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| US10932401B2 |
Component mounting machine
There is provided a component mounting machine in which when detecting a lowermost end position of a component sucked by a suction nozzle, a lower edge position of the component is detected at predetermined intervals from a left side and a right side using the lowermost end position as a reference. The component mounting machine derives an approximate straight line obtained by approximating multiple lower edge positions detected from the side having a larger detection number and the lowermost end position and an angle of the approximate straight line is detected as the suction angle of the component. Accordingly, the component mounting machine can appropriately detect the suction angle of the component with a simple process and correctly determine the suction posture of the component. |
| US10932400B2 |
Header panel assembly for preventing air circulation above electronic equipment enclosure
A hot/cold aisle air containment system includes a frame structure, at least one electronic equipment enclosure installed at least partially within the frame structure, and a header panel assembly. The frame structure adapted to be at least partially covered by one or more panels to define an interior space and includes at least one horizontal member. The header panel assembly is installed between a top of the at least one electronic equipment enclosure and the at least one horizontal member of the frame structure to prevent circulation of air above the enclosure. The header panel assembly includes a pair of panels. A first of the pair of panels is adjustable horizontally relative to a second of the pair of panels, and the pair of panels, together, are adjustable vertically relative to the least one horizontal member. |
| US10932398B2 |
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding products using titanium monoxide (TiO) based materials
Compositions (120), which may be in the form of flexible films, molded bodies, or printable inks, can incorporate ceramic particles (122) comprising titanium monoxide (TiO) for purposes of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding at megahertz through gigahertz frequencies. One or more additional ceramic particles can also be included. The compositions comprise a composite material (120) which includes the ceramic particles (122) dispersed within a matrix material (121), such as a polymer. Methods associated with such compositions are also described. |
| US10932397B2 |
Power conversion device
In a power conversion device, each of semiconductor modules of a layered body includes a body portion incorporating a plurality of switching elements and a plurality of power terminals protruding therefrom. The semiconductor modules include upper-arm switching elements and lower-arm switching element that are alternately layered in a layering direction of the layered body. A capacitor is disposed on one side of the layered body and a current sensor is disposed on an opposite side of the layered body, in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to both a protruding direction of the power terminals and the layering direction. Each of the semiconductor modules includes, as the power terminals, two collector terminals connected to a collector electrode of the switching element and one emitter terminal connected to an emitter electrode of the switching element, and the emitter terminal is disposed between the two collector terminals in the orthogonal direction. |
| US10932394B2 |
Electronics housing with heat sink
An electronic housing assembly includes a polymeric housing base and a metallic heat sink secured to the housing base with a snap-fit engagement. A printed circuit board is positioned within a cavity in the housing assembly and is protected within the housing by an environmental seal. The electronic housing assembly allows for expansion and contraction between the heat sink and the housing while maintaining the integrity of the seal. |
| US10932393B2 |
Torsional heat pipe
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a torsional heat pipe. The torsional heat pipe can include a first housing static portion located in a first housing of an electronic device, where the first housing static portion is coupled to a heat source, a second housing static portion located in a second housing of the electronic device, where the second housing static portion is coupled to a heat spreader, and a torsion portion located in a hinge of the electronic device, where the hinge rotatably couples the first housing to the second housing and the torsion portion rotates as the second housing rotates relative to the first housing and the torsion portion couples the first housing static portion to the second housing static portion. |
| US10932391B2 |
Liquid-cooling heat exchange apparatus
A liquid cooling heat exchange apparatus has a water block set and a liquid pump module. The water block set has a heat transfer surface configured to exchange heat with a cooling liquid. The liquid pump module is securely mounted on the water block set and has a flow-directing containment area and pumps. The flow-directing containment area forms flow-directing containment recesses and the pumps correspond to the flow-directing containment recesses. Therefore, pumps are connected in series or parallel so that the pumps can juxtapose with each other, which lessens the entire thickness and allows the liquid cooling heat exchange apparatus to be utilized in a narrow space. Besides, with the connected pumps, an amount and a speed of the flow may be increased and dissipate more heat. Even if part of the pumps malfunctions, the remaining pump(s) can maintain a basic amount and speed of the flow. |
| US10932390B2 |
Immersion tank and immersion cooling device
An immersion tank includes a tank main body configured to store a coolant, at least one first air bag that is provided in the tank main body, that is coupled to a bottom portion of the tank main body, that is able to be inflated toward an upper portion of the tank main body, and that is able to be deflated, from an inflated state thereof, toward the bottom portion, and a guide member that is provided outside the at least one first air bag in the tank main body and that is configured to guide the at least one first air bag during the inflation and the deflation of the at least one first air bag. |
| US10932389B2 |
Frame member attached to mobile terminal, operation device for machine including frame member, and computer program for mobile terminal
A frame member is attached to a mobile terminal including a display of touch panel type. The frame member is formed in contact with the outer edge of the mobile terminal along the circumferential direction of the outer edge of the mobile terminal. On the front surface of the frame member, a recess part perceivable with a finger touch is formed at a position corresponding to a button image displayed on the display. |
| US10932388B1 |
Pluggable power distribution units for modular edge power systems
A modular edge power system is provided. The modular edge power system includes a housing having a rack adapted to mount compute devices and a direct current power bus within the housing. Multiple power distribution units are adapted to be removably coupled to the direct current power bus at a position within the housing and outside of the rack. Each power distribution unit is configured to distribute electrical power received from the direct current power bus to one or more compute devices mounted in the rack. Each power distribution unit may convert the electrical power from a first power level to a second power level. |
| US10932381B1 |
Display panel support frame and display device
A display panel support frame and a display panel are provided. The display panel support frame includes a first support frame, a second support frame, a third support frame, and a plurality of connecting members. The support plate on the first support frame and the second support frame may be relatively displaced from the third support frame through the connecting member of a linking member, thereby reducing the tensile or compressive stress of the non-bending area of the screen. |
| US10932379B2 |
Furniture member having circuit board assembly
A furniture member may include a base frame, a seat assembly, a motor, and a circuit board assembly. The seat assembly is supported by the base frame. The motor is operable to drive at least one component of the seat assembly. The circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an enclosure. The circuit board is housed within the enclosure and is in communication with the motor. The enclosure may include a body, a first clip attached to the body, and a second clip attached to the body. The first and second clips may be resiliently flexible and may removably engage a beam of the seat assembly. |
| US10932378B2 |
Connector having pins extending to more than one printed circuit board
An electronics device is disclosed, including: a first printed circuit board having a plurality of through-holes; a second printed circuit board having a plurality of through-holes; a housing in which the first and second printed circuit boards are disposed, the first printed circuit board disposed above the second printed circuit board in the housing; and a connector attached to the housing and including a plurality of pins comprising first pins and a plurality of second pins, a length of the first pins being greater than a length of the second pins. Each of the first pins extends through one of the through-holes of the first printed circuit board and one of the through-holes of the second printed circuit board and thereby makes an electrical connection with the first and second printed circuit boards, and each of the second pins only extends through one of the through-holes of the second printed circuit board and thereby makes an electrical connection with the second printed circuit board. |
| US10932376B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display module and a cover member disposed below the display module. The cover member includes a first upper plate disposed below the display module, a second upper plate disposed below the display module and spaced a first distance apart from the first upper plate in a first direction, a first attachment layer attached to a bottom surface of the first upper plate, a second attachment layer attached to a bottom surface of the second upper plate and spaced a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, apart from the first attachment layer in the first direction, a first lower plate attached to a bottom surface of the first attachment layer, and a second lower plate attached to a bottom surface of the second attachment layer. |
| US10932371B2 |
Bottom-up electrolytic via plating method
Disclosed herein is a bottom-up electrolytic via plating method wherein a first carrier substrate and a second substrate having at least one through-via are temporarily bonded together. The method includes applying a seed layer on a surface of the first substrate, forming a surface modification layer on the seed layer or the second substrate, bonding the second substrate to the first substrate with the surface modification layer to create an assembly wherein the seed layer and the surface modification layer are disposed between the first and second substrates, applying conductive material to the through-via, removing the second substrate having the through-via containing conductive material from the assembly. |
| US10932370B2 |
Metal sublayer sensing in multi-layer workpiece hole drilling
Disclosed herein is a system for drilling in a multilayer printed circuit board. The system includes a source of electromagnetic radiation configured to transmit a measurement pulse in open air to a workpiece, an anode, a resettable electric charge sensor (ECS), operably connected to the anode, and a control unit, configured to receive at least one value indicative of the quantity of at least part of charged molecules received at the anode and determine a second value indicative of the quantity of charged molecules received at the anode that were derivative of emitted electrons responsive to the measurement pulse. |
| US10932369B2 |
Display device
A display device may include a window, an input sensing panel, first to third connection circuit boards, an optical sheet, a display panel, a stress control film, and a first adhesive member configured to couple the optical sheet and the input sensing panel. On a plane, the first adhesive member may include an inner portion overlapping the optical sheet and an outer portion extending from the inner portion to the outside and non-overlapping the optical sheet while overlapping the stress control film. A first portion of an edge of the first adhesive member defines a recessed area that is recessed toward a center area of the inner portion so that a partial area of the optical sheet is exposed. |
| US10932368B1 |
Substrate-embedded electronic component
A substrate-embedded electronic component includes a first core layer, a first through-portion penetrating the first core layer, a first electronic component disposed in the first through-portion, an encapsulant disposed in at least a portion of the first through-portion, and covering at least a portion of the first electronic component, a second core layer disposed on the encapsulant, and a first through-via penetrating the second core layer, wherein the first through-via is connected to the first electronic component. |
| US10932366B2 |
Low profile packaging and assembly of a power conversion system in modular form
Embedded PCB (printed circuit board) is used for the packaging and assembly of a low profile power conversion system module that can be employed in space constrained environment of small computer/electronic systems. The low profile power conversion system module may include an embedded PCB, a power silicon device embedded within the PCB, a magnetic component which is either embedded within the PCB or disposed on the PCB, or input/output terminals disposed on the side of the embedded PCB. The embedded PCB and the magnetic component may be thin planar shaped to save vertical space. The low profile power conversion system module can be placed inside a cavity formed in the system PCB to save even more vertical space. |
| US10932365B2 |
Flexible wiring board and display device
A flexible wiring board (a first wiring board) includes: an insulating substrate which is flexible; a first terminal which is conductive and is disposed on the insulating substrate; a second terminal which is conductive and is disposed on the insulating substrate; and a no-connection (NC) terminal which is conductive and is disposed on the insulating substrate between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal, the NC terminal, and the second terminal are arranged at a uniform pitch in an arranging direction that is predetermined, and a width of the NC terminal in the arranging direction is smaller than a width of the first terminal in the arranging direction and a width of the second terminal in the arranging direction. |
| US10932361B2 |
Circuit board and electronic device
A circuit board includes a substrate and at least one circuit structure. The substrate has first slots, each first slot extends along a first axis, and a length of each first slot along the first axis is greater than lengths of each first slot along other directions. The circuit structure is disposed on the substrate and includes arc segments and extending segments. Each arc segment is connected between two of the extending segments such that the circuit structure is circuitous. The circuit structure and each first slot have an interval therebetween such that each first slot and a part of a surface of the substrate are exposed by the circuit structure. Each first slot is located between adjacent two extending segments, and the first axis of each first slot passes through the corresponding arc segment. In addition, an electronic device having the circuit board is also provided. |
| US10932360B2 |
Flexible sensor technology
A system and method (referred to as a method) to fabricate sensors and electronic circuits. The method prints a first thin-film having an electronic conductivity of about less than a millionth of a Siemens per meter and a permalloy directly onto the first thin-film. The permalloy has a magnetic permeability greater than a predetermined level and has a thickness within a range of about 1 to 20 microns. The system prints a second thin-film directly onto the permalloy to encapsulate the permalloy onto the first thin-film and prints conductive traces directly onto the surfaces of the first-thin-film, the permalloy, and the second thin-film. In some applications, a sensor is packaged in an additively manufactured three-dimensional cylindrical shape that can be mounted on or is a unitary part of a current carrying conductor without incising, sharing, or severing (e.g., cutting) the current carrying conductor or its insulation. |
| US10932359B2 |
Circuit board and electrical connector with the same
A circuit board and an electrical connector with the same are disclosed in the present invention. The circuit board includes a first line layer, a first insulating layer, a second line layer, an insulating substrate, a third line layer, a second insulating layer and a fourth line layer, which are stacked from top to bottom. A first metal line and a second metal line are formed on the first line layer and the second line layer, respectively, and together constitute a first differential line pair. A third metal line and a fourth metal line are formed on the third line layer and the fourth line layer, respectively, and together constitute a second differential line pair. Two metal lines constituting each differential line pair are arranged up and down and have different widths, thereby reducing signal crosstalk between adjacent differential line pairs. |
| US10932358B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for enhancing signal integrity of an interface provided by a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a die and multiple conductive traces. The die is mounted on the substrate. The conductive traces are routed on the substrate and connected to the die. The conductive traces at least include a plurality of first conductive traces and a plurality of second conductive traces. The second conductive traces are coupled to a predetermined voltage for providing a shielding pattern. The first conductive traces and the second conductive traces are disposed on the substrate in a substantially interlaced pattern. |
| US10932355B2 |
High-current conduction cooled superconducting radio-frequency cryomodule
A high-current, compact, conduction cooled superconducting radio-frequency cryomodule for particle accelerators. The cryomodule will accelerate an electron beam of average current up to 1 ampere in continuous wave (CW) mode or at high duty factor. The cryomodule consists of a single-cell superconducting radio-frequency cavity made of high-purity niobium, with an inner coating of Nb3Sn and an outer coating of pure copper. Conduction cooling is achieved by using multiple closed-cycle refrigerators. Power is fed into the cavity by two coaxial couplers. Damping of the high-order modes is achieved by a warm beam-pipe ferrite damper. |
| US10932353B2 |
Antenna for generating plasma, and plasma treatment device and antenna structure provided with antenna for generating plasma
The impedance of an antenna is reduced and gaps generated between electrodes constituting a capacitance element and a dielectric body are eliminated. An antenna (3) for generating inductively coupled plasma P includes at least two conductor elements (31), an insulation element (32) that is arranged between the mutually adjacent conductor elements (31) and insulates the conductor elements (31), and a capacitance element (33) that is connected electrically to and in series with the mutually adjacent conductor elements (31). The capacitance element (33) is configured from a first electrode (33A) electrically connected to one of the mutually adjacent conductor elements (21), a second electrode (33B) electrically connected to the other of the mutually adjacent conductor elements (21), and a liquid dielectric body filling the space between the first electrode (33A) and the second electrode (33B). |
| US10932347B2 |
Intelligent lighting control system electrical connector apparatuses, systems, and methods
The present disclosure provides an intelligent lighting control system including an electrical connector interface. The lighting control system includes a module housing, a switch control circuit positioned in the module housing and including a processor configured to modulate a flow of electrical energy to a lighting circuit via a dimmer circuit to produce a plurality of lighting scenes. The lighting control system includes a graphical user interface coupled to the module housing and communicably coupled to the switch control circuit. The lighting control system includes a first electrical connector electrically connected to the switch control circuit and at least one of extending from and recessed in a surface of the module housing. The electrical connector includes a plurality of electrical pins. The first electrical connector is configured for a press fit engagement with a second electrical connector of a base module. |
| US10932346B2 |
Method of identifying a lighting fixture
Control-source devices may be associated with control-target devices of a load control system during a configuration procedure, such that the control-target devices are responsive to the associated control-source devices during normal operation. The configuration procedure may be executed using a network device having a visual display for associating the control-source devices and control-target devices. The control-source devices may be associated with the control-target devices on an area-by-area basis using an area configuration procedure. The control-target devices may be configured to flash a controlled lighting load according to a flashing profile during the configuration procedure. The flashing profile may be characterized by at least one abrupt transition between off and on, and at least one gradual transition between off and on, where the abrupt and gradual transitions are repeated on a periodic basis. |
| US10932345B2 |
Lighting system
There is provided a lighting system for illuminating a space, the lighting system comprising: at least one light source; and at least one controller configured to: receive an indication of a pre-selected duration of an emission period for which the at least one light source is to emit light; control the at least one light source to emit light for the duration of the emission period, select a first spectrum in dependence on the duration of the emission period, and control the at least one light source to emit the light with the first spectrum during at least part of the emission period. There is also provided a display apparatus, a method and a computer program product. |
| US10932343B2 |
Switch protection apparatus and operating method thereof
A protection system and operating method thereof promotes the longevity of components of a control subsystem. The protection apparatus may include a first connector for connecting to the control system and a second connector for connecting to a target system. The protection apparatus detects states of a component of the control subsystem over time and causes a state transition of a switching circuit of the protection apparatus based on the detected states of the control subsystem. The state transition of the switching circuit of the protection system may be initiated after a defined period of time has elapsed after detecting states of the control subsystem component. The state transition of the switching circuit may be a transition between an open state in which power is not provided to a node of the second connector and a closed state in which power is provided to the node of the second connector. |
| US10932342B2 |
Performance of LED drive using energy storage with segment control
Systems and methods for operating light emitting diodes (LEDs) circuits are provided. Aspects include a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in a plurality of segments, wherein the plurality of segments comprise a first segment and a second segment, and the plurality of segments are connected in series between a rectified alternating current (AC) power source and ground and a control circuit configured to operate the first bypass switch, the second bypass switch, and the third bypass switch; and wherein the control circuit is further configured to determine a rectified voltage of the rectified AC power source and operate the third switch to turn off when the rectified voltage drops below a first threshold. |
| US10932337B2 |
Function disabler device and system
A function disabler system includes a personal electronic device having at least one component such as a camera, and a processor having pulsed light communication software enabling receipt and transmission of pulsed light communication signals. The processor additionally includes a hosting customer software application, where the personal electronic device receives at least one pulsed light communication signal within a designated area and the pulsed light communication signal includes an instruction signal which instructs the hosting customer software application to disable the at least one component when the personal electronic device is positioned in the designated area. |
| US10932335B2 |
Painted electroluminescent vehicle trim components
A painted vehicle trim component such as a spoiler, side-view mirror housing, or other vehicle body part is provided with electroluminescent paint to emit light from its surface. The trim component includes a substrate having a mounting surface for attaching to the vehicle. A conductor body is at least partially embedded in the substrate to provide a conductive surface exposed externally of the substrate. A conductive wire is crimped to the conductor body and is adapted to connect to an electrical power source remotely from the vehicle trim component. A conductive bus bar paint layer is deposited over the substrate and onto the exposed conductive surface of the conductor body. A light-emitting paint layer deposited over the substrate is disposed relative to the conductive paint layer such that light is emitted when an electrical signal is received at the conductive wire. |
| US10932333B2 |
Alloy melting and holding furnace
An induction furnace comprising a upper furnace vessel; an induction coil positioned below the upper furnace vessel; and a melt-containing vessel positioned inside the induction coil and communicably connected to the upper furnace vessel, wherein the positioning of the melt-containing vessel inside the induction coil defines a gap between an outside surface of the melt-containing vessel and an inside surface of the induction coil. A system for direct-chill casting comprising at least one an induction furnace; at least one in-line filter operable to remove impurities in molten metal; at least one gas source coupled to a feed port associated with the gas; and at least one device for solidifying metal by casting. A method of cooling an induction furnace comprising introducing a gas into a gap between an induction coil and a melt-containing vessel positioned inside the induction coil; and circulating the gas through the gap. |
| US10932332B2 |
Methods and apparatus to provide asymmetrical magnetic fields, and induction heating using asymmetrical magnetic fields
A system to provide induction heating includes a welding-type power supply to apply an electric current, a first electromagnetic array formed on a first substrate and a second electromagnetic array formed on a second substrate. Each array includes a plurality of conductors arranged in a varying configuration such that, upon application of the electric current, each conductor of the plurality of conductors generates a magnetic field in a polarity that is other than a polarity of a corresponding magnetic field of at least one adjacent conductor. A first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface having a strong magnetic field relative to a weak magnetic field associated with the second surface in response to the electric current. |
| US10932331B2 |
Methods and apparatus to provide asymmetrical magnetic fields, and induction heating using asymmetrical magnetic fields
An electromagnetic array includes a substrate defined by a plurality of regions. Each region includes a plurality of conductors arranged in a varying configuration such that, upon application of an electric current, each conductor of the plurality of conductors generates a magnetic field in a polarity that is other than a polarity of a corresponding magnetic field of at least one adjacent conductor. Each region includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface having a strong magnetic field relative to a weak magnetic field associated with the second surface in response to the electric current. A first region is adjacent to another region, and configured such that a polarity of the strong magnetic field associated with the first region is in a polarity other than a polarity of the strong magnetic field associated with the at least one other region. |
| US10932330B2 |
Device to support cooking container for smart under range
A device to support a cooking container for a smart under range being installed under a lower surface of a table comprises a body pad, a cooking container supporting part placed on the body pad, a temperature sensing part placed inside the body pad, a transmitting circuit part provided inside the body pad and transferring a temperature sensed by the temperature sensing part to an outside, and a power supply part supplying power to the transmitting circuit part. |
| US10932326B2 |
Flexible heated hose assembly with printed positive temperature co-efficient heater
A flexible heated hose assembly for an aircraft is provided. The flexible heated hose assembly including: an inner fluid tube enclosing a fluid passageway, the inner fluid tube having tubular shape; a first silicone liner located radially outward from the inner fluid tube; and a printed positive temperature co-efficient (PTC) heater located radially outward from the first silicone liner. |
| US10932323B2 |
Reflector and susceptor assembly for chemical vapor deposition reactor
A reactor for chemical vapor deposition is equipped with an IR radiation compensating susceptor assembly that supports one or more semiconductor substrates above linear IR heater lamps arranged in a parallel array. A set of primary IR radiation reflectors beneath the lamps directs IR radiation back toward the susceptor in a pattern selected to provide uniform IR irradiation of the susceptor assembly to thereby uniformly heat the substrates. Secondary IR shield reflectors may be provided in selected patterns on the underside of the susceptor assembly as a fine tuning measure to direct IR radiation away from the assembly in a controlled pattern. The combined IR radiation reflectors have an IR signature that compensates for any non-uniform heating profile created by the linear IR heater lamp array. The heating profile of the lamp array might also be tailored in order to reduce the amount of compensation required to be supplied by the IR reflectors. |
| US10932321B1 |
Method of providing data, voice, and SMS services to LTE subscribers roaming in 2G/3G visited networks
A method of providing voice call, data, and SMS services to a user equipment roaming in a 2G/3G visited network and subscribed to an LTE home network. An Interworking Function communicates with both the visited network and the home network. The Interworking Function translates between Mobile Application Part (MAP) protocol used by the 2G/3G visited network and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used by the LTE home network. The Interworking Function establishes both a MAP Registration with the 2G/3G visited network and also a SIP Registration with the LTE home network, thereby enabling provision of voice call, data, and SMS services to the roaming UE. |
| US10932317B2 |
Uninterrupted transmission of internet protocol transmissions during endpoint changes
Facilitating uninterrupted transmission of internet protocol (IP) transmissions during endpoint changes is disclosed. When an IP transmission is received at a first relay port or a second relay port, a call record having the first relay port identifier or the second relay port identifier matching a destination port identifier in the IP transmission is located. When the destination port identifier matches the first relay port identifier of the record, a source IP address identifier and a source port identifier from the IP transmission are set as a first entity IP address identifier and first entity port identifier, respectively, of the record when the first entity IP address identifier and first entity port identifier do not match the source IP address identifier and source port identifier respectively and a received IP session identifier in the IP transmission matches the first entity session identifier. A similar procedure is followed to set a second entity IP address identifier and port identifier. |
| US10932315B2 |
Methods and systems for handling call establishment by user equipment in wireless communication network
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for establishing a call in a wireless communication network, the method includes determining a first call control (CC) state of the UE after a recovery procedure for a call establishment is performed, sending a CC status enquiry message to a first base station connected to a first network, determining a second CC state of the first base station from a CC status message received from the first base station in response to the CC status enquiry message, and establishing the call by updating the first CC state based on the determined second CC state. |
| US10932314B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium
If a communication apparatus receives connection destination information for joining a second wireless network via a first wireless network created by the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus ends the first wireless network and attempts to join the second wireless network based on the received connection destination information. If the attempt to join the second wireless network fails, the communication apparatus re-creates the first wireless network. |
| US10932300B2 |
Communication control method, radio terminal, and base station
A communication control method comprises a step S1 of transmitting, by a eNB 200, a paging message to a UE 100 by using a first frequency channel included in a plurality of frequency channels, a step S2 of receiving, by the UE 100, the paging message, a step S3 of selecting, by the UE 100, a second frequency channel included in the plurality of frequency channels, and a step S4 of transmitting, by the UE 100, a random access signal for establishing connection with the eNB 200 by using the second frequency channel. The paging message includes channel identification information used for selecting the second frequency channel. In the step S3, the UE 100 is configured to select the second frequency channel based on the channel identification information included in the paging message. |
| US10932299B2 |
Random access preamble sequence generation method and user equipment
A random access preamble sequence generation method and user equipment are provided. The method includes the following: when receiving first notification signaling sent by a base station, determining, by UE, to calculate a cyclic shift value by using a first solution; obtaining a first logical root sequence number, and determining a root sequence based on the first logical root sequence number; and generating a random access preamble sequence based on the root sequence and the cyclic shift value, where the first solution is a solution of calculating the cyclic shift value when a Doppler shift of the UE is less than a first preset value and greater than a second preset value, the first preset value is less than twice of a physical random access channel (PRACH) subcarrier spacing, the second preset value is greater than the PRACH subcarrier spacing. |
| US10932296B2 |
Device and method of handling physical random access channel resources on a secondary cell in carrier aggregation
A base station (BS) for handling Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resources on a SCell in carrier aggregation comprises at least one storage device storing instructions of transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring the SCell to a communication device, wherein the RRC message comprises a DL beam management (BM) reference signal (RS) configuration and an association between a plurality of PRACH resources and a plurality of DL Tx beams; transmitting a plurality of DL BM RSs by using the plurality of DL Tx beams on the SCell, respectively; receiving a measurement report of the plurality of DL BM RSs; determining a DL Tx beam according to the measurement report; transmitting a Physical DL Control Channel (PDCCH) order by using the DL Tx beam, wherein the PDCCH order comprises a PRACH mask index indicating at least one PRACH resource; and determining a PRACH resource according to the measurement report. |
| US10932292B2 |
Method for transmitting frame in wireless LAN system, and wireless terminal using same
A method for transmitting a frame in a wireless LAN system according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises a step of transmitting, by a wireless terminal, a trigger frame including identification information for a plurality of user STAs and resource information indicating resource units separately allocated to the plurality of user STAs, wherein, when the trigger frame is an MU RTS frame, the resource information is configured: on the basis of first to fourth index values in a fourth index range in order to indicate a primary 20 MHz channel through which a CTS frame, a response to the MU RTS frame, is to be transmitted; on the basis of fifth and sixth index values in a fifth index range in order to indicate a primary 40 MHz channel through which the CTS frame is to be transmitted; and on the basis of a seventh index value in a sixth index range in order to indicate a primary 80 MHz channel through which the CTS frame is to be transmitted. |
| US10932289B2 |
Signal transmission method and device
Example methods and apparatus for transmitting a signal transmission method and a device are disclosed. One method includes transmitting a signal based on a predefined transmission pattern by a communications device. The transmission pattern defines that a non-first downlink timing boundary in a downlink time domain unit is later than or earlier than a first downlink timing boundary is defined, or that an uplink timing boundary in an uplink time domain unit is earlier than or later than the first downlink timing boundary. |
| US10932286B2 |
Parallel low latency awareness
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A receiving device may detect a signal associated with low latency transmissions and decode a non-low latency communication accordingly. The receiving device may receive an indicator from a transmitting device that indicates where and when low latency communications occur. The indication may specify frequency resources or symbols used by the low latency communication. The indicator may be transmitted during the same subframe as the low latency communication, at the end of a subframe, or during a subsequent subframe. The receiving device may use the indicator to mitigate low latency interference, generate channel estimates, and reliably decode the non-low latency communication. In some cases, the interfering low latency communication may occur within the serving cell of the receiving device; or the interfering low latency communication may occur in a neighboring cell. |
| US10932282B2 |
Scheduling timeline in new radio-spectrum sharing (NR-SS)
Wireless communications systems and methods related to determining scheduling and transmission timeline for communicating in a shared communication medium are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, scheduling information during a first time period of a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a first network operating entity in a shared communication medium, the scheduling information indicating an offset time period relative to the first time period. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a communication signal during a second TXOP subsequent to the first TXOP based on the offset time period. |
| US10932281B2 |
Dynamic scheduling method for guaranteeing quality of service depending on network transmission traffic in large-scale IOT environment and system using the same
Disclosed herein are a dynamic scheduling method for guaranteeing Quality of Service QoS depending on network transmission traffic and a system using the same. The dynamic scheduling method includes assigning communication channels to respective nodes based on Identifications (IDs) of parent nodes corresponding to the respective nodes, setting priorities for assignment of time slots to the respective nodes in each quarter based on data traffic volumes corresponding to the respective nodes, and assigning time slots to the respective nodes in each quarter depending on the set priorities for assignment of the time slots. |
| US10932280B2 |
Wireless device and wireless communication method for scheduling assignment message transmission
Provided are a wireless device and a wireless communication method in a wireless communication network comprising multiple wireless devices capable of communicating with each other directly, the wireless device comprising: a processing circuitry operative to multiplex data with a scheduling assignment message, into transmission information; and a transmitter operative to transmit the transmission information in a scheduling assignment period, to another wireless device in the wireless communication network, wherein the scheduling assignment message is used for indicating data transmission resource in the scheduling assignment period or in a previous scheduling assignment period. |
| US10932276B2 |
Frame structure in NR
The present application at least describes a frame structure in new radio. The frame structure includes a self-contained transmission time interval. The transmission time interval includes a control information region including plural beams. The interval also includes a downlink transmission channel region including plural beams. The frame structure is configured for downlink control information to be swept through the time interval. The frame structure is also configured for an uplink or downlink grant resource subsequently to be swept through the time interval. The present application is also directed to a method for configuring user equipment. |
| US10932273B2 |
Facilitating communication of radio resource quality to a mobile application
Facilitation of communication of radio resource quality to a mobile application is provided. In one example, a method comprises: determining, by a device coupled to a processor, a peak-to-average loading ratio of a loading of a radio of a base station device and a mobility factor of the radio, wherein the loading relates to an amount of data being handled by the radio; and determining, by the device, class information for the radio of the base station device, wherein the class information comprises a value indicative of the peak-to-average loading ratio and the mobility factor of the radio, wherein the class information is correlatable to a bit rate at which a mobile device is to execute an application of a mobile device, and wherein the radio is communicatively coupled to the mobile device. |
| US10932270B2 |
Techniques and apparatuses for user equipment-requested beam pair link procedure
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether to perform a beam pair refinement procedure with regard to the UE and a base station; and/or transmit, to the base station, information regarding whether to perform the beam pair refinement procedure. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a UE, information regarding a beam pair refinement procedure with regard to the UE; and/or perform the beam pair refinement procedure based at least in part on the information. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10932264B2 |
Method and system for adjusting communication channel based on signal scan result
The disclosure is related to a method and a system for adjusting a communication channel based on a signal scan result. The system includes wireless gateway modules, a wireless transceiver module and a control circuit. The control circuit determines whether or not the wireless transceiver module conducts any transmission task. The wireless transceiver module is activated to scan signals over a selected frequency when it is available. Multiple scan results can be obtained when the scanning process is repeatedly conducted in different frequencies. Signal information is recorded in a signal scan table. Thus, if the system determines the frequency needs to be adjusted based on a transmission status, one of the frequencies recorded in the table can be chosen and set for the wireless gateway module and a transmission frequency for a terminal node is modified. |
| US10932262B2 |
Unified coordination of multiple physical layer devices
A device implementing unified coordination of wireless communications over multiple physical layers may include a MAC module communicatively coupled to first and second physical layer modules that are each configured to communicate with another device over first and second physical wireless channels, respectively. The MAC module may be configured to provide data to the first physical layer module for transmission to the another device over the first physical wireless channel, where the first physical wireless channel is associated with a first link parameter. The MAC module may be further configured to facilitate initializing the second physical wireless channel based at least in part on the first link parameter of the first physical wireless channel, and after initialization of the second physical wireless channel, provide second data to the second physical layer module for transmission to the another device over the second physical wireless channel. |
| US10932256B2 |
Long-term evolution compatible very narrow band design
Aspects of the present invention relate to wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising, identifying resources in a narrowband region, the narrowband region spanning no more than a single resource block in a transmission time interval (TTI) and communicating with a base station using the identified resources. |
| US10932255B2 |
Resource indication method and apparatus, and uplink control signal transmission method and apparatus
Example resource indication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining a resource used by a terminal to send an uplink control signal by a base station. The base station sends indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used to indicate the resource or a target parameter. The target parameter includes at least one of parameters used by the terminal to determine the resource. The described methods are applicable to the field of communications technologies. |
| US10932249B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting downlink control information in wireless communication system
A method for receiving downlink control information (DCI) in a communication system is provided. The method includes identifying a starting resource block of the allocated resource associated with an active bandwidth part based on a starting resource block associated with the initial bandwidth part and a scaling parameter, when a size for the DCI of DCI format 1_0 in a user equipment (UE) specific search space (USS) is derived from a size of the initial bandwidth part and the DCI of DCI format 1_0 is applied to the active bandwidth part, and identifying a length of contiguously allocated resource blocks of the allocated resource associated with the active bandwidth part based on a length contiguously allocated resource blocks associated with the initial bandwidth part and the scaling parameter. |
| US10932246B2 |
Methods and devices for dynamically determining transmission locations of UL DMRS
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for dynamically determining a transmission location of an Uplink (UL) DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS), including: receiving, by a terminal, a DownLink (DL) control channel; and determining, by the terminal, the transmission location of the UL DMRS according to the DL control channel. |
| US10932242B2 |
Multiplexing large payloads of control information from user equipments
An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) over a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH) in a communication system. A method includes acquiring, by a user equipment (UE), from a base station, information for a PUCCH format, the information indicating one of a first PUCCH format associated with more than one resource block or a second PUCCH format associated with one resource block; generating, by the UE, UCI to be transmitted; modulating, by the UE, the UCI by using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK); performing, by the UE, an inverse Fourier transform (IFT) operation on the modulated UCI; and transmitting, by the UE, the inverse Fourier transformed UCI using the PUCCH format based on the information for the PUCCH format. |
| US10932237B2 |
PUCCH resource allocation
In a first subframe, data is sent by a network node in a DL shared channel and a timing indicator is sent in a PDCCH to UE, the timing indicator indicating an offset relative to the first subframe the UE should use in order to determine a second subframe to use to send, in a PUCCH, acknowledgement information for the data received in the DL shared channel of the first subframe. The acknowledgement information is received by the network node from the UE in the PUCCH of the second subframe. The UE receives the data and timing indicator and determines the second subframe using at least the timing indicator. The UE transmits the acknowledgement information in the PUCCH of the second subframe. Apparatus, computer programs and products, and methods are disclosed. |
| US10932236B2 |
Method for transmitting uplink control information
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting uplink control information. The method includes: a User Equipment (UE) receives Uplink Control Information UCI configuration information, wherein the UCI configuration information includes information for determining a periodicity, an offset and a Physical Uplink Control Channel PUCCH for Periodic-Channel State Information P-CSI to be report in one subframe and configuration information for transmission of Hybrid Automatic Retransmission reQuest-Acknowledgement HARQ-ACK; processes one or more kinds of UCI in the subframe, and transmits the UCI on resources using a PUCCH format. According to the method of the present disclosure, the transmit power for transmitting the UCI on the channel using the PUCCH format is optimized. During the transmission of the P-CSI, the PUCCH resource most preferable for the transmission of the P-CSI is determined. The uplink resource utilization ratio is increased. |
| US10932234B2 |
System and method for time division duplexed multiplexing in transmission-reception point to transmission-reception point connectivity
A method for operating a transmission-reception point (TRP) includes determining a first cycle of backhaul communications modes for the TRP, each backhaul communications mode of the first cycle is associated with a different time period and prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using a subset of communications beams available to the TRP during an associated time period, wherein the communications beams used by the TRP and neighboring TRPs of the TRP in each associated time period are selected to prevent mutual interference, and wherein at least one backhaul communications mode of the first cycle prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using all of the communications beams available to the TRP, determining a backhaul frame configuration for the TRP in accordance with the first cycle, the backhaul frame configuration specifying an arrangement of subframes of a frame used for backhaul communications. |
| US10932230B2 |
User apparatus and resource selection method
A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication system that supports D2D communication, including: a signal transmission unit configured to transmit a plurality of D2D signals; and a resource selection unit configured to select, from a predetermined resource pool, a radio resource having a time resource and a frequency resource for transmitting the plurality of D2D signals, wherein the resource selection unit is configured to select the radio resource such that the plurality of D2D signals are not transmitted by a same time resource. |
| US10932227B2 |
Wireless communication method for device to device communication and user equipment
Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI. |
| US10932226B2 |
Methods and apparatus for communicating resource establishment details over eMBMS
A method and apparatus for communicating resource activation details are disclosed. A method of resource activation by a group application server may include requesting, by the group application server, establishment of a distributed resource to be established in a broadcast area and an indication of profess to establish the distributed resource, and receiving a first notification at the group application server. The first notification may be indicative of progress in the establishment of the distributed resource and may be received before the distributed resource is established in the broadcast area. |
| US10932221B2 |
User equipment localization in a mobile communication network
A receiver, which is located in a spatial region of interest served by a transmitter of a wireless communication network, receives a radio signal from at least one transmitter of the wireless communication network, and the radio signal has a plurality of position reference signal (PRS) sequences. Each PRS sequence has associated therewith a different PRS sequence identifier, and each PRS sequence is send using a different beam cone of the transmitter. The beam cones of the transmitter for sending the plurality of PRS sequences are directed to the spatial region of interest. The receiver processes the radio signal to estimate a time of arrival of each PRS sequence and to obtain for each PRS sequence the associated PRS sequence identifier. A position of the receiver is estimated using the times of arrival and the obtained PRS sequence identifiers. |
| US10932220B2 |
Wireless node location identification
Systems and methods permit automatic joining of a network associated with a specified area within which wireless nodes reside. Network managers located in or near the specified area use wireless proximity detection to estimate distances to wireless nodes requesting to join the network. The network managers can use the estimated distances to determine whether or not a requesting wireless node is located within the specified area. If the requesting wireless node is located within the specified area, the network managers can permit the wireless node to join the wireless network associated with the respective specified area. |
| US10932219B2 |
De-registration method in wireless communication system and device therefor
An aspect of the present invention relates to a UE-initiated de-registration method by an AMF in a wireless communication system, and comprises the steps of: receiving, from UE, a de-registration request message that requests de-registration, wherein the de-registration request message includes de-registration type information and first access type information indicating a target access to which the de-registration is to be applied; requesting, when the UE has an established protocol data unit (PDU) session through the target access, an SMF to release the established PDU session; and transmitting a de-registration accept message to the UE depending on the de-registration type. |
| US10932218B2 |
Method for managing registration and session in wireless communication system and apparatus for performing the same
A communication technique that combines a 5G communication system for supporting a data rate that is higher than that of a beyond 4G system with IoT technology, and a system thereof are provided. The technique may be applied to intelligent services on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, etc. A method of performing access deregistration by a user equipment (UE) and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes, when the UE is registered on both 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and non-3GPP access, transmitting, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a deregistration request message to deregister the non-3GPP access over the 3GPP access, and receiving, from the AMF, a deregistration accept message corresponding to the deregistration request message over the 3GPP access. |
| US10932215B2 |
Data transmission control method and apparatus, and terminal
A data transmission control method and apparatus, and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: performing, by a master terminal, a timing negotiation with respective slave terminals to obtain timings allocated to the respective slave terminals; sending, upon completion of timing allocation, interactive data by means of broadcasting, the interactive data being sent to the slave terminals; receiving responses of the respective slave terminals to the received interactive data according to the allocated corresponding timings; and acknowledging, using the received responses, completion of transmission of the interactive data to the slave terminals. The data transmission control method and apparatus and the terminal can be used to improve data transmission efficiency and channel utilization. |
| US10932211B2 |
Method and apparatus for wireless device synchronization in a beam-based communication system
Among other things, the method and apparatus examples herein provide a solution to the problems that arise regarding the need for a wireless device (50) to achieve source synchronization in a beam-based system, where the wireless communication network (20) does not define “cells” for connected-mode wireless devices (50). The problems relate to how a wireless device can re-synchronize with its source access node in a beam-based system that mainly relies on self-contained transmissions from transmission points (30) in the network (20). As one example advantage, the contemplated methods and apparatus enable wireless devices (50) to perform measurements to support mobility procedures even when no data transmissions are scheduled. |
| US10932210B2 |
Content output device and control method thereof
A first content output device (e.g., speaker) may include a communication interface, an output unit, and a processor. The first content output device, upon receiving a request, selectively transmits audio content to an external content output device (e.g., speaker) via two different networks. While the external content device is buffering the audio content received from the first content device via a first network, the devices are setting up for connection via a different second network. When the setting for connection between the device via the second network is completed, the first content output device switches to transmitting the audio content to the external content output device via the second network. |
| US10932209B2 |
Wireless communication method, network device and terminal device
A method for wireless communication, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method for wireless communication includes: a terminal device receives a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), here, the SSB comprises Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH); here, the SSB comprises four consecutive symbols in time domain, which are symbol S0, symbol S1, symbol S2 and symbol S3 in sequence; and the PSS is transmitted on the symbol S0, the SSS is transmitted on the symbol S2, and the PBCH is transmitted on the symbol S1, the symbol S2 and the symbol S3. |
| US10932208B2 |
Power configuration method and device
A power configuration method and a device, the power configuration method including sending, by a first network device, M power configuration parameters to a second network device, where the M power configuration parameters are corresponding to M antenna port sets, wherein at least one of the M antenna port sets belongs to the first network device, where each power configuration parameter is used to calculate power of a downlink data channel between a corresponding antenna port set and the second network device, and where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2. |
| US10932206B2 |
Reference signal sending and receiving method, network device, and terminal device
This application provides a reference signal sending and receiving method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a transmit power used to transmit a reference signal, where the transmit power is related to a quantity of ports carried on an RE occupied by the reference signal; and sending, by the network device, the reference signal based on the transmit power. |
| US10932199B2 |
Method and terminal for implementing uplink power control
A method and a terminal for uplink power control are disclosed. The method comprising: determining the uplink transmit power by a terminal according to a transmission scenario in which the terminal belongs. In embodiments of present disclosure, uplink transmit power is determined by a terminal for uplink transmission, wherein a scheme of uplink power control is achieved. |
| US10932197B2 |
Wireless communication method and device
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communications method and device, to perform appropriate power control on an SRS. The method includes: obtaining a closed-loop power control parameter for a sounding reference signal SRS resource set according to a first uplink signal or a first downlink signal corresponding to the SRS resource set; determining a target transmit power for the SRS resource set according to the closed-loop power control parameter; and sending an SRS to a network device on an SRS resource in the SRS resource set according to the target transmit power. |
| US10932195B1 |
Parent device shadow execution for a sleeping low power and lossy network child network device
In one embodiment, a method comprises: generating and storing, by a parent device in a low power lossy network (LLN), first state variables associated with a first execution state of an attached child during an active state of the child; determining a request, received by the parent device, is destined for the child and specifying a second execution state to be executed by the child; selectively updating, by the parent device, the first state variables with second state variables associated with the second execution state identifying an updated execution state for the child; detecting, by the parent device, that the child has transitioned from a sleep state to a second active state, and in response generating an instruction based on the second state variables; and transmitting the instruction to the child during the second active state, causing the child to execute the second execution state. |
| US10932189B2 |
Method for an enhanced power consumption management of a user equipment using a mobile communication network and a radio access technology, user equipment, system, program comprising a computer readable program code, and computer program product
A method for enhanced power consumption management of a user equipment using a mobile communication network and a radio access technology. The user equipment is provided with priority information regarding at least one of the mobile communication network and the radio access technology. The method includes performing, by the user equipment in case that the priority information indicates a sufficiently low priority of at least one of the mobile communication network used by the user equipment and the radio access technology used by the user equipment, a network selection procedure to find a higher priority mobile communication network after a time interval has elapsed. The user equipment includes an entity realizing the functionality of a subscriber identity module that includes time interval related information such that the time interval depends on the time interval related information. |
| US10932186B2 |
Multiple network mode selection devices
Systems and methods for multiple network mode selection devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a multiple network mode selection device includes a processor, a radio module connected to the processor, and network determination process storage connected to the processor and configured to store one or more network determination processes, wherein the processor is configured to connect to a first network using the radio module, execute a network determination process selected from the one or more network determination process, reprogram the radio module in response to the executed network determination process, and connect to a second network using the radio module, where the second network is separate from the first network. |
| US10932185B2 |
Transmitter and receiver for master information block over physical broadcast channel
Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a circuitry operable to generate a Master Information Block (MIB) for transmission on one or more Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs). The apparatus may also comprise a circuitry operable to map the MIB onto at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the PRBs outside of symbols 7, 8, 9, and 10. Transmission of the PRBs may be subject to an LBT procedure. |
| US10932179B2 |
Support of A-MSDU in A-MPDU
A method and apparatus for supporting A-MSDU data transfer in an A-MPDU system includes sending capability information from a first network device, receiving onto the first network device an A-MPDU frame that includes A-MSDU data, and sending an acknowledgment from the first network device. A bit field in the capability information indicates if inclusion of A-MSDU data in an A-MPDU payload is supported. The first network device is a wireless station (STA). The first network device is part of a peer-to-peer network. The A-MSDU is in a data enabled immediate response context. A bit field in the capability information indicates if receiving an A-MPDU frame including A-MSDU data carried in a QoS Data frame without a block acknowledgment agreement is supported. |
| US10932178B2 |
Network configuration method and apparatus and system
A network configuration method, including: receiving, by a target primary eNB of user equipment, a handover request message transmitted by a source primary eNB of the user equipment, the handover request message containing identification indication information or service indication information of the user equipment in a serving eNB before handover. |
| US10932171B2 |
Access point switching method and apparatus
The present application relates to the field of information technologies, and discloses an access point switching method and apparatus, to avoid interruption of another communication service that needs to be performed with an AE by using an M2M platform, thereby improving user experience. According to the present invention, after an access point for the AE is switched from the M2M platform to the M2M gateway, the AE can receive communication services corresponding to the M2M platform and the M2M gateway. |
| US10932170B2 |
System and method for performing network selection
The system and methods of the various embodiments enable fine grained network selection decisions. This may allow a mobile network operator, a cable operator, or a Wi-Fi network operator to define network selection rules that are not only based upon network availability, time, and location, but also on network signal strength, signal to noise ratio, link speed, and cellular network radio parameters. These rules may also be complimented with local device based policies and parameters, which may possibly be based on user preferences and/or network operator preferences. The system and methods of the various embodiments also prevent inadvertent Wi-Fi network selection decisions by incorporating a time threshold parameter which defines a time period for which a wireless device must have detected a specific Wi-Fi access point prior to performing network selection. |
| US10932169B2 |
Systems and methods for determining TCP transfer types in LTE-A communication networks and handling thereof
Mobile nodes communicating in direct mode (DM) may be compelled, due to their mobility pattern, to switch to infrastructure mode (IM) via conventional uplink/downlink through base station (eNB) to maintain best possible link-quality. When mobile nodes move away from each other, Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) may degrade over D2D link, side link (SL), and eNB is forced to re-schedule nodes to IM, incurring additional delay and potential loss of packets in transit. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods that uses information such as flow size, transport layer type, bandwidth and RTT to determine whether request initiated by a mobile node for communication with another mobile node is of a particular transfer flow type and based on the request type (i) DM is enabled for communication or (ii) DM mode is disabled and initiates, within the mobile node, request to activate IM mode for communication. |
| US10932168B2 |
Next generation node-B (gNB) and methods for mobility management with separate user plane and control plane in new radio (NR) systems
Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configurable to operate as a source gNB (S-gNB). The S-gNB may transfer, from a control plane (CU-CP) of the S-gNB to a CU-CP of a target gNB (T-gNB), an XnAP handover request message that indicates an Xn handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the S-gNB to the T-gNB. The S-gNB may initiate data forwarding, from a user plane (CU-UP) of the S-gNB to a CU-UP of the T-gNB, of downlink data packets. The data forwarding may be terminated based on reception of end marker packets from a user plane function (UPF) entity. The CU-UP of the S-gNB may transfer end marker packets to the CU-UP of the S-gNB to indicate termination of the data forwarding. |
| US10932163B1 |
Controlling handover based on source and target capabilities with respect to dual connectivity
A method for controlling handover of a user equipment device (UE) between a first access node and a second access node. The first access node could select a handover process with the selecting being based on whether (i) the source access node and target access nodes are both dual-connectivity capable or both not dual-connectivity capable or rather (ii) one of the access nodes is dual-connectivity capable and the other of the access nodes is not dual-connectivity capable. For example, if both are dual-connectivity capable or not dual-connectivity capable, then the source access node could opt for X2 handover. Whereas if one is dual-connectivity capable and the other is not dual-connectivity capable, then the source access node could opt for S1 handover. |
| US10932158B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of offloading traffic of a secondary cell group (SCG)
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of offloading traffic of a Secondary Cell Group (SCG). For example, some embodiments may include identifying a SCG bearer that is offloadable to the Internet via a Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway, based on offloading information received from a Master Evolved Node B (eNB) (MeNB); and offloading uplink Internet Protocol (IP) packets of the SCG bearer to the Internet via the NAT gateway, if the SCG bearer is indicated to be offloadable. |
| US10932155B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting and receiving data to provide high-speed data communication and method thereof
In the present invention, data generated from a source unit are distributed to at least one bandwidth; the data distributed to the respective bandwidths are encoded in order to perform an error correction; the encoded data are distributed to at least one antenna; a subcarrier is allocated to the data distributed to the respective antennas, and an inverse Fourier transform is performed; a short preamble and a first long preamble corresponding to the subcarrier are generated; a signal symbol is generated according to a data transmit mode; and a frame is generated by adding a second long preamble between the signal symbol and a data field for the purpose of estimating a channel of a subcarrier which is not used. |
| US10932154B2 |
Buffer status reporting method, terminal, and computer storage medium
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a buffer status reporting method, where the method including: triggering, by a terminal, reporting of a padding buffer status report (padding BSR); and determining, by the terminal, a reported BSR format according to a size of padding bits, a size of a first type of BSR format plus its media access control (MAC) subheader, and a quantity of logical channel groups currently having to-be-transmitted data being buffered, where a quantity of logical channel groups corresponding to the BSR format is greater than or equal to 1, and less than or equal to a maximum quantity of logical channel groups currently having to-be-transmitted data being buffered. |
| US10932144B2 |
Disturbance detection for transport links
The method comprises sampling transport data received on the transport link to determine properties of the transport link. The method comprises detecting the disturbance of the transport link based on the determined properties of the transport link. The method comprises, responsive to the detecting the disturbance, determining, based on the sampled received transport data, the cause of the disturbance. The method further comprises, responsive to detecting the disturbance, refraining from transmitting an indication of the disturbance or transmitting the indication of the disturbance with an instruction for resolving the disturbance. |
| US10932138B2 |
Spectrum access optimization for self organizing networks
Improved techniques are provided for managing and optimizing network resources and spectrum access in a Self-Organizing Network (SON). A Spectrum Access System (SAS) collects network-related information from a plurality of network sources, such as base stations and user equipments (UEs), to perform optimization and organization across different networks, network operators, and network technologies. In some embodiments, the SAS may use the network information and a Radio Environment Map to optimize TDD synchronization in the SON. In other embodiments, the SAS may use the network information to populate a global Neighbor Relation Table. The SAS also may use the network information to optimize one or more network parameters, such as Physical Cell Identities or Root Sequence Indexes, antenna parameters, transmit power levels, handover thresholds, channel assignments, and so on, for use in the SON. Advantageously, the SAS's optimized network parameters may be used to improve network performance, reduce signal interference, and adjust to network failures in the SON. |
| US10932136B2 |
Resource partitioning for network slices in segment routing networks
Resource rationing for network slices in segment routing networks may be provided. A network slice may be created in a communication network. A portion of network resource may be dedicated to the network slice. The dedicated portion of network resource may be bound to the network slice using a segment identifier. The segment identifier may be advertised to the communication network. Data packets associated with the network slice may be routed using the dedicated portion of network resource. |
| US10932131B2 |
Service provisioning by local operator
It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a network information from a server part of an application is received by a client part of the application, wherein the client part is connected to the server part via a first network, the first network is of a radio access technology, the network parameter is related to a second network, and the second network is of the radio access technology, and the second network is different from the first network; and controlling a cellular radio layer such that it interworks with the second network based on the network information if the network information is received. |
| US10932127B2 |
Evaluating trustworthiness of data transmitted via unencrypted wireless mobile communications
Systems and methods for making local decisions regarding the trustworthiness of V2V communications are provided. According to one embodiment, a vehicle information packet is received by a vehicle connectivity subsystem of a connected car and is indicative of an attribute of a source from which the packet was received. The source purportedly represents a neighboring vehicle in proximity to the connected car. A trustworthiness value for the packet is determined based on the source and coherence of the packet with local information maintained by the connected car. The trustworthiness value is indicative of a likelihood that the source represents a neighboring vehicle in proximity to the connected car from which communications are to be trusted. An action to be taken by the vehicle connectivity subsystem is determined with respect to the source or the packet based on the trustworthiness value. The determined action taken by the vehicle connectivity subsystem. |
| US10932126B2 |
Method for unlocking SIM card and mobile terminal
A method for unlocking a SIM card includes: determining, by a mobile terminal, whether a currently inserted SIM card belongs to a preset SIM card in compliance with a specific operator; controlling the mobile terminal to access a network normally if yes; detecting lock information of an IMSI corresponding to the SIM card if no; limiting the SIM card to access the network when the lock information of the IMSI exists and a lock type of the IMSI is a lock state; and controlling the mobile terminal to access the network normally when the lock information of the IMSI exists and the lock type of the IMSI is an unlock state. A mobile terminal is also provided. |
| US10932123B2 |
Systems and methods for temporary wireless data service
A service provider server may receive a request for temporary wireless data service for a user device. The service provider server may determine user information associated with a user account of the user device based on the request for the temporary wireless data service. The service provider server may generate a profile for the temporary wireless data service based on the user information associated with the user account. The service provider server may provide provisioning information based on the profile for the temporary wireless data service to the user device to activate access to the temporary wireless data service. The service provider server may authenticate, after providing the provisioning information, the user device for use of the temporary wireless data service based on the provisioning information and the profile. |
| US10932122B1 |
User equipment beam effectiveness
Systems and methods are provided for improving user equipment (UE) beam effectiveness for a high mobility user. The system calculates at least one shift value for a UE based on a reference signal transmitted by the UE. When it is determined that the at least one shift value for the UE is greater than a predetermined threshold, the system will analyze at least past shift value. Based on this analysis, the system will predict a future shift value for the first UE beam. Then, instruction are provided for the modification of one or more of a first UE beam or a second UE beam. |
| US10932120B2 |
Determining mobile network class of service
Examples relate to determining mobile network class of service. In one example, a computing device may receive, from a mobility management entity (MME), a request from a device that requested access to a network operated by the MME, the request specifying an account identifier and location data that corresponds to the device; based on the location data, determine that the device is roaming; based on the account identifier and in response to the determination that the device is roaming, identify a class of service (CoS) for the device; and provide the MME with response data including the identified CoS. |
| US10932117B2 |
System and method for establishing a wireless connection between power tool and mobile device
A method and system for connecting a power tool with a mobile device. The mobile device receives a user request to connect to a power tool and transmits a short-range advertisement. The power tool receives the short-range advertisement and transmits a signal. The mobile device receives the signal from the power tool and determines a signal strength. The mobile device compares the signal strength to a predetermined signal strength value. When the signal strength value exceeds the predetermined signal strength value, the mobile device connects with the power tool. |
| US10932116B2 |
Wireless fidelity network scanning method and mobile device
A Wireless Fidelity network scanning method and a mobile device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a mobile device, information about a distance between a location of the mobile device at a first time point and a location of the mobile device at a second time point, where the first time point is a time point later than the second time point; determining, by the mobile device, that the information about the distance is less than a first distance threshold, and adjusting a first scanning frequency at which the mobile device scans a WiFi network to a second scanning frequency, where the second scanning frequency is less than the first scanning frequency; and scanning, by the mobile device, the WiFi network according to the second scanning frequency. |
| US10932113B2 |
Movement-dependent transmission of data between a hand-held machine tool and an external unit
A method for the wireless transmission of electronic data between a hand-held machine tool and an external unit includes automatically activating a communication unit for transmitting the electronic data as a function of a characteristic movement variable of the communication unit. |
| US10932109B2 |
System configurations to determine user data associated with mobile applications
Various systems, mediums, and methods may determine one or more configurations associated with a provider application. For example, a mobile system may determine a request to install a provider application, possibly based on one or more user inputs received by the mobile system. The mobile system may determine other applications installed on the mobile system. The mobile system may determine one or more configurations of the provider application based on the other applications installed. As such, the mobile system may install the provider application to the mobile system based on the one or more configurations determined. |
| US10932105B2 |
Memory pooling between selected memory resources on vehicles or base stations
Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to memory pooling between selected memory resources on vehicles or base stations are described. A system using a memory pool formed as such may enable performance of functions, including automated functions critical for prevention of damage to a product, personnel safety, and/or reliable operation, based on increased access to data that may improve performance of a mission profile. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes a wireless base station coupled to a first processor coupled to a first memory resource that are configured to enable formation of a memory pool to share data between the first memory resource and a second memory resource at a vehicle responsive to a request to access the second memory resource from the first processor transmitted via the base station. The data shared by the second memory resource is determined to enable performance of a particular functionality, stored by the first memory resource, as at least part of a mission profile for transit of the vehicle. |
| US10932103B1 |
Determining position of a user relative to a tote
Described are systems and techniques configured to determine a tote placement indicative of a position of a user relative to a tote, or vice versa. The determination may be based at least in part on data such as images acquired from cameras onboard the tote, images acquired from cameras external to the tote, proximity sensors onboard the tote, weight sensors, and so forth. Orientation of information presented on a display device of the tote may be based on the tote placement. |
| US10932101B2 |
Blockchain system and method for calculating location of time-crucial shipments according to expectation and smart contracts
A client-server system and a blockchain method for calculating whether a time-crucial shipment is located according to an expectation comprising a client device adapted for being adhered to or placed within a time-crucial package shipment; and a remote special purpose computer server comprising a transit plan schedule database based on pickup time and location stored in memory, the remote special purpose computer server being programmed to calculate a location of the client device based on data accessed from a Wi-Fi access point location database, the transmitted identification data, and the transmitted signal strength data, and compare the calculated location to an expected location based on common carrier schedule transit plan pickup time and delivery location received from third party database sources. |
| US10932100B2 |
Method, apparatus and core network nodes for policy and charging control
The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatus, and core network nodes for policy and charging control. The method includes: generating policy and charging information based, at least, on User Equipment (UE) and Radio Access Network, (RAN) information related to different types of accesses using unlicensed spectrum resource, licensed spectrum resource, and combinations thereof; and performing policy and charging control based on the policy and charging information. |
| US10932099B2 |
Personalized management of connected devices
Centralized management of the Internet of Things resolves user difficulties. Connected devices may be associated with an owner's or user's electronic profile. The electronic profile may be represented as a graphical user interface (such as a webpage), thus allowing remote management of the connected devices. The owner or user may thus configure the electronic profile to define what electronic data is shared and with whom. |
| US10932094B2 |
Method and system for radiolocation asset tracking via a mesh network
A method of determining a reference clock in a mesh network includes receiving multiple signals, correlating the multiple signals with a local signal generated by the first node to determine a coarse set of time differences, refining the coarse set of time differences using a phase of a carrier signal of the multiple signals to produce a refined set of time differences, and using the refined set of time differences to define a reference clock. |
| US10932086B2 |
Vehicle sensing and access control for on-demand services
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for providing on-demand services to vehicles are described. The disclosed technology determines information associated with a vehicle, generates a request for a fuel delivery on-demand service using the information, confirms identification of the vehicle using a wireless signal of the vehicle, provides access to the vehicle to enable performance of the fuel delivery on-demand service and secures the vehicle after completion of the fuel delivery on-demand service. |
| US10932081B1 |
Bidirectional propagation of sound
The description relates to rendering directional sound. One implementation includes receiving directional impulse responses corresponding to a scene. The directional impulse responses can correspond to multiple sound source locations and a listener location in the scene. The implementation can also include encoding the directional impulse responses to obtain encoded departure direction parameters for individual sound source locations. The implementation can also include outputting the encoded departure direction parameters, the encoded departure direction parameters providing sound departure directions from the individual sound source locations for rendering of sound. |
| US10932080B2 |
Multi-sensor object tracking for modifying audio
Examples are disclosed that relate to repositioning a location of an acoustic sweet spot for a multi-speaker system. One example provides a computing system configured to receive first location data regarding a first location of an object in a space as determined from data acquired by a first image sensor having a fixed location within the space, send a notification to an audio-providing device regarding the first location of the object as determined from the data acquired by the first image sensor, receive second location data regarding a second location of the object in the space as determined by a second sensor, the second location being outside of a view of the first image sensor, and based on receiving the second location data, send a notification to the audio-providing device regarding the second location of the object as determined by the second sensor. |
| US10932077B2 |
Method and device for automatic configuration of an audio output system
Audio reproduction systems include a plurality of loudspeakers that are actuated in accordance with a multi-channel audio format. The loudspeakers can be configuratable by way of a network interface The loudspeakers are registered on the network. A method for automatic configuration of an audio reproduction system includes automatically determining that all loudspeakers are connected to the network, determining the number of loudspeakers which are disposed in the same room and which are part of the loudspeaker arrangement, automatically generating a representation of a virtual loudspeaker arrangement on a display according to the determined number, and sequentially, for each loudspeaker belonging to the loudspeaker arrangement, as an actual loudspeaker, generating a signal by the actual loudspeaker, receiving a user input characterizing a virtual loudspeaker, assigning the position of the characterized virtual loudspeaker to the actual loudspeakers and configuring audio signal processing for the actual loudspeaker according to its assigned position. |
| US10932074B2 |
Detachable smart speaker system and control method thereof
A detachable smart speaker system and a control method thereof are disclosed. The detachable smart speaker system includes a core device and a pairing device. The core device includes a microphone array, a CPU, a wireless communication module, a core bridge element and a database. The microphone array, the core bridge element and the database are connected to the CPU. The database includes plural audio parameter sets. The pairing device includes a speaker, a microcontroller unit, a pairing bridge element, and an identification code. The speaker and the pairing bridge element are connected to the microcontroller unit, respectively. The pairing device is detachably connected to the core device through the pairing bridge element, and a corresponding audio parameter set is to be selected from the audio parameter sets of the database according to the identification code. The core device controls the pairing device according to the corresponding audio parameter set. |
| US10932072B2 |
Optical measurement of displacement
Systems and methods for optically measuring displacement of an element include an emitter for emitting an optical signal, a first detector for detecting reflections of the optical signal from the element, a second detector for detecting reflections of the optical signal from a raised cover structure, a processor for receiving the detected reflections from the first and second detectors and removing distortions in the detected reflections from the first detector using the detected reflections from the second detector. |
| US10932071B2 |
Methods and systems for loading hearing instrument parameters
Methods and systems are described for transferring programming information to a hearing instrument. Such programming information may include hearing loss compensation parameters and/or other information pertaining to device operation. In one embodiment, each of a pair of hearing instruments prescribed and configured for a particular hearing loss contains the necessary information for operation on either the left or right ear. The data from one hearing instrument may then be transferred to the other hearing instrument by means of wireless communication. In other embodiments, programming information is transferred wirelessly by an external device connected to a database. |
| US10932057B2 |
Speaker
The present disclosure provides a speaker, including a flexible circuit board, a holder, a diaphragm received in the holder, and a voice coil received in the holder and configured to drive the diaphragm to vibrate. The voice coil is electrically connected to the flexible circuit board, and includes an upper surface close to the diaphragm, a lower surface facing away from the diaphragm, and a side surface connecting the upper surface with the lower surface. The flexible circuit board includes a body portion supporting the voice coil. The body portion includes a bottom wall that abuts against the lower surface of the voice coil and an extension portion extending from the bottom wall while being bent towards the diaphragm. The extension portion is attached to and fixed to the side surface. |
| US10932055B2 |
Speaker
Provided is a speaker, including a holder, a pad fitted in the holder, and a conductive terminal. The conductive terminal comprises a fixed portion fitted into the holder, an elastic arm, and an engaging portion, an electrical connection portion. The elastic arm comprises an arc-shaped conductive portion connected to the fixed portion, and an extending portion connecting the arc-shaped conductive portion and the electrical connection portion. The arc-shaped conductive portion is spaced apart from the holder and protruding from the holder, the extending portion extends from the arc-shaped conductive portion towards the holder, and an end of the extending portion facing away from the arc-shaped conductive portion is attached to the holder. The engaging portion extends from an edge of an end of the extending portion facing away from the arc-shaped conductive portion while being bent towards the holder, and is engaged in an engaging groove of the holder. |
| US10932051B2 |
Speaker
The present disclosure provides a speaker. The speaker includes a basket having an accommodating space, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system which are accommodated in the accommodating space. The magnetic circuit system includes a yoke fixedly connected to the basket, a main magnetic steel assembled to the middle of the yoke, and a main pole core attached to a surface of the magnet away from the yoke. The main magnetic steel has a first leakage hole formed in a vibration direction of the vibration system, and the main pole core has a second leakage hole formed at a position corresponding to the first leakage hole. The first leakage hole and the second leakage hole are in communication with each other. |
| US10932045B2 |
Speaker
The present disclosure provides a speaker. The speaker comprises a fixing system and a vibration system, the vibration system includes a membrane, a voice coil for driving the membrane to generate sound, and an elastic part fixedly connected to one end of the voice coil distal from the membrane. The elastic part comprises a diaphragm elastically supporting the voice coil. The diaphragm comprises a first fixing portion fixedly connected to the fixing system, a second fixing portion fixedly connected to the voice coil and an edge connecting the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion. The edge is provided with a plurality of openings. The present disclosure also provides a speaker using a breathable material. |
| US10932044B2 |
Speaker
A speaker includes a holder and a vibration unit and a magnetic circuit unit fixed and held at the holder. The vibration unit includes: a first diaphragm and an elastic support located at an end of the voice coil facing away from the first diaphragm and elastically supporting the voice coil. The elastic support includes a flexible circuit board and a second diaphragm fixed and held at one side of the flexible circuit board facing away from the voice coil. The flexible circuit board is sandwiched between the voice coil and the second diaphragm and includes an upper surface fixed to the voice coil and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface. The second diaphragm is fixed to the lower surface by a binder, and the lower surface is recessed towards the upper surface to form a binder accommodation groove. |
| US10932043B2 |
Wireless audio system and method for wirelessly communicating audio information using the same
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first and a second wireless headphones. The first wireless headphone is configured to receive, from an audio source, audio information using a short-range wireless communication, and in response to successfully receiving the audio information from the audio source, transmit a first error correcting message including an error correcting code generated based on the audio information to a second wireless headphone. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive the audio information from the audio source using the short-range wireless communication, attempt to correct the received audio information based on the first error correcting message, and determine that the received audio information fails to be corrected. In response to the determination, the first wireless headphone is further configured to transmit a second error correcting message including the received audio information to the second wireless headphone. |
| US10932035B2 |
Sound generator
The present invention provides a sound generator having a permeable isolation assembly including a permeable damper and a back gum attached to the permeable damper. The permeable damper can completely cover two through holes for leakage, two through holes can be covered at the same time with back gum pasted only once, which effectively improves production and assembly efficiency. The permeable isolation assembly includes a permeable damper and a back gum attached to one side of the permeable damper adjacent to the bottom wall. The permeable damper comprises a body part and a pair of extension parts extending from both ends of the body part respectively. The back gum includes a primary body, and a pair of branch bodies extending from two ends of the primary body and attached to the extension parts respectively. |
| US10932034B2 |
Sound generator
The present invention provides a sound generator having a permeable isolation assembly including a permeable damper and two gums attached to the opposite ends of the permeable damper. The permeable damper can completely cover two through holes for leakage, two through holes can be covered at the same time with gums pasted only once, which effectively improves production and assembly efficiency. |
| US10932033B2 |
Speaker box
The present disclosure provides a speaker box. The speaker box includes an upper housing, a lower housing forming an accommodating space together with the upper housing, and a speaker unit accommodated in the accommodating space. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm configured to vibrate and produce sound. The diaphragm is disposed separately from the upper housing to define a front acoustic cavity. The speaker box further includes a sound channel communicating the front acoustic cavity with an external environment. The front acoustic cavity and the sound channel constitute a front cavity of the speaker box together. A baffle fixedly connected to the upper housing is disposed in the sound channel. The baffle and the upper housing define a resonant cavity in communication with the front acoustic cavity, and the resonant cavity has an inlet facing to the front acoustic cavity. |
| US10932032B2 |
Acoustic device
An acoustic device includes a first chamber, a first through hole, a vibration structure, and a separation structure. The first chamber includes a first end and a second end. The first through hole is defined at the first end of the first chamber. The vibration structure is disposed at the second end of the first chamber and is configured to transmit an acoustic wave away from the first chamber. The separation structure is disposed within the first chamber and divides the first chamber into a first sub-chamber and a second sub-chamber. The separation structure defines a second through hole connecting the first sub-chamber and the second sub-chamber. |
| US10932031B2 |
Displayer
A displayer is provided, including a display module, a speaker and a displayer housing. The speaker includes a fixing support configured to fix the speaker to the displayer and anti-vibration pads, and the displayer housing includes a body and a speaker fixing member on the body. The speaker fixing member includes anti-vibration members configured to restrain a vibration of the speaker, and the anti-vibration members are in contact with the anti-vibration pads. |
| US10932030B2 |
Headphones
Headphones include a first microphone configured to receive ambient sound at an outside of an external auditory canal of a user; a second microphone configured to receive sound inside the external auditory canal; a speaker configured to output sound toward the external auditory canal; a determiner configured to determine whether or not wind noise has occurred by comparing a first signal based on the sound received the first microphone with a second signal based on the sound received by the second microphone; and a processor configured to output, to the speaker, a signal obtained by adding an input signal to the first signal when the determiner determines that wind noise has not occurred. |
| US10932028B2 |
Method and system for audio sharing
The present invention provide a method and system of audio sharing aimed to revolutionize the way people listen and share music and to give multiple uses to a wireless headphone referred to as HEDphone. A communication protocol referred to as HEDtech protocol is used in a HED system to allow users to share music amongst a plurality of HEDphones while using a single audio source. A wireless connection is established between the HEDphone and a mobile device including an audio source while simultaneously having the capability of allowing other HEDphone users to join wirelessly and listen to the same audio source. A feature of Super Human Hearing (SHH) goes beyond conventional ANR (ambient noise reduction) with additional features that allow the user to control their aural environment by being able to directionally increase or decrease selective frequencies. |
| US10932025B2 |
Speaker device
A speaker device includes: a diaphragm; a coil directly or indirectly attached to the diaphragm; a yoke having a notch on a bottom surface thereof; a frame to which the coil and the yoke are attached; and a first terminal provided on the frame and electrically connected to the coil. The first terminal is provided at a position corresponding to the notch of the yoke. |
| US10932020B2 |
Sound generator
The present invention provides a sound generator. The sound generator of the present disclosure is characterized in that the front cover hollows to form the glue slot which is around and communicated with the positioning holes. After being filled into the glue slot, the glue flows into the gap between the melting point posts and the positioning holes for filling. Therefore the horizontal sway of the front cover is reduced and even avoided, and then the front cover is fixed stably. At the same time, with the gap, the glue can flow to the position between the frame and the front cover, which increases the fixing strength and stability between the front cover and the frame with the melting points as well as the tensile property of the front cover, and therefore the acoustic stability of the sound generator is further optimized. |
| US10932018B2 |
Method for removing static differential delays between signals transported over an optical transport network
A method for removing static differential delays resulting from an independent transport of the client signals of a client signal bundle through an optical transport network, OTN, which comprises OTN mappers mapping received client signals to ODU signals transported to OTN demappers demapping received ODU signals to client signals, wherein a process slave, PS, at the OTN mapper end of said OTN network supplies continuously or in response to a received request information about timing relations between the client signals of said client signal bundle to a process master, PM, at the OTN demapper end of said OTN network used by the process master, PM, to remove the static differential delays between the client signals of the respective client signal bundle. |
| US10932017B2 |
Network telemetry with byte distribution and cryptographic protocol data elements
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a flow including a plurality of bytes, each byte having one of a plurality of byte values, determining a byte value distribution metric based on a number of instances of each of the plurality of byte values in the flow, and transmitting telemetry data regarding the flow, the telemetry data including the byte value distribution metric. |
| US10932014B2 |
Systems and methods for inserting breakpoints and reference links into a media file
Described herein are systems and methods for inserting breakpoints and reference links into a multimedia file. A method may comprise receiving breakpoint information from a content provider, wherein the breakpoint information is specific to a first digital media file of a plurality of digital media files, inserting a plurality of breakpoints into the first digital media file based on the breakpoint information, wherein the plurality of breakpoints designate at least one clip within the first digital media file, receiving a user share request from a user device to share the at least one clip within the first digital media file, and providing the user device with a sharable reference link to the at least one clip. |
| US10932012B2 |
Video integration using video indexing
A video player that can launch a program from the video player while a video relating to the program (for example, a tutorial video) is being played. Also, a video player that can start a video location at a time location that is determined by a program location currently being executed by a computer program being run by the user. In order to do these things, a mapping is maintained between time ranges in the video and program locations to which the time ranges of the video respectively relate. |
| US10932011B2 |
Media substitution triggered by broadcast watermark
An attention marker can be transmitted to a radio receiver using an out-of-band transmission. One or more watermarks can be inserted in an over-the-air broadcast. A radio can include a tuner for receiving the over-the-air broadcast; an out-of-band receiver to receive substitute media content and the attention marker; memory to store the substitute media content; a user interface to play out media content to a user; and processing circuitry implementing multiple modules such as a marker detection module, a watermark detection module, and a local playout control module. The marker detection module can detect the out-of-band attention marker, and in response to detection of the attention marker trigger or schedule activation/deactivation of the watermark detection module. If the watermark detection module detects a watermark, the substitute content stored in the memory can be played out in place of the broadcast content. |
| US10932007B2 |
Video quality optimization based on display capabilities
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming/downloading and playback, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing video quality optimization based on display capabilities. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive user input from a user indicating a user request for media content. The computing system might autonomously determine characteristics or attributes of a playback device (i.e., a display device and/or audio playback device, etc.). The computing system might send, to a media content source over a network, a request for the media content, the request comprising information regarding presentation characteristics that are based at least in part on the determined characteristics of the playback device. The computing system might receive a version of the media content having the one or more presentation characteristics, and might relay the received version of the media content to the playback device for presentation to the user. |
| US10932006B2 |
Systems and methods for previewing content
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can cause a content item to be presented through a display screen of the computing device, the presentation of the content item beginning at a first time position. A determination is made that a user operating the computing device has adjusted the presentation of the content item to correspond to a second time position. A thumbnail preview that corresponds to the second time position is obtained from a composite preview video associated with the content item. |
| US10932005B2 |
Speech interface
A system (100) for enabling a user to select media content in an entertainment environment, comprising a remote control device (110) having a set of user-activated keys and a speech activation circuit adapted to enable a speech signal; a speech engine (160) comprising a speech recognizer (170); an application wrapper (180) configured to recognize substantive meaning in the speech signal; and a media content controller (190) configured to select media content. Every function that can be executed by activation of the user-activated keys can also be executed by the speech engine (160) in response to the recognized substantive meaning. |
| US10932004B2 |
Recommending content based on group collaboration
Embodiments are directed towards recommending and providing content to a user group for the social consumption of recommended content. Embodiments include generating an individual recommendation for the users based on user preferences of the plurality of users. A group recommendation is generated based on a combination of the individual recommendations. The group recommendation is provided to each of the plurality of users. The group may collaborate over the group recommendation. During collaboration, the group may generate a dialog that includes a discussion based on the group recommendation. Keyword and sentiment pairs, included in the dialog, are determined. The group recommendation is updated based on the keywords and sentiments. The updated group recommendation is provided to the users. In response to detecting a group consensus while monitoring the group collaboration, content associated with the group consensus is provided to the users. Providing the content enables a social content-consuming experience. |
| US10932000B2 |
Data processing device, data processing method, and data processing system
Provided is a data processing device that includes a sound extracting unit that extracts one or more sound blocks to be reproduced together with video data based on the plurality of images, on the basis of a predetermined characteristic quantity from sound data corresponding to sound captured within a period in which a plurality of intermittent images has been captured. |
| US10931999B1 |
Systems and methods for routing content to an associated output device
Apparatuses and methods for routing content are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for routing content include receiving audio data representing a command from a first electronic device, determining content that is associated with the command, sending responsive audio data to the first electronic device, and sending instructions to the second electronic device to output the content associated with the command. In some embodiments, a method for routing contents includes determining a state of the second electronic device and sending instructions to output the content to a selected one of the first and second electronic devices based on the state of the second electronic device. |
| US10931995B2 |
Method of transferring audiovisual data and corresponding device
A solution for transferring audiovisual data between devices is provided. A device, for example a guest device, wishes to transfer audiovisual data to a device in a host local network. The guest device connects to a server in a wide area network via the host local network. The guest device selects, via its connection to the server and from a list, provided by the server, of devices in the host local network, a device present in the host local network. The guest device retrieves via the list connection parameters for transferring audiovisual data to the selected device. The guest device connects to the selected device in the host local network using the retrieved connection parameters and transfers audiovisual data to the selected device. |
| US10931994B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a direct-to-air management and audit platform for dynamic advertising content
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods and systems for implementing a direct-to-air management and audit platform for dynamic advertising content. For example, in accordance with one embodiment, there is a system to implement direct-to-air management and audit platform for dynamic advertising content, wherein the system comprises: an interface to one or more advertisers; an interface to one or more traffic manager systems; an interface to one or more broadcast stations; and auditing means for tracking and reporting compliance of advertising content by the one or more broadcast stations pursuant to specifications for the performance of the advertising content as established by the one or more traffic managers. Other related embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10931991B2 |
Methods and systems for selectively skipping through media content
The disclosure provides methods and systems for skipping unwanted portions of media content based on a crowdsourcing feedback model. The media content may include television programming content, video content, and audio content. The unwanted portions of media content include, for example, television commercials, opening and closing credits. An exemplary crowdsourcing feedback model involves receiving and processing a plurality of user seek information records. These records include time markers of the media content indicating when the users started and stopped fast forwarding or when the users started and stopped moving a scrub bar to jump from one portion of the content to another. When collected, the user seek information records are used to train a machine-learning system to calculate start and stop times of unwanted portions of media content. Once the start and stop times are calculated, user devices are enabled to automatically skip these unwanted portions. |
| US10931986B2 |
System for addressing on-demand TV program content on TV services platform of a digital TV services provider
Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a video content database linked to the title. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as in its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. This can enable many new blogging or podcasting-like programs by popular “Hosts” to be self-published on the Internet and readily navigated for display on TV. The EPG can also store TV program addresses as bookmarks and allow them to be shared with other subscribers or with friends and contacts online by sending to their email addresses. |
| US10931984B2 |
Consolidating content streams to conserve bandwidth
In one example, a method includes monitoring a delivery of an item of multimedia content to a first user endpoint device in a first stream of data, monitoring a delivery of the item of multimedia content to a second user endpoint device in a second stream of data, consolidating the stream of data and the second stream of data into a third stream of data, sending an first instruction to a source of the first stream of data and a source of the second stream of data to cease delivering the first stream of data and the second stream of data, and sending a second instruction to the source of the first stream of data and the source of the second stream to begin delivering the third stream of data to the first user endpoint device and the second user endpoint device. |
| US10931979B2 |
Methods, devices, and systems for decoding portions of video content according to a schedule based on user viewpoint
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first viewpoint in response to detecting a user's head movement in viewing video content, determining a capacity of a network, determining a tile schedule for receiving tiles from a server over the network according to the first viewpoint and the capacity of the network, and providing the tile schedule to the server over the network. The server schedules transmitting of the tiles according to the tile schedule and provides the tiles to the client device according to the tile schedule. In addition, embodiments include decoding the tiles according to a decoding schedule, buffering the decoded tiles in a decoded frame buffer, detecting a change in viewpoint from the first viewpoint to a second viewpoint, selecting a portion of the decoded tiles according to the second viewpoint, and presenting the selected tiles. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10931977B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for processing video
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for processing video. Video content comprising a plurality of frames may be received. A visual element of a first frame of the plurality of frames positioned in an oblique direction relative to one or more of a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis may be determined. One or more regions associated with the first frame and comprising the visual element may be determined. One or more encoded regions of the first frame may be generated based on partitioning the one or more regions comprising the visual element. |
| US10931971B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding 360-degree image
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a 360-degree image. According to an image decoding method and apparatus according to an embodiment, an original 360-degree image is reconstructed by acquiring image data from a bitstream, decoding a projection image of a 360-degree image from the image data, converting the projection image into the 360-degree image, acquiring rotation information of the 360-degree image from the bitstream, and rotating the 360-degree image based on the rotation information. |
| US10931968B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding video content including regions having looping videos of different loop lengths
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to create and/or decode video content of a scene that includes regions having looping video of different loop lengths with the video content of the scene being configured to be repeatedly looped, such as in the form of a cinemagraph, without any temporal discontinuity. In the context of a method, the video content of a scene is encoded. The video content includes at least two regions having looping videos of different loop lengths. The method also includes constructing metadata in association with the video content. The metadata comprises information identifying a location of each region within the scene. The metadata further comprises a loop length for each of the at least two regions. The method further includes causing provision of the video content as encoded and the metadata. |
| US10931966B2 |
Apparatus for decoding an image
Provided is an apparatus for decoding an image. The apparatus restores a plurality of sub-blocks by applying a scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode of the current block on the quantization coefficient sequence and restores the quantized transform block by applying a scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode of the current block on the plurality of sub-blocks. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of coding bits and computing resources required to decode a current prediction block. |
| US10931957B2 |
Image decryption apparatus and method of the same
The present disclosure discloses an image decryption method that includes steps outlined below. Control information in an image stream is read and decrypted. Image stream packets in the image stream are read according to the control information. According to the control information, pixel data of a first reference frame from a first temporary storage block of a memory module and/or of a second reference frame from a second temporary storage block of the memory module are selectively read. A decryption process is performed according to the image stream packets and selectively according to the pixel data of the first and/or the second reference frame to generate pixel data of a decrypted frame. During the decryption process, the pixel data of the decrypted frame is transmitted to a post-processing circuit and is stored to one of the first and the second temporary storage blocks according to the control information. |
| US10931949B2 |
Method of deriving motion information
A method of reconstructing video data using a merge mode can include constructing a merge list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates; determining a merge candidate on the merge list corresponding to a merge index as motion information of a current prediction unit; generating a predicted block of the current prediction unit using the motion information; generating a transformed block by inverse-quantizing a block of quantized coefficients using a quantization parameter; generating a residual block by inverse-transforming the transformed block; and generating a reconstructed block using the predicted block and the residual block, in which when the current prediction unit is a second prediction unit partitioned by asymmetric partitioning, the spatial merge candidate corresponding to a first prediction unit partitioned by the asymmetric partitioning is excluded from the merge list, and a motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is determined depending on a position of the current prediction unit within a largest coding unit (LCU), the quantization parameter is derived per a quantization unit and a minimum size of the quantization unit is adjusted per picture, and when a left quantization parameter of a current coding unit is not available and an above quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, a quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the above quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit, and when the above quantization parameter of the current coding unit is not available and the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, the quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit. |
| US10931942B2 |
Evaluation system and evaluation method
An evaluation system includes an input unit that inputs a test chart image acquired by imaging a test chart including a plurality of characters, an evaluation unit that evaluates performance of an imaging unit using the test chart image, an image generation unit that generates an evaluation image representing an evaluation of the evaluation unit at each position on the test chart image with a color, and a display unit that displays the evaluation image along with the test chart image or in a superimposed manner on the test chart image. |
| US10931936B2 |
Plenoptic sub aperture view shuffling for a richer color sampling
A system and method for generating multiple images with rich color acquisition using a plenoptic camera having a main lens disposed in front of a micro array of lenses, a mosaic color filter array and an image sensor, characterized in that it comprises: capturing a first set of images using an ordinary state of an electrically controllable birefringent medium being disposed between said main lens and said micro array of lenses, said ordinary state providing an ordinary ray to each pixel; capturing a second set of images using an extraordinary state of said electrically controllable birefringent medium, said extraordinary state splitting the light from said main lens into an ordinary ray and a extraordinary ray respectively impinging on two adjacent pixels of different colors, said extraordinary ray being shifted by distance of one pixel on said image sensor; performing a weighted subtraction of information about said second set of images from information about said first set of images; and generating a final set of images with rich color information from said weighted subtraction and said first set of images. |
| US10931931B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for generating an image
Described herein is a method of generating an image that includes receiving a set of data corresponding to an object. The method also includes generating a three-dimensional representation of the object using the set of data. The method includes generating properties for the object using the set of data. The method also includes associating the properties with the three-dimensional representation of the object, wherein the three-dimensional representation of the object and the properties for the object are used to produce training data for an object recognition algorithm. |
| US10931928B2 |
Image generation from video
An apparatus comprising a store (101) for storing route data for a set of routes in an N-dimensional space where each route of the set of routes is associated with a video item including frames comprising both image and depth information. An input (105) receives a viewer position indication and a selector (107) selects a first route of the set of routes in response to a selection criterion dependent on a distance metric dependent on the viewer position indication and positions of the routes of the set of routes. A retriever (103, 109) retrieves a first video item associated with the first route from a video source (203). An image generator (111) generates at least one view image for the viewer position indication from a first set of frames from the first video item. In the system, the selection criterion is biased towards a currently selected route relative to other routes of the set of routes. |
| US10931926B2 |
Method and apparatus for information display, and display device
A method for information display, applied to a see-through near-eye display device, includes: obtaining association information corresponding to a display object; determining a target display area of the display object within a visual field of the see-through near-eye display device; and displaying the association information in a second area within the visual field excluding the target display area, the second area having no display content. |
| US10931925B2 |
Monitoring camera having autofocusing function based on composite filtering robust against change in visibility status and video monitoring system employing same
The present invention relates to a monitoring camera having an autofocusing function based on a composite filtering robust against a change in visibility status and a video monitoring system employing the same. The present invention comprises: a hardware filter for blocking one of a visible light band and an infrared light band and allowing the other thereof to pass therethrough; and a software filter for filtering a color image or a black-and-white image generated by an image signal processor (ISP) by removing, from the color image or the black-and-white image, a factor reducing a visibility distance at the front side of a lens part, wherein the filtering band of the hardware filter and whether to perform filtering by the software filter are controlled according to a filtering level corresponding to a current visibility status at the front side of the lens part among a plurality of filtering levels. Therefore, the present invention can provide an image which is always clear enough to enable a target object to be identified regardless of a visibility status at the front of a monitoring camera, and an accurate autofocusing function can be provided constantly regardless of the visibility status in front of the monitoring camera by performing autofocusing using analysis of an image provided through stepwise composite filtering. |
| US10931921B2 |
Techniques to provide a micro-broadcast of an event
Techniques to provide a micro-broadcast of an event are described. Video data streams of a live event at a venue may be captured in one or more wireless camera devices. The data streams may be sent to one of a network of wireless access points where they are relayed to a control center. A computer system in the control center may select one of the video data streams to be broadcast as a micro-broadcast. The selected video data stream may then be formatted for the micro-broadcast before a micro-broadcast transmitter broadcasts the formatted selected video data stream. |
| US10931914B2 |
Image playback device, display device, and transmission device
The system includes a display device causing a display unit to display video; a data transmission unit that transmits, to the display device, video data generated in a predetermined format based on information decoded from encoded information, and interpolation data for interpolating differences between the predetermined format and a format when decoding from the encoded information; an interpolation data selection unit that selects a kind of interpolation data to be transmitted to the display device, on the basis of priorities for a plurality of kinds of the interpolation data capable of being generated based on the encoded information; and a display processing unit that acquires the video data and the selected kind of the interpolation data in the display device, and causes the display unit to display video resulting from interpolation of the video data based on the interpolation data. |
| US10931911B2 |
Creating and disseminating of user generated content over a network
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for creating and disseminating of audio and video content generated by a user over a network. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a request to create audio content over a network is received. In another aspect of the present disclosure a request to create multimedia content comprising audio and video content over a network is received. One embodiment includes presenting the user with a plurality of compositions, receiving a request from the user to add a specific composition, presenting a lyric using text submitted by the user, recording an audio recording generated by the user, wherein the specific composition is playing during the recording of the audio recording, and providing editing capability to the specific composition, the song lyric and audio recording. |
| US10931908B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, and camera system using same
A solid-state imaging device includes a first A/D converter circuit and a second A/D converter circuit per column. The first A/D converter circuit performs a first A/D conversion that (i) refines, using a first comparator, a range including a potential of an analog signal through a binary search, and (ii) generates, based on a result of the binary search, a first digital signal being a high-order portion of the digital signal. The second A/D converter circuit performs a second A/D conversion that generates a second digital signal being a low-order portion that is a remainder of the digital signal by measuring a time required for an output of the second comparator to be inverted, the second comparator comparing a quantitative relationship between the analog signal refined and a ramp signal. |
| US10931906B2 |
Sensor pixel operating in optical mode and capacitive mode and image sensor including the same
There is provided a sensor pixel, including: a first transistor controlled depending on a mode selection voltage supplied to one end thereof; a second transistor including a gate connected to the other end of the first transistor; and a photoconductor connected to one end of the second transistor, wherein the sensor pixel operates in an optical mode when the first transistor is turned on, and the sensor pixel operates in a capacitive mode when the first transistor is turned off. |
| US10931905B2 |
Pixel array included in three-dimensional image sensor and method of operating three-dimensional image sensor
A pixel array in a three-dimensional image sensor includes depth pixels and an ambient light cancellation (ALC) circuit. The depth pixels operate in response to photo control signals having different phases, and generate distance information of an object based on light reflected by the object. The ALC circuit removes an ambient light component from the reflected light, and is shared by the depth pixels. Each depth pixel includes a photoelectric conversion region, a floating diffusion region, a photo gate, and a drain gate. The photoelectric conversion region collects photo charges based on the reflected light. The floating diffusion region accumulates the photo charges. The photo gate is activated in response to one of the photo control signals. The photoelectric conversion region accumulates the photo charges when the photo gate is activated, and the photo charges in the photoelectric conversion region are released when the drain gate is activated. |
| US10931901B2 |
Method and apparatus for selectively correcting fixed pattern noise based on pixel difference values of infrared images
A method and a thermal imaging device for correcting fixed pattern noise of in a video sequence of thermal images captured using a thermal imaging system are provided. The method includes receiving a sequence of thermal images captured using a thermal imaging system. The method also includes calculating a thermal image average of a plurality of the received thermal images and calculating pixel difference values between a received thermal image and the thermal image average. The method evaluates the pixel difference values in relation to an updating condition and calculates fixed pattern noise correction terms for the pixel difference values for which the updating condition is fulfilled. The method also includes correcting pixel values of a subsequently received thermal image with the fixed pattern noise correction terms to generate a sequence of thermal images having corrected fixed pattern noise. |
| US10931898B2 |
Image sensor having a time calculator and image processing device including the same
Provided are an image sensor and an image processing device including the same. The image sensor includes: a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and configured to generate pixel signals from the plurality of pixels, a time calculator configured to receive zoom information corresponding to digital zooming, and configured to calculate a row processing time available for processing the pixel signals from the plurality of pixels included in a single row based on the zoom information, a timing generator configured to generate at least one control signal based on the row processing time; and an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) configured to generate pixel data by performing sampling on the pixel signals according to the at least one control signal. |
| US10931897B2 |
Systems and methods for a digital image sensor
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating an image stack. In use, one or more exposure parameters for an image stack are configured. Next, a capture command is received. Further, a pixel array is initialized within an image sensor of the camera module. Moreover, one or more ambient images are sampled within one or more corresponding analog storage planes. Next, if it is determined whether a strobe unit is enabled, where, if it is determined that the strobe unit is enabled, one or more strobe images are sampled within the corresponding analog storage planes. |
| US10931894B2 |
Tunable spectral illuminator for camera
A camera includes one or more spectral illuminators, a tunable optical filter optically intermediate the one or more spectral illuminators and a scene, and a sensor array. The one or more spectral illuminators are configured to emit active spectral light. The tunable optical filter is dynamically adjustable to change a selected sub-band of the active spectral light that illuminates the scene. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensors each configured to measure spectral light reflected from the scene in the selected sub-band. |
| US10931889B1 |
System and method for providing landscape and portrait oriented images of a common scene on separate feeds with independent image controls
A system and method for providing landscape (horizontal) and portrait (vertical) oriented images of a common scene on separate feeds with independent image controls includes a movable horizontal camera configured to provide a horizontal image on a horizontal image feed, a movable vertical camera configured to provide a vertical image on a vertical image feed, the horizontal and vertical cameras configured to be aligned along a camera axis and mounted to a common support, the horizontal and vertical cameras configured to view the common scene and to provide separate horizontal and vertical image feeds simultaneously, the cameras being independently controlled such that a given camera is moved when a tracked subject exceeds a control range threshold for that camera image, independent of the subject location in the other camera image. In some embodiments, a single high resolution image may be used with independently-controlled horizontal and vertical extracted images. |
| US10931888B2 |
Image processing device, image processing method, and camera system
An image processing device includes a transfer function input unit to which each of transfer functions of a plurality of imaging-systems is input, a calculation unit that calculates a target resolution value which is a target value of recovery processing that recovers a plurality of captured images to be output from each of the plurality of the imaging-systems based on each of the input transfer functions and a predetermined criterion, a recovery filter generation unit that generates a recovery filter used for the recovery processing with respect to each of the plurality of imaging-systems based on each of the transfer functions of the plurality of imaging-systems and a target resolution value, and a recovered image generation unit that performs the recovery processing with respect to the captured images acquired from the plurality of imaging-systems by using the recovery filter generated for each of the plurality of imaging-systems to generate recovered images. |
| US10931885B2 |
Illumination processing method and apparatus for adjusting light transmittance
An illumination processing method and apparatus relate to the field of video recording technologies, where a liquid crystal panel is disposed between a photosensitive sensor and a lens assembly, and an incident light from the lens assembly reaches the photosensitive sensor after passing through the liquid crystal panel. The method includes determining a highlight region on a first image captured from the photosensitive sensor, and turning down light transmittance of each pixel in an adjustment region on the liquid crystal panel, where the adjustment region corresponds to the highlight region. According to the illumination processing method and apparatus, occurrence of a highlight blooming phenomenon can be avoided as much as possible, thereby avoiding loss of valid image information. |
| US10931881B2 |
Sample inspection utilizing time modulated illumination
A system and corresponding method are presented. The system includes an illumination unit including at least one light source configured for emitting coherent illumination of one or more selected wavelength ranges having selected illumination modulation pattern and for directing the coherent illumination onto one or more selected inspection regions; and a collection unit including at least one detector array and imaging optical arrangement configured for collecting interacting light from the one or more selected inspection regions and for generating corresponding one or more sequences of image data pieces at selected sampling rate. The image data pieces are indicative of secondary speckle patterns formed in collected interacting light. The illumination modulation pattern is selected for increasing temporal bandwidth collection of speckle patterns associated with temporal shifts in the one or more inspection regions. |
| US10931879B2 |
Device for adjusting a camera angle and use of a device of this type
A device (1) for adjusting a camera angle has a stationary holder (2), a rotary plate (3) mounted pivotably in the holder (2) and an adjusting mechanism (4) for adjusting the position of the rotary plate (3) relative to the holder (2). A camera (8) can be arranged on the rotary plate (3). The adjusting mechanism (4) has an axially fixed adjusting screw (14) and a bushing (15). Rotation of the adjusting screw (14) causes the bushing (15) to carry out a relative movement with respect to the adjusting screw (14). The bushing (15) has a projection (24) that engages in a guide slot (29). The rotary plate (3) moves with respect to the holder (2) as the projection (24) along the guide slot (29). |
| US10931876B2 |
Blur correction device and imaging device
To reduce the weight of the movable body while simplifying the structure. Included are: a first movable body that is movable in a first movement direction with respect to a base body; a second movable body that is positioned on an opposite side of the first movable body from the base body and movable in a second movement direction different from the first movement direction with respect to the first movable body; and a first drive body and a second drive body that each apply driving force to the second movable body, in which the first movable body and the second movable body are integrally moved in the first movement direction with respect to the base body by the driving force of at least one of the first drive body or the second drive body, and the second movable body is moved in the second movement direction with respect to the first movable body by the driving force of at least one of the first drive body or the second drive body. |
| US10931874B2 |
Burst mode calibration sensing and image mode sensing for imaging systems and methods
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating burst mode calibration sensing and image mode sensing. In one example, a device includes a detector array configured to detect electromagnetic radiation and provide image data frames according to a first frame rate. The device further includes a logic circuit configured to determine whether a threshold delay has elapsed. The device further includes a frame output circuit configured to: provide, based at least on the threshold delay having elapsed, the image data frames according to the first frame rate; and provide, based at least on the threshold delay not having elapsed, the image data frames according to a second frame rate lower than the first frame rate. Related methods and systems are also provided. |
| US10931872B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for optimizing field of view
A method to maximize use of the field of view for an imaging system is provided herein. An imaging device can be part of the imaging system and include a detection unit and an alignment unit. The method includes capturing an initial image of an object and then calculating a rotational angle and zoom factor for the object in order to maximize the object's footprint within the field of view. Once the calculations are complete a computer can instruct the detection and alignment units to reconfigure their orientations relative to the object. |
| US10931871B2 |
Pipeline detection method and apparatus, and storage medium
A method including: putting a pre-set detection apparatus in a pipeline to be detected, collecting, every pre-set time, movement information about and pipeline image thereof; at each collection moment, calculating, according to movement information collected, first position where detection apparatus is located; calculating, according to pipeline image photographed, second position where detection apparatus is located; determining, according to first position and second position, position where detection apparatus is located so as to position pipeline according to position at each collection moment. By performing position information extraction by means of inertial navigation and video combined positioning algorithm, accurate positioning of pipeline position is realized, so as to accurately position crack inside pipeline according to photographed image and positioned pipeline position. The pipeline detection method can be widely used for conventional exploration of a liquid pipeline, such as a city drainage pipeline and a tap water pipeline. |
| US10931864B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing a camera network
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving location information associated with a mobile communication device, determining a first location of the mobile communication device based on the location information, selecting a first camera from a group of cameras based on the determined first location, receiving at least one first image from the selected first camera that captures at least a portion of the first location, performing image recognition on at least one second image to identify a user associated with the mobile communication device, selecting another camera from the group of cameras based on a determined position of the identified user, and receiving at least another image from the selected other camera. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10931863B2 |
Camera control system and method of controlling a set of cameras
A method of controlling cameras from a set of cameras in a geographical region to obtain image streams capturing a topographical area of interest. It includes receiving an area data object defining the topographical area of interest; deriving a centroid of the topographical area of interest from the area data object; determining a subset of target cameras from the set of cameras having a zone of potential coverage comprising the topographical area of interest; computing pan and tilt angles for one or more target cameras of the subset of target cameras; computing for one or more target cameras of the subset of target cameras a zoom factor, the zoom factor calculated by determining a narrowest field of view angle of the target camera that encompasses the entire topographical area of interest; and generating transmission commands for the subset of target cameras. |
| US10931862B2 |
Vehicle system for communication with trailer sensor
A vision system for a vehicle towing a trailer includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of the trailer and viewing rearward of the trailer. A trailer antenna is disposed at the trailer and in data communication with the camera, and a vehicle antenna is disposed at the vehicle and in data communication with a control unit disposed at the vehicle. The trailer antenna is operable to transmit signals representative of image data captured by the camera toward a road surface along which the vehicle and trailer are traveling so that the transmitted signals reflect off of the road surface and toward the vehicle antenna disposed at the vehicle. The vehicle antenna receives the reflected RF signals and communicates data to the control unit that are representative of the received reflected signals. |
| US10931860B2 |
Display device and electronic apparatus with 3D camera module
Display devices and electronic apparatuses with 3D camera modules are provided. An exemplary device comprises a display and a 3D camera module, wherein the 3D camera module comprises a depth camera module disposed at a backlight side of the display; the depth camera module comprises an edge-emitting laser and an imaging module; the edge-emitting laser is configured for emitting laser light, for the emitted laser light to penetrate the display to reach an object; and the imaging module is configured for receiving laser light reflected by the object that penetrates the display, and obtaining a depth image of the object based on the reflected laser light. |
| US10931859B2 |
Light emitter and sensors for detecting biologic characteristics
A bio-sensor device includes a surface for touching by a body part, such as a finger. A light source, such as an array of LEDs, emit light through the surface so as to be reflected and partially absorbed by the body part An array of photodetectors detects light reflected back by the body part and generates signals corresponding to an image of the light reflection, which corresponds to the light absorption pattern in the body part. The light absorption pattern may correlate to a fingerprint, a blood vessel pattern, blood movement within the blood vessels, or other biometric feature. A processor receives the signals from the photodetectors and analyzes the signals to determine a characteristic of the body part. The characteristic may be used to authenticate the user of the bio-sensor device by comparing the detected characteristic to a stored characteristic. |
| US10931858B2 |
Multi-plane image sensors for high resolution destination detection and tracking
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for image sensing. Embodiments include a first plurality of light-sensing elements arranged in a first plurality of rows and a first plurality of columns in a first image sensing plane. Embodiments include a first lens element disposed within a position in a central row of the first plurality of rows and in a central column of the first plurality of columns. Embodiments include a second plurality of light-sensing elements arranged in a second plurality of rows in a second image sensing plane, different from the first image sensing plane. In certain embodiments, the first lens element is configured to redirect incident light reflected from a destination onto the second plurality of light-sensing elements in the second image sensing plane for use in guiding a steerable object toward the destination. |
| US10931853B2 |
Enhanced color reproduction for upscaling
A method for enhancing color reproduction in an upscaling process, including: converting RGB-formatted data to color-space-separable-formatted data; sending the RGB-formatted data to a neural network for training to generate RGB-predicted data; converting the RGB-predicted data to color-space-separable-predicted data; computing a first loss function by calculating a first difference between the RGB-formatted data and the RGB-predicted data; extracting color-formatted data from the color-space-separable-formatted data; extracting color-predicted data from the color-space-separable-predicted data; computing a second loss function by calculating a second difference between the color-formatted data and the color-predicted data; and adjusting a balance between the first and second loss functions. |
| US10931851B2 |
Image stitching with electronic rolling shutter correction
Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving a first image from a first image sensor; receiving a second image from a second image sensor; determining an electronic rolling shutter correction mapping for the first image and the second image; determining a parallax correction mapping based on the first image and the second image for stitching the first image and the second image; determining a warp mapping based on the parallax correction mapping and the electronic rolling shutter correction mapping, wherein the warp mapping applies the electronic rolling shutter correction mapping after the parallax correction mapping; applying the warp mapping to image data based on the first image and the second image to obtain a composite image; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image that is based on the composite image. |
| US10931850B2 |
Projector display calibration
Embodiments describing an approach to generating, a calibration slide for a presentation. Receiving, a first image of the calibration slide. Receiving, a second image of the calibration slide, wherein the second image of the calibration slide is associated with the projector component. Analyzing, the first image of the calibration slide and the second image of the calibration slide, wherein the analysis comprises: comparing, display attributes between the first and second image of the calibration slide, and identifying, distortions in the second image of the calibration slide. Responsive to the analysis, calibrating, the display attributes of the presentation based on a preset user threshold of acceptance. |
| US10931847B2 |
Optical head, optical head scanning device, and method for driving optical head scanning device
Provided is an optical head that includes a base substrate and a line head. The line head includes a plurality of sub-line heads electrically independent of one another and arranged on the base substrate in parallel with a first direction. Each of the plurality of sub-line heads includes a circuit substrate unit that constitutes a portion of the base substrate, and an optical-element array that includes a plurality of optical elements each arranged on the circuit substrate unit at least in parallel with a second direction that is a direction of a length of each of the plurality of sub-line heads. |
| US10931846B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method of notifying verification result of program
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit, a storage unit configured to store a program to be executed by the control unit, a verification unit configured to read the program from the storage unit and to verify the read program, and a light-emitting unit configured to be changed to a predetermined light-emitting state or to be changed from the predetermined light-emitting state based on a result of the verification of the program by the verification unit. |
| US10931840B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium for displaying operation buttons corresponding to operations executed on document data
In an information processing apparatus, in a case where between a timing when a user operation based on a first operation button is executed and a timing when a user operation based on a second operation button is executed, another user operation is executed on document data, a third operation button is added between the first and second operation buttons, and in a display area, a tab is displayed in a state where the third operation button is placed between the first and second operation buttons. |
| US10931838B2 |
Information processor, and computer-readable recording medium storing setting control program and setting control method for information processor
A multifunction peripheral according to the present invention includes a plurality of operation modes such as a copy mode and an image scanner mode. The multifunction peripheral has a job program function of registering setting details of an operating condition for an arbitrary operation mode as a job program, and enabling the same state as that at the time of registering the job program to be reproduced by invoking the registered setting when necessary. That is, according to the job program function, the operation mode, setting details, and an operation screen at the time of registering the setting are reproduced. This feature greatly contributes to improving the operability of the multifunction peripheral. |
| US10931834B2 |
Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller performs processing dependent on hardware having a function. The second controller is connected to the first controller via a communication path and performs processing not dependent on the hardware. The second controller stores an execution command in a storage device. The execution command is for executing processing and has a format not dependent on the hardware. The first controller includes a converter, a memory controller, and an operation controller. The converter acquires the execution command from the storage device and converts the execution command into a command for controlling the hardware and dependent on the hardware. The memory controller writes the converted command into a memory. The operation controller reads the converted command from the memory and controls operation of the hardware. |
| US10931831B2 |
Intercom devices and methods for adaptively adjusting power consumption thereof
A system and method for adjusting power consumption of a power consumer (e.g., an intercom device) may include a power supply, the power consumer connected to the power supply through a transmitting device, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain a first voltage associated with the power supply and a second voltage associated with the power consumer, and adjust an operation status of the power consumer at least based on the first voltage and the second voltage. The first voltage may be an output voltage of the power supply, and the second voltage may be an input voltage of the power consumer. |
| US10931823B1 |
Scheduling agents using skill group weights
Agents are grouped into skill groups based on the skills of each agent. Simulation are performed for a contact center with multiple queues, where agents from the skill groups are assigned to the queues based on the skills of the skill groups and the skills of the queues. After running the simulations, for each skill group and for each interval, the time each agent spent working using each associated skill is determined, and an average time for each skill is calculated for each interval. The average times are used to create a skill group weight for the skill group for each interval. Later, when the schedule engine is determining an agent placement for one or more intervals, the skill group weights for the intervals are used to calculate a score for the queues based on different agent placements. The placement with the best score (e.g., lowest) is implemented. |
| US10931820B1 |
Intelligent interactive voice response system for processing customer communications
A method and apparatus of processing multiple user call records via an IVR call processing application is disclosed. One example method may include receiving a call from a user device, obtaining first user information from a user account stored in a user databank. The first information may be associated with a first call record established during a first previously received call from the user device. The method may also include establishing a first confidence level based on the first user information and obtaining second user information from the user account stored in the user databank. The second user information may be associated with a second call record established during a second previously received call from the user device. The method may also include establishing a second confidence level based on the second user information and transmitting an offer to the user device based on the first confidence level and second confidence level. |
| US10931819B2 |
Management of media content associated with a user of a mobile computing device
A sender-controlled media (SCM) platform may capture live content by a call-originating device (such as audio, video, and text input by a caller), process the live content to determine an intent, select a visual element based on the intent, and present the visual element on the call-originating device to produce a caller story that can be forwarded to a recipient. In another aspect, when a sender is not a participant of a SCM platform but a recipient is, content pertaining to the sender may be gathered for generating and delivering a SCM data structure. In yet another aspect, an SCM application may interface with phone screen controls so that content in a received SCM data structure can be presented on an electronic display of a phone while a phone call is in progress. Further, the SCM application may monitor user actions for updating the SCM data structure. |
| US10931817B2 |
Copper impairment testing and remediation in digital subscriber line (DSL) service
A test instrument connectable to a network to provide copper impairment testing and remediation in a digital subscriber line (DSL) service is provided. The test instrument may comprise a port connectable to a test point in a network. The test instrument may also comprise a processing circuit to perform tests in the following categories: (i) shorts, grounds, and opens, (ii) true length, (iii) balance, and (iv) series fault, wherein the combination of these tests may determine copper impairment. Once tests are conducted, one or more remediation recommendations may be provided based at least in part on failure in one of the test categories. The test results and remediation recommendations may then be presented at an output, such as a display at a test instrument or user device. |
| US10931810B2 |
Safety cutoff for a power tool or other device
A cutoff system for a power tool or other device includes a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver being configured to electrically couple to a power source and to a power tool or other device, the transmitter is configured to transmit a communication signal to the receiver, and the receiver is further configured to transmit electrical power from the power source to the power tool or other device only when the receiver receives the communication signal from the transmitter. |
| US10931807B2 |
Device for intercom network
The invention relates to, among others, a network device (10, 11, 12) for an intercom network (13) for permitting an audio communication, in particular a duplex audio communication with other users (14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f) of the intercom network, comprising a housing (33) and a communication module (20a, 20b) arranged therein or thereon, with which a radio link can be established for the transmission of audio signals to another user, wherein the radio link is subject to the DECT protocol. The speciality, among others, consists in that the network device (10, 11, 12) comprises a means (21) for preventing or reducing multipath interferences. |
| US10931806B2 |
Remotely managing and controlling system and method
A remotely managing and controlling system and a remotely managing and controlling method are provided to a user for receiving feedback information and control right of the target device through a remote connecting device. To achieve the above goal, a remote control program is proposed and installed in a controlling device, named controlling terminal, and the target device, to determine whether operation modes can be executed through the remote connecting device. The remote connecting device transmits control commands and data to the target device, and receives the feedback information and the control right of the target device. Then, the controlling terminal can control the target device according to the feedback information for increasing the efficiency of data management. Further, the system and the method can receive a location of the target device through a tracing platform, and control the target device for increasing security of data stored in the target device. |
| US10931805B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling application program, and electronic device
Embodiments of the present invention relate to telecommunications technologies, so that in a state in which the electronic device is connected to an external audio device, a manner used by the electronic device to process an audio and video application program can be intelligentized. A sensor is disposed on at least one of the electronic device or the external audio device. The method includes: receiving, by the electronic device, a detection result signal sent by the sensor, where the detection result signal is a signal that carries a detection value obtained by means of detection by the sensor; determining, by the electronic device according to a preset correspondence and the detection value, an action performed by a user on the electronic device or the external audio device; and controlling, by the electronic device, an execution status of an audio and video application program according to the action. |
| US10931804B2 |
Schedule processing method and electronic terminal
A schedule processing method includes displaying a 24-hour interval timescale in a first display area in a user interface. The method further includes displaying, in the first display area, an identifier corresponding to each schedule on a day, where a display location of the identifier corresponding to each schedule is associated with time information of each schedule. The user interface includes the first display area and a second display area. The method further includes in response to a detected first view operation performed by a user on a first identifier, displaying, in the user interface, information about a schedule corresponding to the first identifier. |
| US10931798B2 |
Apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame for signaling time interleaving mode and method using the same
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame for signaling a time interleaving mode are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing time interleaving on a BICM output signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling a time interleaving mode corresponding to the time interleaver for each of physical layer pipes (PLPs). |
| US10931796B2 |
Diffusing packets to identify faulty network apparatuses in multipath inter-data center networks
The techniques described herein describe diffusing packets through multipath inter-data center networks to identify faulty network apparatuses therein. In an implementation, a method of diffusing packets through a multipath inter-data center network to identify a faulty network apparatus in a source data center is disclosed. The method includes diffusing packets through various paths of a network fabric. Diffusing the packets includes sending out bursts of packets with varying packet header parameters to a set of machines in one or more target data centers. The method further include monitoring packet drops from the bursts of packets, issuing tracerts for each of the packet drops to identify corresponding failed routes, and triangulating the failed routes to identify the faulty network apparatus. |
| US10931791B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing request
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing a request. A specific embodiment of the method includes: receiving a request; determining a type of the request or an object name indicated by the request; acquiring, after determining that a current time is after a validity deadline of locally stored first request control information, the number of control servers in a preset control server set; determining, from the control server set, a target control server based on the acquired number and any one of: the type of the request, the object name indicated by the request; and forwarding the request to the target control server. |
| US10931784B2 |
Flexible triggering of triggered code
Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for flexible triggering of triggered code (e.g. cloud functions). Flexible triggering may reduce costs, for example, by adjusting triggered code execution to avoid resource scale out (e.g. additional resources and/or power consumption). A specified (e.g. preferred) execution trigger may be modified or replaced, for example, by a flexible trigger configured to provide variable triggering. Triggering may be varied, for example, based on the status of one or more monitored resources in an execution environment. Variable triggering may be constrained by a time window (e.g. before, during and/or after a specified trigger). Flexible triggers may be specified (e.g. trigger type, parameters and constraints), for example, in service level agreements, by tenants and/or by cloud providers. |
| US10931781B2 |
Mobile device cache updating
A method and system for automatically updating a cache is provided. The method includes receiving by a database server from a mobile device, a request for modifying data within the database server. A Web service retrieves the request. The data is determined to be currently available within the database server and the request is transmitted to an analytics component of the database server. The analytics component determines if the data should be updated for use in an additional mobile device. |
| US10931769B2 |
Location-based method and system for requesting and obtaining images
Technology is disclosed for using geographic information that reflects the current locations for a plurality of image providers to find image providers that are capable of fulfilling image requests from image requesters, where the image requests are associated with various geographic locations. In an example embodiment, the technology can be used to find video footage of news events in a timely and cost-efficient manner. |
| US10931768B2 |
Determining active application usage through a network traffic hub
A network traffic hub receives network traffic from a user device running an application. The network traffic hub aggregates the network traffic into augmented netflows. Based on netflow parameters extracted by the network traffic hub, one or more augmented netflows are associated with the application. The network traffic hub determines whether an augmented netflow is a result of the application being in an active state or a passive state based on, for example, the quantity of data within the netflow. If the quantity of data within the augmented netflow is larger than a data threshold, the augmented netflow can be classified as an active usage, and if the data is less than the data threshold, the augmented netflow can be classified as a passive usage. Thus, by classifying network traffic of an application as active or passive, a record of a user's active usage of the application can be recorded. |
| US10931765B2 |
Intelligent blending system
A blending system is provided for contextual blending. The blending system may include an ingredient component and a recipe component. The ingredient component may identify ingredients and determine a quantity of each type of ingredient. The recipe component may create a recipe based on the identified ingredients and the determined quantities of the ingredients. The recipe may include instructions for controlling a blender device. |
| US10931758B2 |
Utilizing context information of environment component regions for event/activity prediction
Sensor data is received from a physical environment sensor. A component region associated with at least a portion of the sensor data is identified. A physical environment has been defined to include a plurality of component regions. Context information associated with the identified component region is obtained. The context information is utilized in association with a prediction model. |
| US10931751B2 |
Method and system for cloning data using a wearable electronic device
A system and method for cloning data using a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device includes a transceiver, a sensor, and an electronic processor electrically coupled to the transceiver and the sensor. The electronic processor is configured to establish, via the transceiver, a communications link with an electronic communications device. The electronic transceiver is further configured to transmit, via the transceiver to the electronic communications device, a device authentication key. The electronic processor is further configured to receive, from the sensor, at least one gesture signal. The electronic processor is further configure to, when the at least one gesture signal is received within a pre-determined period, determine at least one gesture from the at least one gesture signal. The electronic processor is further configured to determine a data cloning function based on the at least one gesture. |
| US10931749B2 |
Efficient configuration combination selection in migration
Methods and systems for finding a migration target include building a constrained, layered graph from a catalog of possible configuration combinations and a distance function for each layer in the graph; and determining an available path through the graph, said path having a minimum overall distance from a source instance, by performing an optimized search that selectively evaluates available paths through the graph based on cumulative distances of paths through the graph from the source instance. |
| US10931748B2 |
Optimistic concurrency utilizing distributed constraint enforcement
Optimistic concurrency is effectuated to manage constraints in a synchronization environment at multiple computing device endpoints in a consistent fashion without utilizing concentrated centralized constraint logic. Implemented data synchronization constraints that identify false violation scenarios may be automatically resolved without user intervention by using an etag system directed by a master component to assist computing device endpoints to maintain data synchronization among them. Data entries defining each file hierarchy component to be synched are generated and shared with the master component and each computing device endpoint in a synchronization environment. Individual computing device endpoints can use the data entries generated locally with those generated by other computing device endpoints to locally resolve identified false violation scenarios. |
| US10931744B1 |
Policy controlled service routing
Metadata associated with a workload is determined. The workload is associated with a consumer of a service. One or more policies associated with the metadata are retrieved. An agent is configured to perform policy-controlled service routing of communications comprising the data packets with respect to the workload based on the one or more policies. |
| US10931740B2 |
Distributed network diagnostics of enterprise devices utilizing device management
In response to receiving an indication from a client device experiencing a network connectivity error, a grouping of target client devices is identified for purposes of executing a distributed network diagnostic, the grouping being identified based on one or more configuration settings associated with client devices. The client devices in the identified grouping retrieve and execute an instruction. Data generated upon executing the instruction is received from each client device over a device management channel. The data is aggregated and trend data is generated. An instruction is sent to the client device experiencing the network connectivity error, wherein the instruction mitigates the network connectivity error. |
| US10931738B2 |
Point of presence management in request routing
A system and method for the management of client computing device DNS queries and subsequent resource requests within a content delivery network service provider domain are provided. The management of the DNS queries can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for processing DNS queries. Additionally, the management of the content requests can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to resource cache components corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for providing requested content. The selection of the computing devices can incorporate logic related to geographic criteria, performance threshold criteria, testing criteria, and the like. |
| US10931735B2 |
Application discovery
The disclosure describes methods or communication protocols that enable second-screen applications, such as smartphones, to discover and launch first-screen applications on first-screen devices, such as Internet enabled high definition televisions. Second-screen devices can search local networks for the presence of discovery servers on first-screen devices. Well-known protocols such as RESTful HTTP services and Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) may be leveraged to implement the discovery servers. Once located, the discovery servers may assist communications and interactions between the first-screen and second-screen devices, allowing a specified application to be launched on the first-screen device and controlled from a local application on the second-screen device. The specified application may be installed if not previously installed, and may also be hosted as a web application on a cloud server accessible outside of the local network, for example on the Internet. |
| US10931727B2 |
Transparent intercept for adaptive bitrate splicer
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the intercept and manipulation of content requested by a client device. The methods, systems, and apparatuses described herein enable the interception and redirection of packets based upon a set of rules. Intercepted packets may be redirected away from an origin server and may be forwarded to a splicing device. The splicing device may establish a session with a corresponding origin server, and retrieve content that is requested by the intercepted packet. In embodiments, the splicing device may identify alternate content that is associated with the intercepted packet and/or content that is further associated with a device or subscriber associated with the packet. One or more segments of the requested content, or the entirety of the requested content may be replaced with the alternate content, and the modified content may be output to the client device requesting the content. |
| US10931726B2 |
Method and terminal for sharing content
A content sharing method includes: selecting, by a content sharing terminal, content; transmitting, by the content sharing terminal, identification information of the selected content to an external device; and reproducing, by the content sharing terminal, the selected content while the external device is reproducing the selected content based on the identification information. |
| US10931724B2 |
System and method for integrated virtual assistant-enhanced customer service
A system for virtual assistant facilitated contact center communications, wherein a virtual assistant at a contact center is used to communicate with a virtual assistant operating on a user device, thereby automating and improving contact center to customer communications. When a service request is received at a virtual assistant at the contact center from a virtual assistant operating on a user device, the virtual assistant at the contact center exchanges messages with one or more internal systems at the contact center to obtain relevant information. If any of the internal systems identifies missing information, the virtual assistant at the contact center queries the virtual assistant on the user device for the missing information. |
| US10931719B2 |
Early media handling
A communication device sends a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to establish a call. In response, the call is forked. For example, in parallel forking, the SIP INVITE may be sent to two different communication devices. The forking causes each communication device to send at least one provisional response message. In this case, first and second SIP provisional response messages are received that include Session Description Protocol (SDP) information for a media stream. A first media stream associated with one of the first or second SIP provisional response messages is received and played. A second media stream associated with the other one of the first or second SIP provisional response messages is received within a first time period. In response to receiving the second media stream within the first time period, the first media stream is discarded and the second media stream is played. |
| US10931718B2 |
Local breakout-based data interception method and device
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for data interception based on Local Break Out (LBO). The method includes: receiving, by a local gateway, an interception request to intercept data of an interception target; intercepting, by the local gateway, LBO data of the interception target based on the interception request, to obtain intercepted data; and transmitting, by the local gateway, the intercepted data. The present disclosure can solve the solving the problem in the related art that an interception target cannot be intercepted in an LBO scenario. |
| US10931714B2 |
Domain name recognition method and domain name recognition device
The disclosure provides a domain name recognition method and a domain name recognition device. The domain name recognition method includes the following steps. A first string of a first domain name and a second string of a second domain name are obtained. Multiple characters of the first string and the second string are classified into multiple clusters. Multiple vectors corresponding to the clusters are generated, wherein each of the characters corresponds to one of the vectors. A first vector set corresponding to the first string and a second vector set corresponding to the second string are generated. A similarity of the first vector set and the second vector set is calculated. |
| US10931713B1 |
Passive detection of genuine web browsers based on security parameters
Techniques to facilitate passive detection of forged web browsers are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, security information transmitted by a client during Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) session establishment between a web server and the client is monitored, and header information transmitted by the client is processed to determine a type of web browser associated with the client. A security signature for the client is generated based on the security information transmitted by the client during the HTTPS session establishment. The security signature for the client is compared with a predetermined signature for the type of web browser associated with the client to determine if the client is a genuine web browser of the type of web browser associated with the client. |
| US10931707B2 |
System and method for automatic forensic investigation
Automatic forensic investigation techniques to more effectively differentiate false positives from true positives. An incident is automatically investigated by a processor that communicates instructions to a device on a network and analyzes information received from the device in response to the instructions. In response to analyzing, the processor raises or lowers its level of confidence in the incident. If the processor's level of confidence in the incident is sufficiently high, the processor generates an output that indicates that the security of the network has been compromised. Otherwise, the processor ascertains that the incident is a false positive and may modify a criteria for alert generation. |
| US10931705B2 |
Correlated risk in cybersecurity
Computer-implemented methods are provided herein for quantifying correlated risk in a network of a plurality of assets having at least one dependency, where each asset belongs to at least one entity. The method includes generating a dependency graph based on relationships between the assets, at least one dependency, and at least one entity, and executing a plurality of Monte Carlo simulations over the dependency graph. Executing a plurality of Monte Carlo simulations includes generating a seed event in the dependency graph, where the seed event has a probability distribution, and propagating disruption through the dependency graph based on the seed event. The method further includes assessing loss for each of the assets, and aggregating losses for two or more assets to determine correlated risk in the network. |
| US10931704B2 |
Entity IP mapping
Systems and methods for mapping IP addresses to an entity include receiving at least one domain name associated with the entity. Embodiments may further include determining one or more variations of the at least one domain name based on analysis of domain name data collected from a plurality of domain name data sources that mention a variation of the at least one domain name. Some embodiments may also include identifying one or more IP addresses pointed to by the one or more variations of the entity's domain name based on analysis of IP address data collected from a plurality of IP address data sources. Additional embodiments include assigning weights to each of the identified one or more IP addresses and creating a mapping of IP addresses to associate with the entity based on analysis of the weighted one or more IP addresses. |
| US10931702B2 |
Vulnerability profiling based on time series analysis of data streams
Various systems and methods are described for correlating technology choices with the risk of system vulnerabilities. A system captures and quantifies both observations of technology choices as well as the outputs certain outputs of internal choices and processes across a number of different organizations. A Bayesian estimate of vulnerability is imputed from the choices and observed use of vulnerable technology, further segmented by business type, revenue, and size. Differences between the observation of a particular organization and Bayesian expected value are measured and converted to vulnerability score, the vulnerability score embodying a point-in-time and longitudinal measure of organizational performance, including the likelihood of future compromise due to software vulnerabilities. The vulnerability score can then be further used to price risk, for example in a cyber insurance context. |
| US10931699B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting security incidents across cloud-based application services
A method, a system, and an article are provided for identification of security-related activities based on usage of a plurality of independent cloud-based, hosted application platforms. An example method includes: receiving, from the application platforms, activity data and state data for a plurality of users of the application platforms; generating one or more predictive models configured to detect deviations from normal user behavior across the application platforms; providing, as input to the one or more predictive models, the activity data and the state data for at least one of the users; receiving, from the one or more predictive models, an indication that an activity of the at least one of the users deviates from the normal user behavior; and facilitating a remedial action to address the indicated deviation. |
| US10931697B2 |
System and method of identifying fraudulent activity from a user device using a chain of device fingerprints
The present disclosure provides systems and methods of selecting candidates for comparison of fingerprints of devices. An exemplary method comprises calculating a digital fingerprint of a device, determining a group of digital fingerprints where the digital fingerprint occurs, calculating vectors of changed features of each digital fingerprint, calculating a probability that the digital fingerprint and each digital fingerprint within the group belong to the same chain, identifying a set of candidates from the group whose probability of belonging to the same chain of fingerprints crosses a value, comparing the calculated digital fingerprint of the device with the fingerprints in the set of candidates, determine that the device correspond to a device in the set of candidates when the comparison results in a match higher than a specified threshold and permitting the user actions, otherwise tracking the user actions with the online service as fraudulent activity. |
| US10931696B2 |
Communications methods and apparatus for dynamic detection and/or mitigation of threats and/or anomalies
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for dynamically detecting and/or mitigating threats in communications systems. Exemplary methods and apparatus of the present invention allow for a combination of automated and operator controlled responses to threats. While an operator is provided an opportunity to provide input on how to respond to a threat, after one or more threats of a given type are identified, the system will automatically take corrective action without waiting for operator input and/or in the absence of operator input following notification of a threat. |
| US10931695B2 |
Nonce injection and observation system for detecting eavesdroppers
An entity can disseminate nonces by introducing them into various aspects of network traffic, and then listening for them, thereby detecting eavesdroppers on the Internet. A nonce may be numeric, alphanumeric, or otherwise; nonces are contextually appropriate to how they are disseminated. Preferably, a nonce is disseminated by incorporating it into some aspect of network traffic. For example, a nonce can be placed in a network identifier such as an IP address or domain name label. Correlating the circumstances under which the nonce was disseminated and under which it was observed to “propagate”, intelligence about who is eavesdropping on what portions of the Internet can be derived. Such intelligence can be put to many uses, including reporting on eavesdroppers, routing traffic around eavesdroppers, developing reputation scores, and adopting enhanced obfuscation/privacy/security techniques. |
| US10931693B2 |
Computation apparatus and method for identifying attacks on a technical system on the basis of events of an event sequence
A computing device is proposed for detecting attacks on a technical system based on events of an event sequence is provided. The computing device has a receiving unit for receiving the event sequence which includes a plurality of events, wherein an attack is determined by a specific sequence in the events in the received event sequence, and a checking unit for checking the received event sequence based on a main event which is contained in the specific sequence in events, wherein the checking unit is additionally designed to carry out a pattern recognition in the received event sequence based on the specific sequence in events if the main event has occurred. As the checking unit merely checks the received event sequence for the occurrence of a main event, and the more exact pattern recognition is only carried out after the main event occurs, the necessary computing expense can be reduced. |
| US10931690B1 |
Thwarting potentially malicious online activity
Thwarting potentially malicious online activity. In one embodiment, a method may include logging legitimate online user activities performed at a browser. The method may also include receiving a suspicious online activity that was performed at a website. The method may further include comparing the suspicious online activity to the logged legitimate online user activities to determine whether the suspicious online activity matches any of the logged legitimate online user activities. The method may also include, in response to determining that the suspicious online activity does not match any of the logged legitimate online user activities, determining that the suspicious online activity is a potentially malicious online activity, and thwarting the potentially malicious online activity by performing a remedial action at the website to protect the website from the potentially malicious online activity. |
| US10931689B2 |
Malicious network traffic identification
A method for identifying malicious network traffic communicated via a computer network, the method including: evaluating a measure of a correlation fractal dimension for a portion of network traffic over a monitored network connection; comparing the measure of correlation fractal dimension with a reference measure of correlation fractal dimension for a corresponding portion of network traffic of a malicious network connection so as to determine if malicious network traffic is communicated over the monitored network connection. |
| US10931687B2 |
Cyber-attack detection, localization, and neutralization for unmanned aerial vehicles
In some embodiments, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (“UAV”) system may be associated with a plurality of monitoring nodes, each monitoring node generating a series of monitoring node values over time that represent operation of the UAV system. An attack detection computer platform may receive the series of current monitoring node values and generate a set of current feature vectors. The attack detection computer platform may access an attack detection model having at least one decision boundary (e.g., created using a set of normal feature vectors a set of attacked feature vectors). The attack detection model may then be executed and the platform may transmit an attack alert signal based on the set of current feature vectors and the at least one decision boundary. According to some embodiments, attack localization and/or neutralization functions may also be provided. |
| US10931685B2 |
Malware analysis and recovery
A system and method detects malware by processing notifications from an intrusion detection system and baseline snapshots from an image capture utility. The image capture utility constructs an image of the suspected malware intrusion and links the suspected malware intrusion to the baseline snapshots. The system and method propagates the image of the suspected malware intrusion across multiple networks before it distinguishes malicious code, device state, and files from benign code, device state, and files. Some systems and methods include a malware recovery system that executes machine learning instructions and heuristics to revert a client and/or a remote server to one or more baseline snapshots. |
| US10931683B2 |
Automatic token-based secure content streaming method and apparatus
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in secure content access, distribution and download and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic token-based secure content streaming. |
| US10931682B2 |
Privileged identity management
Aspects of a privileged identity management system and method provide users with the ability to request elevated privileges to perform tasks on computing systems and software applications. The privileged identity management system and method also provides users with the ability to extend the elevated privileges to access privileged features or perform tasks using elevated privileges. The privileged identity management system and method utilize a different device that is readily available to the user in order to provide communications relating to the elevated privileges. |
| US10931677B1 |
Graphical user interface and console management system for distributed terminal network
A graphical user interface (GUI) and operator console management system for a distributed terminal network is described. In some embodiments, the terminals may be hardware terminals, kiosks, or clients. In some embodiments, a security analysis may be performed, and security scores may be determined, for visitors requesting operations at terminals based on an operator configuration. Security scores may be determined by a provider, in communication with the operator terminals, based on aggregation of a plurality of factors, wherein each factor may be weighted. The factors may incorporate operator settings or preferences. In one embodiment, the factors include one or more facial recognition factors. The one or more facial recognition factors may be used for biometric authentication. The provider may use the security scores to determine user privileges or permissions for the operations. The provider may deliver instructions or messages to the terminals based on the determinations. |
| US10931674B2 |
Detecting whether to implement one or more security measures on a shared resource
A computer system identifies that a user activity on a user device during a first time period corresponds to a first user activity profile. The computer system monitors user activity on a user device during a second time period. The computer system determines that the user activity associated with the second time period does not correspond to the first user activity profile. In response to the determining that the user activity associated with the second time period corresponds to the second user activity profile, the computer system implements one or more security measures. |
| US10931672B1 |
Certified transaction authentication system for unilaterally-issued records
Apparatus and associated methods relate to generating persistent transaction records (PTR), each containing fields/parameters determined by a template that gets stored on a centralized blockchain to identify a certified transaction associated with a particular Certified Body and Certified Subject pair, the persistent transaction records being unilaterally issued by the Certified Body. In an illustrative example, the Certified Body may be authenticated by a trusted Certifying Transaction Authority System (CTAS) configured to authenticate parametric data from one or more Certified Bodies and cause the authenticated parameters to be stored on the blockchain in association with the Certified Subject as a PTR. The PTR may be accessible in the decentralized blockchain by, for example, the Certified Body, the Certified Subject, and an authorized 3rd Party. The CTAS may advantageously provide an automated infrastructure for unilateral issuance of trustworthy and immutable records of diverse information (e.g., credentials, experience, rights) relating to Certified Subjects. |
| US10931669B2 |
Endpoint protection and authentication
Methods and systems are disclosed for endpoint protection and authentication schemes for a host computer system having an internet isolation system. A first host computer system may include a first memory space and a second memory space. The first memory space may be configured to enable storage and operation of a workspace configured to execute a first set of one or more applications and processes running on an operating system of the first host computer system. The second memory space may be configured to enable storage and operation of a second set of one or more applications and processes associated with an isolated computing environment (e.g., a sandboxed computing environment) configured to run on the operating system. When the first host computer system is connected to a network that is known or associated with a predetermined security policy, the first host computer system may instantiate a predetermined security policy configuration. |
| US10931665B1 |
Cross-device user identification and content access control using cookie stitchers
Techniques are disclosed to leverage third party “cookie stitchers” for cross-device user identification, which may be used by a network server to selectively provide content to a user. The techniques include a cookie stitcher associating a user with multiple computing devices, which in turn notifies the network server when the same user requests access to provided content on separate occasions from different computing devices. The cookie stitcher may also have access to a user record regarding the identified user, and may provide this record data to the network server to identify other characteristics about the user. Based upon the particular type of information that is identified, the network server may provide varying degrees of access to content and/or allow the user to interact with one or more applications supported by the network server in different ways. |
| US10931664B2 |
Establishing access to a secure network based on user-created credential indicia
In various aspects, code-based indicia contain secured network access credentials. In some aspects, a computer processor receives user input that specifies secured network access credentials, and the computer processor creates or modifies credentials for establishing a secured network connection. In these aspects, the computer processor generates code-based indicia that contain at least part of the secured network access credentials. In other aspects, a computer processor scans the code-based indicia and extracts the network access credentials. In these aspects, the computer processor employs the network access credentials to establish the secured network connection. In additional aspects, a network router apparatus renders the code-based indicia to an active display. In further aspects, a network router apparatus conditions grant of network access to a device on receipt from the device of an answer to a security question included in the secured network access credentials. |
| US10931663B2 |
Terminal authenticated access
Two-factor authentication is processed on a transaction terminal before access is provided to a secure resource of the transaction terminal. A first factor authentication is performed to authenticate an identifier and a credential of a user. A unique challenge is sent, in response to a successful first factor authentication, to a secure device interfaced to the transaction terminal. A one-time unique signed response is received from the secure device in response to the unique challenge and a user action that depresses a button on the secure device. The one-time unique signed response is compared against what is expected from the secure device. When the comparison is successful, a user identity for the user is set, a security role is set for the user identity, and the user is granted access to the secure resource with the set security role. |
| US10931659B2 |
Federated authentication for information sharing artificial intelligence systems
A system that includes an artificial intelligence (AI) system and an information service system. The information service system includes an authentication engine configured to authenticate the AI system to enable data transfers between the AI system and the information service system. The information service system further includes an AI service engine configured to receive behavior information for the user from the AI system and link the user with a classification type based on the content of the behavior information. The AI service engine is further configured to receive an information request from a user device associated with the user, to send the account information to the user device, to identify general information with a classification type that matches the classification type of the user and a classification type of the private information request, and to send the general information to the user device. |
| US10931656B2 |
Cross-region trust for a multi-tenant identity cloud service
Embodiments of a multi-tenant cloud system include a first data center adapted to authenticate a first plurality of registered clients and located in a first geographic area, and a second data center adapted to authenticate a second plurality of registered clients and located in a second geographic area that is different from the first geographic area. The first data center receives a request from a first client of the first plurality of registered clients to access a resource of the second data center and validates the request from the first client and issues a global access token. The second data center receives the request with the global access token. A cloud gate at the second data center, based on the global access token, validates the request and provides the resource to the first client. |
| US10931655B2 |
Apparatus and method for supporting bidirectional communication using unidirectional communication
An apparatus and method for supporting bidirectional communication using unidirectional communication. The apparatus for supporting bidirectional communication using unidirectional communication includes an internal network module for performing bidirectional communication with an internal network and communicating with an external network module depending on a communication mode, the external network module for performing bidirectional communication with an external network and communicating with the internal network module depending on the communication mode, and a communication control module for controlling, of first unidirectional communication from the internal network module to the external network module and second unidirectional communication from the external network module to the internal network module, the second unidirectional communication, thus controlling a communication function corresponding to the communication mode, wherein the communication mode includes a unidirectional communication mode, a conditional bidirectional communication mode, and a bidirectional communication mode. |
| US10931652B2 |
Data sealing with a sealing enclave
Techniques for securely sealing and unsealing enclave data across platforms are presented. Enclave data from a source enclave hosted on a first computer may be securely sealed to a sealing enclave on a second computer, and may further be securely unsealed for a destination enclave on a third computer. Securely transferring an enclave workload from one computer to another is disclosed. |
| US10931648B2 |
Perimeter encryption
Encryption keys for an enterprise are stored at a perimeter device such as a gateway, and rules are applied at the network perimeter to control whether and how these keys are used for cryptographic processing of communications passing through the perimeter device. The encrypted status of communications, e.g. whether and how files are encrypted with the encryption keys, may also be used to assist in selecting appropriate security handling and routing of the communications. |
| US10931644B2 |
Methods, network nodes, mobile entity, computer programs and computer program products for protecting privacy of a mobile entity
A method for a first network node may protect confidentiality of a first identifier associated by the first network node with a subscription used by a mobile entity. The communications network comprises a home network of the mobile entity and a serving network serving the mobile entity. The first network node, which is part of the home network may: receive, from a second network node which is part of the serving network, a first request for authentication information for the mobile entity, the first request comprising the first identifier; generate a first pseudonym associated with the first identifier; create a link between the first pseudonym and the first identifier; and send, to the second network node, the first pseudonym in response to the first request for authentication information for use as an identifier for the mobile entity in the serving network. A method for a second network node is also provided. |
| US10931643B1 |
Methods and systems of telemedicine diagnostics through remote sensing
A system for telemedicine diagnostics through remote sensing includes a computing device 104 configured to initiate a communication interface between the computing device 104 and a client device 112 operated by a human subject, wherein the secure communication interface includes an audiovisual streaming protocol, receive, from at least a remote sensor at the human subject, a plurality of current physiological data, generate a clinical measurement approximation as a function of the plurality of current physiological data, wherein generating further comprises receiving approximation training data correlating physiological data with clinical measurement data, training a measurement approximation model as a function of the training data and a machine-learning process, and generating the clinical measurement approximation as a function of the current physiological data and the measurement approximation model, and presenting the clinical measurement approximation to a user of the computing device 104 using the secure communication interface. |
| US10931641B1 |
Hardware control logic based data forwarding control method and system
The present invention discloses a hardware control logic based data forwarding control method and a corresponding data forwarding control system. The method includes: externally connecting a terminal protection device to a protected host, and taking over all the data interfaces of the protected host; and controlling by a hardware control logic in the terminal protection device the connection and/or disconnection of a physical circuit corresponding to data forwarding when an external device interacts data with the protected host via the terminal protection device, so as to control the data interaction between the external device and the protected host. The present invention realizes the functions of performing control and security protection on various types of data without installing data monitoring and security protection software on the protected host, and achieves the effects of isolating the physical circuit via the hardware control logic and better controlling data forwarding security, thereby comprehensively eliminating the potential security hazards such as Trojan virus implantation and malicious code injection that may be generated by the interfaces. |
| US10931640B2 |
Tunneling network traffic using object storage
Methods and systems for managing computer network traffic are provided. A computer implemented method includes tunneling network traffic between a first network and a second network using a data storage system that is shared by the first network and the second network. |
| US10931638B1 |
Automated firewall feedback from network traffic analysis
Security rule feedback systems and methods include capturing network traffic data, the network traffic data including a plurality of traffic records. The traffic records are grouped into first and second traffic records having corresponding first and second source address identifiers, first and second source port identifiers, first and second destination address identifiers, and first and second destination port identifiers. Network interfaces associated with the first and second records are identified based on source address identifiers. Security rule populations are associated to the network interfaces. A determination is made as to a direction of network traffic based on the security rule populations. Thereby, dispensable security rules may be identified. |
| US10931637B2 |
Outbound/inbound lateral traffic punting based on process risk
Techniques for outbound/inbound lateral traffic punting based upon process risk are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for outbound/inbound lateral traffic punting based upon process risk includes receiving, at a network device on an enterprise network, process identification (ID) information from an endpoint (EP) agent executed on an EP device, in which the process ID information identifies a process that is associated with an outbound or inbound network session on the EP device on the enterprise network, and the EP agent selected the network session for punting to the network device for inspection; monitoring network communications associated with the network session at the network device to identify an application identification (APP ID) for the network session; and performing an action based on a security policy using the process ID information and the APP ID. |
| US10931636B2 |
Method and system for restricting transmission of data traffic for devices with networking capabilities
A method and a system of restricting data packet transmission of an apparatus at a network node. The network node, during a first time period, updates a whitelist and does not restrict data packet transmission according to the whitelist. After the first time period, the network node determines corresponding destination address of each of the data packets and allows the data packets to be sent to the corresponding destination address if a criteria is satisfactory. The network node does not allow the data packets to be sent to the corresponding destination address if the criteria is not satisfactory. The whitelist is comprised of at least one destination address. The criteria is based on the at least one destination address. The whitelist list is stored in non-transitory computer readable storage medium in the network node. |
| US10931635B2 |
Host behavior and network analytics based automotive secure gateway
Systems and methods for an automotive security gateway include an in-gateway security system that monitors local host behaviors in vehicle devices to identify anomalous local host behaviors using a blueprint model trained to recognize secure local host behaviors. An out-of-gateway security system monitors network traffic across remote hosts, local devices, hotspot network, and in-car network to identify anomalous behaviors using deep packet inspection to inspect packets of the network. A threat mitigation system issues threat mitigation instructions corresponding to the identified anomalous local host behaviors and the anomalous remote host behaviors to secure the vehicle devices by removing the identified anomalous local host behaviors and the anomalous remote host behaviors. Automotive security gateway services and vehicle electronic control units operate the vehicle devices according to the threat mitigation instructions. |
| US10931632B2 |
Communication apparatus and recording medium
A communication apparatus includes: a transmitting unit that is capable of transmitting data to a designated destination through any of plural communication interfaces; a storage unit in which plural pieces of destination information are stored; and a registration unit that registers a communication interface used for data transmission in advance for each of the plural pieces of destination information stored in the storage unit. |
| US10931630B2 |
System and method for connecting using aliases
Systems, methods, and media for connecting using aliases. During operation, such as an API, an operation is called that utilizes a connection to a remote device. When this operation is attempted, information may be requested to complete the connection. The information may include credentials or connection information about a target device for the connection. An appropriate alias is used to request the suitable information. |
| US10931626B2 |
Automatic discovery of management server IP address using DHCP for thin client solution
Systems and methods for automatic discovery of a network address of a machine storing a management server application. The system includes a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, which may perform internet protocol (IP) address leasing for DHCP clients. When the DHCP server performs IP address leasing to the machine storing the management server application, the DHCP server may configure a first IP address issued to the machine in vendor specific class information. When the DHCP server performs IP address leasing to a computing device functioning as a thin/zero client, the DHCP server may, in the IP address leasing process, send the vendor specific class information requested to the computing device. Thus, the computing device may retrieve the first network address of the machine from the vendor specific class information, and communicate with the management server application using the first network address of the machine. |
| US10931625B2 |
Systems and methods for providing DNS services
A system for providing a Domain Name System (DNS) service may include providing an agent for installation on a subscriber device. The subscriber device may be connected to the DNS service via an entry point device. The system includes receiving, from the agent, agent data indicative of a subscriber identifier and a unique identifier associated with the entry point device. The system may then determine, based on the agent data, a current Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the entry point device and associate the unique identifier with the subscriber identifier. The system may then dynamically map the subscriber identifier to the current IP address and provide DNS service to the subscriber device based on the current IP address. |
| US10931621B2 |
Methods and systems for providing life event notifications to one or more users
One or more systems and/or methods for providing a notification of a life event to a user for a contact of the user are provided. A contact database (e.g., an electronic address book, a social media contact list, etc.) associated with the user may be evaluated to identify a contact from a set of contacts of the user. A contact query may be created for the contact. The contact query may be utilized to access data articles within a data store. The data articles may be evaluated to identify life events associated with the contact. In an example, the life event may be at least one of a death event, a birth event, an engagement event, a marriage event, a graduation event, an anniversary event, or the like. A notification may be provided to the user of the life event in response to identifying the life event for the contact. |
| US10931620B2 |
Calculating efficient messaging parameters
Methods and systems for creating optimal time limited messages is disclosed. The server system receives a limited time message request from a first member, wherein the message request identifies a second member as the intended recipient and includes an offer. The server system accesses a member profile associated with the second member. The server system determines a message expiration time recommendation based, at least in part, on member profile data of the second member. The server system receives an expiration time selection from the first member. The server system creates a limited time message based on the received message request. The server system transmits the limited time message to the second member. |
| US10931618B2 |
Control of notifications to a user of an electronic messaging system
An example method of controlling notifications to a user of an electronic messaging system comprises controlling communication of a notification associated with a thread of the electronic messaging system to the user based on a determined level of interest of the user in a topic of the thread and at least one of: the obtained timing information relating to the timing of the most recent notification associated with the thread; and an obtained measure of similarity between the topic of the thread and a second topic associated with the most recent notification associated with the thread. |
| US10931617B2 |
Sharing of bundled content
Non-limiting examples describe sharing of bundled content through an application/service. A first input may be received, through a user interface of the email service. The first input is associated with a selection of a user interface element for sharing of a bundle of emails that comprises a grouping of at least two separate email threads. A second input is received indicating one or more other users for sharing the bundle of emails. The bundle of emails is shared with the one or more other users. Sharing of the bundle of emails creates a sharing permission that enables multi-directional sharing between the user and the one or more other users for current content of the shared bundle of emails and future content added to the shared bundle of emails. The shared bundle of emails is displayed inline with other emails of an email mailbox of the user through the user interface. |
| US10931613B2 |
RNA targeting methods and compositions
Provided herein are CRISPR/Cas methods and compositions for targeting RNA molecules, which can be used to detect, edit, or modify a target RNA. |
| US10931612B2 |
Integration of social interactions into media sharing
Embodiments for managing social commentary as applicable to social media by a processor. A spectrum of weights is assigned to individual portions of the social commentary as a function of a determined measured characteristic. Those of the individual portions having a higher weight than a predetermined threshold are selected to be displayed through the social media in a hierarchy corresponding to a position in the spectrum of weights, while those of the individual portions having a lower weight than the predetermined threshold are selected to be withheld from display. A deduplication operation is applied to individual portions of the social commentary. Those of the individual portions determined to be repetitive greater than a predetermined number are used to assist in formulating weights of the individual portions. |
| US10931610B2 |
Method, device, user terminal and electronic device for sharing online image
The present invention discloses a method, a device, a user terminal and an electronic device for sharing an online image. The method includes: in response to a user's request for sharing an online image, obtaining a local resource of the online image to be shared; generating a sharing setting interface for the user to set editing the image and then sharing the online image, or directly sharing the online image. According to the present invention, a user is allowed to directly edit an online image and then share it with other users without the need of certain cumbersome operations, so as to enhance the user experience. |
| US10931605B2 |
Event processing method and apparatus
This application discloses an event processing method and apparatus. A first communication request is received by a server system from a first terminal device. A second communication request is received by the server system from one or more second terminal devices. The first terminal device and the one or more second terminal devices are added to a same communication group by processing circuitry of the server system. A task to be executed at the one or more second terminal devices is sent to the one or more second terminal devices via the same communication group. A task execution result is received that is associated with task execution by the one or more second terminal devices that execute the task. An event object associated with the task is sent by the server system to the one or more second terminal devices that execute the task when the task execution result satisfies a predetermined condition. |
| US10931596B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for addressing resources
A method and an apparatus for addressing resources, the apparatus having a first interface to communicate with end-points operationally connected to the apparatus using a binary web service, the end-points including one or more resources; a second interface for receiving requests regarding the resources and for responding to the requests; a component for storing information on sleeping end-points which are non-continuously available and storing a request queue for each sleeping end-point; a component for receiving through the second interface a request regarding a sleeping end-point, adding the request to the request queue of the end-point; communicating with a sleeping end-point regarding the requests after receiving through the first interface a queue request from the end-point; and sending through the first interface responses for the resolved requests. |
| US10931595B2 |
Cloud quality of service management
A computer-implemented method of allocating cloud resources is provided that comprises: receiving, by a cloud host, data that identifies, for an application, a relationship between consumption of a first resource type and consumption of a second resource type; determining, by the cloud host, a consumption level of the first resource type of the application; and allocating, by the cloud host, one or more resources of the second resource type based on the identified relationship. |
| US10931590B2 |
Packet processing method and system, and network device
A packet processing method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a packet, where the packet includes match object information and match condition information; determining, by the first network device, a to-be-matched network device among one or more network devices according to the match object information, determining, by the first network device, whether device information of the of the to-be-matched network device matches with the match condition information; and performing, by the first network device, forwarding processing or discarding processing on the packet according to a result of the determination. |
| US10931583B2 |
Methods of load balancing
A load balancing method is disclosed, the method includes establishing a processing network including a plurality of task-processing processors interconnected therewith, each processor of the plurality having a queue of tasks to be processed, establishing a k-regular graph including nodes and branches connecting the nodes, where k is the degree of the graph, assigning d walkers to the k-regular graph, where each walker is randomly assigned to a node, receiving a new task to be processed, walking from the assigned nodes to new nodes by randomly choosing a new node from one or more available nodes, without backtracking from each of the assigned nodes to a node from which each of the d walkers immediately walked, comparing the queues of the new nodes, determining which queue of the new nodes has the least number of tasks; and assigning the new task to the node with the least number of tasks. |
| US10931580B2 |
Packet processing method and network device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a packet processing method and a network device, so as to effectively resolve a problem that a quantity of concurrent packet processing policies is limited in a network device due to scarce hardware resources of a packet forwarding chip. A method part in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: obtaining, by a first network device, identification information; processing, by the first network device, a packet when receiving the packet, where a processed packet includes the identification information, and packets corresponding to different preset policy information include different identification information; and sending, by the first network device, the processed packet to a second network device, so that the second network device matches a corresponding policy for the processed packet based on the identification information. |
| US10931578B2 |
Method for processing data in ethernet, device, and system
A data processing method, a related device, and a system are provided. The method executed by a first network device includes receiving PDH frame data; loading the PDH frame data and a stuffing bit into a virtual container to obtain the virtual container that includes the PDH frame data, where the stuffing bit in the virtual container carries information about a clock frequency difference between a clock frequency of the Ethernet and a clock frequency of the PDH frame data; and performing virtual-container PWE3 encapsulation on the virtual container to obtain a virtual-container PWE3 packet. In at least some embodiments, difficulty in recovering the clock frequency of the PDH frame data when the PDH frame data is transmitted in the Ethernet is reduced, clock frequency jitters and drifts caused by the clock frequency recovery are reduced, and user experience is improved. |
| US10931577B2 |
Ultra high-speed mobile network based on layer-2 switching
The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding Ultra High-Speed Mobile Network based on Layer-2 Switching. Certain aspects of the present invention include receiving, at a first gateway, a data packet from a first host served by the first gateway destined to a second host served by a second gateway, the data packet having a header comprising a layer 3 destination address of the second host and a broadcast layer 2 destination address, searching, by the first gateway, a flow table stored in the first gateway for an identity of the second gateway associated with the broadcast layer 2 destination address, if the identity is found in the flow table, replacing the broadcast layer 2 destination address with the identity of the second gateway serving the second host, and transmitting the data packet to the second gateway. |
| US10931576B2 |
Software defined networking system for distinguishing packet-in messages
The application provides a switch device and a software defined network (SDN) controller. The switch device includes a storage unit configured to store control flow entries, each control flow entry comprises at least one service field associated with at least one processing action, a receiver configured to receive a data plane packet, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the SDN controller, a packet-in message, and a processor configured to determine whether at least one information field of the data plane packet or of the packet-in message matches the at least one service field of a control flow entry, and instruct the transmitter to transmit the packet-in message according to the processing action associated with the matched service field, if the at least one information field matches the at least one service field. |
| US10931575B2 |
Multi-tenant virtual private network based on an overlay network
According to an example embodiment, a technique for operating a virtual private network (VPN) service in a multi-tenant data center is provided, the technique comprising operating, in the data center, a multi-tenant VPN server to relay data packets between a VPN tunnel that connects the multi-tenant VPN server to a remote network of a tenant and an overlay network service that implements the VPN for said tenant within the data center, wherein the data packets between the multi-tenant VPN server and the overlay network service are carried in a virtual local area network, VLAN, assigned for said tenant, and wherein the multi-tenant VPN server stores a multi-tenant forwarding table that stores a mapping between a tenant and a VLAN assigned for the tenant for a plurality of tenants. |
| US10931574B2 |
Universal customer premise equipment
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable medium are described for improving efficiency and robustness for processing network packets at a network device, such as a customer premises equipment (CPE). The network device may include a plurality of physical network interfaces for receiving and transmitting network packets, and one or more processing entities. The one or more processing entities may provide a first router for providing routing functionality, wherein the first router is not virtualized, enable a virtual machine to execute a second router for providing routing functionality and forward a network packet using the first router or the second router from the device. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions associated with the first router from user space. |
| US10931569B2 |
Internet reachability detection and internet high availability for multi-homed network devices
A method for determining Internet reachability and Internet high availability for a multi-homed device in a network having a plurality of network interfaces includes connecting the multi-homed device to a network interface of interest in the plurality of network interfaces and disabling any functionality of setting a default route entry for the at least one network interface of interest until a determination of Internet reachability is made. |
| US10931561B2 |
Dynamic split tunneling
A computing device dynamically excludes/includes traffic from/in a secure tunnel based on the domain name of the destination of the traffic. The computing device establishes a secure tunnel from the computing device, and receives a request to access a remote resource at a domain name. The computing device resolves the domain name at a domain name server and receives a resolved network address associated with the domain name. The computing device determines whether to send the request inside the secure tunnel or outside the secure tunnel by comparing the domain name to a split tunneling policy. Based on the comparison with the split tunneling policy, the computing device sends the request to the resolved network address either outside the secure tunnel or inside the secure tunnel. |
| US10931560B2 |
Using route type to determine routing protocol behavior
Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical network. Based on logical network configuration data, the method identifies a route for a set of network addresses to add to a routing table of the logical router, and also identifies a route type for the identified route. The method determines whether to include the identified route as a route for the logical router to advertise based on the route type of the identified route. The method distributes a routing table comprising the identified route to a computing device that implements the logical router, where the computing device advertises the identified route when the route type is specified for advertisement. |
| US10931559B2 |
Distribution of network-policy configuration, management, and control using model-driven and information-centric networking
A network of routers configure resource nodes connected to the network in accordance with a configuration model including configuration objects that imply resources. A router device among the network of router devices receives, from forwarding paths in the network relative to the router device, originated at the resource nodes and that indicate resources supported by the resource nodes. The router device creates mappings of the resources as advertised to the forwarding paths. The router device receives from the network an Intent request to create a configuration object among the configuration objects, and determines whether the configuration object matches a resource in the mappings. If the configuration object matches a resource in the mappings, the router device generates a new Intent request that identifies the resource, specifically, and forwards the new Intent request along the forwarding path mapped to the resource. |
| US10931554B2 |
Flexible ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance systems and methods
A node includes circuitry configured to interface a stream of encoded blocks with the blocks including i) data blocks from one or more clients and ii) overhead blocks, wherein a calendar is utilized for block distribution in the stream of encoded blocks; and circuitry configured to process one or more Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) fields in the overhead blocks, wherein the OAM fields are associated with the one or more clients in the data blocks. |
| US10931549B2 |
Communication device of an industrial automation system and method for configurating the communication device
A communication device of an industrial automation system and method for configuring the communication device, wherein a communication network address assigned to the communication device is independently generated from at least one prefix communicated via router advertisement messages by at least one router assigned within a subnetwork and from a device-specific interface identifier, where the communication device interrogates at at least one server of a name service system, in accordance with a name resolution protocol, which communication network addresses are assigned to its communication device name, the communication network addresses interrogated at the at least one server of the name service system are checked with regard to correspondence to the prefix, and where the communication device assigns to itself only those communication network addresses interrogated at the server of the name service system which have a correspondence to the prefix communicated by the router. |
| US10931545B2 |
Policy-based sampling of network flows at a network visibility node
Methods and systems are disclosed for analyzing control signaling messages over a network to inform policy-based sampling of network flows using a network visibility node communicatively coupled to the network. In an illustrative embodiment, session dialog information is extracted from control signaling messages exchanged between subscriber devices initiating a communications session and tracked. A network flow associated with the communications session is selected for sampling at the network visibility node based on the tracked session dialog information. Packets associated with the network flow are then forwarded by the network visibility node to an external tool for processing. |
| US10931540B2 |
Continuous data sensing of functional states of networked computing devices to determine efficiency metrics for servicing electronic messages asynchronously
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate data and computing machine-based entities configured to access, track, and/or analyze data, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to implement computerized tools to continuously (or nearly continuously) sense data describing functional states of remote computing devices and/or user interfaces configured to service electronic messages, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include receiving a stream of data representing states of user interfaces, analyzing the states of the user interfaces, identifying activity data, identifying a state of an application, detecting an action and classifying a subset of activity data based on the action, and generating data representing a state of an application configured to interact with a digital conversation. |
| US10931537B2 |
Method and device for updating a predictive model of a variable relating to a mobile terminal
A method for updating a predictive model of a variable representing the operation of a mobile terminal connected to a communication network by packets is described. A first predictive model is configured to estimate a value of the variable as a function of the value of predictors, linked to the variable by a common operating context. The method can be implemented by the mobile terminal and can include generating a feed message, comprising at least the measured value and the values of the predictors, if the difference between the measured value and the estimated value is greater than or equal to a determined threshold, called the feed threshold, the method can further include transmitting the at least one feed message generated, to an update server connected to the network, receiving an update message, comprising a second predictive model updated on the basis of at least the feed message, coming from the update server, and replacing the first predictive model with the second predictive model. |
| US10931531B2 |
Bandwidth-based virtual router redundancy protocol node designation
A first information handling system may determine a first bandwidth of a first connection between the first information handling system and a client information handling system. The first information handling system may also determine a second bandwidth of a second connection between a second information handling system and the client information handling system. The first information handling system may determine that the first bandwidth is greater than the second bandwidth. Based on the determination, the first information handling system may be designated as a VRRP master node based. Based on the designation as the VRRP master node, the first information handling system may control VRRP operation of the first and second information handling systems. |
| US10931527B2 |
Autonomous configuration system for a service infrastructure
Various methods and systems for implementing an autonomous configuration system for configuring a service infrastructure are provided. An autonomous configuration system implements a service infrastructure configuration manager to identify discovered configuration data. The discovered configuration data supports circumventing a routing protocol for service infrastructure communications via an edge infrastructure, such that, the service infrastructure is alternatively configured to access remote configuration data based on the discovered configuration data. The discovered configuration data is discovered based an autonomous discovery service (e.g., sniffing service or a casting service). An initial configuration state is configured in the service infrastructure, based on the discovered configuration data. The service infrastructure can communicate with a service provider infrastructure associated with the service infrastructure to access the remote configuration data. The service infrastructure configuration manager accesses the remote configuration data and uses the remote configuration data to configure a final configuration state in the service infrastructure. |
| US10931524B1 |
Active wireless network management to ensure live voice quality
A system for managing moderator and audience audio captured by personal mobile devices and broadcast by a public address system in the same venue is disclosed. In various aspects, the system includes a wireless network hub. The wireless network hub transmits and receives wireless data from a plurality of personal mobile devices. A network manager component manages communications of the personal mobile devices with the wireless network hub. The network manager uses measured dynamic network parameters and determines conditions for maintaining voice stream quality according to configurable rules. |
| US10931523B2 |
Configuration change monitoring in software-defined networking environments
Example methods and systems for a network management entity to perform configuration change monitoring. One example method may comprise receiving a request to monitor a datapath to which a configuration change is applicable. The datapath may include multiple network elements. The method may also comprise instructing the first host to inject, at a first network element, one or more trace packets for transmission along the datapath to a second network element. The method may further comprise: obtaining state information associated with the configuration change, and detecting that an operating condition associated with the datapath is affected by the configuration change based on the state information. |
| US10931522B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatically integrating a medical device into a medical facility network
A method for integrating a medical device into a medical facility network by equipping the medical device with wireless communication device is disclosed. The medical device is provided into a medical treatment area within wireless range of the medical facility network. The medical facility network is configured to detect the medical device upon entry into the medical treatment area, and then recognize or authenticate the medical device. The medical facility network is configured to thereafter transmit an initialization signal to the medical device. A system for integrating medical devices, a medical device capable of integration, and a medical facility network are also disclosed. |
| US10931521B2 |
Software defined network system with auto-deployed switch and method for deploying switch
An SDN (Software Defined Networking) system with auto-deployment switches and a method for auto-deploying the switches in said SDN system are proposed. The method includes: actively sending a configuration message out by a controller, with said configuration message having an IP (Internet Protocol) address of the controller and a plurality of parameters; receiving the configuration message by a switch; and building a connection between the switch and the controller according to the IP address of the controller and the plurality of parameters. |
| US10931518B2 |
System and method for configuring networks
A system and method for handling queries where the queries and the answers to those queries are transmitted by means of a network which may have significantly variable latencies. The system and method involve copying the queries and calculating a response to each copy of the query and sending each response over the network. The first-received response can then be acted upon. The query may be divided up into sub-queries which are then replicated and sent for determination. |
| US10931517B2 |
Methods and systems that synchronize configuration of a clustered application
The current document is directed a distributed application in which a common configuration is maintained across the applications instances. In a disclosed example, a workflow-development-and-process-automation application is distributed across multiple discrete computer systems. In order for the applications instances to function symmetrically within the distributed application, the application instances share a common application configuration. The common configuration is maintained by an application-configuration synchronization subsystem that propagates configuration changes and that monitors the individual configurations of the application instances to ensure that they correspond to one another. |
| US10931515B2 |
Method for detecting and processing radio link and apparatus
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for detecting and processing a radio link and an apparatus. The method includes: configuring, by a access network device, independent radio link detection parameters for one or more wireless physical layer parameters used by a terminal device; and detecting, by the terminal device, radio links of the one or more wireless physical layer parameters, reporting a detected radio link failure of a wireless physical layer parameter to the access network device, and processing, under scheduling and configuration performed by the access network device, data on the wireless physical layer parameter whose radio link fails. |
| US10931512B2 |
Computer readable media, methods, and computer apparatuses for network service continuity management
Provided is non-transitory computer-readable recording media storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a continuity management method that includes sending a heartbeat signal to a service server that provides a service over a network, sending a packet to an echo server in response to failing to receive a response signal to the heartbeat signal from the service server, and determining whether to continue the service based on whether a response to the packet is received from the echo server. |
| US10931510B2 |
System for synchronizing a set of interconnected avionics devices with communication network of a vehicle
The invention relates to a method for synchronizing interconnected critical devices comprising servers and clients, each critical device being connected to another critical device by a virtual link, each termination of which is associated with a minimum and a maximum value of transmission time for a data packet, the method, implemented periodically, comprising: the reception of a message at a reception instant, said message comprising at least one time reference determined by a transmitter server, for each message received, the estimation of the current time of the transmitter server on the basis of: the time reference, a value of the internal clock of the current critical device at the current instant and at the reception instant, the minimum value and the maximum value of transmission time of the virtual link between the transmitter server and the current critical device. |
| US10931509B1 |
Assessing completion of events
A method for assessing completion of events in a network environment is provided. The method includes receiving a first event vector, generating a second event vector, machine matching the first event vector to the second event vector, and generating an output that includes a variable indicating whether an event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If each of a plurality of first nodes of the first event vector matches a corresponding one of a plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is complete. If at least one of the plurality of the first nodes of the first event vector is mismatched with the corresponding one of the plurality of the second nodes of the second event vector, the variable indicates that the event corresponding to the first event vector is incomplete. |
| US10931506B2 |
Network visualization service
A network visualization service may auto-generate graphical, dynamic, and interactive network diagrams of the infrastructure (resource instances, connections, etc.) of clients' virtual private networks as implemented on a provider network. A network diagram may include representations of various virtualized components of a client's virtual private network, as well as relationships among and connections between and among the various components. The diagram may also display logical and/or geographical groupings of the virtual resources in the client's virtual private network. The service may track changes to the virtual private network and update the diagram accordingly. The diagram may provide a user interface via which the client may select particular graphical objects on diagram to display additional information about a respective resource instance or connection and/or to change the client's virtual private network configuration via the network diagram. |
| US10931502B2 |
Communication method and apparatus based on relay device, and communication method and apparatus between terminal and base station
The present application discloses a communication method performed by a relay device. The method includes: receiving a first uplink data frame from a terminal, the first uplink data frame comprising information indicating a first period; determining a length of a first preamble according to the first period and a first time length, the first time length being equal to a length of a third preamble plus a second time length; sending a second downlink data frame to the terminal, the second downlink data frame comprising the first preamble; and receiving a first downlink data frame from a base station, the first downlink data frame comprising a second preamble, wherein a length of the second preamble is less than or equal to each of the length of the first preamble and the length of the third preamble. |
| US10931501B2 |
Data processing method and apparatus
Provided is a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: performing an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on frequency-domain data of L consecutive symbols to obtain time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols, wherein the frequency-domain data of the L consecutive symbols have a subcarrier spacing of fsc, and L≥2; and modulating the time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols with a preset function, where the modulated time-domain data of the L consecutive symbols have a symbol interval of 1/f1, and f1 |
| US10931500B2 |
Resynchronization signal design
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first synchronization signal for synchronizing with a cell, the first synchronization signal transmitted at a first periodicity by a base station serving the cell. The UE may then receive, subsequent to the synchronizing, a second synchronization signal for resynchronizing with the cell. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may be transmitted by the base station according to a second periodicity that is different from the first periodicity. In some cases, the second synchronization signal may include a plurality of repetitions of a first sequence that is based at least in part on a cell identifier of the cell. The UE may communicate over the cell with the base station based at least in part on the resynchronizing. |
| US10931499B2 |
Systems and methods for wireless communication
A user equipment may, based on a tuneaway, start suspend a first timer and/or deactivate a first counter and may, based on a tuneback, resume the first timer and/or activate the first counter. The first timer and first counter may be configured to be used to determine that a sufficiently large number of sufficiently closely timed beam failure indications have been received and, in response to that determination, initiate an access procedure. A user equipment may also identify an overlap of a timing of at least one radio access technology event and a timing of a tuneaway gap and may, based on the identified overlap of the timing of at least one radio access technology event and the timing of the tuneaway gap, modify the timing of the at least one radio access technology event or the timing of the tuneaway gap. |
| US10931498B1 |
Phase synchronization for round trip delay estimation
Phase variations between a transmitter (TX) waveform and a receiver (RX) waveform produced by a TX Phase-Locked-Loop (PLL) and a RX PLL, respectively, is a source of error in processing delay calibration used, e.g., in Round Trip Time (RTT) estimation. While a TX waveform and a RX waveform have a constant phase delay while in steady state conditions, during transient times, e.g., at start up or reset, the phase delay may vary by as much as ±180°, which at baseband frequencies of 50 MHz, introduces a random delay variations of as much as ±10 nsec, which is undesirable for fine position estimation using RTT. The phase delay variation between the TX waveform and RX waveform may be reduced or eliminated using a phase correction signal generated using the output signals of the TX PLL and RX PLL. |
| US10931494B2 |
OFDM transmitter device having a symbol generator for generating non-zero control symbols, and OFDM transmission method including generating non-zero control symbols
An OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver respectively transmit and receive N (N≥2, N is an integer) control symbols. For each control symbol, a guard interval time-domain signal is, for example, identical to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting at least a portion of a useful symbol time-domain signal by an amount different from any other symbol, or to a signal obtained by frequency-shifting one or both of a portion and a span of a useful symbol interval time-domain signal different from any other symbol by a predetermined amount. |
| US10931491B2 |
Device for generating broadcast signal frame and method for generating broadcast signal frame corresponding to time interleaver for supporting plurality of operation modes
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame corresponding to a time interleaver supporting a plurality of operation modes are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and the time interleaver performs the interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes. |
| US10931490B2 |
Waveform coding for multicarrier wake up radio frame
Methods and systems for waking up a wireless receiving device having a wake-up receiver (WUR) circuit. A series of waveform coded symbols each represent a corresponding data bit from a wake-up frame, each of the waveform coded symbols comprising a guard interval followed by first and second sub-symbols of equal duration wherein the corresponding data bit is represented as a different relative energy distribution between the first and second sub-symbols. |
| US10931478B2 |
System and method for distributed flow state P2P setup in virtual networks
Systems and methods for virtual network implementation and management based on a peer-to-peer metadata exchange are disclosed. Metadata pertaining to a flow traversing a virtual network overlaying an underlying network is generated in accordance with actions executed to send data packets via the underlying network relative to the virtual network. The metadata is encapsulated in one or more control packets sent to a set of nodes of the underlying network. Each node of the set of nodes maintains a copy of the metadata received in the one or more control packets in a local data store. The metadata is accessed via the local data store when needed to process packets of the flow. |
| US10931477B2 |
Layer two network tunnels for Wi-Fi client bridging in a distributed Wi-Fi network
A Wi-Fi network configured for Wi-Fi client bridging using Layer 2 (L2) tunnels includes a plurality of access points each being one or more of a parent node, a child node, and a gateway node in the Wi-Fi network; wherein the plurality of access points are interconnected in a tree via a plurality of backhaul links and wherein each of the plurality of access points are configured to communicate with Wi-Fi client devices via a plurality of client links; and wherein each of the plurality of backhaul links is formed via a Layer 2 (L2) tunnel over a backhaul Wi-Fi interface between each parent node and each child node. |
| US10931471B2 |
Systems and methods for avoiding interruptions from network-connected devices during media viewing
Systems and methods are provided herein for preventing interruptions to a media viewing activity caused by operations performed in a household by network-connected devices. A media guidance application may determine that operations are being performed by an IoT device and may cause an interruption to media viewing. The media guidance application may prevent the interruption by delaying or otherwise handling the operation or by notifying another user of the interruption. |
| US10931463B2 |
Cryptographic verification of a compressed archive
The authenticity of a compressed archive is verified without decompressing the files and/or directories contained therein and without impeding existing archive reader tools and utilities. A container is produced that includes a signature component and a compressed archive component. The signature component contains a digital signature of the compressed archive and the compressed archive component contains the compressed archive. The signature component and the compressed archive component are constructed as independent components so that existing software tools that operate on a compressed archive can still function in their normal course of operation. |
| US10931462B2 |
Domain name management scheme for cross-chain interactions in blockchain systems
Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining, from a trusted certificate authority (CA) by an owner of a unified blockchain domain name (UBCDN) of a blockchain instance (a UBCDN owner) in a unified blockchain network, a domain certificate of the UBCDN of the blockchain instance; signing the UBCDN of the blockchain instance; and publishing a UBCDN message of the blockchain instance. The UBCDN of the blockchain instance includes a blockchain domain name and a chain identifier of the blockchain instance. The domain certificate of the UBCDN includes the blockchain domain name, a public key of the UBCDN owner, and a digital signature of the CA on the blockchain domain name and the public key of the UBCDN owner. The UBCDN message includes the UBCDN, a digital signature of the UBCDN owner resulting from the signing the UBCDN, and the domain certificate of the UBCDN. |
| US10931459B2 |
Onboard computer system, vehicle, management method, and computer program
An onboard computer system includes a first onboard computer configured to store a first public key certificate of a data delivering apparatus, a second onboard computer, and a secure element configured to store a second public key certificate relative to a second secret key used to generate the first public key certificate. The secure element verifies the first public key certificate by use of the second public key certificate. The first onboard computer includes an encryption processor configured to verify a first electronic signature attached to data delivered from the data delivering apparatus by use of the first public key certificate which is successfully verified by the secure element. The data attached with the first electronic signature, which is successfully verified by the encryption processor, is applied to the first onboard computer or the second onboard computer. |
| US10931457B2 |
Systems and methods for blockchain-based digital lottery ticket generation and distribution
A method of generating a digital lottery ticket includes receiving a transaction record associated with a ticket issuance request from a computing device, wherein the transaction record includes transaction data including a player entry and a first public key associated with the player entry, generating a first message including digital ticket information, TKD, relating to the player entry, a source field and a destination field, generating a digital signature of the first message using a private key of an issuer server, transmitting the first message and the digital signature to a transaction certification authority (TCA) server for storage on a publicly viewable transaction ledger maintained by the TCA, receiving from the TCA server a second message including a digital ticket number and a transaction ID associated with the first message and the digital ticket number, and transmitting a third message including the transaction ID and the digital ticket number to the computing device. |
| US10931453B2 |
Distributed encryption keys for tokens in a cloud environment
Authentication of tokens and associated are used to provide a just-in-time key synchronization for user access to a service in a cloud computing environment which includes a plurality of availability zones with an identity service, a storage system, and a keystore. The encryption keys are distributed by the storage system based on a user access request containing a token with a payload and a current user cryptographic key. The token is then sent to the keystore to authenticate the user. The keystore authenticates the user and sends the token with the current cryptographic key to the storage system. The storage system receives the token with the current cryptographic key and grants access to the user for the service. |
| US10931448B2 |
Authentication through secure sharing of digital secrets previously established between devices
Applications executing on phones, tablets and other client devices can be designed to authenticate with network services, but reliably identifying a client device that is not previously known to the service can be difficult. A television receiver or other trusted device that is previously known to the service, however, can act as an intermediary for initially delivering the client's identifying data to the authentication service. After the authentication service has received reliable identifying information about the client from another trusted device, the service is able to directly authenticate the client device in subsequent transactions by requesting and verifying receipt of the same secret identifier. |
| US10931447B2 |
Data receiving device, data transmission system, and key generating device
A data receiving device includes: a receiving unit that receives data, a list of individual identifiers, and a MAC generated by the repeater device; a pseudo-random function processing unit that derives a secret key by performing arithmetic by a predetermined pseudo-random function; a MAC generating function processing unit that generates MAC by performing arithmetic by a predetermined MAC generating function; a pseudo-random function processing controller that performs control to generate recursively a secret key corresponding to the individual identifier of each communication device from the first hierarchy to the N-th hierarchy; a MAC generating function processing controller that performs control to generate recursively a MAC corresponding to each communication device from the N-th hierarchy to the first hierarchy; and a comparator that compares the received MAC with the generated MAC corresponding to the communication device of the first hierarchy. |
| US10931444B2 |
Key selection method for cryptographic data processing
Some embodiments relate to a data processing method comprising selecting a key from a plurality of previously stored keys, depending on at least on predefined criterion relating to at least one current value of at least one given repository. Other embodiments relate to a reception method comprising receiving second data obtained by applying, to first obtained data, a first cryptographic function using a key selected from a plurality of previously stored keys, depending on at least one predefined criterion relating to a current value of at least one given repository and for obtaining the first data by applying, to the second received data, a second cryptographic function using a second key associated with the selected key. Further embodiments relate to a processing device and a reception device that respectively implement the processing method and the reception method. |
| US10931442B1 |
Authentication through a secret holding proxy
Client requests may be directed through a secret holding proxy system such that the secret holding proxy system may insert a secret into a client request before arriving at the destination. The insertion of a secret may include inserting a digital signature, token or other information that includes a secret or information based upon a secret, which may include secret exchange or authentication protocols. The secret holding proxy system may also remove secrets and/or transform incoming messages such that the client may transparently receive the underlying content of the message. |
| US10931439B2 |
Data storage method, data query method and apparatuses
A data storage method comprises sending, by a blockchain node associated with a blockchain, data to an encryption device to cause the encryption device to encrypt the data and return the encrypted data to the blockchain node; receiving the encrypted data returned by the encryption device; and sending the encrypted data to other blockchain nodes associated with the blockchain to cause each of the other blockchain nodes to store the encrypted data in the blockchain after performing consensus verification on the encrypted data with success. |
| US10931434B2 |
Relay apparatus, communication system, and failure detection method
An object is to provide a relay apparatus capable of detecting a failure that occurs in the relay apparatus. A relay apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a data reception unit (11) configured to receive a synchronizing packet transmitted from a master apparatus (20), the synchronizing packet containing a time value and a time correction value for correcting the time value, an update unit (12) configured to update the time correction value based on a processing time for the synchronizing packet, and a determination unit (13) configured to determine whether or not a failure has occurred in a functional block related to a process for updating the time correction value by using a result of a comparison between a corrected time value and a reference time value, the corrected time value having been corrected by using the updated time correction value. |
| US10931425B2 |
Transmission of uplink control information in wireless systems
Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods for HARQ-ACK transmission over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) that relate to HARQ-ACK codebook size adaptation, DAI (downlink assignment index) design options, HARQ-ACK bit channel coding and interleaving, and, frequency hopping configuration for a new PUCCH format. |
| US10931419B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving signals
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting signals. The method includes: determining, by a communication node, that resources of a DRS and resources of other types of reference signals are overlapped; and selecting, by the communication node, at least one type of signal from the DRS and the other types of reference signals according to a predefined mode and transmitting the selected signal. Embodiments of the present disclosure may further disclose a corresponding method and device for receiving signals, a method and device for determining transmission power of the reference signals and a method for transmitting the DRS in a DL transmission burst including the data. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the confusion of the measurement of the DRS and the measurement of other types of reference signals may be solved. |
| US10931418B2 |
CDM8 based CSI-RS designs for MIMO
A network node, wireless device, base station, user equipment and corresponding methods are provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: select a first set and second set of reference signal resources in a subframe and aggregate the first set and second set of reference signal resources in the subframe to form a code division multiplexing, CDM, aggregation configuration. The first set and second set of reference signal resources in the subframe satisfy a temporal criterion such that any two resource elements in the first set and second set of reference signal resources have up to a maximum time separation of six OFDM symbols. The first set and second set of reference signal resources in the subframe satisfy a frequency criterion such that any two resource elements in the first set and second set of reference signal resources have up to a maximum frequency separation of six subcarriers. |
| US10931416B2 |
Data transmission method, network device, and terminal device
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method may include detecting, by a network device, a first signal in an uplink signal. The method may also include determining, by the network device, a signal structure of the uplink signal based on a result of detecting the first signal. Furthermore, the method may include receiving, by the network device, the uplink signal based on the signal structure, and/or responding to the uplink signal based on the signal structure. According to the data transmission method in the embodiments of this application, before receiving data, the network device can determine the signal structure, used by the terminal device, of the uplink signal, and then use a corresponding receiving method to avoid complexity and a reliability risk that are caused by completely blind detection performed by the network device, as well as to effectively reduce a delay and signaling overheads. |
| US10931414B2 |
Method and system for a repeater network that utilizes distributed transceivers with array processing
A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. |
| US10931413B2 |
Transmission device, communication system, and transmission method that configure positions of reference signals in frequency and time domains for each of a plurality of layers
A base station (1) according to the present invention includes: a control unit (10) that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit (12-1 to 12-N) that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit (10); and a precoding unit (13) and a transmitting unit (14) that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit (12-1 to 12-N), and transmit the multiplexed signals. |
| US10931412B2 |
Method and apparatus of obtaining feedback of HARQ acknowledgment information
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus of obtaining feedback of HARQ acknowledgment information. The method comprises allocating to UE an uplink control channel resource for report of HARQ acknowledgment information related to downlink data transmission on an unlicensed carrier. The method also comprises obtaining feedback of the HARQ acknowledgment information from the UE within a predefined deferral window. The predefined deferral window specifies a minimum delay and a maximum delay for report of the HARQ acknowledgment information. The embodiments of the present disclosure may increase the reliability and reduce the latency of HARQ acknowledgment information feedback. In addition, the embodiments of the present disclosure may not only be for LAA scenarios, but also may be extended to standalone LAA access scenarios on unlicensed carriers. |
| US10931411B2 |
Uplink ACK resource allocation in new radio
A method and apparatus for enabling an UE to selecting acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) resources from a subset of a gNB resource pool. The example method may receive, from an gNB, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration indicating a UE-specific resource set that is a subset of a gNB resource pool. The UE may determine one or more ACK/NACK resources from the UE-specific resource set for an upcoming physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In some aspects, the UE may determine the one or more ACK/NACK resources based on receiving, from the gNB, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a corresponding ACK/NACK resource configuration. In other aspects, the RRC may contain multiple resource subsets and the UE may determine the one or more ACK/NACK resources based on determining a size of a payload for a UCI to be transmitted on the PUCCH. The aspects may thus enable dynamic ACK/NACK resource allocation. |
| US10931403B2 |
Communication devices, systems, software and methods employing symbol waveform hopping
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention facilitate secure communication by altering the set of symbol waveforms that may be in use in particular symbol times defined herein as Symbol Waveform Hopping. SWH may be enabled by selecting two or more modulation formats that have sufficiently comparable communication performance (e.g., occupied bandwidth and signal power efficiency), but characterized by symbol waveform alphabet that include different symbol waveform, so that the overall transmission/communication performance of the system is not significantly affected by switching between modulation formats. Some or all of the symbol waveforms in each alphabet may not be present in other alphabets. |
| US10931402B2 |
Distributed storage system data management and security
Secure distributed storage and transmission of electronic content is provided over at least one communication network. At least one data file is received and parsed into a plurality of segments, wherein each one of the segments has a respective size. Thereafter, each of the plurality of segments is divided into a plurality of slices, wherein each one of the slices has a respective size. A plurality of data chunks are encoded, each data chunk comprising a portion of at least two of the slices, wherein no portion comprises an entire slice. The data chunks are packaged with at least metadata, and each of the packages is assigned to respective remote storage nodes. Each of the packages is transmitted to the respectively assigned remote storage node. |
| US10931401B2 |
Likelihood generation device
A likelihood generation device includes a similarity detection unit, a likelihood table reference unit, and a similarity processing unit. The similarity detection unit receives a modulation scheme selection signal and a received value, detects a likelihood similarity between information bits included in the received value based on the modulation scheme selection signal, and outputs a likelihood selection signal that specifies likelihood data to be searched for and an operation selection signal that specifies an operation on the likelihood data. The likelihood table reference unit registers, as likelihood data, a small region different from other small regions in the likelihood distribution indicating the likelihood of the information bits, and extracts likelihood data based on the likelihood selection signal from the likelihood table. The similarity processing unit obtains the entire likelihood distribution by performing an operation designated by the operation selection signal on the extracted likelihood data. |
| US10931396B2 |
Aggregated-MPDU, method for transmitting response frame thereto, and wireless communication terminal using same
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an aggregate MPDU and a response frame thereto and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for setting various formats of the aggregate MPDU and the response frame thereto and performing an efficient data communication by using the same. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives an aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) consisting of one or more MAC protocol data units (MPDUs), determines a format of a response frame for the received A-MPDU, and transmits a response frame of the determined format, wherein the format of the response frame for the A-MPDU is determined based on at least one of the number of traffic IDs (TIDs) soliciting an immediate response in MPDU(s) successfully received in the A-MPDU and MPDU delimiter information of the A-MPDU and a wireless communication method using the same. |
| US10931395B2 |
Method and apparatus for physical layer security communication in wireless communication system
An operation method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes receiving a preamble sequence from a base station; estimating a UL channel between the terminal and the base station based on the preamble sequence; determining a first frequency region for transmitting a data signal and a second frequency region for transmitting a jamming signal in an entire frequency region of the UL channel based on a result of estimating the UL channel; and transmitting to the base station a UL control signal including identification information for identifying the first frequency region and the second frequency region. |
| US10931389B2 |
Method of operating terminal and base station in wireless communication system and apparatus supporting same
Disclosed herein are a method of operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, a signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) report may be configured for the terminal, and an SINR report reported to the base station by the terminal based on the configuration may be calculated differently based on configuration of an interference measurement resource for the terminal. |
| US10931386B2 |
Information transfer using discrete-frequency signals and instantaneous frequency measurement
A method of transmitting information is provided. The method is performed at a system for information transfer. The method includes obtaining a first symbol, in a predefined set of symbols, for transmission; determining a first frequency band, in a first set of frequency bands associated with the predefined set of symbols, that is associated with the first symbol; and transmitting a first signal pulse having a first frequency in the first frequency band. The method includes, after transmitting the first signal pulse, transmitting a control signal associating a second set of frequency bands with the predefined set of symbols. The second set of frequency bands is distinct from the first set of frequency bands. The method includes, after transmitting the control signal, obtaining a second symbol, in the predefined set of symbols, for transmission; determining a second frequency band, in the second set of frequency bands, associated with the second symbol; and transmitting a second signal pulse having a frequency in the second frequency band. |
| US10931384B1 |
Closed loop transmitter (Tx) calibration with frequency separation using a digital to time converter (DTC)
A closed loop transmitter (Tx) calibration system is disclosed. The closed loop Tx calibration system comprises a transmitter circuit configured to generate a Tx output signal at a Tx output frequency based on a Tx local oscillator (LO) signal. The closed loop Tx calibration system further comprises a loop back (LPBK) receiver circuit coupled to the transmitter circuit and configured to downconvert the Tx output signal at the Tx output frequency to form an LPBK baseband signal at an LPBK intermediate frequency (IF), based on an LPBK LO signal. In some embodiments, the LPBK IF frequency is different from zero. In some embodiments, the closed loop Tx calibration system further comprises an LO generation circuit configured to generate the Tx LO signal and the LPBK LO signal from a single phase locked loop (PLL) source, based on utilizing a digital to time converter (DTC) circuit. |
| US10931381B2 |
Optical receivers with DC cancellation bias circuit and embedded offset cancellation
In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly. |
| US10931375B2 |
Li-drive
An optical communication access point comprises: an optical communication channel for allowing wireless light communication with a remote device, and a memory for storing content, wherein the content in the memory is accessible by the remote device via the wireless light communication link. |
| US10931374B1 |
Vehicle with free-space optical link for log data uploading
The disclosure describes a system that includes a self-driving system for operating a vehicle autonomously, one or more optical transmitters mounted on the vehicle, and one or more computing devices in communication with the self-driving system and the one or more optical transmitters. The one or more computing devices are configured to operate the self-driving system to cause the vehicle to approach a designated location in proximity of a structure on which one or more receivers are mounted and determine that the one or more optical transmitters have an alignment with the one or more receivers. Then, the one or more computing devices are configured to operate the one or more optical transmitters to establish an optical communication link with the one or more receivers and transmit data to the one or more receivers over the optical communication link. |
| US10931372B2 |
Dual-mode imaging receiver
A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries. |
| US10931371B2 |
Methods, devices, and systems for timing and bandwidth management of ultra-wideband, wireless communication channels
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for providing timing and bandwidth management of ultra-wideband, wireless data channels (including radio frequency and wireless optical data channels). According to one embodiment, a hub apparatus is disclosed for providing out-of-band bandwidth management for a free-space-optical (FSO) data channel associated with a first device. The hub apparatus includes a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, an FSO transmitter coupled with the processor, and an FSO receiver coupled with the processor. The FSO transmitter may be configured to transmit a control signal comprising timing information and bandwidth management information. |
| US10931370B2 |
Quantum interference detection of optical frequency comb offset frequency
A method is presented for determining an offset frequency of a frequency comb. The method includes: generating a beam of light with a waveform that repeats regularly in the time domain and exhibits a frequency comb in the frequency domain; directing the beam of light towards a point of incidence on a material; and detecting oscillation of a photocurrent in the material that is caused by the beam of light. Of note, the beam of light has an optical bandwidth that includes light propagating at a first frequency and at a second frequency, where the first frequency is less than the second frequency and the ratio of the second frequency to the first frequency is n:m, where n=m+i, m is an integer greater than one, and n and i are positive integers. Additionally, the material has a band gap and the band gap is not more than n times the first frequency. |
| US10931369B2 |
Methods and apparatus for adaptively detecting signal degradation in an optical communication system using the pre-forward error correction bit error rate
In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive, from a forward error correction (FEC) decoder of an optical transponder, a first plurality of pre-FEC bit error rate (BER) values at a plurality of times to identify a degradation over a first transmission path. The processor is configured to determine, based on the first plurality of pre-FEC BER values, a signal pattern. The processor is configured to adjust, based on the signal pattern, a set of parameters including a first threshold and a second threshold. The processor is configured to send, in response to a second pre-FEC BER value exceeding the second threshold and being below the first threshold, a signal to trigger traffic rerouting to a second transmission path to reduce traffic loss due to the degradation over the first transmission path. |
| US10931366B2 |
Distributed sensing over optical fiber carrying live, high-speed data
Aspects of the present disclosure describe optical fiber sensing systems, methods and structures disclosing a distributed fiber sensor network constructed on an existing, live network, data carrying, optical fiber telecommunications infrastructure to detect temperatures, acoustic effects, and vehicle traffic—among others. Of particular significance, sensing systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure may advantageously identify specific network locations relative to manholes/handholes and environmental conditions within those manholes/handholes namely, normal, flooded, frozen/iced, etc. |
| US10931363B2 |
Relay device and non-transitory computer readable medium
A relay device is provided with a detection unit, a reply unit, and a transmission unit. The detection unit detects an inability to connect to a wide-area information communication network in a case in which the relay device is multiplexed with another relay device. In a case in which the detection unit detects the inability to connect to the wide-area information communication network, when a request searching for a replacement partner is received from another relay device, the reply unit replies to the other relay device with information indicating that the relay device itself is a replacement candidate. The transmission unit transmits information set in the relay device itself to the other relay device. |
| US10931360B2 |
System and method for providing multiple input multiple output (MIMO) detector selection with reinforced learning neural network
A method and system for selecting a symbol detector are herein provided. A method includes extracting a first set of features for a k-th resource element (RE), where k is an integer greater than one, extracting a second set of features from a first RE to a (k−1)th RE, and selecting a symbol detector for the k-th RE using a reinforcement learning (RL) neural network based on the extracted first set of features and the extracted second set of features. |
| US10931358B2 |
Data transmission method, terminal device and network device
A method for transmitting information, a terminal device, and a network device are provided, the method includes: transmitting, by a terminal device, first data to a network device at least once; receiving, by the terminal device, first indication information transmitted by the network device, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating one transmission in at least one transmission of the first data; determining, by the terminal device, a transmission parameter of second data according to the first indication information; and transmitting, by the terminal device, the second data to the network device by adopting the transmission parameter of the second data. |
| US10931357B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving CQI information and method and apparatus for transmitting CQI information
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for receiving Channel Quality Indication (CQI) information, as well as a method and an apparatus for transmitting CQI information. The method for receiving CQI information includes: transmitting a higher layer configuration signaling message to a terminal; and receiving CQI information from the terminal. The CQI information is determined based on a CQI table obtained based on the higher layer configuration signaling message. With the above solutions, higher data transmission reliability and lower data transmission rate required for MTC terminals with coverage enhancement and 5G terminals can be achieved. |
| US10931356B2 |
Communications methods and apparatus using multiple beams
Methods and apparatus for facilitating the use of a plurality of antenna beams for communications purposes are described. In at least some embodiments beam priority information is periodically exchanged. Multiple timers are used to ensure beam information is exchanged at intervals intended to facilitate reliable beam synchronization and to control switching to one or more alternative beams in a predictable manner in the event beam change information or beam synchronization information is lost. In some but not all embodiments a wideband beam is used to communicate beam synchronization information when synchronization using narrower beams used for normal data communication is lost. |
| US10931353B2 |
Method for transmitting or receiving channel state information in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
Disclosed are a method for transmitting or receiving channel state information in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting channel state information by a terminal in the wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving interference measurement restriction information indicating a restriction of interference measurement from a base station; deriving an interference measurement based on a channel state information-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource in only one first subframe in order to calculate a channel quality indicator (CQI); and reporting the CQI to the base station, wherein the interference restriction information may be independently set for each CSI-IM resource. |
| US10931341B2 |
Channel state information extraction method and MIMO receiver using QR decomposition and MMIB metric
The present invention relates to a CSI extraction method in a MIMO receiver used in a wireless communication system, the method including: obtaining an effective channel matrix by matrix multiplication of a precoding matrix and a channel estimation value obtained through a CSI-RS; calculating an upper and a lower bound of a minimum distance for each layer through QR decomposition for the effective channel matrix; and mapping the upper and the lower bound of the minimum distance for each layer to each codeword, and extracting a mean mutual information per bit (MMIB) metric that is a transmission capacity per unit frequency for each codeword. According to the present invention, QR decomposition and a MMIB metric are used to obtain the minimum distance for each layer without a multidimensional search process, whereby the CSI is extracted with fewer operations than the conventional method when the MIMO transmission order is high. |
| US10931335B2 |
MIMO communication method, transmitting device, and receiving device
A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication method and system for performing communication between N (N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) transmitting devices each having a transmit antenna and at least one receiving device having N receive antennas by using a multi-user MIMO scheme. The method includes dividing the N transmitting devices into a plurality of sets, and assigning an orthogonal code to each set of transmitting devices as a digital signal sequence to be transmitted by each of the transmitting devices, and arranging the digital signal sequences to be transmitted by the transmitting devices in a frequency axis direction in which an inverse fast Fourier transform is performed, and performing coding. |
| US10931334B2 |
Beam recovery method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a beam recovery method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a beam recovery request to a network device in a first time window using at least one beam, where the beam recovery request is a scheduling request or a beam failure recovery request; and receiving, by the terminal device in the first time window using the at least one beam, a beam recovery request response sent by the network device, where the beam recovery request response is a scheduling request response or a beam failure recovery request response. |
| US10931332B2 |
Device and method for transmitting data in wireless power transmission system
The present invention relates to a device and method for transmitting data in a wireless power transmission system. The present specification discloses a wireless power reception device comprising: a power pickup unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transmission device by magnetic coupling with the wireless power transmission device, and convert an AC signal generated by the wireless power into a DC signal; a communication/control unit configured to receive the DC signal from the power pickup unit and perform control of the wireless power; and a load configured to receive the DC signal from the power pickup unit. According to the present invention, a large amount of data can be easily exchanged between a wireless power transmission device and a wireless power reception device by adjusting a transmission time interval of a control error packet (CEP) and a timeout of the CEP. |
| US10931327B2 |
Multiple transmit system structure and mobile terminal having the same
A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a first power amplifier (PA) to amplify and output a first signal of a first transceiver, a power combiner to combine a second signal of the first transceiver with a third signal of the second transceiver, a second power amplifier to amplify and output a fourth signal combined by the power combiner, and a switch to select one of a first transmission signal that is an output signal of the first power amplifier and a second transmission signal that is an output signal of the second power amplifier, wherein the first transceiver operates in a first communication system and the second transceiver operates in a second communication system, whereby a mobile terminal having improved transmission output power characteristics can be provided using the first communication system and the second communication system. |
| US10931326B2 |
Casing assembly and mobile terminal
Casing assemblies and a mobile terminal are provided. A casing assembly includes: a rear casing and a wearproof assembly. The rear casing includes an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, and the rear casing defines a mounting hole through the outer surface and the inner surface. The wearproof assembly includes a coupling member and a decorative member. The coupling member is coupled to the rear casing passing through the mounting hole, and defines a recess at a side of the coupling member opposite the inner surface. The decorative member is embedded in the recess. The coupling member and the decorative member protrude from the outer surface. |
| US10931325B2 |
Antenna assembly for a vehicle
An antenna assembly comprising a base, a modem, a top lid and a housing is disclosed herein. The base is composed of an aluminum material. The modem is disposed on the base. The top lid is for the base, and the top lid comprises at least one antenna element disposed on an exterior surface. The housing covers the top lid and base. The top lid acts as an electro-magnetic barrier for the modem. A communication cable is connected to the modem at one end and extending to and connected to a vehicle internal router with a vehicle modem at the other end. |
| US10931323B2 |
Antenna and foldable electronic device including the same
In an embodiment, an electronic device may include a housing including a hinge module, a first housing, and second housing. The first and second housings are rotatably coupled to each other via the hinge module to be in a folded state or an unfolded state. The electronic device may further include a flexible display, at least one conductive pattern disposed in the first housing, at least one conductor disposed at a position in the second housing corresponding to the at least one conductive pattern such that the at least one conductor is capacitively coupled to the conductive pattern when the electronic device is in the folded state, and a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the at least one conductive pattern in the first housing. Other embodiments are also possible. |
| US10931320B2 |
Digital predistortion in varying operating conditions
Disclosed are digital predistortion implementations, including a method that includes obtaining a first set of digital predistortion (DPD) non-linear functions for controlling operation of a digital predistorter of a wireless device operating on a received at least one input signal directed to a power amplification system comprising a transmit chain with at least one power amplifier that produces output with non-linear distortions. The method further includes determining an expanded set of DPD non-linear functions comprising the first set of DPD non-linear functions and additional one or more sets of DPD non-linear functions derived based on the first set of DPD non-linear functions and on operating condition parameters associated with operation of the wireless device, and configuring the digital predistorter with DPD coefficients determined for the expanded set of the DPD non-linear functions based on observed samples of the transmit chain responsive to the at least one input signal. |
| US10931317B2 |
Frequency re-bander with UE and doppler correction
Techniques are provided for providing Doppler correction. In particular, embodiments may provide re-banding circuitry having a reference clock, a mixer, and a compensation circuitry for re-banding and for Doppler correction. The compensation circuitry may be configured to adjust a reference frequency of the reference clock based on signals received from a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The mixer may be configured to translate communication signals in a first frequency band to a second frequency band based at least in part on the adjusted reference frequency of the reference clock. |
| US10931311B2 |
Method for encoding and transmitting PBCH and communication device therefor
A method by which a base station transmits a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) can comprise the steps of: generating the same encoded data bit for each of two symbols of a predetermined subframe for PBCH transmission by using a polar code; and transmitting the generated same encoded data bit from each of the two symbols of the predetermined subframe through the PBCH. |
| US10931304B1 |
Sensor content encoding
Disclosed are techniques for encoding a set of sensor content symbols at least in part via applying a processing window of an adjustable size. |
| US10931301B2 |
Decompression engine for executable microcontroller code
A code decompression engine reads compressed code from a memory containing a series of code parts and a dictionary part. The code parts each have a bit indicating compressed or uncompressed. When the code part is compressed, it has a value indicating the number of segments, followed by the segments, followed by an index into the dictionary part. The decompressed instruction is the dictionary value specified by the index, which is modified by the segments. Each segment describes the modification to the dictionary part specified by the index by a mask type, a mask offset, and a mask. |
| US10931296B2 |
Self-correcting analog counter readout for digital pixels
A digital unit cell, readout circuit for a digital unit cell and a method of operating an analog counter of a digital unit cell is disclosed. The readout circuit includes storage capacitor for storing a voltage remaining at an analog counter at the end of an integration period, and a comparator circuit. The comparator circuit compares a dummy voltage provided from the analog counter during a readout period to the voltage at the storage capacitor, and determines the voltage at the storage capacitor when the dummy voltage falls below the voltage at the storage capacitor. |
| US10931295B2 |
ADC reconfiguration for different data rates
A receiver having analog-to-digital converters (ADC) is disclosed. The ADCs may be reconfigured based on the data rate of the receiver. For example, more portions of each time-interleaved ADC may be enabled to support a higher data rate of the receiver and less portions of the ADCs may be used to support a lower data rate of the receiver. |
| US10931294B2 |
Apparatus and method for measuring frequency of signal
Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a frequency of a broadband signal by using low-speed ADCs having sub-Nyquist sampling rates. A plurality of channels each including a low-speed ADC having a sub-Nyquist sampling rate (e.g. sampling frequency from several MHz to hundreds of MHz) are provided, and the frequency of an input signal corresponding to a combination of frequencies calculated through the respective channels is estimated. Therefore, as the number of channels increases, the range of measurable frequencies may be extended. |
| US10931293B1 |
Transform domain analytics-based channel design
Systems and methods are disclosed for improving data channel design by applying transform domain analytics to more reliably extract user data from a signal. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a channel circuit configured to receive an analog signal at an input of the channel circuit, and sample the analog signal to obtain a set of signal samples. The channel circuit may further apply a filter configured to perform transform domain analysis to the set of signal samples to generate a first subset of samples, the first subset including fewer transitions and having a higher signal to noise ratio (SNR) than the set of signal samples. The channel circuit may detect first bit transform domain representation values from the first subset, and determine channel bit values encoded in the analog signal based on the set of signal samples and using the first bit transform domain representation values detected from the first subset as side information. |
| US10931290B2 |
Fast settling ramp generation using phase-locked loop
Aspects of this disclosure relate to reducing settling time of a ramp signal in a phase-locked loop. An offset signal can be applied to adjust an input signal provided to an integrator of a loop filter of the phase-locked loop to cause the settling time to be reduced. Disclosed methods of reducing settling time of a ramp signal can improve settling time of a ramp signal independent of the profile of the ramp signal. |
| US10931282B2 |
Self-contained reconfigurable personal laboratory
A personal laboratory includes a self-contained, miniaturized, portable kit that provides for design, testing, and automated assembling, dissembling, and reassembling of a physical system (rather than a simulation) with flexibility as to the variety of configurations of components that may be designed and assembled, and easy integration of complex components. The personal laboratory includes a reconfigurable system, the reconfigurable system includes a plurality of functional components, and a plurality of connectors configured for operatively connect respective functional components to other functional components; a stimulus generator configured to apply a stimulus to the reconfigurable system; and a measurement system configured to measure a response to the applied stimulus generated by the reconfigurable system. In the context of electronic circuits, the reconfigurable system is a reconfigurable circuit, the functional components are circuit elements and the connectors are electrical connectors. |
| US10931277B2 |
Power transistor gate-charge harvester for internal supply generation
A gate-charge harvester includes a harvest capacitor that has a first plate and a second plate. The second plate is coupled to a lower rail and the first plate is coupled to send a voltage towards a regulator. The gate-charge harvester also includes a low-side harvest transistor having a first terminal coupled to a gate of a low-side power transistor and a second terminal coupled to the first plate. |
| US10931275B2 |
RF switch with compensation
A radio frequency switch includes a first transistor and a second transistor coupled together to establish a switchable RF path, and a first compensation network coupled between the body terminal of the first transistor and the drain terminal of the second transistor, wherein the first compensation network establishes a path for current flowing between the body terminal of the first transistor and the drain terminal of the second transistor in a first direction and blocks current flowing in a second direction opposite to the first direction. |
| US10931274B2 |
Temperature-sensitive bias circuit
One illustrative device includes, among other things, an active device comprising a first terminal, a first bias resistor connected to the first terminal, and a first resistor comprising a first phase transition material connected in parallel with the first bias transistor, wherein the first phase transition material exhibits a first low conductivity phase for temperatures less than a first phase transition temperature and a first high conductivity phase for temperatures greater than the first phase transition temperature. |
| US10931269B1 |
Early mode protection for chip-to-chip synchronous interfaces
Aspects of the invention include a process for receiving data and a first clock signal of a first chip and a second clock signal of a second chip, the data being received on a data path and the first clock signal being received on a clock signal path, and determining that the first clock signal is arriving before the second clock signal by a difference quantity. Also, the process includes adding delay to the data path and the clock signal path according to the difference quantity. |
| US10931264B2 |
Low-power flip flop circuit
A flip-flop circuit configured to latch an input signal to an output signal is disclosed. The circuit includes a first latch circuit; and a second latch circuit coupled to the first latch circuit. In some embodiments, in response to a clock signal, the first and second latch circuits are complementarily activated so as to latch the input signal to the output signal, and the first and second latch circuits each comprises at most two transistors configured to receive the clock signal. |
| US10931263B2 |
Filter circuits having a resonator-based filter and a magnetically-coupled filter
Filter circuits having a resonator-based filter and a magnetically-coupled filter are disclosed. A filter circuit is deployed with a resonator-based passband filter connected to a magnetically-coupled filter which mitigates or reduces flyback of the resonator-based filter. The magnetically-coupled filter can be a passband filter with a relatively low insertion loss. The magnetically-coupled filter can be designed to mitigate flyback of the resonator-based filter by attenuating frequency response at selected frequency ranges. |
| US10931261B2 |
Filter and multiplexer
A filter includes a resonant circuit defining at least a portion of a signal path connected between a first terminal and a second terminal, an elastic wave resonator including one end that is grounded, a first inductor including one end connected to one end of the resonant circuit and another end connected to another end of the elastic wave resonator, and a second inductor including one end connected to another end of the resonant circuit and another end connected to the other end of the elastic wave resonator. The resonant circuit is an LC series resonant circuit in which a third inductor and first and second capacitors are connected in series with each other. |
| US10931260B2 |
Surface acoustic wave elements with varying electrode finger pitch and connection arrangements
A SAW element configured to suppress spurious emissions resulting from non-periodicity of an IDT electrode finger arrangement. In one example, the SAW element is a resonator comprising an IDT electrode including a first plurality of IDT electrode fingers connected to a first busbar and a second plurality of IDT electrode fingers connected to a second busbar, and reflectors having a plurality of reflector fingers. The pluralities of first and second IDT electrode fingers are alternatively connected to each busbar by either normal connections or reversed connections and include regions arranged by at least two different types of pitches. The normal connections are such that either the odd-numbered or even-numbered IDT electrode fingers connect to the first busbar, and the reversed connections are such that the opposite group of IDT electrode fingers connect to the first busbar. |
| US10931259B1 |
Acousto-electric amplifier having insertion gain
An acousto-electric amplifier having insertion gain is provided. The acousto-electric amplifier comprises resistive material coupled to sensors such as conductive fingers. The conductive fingers are disposed on piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric material may be disposed on or above the piezoelectric material. Transducers may be used to couple a surface acoustic wave to and from the acousto-electric amplifier. The acousto-electric amplifier amplifies the surface acoustic wave in one propagation direction and attenuates a surface wave in the opposite propagation direction. |
| US10931251B2 |
Structure and method of manufacture for acoustic resonator or filter devices using improved fabrication conditions and perimeter structure modifications
A method of manufacture for an acoustic resonator or filter device. In an example, the present method can include forming metal electrodes with different geometric areas and profile shapes coupled to a piezoelectric layer overlying a substrate. These metal electrodes can also be formed within cavities of the piezoelectric layer or the substrate with varying geometric areas. Combined with specific dimensional ratios and ion implantations, such techniques can increase device performance metrics. In an example, the present method can include forming various types of perimeter structures surrounding the metal electrodes, which can be on top or bottom of the piezoelectric layer. These perimeter structures can use various combinations of modifications to shape, material, and continuity. These perimeter structures can also be combined with sandbar structures, piezoelectric layer cavities, the geometric variations previously discussed to improve device performance metrics. |
| US10931248B2 |
Distributed envelope tracking amplifier circuit and related apparatus
A distributed envelope tracking (ET) amplifier circuit and related apparatus are provided. The distributed ET amplifier apparatus includes an amplifier circuit configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal based on a modulated voltage. In examples discussed herein, the amplifier circuit is co-located with an ET voltage circuit configured to supply the modulated voltage such that a trace inductance between the amplifier circuit and the ET voltage circuit can be reduced to below a defined threshold. By co-locating the amplifier circuit with the ET voltage circuit to reduce a coupling distance between the amplifier circuit and the ET voltage circuit and thus the trace inductance associated with the coupling distance, it may be possible to reduce degradation in the modulated voltage. As a result, it may be possible to improve efficiency and maintain linearity in the amplifier circuit, particularly when the RF signal is modulated at a higher modulation bandwidth. |
| US10931246B2 |
High-frequency amplifier circuitry and semiconductor device
High-frequency amplifier circuitry has a common-source first transistor to amplify a high-frequency input signal, a common-gate second transistor to amplify a signal amplified by the first transistor to generate an output signal, a first inductor connected between a source of the first transistor and a first reference potential node, a second inductor connected between a drain of the second transistor and a second reference potential, a first switch to select whether to connect a first attenuator on an input signal path, a second switch to select whether to connect a first resistor between the input signal path and the first reference potential node, a third switch to select at least one of second resistors connected in parallel to the second inductor, and a fourth switch to select at least one of first capacitors connected in parallel on an output signal path connected to the drain of the second transistor. |
| US10931243B2 |
Signal coupling method and apparatus
A signal coupling method and apparatus is disclosed. A coupling network is coupled to convey signals from first functional circuit block to a second functional circuit block. The coupling network includes a first signal path having a first capacitor for providing AC coupling between the first and second functional circuit blocks. The coupling network further includes a second signal path in parallel with the first signal path. The second signal path includes a switched capacitor circuit coupled to receive a first common mode voltage corresponding to the first functional circuit block and a second common mode voltage corresponding to the second functional circuit block. |
| US10931242B2 |
Error amplifier
An error amplifier for a pulse width modulation circuit is described. The amplifier includes an operational amplifier configured as an integrator and a feedback loop coupled between a signal output of the operational amplifier and an inverting input of the operational amplifier. The feedback loop comprises a feedback capacitor coupled to the signal output, a feedback resistor coupled to the feedback capacitor, and an integrator resistor coupled to the feedback resistor and the inverting input of the operational amplifier. A junction between the feedback resistor and the integrator resistor is configured to receive an input signal and a junction between the feedback capacitor and the feedback resistor is configured to receive a feedback signal from the pulse width modulation circuit. |
| US10931241B2 |
Model-free sample-based approaches for power amplifier linearization in real-time
An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to obtain samples of an input signal to be amplified and, in real-time, pre-distort at least some of the samples using pre-distortion values from at least one lookup table. The pre-distorted samples are to be converted into an analog signal that is amplified by at least one power amplifier. The pre-distortion values at least partially compensate for a non-linear operation of the at least one power amplifier. The at least one processing device is also configured to compare an output signal generated by the at least one power amplifier to an expected signal to identify errors between the output and expected signals. The at least one processing device is further configured to update one or more pre-distortion values in the at least one lookup table based on the identified errors. |
| US10931240B2 |
Amplifier with reduced power consumption and improved slew rate
An amplifier circuit can be configured to receive a differential input signal having a common mode component that can extend to at least one power supply rail for the amplifier circuit. The amplifier circuit can include an input stage, such as having a first differential transistor pair, and the input stage can receive the differential input signal and in response conduct a differential first current to a cascode output stage. The cascode output stage can include or use a cascode control signal that is adjusted in response to the differential input signal. The cascode control signal can be independent of a transconductance of the first differential transistor pair. In an example, the amplifier circuit includes a slew boost circuit configured to source or sink current at an output of the amplifier based on a magnitude and polarity of the differential input signal. |
| US10931235B2 |
Sensing sensor
A sensing sensor includes an oscillator circuit, a base, a connection portion, and a temperature changing unit. The oscillator circuit oscillates the piezoelectric resonator. The base includes a base main body in which a depressed portion is provided and a lid portion at one side, supports the piezoelectric resonator at another side, and is for taking the oscillation frequency to an outside of the sensing sensor. The depressed portion houses the oscillator circuit. The lid portion covers the depressed portion. The connection portion is disposed at the one side of the base and connected to a cooling mechanism for cooling the base from the one side. The temperature changing unit is interposed between the piezoelectric resonator and the base, so as to cool and heat the piezoelectric resonator and transfer a heat radiated for cooling the piezoelectric resonator from the other side of the base to the one side. |
| US10931234B2 |
Oscillator circuit
A small area oscillator circuit is provided. The oscillator circuit includes first and second constant current sources, a comparator, first and second capacitive elements, and a resistive element. In a first state, the first capacitive element is connected to the first constant current source and the fixed voltage node, the second capacitive element is connected to the second constant current source and the first current source, and resistive element is connected to the second constant current source. In a second state, the first capacitive element is connected to the second constant current source and first constant current source, the second capacitive element is connected to the second constant current source and the fixed voltage node, and the resistive element is connected to the first constant current source. |
| US10931225B2 |
Solar module mounting system
Systems and methods for mounting one or more framed solar modules are disclosed. A solar module mounting system can include a plurality of support members configured to support one or more framed solar modules above a mounting surface, such as the ground or the roof of a building. The support members can include rails formed from a rigid material, such as steel. The solar module mounting system can also include a plurality of attachment mechanisms each configured to secure a portion of a framed solar module to a portion of a respective one of the support members. |
| US10931223B2 |
Circuit for detecting status of ground connection in an electric motor
A circuit for detecting a status of a ground connection in an electric motor includes a rectifier, a converter, a voltage conditioning circuit, a leakage circuit, and a comparator. The rectifier couples to an AC line within the motor and generates a first DC voltage. The converter steps-down the first DC voltage to a second DC voltage. The voltage conditioning circuit couples to the converter, leakage circuit, and comparator, and generates a reference DC voltage signal and a leakage voltage from the second DC voltage. The leakage circuit includes an impedance coupled to ground, and applies the leakage voltage to the impedance and generates a measurement signal representing a leakage current through the impedance to ground. The comparator couples to the leakage circuit and generates a logic signal, indicating a status of the ground connection, based on a voltage difference between the reference DC voltage signal and the measurement signal. |
| US10931218B2 |
Vacuum pump drive with star-delta switchover
A vacuum pump drive comprising at least one electric motor which is connected to the rotor of a vacuum pump via a drive shaft, a frequency converter which is electrically connected to the motor and which supplies a motor input voltage to the motor, and a switchover device with at least one electric switch. The switchover device is designed to connect the motor windings in a star or delta shape depending on the switching position of the switch in order to change the motor characteristic curve. The vacuum pump drive also comprises a measuring device with sensors for detecting physical operating variables of the vacuum pump and a controller which is electrically or optically connected to the switchover device and the measuring device and which is designed to actuate the at least one switch on the basis of the measured value of the operating variable of the vacuum pump in order to produce the star-delta switchover. |
| US10931217B2 |
Power system
A power system, including: a synchronous electrical generator having a rotor; and an angle computation unit configured to: determine a rotor angle in a steady state period of the synchronous electrical generator, determine a change in rotor angle in a transient period of the synchronous electrical generator, and estimate the rotor angle in the transient period based on the steady state rotor angle and the change in rotor angle. |
| US10931216B1 |
Motor stepper driver having a sine digital-to-analog converter
A stepper driver for a motor includes an H-bridge, a sense transistor coupled to the H-bridge, a voltage-to-current (Vtol) converter, and a sine digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The Vtol converter has a Vtol converter input and a Vtol converter output. The Vtol converter output is coupled to the sense transistor. The sine DAC has a sine DAC digital input, a reference input, and a sine DAC output. The sine DAC output is coupled to the Vtol converter input. The sine DAC includes an R-2R network, an offset control circuit coupled to the R-2R network, and a gain control circuit also coupled to the R-2R network. |
| US10931213B2 |
Control apparatus for a synchronous motor
A drive control unit that performs vector control of a synchronous motor determines reference phase angles of 3-phase/DQ converters, and a DQ/3-phase converter. When speed of a synchronous motor is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value, the reference phase angle is obtained by adding a correction angle such that D-axis voltage feedback output from 3-phase/DQ converter becomes zero to the detection angle of a position detector. And when the speed of the synchronous motor is less than a predetermined threshold value, the reference phase angle is obtained by adding a low speed load angle set in advance to the detection angle of the position detector. In a vector control operation, a power factor is achieved by controlling the D-axis current to be zero. |
| US10931211B2 |
Levitation mechanism for imitation candle devices
The disclosed embodiments relate to devices and methods for facilitating the operations and usage of electronic candle devices. In one exemplary aspect, an imitation candle device is disclosed. The imitation candle device comprises a body including a top surface, the top surface including an opening; a flame element having an upper portion shaped to mimic a flame of a candle and to protrude out of the opening, and a magnetic lower portion; and a magnetic base plate positioned within the body and below the flame element, comprising: a central section operable to repel the magnetic lower portion of the flame element, a peripheral section operable to attract the magnetic lower portion of flame element, and a plurality of light sources to emit light onto the flame element. |
| US10931209B2 |
Energy harvester using triboelectricity and apparatus including the same
Example embodiments relate to an energy harvester using triboelectricity, and to an apparatus including the energy harvester. The energy harvester may include a first structure having a first triboelectric material, a second structure having a second triboelectric material, and a closed structure isolating friction surfaces of the first and second triboelectric materials from external environment. The energy harvester may further include a filling material in the closed structure. The filling material may have an electric charge. The filling material may have a viscosity. At least a portion of the closed structure may include an elastic material. |
| US10931196B2 |
Load transient and jitter of DC-DC converter
A circuit includes an inductor that receives a switched input voltage to provide an output for driving a load. A driver circuit drives the switched input voltage to the inductor in response to input pulses. A ramp circuit coupled to the inductor generates a ramp signal emulating current of the inductor. A control circuit generates the input pulses to control the driver circuit based on the ramp signal and the output for driving the load. A transient monitoring circuit monitors the output with respect to a predetermined threshold and adjusts the ramp circuit based on the output relative to the predetermined threshold to control the emulated current of the inductor to facilitate jitter and load transient performance. |
| US10931193B2 |
Voltage supply circuit and radio-frequency circuit module
A voltage supply circuit includes a level shifter that switches between voltages of two voltage input units and that outputs one of the voltages, a charge pump that transforms a voltage of an input power supply and that applies the transformed voltage to the level shifter, and a charge pump control circuit. The voltage supply circuit controls supply and interruption of a predetermined voltage to a voltage-supplied circuit (RF switch 20). The charge pump control circuit causes the charge pump to perform a continuous operation in an on-mode and to perform an intermittent operation in an off-mode, the off-mode representing a state in which the voltage supply to the voltage-supplied circuit (RF switch 20) is stopped, the on-mode representing a state in which the predetermined voltage is supplied. |
| US10931191B2 |
Half bridge circuit driver chip with protection circuit and protection method thereof
A half bridge circuit driver chip and the protection method thereof are provided. The high side voltage detecting circuit connects to a high side signal output terminal and detects the high side turn-on voltage of the high side transistor, so as to obtain a high side turn-on signal. The low side voltage detection circuit connects to a low side signal output terminal and detects a low side turn-on voltage of a low side transistor, so as to obtain a low side turn on signal. When the high side turn-on signal and the low side turn-on signal are received by a protection circuit, a reset signal is generated. The reset signal is sent to the high side driving circuit for turning off the high side transistor and to the low side driving circuit for turning off the low side transistor. |
| US10931190B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating harmonics in electrical systems by using active and passive filtering techniques
Systems and methods of the present disclosure involve passive, hybrid, and active filtering configurations to mitigate current harmonics for various electrical loads. One hybrid filtering configuration is medium voltage (MV) active filtering using a DC-DC converter and a multi-level inverter, and low voltage (LV) passive filtering. Another hybrid filtering configuration is MV passive filtering and LV active filtering using a two-level inverter. An active filtering configuration includes both MV and LV active filtering. The present disclosure also features power distribution unit (PDU) transformers electrically coupled to respective power supplies on the LV side of an electrical system. Each PDU transformer includes primary coils in a delta configuration and secondary coils in a wye configuration. The secondary coils are in series with respective leakage inductance coils. The secondary coils and the leakage inductance coils are integrated together into a single unit or module. |
| US10931189B1 |
Rectifier capable of adjusting gate voltage of transistor and alternator including rectifier
An alternator and a rectifier are provided. The rectifier includes a gate driving circuit, a logic circuit, and a comparison circuit. The gate driving circuit generates a gate voltage, and a control terminal of a transistor receives the gate voltage. The gate driving circuit receives a control signal, and adjusts the gate voltage according to the control signal, so as to control a conductivity degree of the transistor. The logic circuit generates the control signal and a switch signal according to a comparison result and selects a selected voltage according to the switch signal. The comparison result is generated by comparing a sensing voltage of a first terminal of the transistor with the selected voltage. |
| US10931187B2 |
Voltage generator
A voltage generator for converting a movable magnetic field into electrical voltage. The voltage generator includes an excitation unit, a conversion unit, and a power line unit. The excitation unit includes at least one magnet which is arranged on a body which is rotatably and/or moveably mounted. The at least one magnet generates a magnetic field. The conversion unit functionally cooperates with the excitation unit. The conversion unit includes a support body and a magnetization wire which is magnetized by the magnetic field. The magnetization wire includes, over its cross-section, a magnetically hard part and a magnetically soft part. The magnetization wire is wound around the support body to provide an axial tension. The power line unit functionally cooperates with the conversion unit. The power line unit includes an electric coil which is arranged around the conversion unit. The electric coil includes an electrifiable current conductor wire. |
| US10931183B2 |
Asynchronous machine
For an asynchronous machine (1), in particular for use in electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles, comprising a rotor (10) and a stator (20) which surrounds the rotor (10), wherein an external stator yoke (21) with a stator yoke height (h21) is formed on the stator (20) and a large number of radially inwardly projecting stator teeth (22) of the same length are formed on the stator yoke (21), wherein a stator slot (23) is respectively formed between adjacent stator teeth (22), wherein an internal rotor yoke (11) is formed on the rotor (10) and a large number of radially outwardly projecting rotor teeth (12) of the same length are formed by the rotor yoke (11), wherein a rotor slot (13) is respectively formed between adjacent rotor teeth (12), wherein the asynchronous machine is of six-phase design, it is proposed that a total number (N1) of stator slots, which denotes the total number of stator slots (23) formed on the stator (20), is seventy-two. |
| US10931182B2 |
Production method for a stator
The invention relates to a method for the production of a component, of an electric machine, such as, for example, a stator, comprising a wire mat which is made of wire, preferably flat wire, comprising the following steps: aligning the wire, twisting the wire in at least some sections about its longitudinal axis, z-shaped angling of the wire, winding the wire, in particular winding the wire helically onto a carrier, transferring the wire mat thus obtained onto a mounting tool. |
| US10931180B2 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing rotor of electric motor
A method and an apparatus for manufacturing a rotor of an electric motor are provided to obtain an electric motor with high efficiency. To this end, a rotor is magnetized by using a magnetizing device. The rotor includes a rotor magnet disposed in the circumferential direction of a rotor shaft, and a position detecting magnet disposed side-by-side with the rotor magnet with respect to the axial direction of the rotor shaft. The magnetizing device includes a rotor-magnet magnetizing yoke and a position-detecting-magnet magnetizing yoke that generate two magnetic fields. The two magnetic fields each have unlike poles arranged alternately in the circumferential direction and have a phase difference relative to each other in the circumferential direction. A phase difference is thus provided between the poles of the rotor magnet and the poles of the position detecting magnet. |
| US10931177B2 |
Generator with built-in voltage controller inside a motor having a changeover knife switch configuration and loops
A generator includes: a built-in voltage controller disposed inside the housing of the motor and connected to the stator; a loop changeover switch, wherein one side of the three groups of loop polar phase contact points is connected to the current output unit through three phase lines, and the other side is connected to the current output unit through three loop lines; a three-phase short-circuit changeover switch is in a spaced arrangement with the loop changeover switch and includes three groups of short-circuit polar phase contact points, one side of which is connected to each other through short-circuit wire, and the other side is connected to each phase line; three converted-voltage output lines, wherein one end electrically connected to the loop polar phase contact points of the loop changeover switch is connected to one side of the loop lines; the other end is used to connect to a power device. |
| US10931172B2 |
Cooled housing for the stator of a direct drive
In a cooled housing for the stator of a direct drive, cooling ducts extend on an outer peripheral surface of the housing, the cooling ducts being sealed by an annular cover extending around the peripheral surface. The cover includes openings as an inlet and outlet for a cooling medium, and the cover is arranged such that sections of the peripheral surface of the housing remain free. |
| US10931164B1 |
Mechanical energy and storage device
The disclosed device is for storing energy by means of a flywheel. The device comprises a solid rotor having embedded permanent magnets along its outer surface, with flywheels attached at each end. The rotor is suspended by magnetic bearings within a housing. The housing comprises electromagnets that are sequentially charged in order to cause the rotor to spin due to the interaction of the electromagnets with the facing permanent magnets on the rotor. The spinning of the rotor causes the flywheels to spin, which results in the storage of rotational energy. The flywheels, which include magnets, turn through sets of coils on either end of the housing, thereby operating as an electrical generator to convert the flywheel rotational energy into electrical energy output from the device. |
| US10931163B2 |
Electromechanical actuator with stator teeth dimensioned to operate a saturation bend for electrical flight controls of an aircraft
An electromechanical actuator for electrical flight controls of an aircraft, the actuator comprising a transmission shaft, four electromechanical conversion members, each having a respective stator and rotor secured to the transmission shaft, and four control systems, each dedicated to respective ones of the electromechanical conversion members. The stator has teeth and windings surrounding at least one tooth, whereas the rotor is provided with permanent magnets. Each electromechanical conversion member is a flux-concentrating member and each winding is concentric and has a single layer. The electromechanical actuator is intended in particularly for controlling a hydraulic actuator via a mechanical transmission within an electrical flight control device of an aircraft. |
| US10931160B2 |
Actuator
An actuator is provided that is smaller in size and has a simpler structure, as compared with a conventional one. The actuator is composed of a driving mechanism that includes an electric motor, and a housing that houses the driving mechanism. The housing includes an air hole that communicates the inside of the housing with the outside thereof, a filter that covers the air hole, and a motor box that surrounds the electric motor. At least one of members of the motor box acts as a scattering prevention wall that prevents lubricant from scattering to the electric motor. The air hole is formed in a member of the motor box other than said at least one of members of the motor box. |
| US10931159B2 |
Electrical insulating structure producing method, electrical insulating structure and rotating electrical machine
A producing method is for an electrical insulating structure covering an outer surface of a to-be-insulated object. The electrical insulating structure producing method comprises: a sheet production step of producing a main insulating sheet in which nanoparticles have been mixed; a cutting step in which the main insulating sheet is cut into main insulation tapes; a taping step of winding each of main insulation tapes on outside of the to-be-insulated object to produce a tape-wound to-be-insulated object in which a main insulated part is formed; a vacuum drawing step of vacuum drawing the tape-wound to-be-insulated object; an impregnation step of injecting a impregnating macromolecular polymer to impregnate the main insulated part in the tape-wound to-be-insulated object, and a solidifying step of raising the temperature of the insulated part to solidify the macromolecular polymer containing the nanoparticles. |
| US10931158B2 |
Rotor, rotary electric machine, and compressor
A plurality of magnet holes are arranged in a circumferential direction. Void portions are provided at both ends in the circumferential direction of each magnet hole. Flow holes penetrating in the axial direction are formed, between the magnet holes adjacent in the circumferential direction, on an inner side in a radial direction with respect to the magnet holes. Each core has: first groove portions via which the void portions and the flow holes communicate with each other; and second groove portions via which the void portions and the outer circumferences of the cores communicate with each other and which serve as discharge ports. The end plates have: first holes through which the flow holes are exposed and which serve as intake ports; and tab portions which are located on downstream sides in a rotation direction of the first holes and which assist air intake. |
| US10931156B2 |
Magnet module and fan with magnet module
A magnet module is disclosed. The magnet module includes a sintered magnet structure, a magnetic permeable casing and a fixing member. The sintered magnet structure is disposed in the magnetic permeable casing. The fixing member has a plurality of locking units, and the sintered magnet structure and the magnetic permeable casing are fixed by the locking units of the fixing member. |
| US10931153B2 |
Wireless electricity transmission system
A wireless electricity transmission system includes: a wireless electricity transmission device and one or more wireless electricity reception devices installed within a vehicle. The wireless electricity transmission device includes an electricity transmission wave generation unit that generates a directional electricity transmission wave using beamforming, and a control unit that transmits query waves in directions and, when a pilot signal including identification information on a query wave having a maximum reception strength is received from the wireless electricity reception device, transmits the electricity transmission wave to the wireless electricity reception device in a direction of the query wave. The wireless electricity reception device includes a reception strength determination unit that determines the query wave having the maximum reception strength, a control unit that transmits the pilot signal including the identification information on the query wave having the maximum reception strength, and a reception unit that receives the electricity transmission wave. |
| US10931149B2 |
Wireless power receiver circuits that provide constant voltage or current to an electrical load, and methods
Wireless power receiver circuits and methods for use in wireless power transfer systems are provided for providing a constant current or voltage, depending on which is needed, to an electrical load. The wireless power receiver circuits are configured to shut down the resonant responses of the receiver circuits when electrical power is not needed by the load to reduce power consumption and avoid unnecessary heat dissipation. Additionally, a switching device of the wireless power receiver circuit that is used for shutting down the resonant response can operate at relatively low frequencies, and consequently, can be implemented using relatively low-speed, relatively inexpensive components. |
| US10931146B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for wireless transfer of power
Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses and methods related to source circuitry that provide power to other circuitry. The source circuitry including gain circuitry and a source resonator. The gain circuitry provide powers to the source resonator with a gain that is dependent on a coupling rate between the source circuitry and other circuitry. The source resonator is coupled to the gain circuitry and generates a magnetic field in response to the power. The source circuitry is configured and arranged to wirelessly transfer the power to the other circuitry via the magnetic field. |
| US10931144B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting wireless power
A method and apparatus are provided for determining, by a wireless power transmitter, whether a wireless power receiver is removed from a wireless power network managed by the wireless power transmitter. The method includes transmitting a command signal to report power information of the wireless power receiver at stated periods; determining whether a report signal corresponding to the command signal is received from the wireless power receiver; and determining that the wireless power receiver is removed from the wireless power network, if the report signal is not received after transmitting the command signal a predetermined number of times at the stated periods. |
| US10931138B2 |
Sheath for USB charger
A sheath for convenient charging having a left side, a right side and a top side, a first closed end, a second open end and a surrounding bottom portion surrounding at least a portion of the sides and ends of the sheath. At least a portion of the sheath extends above an outer surface of a body, wherein the body has an inner surface, an outer surface and an opening between the inner surface and the outer surface. The sheath is at the opening and the sheath receives a female end of a USB cable having four sides, an operative end, a cord end and a cord. The operative end of the female end of the USB cable is retained in the second open end of the sheath and the cord end of the female end of the USB cable is retained in the first closed end of the sheath to provide the female end of the UBS cable in a flat position with the operative end of the female connector being uncovered and above the outer surface of the body and the cord of the female end goes through the opening between the inner surface and the outer surface and the surrounding bottom portion is attached to a portion of the body. |
| US10931137B2 |
Sheath for USB charger
A sheath for convenient charging, comprising: a sheath having at least three sides, a first tapered closed end and a second open end, wherein at least a portion of the sheath extends above an outer surface of a body, wherein the body has an inner surface, an outer surface and a power cable outlet between the inner surface and the outer surface, wherein the sheath is at the power cable outlet and the sheath receives a female end of a USB cable having four sides, an operative end and a cord end, wherein the operative end of the female end of the USB cable is in communication with the second open end of the sheath and the cord end of the female end of a USB cable is in communication with the first tapered closed end of the sheath to provide the female end of the UBS cable in a flat position with the operative end of the female connector being uncovered and above the outer surface of the body. |
| US10931135B2 |
Energy harvesting sensor
An energy harvesting sensor node includes an energy harvesting sensor, an energy storage device, and a transceiver. The energy harvesting sensor is configured to extract energy from an external source at a rate proportional to a value of a first parameter of the external source. The energy storage device is configured to store the extracted energy from the energy harvesting sensor at the rate proportional to the value of the first parameter. The transceiver is configured to transmit a plurality of data transmission frames at a frequency proportional to the value of the first parameter. |
| US10931133B2 |
Wireless power receiving device, wireless power transmission system, and short-circuit monitoring device
Disclosed herein is a wireless power receiving device that wirelessly receives power transmitted from a wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power receiving device comprises: a power receiving coil that receives an AC power through a magnetic field; a power-receiving-side capacitor that constitutes a resonance circuit together with the power receiving coil; a rectifying circuit that rectifies the AC power received by the power receiving coil by a plurality of bridge-connected semiconductor devices each having a rectifying function; and a short-circuit detection circuit that detects a short circuit in the rectifying circuit based on a first AC voltage which is a voltage between a one-side input line of the rectifying circuit and a stable potential and a second AC voltage which is a voltage between the other-side input line of the rectifying circuit and the stable potential. |
| US10931128B2 |
Method and apparatus to predict capacity fade rate of battery
A method and apparatus for predicting a capacity fade rate of a battery are provided. The method includes collecting capacity degradation data of a battery based on a current and a state of charge (SOC) for a predefined number of cycles, generating a capacity fade model based on the capacity degradation data, and estimating a capacity fade rate of the battery using the capacity fade model. |
| US10931127B2 |
Modular charging system and wall-mounted charging device and modular power devices
The present invention relates to a modular charging system including a wall-mounted outlet-preserving charger for charging additional accessories such as battery blocks, wireless device chargers, supporting chargers for wearable devices such as watches, and car chargers, each for use independently or in combination with electronic devices. The present invention typically includes a wall charger with one or more electrical outlets on the front face so the use of the wall outlet is not lost. The wall charger of the present invention is suitable for use in any major country and may be adapted to the outlet configuration and voltage of those countries. |
| US10931122B2 |
Pre-charging circuitry for multiplexer
A pre-charge circuit is provided for pre-charging the input node of a capacitive component to which the multiplexer output is fed to a charge level that is close to or approximates the signal output level of the multiplexer when its output is next switched. In order to reduce the level shifting burden on the amplifier in the pre-charge circuit, each pre-charge circuit input channel has a respective capacitor that is able to be switched in and out of series with the respective multiplexer channels, such that the respective capacitors track the signal levels on the multiplexer channels. The provision of the corresponding capacitors for each MUX channel reduces the input current to the pre-charge amplifier, and allows for the level shifting burden to be taken by the capacitors, leading to more stable and lower power operation. |
| US10931117B2 |
Landfill gas powered datacenter
Arrangements of the present disclosure relate to a system including a datacenter, having an electrical connection configured to receive electrical power generated from landfill gas, a thermal connection configured to receive thermal energy generated as a byproduct of generating the electrical power from the landfill gas, a datacenter load powered by the electrical power, and a cooling plant configured to cool the datacenter load using the thermal energy. |
| US10931113B2 |
Power conversion device and power system performing protection control for suppressing received power
A power conversion device which is connected between an electric generation grid and a demand area grid and performs power conversion includes: a power converter which is connected to an electric generation grid and which converts AC power received from the electric generation grid to DC power and transmits the DC power via DC bus; and a control device for controlling the power converter. The control device includes a detection unit for detecting DC current of the DC bus, and a protection control unit for performing protection control for suppressing an amount of power received from the electric generation grid, on the basis of variation in the DC current, thereby continuing operation in the case of disturbance in the demand area grid. |
| US10931111B2 |
Power distribution control system with improved responsiveness
A power distribution control system for controlling a plurality of power assets connected to a power grid is provided. The system includes a server which can identify a set of power assets selected from sources, loads, and stores that are to form a string and provide to the string instructions for response to a change in the power grid. The system further includes a router for each of the power assets in the string, for receiving instructions from the server and for controlling the respective power asset. The power assets in the string are selected by the server to have different response times and/or response profiles, such that the string of assets present a collective response to the change, the collective response being defined by the server. |
| US10931110B2 |
Devices and methods for capacitor bank power switching circuits
An electronic device is configured to be coupled to a capacitor bank in a power system network. The electronic device includes a first switch, a second switch, and a damping circuit in series with the second switch. The damping circuit includes a passive damping circuit and a thyristor that is in parallel with the passive damping circuit. Related methods and circuits are also described. |
| US10931109B2 |
Contingency based load shedding system for both active and reactive power
The present disclosure relates to a computationally efficient technique for determining loads to shed based on both active and reactive power. For example, a monitoring and control system may receive electrical measurements of a power system. The monitoring and control system may determine an active power and a reactive power of each bus in the power system based on the received electrical measurements. The monitoring and control system may send a command to trip at least one breaker to cause the at least one breaker to shed a load based at least in part on both the active power and the reactive power consumed by each bus in the power system. |
| US10931108B2 |
Scheduling the activities of daily living (ADLs) with minimum power usage cost on smart grid network
The present invention is a system and method for optimizing power on a smart grid network. The system includes one or more units, such as a smart home, each having a control center with a historical database. The control center is in digital communication with a network component of a smart grid. Historical data including a soft window period and a hard window period representing acceptable start times for one or more flexible ADLs are stored in the historical database. The network component receives historical data for the flexible ADLs from multiple control centers. The network component, which creates a schedule based at least in part on the historical data and transfers energy to the control center according to the schedule. While scheduling, the network component manages peak load, energy tariffs, penalties, forecasting of non-ADL demand, and forecasting of supply over the scheduling horizon among other things. |
| US10931105B2 |
Power transmission network
A power transmission network includes converters interconnected via electrical elements, at least one power flow router, and a controller. Each power flow router being operatively connected to the electrical elements, each power flow router configured to selectively control current flow in the electrical elements so as to direct power between two or more of the plurality of converters. The controller configured to selectively control the converters and each power flow router to control power flow in the power transmission network The controller is configured to carry out a mathematical optimisation to determine optimal operating set points of the converters; after carrying out the mathematical optimisation, carry out another mathematical optimisation to determine optimal current flows in the electrical elements; and control the converters in accordance with each determined optimal operating set point, and control the power flow router(s) to achieve each determined optimal current flow in the electrical elements. |
| US10931103B2 |
Single-gate-oxide power inverter and electrostatic discharge protection circuit
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit includes: a cascade of NMOS transistors including a first NMOS transistor operatively cascaded to a second NMOS transistor wherein the cascade of NMOS transistors is operatively coupled to a first bus that receives an ESD pulse signal; a first single-gate-oxide ESD control circuit coupled to the first NMOS transistor and configured to turn on the first NMOS transistor during an ESD event, the first single-gate-oxide control circuit coupled between the first bus at a first voltage and a first node at a second voltage, wherein the first voltage is higher than the second voltage; a second single-gate-oxide control circuit operatively coupled to the second NMOS transistor and configured to turn on the second NMOS transistor during an ESD event and to turn off the second NMOS transistor during a normal operation, wherein the second single-gate-oxide control circuit is coupled between the first node at the second voltage and a second bus at a ground voltage, wherein the second voltage is higher than the ground voltage; and a voltage divider circuit operatively coupled to the first bus at the first voltage and the second bus at the ground voltage, wherein the voltage divider circuit is operatively coupled to the first single-gate-oxide ESD control circuit and the second single-gate-oxide ESD control circuit at the first node. |
| US10931102B2 |
Hardware control for prevention of dangerous restart in a power tool
A power tool is provided including a power supply interface having a first node and a second node, a power switch circuit, an input unit actuatable by a user, a controller configured to control the power switch circuit to regulate the supply of electric power, and a driver circuit disposed between the controller and the power switch circuit configured to receive control signals from the controller and drive the power switch circuit according. A no-volt prevention circuit is configured to enable a supply of power to at least one of the driver circuit or the controller when the input unit is actuated after the power supply interface is coupled to the power supply, but not when the input unit is actuated before to the power supply interface is coupled to the power supply. |
| US10931093B2 |
Disconnect switch for interupption dc circuit between DC power source and load
A disconnecting device for interrupting the direct current between a direct current source, in particular in the direct voltage range between 300 VDc and/or in the nominal current range between 4A and 250A, and a load. The device has at least one protection switch with a protection switch arrangement having a magnetic trigger, and has semiconductor electronics which are connected in parallel to the at least one protection switch and which block the current when the protection switch arrangement is in a current-conducting state and which conducts current at least temporarily when the protection switch arrangement is triggered. A current, in particular an electric arc current generated as a result of an electric arc, is switched, when the protection switch arrangement is triggered, from the at least one protection switch to the semiconductor electronics. |
| US10931091B2 |
Misaligned deadend clamp
An electrical connector assembly configured to increase a mechanical hold on a core. The electrical connector assembly includes a connector member, a plurality of housing segments forming a collet having a tubular shape, and a sleeve having a tubular shape configured to slidably encase the outer surfaces of the plurality of housing segments in the collet. |
| US10931090B2 |
Mount with clip
A mount can include a bracket and a clip. The bracket can include a foot, a riser attached to the foot, and a connecting feature. The clip can include a connection portion for connecting the clip to the bracket, a retention portion with a curved configuration of at least half of a circle, and a tab portion that extends from the retention portion towards the connection portion. |
| US10931081B2 |
Method of producing an optoelectronic lighting device and optoelectronic lighting device
A method of producing an optoelectronic lighting device includes providing a laser chip carrier on which two edge emitting laser chips, arranging a carrier including two optical elements onto the laser chip carrier, forming a respective optical connection by an optical material between a respective laser facet and a respective optical element, singulating the two laser chips by dividing the laser chip carrier between the two laser chips to form two mutually divided laser chip carrier parts, wherein the dividing includes dividing the carrier between the two optical elements to form two mutually divided carrier parts each including one of the two optical elements, such that two singulated laser chips arranged on the respective divided laser chip carrier part are formed, the respective laser facets of which are optically connected to the respective optical element of the respective carrier part by the optical material. |
| US10931080B2 |
Laser package with high precision lens
The present disclosure relates to optical systems and methods for their manufacture. An example method includes coupling a first surface of a light-emitter substrate to a reference surface of a carrier substrate. The method also includes registering a mold structure with respect to the reference surface of the carrier substrate. Furthermore, the method includes using the mold structure to form an optical material over at least a portion of the light-emitter substrate. The optical material is shaped according to a shape of the mold structure and includes at least one registration feature. The method also includes coupling an optical lens element to the optical material such that the optical lens element is registered to the at least one registration feature. |
| US10931079B2 |
Brillouin sensing system using optical microwave frequency discriminators and scrambler
In a Brillouin sensing system using optical microwave frequency discriminators and a scrambler provided by the present invention, a laser signal outputted by a distributed feedback laser is divided into two paths of optical signals through a coupler, one path of optical signal is modulated by a modulator to act as a pump light signal and then is transmitted to sensing fibers through a circulator; another path of optical signal is modulated by another modulator to act as a detecting light signal and then directly enters the sensing fibers. When the frequency difference between the pump light and the detecting light is equal to the Brillouin frequency shift of a certain region in the fibers, the region produces the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect, so that through determining the frequency shift and power of the Brillouin scattering signal, the temperature and stress of the sensing fibers are obtained. |
| US10931076B2 |
Exciting a crystal of a pockels cell
A Pockels cell utilizes high-voltage pulses for a polarization adjustment of electromagnetic radiation passing through the crystal, in particular laser radiation. The polarization adjustment involves applying a sequence of useful voltage pulses (N) to the crystal, each having a useful period duration (TP, N) and a useful pulse width (TN), and induces birefringence of the crystal via electric polarization in the crystal for polarization adjustment of the electromagnetic radiation. A sequence of compensation pulses (K, K1, K2) are applied to the crystal, each having a voltage curve, wherein the sequence is temporally overlaid by the sequence of useful voltage pulses (N) so that the voltage curves of the compensation pulses (K, K1, K2) counteract the inducing of a mechanical vibration in the crystal of the Pockels cell by the useful voltage pulses (N). |
| US10931072B2 |
Transmitting device, reception device, and optical-electrical composite cable
It is desirable to provide a technology capable of improving reliability in light transmission and convenience at the time of connecting a transmission device to a cable with a simple circuit configuration. A transmitting device is provided which includes a connector receptacle unit connected to an optical-electrical composite cable, in which the connector receptacle unit includes a first electrode group, a second electrode group provided at a position rotated from the first electrode group by 180 degrees about a center of a main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference, a first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals, and a second connection unit group for transmitting optical signals provided at a position rotated from the first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals by 180 degrees about the center of the main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference. |
| US10931071B2 |
Wiring module and connection member for wiring module
Provided is a wiring module for installation in a vehicle, including a first conductor plate that is connected to a first output end of a power storage device and formed of a flat electric conductor elongated in a longitudinal direction, and supplying electric power from the power storage device to an electric device. The wiring module further includes a connection member. The connection member is fitted to the first conductor plate. The connection member includes a first fitting portion, a second fitting portion, and a switch. The first fitting portion is fitted to the first conductor plate. The second fitting portion has a first terminal through which electric power is supplied to the electric device. The switch establishes and breaks electrical continuity between the first terminal and the first conductor plate. |
| US10931069B2 |
High-density electrical connector
Disclosed herein is an electrical connector, comprising a plug and a receptacle. The plug comprises first electrical contacts electrically isolated from each other and arranged into a first outer contact annulus and a first inner contact annulus concentric with and radially spaced apart from each other. The receptacle comprises second electrical contacts electrically isolated from each other and arranged into a second outer contact annulus and a second inner contact annulus concentric with and radially spaced apart from each other. The plug is selectively connectable with the receptacle. When the plug is selectively connected with the receptacle, each of the first electrical contacts of the first outer contact annulus is in physical contact with a corresponding one of the second electrical contacts of the second outer contact annulus and each of the first electrical contacts of the first inner contact annulus is in physical contact with a corresponding one of the second electrical contacts of the second inner contact annulus. |
| US10931067B2 |
Common mode choke
A cable distribution plant is protected from noise where a modem housing encloses a switching power supply and digital electronics, the modem switching power supply for receiving AC mains power via an EMI filter and modem digital electronics for receiving a switching power supply output via an LC filter for filtering noise at the switching power supply frequency wherein multiple filters used with respective modems at subscriber sites protect the head-end from switching power supply harmonic noise otherwise aggregated by the nodes and passed to the head end. |
| US10931064B2 |
Electrical connector having conformal pin organizer
An electrical connector includes a housing having contact channels. The housing has a mounting end configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The electrical connector includes signal contacts received in corresponding contact channels. The signal contacts have mating ends and terminating ends configured to be terminated to the circuit board. Each terminating end has a shoulder, a neck extending from the shoulder and a pin extending from the neck. The neck is narrower than the complaint pin and the shoulder. The electrical connector includes conformal pin organizers coupled to the mounting end of the housing. Each conformal pin organizer has a signal opening receiving the terminating end of the corresponding signal contact. The conformal pin organizer has opening edges extending along the signal opening. The conformal pin organizers are positioned along the terminating ends such that the opening edges engage the necks of the corresponding terminating ends. |
| US10931062B2 |
High-frequency electrical connector
An electrical connector comprises an insulative shell having a floor; a first plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the first plurality of contacts are disposed in a plurality of columns; a second plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the second plurality of contacts are interspersed with the first plurality of contacts within the plurality of columns; and a conductive member adjacent the floor. The conductive member comprises a first plurality of openings, wherein the first plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the first plurality of openings; a second plurality of openings, wherein the second plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the second plurality of openings; and a first plurality of tabs, extending into openings in the insulative shell. |
| US10931055B2 |
Multifunction connector
An electrical connector includes a unitary base elongated along a longitudinal direction. A first tongue extends forwardly from the base and has a uniform thickness along the longitudinal direction. The first tongue comprises a plurality of spaced apart first contacts. A second tongue extends forwardly from the base and comprises a plurality of spaced apart second contacts. The first and second tongues define a gap therebetween that extends from a front edge of one of the first and second tongues toward the unitary base. |
| US10931053B2 |
Expandable electrical device cover
An enclosure for providing access to an electrical outlet includes a base with an aperture configured to couple to the electrical outlet and a lid coupled to the base. The lid selectively covers the aperture and includes a frame and an expandable section. The expandable section is moveable relative to the frame and selectively increases the volume of the lid. |
| US10931052B2 |
Connectors with contacts bonded to tongue for improved structural integrity
Connector tongues that may provide a high signal quality or signal integrity to allow high speed data transfers, may be reliably manufactured, and may be durable and have good wear performance. |
| US10931051B2 |
Connector and receptacle
A connector comprises an adapter and a first receptacle adapted to be assembled onto a first end of the adapter. The adapter includes an outer contact, an inner contact, and an insulator between the outer contact and the inner contact. The first receptacle includes a first outer terminal in electrical contact with a first end of the outer contact, a first inner terminal in electrical contact with a first end of the inner contact, and a first insulative body between the first outer terminal and the first inner terminal. The first outer terminal includes a plurality of first elastic contact structures. Each of the first elastic contact structures has an elastic arm and a first contact point formed on the elastic arm. The first contact point is adapted to elastically electrically contact an inner wall of the first end of the outer contact. |
| US10931050B2 |
High-frequency electrical connector
An electrical connector with improved high frequency performance. The connector has conductive elements, forming both signal and ground conductors, that have multiple points of contact distributed along an elongated dimension. The ground conductors may be formed with multiple beams of different length. The signal conductors may be formed with multiple contact regions on a single beam, with different characteristics. Signal conductors may have beams that are jogged to provide both a desired impedance and mating contact pitch. Additionally, electromagnetic radiation, inside and/or outside the connector may be shaped with an insert electrically connecting multiple ground structures and/or a contact feature coupling ground conductors to a stiffener. The conductive elements in different columns may be shaped differently to reduce crosstalk. |
| US10931046B2 |
Circuit device
An ECU (1) includes a circuit board (10), a connector (20) fixed to the circuit board (10), and a resin portion (50) covering the circuit board (10) and the connector (20). The connector (20) includes a connector housing (21) having a terminal holding wall (22) that separates the internal space from the external space, and terminal fittings (41) extend through the terminal holding wall (22). The connector housing (21) includes a surrounding wall (27) disposed on the lateral surface of the terminal holding wall (22) to surround the terminal fittings (41). A potting material (28) is disposed inside the surrounding wall (27) and separates the terminal holding wall (22) from the resin portion (50). This can prevent a melted resin from entering a hood (24) through press fitting holes (23) at the time of forming the resin portion (50) by mold forming. |
| US10931044B2 |
Board-to-board connector and board-to-board connector assembly
The disclosure relates to a board-to-board connector including a body, multiple terminals and a pair of metal fittings. The body has an accommodating recess. The terminal is disposed on the body and a portion of each of the terminals extends to the accommodating recess. The metal fittings are disposed on the body and beside the accommodating recess. The terminals are located between metal fittings. Each of the metal fittings has at least one limiting portion that extends to the accommodating recess. The limiting portion leans against a corner of the accommodating recess so that the metal fittings and the body generate a two-dimensional limitation. A board-to-board connector assembly is also provided. |
| US10931041B2 |
Cable connector having a slider for compression
A coaxial cable connector is attachable to a coaxial cable. The connector may include a connector body, a coupler, and a slider. The connector body may include a forward end and a rearward end. The rearward end may be configured to receive a portion of a coaxial cable, and the connector body may be configured to receive at least a portion of the post. The coupler may be configured to be rotatably coupled to the forward end of the connector body, and the slider may be configured to receive the connector body. The slider may be configured to move relative to the connector body in a rearward direction from a first position to a second position and to compress a portion of the coaxial cable between the connector body and a post as a result of the slider being moved from the first position to the second position. |
| US10931036B2 |
Fluidic wire connectors
A connector to connect to a liquid metal wire includes a hollow conduit configured to connect to a tubular wire casing, and further includes a reservoir including a solid metal conductor. The reservoir is to receive liquid metal to substantially fill a volume of the reservoir such that the liquid metal extends into the tubular wire casing. The tubular wire casing, filled with the liquid metal, becomes the liquid metal wire. |
| US10931035B2 |
Parasitic elements for isolating orthogonal signal paths and generating additional resonance in a dual-polarized antenna
An antenna system may include a dual-polarized antenna element having a first dipole and a second dipole in a same lateral plane, the first dipole having a first and a second dipole arm, the second dipole comprising a third and a fourth dipole arm, the first dipole being co-located with the second dipole, and the first dipole having an orthogonal polarization to the second dipole. The antenna system may further include parasitic elements, each comprising at least two branches, the at least two branches including a first branch and a second branch oriented at an angle and forming an apex. A first branch of a first parasitic element may be positioned at a first coupling distance parallel to the first dipole arm of the first dipole, and a second branch may be positioned at a second coupling distance parallel to the third dipole arm of the second dipole. |
| US10931032B2 |
Split diamond antenna element for controlling azimuth pattern in different array configurations
An antenna system includes unit cells arranged as an array of unit cells, each unit cell including at least one dual-polarized antenna element for operation in a first radio frequency (RF) range, and least one configured as an expanded diamond antenna element with first and second pairs of co-polarized radiating elements, the first and second pairs of co-polarized radiating elements having orthogonal polarizations. The unit cell for the at least one expanded diamond antenna element may have rectangular bounds, where first and second radiating elements of the first pair of co-polarized radiating elements are disposed in first opposite corners across a first diagonal of the rectangular bounds and within the rectangular bounds, and where first and second radiating elements of the second pair of co-polarized radiating elements are disposed in second opposite corners of the four corners across a second diagonal of the rectangular bounds and within the rectangular bounds. |
| US10931031B2 |
Compact antenna having three-dimensional multi-segment structure
A GNSS compact antenna comprising a conducting ground plane and a driven element for exciting right hand circularly polarized waves having a multi-segment structure such that the area around the driven element is divided into elementary cells with conductors and circuit elements arranged therein. The antenna includes a set of circuit elements connecting the neighboring elementary cells and the driven element. Each elementary cell has a horizontal conductor over the ground plane, and each elementary cell can have a vertical conductor and a circuit element connecting the horizontal and vertical conductors. The horizontal conductor comprises a set of characteristic points to which circuit elements, connecting neighboring elementary cells or any elementary cell and the driven element, are connected. Both the impedance of each circuit elements and the design of each elementary cell can be different, but the antenna has four-fold rotational symmetry relative to the vertical axis. |
| US10931027B2 |
Method for array elements arrangement of l-shaped array antenna based on inheritance of acquired character
A method for array elements arrangement of an L-shaped array antenna based on inheritance of acquired character. The method relates to the field of array elements design for L-shaped array antenna. In order to solve the problem that the arrangement of the current L-shaped array antenna system has a weak local ability, the invention firstly encodes for the J_K array, then calculates a fitness of each chromosome in the population, randomly selects two parent chromosomes according to a overwriting probability of inheritance of acquired character, calculates a percentage of gene delivery, performs a overwriting operation to generate a new population, repeats the overwriting operation to generate the final new population; calculates the fitness of each chromosome in the population, repeats the iteration until a predetermined termination condition is met, and obtains the optimal population gene; then determines the array elements arrangement of the L-shaped array antenna according to the optimal population gene. |
| US10931024B2 |
Linear-to-CP polarizer with enhanced performance in VICTS antennas
A linear-to-circular polarizer includes a meanderline polarizer having a plurality of meanderline conductor patterns, and a gridline polarizer having a plurality of conductors arranged in a grid pattern. The gridline polarizer is spaced apart from the meanderline polarizer by a first prescribed distance and the gridline polarizer is spaced apart from a planar antenna aperture of a planar antenna by a second prescribed distance. |
| US10931023B2 |
MIMO coupler array with high degrees of freedom
This invention presents embodiments of a coupler array to couple the RF signals between the antenna array of a MIMO base station and a MIMO RF channel emulator. The embodiments enable testing of a large scale MIMO wireless communication system without the need of connecting a large number of RF cables to the antenna ports of the MIMO base station. |
| US10931021B2 |
Antenna lens array for tracking multiple devices
A radio frequency antenna array uses multiple lenses, and mechanically movable elements, to provide ground-based and sky-based coverage for multiple object communication and tracking. The antenna array includes at least two spherical lenses, where each spherical lens has at least two associated RF elements. A third lens is added, along with at least two additional RF elements to narrow and track the overlapped beams from the first and second lenses. Each lens also includes a sub-controller configured to adjust a phase of the signals produced by the RF elements. The antenna includes a control mechanism configured to enable a user to move the RF elements along their respective tracks, and automatically configure the phase shifter to modify a phase of the output signals from the elements based on the relative positions between the RF elements. The overlapped beams track independent targets, such as satellites, across an area. |
| US10931018B2 |
Multi-feed dielectric antenna system with core selection and methods for use therewith
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an antenna system includes a dielectric antenna having a feed-point, wherein the dielectric antenna is a single antenna having a plurality of antenna beam patterns. At least one cable having a plurality of conductorless dielectric cores is coupled to the feed-point of the dielectric antenna, each of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores corresponding to one of the plurality of antenna beam patterns. A core selector switch couples electromagnetic waves from a source to a selected one of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores, the selected one of the plurality of conductorless dielectric cores corresponding to a selected one of the plurality of antenna beam patterns. |
| US10931014B2 |
High gain and large bandwidth antenna incorporating a built-in differential feeding scheme
An antenna and a base station including the antenna. The antenna includes a sub-array that includes first and second unit cells and a feed network. The first and second unit cells comprise first and second patches, respectively, having quadrilateral shapes. The feed network comprises a first transmission line terminating below first corners of the first and second patches, respectively; a second transmission line terminating below third corners of the first and second patches, respectively; a third transmission line terminating below a second corner of the first patch and a fourth corner of the second patch; and a fourth transmission line terminating below a fourth corner of the first patch and a second corner of the second patch. The first corners are opposite the third corners on the respective first and second patches and the second corners are opposite the fourth corners on the respective first and second patches. |
| US10931012B2 |
Device with programmable reflector for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system for generating electromagnetic signals that resonate in a cavity having a plurality of reflectors resulting in resonating electromagnetic signals and combining the resonating electromagnetic signals to form an electromagnetic wave that traverses a reflector and couples onto a physical transmission medium. One or more of the reflectors is implemented via a programmable substrate. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10931005B2 |
Hearing device incorporating a primary antenna in conjunction with a chip antenna
An ear-worn electronic device is adapted to be worn at, by, in or on an ear of a wearer. The device comprises a housing configured to be supported at, by, in or on the wearer's ear. A processor is disposed in the housing. A speaker or a receiver is coupled to the processor. A radio frequency transceiver is disposed in the housing and coupled to the processor. An antenna arrangement is disposed in or on the housing and coupled to the transceiver. The antenna arrangement comprises a primary antenna and a chip antenna connected to the primary antenna. The primary antenna serves as a counterpoise for the chip antenna and feeds the chip antenna. |
| US10931002B1 |
Light transmitting wearable device with transparent and translucent components
A wearable electronic device is described. The wearable electronic device uses a light within a housing of the electronic device to illuminate an optically connected band, such as a watch band which provides interactive displays and features to a user. The positioning of the light source within the housing allows for the interactive display in the connected band without increasing the size and/or complexity of the electronic device itself. |
| US10931000B1 |
Antenna module and electronic device including the same
An antenna module includes a first antenna unit including at least one first patch antenna pattern, at least one first feed via, and at least one first dielectric layer, a second antenna unit including at least one second patch antenna pattern, at least one second feed via, and at least one second dielectric layer, a first connection portion, a first rigid substrate electrically connecting the first connection portion to the first antenna unit and having a first surface on which the first antenna unit is disposed, a base connection portion, a flexible substrate having a first surface on which the first connection portion is disposed and a second surface on which the base connection portion is disposed, and an IC electrically connected to the flexible substrate through the second surface of the flexible substrate or the first rigid substrate. |
| US10930995B2 |
Power divider/combiner
Provided is a power divider/combiner capable of improving reflection characteristics and isolation characteristics. The power divider/combiner is formed by a multilayer board, and a strip conductor is arranged in an inner layer of the multilayer board and a chip resistor is arranged on an outer surface of the multilayer board. The power divider/combiner includes vias, which connect the strip conductor and the chip resistor, and includes stubs mounted between input/output terminals and the vias. With this configuration, it is possible to adjust induction mainly during an odd mode of an even/odd mode operation and to consequently improve reflection characteristics of the input/output terminals and isolation characteristics between the input/output terminals. |
| US10930991B1 |
Method and/or apparatus for frictionless wideband high-power radio-frequency power transmission across a freely moving interface
An apparatus includes a radio frequency (“RF”) translational joint. The RF translational joint includes a first coaxial line. The RF translational joint includes a first constant impedance coaxial transition connected to the first initial coaxial line. The RF translational joint includes a coax-to-stripline transition. The RF translational joint includes a stripline section connected to the first constant impedance coaxial transition via the coax-to-stripline transition. The RF translational joint includes a stripline-to-coax transition. The RF translational joint includes a second constant impedance coaxial transition connected to the stripline section via the stripline-to-coax transition. The RF translation joint includes a second coaxial line connected to the second constant impedance coaxial transition. |
| US10930990B2 |
Device having at least one subset of stripline sections on opposite sides of an electrically conductive structure and configured to have positive coupling
A device includes at least one electrically conductive structure and at least one stripline. The stripline includes stripline sections that are connected to one another in a series connection between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first subset of the stripline sections is arranged on a first side of the conductive structure and a second subset of the stripline sections is arranged on a second side of the conductive structure. The device also includes at least one conductive connection between the first subset of the stripline sections and the second subset of the stripline sections, wherein the at least one conductive connection is isolated from the at least one electrically conductive structure. |
| US10930989B2 |
Structural body, laminated structure of structural body, and antenna structure
It has been difficult to suppress electromagnetic wave that propagates within a suspended substrate. The structure according to the present invention is provided with: a first conductor plane and a second conductor plane that are disposed parallel to each other; a dielectric plane that is disposed between the first and second conductor planes via a hollow region so as to be parallel to the first and second conductor planes; a first transmission line disposed on a surface that is of the dielectric plane and that opposes the first conductor plane; and a second transmission line disposed on a surface that is of the dielectric plane and that opposes the second conductor plane, wherein the first transmission line and the second transmission line are electrically connected to each other. |
| US10930987B2 |
Microfabricated air bridges for planar microwave resonator circuits
The present invention provides a process and structure of microfabricated air bridges for planar microwave resonator circuits. In an embodiment, the invention includes depositing a superconducting film on a surface of a base material, where the superconducting film is formed with a compressive stress, where the compressive stress is higher than a critical buckling stress of a defined structure, etching an exposed area of the superconducting film, thereby creating the at least one bridge, etching the base material, thereby forming a gap between the at least one bridge and the base material, depositing the at least one metal line on at least part of the superconducting film and at least part of the base material, where the at least one metal line runs under the bridge. |
| US10930985B2 |
Battery module and method of manufacturing the same
A battery module and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The battery module includes a case providing an internal space, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the internal space of the case, and at least one cooling unit interposed between the battery cells to be in surface contact with the battery cells and dissipating heat generated by the battery cells externally. |
| US10930983B2 |
Battery with sensor
The present invention relates to a battery (100) comprising an electrode material (102a), an electrolyte material (104), a battery charge sensor (106, 206, 306) comprising a plasmonic sensing element (108, 208, 308) having a sensing volume (110, 210, 310) within the battery (100, 200, 401) and which upon illumination with electromagnetic radiation exhibits a localized surface plasmon resonance condition being dependent on a charge state of the battery (100, 200, 401). A system and a method for determining a charge state of a battery are further provided. |
| US10930982B2 |
Lithium ion battery charge/discharge control device
A device that controls charging and discharging of a lithium ion battery (3) that starts an engine starter (1), includes: a voltage sensor (S1) that detects the voltage of the lithium ion battery; a current sensor (S2) that detects the current of the lithium ion battery; and a control section (30) that controls charging and discharging of the lithium ion battery. The control section (30) calculates capacity degradation rates of a cathode and anode of the lithium ion battery based on detected values of the voltage sensor and the current sensor at the time when a first time has elapsed, and at the time when a second time longer than the first time has elapsed, from startup of the engine starter, and limits the charging and discharging of the lithium ion battery based on comparison results between the capacity degradation rates and determination criterion values. |
| US10930979B2 |
Energy storage device and method of manufacturing energy storage device
An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly, wherein electrodes each including a covered portion which is covered by an active material layer and a non-covered portion which extends from the covered portion and is not covered by the active material layer are stacked on each other such that the covered portions overlap with each other and the non-covered portions overlap with each other, and the electrode assembly having a non-covered stacked portion where the non-covered portions are stacked on each other; a protective plate being brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from one side in a stacking direction of the non-covered stacked portion; a current collector including a bonding portion which is brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from an other side in the stacking direction, and an enlarged width portion extending from the bonding portion. |
| US10930978B2 |
Multifunctional ion pouch battery cell frame
A lithium ion pouch battery cell includes a rigid frame forming a skeleton of the cell and defining an aperture, an anode, a separator, and a cathode disposed within the aperture. The anode and cathode each include a current collector with an exposed tab portion, and a pair of terminals, integrated into the frame, each having an exterior portion and an interior portion bonded to one of the current collectors. |
| US10930976B2 |
Electrolyte solution and lithium ion battery
An electrolyte solution is used for a lithium ion battery. The electrolyte solution contains at least a solvent and lithium salt. The solvent contains at least methoxymethyl formate. |
| US10930974B2 |
Electrolyte composition containing methyl 2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane-2-carboxylate, and electrochemical cells comprising the same
An electrolyte composition and an electrochemical cell including the electrolyte composition are disclosed, including: at least one aprotic organic solvent; at least one conducting salt; methyl-2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane-2-carboxylate; and optionally one or more additives. A use of methyl-2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane-2-carboxylate in an electrolyte composition for electrochemical cells is disclosed. An electrochemical cell is also disclosed, in which the electrochemical cell is a lithium battery. |
| US10930972B2 |
Metal-phosphorous sulfide additives for solid state batteries
A composite material of formula (I) is provided: (LPS)a(MPS)b (I) wherein each of a and b is a mass % value from 1% to 99% such that a+b is 100%; (LPS) is a material selected from the group consisting of Li3PS4, Li7P3S11, Li10GeP2S11, and a material of formula (II): xLi2S.yP2S5.(100−x−y)LiX (II) wherein X is I, Cl or Br, each of x and y is a mass % value of from 33.3% to 50% such that x+y is from 75% to 100% and the total mass % of Li2S, P2S5 and LiX is 100%; and (MPS) is a material of formula (III): mLi2S.nMS.oP2S5.(100−m−n−o)LiX (III) wherein MS is a transition metal sulfide or a semi metal sulfide, X is I, Cl or Br, each of m, n and o is a mass % value greater than 0 such that (m+n+o) is from 75% to 100% and the total mass % of Li2S, P2S5 and LiX is 100%. Solid state batteries containing the composite material are also provided. |
| US10930964B2 |
Fuel cell stack
A fuel cell stack includes a pair of end plates disposed on opposing sides of a fuel cell stacked body in a first direction, a coupling bar that bridges between the end plates, a fastening member that connects the end plates and the coupling bar in the first direction, and a cylindrical knock disposed inside an end plate side mounting hole and a coupling bar side mounting hole of the end plates and the coupling bar in the first direction, and being externally fitted to the fastening member inside the end plate side mounting hole and the coupling bar side mounting hole. A first seal member in close contact with at least an inner circumferential surface of the end plate side mounting hole and the fastening member is disposed in a portion located between the cylindrical knock and the fastening member inside the end plate side mounting hole. |
| US10930961B2 |
Multi-acid polymers from multifunctional amino phosphonic acids and sulfonyl halide precursors and methods of making the same
Multi-acid polymers are produced having the formula R—SO2—NH—R′—(SO3H)n and made from a polymer precursor in sulfonyl fluoride form or sulfonyl chloride form The R is one or more units of the polymer precursor without sulfonyl fluoride or sulfonyl chloride, R′ is the portion of the amino sulfonic acid without the SO3H and NH, n is one or more, and the multi-acid polymer has two or more proton conducting groups. A method of making the multi-acid polymers includes reacting an amino acid having multiple sulfonic acids with a polymer precursor in sulfonyl fluoride form or sulfonyl chloride form in a mild base condition to produce the multi-acid polymer having two or more proton conducting groups. |
| US10930958B2 |
Fuel cell system
The fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including first and second fuel cells connected to each other in parallel; a supply system that supplies a reactant gas to the fuel cell unit; a required output power obtainment unit configured to obtain required output power to the fuel cell unit; a supply system control unit configured to control the supply system such that output power of the fuel cell unit is the required output power; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied; and a performance obtainment unit configured to obtain output power performance of the first fuel cell. |
| US10930956B2 |
Low flow control method and system for fuel cell
A low flow control method for a fuel cell includes: determining whether or not the fuel cell enters a low flow control mode, dividing a low flow control operation into a plurality of low flow control stages upon determining that the fuel cell enters the low flow control mode, and controlling a power generation quantity of the fuel cell according to the low flow control stages. |
| US10930953B2 |
Fuel cell system and method of controlling fuel cell system
A control unit of a fuel cell system acquires a service operating point, repeats a process of calculating a distance between the service operating point and a surging region, while transferring an operating point of a turbo compressor from a first operating point to a second operating point outside the surging region, sets opening degrees of a pressure adjusting valve and a bypass valve such that the turbo compressor operates at a required operating point, when the distance exceeds a threshold, and corrects at least one of the opening degrees of the pressure adjusting valve and the bypass valve such that the at least one of the opening degrees becomes larger than an opening degree set such that the turbo compressor operates at the required operating point, when the distance is equal to or shorter than the threshold. |
| US10930950B2 |
Closed anode fuel cell startup method
A process for starting a PEM fuel cell module includes blowing air through the cathode side of the module using external power. An amount hydrogen is released into the anode side of the module under a pressure greater than the pressure of the air on the cathode side, while the anode is otherwise closed. Cell voltages in the module are monitored for the appearance of a charged state sufficient to start the module. When the charged state is observed, the module is converted to a running state. |
| US10930949B2 |
Power delivery system and method
Systems and methods for operating an electric energy storage device are described. The systems and methods may reduce a voltage potential between a ground reference and terminals of an electric energy storage device. By lowering the voltage potential, a possibility of unintentionally discharging the electrical energy storage device to ground may be reduced. |
| US10930948B2 |
Fuel cell system and method for controlling fuel cell system including power recovery mechanism
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell configured to be supplied with an anode gas and a cathode gas and generate electric power, a compressor configured to supply the cathode gas to the fuel cell, a turbine configured to be supplied with a cathode discharged gas discharged from the fuel cell and generate power, an electric motor connected to the compressor and the turbine and configured to perform power running and regeneration, a combustor disposed between the fuel cell and the turbine and configured to mix and combust the cathode gas and the anode gas, a cooler configured to cool the cathode gas that is supplied from the compressor to the fuel cell, a bypass passage configured to supply the cathode gas from an upstream side of the cooler to the combustor by bypassing the cooler and the fuel cell, and a bypass valve disposed in the bypass passage. |
| US10930947B2 |
Recirculation device of a fuel cell
The invention relates to a supply circuit of the cathode (250) of at least one electrochemical cell (200) of the PEMFC type, which further comprises a membrane (290) separating an anode (210) and said cathode (250), with this circuit comprising: a supply channel (220) comprising an inlet (282) and making it possible to convey a fluid (90) in contact with the cathode (250); a discharge channel (280) that makes it possible to remove gases from the cell, a recirculation channel (100, 100′), comprising: a first opening (102) connected to the outlet (284) of the discharge channel (280); a second opening (104) connected to the inlet (282) of the supply channel (280), by the intermediary of a connector (80); a third opening (106) and means for removing (140) that allow at least one portion of the fluid (90) to be removed from the recirculation channel by the third opening (106), the recirculation channel (100, 100′) and/or the supply channel further comprising at least one compressor (C1, C2), which makes it possible to control the flow rates and/or the proportion of the fluids to be mixed in the connector. |