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| US10806690B2 |
Process for treating hair using aqueous dispersions of particular polymers and heat
The present invention relates to a process for treating the hair, which comprises: a) applying to hair a composition comprising at least one aqueous dispersion of silicone particles and polyurethane particles, then or simultaneously, b) heating the hair to a temperature comprised inclusively between 50° C. and 250° C. using a heating device. |
| US10806687B2 |
Personal care composition and method of preparation thereof
A stable flowable aqueous composition comprising at least two component surfactants, each component surfactant having a maximum solubility in water at which a saturated solution forms, wherein the total concentration of all surfactants present in the composition is greater than would be obtained by combining equivalent amounts of saturated solutions of the component surfactants; wherein at least one component surfactant includes a compound of formula (I): wherein R1 represents a C4-36 alkyl group; each of R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group and wherein at least one of R2, R3, R4 and R5 is not hydrogen and M− represents a cation. |
| US10806685B2 |
Oral care compositions
The present invention relates to oral care compositions and to method of maintaining oral health. The oral care composition of the present invention comprises at least one carbon dioxide source, at least one acid source, at least one abrasive and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. |
| US10806678B2 |
Medicine supply apparatus
A medicine supply apparatus capable of suppressing entry of foreign substances into a medicine passage and also capable of reducing time and effort required in an operation of attaching and detaching a medicine container is provided. A container support portion is configured to support a medicine container so as to be attachable and detachable. The container support portion is provided with a medicine passage through which a medicine discharged from the medicine container passes. The container support portion has an opening and closing member. The opening and closing member is movable to: an open position at which the medicine passage is opened; and a close position at which the medicine passage is closed. |
| US10806675B2 |
Palatal drug delivery
Drug delivery devices and systems are disclosed that allow precise, controlled drug delivery via the oral palatal mucosa. The drug delivery devices can be easily used by a patient or other user, and reduce the likelihood of (or in some cases eliminate) dilution of the drug by saliva and fluids and inadvertent swallowing or unplanned uptake of the drug by the patient. The drug delivery devices include a body shaped to conform to a user's palate, and cavities in a palate-facing surface of the body that are configured to receive a drug in liquid form. |
| US10806667B2 |
Fluid transfer devices for filling drug pump cartridges with liquid drug contents
Fluid transfer devices for filling a drug pump cartridge with liquid drug contents for administration purposes. Fluid transfer device includes a dual open ended barrel partitioned by a transverse partition into a drug vial port for telescopic mounting on a drug vial and an open ended piston cylinder for slidingly receiving a piston head including a drug pump cartridge port for telescopic mounting on a leading cartridge end of a drug pump cartridge. Sliding insertion of the piston head into the piston cylinder to butt against the transverse partition urges air trapped in the compression chamber into the drug vial which in turn urges its liquid drug contents into the vented drug pump cartridge. |
| US10806664B1 |
Spa sprayer
A spa sprayer contains: a body and a water spray unit. The spray unit including a spraying seat, a lid, and a cavity defined between the spraying seat and the lid. The spraying seat is mounted on an end of the body away from the motor and has an impeller received in the cavity. The lid has at least one inlet and two opposite outlets which are in communication with the cavity. The lid further has a spacing rib, an inflow space formed inside the spacing rib, an outflow space formed outside the spacing rib, and multiple tilted guide ribs. A tilted direction of the multiple tilted guide ribs corresponds to a rotation direction of the impeller, each of the multiple tilted guide ribs has an oblique angle, and the lid further has two stop shoulders extending from the two opposite outlets. |
| US10806659B2 |
Eye exercise device
An eye exercise device comprising a single open goggle chamber with no binocular or magnified optical lens of any sort having a front portion, protective first plate and second plate, light emitting diodes (LEDs), a control panel and a power supply, is disclosed. The control panel is coupled to the power supply, smart electronic glass and LEDs. The first plate is disposed at the front portion of the single open goggle chamber and the second plate is disposed behind the first plate. The second plate comprises a smart electronic glass and the first plate comprises a polycarbonate protective screen, disposed at a center region across an eye of a user. The smart electronic glass is configured to switch to an opaque state for short-sightedness and switch to a transparent state for farsightedness. The LEDs disposed at the periphery of the second plate is configured to emit light in a predefined sequence, thereby encouraging specific ocular movements. |
| US10806654B2 |
Motorized chair
A mobility chair has a base frame with a seat bottom, a seatback, motorized drive wheels, and safety wheels, an actuated hoist with a mast, boom, winch, and sling that has a stowed configuration and an operative configuration, and outriggers that have a retracted configuration proximate to the base frame and an extended configuration ahead of the mobility chair. The boom is raised and its forward portion is rotated ahead of the frontmost section of the seat while its rear portion remains behind the boom. The seatback can be raised from the base frame and can also be hingedly connected to the seat bottom which rotates relative to the base frame through a bracket in the front section so that as the seatback is raised, the seat bottom rotates with the seatback into an upright standing configuration with the seat bottom aligned with the seatback in the vertical orientation. |
| US10806652B1 |
Patient-turning assemblies
Disclosed herein are patient-turning assemblies including a patient-turning assembly for turning a patient, which patient-turning assembly may include: a sling having: a first sling portion having a handle; and a second sling portion extending from the first sling portion; a sleeve fixedly coupled to the second sling portion; a channel disposed between the sleeve and the second sling portion; and a cushion capable of either ingress into or egress from the channel, or both. |
| US10806649B1 |
Enhanced mobility wheelchair
An enhanced mobility wheelchair with semi-autonomous control logic includes criteria for selecting level, stair, and slope modes. Each mode progresses through criteria-invoked phases as the wheelchair travels. Each axis performs an assigned duty for each mode and phase combination to seek a defined target. Control logic invokes stair mode from the level mode when steps are sensed. Criteria restricts negotiating obstacle angles and heights encountered beyond capability and permits reversed travel to exit obstacle. Front and rear support systems include the ability to sense both forward and backward facing steps by adding distance sensors, sensing linkage and rotary sensors. Legrest adjustment raises the feet for forward step climbing and shortens the wheelchair length for tight turns. Steep down slope and steep up slope modes are invoked from a small angle slope mode. Absolute measurement of spider rotation and spider cam engagement does not require adjustment. |
| US10806648B2 |
Ramp assembly with collapsible side rails for motorized vehicle
A ramp assembly for use to accommodate a wheel-chaired passenger to enter or exit a motorized vehicle includes a ramp body having a length defined along a longitudinal direction, a first side rail pivotably coupled to the ramp body, a second side rail pivotably coupled to the ramp body, and a hinge plate pivotably coupled to the ramp body. The ramp assembly further includes a first arm and a second arm coupled to a bottom surface of the ramp body. The first side rail and second side rail are pivotably moved between a folded position in which the first and second side rails pivot inwardly and a raised position in which the side rails are oriented perpendicular to the ramp body. The first arm operably pivots the first side rail between its folded and raised position, and the second arm operably pivots the second side rail between its folded and raised position. |
| US10806644B2 |
Evaluation method of wearing state of disposable diaper, evaluation system of wearing state of disposable diaper, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with a program for evaluating wearing state of disposable diaper
An evaluation method of a wearing state of a disposable diaper including an elastic region in a waist portion or leg-surrounding portions, the evaluation method including: an evaluation image acquiring process in which a terminal including a photographing function acquires an image including at least a part of the elastic region as an evaluation image in the wearing state of the disposable diaper; and an evaluation process of evaluating the wearing state of the disposable diaper based on a degree of deformation of the evaluation image. |
| US10806642B2 |
Absorbent article with a concave groove
A absorbent article has a concave groove that satisfies (1) a relationship between a depth “h” of a bottom surface portion of the concave groove, and a distance “S” from a bottom end “G” of the concave groove to an upper end “K” from which a concavity of the concave groove starts is 1.5h |
| US10806641B2 |
Absorbent structures and cores with efficient immobilization of absorbent material
An absorbent structure comprising a planar substrate, an auxiliary glue applied on the substrate, an absorbent material comprising from 80% to 100% by weight of superabsorbent particles deposited on the substrate on an absorbent material deposition area comprising a pattern of absorbent material land areas separated by absorbent material-free junction areas, wherein the deposition area can be notionally divided in eight deposition zones of equal length along the longitudinal direction. A fibrous thermoplastic adhesive layer immobilizes at least some of the absorbent material. The absorbent material is profiled along the longitudinal direction so that at least one of the eight deposition zones is a zone of lower absorbent material amount and the auxiliary glue is absent, or present at a level of at least 50% by weight lower than the average amount of auxiliary glue in at least one of these zones of lower absorbent material amount. |
| US10806637B2 |
Absorbent article
An absorbent article in which an absorbent body is provided between a liquid permeable topsheet and a backsheet, includes a concave groove-like or a slit-like absorbent body concave portion provided at a liquid permeable topsheet side of the absorbent body along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article at an area including a urine expelling site, both end portions of the absorbent body concave portion in the longitudinal direction respectively being zones of a gradually decreasing width, each having a tapered shape whose width is gradually decreased toward an end portion side, each of the zones of a gradually decreasing width being formed to have a length that is greater than or equal to 20% of the total length of the absorbent body concave portion. |
| US10806628B2 |
Dual cap system for container-closures to maintain tip sterility during shelf storage
A container-closure system includes a container configured to hold a therapeutic liquid and having a dispensing tip configured to dispense a dose of the therapeutic liquid. A vented cap is configured to fit over at least a portion of the container including the dispensing tip and having one or more vents that allow air to pass into and out of a cavity defined between the vented cap and the dispensing tip. A second cap is configured to fit over at least a portion of the vented cap. A tamper evident seal is coupled to the second cap and one or both of the container and the vented cap. |
| US10806624B2 |
Menstrual cups and related methods
Menstrual cups comprise a resilient body having an open top and a closed bottom and defining an internal volume sized to hold menstrual fluid. The resilient body comprises a wall structure that extends from the open top to the closed bottom. The wall structure has an outer surface opposite the internal volume and an inner surface facing the internal volume. The resilient body is biased to an open conformation, and the resilient body has a longitudinal axis that extends through a center of the internal volume when in the open conformation. |
| US10806619B1 |
Unloading knee brace apparatus
An adjustable tension knee brace for unloading weight from a knee joint afflicted with osteoarthritis, thus reducing pain and improving mobility, comprising: an upper and lower rigid posterior portion, anterior straps, and a tension adjustable geared hinge assembly. Four embodiments are disclosed of hinge assemblies useable with the knee brace, or other types of braces. The hinge assemblies comprise: two subunits housing intermeshed gears, and at least one elastic band extending between the hinge subunits over a cam surface above the gears. In three embodiments, U-shaped connectors secure the subunits and gears together, and the subunits may comprise a user mechanism that adjusts the elastic band's tension and thus the amount of weight unloaded, then releases it. Another embodiment comprises a core bracket to protect the band(s) and a mechanism to compress the elastic band at various points to increase the amount of tension, and with a quick release mechanism. |
| US10806617B2 |
Methods of manufacturing a cover for an inflatable balloon
The present disclosure describes implantable medical devices comprising covers, such as a balloon cover. Such devices can comprise a first layer of a porous polymeric material, such as ePTFE, surrounded by layers of a porous polymeric material having an imbibed elastomer, such as polyurethane. The cover can be used to assist in deployment of an expandable implant, such as a stent-graft, within the body of the patient. |
| US10806616B2 |
Double balloon
The invention relates to a balloon catheter, in particular for the widening of stents in fenestrations, being provided with a first inner balloon (4), a second outer balloon (5), with said second balloon (5) completely enclosing the first balloon (4), separate supply lines in the catheter (2) leading to the first (4) and second balloon (5), which allow the balloons (4, 5) to be pressurized independently of one another, a central lumen (3) for a guidewire, wherein in the expanded state, both balloons (4, 5) in the proximal region (P) have a diameter which is enlarged in relation to that of the distal region (D). |
| US10806614B2 |
Method of making recessed features on inner surface of tubular structure by thermal ablation
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for manufacturing intravascular stents wherein the intravascular stent has its inner surface treated to promote the migration of endothelial cells onto the inner surface of the intravascular stent. In particular, the inner surface of the intravascular stent has at least one groove formed therein. |
| US10806609B2 |
Vascular stenting for aneurysms
Described herein are flexible implantable occluding devices that can, for example, navigate the tortuous vessels of the neurovasculature. The occluding devices can also conform to the shape of the tortuous vessels of the vasculature. In some embodiments, the occluding devices can direct blood flow within a vessel away from an aneurysm or limit blood flow to the aneurysm. Some embodiments describe methods and apparatus for adjusting, along a length of the device, the porosity of the occluding device. In some embodiments, the occluding devices allows adequate blood flow to be provided to adjacent structures such that those structures, whether they are branch vessels or oxygen-demanding tissues, are not deprived of the necessary blood flow. |
| US10806601B2 |
Method for regulating a prosthesis controlled by a microcontroller, and prosthesis equipped with a microcontroller for implementation of the regulating method
Method for regulating a prosthesis (1), such as a knee prosthesis, ankle prosthesis or knee/ankle prosthesis, comprising at least one joint (2) controlled by an actuator (3) governed by a microcontroller (4) on the basis of data issuing from at least one gyroscope (5) and an accelerometer (6) that are able to measure the angular speed and the acceleration, respectively, of at least part of the prosthesis (1). According to the invention, the method is such that, during a defined period of time, the microcontroller (4) monitors the measurement given by the gyroscope (5), in such a way that said microcontroller (4) enters an idle state by reducing or by cutting the electrical power of at least one electronic organ of the prosthesis (1), except that of the accelerometer (6), when said microcontroller (4) detects that the absolute value of the measurement given by the gyroscope (5) is below a given threshold during the defined period of time. |
| US10806593B2 |
Cortical rim-supporting interbody device
A central inflatable distractor and a perimeter balloon are inserted into the disc space in uninflated configurations. The central inflatable distractor is then expanded, thereby distracting the vertebral endplates to the controlled height of the central inflatable distractor. The perimeter balloon is then inflated with a curable substance. The perimeter balloon expands as it is filled with the curable substance and conforms to the void remaining in the disc space around the central inflatable distractor, thereby creating a horseshoe shape. Once the flowable material in the perimeter balloon has cured, the central inflated distractor can be deflated and removed. The remaining void (or inner space) is then packed with graft for fusion. |
| US10806591B2 |
Patient-specific augmented glenoid systems and methods
A glenoid implant comprises a body comprising: an articular surface and a scapula-engaging surface, the scapula-engaging surface including first and second portions angled relative to each other; and a fixation feature extending from the scapula-engaging surface. A method comprises: forming a planar bone surface at a glenoid using a guide pin; forming a first bore into the glenoid located near the guide pin; forming a second bore into the glenoid offset from the first bore; inserting an augment ream guide into the first and second bores; and forming an angled bone surface at the glenoid relative to the planar bone surface using the augment ream guide. A ream guide comprises: a base having first and second surfaces; a bone peg extending from the first surface; an alignment peg spaced from the bone peg; and a guide peg extending from the second surface at an oblique angle to the bone peg. |
| US10806589B2 |
Hipbone prosthesis
The present disclosure provides a hipbone prosthesis, comprising: a prosthesis main body (10), the prosthesis main body (10) being of an arched structure, the prosthesis main body including a first end portion (11) and a second end portion, and the first end portion (11) being contacted and matched with a sacrum (1); and an acetabular cup (20) and a connecting device (30), the acetabular cup (20) being connected with the second end portion in a position adjustable manner via the connecting device (30). According to the technical solutions of the present disclosure, the problems of unreliable supporting and easy fatigue break of a screw-rod system in the related technology are effectively solved. |
| US10806583B2 |
Penile prosthesis implantation apparatus and related methods
A penile prosthesis implantation apparatus and related methods are described. |
| US10806580B2 |
Self-adjusting attachment structure for a cardiac support device
A cardiac support device includes a jacket and elastic attachment structure for self-securing the jacket to a heart. The attachment structures can include undulating metal and polymer elements, a silicone band and elastomeric filaments on a base end of the jacket. |
| US10806579B2 |
Heart valve repair implant for treating tricuspid regurgitation
A heart valve repair implant may include a first implant section having a first axial core, and a plurality of spines extending radially outward from the first axial core in an expanded configuration; a second implant section having a second axial core configured to slide over the first axial core, and a mesh portion configured to extend radially outward from the second axial core in an expanded configuration; a third implant section having a central tensioning element extending through the first axial core, and a plurality of arms extending radially outward from the central tensioning element and configured to extend axially between the plurality of spines and through the mesh portion; and a securement element disposed on the central tensioning element. |
| US10806572B2 |
Loading and delivery of self-expanding stents
A method of deploying a stent includes providing a delivery system with the stent loaded in a reduced diameter configuration between an inner catheter and an outer sheath, the stent including a covering positioned on a luminal wall surface thereof, the inner catheter including a radially outwardly extending protrusion that extends into the covering but does not intersect a plane along the stent luminal wall surface, advancing the delivery system to a stenting site, and withdrawing the outer sheath to deploy the stent at the stenting site. |
| US10806570B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve having identifiers for aiding in radiographic positioning
A prosthetic heart valve having identifiers for aiding in radiographic positioning is described. |
| US10806569B2 |
Stented prosthetic heart valves
A surgical sutureless valve that is attached to a stent frame for delivery to a location in a patient using percutaneous implantation devices and methods. |
| US10806568B2 |
Implantable scaffolds for treatment of sinusitus
This disclosure describes various sinus scaffolds having fiber-based and non-fiber based designs, materials, devices, kits and methods that may be used to treat chronic sinusitis. These designs vary in form, dimension, and delivery location (i.e. maxillary, frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal sinuses, and middle meatus). In addition therapeutic agent(s) may optionally be included within the scaffolds for local delivery over a brief or extended period of time. |
| US10806562B2 |
Stent graft
A low-profile stent graft has a Type-III endoleak suppression effect, avoiding the problem with a stent graft which uses an extra-thin graft incurring enlarged needle holes or needle hole parts in a suture part. The stent graft has a proximate end, a distal end, and a lumen which is positioned between the proximate end and the distal end. The stent graft is formed by coupling a cylindrical graft to a stent with a suture. The cylindrical graft is formed from a fabric having a thickness of 10-90 μm. The elastic modulus of the suture is 40 cN/dtex or less. |
| US10806554B2 |
Animal condition indication assembly
An animal condition indication assembly includes a panel with a plurality of layers. The panel includes a first edge, a second edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The layers include an adhesive to be attached to a first animal. A substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface and the adhesive is positioned on the lower surface to adhesively secure the substrate to a rump of the first animal. An intermediate layer is positioned on the upper surface and includes a first color permanently affixed to the substrate. The first color is UV fluorescent. A flood coat is removably positioned on and covers the intermediate layer. Portions of the flood coat are removed by a second animal upon mounting of the first animal by the second animal. The flood coat is opaque and has a different color than the intermediate layer. |
| US10806553B2 |
Oral care mouthpiece
An oral care mouthpiece (10) is disclosed. The mouthpiece includes a shell (15) having an arch shape corresponding to a dental arch. The shell (15) includes a wall corresponding to facial surfaces of teeth in the dental arch, and a bite plate corresponding (157) to biting surfaces of the teeth. The mouthpiece also includes a wicking layer (19) on an inner surface of the wall. The mouthpiece further includes a filament layer (23) on the wicking layer. |
| US10806551B2 |
Dental tape and floss holder with installation cassette
A floss holder includes a housing and a spindle for receiving floss and a fork having two ends between which the feed portion of the floss is secured for use. A first locking plate is operable for receiving a feed portion and a return portion of the floss upon a horizontal surface thereof. A second locking plate is operable to engage the first locking plate, where a distal end of the second locking plate engages the feed portion and the return portion to substantially constrain the feed portion of the floss on the fork and the return portion, applying tension along the feed portion and the return portion. A number of protrusions assist in retaining the feed portion and preventing the tape floss from slippage while reducing the friction around the fork; the protrusions are located at the base of the fork and inside the floss holder. |
| US10806547B2 |
Dental materials using thermoset polymers
Provided herein are crosslinked polymers useful in orthodontic appliances and light polymerizable liquid compositions and formulations useful for making crosslinked polymers. Also provided are methods of making an orthodontic appliance comprising a cross-linked polymer formed by a direct fabrication technique. |
| US10806546B2 |
Systems and methods of identifying and tracking dental molds in automated aligner fabrication systems
An aligner fabrication system combines design data and material to form a plurality of dental molds with which a plurality of aligners are formed. The aligner fabrication system includes a build assembly that defines a build surface on which the dental molds are formed. The build assembly is constructed of a plurality of individual build platforms that are removably coupled together. Each individual build platform is associated with an identification entity. The dental molds are formed on the build surface. One dental mold is formed on one individual build platform. The design data associated with the one dental mold is linkable to the identification entity on the one individual build platform. |
| US10806545B2 |
System and method for correcting malocclusion
An orthodontic remodeling system includes an extraoral vibratory source coupled to a bite plate, where the extraoral vibratory source is operable to vibrate the bite plate at a frequency in a range of 0.1 to 400 Hz. The bite plate is configured to deliver cyclic forces simultaneously to teeth of the maxillary and mandibular arches, and the bite plate and the extraoral vibratory source are held during use only by clamping with the teeth. A battery is operable to power the extraoral vibratory source, and a processor is configured to control the extraoral vibratory source. Electronic media is operable to capture data indicating usage duration and usage frequency to allow patient compliance to be determined. |
| US10806543B2 |
Apparatus, methods, and compositions for endodontic treatments
Examples of apparatus, methods, and compositions for endodontic treatments are described. The apparatus can include a fluid platform configured to substantially retain fluid in a tooth chamber during treatment. The fluid platform can help maintain fluid circulation in the tooth chamber as fluid flows into and out of the tooth chamber. The apparatus can also include a pressure wave generator configured to generate acoustic waves that can be used for cleaning root canals and tooth surfaces in the tooth chamber. Examples of pressure wave generators include a liquid jet, an electromagnetic energy delivery device, and an ultrasonic device. The fluid can include antiseptic or antibacterial solutions to assist in tooth cleaning. The fluid may be degassed to have a reduced dissolved gas content (compared to non-degassed fluids used in endodontic treatments), which may improve the effectiveness of the pressure wave generation or the cleaning. |
| US10806536B2 |
Physician-safe illumination in ophthalmic surgeries
Apparatus and methods combine light emitted by a narrow band laser having a peak emission wavelength greater than or equal to about 480 nm with light emitted from one or more additional light sources to provide an illumination beam for illumination inside a human or animal during a diagnostic or surgical procedure. The narrow band laser provides the shortest wavelength contribution to the illumination beam. |
| US10806533B2 |
Systems and methods for onscreen menus in a teleoperational medical system
A system comprises a teleoperational assembly including an operator control system and a first teleoperational manipulator configured for operation by an operator control device of the operator control system. The first teleoperational manipulator is configured to control the operation of a first medical instrument in a surgical environment. The system also comprises a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to display an image of a field of view of the surgical environment and display a menu proximate to an image of the first medical instrument in the image of the field of view. The menu includes at least one icon representing a function for the first medical instrument. |
| US10806532B2 |
Surgical simulation system using force sensing and optical tracking and robotic surgery system
A surgical simulation device includes a support structure and animal tissue carried in a tray. A simulated human skeleton is carried by the support structure above the animal tissue and includes simulated human skin. A camera images the animal tissue and an image processor receives images of markers positioned on the ribs and animal tissue and forms a three-dimensional wireframe image. An operating table is adjacent a local robotic surgery station as part of a robotic surgery station and includes at least one patient support configured to support the patient during robotic surgery. At least one patient force/torque sensor is coupled to the at least one patient support and configured to sense at least one of force and torque experienced by the patient during robotic surgery. |
| US10806523B2 |
Adjustable registration frame
A system for determining the position and orientation of a medical device relative to an image space during image-guided medical procedures. The system comprises a flexible pad mounted on the subject such that a part covers the region of interest. The pad incorporates detectable registration members. Prior to the procedure, the device is coupled to the pad, which is then rigidized, so that there is no movement of the registration members relative to each other and relative to the device. The fixed relation-ship between the device and the registration members is determined from initial images, for example using detectable markers attached to the device, enabling the pose of the device relative to the image space of images of the region of interest to be determined later, even if the device is remote from the region of interest. This minimizes exposure of the subject and medical staff to radiation. |
| US10806520B2 |
Imaging apparatus for imaging a first object within a second object
An imaging apparatus images a first object (10), like a tip of a catheter, disposed within a second object, such as a vascular structure of a person. A three-dimensional representation of the second object including a representation of a surface (23) of the second object and the position of the first object relative to the position of the second object are provided. A projection (22) of the first object onto the representation of the surface of the second object is determined and shown to a user like a physician on a display (18). The three-dimensional spatial relationship between the first object and the second object is thereby shown in a way that is very native for the user, i.e. a visualization can be provided, which allows the user to easily and accurately grasp the three-dimensional spatial relationship between the first object and the second object. |
| US10806519B2 |
Computer-assisted surgery system with user interface tool used as mouse in sterile surgery environment
A method for establishing an interaction between an operator and a monitor of a computer-assisted surgery system comprises tracking a tool manipulated by the operator for providing surgical data calculated from the position/orientation of the tool. A desired interaction is identified from the operator by tracking the tool reaching a specific position and/or a specific orientation. An interactive action is activated on a monitor as a function of the desired interaction, the interactive action being unrelated to said surgical data. A motion of the tool is converted to additional interactions related to said interactive action. A computer-assisted surgery system is also provided. |
| US10806514B2 |
Light energy sealing, cutting and sensing surgical device
The present disclosure is directed towards a medical instrument. The medical instrument includes a housing and an end effector assembly operably connected to the housing. The end effector assembly includes first and second jaw members each having a tissue contacting surface, at least one of the first and second jaw members movable between a first, spaced-apart position and a second proximate position, wherein in the second position, the jaw members cooperate to define a cavity configured to receive tissue between the jaw members. The end effector also includes at least one light-emitting element coupled to at least one of the first and second jaw members, the at least one light-emitting element adapted to deliver light energy to tissue grasped between the first and second jaw members to treat the tissue. |
| US10806513B2 |
Methods and apparatus for optimizing selective photothermolysis
The present invention relates to a selective photothermolysis device comprising: a tunable radiation source configured to emit radiation; a patient interface comprising a radiation delivery unit configured to deliver the radiation to a tissue, and an ultrasonic detector for detecting photoacoustic waves excited by the radiation from one or more surgical targets in the tissue; and a control system configured to acquire characteristics of the tissue and one or more surgical targets based on measurements on detected photoacoustic waves, determine optimal characteristics of the tunable radiation source for optimal surgical outcome on one or more surgical targets in the tissue, prescribe characteristics and optimal characteristics, and adjust the tunable radiation source for optimal surgical outcome based on the optimal characteristics, and methods applicable to the device. |
| US10806510B2 |
Medical systems and methods
Tissue is resected and extracted from an interior location in a patient's body using a probe or tool which both effects resection and causes vaporization of a liquid or other fluid to propel the resected tissue through an extraction lumen of the resecting device. Resection is achieved using an electrosurgical electrode assembly including a first electrode on a resecting member and a second electrode within a resection probe or tool. Over a first resecting portion, radio frequency current helps resect the tissue and over a second or over transition region, the RF current initiates vaporization of the fluid or other liquid to propel the tissue from the resection device. In one embodiment, an extending element extends from a housing and into a channel in a resecting member as the resecting member moves toward a distal position. |
| US10806509B2 |
Method of adhering a conductive coating to an adhesion-resistant outer surface
A conductive coating may be adhered to a structure comprising a hydrophobic and/or adhesion-resistant surface. The conductive coating may have a polymer backbone with conductive particles suspended in the backbone. In some embodiments, the conductive coating may be applied directly to the surface. In other embodiments, the conductive coating may be indirectly applied by first applying a primer adhesive to the outer surface, and then applying the conductive coating over the primer adhesive. An example structure may be a catheter of an endoscopic medical device, such as a bipolar sphincterotome, where the conductive coating functions as a return electrode. |
| US10806508B2 |
Method for manufacturing an electrode assembly configured for use with an electrosurgical instrument
A method for manufacturing an electrode configuration configured for use with an electrosurgical instrument is provided. A pre-assembled jaw configuration including jaw members including respective first and second electrodes is provided. One or more stop members are positioned on the first electrode. The first and second electrodes are approximated toward one another for contact therebetween so as to form an at least one indentation on the second electrode. |
| US10806507B2 |
Electrosurgical instrument
An end effector assembly is provided. The end effector assembly includes a pair of first and second jaw members including respective seal plates adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy. The first and second jaw members operable in a first bipolar mode of operation for treating tissue and a second bipolar mode of operation for separating tissue. A dissector translatable through one of the first and second jaw members is in electrical communication with one of the seal plates of the first and second jaw members and activatable in the second bipolar mode of operation for separating tissue when the first and second jaw members are in one of the open and clamping position and tissue is adjacent thereto. |
| US10806502B2 |
Systems and methods for treating the prostate
A vapor delivery system and method is provided that is adapted for treating prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system includes a vapor delivery needle configured to deliver condensable vapor energy to tissue. In one method, the vapor delivery system is advanced transurethrally into the patient to access the prostate tissue. The vapor delivery system is properly positioned by measuring and advancing the system based on a field-of-view of an endoscope or camera disposed within the system. |
| US10806500B2 |
Treatment systems, methods, and apparatuses for improving the appearance of skin and providing other treatments
Treatment systems, methods, and apparatuses for improving the appearance of skin or other target regions are described as well as for providing for other treatments. Aspects of the technology are directed to improving the appearance of skin by tightening the skin, improving skin tone or texture, eliminating or reducing wrinkles, increasing skin smoothness, or improving the appearance of cellulite. Treatments can include cooling a surface of a patient's skin and detecting at least one freeze event in the cooled skin. The treatment system can continue cooling the patient's skin after the freeze event(s) are detected so to maintain at least a partially frozen state of the tissue for a period of time. |
| US10806499B2 |
Universal orthopedic clamp
A bone clamping device includes a pair of clamps mounted on a clamp connector. Each clamp has a variable size opening that varies in size transverse to the clamp connector. At least one clamp is longitudinally and angularly displaceable relative to the other along the clamp connector. The clamps are preferably made from a plastic and the clamp connector is preferably made from metal. |
| US10806491B2 |
Vascular access kits and methods
Kits carrying various components and devices are provided for use in obtaining access to a patient's vascular system. Various methods and procedures may be used to treat both emergency and more routine conditions using the contents of such kits. For example, such kits may contain various types of intraosseous (IO) devices including, but not limited to, drivers, penetrator assemblies, IO needles and other related components. Intravenous (IV) devices such as syringes, needles, IV bags, tubing and other related components for use in obtaining access to portions of a patient's vascular system may be included. Various types of connectors for communicating fluids with and/or monitoring a patient's vascular system may be provided. Such kits may contain medications, drugs and fluids used to treat a wide variety of both acute and chronic diseases and conditions. |
| US10806489B2 |
Systems and methods for performing a surgical procedure
Systems and methods for performing surgical procedures. Such a system includes a cannula having a tubular body and a distal end is sized and configured to be inserted into a body cavity. The system further includes a tool passing through a first port at s proximal end of the cannula, extending through the cannula, and protruding from the distal end of the cannula through a second port. The tool has a working element on a distal end of a shaft thereof. The working element is capable of articulation relative to the shaft and rotation relative to the cannula, and the tool is adapted for translation and rotation relative to the cannula. The system further includes a control system and actuator that articulate the tip of the working element relative to the shaft of the tool. |
| US10806488B2 |
Working sleeve for a trocar
A trocar system with a trocar which has a trocar mandrel, a trocar sleeve and a valve block, characterized by a tubular working sleeve having an axially continuous inner channel, in which the trocar can be inserted in such a way that the trocar sleeve is sealed with the outer perimeter thereof in the inner channel, so that the distal tip of the trocar mandrel projects distally out of the working sleeve and that the valve block is located proximally outside the inner channel, and having at least one working channel which is formed on the working sleeve and extends from a proximal inlet opening to a distal outlet opening. |
| US10806484B2 |
Identification of elastic lamina to guide interventional therapy
Described herein is a system and method for identifying elastic lamina during interventional procedures, such as atherectomy. Such identification can be used to avoid trauma to the external elastic lamina during the procedure. |
| US10806481B2 |
Surgical device for use in endoscopic carpal tunnel release (ECTR), endoscopic cubital tunnel release (ECuTR), and endoscopic plantar fasciitis release (EPFR)
A disposable, sterile guide constructed of medically-acceptable plastic used for compartmentalizing and therefore protecting the ligament or fascia during three different orthopedic surgical procedures: ECTR, ECuTR, and EPFR. This device reduces the risk of damage to any other part of the surrounding anatomy. The device is disposable and packaged so as to be sterile and therefore readily usable by the surgeon means that it can reduce the risk of infection and is a less expensive alternative to traditional non-disposable, metal instruments that must be sterilized prior to each procedure. |
| US10806479B2 |
Motor-driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument with tactile position feedback
A stapling assembly is disclosed. The stapling assembly comprises a first jaw comprising a first ledge and a second jaw comprising a second ledge. The second jaw is movable between an open position and a closed position relative to the first jaw. The stapling assembly also comprises a closure member movable between a first position and a second position. The second jaw is in the open position when the closure member is in the first position, and the second jaw is in the closed position when the closure member is in the second position. The stapling assembly also comprises a firing member movable through a staple firing stroke. The firing member comprises a first extending member which rides along the first ledge during the staple firing stroke and a second extending member which rides along the second ledge during the staple firing stroke. |
| US10806478B2 |
Methods for assembling surgical instruments
Various exemplary methods and devices for actuating surgical instruments are provided. In general, a surgical device can include one or more actuation shafts configured to facilitate actuation of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, the device can include four actuation shafts, two actuation shafts to facilitate articulation of the device, one actuation shaft to facilitate opening and closing of jaws at a distal end of the device, and one actuation shaft to facilitate moving a cutting element of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, each of the one or more actuation shafts can include a distal elongate member and a proximal elongate member having a proximal end attached to a distal end of the distal elongate member. The proximal elongate member can be rigid, and the distal elongate member can be flexible. |
| US10806477B2 |
Systems and methods for transnasal dilation of passageways in the ear, nose or throat
A dilation catheter device and system for dilating an opening in a paranasal sinus and/or other passageways within the ear, nose or throat is disclosed. A dilation catheter device and system is constructed in a manner that facilitates ease of use by the operator and, in at least some cases, allows the dilation procedure to be performed by a single operator. Additionally, the dilation catheter device and system may be useable in conjunction with an endoscope and/or a fluoroscope to provide for easy manipulation and positioning of the devices and real time visualization of the entire procedure or selected portions thereof. In some embodiments, shaft markers are disposed on a shaft of the dilation catheter and have a light color to contrast with a dark color of the dilation catheter shaft. The high contrast between the markers and catheter shaft allows for easy viewing of the markers in low light and operation conditions. |
| US10806476B2 |
Anterior—posterior inflatable nosebleed packing
A method using one or two inflatable balloon packs for the treatment of epistaxis (nosebleed) from any internal area of the nose. The balloon packing is adapted to be received in and apply pressure to all aspects of the nasal cavity on inflation with a suitable fluid. The anterior (forward) balloon packing has a channel extending between its front and rear aspects to allow passage of a second, posterior (rearward) balloon packing; said posterior packing is adapted to apply pressure to the nasopharynx upon inflation with a suitable fluid. Said method has a means of tensioning packing to continuously apply pressure necessary to control bleeding. |
| US10806474B2 |
Systems, apparatus and methods for treating blood vessels
A system and method for treating a blood vessel that is at least partially obstructed by an occlusion which divides the lumen into a proximal lumen segment and a distal lumen segment. The system includes an orienting catheter having an orientation element positionable in an intrawall space of the vessel and an occlusion catheter having an occlusion balloon inflatable in the proximal lumen segment so as to isolate a target volume including the intrawall space. The pressure inside the target volume is reduced to a pressure below the pressure of the distal lumen segment so that the intima presses against the orienting element of the orienting catheter. A distal end of a reentry device may be advanced from the orienting catheter through the intima and into the distal lumen segment. |
| US10806469B2 |
Patient-specific navigational guide
A patient-specific navigational guide (1, 1′) for use in spinal surgery, comprises two tubular guiding member (2) extending from a proximal opening (2a) and a distal opening (2b) for guiding a surgical operation on a patient's vertebra (100, 100′). The two tubular guiding members are integral with a bearing frame (3) comprising at least five contact members (11, 15, 16) designed to match with a corresponding plurality of contact areas on the patient's vertebra (100, 100′) in order to define a unique coupling configuration of the patient-specific navigational guide (1, 1′) on the patient's vertebra (100, 100′). The contact members (11, 15, 16) comprise a main contact member (11), designed to couple with a main contact area corresponding to the spinous process (101) of the patient's vertebra (100, 100′) in said coupling configuration, and at least one pair of first and second auxiliary contact members (15, 16), designed to abut on auxiliary contact areas, respectively corresponding to the laminae (102) of the patient's vertebra (100) and to the facet (103) or to the transverse processes (104), in said coupling configuration. The bearing frame (3) comprises a V-shaped bridge (5), connecting the two tubular guiding members (2) and a non-rectilinear bridge (8) further connecting the two tubular guiding members (2) at proximal portions of the tubular guiding members (2), near the proximal openings (2a), and comprises at least one summit portion (8a) defining the more proximal portion of the navigational guide (1). |
| US10806467B2 |
Method of locating center position and axial direction of distal locking hole of intramedullary nail
A method of locating locking holes of an intramedullary nail includes taking an X-ray image of an intramedullary nail having two locking holes; connecting centroids of the locking hole contours and an X-ray source to define locking hole vectors and axial directions of the locking holes; calculating a first included angle and normal vector perpendicular to vectors connecting the X-ray source and the locking hole contour centroids; defining a cross product of the locking hole vector and the normal vector as a vector connecting centers of the locking holes, and calculating second and third included angles with the vector connecting the locking hole centers and the vectors connecting the X-ray source to the locking hole contour centroids; and locating the locking holes according to the first, second and third included angles, vectors connecting the X-ray source to the locking hole contour centroids, and a distance between the locking holes. |
| US10806460B2 |
Apparatus and method for the ligation of tissue
A novel catheter-based system which ligates the left atrial appendage (LAA) on the outside of the heart, preferably using a combination of catheters and/or instruments, e.g., a guide catheter positioned inside the left atrial appendage which may assist in locating the left atrial appendage and/or assist in the optimal placement of a ligature on the outside of the appendage, and a ligating catheter and/or instrument outside the heart in the pericardial space to set a ligating element at the neck of the left atrial appendage. |
| US10806459B2 |
Drug patterned reinforcement material for circular anastomosis
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple cartridge assembly, an anvil assembly operatively associated with the staple cartridge assembly, and a surgical buttress releasably coupled to the staple cartridge assembly or the anvil assembly. The staple cartridge assembly includes a tissue facing surface having staple retaining slots defined therein, each staple retaining slot housing a staple therein, and a circular knife disposed radially inwardly of the tissue facing surface. The anvil assembly includes an anvil member including a tissue facing surface and an anvil shaft extending from the anvil member. The surgical buttress has a circular configuration defining a central aperture therethrough. The surgical buttress includes an inner concentric portion having a therapeutic coating disposed thereon and an outer concentric portion free of the therapeutic coating. |
| US10806458B2 |
Anastomosis devices
Implantable medical devices for connecting tissue layers or occluding body conduits and tissue structures include apposition portions, a central region, and a covering material. The methods of using the devices include endoscopic deployment, and the devices may include self-expanding frameworks that facilitate a secure connection between the tissue structures. In some embodiments, one or more tethers are used to longitudinally contract the device in situ. |
| US10806456B2 |
Implantable tissue connector
An implantable tissue connector comprises a conduit and at least one bulge extending outwardly from the conduit's outer surface in a circumferential direction. At least one blocking ring loosely fitting over the outer surface with a clearance between the outer surface and the blocking ring is provided for mounting tubular living tissue within the clearance. The blocking ring has an inner diameter which is sized relative to an outer diameter of the bulge to prevent the blocking ring from slipping over the bulge when living tissue is mounted within the clearance. During implantation, the conduit is inserted into the tubular part of living tissue and over the bulge. Then, the blocking ring is pushed over the free end of the living tissue against the bulge. The living tissue is secured to the conduit with a self-enhancing effect when the tissue tends to be pulled off of the conduit. |
| US10806453B2 |
Stapling head assembly and suturing and cutting apparatus for endoscopic surgery
A stapling head assembly includes a cartridge support having a proximal end, a connecting tube, a cutter pushing rod, and a lockout mechanism. The tube includes a distal end connected to the proximal end. The rod is movably set inside the tube. The mechanism is connected to the tube, and includes a pressing block and a pushing block. The pressing block is used to lock the proximal end to prevent the rod from moving before the assembly is used. The pressing block is rotatable between a first position and a second position relative to the tube. The pushing block is used to push the pressing block to rotate from the first position towards the second position. The pushing block is located at one side of the pressing block, and is movable between a third position and a fourth position relative to the tube along a longitudinal direction. |
| US10806451B2 |
Surgical stapler with cooperating distal tip features on anvil and staple cartridge
A surgical instrument includes a body portion, a shaft, and an end effector that is operable to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The end effector includes and anvil and a staple cartridge. The anvil has a body and a modular releasable curved tip that connects with the body. The curved tip may be elastically deformable. The curved anvil tip and the tip of the cartridge include cooperating features that assist in gripping tissue during clamping. A separate cartridge may be provided that retains a replacement anvil tip and a replacement staple cartridge, where the replacement anvil tip and staple cartridge include the cooperating features. The separate cartridge may also include anvil tip and staple cartridge removal features to assist in removal of previously installed anvil tips and staple cartridges. |
| US10806448B2 |
Surgical instrument assembly comprising a flexible articulation system
A surgical instrument can include a shaft, an end effector, and an articulation joint configured to permit the end effector to rotate relative to the shaft about the articulation joint. The surgical instrument can further comprise a first articulation actuator for rotating the end effector in a first direction and a second articulation actuator for rotating the end effector in a second direction. The articulation actuators can be configured to push the end effector. The articulation actuators can assume different configurations depending on whether they are experiencing a compressive load or a tensile load. The articulation joint can comprise an articulation frame which forms a proximal joint with the shaft and a distal joint with the end effector. The joints can comprise fixed axis joints and/or ball-and-socket joints, for example. The articulation joint can comprise links having different sizes to facilitate the articulation of the articulation joint. |
| US10806446B2 |
Device for use in laparoscopic surgery and method of use
A medical device and related methods are disclosed. The device has a plurality of telescoping sections and an outer sheath at least partially encapsulating the plurality of telescoping sections. The outer sheath is configured to prevent buckling of the plurality of telescoping sections. A first one of the plurality of telescoping sections has a first notch. A second one of the plurality of telescoping sections has a head portion. The first notch of the first one of the plurality of telescoping sections is configured to slidably receive at least a portion of the head portion of the second one of the plurality of telescoping sections. The first one and the second one of the plurality of telescoping sections are slidable relative to each other between and extended setting and a retracted setting. |
| US10806445B2 |
Chip assembly for reusable surgical instruments
A chip assembly for use in a surgical stapler is provided. The chip assembly includes a housing assembly and a plug assembly. The housing assembly includes a base member, seal member, and a circuit board assembly. The base member defines a cavity for receipt of the circuit board assembly and the seal member is configured to be received about an open end of the base member. The plug assembly is configured to selectively engage the open end of the base member. The plug assembly includes a plug member and first and second contact members extending from the plug member. The first and second contact members are configured to be received within the cavity defined by the base member and engage the circuit board assembly when the plug assembly engages the housing assembly. |
| US10806443B2 |
Knotless soft tissue devices and techniques
A tissue fixation device including a self-locking construct having a first loop, a second loop, and a first free end. A first tail is coupled to, and extends from, the first loop. A second tail is coupled to, and extends from, the second loop. An anchor is coupled to one of the self-locking construct or the first tail such that one of the self-locking construct or the first tail extend through the anchor. |
| US10806440B2 |
Mitral papillary muscle exposure device
A hands-free mitral papillary muscle exposure device provides a clear view of the papillary muscles, including the pathology of the leaflets and chordae tendineae of a mitral valve apparatus, and comprises a retractor device comprises two arm members pivotally connected to one another which can be manually spread and adjusted about a pivot point to a desired arrangement relative to the mitral valve apparatus to prevent injury to surrounding muscle and tissue during an operative procedure. Each arm member includes a respective downwardly extending longitudinal projection to hold one of the anterior and posterior leaflets adjacent to said arm member when the retractor device is positioned relative to the mitral valve apparatus. The longitudinal projection on the anterior side of the retractor device is longer than the corresponding longitudinal projection on the posterior side to accommodate the longer size of the anterior leaflet in comparison with the posterior leaflet. |
| US10806438B2 |
Apparatus and methods for sealing a vascular puncture
An apparatus for sealing a puncture includes a cartridge, a pusher member, a sealant, and a tamping device on a proximal end of the cartridge. During use, the cartridge, sealant, and pusher member are advanced over a positioning member and into the puncture by advancing a cartridge hub carrying the tamping device. When further distal advancement of the cartridge is limited, the cartridge hub is further advanced, activating the tamping device, and causing the pusher member to advance relative to the sealant to compress the sealant within the puncture. |
| US10806437B2 |
Sealing device and delivery system
The invention relates to a sealing device for repair of cardiac and vascular defects or tissue opening such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or shunt in the heart, the vascular system, etc. and particularly provides an occluder device and trans-catheter occluder delivery system. The sealing device would have improved conformity to heart anatomy and be easily deployed, repositioned, and retrieved at the opening site. |
| US10806433B2 |
Ultrasound apparatus and method of operating the same
An ultrasound apparatus includes: a data obtaining unit configured to obtain ultrasound data of an object; a controller configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the ultrasound data, obtain blood flow information of the object by using a Doppler component obtained from the ultrasound data, and set a plurality of sample volume gates based on the blood flow information; and a display configured to display the ultrasound image in which the plurality of sample volume gates are displayed. The ultrasound apparatus may reduce a processing time of the ultrasound apparatuses and simplify a user's manipulation by obtaining an ultrasound image one time and providing a plurality of Doppler spectrums. |
| US10806430B2 |
Probe transmission device
A probe transmission device comprises a drive shaft which is provided with a radial hole and an axial hole, wherein the radial hole is in communication with the axial hole. A rope extends into the axial hole via the radial hole. A fixing component is arranged within the axial hole and fixes the rope within the radial hole. The probe transmission device is provided with the radial hole and the axial hole on the drive shaft. The rope extends into the radial hole and is fixed via the fixing component which is arranged with the axial hole. The structure of the present probe transmission is simple. The surface of the drive shaft does not require a component for fixing the rope, and the surface of the drive shaft is smooth. Interference produced by the rope and components on the surface of the drive shaft is avoided. |
| US10806429B2 |
Ultrasonic imaging device and ultrasonic probe
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe and a delay amount calculation unit. Each of the delay circuits is configured to allow a first delay amount and a second delay amount to be set for each of the delay circuits, and delays a signal by a delay amount obtained by adding the first delay amount and the second delay amount together. The delay amount calculation unit calculates the first delay amount and the second delay amount such that a sum of the first delay amount and the second delay amount set for each of the delay circuits is equal to or less than a predefined maximum delay amount. |
| US10806428B2 |
Implantable devices and related methods for heart failure monitoring
Implantable devices for continuously monitoring vascular lumen dimensions, in particular in the inferior vena cava (IVC) for determining heart failure status of a patient. Related therapy systems as well as monitoring and therapy methods are also disclosed. Devices include active or passive marker elements placed in contact with, adhered to or injected into the vessel wall to generate or reflect signals from which lumen diameter may be determined. Disclosed devices may be fully implantable and self-contained including capabilities for wirelessly communication monitored parameters. |
| US10806427B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for capturing and outputting data regarding a bodily characteristic
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for capturing and outputting data regarding a bodily characteristic. In one embodiment, a hardware device can operate as a stethoscope with sensors to detect bodily characteristics such as heart sounds, lung sounds, abdominal sounds, and other bodily sounds and other characteristics such as temperature and ultrasound. The stethoscope can be configured to work independently with built solid state memory or SIM card. The stethoscope can be configured to pair via a wireless communication protocol with one or more electronic devices, and upon pairing with the electronic device(s), can be registered in a network resident in the cloud and can thereby create a network of users of like stethoscopes. |
| US10806425B1 |
X-ray imaging apparatus
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an operation panel including a plurality of operation input units and disposed on an X-ray imaging table, and a substrate including circuits disposed inside the operation panel and configured to output signals due to operation of the plurality of operation input units and a sensor configured to sense ingress of liquid. |
| US10806421B2 |
Patient education for percutaneous coronary intervention treatments
Devices, systems, and methods for identifying and presenting cardiac treatment options, for assessing the severity of a blockage in a vessel and, in particular, a stenosis in a blood vessel, by obtaining an image of the vessel, obtaining pressure measurements from the vessel, generating a diagnostic visualization image, identifying a treatment option, and generating a predictive visualization image. The various images and options are displayed on a medical personnel display and a patient display. |
| US10806418B2 |
X-ray CT apparatus and imaging condition calculating method
According to one embodiment, an X-ray CT apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of discrete images at a corresponding plurality of discrete positions in a body axis direction of an object, and calculates imaging conditions corresponding to a scan range of a main scan based on the plurality of discrete images. |
| US10806417B2 |
Radiographic imaging apparatus, radiographic imaging system and information processing method
A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a radiation detector, a reader and a hardware processor. The radiation detector includes a substrate. On the substrate, radiation detection elements are arranged two-dimensionally. The radiation detection elements generate amounts of electric charges corresponding to doses of radiation by being irradiated with the doses of the radiation. The reader reads the amounts of the electric charges generated by the respective radiation detection elements as signal values, and generates image data based on the signal values. The hardware processor communicates with a portable terminal having a web browser, generates web content displayable on the web browser in response to a request from the portable terminal, and sends at least one of the web content and the image data to the portable terminal in response to the request from the portable terminal. |
| US10806413B2 |
Filter system and method for imaging a subject
A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system with at least two different energy characteristics. The image data can be reconstructed using reconstruction techniques. |
| US10806407B2 |
Medical information processing system
A medical information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to acquire numerical data representing medical information together with date and time information associated with the numerical data, display the numerical data in time series based on the date and time information, specify a period relating to the numerical data displayed in time series, calculate a distribution of the numerical data contained in the period, and further display the distribution graphically. |
| US10806406B2 |
Method and circuit for storing and providing historical physiological data
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods that relate to pulse oximetry. Specifically, one embodiment includes an oximeter sensor comprising a light emitting element configured to emit light, a light detector configured to detect the light, and a memory chip having a built-in trimmed resistor, the trimmed resistor having a resistance value that is detectable by a monitor. |
| US10806403B2 |
Adaptive controller used in photoplethysmography sensing system
An adaptive controller used in a photoplethysmography sensing system, comprises a plurality of hardware circuits which are configured to: receive a photoplethysmography signal (hereinafter, “PPG signal”) processed; determine whether the PPG signal processed satisfies with a requirement; output the PPG signal processed if the PPG signal processed satisfies with a requirement; and adjust a gain of an amplifier for amplifying the PPG signal and/or a driving signal of a light source if the PPG signal processed does not satisfy with a requirement. |
| US10806401B2 |
Wearable monitoring and treatment device
A wearable medical device is provided. The wearable medical device includes a garment that includes a sensing electrode, at least one of an inductive element and a capacitive element included in at least part of the garment, and a controller. The controller may be configured to determine a confidence level of information received from the sensing electrode based on at least one of an inductance of the inductive element and a capacitance of the capacitive element. |
| US10806399B2 |
Method and system of measuring patient position
A method of measuring patient position by a patient monitoring system includes providing a first position sensor attachable to a portion of the patient, and providing a hub device that includes a calibration position sensor. A first calibration position measurement is received from the calibration position sensor while the hub device is aligned with the portion of the patient where the first position sensor is attached. A first patient position measurement is received from the first position sensor, and then a calibration map is determined for the first position sensor based on a difference between the first calibration position measurement and the first patient position measurement. Position measurement data is then received from the first position sensor, and a patient position is determined based on the position measurement data and the calibration map. |
| US10806390B1 |
System and method for detecting physiological state
A system and method for health diagnostics and more specifically to an image-capture based system and method for detecting physiological state for a subject. The system provides a remote and non-invasive approach by which to detect physiological state with a high confidence. The system enables monitoring of hemoglobin concentration changes by optical imaging and related detection systems. |
| US10806389B2 |
Electronic device and method for providing personalized biometric information based on biometric signal using same
An electronic device for providing biometric information is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor module, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the sensor module and the memory. The processor obtains a biometric signal from the sensor module at a predetermined time interval, determines whether a user is in a first state on the basis of the obtained biometric signal, in case the user is in a first state, obtains a representative value for a respective of the at least one biometric signal, defines the obtained representative value for the respective of the at least one biometric signal as a candidate reference value for a corresponding biometric signal, determines a candidate reference value satisfying a predetermined condition as a first reference value for the corresponding biometric signal, and updates a second reference value previously configured for the corresponding biometric signal on the basis of the first reference value. |
| US10806388B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify a mood of media
Methods and apparatus to identify an emotion evoked by media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a synthesizer to generate a first synthesized sample based on a pre-verbal utterance associated with a first emotion. A feature extractor is to identify a first value of a first feature of the first synthesized sample. The feature extractor to identify a second value of the first feature of first media evoking an unknown emotion. A classification engine is to create a model based on the first feature. The model is to establish a relationship between the first value of the first feature and the first emotion. The classification engine is to identify the first media as evoking the first emotion when the model indicates that the second value corresponds to the first value. |
| US10806385B2 |
Device for measuring concentration of substance in blood, and method for measuring concentration of substance in blood
The concentration of substance in blood is measured non-invasively, with high accuracy and with simple configuration. Laser light generated by a light source is locally irradiated on the body epithelium of a subject, and the resulting diffused reflected light is detected by a light detector. The laser light has a wavelength of 9.26 μm. The laser light is generated by converting and amplifying pulsed excitation light from an excitation light source to a long wavelength. A plate-shaped window that is transparent to mid-infrared light is brought in close contact with the body epithelium. The glucose concentration in interstitial fluid can be calculated using normalized light intensity calculated from a signal ratio of signals from a monitoring light detector and light detector. |
| US10806384B2 |
Kit for determining an analyte concentration
A kit for determining a concentration of an analyte in a body fluid is disclosed, the kit comprising: a) a sensor module comprising i. a sensor adapted to determine the concentration; ii. a control device connected to the sensor comprising a data collection device to collect measurement data acquired by the sensor, the control device further comprising a wireless near-field communication device adapted to transmit measurement data, the sensor module comprising a sensor module mechanical interface; b) a data reader module adapted to receive measurement data transmitted by the sensor module via wireless near-field communication, the data reader module comprising at least one data storage device; c) a data transmission module to receive measurement data transmitted by the sensor module via wireless near-field communication, the data transmission module comprising a wireless far-field communication device to transmit the measurement data to an external device. |
| US10806383B2 |
Implantable dissolved oxygen sensor and methods of use
A sensor is provided for measuring a dissolved oxygen concentration in vivo when implanted at a tissue site and in ex vivo applications. The sensor includes an article comprising a sensing medium retained within the implantable article by an oxygen-permeable material. The sensing medium comprises an MR contrast agent for oxygen. The sensor is configured to indicate the dissolved oxygen concentration of a fluid, e.g., in vivo at the tissue site, when subjected to an MR-based method. |
| US10806382B2 |
Methods, devices, and systems related to analyte monitoring
Generally, methods, devices, and systems related to analyte monitoring and data logging are provided—e.g., as related to in vivo analyte monitoring devices and systems. In some aspects, methods, devices, and systems are provided that relate to enable related settings based on an expected use of an in vivo positioned sensor; logging or otherwise recording analyte levels acquired or derived—e.g., sample analyte levels more frequently than they are logged or otherwise recorded in memory; dynamically adjust the data logging frequency; randomly determine times of acquiring or storing analyte levels from the in-vivo positioned analyte sensors; and enable recording related settings when the system is operable. |
| US10806381B2 |
Audiology testing techniques
Speech understanding in the presence of background noise can be assessed using novel hearing tests. One such test is a Masking Level Difference with Digits (MLDD) test, which is a clinical tool designed to measure auditory factors that influence the understanding of speech presented within a background of noise. The MLDD test can be used clinically to facilitate a determination of functional hearing. The MLDD test presents background noise using both monotic and diotic conditions. |
| US10806380B2 |
Method to enhance audio signal from an audio output device
A method of enhancing an audio signal from an audio output device is provided. For a frequency band, a user masking contour curve covering at least a part of said frequency band is obtained, a target masking contour curve is derived from the user masking contour curve, and a multi-band digital compression system is parameterized based on the sound level of the target masking contour curve at a given frequency and the sound level of the user masking contour curve at the same given frequency. The obtained parameters are outputted to provide an enhanced audio signal. |
| US10806369B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining the position of a surgical tool relative to a target volume inside an animal body
The invention relates to a method for determining the position of a surgical tool relative to a target volume inside an animal body according to a pre-plan comprising the steps of i) obtaining a plurality of two-dimensional images of said target volume using imaging means, each 2D-image being represented by an image data slice I(x,y,z); ii) reconstructing from said plurality of image data slices I(x,y,z) a three-dimensional image of said target volume using transformation means, said 3D-image being represented by a volumetric image data array V(x,y,z); iii) displaying said three-dimensional image of said target volume to an user using displaying means. |
| US10806364B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for electrooculogram detection, and corresponding portable devices
Electrooculogram (EOG) detection methods and EOG detection apparatuses are described. The EOG detection method can comprise: acquiring at least one EOG signal of a blink of at least one eye of a user; and analyzing the at least one EOG signal to determine whether the blink is a protective blink. A basis is thus provided for further applications of an eye movement detection technology by determining, according to an EOG signal of a user, whether a blink of the user is a protective blink. |
| US10806361B2 |
Catheter with multi-functional control handle having rotational mechanism
A catheter for use in a patient's heart, especially for mapping a tubular region of the heart, has a catheter body, a deflectable intermediate section and a distal mapping assembly that has a generally circular portion adapted to sit on or in a tubular region of the heart. A control handle of the catheter allows for single-handed manipulation of various control mechanisms that can deflect the intermediate section and contract the mapping assembly by means of a deflection control assembly and a rotational control assembly. The deflection control assembly has a deflection arm and a rocker member. The rotational control assembly has an outer rotational member, an inner rotational member and a cam. A pair of puller members are responsive to the deflection control assembly to bi-directionally deflect the intermediate section. A third puller member is responsive to the rotational control assembly to contract the generally circular portion of the mapping assembly. |
| US10806360B2 |
Extended wear ambulatory electrocardiography and physiological sensor monitor
An extended wear electrocardiography patch is provided. A flexible backing includes an elongated strip of stretchable material. An electrocardiographic electrode is respectively affixed to and conductively exposed on each end of the elongated strip. A flexible circuit is affixed on each end to the elongated strip and includes a pair of circuit traces each originating within one of the ends of the elongated strip and coupled to one of the electrocardiographic electrodes. A non-conductive receptacle securely adhered on the one end of the elongated strip and includes electrode terminals aligned to interface the pair of circuit traces to an electrocardiography monitor to obtain electrocardiographic signals through the electrocardiographic electrodes. A crypto circuit includes memory programed with a sampling rate for at least one physiological sensor provided at least one of with the electrocardiography monitor and on the flexible backing to instruct the physiological sensor to obtain readings of physiological data. |
| US10806358B2 |
Integrated thin-film optrode
An optrode may provide a cylindrical substrate with two or more electrodes deposited on said cylindrical substrate. The cylindrical substrate and electrodes may be coated by an insulating layer with openings or vias over certain portions of the electrodes that may provide a contact for the neural probe or may be utilized to connect lead lines. Manufacturing of an optrode may utilize a jig that secures a cylindrical substrate coated by a conductive material and a resist. A first mask may be positioned in an opening provided by the jig, and the cylindrical substrate may expose ions or neutral particles to define one or more electrode patterns. After regions of the resist and conductive material are removed to form the electrodes, a second mask may be utilized to define via regions in which portions of the electrodes are exposed and uncoated by an insulating layer. |
| US10806357B2 |
Apparatus and methods for detecting increase in intracranial pressure
The disclosed subject matter related to methods and apparatus for determining brain swelling in a patient as well as predicting an increase in intracranial pressure in the patient. The apparatus can include a transducer such as an ultrasound transducer communicatively connected to a controller via wires or via wireless communications device(s). A monitor and/or alarm device can be provided to notify a practitioner when the controller has determined brain swelling is occurring and/or when an imminent increase in intracranial pressure is likely to occur. |
| US10806356B2 |
Electronic device and method for measuring heart rate based on infrared rays sensor using the same
A method for determining a heart rate (HR) using an infrared rays (IR) sensor and an electronic device is provided. An image is received using an IR sensor, at least one region of interest (ROI) for measuring the HR is determined in the received image, and the HR is determined based on the at least one determined ROI. |
| US10806349B2 |
Method and cloud platform system for analysis and visualization of heart tissue at risk
Exemplified methods and systems facilitate, on a cloud platform, analysis and presentation of data derived from measurements of the heart acquired in a non-invasive procedure. The cloud platform includes a data store service, an analysis service, and a data exchange service configured to determine the presence or non-presence of significant coronary artery disease. |
| US10806344B2 |
Remote titration of therapy delivered by an implantable medical device
Techniques for remotely titrating a therapy delivered using an implantable medical device system are disclosed. An implantable medical device delivers therapy according to a first program. The system collects patient data relating to at least one of an efficacy of, or side effects resulting from, the delivered therapy, and transmits the patient data to a remote network device. A clinician may then analyze the patient data and determine if changes to the therapy are warranted. The clinician may then transmit a programming change, e.g., a modification to the first program or a new, second program, to the implantable medical device system, and the implantable medical device may deliver therapy according to the changed programming. The process of receiving patient data and modifying the therapy programming may be repeated multiple times until the therapy is adequately titrated, e.g., until the patient data indicates adequate efficacy and/or acceptable side effects. |
| US10806341B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring eye health
Systems and methods for monitoring eye health. The systems and methods monitor eye health by measuring scleral strain by way of an implantable monitor, a wearable monitor configured in eyeglasses, or an external monitor using a portable tablet computing device.Certain embodiments of the strain monitor may be utilized to measure the strain on any surface to which it is attached, including, but not limited to, the skin of a patient or the surface of a structure such as a building or a bridge. |
| US10806334B2 |
System and method for multiclass classification of images using a programmable light source
An apparatus, system and process for identifying one or more different tissue types are described. The method may include applying a configuration to one or more programmable light sources of an imaging system, where the configuration is obtained from a machine learning model trained to distinguish between the one or more different tissue types captured in image data. The method may also include illuminating a scene with the configured one or more programmable light sources, and capturing image data that includes one or more types of tissue depicted in the image data. Furthermore, the method may include analyzing color information in the captured image data with the machine learning model to identify at least one of the one or more different tissue types in the image data, and rendering a visualization of the scene from the captured image data that visually differentiates tissue types in the visualization. |
| US10806328B2 |
Easy-mounting universal stabilizer arm clamp
A clamping mechanism for an articulated stabilizer arm includes a body for supporting an articulated stabilizer arm. The body has a bore with a longitudinal axis, and a planar face parallel to the axis of the bore has a clamping surface. The clamping mechanism further includes a clamping plate movable relative to the body, the clamping plate having a planar face with a clamping surface facing the clamping surface of the body. The clamping plate further includes a control post extending from the planar face of the clamping plate inwardly of the circumference of the clamping plate, and configured to move the clamping plate through a range of positions from adjacent to the body and spaced from the body. |
| US10806321B2 |
Cleaning tool
A cleaning tool comprising a handle assembly and a pad assembly. The pad assembly is coupled to the handle assembly such that the handle assembly extends distally beyond a first end of the pad assembly. The pad assembly includes a pad securing surface having a plurality of pad securing members extending substantially perpendicularly from the pad securing surface, and a slotted member located at a second end of the pad assembly, the second end being opposite the first end. The slotted member defines a slot configured to accept a cleaning pad, and the slotted member extends at an angle from the pad securing surface. |
| US10806318B2 |
System with at least two cleaning devices
A system has at least two cleaning devices, wherein at least one of the cleaning devices can be displaced relative to another cleaning device. In order to perform a service on one of the cleaning devices in an especially advantageous manner, the cleaning devices each have a communications link to a shared controller, wherein the controller is set up to transmit a service request to the second cleaning device and/or to a user of the second cleaning device, depending on the service required by a device component of a first cleaning device, and depending on the service availability status of a second cleaning device. |
| US10806317B2 |
Surface cleaning apparatus
A surface cleaning apparatus has a first air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet with a suction motor and a cyclone positioned in the first air flow path. The cyclone has a cyclone chamber, a first airflow passage, and a second airflow passage. The first airflow passage defines a first tangential air inlet to the cyclone chamber and the second airflow passage defines a second tangential air inlet to the cyclone chamber. The airflow path includes a common airflow passage upstream of the first and second airflow passages and an axis of the common airflow passage intersects the cyclone chamber. At least a portion of the first tangential air inlet is positioned upstream from a location at which the common airflow passage axis intersects the cyclone chamber. |
| US10806313B2 |
Compact suction station
The invention relates to a compact suction station, the structure of which allows it to be arranged in small compartments, such as the skirting board area of kitchen units, said station being protected by a dismountable outer casing in which, in the front part of the assembly, there is an extractable part corresponding to the container drawer, and in which, in the rear part, there is a suction intake for the dirty air from the pipes and the plurality of inlets, and the clean air extraction outlet, the interior of the station consisting of two compartments that communicate with each other, one of them being used for the insertion of the extractable drawer with the container bag and the other to house the motor, the extraction channel and various electronic components. |
| US10806312B2 |
Vacuum and blower
A vacuum and blower device is disclosed. The vacuum and blower device comprises a fan driven by a first motor, and a housing with a vent, a vacuum input aperture, and a blower output aperture. The vacuum input aperture and the blower output aperture are on one end of the device. The vacuum and blower device further includes an airflow director, the airflow director being held within the housing and adapted to be rotated between a first and second position. A blower output channel communicates with the airflow director and the blower output aperture. In the first position, the fan draws air through the vacuum input aperture and out the vent and airflow to the blower output channel is blocked. In the second position, the fan blows air through the blower output channel and out the blower output aperture. |
| US10806309B2 |
Disinfecting wipes dispenser
The present invention is for wipe dispensers for dispensing interconnected wipes. An exemplary wipes dispenser may include a container body and a removable lid forming an interior region into which a plurality of interconnected wipes may be disposed. Pulling on a lead end of a lead wipe causes a following wipe to also be pulled and follow the lead wipe. The removable lid may cover a portion of a container aperture (e.g., an open top of the container body). A landing member in the lid covers a portion of the container aperture by extending from a top rim of the container body toward the middle of the interior region. The landing member may form an angle with a substantially vertical exterior wall of the container, where the formed angle may be less than 90°. In an embodiment, the landing member may include a concavely shaped portion. The landing member may include one or more fingers. |
| US10806300B2 |
Foldable grill box
A foldable grill box for portable grilling includes a plurality of box sides comprising a bottom side, a front side, a back side, a right side, and a left side. Each of the front side, the back side, the right side, and the left side has a bottom edge, a top edge, an inner face, and an outer face. The bottom side has a front edge, a back edge, a right edge, a left edge, a top face, and a bottom face. A plurality of hinges is coupled to the plurality of box sides to allow the plurality of box sides to move between an open and alternate closed position. A grill is selectively engageable with the plurality of box sides. The plurality of box sides is configured to house a fire and the grill is configured to function as a grilling surface. |
| US10806299B2 |
Oven used for heating and barbecuing
An oven used for heating and barbecuing comprising an oven body; an isolation plate disposed in the oven body; the isolation plate divides the inner chamber of the oven body into an upper portion and a lower portion; the center of the isolation plate is provided with a ventilation opening; a fire-pan disposed in the inner chamber of the oven body above the isolation plate; a lifting mechanism for propelling the fire-pan to move up and down. |
| US10806298B2 |
System and method for generating and applying heat
A heating or cooking method and apparatus is provided. The heating or cooking method or apparatus includes an insulated combustion chamber having an opening at one end and an extension ring extending from the open end. The extension ring may have at least one tab extending from the extension ring, configured to provide an air exhaust space when a piece of cookware is used with the heating apparatus. A fuel receptacle configured to fit inside the combustion chamber has a raised center section with at least one heat channel and a peripheral section with at least one hooded slot. The fuel receptacle may also have a lateral wall separated from the inner enclosure wall of the combustion chamber by a space when the fuel receptacle is situated within the combustion chamber. A grill having essentially the same perimeter shape as the fuel receptacle and a handle is also provided. |
| US10806292B2 |
Beverage dispensing system
A beverage system for producing and dispensing a beverage for controlled serving dispensing which includes a maker module for dispensing a beverage ingredient such as tea to a dispensing module which then communicates with a mixing module for controlled serving dispensing. Another embodiment of the beverage apparatus includes a dispense module which receives beverage from a making module and in which the dispensing module is transferable to a mixing module for subsequent controlled serving dispensing. Further, additional features such as sweetener integration, controlled mixing, controlled dispensing, and product characteristic sensing may be provided. |
| US10806291B2 |
Apparatus to prepare beverages
An apparatus to prepare beverages comprises a brewing chamber 3 movable by driving device 5, 6 along a vertical path, a first piston 7 and a second piston 9 movable within the brewing chamber 3, a hopper 25 to feed coffee powder to the brewing chamber and a discharge device 21 to discharge a spent coffee cake; the hopper 25 is pivotally mounted in the apparatus to obtain a desired distribution of coffee powder in the chamber. |
| US10806288B2 |
System for suspension of a curtain
A system for suspension of a curtain device has at least one curtain guide track and at least one curtain that is suspended on a plurality of suspension units with a guide element for guiding a suspension unit along the curtain guide track. The curtain guide track and the guide element provide a bearing surface. The system further has a silencing material provided on the bearing surface. |
| US10806285B2 |
Apparatus to prevent curling of a rug corner
An apparatus to prevent curling of a rug corner. The apparatus includes a rigid and planar V-shaped body having a top surface and a bottom surface. An adhesive layer is applied to at least a portion of the top surface of the body while a removable protective cover is provided over the adhesive layer. Upon removal of the protective cover and exposure of the adhesive layer, the body is adhered to the rug corner by the adhesive. Upon doing so, the body maintains the rug corner in a flat condition thus preventing any curling of the rug. |
| US10806283B2 |
Dish caddies and drink clearing trays for restaurant table serving and cleanup
A dish caddy includes base and top members and a least one vertical supporting rod connecting the base to the top member. The supporting rod includes a hand grip and dish holders distributed at multiple levels along the supporting rod such that a user's hand does not interfere with dishes or food carried within the dish caddy. The dish holders may include notches carved into the supporting rod for accepting an edge of a dish such as a plate. Pivot arms and doors may hold the dishes within the notches during food transport. The dish holders may include top and bottom pressure pads and the distance between the pads on each individual dish holder may be user-adjustable to accommodate different sized dishes. The top and bottom pressure pads may be coupled by a gear system allowing the distance between the pads on a particular dish holder to be dynamically adjusted. |
| US10806281B2 |
Substrate having a therapeutic tactile object attached
A substrate is provided having a tactile object attached, the substrate constructed of a first material forming a shell. The tactile object may be formed of a second material that is different than the first material, the tactile object formed in the shape of a comfort item. The tactile object further has a first side providing tactile sensory feedback, and a second side configured to be attached to the shell such that the first side of the tactile object extends away from the first rectangular side of the shell. According to the inventive concepts disclosed herein, the substrate is provided to a user in need of comfort and the tactile object provides tactile sensory feedback to the user designed to comfort the user. |
| US10806272B2 |
Mattress core material and bed mattress
A mattress core material includes a plurality of flat cushion bodies stacked in a thickness direction thereof, including at least a first cushion body which becomes an upper part when using the mattress core material; and a second cushion body which becomes a lower part when using the mattress core material, the first and second cushion bodies including a three-dimensional filaments-linked structure, the first and second cushion bodies each including a high-density upper surface layer having high filament density, formed in an upper surface layer region; a high-density lower surface layer having high filament density, formed in a lower surface layer region; and a low-density elastic layer formed between the high-density upper surface layer and the high-density lower surface layer, the low-density elastic layer being lower in filament density than each high-density surface layer, a intermediate position in the thickness direction of the mattress core material in which the first and second cushion bodies are stacked as upper and lower parts in the thickness direction, respectively, the high-density intermediate layer having a function of distributing a vertically applied compressive stress, along a curvature of an interface between the first and second cushion bodies in the high-density intermediate layer. |
| US10806271B2 |
Furniture device with adjustable firmness via an elastic member with a compressible portion
A furniture device configured to receive the weight of a being, said furniture device comprising a holding arrangement (20, 120) and at least one section (30, 30′,130) comprising a base (2, 102), a movable plate element (4, 104), a moving mechanism (6, 10) and at least one elastic device (12, 112). The plate element (4, 104) is configured to interact with the at least one elastic device and to be moved by the moving mechanism in respect to the base in order to adjust the firmness of the at least one elastic device. The elastic device comprises a pocket (14, 114) made of a flexible sheet material, and an elastic member (18, 118). The holding arrangement comprises a holding member (22, 122), which is fixed in relation to the base (2, 102) or the plate element (4, 104) and a connecting portion (24, 24′,124) which is arranged at the elastic device (12, 112) and which connects the holding member to the elastic member. The elastic member (18, 118) exhibits a first portion (18a, 118a) arranged proximal to the free end of the elastic member, a second portion (18b, 118b) being arranged distal to the free end of the elastic member and an intermediate portion (18c, 118c) arranged between the first and second portions. The holding member (22, 122) is, via the connecting portion (24, 24′,124), connected to the intermediate portion (18c, 118c) of the elastic member, such that, during movement of the plate element (4, 104) relative to the base (2, 102), the elastic member (18, 118) is compressed and relaxed only over the second portion (18b, 118b). |
| US10806268B2 |
Bedspread and bedstead having same
Disclosed are couplers, bedspreads and bedsteads. A bedspread includes a bed cloth, a bed drape and a plurality of couplers. The bed cloth has a peripheral edge corresponding to an upper peripheral frame of a bedframe. The bed drape is coupled or integrally formed with the bed cloth along the peripheral edge, and hangs down when in use. Each coupler includes a plate, a hook, and an elastic strap connecting the plate with the hook. The plate is disposed on an interior side of the bed cloth at or proximal to the peripheral edge of the bed cloth. The hook is configured to couple with a lower support of the bedframe. |
| US10806266B2 |
Bi-fold furniture
A folding furnishing apparatus includes first members that support at least one flexible panel in a set-up configuration; second members that support the plurality of first members; first joints that connect the plurality of first members and that in the set-up configuration define mutually skewed axes about which the furnishing cannot be folded, thus locking the first members in extended positions; and second joints that connect the second members to the first members. The second joints in the set-up configuration define mutually parallel axes about which the second members can be folded to a mutually nested configuration. The first joints in the mutually nested configuration then define mutually parallel axes about which the first members can be folded to a collapsed configuration. |
| US10806261B2 |
Modular furniture assembly
A modular furniture assembly includes: a base member having a frame assembly, a transverse member having a frame assembly, a foot configured to contact a support surface, and a mounting platform having a plurality of apertures therethrough. The mounting platform is configured to be mounted on the base member frame assembly and the transverse member frame assembly, thereby connecting the frame assemblies. The foot is selectively mounted on the mounting platform, such that the foot is configured to contact the support surface when the modular furniture assembly is in an upright configuration. The mounting platform connects the base and transverse member frame assemblies together and also acts as a platform for receiving a variety of different types of feet. |
| US10806260B2 |
Chair
A chair includes: a leg 1; a seat 2; and a front-back support mechanism 4. The front-back support mechanism 4 is provided at a seat receiving part 50 directly supported by the leg 1, and the front-back support mechanism includes: a wavy plate 56 provided to horizontally extend from vertical walls 51 of the seat receiving part 50 and having mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 each convexly curved upward; and followers 53, 54 provided at front-back support bodies 52 as supported parts and configured to move relative to the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 while contacting the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58. The wavy plate 56 is associated with the followers 53, 54 such that a movement end inclines downward when the seat 2 moves from a neutral position in accordance with a relative movement between the mound-shaped surfaces 57, 58 and the followers 53, 54. |
| US10806256B1 |
Slide rail assembly
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, and a bracket device. The second rail can be displaced with respect to the first rail. The bracket device is adjacent to the first rail and includes a bracket with an upper wall, a lower wall, a sidewall, and a first and a second extension section. The sidewall is connected between the upper and the lower walls. The first and the second extension sections extend from and are bent with respect to the upper and the lower walls respectively. The first rail is partially enclosed in a support channel defined by the upper wall, the lower wall, the sidewall, and the extension sections of the bracket. |
| US10806254B2 |
Clever Closet Rods
A rod mounted on a bracket designed to be attached to one of a jamb of a closet, on a substantial vertical center post, or other substantial vertical support where access to space behind is desired, as well as the ability to fully access a clothing, or other items that may be supported by the rod by moving the rod out of the space where access is desired. With more than a single hinge point the support rod will move in, and out of the space that it occupies allowing access to otherwise wasted space that a normal support rod would occupy. The rod is able to then allow the user to access both the space by moving the rod, and supported items out of the way, and allowing the user to access the full array of items supported by the rod with ease. |
| US10806249B2 |
Dual-column office table
A dual-column office table includes two oppositely disposed stationary upright columns with a connecting rod transversely connected therebetween, two guiding columns separately disposed in the two stationary upright columns, at least one steel ball sleeve fitted on either guiding column, two driving units separately disposed in the two guiding columns, and a table top to which a top portion of each guiding column is fixedly connected. A bottom end of each guiding column is provided with a limiting structure protruding outward. A bottom end of the each driving unit is fixed to a respective table base provided at bottom portion of each stationary upright column. The table top has a bottom surface fixedly connected with a fixing seat and is provided with a lifting control switch, the lifting control switch being connected with the driving units and having an end disposed in the fixing seat. |
| US10806247B1 |
Slider, frame and table having same
Disclosed are control mechanisms, frames and tables. A slider includes a sleeve, a pivoting portion and a controller. The sleeve is configured to slidably couple with a first bar, and a first hole and a pillar are formed at a first side wall of the sleeve. The pivoting portion is integrally formed or coupled with the first side wall of the sleeve, and configured to pivotally couple with a second bar. The controller is disposed side by side with the pivoting portion along a longitudinal direction of the sleeve, and configured to control movement of the sleeve along the first bar. The controller includes a casing, a lever pivotally connected with the casing, a pin integrally formed or coupled with the lever, and an elastic member selectively pushing the pin into the first hole and a hole of the first bar, thereby restricting movement of the sleeve with respect to the first bar. |
| US10806238B2 |
Backpack with dynamic flexible hip belt
A backpack including a flexible hip belt assembly is provided. The backpack may include a frame assembly defining a lower portion, a hip belt including a central portion and a lower portion with opposing first and second arms extending from the central portion. The lower portion of the hip belt and the lower portion of the frame assembly may be securely coupled together to support a substantially vertical load. A resilient member may couple the hip belt to the frame assembly. The resilient member may expand or contract as the hip belt and frame assembly move relative to one another to reduce the forces applied to the hip belt by the non-vertical movement of the frame assembly. |
| US10806237B1 |
Backpack having detachable straps and adjustable in position on user
A system for attaching shoulder straps to a backpack, comprising a detachable shoulder strap assembly including shoulder straps, a yoke to which the shoulder straps are attached, and at least one lower strap attached to the yoke, wherein the yoke has a slit formed therein; a sleeve for attachment to the backpack, the sleeve having an upper part associated with a series of loops positioned and configured to extend through the slit; a securing member for securing the loops to the yoke; and for each of the at least one lower strap, a strap fastener for attachment to the backpack for securing the at least one strap to the backpack. A method for using the system to attach and detach the detachable shoulder strap assembly. |
| US10806232B2 |
Dropper-type cosmetics container
The present invention relates to a dropper-type cosmetic container, which is configured so that in a process of releasing screw-coupling to a container main body by rotating a closing cap, by frictional force between an inner circumferential surface of a content inflow tube and an outer circumferential surface of a dropper pipe, the contents stored in the container main body pass through a content inflow hole forming a narrow channel, are dispersed, and are sucked into the dropper pipe, thereby allowing the contents to be drawn into the interior of the dropper pipe through a simple sucking structure to be used. |
| US10806231B2 |
Drawing apparatus, drawing method, and recording medium storing program
A drawing apparatus includes a processor generating data for drawing according to a type of a target on which drawing is performed. The target is placed in a drawable area. The drawing apparatus further includes a drawing head drawing on the target placed in the drawable area on a basis of the data for drawing generated by the processor. |
| US10806229B2 |
Hairclip incorporated into headgear
A device including a headband implement having a fabric with an outer surface and an inner surface, a hairclip implement configured to be operable for engagement with the headband implement, a base section of the hairclip implement configured to be encased between the outer surface and an inner surface of the headband implement, a plurality of prongs configured to slide into a hair of a user, and a tab implement operable for securing a hairclip implement to an internal surface of the headband implement. |
| US10806226B2 |
Suitcase system
A system includes a docking station and a suitcase. The docking station is installable in a cargo area of a vehicle and electrically connectable to a power source of the vehicle. The suitcase includes a port engageable with the docking station, a battery electrically connected to the port, an electric motor electrically connected to the battery, and a wheel connected to the electric motor. |
| US10806224B2 |
Producing a safety clutch
A method of producing a safety clutch for releasable securing of a post for a body piercing is disclosed. The post is guided through a hole in a plate to be secured (but removable) between a pair of cantilever spring elements bent from the edges of the plate into position on the back side of the plate. A dome shield is also secured to the edge of plate to cover the cantilever spring elements on back side of the clutch, the dome shield including one or more ventilation holes for reducing moisture accumulation within the dome shield. The dome shield blocks an end of the post extending between the cantilever spring elements from contacting the user and possibly puncturing skin. The plate, dome shield and cantilever spring elements can be efficiently manufactured by forming and stamping from a single piece of material. |
| US10806221B2 |
Buckle guard for preventing release
A guard that attaches to a buckle included in a safety restraint system. The guard includes a movable cover. In at least one position of the cover, the cover limits access to an external release of the buckle and prevents release of straps from the buckle. |
| US10806219B2 |
Modular technical system for producing a modular-structure foot sole last and modular-structure foot sole last
A modular technical system for creating a patient-data-specifically individualized foot sole last (15) having a modular structure, characterized in that per zone (16; 24, 25, 26, 27) of the foot sole last (15) it comprises respectively one or more mutually exchangeable standard foot sole last modules (17) as standardized components which—after selection of the suitable standard module (17) from orthopaedic aspects for the respective zone (16; 24, 25, 26, 27) of a patient's foot—can be mounted consecutively along the longitudinal axis (22) of the foot sole last (15) in series zone-wise or at least partially adjacently to one another to form a patient-data-specifically individualized foot sole last (15) having a modular structure, wherein the upper sides of the standard modules (17) are configured depending on shoe size and depending on zone (16) as negative to the corresponding zones (16) of the foot of the patient and/or each have a shape which, specific to shoe size and specific to zone (16), corresponds from orthopaedic aspects to the most logical shape for correction or treatment of one specific or several of the statistically most commonly occurring deformities or diseases requiring treatment from orthopaedic aspects and wherein the transitions (23; 28, 29, 30) between two neighbouring standard modules (17; 24, 25, 26, 27)—in the side view—are stepless and smooth and—in the plan view—adjoin one another without gaps. |
| US10806218B1 |
Method for manufacturing a customized insole and a system therefor
A method for manufacturing an insole for a shoe. The method includes providing instructions to a person to attain a first pose; capturing a first three-dimensional image of a first foot of the person in the first pose; providing instructions to the person to attain a second pose, wherein the second pose is different from the first pose; capturing a second three-dimensional image of a second foot of the person in the second pose; generating a first three-dimensional model of the first foot from the first three-dimensional image; generating a second three-dimensional model of the second foot from the second three-dimensional model; manufacturing a first insole for the first foot based on the first three-dimensional model of the first foot; and manufacturing a second insole for the second foot based on the second three-dimensional model of the second foot. |
| US10806210B2 |
Braided articles and methods for their manufacture
Aspects herein are directed to braided articles and methods for their manufacture. The braided articles may include articles of footwear having braided uppers. The article of footwear may comprise a sole and a braided upper comprising a toe portion having a toe seam, a heel portion comprising a seamless braided structure, and a throat portion. The toe portion may comprise a base yarn. The throat portion may comprise a stretch yarn. Additionally, the heel portion may comprise both the stretch yarn and the base yarn. |
| US10806209B2 |
Composite soles
In one embodiment a non-foamed thread is formed by extruding a mixture with a plastic material and a blowing agent. The non-foamed thread is arranged into a sole component and then heated to activate the blowing agent and cause the threads to foam. In some cases, the non-foamed thread is knitted together. |
| US10806206B1 |
Venting system for hats
A venting system for hats has a resilient, shock-absorbing headband inside the lower periphery of a hat dome. The headband has inner and outer annular bands spaced apart by a air passages. A plurality of arcuate septums are in contact with one another consecutively around a perimeter of the headband. Inwardly directed forces normal to the headband are converted into compressive forces on the septums directed along the headband perimeter. Forces on the head of the user are thereby reduced. A top vent with ports around a chamber extends upward from the dome. A cover across the top vent sheds water. The top vent is selectively movable upward into an open position to allow air flow through the headband air passage, the dome, the chamber, and out of the ports by convection. Ambient air will also flow in through the top vent ports and exit the ports on the opposite side. This will cause a lower than ambient air pressure to draw air out, cooling the dome. The top vent is selectively movable downward into a closed position to stop air flow, and retain heat inside the dome. |
| US10806196B2 |
System for tracking glove failure
A system and method for identifying areas of a processing plant in which a glove is damaged. The system includes utilizing color-coded sets of gloves in different areas or processing steps within the plant. All the gloves used in a particular plant are provided with a unique identifier. If a piece of a glove is located in the product within the plant, the color of that piece indicates the area or process of the plant in which the glove was used. If a piece of a damaged glove is located in the product at a remote destination, the unique identifier in that piece is matched with a registry to determine the plant in which the glove was used. The color of the piece then helps the plant to identify where the damaged glove was used. The system and method are particularly helpful in the food processing industry, especially meat processing. |
| US10806195B2 |
Mitt system
A mitt system includes a mitt for protecting a user's hand during performance of dirty tasks, and a carrier attachable to the user's body and designed hold the mitt spaced apart from the user's body. The mitt is configured for insertion of the hand through an opening and reception of the hand by a thumb section and a finger section without manipulation of an external surface. The carrier includes a first coupler which retains the mitt and a clip for attachment to the body. In an embodiment, a rigid member maintains the opening of the mitt accessible for reception of the hand. |
| US10806185B2 |
Electronic cigarette
An electronic cigarette including a mouthpiece subassembly; an e-liquid charging subassembly; an atomizing subassembly; and a base subassembly. The mouthpiece subassembly is mounted on the e-liquid charging subassembly. The atomizing subassembly is screwed upon the base subassembly. The base subassembly is connected to the e-liquid charging subassembly. The mouthpiece subassembly includes a cigarette holder and a first seal ring. The first seal ring is coupled to the cigarette holder. The e-liquid charging subassembly includes an e-liquid charging member, a second seal ring, a sleeve ring, a third seal ring, and a glass tube. The second seal ring is disposed on the sleeve ring. The third seal ring is disposed in the bottom of the sleeve ring. The sleeve ring is embedded in the e-liquid charging member; the glass tube is connected to one end of the sleeve ring. |
| US10806180B2 |
Electronic vapor provision system
A control unit for an electronic vapor provision system includes a battery for providing electrical power to a heater which is used to produce vapor. The battery is a lithium iron phosphate battery. The battery provides an output voltage which remains at an approximately constant voltage level as the battery is discharged. |
| US10806178B1 |
Bio-traceable electronic consumable device
Electronic consumable devices (ECDs) are provided with integrated bio-traceability to facilitate user-based usage restriction, tracking, etc. For example, an individual legally purchases an ECD (e.g., an e-cigarette) from a vendor, and the ECD has a biosensor (e.g., fingerprint scanner) integrated therein. During the purchasing, the vendor uses a controller device to set up registration of the ECD for the individual, and the ECD cannot be used prior to registration. As part of the registration, the individual uses the biosensor to register a biometric signature, and the vendor's controller device confirms registration of the ECD. According to some embodiments, subsequent to registration, the ECD can be used only in connection with maintaining both device-level authorization based on communications with one or more remote controller devices and user-level authorization based on acquisition of the registered biometric signature by the integrated biosensor. |
| US10806172B2 |
Compaction system and methods for making food bars
A system for making a food bar comprises a cup holder, a cutting station with a cutter that is configured to cut food contents within the cup holder, a pressing station with a press that is configured to compact the food contents within the cup holder, and a conveyor for moving the cutting station and the pressing station relative to the cup holder. |
| US10806169B2 |
Hydrolyzed pea protein-based nutrient composition
The present invention discloses a nutritional composition and method of using and making the nutritional composition. The nutritional composition is a hydrolyzed pea protein based nutrient composition for use in both enteral and oral feeding, and provides a non-allergenic diet for providing optimal nutrition to users. The nutritional composition is made from organic and plant-based ingredients. The nutritional composition has pea protein hydrolysates, phytochemical extracts, fatty acids, organic ingredients free of the top eight allergens and corn, and prebiotic fiber. The nutritional composition is provided in liquid form for enteral and/or oral feeding. |
| US10806167B2 |
Gelling composition
The present invention provides a gelling composition for preparing a gelatinous food which do not dissolve even when reheated (e.g., dysphagia diet).The present invention provides a gelling composition for preparing a gelatinous food which retains its original shape even when reheated, wherein the gelling composition comprises a water-soluble polymer capable of forming a thermo-irreversible gel. Also provided is a method of gelling a food and enhancing the shape-retaining property of the food against reheating by using the above-described gelling composition, as well as a method of preparing a gelatinous food which retains its original shape even when reheated by using the above-described gelling composition. |
| US10806165B2 |
Ready-to-drink plant protein beverage product and methods for making same
Ready-to-drink beverages comprise a significant amount of complete protein per 8 fluid-ounce serving, the proteins derived from a plant protein blend comprising a legume protein, a whole grain protein, and a dairy or wheat protein. Other components added include a sweetening component, a flavor component, hydrocolloids, and optionally maltodextrin to produce a ready-to-drink beverage with no visible sedimentation and good taste and mouthfeel. The components are subjected to a high temperature treatment step, followed by a homogenizing step. Formulations provide for source of high quality, complete protein. |
| US10806164B2 |
Adsorbent of micotoxins based on a betaine derivative for balanced animal foods
The present invention provides a mycotoxin adsorbent based on a highly specific betaine derivative for trichothecenes A and B, and especially for vomitoxin (or deoxynivalenol) and T-2 toxin; as well as a process for preparing said mycotoxin adsorbent. The mycotoxin adsorbent of the invention is obtained by modifying the surface of an aluminosilicate by means of an organic amphoteric compound with a carboxyl group that provides it with high polarity properties. The mycotoxin adsorbent is useful for preparing balanced feed from animals that avoid the toxic effects of mycotoxins. |
| US10806159B2 |
Quark matrix with improved taste characteristics (I)
A quark matrix having improved taste characteristics is suggested, which is obtainable by (a) subjecting raw milk to heat treatment, separating the cream, (b) subjecting the skimmed milk such obtained to a microfiltration step, obtaining a first retentate R1, which represents a first dairy protein concentrate, and a first permeate P1, (c) subjecting the permeate P1 to an ultrafiltration step and/or a reverse osmosis step, obtaining a second retentate R2, which represents a second dairy protein concentrate, and a second permeate P2, (d) subjecting the permeate P2 to an electrodialysis step, obtaining a salt-depleted diluate D1, (e) combining the diluate D1 with the retentate R1, (f) subjecting the combination product such obtained to heat treatment until denaturation sets in, (g) fermenting the denaturation product such obtained by adding starter cultures and rennet, and (h) adjusting the fermentation product such obtained to defined dry matter and protein contents. |
| US10806158B2 |
Low-mineral quark matrix
A low-mineral quark matrix is suggested, which is obtainable by (a) subjecting raw milk to heat treatment, separating the cream, (b) subjecting the skimmed milk such obtained to an ultrafiltration step and/or a reverse osmosis step, producing a retentate R1, which represents a dairy protein concentrate, and a permeate P1, (c) subjecting the permeate P1 to an electrodialysis step, producing a salt-depleted diluate D1, (d) combining the diluate D1 with the retentate R1, (e) subjecting the combination product such obtained to heat treatment until denaturation sets in, (f) fermenting the denaturation product such obtained by the addition of starter cultures and rennet, and (g) adjusting or standardising the fermentation product such obtained to defined dry matter and protein contents. |
| US10806153B2 |
System and method for detecting woody breast condition in broilers using image analysis of carcass features
This invention relates generally to a system and method of detecting woody breast using image analysis of carcass features, and more particularly to a real-time system and method of detecting woody breast in broilers using non-destructive and/or non-contact image analysis of carcass features. The system and method assess woody breast in broilers at the fillet level using image analysis of the angle or area associated with the tip of the keel bone and surrounding breast meat of broiler carcasses. The method is configured be incorporated into and utilized by vision grading system. |
| US10806149B2 |
Method for producing silver-ion antibacterial liquid, silver-ion antibacterial liquid produced by said method, method for producing silver-ion antibacterial powder, and silver-ion antibacterial powder produced by said method
A method for producing silver-ion antibacterial liquid using a type A or type X silver zeolite includes a process to weigh silver zeolite for obtain its blending quantity in a range of 0.1 to 20.0 percent by weight and to weigh citric acid for obtaining its blending quantity such that its blending ratio to the silver zeolite becomes 1.2 or greater, followed by blending of the two into purified water; a process to mix under agitation the silver zeolite and citric acid blended in the purified water to prepare a mixture liquid containing at least a citric acid-silver complex and silica hydrate; and a process to remove the silica hydrate produced in the mixture liquid. The production method can produce at low cost a silver-ion antibacterial liquid offering immediate bactericidal effect. |
| US10806148B2 |
Thickened pesticide compositions, optionally comprising fertilizer
Aqueous compositions are provided which consist of i) one or more of glufosinate, glufosinate salts, fertilizer, and mixtures thereof, ii) an alkyl amidoamine, and iii) a quaternary ammonium compound. Furthermore the such compositions in the preparation of agricultural formulations and the use of such formulations to treat a field, plants, or seeds. |
| US10806147B2 |
Treatment method for a hydrocarbon-containing system using a biocide
A method for reducing the effects of biological contamination in a hydrocarbon-containing system comprising the steps of continuously adding a formulation comprising tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine or a tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt to the system for one day or more; monitoring the efficacy of the continuous treatment by an assessment of the extent to which there is any effect on the environment that is attributable to metabolic activity of active microbes present in the system; wherein the tris(hydroxymethyl)phosphine or tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium salt is added at a concentration of from 1 to 30 ppm based on the total volume of aqueous fluid added to the system, and wherein the formulation is added to the system at a stage to minimize incompatibility with any other chemicals that are added to the aqueous fluid. The treatment disrupts the microbial activity of active microbes in the hydrocarbon-containing system and can prevent or reduce detrimental effects arising from the presence of active microbes in the system. |
| US10806145B2 |
Applications of protein VdAL in improving output, product quality and drought resistance of plant and in improving fruit coloring of plant
Provided are applications of protein VdAL in improving the output, product quality and drought resistance of a plant and in improving fruit coloring of the plant. The protein VdAL is selected from one of A1) to A3): A1), protein having an amino acid sequence that is 1; A2) protein that is derived from A), that has same functions and that is obtained by substituting and/or deleting and/or adding one or several amino acid residues for, from or to the sequence 1; and A3) fusion protein obtained by connecting labels to an N end and/or a C end of A1) or A2). |
| US10806143B2 |
Herbicidal composition in granular form
The present invention provides light weight, water dispersible, granular compositions containing a first herbicide and a second herbicide in which the first herbicide and the second herbicide have different physical characteristics. In particular, the present invention relates to granular herbicidal compositions comprising a low melting point herbicide, carfentrazone-ethyl, and a high melting point herbicide, sulfosulfuron, having excellent dispersibility in water and chemical and physical stability. |
| US10806140B2 |
Antimicrobial compound
An antimicrobial composition including low molecular weight dendrimers of formula (1): Q is an antimicrobial moiety in monomer or dendritic form, N is a nitrogen atom, L2 is a linker linking each Y1 molecular spacer to the nitrogen atom, Y1 is a molecular spacer spacing each antimicrobial moiety Q from the L2 linker, there are two or more chains of antimicrobial moieties and molecular spacers, X is a linker configured to covalently bond to surface functionalities of the substrate, and Y2 is a molecular spacer between the linker X and the nitrogen atom. |
| US10806136B2 |
Pesticide strip assembly
A pesticide strip assembly for easy application and monitoring levels of pesticide including a flexible panel, an adhesive layer and an insecticide impregnated gel. The flexible panel is elongated and has a top side, a bottom side, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The adhesive layer is attached to the bottom side of the flexible panel. The adhesive layer comprises a pressure sensitive adhesive that is positioned on a flexible strip. The adhesive layer is covering and is adhesively secured to the bottom side of the flexible panel. The gel is infused with an insecticide and is positioned on the flexible panel. |
| US10806135B2 |
Fumigation vaporizer
Disclosed is a fumigation vaporizer capable of quickly vaporizing a fumigant, which is widely used in agriculture or quarantine to control insects or weeds, thereby safely and effectively carrying out fumigation, as compared to a conventional process. The fumigation vaporizer includes a housing, a fumigant supply pipe, a heater, a non-explosive gas supply member, a gas supply pipe, a vessel-type heater, a gas discharge pipe, and a controller. The housing is provided with a heating hollow portion at the lower portion of the inner cavity, in which the non-explosive gas heated and supplied by the vessel-type heater heats a bottom surface of the inner cavity while passing through the heating hollow portion. A bottom surface of the heating hollow portion is provided with an inlet port through which the non-explosive gas passes, and a top surface of the heating hollow portion opposite to the inlet portion is provided with an outlet port through which the non-explosive gas passing the heating hollow portion is supplied to the gas discharge pipe installed to the inner cavity. |
| US10806134B2 |
Three-axis adjustable rod holder
An adjustable bracket that clamps onto a first axis includes a rod defining a second, orthogonal axis upon which a pivot block is mounted. The pivot block includes two perpendicular splined apertures which may receive a fishing rod holder that has a splined shaft to fix the azimuth orientation of the rod holder in the pivot block. The fishing rod holder has a clevis which receives a perforated ear of a rod retaining tube. A fastener clamps the retaining tube in the clevis at a desired elevation angle. The retaining tube has other features which may coddle a reel mounted on a fishing rod. The azimuth options of the spline interface and the elevation adjustment of the clevis joint provide second and third adjustable axes for orienting a fishing pole from an attachment point on any railing or stanchion or post on a vessel. |
| US10806127B2 |
Boxed pet toy
A pet toy, in combination, including a containment structure having a longitudinal axis and cross section defining an interior volume. The containment structure, which is preferably collapsible, includes a plurality of containment openings along its longitudinal axis exposing the interior volume to a pet during use of the pet toy, and an electronic component in the form of a hollow shell having a shell opening configured therein. A motor having a rotatable shaft extends toward the opening. A power supply for powering the motor and optional microprocessor, the motor, microprocessor and power supply being supported within the interior of the hollow shell. An attractant is affixed to the rotatable shaft and extends through the shell opening, the microprocessor being programmed to control operation of the motor to cause the attractant to rotate intermittently, the electronic component and attractant being visible to a pet during use of the pet toy. |
| US10806126B1 |
Methods and systems for detecting barks
A dog bark detection and deterrent method and system including a collar configured to be affixed to a pet, the collar having an audio transmitter configured to provide an audio stimulus; and a power source provided within collar operable to provide power to the audio transmitter, and an audio sensor. The collar is configured to determine when a dog is barking and provide stimulus to deter the dog from continuing to bark. |
| US10806119B2 |
Plant with altered content of steroidal alkaloids
The present invention relates to key genes in the biosynthesis of steroidal alkaloids and saponins, including regulatory genes and enzyme-encoding genes, and to use thereof for altering the content of steroidal (glyco)alkaloids or phytosterols in plants. The present invention provides genetically modified plants or gene edited plants with altered content of steroidal (glyco)alkaloids, particularly to Solanaceous crop plants with reduced content of antinutritional steroidal glycoalkaloids and to the increase in phytosterols, including cholesterol or cholestanol in these plants. The present invention also provides methods of altering gene expression. |
| US10806116B1 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH969845
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH969845. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH969845, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH969845 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH969845. |
| US10806114B1 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH100067
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH100067. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH100067, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH100067 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH100067. |
| US10806112B1 |
Maize hybrid X95N829
A novel maize variety designated X95N829 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95N829 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95N829 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X95N829, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95N829 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95N829 and methods of using maize variety X95N829 are disclosed. |
| US10806109B2 |
Dual purpose watermelon pollen star
The invention relates to a diploid watermelon having fruit with approximately ⅓ lower sugar content than common watermelons found in the market place, and plant characteristics favorable for use as a pollenizer for commercial production of seedless watermelons. In addition to reduced sugar, fruit characteristics of the invention include a tough rind, firm flesh, distinct rind color, and small fruit. The watermelon plant of the invention has the characteristics of extended flowering duration, thin leaves, long sprawling vines, and resistance to Fusarium Wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum race 1. The invention combining the above mentioned fruit and plant characteristics can serve the dual purpose of producing reduced sugar watermelon fruit, and pollinating seedless watermelons. This will, in effect, produce reduced sugar watermelons which are beneficial for consumers with type 2 diabetes, as a byproduct of commercial seedless watermelon production making the product more economically feasible. |
| US10806107B2 |
Water culture block and water culture device having same
The described technology relates to a water culture block, which can be stacked in multiple stages along a wall surface, and a water culture device having the same. The water culture block can include a block body including side plates each having an opening, and a bottom plate connected to the side plates to form a receiving space, and at least one overflow tube having a hollow portion and configured to pass through the bottom plate to communicate an inside of the block body with an outside thereof. The water culture block can also include a water tray body formed at an upper portion of the block body and having a through hole for providing a fluid to the receiving space, and a pipe in communication with the through hole and coupled to the water tray body to support the water tray body on the bottom plate. |
| US10806106B2 |
System, method and apparatus for providing a pull-out force compensating gearbox mount
The present invention provides a pull-out force compensating gearbox mount for an irrigation machine. According to an exemplary preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a system to counteract pull-out forces by inducing camber into the wheel gearbox and thus the tire. According to a further preferred embodiment, the tire of the present invention preferably begins to camber as a result of excessive pull-out force, with the bottom of the tire moving outwards relative to the top of the tire. This camber action is preferably applied to mitigate the pull-out forces. According to a further preferred embodiment, when excessive pull-out forces are reduced, the tire is then returned to its original position. |
| US10806105B2 |
System of integrated passageways in a carbon fiber boom and method thereof
A spray boom includes a body having a length defined a first end and a second end thereof. The body is formed by a plurality of layers of composite material adapted to be molded together to form an inner surface and an outer surface. A hollow cavity is defined in the body internally of the inner surface, and a channel is formed in the body between the inner surface and the outer surface. The channel extends along the length and is defined between the first end and the second end. |
| US10806103B2 |
Log processing head
A log processing head with a top knife and moveable feed means and delimbing and/or debarking means pushing a log against the top knife by means of actuators. In order to allow the top knife to follow the contour of the log without damaging a pin holding the knife, a pivot joint is used between the knife and the connection of the pin on the structure. |
| US10806101B2 |
Methods for the production and use of myceliated high protein food compositions
Disclosed is a method to prepare a myceliated high-protein food product, which includes culturing a fungi an aqueous media which has a high level of plant protein, for example at least 20 g protein per 100 g dry weight with excipients, on a dry weight basis. The plant protein can include pea, rice and/or chickpea. The fungi can include comprises Lentinula spp., Agaricus spp., Pleurotus spp., Boletus spp., or Laetiporus spp. After culturing, the material is harvested by obtaining the myceliated high-protein food product via drying or concentrating. The resultant myceliated high-protein food product may have its taste, flavor, or aroma modulated, such as by increasing desirable flavors or tastes such as meaty, savory, umami, popcorn and/or by decreasing undesirable flavors such as bitterness, astringency or beaniness. Deflavoring and/or deodorizing as compared to non-myceliated control materials can also be observed. Also disclosed are myceliated high-protein food products. |
| US10806094B2 |
Land preparation tool
A land preparation tool includes a tool body having a cutting surface, mounting surfaces disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface, and opposing side surfaces each extending between the cutting surface and a different one of the mounting surfaces. One mounting surface angles inwardly from a distal edge of a side surface toward the tool body. Another mounting surface angles inwardly from a distal edge of the other side surface toward the tool body. An opening is disposed on the tool body opposite the cutting surface and between the mounting surfaces. |
| US10806092B2 |
Remote control system
A baling system including a working component, where the working component has at least one of a pickup assembly, a rotor assembly, or a lifter assembly, a frame supporting the working component, a first drive system configured to drive the working component, a second drive system configured to drive the working component, and a remote controller configured to selectively control the operation of the second drive system when the first drive system is operatively disengaged from the working component. |
| US10806091B2 |
Weighing device and harvest collecting apparatus
A weighing device for detecting the weight force of a pressed bale on a roll includes a bearing device of the roll. At least one weighing means is integrally disposed in the bearing device. |
| US10806089B2 |
Stuffer trigger system for an agricultural baler
An agricultural baler system has a plunger, a bale chamber, a pre-compression chamber and a stuffer unit, for moving crop from the pre-compression chamber to the bale chamber. The stuffer unit includes a stuffer fork trigger mechanism, an actuator and a controller. The actuator is coupled to the stuffer fork trigger mechanism. The controller is in controlling connection with the actuator. The actuator is configured to arm the stuffer fork trigger mechanism by moving the actuator between a first position and a second position. The actuator is further configured to be held in the first position and/or the second position with substantially no energy use. |
| US10806085B2 |
System for unloading harvested crop from an agricultural harvester
An unloading system for a harvester is described as including a crop delivery apparatus, an unloading structure and a belt. The crop delivery apparatus defines an outlet and is configured and positioned to propel a flow of crop material through the outlet such that a least a portion of the crop material is deposited onto the belt. The unloading structure is configured to receive the crop material from the crop delivery apparatus and has a structure including a conveyor tube portion extending along a longitudinal axis, the conveyor tube portion defining a passage therethrough having an open intake end. The belt extends from the intake end through the passage for transporting the crop material through the conveyor tube portion. A projection of the longitudinal axis of the conveyor tube portion of the unloading structure passes through an internal cross-sectional area defined by the outlet of the crop delivery apparatus. |
| US10806076B2 |
High-efficiency lawn maintenance tool and high-efficiency cutting blade
A high-efficiency blade for a lawn maintenance tool includes a central axis and a mounting portion located on the central axis. The high-efficiency blade includes a cutting blade and a cutting blade sharpened leading edge. A cleaning blade is vertically offset from the cutting blade and is configured to mulch the associated clippings from vegetation and reduce an associated accumulation of clippings on an underside of an associated mower deck. The lawn maintenance tool can also include a deck having a separation distance between the cleaning blade and an underside of the deck. The deck can include an elevation change to vary the separation distance. The deck and high-efficiency blade can also include a forward or rearward tilt. |
| US10806073B2 |
System and method for dispensing agricultural products
A system for dispensing agricultural products includes an agricultural product container having a memory circuit associated therewith for storing data, the stored data including data unique to the container and the quantity of material dispensed including specific rates of application. An application rate meter device is operatively connected to the agricultural product container and is configured to dispense the agricultural product from the agricultural product container. Precision placement equipment includes a placement tube assembly operatively connected to the application rate meter device to place the agricultural products in the desired locations for efficient activity of the agricultural product. Each placement tube assembly is mounted between depth wheels of a depth control wheel assembly of a planter for placement of product in-furrow between the depth wheels. |
| US10806072B2 |
On-the-go soil sensors and control methods for agricultural machines
An on-the-go monitor and control means and method for an agriculture machines includes on-the-go soil sensors that can be used to control tillage and seeding depth. On seeder implements, the sensors provide information that affects uniform plant emergence. |
| US10806069B2 |
Residue flow through hoe type seeding implements
A residue clearing apparatus for a seeding implement includes a plurality of ground driven residue wheel pairs, each movably and rotatably mounted to the seeding implement with right and left residue wheels on corresponding right and left sides of one of the shanks such that each residue wheel pair moves vertically independent of the shanks. Residue contact members connected to each residue wheel engage the ground surface adjacent to one of the shanks to rotate the residue wheel. Outer ends of the residue contact members pass forward of the shank above the furrow opener. A raising system operative to raise the residue wheel pairs to a wheel transport position. |
| US10806068B2 |
Double-shoot disc drill using two distinct staggered row units
Disc drill agricultural implements are configured to form product rows in a planting surface of a field. The disc drill may include two different sections of row units, the first section containing single-shoot row units and the second section containing double-shoot row units. The configuration may be used to produce three sets of product rows which may be used placement of seeds, fertilizer and/or other agricultural products. |
| US10806067B2 |
Land roller
A land roller is provided the can be transformed between a transport position and an operating position by at least one actuator. The land roller can have a center section with a center roller, a hitch member connected to the center section, a first wing section pivotally connected at a first end to the center section and having a first wing roller, a second wing section pivotally connected at a first end to the center section and having a second wing roller. The at least one actuator can rotate a first rotating member that pivots the first wing section and rotate a second rotating member that pivots the second wing section to transform the land roller from the transport position into the operating position. The at least one actuator is unconnected to the first rotating member and the second rotating member. |
| US10806066B2 |
Implement multi-coupler with breakaway feature
A work vehicle multi-coupler assembly having a controlled breakaway feature include a pair of coupling elements that mate along a coupling axis. A shear pin is carried by one of the coupling elements. A coupler mechanism connected to the second coupling element and configured to engage the shear pin to bring the first coupling element into mating engagement with the second coupling element. The coupler mechanism is configured to shear the shear pin to permit movement of the first coupling element away from the second coupling element along the coupling axis during a breakaway event. |
| US10806065B2 |
Braking system for towed vehicles
A towed vehicle hitch tongue includes movably connected front and rear tongue members, and a fully exposed master cylinder connected at opposite ends thereof to the tongue members such that a rearward force urging the front tongue member toward the rear tongue member forces pressurized braking fluid out of a port thereof into a braking circuit configured to exert a braking force. The braking circuit prevents braking until the rearward force warrants braking, provides dampening of the brake action, allows the towed vehicle to reverse, and can provide emergency stopping and dampening of movement of the hitch tongue. Instead of using movable front and rear tongue members, sensors can detect what the towed vehicle is doing, and apply appropriate braking force in response. |
| US10806064B2 |
Agricultural field preparation device
An agricultural device associated with reduced tillage techniques in a field includes a frame and a separator supported by the frame. The separator is configured to form a strip of exposed soil in residual plant matter in the field. A crimping device associated with the separator is configured to at least partially crush stems of residual plant matter while maintaining the strip. |
| US10813259B2 |
Board work machine and insertion method
A component mounter provided with a component holding tool that holds leaded component, and a moving device that moves the component holding tool to a given position, wherein leads of leaded component held by the component holding tool are contacted against the upper surface of circuit board, are moved in a state being elastically deformed, and are inserted into through-hole of circuit board. Thus, even in a case in which leads are contacted against the upper surface of circuit board without leads being directly inserted into through-holes, it is possible to insert leads into through-holes. Also, it is possible to prevent plastic deformation of leads by leads being pressed too much in a state contacting the upper surface of circuit board. |
| US10813258B2 |
Component supply device
Multiple types of leaded components are scattered on component support member, and those multiple types of components are imaged by an imaging device. Identification information for identifying each type of the multiple types of components, and position information representing the position of the components on the component support section, is acquired from image data captured by the imaging device. Then, based on the identification information and the position information, any of the multiple types of components on the component support member are held by a holding tool. By this, it is possible to pick up any of the multiple types of components scattered on the component support section and it is possible to supply many types of components using the component supply device. Also, there is no need for an operator to check components on the component support section, so the operator workload is reduced. |
| US10813256B2 |
External structure heat sink
Systems and methods for dissipating heat from an electrical component using an external structure of a trailer or shed as a heat sink are disclosed. A heat-producing electrical component such as a variable frequency drive (VFD) using an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is housed in a trailer and is thermally coupled to an exterior wall of the trailer to use the wall as a heat sink to dissipate heat from the VFD and IGBT. An adapter can be used to couple VFDs and IGBTs of different sizes and configurations to a support site on the exterior wall. |
| US10813248B2 |
Electronic cooling fan with airflow recirculation prevention during fan failure
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a fan for cooling electronics within a chassis, the fan comprising a rotor with a plurality of fan blades connected thereto for generating an axial airflow during operation of the fan, a sensor for detecting failure of the fan, and an airflow blocking device positioned at an exhaust side of the fan and configured to prevent airflow through the fan upon detection of the fan failure, wherein the airflow blocking device is stowed in a position removed from a path of the axial airflow generated by the fan during operation of the fan. A method for preventing airflow recirculation at a failed fan is also disclosed herein. |
| US10813245B2 |
Apparatus case with a rotatable airflow-blocking portion and server therewith
An apparatus case includes a first casing member, a second casing member, a driving portion, a blocking portion, and a rotary shaft. The first casing member and the second casing member are detachably engaged with each other. The driving portion is disposed on the first casing member. The blocking portion and the rotary shaft are rotatably disposed on the second casing member and connected with each other. A server includes the apparatus case and a circuit board disposed on the first casing member of the apparatus case. When the second casing member moves from a first position to a second position relative to the first casing member, the driving portion drives the rotary shaft to rotate so that the rotary shaft drives the blocking portion to rotate above an expansion slot of the circuit board. |
| US10813242B2 |
Mounting aid
Mounting aid for the mounting of rack mounts in frames, in particular racks for use in information technology, comprising at least two relatively to one another adjustable, in particular pivotable legs, wherein the legs at their free ends each comprises a fastening element that is arranged in an angled manner with respect to the leg and is designed for fastening the free ends of the legs to rails, in particular sheet metal angles, of the frame, said rails being directed to each other, projecting inwardly and being provided with a row of holes. |
| US10813238B2 |
Hermetically-sealed packages including feedthrough assemblies
Various embodiments of a hermetically-sealed package and methods of forming such packages are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the hermetically-sealed package can include a housing and a feedthrough assembly that forms a part of the housing. The feedthrough assembly can include a non-conductive substrate and a feedthrough. The feedthrough can include a via from an outer surface to an inner surface of the non-conductive substrate, a conductive material disposed in the via, and an external contact disposed over the via on the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate. The external contact can be electrically coupled to the conductive material disposed in the via. Further, the external contact can be hermetically sealed to the outer surface of the non-conductive substrate by a laser bond surrounding the via. |
| US10813237B2 |
Housing for using an electronic device in an explosive atmosphere
A housing for receiving an electronic device in an explosive atmosphere may include a first housing part and second housing part coupled to one another via at least one screw connection defining a housing interior for receiving the electronic device. The screw connection may include a screw and a separate threaded pin. A recess may be defined in first housing part. A first threaded bush may be arranged in the recess for receiving the screw. A through-opening may be defined in the second housing part concentric to the recess and a second threaded bush may be arranged in the through-opening for partially receiving the screw and the threaded pin. The screw may be arranged in the through-opening and screwed into the first threaded bush coupling the first housing part and the second housing part to one another. The threaded pin may be screwed into the second threaded bush. |
| US10813234B2 |
Distributed energy generation and consumption monitoring and reporting device with modular communication upgradability and protection domains in hardware
An electrical unit with modular hardware structure in which more complex and unsafe portions of the device are restricted for access by a qualified electrician only, whereas safe areas are made accessible to a non-electrician user, such as a homeowner or a low expertise technician, to help diagnose issues and/or upgrade the functionality of the device without requiring the presence of a high expertise technician/electrician. The restricted portion includes a main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that is selectively populated with certain circuit components and that contains electrical connections to enable the electrical unit to be operated in a number of different operating configurations depending on which components are populating the main PCB. A smaller, interconnect PCB also may be provided in the restricted portion and hardware-paired with the main PCB to facilitate wiring of the main PCB via the interconnect PCB and add further modularity to the electrical interconnect scheme. |
| US10813233B2 |
Display device
The present disclosure relates to a display device with a simple structure and an improved appearance. The present disclosure provides a display panel; an inner plate attached to a rear portion of the display panel; a rear cover configured to cover a rear portion of the inner plate, the rear cover including a first cover adhering to the rear portion of the inner plate and a second cover spaced apart from the rear portion of the inner plate to form a space within the display device; and a component module including components driving the display panel, the component module being configured to be inserted into the space through a lower portion of the display device and to directly engage with a mount disposed within the second cover. |
| US10813226B2 |
Process for improving performance of sliding rheostat of 5G communication high-frequency signal board
A process for improving the performance of the sliding rheostat of 5G communication high-frequency signal board with the sliding rheostat slides along between two bonding pads, includes the following steps: outer layer etching; resin plugging: a. plugging the resinous ink into the pre-plugging position; b: baking, baking on the baking plate of the oven after the plugging is finished; board polishing: using a ceramic brush to process the plugged board, then using a non-woven fabric blush to polish the surface that is polished by ceramic brush. The present invention provides a process for improving the performance of the sliding rheostat of 5G communication high-frequency signal board. The resin plugging method is used to plug the gap between the conductors of the sliding rheostat, so as to prevent the sliding rheostat from being unable to slide due to the altitude difference between conductors of the high-frequency signal board. |
| US10813223B2 |
Piezochromic stamp
A piezochromic stamp is provided, wherein when a pressing side of the piezochromic stamp is subjected to a pressure, a light transmittance effect of the pressing side is changed from allowing a light having a specific wavelength to pass through to blocking the light having the specific wavelength, or the light transmittance effect of the pressing side is changed from blocking the light having the specific wavelength to allowing the light having the specific wavelength to pass through. |
| US10813221B2 |
Flexible wiring circuit board, producing method thereof, and imaging device
A mounted board includes a base insulating layer, a conductive pattern, and a cover insulating layer sequentially toward one side in a thickness direction. The entire lower surface of the base insulating layer is exposed downwardly. A total thickness of the base insulating layer and the cover insulating layer is 16 μm or less. The base insulating layer contains an insulating material having a hygroscopic expansion coefficient of 15×10−6/% RH or less. |
| US10813213B2 |
High-frequency composite substrate and insulating structure thereof
The present disclosure provides a high-frequency composite substrate which includes a metal layer and an insulating structure. The insulating structure includes at least one liquid crystal polymer (LCP) layer with dielectric constant ranged from about 2 to about 4. The liquid crystal polymer layer adheres to the metal layer. The high-frequency composite substrate may reduce the adverse effects caused by the Resistor-Capacitor delay (RC delay). |
| US10813211B2 |
Printed circuit board layout for mitigating near-end crosstalk
Traces on a PCB can be spaced closer together than in conventional layouts, which previously required the pair-to-pair spacing for the high-speed differential stripline signals to be at least 5H if the signals are originating from the same source and 7H when the signals on two pairs of transmission lines in the traces originate from different sources. Traces may be spaced closer together when, for example, a ratio of the core height to the prepreg height of the printed circuit board is approximately equal to one. Traces may be spaced closer together when, for example, a ratio of the trace spacing distance to the core height distance is less than approximately one. By implementing one or both of these design rules, printed circuit board layouts can be designed, and printed circuit boards manufactured from those designs, that have an intra-group spacing between the first pair and the second pair measured at a point at which the first pair is closest to the second pair of less than approximately five times the prepreg height (the limit for previous printed circuit board designs). |
| US10813209B2 |
Multilayer substrate, electronic device, and a method for manufacturing a multilayer substrate
A multilayer substrate includes a base including insulating layers stacked on one another, a first principal surface, and a second principal surface, a heat transfer member extending through a first insulating layer nearest to the first principal surface, a second coefficient of thermal conductivity of a material of the heat transfer member is higher than a first coefficient of thermal conductivity of a material of the insulating layers, a first metal film adhered to the first principal surface, the first metal film overlapping the heat transfer member when viewed from the layer stacking direction, and a first joining member disposed between the heat transfer member and the first metal film and being made of a material with a coefficient of thermal conductivity which is higher than the first coefficient of thermal conductivity of the material of the insulating layers. |
| US10813205B2 |
Detecting motion by using a low dose x-ray image
A reference image of a patient may be generated. A subsequent x-ray image of the patient may be generated after the generating of the reference image where the subsequent x-ray image is associated with a low dosage. A difference between the reference image and the subsequent x-ray image that is associated with the low dosage may be determined. A motion of the patient may be identified as having occurred based on the determined difference. |
| US10813195B2 |
Intelligent lighting device and system
A lighting device includes a microphone, a camera, and a controller. The controller is configured to control a light source of the lighting device and determine whether an utterance captured by the microphone or a gesture captured by the camera corresponds to a wake-word. The controller is further configured to generate a command based on at least an image of an item captured by the camera if the controller determines that the utterance or the gesture corresponds to the wake-word. The controller is also configured to send the command to a cloud server and to provide a response to the command, where the response is received from the cloud server. |
| US10813189B2 |
Load control device having an overcurrent protection circuit
A load control device for controlling power delivered from an alternating-current power source to an electrical load may comprise a controllably conductive device, a control circuit, and an overcurrent protection circuit that is configured to be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive. The control circuit may be configured to control the controllably conductive device to be non-conductive at the beginning of each half-cycle of the AC power source and to render the controllably conductive device conductive at a firing time during each half-cycle (e.g., using a forward phase-control dimming technique). The overcurrent protection circuit may be configured to render the controllably conductive device non-conductive in the event of an overcurrent condition in the controllably conductive device. The overcurrent protection circuit may be disabled when the controllably conductive device is non-conductive and enabled after the firing time when the controllably conductive device is rendered conductive during each half-cycle. |
| US10813188B1 |
Dimmer with zero crossing detector and method of controlling a dimmer
A dimmer structured to be connected to a power source via a hot conductor and to a load via a load conductor includes a zero-crossing detector structured to generate a zero-crossing signal that that has a high state or a low state and changes states in response to a voltage between the hot conductor and the load conductor reaching or leaving zero volts only during a positive half-cycle of power received from the power source, a processing unit structured to receive the zero-crossing signal and to generate a triac control signal based on the zero-crossing signal, and a triac control unit including a triac and being structured to electrically connect between the hot conductor and the neutral conductor and to turn on and turn off the triac based on the triac control signal. |
| US10813185B2 |
Semiconductor-based lighting device
A lighting device is provided that has a light source arrangement with a plurality of semiconductor-based light sources in the form of light-emitting diodes. The light sources are bundled or collimated such that they each emit light in differently directed light cones with adjacent light cones overlapping. The lighting device has an adjusting device for adjustment of the direction of illumination and an actuating circuit connected to the adjusting device. The adjusting device adjusts intermediate stages for which the light-emitting diodes of adjacent and overlapping light cones operate and with varying light intensity in such a way the focal point of the light field produced by the light-emitting diodes lies between the focal points of adjacent light cones. |
| US10813183B2 |
Photonic engine system for actuating the photosynthetic electron transport chain
A horticultural system having lighting elements pulsed with an off time proportional to the turnover time of the photosynthetic electron transport chain of a plant. The lighting elements emit light at a wavelength within 20 nanometers (nm) of a peak absorption of the pigment of the plant and are controlled to provide light at predetermined intervals as needed by the plant cause photosynthesis and reduce excess unproductive light. |
| US10813181B2 |
Vehicle control device and controlling lights
A control device for lights having at least one input wherein a coded resistor can be connected to the input, and having at least one input wherein a passive temperature sensor 20a, 20c, particularly a PTC or an NTC, can be connected to the same. The invention also relates to an arrangement of such a control device and at least one light. |
| US10813179B2 |
Controller based on APP control and power plug
The present disclosure discloses a controller based on APP control, disposed between a power source and a lamp strip. The controller comprises: a receiving control unit electrically connected to the power source for receiving a Bluetooth signal or a WIFI signal transmitted by an external smart terminal, and issuing a control signal according to the Bluetooth signal or the WIFI signal; a driving unit electrically connected to the receiving control unit for adjusting a flicker color and a flicker frequency of the lamp strip according to the control signal; and a manual control unit electrically connected to the receiving control unit for inputting a manual signal to the receiving control unit to cause the driving unit to switch the lamp strip to different modes. |
| US10813177B2 |
Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the same
A cooking apparatus includes a coil configured to generate a magnetic field, a driver including a first switch and a second switch and configured to change a direction of the current, a current detector configured to detect the current of the coil, a controller configured to increase a duty cycle of the first switch during a reference time when an operation start signal is transmitted thereto, control operations of the first switch and the second switch on the basis of an operating frequency when the reference time elapses, check zero cross points of currents detected while the first switch and the second switch are operated, compare a time point of the checked zero cross point to a starting time point of an turn-on operation of the first switch to determine a material of the vessel, and block the applied current when the vessel is determined to be a non-heatable vessel. |
| US10813174B2 |
Heating assembly for an aerosol generating system
A heating assembly for heating an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, including: a heater including an electrically resistive heating element and a heater substrate; and a heater mount coupled to the heater; wherein the heating element includes a first portion and a second portion configured such that, when an electrical current is passed through the heating element, the first portion is heated to a higher temperature than the second portion as a result of the electrical current; and wherein the heater mount surrounds the second portion of the heating element. |
| US10813173B2 |
Driving assembly in electronic cigarette having stable total particulate matter (TPM) value output
The present disclosure provides a driving method, a driving assembly, and an electronic cigarette having the same. The driving method includes: acquiring an output voltage of a power supply of the electronic cigarette; calculating a duty ratio meeting a preset power using the detected output voltage and an effective resistance of a heating assembly; and driving a current circuit of the heating assembly of the electronic cigarette to switch on or switch off according to the duty ratio, so that the heating assembly operates under the preset power. According to the present disclosure, the cost of the electronic cigarette can be lowered, a relatively stable TPM (Total Particulate Matter) value can be output, and the size of the electronic cigarette can be reduced. |
| US10813172B2 |
Cooktop appliances and control methods for the same
A cooktop appliance includes an electric heating element positioned at a cooking surface and a controller operably connected to the electric heating element. The controller is configured to generate a temperature setting. The controller is also configured to activate the electric heating element and calculate a projected maximum temperature. The controller is further configured to deactivate the electric heating element when the projected maximum temperature is greater than the temperature setting. |
| US10813166B2 |
Method and device for group communication
The present disclosure relates to technologies for sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, machine-type communications (MTC), and the Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, and security and safety related services, on the basis of said technologies. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method for performing a group communication by a terminal, the method comprising the steps of: setting a condition for selecting target terminals which will perform a group communication on the basis of the position of the terminal, and transmitting, to a server for providing the group communication, configuration information including the set selection condition; transmitting, to the server, a request for the group communication; receiving, from the server, a talk burst control message for a group communication with terminals which satisfy the selection condition and are selected from adjacent terminals positioned in the near field of the terminal; and relaying and transmitting media data to the selected terminals via the server. |
| US10813165B2 |
System and methods for session management
A network architecture and methods of managing packet data unit (PDU) sessions in a network are provided. The methods include PDU session establishment procedures, PDU session modification procedures, PDU session state transfer procedures, PDU session release procedures, and user equipment (UE) handover procedures. |
| US10813163B2 |
Devices and methods for controlling discontinuous reception in new radio
A method for discontinuous reception (DRX) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by receiving circuitry of a User Equipment (UE), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message having a DRX Start Offset (drx-StartOffset) and a DRX Slot Offset (drx-SlotOffset), determining, by processing circuitry of the UE, a start subframe based on the drx-StartOffset, and determining, by the processing circuitry, a starting time of a DRX On-Duration Timer (drx-onDurationTimer) in the start subframe based on the drx-SlotOffset. |
| US10813157B1 |
Beam failure recovery and related timing determination techniques
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam failure detection and related timing determinations, such as for applying a default beam after beam failure recovery response (BFRR) message. A method by a user equipment (UE) may include detecting failure of a beam associated with a first cell. The detecting can include performing beam failure detection (BFD) of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with the first cell (e.g., secondary cell (Scell)). The first cell can be in carrier aggregation (CA) with a second cell. The UE may send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message on a second cell (e.g., a primary cell (Pcell)). The BFRQ message can include a candidate recovery beam for the first cell. The UE can receive a BFRR message on the second cell and determine a duration from reception of the BFRR message until using a default beam for communications on the first cell. |
| US10813156B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing network connection
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a network connection. The method comprises the following steps: after a first communication module establishes a first connection with a network, a second communication module receives an instruction message sent by the first communication module within a pre-determined time (S102), wherein the instruction message is used for instructing the second communication module to disconnect a second connection established with the network; and the first communication module being connected to a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card in a terminal, and the second communication module being connected to a second SIM card in the terminal (S104). The present invention realizes automatic verification of the connection availability of the virtual SIM card without manual involvement of a user, and thus improves the user experience. |
| US10813155B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method for connection to a wireless network
[Object] To provide a wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication method, and a program being novel and improved by which connection to a network can be made more easily.[Solution] A wireless communication apparatus including: a first wireless communication unit configured to connect to a first network to perform wireless communication; and a control unit configured to assist connection, to a second network corresponding to a connection destination selection policy of another wireless communication apparatus received by the first wireless communication unit, by a wireless terminal related to the other wireless communication apparatus. |
| US10813153B2 |
Method and apparatus for distributing services and data
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a need to provide a service to a first communication device of a plurality of communication devices, detecting a movement of a second communication device of the plurality of communication devices in a direction that will place the second communication device in a communication range of the first communication device, and transmitting a message to the second communication device to provide the service to the first communication device when the second communication device comes into the communication range of the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10813150B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions with reduced latency
A method and apparatus schedule uplink transmissions with reduced latency. A device can transmit a sidelink transmission in an in a transmit time interval. The device can transmit an uplink transmission in the same transmit time interval as the sidelink transmission. |
| US10813149B2 |
Method for transmitting/receiving V2X message in local network in wireless communication system and apparatus for same
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transmitting/receiving a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting/receiving a V2X message through a long-time evolution (LTE) Uu interface of a first local network; receiving local network boundary-related information from a first base station of the first local network; and determining execution of one or more of transmission and reception of a V2X message through a PC5 interface during a SIPTO period, on the basis of the local network boundary-related information. |
| US10813148B2 |
Selective probe-response suppression
An electronic device (such as an access point) that selectively provides a probe response is described. During operation, the electronic device receives a probe request from the second electronic device. Then, the electronic device determines whether one or more response criteria are met or achieved. For example, based at least in part on an identifier of the second electronic device, the electronic device may determine when the one or more response criteria are met by accessing a probe-activity history of the second electronic device that is stored in memory. If the one or more response criteria are met, the electronic device provides the probe response. Otherwise, the electronic device does not provide the probe response and the probe request may be dropped. |
| US10813147B2 |
Data transmission method, terminal, and base station
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method, terminal, and base station, relate to the communications field, and can improve data packet transmission efficiency. The data transmission method includes: receiving, by a terminal in an idle state, first resource sent from a base station, where the first resource is used by the terminal to send an uplink application layer data packet to the base station; and sending, by the terminal, on the first resource, the uplink application layer data packet to the base station. The data transmission method is applied to the data transmission system. |
| US10813146B1 |
System and method for establishing a device to device communication link in cellular networks
Disclosed is a system and method for establishing a device to device communication link in cellular networks. The system includes one or more user equipments, and a base station. The one or more user equipments includes a first user equipment and a second user equipment. The first user equipment is configured with a first user equipment cognitive engine and the second user equipment is configured with a second user equipment engine. The base station that is coupled to a cellular tower and configured with an evolved packet core EPC. The base station and at least one of the one or more user equipments performs a method for establishing the device to device communication link in the cellular network using a transmit to receive transition gap (TTG) and a receive to transmit transition gap (RTG). |
| US10813142B2 |
Apparatus of paging mobile devices
A vehicle computer system (VCS) configured to communicate with one or more mobile devices, comprising a first processor configured to automatically create a priority list by utilizing one or more factors associated with communication activity between the vehicle computer system and the one or more mobile devices, wherein the priority list includes instructions to pair one or more mobile devices with the VCS and indicates the order of connecting to the one or more mobile devices. The vehicle computer system also includes a wireless transceiver including a second processor configured to receive the priority list from the first processor and establish a wireless connection with one or more mobile devices based on the priority list. |
| US10813141B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving NPRACH preamble in wireless communication system supporting TDD and apparatus therefor
This specification provides a method for transmitting an NPRACH preamble in a wireless communication system supporting TDD. More specifically, the method performed by the UE includes: receiving, from a base station, NPRACH configuration information including control information for a repetition number of NPRACH preambles including symbol groups through a higher layer signaling; and transmitting, to the base station, the NPRACH preamble repeatedly through frequency hopping of a symbol group based on the NPRACH configuration information, in which a frequency location of the symbol group is determined based on a first parameter related to a start subcarrier and a second parameter related to the frequency hopping. |
| US10813138B2 |
Methods and devices for improving random access response (RAR) transmission bandwidth efficiency
Methods and devices for improving Random Access Response (RAR) transmission bandwidth efficiency are disclosed herein. In this regard, a method includes receiving a random access request message from a terminal device, and transmitting to the terminal device an RAR message in response to the random access request message. The RAR message has a format dependent on a type of the random access request message. |
| US10813137B2 |
Method and apparatus of handling BWP inactivity timer during random access procedure in a wireless communication system
Methods and apparatuses of handling a bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer during a Random Access procedure in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. In one method, a user equipment (UE) starts a BWP timer for a serving cell operating in a paired spectrum. The UE initiates a contention-based Random Access (RA) procedure on the serving cell and stops the BWP timer. The UE starts the BWP timer upon successful completion of the RA procedure, wherein the UE considers the contention-based RA procedure successfully completed if a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) addressed to a Cell Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) of the UE is received and the PDCCH contains an uplink grant for a new transmission. |
| US10813131B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving random access preamble transmission in a wireless communication system
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for improving Random Access preamble transmission in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a configuration of an initial power and a power ramping step for a preamble transmission. The method also includes transmitting a first Preamble using a first power based on at least the initial power and the power ramping step, wherein the first Preamble is the last preamble transmission of a first Random Access procedure. The method includes determining whether the first Random Access procedure is successfully completed. The method also includes transmitting a second Preamble using a second power based on at least the first power, wherein the second Preamble is the first preamble transmission of a second Random Access procedure. |
| US10813130B2 |
Medium access control method based on broadcast preamble sampling for cognitive sensor network
The present invention relates to cognitive wireless sensor network technologies, and in particular to a medium access control method for a cognitive sensor network based on broadcast preamble sampling. A cognitive node in the cognitive sensor network adopts a periodical dormancy-awakening mechanism. Firstly, a state of a primary user is judged by using a spectrum sensing technology. If the primary user is not active, a data sending node establishes a communication link by using a broadcast preamble code. Each neighbor node simultaneously considers information of hops from a gateway according to an awakening order, and independently determines to serve as a relay node for forwarding data. Furthermore, a transmission conflict between the cognitive node and the primary user may be caused due to return or missed alarm of the primary user. The present invention adopts a retransmission mechanism based on confirmation to ensure transmission reliability of data packets. The present invention is independent of a common control channel, and can realize reliable access of the cognitive sensor network for an authorized frequency band at low overhead. |
| US10813127B2 |
Signaling of random access preamble parameters in wireless networks
User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number. |
| US10813123B2 |
Method and apparatus for changing SPS operation in wireless communication system
One embodiment of a modification of a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) operation triggered by a terminal in a wireless communication system may be a single hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process according to a plurality of SPS configurations. In other words, an eNodeB (eNB) can provide, to a UE, the plurality of SPS configurations covering a variety of message sizes. Another embodiment of a modification of an SPS operation triggered by a terminal may be a negative acknowledgement (NACK) with respect to a single HARQ process according to a plurality of SPS configurations and an SPS resource grant. In other words, an eNB provides, to a UE, the plurality of SPS configurations covering a dynamic reconfiguration of a message generation period, and whenever a specific SPS resource grant is not used for transmission, the terminal can transmit the NACK with respect to the SPS resource grant. |
| US10813122B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scheduling and/or granting uplink resources
A base station schedules a user equipment (UE) for uplink air link resources, e.g., unlicensed spectrum PUSCH resources, corresponding to one or more slots and, in some embodiments, at least one mini-slot. There may be, and sometimes are gaps between two scheduled slots and/or between a scheduled slot and a scheduled mini-slot. Different uplink air link resources corresponding to a schedule slot or mini-slot may, and sometimes do, use different set of frequencies. The base station generates and sends to the UE a single UL grant which grants uplink air link resources corresponding to the composite of resource allocations corresponding to the one or more slots and, in some embodiments, at least one mini-slot. The single UL grant may, and sometimes does, communicates gap information and frequency information. |
| US10813121B2 |
Node and method for downlink scheduling and hybrid automatic repeat request timing
Some of the example embodiments are directed towards a base station for determining a control timing configuration in order to provide a subframe timing setting for configuring downlink HARQ-ACK control timing for a cell serving a user equipment in a multiple cell communications network. The user equipment is served by a TDD based cell and a FDD based cell. Some example embodiments are directed towards user equipment for determining the control timing configuration as discussed above. |
| US10813117B2 |
Method for wireless communication, network device and terminal device
Disclosed is a method for wireless communication, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: sending, by a network device, configuration information to a terminal device, the configuration information instructing the terminal device to perform uplink data transmission according to a first transmission cycle; and determining, by the network device, a second transmission cycle for subsequent uplink data transmission of the terminal device according to data transmission of the terminal device on a transmission resource based on the first transmission cycle. In this way, allocation efficiency and utilization of uplink transmission resources can be improved, thereby avoiding waste of radio resources. |
| US10813115B2 |
Scheduling of uplink transport blocks
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for preparing data for transmission from a user equipment in a wireless communication system. In some embodiments, a method may limit memory access starts during a time interval to ensure that all memory access operations are completed with a transmission time interval. |
| US10813114B2 |
Timing method for time division duplex communication, base station, and user equipment
A timing method for time division duplex communication, an uplink/downlink data scheduling method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. By determining whether grouping needs to be performed on uplink/downlink short transmission time intervals, it is determined, for different grouping requirements, whether addition of indication information to control signaling is required to indicate to user equipment an uplink short transmission time interval sequence number in an uplink short transmission time interval group for uplink data transmission or feedback to downlink data scheduling. Alternatively, addition of indication information to control signaling is not required, and uplink data transmission or feedback to downlink data scheduling is performed in an uplink short transmission time interval determined according to a default rule. |
| US10813110B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling terminal radio resources
A method and an apparatus for scheduling radio resources for a terminal are disclosed. The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and apparatus which predict fluctuations in the latency that may occur at the time of packet transfer between the terminal and a server in the mobile communication network, select the radio resource to be allocated for the terminal, and transmit information thereon to the server and the terminal, whereby maximizing the efficiency of packet transfer between the terminal and the server. |
| US10813107B2 |
Obtaining control channel elements of physical downlink control channels for cross-carrier scheduling
A base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) communicate with each other by the BS transmitting and the UE receiving, via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), control channel elements (CCEs) corresponding to a PDCCH candidate obtained based on a carrier index nCI. |
| US10813106B2 |
Wireless cross-connect switch
A wireless packet switch and methods for controlling the same include a multiple port controllers, each in communication with a respective wireless transceiver, configured to analyze data streams to and from the respective wireless transceiver; a cross-connect switch in communication with all of the port controllers, configured to provide connections between respective port controllers; an arbiter, in communication with all of the port controllers and with the cross-connect switch, configured to control the cross-connect switch, such that the cross-connect switch connects data streams of the port controllers in accordance with packet destination information and scheduling information from the port controllers. |
| US10813103B1 |
Methods and apparatus for reserving and/or utilizing resources in a CBRS network
Methods and apparatus for managing spectrum in a CBRS network to provide services to user equipment devices located at a customer's premises. In various embodiments, the customer premises has no landline connection. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: receiving, by the CBRS CPE base station, over the air from each of a plurality of Citizens Broadband Radio Service Fixed Wireless Access (CBRS FWA) tower base stations a reference signal; selecting, based on the strength of each of the received reference signals, a primary CBRS FWA tower base station from the plurality of CBRS FWA tower base stations; establishing, by the CBRS CPE base station, a wireless communications link connection with the CBRS FWA tower base station selected as the primary CBRS FWA tower base station; reserving, by the CBRS CPE base station, an amount of spectrum for communicating with one or more auxiliary CBRS FWA tower base stations. |
| US10813099B2 |
Radio bearer configuration method and system
The base station serves includes: a sending unit, configured to send a request message to a second network device, where the request message is used to enable the second network device to generate a first configuration for a bearer of a user equipment UE, and a type of the bearer is type 2 or type 3; and a generating unit, configured to generate a second configuration for the bearer when it is determined that the type of the bearer is type 2, where the sending unit is further configured to: send the first configuration and the second configuration to the UE when it is determined that the type of the bearer is type 2, and send the first configuration to the UE. |
| US10813098B2 |
Method for transmission and reception in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor
A method for transmission and reception for a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprises the steps of: receiving group information of a serving cell and neighboring cells and uplink/downlink configuration information for each group; and transmitting or receiving a signal to or from the serving cell, using the received group information of the serving cell and the neighboring cells and the uplink/downlink configuration information for each group, wherein the group information includes information on groups of cells clustered according to beams to be used by each cell or beam groups to which the beams belong. |
| US10813096B2 |
Integrated circuit
A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein even when a SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the plurality of clusters are then mapped to respective discontinuous frequency bands (when C-SC-FDMA is used), the improvement effect of system throughput can be maintained, while the user throughput can be improved. In the apparatus, a DFT unit (210) subjects a symbol sequence of time domain to a DFT process, thereby generating signals of frequency domain. A setting unit (211) divides the signals input from the DFT unit (210) into a plurality of clusters according to a cluster pattern that is in accordance with an MCS set, an encoding size, or the number of Ranks occurring during MIMO transmissions, which is indicated in those signals input, and then maps the plurality of clusters to the respective ones of a plurality of discontinuous frequency resources, thereby setting a constellation of the plurality of clusters in the frequency domain. |
| US10813095B2 |
Location-matrix based user equipment band scanning
An electronic device configured to operate in two frequency bands having significantly different coverage areas receives coordinates associated with a smaller coverage area over a frequency band having a larger coverage area. The coordinates allow the electronic device to only power up the associated radio and search for a base station of the smaller coverage area when the electronic device is in the area described by the coordinates. This allows the electronic device to achieve significant power savings compared to even infrequent random polling to determine when a base station of the smaller coverage area radio system is available. |
| US10813094B2 |
Wideband beacon channel for frequency hopping systems
A method of operating a network on a plurality of frequency hopping channels is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a beacon on a beacon channel different from the frequency hopping channels and receiving a request from a node to join the network in response to the beacon. The method further includes adding the node to the network in response to the step of receiving and communicating with the node on the plurality of frequency hopping channels after the step of adding. |
| US10813092B2 |
Uplink signal starting position in a wireless device and wireless network
A wireless device may receive one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a licensed assisted access (LAA) cell. The wireless device may receive downlink control information (DCI) for the LAA cell. The DCI may comprise a first field and a second field. The first field may indicate uplink resources for an uplink subframe of the LAA cell. The second field may indicate a first starting position in a plurality of starting positions in the uplink subframe. The first starting position in the uplink subframe may be determined, at least, based on a sum of a listen-before-talk (LBT) period and a timing advance value. The wireless device may generate one or more transport blocks employing the DCI. The wireless device may transmit the one or more transport blocks in the uplink resources starting from the starting position of the uplink subframe. |
| US10813090B2 |
Resource configuration method and device
Provided are a resource configuration method and device. The method includes: assigning frequency-domain resource blocks (RBs) in a system to one or more sub-channels to form a sub-channel configuration in the system, where each of the RBs is included in only one sub-channel; and determining a unique sub-channel index for each sub-channel, and instructing one or more sub-channels, through the sub-channel index, the RBs included in the instructed one or more sub-channels to carry control information and/or data information of a user equipment. The solution solves the problem of large overheads incurred by indicating configured time-domain/frequency-domain resources in a V2V communication system and reduces overheads incurred by indicating configured time-domain/frequency-domain resources. |
| US10813086B2 |
Bearer mobility and splitting in a radio access network-based, 3rd generation partnership project network having an integrated wireless local area network
A wireless local area network (WLAN) point-to-point communications link between an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network node B (eNB) and a user equipment device (or simply UE) is identified by UE/eNB media access control (MAC) identifiers on a per UE or per data radio bearer (DRB) basis for offloading cellular data from a long term evolution (LTE) link to the WLAN point-to-point communications link. A wireless local area network tunneling protocol (WLTP) includes packet formats and network protocol stack arrangements to support functions facilitated by the WLAN point-to-point communications link, such as, for example, identification of control and data traffic messages, DRB identification for WLTP packets, quality of service (QoS) delay and packet loss measurement, support of bearer splitting, and support of a general framework for offloading cellular traffic at different depths of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network protocol stack. |
| US10813083B2 |
System and method for auto-detection of WLAN packets using STF
A system and method of auto-detection of WLAN packets includes selecting a first Golay sequence from a first pair of Golay complementary sequences associated with first packet type, each Golay sequence of the first pair of Golay complementary sequences being zero correlation zone (ZCZ) sequences with each Golay sequence of a second pair of Golay complementary sequences associated with a second packet type, and transmitting a wireless packet carrying a short training field (STF) that includes one or more instances of the first Golay sequence. |
| US10813079B2 |
Paging signal transmitting method, paging signal receiving method, device and system
The present disclosure discloses a paging signal transmitting method, a paging signal receiving method, a device and a system, and relates to the field of communication. The paging signal transmitting method includes: generating a paging signal by an access network device, and transmitting the paging signal to a terminal by the access network device simultaneously using n scanning beams on n sub-bands, wherein the scanning beams that correspond to the respective sub-bands have different beam scanning areas, and n is a positive integer greater than 1. In examples of the present disclosure, n scanning beams are used by the access network device to simultaneously perform the scanning, which reduces the beam scanning period required for completely scanning the cell to be 1/n of the corresponding beam scanning period of the single scanning beam. In this way, the wake-up duration configured to the terminal is reduced, and the time when the terminal is in the dormant state is further increased, which is thereby beneficial to the terminal to save power. |
| US10813078B2 |
Satellite paging efficiency
A base station computer that includes a processor and memory storing instructions executable by the processor is described. The processor may be programmed to: determine a geographic position of a user terminal (UT); store the position in the memory; determine to page the UT; correlate a satellite beam based on the position; and page the UT via the satellite beam. |
| US10813077B2 |
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, communication system and methods for group paging and grouping communication devices based on various criteria
An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured when data is to be transmitted to a communications device, to transmit a control message providing an indication that the infrastructure equipment intends to transmit a paging message to the communications device, and providing an indication of communications resources of a shared channel on which the paging message is to be transmitted. The paging message includes an indication that the communications device should establish a connection with the infrastructure equipment to receive the data from the infrastructure equipment. The communications device is one of a group of communications devices, configured to receive the control message, sub-divided into sub-groups of communications devices. The control message can include an indication of one of the sub-groups which should receive the paging message to be transmitted in the communications resources of the shared channel identified by the control message. |
| US10813074B2 |
Systems and methods for managing resource utilization in a network of moving things, for example including autonomous vehicles
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for managing resource utilization in a network of moving things, for example including autonomous vehicles. |
| US10813073B2 |
Determining emitter locations
First information corresponding to a radio signal received at a first sensing device from a candidate location is obtained. Second information corresponding to a radio signal received at a second sensing device from the candidate location is obtained. A first relationship between the first sensing device and the candidate location and a second relationship between the second sensing device and the candidate location are determined. A first inverse and a second inverse of respectively the first and second relationships are obtained. A first estimate of the radio signal at the first sensing device is determined from the first information and the first inverse. A second estimate of the radio signal at the second sensing device is determined from the second information and the second inverse. Energy emitted from the candidate location is measured based on the first estimate and the second estimate. |
| US10813069B2 |
Techniques and apparatuses for using different timing advance values for different numerologies
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a timing advance (TA) command that includes a timing value for calculating a timing offset to be applied to adjust a timing of an uplink transmission; determine a numerology to be used to calculate the timing offset from the timing value; and calculate the timing offset using the timing value and the numerology, wherein the timing value corresponds to different timing offsets for different numerologies. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10813067B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordinating resources
A method for coordinating resources among a plurality of operating networks, including a first operating network and a second operating network performed at a coordination node, which may be a distributed coordination node in the first operating network or a centralized coordination node. The method comprises obtaining a first resource pattern for the first operating network and a second resource pattern for the second operating network. The first resource pattern is coordinated with the second resource pattern such that the first and second operating networks can conduct communications on different resource blocks when the first operating network is synchronized with the second operating network. The method also comprises determining whether the first operating network is synchronized with the second operating network. If it is determined that the first operating network is not synchronized with the second operating network, the method further comprises adjusting at least the first resource pattern. |
| US10813066B2 |
Systems and methods for synchronizing multiple electronic devices
Embodiments are provided for syncing multiple electronic devices for collective audio playback. According to certain aspects, a master device connects (218) to a slave device via a wireless connection. The master device calculates (224) a network latency via a series of network latency pings with the slave device and sends (225) the network latency to the slave device. Further, the master devices sends (232) a portion of an audio file as well as a timing instruction including a system time to the slave device. The master device initiates (234) playback of the portion of the audio file and the slave devices initiates (236) playback of the portion of the audio file according to the timing instruction and a calculated system clock offset value. |
| US10813065B2 |
Method and device for signal detection
Disclosed are a method and device for signal detection. The method comprises: a terminal receives system configuration information of a second transmission point sent by a first transmission point; the terminal performs downlink signal detection on the second transmission point according to the system configuration information of the second transmission point. The terminal in embodiments of the present invention can obtain the system configuration information of the second transmission point from the first transmission point, thereby reducing the complexity of signal detection on the second transmission point by the terminal. |
| US10813062B2 |
Methods to communicate parameters across multiple component carriers of a carrier aggregation for sidelink communication
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may select one or more of the component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation, and may transmit a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) on the one or more selected CCs. The UE may encode the PSBCH to include a plurality of parameters related to the sidelink operation, wherein the plurality of parameters are to be propagated across all of the CCs of the plurality of CCs for the sidelink operation. The UE may transmit one or more physical sidelink shared channels (PSSCHs) in accordance with the carrier aggregation, and further in accordance with the plurality of parameters propagated across the plurality of CCs. |
| US10813060B2 |
Reference power headroom report
A method and apparatus are provided for generating and reporting a reference power headroom report (PHR) for New Radio (NR). A user equipment (UE) decides to report a reference power headroom (PH) for at least one carrier frequency in a transmission time interval (TTI). The UE determines at least one of an index (j) of a target received power of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) to be transmitted in the TTI and a path loss scaling factor, an index (qd) of a reference signal used for measuring path loss for the carrier frequency, or an index (l) of a power control process used for the carrier frequency. The UE then calculates the reference PH based on one or more of the determined at least one index, and reports, in the TTI, a PHR including the reference PH for the carrier frequency. |
| US10813059B2 |
Power control method and apparatus, terminal, and network device
A power control method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal, power control information, where the power control information is information used to control a transmit power used by the first terminal when the first terminal communicates with a second terminal; determining a target transmit power based on the power control information; and sending first data to the second terminal based on the target transmit power. A first communication link is established between the first terminal and the second terminal. In the present disclosure, the following prior-art problem is resolved: In a relay or D2D communication scenario, a base station does not configure, for a specific terminal, a transmit power used by the terminal during D2D communication. Therefore, transmit powers used by different terminals during D2D communication are indicated to the different terminals, and a power control effect is improved. |
| US10813054B2 |
Feedback transmission techniques in coordinated clusters of transmission reception points
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques for multiple transmission reception points (TRPs) in a cluster may coordinate scheduling and communications with a user equipment (UE). Different TRPs may allocate uplink resources for one or more UEs within a coordinated cluster to transmit feedback information. A first TRP may provide a first set of resources that one or more associated UEs may use to transmit acknowledgment (ACK) feedback to indicate successful receipt of a downlink transmission of the first TRP, and one or more other TRPs of the coordinated cluster may provide a second set of resources that the one or more UEs may use to transmit negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback to indicate that a downlink transmission of the first TRP was lost. The second set of resources may include non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) resources. |
| US10813051B2 |
Power management method and terminal device
A power management method and a terminal device are provided, so as to prevent an ongoing service from being affected because of power saving. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first operation, where the first operation is used to invoke a first application program; querying, by the terminal device, an association relationship between a power range and an application program, so as to determine whether the first application program to be invoked in response to the first operation is an available application program associated with a power range to which current remaining power of the terminal device belongs; and skipping invoking, by the terminal device, the first application program if the first application program is not an available application program associated with the power range to which the current remaining power belongs. |
| US10813047B2 |
First wireless communication terminal, second wireless communication terminal, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and recording medium
A first wireless communication terminal includes a first communicator, a second communicator, a first memory, and a processor. When first time information is received by the second communicator, the processor switches a state of the first communicator from first state to a second state at a first switching time calculated on the basis of the first time information. The processor switches the state of the first communicator from the second state to the first state at a second switching time calculated on the basis of the first time information. The first time information is information regarding a next scanning time indicating a time at which scanning is to be next performed by a second wireless communication terminal. |
| US10813044B2 |
Access type selection in a 5G network
This disclosure relates to techniques for selecting an access for transmitting messages on a 5G network. An access may be selected based on determined conditions in relation to one or more network policies and a message may be transmitted on the selected access. |
| US10813043B2 |
System and method for communicating wireless transmissions spanning both licensed and un-licensed spectrum
Performing wireless transmissions over a unified air interface that span portions of both the primary band and the complementary band may provide improved throughput and spectral efficiency in next generation networks. Wireless transmissions spanning both the licensed and unlicensed spectrum carry data in different frame formats over the respective primary and complementary bands. For example, frames communicated over the primary band may have a different channel structure (e.g., different size, placement, orientation, etc.) than frames communicated over the complementary band. Wireless transmissions spanning the licensed and unlicensed spectrum may also utilize different access schemes and/or waveforms over the respective primary and complementary bands. Embodiment unified air interfaces may be dynamically configurable via software defined radio (SDR) signaling instructions. |
| US10813042B1 |
Dynamic roaming partner prioritization based on service quality feedback
Dynamic roaming partner prioritization based on service quality feedback may be provided. First, a server associated with an enterprise may receive performance data and location data for each of a plurality of service provider networks from a plurality of end use devices associated with the enterprise. Next, the server may assign a ranking to a plurality of service providers by location based upon information. The information may comprise the received performance data and the location data corresponding to each of the plurality of service provider networks. The server may then push the ranking to a first end use device. |
| US10813031B2 |
System and method for relaying information
A system for relaying information comprising a plurality of communication devices, each communication device having means to transmit, receive and store relay information; a server operable to receive relay information and synchronize relay information when a connection between each communication device and the server is established; wherein at least one communication device is operable to broadcast relay information for asynchronous exchange of relay information when another communication device is within vicinity of at least one communication device. |
| US10813026B2 |
Communication device and method for inter-system handover for a user equipment (UE)
Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method and a device, which are used for inter-system handover of UE, so that a connection can be established between a source application management unit and a target application management unit, thereby effectively improving communication efficiency. The method in the embodiments of the present application includes: obtaining, by a network device, a source system identifier of a source application system and/or a target system identifier of a target application system; and sending, by the network device, the source system identifier to a target application management unit, or sending the target system identifier to a source application management unit, so that a connection is established between the source application management unit and the target application management unit, and the source application management unit and the target application management unit communicate with each other. |
| US10813021B2 |
Method and device for resource configuration in handover
A technique relating to resource configuration in a wireless communication network. A terminal device in the wireless communication network receives information about supplemental resource from a source cell. Then the terminal device determines a time interval, in which the supplemental resource is available to the terminal device, in a transition period of a handover from the source cell to a target cell based on a timer associated with a random access procedure in the handover. In this way, the terminal device may use the supplemental resource during the handover. |
| US10813018B2 |
Secondary node change signaling in future radio networks
The invention refers to a transfer of a User Equipment context from a source secondary network node (110A) to a target secondary network node (110B) that is different than the source secondary network node, wherein the UE (105) is served by a master network node (120) and the source secondary network node (110A), the source secondary network node (110A): transmitting a first message to the target secondary network node (110B), the first message comprising a handover request, receiving a second message comprising configuration data of the target secondary network, and after receiving the second message, transmitting to the master network node a third message comprising the configuration data of the target secondary network node; the invention further referring to a master network node (120): receiving a first message from the source secondary network node, the first message comprising a request to initiate a transfer of the UE context from the source secondary network node to the target secondary network node, in response to the request, transmitting a second message to the target secondary network node, and receiving a third message from the target secondary network node, the third message comprising configuration data of the target secondary network node. |
| US10813017B2 |
Communication state transition methods and apparatuses
The present disclosure discloses a communication state transition method. The method comprises: receiving, by a user equipment, information of one or more candidate cells from a current cell; measuring, by the user equipment, the one or more candidate cells when the user equipment is in a RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state to obtain measurement results; and building up, by the user equipment, a connection with a desired cell instead of a resident cell to transit from the RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state to a RRC_CONNECTED state after receiving a paging message, wherein the desired cell is selected by the user equipment from the one or more candidate cells based on the measurement results. The present disclosure also discloses a communication state transition apparatus. |
| US10813016B2 |
Measurement method for wireless communication network, base station, and terminal
A measurement method for wireless communication networks, a base station and a terminal are provided. The method includes transmitting measurement configuration information to a terminal, wherein the measurement configuration information includes measurement object configuration information carrying a differentiation indication usable to differentiate a measurement object type; receiving a measurement result transmitted by the terminal after the terminal measures a determined measurement object which is determined according to the differentiation indication by the terminal, the measurement object type includes a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) cell configured with LAA frequency bins, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell configured with LTE frequency bins, or a MulteFire cell configured with MulteFire frequency bins; and the differentiation indication is an Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number. |
| US10813014B2 |
Receiving a periodic, wideband synchronization signal in a narrowband receiver
A radio network device, having a narrowband receiver and operative in a wireless communication network, exploits the periodicity of transmission of network sync signals by iteratively receiving a plurality of frequency-offset portions of the sync signal, and then assembling the portions to recreate the entire sync signal. The recreated sync signal is then processed to attempt network detection and synchronization. In some embodiments, frequency/time compensation may be applied to the received and stored sync signal portions, prior to their combination, to compensate for uncertainty in the frequency drift (and time drift due to frequency error) of the sync signal location. |
| US10813004B2 |
Control information exchange system
A control information exchange system includes a sender device coupled to a receiver device and including a sender device application that periodically generates and transmits control packets that are directed to the receiver device. A control packet engine in the sender device receives a first control packet from the sender device application, performs a hashing operation on the first control packet to generate a first hash value, stores the first hash value in a sender device database, and transmits the first control packet to the receiver device. When the control packet engine subsequently receives a second control packet from the sender device application, it performs the hashing operation on the second control packet and, in response that hashing operation generating the first hash value, it transmits the first hash value to the receiver device to indicate the second control packet was duplicative of the first control packet. |
| US10813002B2 |
Capillary device charging
When a capillary network device connects to user equipment and the user equipment establishes or modifies a bearer to support traffic from the capillary device, the user equipment may request that the network provide some indication that the user equipment will not be charged for the traffic. The network may indicate to the user equipment that the flow is sponsored or that the user equipment will otherwise not be charged for the flow. Existing messages between a UE/GW, P-GW, PCRF, and an application server (AS) may be modified and new messages may be used so that the user equipment can request a guarantee of sponsorship or of non-charging and so that the AS may indicate to the user equipment that the flow is sponsored. The messaging can also be used by user equipment on its own behalf. |
| US10813001B1 |
Multicast messaging based on distance estimation of network devices
A wireless network has a transmitting node that can send a multicast message over the wireless network to a plurality of receiving nodes. Each of the receiving nodes, on receipt of the multicast message, can estimate, based on the receipt of the multicast message, a distance between the transmitting node and the receiving node. If the distance is within a certain distance range from the transmitting node, the receiving node implements a delay of a predetermined amount of time before retransmitting the message to its neighboring nodes. If the distance is beyond that range, the message is retransmitted without delay. All nodes within the distance range implement the same delay before retransmission, however, they may also implement an additional, randomized delay to allow nodes to transmit in several discrete time slots, thereby avoiding or minimizing data collisions with other nodes' transmissions of the message. |
| US10812999B2 |
Method and apparatus for reporting radio bearer loss information
A method for reporting radio bearer loss information is provided in an embodiment of this invention. The method comprises: receiving a User Equipment UE Context Release Request message or a Release Access Bearer Request message or an Iu interface release request message all carrying a release cause value; and if the release cause value indicates an abnormal release, reporting radio bearer loss information to a gateway while preserving non-GBR bearers. With the method and apparatus of embodiments of this invention, not only bearer reporting can be realized, but also problems caused by the release of Non-Guaranteed Bandwidth non-GBR bearers can be prevented. |
| US10812995B2 |
Optimized network selection
Methods and systems are described herein for optimized selection of wireless communications networks when multiple wireless communications networks are available to or for selection by a wireless communications device. A wireless communications device may select an optimal network on a per-application and/or per-transmission basis based on one or more policies defined and managed by the device and/or based on dynamic selection of a wireless network based on one or more probed network characteristics (e.g., latency, cost of traffic, data security, etc.). When a state of the device satisfies conditions specified by the policies managed and enforced on the device (e.g., in an enterprise mobility management system), then the wireless network may be selected as defined by the applicable policy. However, when the state of the device does not match an existing policy, then wireless network selection may be based on the dynamic probing of the various networks to determine a preferred wireless network. |
| US10812990B2 |
Client steering
Steering clients between access points (APs) or other sources of wireless signaling is contemplated. The client steering may be used to supplant or augment roaming capabilities of the clients with independent steering decisions made at the APs such as by utilizing information shared between the APs to generate a steering threshold for use in assessing whether clients should be steered from one AP to another. |
| US10812987B2 |
System and method for virtual radio cell
In particular, systems and methods according to present principles configure physical eNodeB to have multiple virtual eNodeBs, where each virtual eNodeBs corresponds to a particular PLMN. Thus, each PLMN has its own virtual eNodeB which is hosted on a common shared physical eNodeB. |
| US10812984B2 |
Devices, methods, and systems with dynamic spectrum sharing
Devices, methods, and systems with dynamic spectrum sharing. In one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a software-defined radio, a spectrum sensing sub-system, a memory, and an electronic processor. The software-defined radio is configured to generate an input signal, and wirelessly communicate with one or more radio nodes using a traffic data channel and a broadcast control channel. The spectrum sensing sub-system is configured to sense local spectrum information from the input signal. The electronic processor is communicatively connected to the memory and the spectrum sensing sub-system and is configured to receive the local spectrum information from the spectrum sensing sub-system, receive spectrum information from the one or more radio nodes, and allocate resources for the traffic data channel based on the local spectrum information and the spectrum information that is received from the one or more radio nodes. |
| US10812975B1 |
Methods and systems for blockchain smart contract in Hotspot 2.0 network for user authentication while roaming
Methods and systems of user authentication for roaming access to a wireless communications network, using blockchain, is described. A wireless access point (WAP) can provide roaming connectivity to a Wi-Fi network for a mobile device, for example at a public hotspot. The disclosed WAP is blockchain-enabled, allowing connectivity to a blockchain network. Accordingly, when a WAP receives a connection request to the Wi-Fi network, the WAP can execute a smart contract in the blockchain to determine whether a user of the mobile device is authenticated for roaming access to the Wi-Fi network. In some cases, the smart contract verifies that service providers of the mobile device and the Wi-Fi network have a roaming agreement. Also, the smart contact can verify that the user is authenticated by the service provider of the mobile device. In some cases, the WAP device functions in accordance with a Hotspot 2.0 (HS2) networking standard. |
| US10812973B2 |
System and method for communicating with provisioned security protection
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a security parameter provisioned for the UE, wherein the security parameter is secured using a first security key, after receiving the security parameter, communicating with the first device, wherein the communication with the first device is secured using the first security key, and performing a mobility related procedure in accordance with the security parameter provisioned for the UE, wherein performing the mobility related procedure includes triggering the mobility related procedure with a second device, deriving a second security key in accordance with the security parameter, the second security key is usable in the mobility related procedure, and securing at least one message of the mobility related procedure using the second security key. |
| US10812971B2 |
Service-based security per data network name in mobile networks
Techniques for providing service-based security per data network name in mobile networks (e.g., service provider networks for mobile subscribers) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for service-based security per data network name in mobile networks in accordance with some embodiments includes monitoring network traffic on a service provider network at a security platform to identify a new session, wherein the service provider network includes a 5G network or a converged 5G network; extracting network name information for user traffic associated with the new session at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new session based on the network name information. |
| US10812969B2 |
System and method for configuring a wireless device for wireless network access
This document describes a system and method for configuring a second wireless device to access a wireless network using a first wireless device whereby one-round key exchange protocol is adopted to share the wireless network's configuration data with the second wireless device in an efficient and secure manner. |
| US10812967B2 |
Wireless field devices having embedded device description data
A method of automatically providing a device description (DD) file for a wireless field device wirelessly coupled at least in part to a wireless device manager (WDM) that is coupled to a process controller in a process control network of an industrial processing facility (IPF). The wireless field device is provided with a sensor or an actuator, a controller, a transceiver and antenna, and with the DD file embedded in its memory. Responsive to a triggering event, the WDM automatically sends a read request to the wireless field device for reading the DD file. Responsive to the read request, the wireless field device transmits DD data for the DD file to the WDM wirelessly across at least a portion of a path to the WDM. The WDM receives and uploads the DD file. |
| US10812966B2 |
Method of configuring parameters for a base station
The application provides a method, apparatus and system of configuring parameters for a base station. A network controller receives a registration request from a newly added base station. The network controller obtains wireless configuration parameters for the base station, and sends the wireless configuration parameters to the base station. The wireless configuration parameters are broadcasted by the base station to one or more terminal equipments, and are used by a terminal equipment when it sends a connection request to the base station. |
| US10812965B2 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting device persona
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may obtain operational capability and state information for at least one communication devices, and provide a usage profile to the communication devices to enable each to adjust a group of device personas, each controlling a function of a group of functions performed by one of the group of communication devices. The system may generate a first device persona based on presence information, operational capability information, other usage profiles of the group of communication devices, and state information, wherein operation of a second communication device of the group is based at least in part on the first device persona. A conflict may be identified between a first function and another function of the group of functions, based on an adjustment to the first device persona and the system may communication with the second communication device to resolve the conflict. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812964B2 |
Address assignment for initial authentication
A mobile device may transition between Extended Service Set (“ESS”) networks while maintaining the same internet protocol (“IP”) address while transitioning. The transition may occur seamlessly, such that a consumer never loses the network connection despite transitioning between networks. The mobile device may receive an IP address from a pool of addresses, such that the mobile device can keep that IP address as it is transitions between networks that each have access to the pool. The assignment of the IP address to the mobile device is from the pool of IP addresses rather than from the AP. |
| US10812962B2 |
Aligning measurement gaps and discovery signals
According to some embodiments, a method in a network node of a wireless network for aligning discovery reference signal (DRS) occurrences comprises determining a first DRS occurrence configuration that comprises a schedule for transmission of a first series of DRS occurrences. The method further comprises determining a first discovery measurement timing configuration (DMTC) that comprises a schedule for receiving DRS occurrences that is aligned with a first subset of DRS occurrences of the first series of DRS occurrences. The method further comprises determining a second DMTC that comprises a schedule for receiving DRS occurrences that is aligned with a second subset of DRS occurrences of the first series of DRS occurrences, wherein the second subset of DRS occurrences is different than the first subset of DRS occurrences. The method further comprises communicating first DMTC to a first wireless device and the second DMTC in a second wireless device. |
| US10812960B2 |
Emergency communications system for vehicle
An emergency communication system for a vehicle. The system includes a drone docking station configured to be mounted to a vehicle. An aerial drone is configured to be docked to the docking station and released from the docking station when the vehicle is disabled and/or a driver is incapacitated at a location that is out of range of communication with emergency authorities. |
| US10812956B2 |
Electronic device enabling NFC communication
An electronic device includes an NFC unit configured to enable near field communication (NFC) with at least one NFC device, a network communication unit configured to communicate with at least one network device, a controller configured to control the NFC unit and the network communication unit to exchange data between the at least one NFC device and the at least one network device. |
| US10812953B2 |
Communication control device
A vehicular communication control device includes: a communication packet generator generating a vehicle information packet indicating a vehicle traveling state; a transmission processor transmitting the vehicle information packet to a peripheral vehicle in a predetermined transmission cycle; a road information acquisition unit acquiring forward road information including a road connection point position at which a host vehicle traveling road is connected to another road; and a positional relationship determination unit determining, based on the forward road information, whether a remaining distance to the road connection point is equal to or smaller than a predetermined cycle change distance. The transmission processor: sets a predetermined first cycle as the transmission cycle when the remaining distance is larger than the predetermined cycle change distance; and sets a second cycle shorter than the first cycle as the transmission cycle when the remaining distance is equal to or smaller than the cycle change distance. |
| US10812945B1 |
Tracking device presence detection and reporting by access points
A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location. |
| US10812942B2 |
Mobile tag sensing and location estimation
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for estimating a location of a tag are disclosed. One method includes identifying a physical shape of a structure or characteristics of the structure, sensing a condition of the structure, generating a first set of weighted likelihoods based on the physical shape of the structure or characteristics of the structure, wherein the first set of weighted likelihoods includes a weighted likelihood of the tag being at each one of a plurality of grid points within the structure, generating a second set of weighted likelihoods based on the sensed condition of the structure, wherein the second set of weighted likelihoods includes a weighted likelihood of the tag being at each one of the plurality of grid points, generating a combined set of likelihoods based on the first set of weighted likelihoods and the second set of weighted likelihoods, and estimating a location of the tag based on the combined set of likelihoods. |
| US10812936B2 |
Localization determination for mixed reality systems
To enable shared user experiences using augmented reality systems, shared reference points must be provided to have consistent placement (position and orientation) of virtual objects. Furthermore, the position and orientation (pose) of the users must be determinable with respect to the same shared reference points. However, without highly sensitive and expensive global positioning system (GPS) devices, pose information can be difficult to determine to a reasonable level of accuracy. Therefore, what is provided is an alternative approach to determining pose information for augmented reality systems, which can be used to perform location based content acquisition and sharing. Further, what is provided is an alternative approach to determining pose information for augmented reality systems that uses information from already existing GPS devices. |
| US10812934B2 |
System and method for identifying associated subjects from location histories
Systems and methods to track the respective locations of subjects over time. The system identifies subjects who, over time, were co-located with one another suggesting they are associated with one another, and the pairs are analyzed. For each of the subjects, the system produces a vector that quantifies the subject's location history by including a respective weight for each combination of a time interval with a geographical area. The vectors are compared using a distance metric, and any pair of subjects whose vectors are sufficiently close are flagged as being an associated pair. The respective vector belonging to each subject is normalized to account for the total number of other subjects who were co-located with the subject. For each interval-area pair, the system may compute the frequency of the interval-area pair, and then divide each weight that corresponds to the interval-area pair by the frequency of the interval-area pair. |
| US10812932B1 |
Dynamic geofencing techniques for GPS enabled communication devices
Techniques are disclosed for managing a spontaneously created geofenced area among a plurality of communication devices communicable with a communication server. The communication server receives, from a location enabled first communication device, an instruction to create a geofence around itself. Upon receiving location data from the first and a location enabled second communication devices, the communication server compares the location data of the first and second communication devices to determine how close they are to one another. When the first and second communication devices are within a predetermined distance of one another, the communication server creates a geofence around the first communication device. The communication server will then periodically poll and receiving updated location data for the first and second communication devices. The communication server then recalculates the geofence boundary based on the location of the first communication device. The communication server also notifies the first communication device any time the second communication device ventures beyond the boundary of the geofence. |
| US10812928B1 |
Audio service design for operating systems
In one embodiment, an audio service executing on a computing device performs a method including receiving, from one or more applications, a number of world-locked audio objects, where each of the world-locked audio objects is associated with a coordinate within a three-dimensional environment; identifying a first subset of the world-locked audio objects and a second subset of the world-locked audio objects, where the first subset includes a number of world-locked audio objects and the second subset includes one or more of the world-locked audio objects that are excluded from the first subset; generating a spherical harmonic object based on the second subset of world-locked audio objects and their associated coordinates; and sending data associated with the first subset of world-locked audio objects and the spherical harmonic object to an audio driver configured to render audio for simultaneous output. |
| US10812925B2 |
Audio processing device and method therefor
An input unit receives input of an assumed listening position of sound of an object, which is a sound source, and outputs assumed listening position information indicating the assumed listening position. A position information correction unit corrects position information of each object on the basis of the assumed listening position information to obtain corrected position information. A gain/frequency characteristic correction unit performs gain correction and frequency characteristic correction on a waveform signal of an object on the basis of the position information and the corrected position information. A spatial acoustic characteristic addition unit further adds a spatial acoustic characteristic to the waveform signal resulting from the gain correction and the frequency characteristic correction on the basis of the position information of the object and the assumed listening position information. The present technology is applicable to an audio processing device. |
| US10812924B2 |
Control apparatus configured to control sound output apparatus, method for controlling sound output apparatus, and vehicle
A control apparatus for controlling a sound output apparatus is provided. The control apparatus includes a specifying unit configured to specify an aspect of sound that is being generated in a space, and a control unit configured to control the sound output apparatus so as to output sound information in an aspect that is different from the specified aspect while sound is being generated in the space. |
| US10812923B2 |
Immersive media with media device
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812918B2 |
Communication channel between a remote control and a hearing assistive device
A remote-control unit (10) for controlling a hearing assistive device (20) by sending a control signal with instructions as an acoustic signal, has an input transducer (14), an output transducer (15), and a processor (11) adapted for setting the volume of the output from the output transducer (15). The processor (11) is adapted for activating the input transducer (14) for receiving environmental sound, analyzing the environmental sound, determining and setting the volume of the output from the output transducer (15) based on the environmental sound, and outputting the control signal at the set volume via the output transducer (15). |
| US10812914B2 |
Multistage tactile sound device
A tactile sound device in proximate contact with a user, comprising a multistage arrangement of vibrotactile materials to impart visceral sensations to a user. The device imparts a physical sensation via a multistage arrangement of vibrotactile materials embodied in a wearable or seated configuration, in response to a wired or wireless signal input. |
| US10812910B2 |
Inverted motor transducer with front spider
An electrodynamic transducer includes a rear frame defining an open frame interior, and a front frame enclosing the open frame interior and attached to the rear frame, the front frame including a center hub disposed about a central axis of the transducer. A movable diaphragm is positioned within the open frame interior and operably connected to the rear frame. A magnet assembly is disposed forward of the diaphragm and coupled to the center hub, the magnet assembly defining a magnetic air gap annularly disposed about the central axis. A voice coil is disposed in the magnetic air gap surrounding the magnet assembly and operably connected to the diaphragm. A first spider is coupled between the voice coil and the rear frame behind the diaphragm, and a second spider coupled between the diaphragm and the front frame and disposed forward of the diaphragm. |
| US10812906B2 |
System and method for providing a shared audio experience
A system and method providing a shared audio experience that include analyzing at least one audio stream that is associated with at least one application that is executed on at least one portable device. The system and method also include determining a plurality of audio elements associated with the at least one audio stream based on the analysis of the at least one audio stream. The system and method further include controlling at least one audio source to provide the shared audio experience. |
| US10812903B2 |
Remote device configured as automatic controller for audio device
A remote device includes or is configured as an automatic remote control system or device that detects at the remote device in an environment a sound level of audio output from a device. A desired sound level is identified from the detected sound level. The remote device dynamically detects in the environment a current sound level of the audio output. The detecting of the current sound level occurs subsequent to the identifying the desired sound level. The remote device compares the current sound level to the desired sound level, and generates a volume control signal in response to a result of the comparing. The remote device automatically controls, using the volume control signal, a volume of the device to continually maintain at the desired sound level the current sound level detected in the environment. |
| US10812898B2 |
Sound collection apparatus, method of controlling sound collection apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A sound collection direction is decided based upon an area of an object in a captured image obtained by image capturing of a periphery and a sound collection target position input as a position of a sound collection target. A noise direction is decided based upon an arrangement of the object in the captured image. A sound collected from the periphery is separated into a sound in the sound collection direction and a sound in the noise direction, and noise canceling on the sound in the sound collection direction is performed using the sound in the noise direction. |
| US10812894B2 |
Portable communication device and method of operating the same in covert operation mode
A portable communication device operating in a covert mode including an electronic processor that detects a presence of a wireless audio accessory. The portable communication device receives and transmits audio data to the wireless audio accessory. The electronic processor monitors a signal quality of the wireless link and a continued presence of the wireless audio accessory and determines whether the portable communication device is operating in a covert operation mode. Responsive to determining that the portable communication device is operating in the covert operation mode and determining, via the monitoring, that the signal quality of the wireless link has fallen below a threshold or that the wireless audio accessory is no longer present: receiving, at the portable communication device, subsequent audio data, recording the subsequent audio data, and refraining from outputting the subsequent audio data via a speaker of the portable communication device. |
| US10812893B2 |
Arm for napeband-style earphone system
Various implementations include an arm for a napeband-style earphone system and a related earphone system. The arm has sections with distinct stiffness in order to flex over the top of a user's pinna for placement of an earphone proximate the ear. |
| US10812892B1 |
Wearable device and power saving method for wearable device
A wearable device and a power saving method are proposed. The wearable device includes a sensor and a first processing unit. The sensor has a buffer. The first processing unit is coupled to the sensor. The first processing unit in a first hibernate mode is woken up after receiving a first signal, wherein the first processing unit includes an interrupting module. The interrupting module makes the first processing unit enter the first hibernate mode after commands, in response to the first signal, the sensor to start sensing so as to generate sense data, wherein the sensor wakes up the first processing unit from the first hibernate mode based on an amount of the sense data exceeding a threshold of the buffer, and the first processing unit enters the first hibernate mode after processing the sense data. |
| US10812889B2 |
Headset on ear state detection
A method and device for detecting whether a headset is on ear. A probe signal is generated for acoustic playback from a speaker. A microphone signal from a microphone is received, the microphone signal comprising at least a portion of the probe signal as received at the microphone. The microphone signal is passed to a state estimator, to produce an estimate of at least one parameter of the portion of the probe signal contained in the microphone signal. The estimate of the at least one parameter is processed to determine whether the headset is on ear. |
| US10812886B2 |
Earpiece
An ear unit for stably fitting in an ear includes a first surface facing inwardly toward the ear, a second, opposite surface facing outwardly from the ear and an outer circumferential surface formed between the first and second surfaces. The outer circumferential surface is shaped as a decremental curve. The distance between the ends of the decremental curve is approximately equal to the distance between a first cavity formed under the tragus of the ear and second cavity covered by the lower node of the antihelix of the ear. The first surface is provided with a curvature that provides a contact surface that substantially conforms to the concha, providing an improved attachment, thereby enabling the ear unit to fit closely against the concha when the ear unit is positioned into the ear. |
| US10812884B2 |
Hanging speaker system
A speaker system broadly comprises a plurality of speaker assemblies each including a speaker housing, an input circuit, a low range speaker, and a higher-range speaker. The input circuit receives audio signals from a sound system or other controller and actively or passively sends the audio signals to the speakers. The low-range speaker is positioned in the upper section and the higher-range speaker is positioned in the lower section. Each speaker assembly is configured to be suspended from an elevated structure and spaced from the other speaker assemblies within a listening area with each speaker assembly generating low frequency soundwaves and higher-frequency soundwaves. This reduces or eliminates out-of-phase crossover frequency wave cancellation effects within the listening area. The speaker housings are compact while allowing the low-range speaker and higher-range speaker to effectively produce and project desired soundwaves from the suspended speaker housing into the listening area. |
| US10812882B2 |
Fixed wireless point-to-point mesh engineered network deployment framework
Novel tools and techniques for point-to-point network service provisioning and mesh network transitioning are provided. A system includes a fiber injection node, host mesh network radio, and a first node. The first node may comprise a remote wireless transceiver in communication with the host wireless transceiver, a first mesh network node transceiver configured to communicate with other mesh network node transceivers, a processor, and non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions executable by the processor. The first node may be configured to establish a point-to-point wireless connection to the host wireless transceiver of the fiber injection node, and provision access to the service provider network to the first customer premises. The first node may further be configured to establish a mesh connection to a secondary mesh network node associated with a second customer premises, and provision access to the service provider network to the second customer premises. |
| US10812881B2 |
Circuit for connecting a local network to an optical fiber that might convey light signals complying with differing optical communication standards
A connection circuit arranged to connect at least one piece of electrical equipment (12) to an optical fiber (13) that might convey light signals of different wavelengths, the connection circuit comprising a wavelength multiplexer (16) having an upstream port (17) for connection to the optical fiber and a plurality of downstream ports (18, 19), a plurality of optical-electrical interfaces (24, 25) each compatible with at least one optical communication standard and each having both an optical port (26) connected to one of the downstream ports of the wavelength multiplexer and also an electrical port (27), an electrical processor component (35) having a communication port (36) via which the electrical processor component is arranged to emit and/or receive light signals (TXD, RXD), and a switch (45) arranged to connect the communication port of the electrical processor component selectively to an electrical port of one of the optical-electrical interfaces. |
| US10812876B2 |
Radio-frequency identifier tunable by dielectric inserts
A radio-frequency identifier tunable by dielectric inserts (3), includes a fixed part (92) and a key (9), the fixed part (92) of includes an indication element (91) and a decoding device (8), which includes an electrical supply unit (84), an evaluation and control unit (83), a decoding device (82) and a control element (81), herein the decoding device (8) is connected to a receiver (7), which includes an antenna (71), an input amplifier (72) and a block (73) of filters and circuits. The decoding device (8) is further connected with a receiver (6), which includes an antenna (61), an output amplifier (63) and a signal generator (62). The key (9) includes at least one carrier (32) connected with at least one insert (3) having at least one additional dielectric block (20) modified on its surface or at least one opening (200) formed inside the insert (3). The dielectric block (20) includes an additional dielectric block (21). |
| US10812875B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating information associated with a lapsed presentation of media content
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, facilitating access to a synopsis of a missed portion of a media program, identifying subject matter in a segment of content in the media program that has not been presented, determining a particular time for presenting the summary according to the subject matter in the segment of content, and initiating a presentation of the summary at the particular time. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812874B2 |
System and method for temporally adaptive media playback
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for temporally adaptive media playback. The method for adaptive media playback includes estimating or determining an amount of time between a first event and a second event, selecting media content to fill the estimated amount of time between the first event and the second event, and playing the selected media content possibly at a reasonably different speed to fit the time interval. One embodiment includes events that are destination-based or temporal-based. Another embodiment includes adding, removing, speeding up, or slowing down selected media content in order to fit the estimated amount of time between the first event and the second event or to modify the selected media content to adjust to an updated estimated amount of time. Another embodiment bases selected media content on a user or group profile. |
| US10812872B2 |
Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method for providing emergency alert information
The present technology relates to a transmitting device, a transmitting method, a receiving device, and a receiving method, which are capable of improving immediacy and flexibility of an alert.A transmitting device generates transmission data in which an index associated with predetermined process-related information in a relevant table in which process-related information related to an output process of outputting an alert on a receiving side is registered in association with an index is included in data of a physical layer, the relevant table being included in data of a higher layer higher than the physical layer and supplied, and transmits the transmission data. The receiving device obtains a relevant table, receives transmission data, and acquires an index included in data of a physical layer from the transmission data. Then, the receiving device executes an output process corresponding to process-related information associated with the index included in the data of the physical layer in the relevant table. For example, the present technology can be applied in a case where an emergency alert is provided in television broadcasting. |
| US10812871B2 |
Analyzing internet protocol television data to support peer-assisted video-on-demand content delivery
A video-on-demand (VOD) server in an Internet protocol television (IPTV) network with a network of set-top boxes includes IPTV operational data and an analysis module that selects a content item. The VOD server divides the content item into sequential chunks, divides the chunks into stripes, pre-populates set-top boxes in a peering network with at least one stripe from each chunk, receives a request for the content item, and directs each set-top box to sequentially stream its stripes. A method includes selecting a content item based upon IPTV operational data, dividing the content item into sequential chunks, dividing the chunks into stripes, pre-populating set-top boxes in a peering network with at least one stripe from each chunk, receiving a request for the content item, and directing each set-top box to sequentially stream its stripes. |
| US10812870B2 |
Yield optimization of cross-screen advertising placement
The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content across multiple different devices. The system permits targeting of advertising content to consumers on TV and mobile devices that can be operated from within a multi-channel video programming distributor's environment. The system is able to use hard and soft constraints to come up with a number of possible targets for an advertising campaign and can then provide tools for optimizing those targets. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which a user can adjust various constraints and optimize a distributor's revenue yield from advertising. |
| US10812863B2 |
Character based search and discovery of media content
Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs. |
| US10812858B2 |
Temporary modifying of media content metadata
A method includes accessing, at a first client device associated with a first user account on a media hosting service, a content item provided by the media hosting service. The method further includes receiving an input of a first user associated with the first user account to modify metadata of the content item. A modification of the metadata comprises at least one of an obscuration, removal, or replacement of the metadata. The method also includes obtaining an identifier of the content item. The identifier of the content item indicates the modification of the metadata of the content item. The method furthermore includes sending, to a second client device associated with a second user account on the media hosting service, the identifier of the content item to cause the content item to be presented on the second client device with the modified metadata. |
| US10812857B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing latency of a video transmission system
A source electronic device may include first interface circuitry that transmits a data packet over a wireless link to a sink electronic device to present the data packet as part of a video stream. The source electronic device may also include encoder circuitry that encodes the data packet for transmission through the wireless link and a feedback path communicatively coupling the encoder circuitry directly to the first interface circuitry. The feedback path may transmit one or more feedback signals from the first interface circuitry to the encoder circuitry, bypassing a network layer, an encoder driver, or both. The encoder circuitry, the first interface circuitry, or both may adjust one or more transmission parameters associated with transmitting the data packet over the wireless link, based on the one or more feedback signals. |
| US10812856B2 |
Dynamic advertisement insertion
In one embodiment, a set-top box records playback content. The playback content comprises at least one frame that displays first media content and a first advertisement simultaneously. Moreover, the first advertisement is associated with an expiry date. The set-top box receives a selection to view the playback content on a viewing date and determines that the viewing date is past the expiry date associated with the first advertisement. When the viewing date is past the expiry date associated with the first advertisement, the set-top box updates the playback content by replacing the first advertisement in the at least one frame of the playback content with a second advertisement. The set-top box communicates the updated playback content to a display device. The updated playback content comprises at least one frame that displays media content and the second advertisement simultaneously. |
| US10812853B2 |
User classification using a remote control detail record
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for receiving, by an analytics computing engine, a first remote control detail record (RCDR) of a remote control device that is communicatively coupled to a set-top box, the first RCDR including sensor data from one or more sensors of the remote control device, the RCDR being generated in response to a first video stream provided by the set-top box; processing, by the analytics computing engine, the first RCDR to determine a classification of a user associated with the sensor data, the classification of the user including one or more demographic categories; determining, by the analytics computing engine, a second video stream based on the classification of the user; and communicating, by the analytics computing engine, the second video stream to the set-top box. |
| US10812850B2 |
Method and apparatus to deliver a personalized media experience
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising encoding, by a server comprising a processor, media content to generate a plurality of media content files each having a filename and a uniform resource locator. The method also comprises receiving a channel request from a client media processor and generating a playlist. The playlist is mapped to the requested channel, and includes a filename and uniform resource locator for a personalized content file that is not included in the media content files. The method further comprises receiving a file request from the client media processor in accordance with the playlist, multicasting the plurality of media content files so that the client media processor receives the plurality of media content files, and delivering the personalized content file to the client media processor to enable presentation of personalized content in accordance with the playlist. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812846B1 |
Methods and apparatuses for a caching recommendation engine
A Caching Recommendation Engine in one embodiment improves the delivery quality of IP services by performing real-time reinforcement learning of the content distribution network behavior, and continuously computing caching recommendations by leveraging novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to maximize the content distribution network caching efficiency and performance. |
| US10812841B2 |
Apparatus for encoding and transcoding which applies multi-format ultra-high definition high-efficiency codec
Provided is an apparatus for encoding and transcoding which applies a multi-format ultra-high definition high-efficiency codec, the apparatus being capable of encoding and transcoding, in one codec apparatus, uncompressed ultra-high definition broadcast content and compressed ultra-high definition broadcast content as ultra-high definition digital broadcast signals, and also being capable of transmitting the encoded digital broadcast signals in various transmission formats such as ASI and IP streams. |
| US10812826B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a deterioration in image quality. The image processing apparatus includes a threshold value setting unit which sets a threshold value for identifying a feature of neighboring pixels of a current block in an intra prediction process in decoding of encoded data where image data are encoded according to a bit depth of the image data and a filtering processing unit which performs a filtering process on the neighboring pixels by using a filter according to the feature of the neighboring pixels identified by using the threshold value set by the threshold value setting unit. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus. |
| US10812823B2 |
Global motion vector video encoding systems and methods
Systems and methods for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding system used to encode image data are provided. In embodiments, the video encoding system includes a low resolution pipeline that includes a low resolution motion estimation block, which generates downscaled image data by reducing resolution of the image data and performs a motion estimation search using the downscaled image data and previously downscaled image data. The video encoding system also includes a main encoding pipeline in parallel with the low resolution pipeline that includes a motion estimation block, which determines a global motion vector based on data from the low resolution motion estimation block. The main encoding pipeline may utilize the global motion vector in determining a candidate inter prediction mode. |
| US10812820B2 |
Systems and methods for signaling and constraining a high dynamic range (HDR) video system with dynamic metadata
Provided are methods, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for processing video data by a video coding system that implements ST 2094-10. Video data can include at least two video signals, which can be displayed at the same time in different display regions of a video frame. In various implementations, various techniques can be used to determine an association between a set of color volume parameters and a video signal, and this association can be encoded into a bitstream. Upon decoding of the bitstream, the set of color volume parameters associated with a particular video signal can be used to compress the color volume of the video signal into a range that can be displayed by a particular display device. |
| US10812819B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes partition information of a block in a picture from a coded video bitstream. The partition information is indicative of a partition tree structure for a partition of the block into coding blocks. Then, the processing circuitry groups to-be reconstructed samples of the block into processing groups according to the partition of the block into the coding blocks. A shape of a combined region of a processing group is limited by constraints in the partition of the block into the coding blocks. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs the to-be reconstructed samples of the block by multiple pipeline stages that process the processing groups in a pipeline processing manner. |
| US10812809B2 |
Inter-plane prediction
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane. |
| US10812808B2 |
Intra prediction method and encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus using same
An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method includes the steps of: deriving a current prediction mode as a prediction mode of a current block; constructing neighboring samples of the current block with available reference samples; filtering the available reference samples; and generating predicted samples of the current block on the basis of the filtered available reference samples. The filtering step includes performing the filtering using the available reference sample located in the prediction direction of the current prediction mode and a predetermined number of available reference samples neighboring to the prediction direction of the current prediction mode. |
| US10812805B2 |
Inter-plane prediction
A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane. |
| US10812804B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method performing slice-based compression
Disclosed are an image processing device and an image processing method performing a slice-based compression. The image processing method includes applying a first compression method to some slices of a first frame image including first to N-th slices (N is an integer of 2 or greater) to generate an I-slice, applying a second compression method to the other slices of the first frame image to which the first compression was not applied to generate a plurality of P-slices, and transmitting less than N packets including the generated I-slice and the generated P-slices with respect to the first frame image. |
| US10812800B2 |
Arithmetic coding for information related to sample adaptive offset processing
An image coding method includes: performing context arithmetic coding to consecutively code (i) first information indicating whether or not to perform sample adaptive offset (SAO) processing for a first region of an image and (ii) second information indicating whether or not to use, in the SAO processing for the first region, information on SAO processing for a region other than the first region, the context arithmetic coding being arithmetic coding using a variable probability, the SAO processing being offset processing on a pixel value; and performing bypass arithmetic coding to code other information which is information on the SAO processing for the first region and different from the first information or the second information, after the first information and the second information are coded, the bypass arithmetic coding being arithmetic coding using a fixed probability. |
| US10812799B2 |
Method for encoding video
A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one time. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame. |
| US10812794B2 |
Method and apparatus of intra prediction in image and video processing
A method processes video data by intra prediction in a video coding system. In one implementation, the method receives input data associated with a current block in a current picture, wherein the current block is a non-square block and is coded or to be coded by intra prediction. The method then determines a first set of angular intra prediction modes for the longer side of the current block, wherein a number of the first set of the angular intra prediction modes is greater than a number of a second set of angular intra prediction modes for the shorter side of the current block. The method then determines a current intra prediction mode to derive an intra predictor for the current block, and encodes or decoding the current block according to the current intra prediction mode. |
| US10812791B2 |
Offset vector identification of temporal motion vector predictor
In one example, a method includes receiving, in a coded video bitstream and for a current prediction unit (PU) of a current picture of video data, a representation of an offset vector that identifies a block of a reference picture, wherein the offset vector is within a set of values that are not uniformly distributed. The example method further includes determining, based on the block of the reference picture identified by the offset vector, motion information for the current PU. The example method further includes reconstructing the current PU based on the determined motion information. |
| US10812786B2 |
Optical test apparatus and optical test method
According to one embodiment, an optical test apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system, and an image sensor. The first optical system is configured to pass a light ray of a first wavelength and having telecentricity on an object side for the light ray of the first wavelength. The second optical system is configured to pass a light ray of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The image sensor is configured to image an object based on the light ray of the first wavelength having passed through the first optical system and the light ray of the second wavelength having passed through the second optical system. |
| US10812785B2 |
Stereoscopic display device and parameter calibration method thereof
The invention provides a parameter calibration method, applicable to a stereoscopic display device including a camera. The parameter calibration method includes the following steps: displaying a virtual object for calibration; obtaining, by using the camera, a two-eye visual angle by which the virtual object for calibration is watched; calibrating a human eye parameter according to the two-eye visual angle, where the human eye parameter includes at least one of an interpupillary distance parameter and an eye relief parameter; and setting the stereoscopic display device according to the calibrated human eye parameter, such that the stereoscopic display device displays according to the calibrated human eye parameter. In addition, a stereoscopic display device using the parameter calibration method is also provided. |
| US10812783B1 |
Managing information display of a display system
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for displaying information. A display system comprises a display device with pixels, a lenticular lens system, a sensor system, and a controller. The lenticular lens system is located on the pixels in the display device. The sensor system is positioned to detect a position of eyes of an authorized user with respect to the display device. The controller determines an authorized viewing angle of each lenticular lens to the eyes of the authorized user in the lenticular lens system using the position of the eyes of the authorized user and turns on a set of the pixels such that the authorized user sees information at the authorized viewing angle. |
| US10812778B1 |
System and method for calibrating one or more 3D sensors mounted on a moving manipulator
This invention provides a system and method for concurrently (i.e. non-serially) calibrating a plurality of 3D sensors to provide therefrom a single FOV in a vision system that allows for straightforward setup using a series of relatively straightforward steps that are supported by an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). The system and method requires minimal data input about the scene or calibration object used to calibrate the sensors. 3D features of a stable object, typically employing one or more subobjects, are first measured by one of the image sensors, and then the feature measurements are used in a calibration in which each of the 3D sensors images a discrete one of the subobjects, resolves features thereon and computes a common coordinate space between the plurality of 3D sensors. Sensor(s) can be mounted on the arm of an encoderless robot or other conveyance and motion speed can be measured in setup. |
| US10812775B2 |
System and method for providing 360° immersive video based on gaze vector information
A system and method for providing immersive video based on gaze vector information. A gaze vector is obtained from a client device operating to display a 360° immersive video asset to a user, wherein each video frame comprises an array of tiles projected on a 3-dimensional (3D) display environment viewed by the user in which the user is immersed, the gaze vector defining a gaze direction in the 3D display environment where the user is viewing (i.e., a viewport) at any particular time. Angular separations between the viewport and remaining portions of the video frame are used in selecting different video qualities of the 360° immersive video asset such that the viewport comprises a higher video quality than the remaining portions when displayed by the client device. |
| US10812771B1 |
Methods, systems, and devices for adjusting image content for streaming panoramic video content
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image content over a communication network, determining a predicted viewpoint of a user associated with the image content, and adjusting the image content to equirectangular image content according to the predicted viewpoint. Further aspects can include downscaling the equirectangular image content according to a display capability of a mobile device resulting in a downscaled equirectangular image content, cropping the downscaled equirectangular image content resulting in a cropped equirectangular image content, and providing, over the communication network, the cropped equirectangular image content to the mobile device. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812769B2 |
Visualizing focus objects from video data on electronic maps
A computer implemented method includes receiving video data of objects in a geographic area. The video data includes location data indicating a location of the geographic area, focus data indicating areas of the video data focused on while viewing the video data. The method also includes identifying, using at least the focus data, a first object focused on while viewing the video data. The method then includes extracting an image of the first object from the video data. The method additionally includes determining, using the image and the location data, a second object corresponding to the first objection on a visual data map of the geographic area. The method further includes rendering an indicator of the first object at the second object in visual data map. |
| US10812759B2 |
Multimodal spatial registration of devices for congruent multimedia communications
Systems and methods are described for determining orientation of an external audio device in a video conference, which may be used to provide congruent multimodal representation for a video conference. A camera of a video conferencing system may be used to detect a potential location of an external audio device within a room in which the video conferencing system is providing a video conference. Within the detected potential location, a visual pattern associated with the external audio device may be identified. Using the identified visual pattern, the video conferencing system may estimate an orientation of the external audio device, the orientation being used by the video conferencing system to provide spatial audio video congruence to a far end audience. |
| US10812758B2 |
Online conference system with real-time document transaction platform
A computer-implemented online conferencing transactional platform system comprising an interaction module, a video-conferencing module, and a storage device may allow multiple participants in a video-conference to access, co-browse, collaboratively edit, and sign a transactional document. An interaction module fetches an image of a transactional document and a field identifier for an interactive transactional document element to be filled out from a remotely-connected secure signature API, and displays the image of the document, along with the interactive transactional document element on a webpage interface to a moderator and a signer end user in a video-conference. The interaction module receives a filled-out transactional document in an I-frame from the secure signature API, allowing the signer end user to sign the transactional document using a secure embedded signature process. |
| US10812754B2 |
Cooling system for a 360 degree camera
A 360 degree camera device that has a housing and cooling mechanism which manages heat created by the devices components and allows the device to continuously run for at least 24 hours. |
| US10812753B2 |
Display device, television receiver, and method for manufacturing strut
A display device is a display device 1 that includes a display unit main body that displays a video, two struts each of which has one end installed in the display unit main body, and a base on which both of the other ends of the two struts are installed, and includes a reversed installation prevention unit that prevents the two struts from being reversely installed in the display unit main body and the base, in which the two struts are formed by folding metal plates, which have the same shape, in opposite directions with respect to front and back sides and providing column shapes having different shapes with fold line directions as longitudinal directions. |
| US10812752B2 |
Method and apparatus to present multiple audio content
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying first and second users and identifying first and second locations of the first and second users in a presentation area, determining first and second media content associated with the first and second users where the first media content includes first audio content and first video content and where the second media content includes second audio content, presenting the first video content at a display device during a particular time period, adjusting the first audio content resulting in adjusted first audio content, presenting the adjusted first audio content directed to the first location during the particular time period, and presenting the second audio content directed to the second location during the particular time period. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812751B2 |
Dynamically switching to/from a first network during audio playback over HDMI/ARC
Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed for dynamically switching between communication networks during audio streaming over a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)/Audio Return Channel (ARC) interface of a display device. A media device is configured to implement the dynamic switching. The media device, coupled to the HDMI/ARC interface, receives an audio stream over the HDMI/ARC interface and transmits the audio stream to speakers on a first network. The media device determines that the first network is overloaded and identifies a clean channel of a second network for transmitting the audio stream without an overload condition. The media device switches itself and connected speakers to the second network for a clean audio stream. The media device switches itself and connected speakers to the first network when there is no longer a need to be on the second network or when there is benefit to be on the first network. |
| US10812748B2 |
Apparatus, system, and moving object
An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of circuits arranged correspondingly to the plurality of pixels, and an output line connected to the plurality of circuits. Each of the circuits generates a signal by converting an analog signal at a first conversion rate and a signal by converting, at a second conversion rate, the analog signal used for generating the signal converted at the first conversion rate. The circuit has a signal obtaining unit configured to obtain a difference signal corresponding to a difference between a signal converted at the first conversion rate and a signal converted at the second conversion rate. |
| US10812747B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device
A solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate on which a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices are arranged in an imaging device region in a two-dimensional array and a stacked body formed by stacking a plurality of layers on the semiconductor substrate. The stacked body includes an in-layer lens layer that has in-layer lenses each provided at a position corresponding to each of the photoelectric conversion devices. The solid-state imaging device further includes a planarization layer that is stacked on the in-layer lens layer and an on-chip lens layer that is an upper layer than the planarization layer and that has on-chip lenses each provided at a position corresponding to each of the photoelectric conversion devices. The in-layer lens layer has a plurality of structures at a height equal to a height of the in-layer lenses, the plurality of structures being provided on an outside of the imaging device region. |
| US10812745B2 |
Bit depth reduction of image pixels
The bit depth of the pixels in a camera image are reduced. In one embodiment, the number of pixels for each of a set of multiple bit intensity values is counted. A pixel intensity value with a lowest count is selected and a mapping function is generated that combines the pixels with the lowest count with pixels having an adjacent pixel intensity value. This is repeated until a total number of pixel intensity value counts is reduced to a predetermined number. A reduced bit depth image is generated using the predetermined number of pixel intensity value counts by assigning a new pixel intensity value to each of the pixels using the mapping function and the reduced bit depth image is sent to an image analysis system. |
| US10812742B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining whether a photodiode saturates and outputting a digital value representing a charge from that photodiode based on that determination
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a photodiode, a charge storage unit, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit. In a first mode, the ADC circuit can compare a first voltage representing a quantity of the overflow charge stored at the charge storage unit against a first ramping voltage to generate a first decision; and obtain, based on the first decision output, a first digital value. In a second mode, the ADC circuit can compare a second voltage representing a quantity of residual charge stored in the photodiode against a second ramping voltage to generate a second decision, and obtain, based on the second decision, a second digital value. The ADC circuit can determine, based on one of the first decision output or the second decision output, whether the photodiode saturates, and output one of the first digital value or the second digital value to represent an intensity of incident light. |
| US10812735B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
An image processing device and a method that enable removal of reflection component light from images captured from various directions are provided. The image processing device includes: an image input unit that acquires at least three types of images formed with polarization images of different polarizing directions or non-polarization images; an angle input unit that outputs reflection angles that are the angles between the image capturing directions of the acquired images and the plane direction corresponding to the normal direction of the reflecting surface, to an intensity transmittance and intensity reflectance calculation unit; a calculation unit that calculates the respective intensity transmittances and the respective intensity reflectances of S waves and P waves, using the reflection angles; and a reflection component separation unit that removes the reflected light component from the images acquired by the image input unit, using the respective intensity transmittances and the respective intensity reflectances of the S waves and P waves. These processes enable removal of reflected light components from captured images having various reflection angles. |
| US10812725B2 |
Display control apparatus and control method of the same
Included are a display control unit configured to display a live view image being imaged by an imaging unit, and to display a display item indicating a degree of in-focus, superimposed on the live view image; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to a degree of in-focus in a focus detecting region; and a changing unit configured to change display positions and display forms of a first indicator and second indicator that indicate a degree of in-focus by a positional display relationship with each other, and a third indicator that indicates a focus position, based on information acquired by the acquiring unit, the first indicator and the second indicator and the third indicator are included in the display item. |
| US10812720B2 |
Image stabilization for electronic devices such as cameras
An electronic device includes an image sensor configured to receive light that is incident on the electronic device through a lens and generate image data, a gyroscope configured to generate rotation motion data of the electronic device, and an image stabilizer configured to generate translation motion data of the electronic device based on the image data received from the image sensor and to generate a stabilized image by compensating for a motion of the electronic device while capturing the image, such as vibration of a handheld device. The stabilized image is generated based on filtered translation motion data obtained by performing a first filtering operation on the translation motion data and filtered rotation motion data obtained by performing a second filtering operation on the rotation motion data received from the gyroscope. |
| US10812717B2 |
Stabilizing video by accounting for a location of a feature in a stabilized view of a frame
The subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods and systems for stabilizing video. A computing system determines a stabilized location of a facial feature in a frame of video accounting for its location in a previous frame. The computing system determines a physical camera pose in virtual space and maps the frame into virtual space. The computing system determines an optimized virtual camera pose using an optimization process that determines (1) a difference between the stabilized location of the facial feature and a location of the facial feature when viewed from a potential virtual camera pose, (2) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and a previous virtual camera pose, and (3) a difference between the potential virtual camera pose and the physical camera pose. The computing system generates the stabilized view of the frame using the optimized virtual camera pose. |
| US10812716B2 |
Camera apparatus having OIS function and communications method thereof
A camera apparatus includes an optical image stabilizer (OIS) circuit including a control circuit configured to control data reading, and a digital circuit including a serial peripheral interface bus (SPI) master and configured to perform data processing using SPI communications in response to control of the control circuit to perform hand-shake correction. The camera apparatus further includes a navigation sensor including an SPI slave for communication with the SPI master and configured to provide corresponding data in response to a request from the OIS circuit. The control circuit is further configured to control communication using a single mode or a burst mode based on a preset SPI communications setting, and the digital circuit is further configured to read data from the navigation sensor using two frames based on a single SPI communications setting in a case of using the burst mode. |
| US10812712B2 |
Systems and methods for vehicle camera view activation
Systems and methods may include a camera mode circuit receiving input from a plurality of sensors, determining camera modes available for camera activation, selecting one of the available camera modes by using received input from the plurality of sensors, evaluating input received from the plurality of sensors to determine the current condition of the vehicle and selecting a camera mode based on the determine current condition of the vehicle, selecting one or more cameras from which images are to be displayed based on the selected camera mode and mapping images from the selected cameras to one or more displays within the vehicle, and displaying the images from the selected cameras according to the mapping in response to an activation event. |
| US10812709B2 |
Operation control of battery-powered devices
A power control system for controlling operation of a first battery-powered device positioned at a remote location from a camera. The power control system includes a receiving module, a retrieving module, a comparison module, and a transmission module. The receiving module is configured to receive at least one of a pan angle and a tilt angle of the camera indicative of a field of view. The retrieving module is configured to retrieve a position of the first battery-powered device. The comparison module is configured to compare the pan angle and the tilt angle with the position of the first battery-powered device, and determine whether the first battery-powered device is positioned within the field of view of the camera based on the comparison. The transmission module is configured to transmit instructions to control power consumption of the first battery-powered device, based on the determination. |
| US10812701B2 |
High-speed tag lens assisted 3D metrology and extended depth-of-field imaging
A method is provided for operating a tunable acoustic gradient (TAG) lens imaging system. The method includes: (a) providing a smart lighting pulse control routine/circuit (SLPCRC) that provides a first mode of exposure control corresponding to a points from focus (PFF) mode of the TAG lens imaging system and a second mode of exposure control corresponding to an extended depth of focus (EDOF) mode of the TAG lens imaging system; (b) placing a workpiece in a field of view of the TAG lens imaging system; and (c) periodically modulating a focus position of the TAG lens imaging system without macroscopically adjusting the spacing between elements in the TAG lens imaging system, wherein the focus position is periodically modulated over a plurality of focus positions along a focus axis direction in a focus range including a surface height of the workpiece, at a modulation frequency of at least 30 kHz. |
| US10812692B2 |
Aperture module and camera module including the same
A camera module includes an aperture module configured to be mounted on a lens module, the aperture module including a plurality of blades and being further configured to form various-sized aperture holes with the plurality of blades, and an aperture driving portion including a moving portion and a driving coil, the moving portion configured to be movable and including a driving magnet opposing the driving coil, the moving portion being directly or indirectly connected to the plurality of blades to enable the moving portion to move the plurality of blades. The moving portion is further configured to be movable in a fixed section in which the moving portion does not move the plurality of blades as the moving portion moves in the fixed section, and a driving section in which the moving portion moves the plurality of blades as the moving portion moves in the driving section. |
| US10812689B2 |
Personal display headset for mitigating user access to disallowed resources
There is provided a personal display headset for use upon a head of a user. The headset includes a user video display to display images viewable by the user with the headset worn upon the head adjacent a face of the user. The headset includes a display chamber defined by the user video display and the face of the user upon the headset being worn by the user. The headset includes headphones that have first and second ear cups, a first speaker disposed within the first ear cup, and a second speaker disposed within the second ear cup. A variety of electronic components may be included in the display chamber, in the ear cups and about the headset to mitigate against the user accessing unapproved resources. The headset may also be used in conjunction with an input device. Methods of use of the headset and input device are also provided. |
| US10812688B2 |
Imaging apparatus
In an imaging apparatus mounted in a vehicle, a housing containing an imaging module includes a first housing member having an opening and a first facing surface along a perimeter of the opening, and a second housing member disposed to cover the opening and having a second facing surface facing the first facing surface. The housing further includes an electrically conductive bonding member disposed between the first facing surface and the second facing surface and at least partially along the perimeter of the opening, and adapted to adhere to both the first facing surface and the second facing surface and electrically connect the first housing member and the second housing member. |
| US10812687B2 |
Wireless bridge to local devices on personal equipment system
Some embodiments are provided for providing a wireless bridge to local devices on personal equipment systems. Personal equipment systems can include wireless communication systems that allow external systems, users, or both to communicate with and access data from local devices on the personal equipment systems. Personal equipment systems are provided having one or more local devices coupled thereto and in wired communication with one another. Personal equipment systems can include a wireless system and local devices attached to a headgear system, the local devices being in wired communication with one another and in wireless communication with external systems. The wireless communication system is configured to establish a wireless connection with external systems for communicating with and accessing local devices that are in wired communication with each other. |
| US10812684B2 |
Color conversion table creation by adjusting output value of specific grid point in reference color conversion table and calculating prorogation to peripheral grid point
A color conversion table creation method includes creating a reference color conversion table using a color value of a color chart, and adjusting a color conversion table by adjusting an output value of a specific grid point corresponding to a predetermined input value in the created reference color conversion table, in which the adjusting the color conversion table includes an adjustment amount calculation step of calculating an adjustment amount of the output value of the specific grid point, a ripple amount determination step of determining a ripple amount when the calculated adjustment amount propagates with respect to a peripheral grid point existing in a vicinity of the specific grid point, and an application step of applying the determined ripple amount to the peripheral grid point in the color conversion table. |
| US10812682B2 |
Scan privacy tool and methods using sensors or control buttons
A multi-functional printing (MFP) includes a scan privacy tool to allow edits and changes to a scanned document image to remove or hide private information within a document. The scan privacy tool is enabled for jobs on the MFP device and launches when a job is run. The document is scanned and a scanned document image displayed on a display and edit interface of the scan privacy tool. Changes are made to the image using tools available through the scan privacy tool. The changes are applied to the scanned document image. The modified image is saved and transmitted to an engine in the MFP device to complete the job. An external input device, such as control buttons or a motion sensor device, is used to input instructions to the scan privacy tool in order to modify the scanned image. |
| US10812679B2 |
Picture data transmission method and device
A picture data transmission method and device are disclosed in the present invention. The picture data transmission method comprises: recoding a first picture to be transmitted, by a picture data sending terminal, to obtain a second picture, wherein the file size of the second picture is smaller than that of the first picture, and a quality difference between the second picture and the first picture is less than a pre-set threshold; and selecting one of the first picture and the second picture according to quality values of the first picture and the second picture and sending the selected picture to a picture data receiving terminal. According to the present invention, pictures can be recoded to obtain pictures with a small amount of data for data transmission, without affecting the picture quality, thereby saving network resources and reducing storage pressure. |
| US10812672B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium
An printing apparatus includes a printer configured to print an image on a printing medium, a network interface configured to receive, from an external device, a print job to be held, a memory configured to store the print job received by the network interface, and a user interface configured to accept, from a user, an execution instruction for the print job stored by the memory. In addition, a controller controls the printer to print based on the print job in accordance with the execution instruction accepted by the user interface, and a power controller performs control so that power is supplied to a predetermined device of the printer based on a reception of the print job by the network interface. |
| US10812669B2 |
Recognition system of person carrying away output matter of image forming apparatus, recognition method, and storage medium storing recognition program
A recognition system including: a specifier that specifies a person who approaches an image forming apparatus using predetermined user information; a memory that stores the person specified by the specifier; a recognizer that recognizes at least any of the stored persons as a candidate who carries away a recording medium on which an image is formed on the basis of a user's print job; and a notificator that notifies a message regarding carrying away of the recording medium on which the image is formed to the recognized candidate. |
| US10812667B1 |
Cloud-based scanning systems and remote image processing methods
A cloud-based document scanning system includes a cloud computing platform having a cloud computing application and a cloud storage system. The system further includes a scanning device communicatively coupled over a network to the cloud computing platform, the scanning device configured to: accept a set of documents; generate a set of digital image files corresponding to the set of documents; store the set of digital image files; and upload the set of digital image files directly to the cloud storage system. Upon receiving a request from the scanning device, the cloud computing application is configured to: access the set of digital image files; apply image processing operations to the set of digital image files in accordance with a plurality of image processing parameters, generate a portable document format document based on the processed image files, and send the portable document format document to a user-selected destination. |
| US10812666B2 |
Image processing system
In an image processing system, a multifunction printer carries out image reading or printing in accordance with processing execution condition information stored in a storage apparatus of a host PC. A storage apparatus of a client PC stores processing execution condition information. In a case where the client PC is connected to the host PC via the network, a control apparatus transmits the processing execution condition information stored in the storage apparatus to the host PC. The host PC stores the received processing execution condition information in the storage apparatus. |
| US10812662B2 |
Method and program product for electronic communication based on user action
A system, method and program product for electronic communication includes checking if a current called number of a subscriber is on a list of unsuccessful calls made by an onward caller. A determination is made that the current called number is on the list of unsuccessful calls. A calling route used to establish a connection between onward caller and subscriber is concluded as a low-quality route. A subscriber ID is extracted and included on the list of low quality routes. A request is made for a list of all possible routes for communication between onward caller and receiver user. A comparison 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 as an alternative route. An electronic communication between onward caller and receiving user is established using the alternative route. |
| US10812657B1 |
System and method for cadence matching at answering service or the like
A call from a caller to a called party is forwarded to an answering service. A cadence of the call is determined, and an agent is selected to answer the call. To select the agent, a cadence of the selected agent is determined, and the determined cadence of the selected agent is matched to the determined cadence of the call. In particular, the called party has a geographic location associated therewith, and the selected agent has a cadence that matches a cadence associated with the determined geographic location. Contact between the selected agent and the call is then effectuated. The matched cadence is expected to heighten a connection the caller perceives from the selected agent. |
| US10812648B2 |
Context-based notification
A device includes a context engine and a notification engine. The context engine determines a context indicator relative to received input while the notification engine selects, based on the context indicator and the received input, at least one type of notification from different types of notifications. A wearable electronic arrangement selectively communicates, and senses for different types of single user response to, at least a portion of the received input via the selected type of notification. The context engine receives feedback regarding the sensible different types of single user response to at least partially determine the context indicator. |
| US10812646B2 |
Portable terminal apparatus
A portable terminal apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, an operation input unit inputting a user operation, and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication by a wireless LAN, and at a time of startup from a sleep state, a remote control button is displayed on the display unit when a mutual communication with a predetermined access point can be performed in the wireless communication unit, and when the remote control button is selected, a remote control signal corresponding to the selected remote control button is transmitted. |
| US10812645B2 |
Handlebar systems and method
A handlebar system that provides a multi-functional handlebar component for a cycle or similar vehicle. The system includes a housing containing a battery, a handlebar mount configured to attach to the cycle, a subcomponent housing; an energy storage module mechanically coupled to the subcomponent housing; a user interface fixed to the subcomponent housing, and including a speaker, a microphone, and at least one manual input. The user interface is adapted to communicate a command from a user; a communication module fixed to the subcomponent housing and electrically coupled to the energy storage module, the communication module including a transceiver electrically coupled to the energy storage module. The transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one external communication network and a memory electrically coupled to the energy storage module. |
| US10812644B2 |
Enhanced calling systems and methods
Systems and methods described herein may present one or more enhanced communication features during a call. A destination identifier for a communication sent by a first device may be detected, the destination identifier being an identifier associated with a second device. A source identifier for the communication sent by the first device may be detected, the source identifier being an identifier associated with the first device. A connection between the first device and the second device may be established. By the connection, at least one call-enhancing element may be shared with the first device and the second device, the at least one call-enhancing element being associated with at least one of the source identifier and the destination identifier. |
| US10812640B2 |
Mobile terminal
The present disclosure discloses a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a display screen, a functional module and a rotating member, the housing defines a recess and a first engaging structure; the display screen is positioned in the housing; the rotating member is rotatably coupled to the housing, wherein the functional module is mounted on the rotating member, the rotating member comprises a second engaging structure cooperated with the first engaging structure, one of the first engaging structure and the second engaging structure is a curved slot communicated with the recess, the other one of the first engaging structure and the second engaging structure is a slider slidably engaged in the curved slot thereby enabling the rotating member to rotate according to an axis of the curved slot, such that the functional module is positioned in the recess or exposed from the housing. |
| US10812634B2 |
Methods and apparatus for communicating high efficiency control information
Methods, devices, and computer program products for traffic information signaling in a wireless communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes selecting, from a variable number of control fields, one or more control fields for inclusion in a frame. The method further includes generating the frame comprising the selected number of control fields, each control field comprising an end of control field, the end of control field storing an indicator indicative of an end of the selected number of control fields or a presence of another control field in the frame. The method further includes transmitting the frame. |
| US10812633B2 |
Information transmission method and apparatus and electronic equipment
Embodiments of this disclosure provide an information transmission method and apparatus and electronic equipment. The information transmission method apparatus is used for transmitting a network topology information frame (TI frame) of network topology information, the apparatus including: a transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit and/or receive a media access control (MAC) layer frame of a network protocol; the network topology information frame (TI frame) is loaded into a payload of the MAC layer frame. According to this disclosure, transmission modes of the network topology information may be made more flexible. |
| US10812632B2 |
Network interface controller with integrated network flow processing
A system includes network interface controller (NIC) and a host processor. The host processor may run a hypervisor or OS which may manage virtual network activity for virtual machines (VMs) and/or applications. The NIC may provide a physical function to the hypervisor to support network activity by the VMs and/or applications. Some VMs and/or applications on the network may bypass the hypervisor and access virtual functions from the NIC. The NIC may execute a configurable flow analyzer (CFA), which may perform flow processing operations on the network traffic. The CFA may access flow configuration and management parameters maintained by the hypervisor to control implementation of the flow processing operations. Performing the flow processing operations on the traffic for the VMs and/or applications bypassing the hypervisor or OS may extend management by the hypervisor or OS to these VMs and/or applications. |
| US10812631B2 |
Media converter
A media converter for transmitting data of a wired data network, transmitter, receiver for a media converter of this type, and method for transmitting data of a wired data network, in which a data signal is received via a first medium in accordance with a first network protocol and is converted into a sequence of bits that represents transmitted data on the physical layer of a second protocol, which is based on a different energy form that is present after conversion. A wireless transmission signal in a predetermined frequency band that is subsequently modulated using the sequence of bits, can subsequently be emitted and received on the receiving side as a wireless transmission signal in the predetermined frequency band, which is thereupon demodulated into a sequence of bits that represents data on the physical layer of the second protocol. After conversion of the sequence of bits into a data signal in accordance with the first network protocol, the signal is outputted via the wired data network. |
| US10812624B2 |
Firmware/software over the air (FOTA) scheduling for connected vehicles
In one embodiment, a service obtains wireless network connectivity data for a plurality of vehicles. The service clusters the plurality of vehicles into clusters based on the network connectivity data. The service determines an update schedule for the plurality of vehicles by assigning the clusters to timeslots of the schedule. The service pushes a firmware or software update to the vehicles according to the update schedule. |
| US10812622B1 |
Centralized automation system for service management
A system includes a management data store configured to store configuration information for a service and reboot information for a server that hosts the service. The system also includes an execution module configured to: generate (i) a configuration file and (ii) a reboot script and push (i) the configuration file and (ii) the reboot script out to the server. The configuration file includes a location of at least one management script (i) associated with the service and (ii) stored on the server. The execution module is configured to obtain a status of the service on the server by executing the at least one management script on the server. The system also includes an operator portal configured to create a first user interface for display to a user. The first user interface includes a name of the service, a name of the server, and the status of the service. |
| US10812618B2 |
Flight delivery architecture
Various systems and methods for flight delivery are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a processor to process a flight configuration delivery service instruction to schedule the flight by sending the flight to a service bus based on an identification of a temperature of the farm. The system may also include the service bus to alert the farm of the flight for the farm to consume, wherein the service bus returns a notification to the flight configuration deliver service for a farm that does not consume the flight. In an example, a memory stores, based on instructions from the flight configuration delivery service, an identification of the farm that did not consume the flight in the memory. |
| US10812617B2 |
Semantic information processing
A system for exchanging various forms of information between computer-executable agents. A computing device is configured to determine semantic data associated with each data object (DO) of a plurality of DOs. Each DO is associated with a location, and the semantic data describes the content of the associated DO. The computing device receives, from a first user computing device, a request for DO information and, in response to the request, provides DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the user computing device by (a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and/or (b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were previously transmitted. |
| US10812616B2 |
Transferring an exchange of content to a receiving client device from a client device authorized to transfer a content exchange to the receiving client device
Various client devices include displays and one or more image capture devices configured to capture video data. If a user is exchanging content with another user via a client device and is subsequently identified by a receiving client device via image data captured by an image capture device of the receiving client device, the client device transfers the exchanged content with the other user to the receiving client device. The receiving client device includes information identifying one or more other client devices authorized to transfer exchanged content to the receiving client device when the receiving client device receives a request from the client device. If multiple other client devices are within a threshold distance of the receiving client device, the other client devices transfer exchanged content to the receiving client device, which combines the content from different other client devices. |
| US10812613B2 |
Optimization of encoding cycles for object recovery feed
The disclosed embodiments relate generally to efficient data encoding and transmission. An encoding system determines an encoding interval at which to encode different groups of related data in a data structure. The encoding interval for each group encoded together optimizes the amount of newly received information that is encoded and transmitted in a continuous, repeating loop. |
| US10812611B2 |
Platform-independent application publishing to a personalized front-end interface by encapsulating published content into a container
Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for publishing an application to a web container. An example method for publishing an application to a web container may include establishing a channel of communication with a user device associated with an end user. The method may further include embedding a web container into a web portal associated with a plurality of applications. The method may include executing an application in a user session associated with the end user. The method may further include capturing images of a virtual screen associated with the application executed on the application server. After the capture, the method may continue with sending the images to the web container of the web portal running in a web browser of the user device. The web container may publish the images to the web browser to display the application as part of the web portal in the web browser. |
| US10812610B2 |
Desktop error repair tool
An apparatus includes a scanner and a resolution engine. The scanner detects first and second software exceptions. The scanner also determines that the first software exception occurred previously in a plurality of desktops and that the second software exception did not occur previously in the plurality of desktops. The resolution engine determines a first solution and a second solution for resolving the first software exception and that the first solution has a higher ranking than the second solution. The resolution engine also generates a software patch that implements the first solution and deploys the software patch. The resolution engine further determines a series of steps implemented to resolve the second software exception and records the series of steps to prepare a second software patch if the second software exception occurs again in the plurality of desktops. |
| US10812607B2 |
Method and device for pushing application message
A label of a message to be sent is detected as a message label for a non-real-time transmission. For a user device group associated with the message to be sent and based on a timely-response rate and a correction scheme, an optimal time period to respond to a message for each user device in the user device group is dynamically determined. Based on the optimal time period for each user device to respond to a message, the message to be sent is separately sent to a corresponding user device in the user device group. |
| US10812605B2 |
Message queue-based systems and methods for establishing data communications with industrial machines in multiple locations
Method, and corresponding system, for establishing data communications with, and instructing, industrial machines in multiple locations. The method includes generating, using a first application, one or more machine communication messages. Each machine communication message contains data produced by one of a plurality of machines located at a first location. An instance of the first application runs on a processor of each of the plurality of machines. The method further includes sending the machine communication messages to a first message queue via a local area network. The method further includes retrieving, using a first server at a remote location connected via a network, the machine communication messages from the first message queue; and extracting from the messages, at the remote location, the data produced by the plurality of machines. The sending of the machine communication messages and the retrieving of the machine communication messages are done asynchronously. |
| US10812603B2 |
Social media and location-based informed entertainment recommendations
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising: obtaining social media information associated with a user, wherein the social media information comprises historical social media information associated with the user and current social media information associated with the user; selecting, based upon the historical social media information, a selected personality type associated with the use; determining, based upon the selected personality type associated with the user, a candidate entertainment recommendation; determining, based upon the current social media information, whether the candidate entertainment recommendation should be provided to the user; responsive to determining that the candidate entertainment recommendation should not be provided to the user: determining, based upon the selected personality type associated with the user, an alternate entertainment recommendation; and providing to the user the second recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10812601B2 |
Method and system for signaling and radio connection optimization over a cellular network
A technique, to keep alive one or more radio connections over a cellular network in order to carry downloaded data packets sent in a burst mode, is disclosed. In burst mode the flow of the data packets has a pattern with repeating two types of periods, an active period and a silent period. During an active period a plurality of data packets are sent and during a silent period almost no data packets are sent. The technique is implemented by an intermediate network element (NE) that is configured to send, during the silent period, a keep-alive signal (KAS) toward a relevant CD. The KAS can be a TCP acknowledgement, for example. |
| US10812599B2 |
Method and system for creating virtual non-volatile storage medium, and management system
A method and a system for creating a virtual non-volatile storage medium, and a management system. The method is: receiving, by a CPU, a creation request message that is sent by a client and that is for creating a virtual non-volatile storage medium corresponding to a physical non-volatile storage medium, where the creation request message carries a blade server identifier; forwarding, by the CPU, the creation request message to a target blade server identified by the blade server identifier; and receiving, by the CPU, attribute information sent by the target blade server, and sending the attribute information to the client, such that the client creates, according to the attribute information, a virtual non-volatile storage medium that can be uniquely accessed by the target blade server. |
| US10812595B2 |
Remote control of a mobile communication device
According to a first aspect, there is provided a mobile communication device programmable into a slave mode for remote control by a master mobile communication device, the mobile communication device comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory including computer program code; and a communication port coupled to the processor the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the mobile communication device at least to: receive, through the communication port, a signal effected by the master mobile communication device to initialise remote control of the mobile communication device; establish an identity of the master mobile communication device in response to reception of the signal; determine whether the identity is registered in a database containing identities that are authorised to gain remote control of the mobile communication device; detect, upon successful identity determination, whether the signal is paired with an access code granting remote control of the mobile communication device; validate the detected access code; and grant remote control of the mobile communication device to the master mobile communication device after successful validation of the detected access code. |
| US10812590B2 |
System for generating distributed cloud data storage on disparate devices
A system is configured to allocate storage space on existing devices within the entity's networked system to create cloud storage space. In particular, unallocated space on computing devices, typically user devices, within an entity's network is utilized as a cloud data repository. Cloud data is indexed, divided into chunks, encrypted, and stored on numerous disparate endpoint devices connected to the network. Copies of cloud chunk data may be duplicated across multiple endpoint devices to allow for data redundancy, thereby ensuring cloud data uptime according to the availability needs of the entity. Cloud data may further be allocated to different devices based on regional data restrictions. In this way, the system provides an efficient and secure way to generate an internal cloud data storage repository within an entity's networked system. |
| US10812589B2 |
Storage architecture for heterogeneous multimedia data
Various embodiments for implementing a system and method for managing and querying semi-structured, heterogeneously-typed sensor data in a distributed environment are disclosed. Example embodiments include: enabling data communications between a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of physical data storage devices via an application programming interface (API) layer, a cache management layer, a server layer, and a storage layer; and receiving a data request from at least one of the plurality of compute nodes at the API layer, the data request including an identification of a topic of a dataset, the topic including a metadata file, a data file, and an index file, the index file including at least one pointer into the data file. |
| US10812588B2 |
Storage performance based on data placement
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for improved storage performance based on data placement. An identifier module generates a plurality of unique identifiers. Each of the unique identifiers is associated with a storage node of a storage cluster. A rank module ranks each of the plurality of unique identifiers in response to a received data item. The ranking of a unique identifier is based on one or more characteristics associated with the received data item. A storage module selects a unique identifier of the plurality of unique identifiers with a best ranking and stores the data item on a storage node associated with the selected unique identifier. |
| US10812584B2 |
Methods, devices and computer readable mediums for data synchronization
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for data synchronization. A method comprises in response to receiving, at a first processor, a first request to synchronize data, initiating, to a second processor, a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) operation for transmitting the data between a first cache in the first processor and a second cache in the second processor. The method further comprises in response to completion of the first RDMA operation, writing the data into a first persistent storage device coupled to the first processor. The method further comprises transmitting, to the second processor, a command to instruct the second processor to commit the data to a second persistent storage device coupled to the second processor. Moreover, the method further comprises detecting, from the second processor, an acknowledgement for the command, the acknowledgement indicating that the data is synchronized between the first and second processors. |
| US10812582B2 |
Management of applications across nodes using exo-clones
Examples disclosed herein relate to propagating changes made on a file system volume of a primary cluster of nodes to the same file system volume also being managed by a secondary cluster of nodes. An application is executed on both clusters, and data changes on the primary cluster are mirrored to the secondary cluster using an exo-clone file. The exo-clone file includes the differences between two or more snapshots of the volume on the primary cluster, along with identifiers of the change blocks and (optionally) state information thereof. Just these changes, identifiers, and state information are packaged in the exo-clone file and then exported to the secondary cluster, which in turn makes the changes to its version of the volume. Exporting just the changes to the data blocks and the corresponding block identifiers drastically reduces the information needed to be exchanged and processed to keep the two volumes consistent. |
| US10812580B2 |
Using resource timing data for server push
This patent document describes, among other things, methods and systems for determining which if any page resources a server might push to a client (using, e.g., an HTTP 2.0 server push mechanism). The approaches described herein improve web page load times by pushing page resources that a client is likely to need to render the base page, while reducing wasteful server pushes of resources that the client is unlikely to request from the server because, for example, they are already cached at the client. |
| US10812572B2 |
Cloud-based data sharing
A first device broadcasts an intent to share data with a second device, using a first communications protocol, The first device connects to a cloud server using a second communications protocol, and shares the data with the second device on the cloud server when the second device is connected to the cloud server. |
| US10812570B1 |
System for data consolidation across disparate namespaces
Embodiments presented herein provide systems and methods for unifying data that is stored in disparate namespaces. A system described herein receives an electronic request for data associated with an entity. The electronic request includes a first identifier of the entity in a first namespace. The system includes a digital relation that maps the first identifier to a primary identifier. The system determines additional identifiers that map to the primary identifier in the relation. The additional identifiers are associated with the entity in respective additional namespaces. The system retrieves a consolidated set of profile data associated with the primary identifier, including attributes of the entity within the first namespace and attributes of the entity within the additional namespaces. The system generates an electronic response to the electronic request based on the consolidated set of profile data and sends the response to an application that submitted the electronic request. |
| US10812568B2 |
Graphical user interface facilitating uploading of electronic documents to shared storage
In an end user application running on a computer, for the purpose of collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to store the currently accessed electronic document in shared storage if that electronic document has not yet been stored in shared storage. After the electronic document is stored in shared storage, the graphical user interface facilitates sharing of the electronic document with others. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring. |
| US10812565B2 |
Systems and methods to configure metadata
At least one server receives at least one signal representing a request for an initiation of the server for the installation and configuration of an application. The server connects with client(s) after receiving the signal and transmits at least one display image to the client such that the client can render the display image via a web interface, wherein the display image provides information regarding the server. The server receives an application installer, wherein the client is can use the web interface to facilitate transmission of the application installer. The server installs and configures the application based on at least one input received from the client, wherein the client is enabled to use the web interface to facilitate transmitting the input to the server. The server generates an image based on the application configuration and transmits the image to a data management system for storage until deployment. |
| US10812564B1 |
Preloading content for requesting applications
Methods for preloading content in one application for another application are provided. A request by an online content viewing application is received from a requesting application to preload content in the online content viewing application, and the content is loaded in the online content viewing application in response to the request. A display of the requesting application is switched to a display of the online content viewing application, and the loaded content is provided for display in the online content viewing application, in response to a user selection in the requesting application to display the content. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. |
| US10812560B2 |
System and method for packet transmission using segment routing
Embodiments enable clients to have read-write access to a stream where all other clients are aware of all changes being made to the stream. A pravega node can track the data that has been written to the stream. The clients can dynamically read the stream. A client among the clients can update the stream by sending a request to the pravega node that includes the update and a total length of the stream that was written to the stream at the time of the last read update by the client. If the total length of the stream received from the client matches the actual length of the stream maintained by the pravega node, the pravega node will update the stream. If not, a failure message can be sent to the client and the client can process more reads to the stream before making another attempt to update the stream. |
| US10812559B2 |
Just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content
Techniques are described for just-in-time variable adaptive encoding and delivery of media content. Fragments of media content are encoded at bitrates corresponding to available bandwidth of client devices. If the available bandwidth changes, the bitrate at which fragments are being encoded is adjusted to correspond with the changed bandwidth. |
| US10812556B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is communicable with a plurality of client apparatuses over the same network that are capable of buffering and reproducing data transmitted from a server by progressive download. The control unit is capable of regularly obtaining buffer time information indicating a buffer time that expresses an amount of data buffered by the plurality of client apparatuses using a time necessary for reproduction of the data. Further, the control unit is capable of determining a client apparatus whose buffer time is minimum among the plurality of client apparatuses as a priority apparatus to which the data should be preferentially transmitted. |
| US10812555B2 |
Scheduling segment data delivery in an adaptive media stream to avoid stalling
Methods, systems and devices are described to improve the performance of adaptive media streaming sessions. A media player device proactively requests segment data representing a media stream over multiple simultaneous network connections. Delivery of the requested segment data on each of the plurality of simultaneous connections is monitored, and subsequent requests for segment data are adapted based upon the monitored delivery of the requested segments on each of the plurality of simultaneous connections. |
| US10812550B1 |
Bitrate allocation for a multichannel media stream
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for bitrate allocation for a multichannel media stream are disclosed. Complexity values are determined for individual channels of a set of channels of a multichannel media stream. The complexity values are determined based (at least in part) on frames of the individual channels during a window of time. The multichannel media stream is associated with a maximum aggregate bitrate, and the individual channels are associated with minimum individual bitrates and maximum individual bitrates. Individual bitrates are determined for the individual channels based (at least in part) on the complexity values. The sum of the individual bitrates does not exceed the maximum aggregate bitrate beyond a predetermined threshold, and the individual bitrates fall between the minimum and maximum individual bitrates of the corresponding individual channels. The individual channels are encoded at bitrates approximating the corresponding individual bitrates and transmitted to one or more recipients. |
| US10812548B2 |
Apparatus and method for on-demand multi-device social network experience sharing
Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses for sharing an experience via a social network on demand are disclosed. A processor establishes a first video session with a mobile endpoint device of a user, the first video session is established after the mobile endpoint device is authenticated as being allowed to capture a video of a live event at a commercial venue, the first video session containing the video of the live event at the commercial venue that the user is attending, receives at least one social media connection of the user for receiving the video, sends a notification to each social media connection of the at least one social media connection that the video is available, receives a request from the at least one social media connection to access the video, and establishes a second video session with an endpoint device of the at least social media connection. |
| US10812546B2 |
Link-aware streaming adaptation
Technology to provide link aware streaming adaptation is disclosed. In an example, a mobile device can include one or more processors configured to: process a manifest file for an HTTP adaptive stream that is received at the mobile device from a node; determine a physical layer goodput of the mobile device with the node for the HAS; identify a segment throughput estimate for the HAS; and select a representation in the manifest file for a selected period based, on the physical layer goodput for the HAS and the segment throughput for the HAS. |
| US10812542B2 |
Method and device for function sharing between electronic devices
An electronic device and a method are provided. The electronic device includes a first service in response to a service request by a first electronic device, identifying at least one function relating to the first service, which is available in a second electronic device external to the first electronic device, and providing a second service relating to the service request on the basis of the at least one function. Other embodiments may be made. |
| US10812541B2 |
Actuation using collaboration models in an internet of things setting
Methods and arrangements for determining one or more actions needed to execute a task communicated to a first device in an Internet of Things. At a first device in the Internet of Things, there is received a communication associated with a task. A data store is consulted for data associated with the task, and thereupon there is determined the present capability of the first device for executing the task collaboratively with at least one other device in the Internet of Things. The at least one other device is communicated with, to assess capability for executing the task collaboratively with the at least one other device. There are thereupon determined one or more actions of the first device that need to be taken to execute the task. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. |
| US10812537B1 |
Using network locality to automatically trigger arbitrary workflows
Disclosed are various embodiments for using network locality to automatically trigger arbitrary workflows either by assertion or implication. In one embodiment, a communication is received from a client device via an external network host connected to an external network. The client device is configured to initiate the communication to the external network host on a repeated basis. The external network host is unreachable from an internal network. Access by the client device to at least one resource on the internal network is then disabled in response to receiving the communication. |
| US10812534B2 |
Service processing method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to example service processing methods and devices. In one example method, a request message for setting up a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) service for a user equipment (UE) in a packet switched (PS) domain is received by an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) core network device. The IMS core network device triggers a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) service of the UE after determining that the VoLTE service cannot be set up in the PS domain. |
| US10812528B2 |
Anti-phishing protection
Anti-Phishing protection assists in protecting against phishing attacks. Any links that are contained within a message that has been identified as a phishing message are disabled. A warning message is shown when the phishing message is accessed. The first time a disabled link within the phishing message is selected a dismissible dialog box is displayed containing information about how to enable links in the message. After the user dismisses the dialog, clicking on a disabled link causes the warning message to flash drawing the user's attention to the potential severity of the problem. The links may be enabled by the user by selecting the warning message and choosing the appropriate option. Once the user enables the links, future displays of the message show the links as enabled. |
| US10812527B2 |
Systems and methods for aida based second chance
Methods and systems are described in which a system provides a user interface to confirm whether to review or take an action associated with an untrusted email. A driver on a device monitors the startup of any processes. Responsive to monitoring, the driver detects an application process that was created that indicates than an application was launched, and notifies a user console about the creation of the application process. The user console determines if the application process is of significance, if so, it injects a monitor library into the process. Once injected into the process, the monitor library detects if the application process receives an action of a user to access a domain that is not identified as trusted. The monitor library notifies the user console of the user's URL-access request. |
| US10812520B2 |
Systems and methods for external detection of misconfigured systems
A computer-implemented method is provided for external detection of a vulnerable system coupled to a communication network. The method can include measuring communication traffic on the communication network to identify one or more domain names, which in turn can originate from server systems in the communication network. The method can further include identifying the domain names based on metadata from the domain names and/or the measured communication traffic, where each domain name has an associated property indicative of its vulnerability. The method can further include determining whether any one (or more) of the domain names is registered at a domain name registry and, if the domain name is not registered, registering the domain name. |
| US10812519B2 |
Cyber threat intelligence threat and vulnerability assessment of service supplier chain
Determining the cyber threat risk and vulnerability of an organization may be determined taking in to account the chain of service suppliers to the organization. |
| US10812515B1 |
System and method for anomaly detection in dynamically evolving data using hybrid decomposition
A computer program product for performing anomaly detection, a detected anomaly being indicative of an undesirable event, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: receiving data comprising a plurality m of multidimensional datapoints (MDDPs), each data point having n features; constructing a dictionary D based on the received data; embedding dictionary D into a lower dimension embedded space; and classifying, based in the lower dimension embedded space, an MDDP as an anomaly or as normal. |
| US10812512B1 |
Spectrum sensing falsification detection in dense cognitive radio networks
Systems and associated methods for detecting a set of spectrum sensing falsification (SSF) attacks in a geographic database (GDB) driven cognitive radio (CR) system. Viewing the GDB as a type of non-orthogonal compressive sensing (CS) dictionary, the composite power spectral density (PSD) estimate at a candidate CR is approximated by a small number of sensor nodes listed in the GDB. In a dense CR network, the PSD estimate at a CR may contain a composite mixture of spectrally overlapping signals. An implementation of an optimized, greedy algorithm orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) returns a set of sensor nodes which are suspected to be in the vicinity of the CR. A sufficient match between the PSD estimate reported by a candidate CR and the PSD that is sparsely approximated from the SNs in its area provides confidence (trust) metrics which may be used to detect potential SSF attacks. |
| US10812511B2 |
Method for processing a network service
A method for processing a network service supported by a network infrastructure allowing virtualization of network functions. The network service is made up of a sequence, called an initial sequence, of at least one virtualized network function processing an incoming stream. The method includes: detecting an anomaly relating to the at least one virtualized network function; on the basis of the anomaly, detecting and identifying a network attack targeting the network service; identifying, in the initial sequence, at least one virtualized network function impacted by the attack; modifying the initial sequence so as to circumscribe the attack in such a way that the incoming stream is routed towards at least one virtualized network function, called the curative function, carrying out a processing of the incoming stream, called the malicious stream, as well as of functions implemented by the at least one virtualized network function impacted by the attack. |
| US10812508B2 |
Performance tracking in a security information sharing platform
Example implementations relate to performance tracking in a security information sharing platform. For example, the security information sharing platform may enable sharing of security information among a plurality of users. A method of performance tracking in the security information sharing platform may include monitoring user behavior in the security information sharing platform, comparing the user behavior against a plurality of performance objectives in the security information sharing platform, and assigning a badge to a user among the plurality of users, for achievement of a performance objective among the plurality of performance objectives, based on the comparison. |
| US10812501B2 |
DGA behavior detection
Techniques for Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) behavior detection are provided. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for DGA behavior detection includes receiving passive Domain Name System (DNS) data that comprises a plurality of DNS responses at a security device; and applying a signature to the passive DNS data to detect DGA behavior, in which applying the signature to the passive DNS data to detect DGA behavior further comprises: parsing each of the plurality of DNS responses to determine whether one or more of the plurality of DNS responses correspond to a non-existent domain (NXDOMAIN) response. |
| US10812498B2 |
Playbook-based security investigations using a card system framework
Examples disclosed herein relate to playbook-based security investigations using a card system framework. Some of the examples enable receiving an indication that a playbook is selected for investigating a security alert object, the playbook comprising a plurality of cards, wherein a first object definition associated with the security alert object comprises a parameter, and wherein the playbook inherits a value of the parameter from the first object definition; causing a first card from the playbook to be displayed on a user interface, the first card comprising a first content tile that describes the security alert object; and causing a second card from the playbook to be displayed on the user interface, the second card comprising a second content tile that describes a second object, wherein a second object definition associated with the second object comprises the parameter inherited from the first object definition. |
| US10812493B2 |
Using smart groups for computer-based security awareness training systems
This disclosure describes embodiments of an improvement to the static group solution because all the administrator needs to do is specify the criteria they care about. Unlike static groups, where the administrator needs to keep track of the status of individual users and move them between static groups as their status changes, smart groups allows for automatic identification of the relevant users at the moment that action needs to be taken. This feature automates user management for the purposes of enrollment in either phishing and training campaigns. Because the smart group membership is determined as the group is about to be used for something, the smart group membership is always accurate and never outdated. The query that determines the smart group membership gets run at the time when you are about to do a campaign or perform some other action that needs to know the membership of the smart group. |
| US10812491B2 |
Differential security policies in email systems
A differential message security policy includes receiving information regarding activities of a user, determining a security risk for the user based on the activities of the user, and setting a security policy for the user based on the security risk. The security policy of the user may be modified based on a change in the security risk of the user or the security risk of the user exceeding a predetermined level. The security risk may be determined based on an aggregated scoring system that uses security variables related to the activities of the user. |
| US10812490B2 |
Permissions using blockchain
A network device receives a smart contract for permissions to access a service, wherein the smart contract is in an initial block for authorizations in a shared ledger. The network device receives, from an authorization server device, an update to the shared ledger, wherein the update is a proposed block in the shared ledger requiring validation. The network device stores, in a local memory, a copy of the shared ledger with the update, when the update is validated by the distributed consensus network. The network device receives, from a client device, an item request for an item associated with the service, wherein the item request includes a client identifier. The network device identifies if there is match of the client identifier and the item in the copy of the shared ledger and sends, to the client device, the item when there is match of the client identifier and the item. |
| US10812487B2 |
Certificate system for verifying authorized and unauthorized secure sessions
Systems, computer products, and methods are described herein for an improved secure certificate system for identifying potential authorized and unauthorized interactions between a web browser and a website. The certificate system utilizes stored certification requirements (e.g., pinned certification requirements, third-party certification requirement system, or the like), and compares the stored certification requirements with received certification requirements. The system may notify the user or prevent the interaction between the web browser and website when the stored certification requirements do not meet the received certification requirements (e.g., a threshold requirement of certificates to validate, validated certificates, or the like). The certificate system allows the interaction between the web browser and website when the stored certification requirements meet the received certification requirements and the website is verified based on the certification requirements. It should be also understood that the certificate system may also be utilized for interactions between dedicated applications. |
| US10812486B2 |
Utilizing smart data tags to track and control secure enterprise data
Aspects of the disclosure relate to utilizing smart data tags to track and control secure enterprise data. A computing platform may receive, from an enterprise user computing device, enterprise data. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine one or more tags to be applied to the enterprise data. Then, the computing platform may generate a smart data object based on the enterprise data received from the enterprise user computing device and the one or more tags determined to be applied to the enterprise data received from the enterprise user computing device. Next, the computing platform may send, to an enterprise data storage platform, the smart data object, and sending the smart data object to the enterprise data storage platform may cause the enterprise data storage platform to store the smart data object in a repository comprising a plurality of smart data objects maintained by the enterprise data storage platform. |
| US10812485B1 |
Wearable device-based user authentication
Various systems and methods for authenticating a user are described herein. A system comprises a processor subsystem; and a memory including instructions, which when executed by the processor subsystem, cause the processor subsystem to: receive at a server from a first user device, a first authentication token; receive at the server from a second user device, a second authentication token; authenticate the user based on the first and second authentication tokens; and establish a communication session from the server to the first user device when the user is authenticated. |
| US10812482B1 |
Permission vector access control with linear scaling factor
A permission vector comprising a plurality of permission sets is used to manage permissions to resources of a resource provider. Each of the plurality of permission sets may correspond to a different resource of the resource provider, wherein each resource of the resource provider has an orthogonal relationship to the other resources. Each permission set may include one or more permission elements that define permissions granted to a user for accessing a corresponding resource element of a resource. The permission vector may be used to determine whether to fulfill user requests submitted to the resource provider to perform an operation that includes accessing a set of requested resources. |
| US10812478B1 |
Methods and systems for verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication
Methods and systems are described for verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication. The system described uses contextual knowledge-based authentication. By verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication, the verification is both more secure and more intuitive to the user. For example, by relying on confidential and/or proprietary information, the system may generate verification questions, the answers to which are known only by the user. |
| US10812477B2 |
Blockchain-based enterprise authentication method, apparatus, and device, and blockchain-based authentication traceability method, apparatus, and device
One or more embodiments of the present specification provide a blockchain-based enterprise authentication method, apparatus, and device. The authentication method includes: receiving an enterprise authentication request, wherein the enterprise authentication request comprises to-be-authenticated enterprise information of an enterprise, to-be-authenticated identity information of a legal representative of the enterprise, and auxiliary authentication information; performing a first determination of whether the to-be-authenticated enterprise information matches with enterprise information stored in a first database; performing a second determination of whether the to-be-authenticated identity information matches with legal representative identity information stored in a second database; sending an obtaining request to a client device for auxiliary legal representative information according to the auxiliary authentication information; performing a third determination of whether the to-be-authenticated identity information is authenticated based on the auxiliary legal representative information; generating an enterprise authentication record if the first determination, the second determination, and the third determination are affirmative. |
| US10812475B2 |
Authenticating access to an instance
A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for authenticating access to an instance have been disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory that includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to receive an access request to the instance from a client device and to send an encryption request of information to a security device. The information includes an expiration time and the security device encrypts the information using a private key that is secured in the security device. The memory includes further instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to receive the encrypted information from the security device and to send the encrypted information to the client device. The encrypted information is decryptable by the instance using a public key associated with the private key in response to the client device providing the encrypted information to the instance. |
| US10812469B2 |
Secure vehicle communication interface device
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a secure vehicle communication interface device that authorizes communication to one or more systems of a vehicle through a diagnostic, or other, communication port. A service device used to access the secure communication channel may be configured as a small apparatus that is connected to a port to authenticate communications across the port. Without the device, the port would remain locked and prevent access to any systems or subsystems of the vehicle. |
| US10812468B2 |
Dynamic bypass
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may prevent a computer process from failing when a firewall located between a client device and a server identifies that a process at the firewall should be bypassed using fingerprint information associated with a connection attempt. When fingerprint information stored at a firewall matches previously received fingerprint information, the firewall may allow processes typically performed at the firewall to be bypassed, thereby, allowing communications to pass between the client device and the server without inspection. When that fingerprint information does not match previously received fingerprint information, the firewall may perform a process that causes the client device to fail the first connection attempt. Because of this, methods consistent with the present disclosure may allow communications from an application program to be passed through a firewall without relying on an ever growing list of trusted application programs. |
| US10812467B2 |
Method for managing a secure channel between a server and a secure element
The invention is a method for managing a secure channel between a server and a secure element embedded in a first device, wherein a user agent embedded in a second device establishes a HTTPS session with the server and retrieves a web application from the server, the method comprising the steps: the server sends to the web application an application certificate which is linked to a specific data reflecting the identity of the server, the secure element gets the application certificate and the specific data, the secure element checks the validity of the application certificate and that the application certificate is consistently linked to the specific data, in case of successful checks, the secure element and the server generate an ephemeral session key and use it for opening a secure channel. |
| US10812466B2 |
Using trusted platform module to build real time indicators of attack information
Managed devices containing a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to provide a trusted environment generate a device certificate at initialization of the TPM and send the device certificate to a management console for storing in a certificate database. Upon detecting a file of interest, the TPM signs the file, adding to a signature list created by previous managed devices. The signature list can be used to analyze the spread of the file across the system of managed devices, including tracking the file to the first managed device to have had a copy, without requiring real-time access to the managed devices during the spread of the file. In some embodiments, additional security measures may be taken responsive to determining the first managed device and the path the file has taken across the system of managed devices. |
| US10812463B2 |
Secure access to an enterprise computing environment
Remote access of a service provider to a secure enterprise computing environment through a firewall through the use of tokens. |
| US10812458B2 |
Systems and methods for two-factor location-based device verification
A system for two-factor location-based device verification includes a processor and a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: (i) receiving, from a client device, a first location factor; (ii) receiving, from the client device, a second location factor; (iii) determining, based upon the first location factor and the second location factor, that the client device is within a predefined area; and (iv) creating, in response to the determining, a new wagering account in association with a user of the client device. |
| US10812452B2 |
Methods for improving performance and security in a cloud computing system
Methods in a cloud object store facilitate strong data encryption, customer-management of object (encryption) keys, reductions in latency, globally-distributed object storage, and handling of streamed uploads. A method for encrypting objects stored in a cloud includes encrypting each object with a unique encryption (object) key. The plaintext object keys are generated in advance of uploads. The plaintext object keys can be stored in an object database in the cloud. Alternatively, the plaintext object keys can be provided to a customer's HSM, encrypted, and returned to the cloud, such that encrypted object keys, encrypted by the customer, are stored in the cloud. The cloud can alternatively encrypt the customer's object keys with a master key for the customer, which is then encrypted by the customer's HSM before being stored in the cloud. Proxies are also deployed for efficiently communicating with customer security modules. |
| US10812447B2 |
Registry domain name management
Methods and systems for managing domain names are disclosed. A server hosts a platform that interfaces with users. The server is operably coupled to the registry and domain management database, and receives transaction requests to assign tags to one or more domain names, the tags used as identifiers to associate information with the domain names. The server stores the domain names with one or more tags and associated information in the domain management database. The server receives a request to perform a registry event on a domain name and checks if there are tags associated with the domain name of which the event was requested. If there is no assigned tag the server performs the registry event action. If there is an associated tag the server complies with the tag and associated tag information. |
| US10812445B2 |
Cloud access to local network addresses
Various systems, device and automated processes allow video streaming hosts or other server devices to publish their internal/local addresses (e.g., addresses used on a subnet or other local area network) to a backend address server operating on a wide area network (WAN) such as the Internet. Client devices attempting to subsequently contact server devices operating in the same local network can contact the address to obtain the internal address of the target server, thereby allowing direct LAN connections between clients and servers. |
| US10812443B2 |
Subscriber session director
Determining a resolved DNS response based on one or more resolutions for a received APN DNS query is disclosed. A resolved DNS response can be based on real-time analysis of a first query and/or on historical resolution of a second query that is sufficiently similar to the first query. In an aspect, training queries can be employed to populate a data store with preferred DNS responses correlated to the training queries and associated network conditions. The data store can then be employed to evaluate a received query, and where sufficiently similar to a training query, corresponding resolution from the training query can be provided as a resolution for the received query. Moreover, as stored query information is determined to become stale, refreshment techniques are disclosed. Additionally, training queries can comprise anticipated queries and historical queries. |
| US10812442B1 |
Intelligent redirector based on resolver transparency
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for resolving Domain Name Service (DNS) requests. An authoritative DNS server may receive, from a recursive resolver, a DNS request to resolve a query on behalf of a client. The authoritative DNS server may determine whether the recursive resolver is classified as a non-client representative resolver or a client representative resolver. The authoritative DNS server may identify a redirect server based on the recursive resolver classified as the non-client representative resolver or the resolved server based on the recursive resolver classified as the client representative resolver. The authoritative DNS server may transmit, to the recursive resolver, a response to the DNS request including an address of one of the redirect server or the resolved server. |
| US10812441B2 |
System and method for suppressing DNS requests
A virtual private router (VPR) intercepts DNS requests and returns a pseudo IP address to the requesting application and the pseudo IP address is mapped to a domain name in the request. Requests for content including the pseudo IP address are modified to include the corresponding domain name and transmitted to an intermediary server, which resolves the domain name to a real IP address and forwards the content request. The content is received by the intermediary server, which returns it to the requesting application, such as by way of the VPR. Real IP addresses may be returned by the intermediary server such that subsequent content requests to the domain name may bypass the intermediary server. Content requests may be sent to the intermediary server, which may instruct the VPR to bypass the server when bypass is needed. |
| US10812438B1 |
Integrated telephone applications on online social networks
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a unique identifier of a second user from a mobile client system of a first user after the second user requests to communicate with the first user, identifying the second user based on the unique identifier, retrieving multiple items of profile information of the second user, determining whether the unique identifier is in a list of blocked identifiers, and sending to the first user a notification that a communication request form the second user has been declined if the unique identifier is in the list of blocked identifiers. The method also includes sending the first user multiple items of profile information of the second user if the unique identifier is in the list of blocked identifiers. |
| US10812436B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a notification unit that notifies that a received message has changed after reception or browsing of the message. In a further modification of the invention, the message may include a character string for guide to another link destination, and transfer to the link destination having undergone a change may be disabled. |
| US10812431B2 |
Social platform for event creation and communication and method therefor
A method of event creation and communication comprising: sending an invitation to an event by an individual; displaying the invitation on an event page of the individual, wherein the invitation appears as a bubble on the event page of the individual, information on the event displayed within the bubble; and illuminating a perimeter of the bubble at a predetermined timeframe prior to the event. |
| US10812429B2 |
Systems and methods for message communication
A method at a first electronic device with a display and an input device includes: displaying a message input area along with a graphical input stream in a first application, where the graphical input stream includes a source of predefined graphical images and a source for a coded character set. The method includes detecting entry of one or more objects from the graphical input stream into the message input area and receiving a user input to transmit the contents of the message input area. In response to receiving the user input to transmit, and in accordance with a determination that the one or more objects includes a predefined graphical image, the method includes forming a merged message comprising the contents of the message input area, including the predefined graphical image, where a merged message is an image, and transmitting the merged message to a recipient or another application. |
| US10812424B1 |
System and method for quantifying mental health within a group chat application
A method and apparatus for quantifying the health status of users of a group chat. The scores are generated based on message in a group chat indicating the relative health of groups and individual users in the groups. The generated scores are provided in a display of a graphical user interface, enabling a moderator to more effectively monitor and manage a number of groups and users. |
| US10812423B2 |
Method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for chatting on mobile device using an external device
Disclosed is a method, apparatus, system, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium for chatting on a mobile device using an external device. A chat method performed by a mobile device configured as a computer may include receiving a transmission input request for a signal including a send message through a preset button input of an external device; receiving, at the mobile device, the signal in response to the transmission input request; transmitting the send message to at least one counterpart that participates in a paired chatroom according to the signal; and outputting, to the external device, a received message that is received as a reply to the send message from the at least one counterpart through the chatroom. |
| US10812417B2 |
Auto-incorrect in chatbot human-machine interfaces
Context appropriate errors are injected into conversational text generated by conversational agents. The conversational agent creates an imperfect conversational text containing at least one text entry error added to the original conversational text. A confidence level that at least one of context and meaning of the imperfect conversational text is consistent with the context and meaning of the original conversational text is determined, and the imperfect conversational text is communicated to a human recipient if the confidence level is above a pre-defined threshold. |
| US10812416B2 |
Reduced number of counters for reliable messaging
A shared memory maintained by sender processes stores a sequence number counter per destination process. A sender process increments the sequence number counter in the shared memory in sending a message to a destination process. The sender process sends a data packet comprising the message and at least a sequence number specified by the sequence number counter. All of the sender processes share a sequence number counter per destination process, each of the sender processes incrementing the sequence number counter in sending a respective message. Receiver processes run on the hardware processor, each of the receiver processes maintaining a local memory counter on the memory, the local memory counter associated with a sending node. The local memory counter stores a sequence number of a message received from the sending node. The receiver process delivers incoming data packets ordered by sequence numbers of the data packets. |
| US10812415B1 |
Active intelligent message filtering for increased digital communication throughput and error resiliency
Active intelligent message filtering can be utilized to provide error resiliency, thereby allowing messages to be received without traditional error detection, and, in turn, avoiding the inefficiency of retransmission of network communications discarded due to network transmission errors detected by such traditional error detection mechanisms. Network transmission errors can result in the receiving application receiving messages that appear to comprise values that differ from the values originally transmitted by the transmitting application. Based on the inaccuracy tolerance applicable to the transmitting and receiving applications, rules can be applied to actively intelligently filter the received messages to replace the received values with the replacement values according to the rules. In such a manner, the receiving application can continue to receive usable data from the transmitting application without any error detection at lower network communication levels. |
| US10812411B2 |
Router fabric for switching real time broadcast signals in a media processing network
A router fabric for switching real time broadcast video signals in a media processing network includes a logic device configured to route multiple channels of packetized video signals to another network device, a crossbar switch configured to be coupled to a plurality of input/output components and to switch video data of the multiple channels between the logic device and the plurality of input/output components in response to a control instruction, and a controller configured to map routing addresses for each video signal relative to the system clock, and to send the control instruction with the mapping to the crossbar switch and the logic device. |
| US10812405B2 |
System, device, and method of RTP packet transmission and analysis of voice-over-IP communications
Device, system, and method of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, and particularly of Real Time Protocol (RTP) communication. In order to improve quality-of-service or quality-of-experience for a group of VoIP calls that are served by a VoIP router, each VoIP transmitter implements and adds a pseudo-random waiting-period prior to transmitting each outgoing RTP packet, or otherwise re-orders or mixes or shuffles the order of channels of RTP packets that are buffered or queued for transmission. Accordingly, no particular VoIP channel suffers from repeated drops of its RTP packets at the VoIP router. Additionally, VoIP network analyzers operate to measure the overall VoIP network overuse, or the average RTP packet loss rate of multiple VoIP channels, based on measuring RTP packet loss rate of a single VoIP channel which enforces a random pre-transmission waiting-period. |
| US10812403B2 |
Procedures, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for adaptive tunnel bandwidth by using software defined networking
A procedure for managing network traffic, and a system that operates in accordance with the procedure. Performance monitoring data is received from multiple network elements that define one or more paths along a network tunnel. The performance monitoring data includes data on network utilization. There is a detection of whether network utilization through the network tunnel exceeds an overflow threshold or an underflow threshold based on the performance monitoring data. A new path and new network elements are determined for the network tunnel, and instructions are transmitted to the network elements on the network to implement the new path. |
| US10812401B2 |
Jitter buffer apparatus and method
Disclosed is an apparatus and method operative to receive packets of media from a network including a receiver unit operative to receive the packets from the network, a jitter buffer data structure for receiving the packets in an ordered queue, the jitter buffer data structure having a tail into which the packets are input; a plurality of heads defining points in the jitter buffer data structure from which the ordered queue of packets are to be played back, the heads comprise an adjustable actual playback head coupled to an actual playback unit and at least one prototype head, each prototype head having associated therewith a target latency a processor having decision logic operable to determine a cost of achieving the associated target latency for each prototype head, wherein the decision logic compares the costs determined for each prototype head to identify a particular target latency and head location for the actual playback head of the buffer and a playback unit coupled to the processor for actual playback of the playback head of the buffer, such that the particular target latency of the jitter buffer data structure is determined at playback of the buffer rather than upon input of the packets into the jitter buffer data structure. |
| US10812397B2 |
Method for managing traffic in a network based upon ethernet switches, vehicle, communication interface, and corresponding computer program product
A method for managing traffic in a network based upon Ethernet switches, which are compliant with the IEEE 802.1Q and TSN communication standards, including the steps of dividing frames received into queues; scheduling transmission of the frames contained in the queues on the basis of the respective priorities of the traffic classes; and, if frames are present belonging to a traffic class in the plurality of traffic classes that has a higher priority than frames belonging to the event-triggered traffic class and when at least one protected time window occurs, transmitting the frames that belong to the traffic class with higher priority and blocking transmission of the frames that belong to the remaining traffic classes; and if the queue dedicated to the event-triggered traffic class is empty, transmitting a frame belonging to one of the remaining traffic classes that have frames with a priority lower than the frames belonging to the event-triggered traffic class. |
| US10812393B2 |
Packet distribution based on an identified service function
Some examples herein disclose a load balancer to identify a service function among multiple service functions based on an available capacity. The load balancer modifies a switch address in the packet and distributes the packet to the identified service function based on the modified switch address. |
| US10812392B2 |
Event-based flow control in software-defined networks
A software-defined network controller (SDN controller) defines a first network flow to be selectively implemented by a networking device according to a first network operation profile. The SDN controller defines a second network flow to be selectively implemented by the networking device according to a second network operation profile. A memory device of the networking device may store at least first and second network operation profiles for selective implementation during defined event windows. The event window(s) may be defined by start event inputs and stop event inputs. The event inputs may include, without limitation, a combination of parameter-based inputs and/or temporal inputs. In one specific embodiment, the networking device detects a network event and modifies a network operation profile for a preset time period and/or until an interrupt or stop event is detected. |
| US10812386B2 |
Bulk data transport in a network
A network is configured to utilize available bandwidth to conduct bulk data transfers without substantially affecting the successful transmission of time-sensitive traffic in the network. In order to avoid this interference, the packets carrying data for bulk data transfers are associated with a low priority class such that the routers of the network will preferentially drop these packets over packets associated with the normal traffic of the network. As such, when the normal traffic peaks or there are link failures or equipment failures, the normal traffic is preferentially transmitted over the bulk-transfer traffic and thus the bulk-transfer traffic dynamically adapts to changes in the available bandwidth of the network. Further, to reduce the impact of dropped packets for the bulk-transfer traffic, the packets of the bulk-transfer traffic are encoded at or near the source component using a loss-resistant transport protocol so that the dropped packets can be reproduced at a downstream link. |
| US10812385B2 |
User-driven network traffic shaping
Some examples include performing traffic shaping for a network. For instance, a system may detect congestion in the network and may determine at least two traffic flows contributing to the congestion. The system may provide a user interface that includes information related to first and second traffic flows determined to be main contributors to the congestion from among the traffic flows contributing to the congestion. The system may receive, via the user interface, a selection of one of the first traffic flow or the second traffic flow as an indication of a user selection of one of the traffic flows as having a higher priority than at least another one of the traffic flows. Based on the indication, the system may send packets of the selected traffic flow according to the higher priority and send packets of the at least one other traffic flow according to a lower priority. |
| US10812383B2 |
Communication apparatus and communication method
A communication apparatus 1 is provided with a first communication interface 11, second communication interfaces 12 connected to a plurality of access routers 3 connected to an Internet 6, and a route determination unit which, for a packet being communicated from the first communication interface 11 to the second communication interfaces 12, determines the second communication interface 12 in accordance with an elapsed time since connecting start of a connection with a destination of the packet. Connections having started within a predetermined time are treated as connections constituting one user session. Therefore, connections constituting the same user session can be communicated via the same access router without the need of analyzing a protocol of a layer. |
| US10812381B2 |
Systems and methods for directly responding to distributed network traffic
Systems and methods are disclosed for directly responding to distributed network traffic received from a plurality of client devices. One method includes receiving, at a source device, client requests including a packet having a reserved portion, a source portion, and a destination portion; determining, for each client request, a target device from a plurality of target devices to respond to the client request; modifying, for each client request by the source device, the destination portion of the packet to an address of target device; modifying, for each client request by a switching layer prior to the target device receiving the modified client request, the destination portion; and responding directly to each client request by the target device without traversing the source device. |
| US10812378B2 |
System and method for improved service chaining
An apparatus having logic elements to receive an incoming packet associated with a first service function chain; identify a next hop service function for the incoming packet as a non-reactive service function; create a duplicate packet; forward the duplicate packet to the non-reactive service function; and forward the incoming packet to a next reactive service function. An apparatus having logic to receive an incoming packet associated with a first service function chain (SFC), having a first service path identifier (SPI); determine that the incoming packet has a first service index (SI), and that a next-hop SI identifies a non-reactive service function (NRSF); receive a duplicate packet of the incoming packet; rewrite a service header of the duplicate packet to identify a second SFC having a second SPI; and alter the first SI of the incoming packet to identify a next reactive service function in the first SFC. |