteristics of the data flow based on the control flow information. For example, the one or more characteristics may include whether the data flow is a mice flow or an elephant flow. In certain aspects, the method further includes communicating the data flow based on the determined characteristics. |
| US10263882B2 |
Dynamically influencing route re-distribution between an exterior gateway protocol and an interior gateway protocol
Systems and techniques are described for dynamically influencing route re-distribution between an exterior gateway protocol (EGP) and an interior gateway protocol (IGP). Some embodiments can dynamically influence which routes are re-distributed into the IGP network for use in cases where traffic destined to that particular remote site is desired to be steered on the desired network/border router. Moreover, some embodiments can dynamically influence route re-distribution from the IGP network to the EGP network for particular destinations so that traffic entering the local site is attracted over a particular network/border router. |
| US10263881B2 |
Enforcing strict shortest path forwarding using strict segment identifiers
Various systems and methods for using strict path forwarding. For example, one method involves receiving an advertisement at a node. The advertisement includes a segment identifier (SID). In response to receiving the advertisement, the node determines whether the SID is a strict SID or not. If the SID is a strict SID, the node generates information, such as forwarding information, that indicates how to forward packets along a strict shortest path corresponding to the strict SID. |
| US10263879B2 |
I/O stack modeling for problem diagnosis and optimization
An aspect includes input/output (I/O) stack modeling. A processor determines a client configuration of a client I/O stack that includes layers with configurable parameters to control storage and retrieval of data between an uppermost layer and lowest layer. A model of the client I/O stack is built on a layer basis that defines input workload characteristics, output workload characteristics, and layer configuration parameters for the layers of the model based on the client configuration. Workload characteristics of the uppermost layer of the client I/O stack are fed to the model. The processor determines a statistical distribution of workload characteristics associated with each of the layers of the client I/O stack. I/O performance results are captured for layers of the model based on feeding the workload characteristics of the uppermost layer. |
| US10263878B2 |
Protocol determination
In one implementation, a system for protocol determination includes a monitor engine to collect data relating to interactions with an application. In addition, the system includes a data engine to store loaded scripts to the application and corresponding interactions relating to the loaded scripts. In addition, the system includes a prediction engine to assign a value to each feature of the stored loaded scripts for the application, wherein the value is based on the usage of the application. In addition, the system includes a protocol engine to select a protocol based on the value. |
| US10263874B2 |
Method and user equipment for determining control channel resource
Embodiments of the present invention include a method and a user equipment for determining a control channel resource. The method includes: detecting a downlink control channel that carries scheduling information of a downlink data channel and is sent by a base station, where the downlink control channel is formed by at least one control channel logical element, and the at least one control channel logical element is mapped to at least one antenna port; acquiring at least one of antenna port information of a first antenna port corresponding to a first control channel logical element of the successfully detected downlink control channel and an offset, and sequence number information of the first control channel logical element; and determining, according to at least one of the antenna port information and the offset, as well as the sequence number information. |
| US10263872B2 |
Long connection sharing method for multi-businesses, system and device, terminal
The present disclosure discloses a long connection sharing method for multi-businesses. The method includes the following steps: a client of the long connection establishes a channel, and obtains heartbeat time; the server of the long connection configures an unique business ID for each business, and sends the business ID to the client of the long connection; the client of the long connection transmits the business ID to a business client, and then the business client reports the business ID to a business server corresponding to the business client; after receiving business information, the server of the long connection sends the business information to the client of the long connection through the channel; and the client of the long connection pushes the business information to the business client. The present disclosure also discloses a long connection sharing system for multi-businesses, and a device and a terminal thereof. |
| US10263869B1 |
Analysis and testing of network devices
A network administrator utilizes a user client device to connect to a server within a network and provide a test plan comprises various tests to be performed on pairs of devices having physical connections within the network. The server selects, from the various pairs of devices, a pair of devices that are to be tested. Subsequently, the server transmits to each device of the selected pair of devices, instructions that may cause each device to perform the tests specified within the test plan. Once the tests have been completed, the server obtains the test results from the pair of devices and compiles these results. |
| US10263867B2 |
Measuring frame loss
A method for measuring frame loss on a connection between a near-device (NED) and a far-end device (FED). The method includes: placing, on the connection, multiple test frames having a plurality of sequence numbers; obtaining, from the connection, a first reflected test frame having a first sequence number, a first FED receiving counter value from the FED, and an initial FED received count from the FED; obtaining, from the connection, a second reflected test frame having a second sequence number, a second FED receiving counter value from the FED, and the initial FED received count from the FED; and calculating a one-way frame loss value on the connection based on the second sequence number and the initial FED received count. |
| US10263864B2 |
Apparatus and method for collecting adaptive flow statistics data in carrier network
An apparatus for collecting adaptive flow statistics data includes a node type collector to access a network node and collect flows; a flow type calculator to calculate two or more flow types according to a flow duration length and request the node type collector to collect flow statistics data of a corresponding type of a flow at every collection period that corresponds to each of the two or more flow types; and a flow statistics storage to store the two or more flow types calculated by the flow type calculator, and store the flow statistics data, collected by the node type collector, for each of the two or more flow types in a table. |
| US10263860B2 |
Management of shared access network
Information from multiple sources can be communicated to a policy server. Based on that information, the policy server can determine allocation of bandwidth, transmission priority and/or other network resources based on preferences and/or service selections provided by a subscriber and communicate information about those determinations to other network elements for policy implementation. The information provided to a policy server for determining network resource allocation can include information about one or more applications executing at a customer equipment device, information about access network bandwidth usage, information about services for which one or more devices is authorized, and/or information about network conditions. |
| US10263858B2 |
Environment simulator for user percentile
A system and method for generating a simulation environment are provided. In example aspects, in response to a request from a user of an environment simulation system, specifying a desired web performance metric to result from the execution of a particular content item, the environment simulation system constructs a simulation environment. The environment simulation system is configured to test the particular content item within the constructed simulation environment and compare a baseline web performance metric to the requested web performance metric. In some aspects, if the requested web performance metric is not achieved, the environmental simulation system is configured to perform tuning and continue simulating until the requested web performance metric is achieved. Once tuning is complete, a user can modify a content item and continue simulating to observe improvements in web performance of a content item for a user in a particular geographic region. |
| US10263852B2 |
Network data model mapping based on matching strength
In one embodiment, a method includes processing network data models at a network device configured to operate in a network comprising one or more network components associated with one of the network data models, generating representations of the network data models, the representations comprising labels for elements in the network data models, comparing the labels associated with leaf nodes of the network data models to identify matching leaf nodes, comparing the labels associated with parent nodes of the matching leaf nodes to identify a strength of matching, and mapping at least two of the network data models at the network device based on the strength of matching for use in a network application. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein. |
| US10263845B2 |
Systems and methods for continuous configuration deployment
Systems and methods are provided for providing continuous configuration deployment. A configuration definition object may be obtained from a remote datastore. The obtained configuration definition object may be stored in a local datastore. The configuration definition object may be obtained and stored in advance of a scheduled maintenance. The configuration definition object may be obtained in response to the configuration definition object being committed to the remote datastore. The configuration definition object may be used to generate different configuration objects. A configuration object may be generated from the configuration definition object and one or more system characteristics. A service request may be received, and the configuration object may be executed to perform a configuration of a computing system. |
| US10263844B1 |
Techniques for performing an upgrade
Techniques for performing an upgrade may include: receiving notification regarding an occurrence of a trigger event in a system, wherein the trigger event is included in a set of one or more defined trigger events, and wherein the set includes one or more defined time periods; and responsive to receiving the notification, performing first processing including: collecting configuration information describing a current configuration of the system, wherein the configuration information includes data storage device information identifying particular data storage devices in the system, a current version of software on the system, and a current version of firmware for a particular type of data storage device in the system; and performing proactive analysis of the configuration information that determines whether to recommend performing an upgrade to the firmware. |
| US10263843B2 |
System and method for configuring communication devices
A communication system that includes a base unit and one or more end units that communicate over a primary communication link using a first communication protocol and a secondary communication link using a second protocol. The secondary communication link may be a shorter range communication link than the primary communication link. The secondary communication link may be used to transmit and receive registration information, configuration settings, and status information between the end units and the base unit. |
| US10263837B2 |
Alarm method for multi-mode base station, multi-mode base station, and communication system
The present invention provides an alarm method for a multi-mode base station. The method includes generating, by the multi-mode base station, alarm information in a first operation mode in a first multi-mode operation mode. The multi-mode base station determines that the alarm information is applicable to all operation modes in the first multi-mode operation mode. The multi-mode base station sends the alarm information as public alarm information of the first multi-mode operation mode to a network management system. The present invention further provides a multi-mode base station and a communication system. The present invention is capable of determining a scope of operation modes related to alarm information generated in the multi-mode base station, which is used to manage the alarm information. |
| US10263835B2 |
Localizing network faults through differential analysis of TCP telemetry
A server includes a processor and memory. An operating system is executed by the processor and memory. A network interface is run by the operating system and sends and receives flows using transmission control protocol (TCP). An agent application is run by the operating system and is configured to a) retrieve and store TCP telemetry data for the flows in a flow table; b) move selected ones of the flows from the flow table to a closed connections table when the flow is closed; and c) periodically send the flow table and the closed connections table via the network interface to a remote server. |
| US10263832B1 |
Physical interface to virtual interface fault propagation
In some examples, a computing device includes one or more processors and a physical interface device (IFD) connected to one or more of the processors. One or more of the processors are configured to detect a change in physical link status for a physical link in a network interface card, receive a list of active virtual machines associated with the physical link, and transmit a virtual IFD status notification message to the active virtual machines of virtual IFDs impacted by the physical link status change, the virtual IFD status notification message identifying the physical link status change. |
| US10263831B2 |
Communication of event messages in computing systems
A method, system and computer program product. A first computer device identifies a notifiable management event relating to the first computer device, wherein the first computer device is unable to notify a management device of the notifiable management event via a management network because the first computer device is unable to connect to the management network. The first computer device sends, to a second computer device via a broadcast or multicast communication, an event notification of the notifiable management event. The first computer device receives, from the second computer device via a first unicast communication, an acknowledgement of the event notification, wherein the second computer device is able to connect to the management network. The broadcast or multicast communication and the first unicast communication each use a short-range wireless communications technology. |
| US10263830B2 |
Optimized data transfer for redirected UASP devices
Data transfer can be optimized for redirected UASP devices. When a UASP device is connected to a client terminal that has established a remote session on a server, the VDI can use a network optimal transfer length in place of the actual MAXIMUM TRANSFER LENGTH and OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH of the UASP device. As a result, the server will use the specified network optimal transfer length for requests sent to the redirected UASP device. These requests can therefore be sent to the client in an optimal manner. Then, to optimize the performance of the UASP device, the requests can be split on the client into multiple requests having the OPTIMAL TRANSFER LENGTH and then submitted to the UASP device. In this way, the VDI can optimize the transfer of requests over the network as well as the servicing of requests by the UASP device. |
| US10263822B2 |
Broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, broadcast signal receiving apparatus, broadcast signal transmitting method, and broadcast signal receiving method
Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a broadcast signal. The method comprises receiving the broadcast signal; an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating on the received broadcast signal; parsing at least one signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signal to extract service data or service component data; converting the service data or service component data into bits; decoding the converted bits; and outputting a data stream comprising the decoded bits. |
| US10263821B2 |
Random access PPDU for WLAN systems
In wireless communications for multi-users, an access point may transmit a first trigger frame to one or more stations. The first trigger frame may be for scheduling a first uplink multi-user transmission and may indicate a plurality of resources for indicating existence of data to be sent to the access point. The station(s) may process the first trigger frame received from the access point. In response to the first trigger frame, the station(s) may generate and transmit a respective first uplink frame to the access point. In some cases, the first uplink frame(s) from the station(s) does not have a data field and does have a signal indicating existence of data to be sent from the station(s) to the access point. The signal may be sent using a resource(s) of the plurality of resources. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10263819B2 |
Radio transmitting apparatus, radio receiving apparatus, and radio transmitting method
In a radio transmitting apparatus 10, a radio transmitting unit (radio transmitter) 13 repeatedly transmits a plurality of divided data units generated by a control unit (controller) 11 while cyclically shifting, among a plurality of transmission channels, a transmission channel to be used for transmitting each of the divided data units over a plurality of transmission interval periods. |
| US10263817B1 |
Method and system for controlling a modal antenna
An antenna system is provided. In one example implementation, the antenna system may include a modal antenna that is operable in a plurality of different modes, and each mode may be associated with a different radiation pattern. The antenna system may include a tuning circuit configured to operate the modal antenna in the plurality of different modes. A transmission line may couple a radio frequency circuit to the modal antenna. The radio frequency circuit may be configured to modulate a control signal onto an RF signal using amplitude-shift keying modulation to generate a transmit signal for communication over the transmission line to the tuning circuit. The tuning circuit may be configured to demodulate the control signal such that the radio frequency circuit can adjust a mode of the modal antenna via the control signal. In some embodiments, the amplitude-shift keying modulation may include on-off keying modulation. |
| US10263815B1 |
Continuous time linear equalization
This disclosure relates generally to continuous time linear equalization. In an example of a continuous time linear equalizer, a variable gain circuit includes transistors having gate nodes respectively as a first and a second input node. A first transimpedance circuit is connected between the first input node and a first output node. A second transimpedance circuit is connected between the second input node and a second output node. A source node of each of the first transistor and the second transistor are commonly connected to one another. In the same or another equalizer, output nodes of a first frequency peaking circuit are connected to input nodes of a second frequency peaking circuit. In such a same or another equalizer, an RC feedback circuit has tap-off nodes and summing nodes respectively connected at the output nodes of the first frequency peaking circuit. |
| US10263809B2 |
Selecting an optimal network device for reporting flow table misses upon expiry of a flow in a software defined network
Examples disclosed herein relate to selecting an optimal network device for reporting flow table misses upon expiry of a flow in a software defined network, comprising. An SDN enabled device is selected, from a plurality of software defined network (SDN) enabled devices, for reporting a flow table miss upon expiry of a flow to an SDN controller, based on a pre-defined factor. |
| US10263808B2 |
Deployment of virtual extensible local area network
According to an example, a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network Tunnel End Point (VTEP) sends a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) information announcement message carrying the identifiers of VXLAN instances to the neighbor VTEPs and receive VXLAN information announcement messages from the neighbor VTEPs. If a neighbor VTEP is configured with the same VXLAN instance as the present VTEP, the present VTEP sets up a tunnel to the neighbor VTEP; and associates the tunnel with the same VXLAN instance. |
| US10263802B2 |
Methods and devices for establishing connections with remote cameras
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for presenting video feeds in a user interface. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) receiving a request to execute an application for communicating with a plurality of smart devices, including a plurality of cameras; (2) in response to receiving the request, establishing a connection for each of at least a subset of the cameras; (3) identifying a user interface for display to a user via the display, the user interface including a video feed from a particular camera; (4) after identifying the user interface, determining whether a connection has been established for the particular camera; (5) in accordance with a determination that the connection has been established for the particular camera, requesting, via the connection, the video feed for the particular camera; and (6) displaying the user interface with the video feed for the particular camera. |
| US10263795B2 |
System and method for reducing the energy consumption of an interconnection device
A device for interconnecting a first communication network and a second communication network comprises a plurality of components functioning in an active mode or a standby mode. Said interconnection device performs the following steps: changing to active mode (401) the plurality of components under the control of a secondary processor, the secondary processor being a component of the interconnection device continuously in active mode and controlling changes to active mode following the change to active mode, sending (405) an interrogation request to a service-management server (110) connected to the first communication network in order to check the existence of service demands, receiving (407) a response to the interrogation request; and changing the plurality of components to standby mode (427) at an instant dependent on the response received. |
| US10263794B2 |
Maintain power signature controller at power interface of PoE or PoDL system
The invention pertains to systems where DC power is supplied by a PSE to a PD, such as over differential data wire pairs. IEEE standards require a minimum current to be drawn from the PD in order for the PSE to continue supplying the DC voltage. If the PD is in a low power mode, the PSE will normally discontinue supplying the DC voltage, which then requires a new detection and classification routine for powering up again. To avoid this, a “maintain power signature” controller provides a periodic current pulse by a current source connected between the PD input and the PD's full bridge rectifier. Any droop in the DC voltage that reverse biases the full bridge rectifier while the PD is in its low power mode will not affect the current pulse, so the PSE continues to supply the DC voltage. |
| US10263790B2 |
Unified programming environment for programmable devices
A secure programming system can receive a job control package having a security kernel and a target payload of content for programming into a pre-defined set of trusted devices. A device programmer can install a security kernel on the trusted devices and reboot the trusted devices using the security kernel to validate the proper operation of the security kernel. The target payload can then be securely installed on the trusted devices and validated. |
| US10263787B1 |
Scalable authentication for decentralized applications
Disclosed embodiments relate to decentralized and scalable trust among a plurality of decentralized applications. Techniques include receiving, at a first decentralized application, a signature associated with a first public key, receiving data representing one or more permissions specified by a trusted root application and signed by the trusted root application, signing a second public key associated with a second decentralized application, signing data representing one or more permissions specified by the first decentralized application, and providing the signature associated with the second public key and the signed data representing one or more permissions specified by the first decentralized application, in order to thereby provide trust between the first decentralized application and the second decentralized application. |
| US10263784B2 |
Signature verification for data set components using probabilistic data structures
A computer system stores a probabilistic data structure generated based at least in part on a plurality of digital signatures generated based at least in part on a plurality of components of a data set. The computer system receives a digital signature for verification. An entry can verify the digital signature within the probabilistic data structure by verifying the digital signature against the probabilistic data structure. |
| US10263782B2 |
Soft-token authentication system
A system for authenticating a user and his local device to a secured remote service with symmetrical keys, which utilizes a PIN from the user and a unique random value from the local device in such a way that prevents the remote service from ever learning the user's PIN, or a hash of that PIN. The system also provides mutual authentication, verifying to the user and local device that the correct remote service is being used. At the same time, the system protects against PIN guessing attacks by requiring communication with the said remote service in order to verify if the correct PIN is known. Also, the system works in such a way as to change the random value stored on the user's local device after each authentication session. |
| US10263780B2 |
Encryption and authentication method and apparatus
The invention discloses a method for encrypting and/authenticating, comprising the following steps: Sending a request for a first bit combination or character combination as a first sub key (102); storing said first bit combination or character combination in the memory (104); generating a second bit combination or character combination as a second sub key (106), wherein the second bit combination or character combination is a random or pseudo random pattern; and combining said first sub key and second sub key to a key (108); further comprising at least one of the following steps: encrypting the data with the key (110); using the key as an authentication password (112); and a method of decrypting and/or authenticating, comprising the following steps: sending a request for a first bit combination or character combination as a first sub key (202); storing said first bit combination or character combination in the memory (204); repeating the following steps until a key has been verified as valid: generating one by one a second bit combination or character combination as a second sub key (206), wherein the second bit combination or character combination is one by one taken from the set of all possible second sub keys (208); combining said first sub key and second sub key to a key (210); verifying, whether the key is valid (212); if said key has been verified as valid, decrypting the data with the key (214) and/or using the key an authentication password (216). |
| US10263779B2 |
Secure communications using loop-based authentication flow
A first party uses a secret key to encrypt information, which is then sent through an untrusted connection to a second party. The second party, however, cannot decrypt the information on its own, and it relays the encrypted information through a secure network. The secure network includes one or more nodes linking the first and second parties through one or more trusted connections (“hops”); each hop features uses of a shared secret key unique to that hop. The first party's connection to the network (domain) receives the information relayed through the secure network by the second party, it decrypts that information according to the secret key of the first party, and it then retransmits the decrypted information to the second party using the secure hops. Techniques are provided for sharing a private session key, federated credentials, and private information. |
| US10263778B1 |
Synchronizable hardware security module
An HSM cluster includes a set of hardware security modules that maintain a set of cryptographic keys that are synchronized across the HSM cluster. Individual applications running on client computer systems access the HSM cluster using HSM cluster clients running on the client computer systems. The HSMs are accessed via a set of HSM cluster servers that monitor the synchronization of the cryptographic keys. Synchronization of the HSMs is maintained by the HSM cluster clients. If the HSM cluster loses synchronization, an HSM cluster client resynchronizes the HSM cluster by acquiring a list of keys and key versions stored on each HSM, and generating an update map. Using the update map, the HSM client obtains, form various HSM in the HSM cluster, the latest versions of the out-of-date keys in an encrypted form. The HSM cluster client assembles and distributes updates to each HSM in the HSM cluster. |
| US10263776B2 |
Multi-level encryption of tokenized protected data
A system uses a multi-level encryption and tokenization mechanism to allow for fields of a larger object to be individually tokenized and encrypted. Protected data is encrypted using an encryption key and a generated token is displayed in its place. The encryption key is then encrypted using a secondary key. To dereference a token, a requesting application provides the token and associated context to a token service, which searches a token store for a record having both the token and the context. If such a record is located, the token service generates a secondary key and decrypts the encryption key. The decrypted encryption key then decrypts the protected data and transmits the data to the requesting application. |
| US10263771B2 |
Two-way key switching method and implementation device
A two-way key switching method and an implementation device. The method includes: when acquiring a new key, any end in a communication link setting a new key transmitting direction to be unavailable and setting a new key receiving direction to be available; after it is presumed or determined that at least n opposite ends have acquired the new key and before an original key is invalid, the any end starting a first key switching process, to set the transmitting direction of the original key to be unavailable and set the new key transmitting direction to be available, where N≥n≥1, and N is the total number of receiving sides corresponding to the transmitting side; according to a protection identifier of data transmitted from the opposite end, the any end selecting a valid key to perform deprotection; and after the data is successfully deprotected with the new key for the first time, the any end starting a second key switching process, to set the receiving direction of the original key to be unavailable. By limiting the sequence of each end on a communication link to perform key switching, the present invention ensures that each end can correctly deprotect data transmitted from an opposite end. |
| US10263768B2 |
Protection of a calculation against side-channel attacks
A method for protecting a ciphering algorithm executing looped operations on bits of a first quantity and on a first variable initialized by a second quantity, wherein, for each bit of the first quantity, a random number is added to the state of this bit to update a second variable maintained between two thresholds. |
| US10263763B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer-accessible media for measuring or modeling a wideband, millimeter-wave channel and methods and systems for calibrating same
Exemplary systems and methods can be provided for measuring a parameter—e.g., channel impulse response and/or power delay profile—of a wideband, millimeter-wave (mmW) channel. The exemplary systems can include a receiver configured to receive a first signal from the channel, generate a second signal, and measure the parameter based on a comparison between the first and second signals; and a controller configured to determine first and second calibration of the system before and after measuring the parameter, and determine a correction for the parameter measurement based on the first and second calibrations. Exemplary methods can also be provided for calibrating a system for measuring the channel parameter. Such methods can be utilized for systems in which the TX and RX devices share a common frequency source and for systems in which the TX and RX devices have individual frequency sources that free-run during channel measurements. |
| US10263754B2 |
Wireless device architecture to support very-high-reliability (VHR) communication
The disclosure provides for an apparatus for wireless communications using carrier aggregation comprised of multiple carrier components. The apparatus can include a processor configured to generate one or more instances of a codeword from a data payload. In an aspect, the apparatus also includes a modulator configured to modulate the one or more instances of the codeword onto the multiple carrier components for transmission. In an aspect, the apparatus also includes a resource manager configured to provide the processor with a virtual carrier space comprising a logical carrier having a contiguous bandwidth equivalent to the aggregated bandwidth of the multiple carrier components. In an aspect, the process may be further configured to interleave at least one of the codeword instances across the multiple carrier components. In an aspect, the modulator may be configured to modulate the codeword instance onto the multiple carrier components in accordance to the interleaving. |
| US10263751B2 |
Robust channel RC-supporting coding and modulation method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a robust channel (RC)-supporting coding and modulation method and apparatus. The method comprises: forming, on an interface between a PMD layer and a PMS-TC layer, a data frame by using bit data carried in a DMT symbol; determining first-part bit data in the data frame as uncoded bit data on the interface between the PMD layer and the PMS-TC layer, where the first-part bit data includes RC bit data, and coding second-part bit data in the data frame to obtain coded bit data; and mapping, at the PMD layer, the uncoded bit data and the coded bit data onto multiple subcarriers corresponding to the data frame, and performing modulation to obtain modulated subcarriers, where the RC bit data is mapped onto at least one RC subcarrier. |
| US10263749B2 |
Transmission and reception signal processor and method
A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band. A reception apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of antennas that receive a plurality of OFDM modulation signals; a plurality of OFDM demodulators that transform the plurality of OFDM modulation signals to a plurality of reception signals using Fourier transform; an estimator that outputs a distortion estimation signal using one or more symbols for demodulation included in the plurality of reception signals; and a demodulator that compensates for distortion of the reception signals using the distortion estimation signal and demodulates a data symbol included in the reception signals. |
| US10263747B2 |
Downlink signal reception method and user equipment, and downlink signal transmission method and base station
Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving a downlink reference signal. A cell-specific downlink reference signal (CRS) is transmitted in a partial frequency band of the entire downlink frequency band. Configuration information of the CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band is provided to user equipment. The CRS transmitted in the partial frequency band may be used in downlink channel measurement alone or together with a legacy CRS. |
| US10263746B2 |
Methods and systems for CSI-RS port selection for CSI-reporting
According to certain embodiments, a method in a network node is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a subset from a predetermined set of P CSI-RS ports for receiving channel information. The network node comprises an antenna array with controllable polarization. Each CSI-RS port corresponds to a combination of a set of resource elements and an antenna port of said antenna array. The predetermined set comprises a first number P1 of CSI-RS ports with a first polarization state and a second number P2 of CSI-RS ports with a second polarization state. The first and second polarization states are distinct. The method further comprises populating the subset with Q CSI-RS ports in such manner that the ratio of CSI-RS ports respectively having the first and second polarization states is equal to the ratio of the first and second numbers. |
| US10263744B2 |
Wireless transmitter and reference signal transmission method
Disclosed are a wireless transmitter and a reference signal transmission method that improve channel estimation accuracy. In a terminal (100), which transmits a reference signal using n (n is a non-negative integer 2 or greater) band blocks (which correspond to clusters here), which are disposed with spaces therebetween in a frequency direction, a reference signal controller (106) switches the reference signal formation method of a reference signal generator (107) between a first formation method and a second formation method based on the number (n) of band blocks. In addition, a threshold value setting unit (105) adjusts a switching threshold value based on the frequency spacing between band blocks. Thus, the reference signal formation method can be selected with good accuracy and, as a result, channel estimation accuracy is further improved. |
| US10263743B2 |
Video-processing apparatus, video-processing system, and video-processing method
The present disclosure receives a frame where an identification data packet of a predetermined standard that identifies the frame from a head of the frame by a predetermined period is arranged via a network, writes the identification data packet, a video data packet, and an ancillary data packet in a buffer having a predetermined size so that the identification data packet is arranged at a head of the buffer, reads the identification data packet, the video data packet, and the ancillary data packet from the head of the buffer, converts the video data packet into video data and converts the ancillary data packet into ancillary data, multiplexes the video data and the ancillary data, and outputs video/ancillary data. |
| US10263738B2 |
Downlink signaling in a high efficiency wireless local area network (WLAN)
A method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit includes generating a first signal field to include multiple copies of first signal field content, wherein the first signal field content spans one sub-band of a plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit, and wherein the multiple copies collectively span the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit; generating a second signal field to include multiple copies of second signal field content, wherein the second signal field content spans multiple ones of the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit, and wherein the multiple copies of the second signal field collectively span the plurality of sub-bands of the PHY data unit; generating a preamble of the PHY data unit to include at least the first signal field and the second signal field; generating the PHY data unit to include at least the preamble. |
| US10263736B2 |
Method and device for detecting data transmission and received signals
A method and device for data transmission and detecting received signals are provided. The transmitting end adjusts each of a plurality of layers of data modulation symbols on each of time-frequency resources modulated by an initial modulation constellation diagram, according to a modulation constellation rotating factor corresponding to each of layers of data modulation symbols on each of the time-frequency resources; and the transmitting end transmits the plurality of layers of adjusted data modulation symbols superposed on each of time-frequency resources. |
| US10263734B2 |
Devices and methods for handling blind (re) transmissions in a network
The embodiments described herein relate to a receiver device, a method therein, and a transmitter device and a method therein for handling (re) transmissions of packets in a network. The method performed by the receiver device comprises: receiving, from a transmitter device, a packet on at least one resource defined by a resource pattern that is known to both the transmitter device and receiver device; attempting to decode the received packet; and, if, one or more retransmissions/receptions of the same packet occur before the decoding of process is completed; storing the one or more received packet or packets. |
| US10263730B2 |
Communication system and method, base station, and user terminal
Provided a method in a mobile communication system comprising a base station adapted to create a precoding matrix for applying to data to be transmitted to a user terminal by using a channel estimate determined from a Reference Signal (RS) transmitted from the user terminal to the base station, the user terminal being adapted to transmit to the base station a Channel State Information (CSI) report, wherein the method comprises: the base station creating a relationship between the received CSI report and Interference pluses Noise covariance matrix that reflects amount of interference and noise observed at the user terminal's antennas, the base station determining the Interference pluses Noise covariance matrix based on the created relationship, and the base station using the determined Interference pluses Noise covariance matrix to estimate SINR for each data layer conditioned on the precoding matrix. |
| US10263729B2 |
Uplink signaling for dual connectivity
The disclosure relates to a method in a wireless device for transmitting an uplink signalling message in a wireless communication network. The wireless device is connected to a first network element over at least a first and a second wireless link. The method comprises determining a transmission mode among alternative transmission modes for transmitting the uplink signalling message. The alternative transmission modes comprise: transmitting on the first wireless link; transmitting on the second wireless link; and transmitting on both the first and the second wireless links. The method also comprises transmitting the uplink signalling message according to the determined transmission mode. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method performed in the network element, and to the corresponding apparatus. |
| US10263728B1 |
Combining time-varying non-linear distortion with a communications signal
A transmit signal can be distorted with non-linear distortion, and one or more characteristics of the non-linear distortion can be periodically changed in accordance with a change key. The transmission received at a receiver can thus comprise a severely distorted version of the transmission of the transmit signal. A receiver with the same change key can recognize and decode the transmission, but it can be extraordinarily difficult for receivers that lack the change key to detect and decode the transmission. The transmission can be a communications while jamming (CWJ) transmission. The CWJ transmission can contain a coded message that can be decoded only by friendly RF receivers, and the CWJ transmission can also jam unfriendly RF receivers that lack a change key for decoding the coded message. |
| US10263726B2 |
Method of detecting a jamming transmitter affecting a communication user equipment
A method for detecting a jamming transmitter affecting a communication user equipment, operating in a cellular network supporting communication in a time-division manner, including at least one active base station, on which the user equipment is camping. In the method, the user equipment detects that at least one downlink radio channel from the active base station is not decodable, measures signal levels received on said downlink radio channel for a plurality of time units, analyzes said signal level measurements, and in case at least one time unit is detected with a signal level exceeding a predefined threshold, detects a jamming transmitter by verifying that, in a predefined amount of successive time units, the pattern of a first time unit with signal level exceeding the predefined threshold, directly followed by a second time unit with a signal level below the predefined threshold, is not detected. |
| US10263724B2 |
Wavelength-division multiplexing using shared process information
In an improved wavelength-division multiplexed system, transmitters modulate carrier signals that are phase or frequency correlated with each other. Receivers retrieve transmission data from the modulated carrier signals by demodulating and equalizing the modulated carrier signals using oscillating signals that are also phase or frequency correlated with each other. Each oscillating signal has a wavelength that matches a wavelength of a corresponding one of the carrier signals. At least one of the receivers generates process information during the demodulating and equalizing. The process information is sent to at least one other receiver, which uses the process information to retrieve at least a portion of the transmission data. |
| US10263723B2 |
System and method for performing high-speed communications over fiber optical networks
Processing a received optical signal in an optical communication network includes equalizing a received optical signal to provide an equalized signal, demodulating the equalized signal according to an m-ary modulation format to provide a demodulated signal, decoding the demodulated signal according to an inner code to provide an inner-decoded signal, and decoding the inner-decoded signal according to an outer code. Other aspects include other features such as equalizing an optical channel including storing channel characteristics for the optical channel associated with a client, loading the stored channel characteristics during a waiting period between bursts on the channel, and equalizing a received burst from the client using the loaded channel characteristics. |
| US10263721B2 |
Simultaneous call transmission detection
A method of determining the presence of a secondary carrier signal in a time-domain sum-signal including a primary carrier signal is disclosed, the method comprising: transforming the sum-signal into the frequency domain; extracting at least one peak corresponding to a heterodyne tone from the transformed sum-signal; determining the presence of a secondary carrier signal in the sum-signal based on said at least one peak. A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed. |
| US10263720B2 |
Maintaining clock synchronization in a digital network without continuous transmission
Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile device comprising a slave clock, a receiver unit for receiving one or more frames from a remote device including a master system clock, a transmitter unit for transmitting one or more frames to the remote device, and a clock error correction unit. The clock error correction unit is configured to maintain clock synchronization between the slave clock and the master system clock, and maintain frame alignment for frames transmitted from the transmitter unit. |
| US10263718B2 |
Uninterrupted satellite communications during vehicle movement
A satellite receiver in a vehicle continues to receive satellite communications even when line-of-sight to the satellite becomes obscured by obtaining a stream of the satellite broadcast via an ad hoc network. When the satellite receiver determines that the satellite broadcast signal is being lost (or is about to be lost), the satellite receiver transmits a request message on an alternate wireless channel seeking an alternate source for the satellite media program. Another satellite receiver that is able to receive the broadcast replies to the request message, and an ad hoc communication session is established with the alternate source via an alternate wireless channel. The receiver is therefore able to receive the media program from the alternate source via the ad hoc session instead of the satellite broadcast signal. |
| US10263714B2 |
Mobile terminal testing device and transmitting antenna testing method
According to one embodiment, a mobile terminal testing device which tests a mobile terminal including a plurality of transmitting antennas by transmitting/receiving radio signals between the mobile terminal testing device and the mobile terminal, includes a radio signal processing module configured to transmit and receive radio signals to and from the mobile terminal and a controller configured to cause the mobile terminal to switch one from another among the plurality of transmitting antennas by a predetermined radio signal transmitted to the mobile terminal via the radio signal processing module. |
| US10263711B2 |
High-bandwidth underwater data communication system
An apparatus is described which uses directly modulated InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) or InGaN lasers as the transmitters for an underwater data-communication device. The receiver uses automatic gain control to facilitate performance of the apparatus over a wide-range of distances and water turbidities. |
| US10263709B2 |
Transimpedance amplifier, circuit mounting structure using the same and optical transceiver
A transimpedance amplifier connectable to a light receiving element includes a bias terminal for suppling bias potential to the light receiving element, an input terminal to receive a signal from the light receiving element and a ground terminal. The bias terminal, the input terminal and the ground terminal are arranged on at one side of the transimpedance amplifier facing the light receiving element. |
| US10263704B2 |
Re-modulation crosstalk and intensity noise cancellation in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks (PONs)
An apparatus comprising a signal generator configured to produce a modulation signal, a filter coupled to the signal generator and configured to filter the modulation signal to produce a cancellation signal, and a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) coupled to the signal generator and the filter, wherein the RSOA is configured to generate an optical signal according to a difference between the modulation signal and the cancellation signal and transmit the optical signal towards a partial reflection mirror (PRM). |
| US10263702B2 |
RFoG ONU upstream signal optimization
Systems and methods for relaying upstream signals received from a plurality of subscribers to a remote head end. Preferably, the systems and methods use a switch that selectively opens when upstream RF signals are not present and closes when upstream RF signals are present, in a manner that reduces noise. |
| US10263700B2 |
Panels with Li-Fi connectivity
Panels configured to be connected to a Li-Fi communication network. The panels include a first side and an opposing second side. Components of the Li-Fi network are positioned on the second side. The components include one or more nodes for sending and receiving Li-Fi signals, and one or more light pathways for transmitting and receiving the Li-Fi signals. The panels may be further configured to connect to a support structure to allow for Li-Fi communication with the support structure and/or adjacent panel. The support structure is configured to support the panels and also facilitate the Li-Fi communication. |
| US10263699B2 |
Generating a pilot tone for an optical telecommunications system
The disclosure is directed to a method and system for generating a pilot tone for an optical signal with an optical telecommunications system. The pilot tone is generated in the digital domain by modulating the data to be transmitted to a destination node within the optical telecommunications network. The modulation of the data introduces occurrence modulation to the optical signal. |
| US10263695B2 |
Data communication systems and methods
The present invention provides systems and methods for improved data communication between communication terminals such as a base station and an unmanned aerial vehicle. In some instances, the systems and methods described herein provide robust transmission uplink data such as control data and wideband transmission of downlink data such as image data or other sensor data, while avoiding interference between the uplink data transmission and the downlink transmission. |
| US10263692B2 |
Satellite for end-to-end beamforming
Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams. |
| US10263685B1 |
Intermediate frequency combiner with baseband delay
A radio receiver component includes a first antenna line for receiving a first signal and a second antenna line for receiving a second signal. Each of the first signal and the second signal is a respective intermediate frequency (IF) signal produced by down-converting a respective radio frequency (RF) signal received by a respective antenna. The first antenna line includes a demodulator that receives the first signal and down-converts the first signal to produce one or more baseband signals, one or more variable baseband delay paths that delay the one or more baseband signals, a modulator that receives the one or more delayed baseband signals and up-converts the one or more delayed baseband signals to produce a third IF signal. The radio receiver component further includes a combiner that receives and combines the second signal and the third signal to produce a fourth signal. |
| US10263683B2 |
System and method for supporting antenna beamforming in a cellular network
The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamforming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improves user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment. |
| US10263671B2 |
Method for reporting reference signal indicator to base station by terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method for reporting channel status information (CSI) to a base station by a terminal in a wireless access system is disclosed in the present application. The method comprises the steps of: receiving information on one CSI process including a plurality of reference signal resources from the base station; receiving reference signals corresponding to the plurality of reference signal resources from the base station; selecting two or more reference signal resources among the plurality of reference signal resources on the basis of the received reference signals; and reporting the CSI corresponding to the one CSI process to the base station, wherein the CSI includes indicators indicating the two or more reference signal resources. |
| US10263670B2 |
System and method for reducing pilot signal contamination using orthogonal pilot signals
A system for transmitting pilot signals has first signal processing circuitry for generating a pilot signal at a transmitting unit. An MLO modulation circuit modulates the pilot signal using quantum level overlay modulation to apply at least one orthogonal function to the pilot signal. A transceiver transmits the modulated pilot signal from the transmitting unit over a pilot channel. The at least one orthogonal function applied to the pilot signal substantially reduces pilot channel contamination on the pilot channel from other pilot channels. |
| US10263666B2 |
Interference control in a broadband powerline communication system
A broadband powerline communication system makes use of knowledge of the spectrum characteristics of a local radio environment in order to improve system performance. A determination is made of the spectrum characteristics of a radio environment in the vicinity of the broadband powerline communication system that is transmitting data on modulated carrier frequencies. In order to avoid interference, certain ones of the carrier frequencies otherwise used by the broadband powerline communication system may be selectively masked based on the determination. The spectrum characteristics may be determined 1) in advance and used to compile a configuration database comprising frequency masking parameters; 2) by monitoring the local radio environment using the transmitter/receiver nodes of the system; or 3) based upon receipt of an indication from a conflicting user that the user is experiencing interference. Various combinations of these spectrum characteristic determination techniques may also be used. |
| US10263665B2 |
Communication system
The present invention relates to a relaying device which performs the individual calling in response to not only a call incoming from a telephone but also a call incoming from a transceiver. When receiving a communication request from another device over a network, the relaying device determines if this communication request is accompanied by the wireless-device specifying information (ID). When the communication request is not accompanied by the ID, the relaying device sends a signal for prompting another device to input the ID. When the ID is sent in response to the sent signal, the relaying device instructs the relaying wireless device to call the wireless terminal device specified by this ID. In addition, when the communication request is accompanied by the ID, the relaying device instructs the relaying wireless device to call the wireless terminal device specified by this ID. |
| US10263663B2 |
M-ary pulse amplitude modulation digital equalizer
Some embodiments include apparatus and methods using an input node, an analog to digital converter (ADC) including an input coupled to the input node, a first feedforward equalizer (FFE) including an input coupled to an output of the ADC, a second FFE including an input coupled to the output of the ADC, and a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) including a first input, a second input, and an output, the first input coupled to an output of the first FFE, and the second input coupled to an output of the second FFE. |
| US10263661B2 |
Extended range communications for ultra-wideband network nodes
A system is provided that can introduce data redundancy into wireless communications, and in particular ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communications to increase the communication range when transmitting data that has low transmission rates. Multipath degradation, introduced by the extended communications range, can be mitigated by frequency hopping between the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed symbols of the ultra-wideband waveform. Frequency hopping can place adjacent symbols in different frequency channels for filtering. Data redundancy can be expanded in the time domain and/or the frequency domain, resulting in extended range. |
| US10263659B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining transmission direction of secondary carrier
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus and a method for determining a transmission direction of a secondary carrier. A reference carrier of a first secondary carrier is obtained according to network configuration information, and a transmission direction of a subframe on the first secondary carrier is determined according to a transmission direction of a subframe on the reference carrier, so that data transmission directions of the reference carrier and the first secondary carrier are the same at a same moment. A transmission direction of data of the subframes on the first secondary carrier transmitted in a frequency band adjacent to a frequency band of the reference carrier is determined by using the reference carrier, thereby avoiding interference occurring when the adjacent frequency bands simultaneously transmit data of different directions. |
| US10263656B2 |
Multi-channel mixing console
A battery powered, portable multi-channel audio mixing console is disclosed. The mixing console is configured to be easily held in a user's hand like a remote control. The console is configured to wirelessly receive, via separate channels, two or more independent stereo input audio signals from separate audio sources such as cellular phones, iPads, iPods, or other computing or media player devices, independently equalize the frequencies of those input signals, independently adjust the volume of those input signals, and then mix those audio signals into a combined output signal. The console further includes user controls that can vary the relative magnitude of the first and second input signals in the combined output signal. The console is further adapted to transmit the combined output signal to one or more speakers via independent channels. |
| US10263655B2 |
Method of processing provisioning profile and electronic device for supporting the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a subscriber identification module (SIM) configured to store at least one provisioning profile, and a processor configured to control operation of the SIM, and if execution of provisioning through a first network with a server device which provides a profile fails, the processor is further configured to collect information for connecting to the server device and to perform provisioning through a second network based on the collected information. |
| US10263654B2 |
Radio receiver and intermediate frequency selection method
A radio frequency signal can be received in an intermediate frequency mode suitable for radio wave reception conditions. An oscillator has a variable oscillation frequency. A quadrature demodulator includes a frequency mixer and generates an intermediate frequency signal having an intermediate frequency lower than the frequency of the radio frequency signal. An ADC receives the intermediate frequency signal passed through an analog filter and converts the received intermediate frequency signal to a digital signal. A channel selection signal processing section generates a demodulated signal from the intermediate frequency signal converted to the digital signal. A mode control section switches the operating mode of the quadrature demodulator between a zero intermediate frequency mode and a low intermediate frequency mode in accordance with the radio wave reception conditions. |
| US10263653B1 |
Noise reduction device and noise reduction method
A noise reduction device according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a detection unit, a calculation unit, and a reduction unit. The detection unit detects frequency components of a plurality of noise signals that are included in a received signal, based on a frequency spectrum of the received signal. The calculation unit calculates a coefficient, based on the frequency components that are detected by the detection unit. The reduction unit reduces n noise signals that are at least a part of the plurality of noise signals from the received signal, depending on the coefficient that is calculated by the calculation unit (where n is a positive number that is greater than or equal to 2). |
| US10263652B2 |
Multi-chip millimeter-wave interface
Systems and methods are provided for millimeter-wave (MMW) communication, the system includes a transceiver chip to generate and to receive signals. An interface is used to communicate the signals between the transceiver chip and one or more active antenna modules. The signals include modulated MMW signals and control signals. The transceiver chip includes baseband circuitry, up and down conversion mixers, and RF front-end circuitry. An active antenna module receives a first modulated MMW signal from the interface for transmission via antennas and to receive a second modulated MMW signal from the antennas for transmission through the interface to the transceiver chip. |
| US10263650B2 |
Calibration of active electronically steered antennas using on-chip programming
In some example implementations, there may be provided methods for beamforming calibration of active electronically steered arrays (AESA). In some implementations, one or more adders may generate a phase offset by adding phase calibration data from non-volatile memory and phase command data from static memory, and/or generate a gain offset by adding gain calibration data from the non-volatile memory and gain command data from the static memory. Further, a phase-shift circuit can modify, based on the phase offset, a phase of a first output signal, and an amplitude gain circuit can modify, based on the gain offset, an amplitude of the first output signal. In accordance with these implementations, the modified phase of the first output signal and the modified amplitude of the first output signal are provided to enable pre-calibration of the first output signal and/or a first antenna. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described. |
| US10263642B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, formatting, by an input formatting block, input streams into plural PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes); encoding, by an encoder, data in the plural PLPs; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the encoded data in the plural PLPs, wherein the time interleaving includes: cell interleaving, by a cell interleaver, the encoded data by permuting cells in a FEC (Forward Error Correction) block in the plural PLPs; frame mapping, by a framer, the time interleaved data onto at least one signal frame; and waveform modulating, by a waveform block, the mapped data in the at least one signal frame and transmitting, by the waveform block, broadcast signals having the modulated data. |
| US10263637B2 |
Technologies for performing speculative decompression
Technologies for performing speculative decompression include a managed node to decode a variable size code at a present position in compressed data with a deterministic decoder and concurrently perform speculative decodes over a range of subsequent positions in the compressed data, determine the position of the next code, determine whether the position of the next code is within the range, and output, in response to a determination that the position of the next code is within the range, a symbol associated with the deterministically decoded code and another symbol associated with a speculatively decoded code at the position of the next code. |
| US10263636B2 |
Scalable dynamic range analog-to-digital converter system
A scalable dynamic range analog-to-digital converter. In one instance, a method of scaling a dynamic range of an analog-to-digital converter is provided. The method includes operating the analog-to-digital converter at a first dynamic range. The method also includes receiving a radio frequency signal and detecting an on-channel signal level of the radio frequency signal. The method also includes when the on-channel signal level is above an on-channel threshold, operating the analog-to-digital converter at a second dynamic range. The method also includes when the on-channel signal level is below the on-channel threshold, operating the analog-to-digital converter at the first dynamic range. |
| US10263634B2 |
Analog-digital converter
AD conversion is performed by using a combination of a parallel AD converter that includes a plurality of comparators to compare an input potential of an analog input signal sampled by a track and hold circuit and reference potentials different from one another and determines a value of a predetermined number of bits on the higher-order side of a digital signal and a single-slope AD converter that reduces the input potential of the analog input signal sampled by the track and hold circuit at a constant speed, converts a time taken until the reduced input potential becomes equal to a reference potential corresponding to the value determined by the parallel AD converter to a digital value, and determines a remaining value on the lower-order side of the digital signal, and thereby the number of bits of the single-slope AD converter can be reduced and high-speed AD conversion is enabled with a small area and low power consumption. |
| US10263631B2 |
Analog digital converter
An analog to digital conversion device according to one or more embodiments may include sequential comparison type analog to digital converters, wherein each of the analog to digital converters converts an analog signal to a digital signal by repeating comparative voltage generation processing to generate a comparative voltage and comparison processing to compare the analog signal with the comparative voltage. Each of the analog to digital converters may include a noise notification part that generates a noise notification signal to give notification of noise production and inputs the noise notification signal to a different one of the analog to digital converters. At start of operation, based on the notification noise signal inputted from the different analog to digital converter, each of the analog to digital converters may be synchronized with the different analog to digital converter performing the comparative voltage generation processing and the comparison processing. |
| US10263630B2 |
Multi-path analog front end with adaptive path
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a processing system may include a plurality of processing paths and a controller. The plurality of processing paths may include a static processing path configured to generate a first digital signal based on an analog input signal and a dynamic processing path configured to generate a second digital signal based on the analog input signal, wherein a parameter of the dynamic processing path is determined based on a characteristic of the analog input signal. The controller may be configured to select the first digital signal as a digital output signal of the processing system when a change is occurring to the characteristic and select the second digital signal as the digital output signal in the absence of change occurring to the characteristic. |
| US10263629B2 |
Programmable sequence controller for successive approximation register analog to digital converter
The disclosure includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) comprising a successive approximation register (SAR) unit including a capacitive network to take a sample of an analog signal and a comparator to approximate a digital value based on the analog signal sample via successive comparison. The disclosure also includes a programmable sequencer. The sequencer includes a control memory containing control signal states indicating control signals to operate the SAR unit. The sequencer also includes a program memory including sequence instructions defining a duty cycle for the SAR unit by referencing the control signal states in the control memory. The sequencer also includes a processing circuit to apply control signals according to the control signal states in an order defined by the sequence instructions to manage a sequence of operations at the SAR unit according to the duty cycle to control the ADC. |
| US10263626B2 |
Apparatus and methods for tuning a voltage controlled oscillator
Apparatus and methods for tuning a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) are provided. In one aspect, a method of auto-tuning in a phase-locked loop includes generating a VCO clock signal using a VCO coupled to a capacitor array, dividing the VCO clock signal to generate a divided clock signal using a prescaler circuit having a selectable division ratio, controlling a value of the selectable division ratio using a first counter and a second counter of a counter module, generating a phase-frequency detector feedback signal based on a division control signal M and the divided clock signal using the counter module, counting a number of cycles of the divided clock signal that occur during a calibration interval using a cycle counter of a digital processing logic circuit, and determining the value of a capacitor array control signal based on the number of cycles counted during the calibration interval. |
| US10263624B2 |
Phase synchronization between two phase locked loops
Systems, methods, and circuitries for synchronizing a first phase locked loop (PLL) with a second PLL are provided. In one example a PLL system includes a first PLL configured to generate a first signal; a second PLL configured to generate a second signal; and phase calculation circuitry. The phase calculation circuitry is configured to calculate a phase of the first signal at a given time; and provide the calculated phase to the second PLL for use by the second PLL in synchronizing a phase of the second with the phase of the first signal. |
| US10263618B2 |
Photoelectric keyboard button
Disclosed is a photoelectric keyboard button, comprising: a circuit board (1) for providing a circuit connection, a mounting hole (11) being provided on the circuit board; an optocoupler assembly (2) provided on the circuit board and comprising a transmitting element (21) and a receiving element (22) provided on a side of the mounting hole; a button base (3), which is mounted into the mounting hole and is opened from the top to the bottom to form a guide basket (31), wherein a light passing groove (32) is provided on the guide basket for allowing the transmitting element and the receiving element to form a light passage; a pressing shaft (4), which is mounted into the guide basket and can slide up and down along the guide basket; and a hammer (5) vertically provided inside the guide basket, wherein the two ends thereof are respectively connected to the pressing shaft and the guide basket via springs (6, 7), a shifting block (51) connected to the pressing shaft is provided on a side surface of the hammer, and the hammer is provided with a light pathway switch (52). When being pressed down or bouncing up, the pressing shaft pushes the hammer to rotate horizontally and reciprocally via the shifting block, so as to rotate the light pathway switch to respectively switch on or off the light passage between the transmitting element and the receiving element. The photoelectric keyboard button can present an evident feeling for the difference between pressing and touching operations and a key press sound, has a higher coupling efficiency, and does not easily gather dust. |
| US10263617B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit having a switch, an electrically-conductive electrode line and an electrically-conductive virtual line
A semiconductor integrated circuit including: a circuit block having an internal voltage line; an annular rail line forming a closed annular line around the circuit block and supplied with one of a power supply voltage and a reference voltage; and a plurality of switch blocks arranged around the circuit block along the annular rail line, the plurality of switch blocks each including a voltage line segment forming a part of the annular rail line and a switch for controlling connection and disconnection between the voltage line segment and the internal voltage line. |
| US10263612B2 |
Switching device and electronic circuit
A switching device 1 includes a SiC semiconductor chip 11 which has a gate pad 14, a source pad 13 and a drain pad 12 and in which on-off control is performed between the source and the drain by applying a drive voltage between the gate and the source in a state where a potential difference is applied between the source and the drain, a sense source terminal 4 electrically connected to the source pad 13 for applying the drive voltage, and an external resistance (source wire 16) that is interposed in a current path between the sense source terminal 4 and the source pad 13, is separated from sense source terminal 4, and has a predetermined size. |
| US10263611B2 |
DC switching device and method of control
A DC switching device has at least one switching unit which is arranged between two terminals. Further, the DC switching device has a control unit for controlling the at least one switching unit. The switching unit has a first and a second semiconductor switching element, which are arranged in parallel with one another, the first switching element being a high-voltage switching element and the second switching element being a low-power-loss switching element. The switching unit is controllable by the control unit in such a way that, when the switching unit is switched off, initially the second switching element is switched to be non-conductive, and subsequently the first switching unit is switched to be non-conductive, and when the switching unit is switched on, initially the first switching element is switched to be conductive and subsequently the second switching element is switched to be conductive. |
| US10263606B2 |
On-chip waveform measurement
A circuit for measuring a transition time of a digital signal may be provided. The circuit comprises a window detector comprising a comparator circuitry arranged for generating a first signal based on comparing said digital signal with a first reference voltage and for generating a second signal based on comparing said digital signal with a second reference voltage. Additionally, the circuit comprises a time-difference-to-digital converter operable for converting a delay between an edge of said first signal and an edge of said second signal into a digital value, said digital value characterizing said transition time of said digital signal. |
| US10263605B2 |
Frequency extender
The invention discloses a frequency extender, including a preamplifier to receive a RF input signal and output a pre-amplified RF signal, a series frequency multiplier branch, a series frequency divider branch and a multiplexer. The output port of the preamplifier couples to one input port of the multiplexer. The series frequency multiplier branch and the series divider branch are coupled to receive the pre-amplified RF signal. The output port of each frequency multiplier in the series multiplier branch and/or the output port of each frequency divider in the series divider branch are coupled to the input ports of the multiplexer respectively. The multiplexer couples to receive the pre-amplified RF signal, the frequency-multiplied RF signal and the frequency-divided signal, the multiplexer selects a signal from the received signals and outputs a multiplexer output signal based on the selected signal. |
| US10263599B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filter with coupled inductors
A Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) filter includes a series branch coupled between an input node and an output node. The series branch has multiple BAW resonators that are coupled in series, wherein a first series resonator is coupled between a first node and a second node in the series branch. A first shunt resonator is coupled between the first node and a fixed voltage node, such as ground, and a second shunt resonator is coupled between the second node and the fixed voltage node. Further, a first inductor is coupled between the first node and the fixed voltage node, and a second inductor is coupled between the second node and the fixed voltage node. The first inductor and the second inductor are magnetically coupled to one another to generate a virtual inductance between the first node and the second node and in parallel with the first series resonator. |
| US10263597B2 |
Crystal unit
A crystal unit includes an AT-cut crystal element, excitation electrodes, extraction electrodes. The AT-cut crystal element has an approximately rectangular planar shape. The excitation electrodes are disposed on front and back of principal surfaces of the AT-cut crystal element. The extraction electrodes are extended from the excitation electrodes to a side of one side of the AT-cut crystal element via a side surface of the AT-cut crystal element. Assuming that an extraction angle of the extraction electrode from the principal surface to the side surface is defined as an angle θ with respect to an X-axis of a crystallographic axis of a crystal, the angle θ is equal to or greater than 59 degrees and equal to or less than 87 degrees. |
| US10263596B2 |
Temperature-engineered MEMS resonator
Degenerately doped semiconductor materials are deployed within resonant structures to control the first and higher order temperature coefficients of frequency, thereby enabling temperature dependence to be engineered without need for cumulative material layers which tend to drive up cost and compromise resonator performance. |
| US10263593B2 |
Filter circuit in radio frequency power detection circuit
A filter circuit in a radio frequency power detection circuit includes input and output lines, wherein: an input terminal of the input and output lines is connected with a first capacitor, the first capacitor is connected with a first filtering sub-circuit; the first filtering sub-circuit is connected with a third capacitor, the third capacitor is connected with a second filtering sub-circuit; the second filtering sub-circuit is connected with an output terminal of the input and output lines. The filter circuit of the present invention is able to effectively improve the detection accuracy of the radio frequency electric source output power, thereby improving the power output accuracy of the radio frequency electric source. |
| US10263586B2 |
Filter arrangement for filtering parasitic induction currents, and voltage converter comprising a filter arrangement
A filter arrangement for filtering parasitic induction currents may include an electrically conductive housing part that at least partly surrounds a cavity, an electric ground connection on the housing part for establishing an electric connection to an electric ground, a busbar in the cavity, and at least one electric filter component electrically connected between the busbar and the housing part and mechanically secured to the housing part and to the busbar. A voltage converter may include at least one such filter arrangement. |
| US10263583B2 |
Variable gain amplifier
A variable gain amplifier capable of stabilizing an average output potential of a differential output signal, improving power efficiency over a wide range of an amplitude of the differential input signal, and suppressing deterioration of a distortion rate is provided. The variable gain amplifier includes an amplifying circuit configured to amplify a differential input signal with a gain according to a gain control signal, and a current control circuit. The amplifying circuit has a first current source supplying a source current. The current control circuit adjusts a magnitude of the source current of the first current source according to a magnitude of the gain control signal. |
| US10263579B2 |
Differential amplifier
A differential amplifier includes a pair of cascode amplifiers. A voltage clamp is coupled to the pair of cascode amplifiers. |
| US10263577B2 |
Gate drive circuit and method of operating the same
A gate drive circuit includes a lower limit clamping circuit, an upper limit clamping circuit, and an averaging circuit. The lower limit clamping circuit clamps the input node of a transistor at a minimum voltage with respect to the common node of the transistor, while the upper limit clamping circuit clamps the input node of the transistor at a maximum voltage with respect to the common node of the transistor and the averaging circuit sets the average voltage of the input node with respect to the common node over a specified period of time. The transistor including a common node, an output node and an input node receives the input signal. Controlling the upper limit, lower limit and average value in conjunction with fast transitions between the lower and upper limits controls the duty cycle of the input signal. |
| US10263575B2 |
Programmable filter in an amplifier
The disclosure provides an amplifier. The amplifier includes a first transistor that receives a first input and generates a first load current. A first output node is coupled to a power supply through a first load resistor. The first load resistor receives the first load current. A first capacitor network is coupled to the first output node and draws a first capacitive current from the first output node. A first current buffer is coupled between the first output node and the first transistor. A current through the first current buffer is a summation of the first load current and the first capacitive current. |
| US10263569B2 |
Method and system for aligning signals widely spaced in frequency for wideband digital predistortion in wireless communication systems
A system for time aligning widely frequency spaced signals includes a digital predistortion (DPD) processor and a power amplifier coupled to the DPD processor and operable to provide a transmit signal at a power amplifier output. The system also includes a feedback loop coupled to the power amplifier output. The feedback loop comprises an adaptive fractional delay filter, a delay estimator coupled to the adaptive fractional delay filter, and a DPD coefficient estimator coupled to the delay estimator. |
| US10263568B2 |
Radio frequency feedback power amplifiers
A linearized power amplifier apparatus includes a number of amplifying stages to amplify a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and a feedback loop including a feedback circuit coupled between an output port of a last amplifying stage and an input port of a first amplifying stage. The feedback loop has a loop gain frequency response that peaks at a frequency approximately equal to a frequency of the RF signal. The feedback loop can provide a linear combination of a feedback signal and the RF signal to the input port of the first amplifying stage. |
| US10263566B1 |
Radio frequency power amplifier
An amplifier having a Radio Frequency (RF) power level detector circuit for producing a control signal in accordance with a power level of an RF input signal. The control signal indicates whether the power level of the input signal is within a predetermined range of power levels greater than zero. A bias circuit is fed by the control signal, for producing a fixed bias voltage at a gate electrode of a field effect transistor (FET) to establish a predetermined quiescent current for the FET when the control signal indicates the power level of the RF input signal is within the predetermined range of power levels and to reduce the bias voltage to reduce the predetermined quiescent current when the control signal indicates the power level of the RF input signal is below the predetermined range of power levels. |
| US10263565B2 |
Non-linear transmission line device
A non-linear transmission line device includes a magnetic element having at least one end profiled to reduce demagnetization when the element is biased. The profile may be tapered, stepped, or smoothly curved. Also disclosed is a non-linear transmission device made up of a solid magnetic element, typically of flat rectangular form. |
| US10263563B2 |
Modular solar power generation apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a modular solar power generation apparatus comprising a base plate, a light guiding unit, a plurality of connection units and a plurality of solar panels wherein: the light guiding unit is installed on the base plate; all connection units are circlewise mounted on the base plate and encircling the light guiding unit; each the solar panel, which is connected to one of the connection units, and the base plate form an angle of inclination by which each the solar panel features upward broadened widths such that any two neighboring solar panels allow their corresponding edges to be adjacent to each other and a gap in between to be narrowed for development of solar panels easily installed and maintained. |
| US10263562B2 |
Electrical apparatus
An electrical apparatus mounting a motor includes a controller and an electrically data rewritable non-volatile storage. The controller is configured to execute: a temperature calculation process in which in a case that a state of the motor is switched from a driven state to a stopped state, the controller calculates a temperature of the motor based on rotation of the motor; and a temperature storing process in which the controller stores, in the storage, the temperature, which has been calculated at the time of the switch operation in the temperature calculation process, as a peak temperature, together with an absolute time clocked at the time of the switch operation. |
| US10263561B2 |
Backspin management for electric submersible pump
A method of controlling an electric motor assembly includes detecting a backspin event of an electric motor, and managing a response to the detected backspin event of the electric motor. The backspin event of the electric motor is detected based at least in part on feedback from a sensor configured to measure a current or a voltage on a cable coupled to the electric motor. The response includes communicating an alert to personnel, controlling the voltage on the cable to be less than a voltage threshold, or any combination thereof. |
| US10263560B2 |
Motor drive controller and motor drive control method
A motor drive controller according to one aspect of the present disclosure including a monitoring unit monitoring a motor and detecting that the motor is in a driving state but is also in a predetermined abnormal state; and a incomplete lock determination unit executing a determination program at a point of time when the abnormal state is detected and causing the determination program to determine whether or not the motor is in an incomplete locked state in which a load not sufficient to stop the motor is applied to a rotating body rotated by driving of the motor. |
| US10263558B2 |
Phase loss detection in active front end converters
System, apparatus and methods are provided for identifying a phase loss condition in a motor drive. In one example, a power conversion system includes an active rectifier, a switching inverter, and a controller. The controller is operative to generate rectifier switching control signals to operate the rectifier, measure AC input voltage signals and determine grid current signals. If the rectifier circuit is not in a switching mode, the controller identifies a suspected AC input phase loss condition if two of the AC input voltage signals are in phase with one another. If the rectifier is in the switching mode, the controller identifies a suspected AC input phase loss condition if the absolute value of the sum of two of the grid current signals is less than a predetermined non-zero threshold. |
| US10263557B2 |
Drive system
A drive system includes a three-phase motor having a shaft, a first three-phase stator winding, which is to be connected to a three-phase AC voltage grid, a second three-phase stator winding, which is to be connected to the three-phase AC voltage grid in such a way that a second stator rotating field is produced rotating in opposition with respect to a first stator rotating field, which is generated by the first stator winding, and a rotor winding system which is mechanically coupled in rotationally fixed fashion to the shaft. The drive system further includes at least one inverter, which is mechanically coupled in rotationally fixed fashion to the shaft and which is electrically coupled to the rotor winding system, wherein the at least one inverter is designed to generate actuation signals for the rotor winding system in such a way that a first rotor rotating field and a second rotor rotating field are generated, wherein the first rotor rotating field interacts with the first stator rotating field in such a way that a first motor speed and a first torque are produced, and wherein the second rotor rotating field interacts with the second stator rotating field in such a way that the first motor speed and a second torque are produced, wherein the second torque has an identical direction of action with respect to the first torque. |
| US10263556B2 |
Method and system for correcting initial zero offset
A method and a system for correcting an initial zero position deviation are provided, which is applied to a permanent magnet synchronous motor and a resolver. The method includes: driving a rotor of the permanent magnet synchronous motor to rotate at a constant speed; acquiring counter electromotive forces of a stator of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and a position of a rotor of the resolver; calculating a space vector phase angle θ1 based on the counter electromotive forces; acquiring a rotation angle θ2 measured by the resolver; calculating an installation deviation Δθ corresponding to the space vector phase angle θ1 and the rotation angle θ2; and adjusting a position of the resolver until the installation deviation Δθ meets a precision requirement. |
| US10263555B2 |
Input vector set for position detection of PM motors
A method of determining angular position (0) of a rotor of an N-phase permanent magnet motor (PMM). A processor having an associated stored angular position determination (APD) algorithm is programmed to implement the algorithm to cause an associated motor controller to execute steps including forcing one vector at a time a phase vector set of current or voltage vectors to stator terminals of windings for the N-phases a positive and negative magnitude vector, wherein the vector magnitude is sufficiently small to not move the rotor, and a time duration for the forcing current or voltage vectors is essentially constant. The resulting stator current or voltage levels are measured for each current or voltage vector. An N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is generated from superposition of the resulting stator current levels or resulting stator voltage levels. The N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is used to determine angular position. |
| US10263553B2 |
Synchronous electrical power distribution system
A system includes one or more synchronous generators and one or more corresponding exciters. The exciter is configured to output a field current for exciting the synchronous generator to produce a voltage and a current at an output of the synchronous generator. The system may also include one or more electric motors electrically coupled to the synchronous generator and configured to drive one or more mechanical loads. A controller included in the system is configured to identify power angle oscillations between the voltage and the current and control an exciter voltage of the exciter to damp the identified power angle oscillations. |
| US10263552B2 |
Anticipatory control using output shaft speed
Methods and systems are provided to control engine speed droop. One such system may include an electric generator; an engine configured to power the electric generator via an output shaft; a control circuit configured to cause a speed of the output shaft to match a speed setpoint based on a feedback loop; and a processor configured to anticipate a change in a mechanical load on the engine and cause the speed setpoint of the output shaft to increase or decrease from a first value to a second value in response to anticipation of the change in the mechanical load on the engine. |
| US10263546B2 |
Method for determining a multiphase motor current and electric motor drive
A method for determining a motor current of an electric motor drive with a power source and with an electric motor and with a power converter connected therebetween, wherein an input current of the power source is converted by a pulse width modulated control of a number of semiconductor switches of the power converter into the motor current, wherein an intermediate circuit current of an intermediate circuit of the power source is influenced during the pulse width modulated control of the semiconductor switches, wherein an inductive voltage change is detected at a measuring point of the intermediate circuit due to the influence on the intermediate circuit current, and wherein a value for the generated motor current is determined based on the pulse width modulated control of the semiconductor switches and the inductive voltage change detected at the measuring point. |
| US10263544B2 |
System and method for using and controlling permanent magnet AC motor in place of triac-controlled PSC motor
A system and method for controlling a speed of a permanent magnet AC motor (38) based on a delay angle of a triac-controlled AC voltage signal (66) from a triac (34). A simulated load (54) connected to the triac (34) enables a load current and creates the signal (66). A first detector (48) detects a zero-crossing point of the AC voltage signal, and a second detector (50) detects a subsequent turn-on instance of the triac (34). A speed command generator (52) measures an interval between the zero-crossing point and the subsequent turn-on instance, and converts the delay angle to a speed command for controlling the speed of the motor (38). The simulated load (54) may include resistors (70) having a resistance which causes the load current to be below a holding current rating of the triac (34), thereby causing the triac (34) to turn off after the interval has been measured. |
| US10263539B2 |
Power converter and air-conditioning apparatus using the same
A power converter includes a transformation circuit configured to transform a rectified voltage, and a converter control unit configured to control a switching element of the transformation circuit. The converter control unit calculates a current command value based on a line voltage or the phase voltage, calculates a current deviation between the current command value and the reactor current, and calculates a switching command value from the current deviation. The converter control unit includes a plurality of integrators for the respective different phase angles of a power supply voltage. The integrator corresponding to a power supply phase angle is caused to accumulate the current deviation, and the integrator corresponding to a phase angle that is advanced by a set delay phase from the power supply phase angle is caused to output the control amount. A switching signal is generated with use of the control amount and the switching command value. |
| US10263537B2 |
DC/AC power conversion apparatus having switchable current paths
A power conversion apparatus includes: DC input terminals for inputting a DC voltage; AC output terminals for outputting an AC voltage; a switching element; a first resonant capacitance connected across the switching element; a first LC resonance circuit that has an inductance and a capacitance connected in series and is connected together with the switching element between the AC output terminals; and a second LC resonance circuit connected in series together with the switching element between the DC input terminals. The second LC resonance circuit includes a first connector portion connected to one DC input terminal and a second connector portion connected to the switching element, and has a first current path, which includes an inductance, and a second current path, which includes a series circuit with an inductance and a capacitance, formed between the first connector portion and the second connector portion. |
| US10263533B2 |
Gated thyristor power device having a rapid turn off time
An improved gated thyristor that utilizes less silicon area than IGBT, BIPOLARs or MOSFETs sized for the same application is provided. Embodiments of the inventive thyristor have a lower gate charge, and a lower forward drop for a given current density. Embodiments of the thyristor once triggered have a latch structure that does not have the same Cgd or Ceb capacitor that must be charged from the gate, and therefore the gated thyristor is cheaper to produce, and requires a smaller gate driver, and takes up less space than standard solutions. Embodiments of the inventive thyristor provide a faster turn off speed than the typical >600 ns using a modified MCT structure which results in the improved tail current turn off profile (<250 ns). Additionally, series resistance of the device is reduced without comprising voltage blocking ability is achieved. Finally, a positive only gate drive means is taught as is a method to module the saturation current using the gate terminal. |
| US10263530B2 |
Converter module, transformer module and circuit thereof
A converter module includes: a system board; and an isolated rectifier unit connected with the system board via at least one pin, the isolated rectifier unit including: a magnetic core including at least one core column parallel to the system board and two cover plates provided at both ends of the core column; and multiple carrier board units provided between the two cover plates and perpendicular to the system board, wherein the carrier board unit includes at least one via hole, at least one primary winding and at least one secondary winding; and wherein the at least one core column passes through the via hole of the carrier board unit, the pin is provided at one side of at least one of the carrier board units close to the system board and configured to connect the carrier board units with the system board. |
| US10263528B2 |
Resonant converter with adaptive switching frequency and the method thereof
A resonant converter with adaptive switching frequency operates continuously at best efficiency point. A power switch at primary side is turned off when a current flowing through a corresponding output power stage at secondary side falls to zero. |
| US10263525B2 |
Power supply device and image forming apparatus
A power supply device includes: a power supply circuit that converts an AC voltage into a DC voltage; and a control circuit that controls the power supply circuit, wherein the power supply circuit includes: a rectifying and smoothing circuit that rectifies and smoothes the AC voltage; a first voltage converting circuit that converts the voltage and outputs a first DC voltage; a second voltage converting circuit that switches the first DC voltage by a switching circuit to output a second DC voltage; a feedback circuit that detects and feeds back an output voltage of the first voltage converting circuit; and a selection circuit that switches a reference voltage of the feedback circuit, and the control circuit sets the switching circuit to be in a continuous connection state when a normal mode is shifted to a power saving mode and gradually switches the reference voltage. |
| US10263521B2 |
Power converter with predictive pulse width modulator control
Various methods and devices that involve control circuits for power converters are disclosed. One method comprises controlling a switch using a control signal based on a comparison signal. The switch controls a transfer of power between an input node, which receives an input, and an output node. The method comprises measuring an output of the power converter, generating an error signal based on the output, generating a periodic ramp signal with a varying period, providing the error signal to a first input terminal of a comparator, providing the ramp signal to a second input terminal of the comparator, and generating the comparison signal based on the error signal and the ramp signal using the comparator. The method comprises increasing a slope of the ramp signal in response to an increase in the input, and increasing the slope of the ramp signal in response to a decrease in the varying period. |
| US10263516B1 |
Cascaded voltage converter with inter-stage magnetic power coupling
Circuits and methods are provided for using a switching voltage converter to convert an input voltage into an output voltage. The voltage converter includes multiple switch stages, and the switch stages are coupled to each other both galvanically and magnetically. Power is transferred among the switch stages magnetically via magnetic coupling elements (e.g., transformer windings) that are coupled to each of the switch stages. The magnetic power transfer allows the voltage converter to support high power transfers, while the galvanic connections between the switch stages allows for relatively simple control of switches within the switch stages. Inductances associated with the magnetic coupling elements, may provide zero-voltage switching (ZVS) of the switches. Due to the simple switch control, magnetic power transfer, and ZVS, the provided voltage converters support relatively high power transfers in an efficient manner. |
| US10263514B1 |
Selectable conversion ratio DC-DC converter
A single integrated circuit DC-to-DC conversion solution that can be used in conjunction with product designs requiring at least two different DC-to-DC conversion ratios, and in particular both divide-by-2 and divide-by-3 DC-to-DC buck conversion ratios or both multiply-by-2 and multiply-by-3 DC-to-DC boost conversion ratios. Embodiments are reconfigurable between a first Dickson converter configuration that includes at least two non-parallel capacitors (any of which may be off-chip) and associated controlled multi-phase switching to achieve a first conversion ratio, and a second Dickson converter configuration that includes a lesser equivalent number of capacitors than the first circuit configuration (which may be accomplished by parallelizing at least two non-parallel capacitors of the first configuration) and associated controlled multi-phase switching to achieve a second conversion ratio different from the first conversion ratio. |
| US10263512B2 |
Driving switches in a dual-phase series-parallel switched-capacitor circuit
An apparatus for converting voltage includes terminals coupled to external circuits at corresponding voltages and a switching network having driving circuits and semiconductor switches that interconnect capacitors in successive states to one another and to the terminals. The switches interconnect some capacitors to one another through a series of switches when an activation pattern causes them to be activated. Each driving circuit has power connections, a control input, and a drive output coupled to and controlling at least one switch. A drive output of one of them couples to and drives each switch. Some of the driving circuits are powered via corresponding power connections from at least one of the capacitors such that a voltage across the corresponding power connections is less than a highest of the corresponding voltages. The terminals and the switching network are constituents of a switched capacitor converter. |
| US10263511B2 |
Charge pump switching controller for reducing standby current and charge pumping apparatus using the same
A charge pumping apparatus in accordance with an embodiment may include a charge pump output voltage detector, a pump oscillator, and a charge pump switching controller. The charge pump output voltage detector may detect a charge pump output voltage, and may selectively output an enable signal according to the detected charge pump output voltage. The pump oscillator may output an oscillation signal during a period of time when the enable signal is activated. The charge pump switching controller may selectively operate one of a first pump and a second pump according to a predetermined stabilization time, the enable signal, and the oscillation signal. |
| US10263509B2 |
Optimizing power factor correction between voltage regulators
Systems and methods for optimizing power factor correction between voltage regulators are described herein. The system can include a leader voltage regulator controller coupled to a first voltage regulator and a follower voltage regulator controller coupled to both a second voltage regulator and the leader voltage regulator controller. The leader voltage regulator controller can determine a difference in measured power factors between the first voltage regulator and the second voltage regulator. The leader voltage regulator controller can also initiate an adjustment of a tap position of the first voltage regulator or the second voltage regulator. Alternatively, instead of leader and follower voltage regulator controllers, the system can utilize a single connected voltage regulator controller that determines differences in measured power factors between a first voltage regulator and a second voltage regulator and initiates an adjustment in a tap position(s) when appropriate. |
| US10263508B2 |
Single stage isolated AC/DC power factor corrected converter
Two versions of an isolated single stage converter AC/DC Power Factor Corrected (PFC) converter topology have been invented. One is with a full bridge rectifier at its input and the other is a True Bridgeless version. The two versions of the topology feature new configurations and circuitry including a simplified damper circuit and a clamp capacitor flipping circuit and control methods that allow them to realize improved single stage isolated power factor converters which are suitable for high power operation, features Zero Voltage Switching to maximize conversion efficiency and to minimize Electro-Magnetic Interference generation, does not need an additional circuit to limit the inrush current, achieves reasonably low input current Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), and is easy to control. The second version provides a true bridgeless single stage isolated power factor converter with even higher efficiency and lower input current THD. |
| US10263507B2 |
Method for correcting effect of saturation in current transformer and an intelligent electronic device therefor
A method for generating corrected measured current in an Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) that is a true representation of primary current in an electrical network is disclosed. The method uses regression and a first threshold on measured sampled values from CT to detect a deviation instance that indicates a possibility of saturation. Wavelet and second threshold based detection of instances of saturation is then done. Then a regression based correction that uses a dynamic correction factor is implemented in real time to obtain corrected sampled values i.e. corrected measured current. Ending of correction is done based upon a predetermined selection criterion, The generated corrected measured current is used for protection and control functions in the IED. A CT output re-generation module as a functional module in the IED for implementing the method as described above is also disclosed. |
| US10263503B2 |
Permanent magnet speed governor with fixed magnetic gap
A permanent magnet speed governor with fixed magnetic gap, including a barrel-shaped conductor rotor and a permanent magnet rotor therein, wherein the permanent magnet rotor includes a driven shaft and at least one rotatable permanent magnet circumferentially arranged around the driven shaft, the rotatable permanent magnet is cylindrical and has N and S poles in the diameter direction, magnetic conductors are wrapped at the two sides of the rotatable permanent magnet, the two magnetic conductors are separated by a non-magnetic conductor, the rotatable permanent magnet is connected to the driven shaft by the magnetic conductor at one side, and a magnetic circuit regulator is arranged at one end of the rotatable permanent magnet. Since a fixed magnetic gap structure is adopted, the engagement area of the speed governor is increased, and the assembling difficulty is reduced, thereby reducing waste of rare earth materials and increasing torque transmission capability. |
| US10263494B2 |
Device for converting kinetic energy to electrical energy
The invention disclosed herein is directed to a device for converting kinetic energy generated by a living organism in motion to electrical energy. |
| US10263478B2 |
Wireless power supply system
A wireless power supply system includes a power supply coil installed on the ground, an inner balloon in which a power supply coil is mounted and configured to expand and contract to adjust a vertical position of the power supply coil, and an outer balloon provided to cover both the power supply coil and the inner balloon and configured to expand to occupy a space between the power supply coil and a power receiving coil, and wirelessly supplies power from the power supply coil to the power receiving coil. |
| US10263474B2 |
Wireless charging of devices in a car
Some embodiments provide a system for charging devices. The system includes a master device and a slave device. Some embodiments provide a method for charging devices in a system that includes a slave device and a master device. The slave device includes (1) an antenna to receive a radio frequency (RF) beam and (2) a power generation module connected to the antenna that converts RF energy received by the slave antenna to power. The master device includes (1) a directional antenna to direct RF power to the antenna of the slave device and (2) a module that provides power to the directional antenna of the master device. |
| US10263473B2 |
Controlling wireless power transfer systems
Methods, systems, and devices for operating wireless power transfer systems. One aspect features a wireless energy transfer system that includes a transmitter, and a receiver. The transmitter has a transmitter-IMN and is configured to perform operations including performing a first comparison between a characteristic of a power of the transmitter and a target power. Adjusting, based on the first comparison, a reactance of the transmitter-IMN to adjust the power of the transmitter. The receiver has a receiver-IMN and is configured to perform operations including determining an efficiency of the wireless energy transfer system at a second time based on power data from the transmitter. Performing a second comparison between the efficiency at the second time and an efficiency of the wireless energy transfer system at a first time, the first time being prior to the second time. Adjusting, based on the second comparison, a reactance of the receiver-IMN. |
| US10263470B2 |
Wireless inductive power transfer
A wireless power transfer system includes a power transmitter (101) arranged to provide a power transfer to a power receiver (105) via a wireless inductive power transfer signal where the power transfer signal is provided in a power time interval of a repeating power transfer signal time frame. The time frame furthermore comprises a reduced power time interval. An apparatus (typically being the power receiver (105) or the power transmitter (101)) comprises a short range communication unit (305, 405) arranged to communicate data messages with a second entity (which is the complementary unit, i.e. either the power transmitter (101)) or the power receiver (105)) using short range communication. The short range communication has a range not exceeding 20 cm. The apparatus further comprises a synchronization unit (309, 409) arranged to synchronize the short range communication to the power transfer signal time frame such that short range communication is restricted to the reduced power time intervals. The communication may specifically be NFC communication. |
| US10263467B2 |
Antenna for wireless power, and dual mode antenna comprising same
Provided is a wireless power antenna for wirelessly transmitting, receiving, or relaying power, the wireless power antenna comprising an insulating sheet and a wireless power coil including a split pattern unit including a plurality of patterns spaced from each other in at least a region thereof in a widthwise direction, wherein the split pattern unit is disposed on both a top surface and a bottom surface of the insulating sheet. |
| US10263463B2 |
Device monitoring prevention in power systems
Devices, systems and methods are provided that introduce electrical components to alter the electrical characteristics of power delivery systems in residential and commercial power circuits to: prevent the disaggregation of electrical utility consumption data by alteration of the composite load profiles. The device and method prevent accurate identification of powered devices, their presence, their operating characteristics, their consumption data, and any inferences of power device user's behaviors and activities by the analysis of disaggregated data. The operation of the device may include any of a range of steps, actions and instructions to introduce altering impedance elements and filtration circuits in coordinated fashion with the operation of the targeted devices to be masked. |
| US10263457B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply device and uninterruptible power supply system using the same
An uninterruptible power supply device (60) does not have a wire connecting a bidirectional chopper (24) to a neutral point (NP). The bidirectional chopper (24) includes first and second capacitors (C11, C12), first to fourth transistors (Q11-Q14), and a normal mode reactor (50). In a discharging mode, a controller (63) causes the second and third transistors (Q12, Q13) to be complementarily turned on and controls the ON period of each of the second and third transistors (Q12, Q13) so that terminal-to-terminal voltages (V11, V12) of the first and second capacitors (C11, C12) are equal to each other. |
| US10263453B2 |
Wireless power transmitters and receivers, and method for permitting a wireless power receiver by a wireless power transmitter
An apparatus and method are provided for permitting a wireless power receiver to be charged by a wireless power transmitter. The method includes generating a Power Receiving Unit (PRU) control signal including permission information indicating charging permission for the wireless power receiver; and transmitting the PRU control signal to the wireless power receiver. |
| US10263451B2 |
Coil for mobile device context-driven switching and wireless charging
Apparatus, system and method to provide switchable coils in a computing device, comprising: a plurality of electrically conductive coils to transfer electromagnetic energy; a sensor coupled to a processor, to select a coil from among the plurality of electrically conductive coils; a switch to energize the selected coil; and a switch controller coupled to the switch and to the processor. In some embodiments, the plurality of coils may comprise an inductive charging interface. Some embodiments may further include a communication interface between the processor to the plurality of electrically conductive coils, the plurality of coils comprising an interface for near-field communications (NFC). The antenna coils may be arranged to provide improved NFC coverage when the computing device is in a respective predetermined physical configuration. Sensors may be used to detect the configuration and switch NFC communications to use a preferred antenna coil for the detected configuration. |
| US10263446B2 |
Battery control circuit for power generation system using renewable energy
The battery control circuit includes: a battery; a DC power supply unit; a first DC-DC converter providing a current path in a first direction of supplying the DC energy from the DC power supply unit to the battery, and a current path in a second direction of discharging the DC energy in the battery to a ground; a first capacitor fully discharging the battery in a manner that the sum of a voltage across the first capacitor and a voltage across the flow battery to be higher than an output voltage of the first DC-DC converter; a second DC-DC converter supplying the DC energy from the DC power supply unit to the first capacitor; and a controller controlling the first DC-DC converter to form the current flow path in the second direction when a number of times of charging and discharging the flow battery reaches a preset number. |
| US10263445B2 |
Rapid discharge circuits suitable for use in a soft-start circuit and related soft-start circuits and methods
A rapid discharge circuit comprises a detection circuit that is coupled to a power supply and that is configured to detect a voltage of a signal output by the power supply; a control circuit that is configured to generate a start signal in response to the detected voltage decreasing below a specified threshold value; an executing circuit having a first node that is coupled to the power supply and a second node that receives the start signal; a blocking circuit that has a first terminal coupled to a third node of the executing circuit and a second terminal coupled to an external circuit, where the executing circuit and the blocking circuit are configured to switch on in response to the start signal to form a current path for discharging the external circuit. |
| US10263444B2 |
Two way charging-discharging circuit structure
A two way charging-discharging circuit structure has a main system and a secondary system. When the main system is connected to the secondary system, the sequence for discharging the battery modules may be controlled, and the to-be-discharging battery module will not be charged. The battery modules of the main system and the secondary system may be charged simultaneously if the power of the power adapter is large enough. |
| US10263441B1 |
Electronic device case with charging mechanism
The present invention provides an electronic device case with a charging mechanism configured to provide backup power to an electronic device. The charging mechanism harvest kinetic energy provided by the user to generate electric current for charging the electronic device, for example in an emergency situation. The charging mechanism includes a spring-loaded retractable handle which when pushed drives a gear set, which in turn drives a dynamo to generate electric current. The case provides a charging connector which is adapted to mate with a charging port of the electronic device to supply the generated electric current for charging the electronic device. |
| US10263440B2 |
Short-circuit determination method and electronic device
In an electronic device, a monitoring circuit monitors a voltage change with regard to each of an RX2+ terminal and an RX2− terminal in a state where a charging device is connected to a Type-C connector. A determining circuit determines whether a short-circuit between a VBUS terminal and the RX2+ and RX2− terminals has occurred using the voltage change at each of the RX2+ terminal and the RX2− terminal. |
| US10263435B2 |
Apparatus and method of charging modules of battery pack based on set charging groups
A battery pack charging apparatus includes battery modules assigned to charging groups, the battery pack charging apparatus includes a charging factor setter configured to set charging factors of charging groups of the battery pack based on battery information; a sequential charger configured to sequentially charge the charging groups of the battery pack based on the charging factors of the set charging groups; and a charging controller configured to control charging of the charging groups based on either one or both of an individual group control factor and a pack control factor while the charging groups are sequentially charged. |
| US10263431B2 |
Supply system for electronic boards of an electrical distribution system
Supply system for electronic boards of an electrical distribution system comprising at least two protection boards (2a, 2b) each able to control the supply of at least one protected pathway (3a, 3b) on the basis of a power line (4a, 4b), characterized by the fact that each protection board (2a, 2b) comprises at least one voltage converter (13a, 13b) able to provide an internal supply voltage of the protection board on the basis of a supply voltage, the voltage converter (13a) of a first protection board (2a) being connected to at least one second protection board (2b) so as to be able to provide the internal supply of the second protection board (2b) in case of failure of the voltage converter (13b) of the second protection board (2b). |
| US10263430B2 |
Multi-phase inverter power control systems in an energy generation system
An energy generation system includes a plurality of energy generation devices for generating DC power, a plurality of energy storage devices for storing the generated DC power and discharging stored DC power, a plurality of single-phase inverters coupled to respective energy generation devices and energy storage devices. Each single-phase inverter of the plurality of single-phase inverters is configured to convert generated DC power or stored DC power to AC power so that the converted AC power of each single-phase inverter is offset by a phase from one another. |
| US10263429B2 |
Bidirectional DC-DC converter, power conditioner, and distributed power system
A low-voltage circuit in a bidirectional DC-DC converter converts output AC power from a high-voltage circuit to DC power to charge a smoothing reactor and discharge the smoothing reactor, and includes an active snubber circuit including switching elements and each having a backward diode and a snubber capacitor. The snubber capacitor of the active snubber circuit has its one end connected to a drain end of the switching elements, and has its other end connected to a node between a center tap of a high-frequency transformer and a smoothing reactor. |
| US10263427B2 |
Method and system for operating an autonomous energy supply network
An autonomous energy supply network has energy producers and energy consumers that are driven by a local control device. The following steps reduce the parameterization outlay required for the operation of the autonomous energy supply network: provision of model data of the autonomous energy supply network in a data memory of a computing device superordinate to the local control device, the model data specifying the respective energy producers and their operating parameters; determination of an operating plan for the autonomous energy supply network with the computing device by using the model data, the operating plan specifying the operating state of the autonomous energy supply network during a particular time interval; transmission of the operating plan to the local control device; and driving of the energy producers and/or the energy consumers according to the specifications of the operating plan by the local control device. |
| US10263424B2 |
Energy management system for controlling energy to a load powered by a thermoelectric module
An energy management system for controlling energy to one or more loads powered by a thermoelectric module, the system is comprised of a load prioritization circuit having a monitoring system interfaced to receive sensor data from at least one sensor. A data processing device receives the sensor data. The data processing device acts upon the sensor data to produce energy management instructions. A control system receives the energy management instructions using them to control energy to all loads. |
| US10263415B1 |
Method and apparatus for rapidly and dynamically adjusting current limiting in a portable communication device
A battery operated portable communication device provides converged functionality while avoiding resets to the device. Composite logic circuitry formed of at least one comparator and a logic interface controls current limiting to a primary load formed of high power land mobile radio (LMR) devices and programming to secondary loads formed of non-LMR peripherals. At least one current limit control signal is used to control current to the primary load under high current mode operations. Another control signal provides an interruption alert to a slave processor for controlled programming of the secondary loads during the high current operations of the primary load. Current to the primary load is restored while the secondary load is interrupted. Operation of secondary load processes is resumed when the primary load ceases high power operation. |
| US10263406B2 |
Enclosure for cable distribution assembly
An enclosure for breaking out a trunk cable includes: a base having a generally flat surface adapted for mounting to a mounting surface; a shell having a front and two side walls extending from opposite sides of the front and two opposed end walls, the side walls of the shell mounted to the base to form a cavity; a plurality of connectors mounted to each of the side walls; and a trunk cable routed into the cavity through one of the end walls, the trunk cable comprising a plurality of power conductors and/or a plurality of optical fibers. The power conductors and the optical fibers are connected with respective ones of the plurality of connectors. |
| US10263405B2 |
Circuit assembly and electrical junction box
A circuit assembly includes an electronic component including a plurality of terminals, a first board that is constituted by an insulating plate provided with a conductive path and an insertion hole into which the electronic component is inserted, a busbar that overlaps the first board, and a second board that is constituted by an insulating plate provided with a conductive path and overlapping the first board, at least a portion of the second board being arranged on the same level as the busbar. The plurality of terminals of the electronic component is connected to the busbar and the conductive path of the second board. |
| US10263404B2 |
Electrical box cable clamp
Electrical box assemblies, cable clamps and cable clamp assemblies are provided. The cable clamps include a base, cable guides, and clamping members that grip an electrical cable passing through the base. The electrical box assembly includes an electrical box, and a cable clamp or a cable clamp assembly. The cable clamp assemblies include dual cable clamps that can fit within pry-outs in an electrical box or that can be releasably secured to an electrical box adjacent pry-outs in an electrical box. |
| US10263400B2 |
Actuator assembly for electrical switches housed in an enclosure
An actuator assembly for actuating electrical switches housed in an electrical enclosure is disclosed. The assembly includes at least one handle assembly including a handle positioned above a cover of the enclosure, a trip bracket positioned below the cover and a shaft connecting the handle to the trip bracket. At least one slider actuator is slidably mounted over the electrical switch and coupled to a toggle of the electrical switch. The slider actuator has a drive link which is adapted to be engaged with the trip bracket such that rotation of the handle causes the drive link to slide which in turn causes a linear movement of the slider actuator to toggle the electrical switch. The use of the slider actuator allows a higher density of electrical switches to be stacked inside the enclosure. |
| US10263399B2 |
Multiple latching feet for electrical connector assembly
A latching foot assembly for latching electrical components on a support rail includes first and second latching feet or members each including first and second resilient clamping portions between which the support rail is latched or grasped. A latching finger is integral with the first clamping portion of each latching foot. The first clamping portions of the latching feet are connected in interlocking fashion. The latching finger of the first clamping portion of the first latching foot has a support surface for supporting the support rail in a latched state. The support surface extends farther in the direction of the second clamping portion than a support surface for supporting the support rail in the latched state of the latching finger of the first clamping portion of the at least one second latching foot. |
| US10263397B2 |
Active-control resonant ignition system
A method is disclosed for producing a corona discharge for igniting an air/fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine. An igniter is provided having a discharge tip that protrudes into a combustion zone. During a first stage of a combustion process, a first primary winding of a RF transformer is driven at a first predetermined voltage level and at a first resonant frequency that is based on a first impedance in the combustion zone prior to onset of combustion, for generating a corona discharge at the tip of the igniter. During a second stage subsequent to the first stage, a second primary winding of the RF transformer is driven at a second predetermined voltage level and at a second resonant frequency that is based on a second impedance in the combustion zone at a time that is subsequent to onset of the combustion process. |
| US10263396B2 |
High frequency discharge ignition device
A problem exists in that, as a loop through which high frequency energy conducts is long, it is difficult to suppress noise generated from the loop and suppress an influence thereof on peripheral equipment. A high frequency discharge ignition device according to this invention is a structure integrally constituted by a second housing into which a high frequency energy supply circuit is built and a first housing into which an output circuit is built, wherein the high frequency energy supply circuit is connected to the output circuit by a connection terminal so as to be connected to a spark plug which is mounted on a grounded object. Further, the high frequency energy supply circuit is grounded via a conducting member disposed in a through hole provided in the first housing. |
| US10263393B2 |
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting device with epitaxial index guide
A semiconductor vertical resonant cavity light source includes an upper and lower mirror that define a vertical resonant cavity. An active region is within the cavity for light generation between the upper and lower mirror. At least one cavity spacer region is between the active region and the upper mirror or lower mirror. The cavity includes an inner mode confinement region and an outer current blocking region. An index guide in the inner mode confinement region is between the cavity spacer region and the upper or lower mirror. The index guide and outer current blocking region each include a lower and upper epitaxial material layer thereon with an epitaxial interface region in between. At least a top surface of the lower material layer includes aluminum in the interface region throughout a full area of an active part of the vertical light source. |
| US10263391B2 |
Horizontal external-cavity laser geometry
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) light source formed on the substrate and configured to emit coherent light at a predefined wavelength along a beam axis perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. A block of a transparent material is mounted on the surface of the substrate and forms, with the VCSEL, a resonant cavity at the predefined wavelength having an entrance face that is aligned with the beam axis and an exit face that is laterally displaced with respect to the entrance face along a cavity axis running parallel to the surface of the substrate. |
| US10263390B2 |
Integrated wavelength locker
Described are various configurations of integrated wavelength lockers including asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers (AMZIs) and associated detectors. Various embodiments provide improved wavelength-locking accuracy by using an active tuning element in the AMZI to achieve an operational position with high locking sensitivity, a coherent receiver to reduce the frequency-dependence of the locking sensitivity, and/or a temperature sensor and/or strain gauge to computationally correct for the effect of temperature or strain changes. |
| US10263377B2 |
Crimping clamp
A crimping clamp includes a first clamp, a second clamp, a connecting rod and a pair of jaws. The first clamp includes a first clamp body and an elastic clip body. A portion of the elastic clip body combines with the first clamp body. The second clamp includes a second clamp body and a clip body having a first end connected with the second clamp body. The connecting rod has one end connected with the first clamp body and the other end connected with the second clamp body. The jaws have one jaw combined with one end of the elastic clip body and the other jaw combined with a second end of the clip body. When the jaws crimp a bushing and a wire of larger size, the elastic clip body is deformed, such that the first clamp body rotates to a predetermined position. |
| US10263371B2 |
Coaxial connector integrated with a shielding and electronic card equipped with such a connector
Coaxial connector for electronic card having at least one principal face and a side substantially perpendicular to the principal face, the connector comprising a base fixed to a front panel of an electromagnetic shielding housing and a pin passing through a first opening of the front panel in such a way that the pin has a free end portion which extends by projecting into the housing flush with a plane of a second opening delimited by a lower edge of a strap of the housing, the lower edge of the strap bearing against the principal face of the electronic card while the front panel bears against the side of the electronic card, the housing comprising two internal rims extending along the front panel on either side of the free end portion of the pin so as to bear on said principal face of the electronic card. |
| US10263370B2 |
Internally switched female receptacle or connector with plug-latching safety interlock
An internally switched female receptacle or connector for use with IEC 60309-2 configuration plugs and the like. Various plug-latching and plug-actuated safety interlock arrangements coordinate strictly axial plug movement relative to the receptacle with the closing and opening of sleeve contacts and terminal pressure contacts. A continuous ground feature ensures grounding of the primary electrical circuit throughout plug insertion and withdrawal. An optional low-current lighting control circuit powers an LED status indicator. A modular clocking design enables variable angular positioning of the terminals during manufacture. |
| US10263369B2 |
Electrical connector equipped with discrete bottom plate for mounting to PCB
An electrical connector including a contact module having an insulative housing with a plurality of contacts disposed therein and enclosed within a first metallic shell, and a second metallic shell attached to the first shell and located between the first shell and the printed circuit board so as to allow the raised type mating cavity which is formed by the first shell. The contact module includes a metallic shielding plate with an oblique section. A pair of Z-shaped fixing columns are located by two sides of the oblique section. |
| US10263368B2 |
Electrical contacts with electrically conductive springs
A face to face contact assembly having at least one electrically conductive spring element and at least one shielding spring element separated from one another by a spacing element. From the perspective of a centerline and extending radially outwardly, electrically conductive spring element is located closest to the centerline, then the spacing element, and then the shielding spring element. The electrically conductive spring element electrically connects two adjacent faces, which in one example can be adjacent printed circuit boards, and the shielding spring element at least partially shields such electrical connection. Other face to face contact assembly arrangements are also disclosed. |
| US10263367B2 |
Electrical connector with rotary connector position assurance device
An electrical connector comprises a housing and a connector position assurance device. The housing has a locking lever locking the housing to a mating housing of a mating electrical connector. The connector position assurance device is fitted on the locking lever and is pivotable in relation to the housing from a delivery position to a locking position. The connector position assurance device, when in the locking position, prevents unlocking of the locking lever when the housing is connected to the mating housing. |
| US10263365B2 |
Plug unit and receptacle unit
There is provided a plug unit including a plurality of predetermined standard plug connectors, the predetermined standard plug connectors each including a contact that connects with a connection terminal of a predetermined standard receptacle connector, and the plug unit includes one insulator which holds the contact that each of the plurality of predetermined standard plug connectors has and which defines an interval between the plurality of predetermined standard plug connectors and a posture of the predetermined standard plug connectors. |
| US10263357B2 |
Holding frame with restoring force for plug connector modules
The disclosure relates to a holding frame, into which plug-in connector modules can be inserted, wherein the holding frame is composed of two halves connected to each other, a first half and a second half, wherein, for the purpose of opening the holding frame, the halves can be brought into an angular position less than 180°. The holding frame has at least one spring element that exerts a restoring force upon the halves, as a result of which lateral parts of the holding frame are brought back into a substantially parallel orientation in relation to each other. |
| US10263354B2 |
Electronic component and imaging device
In an imaging device, an electric connection is achieved in which a pressing force of a terminal of a substrate-side connector does not act on a substrate stored in a housing. Harness connection terminals have plate-shaped contact pieces projecting from an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall of a rear housing. Terminals of a connector have clamp contact portions that clamp the plate-shaped contact pieces to be in conductive contact therewith. The pressing force of the clamp contact portions acts in the plate thickness direction of the plate-shaped contact pieces, but does not act in the plate thickness direction of the substrate. This avoids warpage of the substrate. |
| US10263352B2 |
Electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a connector
An electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a connector includes a first region having a first length in a longitudinal direction, and a second region having a second length in the longitudinal direction that is greater than the first length. The first region is arranged to contact a first arm of the connector and the second region is arranged to contact a second arm of the connector. The first length being smaller than the second length results in a beneficial increases the impedance of the electrical contact pad. A chamfered edge of the contact pad results in an additional beneficial increase in the impedance of the electrical contact pad. |
| US10263349B2 |
Connector with coupling device for stabilized latching
An electrical connector includes a housing holding electrical conductors and a coupling device mounted to the housing for coupling the electrical connector to a mating connector. The coupling device includes an elongated stem and first and second latch arms that are located at least proximate to ends of the stem. The latch arms extend from the stem and have hook tips at distal ends thereof. The coupling device further includes a return spring beam extending from the stem and located between the latch arms. The coupling device pivots between a locking position and a depressed position. The hook tips of the latch arms protrude beyond a mating interface surface of the housing a greater extent when in the locking position than when in the depressed position to latch onto the mating connector. The return spring beam engages the housing to bias the coupling device to the locking position. |
| US10263331B2 |
Device, system and method to mitigate side lobes with an antenna array
Techniques and mechanisms to transmit signals with an antenna array. In an embodiment, a first signal is received at a first input of the first antenna while a second signal is received at a second input of the second antenna. A difference in phase differentials—the phase differentials each between the first signal and the second signal—results from propagation of the first signal and the second signal in the antenna array and from a difference between respective configurations of the first antenna and the second antenna. Each of the first antenna and the second antenna has respective emitters distributed along the length thereof. In another embodiment, the first antenna and the second antenna have different respective dielectric structures or different respective distributions of emitters. |
| US10263329B1 |
Dynamic azimuth scanning for rotating active electronic scanned array radar
Embodiments for providing dynamic azimuth scanning are generally described herein. In some embodiments, weather survey measurements are performed to estimate environmental losses as a function of azimuth angles. Gain improvements are determined based on the amount of energy increase used at different azimuth angles derived from the azimuth loss survey measurements. A gain profile is generated based on the determined gain improvements. An azimuth offset profile is derived using the gain profile to define azimuth angles where progressive scan back is used in the area of environmental losses to provide additional power and to define azimuth angles where progressive scan forward is used in regions of low loss. Dynamic electronic azimuth beam steering provides a near-constant average target detection range as a function of azimuth in the presence of non-uniform loss. |
| US10263327B1 |
Anti-interference microwave antenna
An anti-interference microwave antenna includes a reference ground and at least a radiating source spacedly disposed at the reference ground to define a radiating clearance between the radiating source and the reference ground, wherein the radiating source is electrically connected to the reference ground to ground the radiating source so as to narrow a bandwidth of the antenna. When a electromagnetic excitation signal is received at a feed point of the radiating source, the bandwidth of the antenna is narrowed down to prevent any interference of the electromagnetic wave signal received or generated by the antenna in response to nearby electromagnetic radiation frequency or stray radiation frequency of the adjacent frequency bands. |
| US10263325B2 |
Modularized feed array arrangement
A modularized feed array arrangement includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) radiating elements, a plurality of waveguides positioned inboard of the plurality of RF radiating elements, each RF radiating element being electrically coupled with an outboard portion of one or more of the waveguides; and a plurality of modules, each module including a plurality of RF switches, a plurality of amplifiers, and a manifold panel that includes a plurality of RF choke joints. An inboard portion of each RF switch is electrically coupled with a respective amplifier. Each RF choke joint includes a proximal portion electrically coupled with an outboard portion of a respective one of the RF switches and a distal portion electrically coupled with an inboard portion of a respective one of the waveguides. |
| US10263324B2 |
Impedance conversion element and communication device
A first end of a first conductor pattern of a first coil conductor is connected to a power supply terminal, and a second end of the first conductor pattern is connected to an antenna terminal. A second conductor pattern includes second coil conductors. A first end of the second conductor pattern is connected to the antenna terminal and the second end of the first conductor pattern, and a second end of the second conductor pattern is connected to a ground terminal. The second conductor pattern magnetically couples with the first conductor pattern. The second end of the first conductor pattern and the first end of the second conductor pattern are connected to the antenna terminal via a routing pattern that extends to magnetically couple with at least either the first conductor pattern or the second conductor pattern. |
| US10263323B2 |
Antenna structure with self supporting feature
An antenna including a first conductive element having a first length and including a first connecting interface to connect, at a first end, the antenna structure to an electrical circuit, a second conductive element having a second length, the second conductive element connecting, at a first end, to a second end of the first conductive element, and a third conductive element having a third length and connecting at a first end to a second end of the second conductive element and oriented at an angle that is orthogonal to the orientation axis for the first conductive element and the second conductive element. The antenna can be placed by machine without the antenna moving or tilting in any direction prior attaching to a printed circuit board. |
| US10263321B2 |
Planar antenna assembly
A planar antenna assembly includes an antenna and a long transmission line. The antenna is configured to receive a radio wave signal from the outside. The radio wave signal received by the antenna is transmitted through the transmission line. The antenna and the transmission line are formed in a planar shape. The transmission line includes a conductor having a thickness thicker than a thickness of the antenna. |
| US10263317B2 |
Utility meter with insulated external antenna
The present technology discloses a utility meter with an externally-mounted antenna that is electrically insulated to prevent conduction outside of the meter. The antenna is coupled to a communication device that is positioned adjacent to an inside surface of a meter cover and that is configured to connect to a metrology board. The utility meter also comprises an antenna, having one or more leads for coupling with the communication device, the leads extending through openings in the meter cover. The communication device is advantageously positioned to minimize or eliminate radio frequency interference with the metrology board. |
| US10263312B2 |
Plurality of dielectric waveguides including dielectric waveguide cores for connecting first and second server boards
A method of making a waveguide ribbon that includes a plurality of waveguides comprises joining a first sheet of dielectric material to a first conductive sheet of conductive material, patterning the first sheet of dielectric material to form a plurality of dielectric waveguide cores on the first conductive sheet, and coating the dielectric waveguide cores with substantially the same conductive material as the conductive sheet to form the plurality of waveguides. |
| US10263307B2 |
Anode for lithium air battery and preparation method thereof
Provided herein is an anode for a lithium air battery with a long lifetime and high lithium ion conductivity and a method for preparing thereof. The anode includes a lithium metal and a protective layer disposed on one surface of the lithium metal, in which the protective layer includes an inorganic material-based solid electrolyte powder dispersed in a polymer matrix. |
| US10263306B2 |
Metal air battery and gas diffusion layer thereof
A metal air battery including: a gas diffusion layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; at least one positive electrode layer disposed on the first surface and the second surface of the gas diffusion layer, wherein the positive electrode layer is configured to use oxygen as an active material and includes a first electrolyte; a second electrolyte disposed on the positive electrode layer; and a negative electrode metal layer disposed on the second electrolyte, wherein a side surface of the gas diffusion layer, which connects the first surface and the second surface of the gas diffusion layer, is exposed to an outside of the metal air battery, and the gas diffusion layer comprises an air flow channel that extends from the side surface of the gas diffusion layer which is exposed to the outside, to an inside of the gas diffusion layer. |
| US10263305B2 |
Magnesium oxygen battery
A rechargeable magnesium oxygen battery including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a non-aqueous magnesium ion electrolyte layer between the negative and positive electrodes, and an oxygen restrictor. The oxygen restrictor is configured to restrict oxygen crossover from the positive electrode to the negative electrode. |
| US10263304B2 |
Thermal management system of battery pack
The present invention provides a thermal management system of a power battery pack, including a heating branch, a cooling branch and a battery pack pipeline, the heating branch and the cooling branch are connected with the battery pack pipeline and are arranged in parallel and configured to enable switching, a first heat exchanger for absorbing heat from a cooling liquid pipe of an outer high-temperature device is arranged on the heating branch. The thermal management system of the battery pack provided by the present invention uses waste heat of the cooling liquid of other high-temperature devices on the electric vehicle to heat the battery pack, so as to avoid the problem of electric power consuming and cruising distance reduction. Meanwhile improving cooling efficiency of high-temperature devices, and then improve comprehensive energy utilization efficiency, and improve working condition of the whole vehicle, thereby improving comprehensive performance of the electric vehicle. |
| US10263303B2 |
Battery module and battery pack including same
Disclosed is a battery module capable of preventing a gas generated from a secondary battery from flowing into a cooling flow path or a duct connected thereto. The battery module includes a plurality of pouch-type secondary batteries; a first frame having an upper cooling plate and a lower cooling plate disposed to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a vertical direction to form a cooling flow path in a space therebetween and configured to accommodate the pouch-type secondary battery in at least one of an upper portion of the upper cooling plate and a lower portion of the lower cooling plate; and a second frame having an upper cooling plate and a lower cooling plate to accommodate the pouch-type secondary battery in a way identical to the first frame, the second frame being stacked on the first frame to form a venting flow path in a space between the first frame and the second frame. |
| US10263301B2 |
Counter-flow heat exchanger for battery thermal management applications
A heat exchanger for thermal management of battery units made-up of plurality of battery cells or battery cell containers is disclosed. The heat exchanger has a main body portion defining at least one primary heat transfer surface for surface-to-surface contact with a corresponding surface of at least one of the battery cells or containers. A plurality of alternating first and second fluid flow passages are formed within the main body portion each defining a flow direction, the flow direction through the first fluid flow passages being generally opposite to the flow direction through the second fluid flow passages providing a counter-flow heat exchanger. In some embodiments the heat exchanger has a two pairs of inlet and outlet manifolds, the heat exchanger providing a single-pass, counter-flow arrangement. In other embodiments the first and second fluid flow passages are interconnected by turn portions forming a U-flow, counter-flow heat exchanger. |
| US10263300B2 |
Battery pack including fluid resistant over mold
A battery pack for supplying energy to propel a vehicle is disclosed. In one example, a battery pack includes a thermoplastic over mold for providing resistance to liquid is disclosed. The battery pack may have increased resistance to battery pack degradation. |
| US10263299B2 |
Electrical system with replaceable batteries
An electrical system with replaceable batteries comprises an electrical system and a combined switch. The electrical system comprises a plurality of battery packs (1, 2, 3); all the battery packs are independently arranged each other; and an electric-quantity display device which is used for displaying the electric-quantity information indicating signals of the battery packs and a gear switch which is used for mutually switching the battery packs are arranged on the combined switch. Each battery pack comprises a battery (A1, A2, A3), a power switches (B1, B2, B3) and a battery management system (C1, C2, C3). The battery management systems receive and combine the output signals of the combined switches with the electric-quantity information indicating signals, thereby controlling whether the power switches are closed to provide power output or not. |
| US10263297B2 |
Control system for a battery
A method and apparatus for operating a battery system. The apparatus comprises a housing, a plurality of battery cells, and a bypass circuit. The plurality of battery cells is connected in a series circuit within the housing. The plurality of battery cells is configured to supply a total voltage output. The bypass circuit is configured to determine whether a voltage output from a battery cell in the plurality of battery cells has fallen below a selected threshold. The bypass circuit is further configured to bypass the battery cell in the series circuit in response to a determination that the voltage output from the battery cell has fallen below the selected threshold. |
| US10263295B2 |
Secondary battery system and method of arranging battery module
A secondary battery system and a method of arranging battery modules capable of recovering and maintaining the system performance are provided. A secondary battery system includes a battery cabinet group including a plurality of battery cabinets each comprising a plurality of battery modules connected to each other, the battery module being a replacement unit, a PCS connected to the battery cabinet group and is controlling charging and discharging thereof, and a battery controller connected to the PCS. The battery controller includes a deterioration inspecting block obtaining a characteristic of the battery modules, a numbering block numbering the battery modules in an ascending order based on the characteristics, and a re-arrangement determining block determining a re-arrangement position of the battery modules in a way that the numbers given by the numbering block are in sequence in the same battery cabinet. |
| US10263292B2 |
Nickel-zinc Battery
Provided is a highly reliable nickel-zinc battery including a separator exhibiting hydroxide ion conductivity and water impermeability. The nickel-zinc battery includes a positive electrode containing nickel hydroxide and/or nickel oxyhydroxide; a positive-electrode electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode is immersed, the electrolytic solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; a negative electrode containing zinc and/or zinc oxide; a negative-electrode electrolytic solution in which the negative electrode is immersed, the electrolytic solution containing an alkali metal hydroxide; a hermetic container accommodating the positive electrode, the positive-electrode electrolytic solution, the negative electrode, and the negative-electrode electrolytic solution; and the separator exhibiting hydroxide ion conductivity and water impermeability and disposed in the hermetic container so as to separate a positive-electrode chamber from a negative-electrode chamber. The alkali metal hydroxide concentration of the positive-electrode electrolytic solution differs from that of the negative-electrode electrolytic solution. |
| US10263291B2 |
Method of producing a prismatic battery cell
A method of producing a prismatic battery cell includes forming an initial arrangement by spatially arranging one or two wiring boards, a cathode layer, an anode layer, and at least two separator layers so as to be in parallel with each other and with respect to a winding axis. The initial arrangement is wound about the winding axis to form a battery winding. The battery winding is inserted in a cell housing, and a respective current connector is connected to each of the cathode layer and anode layer. The cell housing is filled with a liquid electrolyte, and is closed. A prismatic battery cell of this type can be included in a battery, such as a battery included with an automotive vehicle. |
| US10263288B2 |
Lithium ion secondary battery production method
A production method is provided for producing a lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery has an external casing that houses an electrolytic solution and a power generating element. The power generating element includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode layered with a separator. The production method includes first charging the lithium ion secondary battery at a voltage range of 4.0 V or lower and then opening the external casing of the lithium ion secondary battery that has been charged at a range of 4.0 V or lower to discharge gas inside the lithium ion secondary battery to the exterior. Next, the production method further includes re-sealing the external casing and charging the lithium ion secondary battery from which the gas has been discharged until the cell voltage is greater than 4.0 V. |
| US10263279B2 |
Electrodes for energy storage devices with solid electrolytes and methods of fabricating the same
A metal or metal-ion battery composition is provided that comprises anode and cathode electrodes along with an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode. At least one of the electrodes includes active material particles provided to store and release ions during battery operation. Each of the active material particles includes internal pores configured to accommodate volume changes in the active material during the storing and releasing of the ions. The electrolyte comprises a solid electrolyte ionically interconnecting the active material particles. |