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US10499551B2	Electronic component mounting system An electronic component mounting system is disclosed. An elapsed time acquiring section acquires an elapsed time from printing onto circuit board by solder printer. A raising and lowering operation changing section changes raising and lowering operation of component holding tool based on the elapsed time from printing acquired by the elapsed time acquiring section. A mounter mounts an electronic component on the solder printed on circuit board by performing raising and lowering of the component holding tool at the raising and lowering operation changed by the raising and lowering operation changing section.
US10499548B2	Display device Disclosed is a display device that includes a display panel and a multi-layered panel provided adjacent the display panel. The multi-layered panel may include a front plate located toward the display panel, a rear plate provided parallel to the front plate, and a honeycomb mesh interposed between the front plate and the rear plate. The honeycomb mesh may have a plurality of hexagonal cells. A metal plate may be coupled to a rear surface of the multi-layered panel and a drive board may be seated on the metal plate. At least one of the front plate or the rear plate may include at least one opening that extends parallel to a shorter side of the display device.
US10499547B2	Thermal control process for a multijunction electronic power device and corresponding electronic power device A thermal control process for an electronic power device including a multi junction integrated circuit may include defining a first and at least one second groups of junctions, with each group including one first and at least one second junctions, and associating a thermal detector with each group. A first group control may be executed which detects group electric signals representative of the temperature detected by the thermal detectors, processes the group electric signals with reference to a group critical thermal event, identifies a critical group when the corresponding group electric signal detects the critical group thermal event, and generates group deactivating signals suitable for selectively deactivating the first and the at least one second junctions of the identified critical group with respect to the remaining junctions of the integrated circuit.
US10499546B2	Computer system with external bypass air plenum A rack-mountable computer system enables an airflow that cools components in an upstream portion of the computer system interior to be cooled through mixing with a bypass airflow downstream of the components in the upstream portion. The mixed airflow can cool components in a downstream portion of the interior. The bypass airflow is directed by a bypass plenum that is unencompassed by the separate plenum that directs the airflow to cool the upstream portion components. The bypass plenum can be at least partially established by an external surface the computer system and one or more external structures, including an external surface of an adjacently mounted computer system. Relative flow rates through the separate plenums can be adjusted, via flow control elements, to separately control heat removal from components upstream and downstream of the air mixing, based at least in part upon air temperatures in the separate interior portions.
US10499533B1	Container cabling systems and methods An exemplary cabling system includes a plurality of containers. A first container of the plurality of containers defines a first plurality of openings. The system includes a plurality of bolts with a first bolt operable to insert into the first plurality of openings. The first bolt defines a first conduit operable to receive a first cable of a plurality of cables. An exemplary telecommunications central office includes a container with a plurality of walls defining an interior of the container and an exterior of the container, an opening, a vault entrance, and a plurality of cable runways. An exemplary method for arranging cables includes cutting a wall of a first and second container to create a first and second opening, inserting flanges of bolts into the openings, receiving with a pipe the flanges, and routing a cable through the first and second opening into an interior of the second container.
US10499532B1	Infrastructure floor tiles for server rack placement An infrastructure floor tile for supporting and positioning a server rack in a datacenter includes a body including top, bottom and side surfaces and a first alignment surface on the top surface. The first alignment surface includes at least one of a projection and a recess. When a server rack is positioned on the first alignment surface of the infrastructure floor tile, the server rack is aligned by the first alignment surface relative to the body. N horizontal channels extend from one of the side surfaces to an opposite one of the side surfaces, where N is an integer greater than one. N vertical channels extending from the top surface of the body to the N horizontal channels, respectively. Power, cooling fluid and/or data lines are connected to the server rack through at least one of the N horizontal channels and at least one of the N vertical channels.
US10499531B2	Rack level network switch Systems and methods of providing network connectivity to an equipment rack are provided. A network switch includes an enclosure to be aligned along the height of an equipment rack. The network switch provides a plurality of network ports distributed along the enclosure so the network ports are associated with mounting spaces in the rack, when installed. A controller provides communications between the plurality of network ports and may be configured to identify installed equipment in particular rack spaces, from network traffic on particular network ports and by association of the network ports with the rack spaces.
US10499529B1	Device for fixing hard disk A device with shock-absorbing qualities for fixing a hard disk in place on a chassis includes two brackets, a plurality of shock-absorbing cushions, and a plurality of first fasteners is described. The brackets located at opposite sides of a hard disk and the side surface of the bracket define a plurality of circular through holes with notches or cutaways continuing to the outer edge of the side surface. The cushions can be locked in the circular through holes after being introduced through the notches whilst sleeving the first fasteners. Two support portions are bent from ends of each bracket to support the hard disk in place.
US10499526B2	Variable-depth multi device chassis A multi device system includes a rack with a rack slot. A device chassis is positioned in the rack slot. The device chassis includes first device slot with a first device entrance, and a second device slot with a second device entrance. A first device stop member extends from the device chassis and into the first device slot. The distance between the first device stop member and the first device entrance is adjustable, and the first device stop member is configured to move a first device in the first device slot through the first device entrance. A second device stop member extends from the device chassis and into the second device slot. The distance between the second device stop member and the second device entrance is adjustable, and the second device stop member is configured to move a second device in the second device slot through the second device entrance.
US10499524B2	Apparatus for mounting a processor for cluster computing A bracket for mounting a processor and a support structure for receiving bracket-supported processors for duster computing are provided. In some embodiments, a bracket may be configured to receive a processor and fasten the processor to the bracket. The bracket may be configured to mount the processor to a support structure. The support structure may be configured to receive an array of brackets. The support structure may be configured to be stacked in combination with additional support structures.
US10499522B2	Housing part for a measurement device having a microwave-permeable glass or ceramic window A housing part for a measurement device includes a single metal body having an outer circumferential side wall with an upper end and a lower end and an inner disc-shaped base wall located between the upper and lower ends, wherein the side wall and the base wall define two partially enclosed areas, where the base wall comprises a central hole into which a microwave-permeable glass or ceramic window is fused, microwave guides and dielectric matching elements are provided on both sides of the microwave-permeable or ceramic window to propagate microwaves between the desired points such as a radar antenna and radar electronics, and where the matching elements not only adjust the impedance of the microwave window to the impedances of the microwave guides but also put additional compression stress on the surfaces of the fused window, which are preferably ground flat to be flush with those of the center portion.
US10499515B2	Electronic device An electronic device may include a flexible display member, a fastening member overlapping the display member in a plan view, a housing unit including a first case member and a second case member configured to contain respective opposite portions of the display member, and a hinge unit including a body member coupled to the fastening member to be rotatable in the plan view, a first moving member connecting a portion of the body member to the first case member, and a second moving member connecting an opposite portion of the body member to the second case member.
US10499513B2	Method for forming insulating layer, method for producing electronic device, and electronic device By flexographic printing or inkjet printing, insulating ink is applied on a wiring pattern in accordance with a predetermined printing pattern. The insulating ink is hardened, whereby an insulating layer is formed. A contact region of the wiring pattern that is used for electrical connection with a conductor other than the wiring pattern is not covered with the insulating layer. The printing pattern is delimited by the outline of a non-printing region including the contact region. The wiring pattern includes, in the non-printing region, a trunk wiring line leading, to the contact region, from a position on the wiring pattern at which the wiring pattern overlaps with the outline and a branch wiring line extending from a point on at least one side of the trunk wiring line and terminating without making contact with the outline.
US10499512B2	Multi-layer circuit board and manufacturing method thereof A multi-layer circuit board including a plurality of insulation bumps, a first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer is provided. The plurality of insulation bumps are disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate. A top portion of the plurality of insulation bumps is served as a circuit connection point. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first substrate and connected to the circuit connection point. The second conductive layer is disposed on the second substrate and connected to the circuit connection point.
US10499511B2	Flexible circuit board interconnection and methods Embodiments of the invention include flexible circuit board interconnections and methods regarding the same. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of connecting a plurality of flexible circuit boards together comprising the steps applying a solder composition between an upper surface of a first flexible circuit board and a lower surface of a second flexible circuit board; holding the upper surface of the first flexible circuit board and the lower surface of the second flexible circuit board together; and reflowing the solder composition with a heat source to bond the first flexible circuit board and the second flexible circuit board together to form a flexible circuit board strip having a length longer than either of the first flexible circuit board or second flexible circuit board separately. In an embodiment the invention includes a circuit board clamp for holding flexible circuit boards together, the clamp including a u-shaped fastener; a spring tension arm connected to the u-shaped fastener; and an attachment mechanism connected to the spring tension arm. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US10499505B2	Electrical conductive module An electrical conductive module comprises: a circuit board, which has an upper side and a lower side opposite to each other in an up-down direction, the upper side of the circuit board is provided with a plurality of upper side pads, the lower side of the circuit board is provided with a plurality of lower side pads, the lower side pads and the upper side pads are provided in pairs, the lower side pad and the upper side pad in each pair are electrically connected together via a connecting through hole and printed wires which are provided alongside; the circuit board is provided with a plurality of conducting through holes for interposing the lower side pads and the upper side pads in different pairs; and a plurality of conducting posts, which each have a soldering end and a mating end opposite to each other in the up-down direction, the soldering end is soldered to the upper side pad on the circuit board correspondingly. The present disclosure can simplify structure and reduce production cost.
US10499500B2	Circuit board with embedded metal pallet and a method of fabricating the circuit board A metal pallet is integrated within a circuit board using a process similar to a multilayer PCB, which integrates the metal pallet into the circuit board at the same time as the supporting layers are fabricated. The use of B-stage material provides a bonding mechanism for the metal pallet to be embedded within the circuit board, creating a cohesive integrated part. Embedding the pallet during the fabrication process, pre-lamination, generates a more robust construction and connection not impacted by post fabrication process in assembly. After assembly the circuit board with embedded metal pallet can be mounted directly on a heat sink, cool ribbon or other feature required to help remove heat. The planar back side surface provides a more robust mounting of the metal pallet than a post fabricated assembly as used in conventional techniques.
US10499495B1	Circuit board A circuit board includes a first row terminal group including terminal parts aligned in a predetermined direction and a second row terminal group including terminal parts aligned in parallel with and arranged in a zig-zag pattern with respect to the first row terminal group. The first row terminal group includes first row projecting terminal parts protruding toward the second row terminal group further than another terminal parts included in the first row terminal group, the second row terminal group includes second row projecting terminal parts projecting toward the first row terminal group further than another terminal parts included in the second row terminal group, and the first row projecting terminal parts and the second row projecting terminal parts are overlapped with and spaced apart from each other in the predetermined direction.
US10499490B2	High speed differential trace with reduced radiation in return path A high speed differential trace structure reducing common mode radiation is disclosed. The differential trace structure includes a first trace and a parallel second trace. A printed circuit board layer has a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The traces are formed on the top surface. The structure includes a ground plane layer having a top layer in contact with the opposite bottom surface of the circuit board. A first void section is formed in the top layer of the ground plane layer to one side of the first trace. A second void section is formed in the top layer of the ground plane layer to one side of the second trace. The length of the second void section is determined based on a target radiation frequency. A third void section is formed in the ground plane layer that joins the first void section and the second void section.
US10499489B2	Defected ground structure with void having resistive material along perimeter to improve EMI suppression A multiple-layer circuit board has a signaling layer, an exterior layer, and a ground layer. A pair of differential signal lines implemented as strip lines are within the signaling layer, and propagate electromagnetic interference (EMI) along the signaling layer. An element conductively extends inwards from the exterior layer. A void of a defected ground structure within the ground layer has a size, shape, and a location in relation to the element to suppress the EMI propagated by the strip lines. A resistive material of the defected ground structure along a perimeter of the void improves suppression of the EMI propagated by the strip lines, via the resistive material absorbing the EMI.
US10499487B2	Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting fixture solutions and methods An LED light fixture is provided that is usable as a new LED lighting installation or as a retrofit assembly for converting a florescent light fixture into an LED light system. A PCB of the LED light fixture has an M-by-N array of LED modules mounted thereon, where M and N are positive integers that are greater than or equal to 2. The PCB has a heat dissipation system thermally coupled to one of the terminals of each LED module such that heat generated by the LED modules flows directly into the heat dissipation system, which maintains the operating case temperatures of the LED modules at or around ambient temperature, thereby increasing the life expectancies of the LED modules. The M-by-N array of LED modules provides very uniform light distribution without having to overdrive the LED modules, which also increases the life expectancies of the LED modules and conserves power.
US10499483B2	Illumination light control system and switching unit Provided is a technique that facilitates control of a navigation light which uses light-emitting diodes for a light source. This navigation light control system is provided with: a navigation light that has a light source for which a light-emitting diode is used; a power supply unit that supplies power to the navigation light; and a control device that controls lighting of the navigation light, wherein the control device is provided with a light source circuit that supplies the power received from the power supply unit to the light source, and a determination unit that determines failure of the light source on the basis of the value of the current flowing through a resistor connected to the light source circuit.
US10499482B2	Devices and methods for providing a distributed manifestation in an environment The present invention concerns a projection system for providing a distributed manifestation within an environment. The projection system includes a data generator for generating a plurality of data sets of associated state data and spatial coordinate data. The projection system also includes a projector in communication with the data generator for receiving the data sets. The projector is provided with a signal generating module for generating a plurality of electromagnetic signals, and a projecting module for projecting each of the electromagnetic signals towards a target location within the environment. The projection system also includes a plurality of receiving units distributed within the environment, each receiving unit having a receiver for receiving one of the electromagnetic signals when the receiving unit is positioned in the corresponding target location, each receiving unit being adapted to perform a change of state in response to the state data.
US10499477B2	Methods and apparatus for information management and control of outdoor lighting networks The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.
US10499476B2	Display device having an insertion member in a display panel A display device includes a display panel including a display area where a plurality of pixels are disposed and a non-display area where no pixel is disposed, the display panel having at least one through-hole disposed in the non-display area and penetrating the display panel, and an insertion member disposed in the through-hole and having a hollow space therein.
US10499475B2	LED driver and illumination system related to the same An LED driver for driving a light-emitting device (LED) includes a bridge rectifier, a current driver, and a protection circuit. The bridge rectifier includes a rectifying diode, and the bridge rectifier receives and converts an AC input power source to a DC power source having a DC current and a DC voltage. The current driver includes a constant current source. The bridge rectifier, the current driver, and the protection circuit are connected in series, and the constant current source is used to limit the magnitude of the direct current to drive the LED. The protection circuit includes a protection unit. The protection circuit connects the current driver and the LED. The LED includes a substrate and the rectifying diode, the constant current source, and the protection unit are formed together on the substrate.
US10499474B1	Driver circuit and driving method with low inrush current A driver circuit and a driving method with low inrush current are provided. The driving method includes steps of: supplying a charging current smaller than a high inrush current; outputting a pulse signal from a pulse generating circuit; enabling a light driving circuit to receive the charging current by the pulse signal and allowing the charging current to flow to an storage capacitor; turning on a switch component and a light-emitting assembly by the pulse signal; supplying an auxiliary current smaller than the high inrush current; enabling the light driving circuit to receive the auxiliary current and allowing auxiliary current to flow sequentially to the switch component and the light-emitting assembly; and emitting light by the light-emitting assembly with the discharging current of the storage capacitor and the auxiliary current of input power source.
US10499471B2	Light-emitting diode lighting module and lighting apparatus including the same A lighting module includes a light emitter including a first light-emitting diode (LED) string configured to emit light of a first color temperature and a second LED string configured to emit light of a second color temperature, a terminal unit configured to provide terminals capable of supplying a driving current to at least one of the first LED string and the second LED string, and a balancing unit including a first balance LED, a second balance LED, a first balance resistor, and a second balance resistor, the balancing unit configured to adjust a mixed color temperature, and reduce a luminance difference between the light of the mixed color temperature and one of the light of the first color temperature and the light of the second color temperature.
US10499466B1	AC light emitting diode and AC LED drive methods and apparatus An LED device for use with an AC voltage power source configured such that at least one LED emits light during a positive phase of power provided from an AC power supply and at least one LED emits light during the negative phase of power provided from an AC power supply. The LED device includes a first power connection lead and a second power connection lead, both leads capable of being connected to and receiving power from an AC power supply.
US10499465B2	High frequency multi-voltage and multi-brightness LED lighting devices and systems and methods of using same A system and method transforming AC voltage to a high-frequency AC voltage and providing the high-frequency AC voltage to an AC LED circuit or rectifying the high-frequency circuit to a DC voltage and providing the DC voltage to a DC LED circuit.
US10499461B2	Thermal head with a thermal barrier for integrated circuit die processing A thermal heat for integrated circuit die processing is described that includes a thermal barrier. In one example, the thermal head has a ceramic heater configured to carry an integrated circuit die, a metal base, and a thermal barrier between the heater and the base.
US10499459B2	Cooktop appliance and temperature switch A cooktop appliance is generally provided herein. The cooktop appliance may include a cooktop panel, an electric heating element, a ferromagnetic tab, and a magnetic temperature switch. The electric heating element may be positioned at the cooktop panel. The electric heating element may include a first terminal and a second terminal. The ferromagnetic tab may be in thermal engagement with the electric heating element. The magnetic temperature switch may be positioned in selective magnetic engagement with the ferromagnetic tab. The magnetic temperature switch may be electrically connected in series with the second terminal and operable to restrict a voltage to the electric heating element above a predetermined temperature.
US10499453B2	Method and device for bluetooth connection control for multiple playing devices, and music playing system A method and a device for Bluetooth connection control for multiple playing devices, and a music playing system are provided. The method includes the following. A broadcast message is sent after a playing device is turned on, where the broadcast message is configured to inquire whether a Bluetooth function is enabled in other playing devices within the same music playing system of the playing device. Whether a response returned by the other playing devices is detected according to the broadcast message is received, where the response is configured to indicate that a playing device that returned the response has enabled the Bluetooth function. The Bluetooth function of the playing device is disabled when the response is received by the playing device. The Bluetooth function of the playing device is enabled when no response is received by the playing device.
US10499450B2	Communication control device, radio communication device, communication control method, and radio communication method There is provided a control device including a communication unit configured to perform communication with a radio communication device of a radio communication system in which communication is possible using a plurality of access schemes including at least one of the access schemes of a multiple access scheme that uses orthogonal resources and a multiple access scheme that uses non-orthogonal resources, and a control unit configured to perform allocation of resources relating to the access schemes to be used by the radio communication device.
US10499446B1	Instantiating a slice of a 5G or other next generation service network in an underserved area Techniques for creating a service slice of a network in an underserved area are presented. A vehicle can be associated with a slice component that can generate service slices of a service network for various services. The vehicle can travel to an underserved area that does not have adequate wireless coverage or advance capabilities. For a communication device associated with an entity located in an underserved area, slice component can generate a service slice to connect the communication device to the communication network (and service network), establish a session with the communication device, provide applications, including virtual network function (VNF) applications, to the communication device, and communicate information between the communication device and communication network (and service network). If no radio access to the network is available, slice component can continue the session with an internal slice and store information in its service database, which is synced when reconnected to the network.
US10499445B2	Method and apparatus for providing next generation network service in heterogeneous network environment A method and an apparatus are disclosed for providing a next-generation network service in a heterogeneous network environment. The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus, which can operate a conventional network and a next-generation network in an interworking arrangement with high reliability, and can process high-speed data communications by using the next-generation network.
US10499442B2	Method and system for communication between groups in wireless communication network A communication method and a system are provided that make it possible to transfer information between groups. The communication method is a communication method in a wireless communication network including a plurality of nodes that can form a peer-to-peer group, wherein an owner node operating as an access point in one group selects one or a plurality of client nodes within this group as delivery nodes, the delivery node disconnects from the group and connects to another group that is present in vicinity, and information is transferred between the delivery node and an owner node of the another group.
US10499441B2	Method for operating terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using same Provided are a method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using the method. The method is characterized by: the terminal, which is connected to a first network, performing a step for interworking with second network; and reporting, to the first network, the result of performing the step for interworking.
US10499436B2	Physical random access channel and random access response detection for user equipment Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products of physical random access channel (PRACH) selection and random access response (RAR) detection are provided. One method includes specifying, by a network node, a starting point for preamble repetition having a repetition level such that all user equipment (UEs) of the same repetition level start the preamble repetition on a same physical random access channel (PRACH) resource, determining when a series of the preamble repetition is over, and transmitting a random access response (RAR) when the repetition series is finished.
US10499435B2	Configuration of beamforming mode There is provided mechanisms for configuring beamforming mode during a network access procedure of a second radio transceiver device. A method is performed by a first radio transceiver device. The method comprises transmitting a message indicating which beamforming mode from at least two available beamforming modes the second radio transceiver device is to use when transmitting a network access signal.
US10499430B2	Method and apparatus for operating a device on a licensed spectrum and an unlicensed spectrum A method and apparatus operate a device on a licensed spectrum and an unlicensed spectrum. The device can operate on a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) band via a WWAN base station using a WWAN Radio Access Technology (RAT). The device can connect to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) base station using the WWAN RAT on a WWAN RAT WLAN band operating on a WLAN frequency and can connect to a WLAN access point using a WLAN RAT on a WLAN RAT band operating on a WLAN frequency. The WWAN RAT WLAN band can be determined to be the same band as the WLAN RAT band. A signal metric of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be compared to a threshold. Whether to disable communications on the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be determined based on comparing the signal metric of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band to a threshold. Communications of the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band can be disabled if the communications on the WWAN RAT WLAN band or the WLAN RAT band should be disabled.
US10499429B2	Using control packet transmissions to coordinate data transmissions at lowered power A sending node sends an RTS control packet carrying an identifier of a receiving node, so that the receiving node determines a power update value according to an initial transmit power of the RTS control packet and sends a CTS control packet by using the initial transmit power, where the CTS control packet carries an identifier of the sending node and the power update value, a first part of adjacent nodes other than the sending node, if determining that the first part of adjacent nodes are located beyond coverage of an updated power of the receiving node and the sending node, determine a first limited power and perform control packet transmission according to the first limited power; and receiving, by the sending node, the CTS control packet, and sending a data packet by using the updated power.
US10499425B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-channel medium access control protocol Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless communication network are disclosed. For example, one method includes determining, by a first access point, a polling schedule for communicating with one or more wireless stations on a first wireless communication channel, the polling schedule for a second access point on a second wireless communication channel. The method further includes transmitting, by the first access point, on the first wireless communication channel, transmission information to the one or more wireless stations, wherein the transmission information comprises information for the one or more wireless stations to receive a transmission from the second access point on the second wireless communication channel. The method further includes transmitting, by the first access point, on the first wireless communication channel, one or more packets to at least one of the one or more wireless stations in accordance with the polling schedule.
US10499424B2	Scheduling request arrangement for new radio Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a new radio (NR) physical layer arrangement are provided. One method may include receiving, by user equipment, configuration of scheduling request resources on a plurality of resource pools. The method may also include determining a slot type when the user equipment is to transmit a scheduling request in a certain slot, and, based on the determined slot type and the received scheduling request resources configuration, determining whether the user equipment has a scheduling request resource allocated in the plurality of resource pools in the certain slot.
US10499423B2	Channel allocation system and method for accommodating multiple nodes in sensor network A channel allocation system for accommodating a plurality of nodes in a sensor network includes a PAN coordinator generating channel allocation information and CSMA idle information and transmitting a beacon including the channel allocation information and the CSMA idle information; and at least one node receiving the beacon, determining whether the contention period is in idle state based on the extracted channel allocation information and the CSMA idle information, determine a transmission time, an operation state in a reception interval, how to process received data by determining whether a channel is allocated based on whether the contention period is in idle state, and operating according to the determination result.
US10499419B2	Method for terminal for receiving PHICH in wireless communication system and terminal utilizing the method Provided are a method for a terminal for receiving a PHICH in a wireless communication system and a terminal utilizing the method. The method is characterized in that a PUSCH is transmitted, whether or not a first PHICH resource corresponding to the PUSCH collides with a second PHICH resource corresponding to a different PUSCH is determined, and the PHICH for the PUSCH is received from the PHICH resource determined on the basis of the result of the determination, wherein if the first PHICH resource and second PHICH resource do collide, then the PHICH for the PUSCH is received from a new PHICH resource determined by utilizing an offset value.
US10499416B2	Downlink channel rate matching of synchronization signal block transmissions in a new radio wireless communication system A configurable new radio (NR) resource scheduling and indication transmission procedure that may be executed by a base station and a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. For example, a base station may determine a number of synchronization signal blocks available for transmission of non-scheduling data, and transmit an indication signifying at least one of the number of synchronization signal blocks or a location of each of the number of synchronization signal blocks. Further, a UE may receiving an indication signifying at least one of a number of synchronization signal blocks or a location of each of the number of synchronization signal blocks. The UE may further determine one or more resource elements forming the number of synchronization signal blocks where non-scheduling data has been scheduled for transmission. The UE may receive the non-scheduling data within the one or more resource elements forming the number of synchronization signal blocks.
US10499414B2	Data transmission apparatus, method, and system Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method and apparatus, and relate to the communications field. The method includes: obtaining configuration information; establishing at least one logical channel according to an identifier of each logical channel and the corresponding transmission mode indication; obtaining a transmission resource according to the transmission mode indication of a logical channel to which device-to-device (D2D) buffered data belongs; and sending the D2D buffered data by using the obtained transmission resource. A problem that a resource allocation mode used by a terminal during D2D communication is relatively single and is not flexible enough is resolved, and the terminal can use different resource allocation modes according to a logical channel granularity, so that not only consumption of signaling resources of a network device can be reduced, but also QoS requirements of some services that require relatively high QoS can be satisfied.
US10499411B2	Method and apparatus for data transmission enhancements in mobile communications Various solutions for data transmission enhancements with respect to user equipment (UE) and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. As a transmitter, a UE may determine whether specific information is comprised in a protocol data unit (PDU). The UE may mark the PDU in an event that the specific information is comprised in the PDU. The UE may further prioritize the marked PDU and deliver the marked PDU to a next protocol layer. As a receiver, a UE may receive a marked PDU comprising the specific information. The UE may deliver the marked PDU to a higher protocol layer out-of-order.
US10499410B2	Method and apparatus for context aware concurrent radio communication with co-existing WWAN and WLAN radios in shared spectrum A system and method including at least one wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality of available wireless links concurrently operating within a shared and licensed communication frequency band and an application processor executing code instructions of a radio resource management system for determining a plurality of optimal wireless links from the plurality of available wireless links within the shared communication frequency band at a location based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of available wireless links. The application processor selects a WLAN wireless link and an unlicensed small cell WWAN wireless link from the plurality of optimal wireless links and determines local interference between the selected WLAN wireless link and the selected unlicensed small cell WWAN wireless link operating in the shared communication frequency band via execution of code instructions of a concurrent wireless link optimization system wherein if the determination of local interference between the selected WLAN wireless link and the selected unlicensed small cell WWAN wireless link reaches an interference threshold level, switching the unlicensed small cell WWAN wireless link to a licensed communication frequency band for small cell WWAN wireless communication.
US10499406B1	Assigning a frame configuration in a relay enabled communication network A frame configuration is assigned in a relay enabled communication network. A macro coverage latency is determined. The macro coverage latency is a latency of a communication between the wireless device and a network node when the wireless device is not communicating through the relay node. A relay coverage latency is determined. The relay coverage latency is a latency of a communication between the wireless device and the network node when the wireless device is communicating through the relay node. Based on a comparison of the macro coverage latency and the relay coverage latency, a frame configuration is selected for a communication through the relay node.
US10499405B2	Method for allocating resources in wireless LAN system and wireless LAN system Provided are a method of allocating resources in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system and the WLAN system including an access point (AP) to allocate a resource for communication between a relay and a station associated with the relay, the relay to allocate a restricted access window (RAW) or a slot for communication with a station based on the allocated resource, and the station to communicate with the relay based on the allocated RAW or the allocated slot.
US10499403B2	Interference reporting and resource adjustment method and apparatus Disclosed are an interference reporting and resource adjustment method and apparatus, the method comprising: a node reporting, when determining that there is interference, interference indication information to a base station, wherein the interference indication information comprises: an interfered resource, and a signal to interference and noise ratio; after receiving the interference indication information, the base station determining, when it is determined that there is interference according to the signal to interference and noise ratio, the other nodes using the interfered resource; and adjusting a resource used by the other nodes, so as to avoid interference. By means of the present invention, resource collision can be reduced, so that the resource adjustment efficiency of a communication system is improved, and the requirements for applications with characteristics of low time delay and high reliability can be met.
US10499398B2	Facilitating mobile device-assisted mobility enhancement to improve user plane interruption time Mobile device-assisted mobility enhancement is provided. In one example, a method comprises: determining, by a mobile device that was communicatively coupled to a defined network via a first distribution unit (DU) of DUs, that a connection between the mobile device and a base station device, via a first beam, in a network fails to satisfy a defined condition; selecting a second beam associated with a second DU and to which to connect; and transmitting, via the second beam, to the defined network, a radio link interruption message comprising re-assignment information to facilitate re-assignment of the mobile device to the second beam from the first beam, wherein the transmitting is performed via a mobile device identification message of a random access procedure and wherein the transmitting is performed based on the first DU being determined to be different from the second DU.
US10499395B2	Communication system, base station, and communication control method A communication system having a plurality of base stations for carrying out radio communication by arranging a plurality of carriers each taking a first frequency bandwidth in a second frequency band that is predetermined and to be exceeded by the carriers arranged in succession, wherein the communication system arranges the carriers in the second frequency band in such a manner that each of the carriers has an overlapping portion overlapping with each other, and a first base station for using a carrier A, one of the carriers having the overlapping portion, preferentially uses, over a second base station for using a carrier B, a radio resource of a part of the overlapping portion in assigning user data.
US10499385B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving downlink signal considering antenna port relationship in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting or receiving a downlink signal considering an antenna port relationship. The method for enabling a terminal to receive a physical downlink sharing channel (PDSCH) signal in the wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention can determine a PDSCH start symbol index according to the predetermined priority and receive the PDSCH signal therethrough. The PDSCH start symbol index can be determined when a PDSCH start symbol value included in a PDSCH resource element mapping and Quasi co-location Indicator (PQI) parameter set is determined by an upper layer. The PDSCH start symbol index can be determined according to the PDSCH start symbol value for a cell receiving the PDSCH when the PDSCH start symbol value included in the PQI parameter set is not determined by the upper layer.
US10499377B2	Base station and user terminal A user terminal executes processes of receiving control information from a base station, the control information indicating that transmission of a gap request is allowed; transmitting a reception gap request to the base station, the reception gap request requesting reception gaps which are timings in which the user terminal halts a downlink reception to monitor device-to-device discovery signals directly transmitted from other user terminals; and receiving a gap configuration from the base station, the gap configuration indicating the reception gaps configured by the base station to the user terminal. The reception gap request includes a frequency identifier indicating a frequency for monitoring the device-to-device discovery signals; and correlated gap pattern. The gap pattern includes bit map information indicating subframes corresponding to the reception gaps; period information indicating a repeating period of the bit map information; and offset information indicating a start timing of the period.
US10499376B2	Methods for managing resource based on open interface and apparatuses thereof Provided are a method of a central unit (CU) included in a gNB for managing radio resources and an apparatus thereof. The method may include generating a UE context setup message to be transmitted to one or more distributed units (DUs) associated with the central unit, transmitting the UE context setup message to the one or more DUs through a fronthaul interface, and receiving a response message for the UE context setup message from the one or more DUs through the fronthaul interface.
US10499372B2	Method for deciding resource-specific transmission mode in wireless communication system and apparatus for same A method for a user equipment transmitting/receiving signals to and from a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed in the present invention, which is specifically characterized by comprising the following steps: receiving form the base station information related to a plurality of subframe sets; receiving from the base station information related to transmission modes which correspond to each of the plurality of subframe sets; and transmitting/receiving the signals to and from the base station based on the transmission mode that corresponds to a specific subframe set in a subframe that belongs to the specific subframe set from the plurality of subframe sets.
US10499370B2	Method and apparatus for allocating MBMS based resources for V2X message transmission in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for allocating resources for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. For the first solution, a pre-configuration based scheme is defined and specific temporary mobile group identities (TMGIs) are defined for the V2X service. For the second solution, a multi-cell/multicast coordination entity (MCE) receives a request for radio resource, which is based on an amount of V2X messages transmitted from vehicle user equipments (UEs) or road side unit (RSU) UEs, from an eNodB (eNB) supporting V2X function or an eNB type RSU, and transmits multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) scheduling information to the eNB supporting V2X function or an eNB type RSU as a response to the request for radio resource.
US10499369B2	Methods and apparatus for supporting multiple services in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique of fusing a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with IoT technology and a system thereof. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a random access channel (RACH) according to beam reciprocity (beam correspondence) with a method and an apparatus for supporting various services.
US10499366B2	Paging method and apparatus for distributed gateway The present disclosure discloses a paging method and apparatus for a distributed gateway. The method includes: obtaining, by a gateway user plane, downlink data; sending downlink data report information to a gateway control plane, where the downlink data report information is used to trigger the gateway control plane to send a downlink data notification to a mobility management entity, and the downlink data notification is used to trigger the mobility management entity to initiate a paging to a terminal; obtaining downlink data channel information sent by the gateway control plane, where the downlink data channel information indicates information about a downlink data channel between a base station and the gateway user plane, and the base station is a base station to which the paged terminal belongs; and forwarding the downlink data by using the downlink data channel.
US10499364B1	Identifying static leaf nodes in a motion detection system In a general aspect, a motion detection system manages leaf nodes used for sounding by one or more access points. For example, an access point obtains presence information for a plurality of AP-leaf node links for a plurality of calibration periods. Presence activity is determined for each AP-leaf node link in each calibration period based on its respective presence information. Static leaf nodes are identified based on the presence activity for the plurality of AP-leaf node links in a calibration window, the calibration window comprising a number of the plurality of calibration periods. The motion detection system is updated to use at least one of the identified static leaf node as a sounding node for motion detection.
US10499355B2	Processing method and device for obtaining synchronization A processing method and device for obtaining synchronization are provided, where the method includes: selecting, by a UE, a preamble on a first Scell, and reporting information of the preamble to a base station by using a current PCell or a second SCell of the UE; receiving scheduling information of a random access response message or scheduling information of a conflict indication message delivered by the base station from a physical downlink control channel of the PCell, the second SCell or the first SCell by using a C-RNTI of the UE; and receiving the random access response message or the conflict indication message from a physical downlink shared channel according to the scheduling information of the random access response message or the scheduling information of the conflict indication message.
US10499349B2	User equipment and method for transmitting message in multi-beam system A method and user equipment for transmitting a message of a random access procedure in a multi-beam system includes: transmitting and retransmitting a message 1 of the RA procedure through a first beam of a plurality of transmission beams of the UE based on power ramping; and retransmitting, if one or more Msg. 2 (RAR) is not successfully received corresponding to the message 1 transmission/retransmission, the message 1 through a second beam of the plurality of transmission beams after switching the first beam to the second beam at a second power level which is the same as or higher than a first power level of the first beam.
US10499344B2	Uplink power control using beamforming to compensate for path loss The technique of beamforming is to be adopted in 5G NR systems in both DL and UL directions to combat the effect of acute path loss in the Giga hertz frequency region. With beamforming, the measured path loss in the UL and DL directions will be different even if the same carrier frequency is used for both DL and UL, due to the fact that the antenna gains are not unity as in the case in LTE/LTE-A systems. In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide method and apparatus to handle the mechanism of UL transmit power control.
US10499343B2	Multi-user power control methods and procedures Methods and systems for operation in a WLAN are provided. Methods and systems for a transmit power control (TPC) scheme are disclosed. In an embodiment, an access point (AP) may send a trigger frame to one or more stations (STAs) for synchronizing and scheduling uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmissions. The trigger frame may contain an open-loop power control index 1 and a power adjustment index 2. The one or more STAs may estimate pathloss using an indicated AP transmit power and received power to set a baseline transmit power. The one or more STAs may adjust their transmit power in the UL transmission period to be the indicated target receive power at the AP.
US10499340B1	Techniques and apparatuses for configuring a power saving mode of a modem module using an external real-time clock Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine, using a real-time clock (RTC) included in a microcontroller, that a modem module is to exit a power saving mode; instruct a load switch to connect the modem module to a battery of the UE based at least in part on the determination; and instruct the modem module to exit the power saving mode based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10499334B2	Power efficient radio receiver control Concepts and technologies provided herein can provide power efficient radio receiver control for user equipment that can connect to a wireless network. A user equipment executing instructions via a processor can confirm that a battery charge state of the user equipment indicates charged or charging, and can check a user interface state of the user equipment. The user equipment can have at least one radio receiver that is initially active to support communicative coupling with the access point via a primary component carrier radio link. Based on the user interface state and/or the battery charge state that indicates charged or charging, the user equipment can activate additional radio receivers that are available to support the primary component carrier radio link until an active receiver capacity for supporting the primary component carrier radio link is met.
US10499330B2	Methods and apparatuses for determining cable resistance In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises: setting a first voltage level provided to a cable; operating a radio, coupled to the cable, with constant power consumption; measuring a first current level provided to the cable; setting a second voltage level provided to the cable; measuring a second current level provided to the cable; and determining a first resistance of the cable using the first and second voltage and current levels.
US10499328B2	Self-organizing network (SON) with fast initial link setup (FILS) Ameliorating initial link setup in manage networks, self-organizing networks (SONs), systems, etc. of the type having capabilities sufficient to facilitate operations according to a common methodology is contemplated. The contemplated processes and systems may include ameliorating initial link setup when operating pursuant to the Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) protocol defined in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) specification 802.11ai with use of a self-organizing network (SON) server to facilitate access point selection.
US10499327B2	Network selection method and base station The present invention provides a network selection method, comprising: acquiring, by a first base station, core network type information of a core network node from UE, a second base station or a first core network node; and selecting, by the first station, a core network node for the UE according to the acquired core network type information and information about a second core network node provided by the UE. The present further provides a base station device. The application of the present application may reduce the re-routing between core network nodes, shorten the access delay of UE, and satisfy the communication demand of UE types or service types that have requirements on delay.
US10499325B2	Method and user equipment (UE) for provisioning minimum system information (MSI) in wireless communication system Accordingly the embodiments herein provide a method for provisioning Minimum System Information (MSI) for User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes decoding Primary Broadcast Channel (PBCH) to acquire a first Master Information Block (MIB) periodically transmitted by base station. Further, the method includes determining to perform one of bar a cell from which the first MIB is acquired for a pre-determined period of time and acquire second MIB transmitted on Secondary Broadcast Channel (SBCH) by base station based on cell barring indication received in the first MIB. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting a request message to the base station to obtain at least one SI block of the OSI. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a list of system configuration indexes (SCIs) and corresponding configuration of SI blocks, from the base station based on SI storage capability of the UE indicated to the base station.
US10499324B2	Transmitter for transmitting discovery signals, a receiver and methods therein A transmitter and a method therein for transmitting discovery signals to a receiver. The transmitter and the receiver are comprised in a radio communications system. The transmitter transmits two or more discovery signals over two or more directions. Each discovery signal is configured to span over a fraction of a carrier bandwidth.
US10499323B2	Indicating network availability in dual coverage regions A wireless communication system may support two types of networks, such as an LTE network and a 5G network. The LTE network is accessed through LTE base stations. The 5G network is accessed through 5G base stations. Because of the more limited availability of 5G base stations, LTE base stations are configured to broadcast information regarding 5G availability. For example, each LTE base station may indicate whether 5G services are available in the geographic area in which the LTE base station is located. Each communication device is configured to receive this information from any LTE base station to which it is attached, and to use the information when determining which of multiple network identifiers to display in the status bar of the device. That is, a communication device displays a 5G symbol in its status bar whenever the communication device receives broadcast information indicating that 5G services are available.
US10499321B2	Enhanced node B, UE and method for selecting cell discovery signals in LTE networks Embodiments allow selection of a Discovery signal (DS) used to identify an eNB to a UE receiving the DS. The DS allows the UE to ascertain the existence and/or cell identifier of the eNB. DS comprise a plurality of other signals such as a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), a Cell Specific Reference Signal (CRS) and/or a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS). A DS occasion comprises a number of subframes where the selected signals that comprise the DS are transmitted. The signals selected for the DS, their characteristics and properties allow a UE to decode the cell identifier. The DS occasion occurs with a designated periodicity.
US10499316B2	Method and communication device for controlling access to a wireless access network A method for controlling access to a wireless Access Network (AN) by a wireless communication device. The device stores a Device Access Priority (DAP) level based on characteristics of the device. When the device has data to send, the device receives an overhead message from the AN containing a Network Access Priority (NAP) parameter defining a minimum priority level for initiating network access. The device determines whether its DAP level is equal to or greater than the NAP parameter. If not, the device periodically repeats the receiving and determining steps until the stored DAP level is determined to be equal to or greater than the NAP parameter received from the AN. When the stored DAP level is equal to or greater than the NAP parameter, the device initiates network access. The device may perform and pass a Persistence Test before transmitting the data on an access channel (ACH).
US10499308B2	System for transmitting data from an underground vehicle There is described a system for sending, via a communication network, data originating from a monitoring of equipment in a network-inaccessible location. The system comprises a first interface device to be operated in a network-inaccessible location and comprising: sensors for monitoring a first equipment; a processor connected to the sensors for generating a data packet from the monitoring; and a local input/output (I/O) device for sending the data packet. The system further comprises a second interface device, to be displaced from the network-inaccessible location to a network-accessible location, comprising a local I/O device for receiving the data packet from the first interface device; and a network-connected I/O device to deliver the data packet via the communication network.
US10499302B1	Method and apparatus for application specific medium access control and physical layer network behavior manipulation The behavior of devices on a network can be modified on the medium access control level to achieve various application level objectives. These types of modifications can include organizing the behavior of transmitting stations to achieve various objectives (e.g., equal allocation of airtime on a wireless network link) for the transmission of data back to those stations' access points. Other modifications, such as changing various stations' maximum data transmission size and modifying an access point's amplifier gain could also be made.
US10499299B2	Progressive toggling of radio frequency band in a relay node A method of progressive toggling from a first frequency band to a new frequency band, first mobile nodes being previously attached to the relay node, the method including, upon detection by the relay node of interference on the first frequency band, the relay node triggers the progressive toggling which includes: a selection by the relay node of a new frequency band not suffering interference, an occupation of the new frequency band by the relay node, a blocking of access to the connection to the relay node via the first frequency band for at least one second mobile node, a toggling of the first radio communications of the first active mobile nodes from the first frequency band to the new frequency band, and a freeing of the first frequency band by the relay node.
US10499296B2	Cell selection and reselection in normal and enhanced coverage mode The present disclosure relates to methods for selecting or reselecting a cell from among a plurality of cells. The present disclosure is also providing mobile stations for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. For this purpose, the mobile station is detecting cells which are candidates (i.e. candidate cells) for selection or reselection, utilizing either the normal coverage mode or the enhanced coverage mode. Further, the mobile station is selecting or reselecting a cell among the candidate cells detected, utilizing either the normal coverage mode or the enhanced coverage mode. The mobile station is performing the detection and the selection or reselection on the basis of stored information indicating whether or not at least one of the candidate cells supports that the detection and the selection or reselection utilize the enhanced coverage mode.
US10499294B1	System, method, and computer program for mitigation of user-specific ping-pong handover A system, method, and computer program product are provided for mitigation of user-specific ping-pong handover. In operation, user equipment (UE) monitors for a ping-pong handover scenario between the UE and a plurality of nodes in a wireless communication network. The UE determines whether a state of the UE is static, if it is determined that the UE is experiencing a ping-pong handover scenario. The UE receives a deferred measurement time indicator from a best serving node of the plurality of nodes, if it is determined that the state of the UE is static. The UE defers sending a measurement report to the plurality of nodes for a time-period associated with the deferred measurement time indicator.
US10499289B2	Communication apparatus A communication system that allows for automatic switching between cellular and a wireless local area network is disclosed.
US10499281B2	Resource management in a wireless communications network Detection of an unbalanced network load and redistribution of network traffic to balance the network load is provided herein. Load balancing across different radios in the same sector of a cell site can be facilitated through detection of the unbalance network load and changes to one or more parameters can be made to rebalance the network load. After radios within a sector are more evenly balanced, network load balancing across sectors can be facilitated. The balancing can be performed to improve system performance, reduce a dropped call rate, as well as to achieve other benefits that can provide an improved user experience as compared to systems that do not attempt to balance the network load.
US10499276B2	Method and system for end-to-end admission and congestion control based on network slicing A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice-based admission and congestion control service is provided. The congestion control service monitors for congestion in a network slice. When congestion is detected, the congestion control service may adjust an allotment of a resource of a network device or the resource of the network slice from end-to-end. When neither of these adjustments can be made, the congestion control service may use a network slice-based access control barring.
US10499275B2	Method and device for reporting buffer state during LTE-wireless LAN combining in wireless communication system Disclosed are methods and systems for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system. The disclosed methods and systems can be applied to intelligent services on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. More specifically, a communication method of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: receiving, from a base station, system information including application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) configuration information for indicating whether to apply ACDC to a terminal belonging to a home public land mobile network (HPLMN); determining whether to permit access to the base station on the basis of parameters relating to the ACDC, when the application of the ACDC to the terminal belonging to the HPLMN is set according to the ACDC configuration information; and communicating with the base station according to the determination result.
US10499274B2	Establishing an interaction session between a service client and a RAN A method performed in a radio device comprising a service client configured for service level communication with a service provider via a Radio Access Network (RAN) to which the radio device is connected. The method is for establishing an interaction session between the service client and the RAN. The method comprises the service client packing first interaction data into a transparent first interaction container. The method also comprises transferring the first interaction container, comprising the first interaction data, from the service client to a control plane function in the radio device via an application programming interface (API). The method also comprises sending the first interaction container to the RAN by means of a radio control plane protocol of the control plane function over a radio interface.
US10499271B2	Methods and apparatuses for inter-network measurement in a wireless network Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for inter-network measurement at a terminal device in a wirelesses network. The method comprises receiving an inter-network measurement configuration message containing measurement configurations. The method further comprises performing an inter-network measurement based on the measurement configurations contained in the inter-network measurement configuration message, so as to obtain information on inter-network interference. The method further comprises reporting a measurement result of the inter-network measurement, wherein the measurement result includes the information on inter-network interference. In addition, there are also provided an apparatus for inter-network measurement at a terminal device in a wirelesses network and a method and apparatus for inter-network measurement at an access node in a wireless network. With the solution of the present disclosure, it is possible to obtain information on the inter-network interference, which could provide a prerequisite of coordination schemes and enable coordinated spectrum sharing work well in system operation.
US10499269B2	Systems and methods for assigning controlled nodes to channel interfaces of a controller Controller provides signals to controlled nodes and includes first channel interface coupled to first controlled node and second channel interface coupled to second controlled node. Controller discovers which channel interface is coupled to which controlled node by communicating first measurement request signal from first channel interface toward first controlled node; communicating second measurement request signal from second channel interface toward second controlled node; communicating power level request signal from a channel interface to first/second controlled nodes; receiving set of power levels from both first/second controlled nodes in response to power level request signal; determining that first controlled node is more strongly signal-coupled with first channel interface than second controlled node when first power level received from first controlled node is higher; and determine that second controlled node is more strongly signal-coupled with first channel interface than first controlled node when first power level received from second controlled node is higher.
US10499268B2	Radio link failure detection method and apparatus for wireless communication system A radio link failure detection method of a user equipment transitioning between a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode and non-DRX mode cyclically in a wireless communication system includes transitioning between a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode and a non-DRX mode in a wireless communication system. The method also includes adjusting, when a mode transition occurs, a size of a monitoring window for a transitioned operation mode; reporting a radio channel condition acquired by monitoring and averaging the channel condition within the monitoring window; and repeating adjustment of the monitoring window size and report of the radio channel condition while moving the monitoring window as time progress.
US10499264B1	Role selection method in wireless communication networks The invention relates to a wireless communication system (100), comprising a plurality of radio nodes, each being able to operate at least as a router node (104) or as a non-router node (104). Each of the plurality of radio nodes is configured to: detect density of the router nodes (104) within its neighbourhood, and make a decision based on the detected density whether to operate as a router node (104) or as a non-router node (106). The invention relates also to a role selection method and a radio node device (104, 106, 500) for the wireless communication system (100).
US10499259B2	Special events module for self-organizing networks Described herein are one or more self-organizing network (SON) tools configured to receive indicia that an event affecting usage of telecommunication service will occur at a specific location and at a specific time. Based at least in part on information about the event, the one or more SON tools determine one or more configuration changes to apply to telecommunication infrastructure. The one or more SON tools then apply the one or more configuration changes to the telecommunication infrastructure at the specific location and at the specific time.
US10499258B2	Using a geometry indicator in HetNet deployments In a heterogeneous network deployment that includes a macro base station and one or more low power nodes, a geometry indicator signal is transmitted to facilitate the determination of geometry or location at a user equipment. The geometry indicator, in general, is transmitted on the same or different frequency as the data signal transmission and is transmitted over a range that is same or different from that of the data signal transmission. The geometry indicator signal may be transmitted by the macro base station, the low power nodes or both.
US10499257B2	Optimizing coverage of infrastructure equipment utilizing network density information Traditional configuration of infrastructure equipment relates to the adjustment of horizontal tilt for antennas. Given the potential overlap of infrastructure equipment, varying tilt angles can result in either interference with nearby equipment (“over-tilt”) or reduced coverage areas within a specific infrastructure equipment (“under-tilt”). A tool for determining appropriate tilt angles for infrastructure antennas across a mobile network is provided. The tool automatically determines a range of tilt angles between a selected source antenna and adjacent antennas and optimizes based on a threshold intersecting point. Additionally, the tool can update calculated tilt angles based on network congestion information.
US10499255B2	Discovery reference signal (DRS) search modes and mode switching techniques Aspects of the present disclosure provide a plurality of discovery reference signal (DRS) search modes implemented by the user equipment (UE) during contention-based communication in an unlicensed spectrum. The plurality of DRS search modes may include a first DRS search mode (“Full search mode”), second DRS search mode (“Comb search mode”), and a third DRS search mode (“Thin search mode”). The DRS search modes may be selected by the UE based on the system requirements (e.g., tradeoffs between robustness and complexity against cycle cost). Features of the present disclosure further provide techniques for dynamically switching between the plurality of DRS search modes in order to minimize power consumption while reducing the number of cycles required to locate the DRS.
US10499253B2	Distributed antenna system for wireless network systems A distributed antenna system is provided for communicating with a plurality of base stations. The distributed antenna system includes a system controller and a master unit communicating with at least one of the plurality of base stations. A remote unit communicates over a high data rate media with the master unit and/or a downstream remote unit. Alternatively, the distributed antenna system includes a controller and a digital time/space crosspoint switch controlled by the controller. A digitizing transceiver is in communication with the digital time/space crosspoint switch. The crosspoint switch is configured to transmit and receive digital data through the digitizing transceiver.
US10499249B1	Data link layer trust signaling in communication network An apparatus comprising a network communication interface to communicatively couple the apparatus to a network, a processor coupled to the network communication interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions to cause the apparatus to determine an indicator of a trusted nature of data for transmission through the network, write the data to a frame of a data stream, write the indicator to an inter-packet gap of the data stream, and transmit the data stream to the network via the network communication interface.
US10499248B2	Secure interaction method and device A secure interaction method includes receiving, by a processor, a secure processing request sent by an application program, where the application program operates in a normal mode, and the processor operates in the normal mode when receiving the secure processing request, switching, by the processor, from the normal mode to a secure mode according to the secure processing request, reading, by the processor operating in the secure mode, data information into a memory operating in the secure mode, where the data information is data that the processor operating in the secure mode generates after parsing the secure processing request, and controlling, by the processor operating in the secure mode, an accessed device to operate according to the data information stored in the memory operating in the secure mode.
US10499245B2	Method for performing multiple authentications within service registration procedure Embodiments herein provide a method for performing multiple authentications within a service registration procedure. The method includes sending, by a User Equipment (UE) a REGISTER request message to an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) server. Further, the method includes receiving, an IMS authentication challenge from the IMS server, where the IMS authentication challenge includes an IMS authentication parameter and a MCPTT authentication challenge. Further, the method includes verifying, at the UE, the IMS authentication challenge. Further, the method includes generating, at the UE, a REGISTER response message. Further, the method includes sending, a REGISTER response message to the IMS server, where the REGISTER response message includes an IMS authentication response to authenticate UE at the IMS server and a MCPTT authentication response to authenticate the UE at the MCPTT server.
US10499243B2	Authentication of phone caller identity According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for caller authentication is disclosed. The method includes: responsive to initiation of a telephone call by a caller from a first telephone unit to a second telephone unit, retrieving an identification object comprising identification information corresponding to the caller; encrypting the identification object using an encryption key stored on the first telephone unit; and transmitting, as part of the telephone call, the encrypted caller identification object to a telephone network destined for the second telephone unit.
US10499242B1	Method and apparatuses for data integrity and security for communications in smart power systems Methods and apparatuses for ensuring data integrity and security for communications over a wide area network in smart power systems are provided. These can be particularly helpful in sub station-to-sub station and sub station-to-control-center communications, for example when a fast and secure method is required to transfer critical messages over the network such as generic object oriented substation event messages. In addition to guaranteeing data integrity, methods and apparatuses provide reliable security algorithms based on the concept of sequence hopping.
US10499241B2	Assigning multiple radio network temporary identifiers to a user device A user device is provided. The user device comprises a transceiver configured to: receive a first Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), wherein the first RNTI is valid for a first set of network nodes of a radio communication network; receive at least one second RNTI, wherein the second RNTI is valid for a second set of network nodes of the radio communication network, and wherein the first set of network nodes and the second set of network nodes are different sets of network nodes; transmit data to the radio communication network, or receive data from the radio communication network, using the first RNTI or the second RNTI. Furthermore, a network node and corresponding methods, a computer program, and a computer program product are provided.
US10499240B2	Location change reporting method, device, and system In a location change reporting method, a session management function entity receives from a mobility management entity information including location change information of UE in a first presence reporting area (PRA), an identity of the first PRA, and an identity of a PRA set that includes the first PRA. The session management function entity identifies, based on the identity of the PRA set and locally stored PRA subscription information, a subscription entity that subscribes to location change events of the UE in the PRA set, and sends the identity of the first PRA and the location change information of the UE in the first PRA to the subscription entity.
US10499237B2	Smart searching of wireless devices using device location information Particular embodiments described herein provide for an apparatus, such as a wireless electronic device, that includes a memory element configured to store electronic code, a processor operable to execute instructions associated with the electronic code, and at least one module. The at least one module is configured to receive first location information identifying a first location associated with an electronic device. The at least one module is further configured to receive first connection location information indicative of a second location of the electronic device at a time of connection with a first wireless device. The at least one module is further configured to evaluate for a presence of the first wireless device when the first location is within a predetermined distance of the second location.
US10499229B2	Enhanced fallback to in-band mode for emergency calling Techniques are disclosed for increasing the reliability of transferring data via in-band signaling in a audio channel of a communication network. Techniques include causing an audio decoding process to modify the decoding of audio signals for the audio channel based on obtaining an indication of in-band signaling. The modified decoding may replace an adaptive de-jitter buffer by a static de-jitter buffer or increase the buffering time of an adaptive de jitter buffer. The decoded audio signals may be provided to an in-band message detector, an audio encoder or an audio playback device based on the indication of in-band signaling. The techniques may be employed by a user equipment, a media gateway control function or a media gateway to improve the reliability of in-band transfer of a minimum set of data (MSD) for a Next Generation eCall.
US10499225B2	System and method for adjusting variable(s) related to near field communications antenna for mobile devices to ensure antenna operation within a defined operating range A system for an antenna for near field communications (NFC), said antenna comprising a primary loop with a primary current to produce a magnetic field; one or more secondary loops with one or more secondary currents; wherein by adjusting one or more variables associated with said one or more secondary loops, said magnetic field is modified to ensure antenna operation within a defined operating range.
US10499223B2	User equipment categories for machine-to-machine devices operating in an internet of things network Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to user equipment (“UE”) categories for machine-to-machine (“M2M”) devices operating in an Internet of things (“IoT”) network and future emerging devices. According to one aspect, a network node can receive, from an M2M device, an M2M device category for the M2M device. The network node can determine an action to perform based upon the M2M device category. The network node can cause the action to be performed.
US10499221B2	Communication device and communication method The present disclosure relates to a communication device and a communication method. The communication device according to one embodiment comprises an acquisition unit, a determining unit, and a trigger unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire distribution information of user devices in a dynamic network, said user devices at least comprising a slave device, the slave device in device-to-device communication acquiring a communication service by means of a master device. The determined unit is configured to determining a re-configuration method of the dynamic network on the basis of the acquired information. The trigger unit is configured to trigger the re-configuration of the dynamic network on the basis of the determined method.
US10499220B2	Network configuration method and wireless networking system A network configuration method and a wireless networking system utilizing the method are proposed. The proposed method comprises performing a site survey process to search for at least one available wireless network device, obtaining a setting datum corresponding to a wireless access point, selecting one of the available wireless network devices, determining a network connection type corresponding to the selected wireless network device, determining a transferring method according to the corresponding network connection type to transfer the setting datum to the selected wireless network device. The setting datum comprises at least one of a service set identifier (SSID), a wireless encryption method, and a wireless encryption key.
US10499218B2	Method for activating a nomadic node, as well as a corresponding nomadic node and system The present disclosure refers to a method for activating a Nomadic Node (NN) in a wireless communication network comprising at least one NN 304, wherein said at least one NN 304 is provided on a vehicle, at least one Base Station, (BS) 301, 302, 303, and a NN control means 200, comprising the steps of collecting, by the NN control means 200, information elements in said wireless communication network, and activating, by the NN control means 200, said at least one NN 304 on the basis of the collected information elements. The disclosure further refers to a corresponding NN control means 200 and system.
US10499217B2	Wireless sensor base station with coexistence of multiple homogeneous radios Techniques are disclosed for reducing interference, in a network device, among multiple radio circuits operating in a same or similar frequency band and in close physical proximity. In some embodiments, a network device includes a first and a second wireless network circuit. The network circuits operate in a same radio frequency band and are collocated. The second network circuit is assigned a higher priority than the first network circuit. The device further includes a coexistence controller coupled to the network circuits via a communication bus and configured to selectively suppress transmitting operations of the first network circuit during receiving operations of the second network circuit. Among other benefits, the embodiments can increase wireless network bandwidth and reduce mobile device power consumption by providing coordination among the radio circuits so that the transmitting and receiving operations are performed in a way that they do not interfere with their respective antennas.
US10499216B2	Smart device An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a body with a processor, a camera and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor.
US10499215B1	System for location based triggers for mobile devices Various systems are provided comprising: a building including one or more facilities each including at least one broadcast short-range communications unit having a fixed location, an application/computer code configured for execution by at least one of a plurality of mobile devices, and at least one server, that, together, are configured to cooperate to trigger one or more mobile device actions including causing to be output visual information, based on particular location-relevant information that is, in turn, based on at least one value.
US10499214B2	Data usage analytics application for dynamic control of data usage on a client device This disclosure sets forth techniques that aggregate and analyze data usage of a client device over a communications network. Particularly, data usage may be quantified over a predetermined time interval and used to provide recommendations that instruct a client on techniques for reducing a data usage rate. Recommendations may be presented as visual and/or audible alerts. This disclosure further describes techniques to dynamically alter data usage characteristics of particular data usage events to reduce a current rate of data usage. Computational instructions may dynamically reduce a file size of a multimedia/data file, limit a capability to download a multimedia/data file, or reduce a data usage rate of a multimedia stream via trans-rating or pacing techniques. Additionally, exemplary user interfaces may facilitate customizing data usage monitoring settings. The exemplary user interfaces may enable a client to customize a graphical representation of data usage over a predetermined period of time.
US10499209B2	Installation identification for family applications In one embodiment, a method includes, by a second application that is a member of a family of applications and is installed on a client device, broadcasting a communication that includes a second hashed installation identifier and a second timestamp, the second timestamp indicating a time that the second application was installed on the client device, and receiving a response from a first application, wherein the first application is a member of the family of applications, and wherein the response includes a first hashed installation identifier and a first timestamp indicating a time that the first application was installed on the client device. The method may also include the second application comparing the second timestamp to the first timestamp, and if the first application was installed on the client device before the second application, the second application may save the first hashed installation identifier as a family identifier.
US10499204B1	Intelligent duplication detection for wireless emergency alerts in devices Cellular communication networks may be configured to broadcast wireless emergency alert (WEA) messages to multiple receiving communication devices. A communication device has physical-layer components, such as a modem subsystem, that receive broadcast alert messages. The modem subsystem uses a cache to record received alert messages and references the cache to perform duplication checking for newly received messages. Newly received messages that are not duplicates are provided to application-layer software for further processing. The application-layer software notifies a device user of the alert message if the alert message satisfies certain criteria. In addition, the application-layer detects changes in device properties that could potentially affect the criteria and in response causes the cache of the modem subsystem to be cleared so that the modem subsystem will not declare a subsequently received alert message to be a duplicate.
US10499203B2	Method for generating notification and a mobile device and system using the same A method for generating notification is provided. The method includes following steps. A mobile device is paired with a wearable device. The mobile device has a first motion sensor, and the wearable device has a second motion sensor. Notification synchronization is performed between the mobile device and the wearable device. When an event is triggered and a corresponding notification should be generated, the mobile device generates the corresponding notification if the first motion sensor senses a motion is latter than the second motion sensor senses a motion. When an event is triggered and a corresponding notification should be generated, the wearable device generates the corresponding notification if the second motion sensor senses a motion is latter than the first motion sensor senses a motion.
US10499198B2	Positioning device and positioning system A positioning device includes a processor configured to calculate a first neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a first base station in the plurality of base stations based on the received signal strength data and a second neighboring time at which the mobile device becomes closest to a second base station of the plurality of base stations, and convert the relative movement data in the second storage device into position coordinates data specifying an absolute position of the mobile device in an absolute coordinate system using the first base station as a reference point from the first neighboring time to the second neighboring time.
US10499195B1	Visualization of spatial motion activities for E-forensics Location information for a plurality of target subjects can be depicted as a plurality of routes with indications of respective contemporaneous locations of the target subjects at a point in time. A graphical slider can be used to update the visualization to depict contemporaneous locations of the target subjects at a different point in time. A point on one of the routes can be activated to update the visualization to depict contemporaneous locations of the target subjects at a different point in time. Metrics for characteristics of the location data can be displayed proximate the slider. Other features provide a user interface that allows for a rich set of visualization functionality.
US10499191B1	Context sensitive presentation of content Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.
US10499190B1	Systems and methods for facilitating dynamic remote assistance networks A system for facilitating remote assistance, the system configured to: receive, from a second computing device, device location data of the second computing device; identify, responsive to receiving a trigger communication from the second computing device, one or more proximate users within a predefined distance of the second computing device; generate an assistance communication including a prompt for assistance; transmit, to one or more third computing devices of the identified proximate users, the assistance communication; receive, from an assisting device among the one or more third computing devices, an assistance response indicative of an indication that the user of the assisting device is willing to assist the user of the second computing device; transmit, to the second computing device, a user profile associated with the user of the assisting device; and responsive to receiving an assistance acceptance, facilitate a communication channel between the second computing device and the assisting device.
US10499181B1	Object audio reproduction using minimalistic moving speakers Audio reproduction apparatus that includes a memory and a control circuitry. The memory stores an encoded object-based audio stream that includes a plurality of audio frames which include at least one encoded audio object that comprises an audio segment and metadata information. The control circuitry extracts the metadata information and controls movement of a first speaker of a plurality of speakers in a physical three dimensional (3D) space from a first position to a second position at a first time instant, based on the extracted metadata information associated with the at least one encoded audio object. The control circuitry decodes the audio segment from the at least one encoded audio object and controls play back of the decoded audio segment, at a second time instant, by the first speaker at the second position in a first audio frame of the plurality of audio frames.
US10499180B1	Three-dimensional sound for passenger notification Techniques for utilizing three-dimensional (3D) sound for passenger notification are described herein. Computing device(s) onboard a vehicle can determine an occurrence of an event associated with a passenger of the vehicle or the vehicle, and can determine a 3D sound associated with the event. Then, the computing device(s) can send a signal associated with the 3D sound to a speaker system inside of the vehicle and, responsive to receiving the signal, one or more speakers of the speaker system can output the 3D sound such that a sound associated with the 3D sound is perceived to be localized relative to the passenger in the vehicle.
US10499179B1	Displaying emojis for binaural sound A method assists in playing sound of a graphical representation for an electronic communication between a first person with a first portable electronic device (PED) to a second person with a second PED. The method displays a first visual indication that when selected plays the sound of the graphical representation in stereo or mono sound and a second visual indication that when selected plays the sound of the graphical representation in binaural sound.
US10499177B2	Volume control for individual sound zones A system and method for applying an individual volume control setting to individual sound zones as set by a user. When the individual volume control setting differs from a master volume control setting, the individual volume control setting is applied to the low frequency component of the audio signal. Headrest and optional height speakers for each individual sound zone's independent volume setting are applied to the mid and high frequency components of the audio signal.
US10499176B2	Identifying codebooks to use when coding spatial components of a sound field In general, techniques are described for identifying a codebook to be used when compressing spatial components of a sound field. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to identify a Huffman codebook to use when compressing a spatial component of a plurality of spatial components based on an order of the spatial component relative to remaining ones of the plurality of spatial components, the spatial component generated by performing a vector based synthesis with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients.
US10499175B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for audio reproduction Audio perception in local proximity to visual cues is provided. A device includes a video display, first row of audio transducers, and second row of audio transducers. The first and second rows can be vertically disposed above and below the video display. An audio transducer of the first row and an audio transducer of the second row form a column to produce, in concert, an audible signal. The perceived emanation of the audible signal is from a plane of the video display (e.g., a location of a visual cue) by weighing outputs of the audio transducers of the column. In certain embodiments, the audio transducers are spaced farther apart at a periphery for increased fidelity in a center portion of the plane and less fidelity at the periphery.
US10499171B2	System with speaker, transceiver and related devices and methods A method includes wirelessly receiving audio content via a first transceiver included in a housing of a first device and producing a first audible signal from the audio content via a speaker included in the housing of the first device. The audio content is wirelessly transmitted via the first transceiver to a second transceiver integrated within a first remote speaker. A second audible signal is produced from the audio content via the first remote speaker. The method also includes wirelessly relaying the audio content via the second transceiver to a third transceiver integrated within a second remote speaker and producing a third audible signal from the audio content via the second remote speaker. The second remote speaker is located outside of the transmission range of the first transceiver.
US10499170B2	Reproduction system, terminal device, method thereof, and non-transitory storage medium, for providing information An audio processing device has an information extractor that extracts identification information from a first audio signal in a first frequency band that includes an audio component of a sound for reproduction and an audio component including the identification information of the sound for reproduction and a signal processor that generates a second audio signal that includes the identification information extracted by the information extractor and that is in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band, with a sound represented by the second audio signal being emitted from a sound emission device.
US10499168B2	System, method, and apparatus for providing interpretive communication on a network Embodiments of the present invention comprises a system, method, and apparatus that provides for the utilization of a relatively real-time or near real-time interpretation or translation that may be utilized preferably for a relatively short duration of time on a network. A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides online, real-time, short-duration interpreting services in a network-based format. In preferred embodiments, the interpreting system comprises at least one provider computer, such as a server, wherein the provider computer is capable of communicating with user computers via a network. In one preferred embodiment, the provider computer provides a series of web pages that allow access to the interpreting system, including, but not limited to, a request for service page, wherein a user can access the system and input a request for interpreting services. Interpreting services are then provided to a user and a third party desiring to communicate with the user via the network.
US10499159B2	Method of fabricating a miniature device having an acoustic diaphragm A method of forming a device having a compliant member includes providing an elastomeric layer in an uncured state. The elastomeric layer is pre-cured to increase its viscosity. Subsequently, a bobbin and housing, each having an end, can be positioned such that their ends extend at least partially into the elastomeric layer. The elastomeric layer is cured to secure it to the bobbin housing. Examples of pre-cure and cure operations include one or more of a thermal cure, evaporative cure and ultraviolet cure, and the application of moisture, microwave energy and chemical additive. Due to the increased viscosity after the pre-cure, the migration of elastomeric material is substantially reduced relative to an uncured elastomeric material. The reduction in elastomeric material migration results in smaller menisci formed along the walls of the housing and bobbin, and reduced thinning of the compliant member formed at their ends.
US10499158B2	Electro-acoustic transducer with radiating acoustic seal and stacked magnetic circuit assembly An electro-acoustic transducer includes an accordion-type structure that functions as both an acoustic radiation element and an acoustic seal. In one example, the transducer includes parallel, accordion-type structures that attach to a flat, rectangular diaphragm. The diaphragm is connected to a voice coil. The voice coil and an associated frame are positioned between a magnet arrangement. The magnet arrangement includes stacked magnet pairs positioned between pole pieces to focus magnetic flux.
US10499157B2	Vibration diaphragm The present disclosure provides a vibration diaphragm. The vibration diaphragm includes a central dome part; a suspension part surrounding the dome part; a number of first reinforcing parts disposed on the suspension part; a number of second reinforcing parts disposed on the suspension part and being adjacent to the first reinforcing parts. The second reinforcing part includes a first master extension part and a first slave extension part, and the first master extension part and the first slave extension part cross with each other.
US10499156B2	Method and device of optimizing sound signal A method and a device are provided for optimizing a sound signal in the field of voice signal processing. The device includes at least two sound collecting units. In the method, the device locates one or more sound sources via the at least two sound collecting units. The device selects a designated sound source among the one or more sound sources. The device determines a sound signal emitted from the designated sound source among sound signals collected by the sound collecting units according to a spatial position of the designated sound source. The device optimizes the sound signal emitted from the designated sound source.
US10499153B1	Enhanced virtual stereo reproduction for unmatched transaural loudspeaker systems Embodiments relate to an audio processing system that adjusts for unmatched speakers, such as by frequency response, output power, directionality, etc. For example, a mobile device may include an earpiece speaker and a micro-loudspeaker. The audio processing system may include a crossover network that separates an input audio signal into a low frequency signal and a high frequency signal. Subband spatial processing and b-chain processing are applied to the high frequency signal to spatially enhance the input signal, and adjust the input signal for the unmatched speakers. The low frequency signal is processed using a parametric band-pass filter and a first gain to generate a low frequency resonator signal, and a second gain to generate a low frequency passthrough signal. The processed low frequency signals are provided to the micro-loudspeaker by combination with one of a left channel or a right channel of the processed high frequency signal.
US10499152B2	Automatic audio system equalizing An automated process for equalizing an audio system and an apparatus for implementing the process. An audio system includes a microphone unit, for receiving the sound waves radiated from a plurality of speakers, acoustic measuring circuitry, for calculating frequency response measurements; a memory, for storing characteristic data of the loudspeaker units and further for storing the frequency response measurements; and equalization calculation circuitry, for calculating an equalization pattern responsive to the digital data and responsive to the characteristic data of the plurality of loudspeaker units. Also described is an automated equalizing system including acoustic measuring circuitry including a microphone for measuring frequency response at a plurality of locations; a memory, for storing the frequency responses at the plurality of locations; and equalization calculation circuitry, for calculating, from the frequency responses, an optimized equalization pattern.
US10499150B2	Microphone assembly with digital feedback loop A microphone assembly includes a transducer and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive, sample and quantize an electrical signal generated by the transducer to generate a corresponding digital signal. The processing circuit includes a feedback path including a digital loop filter configured to receive and filter the digital signal to provide a first digital feedback signal and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to convert the first digital feedback signal into a corresponding analog feedback signal. The processing circuit additionally includes a summing node configured to combine the electrical signal and the analog feedback signal.
US10499140B2	Speaker and headphone An apparatus includes a horn bracket, a magnet system and a vibration system, where the horn bracket includes a through hole configured for positioning the magnet system, the magnet system includes an inner magnetic ring and an outer magnetic ring sleeved on an exterior of the inner magnetic ring, the inner magnetic ring is coaxial with the outer magnetic ring, a gap is provided between an inner annular surface of the outer magnetic ring and an outer annular surface of the inner magnetic ring, where the inner annular surface and the outer annular surface have opposite magnetic polarities, magnetic flux lines formed in the gap by the outer magnetic ring and the inner magnetic ring are radially disposed, the vibration system includes a voice diaphragm, a voice coil having one end coupled to the voice diaphragm, and a winding coupled to the other end of the voice coil.
US10499137B2	Eyewear accommodating headset with audio compensation Systems, and methods for use thereof, are provided for eyewear accommodating headset with audio compensation. An example system may include a headset, which includes an ear cup shaper, and circuitry for controlling at least some functions associated with the headset. The ear cup shaper may be configurable into at least two configurations. The circuitry may determine a configuration that the ear cup shaper is configured into, and may control based on the determined configuration, one or more audio functions that affect audio output via the headset. The ear cup shaper may include a strap and/or a plunger. The circuitry may control and/or adjust one or both of a gain applied to the audio output via the headset, and a bass boost setting applied to the audio output via the headset.
US10499135B2	Wireless headphone having built-in flexible battery A wireless headphone having a built-in flexible battery embedded therein. The wireless headphone having a built-in flexible battery includes a band part; a pair of headset parts including speaker units configured to receive a wirelessly transmitted audio signal and output the audio signal to the outside and connected to the band part; and a flexible battery embedded in the band part to supply power to the headset parts.
US10499134B1	Multifunctional ear buds A multi-functional earbud including: a first earbud; a second earbud; a necklace; a first connector connecting the first earbud to the necklace; a second connector connecting the second earbud to the necklace; an earbud controller, where the earbud controller is incorporated into the necklace. The earbud controller includes two control buttons, where control buttons include a first button adapted to engage a phone through a Bluetooth connection. The control buttons also include a second control button, wherein the second control button controls volume, fade and sound reception. The second control button is arranged with the sound reception control at the center surrounded by four pads.
US10499132B1	Colorful light mobile bluetooth speaker with instrument hitting sound effect The present disclosure discloses a colorful light mobile bluetooth speaker with instrument hitting sound effect, wherein the speaker comprises a front diaphragm mounted on a front housing diaphragm presser, two mutually symmetrical light guide strip boards, and a PCBA/main board, wherein the front housing diaphragm presser is mounted on a front housing and is mounted with horns, the light guide strip boards are disposed on both sides of the PCBA/main board, a horn light transparent member is mounted on the horn, a PCBA/horn light board is mounted on the horn light transparent member the PCBA/main board is disposed behind the front housing diaphragm presser; the speaker also comprises a rear diaphragm fixedly mounted on a rear housing diaphragm presser which is fixedly mounted on a rear housing; and a gravity sensor is mounted in each of the front diaphragm and the rear diaphragm.
US10499125B2	TASA: a TDM ASA-based optical packet switch A scalable AWGR-based optical packet switch, called TASA (short for TDM ASA), is presented in this invention. The switch is a modified version of the ASA switch but does not have its drawbacks. The total port count is N2 and each port can transmit up to N packets of different wavelengths simultaneously. This makes the total capacity of the switch close to (N3×bandwidth of one wavelength channel).But a TASA switch differs from an ASA switch in two major ways. First, a TASA switch does not need an electronic scheduler. This removes a potential bottleneck in the design of an optical packet switch. Second, it can handle any kind of unbalanced loads and can tolerate faults. These qualities, however, are missing in an ASA switch.
US10499124B1	Detection of malfunctioning sensors in a multi-sensor internet of things environment Techniques are provided for detection of malfunctioning sensors in a multi-sensor IoT environment. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors; and determining if a first sensor is malfunctioning based on a comparison of the sensor data of the first sensor with the sensor data obtained from one or more additional sensors within the plurality of sensors, wherein the additional sensors within the plurality of sensors are identified based on a location and/or a sensor type of the additional sensors relative to a location and/or a sensor type of the first sensor. Remedial steps are optionally performed for a given malfunctioning sensor based on one or more predefined policies. For example, the remedial steps may comprise resetting the given malfunctioning sensor, calibrating the given malfunctioning sensor, servicing the given malfunctioning sensor, and/or notifying one or more users of the malfunction.
US10499123B2	Sensor bus architecture for modular sensor systems A modular sensor system may include a sensor bus architecture configured for interchangeable sensor modules. Stackable sensor modules, such as rods, may have input/output (I/O) connectivity. The sensor modules may interconnect with a sensor bus head, a sensor bus terminus, and/or one another. The uppermost sensor module may connect to the sensor bus head, and the lowermost sensor module may connect to the sensor bus terminus. Between the sensor bus head and the sensor bus terminus, various sensor modules may be connected. The modular arrangement of the sensors in the system of some embodiments is provided such that the sensors are interconnected through a sensor bus network. The sensor bus communication scheme may allow hot-swapping of sensors and relatively low power operation for energy-constrained sensor data collection applications.
US10499122B2	Sensor unit, host device and data communication method therebetween To provide a compact, high density, highly reliable and low cost three-terminal IC sensor unit, a host device to be connected to the sensor unit, a sensor system comprising such sensor unit and host device and a communication method between sensor unit and host device. The power supply voltage to be supplied to the sensor unit 100 from the host device (external device) 200 through the power supply terminal 101 is turned on/off by power supply on/off means 220 in response to command and/or data to be transmitted and such on/off pulsation of the power supply voltage is detected by the data detection section 140 for transmission from the host device 200 to the sensor unit 100. Also, the current source 160 in the sensor unit 100 varies the load current of the power supply in the host device 200 through the power supply terminal 101 in response to the data and the change in the load current is detected by the current detection section 230 for data transmission from the sensor unit 100 to the host device 200.
US10499118B2	Virtual and augmented reality system and headset display Disclosed herein are virtual reality systems and methods. An exemplary video display system includes a computerized media processor configured to receive real time video, initialize a centering mode in response to actions by a user of a virtual reality headset, display on a display screen that a centering mode is initialized, and determine a centered orientation of the user. A portion of video may be extracted from the video based on the centered orientation and combined with an informational overlay for display on the display screen.
US10499115B2	Video content switching and synchronization system and method for switching between multiple video formats A video content type seamless switching system and method for synchronizing and displaying multiple types of video content in a single platform, such as a single video player, application, or other content player. Illustrative video content type switching may be between 2D and 360 degree formats coordinated by a switching controller. The switching controller may be configured to operate with television displays and associated control components, such as cable boxes, through implementation of the video content switching methods.
US10499111B2	System and method for a self adaptive multi-user program guide A media access device such as, for example, a cable or satellite set top box (STB), a digital video recorder (DVR), a personal computer, and/or a digital media receivers automatically optimizes an order of content choices presented in a content listing, such as a program guide display, favorite channel display, and/or a recording listing display based on the past viewing and/or recording history of a current user.
US10499110B2	Interactive television application with navigable cells and regions An interactive television application with mosaic browsing is provided. Selectable cells that may be associated with entities are used to display information corresponding to the entities. Information may include brand marks such as logos or any other suitable entity identifier. A cell may be in focus or it may not be in focus. When a cell is in focus the information displayed in the cell may be different than the information displayed when the cell is not in focus. Users may navigate among cells. The cells may be grouped into regions based on, for example, their association with similar entities.
US10499109B2	Method and apparatus for providing combined barrage information An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method and apparatus for providing combined barrage information. Specifically, the method comprises determining first barrage information and second barrage information to be combined in a current video image; in response to a combining operation executed by the user to combine the first barrage information and the second barrage information, combining the first barrage information with the second barrage information to form combined barrage information, and displaying a reply window corresponding to the combined barrage information; acquiring reply content input by the user in the reply window to form, with the combined barrage information, combined reply barrage information; providing the combined reply barrage information to the user.
US10499107B1	Television system and method for controlling the television system A method for controlling a television system including a television device and a controller device includes: detecting a fingerprint; analyzing the fingerprint to obtain an input fingerprint identification containing information regarding the fingerprint; identifying a pre-stored fingerprint identification matching the input fingerprint identification, and identifying a user-profile associated with the pre-stored fingerprint identification; and controlling operation of the television device based on the identified user-profile. The user-profile includes one or more of an age of the user, a channel list, a preset signal source, a preset video quality, and a preset audio quality.
US10499105B1	Dynamic control of media effects based on hardware performance A media effects engine on a computer device applies one or more effects to an input media stream. A performance monitor monitors a performance metric associated with playing the input media stream and reduces a quality parameter associated with the effect upon detecting a drop in the performance metric below a target metric. The quality parameter manages a tradeoff between a quality of effect and an amount of hardware resources consumed to produce the effect. Thus, the effect can be adjusted to meet the capabilities of the computer device.
US10499104B2	Method of providing external device list and image display device An image display device including a display; a first input configured to receive a first image signal input from a first external device connected to the image display device; a second input configured to receive a second image signal input from a second external device connected to the image display device; and a controller coupled with the display, the first input and the second input. The controller is further configured to display, on the display, a plurality of external device icons including a first external device icon and a second external device icon, wherein a first default image identifying the first input is displayed on the first external device icon and a second default image identifying the second input is displayed on the second external device icon, change the first default image to a first image based on the first image signal received from the first external device in response to the first external device icon being selected if the first external device is connected to the image display device, and change the first image back to the first default image in response to the second external device icon being selected, wherein the first image is displayed at a position corresponding to an area where the first external device icon is displayed.
US10499099B2	System and method for tracking advertiser return on investment using set top box data A processing device receives set-top box data, sales data, and advertising data. The processing device associates set-top boxes from the set-top box data with viewers and calculates advertising exposure events for advertisements. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, an advertising weight as a function of number of exposures of the advertisement as applied to the viewer based on the advertising exposure events. The processing device further calculates, for each viewer, a score representing a degree-of-targetedness between an advertisement campaign and the viewer. The processing device manages the advertisement campaign based on the advertising weight and the degree-of-targetedness.
US10499096B2	Systems and methods for facilitating content discovery based on viewer ratings Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided to assist users to locate content of interest based on viewer ratings. First information enabling unique identification of a first user may be processed. Indications of ratings of television programming may be processed, the indications being received from a first media device associated with the first user. Ratings information associated with the first user may be retained in repositories, the ratings information being based on the indications. The first user may be matched to a category that represents a classification of a set of viewers and/or of a set of content based on a set of attributes. Descriptive content indicative of the first user and/or content rated by the first user may be selected and may be transmitted via the network to a second media device associated with a second user.
US10499094B2	Transmission apparatus, transmitting method, reception apparatus, and receiving method The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmitting method, a reception apparatus, and a receiving method for promptly distributing data. An http response having a part of a fragment and a hypertext transfer protocol (http) header is distributed. The http header includes a sequence number representing an order of the fragment and a version representing an order of a part of the fragment in the fragment. The present technique is applied to, for example, a case where content is distributed by multicast and the like.
US10499093B2	Systems and methods for providing a ratings version and a dynamic ad version of a video There are provided systems and methods for providing a ratings version and a dynamic ad version of a video using a system having a non-transitory memory and a hardware processor. In an exemplary system, the hardware processor executes an executable code stored in the memory to receive a request for a video over a network, determine a time elapsed since a first broadcast of the video, provide a ratings version of the video over the network for display on the display device if the time elapsed since the first broadcast of the video is not greater than a threshold, and provide a dynamic ad version of the video over the network for display on a display device if the time elapsed since the first broadcast of the video is greater than the threshold.
US10499090B2	Systems and methods to transition between media content items Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to detect a concept reflected in a first media content item to which a user is provided access. It is determined that the concept has a threshold level of relevance to the user. The concept is associated with an element that upon selection causes a transition to a second media content item to which the user is provided access, the second media content item reflecting the concept. The element is presented in the first media content item for the user.
US10499089B2	System for providing cloud-based user interfaces and method therefor Disclosed are a system for providing cloud-based user interfaces (UIs) which controls rendering of content and a UI resource by reusing a UI object stored in a subscriber terminal device, and a method thereof. By the system for providing cloud-based UIs of the present disclosure and the method thereof, the amount of a control command transmitted to the subscriber terminal device from a remote application server may be drastically reduced.
US10499088B1	Live video streaming system and method Systems and methods for broadcasting a video stream are disclosed. The systems and methods can receive a video stream from a broadcaster, process the video steam, store the video streaming, and deliver the video stream to a viewer as a live video stream or a video on demand. The viewer may use an access token to access the video stream. The systems and methods may include an error detection mechanism for detecting an interrupt in the video stream. The systems and methods can restore the access token to its original state if an error is detected. The systems and methods can also include one or more link sharing mechanisms for sharing links to a video stream. The shareable links may be associated with share tokens.
US10499079B2	Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, and decoding method The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, and a decoding method, which are capable of sharing or predicting information related to a reference image of an image having a hierarchical structure. An enhancement encoding unit sets reference image specifying generation information used for generation of reference image specifying information of an enhancement image using reference image specifying information serving as information related to a reference image used when the enhancement image is encoded and reference image specifying information serving as information related to a reference image of a base image. The enhancement encoding unit encodes the enhancement image using the reference image, and generates encoded data. A transmission unit transmits the encoded data and the reference image specifying generation information. For example, the present technology can be applied to the encoding device.
US10499077B2	Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. Some implementations may include obtaining a macroblock type, when a macroblock includes the intra prediction coded sub-macroblock and the inter prediction coded sub-macroblock based on the macroblock type, obtaining prediction mode flag information indicating whether the sub-macroblock is the intra prediction coded or the inter prediction coded, and obtaining a prediction value of the sub-macroblock. Accordingly, implementations disclosed herein may raise coding efficiency of video signal by adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type in predicting a macroblock.
US10499076B2	Picture encoding device and picture encoding method There is provided a picture encoding device that encodes a picture and encodes a difference quantization parameter in a unit of a quantization coding block which is divided from the picture and is a management unit of a quantization parameter. A quantization parameter calculator derives a quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded. A prediction quantization parameter derivation unit derives a prediction quantization parameter using the quantization parameters of a plurality of quantization coding blocks which precede the quantization coding block to be encoded in order of encoding. A difference quantization parameter generator derives a difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded, using a difference between the quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded and the prediction quantization parameter. A first bitstream generator encodes the difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded.
US10499066B2	Method and apparatus for improving efficiency of content delivery based on consumption data relative to spatial data A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for improving the efficiency of content delivery based on consumption data. Consumption data may be collected from various users and/or devices describing frequently viewed areas in the content. The consumption data may be represented as a heat map. Variable encoding properties, caching priorities, and/or rendering priorities may be determined based on the consumption data. Content encoding and delivery may therefore be optimized accordingly. Machine learning may be applied to create predicted consumption data for content which lacks actual consumption data, allowing optimizations to be applied in advance of any actual consumption. Some concepts may be applied to unviewed video to optimize live streaming or the like.
US10499063B2	Method and apparatus for prediction mode and partition mode syntax coding for coding units in HEVC A method and apparatus for coding of syntax elements are disclosed to allow prediction units in P and B slices to share the same syntax coding table. In one embodiment according to the present invention, the method and apparatus coding of syntax elements selectively apply a syntax coding table to encode or decode the syntax element associated with the partition mode of a coding unit of a picture region according to the slice type of the picture region. A first syntax coding table is used to process the syntax element if the slice type is an I mode and a second syntax coding table is used to process the syntax element if the slice type is not an I mode.
US10499062B2	Image coding method and device for buffer management of decoder, and image decoding method and device Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an image. Method of encoding includes: determining a maximum size of a buffer to decode each image frame by a decoder, a number of image frames to be reordered, and latency information of an image frame having a largest difference between an encoding order and a display order from among image frames that form an image sequence, based on an encoding order the image frames that form the image sequence, an encoding order of reference frames referred to by the image frames, a display order of the image frames, and a display order of the reference frames; and adding, to a mandatory sequence parameter set, a first syntax indicating the maximum size of the buffer, a second syntax indicating the number of image frames to be reordered, and a third syntax indicating the latency information.
US10499061B2	Method and device for processing video signal by using separable graph-based transform The present invention provides a method for decoding a video signal by using a graph-based transform, comprising the steps of: parsing a transform index from the video signal; generating a line graph on the basis of edge information on a target unit; aligning transform vectors for each of segments of the line graph on the basis of a transform type corresponding to the transform index; acquiring a transform kernel by realigning the transform vectors for each of segments of the line graph according to a predetermined condition; and performing an inverse transform for the target unit on the basis of the transform kernel.
US10499060B2	Video encoding and decoding with improved error resilience An encoding method comprises obtaining a target number of motion information predictors to be used for an image portion to encode and generating a set of motion information predictors using the obtained target number. The set is generated by: obtaining a first set of motion information predictors each associated with an image portion having a predetermined spatial and/or temporal relationship with the image portion being encoded; modifying the first set of motion information predictors by removing duplicate motion information predictors to obtain a reduced set of motion information predictors containing a first number of motion information predictors, each motion information predictor of the reduced set being different from any other motion information predictor of the reduced set; comparing the first number of motion information predictors to the target number obtained, and if the first number is lower than the target number, obtaining an additional motion information predictor and adding it to the reduced set of motion information predictors.
US10499056B2	System and method for video processing based on quantization parameter Various aspects of a system and method to process video based on quantization parameters are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the method includes extraction of a plurality of features to capture texture information of an image block. A neural network regressor is trained to map the extracted plurality of features to determine an optimal quantization parameter. The image block is encoded by use of the determined optimal quantization parameter.
US10499047B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a pair of image information including image information before color conversion and image information after the color conversion, an accuracy output unit that outputs accuracy of a color conversion characteristic from a plural of pairs of image information received by the reception unit, and a display control unit that displays the accuracy output from the accuracy output unit on a display apparatus for color areas.
US10499043B2	Enhanced image display in head-mounted displays Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus having a left and a right display for projecting a left and right images viewable by the left and right eyes, respectively, of a user. Source image data is received. The source image has right, left, top, and bottom edges. The source image data is processed to generate left image data for the left display and right image data for the right display. The left image data includes the left edge, but not the right edge, of the source image and the right image data includes the right edge, but not the left edge, of the source image. The right image data is presented on the right display and the left image data is presented on the left display.
US10499042B2	Barreling and compositing of images Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that includes a substrate, and a display pipeline coupled to the substrate. The display pipeline may barrel an initial image to form a barreled image. In one example, the display pipeline further performs chromatic correction of the initial image.
US10499041B2	Display device A display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate; and a plurality of pixel portions provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second substrate includes a plurality of lenticular lens portions, and each of the plurality of lenticular lens portions includes: a curved portion corresponding to a first pixel portion among the plurality of pixel portions; and a plane portion corresponding to a second pixel portion that neighbors the first pixel portion among the plurality of pixel portions.
US10499040B2	Device and method for optically scanning and measuring an environment and a method of control A device and method for scanning and measuring an environment is provided. The method includes providing a three-dimensional (3D) measurement device having a controller. Images of the environment are recorded and a 3D scan of the environment is produced with a three-dimensional point cloud. A first movement of the 3D measurement device is determined and then an operating parameter of the 3D measurement device is changed based at least in part on the first movement.
US10499039B2	Path detection system and path detection method generating laser pattern by diffractive optical element A path detection system and a path detection method generating laser patterns by a diffractive optical element (DOE) are revealed. The path detection system is arranged at a mobile device while in use. A laser source projects structured light toward a forward path of the mobile device through the DOE. The structure light includes a transverse baseline and at least one transverse computational line. Then a lens is used to capture images of the structured light. When there is obstacle in a forward path of the mobile device, an image processing unit makes comparisons and performs computation according to changes in position and distance of the image of the respective transverse computational line relative to the X axis and the Y axis of the transverse baseline. Thus the relative position and distance of the obstacle in the forward path is checked in a real time manner.
US10499036B2	Image sensing module An image sensing module is provided. The imaging sensing module includes a rotation mechanism, a light source, a reflective device, and a depth detection member. The light source and the reflective device are fixed to the rotation mechanism and rotate around a rotation axis of the rotation mechanism as a center. The light source transmits a light beam to an object under test. The light beam is transmitted to the depth detection member through a reflection of the reflective device after the light beam is reflected by the object under test.
US10499033B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for coding and rendering volumetric video In some embodiments depth information of a frame of volumetric video is obtained. The depth information is examined in a block-wise manner, wherein each block comprises two or more depth values. A classification indication of a block is provided in a block offset table. Said classification indication is a partially full block, if the examination reveals that at least one depth value of the block is different from a maximum depth value, and at least one other depth value of the block is equal to the maximum depth value; forming a block mask for the partially full block. A mask value in the block mask is provided for each depth value of the block, said mask value indicating whether the depth value is equal to the maximum depth value or different from the maximum depth value. An index to the block mask is provided in the block offset table.
US10499030B2	Video providing system, video providing method, and video providing program A video providing system includes a predetermined space surrounded by surfaces with a single color; a video display apparatus mounted on the head of a user, and including two imaging devices disposed to be separated from each other by a gap corresponding to both of human eyes and perform imaging in a front direction of the user when the user wears the video display apparatus; and a specifying device that specifies a position and a direction of the video display apparatus in the predetermined space, wherein the video display apparatus displays a video prepared in advance at a location where the single color is imaged by the two imaging devices, and displays a video based on videos captured by the two imaging devices at a location where the single color is not imaged, according to a direction and a position in the predetermined space.
US10499025B2	Projecting interactive information from internally within a mannequin A device receives information to be projected from within and onto a mannequin, and receives instructions associated with projection of the information from within and onto the mannequin. A mirror and a projector are provided within the mannequin, and the projector is in optical communication with the mirror. The device causes, based on the instructions, the mirror to be moved from a first location to a second location, the mirror to be rotated from a first position to a second position, the projector to be moved from a third location to a fourth location, or the projector to be rotated from a third position to a fourth position. The device provides the information to the projector, and causes the projector to provide the information at a portion of the mannequin via the mirror, wherein the information is projected from within and onto the mannequin at the portion.
US10499024B2	Video projector system Some embodiments provide for a modular video projector system having a light engine module and an optical engine module. The light engine module can provide narrow-band laser light to the optical engine module which modulates the laser light according to video signals received from a video processing engine. Some embodiments provide for an optical engine module having a sub-pixel generator configured to display video or images at a resolution of at least four times greater than a resolution of modulating elements within the optical engine module. Systems and methods for reducing speckle are presented in conjunction with the modular video projector system.
US10499023B2	Projection device and a method of manufacturing a projection device The present disclosure provides a projection device and manufacturing method, comprising the steps of fixing the positions of a red light source, green light source and blue light source so that the light sources are immovable; providing a mirror which is configured to oscillate such that it can scan light it receives across a display screen; positioning an optical component, which is configured to deflect light, such that it can receive red, green and blue light beams outputted from the red, green and blue light sources respectively; adjusting the optical component such that the optical component compensates for variation between the light sources, in the direction in which the red, green and blue light beams are output from the red, green and blue light sources, so that each of the red, green and blue light beams are directed to the same point on the display screen.
US10499020B1	Lenslet based snapshot hyperspectral camera A hyperspectral camera system includes an input optical assembly, a lenslet array, a dispersion element, and an image sensor. The input optical assembly magnifies an image of a sample onto an image plane. The lenslet array is positioned approximately at the image plane and includes a 2D array of microlenses that concentrate the image into an array of image portions. Each of the image portions has a smaller area than a corresponding one of the microlenses and the image portions are at least partially separated from each other by interstitial regions. The dispersion element is disposed in the optical path of the image to spatially disperse spectral components in each of the image portions to generate spectrum stripes that spatially spread different spectral components of the image sourced from a single sample location within the sample. The image sensor captures a snapshot image of the spectrum stripes.
US10499010B2	Group video session In one embodiment, a computer server machine receives, from one or more client devices, one or more video streams associated with a video session associated with one or more users. The one or more users are respectively associated with each client device. The computer server machine analyzes the one or more video streams to identify an interesting event and generates a marker for the one or more video streams based on a time associated with the identified interesting event. The computer server machine sends information regarding the marker to the one or more client devices.
US10499003B2	Diversity receiver A diversity receiver synchronizes and mixes multiple input signals. In one embodiment, the receiver demodulates the multiple input signals prior to synchronizing, converts the demodulated multiple input signals from analog signals to digital signals, synchronizes the demodulated digital signals, converts the synchronized demodulated digital signals to analog signals and mixes the synchronized demodulated analog signals based on a characteristic of the input signals existing prior to the demodulating.
US10499001B2	System and method for augmented video production workflow A system and method that recognizes and highlights objects in a video frame for augmented video production workflow. A video production camera is provided to capture a video frame and generate frame data and object data relating to objects within the video frame that are in focus. Moreover, a display device is included that is wearable by the camera operator and includes a camera that captures field of view data that corresponds to a field of view of the camera operator. Furthermore, the display device can compare the video frame data with the field of view data captured by the camera to generate visual indicators for the video frame and the in focus objects. As a result, the display device can provide the camera operator with a field of view having visual indicators of the video frame and the objects that appears as overlays over the operator's field of view.
US10498996B2	Pixel control signal verification in a stacked image sensor An image sensor may be formed from stacked first and second substrates. An array of imaging pixels that each have a photodiode and accompanying transistors may be formed in the first substrate. Verification circuitry may also be formed in the first substrate. Row control circuitry may be formed in the second substrate. The row control circuitry may provide row control signals to the array of imaging pixels. The verification circuitry may also receive the row control signals from the row control circuitry. The first substrate may include a plurality of n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor transistors and may not include any p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor transistors. The second substrate may also include a p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor current source coupled to the verification circuitry. Only the verification circuitry portions that are enabled by control signals from the row control circuitry may receive current from the current source.
US10498989B1	Digital double sampling circuit A digital double-sampling (DDS) circuit includes a comparator with input nodes respectively connected to a ramp voltage and an image output node of a pixel circuit via a capacitor; a reset switch connected between the input nodes for resetting the capacitor; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to receive a comparison output of the comparator, the ADC including a counter that counts while the ramp voltage is ramping, thereby generating a reset-ADC value in a reset phase and generating a signal-ADC value in a signal phase; a subtractor that subtracts the reset-ADC value from the signal-ADC value, thereby resulting in a difference value representing a sampled output; and a clamp circuit that generates a clamp voltage at the image output node. In the reset phase, the clamp circuit is disabled after the capacitor finishes resetting but before the ramp voltage begins ramping.
US10498988B2	Image processing device and method Image processing devices and methods thereof use different color conversion data of an image obtained in a black-and-white mode under a low illuminance condition than that of an image obtained in a color mode.
US10498986B2	Image sensor having a time calculator and image processing device including the same Provided are an image sensor and an image processing device including the same. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and configured to generate pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, a time calculator configured to receive zoom information corresponding to digital zooming, and configured to calculate a row processing time available for processing the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in a single row based on the zoom information, a timing generator configured to generate at least one control signal based on the row processing time; and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) configured to generate pixel data by performing sampling on the pixel signals according to the at least one control signal.
US10498985B2	Image pickup apparatus performing photometry with image pickup device, image pickup device, control method for image pickup apparatus, and control method for image pickup device An image pickup apparatus is capable of reducing saturation of a photoelectric conversion part at a time of photometry. The image pickup apparatus includes a photographing lens and an image pickup device including the following units. A photoelectric conversion part generates an electric charge by converting incident light through the lens photoelectrically and can accumulate the generated electric charge. A transfer switch transfers the electric charge to a charge accumulation part from the photoelectric conversion part. A control unit selectively sets a driving mode from among a first driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is intermittently transferred to the charge accumulation part by switching ON/OFF of the transfer switch and a second driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is continuously transferred to the charge accumulation part by keeping an ON state of the transfer switch.
US10498983B2	Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus, the solid-state imaging device being capable of expanding the dynamic range without deteriorating the image quality. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section having a plurality of unit pixels and a drive section. Each of the unit pixels includes a first photoelectric conversion section, a second photoelectric conversion section which is less sensitive than the first photoelectric conversion section, a charge storage section configured to store charges generated by the second photoelectric conversion section, a charge-voltage conversion section, a first transfer gate section configured to transfer charges from the first photoelectric conversion section, and a second transfer gate section configured to combine the potential of the charge-voltage conversion section with the potential of the charge storage section. The present technology is applicable to solid-state imaging devices, for example.
US10498980B2	Imaging device comprising n-channel oxide semiconductor transistors, photoelectric conversion element, and capacitor An imaging device that has a high degree of freedom for exposure time and is capable of taking an image with little distortion is provided. In an n-th frame period where n is a natural number of two or more, a potential of a first charge accumulation portion is reset; the first charge accumulation portion is charged with a potential in accordance with an output of a photoelectric conversion element and simultaneously, imaging data in the (n−1)-th frame that is output in accordance with a potential of a second charge accumulation portion is read; a potential of the second charge accumulation portion is reset; a potential of the first charge accumulation portion is transferred to the second charge accumulation portion, and a potential of the second charge accumulation portion is held. Through the steps, the degree of freedom for an exposure period is increased.
US10498978B2	Digital imaging device with enhanced dynamic range and operating method as well as data processing circuit thereof A digital imaging device including a sensor array, an analog front end and a digital back end. The sensor array is configured to output black pixel data and normal pixel data. The analog front end is configured to amplify the black pixel data and the normal pixel data with a gain, and calibrate the amplified black pixel data and the amplified normal pixel data with a calibration value. The digital back end is configured to digitize the amplified and calibrated black pixel data, calculate a data offset according to digital black pixel data, determine a dynamic adjust scale, calculate the calibration value according to the gain, the data offset and the dynamic adjust scale, and adjust the gain according to the dynamic adjust scale.
US10498975B2	Radiation imaging apparatus, method of controlling the same, and radiation imaging system A radiation imaging apparatus that forms a part of a radiation imaging system is provided. The apparatus includes a sensor unit having a conversion element configured to convert radiation into charges and a switch element configured to transfer the charges. The sensor unit is configured to obtain a radiation image in accordance with radiation that enters the conversion element. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to control the sensor unit so as to perform one of a plurality of operations. The plurality of operations includes an imaging waiting operation of repetitively switching ON/OFF the switch element, and a standby operation of controlling so as to make a change amount of voltage for controlling the switch element smaller than that of the imaging waiting operation. The control unit executes the standby operation based on a predetermined signal from outside.
US10498974B2	Radiation image capturing apparatus and radiation image capturing system A radiation image capturing apparatus includes the following. A radiation detector includes a substrate in which a plurality of radiation detecting elements are arranged two-dimensionally. The plurality of radiation detecting elements receive radiation and generate charge in an amount according to an amount of received radiation. A reader reads the amount of charge generated in each of the plurality of radiation detecting elements as a signal value, and generates image data based on the signal value. A storage stores the image data generated by the reader. A hardware processor transmits the image data stored in the storage to an external terminal and an external device.
US10498970B2	Programmable manual mode for digital cameras “Programmed manual modes” mimic the processes a digital camera user goes through manually, but at the speed of the processor built in the camera. Each program preferably includes an exposure condition and a set of exposure parameters, with each exposure parameter having a plurality of exposure settings and a plurality of exposure setting priorities. The processor automatically applies an exposure value from each exposure setting and determines if the exposure condition is met. If the exposure condition is met, the processor captures and stores the image. If not, the processor applies a different exposure value and determines if the exposure condition is met based on the different exposure value.
US10498963B1	Motion extracted high dynamic range images Described are systems, methods, and apparatus for generating motion extracted images having a high dynamic range (“HDR”) based on image data obtained from one or more image sensors at different times. The implementations described herein may be used with a single image sensor or camera that obtains images at different exposures sequentially in time. The images may be processed to detect an object moving within the field of view and pixel information corresponding to that moving object extracted. The non-extracted image data may then be combined to produce a motion extracted HDR image that is substantially devoid of the moving object.
US10498961B2	Auto focus and optical image stabilization with roll compensation in a compact folded camera Folded digital camera module comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding light from a first optical path with a first optical axis to a second optical path with a second optical axis perpendicular to the first optical axis, an image sensor, and a lens module carrying a lens with a symmetry axis parallel to the second optical axis. The camera module is adapted to perform optical image stabilization (OIS) involving at least one tilt motion of the OPFE tilt around an axis such that the OPFE tilt creates an image Roll movement and a shift movement, the OPFE tilt-created image Roll movement compensating for a folded camera module-induced Roll movement and the shift movement cancelable by a movement of the lens module.
US10498957B2	Viewing system for in-flight refuelling A complete or global monitoring and illumination system installed externally on a single point on the aircraft, on a platform that would be called the “base platform”, which includes all the light outlets and all the cameras required for monitoring refuelling operations from a single point on the fuselage. The system is placed in the lower part, under the axis of the fuselage and simultaneously reduces the time required for installation and makes installation less expensive. Thus, assembly or dismantling of the system involves this single structure that includes all that is required for providing the aircraft with a complete viewing system for monitoring in-flight operations.
US10498956B2	Photographing apparatus for photographing panoramic image using visual elements on a display, and method thereof A photographing method and apparatus is provided. The photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit; a sensing unit for sensing motion of the photographing apparatus; a display unit for displaying at least one guide image for panorama photographing; a controller for controlling the photographing unit to automatically photograph, if a photographing direction that changes in accordance with motion of the photographing apparatus corresponds to one of the at least one guide image; and a storage unit for storing the photographed image data.
US10498953B1	Systems and methods for determining a depth or reflectance of objects Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a depth or reflectance of objects. Example methods may include causing, by a camera device, infrared illumination within a field of view of the camera device, wherein the field of view is at least partially illuminated at a first illuminance value, detecting a human face present in the field of view, determining, using the first illuminance value, a depth value of a portion of the human face, determining, using the depth value, a user account associated with a user having the human face, and causing presentation of information associated with the user at the camera device based at least in part on the user account.
US10498950B2	Recording control apparatus and control method of recording control apparatus A recording control apparatus includes a recording unit to record a moving image, a stop instruction unit to instruct the recording unit to stop, and a control unit. Based on that the recording of the moving image by the recording unit continues for a predetermined time, the control unit performs control to automatically stop recording of a moving image and display a receiving screen that receives an instruction for a moving image recorded most recently on a display. When a stop instruction is issued from the stop instruction unit before the recording of the moving image by the recording unit continues for the predetermined time, the control unit performs control to stop the recording of the moving image and shift to a recording standby screen without displaying the receiving screen on the display.
US10498948B1	Methods and apparatus for absolute and relative depth measurements using camera focus distance A depth measuring apparatus includes (1) a camera and lens assembly that captures image data for a sequence of images of a target including a plurality of depth levels; (2) a motion stage on which the camera and lens assembly or the target is positioned; (3) a motor connected to the motion stage that causes relative movement between the camera and lens assembly and the target at defined incremental values; (4) a position sensor that captures position data on the camera and lens assembly or the target at each of the defined incremental values; and (5) a controller that processes the captured image data and captured position data using an image gradient method and optimal focal distance to determine depths of the plurality of depth levels. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10498942B2	Camera module, molded circuit board assembly, molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demolding and avoiding stray lights.
US10498941B2	Sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging A spectral imaging device is configured to capture color images synchronized with controlled illumination from different color light emitting diodes. A processor in the device applies a coupling factor to sampled color images to convert sampled pixels into spectral channels corresponding to LED color and color filter. Multi-spectral spectricity vectors produced at pixel locations are used along with spatial information to classify objects, such as produce items.
US10498940B2	Endoscope Provided is an endoscope, in which an image sensor is attached to a transducer probe such that the diameter of the transducer probe is reduced so as to decrease the feeling of irritation and prevent injuries of internal organs, and one or more light sources are attached to a leading end of the transducer probe so as to obtain images, which are clear and appropriate for purposes.
US10498936B2	Assay detector device compatible with any digital camera/portable computing device Devices and methods for performing a point of care diagnostic test. In one embodiment, such a device may be adaptable to essentially any handheld digital imaging device. Such a device may include a sample holder for positioning an assay device in relation to the digital imaging device and an expandable/contractible member having the sample holder slidably coupled thereto. The expandable/contractible member is configured for removably attaching the testing device the digital imaging device and for positioning the sample holder in relation to an image capture means of the digital imaging device. In one embodiment, such devices may include a second slot configured for receiving one or more of a second assay cassette, an assay device, assay cassettes of various sizes, a printed circuit board, and the like.
US10498935B2	Modular video camera system Certain embodiments of the invention include a modular video camera system that can be adapted to mount to a number of different surfaces and perform a number of different functions. Some embodiments include a video camera housing having a front portion with a camera lens and infra-red (IR) emitter disposed thereon, a mounting apparatus to couple to and secure the camera system to a window pane such that the front portion of the housing faces the window pane, and a silicone-based compound, placed between the IR emitter and the window pane, that is translucent to IR light and prevents IR light from reflecting off of the window pane and into the camera lens. Some embodiments include a video camera system with a battery pack coupled to a base support having an orientation adjustment apparatus to prevent inadvertent adjustments to an orientation of the video camera system.
US10498932B2	Video processing device A multiple-frame detecting unit performs a prescribed detection process by taking the time corresponding to a plurality of unit images of the video signal. A video change detecting unit detects a change in video between the unit images of the video signal. If no change in the video is detected by the video change detecting unit, a correction unit performs a correction process with a first correction intensity on the video signal corresponding to a detection target image area in the unit images of the detection process being performed by the multiple-frame detecting unit, and a correction process with a second correction intensity on the video signal corresponding to an image area other than the detection target image area. When the video change detecting unit detects the change in the video, the correction unit performs the correction process with the second correction intensity on the video signal.
US10498930B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided with a storage portion that stores a plurality of pieces of schedule information, an image reading portion that generates image data of an original document including a plurality of description fields, a printing portion, and a control portion that recognizes a plurality of description field regions corresponding to the plurality of description fields, respectively, recognizes in-field information that is included in each of the plurality of description field regions in association with a date borne by a corresponding one of the plurality of description fields, extracts one of the plurality of pieces of schedule information and a piece of the in-field information which correspond to a common date as first subject information and second subject information, respectively, and performs control so that an update information image is printed.
US10498921B2	Electronic imprinting device that affixes imprint data to document data An electronic imprinting device includes a display, an operation unit, a recognition processing unit, a storage unit, and an imprint processing unit. The display performs a display. The operation unit accepts an operation of a user. The recognition processing unit recognizes a character included in first document data and detects a guide character that indicates an imprinting position. The storage unit stores imprint data representing an imprint. The imprint processing unit, when the recognition processing unit recognizes that the first document data includes the guide character, generates second document data as data to which an imprint image represented by the imprint data is affixed at a position of the guide character, the second document data including a content of the first document data.
US10498917B2	Storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for selecting parameter set for process on scan data A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions for a processor to perform a first and second processes. The first process comprises: generating first scan data; acquiring a first feature data set indicating features of the first scan data; selecting using the first feature data set as input data, one or more of target workflow parameter sets according to a selection procedure based on selection criteria indicated by selection criteria data; and executing a process on the first scan data according to one of the selected one or more target workflow parameter sets. The second process comprises: acquiring a workflow parameter set; generating second scan data; acquiring a second feature data set indicating features of the second scan data; and updating the selection criteria data to add the workflow parameter set to the target workflow parameter sets and to reflect the second feature data set in the selection criteria data.
US10498916B2	Image scanning device, multifunction peripheral, image scanning method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium An image scanning device includes a placement-area image data capturing unit that captures placement-area image data corresponding to an area where documents are placed on a platen, a document image data capturing unit that captures pieces of document image data, each of which corresponds to one of the documents, and acquires positions of the pieces of document image data, in accordance with the placement-area image data captured by the placement-area image data capturing unit, a placement order acquiring unit that acquires an order in which the documents, each of which corresponds to one of the pieces of document image data, have been placed in accordance with at least the positions of the pieces of document image data, each of which corresponds to one of the documents, and a sequencing unit that assigns to the pieces of document image data the order acquired by the placement order acquiring unit.
US10498914B2	Medium discharging device and image reading apparatus A medium discharging device includes a discharging unit which discharges a medium; and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium discharged by the discharging unit, and is switched between an extended state and an accommodated state, in which the medium receiving tray is provided with a base tray, a main extending unit that is accommodated or extended, and at least one sub-extending unit that is accommodated or extended, and in which the base tray forms an accommodating space for accommodating at least the one sub-extending unit, and is provided with a first protrusion portion protruding toward the accommodating space.
US10498912B2	Image forming device, multifunction peripheral, and control method of image forming device Included is a print permitting/forbidding control unit configured to decide actual permitting/forbidding regarding printing regarding each of sheet feed trays, based on any one of, or a combination of any two or more of, settings of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet feed tray, setting's of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet size, and settings of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet type. At least part of settings used by the print permitting/forbidding control unit to decide actual permitting/forbidding regarding printing, out of the settings of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet feed tray, settings of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet size, and settings of permitting/forbidding printing with regard to each sheet type, can be made to differ for each user.
US10498911B2	Display device, image processing device and non-transitory recording medium A display device, with a display part having a rectangular display area, capable of changing an orientation of the display part between a first orientation and a second orientation rotated by 90 degrees from the first orientation, comprises: a hardware processor that: detects whether the orientation of the display part is either the first orientation or the second orientation; displays a first screen on which an operation screen operable for a user is arranged on a whole surface of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the first orientation; and displays a second screen on which reduced the operation screen is arranged in a part of the display area and a content included in the operation screen is arranged in a remaining part of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the second orientation.
US10498908B2	LiFi enabled guard security system A portable security device may enable a security guard to quietly and unobtrusively solicit assistance, or transmit information, when desired. A portable security device may include a user interface, a LiFi source and a controller that is operatively coupled to the user interface and to the LiFi source. In some cases, the controller may be configured to present two or more alert options to the security guard via the user interface and to receive a selection of one of the alert options by the security guard. In response to the selection of an alert option by the security guard, the controller may be configured to transmit a LiFi message that corresponds to the selected alert option via the LiFi source.
US10498907B2	Medium storing program, image processing apparatus, and image processing method A medium stores a program. The program causes a computer to: acquire relative area information which at least indicates a relative position of a reference area relative to a reference document and a relative size of the reference area relative to a size of the reference document; acquire target image data which indicates a target image including a document; identify a target area in the target image by use of the target image data, the target area being in the relative position, which is indicated by the relative area information, relative to the target image, the target area having the relative size, which is indicated by the relative area information, relative to the size of the target image; analyze an area, in the target image, including the target area; and output image data based on the target image data.
US10498903B2	Establishing a telephony session Measures are provided for use in establishing a telephony session between first and second telephony devices in a telephony network. Telephony network equipment in the telephony network receives, from the first telephony device over a signalling link, a telephony session establishment request. The telephony network equipment receives, from the first telephony device over a data link that is separate to the signalling link, a message comprising data useable by the telephony network equipment to identify the second telephony device. The telephony network equipment correlates the received telephony session establishment request and the received message. The telephony network equipment transmits, to the second telephony device, a telephony session establishment request on the basis of the correlating. The first telephony device is associated with a multi-persona user having a first persona associated with a first telephony identifier and a second persona associated with a second telephony identifier.
US10498900B2	Systems and methods to parse message for providing alert at device In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to parse content of a message and determine, based on the parsing of content of the message, whether to provide a notification using the device. The instructions are also executable by the processor to provide the notification responsive to a determination, based on the parsing of content of the message, to provide the notification using the device.
US10498899B2	Communication logging system A communication logging system facilitates communications between two or more users. A secured database stores communications from each user, and the system notifies the intended recipients of the communications. The system records times of creation of the communications, times of access to the communications, and who created and/or accessed the communications. The communications may not be altered or deleted once recorded, so there is a permanent source of reliable evidence as to the content of the communications and information associated therewith.
US10498896B2	Customer controlled interaction management A system and method for managing interactions of a customer contact center. A contact center processor receives a request to reserve a contact center resource for handling an interaction. The processor also receives data about the interaction. The processor identifies a routing point for routing the interaction based on the received data. The routing point is associated with routing logic controlled by a customer instead of the contact center. The processor routes the interaction to the identified routing point for giving the customer control of the routing of the interaction.
US10498894B1	System, device, and method for routing communications in an emergency service network A system and method for routing communications in an emergency service network. In operation, an upstream functional element, for example, an emergency service routing proxy operating in the emergency service network, receives a call queue state notification from downstream functional elements, for example, public safety answering points. The call queue state notification indicates a state of a call queue respectively associated with the one or more of the public safety answering points and further includes routing control variables and a corresponding value selected by the downstream functional elements for each routing control variable. When the upstream functional elements receive an incoming emergency call from a call originating device, the upstream functional element selects a downstream functional element based at least in part on the routing control variables and the corresponding value, and further routes the incoming emergency call to the selected downstream functional element.
US10498893B2	Guard timer to optimize E911 call handling Systems and methods for optimized call handling during e911 calls. Normally, when a user equipment (UE) is connected to a public safety answering point (PSAP)—e.g., is on a 911 call—all incoming calls are automatically routed to voicemail. In contrast, the systems and methods disclosed herein enable calls that were dialed within a predetermined time window of the 911 call to be sent through to call-waiting to enable the user to accept or reject the call. The system can use a “guard timer” to determine whether a call is within the predetermined time window. The system can include a single guard timer for all incoming calls—e.g., “any call made from the UE within the previous X minutes prior to the 911 call.” The system can also include individual guard timers for each call that expire separately relative to the call's proximity to the 911 call.
US10498891B1	System for communicating event and location information The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using the GPS capability and the emergency IP request is sent to an address server. The address server receives the emergency IP request, obtains local emergency services data based on the global positioning data, dials a call center station based on the local emergency services data and passes an emergency call from the IP enabled device to the call center station. This invention can be implemented as a computer program embedded in a computer readable medium wherein the steps are performed by one or more code segments.
US10498889B2	Advertisement funded telephone calls A method for rendering a document is disclosed. The method includes identifying a phone number in the document. The sponsorship configuration of the phone number is then determined. A caller account configuration is also determined. The caller account configuration is associated with a user of a device and the device is configured to display the document. The document is amended to format the phone number according to the sponsorship configuration and the caller account configuration.
US10498888B1	Automatic call classification using machine learning A system may obtain audio files of phone calls and predict the outcomes of the phone calls using a machine learning model. The system may translate the audio files to text transcripts and convert the text transcripts into vectors. The vectors may be input into a machine learning model trained on prior examples of phone calls and their true outcomes. The machine learning model may output a predicted classification of the outcome of the phone call.
US10498887B2	System and method for identifying and handling unwanted callers using a call answering system A method and system for identifying an unwanted caller using a call answering system. The method comprises receiving, by a call records server, information about callers from a plurality of telephony devices and one or more phone number data sources, classifying, by the call records server, one or more of the callers as either wanted or unwanted callers based on the received information, and storing, by the call records server, the received information and the classification of the one or more of the callers into a directory. The method further comprises identifying, by a call answering server, that a call from a given caller from a phone number to a receiving telephony device is from an unwanted caller by searching the directory, and handling, by the call answering server, the call from the given caller according to one or more preferences of the user, the one or more preferences including rejecting the call from the receiving telephony device, playing a recorded message, and disposing of the call.
US10498882B2	Secure voice print authentication for wireless communication network services A method of accessing a wireless communication network using secure voice print authentication. The method includes receiving a request from a mobile device at a gateway of the wireless communication network for service on the wireless communication network. A voice print is obtained at the gateway from a user using the mobile device. The voice print is compared by the gateway with a primary voice print, wherein the primary voice print is associated with a voicemail account at the wireless communication network, and wherein the voicemail account is associated with a primary user of the mobile device. Based upon comparing the voice print with the primary voice print, the service may be provided to the mobile device on the wireless communication network.
US10498879B2	Electronic device, protection method and related product Disclosed are an electronic device, a protection method and a related product. The electronic device includes a sensor, a processor, a vibration motor and a headset jack. The sensor is configured to monitor whether the electronic device falls or not. The processor is configured to, in the case that the electronic device falls, determine whether the headset jack is connected with a headset plug or not. The vibration motor is configured to, in the case that the headset jack is connected with the headset plug, execute a vibration operation to rotate the electronic device by a target angle.
US10498876B2	Multilayer mobile app interface Systems and techniques to display app content are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to save an application page. An image of the application page and associated application state information are stored. The image and state information may be used to provide a user-navigable interface that enables a user to navigate back to the saved page.
US10498875B2	Method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state A method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state is provided. The method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state includes receiving information inputted while the mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state; displaying, if the active communications state is terminated before processing the inputted information, the unprocessed inputted information that exists; and processing the unprocessed inputted information. The inputted information can be input using various input modes such as a numeral, Korean character, English character, and special character input modes.
US10498874B2	Display apparatus having ability of voice control and method of instructing voice control timing A display apparatus having ability of voice control and method of instructing voice control timing, the method includes following steps of: displaying a view of voice control instruction message; receiving a voice and generating initial voice data; receiving another voice and generating control voice data when determining that the initial voice data is matched with trigger voice data; executing a corresponded control command when the generated control voice data is matched with default voice data; and, stopping displaying the view of voice control instruction message. The user experience can thus be enhanced via instructing the user the timing of inputting voice control.
US10498868B2	Multipath transport communications The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance for supporting a multipath transport throughput capability that is configured to improve throughout of a multipath transport connection of a multipath transport protocol. The multipath transport throughput capability is configured to improve the throughput of the multipath transport connection by improving delivery of acknowledgment packets acknowledging successful delivery of data packets sent from a data transmitting side to a data receiving side. The multipath transport throughput capability may be configured to improve the delivery of acknowledgment packets from the data receiving side to the data transmitting side by, for a data packet that is successfully received at the data receiving side from the data transmitting side, sending multiple acknowledgment packets from the data receiving side to the data transmitting side where the multiple acknowledgment packets associated with the received data packet may be sent over multiple transport connections of the multipath transport connection.
US10498865B2	Security-oriented compression A method of data nibble-histogram compression can include determining a first amount of space freed by compressing the input data using a first compression technique, determining a second amount of space freed by compressing the input data using a second, different compression technique, compressing the input data using the compression technique of the first and second compression techniques determined to free up more space to create compressed input data, and inserting into the compressed input data, security data including one of a message authentication control (MAC) and an inventory control tag (ICT).
US10498861B2	Method and apparatus for serving and managing storage of data streams in a surveillance and/or monitoring system The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for managing storage and serving of data streams generated by peripheral devices in a system for surveillance and/or monitoring. According to one aspect, the method comprises the steps of obtaining a configuration table, the configuration table comprising a list of one or more recording servers storing data segments generated by the peripheral device; building an association table, the association table comprising, for each recording server of the list, identifiers of data segments of the data stream stored therein; determining, based on the association table, the recording server storing a requested data segment; obtaining the requested data segment from the determined recording server and serving the obtained data segment.
US10498859B2	System and method for self-deploying and self-adapting contact center components A system and method for self-deploying applications for a contact center. An executable unit is built for deploying an application for the contact center, and the application and logic for provisioning the application are aggregated into the executable unit. The executable unit is then provided for deployment. When the executable unit is run, logic within the executable unit is configured to automatically register the application on the computing environment, discover and resolve services used by the application, and start the application on the computing environment.
US10498856B1	Systems and methods of generating an engagement profile The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining an engagement profile of a participant by associating electronic activities to a profile. It may generate the engagement profile based on analysis of the electronic activity level. An example implementation may contain the following steps. The system may access for a first record object a plurality of electronic activities linked with the first record object. The system may identify for a participant from the plurality of electronic activities a set of electronic activities including the participant. The system may determine an engagement profile of the participant based on a first number of electronic activities of the set of electronic activities sent by the participant, a second number of the set of electronic activities received by the participant and a temporal distribution of the set of electronic activities. The system may store the engagement profile in one or more data structures.
US10498855B2	Contextual services in a network using a deep learning agent In one embodiment, a device in a network monitors a plurality of traffic flows in the network. The device extracts a plurality of features from the monitored plurality of traffic flows. The device generates a context model by using deep learning and reinforcement learning on the plurality of features extracted from the monitored traffic flows. The device applies the context model to a particular traffic flow associated with a client, to determine a context for the particular traffic flow. The device personalizes data sent to the client from a remote source based on the determined context.
US10498846B2	Presence-based content control Presence based content access control techniques are described in which presence of users is used as a basis for enforcing content restrictions. In an implementation, applications are registered to receive feedback regarding users' presence in relation to a presentation of content via a computing device. The presence of users is recognized independently of authentication of the users to access user accounts. For example, an imaging sensor such as camera may be employed for recognition of multiple users engaged with the computing device. In addition or alternatively, presence devices associated with users such as badges, key fobs, or access cards may be detected to ascertain the presence of users. Feedback indicative of the one or more users that are recognized may then be supplied to the registered applications. The feedback enables the applications to control the presentation of content by enforcing content restrictions and/or taking other presence based actions.
US10498845B1	Using agents in a data center to monitor network connections An agent executes in user space on a machine and monitors for network connections. In response to detecting an initiation of a network connection, data associated with a process associated with the network connection is collected, e.g., by the agent. At least a portion of the collected process data is reported to an external node. The reported information is used to detect anomalies in a network environment.
US10498841B2	Determining the health of a network community Embodiments relate to determining the health of a network community. Aspects include defining, via a computer processor, measurable aspects associated with the network community. The measurable aspects include metrics for one or more of: quantified interactions among users in the network community, quantified activities among the users that are associated with a topic, and quantified activities indicative of network community accessibility. Aspects also include monitoring activities conducted via the network community, collecting data from monitored activities that correspond to the measurable aspects, and analyzing collected data from the monitored activities. The analyzing is performed as a function of the metrics. Aspects further include determining, via the computer processor, a health status of the network community from results of the analyzing.
US10498840B2	Method and system for efficient review of exchanged content A method for reviewing an inmate's communications that includes receiving a two-party message including a media item, and determining whether the media item is viewable pending review. When the media item is viewable pending review, placing the media item in a conditionally viewable repository for the inmate, and making the two-party message accessible to the recipient based on the media item being placed in the conditionally viewable repository for the inmate. When the media item is not viewable pending review, placing the media item in a conditionally held repository for the inmate, and making the two-party message inaccessible to the recipient based on the media item being placed in the conditionally held repository for the inmate. The method further includes receiving review results of a review process performed on the media item, and moving the media item to a reviewed media items repository based on the review results.
US10498836B2	Network based service discovery via unicast messages In one example, a system is described which includes an underlay network including a mapping server and a mapping database, an overlay network including VTEPs, at least one peripheral device, and at least one client device connected to the at least one peripheral device via the VTEPs. Further, each VTEP includes a traffic optimization module. A first VTEP receives a first service advertisement from a first peripheral device offering the first service and registers service advertisement information with the mapping database, a second VTEP connected to a first client device queries the mapping database to discover the first peripheral device via a unicast message, retrieves the service advertisement information from the mapping database upon a successful query, and sends the retrieved service advertisement information to the first client device, and the first client device selects the first peripheral device offering the first service using the service advertisement information.
US10498831B2	Communication sessions at a CoAP protocol layer Functionality is added to the CoAP and WebSocket protocols to enable the creation of communication sessions, or connections, at a CoAP layer of a communications network. In one aspect, a connection is created at Client server the CoAP layer using CoAP RESTful messages. In another aspect, new CoAP Options are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer. In yet another aspect, new CoAP Codes are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer. In a further aspect, new CoAP Tokens are introduced to request initiation and deletion of a connection at the CoAP layer.
US10498828B2	Systems and methods of accessing and decoding vehicle manufacture information Systems, methods, and techniques to access and decode vehicle information are provided. The method includes generating a request for a manufacturer server to transmit an option code to a central server based at least on a vehicle identification number received from a client device. The method further includes decoding, at a decoding module operating at the central server, the option code to generate an option that is present on a vehicle referenced by the vehicle identification number. The decoding includes mapping, by the decoding module and based on a conversion mapping, the option code to the option accessed at an option code database in communication with the central server and the decoding module. The decoding further includes generating option data including the option. The method further includes transmitting the option data to the client device for display at the client device.
US10498827B2	Automated implementation of provisioned services based on captured sensor data The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems and processes that perform operations consistent with services provisioned to a device based on real-time sensor data indicative of and characterizing a user's operation of the device and additionally or alternatively, a system or apparatus that includes the device. For example, the device may obtain stored data identifying a provisioned service, and may obtain sensor data captured by an on-board or external sensor during an operation of the device. Based on the sensor data, the device may generate a usage parameter that characterizes the operation of the device during a temporal period, and perform an operation consistent with the provisioned service in accordance with the generated usage parameter.
US10498824B2	Requesting storage performance models for a configuration pattern of storage resources to deploy at a client computing environment Provided are a method, system and program for requesting storage performance models for a configuration pattern of storage resources to deploy at a client computing environment. A determination is made of a new configuration pattern of storage resources to deploy. A request is sent to a service provider with information on the new configuration pattern. A result set is received from the service provider having at least one provided configuration pattern having a degree of similarity to the new configuration pattern and a storage performance model for each of the provided configuration patterns. Each of the storage performance models indicate workload and performance characteristics for one of the provided configuration patterns. One of the provided configuration patterns is selected from the result set and the storage performance model for the selected configuration pattern is used to model performance at the client.
US10498822B2	Adaptive scanning rates A distributed storage network (DSN) stores encoded data slices in dispersed storage (DS) memories using a DSN namespace divided into a plurality of DSN address ranges. Multiple scanning modules, each including a processor and associated memory, identify DSN address ranges for detection of storage errors within the DSN namespace, and initiate scanning for storage errors within the identified DSN address ranges. The scanning is performed in accordance with a scanning rate associated with each individual scanning module. Each scanning module obtains a target scanning performance level, which specifies a scanning performance level for the detection of storage errors across multiple DSN address ranges associated with more than one scanning module, and determines an actual scanning performance level for storage error detection across the same range of DSN addresses. The scanning modules cooperatively determine an updated scanning rate for each scanning module based on the target scanning performance level and the actual scanning performance level. The scanning rate of at least one of the plurality of scanning modules is altered to match the updated scanning rate.
US10498819B2	Method for storing data in a cloud and network for carrying out the method A method for storing data in a cloud includes providing at least one data file to be stored together with a predefined number t of replicas of the at least one data file within the cloud, at least one authentication tag corresponding to the at least one data file and t functions that are configurable to take at least a predefined time to compute. The at least one data file, the at least one authentication tag and the t functions are transmitted to the cloud. The at least one data file is stored within the cloud and t solutions of the t functions are computed within the cloud. The t replicas of the at least one data file are generated based on the t solutions of the t functions and the at least one data file within the cloud. The t replicas are stored within the cloud.
US10498815B2	Data recovery objective modeling One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for data recovery objective modeling. For example, a data recovery objective model may be defined for a storage network environment. The data recovery objective model may be defined based upon a client data ingest rate corresponding to a data change rate by one or more clients of data stored by a first storage controller. The data recovery objective model may be defined based upon an effective throughput of a data transfer utility for replicating modified data from first storage of the first storage controller to second storage of a second storage controller. Statistical utilization data may be collected from the storage network environment, and may be evaluated using the data recovery objective model to determine a data recovery objective metric. If the data recovery objective metric does not satisfy a client specified objective, then a computing resource recommendation may be provided.
US10498814B2	Network storage node and network storage system The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a network storage node, the network storage node comprising mass storage resources and computing resources, the apparatus comprising: a storage management module configured to use the computing resources to provide storage services based on the mass storage resources; and a negotiation control module configured to provide computing services based on the computing resources. By means of the apparatus, the network storage node can be scaled conveniently, so that computing resources in the network storage node are put into sufficient use and a waste of resources is avoided.
US10498801B2	Transmitting and displaying screen content A projecting terminal and a displaying terminal use a point-to-point connection interface provided by a web-based operating system (OS) to establish a point-to-point communication link. The projecting terminal uses a screen visiting interface provided by the web-based OS to access a screen content, converts the screen content into screen content data in real-time, and transmits the screen content data through the communication link. The displaying terminal receives the screen content data and uses a content displaying control provided by the web-based OS to display the screen content data onto a screen. The present techniques enable two devices that are equipped with the web-based OS to implement screen projecting, expand the usage of the screen projecting technology, and are easy for implementation.
US10498800B2	Version selective content delivery A method and system of ID based content delivery where the selection and transmission of content is facilitated with use of version IDs associated with each available version of each particular piece of content. A relationship may be generated between the available versions in the version IDs to facilitate determining the version ID associated with a version desired for rendering at a particular type of terminal.
US10498798B2	Electronic device and method for splitting file A method of splitting files applied to an electronic device includes obtaining a single file from a predetermined location. The number of blocks into which the file is to be split is calculated using a preset formula according to a capacity of a send buffer of a memory of the electronic device and also a calculated probability of availability of a transmitting channel. The file is split into the number of blocks.
US10498797B2	Systems and methods for caching and serving dynamic content A web server and a shared caching server are described for serving dynamic content to users of at least two different types, where the different types of users receive different versions of the dynamic content. A version of the dynamic content includes a validation header, such as an ETag, that stores information indicative of the currency of the dynamic content and information indicative of a user type for which the version of the dynamic content is intended. In response to a user request for the dynamic content, the shared caching server sends a validation request to the web server with the validation header information. The web server determines, based on the user type of the requestor and/or on the currency of the cached dynamic content whether to instruct the shared caching server to send the cached content or to send updated content for serving to the user.
US10498786B2	Method and apparatus for adaptively providing multiple bit rate streaming media in server A method and apparatus for adaptively providing multiple bit rate streaming media in a server. The method for adaptively providing multiple bit rate streaming media comprises: acquiring network quality information; in the case that it is determined based on the network quality information that bit rate switching is needed, selecting one queue from all queues as the transmitting queue, wherein multimedia data frames with different bit rates for the same media content are stored in different queues; reading the multimedia data frame from the transmitting queue and sending it, and deleting all multimedia data frames in other queues having the same media content as the already-sent multimedia data frame. The technical solutions provided by the present disclosure reduces bit rate switching delay while implementing adaptive bit rate switching, and implements quick and seamless adaptive bit rate switching.
US10498779B2	Method for transferring control of a conference call A method for transferring control of an existing multi-participant conversation in which at least two communication terminals are connected to each other through a data connection to a conference control application can include the following steps: establishment of a virtual conference room that serves as an anchor point for the application and can be a virtual participant in the conference, switching of the conference room into the existing data connection and assignment of the master role to the conference room. A signal generated by the application can cause the switching of the conference room into the existing data connection and the assignment of the master role to the conference room.
US10498778B2	System and method for managing multi-media conferences using group segmentation A conference management system that is capable of managing one or more panels within a teleconference. The conference manager is capable of receiving commands for the purposes of configuring one or more panels and, during a teleconference, activating various panels at various times. In particular, the conference manager is configured to add participants in a teleconference to a panel. The conference manager is also configured to activate a panel, which has the effect of unmuting the audio and video media of the participants previously identified as members of the panel. The conference manager can be further configured to restore the conference to its previous mode, such as a lecture mode in which a lecturer participant is identified as a permanent speaker such that activating and deactivating a panel does not result in the lecturer being muted. Muting treatments other than activating a panel can also be applied to the teleconference.
US10498777B2	Real-time push notifications for cloud-based applications An improved technique pushes change notifications to application instances running on frontend clients. In accordance with the improved technique, a backend system sends compact change notifications merely to inform the application instances that contents of the data storage container have changed. The application instances may then respond by requesting the changed content of the data storage container. In response to the request, the backend system provides the requested contents.
US10498776B2	User terminal apparatus and method for communication using the same A user terminal apparatus and a communication method using the same are provided. A user terminal apparatus includes an inputter configured to receive a request for an access to a second user terminal apparatus; a communicator configured to receive service information including at least one communication service provided in the second user terminal apparatus; a displayer configured to display the service information; and a controller configured to, when at least one of the service information is selected, access the second user terminal apparatus through a communication service corresponding to the selected service information.
US10498769B2	Monitoring a privacy rating for an application or website A method, comprising: obtaining a current version of a policy associated with an application or website; comparing the current version against a previous version to identify differences in key words or phrases, each difference corresponding to interactions of the application or website, the interactions comprising use of computing device functionality or personal information; for each difference previously associated with a particular level of privacy risk, retrieving the particular level from a database; for each difference not previously associated with the particular level: generating a respective level of privacy risk associated with particular interactions of the application or website corresponding to the difference; associating the respective level to the difference; and storing in the database the difference and the respective level associated with the difference; generating a current privacy risk score based on each of the particular levels and on each of the respective levels associated with the one or more differences; determining if there was a privacy risk change; and if so, notifying the user.
US10498766B1	User privacy framework A computer program product has a computer-readable storage medium having computer program instructions embodied therein for performing a method for implementing a privacy policy for a user. The method may include the user developing rules that determine whether another user (requester) can access information related to the user. The rules may be stored in a database coupled to a server and evaluated when a request is received from the requester to access the information. If a rule is satisfied by the requester, the server can return the information to the requester. The information can be returned at a level of granularity specified by the user in the satisfied rule. A privacy level can be set by the user to allow access to requesters based on the rules or to deny access to any requesters.
US10498764B2	Network routing and security within a mobile radio network In an example embodiment, A PICNEEC is provided. It includes one or more Virtual Customized Rules Enforcer (VCRE) instances, each VCRE instance corresponding to a group of mobile devices and defining a set of policies personalized for the group of mobile devices. Each VCRE is configured to, upon receiving a data packet communicated between a packet-based network and a mobile device in the corresponding group via a radio network, execute one or more policy rules stored in the VCRE instance to the data packet prior to forwarding the data packet. Each VCRE instance is controlled independently of one another via direct accessing of the VCRE instance by a different customer of the mobile network provider.
US10498761B2	Method for identifying phishing websites and hindering associated activity Systems and methods for hindering cyber-attacks include: modifying a target website of a remote service provider, wherein modifying the target website includes: reconfiguring a structure of the target website to include a tattler, wherein when the tattler is executed at a non-authorized copy of the target website, the tattler is configured to transmit to a cyber-attack mitigation platform tattler data associated with the non-authorized copy of the target website; receiving the tattler data, wherein the tattler data includes website monitoring data, wherein the website monitoring data comprises a URL of the non-authorized copy of the target website; using the website monitoring data to evaluate the non-authorized copy of the target website, wherein the evaluating includes identifying whether the non-authorized copy of the target website comprises an attack website; and implementing one or more attack mitigation protocols when the non-authorized copy of the target website comprises the attack website.
US10498756B2	Calculating and benchmarking an entity's cybersecurity risk score Determining an entity's cybersecurity risk and benchmarking that risk includes non-intrusively collecting one or more types of data associated with an entity. Embodiments further include calculating a security score for at least one of the one or more types of data based, at least in part, on processing of security information extracted from the at least one type of data, wherein the security information is indicative of a level of cybersecurity. Some embodiments also comprise assigning a weight to the calculated security score based on a correlation between the extracted security information and an overall cybersecurity risk determined from analysis of one or more previously-breached entities in the same industry as the entity. Additional embodiments include calculating an overall cybersecurity risk score for the entity based, at least in part, on the calculated security score and the weight assigned to the calculated security score.
US10498754B2	Systems and methods for policing and protecting networks from attacks A method may include monitoring communications from a first user device coupled to a network and determining, based on the communications, whether the first user device is operating in accordance with a profile associated with the first user device. The method may also include transmitting a message to a network device in response to determining that the first user device is not operating in accordance with the profile. The method may further include blocking at least some communications from being transmitted to or received by the first user device, in response to determining that the first user device is not operating in accordance with the profile.
US10498750B2	Systems and methods for security and control of internet of things and zeroconf devices using cloud services Systems and methods of monitoring and controlling Internet of Things (IOT) and ZeroConf devices using a cloud-based security system include receiving fingerprints of the IOT and ZeroConf devices and data related to operation from a plurality of user devices; receiving updates related to the IOT and ZeroConf devices, configuration thereof, and proper operation thereof; determining security risk of the IOT and ZeroConf devices based on the fingerprints, the data related to operation, and the updates; and providing the security risk to the plurality of user devices and causing one or more policy-based actions to be performed based on the security risk.
US10498748B1	Cloud based data loss prevention system A cloud based data loss prevention (DLP) system implements a split computing architecture using separate indexer system and detection system to perform indexing and data loss prevention monitoring. The cloud DLP system includes a computing system deployed outside of the enterprise data network and including a first computing cluster and a second computing cluster. The first computing cluster includes an indexer system to generate a search index from a pre-index containing hash values of structured data to be protected. The second computing cluster comprises a detection system configured to receive the search index and network data content, to apply a forward hash function based on a key to the network data content, and to detect in the hash values of the network data content for matching data in the search index and to generate an alert in response to matched data content being found in the network data content.
US10498747B1	Using program code with a monitoring service A technology is provided for using a program code with a monitoring service in computing service environment. An application programming interface (API) call is prepared at a monitoring service according to one or more API call parameters, using a security data template, to be sent to the program code. The API call having the security data template can be sent from the monitoring service having a dashboard to the program code to query a target resource. A response can be received from the program code as return information from the program code and the target resource using the security data template according to the API call. The response can be displayed as a templated data response in the dashboard of the monitoring service according to a defined template.
US10498744B2	Integrity monitoring in a local network This application is directed to an integrity monitoring method performed at a computational machine in a linear communication orbit. The computational machine receives a watch list through the linear communication orbit. The watch list identifies objects for which events are to be monitored at the computational machine. While a plurality of events are occurring locally at the computational machine, the computational machine identifies the plurality of events in real-time. The identified events include events for the objects identified by the watch list, and event information for these identified events is stored in a local database of the computational machine. In response to an integrity reporting request received through the linear communication orbit, the computational machine identifies event information for at least some of the objects identified by the watch list in the local database, and returns the identified event information to a server system through the linear communication orbit.
US10498742B2	Secure access with trusted proximity device A method and system for security authorization on an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes detecting whether a trusted device is present in proximity to the electronic device. The trusted device is associated with a user profile of the electronic device, and the user profile includes access to private information. The method further includes allowing access to the user profile in response to detecting that the trusted device is present in proximity to the electronic device, and defaulting access to a public user profile of the electronic device in response to detecting a lack of presence of the trusted device in proximity to the electronic device.
US10498741B2	Sharing dynamically changing units of cloud-based content Systems for managing multiple shared content objects using access tokens that cover the multiple shared content objects are disclosed. A method commences upon assigning the shared content objects to have individual permissions grantable to two or more users. A user configures a shareable unit to include attributes that describe a plurality of constituent shared content objects stored on one or more storage devices in the cloud-based storage system. An administrator or other user configures allow/deny access privileges to the shareable unit. Upon receiving a request from a user to access the shareable unit, a single access token is generated to provide access to the shared content objects that comprise the shareable unit. Ongoing access to the shareable unit is accomplished using the single access token, without the need to provision an access token or tokens pertaining to individual ones of the constituent shared content objects of the shareable unit.
US10498740B2	Method, apparatus, and system for creating service account A system for creating a service account includes a first server associated with a first application, a second server associated with a second application, and an electronic device that is capable of communicating with the first server and the second server. The electronic device is configured to receive user information by executing the first application and verify or generate a first account corresponding to the first application through interaction with the first server, based on the user information. The electronic device is also configured to generate a second account corresponding to the second application through interaction with the second server, based on at least a portion of the user information if the second application is executed in response to a specified event.
US10498736B2	Third party program integrity and integration control in web based applications Disclosed herein are a resource control service, system, method and architecture. A client device's resource access is limited to an approved resource, or resources. A request for a resource is directed to a resource control service that determines whether or not to grant access to the requested resource. Where a determination is made to grant access to the resource, a response is transmitted to the client device, the response redirecting the client device to a second URI for the approved version of the requested resource. The response can be used by the client device request the resource from the location identified in the response.
US10498733B2	Secure transfer of authentication information A secure method connects to an application run on a server from a client computer device, by a user who does not have the authentication data of the account declared in the application, the account including at least one proxy ID. The disclosure also relates to the application and associated authentication data, implementing a proxy [mandatary gateway] including a memory for recording, for each user declared by a primary account comprising at least one user ID, the list of resource targets C and accounts to which the user has access.
US10498726B2	Container independent secure file system for security application containers Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for a container independent secure file system for security application containers. In some embodiments, a request for a virtualized application container may be received. A passphrase may be obtained from a user. A key may be obtained. A files system of the virtualized application container may be prepared for a specified mount point using the passphrase and key. The file system may be initiated in response to the request.
US10498725B2	Limited user authentication for controlling personal information privacy The longstanding problem of providing efficient and rapid online user services while maintaining user privacy is addressed. Disclosed is a system and method for providing unverified users an ability to act upon private records known to them while protecting user privacy by not reflecting private information back to the unverified user. As an unverified user inputs information related to their identity into an interface, the system searches an indexed database which may include both registered users and/or unregistered customers indexed from a single data source or from disparate data sources.
US10498723B2	Method, and apparatus for authenticating access The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and system for authenticating access of a first device with a first user account to a second device with a device identification bound with a second user account. The method includes acquiring, by the first device, the device identification of the second device to by accessed. Subsequently, the method includes sending the device identification and the first user account to a third-party device. The third-party device receives the device identification and the first user account, sends an authentication request to a login terminal for the second user account when the first user account is different from the second account, receives a permission access response for an access authorization front the login terminal, and sends an access password associated to the first device. Then, the method includes receiving the access password, and accessing the second device using the access password.
US10498722B2	Methods and apparatus to issue digital certificates Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to issue digital certificates are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a certificate issuer to communicate, from a first entity, a digital certificate to be signed with a request for identifiers, and a value receiver to receive, at the first entity, a first value uniquely identifying a second value from a second entity and, after a period for accepting identifiers has ended, receiving, at the first entity, the second value from the second entity, the certificate issuer to combine, at the first entity, the second value and a third value to generate a certificate identifier for the digital certificate and to issue the digital certificate with the certificate identifier.
US10498713B1	Wireless peer to peer mobile wallet connections Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like.
US10498711B1	Providing a booting key to a remote system Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing a booting key to a remote system. A policy server receives a verification that a predetermined number of user devices provided secret information for booting a remote system. The policy server provides, in response to the received verification, a message for a key server to provide a booting key to the remote system, the key server providing the booting key in response to the message and causing the remote system to complete a booting procedure, in response to the message from the policy server.
US10498699B2	Reliability based dynamic content recommendation Systems and methods for automatic content remediation notification are disclosed herein. The system can include memory that can contain a content library database. The system can include a first user device and one or more servers. The one or more servers can: receive a content aggregation creation request from the first user device; identify content information associated with a set of the plurality of data packets; apply a filter request to the set of the plurality of data packets; automatically provide information relating to data packets in the restricted set of data packets to the first user device; receive content aggregate information identifying a content aggregate from the first user device; evaluate the content aggregate according to the metadata associated with the data packets of the content aggregate; and output an indicator of the evaluation result to the first user device.
US10498696B2	Applying a consistent hash to a distributed domain name server cache Implementations are provided herein for using a distributed DNS cache that is distributed among nodes of a cluster of nodes operating as a distributed file system. A consistent hash can be used to determine a resolution node for a DNS request asking to resolve a specific FQDN. The inputs to the consistent hashing algorithm can be the FQDN, a set of available nodes, and a set of all possible nodes. By using a consistent hash, the process can reduce the sensitivity of the hashing algorithm output from changing when nodes added or removed as participants in the distributed cache service. As each node in the cluster of nodes can independently calculate a resolution node for specific FQDN, there is no need to send control messages between nodes, as each node only needs to be aware of the set of available nodes in the cluster of nodes.
US10498694B2	Mapping IPv4 knowledge to IPv6 Knowledge associated with an address of a first IP type may be mapped to an address of a second IP type. In response to receiving, at a first IP endpoint type, a request from a client associated with a first and second IP address type, a first address of the first IP type associated with the client is recorded. A unique identification of the request is generated. The unique identifier and instructions to make a second request to a second IP endpoint type are sent to the client. The second request, that includes the unique identifier and corresponds to the second IP address type associated with the client, is received at the second endpoint. Both the first address and the second address are determined as corresponding to the client by determining that the unique identifier was used in both requests. The first address is mapped to the second address.
US10498691B2	System and method for generating a user status and authenticating social interactions in a computer network Providing user status in a computer network includes storing associations of interaction indications to different interaction events, storing values for the interaction indications, and maintaining accounts for users performing the different interaction events. Interaction indications are received via the computer network from terminals associated with the accounts. Each interaction indication identifies a target account. Values of a set of interaction indications are combined using a limiting function that accumulates the values of the set into an accumulated value and progressively limits the accumulated value as the interaction indications in the set increase. An indication of the accumulated value is outputted as a status of the particular target account.
US10498690B2	Latent user communities A method implemented by at least one server computer is provided, including: providing, over the Internet, access to a plurality of topics, wherein each topic includes, and further provides access to, a plurality of posted items; recording interaction data for the plurality of topics, the interaction data identifying user activity occurring within each of the topics; analyzing the interaction data to identify clusters of topics that exhibit similar behavioral patterns; for each cluster of topics, generating a community that includes the topics in the cluster; providing, over the Internet, access to the communities, wherein accessing a given community further provides access to the topics included in that community, which further provide access to the posted items that are included in the topics within that community.
US10498685B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling provisioning of notifications based on sources of the notifications Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for minimizing distractions caused by notifications. Notifications can be limited by scoring sources of notifications according to an activity that a recipient is involved in, previous interactions between a user and the source, and/or any other data that can be associated with a notification. For example, a user that is driving can limit the sources from which notifications can be received, unless a score for a particular sources satisfies a notification threshold while driving. Otherwise, if the score fails to satisfy the notification threshold, the user can be presented with the notification at a different time or via a modality that is less distracting than a typical modality for presenting the notification. As a user indicates preferences for receiving notifications from particular sources, the scores for those sources can be dynamically adapted to a user's predilection for particular sources and/or notifications.
US10498684B2	Automated bundling of content Non-limiting examples describe automated bundling of content on behalf of a user by an application/service. As an example, a bundle of content may be a bundle of emails created on behalf of a user by an email service. Email data associated with a user account of an email service may be accessed. The email data may be evaluated by applying a bundle generation model that that evaluates the emails for bundling associations. An exemplary bundle generation model may evaluate the email data based on: user signal data from actions pertaining to categorization of specific emails, content and metadata corresponding with the email data, and server side metric analysis of activity corresponding with the user account. A bundle of emails may be automatically generated based on an evaluation result from applying the bundle generation model. The bundle of emails may be transmitted for display in a mailbox of the user account.
US10498682B2	Method for processing IMAP data flows, electronic mail servers and computer programs implementing said methods Method for processing at least two IMAP data flows exchanged via an internet network between an electronic mail server and two remote clients respectively using a first and a second separate proprietary IMAP protocol, each IMAP data flow respectively corresponding to a respective remote client connection to an electronic mailbox, said method comprising the extraction of proprietary protocol data from an IMAP data flow, the execution of at least one task relating to the proprietary protocol data by a proprietary IMAP application module, and the generation of a return IMAP data flow, the proprietary IMAP application module being selected from two modules suitable for executing tasks relating respectively to the first and second proprietary IMAP protocols.
US10498677B2	Turn-based pictorial chatting application and method for pictorial chatting installed in user terminal The present disclosure relates to a turn-based pictorial chat application and a method for a pictorial chatting installed in a user terminal, which comprises storing a process of completing a picture in a chronological order from a start of drawing the picture when a first user draws the picture through a picture input window displayed on a display part of a user terminal, wherein a plurality of stage data capable of distinguishing positions are inserted according to a degree of completion of the picture; transmitting the stored picture to a user terminal of a second user as a chat participant; displaying the transmitted picture on a display of the user terminal of the second user; and displaying the picture drawn on the user terminal in chronological order according to the selection of the second user.
US10498676B2	Contextual automatic grouping Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing event detection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method a computing system that receives data from a first computing device associated with a first user that indicates a current context of the first user. The method includes identifying a subset of users associated with the first user based on the current context of the first user, and receiving data indicating a current context of the at least one other user. The method compares the current context of the first user with the current context of the at least one other user and determines that a shared event is presently occurring or has occurred. The shared event can be an event associated with the first user and the at least one other user of the subset of users. The method then indicates, at least to the first user, that the shared event is presently occurring or has occurred.
US10498674B2	Internet cloud-hosted natural language interactive messaging system sessionizer Provided are methods, systems, and computer-program products for providing a bot server to communicate with users using messaging applications. In some implementations, a method, system, and computer-program product for associating a message received by a bot server using a messaging application is provided. For example, a method can include receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) post call message from a messaging application server. The method can further include parsing content of the message to identify a keyword. The method can further include identifying an existing session from a plurality of sessions based on a context of the message and the keyword. The method can further include associating information from the HTTP post call message with the existing session. The method can further include generating and sending a response to the HTTP post call message based on the existing session.
US10498671B2	IC card, portable electronic apparatus, and IC card processing apparatus An IC card has a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus. A communication buffer for communication between the communication unit and the external apparatus is set in the storage unit. If the size of a buffer used in communication is designated by the external apparatus, the controller sets a receive buffer that stores reception data and a transmit buffer that stores transmission data in the communication buffer, and notifies the external apparatus of the size of the set receive buffer and the size of the set transmit buffer.
US10498665B1	Method for managing state of cloud-based systems Techniques for managing cloud-based systems are provided. A user provides search criteria for cloud-based resources through a web-based user interface. A search for the cloud-based resources is conducted based on the search criteria. The web-based interface displays a listing of cloud-based resources matching the search criteria. The user provides an input indicating a request to keep awake a first cloud-based resource. In response, the web-based interface copies an original operating schedule for the first cloud-based resource into a first tag and modifies the original operating schedule contained within a second tag to form a modified operating schedule to cause the cloud-based resource to keep awake. The user can restore the original operating schedule when desired. Alternatively, the web-based interface can automatically restore the original operating schedule when a predetermined time period expires.
US10498664B2	Hybrid cloud resource scheduling In an example, a method of placing a virtual computing instance among a plurality of datacenters includes comparing constraints specified for the virtual computing instance against resource metrics obtained from the plurality of datacenters, and a budget specified for the virtual computing instance against admission prices for a plurality of tiers of the plurality of datacenters, to generate a candidate set of datacenters. The method further includes scoring the candidate set of datacenters. The method further includes deploying the virtual computing instance to a target datacenter selected from the candidate set of datacenters that satisfies a threshold score.
US10498661B2	Packet loss tolerant transmission control protocol congestion control During a Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”) session, a sending endpoint computer monitors amounts of data sent and patterns of data loss as data is sent to a receiving endpoint computer. The sending endpoint computer periodically determines whether data is being sent below, at or above path capacity, based on the monitored amounts of data sent and patterns of data loss observed. The sending endpoint computer periodically dynamically adjusts the rate at which data is sent to the receiving endpoint computer, in response to the determinations whether data is being sent below, at or above path capacity.
US10498659B2	System and method for managing virtual radio access network slicing A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include configuring a slice identity for each of a plurality of virtual radio access network (vRAN) slices, wherein each vRAN slice comprises functionality to perform, at least in part, one or more radio protocol operations on subscriber traffic; configuring an allotment of radio resources that can be utilized by each vRAN slice of the plurality of vRAN slices; receiving, by a slice manager, a subscriber profile identity (SPID) for a subscriber; and mapping the SPID for the subscriber to a particular vRAN slice of the plurality of vRAN slices. The method can further include communicating the mapping for the subscriber to the particular vRAN slice to which the SPID is mapped. The method can further include communicating the allotment of radio resources that can be utilized by the particular vRAN slice to the particular vRAN slice.
US10498656B2	End to end flow control A network device implementing the subject system for end to end flow control may include at least one processor circuit that may be configured to detect that congestion is being experienced by at least one queue of a port and identify another network device that is transmitting downstream traffic being queued at the at least one queue of the port that is at least partially causing the congestion. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to generate an end to end flow control message that comprises an identifier of the port, the end to end flow control message indicating that the downstream traffic should be flow controlled at the another network device. The at least one processor circuit may be further configured to transmit, out-of-band and through at least one intermediary network device, the end to end flow control message to the another network device.
US10498655B1	Dynamically adjusting load on an over-the-top (OTT) delivery network Dynamically managing an operation of a content delivery network (CDN) to address excessive load upon an upload link for updating data thereto and/or upon particular portions of the CDN. A network optimizer may receive bit rate utilization data that identifies a current bit rate amount being utilized by the upload link and what digital video data is being uploaded to the CDN thereon. The network optimizer may also receive, from an analytic server, consumption information about the current load being experienced throughout different regions of the CDN. The network optimizer analyses the bit rate utilization data and the consumption information to dynamically render any changes necessary to the bit rate utilization of the upload link and to the representations of digital video propagated to some or all portions of the CDN to ensure the load remains below a predetermined threshold in both the upload link and throughout the CDN.
US10498653B2	Encryption prioritization for distributed streaming applications Aspects of present disclosure include a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for implementing an encryption policy in a stream computing environment. The method includes: monitoring a plurality of stream operators within a stream computing environment to collect performance data, identifying a point of congestion within the stream computing environment, based on one or more values within the collected performance data satisfying a predefined congestion condition, determining one or more stream operators of the plurality of stream operators associated with the identified point of congestion, redeploying the one or more stream operators to an isolated network within the computing environment, and modifying an encryption policy for the stream computing environment to disable one or more encryption operations on the redeployed one or more stream operators.
US10498652B2	Method and system of application-aware routing with crowdsourcing In one aspect, a computerized method of an application routing service includes the step of using a deep-packet inspection (DPI) technique on a first network flow to identify an application. The method includes the step of storing an Internet-protocol (IP) address and a port number used by the application and an identity of the application in a database. The method includes the step of detecting a second network flow. The method includes the step of identifying the IP address and the port number of the application in the second network flow. The method includes the step of looking up the IP address and the port number in the database. The method includes the step of identifying the application based on the IP address and the port number.
US10498651B1	Method and system for computer data routing optimization Computer data routing optimization may include determining a set of potential routing networks comprising a default routing network and one or more alternative routing networks. Path selection criteria values may be determined for each of these networks, and, based on a determination that the path selection criteria value for at least one of the alternative networks corresponds to the path selection criteria value for the default routing network, a determination could be made of whether context specific rules should be applied to the set of potential routing networks. Based on that determination, an optimal routing network may be determined by applying a set of one or more context specific rules to the set of potential routing networks.
US10498649B2	Broadcast signal transmission device, broadcast signal reception device, broadcast signal transmission method, and broadcast signal reception method A broadcast signal transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating one or more input packets according to a first protocol; generating one or more link layer packets including the one or more input packets according to a second protocol; wherein each of the one or more link layer packets includes a header and a payload, and wherein the header includes packet type information which identifies types of the input packets, and payload configuration information which identifies whether the payload includes one input packets, or more than one input packets, or a part of one input packet; and generating a broadcast signal including the one or more link layer packets.
US10498647B2	Method and program product for electronic communication based on user action A system, method and program product for electronic communication includes checking and determining if a current called number of a subscriber is on a list of recent calls made by an onward caller where either the onward caller or the receiving caller enter a certain combination of symbols using the onward calling device or the receiving device respectively when the call is in progress. Calling route used to establish a connection between the onward caller and the subscriber is concluded as a low-quality route. Subscriber ID is extracted and included on the list of low quality routes. Request is made for a list of all possible routes for communication between the onward caller and receiver user. A comparison of the list of all possible routes and low quality routes is made. A route not earlier marked as a low-quality route is identified and selected. An electronic communication between the onward caller and receiving user is established using the selected route.
US10498640B2	PCE for temporal tunnel services An apparatus comprising a receiver configured to receive a first path computation request (PCReq) message from a path computation client (PCC) requesting path computation for a label switched path (LSP) in a network, wherein the PCReq message indicates a time interval scheduled for the LSP to carry traffic, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to compute a path in the network for the LSP by determining that the path satisfies a network constraint in the scheduled time interval, and reserve a network resource on a link along the path computed for the LSP, wherein the network resource is reserved in advance for the scheduled time interval, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to send a path computation response (PCRep) message to the PCC indicating the path computed for the LSP in the scheduled time interval.
US10498638B2	Performing a multi-stage lookup to classify packets Some embodiments provide a method for a forwarding element that forwards packets. The method receives a packet. The method performs a first stage lookup of a hash table for a first hash of a first set of header fields and un-wildcards bits of a wildcard mask that corresponds to the first set of header fields. If a matching hash is found in the first stage lookup, the method performs a second stage lookup of the hash table for a second hash of a second set of header fields and un-wildcards bits of the wildcard mask that corresponds to the second set of header fields. The method identifies a matching rule for the packet. The method generates a flow based on the matching rule and the wildcard mask, wherein the flow is used to process each other packets that match each bit which is un-wildcarded.
US10498637B2	Switch processing method, controller, switch, and switch processing system Embodiments of the present invention provide a switch processing method, a controller, a switch, and a switch processing system. The method provided by the embodiments of the present invention is executed by the controller and a logical Switch, where the logical Switch includes at least two physical Switches. The method includes: allocating, by the controller, a flow table of the logical Switch to each physical Switch; sending, by the controller, mapping information, so that each physical Switch obtains the mapping information; and sending, by the controller, flow entries, so that each physical Switch obtains flow entries corresponding to each physical switch and processes a data packet. For the logical Switch for executing the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, new physical Switches may be stacked on a basis of a physical structure of the logical Switch.
US10498635B2	On-board network system An on-board network system includes: communication lines; a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes being directly and physically connected to at least one of the other nodes by the communication lines, the nodes including loop nodes physically connected to a loop by the communication lines, the nodes constituting a first logical network in which the nodes are connected with each other via one route through the communication lines; a communication disruption detecting unit configured to detect disruption of communications via the communication lines; a network reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct a second logical network when the disruption of communications is detected by the communication disruption detecting unit, the second logical network not including a communication line that causes the disruption; and a delivery unit configured to deliver the information of the second logical network to the nodes.
US10498628B2	Adaptive metric collection, storage, and alert thresholds Techniques for adaptive metric collection, metric storage, and alert thresholds are described. In an approach, a metric collector computer processes metrics as a collection of key/value pairs. The key/value pairs represent the dimensionality of the metrics and allows for semantic queries on the metrics based on keys. In an approach, a storage controller computer maintains a storage system with multiple storage tiers ranked by speed of access. The storage computer stores policy data that specifies the rules by which metric records are stored across the multiple storage tiers. Periodically, the storage computer moves database records to higher or lower tiers based on the policy data. In an approach, a metric collector in response to receiving a new metric, generates a predicted metric value based on previously recorded metric values and measures the deviation from the new metric value to determine whether an alert is appropriate.
US10498627B2	Detecting packet forwarding path Methods of detecting a packet forwarding path, UMC servers and non-transitory machine-readable storage mediums are provided. In one aspect, a UMC server distributes a target packet feature pre-configured by a user to a plurality of forwarding devices managed by the UMC server, wherein the target packet feature is a feature of a target packet; receives respective path information transmitted by forwarding devices within the forwarding devices managed by the UMC server, wherein the respective path information is extracted by the forwarding devices from the target packet determined based on the target packet feature; and obtains a forwarding path corresponding to the target packet based on the path information transmitted by the forwarding devices.
US10498626B2	Method, traffic monitor (TM), request router (RR) and system for monitoring a content delivery network (CDN) A method, Request Router and Traffic Monitor for monitoring a Content Delivery Network effecting requests routing toward delivery nodes (DNs) without using a load balancer and achieving high availability. Iteratively, for each delivery node, sending a monitoring request to the delivery node. If a response indicative of success of the monitoring request is received from the delivery node before the end of a first time interval, setting a status of the delivery node to indicate success. If a response indicative of failure is received before the end of the first time interval, setting the status to indicate failure. If no response is received before the end of the first time interval, setting the status to indicate indetermination. Iteratively, at a second time interval, taking a snapshot of the statuses of the delivery nodes and producing a list of DNs with their statuses to be sent to the RR.
US10498625B1	Distributed testing service A distributed testing service for providing responsive and fault-tolerant testing computing platforms within a range of configurable testing conditions. The distributed testing service may be provide an independent worker registry service, a repository service, and multiple worker nodes. Further, the worker nodes may push, or initiate, transmissions to provide status information that may be used to determine appropriate worker nodes to client computers that are requesting worker nodes for executing test cases. The distributed testing service may provide network information for worker nodes to client computers so that communications involving executing the test cases on the worker nodes to not include the worker registry service or the repository service.
US10498622B2	Tunnel state detection for overlay networks A method inserts a request message in a first encapsulation header that encapsulates a first packet from a data compute node of a first host to form a first encapsulated packet. The first encapsulation header identifies a first address of a first tunnel endpoint in the first host and a second address of a second tunnel endpoint in the second host. The method then sends the first encapsulated packet through a tunnel via the first address of the first tunnel endpoint to the second address of the second tunnel endpoint. If a second encapsulated packet is received at the first tunnel endpoint in the first host from the second tunnel endpoint in the second host and includes a response message, the method records information for the tunnel based on the sending of the request message and the receiving of the response message.
US10498619B2	Discovering connection of passive cables In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a subsystem is provided. The subsystem includes a signal driver/receiver capable of sending and receiving data and signals over a passive cable. The subsystem includes a connection discovery engine to access a low-level enable or disable control of the signal driver/receiver and a low-level loss-of-signal (LOS) control of the signal driver/receiver. The connection discovery engine modulates the enable or disable control to send a local unique ID of the signal driver/receiver over the passive cable. The connection discovery engine monitors timings of transitions on the LOS control to receive, over the passive cable, a remote unique ID of a signal driver/receiver in a second subsystem connected by the passive cable.
US10498618B2	Attributing network address translation device processed traffic to individual hosts A method for profiling network traffic. The method includes capturing, from the network traffic using a packet capturing device, a plurality of packets, identifying a first portion of the plurality of packets as a first flow based at least on a common Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to each packet of the first flow by a network address translation (NAT) device, extracting, by a hardware processor separate from the NAT device and based on an NAT profile of the NAT device, a first data item from the first flow, wherein the first data item is inserted into the first flow by the NAT device for identifying a first host device coupled to the NAT device, and determining, by the hardware processor based on the first data item, that the first flow is generated by the first host device.
US10498617B1	System, method, and computer program for highly available and scalable application monitoring A system, method, and computer program product are provided for highly available and scalable application monitoring. In operation, a monitoring system receives a plurality of metrics from a plurality of reporting agents associated with a system being monitored. The system being monitored includes a plurality of heterogeneous components each being associated with at least one of the plurality of reporting agents, and the monitoring system is configured to monitor the system being monitored for overall system health utilizing the plurality of metrics. Further, the monitoring system determines to dispatch one or more alerts, metrics and aggregated metrics, to one or more downstream systems based on one or more of the plurality of metrics. Additionally, the monitoring system dispatches the one or more alerts to the one or more downstream systems utilizing one or more points of access to a plurality of downstream systems including the one or more downstream systems. The monitoring system enables the plurality of reporting agents to each automatically connect to one of a plurality of collector servers for communicating the plurality of metrics. In addition, the monitoring system enables additional reporting agents to be automatically added to the monitoring system and enables the plurality of reporting agents each to automatically reconnect to another one of the plurality of collector servers upon failure of the one of the plurality of collector servers.
US10498616B1	System and method for implementing a client performance capture tool The invention relates to a capture tool that remotely captures client-side performance data comprising: an interactive interface that receives user input; a computer processor, coupled to a memory component and the interactive interface, programmed to: receive, via a command line interface, a test command that comprises a path to a test script; launch, via a test runner component, a browser, at a remote client device, to execute a test in response to the test command; capture trace data from the browser launching at the remote client device; save the trace data at a local storage as snapshot files; and generate, via the interactive interface, performance data based on the trace data.
US10498614B2	Content prioritization based on packet size In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more bandwidth constraints on a bandwidth of a communication channel available to a first computing device; determining a plurality of data items to transmit from the first computing device; ranking each data item based at least in part on an affinity between a user and an originator of the data item in a social-networking system; selecting, based at least in part on the ranking of the data items, one or more particular ones of the data items to transmit from the first computing device from the first computing device; and writing the particular ones of the data items to a queue for subsequent transmission.
US10498612B2	Multi-stage selective mirroring Communication apparatus includes multiple interfaces connected to a packet data network and at least one memory configured as a buffer to contain packets received through the ingress interfaces while awaiting transmission to the network via respective egress interfaces. Processing circuitry is configured to identify data flows to which the data packets that are received through the ingress interfaces belong, to assess respective bandwidth characteristics of the data flows, and to select one or more of the data flows as candidate flows for mirroring responsively to the respective bandwidth characteristics. The processing circuitry selects, responsively to one or more predefined mirroring criteria, one or more of the data packets in the candidate flows for analysis by a network manager, and sends the selected data packets to the network manager over the network via one of the egress interfaces.
US10498609B1	System, method, and computer program for enterprise service network design driven by deep machine learning and artificial intelligence A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enterprise service network design driven by deep machine learning and artificial intelligence. In operation, a network design system identifies an enterprise network service project to design. The network design system receives business requirement information associated with the enterprise network service design project. Additionally, the network design system receives commercial requirement information associated with the enterprise network service design project. The network design system automatically identifies a topology and inventory items to generate the enterprise network service design project utilizing at least one neural network deep learning technique. The topology and inventory items are identified based on a current inventory and information in one or more historical project databases. The neural network deep learning technique allocates identification tasks to a plurality of neural layers for selecting an optimal service design solution for the enterprise network service design project.
US10498608B2	Topology explorer Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for discovering a network's topology and health. In some examples, a system can obtain, from at least one of a plurality of controllers on a network, a logical model of the network, the logical model including configurations of one or more objects defined for the network. Based on the logical model, the system can identify a respective location of the plurality of controllers in the network and a plurality of nodes in a fabric of the network. Based on the respective location of the plurality of controllers and plurality of nodes, the system can poll the plurality of controllers and plurality of nodes for respective status information, and determine a health and topology of the network based on the logical model, the respective location, and respective status information.
US10498605B2	Cloud based systems and methods for determining and visualizing security risks of companies, users, and groups Systems and method implemented through a distributed security system for determining and addressing risk of users, groups of users, locations, and/or companies include obtaining log data from the distributed security system; analyzing the log data to obtain a risk score for an entity associated with the distributed security system, wherein the entity comprises one of a user, a group of users, a location, and a company, and wherein the risk score is a weighted combination of pre-infection behavior, post-infection behavior, and suspicious behavior; performing one or more remedial actions for the entity; and subsequently obtaining updated log data and analyzing the updated log data to obtain an updated risk score to determine efficacy of the one or more remedial actions.
US10498603B2	Providing backup and restore services to network attached appliances in a network Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing backup and restore services to network attached appliances in a network. Configuration settings comprising configuration settings used in a network attached appliance are gathered and a unique identifier for the network attached appliance is determined. A backup request is generated including the configuration settings, the unique identifier, and a backup operation code. The backup request is broadcasted on the network to be received by the backup servers to store the configuration settings for the unique identifier.
US10498598B1	Preconfigured device representations Technology is described for providing preconfigured device representations in a service provider environment. A plurality of device representation parameters may be received for a device via a user account. A preconfigured device representation may be created for the device using the plurality of device representation parameters. The preconfigured device representation may be associated with the user account. The device may be registered with the service provider environment. A registration of the device may be performed when the device initially connects to the service provider environment. The registration may assign a device identifier to the device and may associate the user account with the device. The preconfigured device representation may be provided to the device after the registration of the device is completed.
US10498596B2	Terminal device and method for radio-network-scan operation The invention comprises an operating method of a terminal device, which is configured for radio communication via different frequency bands, in performing a network scan, the method comprising: receiving a command for starting a network scan; in response to receiving the command, attempting a synchronization with predefined control channels on all frequency bands receivable by the terminal device or on a subset thereof comprising a plurality of the frequency bands, and, upon successful synchronization with a respective one of the control channels, ascertaining respective network-configuration information provided via the respective control channel by a respective network; determining, using the network-configuration information ascertained, an estimate of a quantity indicative of an achievable data throughput, hereinafter throughput estimate, associated with the respective ascertained network-configuration information; generating and providing an output, which is indicative of at least one of the determined throughput estimates for the respective network configurations.
US10498594B2	Compatibility configuration method and system for internet of things device A compatible configuration method for an IoT device, wherein, by adding an energy detection device and a length verification device having a timer to a digital baseband demodulation portion of a Wi-Fi IoT device, when the Wi-Fi IoT device detects an HT-SIG field or VHT-SIG-B field in a header of a configuration information packet from a master device, starting the timer and the energy detection device, so as to judge whether receipt is successful based on whether a recorded time length when channel energy reaches a lower limit conforms to length information in the HT-SIG field or VHT-SIG-B field in the header of a configuration information packet for a higher frequency band mode; and after successful receipt, obtaining transmitted configuration access information sections by computing length differences between received configuration information packets, and then combining the received information sections to obtain configuration access information.
US10498589B2	Apparatus and methods for mitigating a fault that adversely affects ultra-wideband transmissions Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates transmitting a plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves that propagates along a surface of a first transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the first plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves conveys a plurality of communication signals, detecting an attenuation in the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves that affects a propagation of the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves along the first surface of the first transmission medium, and responsive to the detecting, redirecting at least a portion of the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves to an interface of a second transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10498582B2	Related content display associated with browsing One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.
US10498579B1	Dynamic constellation adaptation for slicer System and method of demodulation by adapting constellation values based on statistic distributions of received data symbols. To determine an adapted constellation, an expected ratio of received symbols with values in a certain range is preset based on an expected statistic distribution of data symbols across the multiple constellations. For a set of received symbols, a count ratio of symbols falling in a first range to all the symbols in the set is compared with the expected ratio, where the first range is defined as below a first value. The first value is repeatedly adjusted to adjust the first range until the count ratio equals the expected ratio. The final first value is then designated as the optimal adapted constellation.
US10498578B2	System and method for frequency synchronization of doppler-shifted subcarriers A method includes receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal comprising a plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers and determining frequency-shift data corresponding to the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers. The determining includes calculating frequency-shift data for each Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarrier of the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers, thereby yielding a plurality of subcarrier-specific frequency-shift values and calculating an average of the plurality of subcarrier-specific frequency-shift values. The method further includes frequency shifting each subcarrier of the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers by a value based on the determined frequency-shift data multiplied by a frequency index of each subcarrier.
US10498577B2	Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes encoding service data of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs); bit interleaving the encoded service data; building at least one signal frame including the bit interleaved service data; and modulating data in the at least one signal frame by Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method; inserting a preamble at a beginning of each of the at least one signal frame after the modulating step; and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the preamble includes two OFDM symbols and each of the two OFDM symbols is generated by a sequence multiplication, and wherein each of the two OFDM symbols in the preamble includes information for an emergency alert.
US10498575B2	Transmission method, transmission device, reception method and reception device A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
US10498572B2	Methods, devices and systems for receiving and decoding a signal in the presence of noise using slices and warping A method may comprise receiving and sampling a signal. The signal may encode a data packet. A slice may be generated and stored comprising a pair of values for each of a selected number of samples of the signal representing a correlation of the signal to reference functions in the receiver. The presence of the data packet may then be detected and the detected packet decoded from the stored slices. The generating and storing slices may be carried out as the received signal is sampled. The sampled values of the signal may be discarded as the slices are generated and stored. The slice representation of the signal can be manipulated to generate filters with flexible bandwidth and center frequency.
US10498571B2	Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus and digital radio communication method A transmission apparatus and method include modulating a transmission signal using a first modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes to generate a first symbol sequence. A second symbol, generated using a phase shift keying (PSK) modulation scheme, is inserted in the first symbol sequence to generate a first modulation signal for transmission. A second modulation signal is received that includes a third symbol generated using a PSK modulation scheme and inserted in a second symbol sequence generated using a second modulation scheme selected from the plurality of modulation schemes. The third symbol is extracted from the received modulation signal. A transmission path associated with the received modulation signal is estimated using the third symbol. A received data signal from the second symbol sequence included in the received modulation signal is output using the estimated transmission path.
US10498565B1	Sampling phase optimization for digital modulated signals System and method of timing recovery to achieve sampling phase optimization with aid of equalization adaptation. For equalizer filter, the offset between a current Center of Filter (COF) value and a nominal COF value is used as a measure for a clock phase correction resulted from an adaptive equalization process. A COF may be defined as a function of two selected tap weights or equal to a selected tap weight. The nominal COF value can be dynamically adapted based on the real-time sampling phase error. The tap weights of the equalizer filter are adjusted to decrease the offset, e.g., by interpolating/extrapolating selected tap weights based on the offset. By using sampling phase error as a feedback for COF_nom updating and so for equalization adaptation, the clock delay correction contributed by the adaptive equalization process is advantageously controlled to benefit sampling phase optimization.
US10498564B2	Receiver for handling high speed transmissions A high-speed serial link receiver system, comprises: an input terminal for receiving a signal; a pi-coil including a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor; a first electrostatic discharge device (“ESD”); a second ESD; an on-die-termination (“ODT”); and a receiver. The first inductor, the second inductor, and the third inductor are serially connected. The input terminal is coupled to the first inductor. A serial connection between the first inductor and the second inductor is coupled to the first ESD device. A serial connection between the second inductor and the third inductor is coupled to the ODT. The second ESD device and the receiver are coupled to the third inductor.
US10498560B2	Method and apparatus for FTN communication using transmit diversity Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing FTN communication using transmit diversity. A transmission apparatus generates a signal to be output through diversity modulation. A diversity order of diversity modulation may be set based on an FTN parameter, such as a variable for adjusting sampling time or a symbol transmission speed. When the diversity order is set based on the FTN parameter, the FTN parameter and the diversity order may be set so as to satisfy a QoS required of the transmission apparatus, such as a transmission rate and a Bit Error Rate. Depending on the circumstances, the set FTN parameter and diversity order may be provided to a reception apparatus that is to receive the output signal.
US10498556B2	Point-dependent resource symbol configuration in a wireless cell A high-power point and one or more low-power points transmit signals associated with the same cell-identifier in a heterogeneous cell deployment. Coverage areas corresponding to the low-power points fall at least partly within the coverage area for the high-power point, so that mobile stations within range of a low-power point are also within range of the high-power point. Channel-state-information reference symbols, CSI-RS, are transmitted using different CSI-RS resources on different transmission points within the cell, while configuration of CSI-RS measurement resources is conducted on a UE-specific basis. The choice of measurement resources to be used is determined by the network, based on the properties of the channels from the transmission points to the UE. As the UE moves around within the cell, the network tracks the channel properties and reconfigures the CSI-RS resources measured by the UE, to correspond to the resource of the closest transmission point or points.
US10498551B2	Data multicast or broadcast on control channel for narrowband communication Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Data for a broadcast or multicast service may be sent over a control channel. A network device may broadcast a message to indicate a plurality of enhanced multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) services offered by the network. The mobile device may transmit an indication to the network device identifying an eMBMS service of interest. The network device may transmit a configuration message before broadcasting or multicasting data of the eMBMS service of interest. The configuration message may notify the mobile device of a control channel on which to receive the data related to the eMBMS service. The network device may then broadcast or multicast the eMBMS service data on the control channel. The data may be segmented at a particular protocol layer and mapped to several transmission time intervals within each repetition of the control channel.
US10498550B2	Event notification A method, and associated computer system and computer program product, for notifying users of events. A notification server that includes a computer receives a notification rule. The notification server generates, for the received notification rule, a unique identifier for communication using a predefined social networking service. The notification server receives an indication of an event that occurred in an event source. The notification server determines whether the received indication satisfies the notification rule. In response to determining that the received indication satisfies the notification rule, the notification server marks the received event, using the unique identifier and broadcasting the marked event using the social networking service for receipt by those users who have access to said unique identifier.
US10498543B2	Systems and methods for encryption key management A certificate orchestration system for digital certificate and encryption key management is provided herein along with associated methods. The system includes a certificate orchestration server having a processing device in communication with a coupled storage system that is coupled to the certificate orchestration server. The system further includes an interface provided by the certificate orchestration server to a client device; and a database to store digital certificates and keys. The certificate orchestration server is configured to receive a request from the client device to generate a public key, receive the public key from a third-party certificate authority system over an external network, store the public key in the coupled storage system. The coupled storage system is not directly connected to the client device.
US10498542B2	Electronic identification verification methods and systems with storage of certification records to a side chain Method of certification including receiving user data at a device of a certifying entity. The method includes generating a salt that is unique. The method includes hashing the data combined with the salt to create a generated hashed data. The method includes generating a certification record based on signing the generated hashed data using a private key of the certifying entity to create a signed certification of the data. The method includes hashing the certification record. The method includes transmitting the hashed certification record to a blockchain for storing. The method includes receiving a certification tx-ID of the hashed certification record. The method includes generating a certification data block including the certification record and the certification tx-ID. The method includes storing the certification data block to a side chain.
US10498538B2	Time-bound secure access Described herein is a system and universal access control device that may enable a user device to gain access to a secure area or resource during a particular time duration. In some embodiments, a user device may relay a received access token to the universal access device via a wireless transmission at a particular time. The universal access device may verify the authenticity of the access token by relaying the access token information to the remote server, which may authenticate the user device and verify that the user device is permitted access at the particular time. Upon authentication and verification, the user may gain entry to the secure area.
US10498534B2	Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms An example method includes receiving a media identifier and a first impression identifier from a media device, the media identifier being indicative of media presented at the media device, receiving the first impression identifier in association with first user information from a first database proprietor as a result of the first database proprietor obtaining a first identifier encrypted with a first encryption key by the media device, and receiving a second impression identifier in association with second user information from a second database proprietor as a result of the second database proprietor obtaining a second identifier encrypted with a second encryption key. The example method further includes identifying the first user information as associated with a user based on the first impression identifier, identifying the second user information as not associated with the user based on the second impression identifier and discarding the second user information.
US10498532B2	Parallel computation techniques for accelerated cryptographic capabilities Computing devices and techniques for performing modular exponentiation for a data encryption process are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory logic for an encryption unit to perform encryption according to RSA encryption using a parallel reduction multiplier (PRM) MM process, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one wireless transmitter, the logic to precompute a reduction coefficient, determine an operand product and a reduction product in parallel, the reduction product based on the reduction coefficient, and generate a MM result for the PRM MM process based on the operand product and the reduction product. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10498528B2	Clock computing Machines A new computational machine is invented, called a clock machine, that is a novel alternative to computing machines (digital computers) based on logic gates. In an embodiment, computation is performed with one or more clock machines that use time. In an embodiment, a cryptographic cipher is implemented with random clock machines, constructed from a non-deterministic process, wherein the compiled set of instructions (i.e., the implementation of the cryptographic procedure) is distinct on each device or chip that executes the cryptographic cipher. In an embodiment, by using a different set of clock machines to execute two different instances of the same cryptographic procedure, each execution of a procedure looks different to malware that may try to infect and subvert the cryptographic procedure. This cryptographic process also makes timing attacks more challenging. In an embodiment, a detailed implementation of the Midori cipher with random clock machines is described.
US10498525B2	Equalizer circuit, reception circuit, and semiconductor integrated circuit An equalizer circuit includes: an addition circuit configured to add an input signal and a compensation signal; a comparison circuit configured to compare an output signal of the addition circuit; a plurality of first latch circuits configured to hold an output signal of the comparison circuit, the plurality of first latch circuits being connected in cascade; a selection circuit configured to select and output one of output signals of the comparison circuit and the plurality of first latch circuits; a second latch circuit configured to hold an output signal of the selection circuit; and a digital analog conversion circuit configured to generate the compensation signal, based on an output signal of the second latch circuit.
US10498514B2	Transmitting device, receiving device and methods thereof The present invention relates to a transmitting device and a receiving device. The transmitting device comprises: a processor, and a transmitter; wherein the processor is configured to map a plurality of synchronization signal sequences to time and frequency resource elements of one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, symbol, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a multi-carrier signal comprising the one OFDM symbol. The receiving device comprises: a processor, and a receiver; wherein the receiver is configured to receive a multi-carrier signal comprising a OFDM symbol, wherein time and frequency resource elements of the OFDM symbol comprises a plurality of synchronization signal sequences, wherein the processor is configured to detect the plurality of synchronization signal sequences comprised in the time and frequency resource elements of the OFDM symbol.
US10498513B2	Methods for dynamic management of reference signals Methods for dynamic allocation of reference signals (RS) may be provided. For example, rather than or in addition to using a pre-defined resource element (RE) mapping for determining reference signal locations within a time-frequency grid, a WTRU may receive one or more dynamic indications (e.g., downlink control information received via a physical downlink control channel) that indicate the position of reference signals and/or associate a first reference signal with a second reference signal. For example, the indicated association may indicate that the first and second reference signals were sent by the base station using the same precoder. The association may indicate that first and second reference signals may be used together for channel estimation.
US10498510B2	Uplink sounding signal triggering method and system, and apparatus An uplink sounding signal triggering method, system, and apparatus are provided to support a sounding reference signal (SRS) group scheduling or SRS switching function. The method includes: sending, by a base station, a downlink control information (DCI) using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), with the DCI including a sounding reference signal SRS control information intended for each UE of Y number of UEs, with Y comprising a positive integer greater than 1.
US10498507B2	Method and apparatus for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) Methods and apparatuses for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) reporting. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving and decoding higher-layer configuration information for N CSI reporting settings and M Resource settings. The method also includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) that includes a DCI field for requesting aperiodic CSI reporting. The method further includes calculating a CSI according to the configuration information and the DCI and transmitting the calculated CSI on an uplink (UL) channel. N is at least one, M is greater than one, and the DCI field includes a selection of one out of XSTATE configured states.
US10498503B2	Multi-cast resource allocation by aggregation level Multicasting resource allocation information per aggregation level is enabled. A device allocates resources to UEs according to aggregation level. At each level, a control message includes a bitmap, where each bit corresponds to a different resource, an array, and an ID field for dynamic mapping to the bitmap. The placement order value of an ID in the field is stored at locations in the array. The index value for those locations in the array identifies which asserted bits in the bitmap correspond to the resource allocation for a UE at the level. The control message is multicast to the UEs specified at the aggregation level. The bitmap may have the same length at each level, or have reducing length at lower levels with the removal of bits already asserted at higher levels. The UE reconstructs the bitmap from the higher level bitmaps and the bitmap for the current level.
US10498499B2	Method and apparatus for channel reservation window in unlicensed band There is provided a method, comprising: setting, by a radio device, length for a channel reservation window such that the channel reservation window comprises a plurality of subframes; dividing the channel reservation window at least into a downlink part and an uplink part, wherein the downlink part comprises at least one or more subframes of the plurality of subframes and the uplink part comprises at least one or more other subframes of the plurality of subframes; determine a timing offset between the start of the downlink part and the start of the uplink part, wherein the timing offset is based at least partly on applied timing advance; and defining timings, within the channel reservation window, for at least one of a downlink clear channel assessment-process and an uplink clear channel assessment-process at least partly on the basis of the timing offset.
US10498497B2	Broadcast signal transmitting device, broadcast signal receiving device, broadcast signal transmitting method and broadcast signal receiving method The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is received that has a downlink assignment index (DAI) and DAI group indication information within a subframe (SF) #n-k. A hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) payload is configured by using the DAI and the DAI group indication information. The HARQ-ACK payload is transmitted from an SF #n. A value of the DAI includes a scheduling order value in a cell/SF unit associated with the PDCCH in the SF #n−k. The scheduling order value in a cell/SF unit is counted in a cell-priority manner in a cell/SF domain. The DAI group indication information includes whether the PDCCH is related to a last DAI group, and one DAI group consists of a plurality of consecutive DAI values.
US10498496B2	Retransmission technique A technique for transferring data (602) that is representable by N data symbols (606) of a finite field is described. The size of the field is an integer power of a Mersenne prime. As to a method aspect of the technique, a polynomial over the finite field is determined based on the N data symbols (606). More than N code symbols (610) of the finite field are used for transmitting or initiating to transmit the data (602). At least one of the code symbols (610) corresponds to an evaluation of the polynomial at a non-primitive element of the finite field.
US10498491B2	Data transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving indication information indicating a data distribution manner selected from a first data distribution manner and a second data distribution manner; performing data transmission with the network device according to the data distribution manner indicated by the indication information; wherein the data distribution manner indicating a distribution of modulation symbols of a code block (CB) on one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of at least one resource unit, the one or more OFDM symbols are consecutive in time-domain; and wherein modulation symbols distributed on a same OFDM symbol of the one or more OFDM symbols are interleaved in frequency-domain according to the first data distribution manner and are not interleaved in the frequency-domain according to the second data distribution manner.
US10498488B2	Managing integrity of framed payloads using redundant signals A frame error correction circuit may identify and correct errors in data frames provided to a receiver as part of a diversity communications scheme. The frame error correction circuit may further align the data frames so that the data frames can be compared. The frame error correction circuit may perform a bit-wise comparison of the data frames and identify inconsistent bit positions where bits in the data frames differ from one another. Once inconsistent bit positions have been identified, the frame error correction circuit may access a permutation table of permutations of bits at the inconsistent bit positions. In some implementations, the frame error correction circuit uses the permutation table to reassemble permutations of the data frames. In various implementations, the frame error correction circuit performs a CRC of each permutation of the data frames, and provides a valid permutation to a network.
US10498485B2	Method and device for transmitting and receiving packet in communication system The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a packet in a communication system. A method for transmitting a packet according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: generating at least one source block including source packets for transmitting contents; performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding and generating at least one reconstructed block including reconstructed packets for restoring the source packets; and transmitting signaling information including packet identification information on the at least one source block and a packet stream including the source packets and the reconstructed packets, wherein header information of the reconstructed packets includes the number of source packets included in each source block according to the packet identification information, and information indicating the start numbers of the source packets included in the each source block.
US10498480B2	System and method for photonic distribution of microwave frequency electrical signal for distributed microwave MIMO communications A microwave transmit system is provided that makes use of optical fiber to convey a microwave frequency source. A local oscillator produces a microwave frequency source in electrical form. A directly modulated laser receives the first microwave frequency source and produces an optical signal. An optical fiber is used to convey the optical signal from the laser to a photodetector. The photodetector receives a first component of the optical signal and converts the first component of the optical signal to a second microwave frequency source in electrical form. A microwave modulator performs microwave modulation using the second microwave frequency source, and a microwave antenna configured to transmit an output of the first microwave modulator. For MIMO operation, there can be a second microwave modulator. The microwave frequency source can also be conveyed to the second microwave modulator using optical fiber, or the source can be proximate to one of the two microwave modulators, and conveyed to the other of the two microwave modulators using optical fiber.
US10498478B2	Reduced power dissipation optical interface using remote lasers Methods, systems, and devices for implementing optical interface and multiplexing devices. An input optical signal is received over an input fiber by an optical interface device. A modulated optical signal and an unmodulated optical signal are demultiplexed from the input optical signal, the unmodulated optical signal is modulated based on a data signal to generate an output optical signal; and the output optical signal is transmitted over an output fiber. A modulated optical signal is received over a network connection from an optical network by an optical multiplexing device. An unmodulated optical signal is generated using a generator device; the unmodulated optical signal and a signal that includes the modulated optical signal are multiplexed using an optical multiplexer to generate an output signal; and the output signal is transmitted over an output fiber to the optical interface device.
US10498477B2	Tracking reference signal configuration design A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may determine a signal configuration for transmitting a tracking reference signal (TRS) to a user equipment (UE). The signal configuration may identify a subset of locations, of a set of locations included in a transmission window, that is to be used to transmit the TRS, and the signal configuration may be selected to assist the UE with one or more measurements. The apparatus may transmit, based at least in part on the signal configuration, the TRS in the subset of locations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10498469B2	On-chip jitter tolerance testing In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for on-chip jitter tolerance testing. A receiver component includes a clock data recovery (CDR) logic circuit. The CDR logic circuit includes a controller to receive a phase signal and to output a DCO control signal; jitter injection (JINJ) logic to generate a first jitter signal at a first frequency and a first amplitude; and digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to receive the first jitter signal applied to the DCO control signal and to output, based on the first jitter signal applied to the DCO control signal, a first DCO clock signal for on-chip jitter tolerance testing.
US10498468B2	Base station, wireless communication system, and calibration method of wireless communication system According to one aspect, a base station that is connected to a plurality of transmission and reception points includes a calibrator. The calibrator calculates calibration coefficients to be multiplied on weights in beamforming communication at each of a plurality of transmission and reception points based on the beamforming communication at each of a plurality of transmission and reception points.
US10498465B2	Methods and apparatuses for measuring the distance to a passive intermodulation source According to methods of performing measurements to determine a distance to a passive-intermodulation (“PIM”) source, a first RF signal comprising a first frequency and a second RF signal comprising a second frequency may be applied to a device under test. A reference signal comprising a higher-order intermodulation-product of the first frequency and the second frequency may also be generated. An output signal from the device under test and the reference signal may be digitized and a calibration measurement may be applied. A phase difference between the device under test output and the reference signal may be determined. A plurality of phase differences may be determined for multiple first frequencies, and from the plurality of phase differences, a delay may be calculated, which may be multiplied by the velocity of propagation on the medium connecting the device under test to the test equipment to determine a distance to the PIM source.
US10498463B2	System and method for a subscriber-powered network element A system for powering a network element of a fiber optic wide area network is disclosed. When communication data is transferred between a central office (CO) and a subscriber terminal using a network element to convert optical to electrical (O-E) and electrical to optical (E-O) signals between a fiber from the central office and twisted wire pair, coaxial cable or Ethernet cable transmission lines from the subscriber terminal, techniques related to local powering of a network element or drop site by the subscriber terminal or subscriber premise remote powering device are provided. Certain advantages and/or benefits are achieved using the present invention, such as freedom from any requirement for additional meter installations or meter connection charges and does not require a separate power network.
US10498461B1	Optical receivers with dc cancellation bias circuit and embedded offset cancellation In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly.
US10498459B2	Optical transmitter and skew compensation method There is provided an optical transmitter including a modulator, a signal generator configured to generate in-phase or anti-phase skew adjustment signals that are identical in amplitude and frequency as signals to be input into an I axis and a Q axis of the modulator, a skew adjuster configured to perform skew adjustment upon the skew adjustment signals, a light source configured to enter light into the modulator, a monitor configured to monitor light that has been modulated using the skew adjustment signals and output from the modulator, a power detector configured to detect power of monitor light, and a controller configured to determine a skew adjustment amount with which average power of the monitor light is at a maximum or minimum value as an optimum skew adjustment value while changing a skew adjustment amount of the skew adjuster.
US10498454B1	Extinction ratio improvements in silicon photonics Improvements in extinguishing optical signals in silicon photonics may be achieved by supplying a test signal of a known characteristics to a Photonic Element (PE) to extinguish the test signal via a first phase shifter and intensity modulator on a first arm of the PE and a second phase shifter and intensity modulator on a second arm of the PE; sweeping through a plurality of voltages at the first intensity modulator to identify a first voltage that is associated with an extinction ratio at an output of the PE that satisfies an induced loss threshold and a second voltage that is associated with an induced loss in the test signal at the output of the PE that satisfies an extinction ratio threshold; and setting the PE to provide an operational voltage to the first intensity modulator based on the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10498451B2	Removable module One example of a removable module includes an optical transceiver, optical cables, electrical cables, a power conditioner, and a housing. The optical transceiver converts optical signals received through an optical cable to electrical signals to distribute to a plurality of computing devices through electrical cables and converts electrical signals received from the plurality of computing devices through the electrical cables to optical signals to transmit through the optical cable. The power conditioner receives power from a system with the removable module installed in the system to provide power to the optical transceiver. The housing encloses the optical transceiver and the power conditioner and includes an air intake port and an air exhaust vent. The housing is received by a bay of the system, which provides an interface to the power conditioner and provides air to the air intake port with the removable module installed in the system.
US10498444B1	Optical wireless communication system An optical wireless communication system includes a display panel, a frame rate controller, a backlight module, and a timing controller. The display panel includes a glass substrate, and the frame rate controller is configured to modulate multiple frequencies. The timing controller is configured to drive different scan regions of the glass substrate using at least a first frequency and a second frequency among the multiple frequencies and/or drive different backlight regions of the backlight module using at least a third frequency and a fourth frequency among the multiple frequencies for transmitting optical data. The first frequency is different from the second frequency, the third frequency is different from the fourth frequency, the value of the second frequency is a multiple of the value of the first frequency, and the value of the fourth frequency is a multiple of the value of the third frequency.
US10498443B2	Portable social communication client Systems and methods for facilitating social communication are disclosed. A system includes a first portable social client including an encoder configured to associate identity information with an optical signal pattern, and an optical signal transmitter configured to broadcast the optical signal pattern in a series of pulses in a non-visible light spectrum, and a second portable social client including an optical signal receiver configured to receive the optical signal pattern in the non-visible light spectrum, and a decoder configured to access the identity information associated with the optical signal pattern.
US10498442B2	Wireless delivery of broadcast data Systems and methods for improved content streaming and downloading. The system enables content to be transmitted to wireless base stations (WBSs) using unicast on the core network side of a cellular network to avoid incompatibilities associated with network broadcast technologies such as Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) and Long-Term Evolution Broadcast (LTE-B). At the same time, the system enable content to be broadcast, or transmitted to multiple user equipment (UE) in a single transmission to reduce wireless bandwidth consumption. The system can include a commodity server to receive requests from WBSs, place them in a chronological list based on network latency, and then transmit content to each WBS in a synchronized unicast manner. Each WBS can then transmit the content to a plurality of UEs with minimal buffer required due to the “pre-synchronization.”
US10498440B2	Network test instrument supporting hybrid fiber coax and RF over glass installations and method of using same A test instrument for testing RF and RFOG installations is disclosed. The test instrument is configured to test RFoG downstream power and recover an original RF signal from an optical signal generated at a head end and perform DOCSIS and RF signal tests including level, scan, carrier to noise, digital MER/BER, and full communication with CMTS.
US10498439B2	Method and device for determining the latency or length of an optical path, especially an optical fiber, of a fiber-optic transmission link A method for determining the latency or length of an optical path of a fiber-optic transmission link includes: starting a measurement cycle at a first point in time; stopping the measurement cycle at a second point in time after having received a last measurement bit or bit pattern at the first end; determining, at the first end, the total round-trip delay of the optical path by evaluating a time information available at the first end; and calculating the length of the optical path by using the total round-trip delay and the group velocity characterizing the signal propagation along the optical path.
US10498432B2	Method and apparatus for decoding signal in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to the present disclosure, an method of a receiving end in a wireless communication system includes: receiving network information from a transmitting end; acquiring received signals into which first signals transmitted by the transmitting end for predetermined blocks based on the network information and second signals relayed by a relay end are combined; configuring an expanded graph according to the trajectories of the first signals and the second signals; and restoring a message from the received signals by decoding the received signals according to the expanded graph.
US10498430B2	Expand dynamic of TDD signal detection and expand robustness against volatile signals A method for determining threshold signal power for a switching control module of a TDD switching sub-system includes setting a threshold signal power to a first value, wherein the threshold signal power is compared to a measured signal power of a downlink path signal of a telecommunication system from a measurement receiver; determining a first downlink signal time using the first value; adjusting the threshold signal power to a second value; determining a second downlink signal time using the second value; determining a difference between the first and second downlink signal times; when difference between the first and second downlink signal times does not exceed a predetermined threshold, determining whether the second downlink signal time corresponds to a valid downlink signal time; when second downlink signal time corresponds to a valid downlink signal time, setting a fixed threshold signal power for use during online operation of the switching control module.
US10498429B2	Systems and methods for a fronthaul network Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, or apparatuses that provide a fronthaul architecture that facilitates high fidelity and low latency communication between a radio processing unit, such as a baseband unit (BBU), which may be located a central office (CO), and a remote transceiver, which may comprise a remote radio head (RRH) or a remote radio unit (RRU), which may be located at remote cell site.
US10498424B2	Method and apparatus for reference signal configurations for CSI-RS port sharing in mobile communication system using massive array antennas A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, The system includes a base station having a large number of transmission antennas of a two dimensional (2D) antenna array structure can prevent excessive feedback resource allocation for transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) and increase of channel estimation complexity of a terminal, and the terminal can effectively measure channels of a large number of transmission antennas and can report to the base station feedback information configured through the measurement.
US10498423B2	Channel state information feedback method, precoding method, terminal device, and base station A channel state information CSI feedback method is disclosed for receiving a downlink symbol from a base station, where the downlink symbol includes a pilot; obtaining a channel matrix based on the pilot included in the downlink symbol; calculating a precoding matrix based on the channel matrix and a basic codebook; generating CSI based on the precoding matrix; and transmitting an uplink symbol to the base station, where the uplink symbol carries the CSI.
US10498422B2	Method for feeding back channel state information, UE and system A method for feeding back channel state information, UE and system. The method is applicable to a CoMP transmission system and includes: feeding back channel state information to a network side by way of concatenating more than one pieces of channel state indication information in a bit domain. In this way, a method for feeding back multiple pieces of CSI in the CoMP transmission may be provided. Furthermore, RI information and CQI/PMI information in the CSI may be respectively encoded and mapped, so as to ensure reliable transmission of the RI information and CQI/PMI information.
US10498415B2	Systems and methods for a multi-mode active electronically scanned array Systems and methods described herein are directed towards an active electronically scanned array (AESA) that can perform both frequency division duplexing (FDD) operations and time division duplexing (TDD) operations. The AESA includes a switch network having one or more switching stages coupled between a transceiver and one or more array elements to switch the AESA between FDD operation and TDD operations, modify a function of one or more of the array elements in the AESA and/or swap portions of the AESA between different functions. The switch network can be disposed in a feed portion of the AESA. Thus, functions of each of the array elements or subarrays of multiple array elements in the AESA can be modified at a feed portion of the AESA. The array elements can be configured for TDD operations and FDD operations and can be configured as a transmit elements, receive elements or isolation elements.
US10498412B2	Signal generation method and signal generation device A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US10498411B2	Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) feedback protocol A method includes sending, from an access point of a wireless network to a first station of a plurality of stations of the wireless network, a packet including a preamble, a data portion, and trigger data that includes non-precoded, omni-direction data. The preamble precedes the data portion. The data portion precedes the trigger data. The trigger data is configured to cause the first station to perform a channel measurement responsive to receiving the packet. The access point sends beamformed data to one or more of the plurality of stations. At least one of the plurality of stations includes a mobile station configured to receive the beamformed data. The method also includes receiving, at the access point from the first station, feedback information that includes channel state information associated with the trigger data. The feedback information is received from the first station without polling individual stations of the plurality of stations.
US10498407B2	Method for transmitting and receiving codebook based signal in multi-antenna wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting and receiving signals based on a codebook in a multi-antenna wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS); and reporting channel state information to the base station; Wherein the channel state information includes a Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) for indicating a specific code vector among a plurality of code vectors included in the codebook, the codebook being included in each code vector And a phase difference between adjacent elements may be set to be different from each other.
US10498402B2	Inductor, a related method of manufacture, a transmitter including said inductor, and a related proximity detection system The invention relates to an inductor, and particularly to an inductor for a transmitter circuit. The invention also concerns a transmitter including said inductor, a proximity detection system employing such a transmitter, and a method of making said inductor. The inductor of the invention includes a core having non-uniform permeability and a conductor winding arranged around the core. When used in a transmitter circuit, this allows an induced electromagnetic field to propagate through the core in a more efficient manner than otherwise possible, so resulting in a higher dynamic field strength for a given resonant circuit drive.
US10498400B1	High sensitivity NFC reader A device and method for mitigating the effects of carrier leakage and improving a near-field communications (“NFC”). The device includes a transmitter configured to generate an output signal including an output carrier signal, a receiver configured to demodulate a received signal including a received carrier signal, and an antenna configured to transmit the output signal and receive the received signal. The device further includes circuitry configured to electrically connect the transmitter via a transmit path to the antenna and the receiver via a receive path to the antenna, wherein the output carrier signal leaks into the receive path as a leakage signal, the circuitry comprising a phase shifter connecting the transmit path to the receive path and configured to phase shift the leakage signal with respect to the received carrier signal to reduce a voltage of a combined leakage signal and received signal received by the receiver.
US10498397B1	Wireless device One example discloses a wireless device, comprising a near-field transceiver configured to be coupled to a host structure; a controller coupled to the transceiver; wherein the near-field transceiver includes a feed point configured to be coupled to a conductive surface; wherein the conductive surface is configured to be capacitively coupled to the host structure to form part of a near-field electric antenna; and wherein the conductive surface is configured to be in repeated, but not continuous, contact with a ground.
US10498390B2	Resource allocation in a DSL network A method and device are provided for allocating resources in a DSL network, comprising the steps of a first-tier DSL network element receiving a resource requirement of a second-tier DSL subscriber line, the first-tier DSL network element determining a resource requirement of a first-tier DSL subscriber line, and the first-tier DSL network element allocating resources to the first-tier DSL subscriber line based on the resource requirements of the first and second tier DSL subscriber lines.
US10498389B2	Echo canceller device and voice telecommunications device Disclosed is an echo canceller (10) including: a false echo calculator (32) that acquires current and previous filter-coefficient groups used by an adaptive filtering unit (20), and that calculates plural false echo signals by performing a filtering operation using each of the current and previous filter-coefficient groups on a sequence of reception signals (x(n)); a voice-transmission signal buffer that outputs a previous voice-transmission signal (y(n−1)); an evaluation value calculator (34) that calculates plural evaluated values of an echo cancellation quantity by using the previous voice-transmission signal; a filter selector (36) that selects a new filter-coefficient group on the basis of the plural evaluated values of the echo cancellation quantity; a foreground filter (39) that performs a filtering operation using the new filter-coefficient group on the sequence of reception signals (x(n)) to generate an estimated echo component; and a subtractor (25) that subtracts the estimated echo component from a voice-transmission signal to generate a residual signal (e(n)).
US10498385B2	Tranceiver circuit and receiver circuit A transceiver circuit may include: a first NMOS transistor suitable for pulling up a transmission line in response to a TX signal in a TX mode and for being turned on or off according to a voltage level of the transmission line in an RX mode; and a first PMOS transistor suitable for pulling down the transmission line in response to the TX signal in the TX mode and for being turned on or off according to the voltage level of the transmission line in the RX mode.
US10498381B2	Protective tool Provided is a protector for a portable information terminal that protects the rear and front surfaces of the portable information terminal and whose entire volume is small.A protector for protecting a portable information terminal includes a rear protector configured to protect a rear surface of the portable information terminal, a rear engagement portion disposed on the rear protector and configured to engage with the portable information terminal, a front protector extending from a side surface of the rear protector and configured to protect a front surface of the portable information terminal, and a front engagement portion disposed on the front protector and configured to engage with the rear engagement portion.
US10498377B2	Increasing wireless spectral efficiency by leveraging interfering signals A computing system may utilize interfering signals of two or more wireless devices for improving communications involving the two or more wireless devices. These techniques and architectures may allow for improved spectral efficiency that enables a relatively large number of wireless devices to communicate among one another via receivers that share overlapping or adjacent frequencies. Such utilization of interfering signals may help solve a general problem involving, for example, co-channel interference (CCI) arising from densely deployed relatively small wireless communication cells for increasing communication throughput.
US10498376B2	Standardised measurement method for measuring the modulation of an amplitude-modulated radio signal and method for filtering the radio signal A method for filtering an amplitude-modulated radio signal, the radio signal having a bandwidth, the method including: transforming the radio signal into baseband, determining a frequency range close to the center frequency, measuring the level of the radio signal, by frequency steps, in the frequency range, determining a standardized modulation level in the radio signal, corresponding to the sum of the level measurements by frequency steps, in the frequency range under consideration, divided by the measurement of the level of the radio signal in baseband calculated around the center frequency, comparing the standardized noise level thus determined with a predetermined threshold, on the basis of the comparison, choosing a first filter applied to the amplitude-modulated radio signal.
US10498358B2	Data encoder and data encoding method A data encoder including a preprocessor configured to divide a data stream into a plurality of sub data blocks; a plurality of meta data generators each configured to generate meta data from one of the plurality of sub data blocks; and a plurality of data compressors each configured to compress one of the plurality of sub data blocks according to the meta data.
US10498354B1	Amplitude modulation system and apparatus Disclosed is the delta-sigma amplitude modulation system. Operation of amplitude modulator is based on the use of the second-order delta-sigma modulator. Polar delta-sigma bit-stream is nonlinearly processed in the negative feedback of delta-sigma modulator to produce an amplitude modulated signal. All information about modulating signal is contained in both envelope and carrier of the modulated signal. Thus, because of a dual nature of modulated signal, one can detect zero-crossings of a carrier, using sign detector, to obtain a polar delta-sigma bit stream. By demodulation (low-pass filtering) this polar bit-stream modulating signal is obtained. The main advantages of a proposed system are: simple digital amplitude modulator and simple demodulator which can be integrated in one IC chip. Because of non-positional nature of delta-sigma bit stream, proposed system is robust to channel errors.
US10498353B2	Successive approximation register quantizer and continuous-time sigma-delta modulator Disclosed is a successive approximation register (SAR) quantizer and a continuous-time sigma-delta modulator (CTSDM) using the SAR quantizer. The SAR quantizer is capable of generating M highly-significant bits as a digital output signal, and generating L lowly-significant bit(s) for the execution of noise shaping operation. Therefore, the SAR quantizer and the CTSDM can reduce the demand for the circuit area of a digital-to-analog converter and lower the delay of a critical path, so as to improve the performance and cut the cost.
US10498346B2	Midband phase noise reducer for PLLS A signal generator. A voltage controlled oscillator generates a signal that is fed to a comb generator, e.g., a nonlinear transmission line. A tone, from among a comb of tones at the output of the comb generator, is selected by a bandpass filter, its frequency is divided, e.g., by a direct digital synthesizer, and the result is compared, e.g., by a phase and frequency detector that receives a reference signal at its other input. The output of the phase and frequency detector is fed back, e.g., through a lowpass filter, to the voltage controlled oscillator.
US10498345B1	Multiple injection lock ring-based phase interpolator Various embodiments described herein provide a multiple injection lock ring-based PI that can inject a plurality of clock signals, of different phases, at injection points disposed along the ring chain of the PI and lock phase to those received clock signals (injected clock signals). For instance, an embodiment described herein may provide a multiple injection lock ring-based PI that permits double injection, triple injection, or the like, of clock signals external into the PI.
US10498340B2	Field programmable gate array comprising plurality of functional blocks, and control device for a power plant A field programmable gate array comprising: plurality of functional blocks at least one of the functional blocks comprising at least one function, at least one of the functions using a parameter, wherein the functional blocks are adapted to perform the at least one function in a calculation phase; a data conveyor comprising a plurality of data slots, wherein each functional block is, in a data transfer phase, adapted to receive input data from one or more predefined first slots and/or to provide output data into one or more predefined second slots; and a configuration circuit adapted to configure the parameter for the at least function using the parameter and to define the one or more first slots and/or the one or more second slots for at least one functional block, wherein the field programmable gate array is adapted to cyclically repeat the data transfer phase and calculation phase.
US10498335B2	Input apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and detection method An input apparatus according to one aspect of an embodiment includes a contact detecting unit and an operation detecting unit. The contact detecting unit detects, with a predetermined period, a switch having a contact with a user among a plurality of arrayed switches. The operation detecting unit detects a touch operation or a slide operation on the basis of a distance between the switch detected at the present time and the switch detected at the last time.
US10498334B2	Isolated power source apparatus An insulation power source apparatus for power conversion circuit provided with series connected circuits each composed of an upper arm switching element and a lower arm switching element. A power source control unit is disposed at one side of a connection region in a specific direction parallel to a plate surface of the substrate, an upper arm transformers are arranged between the power source control unit and the connection region in the specific region, and the lower arm transformer is arranged closer to the power source control unit in the specific direction than to an end portion of the connection region which is opposite side of a portion where the power source control unit is arranged.
US10498331B2	Switching device for conducting and interrupting electrical currents A switching device for conducting and disconnecting electric currents includes: a first mechanical contact assembly; a semiconductor switch, which is in parallel to the first mechanical contact assembly; a second mechanical contact assembly, which is connected in series to the first mechanical contact assembly; and a switching electronics, which switch on and off the semiconductor switch. The switching electronics are operable, during a closing process of the first mechanical contact assembly, to turn on the semiconductor switch after a first predetermined time period t−0 after initialization of the switching electronics, and to turn the semiconductor switch off again after a second predetermined time period t−1. The first predetermined time period t−0 is set by the switching electronics depending on the first mechanical contact assembly.
US10498329B2	Parallel main-auxiliary field-effect transistor configurations for radio frequency applications Disclosed herein are switching or other active FET configurations that implement a main-auxiliary branch design. Such designs include a circuit assembly for performing a switching function that includes a branch including a main path in parallel with an auxiliary path. The circuit assembly also includes a first gate bias network connected to the main path. The circuit assembly also includes a second gate bias network connected to the auxiliary path, the second gate bias network configured to improve linearity of the switching function.
US10498319B2	Device including multi-mode input pad A circuit component has a network address. The network address is determined from a voltage level applied to a single electrical contact of the circuit component. The circuit component is configured to select from among at least three unique network addresses based on the voltage level.
US10498318B1	Electrical circuits and methods to correct duty cycle error Electrical circuits and associated methods relate to duty cycle correction having a voltage controlled delay line VCDL controlled by an analog voltage and a digital command signal to generate a VCDLout signal. In an illustrative example, the analog voltage may be generated by an analog circuit, the analog circuit may include a reference voltage, a low-pass filter, an amplifier and a loop filter. In an illustrative example, the analog circuit may be controlled by an analog command signal. The analog command signal may be programmable applied on the analog circuit to produce the analog voltage. The digital command signal may be programmable to select desired delay band in the VCDL. The analog voltage and the digital command signal may be applied to the VCDL together to obtain a desired duty cycle.
US10498317B2	Feedback-controlled current-shaped output of digital signals for reducing magnetic coupling Various arrangements for decreasing harmonics of an output digital signal are presented. A programmable current rise-time circuit may be present that controls a rising edge of the output digital signal, wherein the output digital signal is output to an input/output (I/O) pad. A programmable current fall-time circuit may be present that controls a falling edge of the output digital signal. A feedback circuit may be present that monitors a rise-time of the rising edge of the output digital signal and fall-time of the falling edge of the output digital signal. A control circuit may be present that provides a first input to the programmable current rise-time circuit to adjust the rise-time of the rising edge of the output digital signal and a second input to the programmable current fall-time circuit to adjust the fall-time of the falling edge of the output.
US10498315B2	Level shifter circuit A level shifter with reduced propagation delay. A level shifter includes a signal input terminal, a first signal output node, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a first capacitor. The first transistor includes a control terminal coupled to the signal input terminal. The second transistor includes an output terminal coupled to an input terminal of the first transistor. The first capacitor includes a bottom plate coupled to an input terminal of the second transistor. The third transistor includes a control terminal coupled to a top plate of the first capacitor, and an output terminal coupled to the first signal output node.
US10498311B2	Crystal resonator A crystal resonator includes a flat plate-shaped crystal element and excitation electrodes. The crystal element has principal surfaces parallel to an X′-axis and a Z′-axis. The X′-axis is an axis of rotating an X-axis in a range of 15 to 25 degrees around a Z-axis. The Z′-axis is an axis of rotating the Z-axis in a range of 33 to 35 degrees around the X′-axis. The excitation electrodes are formed on the respective principal. The excitation electrodes include a first region with a circular outer shape and a second region. The second region is formed at a peripheral area of the first region. The second region has a thickness thinner than the first region and has an elliptical outer shape. The elliptical shape has a long axis extending in a direction in a range of −5 to +15 degrees with respect to a direction that the X′-axis extends.
US10498310B2	Protective cover for an acoustic wave device and fabrication method thereof A protective cover for an acoustic wave device and a fabrication method thereof, for protecting an acoustic wave device having a resonant area during a packaging operation so as to avoid molding compound flowing onto the resonant area of the acoustic wave device. The fabrication method comprises: defining a sacrificial area on the acoustic wave device; forming a sacrificial layer on the sacrificial area; covering a metal covering layer on the sacrificial layer and connecting a bottom rim of the metal covering layer to the acoustic wave device and forming an opening between the bottom rim of the metal covering layer and the acoustic wave device; and removing the sacrificial layer to form a cavity between the metal covering layer and the resonant area by using a chemical solution, wherein the chemical solution enters from the opening between the metal covering layer and the acoustic wave device.
US10498309B2	Common mode inductor apparatus having coil winding wound in multiple winding areas, and related winding method of common mode inductor apparatus and electromagnetic interference filter circuit A common mode inductor apparatus includes a magnetic core, a first coil winding and a second coil winding. The magnetic core has a first winding zone and a second winding zone. The first coil winding is wound in three winding areas within the first winding zone, wherein two neighboring winding areas within the first winding zone are separated by a gap. The second coil winding is wound in three winding areas within the second winding zone, wherein two neighboring winding areas within the second winding zone are separated by a gap.
US10498306B1	Intelligent power reduction in audio amplifiers Disclosed herein is a device and method for intelligently reducing power consumption in an audio amplifier in the device, and in particular Class-D amplifiers, through the use of metadata associated with settings of the playback device and/or content to be played on the playback device. The device includes components for analyzing the settings and content metadata and regulates the voltage provided to the audio amplifier based on this analysis.
US10498305B2	Voltage sampler driver with enhanced high-frequency gain Methods and systems are described for receiving, at an input differential branch pair, a set of input signals, and responsively generating a first differential current, receiving, at an input of an offset voltage branch pair, an offset voltage control signal, and responsively generating a second differential current, supplementing a high-frequency component of the second differential current by injecting a high-pass filtered version of the set of input signals into the input of the offset voltage branch pair using a high-pass filter, and generating an output differential current based on the first and second differential currents using an amplifier stage connected to the input differential branch pair and the offset voltage branch pair.
US10498304B2	Audio processor An audio processor is described. The audio processor includes a sensor input; an audio input for receiving an audio input signal; an audio output for outputting an audio signal to a loudspeaker. The audio processor is configured to determine a parameter value representative of temperature from a sensor signal received on the sensor input; process a received audio input signal by increasing the audio signal power in response to the temperature being below a predetermined threshold; and output the processed audio signal on the audio output.
US10498303B2	Signal level detection and overrange signal limiter and clamp for electronic circuits One embodiment is an apparatus including a detector circuit electrically coupled between a signal source and a second circuit, the signal source generating a first signal, the detector circuit detecting a level of the first signal and generating a first control signal when the detected level of the first signal exceeds a first threshold value, and a clamping switch electrically coupled to receive the first control signal from the detector circuit, the clamping switch including a multi-terminal active device. The first control signal controls a state of the clamping switch such that the clamping switch clamps a level of a signal applied to the second circuit when the level of the first signal exceeds the first threshold value.
US10498298B1	Time-division duplexing using dynamic transceiver isolation An apparatus is disclosed for time-division duplex dynamic transceiver isolation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an antenna, a power amplifier circuit including at least one power-amplifying path, a low-noise amplifier, and a time-division duplex interface circuit. The interface includes at least one transmit node coupled to the at least one power-amplifying path, a receive node coupled to the low-noise amplifier, and an antenna node. The antenna node is coupled to the at least one transmit node, the receive node, and the antenna. The interface circuit is configured to connect the at least one transmit node, the receive node, and the antenna node together at both a first time and a second time. The interface circuit is configured to isolate the receive node from the antenna node at the first time and isolate the at least one transmit node from the antenna node at the second time.
US10498296B2	Differential amplifier with variable neutralization Disclosed examples include differential amplifier circuits and variable neutralization circuits for providing an adjustable neutralization impedance between an amplifier input node and an amplifier output node, including neutralization impedance T circuits with first and second impedance elements in series between the amplifier input and output, and a third impedance element, including a first terminal connected to a node between the first and second impedance elements, and a second terminal connected to a transistor. The transistor operates according to a control signal to control the neutralization impedance between the amplifier input node and the amplifier output node.
US10498293B2	Power amplification apparatus and television signal transmission system An amplification unit contains two or more sets containing a plurality of amplification circuits, and amplifies power of an RF (Radio Frequency) signal. A combining unit contains two or more combiners corresponding to the two or more sets, combines RF signals output by the amplification circuits, and outputs a resultant RF signal. The amplification unit has one chassis storing each amplification circuit. The amplification unit and the combining unit have two or more connectors which are arranged transversely. The amplification unit and the combining unit are attachable/detachable.
US10498291B2	Bias circuit and power amplifier circuit A bias circuit and a power amplifier circuit are provided in the present disclosure. The bias circuit includes an output node, a power detecting circuit, a first constant voltage bias circuit, and a constant current bias circuit. The output node is configured to provide a bias signal to a power amplifier unit. The output node is further configured to receive an input signal of the power amplifier unit. The power detecting circuit is configured to detect a power of the input signal of the power amplifier unit to provide a first control signal. The first constant voltage bias circuit is configured to selectively provide a first signal to the output node according to the first control signal. The constant current bias circuit provides a second signal to the output node.
US10498290B2	System and method for a VCO In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that having a VCO core coupled to a filtered current source includes setting an oscillation frequency of the VCO core based on a tuning signal received at a tuning signal input; and setting a resonant frequency of the filtered current source based on the received tuning signal using a tuning circuit having an input directly connected to the tuning signal input.
US10498288B2	Waterless cleaning system and method for solar trackers using an autonomous robot A solar tracker waterless cleaning system for cleaning solar panels of a solar tracker under varying wind conditions, the solar tracker being able to be positioned at a pre-determined angle, the waterless cleaning system including a docking station, an autonomous robotic cleaner (ARC) and a master controller, the docking station being coupled with an edge of the solar tracker, the master controller for receiving and transmitting data to and from the solar tracker and the ARC, the ARC including a controller, for controlling a cleaning process and for transmitting and receiving signals, the docking station including a plurality of locking bars, coupled with the docking station, for protecting the ARC during the varying wind conditions, the ARC can anchor in the docking station and the master controller determines an average wind speed and provides a clean command to the ARC if the average wind speed is below a predetermined threshold.
US10498281B2	Motor control system A motor control system includes a motor, a driving module and a control module. A first coil is electrically connected to a first node where a first control signal is provided, a second coil is electrically connected to a second node where a second control signal is provided, and a third coil is electrically connected to a third node where a third control signal is provided. An constant value of the first control signal is not zero, and a lower signal voltage limit of the first control signal is larger than or equal to zero.
US10498278B2	Motor controller A motor controller includes: a rotation speed estimating unit that estimates a rotation speed of a motor on the basis of current information and primary frequency information of the motor; a proximity switch that outputs an ON signal when a portion of a rotating body of the motor is in proximity and outputs an OFF signal when a portion of the rotating body of the motor is not in proximity; a rotation speed computing unit that computes a rotation speed of the motor on the basis of the ON signal and the OFF signal; and a state determining unit that determines whether a present state is a speed attainment state and whether a present state is a speed zero state on the basis of a rotation speed estimation value estimated by the rotation speed estimating unit and a rotation speed computation value computed by the rotation speed computing unit.
US10498277B2	Drive system and inverter A drive system of an embodiment includes an inverter for driving an electric motor; a detector that detects an electric current value output from the inverter; command generators that generate an electric current command value corresponding to an electric current to be supplied to the electric motor and a gate command of the inverter so that the electric current command value matches the electric current value; calculators that calculate an voltage target vector of the inverter and a rotation phase estimation value of the electric motor based on the electric current value and the voltage target vector, in an initial estimation of when activating the inverter. The electric current command value in the initial estimation is a value to supply an electric current for magnetically saturating a rotor of the electric motor, and a dynamic inductance of the electric motor used for calculating the rotation phase estimation value is a value of when the rotor of the electric motor is magnetically saturated.
US10498272B2	Control device of electric rotating machine A field circuit includes a positive pole side switching element which is for controlling field current that flows in a field winding and a negative pole side switching element which is for interrupting the field current; a field circuit control section includes a field high-speed interruption determination block and a field current interruption speed control block; and at the time of interrupting the field current at a high speed, the field current is interrupted immediately by turning OFF both switching elements of the positive pole side and the negative pole side and interruption speed of the field current is controlled by intermittently driving the negative pole side switching element.
US10498267B2	Method for adjusting a drive signal A method for adjusting a drive signal of a drive circuit. A period of the drive signal is determined and an advance angle count value is extracted from a storage register in accordance with the period of the drive signal. The advance angle count value and a first control signal are used to determine an advance angle adjustment range, where the first control signal is from a source external to the drive circuit. The advance angle adjustment range and a second control signal are used to determine an advance angle adjustment range start angle, where the second control signal is from a source external to the drive circuit.
US10498263B2	Device and method for controlling linear motor A control device for a linear motor includes a speed controller that calculates a current command value by an integration operation using a first integral value of a difference between a moving speed of a movable element provided in the linear motor and a speed command value calculated on the basis of a position command value, a current controller that applies a voltage to the linear motor on the basis of the current command value, and a correction value storage unit that stores the first integral value of the speed controller when the movable element remains at a position indicated by the position command value. When resuming control of the linear motor, the speed controller sets the first integral value stored in the correction value storage unit as an initial value for the integration operation before the brake controller turns off the brake device.
US10498260B2	Electric device, piezoelectric motor, robot, hand, and liquid transport pump An electric device includes an electric component that includes an electrode terminal which includes a projection portion, and a circuit substrate that includes a connected portion which is electrically connected to the projection portion, in which the connected portion includes a recess portion that is in contact with the projection portion.
US10498252B2	Electric vehicle, vehicle-mounted charger, and method for controlling the same The present disclosure provides an electric vehicle, a vehicle-mounted charger and a method for controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining a first charging predetermined period Tx for controlling the H bridge in a first manner and a second charging predetermined period Ty for controlling the H bridge in a second manner when the vehicle-mounted charger starts to charge a power battery of the electric vehicle; and performing an alternate control on the H bridge in the first manner or the second manner according to the first charging predetermined period Tx and the second charging predetermined period Ty, so as to perform a temperature balanced control over the first switch tube, the second switch tube, the third switch tube and the fourth switch tube.
US10498251B2	Power converter Since a power converter including a modular multilevel converter uses a large number of cells each combining a plurality of switching elements and a DC capacitor, there is a problem of conduction loss due to the switching elements. The conduction loss is reduced by connecting a bypass circuit between terminals of each of the cells, controlling to open and close the switching element, and controlling to short-circuit the bypass circuit connected to the cell controlled to output zero voltage.
US10498247B2	DC-DC converter A direct current to direct current (DC-DC) converter includes a k-th order converter including a reactor, multiple semiconductor switching elements, and multiple capacitors respectively connected in parallel with the semiconductor switching elements (k is a natural number equal to or below N and N is a natural number equal to or above 3), a transformer having a primary winding through an N-th order winding, and a controller that controls switching of a primary converter through an N-th order converter.
US10498246B2	Power supply apparatus and image forming apparatus The power supply apparatus includes a transformer, at least one switching element provided on a primary side of the transformer and configured to perform a switching operation to output an output voltage from a secondary side of the transformer, and a control unit configured to determine a turn-on time of a pulse signal for controlling the switching element for each of first cycles, and perform a predetermined control in which a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of second cycles each including the first cycles becomes smaller than a change value of the turn-on time of the pulse signal for each of the first cycles, to change the second cycle depending on operation states.
US10498239B2	Power supply with enhanced phase current sharing utilizing active droop control A system, power supplies, controller and method for enhanced phase current sharing are disclosed. For example, a power supply for enhanced phase current sharing is disclosed, which includes a plurality of power modules, a communication bus coupled to an input of each power module of the plurality power modules, and an output voltage node coupled to a first side of an inductor of each power module of the plurality of power modules, wherein each power module of the plurality of power modules includes a digital controller coupled to the input of the power module, and an RC circuit enabled to generate a feedback signal, coupled to a second side of the inductor and the output voltage node. In some implementations, the power supply is at least part of a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) or at least part of a power supply formed on a semiconductor IC, wafer, chip or die.
US10498236B2	Two-phase three-level converter and controller therefor Disclosed are multilevel buck converters, and controllers and methods for operating such converters. Embodiments improve the voltage gain (Vo/Vin) of multi-level DC-DC converters, such as three-level converters, that is imposed by a duty cycle limitation in conventional approaches. According to certain embodiments, the duty cycle of switches is controlled to so that the converter output voltage is increased.
US10498228B1	Sub-circuit with cyclically swapped standby circuits A circuit that can rapidly and precisely change the state of any circuit with some form of memory, whether it is a voltage across a capacitor, a current in an inductor, a digital value, or otherwise, using cyclically swapped circuits. For the case of a value stored on a capacitor: By swapping extra capacitors with preemptively set voltages using electronic switches, inherent settling times and defects of real RC circuits can be replaced with electronic switching times and switch defects. This dramatically improves speed and performance and is applicable on many circuit types including faster acquisition sample and hold circuits, faster amplifier nulling circuits, and any circuit that requires rapidly changing the DC voltage stored on a capacitor, and any circuit that requires rapidly changing the state or a circuit that has memory.
US10498226B2	Dual-rectification bridge type single stage PFC converter A dual-rectification bridge type single stage PFC converter circuit includes a boost circuit working together with a bridge type DC-DC converter. The bridge type DC-DC converter may include low side and high side switching components like BUCK, half bridge, full bridge, etc. This PFC converter circuit drives the boost inductor of the boost circuit by using the switching components of the bridge type DC-DC converter, which eliminates the use of boost switching components and boost rectifiers in conventional boost PFC circuits, also eliminates the use of individual PWM PFC control units.
US10498225B2	Dual-rectification full bridge interleaved single stage PFC converter circuit and control methods thereof An AC-DC converter with a dual-rectification full bridge interleaved single stage PFC circuit and its control method are disclosed. The converter uses two switching components of a full bridge converter to alternately drive two boost inductors, which eliminates the use of two boost switching components and two boost rectifiers required in a conventional interleaved boost PFC circuit, and also saves individual PWM PFC control circuit.
US10498221B2	Multi-mode energy router In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, a multi-mode energy router (MMER) is provided. The MMER includes a functional block of power electronics under processor control. In addition, the MMER includes a plurality of switches that can be controlled to route power from specific sources or loads to the input or output of the functional block. The MMER enables a single functional block of power electronics to selectively provide bi-directional power conversion between AC and DC components and between DC and DC components.
US10498218B2	Switching circuit apparatus and electric power converter capable of reducing common mode noise in asymmetric circuit A switching circuit apparatus includes: a first capacitance provided between a first port terminal and a the first terminal of a switching circuit unit, a second capacitance provided between the first terminal and a conductor part, and a first inductance provided between a second port terminal and a second terminal of the switching circuit unit. The switching circuit apparatus is provided with: a first capacitor connected between the first port terminal and the second port terminal, and a second inductor connected between the second terminal and the conductor part. The second inductor has such an inductance that a ratio of the inductance of the second inductor to the first inductance is equal to a ratio of the first capacitance to the second capacitance.
US10498215B1	Voltage regulator with flexible output voltage A voltage regulator includes a first feedback loop and a second feedback loop. The first feedback loop includes a charge pump outputting a first output voltage, a first transistor ladder and a control circuit. The first transistor ladder divides the first output voltage to generate a first feedback voltage. The control circuit receives the first feedback voltage and controls a level of the first output voltage according to the first feedback voltage and a reference voltage. The second feedback loop includes a power transistor, a second transistor ladder and an operational amplifier. The power transistor receives the first output voltage to output a second output voltage. The second transistor ladder divides the second output voltage to generate a second feedback voltage. The operational amplifier outputs a control signal to the power transistor by receiving the second feedback voltage and a reference voltage selected from one of a plurality of levels.
US10498211B2	Winding-type permanent magnet coupling transmission device A winding type permanent magnet coupling transmission device includes a permanent magnet rotor and a winding rotor that is coaxial with the permanent magnet rotor and capable of rotating relative to the permanent magnet rotor. An air gap exists between the permanent magnet rotor and the winding rotor. The winding rotor is connected to a control structure capable of regulating the current/voltage of the winding rotor. The control structure is capable of controlling the current or voltage of the winding rotor, so as to regulate the output torque of the transmission device, with no need to configure any corresponding mechanical execution mechanism. Therefore, the transmission device has a simple structure and small energy loss.
US10498210B2	Tuning of a kinematic relationship between members Described herein is a device comprising members in a kinematic relationship. The kinematic relationship is at least partially governed by at least one magnetic flux interaction that, in effect, may provide a tunable resistance to movement, changing the rate of relative movement between the members. In one embodiment, the device comprises a first member in a kinematic relationship with at least one further member to form a system. The system moves within a limited range of motion and the system interacts when an external energizing force is imposed on the system causing the members to respond due to their kinematic and dynamic characteristics and thereby creating relative motion between the members. The trigger member is coupled to the at least the first member and moves in response to a pre-determined system movement. When the trigger member moves, the trigger member imposes a braking action on the system or a member or members thereof. The speed and/or intensity of the braking action imposed by the trigger member on the system or a member or members thereof is controlled by the trigger member rate of movement. This rate of movement is in turn governed by a magnetic flux interaction between the trigger member and the at least one first member causing formation of a magnetically induced eddy current force between the parts.
US10498209B2	Flywheel, manufacturing method thereof, and power generating apparatus In accordance with an embodiment, a flywheel includes a rotary shaft which is rotatably provided to the flywheel, a rotor which is fixed to the rotary shaft and rotatable with the rotary shaft, and an unrotatable stator arranged so as to face the rotor. The rotor includes first permanent magnets provided on a first surface facing the stator. The stator includes second permanent magnets which are provided on a second surface facing the rotor in correspondence with the first permanent magnets respectively and have the same polarity as that of the first permanent magnets.
US10498208B1	Lightweight return flux alternator In one embodiment, a return flux linear alternator employs a magnet assembly that includes a pair of permanent ring magnets with opposing polarity and a pair of air gaps. The additional permanent ring and air gap complete a magnetic flux loop of the alternator rather than the magnet pole, as in traditional designs. An alternator coil assembly includes a pair of oppositely wound coil sections that each linearly move through a respective one of the pair of air gaps. In addition, the return flux linear alternator may employ a variety of structures to increase mechanical strength, including a reinforcement fabric, and a variety of structures to increase electrical efficiency, including a thermally conductive but electrically nonconductive spacer between the coil sections and multiple pairs of electrical leads.
US10498206B2	Electric tool An electric tool is provided with a rotary striking mechanism unit converting the rotational force of a brushless motor to a striking force and applying the striking force to a tip tool. The required rated input of the motor is 1000-1300 W, the motor speed under fixed speed control is 16800±10% (min−1), and the variable Ku, which relates to the motor, is defined by the following expression Ku={(stator core outer diameter)2×(stator core lamination thickness)×(total tooth width)×(rotor outer diameter)}÷{(rated input)×(motor speed under fixed speed control)}, wherein the stator core outer diameter, the stator core lamination thickness, the total tooth width and the rotor outer diameter are shown in mm, the rated input is shown in W, the motor speed is shown in min−1, and the Ku value of the motor is set to 14.6<=Ku<=21.8.
US10498204B2	Methods of assembling an electrical machine A method of constructing an electrical machine by assembling a first structure (one of a rotor and stator structure) and a second structure (the other of the rotor and stator structure), along with a plurality of first elements (one of a plurality of permanent magnet elements and a plurality of winding elements) and a plurality of second elements (the other plurality of the permanent magnet elements and winding elements). The first elements are attached to a rim of the first structure, and the second elements are attached to the first elements, this attachment being caused by a magnetic attraction. The first structure is assembled with the second structure such that the second elements are positioned for a posterior attachment to a rim of the second structure, and the second elements are attached to the rim of the second structure.
US10498203B2	Method of resin sealing permanent magnets in laminated rotor core A laminated rotor core (36) wherein permanent magnets (47) are inserted in respective magnet insertion holes (46) is disposed between and pressed by an upper die (37) and a lower die (29). The upper die (37) has resin reservoir pots (50) provided above the laminated rotor core (36) and at positions corresponding to the respective magnet insertion holes (46). Raw resin material put in the resin reservoir pots (50) is heated by the upper die (37). Subsequently, the resin material in a liquefied state is ejected from the resin reservoir pots (50) by plungers (52) that are inserted and moves vertically in the resin reservoir pots (50) and is directly filled in the magnet insertion holes (46). Consequently, the respective magnet insertion holes (46) are filled with the resin material more evenly and highly reliable products can be supplied at low cost.
US10498202B2	Manufacturing method for rotor for rotary electric machine The manufacturing method for a rotor includes steps of: applying an adhesive to a first surface of a magnet material member that becomes a permanent magnet after magnetization, the adhesive being applied such that a total thickness of the magnet material member and the adhesive is less than a radial width of a magnet insertion aperture; disposing a rotor core such that an axial direction thereof is horizontal, and inserting the magnet material member into a magnet insertion aperture that is positioned vertically uppermost among the magnet insertion apertures so as to orient the adhesive vertically upward; positioning each of the magnet material members by pressing the magnet material member against an inner wall surface on an outer circumferential side of the magnet insertion aperture after inserting the magnet material member into each of the magnet insertion apertures; and curing the adhesive after the magnet material member is positioned.
US10498199B2	Rotary electric machine A rotary electric machine of the present invention includes, inside a housing, a rotor and a stator that are concentric with each other. The stator has a plurality of coil portions in a circumferential direction. In the stator, a first flow channel and a second flow channel, through which cooling water flows, are provided along the plurality of coil portions, each of the channels having one end connected to a flow channel inlet and the other end connected to a flow channel outlet. The lengths of the first flow channel and the second flow channel are mutually different. A temperature detection element is provided in a coil portion on a high temperature side among the coil portions positioned along the first flow channel and the coil portions positioned along the second flow channel.
US10498198B2	Magnetic sensor A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic detection element circuit that includes first and second magnetic detection elements, which are connected in series, and an output terminal, which is positioned between the first and second magnetic detection elements; an impedance matching device, which has a prescribed input voltage range and is connected to an output terminal of the magnetic detection element circuit; a first current supply source, which supplies an electric current to the magnetic detection element circuit; and a second current supply source, which supplies an electric current to the impedance matching device. A resistor is provided between the output terminal of the magnetic detection element circuit and the first current supply source and/or a reference electric potential point.
US10498195B2	Printed circuit board spacer A power tool and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) for the power tool. The PCBA includes, for example, a printed circuit board (“PCB”), a heat sink, a spacer between the PCB and the heat sink, and a gap pad. The PCB and the heat sink are fastened to one another via fasteners so the spacer absorbs excess forces torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners. The gap pad is placed within an opening or recess of the spacer to contact one or more FETs on the PCB. In some embodiments, the PCBA includes a second heat sink or rigid member on the opposite side of the PCB than the spacer to further distribute excess torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners.
US10498192B2	Actuator An actuator (100) which comprises a motor (1), a housing (2) which wraps a periphery of the motor (1), a drive mechanism (3) of which one end is provided with a push rod assembly (34); under the function of the motor (1), the push rod assembly (34) moves forward; wherein, a returning spring (4) is arranged along external sides of the housing (2) and the drive mechanism (3), and the two ends of the returning spring (4) are respectively connected at the housing (2) and the push rod assembly (34); under the force of the returning spring (4), the push rod assembly (34) moves backward to an initial position of the push rod assembly. The actuator is simple in structure and has self-returning function.
US10498191B2	Bush, rotary machine, and air conditioning apparatus According to an embodiment, a bush includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member is provided with a first hole having a first axis, and has a first outer surface having a second axis different from the first axis. The second member is provided with a second hole in which the first member is housed, and has a second inner surface that is in contact with the first outer surface and a second outer surface having a third axis different from the second axis. The third member is provided with a third hole in which the second member is housed and has a third inner surface that is in contact with the second outer surface.
US10498188B2	Motors with damper for reducing vibration and noise of rotor A motor equipped with dampers for reducing the vibration and noise of a rotator is disclosed. The motor includes: a stator block configured such that a core around is fastened and installed in the upper outer portion of the inside of a cover; a printed circuit board (PCB) fastened and installed below the stator block inside a motor housing; a shaft installed inside the stator block; and a rotor configured to include a magnet; wherein the motor housing includes an upper cover and a lower cover, a plurality of fastening portions is formed on the upper cover, and a plurality of fastening depressions is formed on the lower cover; and wherein the motor further includes dampers configured to receive and accommodate the fastening portions, to be inserted over side surfaces of the base portion of the stator block, and to cancel vibration and noise.
US10498185B2	Stator and motor A stator includes an annular core back extending circumferentially around a central axis extending vertically; a plurality of teeth extending radially from the core back; a plurality of insulators covering at least part of the teeth; and a coil formed of a conducive wire wound around the teeth via the insulators. The insulator has a cylinder extending radially, an umbrella disposed radially at an end of the cylinder and extending circumferentially in both sides, and a wall protruding from the outer side surface of the cylinder circumferentially to one side. At least part of a tip surface of the wall is inclined and approaches closer to the cylinder as it moves toward the umbrella in the radial direction. The insulator has at least one protrusion protruding to the core back side from the end of the umbrella in one side of the circumferential direction.
US10498184B2	Insulated wire, coil, and electrical or electronic equipment An insulated wire, having: an insulating layer on the outer periphery of a conductor having a rectangular cross-section; an adhesive layer on the outer periphery of the insulating layer; and an insulating paper on the outer periphery of the adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer has a thickness of 2 to 50 μm, and wherein a resin constituting the adhesive layer does not have a melting point and has a tensile modulus at 250° C. of 0.9×107 to 1.2×108 Pa; a coil, comprised of this insulated wire; and an electrical or electronic equipment.
US10498182B2	Electric machine having mechanical field weakening and including a fail-safe actuator system A dynamoelectric permanently excited machine having the possibility of mechanical field weakening. The machine includes a stator (1), a rotor (2) spaced apart from the stator (1) by an air gap (8), permanent magnets (4) arranged on the rotor (2) for generating an excitation field in the air gap (8), and a centrifugal-force-controlled field-weakening mechanism for weakening the excitation field in the air gap (8) in accordance with rotational speed. In order to increase the operational safety of systems that are driven by such a machine, the machine also includes a signal input for a fault signal and an actuator for controlling the field-weakening mechanism independently of rotational speed.
US10498180B2	Stator magnetic core brushless motor apparatus, system and methods A stator magnetic core and manufacturing process thereof and brushless motor comprising the stator magnetic core, wherein the stator magnetic core is made of iron-based amorphous material containing Co and V, and the composition of the iron-based amorphous material by weight percentage is: Co 0.8-1.4%, V 0.6-1.2%, B 2.7-3.3%, Si 6.5-8%, and Fe for the rest. A brushless DC motor, comprising a rotor spindle, a front end cover, a housing, a stator magnetic core and a rear end cover, wherein the stator magnetic core is assembled inside the housing, a stator coil is disposed inside the stator magnetic core, and the stator magnetic core and the stator core don't contact each other and an insulating layer is formed between them. The stator magnetic core in the present invention is made of iron-based amorphous material containing Co and V. Through addition of Co and V elements, the stator magnetic core refines crystalline grain and raises material toughness. It not only overcomes the previous problem of difficult machining and shaping but also raises the efficiency of the brushless DC motor containing this stator magnetic core. It is a breakthrough process.
US10498179B2	Power transmission apparatus, power reception apparatus, methods of controlling these, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A power transmission apparatus that performs power transmission wirelessly to a power reception apparatus, performs power transmission wirelessly, detects a temperature inside or in a periphery of the power transmission apparatus, sets a value for power that can be transmitted to the power reception apparatus under a condition where the detected temperature does not exceed a predetermined temperature when power transmission to the power reception apparatus is performed, and performs power transmission to the power reception apparatus based on the set value for power.
US10498178B2	Receiver for simultaneously transferring energy and data and signal processing method thereof A receiver for transferring energy and data together and a signal processing method in the receiver are provided. The method includes decoding data included in a received signal using part of power received for charging a charging unit of the receiver with energy with respect to the signal for energy charging and data decoding, the signal being received from a transmitter.
US10498175B2	Wireless power receiving method and multicoil multiplex wireless power receiving device thereof A wireless power receiving method and a multicoil multiplex wireless power receiving device using same is disclosed. The method includes: a receiving coil for receiving AC signals from a transmitting base station; a rectifying unit for rectifying and converting the AC signal into a DC signal; a multiplexing device for receiving the DC signal from the rectifying unit and thereafter outputting direct current; a communicating and controlling device for modulating the multiplexing device and the receiving coil to feedback the electrical signal to the base station, and monitoring the load outputted. The communicating and controlling device adjusts the feedbacks during the electrical signal of the load abnormal. In the present disclosure, the receiving coil can fix in any position, rather than the receiving coil aligning to a corresponding coil of the base station, which can obtain a normal transmission work between the wireless power receiving device and the base station.
US10498173B1	Resonant frequency power generator A resonant frequency power generator is disclosed. Specific implementations include a base, a magnet suspended within the base through one or more flexible connectors, and a coil disposed around the magnet. The magnet and one or more flexible connectors may be configured to vibrate at a resonant frequency emitted by a speaker, and the vibration of the magnet may generate electrical power with the coil.
US10498171B2	Wireless power receiver voltage control enabling simultaneous communications to transmitter in over-voltage state A wireless power receiver includes circuitry configured to receive a wirelessly induced voltage from a wireless power transmitter via a magnetically induced connection with the wireless power transmitter. It is determined that an overvoltage condition exists when the wirelessly induced voltage exceeds a threshold voltage, and the wirelessly induced voltage is reduced in response to determining that the overvoltage condition exists. The circuitry communicates the overvoltage condition to the wireless power transmitter via the magnetically induced connection while over-voltage protection is enabled.
US10498165B1	Methods and apparatus for providing redundant power supply protection with power zones for electronic devices In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a set of power supply units where each power supply unit from the set of power supply units is associated with a power zone from a set of power zones. The apparatus can also include a redundant power supply unit and a set of electronic devices where each electronic device from the set of electronic devices is associated with a power zone from the set of power zones. Additionally, each electronic device from the set of electronic devices is operatively coupled to a power supply unit from the set of power supply units for that power zone and is also operatively coupled to the redundant power supply unit.
US10498164B2	Wireless charging device A wireless charging device is provided, including an accommodating space, a first coil, a second coil, and a control module. The first coil surrounds the accommodating space, and the second coil is disposed in the accommodating space. The control module is electrically connected to the first coil and the second coil.
US10498163B2	Multi-coil wireless charging method and device and system therefor The present invention relates to a multi-coil wireless charging method and a device and a system therefor, a wireless power transmitter for wirelessly transmitting power to a wireless power receiver, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprising: a power transmission unit which comprises at least two or more transmission coils; a control unit which controls so that a primary detection signal for detecting the existence of a wireless power receiver is simultaneously transmitted by using frequencies that are different from each other that were allocated to each of the transmission coils in advance; and a demodulation unit which, if a first signal strength indicator associated with the primary detection signal is received from the wireless power receiver, transmits, to the control unit, the received first signal strength indicator and a preset transmission coil identifier for identifying the transmission coil through which the first signal strength indicator was received, wherein the control unit may control so that a secondary detection signal is transmitted through the transmission coil through which the first signal strength indicator was received. Thus, the present invention has a merit of enabling a quicker and more accurate detection of a wireless power receiver.
US10498162B2	Apparatus and system with rotatable housing for harvesting magnetic energy An apparatus, device, and charging system are provided. The apparatus comprises a primary stationary receive coil and a secondary rotatable receive coil, the primary stationary receive coil being electronically coupled to the secondary rotatable receive coil. The secondary rotatable receive coil provides a charge mode position when rotated in a same plane as the primary stationary receive coil. The secondary rotatable receive coil provides non-charge mode position when retracted back against the primary stationary receive coil. The coils may be coupled is series and or parallel configurations. The primary stationary receive coil may be integrated within or appended to a housing. The secondary rotatable receive coil may be integrated within or coupled to a rotatable clip coupled to the housing. Rotation of the clip extends a charging configuration with which to charge the primary stationary receive coil and the secondary rotatable receive coil.
US10498159B2	Variable diameter coil for efficient inductive charging This application relates to inductive charging coil configurations. In particular, the wireless charging coil configurations are arranged in a shape and size suitable for utilizing available space within a device housing. In some embodiments, wires making up the charging coil have varying diameters configured to optimize the size and shape of the charging coil so that available space can be fully utilized.
US10498151B2	Power tool with step-up converter A power tool, includes an electrical motor unit connectable to a battery unit, wherein: a step-up converter, connectable between the battery unit and electrical motor unit, converts a battery voltage Ubattery provided by the battery unit to a higher step-up voltage Ustep-up, and provides Ustep-up to the electrical motor unit as an output voltage Uoutput; a bypass circuit, arranged in parallel with the step-up converter, connects the battery unit to and provides Ubattery to the electrical motor unit as Uoutput; and at least one control unit is arranged to control the step-up converter and the bypass circuit, such that Uoutput can switch between Ubattery and Ustep-up, based on tool related parameters, including Uoutput, an output current Ioutput provided to the motor, a rotational speed ωmotor of the motor unit multiplied with a torque T provided by the tool, and an output power Poutput provided to the electrical motor unit.
US10498145B2	Balancing of a battery having two branches, with bridging of differential numbers of storage elements A method manages an electrical energy storage battery comprising first and second branches in parallel and each having N storage elements in series. The method includes providing a non-dissipative balancing device for balancing electrical voltages at terminals of the storage elements. The device includes N+1 switching elements of a first type to electrically connect, in parallel, two storage elements belonging to first and second branches at a same stage, and 2N switching elements of a second type to electrically connect, in parallel, two storage elements belonging to first and second branches at adjacent stages. The method also includes choosing only a portion of the storage elements of the first branch, choosing only a portion of the storage elements of the second branch, and controlling the switching elements so as to electrically connect to one another, in parallel, the selected storage elements of the first and second branches.
US10498142B2	Device and method for extinction angle control of HVDC system A device for extinction angle control of a high voltage direct current (HVDC) system, includes: a converter reactive power calculator calculating a reactive power variation amount of a converter included in the HVDC system, depending on firing angle control of the converter; an alternating current (AC) system short circuit level calculator calculating a short circuit level of an AC system by applying the reactive power variation amount to a short circuit level formula of the AC system connected to the HVDC system; an extinction angle variation value calculator calculating an extinction angle variation value of the converter, corresponding to the short circuit level; and an extinction angle controller controlling an extinction angle of the converter, depending on an extinction angle control value reflecting the extinction angle variation value.
US10498139B2	T-coil design with optimized magnetic coupling coefficient for improving bandwidth extension For a T-coil IC, a first inductor core is on an Mx layer and has n turns (n≥15/8). The first inductor core has a first-inductor-core-first end and a first-inductor-core-second end. A second inductor core is on an Mx-2 layer and has n turns. The second inductor core has a second-inductor-core-first end and a second-inductor-core-second end. The first-inductor-core-second end is connected to the second-inductor-core-first end by a via stack between the Mx and Mx-2 layers. A center tap is on an Mx-1 layer. The center tap is connected to the second inductor core at a node of the second inductor core. A first inductor is formed by the first inductor core between the first-inductor-core-first end and the first-inductor-core-second end and by the second inductor core between the second-inductor-core-first end and the node. A second inductor is formed by the second inductor core between the node and the second-inductor-core-second end.
US10498138B2	Protective circuit for a current transformer and current transformer with a protection circuit A protective circuit for a current transformer for preventing a secondary voltage on a secondary circuit of the current transformer from exceeding a secondary voltage threshold. A protective circuit input can be coupled to the secondary circuit of the current transformer such that the secondary voltage is applied to the protective circuit input. A control unit is connected to the protective circuit input. A switch unit is connected to the protective circuit input and is operatively connected to the control unit. The control unit is adapted to provide a control signal to the switch unit in response to the secondary voltage exceeding the secondary voltage threshold. The switch unit is adapted to short-circuit the protective circuit input in response to the control signal provided by the control unit. The switch unit is implemented as a semiconductor circuit.
US10498137B2	Protecting circuit and integrated circuit A protecting circuit includes a discharge switch, a trigger circuit, and a shunt circuit. The discharge switch is connected between a first terminal and a second terminal. The trigger circuit is connected to the discharge switch and comprises load devices, connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a first node between a first one and a second one of the load devices. The shunt circuit is connected to the trigger circuit at the first node, where the shunt circuit comprises a shunt switch and a shunt pathway that is connected between the first node and the shunt switch.
US10498135B2	Switch protection device The present disclosure provides a protective device related to the field of battery technology. The protective device includes an electronic switch, a mechanical switch and a time logic circuit. A first output terminal of the time logic circuit is connected to the electronic switch; a second output terminal of the time logic circuit is connected to the mechanical switch; an input terminal of the time logic circuit is connected to an output terminal of a power supply; and the electronic switch is connected in series with the mechanical switch into a circuit under control. The protective device provided in the present disclosure can effectively reduce the damage of the mechanical switch and extend the service life of the mechanical switch.
US10498133B2	Brushless DC motor A brushless DC motor having a plurality of electrical windings and a control circuit operatively connected thereto. The control circuit includes a plurality of switches configured for a time-dependent application of an electrical voltage from an external voltage supply to the windings. A measuring device is also provided for generating an electrical signal depending on the current flow IB from the external voltage supply through the control circuit. An overcurrent fuse is further provided for protecting the control circuit and the windings. In order to achieve particularly high integration of the control circuit, the invention proposes supplying a voltage drop across the overcurrent fuse to the measuring device as an input value.
US10498132B2	Methods and apparatus to disable a trip circuit during self test in ground fault circuit interrupters A ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) having an automatic self-test feature is configured to disable a trip circuit therein during a self test, yet still allow the trip circuit to respond during the self test to detection of a large ground fault by tripping a main contact switch of the GFCI. The GFCI includes circuitry that overrides the disablement of the trip circuit during a self test in response to detection of a ground fault that exceeds a predetermined threshold. Methods of disabling a trip circuit of a GFCI during a self test while still allowing the trip circuit to respond during the self test to detection of a large ground fault are also provided, as are other aspects.
US10498131B2	Electronic switch and protection circuit Disclosed is an electronic circuit and a method. The electronic circuit includes a plurality of electronic switches each including a load path and a control node, wherein the load paths are connected in parallel between a first load node and a second load node of the electronic circuit; a current sense circuit configured to sense a load current between the first load node and the second load node and to generate a current sense signal representing the load current; a drive circuit configured to drive the plurality of electronic switches based on at least one input signal; and an overload detector. The overload detector is configured to receive the current sense signal and a select information, and generate an overload signal dependent on the current sense signal and the select information.
US10498130B2	Method for limiting current in a circuit Method(s) for limiting current in an electrical circuit having transmission wires for power transmission include determining whether an unexpected operating condition exists along the transmission wires and limiting the current to prevent (damage caused by) the unexpected operating condition. The method may further include disabling the electrical circuit if the unexpected operating condition persists. Additionally, a system includes a power source, a solid state power controller (SSPC) configured to operate in a first conducting state and a second non-conducing state, and a controller.
US10498127B2	Link box with removable cable entry seals A link box includes a housing that defines an enclosure, an electrical connector within the enclosure, an aperture formed through a wall of the housing, and a cable entry seal secured to the housing at the aperture. The cable entry seal receives a cable inserted into the housing for connection to the electrical connector. The cable entry seal includes first and second parts that are removably secured together. The first part includes a flange and an externally-threaded portion that extends outwardly from the flange. The externally-threaded portion is inserted through the aperture from within the enclosure such that the flange abuts an internal surface of the wall. The second part includes an internally-threaded body and a seal conduit that extends outwardly from the internally-threaded body. The internally-threaded body is threadingly engaged with the externally-threaded portion of the first part and the seal conduit surrounds and seals the cable.
US10498125B2	Wind turbine and device for protecting from lightning A device for protecting from lightning (30) is intended to form at least a portion of an external surface of a structure to be protected and comprises a ground plane (32), a dielectric substrate (34) arranged on the ground plane, and an array of first metal elements (36) arranged on the dielectric substrate (34) and extending substantially parallel to the ground plane (32) in such a way that any pair of consecutive elements from said first metal elements (36) is separated by a distance comprised between 0.01 millimetres and 10 millimetres, said first metal elements being distributed in juxtaposed similar patterns, each of said patterns including first metal elements of different dimensions corresponding respectively to different electromagnetic resonant frequencies the juxtaposition of which defines an electromagnetic absorption band of the pattern.
US10498121B1	Waterproof fuse convergence box A waterproof fuse convergence box comprises a box body, an upper cover, an installing plate, a fuse, a convergence terminal and at least one dispersing terminal, the box body is provided with installing holes I and an installing hole II; the installing plate is fixed into the box body; the fuse is clamped and fixed through clamping seats I and clamping seats II which are arranged on the installing plate; the quantity of the dispersing terminal corresponds to the quantity of the installing holes I, the clamping seats I and the clamping seats II; the dispersing terminal is fixed at the installing holes I; a waterproof seal ring I is arranged at a contact position where the dispersing terminal and the installing holes I are contacted; the dispersing terminal is electrically connected through the clamping seats I of an electric conductor; the convergence terminal is fixed at the installing hole II; a waterproof seal ring II is arranged at a contact position where the convergence terminal and the installing hole II are contacted; the convergence terminal is electrically connected with all the clamping seats II through conducting pieces; the box body is clamped and fixedly connected with the upper cover; a waterproof seal ring III is arranged at a contact position where the box body and the upper cover are contacted; and the box body is provided with an installing support lug for fixing the box body. The convergence box has the advantages of water prevention and convenient installation and maintenance.
US10498120B2	Wedge cable clamp A cable clamp, comprising a base member including a surface configured to receive and engage with a side of a cable, a first leg portion and a second leg portion projecting from the surface. The first leg portion includes a first engagement surface having a plurality of teeth and the second leg portion includes a second engagement surface. There is a sliding member including a surface in opposing relation to the surface of the base and first and second engagement members. The first engagement member has a plurality of teeth mated to the teeth of the first engagement surface and the second engagement member is frictionally mated to the second engagement surface. The sliding member moves with respect to base member in a first direction but not in a second, opposite direction, due to the interaction of the teeth.
US10498119B2	Structures for securing broadcast cabling and connectors A structure for securing broadcast cables and connectors includes a rack mounted enclosure frame having an inner facing surface surrounding a cavity, wherein a rear side of the rack mounted enclosure defines a plurality of isolation plate mounts and a front side of the rack mounted enclosure defines an open-ended side; a rack mounted panel defining a plurality of isolation plate mounts, the rack mounted panel being sized and configured for engaged abutment with the open-ended front side of the rack mounted enclosure, and wherein each of the plurality of isolation plate mounts are angled relative to the front side of the rack mounted enclosure frame; and the rack mounted panel including a top section and a bottom section, and wherein the top and bottom sections join together at a convex angle.
US10498115B2	Irrigation control box with offset hinge assembly An irrigation control box can include a housing base having a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a top sidewall, a bottom sidewall, and a back wall. The box can include at least one hinge post. An offset hinge assembly can include a hinge assembly frame defining a hinge assembly interior, a first attachment structure positioned at least partially within the hinge assembly interior and configured to releasably attach to the at least one hinge post, and a rotational attachment point. A facepack can include at least one hinge point configured to mate with the rotational attachment point. In some cases, the facepack is configured to rotate about rotational attachment point of the offset hinge assembly with respect to the housing base when the housing base and facepack are each attached to the offset hinge assembly.
US10498114B1	Arc resistant door with multi-latch system A door latching system provides an arc resistant door for a power electronics cabinet. The door latching system includes a six point latch to secure the door in place against the frame of the cabinet. The door latching system includes two vertical linkages coupled to a door handle mechanism, the door handle mechanism being able to impart a vertical motion to the vertical linkages as the handle is turned. The latching system allows for this vertical motion to then become horizontal motion for closing several latches between the vertical frame of the cabinet and the door.
US10498109B1	Projector of Structured light pattern A pattern projector with multiple point light source includes a light source of multiple point source capable of providing plural laser dot light beams in a spherical wave form, a lens element and a diffractive optical element. Plural light dots are arranged to form an arrangement pattern of emitting light dots in a specific regularity. The arrangement pattern of emitting light dots is imaged and multiplied to form plural ones. The neighboring two arrangement patterns of emitting light dots are partially overlapped. Non-regularity without repeat and variety on the overlapped portions can be achieved by DOE design that may adjust different overlapping degrees and ways on the arrangement patterns of emitting light dots in a specific regularity.
US10498108B2	Surface-emitting laser array, laser apparatus, ignition device and internal combustion engine A surface-emitting laser array includes a plurality of light emitting parts. Each light emitting part includes a reflection mirror including aluminum gallium arsenide (AlxGa(1-x)As) where x is greater than 0.95 but less than or equal to 1; an active layer; and an electrode surrounding an emission region, from which laser light is emitted, the electrode covering a region between adjacent light emitting parts in the plurality of light emitting parts.
US10498094B2	Connector A connector is equipped with a housing capable of being fitted in a mating connector, a plurality of terminals which are held in the housing and electrically connected to each other, and a noise reduction member or members which are held in the housing. The mating connector is connected to brunch lines among a trunk line and the brunch lines constituting an electric circuit. One of the plurality of terminals is a trunk-line connection terminal which is a pressure contact terminal and is electrically connected to the trunk line directly, and a remaining terminals are branch-line connection terminals which are male terminals or female terminals and are electrically connected to the respective branch lines when the housing is connected to the mating connector. The noise reduction member is not disposed at the trunk-line connection terminal, and the noise reduction member is disposed at the branch-line connection terminal.
US10498090B2	Cable connector assembly A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable connected with the electrical connector, the electrical connector including a mating plug for mating with a mating connector, a circuit board mated with the mating plug and the cable, and a metal housing disposed outside the circuit board, the cable including a plurality of core wires and a shield layer disposed outside thereof, the metal housing electrically connected with the shield layer. The circuit board has a lug disposed thereon that has a grounding portion, the metal housing electrically connected with the grounding portion of the lug for grounding.
US10498089B2	Cable connector assembly A connector assembly includes a connector and a cable electrically connected to the connector, the connector including an insulative housing, plural conductive terminals received in the insulative housing and extended in the front-rear direction, a metal shielding plate, and a grounding member fixed in the insulative housing, the conductive terminals including a tail portion exposed to a rear end of the insulative housing, the cable including a plurality of core wires, each of the core wires including an inner conductor and a metal shielding layer covering the inner conductor, wherein the grounding member is electrically connected to the metal shielding layer, the metal shielding layer of the core wires of the cable is electrically connected to the grounding member, and the inner conductor of the core wire is electrically connected to the tail portion of the corresponding conductive terminals.
US10498088B2	Shielded telecommunications connector A telecommunications connector includes a connector body and a shield attached to the connector body, the shield including a main body portion configured for attachment to the connector body and a barrel portion for crimping against a cable to be terminated to the connector. The barrel portion of the shield includes a corrugated side wall made up of a series of bends extending along a direction from the rear end of the barrel toward the front end of the barrel along at least a portion of a length of the barrel, wherein the bends defining the corrugated side wall are provided on the shield at a pre-crimped stage.
US10498086B2	Differential pair signal contacts with skew correction An electrical connector configured for differential pairs with low in-pair skew. The connector may comprise lead frame assemblies, such as insert molded lead frame assemblies, with adjacent conductors configured for reduced skew by distributing skew correction throughout the transmission path through the lead frame assembly. Elongated air gaps are formed in a side of the housing, exposing the longer conductor of each pair. The elongated air gap may span the entire length of the arc of a longer conductor of each pair. The width of this air gap may be different for different pairs in the lead frame assembly and may be selected to cancel or prevent in-pair skew from arising. The width for each pair may be selected to tune the effective dielectric constant of the longer conductor such that its electrical length matches that of the shorter conductor.
US10498084B2	Electrical connection device having connection detection function An electrical connection device reliably detects a connected state of connectors and includes first and second connectors (C1, C2) first and second housings (10, 20) and a connection detector (30). The first housing (10) includes a detector restraining portion (14b). The second housing (20) includes a restraint releasing portion (26) for restraining the connection detector (30) until the first housing (10) reaches a connection position and releasing the restraint when the connection position is reached. The first housing (10) includes a connection allowance switch having a connection preventing portion (19). The connection allowance switch is deformable to displace the connection preventing portion (19) from a connection preventing position to a connection allowing position. The connection detector (30) includes a connection switch (38) for deforming the connection allowance switch to displace the connection preventing portion (19) to the connection allowing position with the connection detector mounted in the first housing (10).
US10498083B2	IC socket According to one embodiment, there are contact pins, each of which is provided in a contact pin arrangement recess by corresponding to an arrangement position of a lead line of an IC, and changes a position in a vertical direction, depending on presence or absence of contact with the lead line. There are detection pins, each of which is inserted in a through-hole formed in a protruding portion of a cover by corresponding to an arrangement position of each contact pin, and moves up and down, depending on a position of the contact pin. A relative position of an upper surface of each detection pin relative to an upper surface of the cover differs between a first occasion where the contact pin is not in contact with the lead line and a second occasion where the contact pin is in contact with the lead line.
US10498081B1	Self-aligning connector for a light fixture A self-aligning connector assembly for a light fixture. In some embodiments, the self-aligning connector assembly includes a base and a self-alignment component. The base includes a first alignment feature extending from a platform and a first electrical contact, and the self-alignment component includes a second alignment feature and a second electrical contact. When the self-alignment component is positioned over and then released onto the base, the first alignment feature mates with the second alignment feature which causes rotation of the self-alignment component under the force of gravity, resulting in operably connecting the first electrical contact to the second electrical contact.
US10498080B2	Electrical connector A electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating face and a loading face opposite to each other. A plurality of partitions are formed in the housing with corresponding passageways in which a plurality of contacts are received. The partition includes a main body and a protrusion extending on the loading face. The protrusion includes a pair of chamfers with a recess in one side to receive the possible burrs due to the injection molding so as to allow the sealing plate intimately cover the loading face with superior waterproofing effect.
US10498079B2	Electronic device unit An electronic device unit includes a circuit board having: a sealing resin portion in which a region in which an electronic component is mounted is sealed by a sealing resin; and a board end portion exposed from a side of the sealing resin portion. A plurality of connection terminals are provided on the board end portion so as to be aligned in a direction of the side of the sealing resin portion, and a resin portion thicker than the board end portion and having a wall-like projection shape is provided at at least one of side surfaces of the board end portion in the direction of the side. The resin portion is integrally molded with the sealing resin portion of the circuit board and a side surface of the resin portion is press-fitted into an insertion chamber of a connector.
US10498074B2	Electro-mechanical coupler for artificial tree sections An electro-mechanical coupler includes a source housing with a source surface and a load housing with a load surface. Both housings have through-holes for inserting and attaching tubes. One end of a first tube is insertable into the other tube. The source and load housings carry sets of plural electrical terminals that are brought into electrical contact with each other when the housing surfaces engage and they are oriented in a complementary topographic combination, such as the beveled slots of the source housing receiving the beveled inserts of the load housing. Spring-loaded plural electrical terminals extend from the bottom of the slot in the source housing and from the end of the insert in the load housing. A pivoting, sliding latch holds the source housing to the load housing, and a cam system assists in separating the source and load housings and their respective tubes.

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