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US11006558B2	Mounting management device A mounting management device sets a production job of production jobs having a largest production parameter to a production job of the production jobs having an Nth largest production parameter as reference jobs of each of N groups, respectively; determines arrangement positions of tape feeders on a pallet so that a production time required for processing each of the reference jobs is as short as possible as determined based upon the arrangement positions of the tape feeders; allocates remaining production jobs excluding the reference jobs of the production jobs to the N groups; and determines arrangement positions of the tape feeders on the pallet based on the remaining production jobs.
US11006552B2	Air flow methods and systems for a welder-generator Configurations of internal components of a welder-generator are provided to improve efficiency of the cooling of the internal components. Configurations are provided in which a single fan, such as an engine fan, drives a single airflow path through the welder-generator. Configurations are provided in which a primary engine fan drives a first airflow path and a secondary generator fan drives a second airflow path through the welder-generator. Internal components are thermally aligned such that air circulates first through components with low critical operating temperatures and last through components with higher critical operating temperatures.
US11006551B2	Method for re-direction of airflow from air handler system(s) integrated into a modular data center A modular data center (MDC) includes an air handling system having air handling unit(s) (AHU(s)) with return air inlet and supply air outlet that are vertically spaced. An air redirection structure includes a return air plenum that is in fluid communication with and vertically aligned to the return air inlet of the AHU(s). The return air plenum directs return air from a return air opening of the first air redirection structure to the AHU(s). The return air opening is positioned adjacent to a hot aisle of a volumetric container of the MDC. A supply air plenum is in fluid communication with and vertically aligned to the supply air outlet of the AHU(s). The supply air plenum directs supply air from the AHU(s) to a supply air opening of the first air redirection structure. The supply air opening is positioned to provide supply air to the cold aisle of the container.
US11006547B2	Solution for precision cooling and fluid management optimization in immersion cooling A data center immersion cooling system is described. The system comprises: an immersion tank; a heat exchanger to extract heat from heated coolant and transform heated coolant into cooled coolant; a coolant supply line to supply the cooled coolant from the heat exchanger to the immersion tank; and a coolant return line to return the heated coolant from the immersion tank to the heat exchanger, wherein the immersion tank further comprises: a plurality of equipment compartments that accommodate electronic devices; and a heated coolant reservoir disposed around the plurality of equipment compartments, wherein the cooled coolant enters the equipment compartments from the bottom, wherein the heated coolant in the equipment compartments exits the equipment compartments at the top, and is collected into the heated coolant reservoir, and wherein the heated coolant in the heated coolant reservoir is returned to the heat exchanger via the coolant return line. The heated coolant reservoir also provides a buffering function to the systems which is needed in several operating scenarios.
US11006544B1	Automatic component discovery mechanism A system to facilitate automatic data center assembly is described. The system includes a first enclosure, including a first set of components, each component including a component manager to perform a component function and a first enclosure manager, communicatively coupled to each component manager, to perform a discovery of each of the first set of components and discover one or more adjacent enclosures coupled to the enclosure via link cables. The system also includes a system manager to automatically discover the first enclosure via the first enclosure manager and discover each of the first set of plurality of components via an associated component manager.
US11006541B2	Housing, electronic device, and method for manufacturing housing A housing is formed by bending a metal plate including a molded plastic part. The molded plastic part includes a perimeter portion formed along an outer peripheral edge of the metal plate, and a bent part formed in a bending area in which the metal plate is bent. The bent part is provided with a notch formed along the bending area.
US11006537B2	Device comprising a movable component A device includes an interior which is enclosed by a housing. The housing includes an opening. A movable component closes the opening in the housing between the interior and an exterior of the housing. The passage points for movable components have hydrophobic surfaces. A device of this type is protected in a non-contacting manner against penetration and discharge of fluids.
US11006536B2	Deployable hardened housing units The housing relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for robust, adaptable, and deployable computing devices and radio systems. An embodiment can be the housing for a C-sUAS that can be deployed to detect, identify, locate and defeat hostile sUASs and locate the sUAS operators and that can be ruggedized and efficiently deployed for use in various power- and space-constrained mobile platforms and at fixed locations. An embodiment can be housing for a C-sUAS that operates under severe environmental conditions.
US11006534B2	Tiled display and method of assembling the same There is provided a tiled display including: a plurality of display devices; a plurality of first magnets in contact with a surface of each of the display devices; a wall portion configured to be attached to and detached from the display devices; and a plurality of second magnets disposed on a surface of the wall portion and in line with the first magnets. The second magnets are movable in a direction perpendicular to or intersecting the surface of the wall portion. Accordingly, it is possible to attach/release the plurality of display devices to/from the wall portion by forming an attractive force or a repulsive force between the first magnets and the second magnets.
US11006533B2	Frame for a display device, display device, and method of manufacturing the same A frame for a display device extends in a main plane. The frame includes a plurality of segments coupled to one another, including at least a first segment having at least one injection orifice allowing the injection of an optical adhesive. The plurality of segments defines an opening therebetween delimited by a plurality of inner edges facing each segment, including at least a first inner edge of the first segment. The first segment includes an injection channel having a first end and a second end. The first end is fluidly connected to the injection orifice, and the second end forms the first inner edge of the first segment.
US11006530B2	Producing method of wired circuit board A method for producing a wired circuit board includes a step (1) of forming a seed layer on one surface in a thickness direction of a peeling layer, a step (2) of forming a conductive pattern on one surface in the thickness direction of the seed layer, a step (3) of covering the seed layer and the conductive pattern with an insulating layer, a step (4) of peeling the peeling layer from the seed layer, and a step (5) of removing the seed layer. The insulating layer has the number of times of folding endurance measured in conformity with JIS P8115 (2001) of 10 times or more.
US11006529B2	Circuit forming method A circuit forming method where a metal ink is ejected to a planned formation position of a first wiring at an upper face of a base material. Then, the metal ink is baked, and first wiring is formed. Further, a planned connection section of the first wiring and a second wiring is unbaked. The metal-ink is ejected over an upper face of the unbaked metal ink and a planned formation position of the second wiring at the upper face of the base material. Since the wettability of the upper face of the unbaked metal ink and the wettability of the upper face of the base material are equal to each other, the ejected metal ink ejected and the unbaked metal ink are not separated from each other, so that it is possible to properly connect the first wiring and the second wiring to each other.
US11006528B2	Methods of etching conductive features, and related devices and systems A method of making a device patterned with one or more electrically conductive features includes depositing a conductive material layer over an electrically insulating surface of a substrate, depositing an anti-corrosive material layer over the conductive material layer, and depositing an etch-resist material layer over the anti-corrosive material layer. The etch-resist material layer may be deposited over the anti-corrosive material layer, and the anti-corrosive material layer forming a bi-component etch mask in a pattern resulting in covered portions of the conductive material layer and exposed portions of the conductive material layer, the covered portions being positioned at locations corresponding to one or more conductive features of the device. A wet-etch process is performed to remove the exposed portions of the conductive material layer from the electrically insulating substrate, and the bi-component etch mask is removed to expose the remaining conductive material. Systems and devices relate to devices with patterned features.
US11006527B2	Integrating Josephson amplifiers or Josephson mixers into printed circuit boards An aspect includes one or more board layers. A first chip cavity is formed within the one or more board layers, wherein a first Josephson amplifier or Josephson mixer is disposed within the first chip cavity. The first Josephson amplifier or Josephson mixer comprises at least one port, each port connected to at least one connector disposed on at least one of the one or more board layers, wherein at least one of the one or more board layers comprises a circuit trace formed on the at least one of the one or more board layers.
US11006523B1	Electronic assemblies having components with edge connectors Circuit assemblies can be electrically interconnected by providing a circuit assembly having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a perimeter edge connecting the top and bottom surfaces, the perimeter edge being formed of insulative material and having a plurality of conductive features embedded in and exposed on the surface of the edge. The conductive features are arranged in contact sets, and each contact set is separated from adjacent contact sets by a portion of the perimeter edge that is free of conductive features. Each contact set includes conductive features that together form a distributed electrical connection to a single node. The insulative material is selectively removed to form recesses adjacent the conductive features exposing additional surface contact areas along lateral portions of the conductive features in the recesses.
US11006522B2	Textile material comprising conductive elements Textile material having conductive elements for an interior of a vehicle includes a flat textile substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface. At least one conductor track formed of a conductive paint is printed onto the first surface. At least one sensitive element, which is electrically conductively connected to the conductor track on the first surface, is arranged on the second surface.
US11006520B2	Stretchable electronics and method for fabricating the same Provided is stretchable electronics. The stretchable electronics includes stretchable substrate, first support patterns disposed on a first surface of the stretchable substrate, and output devices disposed on the first patterns, respectively. The first support patterns are arranged in a first direction and a second direction, which are parallel to an extension direction of the substrate, and each of the output devices generates an output stimulation.
US11006517B2	Printed circuit board and storage device including printed circuit board A printed circuit board may include a controller socket, first and second sockets provided on a top surface, third and fourth sockets provided on a bottom surface, and first, second, and third branching points. The first branching point may be spaced apart from the controller socket by a first distance in a horizontal direction parallel to the top surface and may be electrically connected to the controller socket. The second branching point may be spaced apart from the first branching point by a second distance longer than the first distance and may be electrically connected to the first branching point, the first and third sockets. The third branching point may be spaced apart from the first branching point by a third distance longer than the first distance and may be electrically connected to the first branching point, the second and fourth sockets.
US11006516B2	Wiring board, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing wiring board A glass wiring board is provided with an analog duplexer including an inductor and a capacitor, and includes: a core wiring board provided with the coil-shaped inductor having through electrodes and wiring patterns provided in a glass substrate via an inorganic adhesive layer, and with a land pattern connected to an outer layer; the capacitor having a structure with a dielectric layer sandwiched between upper and lower electrode patterns on an insulating resin layer covering the core wiring board; and a wiring pattern for connecting to an external component such as an external substrate.
US11006512B2	Electrode assembly for plasma generation A hollow electrode assembly through which gas from a gas supply can pass and be effused across the casing of the electrode for supplying a gas for a plasma discharge. The gas passing the electrode goes from a higher gas pressure environment inside the electrode to a lower gas pressure environment on the outside of the electrode. The casing of the electrode through which the gas effuses can be a metal or metal allow which provides for a controlled flow of the gas through the wall. The flow rate of the gas can be controlled by one or more of the porosity of the metal or metal alloy used, the type of gas used, the pressure differential between the inside and outside of the electrode, and the temperature of the system. The electrode assembly can be used in and high temperature plasma generators.
US11006509B2	Node and method of controlling devices connected to node Example embodiments relate to a node and a method of controlling devices connected to the node. In example embodiments the devices may be, but are not required to be, lights.
US11006507B2	Light-emitting diode driver, light-emitting diode module and corresponding system According to one exemplary embodiment, a light-emitting diode driver is provided, having: a differential first interface, a single-ended second interface, wherein the light-emitting diode driver is configured to use the first interface to communicate according to a bidirectional differential bus communication protocol as a slave, to use the second interface to communicate according to a single-ended bus protocol and to transpose signals between the first interface and the second interface, and to supply one or more light-emitting diodes with electric power on the basis of signals received via the first interface.
US11006505B2	Automated re-creation of lighting visual for a venue Methods and systems for generating a lighting design for a venue. A lighting visual is selected. The lighting visual may be based on a different venue or a generated image. An electronic processor converts the lighting visual into lighting visual parameters. The processor receives mounting locations for lighting fixtures at the venue. A database of candidate lighting fixtures is accessed and a lighting design is generated that includes an arrangement of lighting fixtures and indicates which of the lighting fixtures is to be mounted in which location to produce a lighting effect at the venue that approximates the lighting visual. The lighting design may be based on multiple lighting visuals and corresponding visual parameters to produce multiple lighting effects at the venue that approximate the multiple visuals.
US11006499B2	Control method for plurality of sets of series-parallel-connected light-emitting diodes via single wire The invention provides a control method for sets of series-parallel-connected LEDs via a single wire. Step 1: providing an LED circuit including a control module and a light-emitting module. The light-emitting module includes LED strings connected to one another in parallel. Each of the LED strings includes a plurality of LED units connected in series to one another, and at least one counter comprising a counter start time different from that of another. Step 2: sending a setting signal by the control module, and allocating one identification code obtained sequentially in time to one of the LED string according to the different counter start times of the LED strings. Step 3: sending a designation signal to the light-emitting module by the control module, such that the LED string with the corresponding identification value is selected and independently controlled by the control module.
US11006496B2	LED lamp with current-regulated warm dimming In one embodiment, a filament for LED filament lamp is presented, that includes a light-transmissive substrate; at least one LED die mounted on the light-transmissive substrate; and at least one current regulator mounted on the light-transmissive substrate, wherein the current regulator is connected in series with the at least one LED. In another embodiment, an LED filament lamp is presented, that includes a dimmable LED driver circuit; a first channel LED array with at least two LED die and a first forward voltage drop; and a second channel LED array with at least one LED dies and at least one current regulator to cause a second forward voltage drop of the second channel LED array to increase as current through the second channel LED array increases, wherein the second channel LED array is connected in parallel with the first channel LED array.
US11006488B2	Phototherapy process including dynamic LED driver with programmable waveform A phototherapy or photobiomodulation process employing the application of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to a living organism, typically a human being. The EMR is generated by one or more strings of LEDs and is programmed to emit one or more wavelengths, typically in the visible and infrared portions of the spectrum, the EMR in each wavelength being delivered in pulses having specified on-times, off-times, photoexcitation frequencies, duty factors, phase delays, and power amplitudes. A system for providing such EMR includes a microcontroller having a pattern library of algorithms, each of which defines a particular sequence of synthesized pulses, and an application pad, preferably flexible, containing the LED strings.
US11006487B2	Microwave powered sensor assembly for microwave ovens The present invention relates to a microwave powered sensor assembly for microwave ovens. The microwave powered sensor assembly includes a microwave antenna to generate an RF antenna signal in response to microwave radiation at a predetermined excitation frequency. A direct current (dc) power supply circuit of the microwave powered sensor assembly is operatively coupled to the RF antenna signal to extract energy from the RF antenna signal and produce a power supply voltage. A sensor is connected to the power supply voltage and configured to measure a physical or chemical property of a food item under heating in a microwave oven chamber.
US11006486B2	Cooking apparatus and method for controlling the same A cooking apparatus and a method for controlling the cooking apparatus are provided. The cooking apparatus includes induction heating coils that include a high power burner in which a first heating coil and a second heating coil are concentric. The cooking apparatus includes a low power burner that includes a third heating coil and a fourth heating coil, a power supply unit that includes a first AC power supply unit and a second AC power supply unit which have a different phase from each other, and a coil driving unit that provides power supplied by the first AC power supply unit to the first heating coil, and provides power supplied by the second AC power supply unit to at least one of the second heating coil, the third heating coil, and the fourth heating coil.
US11006485B2	Induction heating device The present disclosure relates to an induction heating device. A loaded-object sensor according to the present disclosure is arranged concentrically and centrally in the working coil. Thus, the sensing coil and the working coil are adjacent to each other. When a current for the heating operation is applied to the working coil, an induction voltage is generated in the sensing coil by magnetic force generated by the current applied to the working coil. According to the present disclosure, a limiting circuit is used to reduce the induction voltage generated in the sensing coil when the heating operation of the working coil is performed.
US11006484B2	Shielded fluoropolymer wire for high temperature skin effect trace heating A skin effect heating system for long pipelines includes a heater cable disposed in a ferromagnetic or other conductive heat tube. A semiconductive jacket contacts the inner surface of the heat tube, where the charge density of the return current carried by the heat tube is at its highest. The semiconductive jacket material has a resistivity that is sufficiently low to reduce or eliminate arcing events such as corona discharge by allowing accumulated charge on the heat tube to dissipate. The resistivity is also high enough to prevent the return current from flowing into or through the semiconductive outer layer, so that heat production capacity of the system is maximized.
US11006482B2	Upgrading access points Example implementations relate to upgrading access points (APs). In some examples, a primary AP may comprise a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to determine, in response to receiving a data transmission from a secondary AP, whether an image version of the secondary AP and a class of the secondary AP are a same image version and class as the primary AP, determine whether the class of the secondary AP is a same class as a seed AP, and instruct the secondary AP, in response to the seed AP being the same class as the secondary AP, to upgrade the image version of the secondary AP from the seed AP.
US11006481B2	D2D operation method of terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using method The present invention provides a method by which a relay terminal determines priority in a wireless communication system including a base station, the relay terminal, and a remote terminal, the method comprising: acquiring remote terminal related information; acquiring the remote terminal related information, and then determining the priority between pieces of the remote terminal related information and the priority between the remote terminal related information and relay terminal related information; and transmitting the information on the basis of the priority, wherein the relay terminal transmits, on the basis of the priority determined by the relay terminal, the information by applying different physical channel parameters.
US11006480B1	Midamble for WLAN PHY packets A communication device generates a physical layer (PHY) data unit that includes a PHY preamble and one or more PHY midambles. The communication generates the PHY preamble of the PHY data unit to include i) a signal field having a subfield that indicates that the PHY data unit includes one or more PHY midambles, ii) a short training field (STF) for automatic gain control (AGC) training and synchronization at a receiver, and iii) one or more long training fields (LTFs) for determining a channel estimate at the receiver. The communication generates a data payload of the PHY data unit having i) a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and ii) one or more PHY midambles. Each of the one or more PHY midambles includes one or more LTFs for determining an updated channel estimate. The communication device transmits the PHY data unit via a wireless communication channel.
US11006479B2	Predictive location selection transportation optimization system A method and system for predictive location selection are described. A network computer system can preselect a service area, prior to receiving a service request from a user, based on the position of the user, a destination, and proximate available service providers, among other factors. In response to the user inputting the destination, the network computer system determines probability scores for predefined service areas based on likelihoods of the proximate available service providers being available at a time when the user submits a service request. The network computer system uses the probability scores to select an appropriate service area and transmits data corresponding to the optimal service area to the user.
US11006478B2	Enhanced procedure transaction ID handling A method for Procedure Transaction Identity (PTI) exception handling on protocol data unit (PDU) session modification and establishment procedure is proposed. If a UE receives a PDU SESSION MODIFICATION COMMAND message in which the PTI value is an assigned value that does not match any PTI in use, the UE stays in the current 5GSM state and sends a 5GSM STATUS message including 5GSM cause #47 “PTI mismatch”, and the network will send another COMMAND message with the correct PTI value. If the UE receives a PDU SESSION ESTABLISHMENT ACCEPT or REJECT message in which the PTI value is an assigned value that does not match any PTI in use, the UE responds with a 5GSM STATUS message including 5GSM cause #47 “PTI mismatch”, and the network will send another ACCEPT or REJECT message with the correct PTI value.
US11006477B2	Communication control device, radio communication device, communication control method, and radio communication method There is provided a control device including a communication unit configured to perform communication with a radio communication device of a radio communication system in which communication is possible using a plurality of access schemes including at least one of the access schemes of a multiple access scheme that uses orthogonal resources and a multiple access scheme that uses non-orthogonal resources, and a control unit configured to perform allocation of resources relating to the access schemes to be used by the radio communication device.
US11006474B2	Method for reestablishing connection using a RAR in a wireless communication network A method, a terminal, and a storage medium is provided. The method includes: sending, on the first uplink carrier, a random access request to a network device when being out of uplink synchronization on a first uplink carrier in a first uplink frequency range, where the first uplink carrier is a carrier that is determined by the network device in the first uplink frequency range in a paired combination of frequency bands; obtaining, when the random access request on the first uplink carrier fails, a first quantity of failures of the random access request; and determining a first target uplink frequency range in a second uplink frequency range in the paired combination of the frequency bands when the first quantity of failures reaches a preset threshold value, and sending, on a second uplink carrier in the first target uplink frequency range, the random access request to the network device.
US11006462B2	System and method for handling of an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal Systems and methods for handling of an uplink transmission collision with an ACK/NACK signal are provided. An ACK/NACK may be configured for a repetition sequence. The ACK/NACK signal transmission on a particular subframe can be refrained due to the collision. The UL transmission can be performed on the subframe.
US11006461B2	Orthogonal frequency division multiple access communication apparatus and communication method An communication apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a receiver that receives a Trigger frame for allocating resource units (RUs) for random access and another frame including Random Access parameter element that comprises a first field indicating an OFDMA contention window (OCW) minimum value (OCWmin) and a second field indicating an OCW maximum value (OCWmax); and control circuitry that controls Uplink OFDMA-based Random Access (UORA) procedure using the OCWmin and the OCWmax.
US11006460B2	Wireless communication with dedicated dynamic frequency selection A wireless communication device and method are provided. The wireless communication device has dynamic frequency selection (DFS) capability and includes at least one wireless communication transceiver, a dedicated DFS receiver, and a controller. The transceiver performs data transmission on an operating channel. The dedicated DFS receiver is integrated in a chip with the transceiver. The dedicated DFS receiver scans for radar signals in a plurality of DFS channels besides the operating channel of the transceiver. The controller is coupled to the transceiver and the dedicated DFS receiver.
US11006458B2	Random access method and device The present application provides a method and device for random access. The method includes: receiving, via a terminal device, N groups of random access-related information sent by a network device, wherein the N groups of random access-related information are determined by the network device according to a network deployment and optimization policy, and the ith group of random access-related information is used by the terminal device for determining a random access preamble set i and a time-frequency resource corresponding to the random access preamble set i, N being a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, i=1, . . . N; and sending, via the terminal device, a random access preamble to the network device according to the N groups of random access-related information.
US11006456B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving random access channel The present invention provides a method for transmitting a random access channel (RACH). Particularly, the method includes receiving PRACH configuration information including information about a slot (RACH slot) available for transmission of the RACH and information indicating a subcarrier spacing for a PRACH, and transmitting a RACH preamble in the RACH slot on the basis of the PRACH configuration information and the subcarrier spacing, wherein the length of the RACH slot depends on the subcarrier spacing.
US11006455B2	Wireless resource allocation method and apparatus Provided is a wireless resource configuration method and device. The wireless resource configuration method includes: broadcasting, by a base station, first access parameter information. The first access parameter information is configured based on a user equipment (UE) power class and is configured to enable the UE to select an access parameter according to the UE power class.
US11006454B2	Collision mitigation of reference signals and a direct current subcarrier in wireless communication systems The present disclosure relates to mitigating collision between reference signals and direct current subcarriers both occupying at least a same resource element of a resource block. Specifically, a UE may at least adjust a DMRS pattern within the resource block based on determining an upcoming occurrence of the collision between the DMRS and the DC subcarrier. Further, a network entity may determine that the UE should transmit the DMRS according to an adjusted DMRS pattern and transmit the adjusted DMRS pattern to the UE on a downlink communication channel.
US11006453B2	Terminal apparatus and base station apparatus for controlling transmission opportunity using carrier sense A CCA level is made to be variable efficiently while maintaining the fairness relating to acquisition of a transmission opportunity by wireless terminal apparatuses, and thus efficiency of a radio resource is improved. Provided is a terminal apparatus that performs wireless communication with a base station apparatus, and includes; a MAC frame categorization unit categorizing MAC frames, in each of which media access control header is attached to transmission data, based on a type of MAC frame; and a QoS control unit performing a carrier sense using a first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a first category that results from the categorization by the MAC frame categorization unit, and performing the carrier sense using a second CCA level different from the first CCA level, in a case where the MAC frame is included in a second category different from the first category.
US11006451B2	User equipment and signal transmission method There is provided user equipment that selects a resource for transmitting a signal based on a sensing result. The user equipment includes a detection unit that detects, by performing sensing in a time window for sensing, one or more resources capable of transmitting a signal in a time window for resource selection after the time window for sensing; a selection unit that selects a resource for transmitting a signal from the one or more detected resources; and a transmission unit that transmits the signal using the selected resource for transmitting the signal.
US11006450B2	Method of allocating protection duration of radio subsystem to intra-BSS stations using frames with network allocation vector A method of method of allocating a protection duration of a radio subsystem for a transmitting station of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a frame to at least one receiving station of the wireless communication system, wherein the proprietary frame indicates the protection duration allocated for the radio subsystem.
US11006449B2	Method for selecting a primary channel for wireless communications A wireless communication system includes a first access point managing a first wireless local area network and at least one second access point managing at least one respective wireless local area network. A CSMA/CA procedure is employed. The first access point is involved in a real-time sensitive transmission. Each access point implements an energy detection mechanism and a preamble detection mechanism in the context of the CSMA/CA procedure. The energy detection mechanism is implemented for accessing the primary channel and for accessing each secondary channel. The preamble detection mechanism is implemented for accessing the primary channel and optionally for accessing each secondary channel. A decision making unit instructs the first access point and each second access point to use the same primary communication channel. This improves the conditions under which the real-time sensitive transmission takes place.
US11006448B2	Method for transmitting data in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for performing, by a station (STA) apparatus, uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes performing carrier sensing on a channel, receiving a trigger frame including information for UL MU transmission and a carrier sense indicator indicating whether a result of the carrier sensing is to be reflected from an access point (AP), and transmitting an UL MU frame through the channel based on the information for UL MU transmission. The UL MU frame is transmitted through the channel based on a result of the carrier sensing if the carrier sense indicator indicates the reflection of a result of the carrier sensing. The UL MU frame is transmitted through the channel regardless of a result of the carries sensing if the carrier sense indicator does not indicate the reflection of a result of the carrier sensing.
US11006444B2	Method and user equipment for receiving downlink signals In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives a paging message associated with downlink (DL) data. The UE transmits a paging feedback using a uplink (UL) grant associated with the paging message. The UE monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to receive the DL data.
US11006441B2	Method and apparatus of preventing bandwidth part misalignment in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting a Scheduling Request (SR) on a first uplink bandwidth part (BWP). The method further includes receiving a response for the SR on a first downlink BWP. The method also includes detecting a beam failure when using the first uplink BWP and the first downlink BWP. In addition, the method includes transmitting a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to a network node on the first uplink BWP. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a control signalling on a second downlink BWP from the network node after transmitting the BFR request, wherein the control signalling is a response for the BFR request and the second downlink BWP is associated with the first uplink BWP.
US11006440B2	Method for transmitting/receiving signals, and device for same The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention provides a method for transmitting uplink signals in a wireless communication system, which supports carrier aggregation, and a device for same, the method comprising the steps of: configuring multiple cells having different subframe configurations; transmitting, in a first cell of subframe #n, first control information through a first PUCCH; and transmitting, in a second cell of subframe #m, second control information through a second PUCCH, wherein: the first cell is a cell the transmission direction of which is configured as an uplink in subframe #n; the second cell is a cell the transmission direction of which is configured as an uplink in subframe #m; and the second cell is different from the first cell.
US11006439B2	Apparatuses and methods for scheduling object configuration A beam management method is performed by a UE. In one embodiment the method includes: the UE receiving a first scheduling message regarding a first scheduled downlink transmission for the UE, wherein the first scheduling message comprises pointer information pointing to an object configured in the UE. As a result of receiving the first scheduling message: the UE obtains the pointer information from the first scheduling message; the UE determines a preferred receiver configuration that is currently associated with the obtained pointer information; and the UE uses the determined preferred receiver configuration to receive the first scheduled downlink transmission.
US11006434B2	Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for transmitting uplink by multiple users The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling simultaneous uplink transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, the terminal including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate an uplink packet, wherein a predetermined field of a MAC header of the uplink packet indicates information on uplink data of the terminal, and transmit the generated uplink packet to a base wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same.
US11006432B2	Managing signal traffic in a 5G or other next generation wireless network The technologies described herein are generally directed toward managing signal traffic in a wireless network. Example operations can include receiving, for a group of cells, a control channel utilization value for a control channel and a data channel utilization value for a data channel. The operations can further include generating, based on the control channel utilization value and a threshold, for a first cell of the group of cells, a channel allocation that can increase the balance of use of control channel resources and data channel resources for the first cell, and configuring the first cell of the group of cells to allocate control channel resources and data channel resources of the first cell based on the channel allocation.
US11006423B2	High frequency wireless communication network There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating using a first set of one or more signaling beams, wherein communicating includes performing beamforming for one or more signaling beams of the first set based on a set of beam signaling characteristics. Each beam signaling characteristic pertains to a reference beam. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11006418B2	Base station and wireless communication method In a base station, wireless communication method, and wireless communication system, a base station belonging to a first communication system shares the same frequency band with a second wireless communication system. The bandwidth of the first system has at least 5 MHz and 1.4 MHz, a plurality of carriers is available for the 1.4 MHz and a single carrier is available for the 5 MHz in the first system, and a communication scheme of the first system uses a time division duplex long term evolution (TD-LTE). A communication scheme of the second system is different from the TD-LTE, and the base station enables a wireless communication using either 1.4 MHz bandwidth or 5 MHz bandwidth of the first system according to a status of use of the shared frequency band by the second system.
US11006413B2	Narrow-band communication The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for narrow-band communication. In some aspects, a base station determines a quantity of resource elements to allocate to a user device for wireless communication based on a state of the user device. The base station selects, from a resource block, resource elements for the user device that include the determined quantity of resource elements and a portion of subcarriers of the resource block. The base station then communicates, to the user device, an identification of the selected resource elements that includes respective frequencies and time locations of the selected resource elements within the resource block.
US11006411B2	Concurrent mini-slot based and slot based transmissions to a single device Concurrent mini-slot based and slot based transmissions to a single device are provided herein. A method can comprise transmitting, by a network device comprising a processor, first data via a first control channel indicating a slot based transmission for a device and second data via a second control channel indicating a mini-slot based transmission for the device. A first length of the slot based transmission can comprise a defined number of symbols and a second length of the mini-slot based transmission can comprise some of the defined number of symbols. The method can also comprise transmitting, by the network device, the slot based transmission and the mini-slot based transmission. The slot based transmission and the mini-slot based transmission can be logically separate transmissions that can be scheduled to be concurrent transmissions for the device.
US11006405B2	Multi-PRB operation for narrowband systems Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for multiple physical resource block (PRB) operations for narrowband (NB) systems, such as NB internet-of-things (IoT). In one aspect, a method is provided which may be performed by a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE), which may be an NB-IoT device. The method generally includes performing a cell search based on one or more signals received in an anchor RB within a set of RBs available for narrowband communications with a base station (BS); determining a location of at least one additional RB available for the narrowband communications with the BS based on an indication received in the anchor RB; and performing narrowband communications with the BS using at least one of: the anchor RB or the at least one additional resource block.
US11006401B2	Early termination of repeated transmissions for MTC Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B(eNB), and methods are described for machine-type communications (MTC) with early termination of repeated transmissions. In MTC implementations with narrow bandwidth, significant numbers of retransmissions may be scheduled based on channel quality measurements. If data is successfully decoded at a receiving device while a significant number of retransmissions remain, system resources are wasted. Embodiments described herein thus use downlink control messaging or intermediate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) messaging for early termination of repeated messages.
US11006400B2	User equipments, base stations and methods A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a control channel receiver configured to monitor, in a license-assisted-access (LAA) cell, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and to monitor a second PDCCH. The first PDCCH includes a DCI format having a field for indicating an occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration for a subframe in which the first PDCCH is detected. The second PDCCH is a PDCCH of which detection indicates a transmission of a PDSCH on the LAA cell. A reference signal receiver is configured to receive reference signals of which resource element position within the subframe is determined depending on the occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration. A shared channel receiver is configured to receive the PDSCH assuming the same antenna port is used as for the reference signals.
US11006399B2	Data transmission method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium A data transmission method and apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a terminal device selects, from at least two physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), a PUSCH satisfying a preset condition; and the terminal device multiplexes first uplink control information (UCI) into the selected PUSCH for transmission. The solution of the disclosure can realize the reasonable selection of a PUSCH, etc.
US11006398B2	Hybrid FDD/TDD wireless network Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.
US11006395B2	Two stage control channel for peer-to-peer communication Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a peer device. The method generates control information to schedule peer-to-peer communication. The control information includes a first portion with a first set of data and a second portion with a second set of data. The method then transmits the first portion of the control information in a first stage using first time and frequency resources. The first portion indicates a control information format of the second portion. The method further transmits the second portion of the control information in a second stage using second time and frequency resources and the indicated control information format.
US11006393B2	Method for transmitting control and training symbols in multi-user wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting control and training symbols to improve transmission efficiency in a multi-user wireless communication system. The method for transmitting the control and training symbols in the multi-user wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining whether a required transmission rate of each data can be satisfied through channel estimation in each of terminals when different data are simultaneously transmitted to each of the terminals; and transmitting a data frame to each of the terminals, the data frame being composed to discriminate the control and training symbols in each of the terminals using a combination of time, frequency, and code area when the required transmission rate of each data is not satisfied according to the determined result.
US11006388B2	Method for content synchronization when broadcasting data in a wireless network The present disclosure relates to base station and method for content synchronization when broadcasting data in a communications network. The base station comprises a receiver configured to receive data sequences and a transmitter configured to transmit content of the received data sequence. Each data sequence comprises a packet level sequence number and byte-numbered sequence numbers. The base station further comprises a processing circuitry configured to synchronize transmission with another base station of the content using said packet level sequence number and said byte-numbered sequence numbers.
US11006386B2	Paging method, network device and terminal device The present application provides paging methods and devices, which can reduce signaling overhead. A method comprises: determining a paging time of a first terminal device by using at least one first bit of a first identifier of the first terminal device; transmitting a paging message during the paging time; where the paging message carries identifier information of the first terminal device, and the identifier information is obtained based on at least one second bit, except the at least one first bit, of the first identifier of the first terminal device, or, the identifier information is obtained based on a second identifier of the first terminal device, where a length of the identifier information is shorter than the second identifier of the first terminal device.
US11006382B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling thereof An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the electronic apparatus including the steps of, based on failure of registration of a controllable electronic apparatus to a network, acquiring log information of the electronic apparatus, the controllable electronic apparatus and a network apparatus, identifying corresponding log information among the acquired log information, harmonizing the corresponding log information based on time, identifying an error by using log information, and providing a solution corresponding to the error.
US11006379B2	Synchronization information identification method and apparatus This application discloses a synchronization information identification method and apparatus, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, synchronization information; obtaining, by the terminal, a synchronization information index of the synchronization information; determining, by the terminal, a symbol location of the synchronization information in accordance with a correspondence between the synchronization information index and the symbol location.
US11006378B2	Synchronizing clocks in a wireless system Disclosed are methods, devices and systems for generating accurate timestamps for wireless communications signals that can be used to correct the clocks of base stations for wireless communications systems. A radio signal timestamping unit (RSTU) receives a wireless signal including timing information broadcast by a base station. The RSTU includes a local clock that is in communication with a high-precision time source and provides high-accuracy timing information to one or more base stations to maintain accurate clock synchronization among the plurality of base stations. The timing synchronization information can be determined at least in part based on the propagation delay of the wireless signals received at the RSTU.
US11006375B2	Power allocation method, power adjustment method, terminal, and access network device This application relates to a method, includes: determining, by a terminal, a first initial transmit power and a second initial transmit power; receiving minimum guaranteed power information that is of channels carried by the first carrier and that is sent by an access network device; and obtaining an available transmit power for channels that are transmitted in N first subframes and that are carried by the first carrier and an available transmit power of a channel that is transmitted in a second subframe and that is carried by a second carrier.
US11006374B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting power headroom information in a communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In addition, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving system information including first uplink waveform information for an initial access; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message based on the first uplink waveform information; receiving an RRC connection response message including second uplink waveform information for uplink data transmission; and transmitting data based on the second uplink waveform.
US11006373B2	Scheduling transmissions based on user equipment energy reporting A user equipment (UE) may determine an amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in a first network. The UE may send, to a base station, information indicating the determined amount of energy. The UE may receive, from the base station, scheduling information based on the information indicating the determined amount of energy. The base station may receive, from the UE, the information indicating the amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in a first network. The base station may determine scheduling information based on the information indicating the amount of energy with which the UE is able to transmit in the first network, and the scheduling information may prevent the UE from exceeding a threshold amount of energy for a time period. The base station may send, to the UE, information indicating the scheduling information.
US11006368B2	Communication processing system, communication processing method, communication processing apparatus, communication terminal, and control methods and control programs thereof This invention provides a communication processing system that reduces the power consumption of a remote UE associated with measurement of a strength of a received signal. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer that measures, in the communication terminal, a strength of a signal received from one of the relay stations, and a controller that controls to reselect another of the relay stations if the measured strength of the received signal is smaller than a first threshold, and reduce a count of measuring the strength of the received signal by the measurer if the measured strength of the received signal is larger than the second threshold which is larger than the first threshold.
US11006367B2	Optimizing power consumption in Multi-SIM devices A method and apparatus for optimizing power consumption in multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) devices in a wireless communication system is disclosed. For example, a UE may determine, in a Multi-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Multi-Subscriber (MSMS) mode, whether one of a plurality of subscriptions is configured as a Default Data Subscription (DDS) or a non-DDS; and perform a carrier aggregation power saving mode procedure for the one of the plurality of subscriptions based on a determination that the one of the plurality of subscriptions is configured as the DDS or the non-DDS.
US11006366B2	Systems and methods for using a mobile gateway in a low power wide area network Systems and methods for effectuating communication in a low power wide area network using a mobile data-handling device are disclosed. A method may comprise moving a mobile data-handling device to a first position that is within communication range of an end node of a low power wide area network. The mobile data-handling device may receive a data packet from the end node and may move to a second position at which the mobile data-handling device connects to a data-receiving device. The mobile data-handling device may transmit, via the data-receiving device, the data packet to a computing system for further processing.
US11006364B2	Beam tracking and recovery in connected-mode discontinuous reception mode Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit (or a base station may receive) a beam failure recovery (BFR) request based at least in part on detecting a beam failure while the user equipment is in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode; and the user equipment may receive (or the base station may transmit) a response to the BFR request, wherein the response uses a particular structure based at least in part on the beam failure occurring during the DRX mode. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11006361B2	Core network signaling control Systems and methods relating to a core network detection mechanism for detecting abnormal signaling patterns for signaling aimed at wireless devices (e.g., low-power consumption wireless devices such as low-power consumption Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a core network node in a cellular communications network comprises receiving signaling aimed at a wireless device, detecting, via a detection mechanism, an abnormal signaling pattern based on the signaling, and taking one or more actions upon detecting an abnormal signaling pattern. In this manner, an action(s) may be made to mitigate increased power consumption at the wireless device due to abnormal signaling.
US11006360B2	Multi-beam physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) operation Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for multibeam PDCCH monitoring during CDRX operations. A BS may determine a configuration of one or more beams for a UE to monitor for receiving a downlink control channel from the BS, wherein the configuration is based, at least in part, on a monitoring window since the subframe in which the downlink control channel (e.g., PDCCH), indicates an initial UL, DL, or SL use data transmission for the UE. The BS may transmit, to the UE, an indication of the configuration. A UE may perform corresponding operations and may monitor one or more beams based on the received configuration.
US11006352B2	Method, apparatus, and system for collecting information about wireless local network access point Embodiments provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for collecting information about a WLAN AP. The method includes: a user equipment receives WLAN AP request information from a base station in a Minimization of Drive Tests measurement configuration process, collects WLAN AP information according to the WLAN AP request information, and sends the WLAN AP information to the base station, wherein the WLAN AP request information is used to request the UE to report WLAN AP information.
US11006349B2	Communication system and program update method The disclosure provides a communication system and a program update method. In a communication system according to the disclosure, when a host device updates a program stored in each of a plurality of communication terminals, first, the host device transmits a distribution preparation completion signal by broadcast. Each of the plurality of communication terminals transmits a start request signal to the host device in response to reception of the distribution preparation completion signal. The host device transmits a permission signal for giving a right for performing a data request to one communication terminal that has transmitted the start request signal earliest. The one communication terminal transmits a data request signal to the host device in response to reception of the permission signal. The host device transmits the update program data by broadcast to the plurality of communication terminals in response to reception of the data request signal.
US11006348B2	System information transmission method, user equipment, network side device, system and storage medium A transmission method of system information, a user equipment, a network side device, a system and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, system information sent by a network side device, the system information is part of system information of the network side device; sending, by the UE, a request message to the network side device, wherein the request message is used to request the system information required by the UE; receiving by the UE, the system information required by the UE in on-demand system information sent by the network side device, wherein the on-demand system information is another part of system information of the network side device other than the part of system information of the network side device.
US11006342B2	Handover techniques in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a handover may be performed based on one or more conditions at a UE and in conjunction with a handover procedure from a source base station to a target base station. The one or more conditions at the UE may be associated with successful establishment or maintenance of the second connection. In some cases, the one or more conditions at the UE may correspond to one or more measurements associated with the source base station, the target base station, one or more neighboring base stations, or any combinations thereof.
US11006340B2	Methods of handling inter-modulation products interference at a network node or at a co-located network node site An approach of handling interference caused by inter-modulation in a network node for wireless communication capable of communication with a set of stations for wireless communication is disclosed. The stations are wireless transceiver devices and communication from the network node to any of the stations is considered to be downlink communication performed on a downlink carrier in a downlink carrier frequency band and communication from any of the stations is considered to be uplink communication performed on an uplink carrier in an uplink carrier frequency band. The method comprises, when an interference level indicates probable inter-modulation interference, scheduling uplink transmission grants for a plurality of stations of a subset of the stations within a time interval, such that scheduling outside the time interval is reduced. The uplink transmission grants are valid for the time interval, wherein the scheduling uplink transmission grants is performed by adapting a schedule for at least one station of the plurality of stations of the subset of the stations to fall within the time interval. The method further comprises transmitting the uplink transmission grant to the plurality of stations of the subset of stations, assigning limited transmissions on the downlink carrier frequency band at the time interval such that inter-modulation interference is reduced on the uplink carrier frequency band during the time interval, and assigning transmissions on the downlink carrier frequency band outside the time interval with less limitations than during the time interval. The approach comprises methods, network nodes, computer programs and network node sites.
US11006336B2	Cell selection/reselection by a user equipment trying to camp on a radio cell of a public land mobile network A method for cell selection and/or cell reselection handling includes: performing, by a user equipment, a cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure wherein both a first radio cell and a second radio cell fulfill a cell selection criterion with the first radio cell being prioritized relative to the second radio cell; attempting, by the user equipment, to connect to a public land mobile network using a random access channel of a first base station entity, and failing to connect to the public land mobile network using the random access channel of the first base station entity; and performing, by the user equipment, a modified cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure, under unchanged radio conditions, whereby the user equipment attempts to connect to the public land mobile network using a random access channel of the second base station entity.
US11006334B2	NB-IoT device performing neighboring link measurement despite refraining condition A user equipment (14) in a wireless communication network detects, for a serving link, signal quality under which the user equipment (14) is permitted to refrain from performing neighbor link measurements. Responsive to detecting that the signal quality of the serving link has dropped by at least a threshold amount since detecting the signal quality under which the user equipment (14) is permitted to refrain, the user equipment (14) performs neighbor link measurements. A base station (12) transmits signaling to configure the user equipment (14) accordingly.
US11006332B2	Method and system for handling device to device (D2D) communication A system and a method for a base station to reduce signaling overhead in device-to-device (D2D) communication are provided. The method includes a list of one or more destination identities (IDs) in a signaling message from at least one of UE and source base station, receiving a destination index in a buffer status report (BSR) from UE to request dedicated resources for transmitting D2D communication packets to a destination, determining the destination ID corresponding to destination index received in the BSR using the list of one or more destination IDs received from at least one of UE and source base station wherein the destination index is the index of destination ID in the list of destination IDs received, and allocating resources to the UE based on the determined destination ID.
US11006331B2	Device and method of handling pre-allocated uplink grant A communication device for handling a pre-allocated uplink (UL) grant comprises a storage device and a processing circuit, coupled to the storage device. The storage device stores, and the processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: using a first temporary identity to perform a data communication with a first base station (BS) via a first cell; receiving a handover command from the first BS, wherein the handover command configures the pre-allocated UL grant and configures the communication device to perform a handover to a second cell; and releasing the pre-allocated UL grant in response to a failure, when detecting the failure before completing the handover to the second cell.
US11006323B2	Electronic device and WLAN relay function control method thereof An electronic device and a method are provided for wireless local area network (WLAN) relay connection control. A cellular communication connection is established between the electronic device and a network. A WLAN communication connection is established between the electronic device and at least one external device. Policy information related to the WLAN relay function is checked. A bandwidth of at least one of the electronic device and the at least one external device is determined based on at least part of the policy information.
US11006322B2	Link reconfiguration processing method and related products A link reconfiguration processing method and related products are provided. The method includes: a network device indicates a preset parameter set to a terminal device, the preset parameter set being configured for a bandwidth part (BWP) of the terminal device, and the preset parameter set is used for performing corresponding processing operations by the terminal device during transmission over the BWP.
US11006315B2	Communication adaptation based on link-performance Adapting communication of information based on link-performance characteristics is discussed herein. For the example, an apparatus can include an interface circuit and a processor. The interface circuit communicates with an electronic device via a link. And the processor is communicatively coupled to the interface circuit. The interface circuit provides one or more performance metrics characterizing the link to the processor. And the processor adapts a communication with the electronic device via the link based on the one or more performance metrics.
US11006312B2	PDCP packet-based DDDS frame transmission Systems and methods of providing feedback when a specific PDU is successfully delivered or transmitted are described. The node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering of a DDDS frame from the remote corresponding node. Rather than immediately triggering transmission of a DDDS frame, the node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering based on successful delivery of a PDU having a specific SN, as long as in-sequence delivery or transmission of PDUs up to the specific SN was successful. The DDDS frame is transmitted once the corresponding node determines that the PDU having the SN was successfully delivered or transmitted. After reporting by the DDDS frame, the QoS flow associated with the PDUs is remapped from a source DRB to a target DRB.
US11006311B2	Ethernet over cellular Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A plurality of Ethernet devices may transmit Ethernet frames through a cellular network. The Ethernet devices may be coupled to the cellular network via a cellular node. The cellular node may receiver Ethernet frames from the Ethernet devices, identify a traffic class to the Ethernet frames, and map the Ethernet frames to bearers based at least in part on the traffic classes. The cellular node may transmit the Ethernet frames to other cellular nodes using the bearers. At a core network, a mapping between the cellular node and the MAC addresses of the associated Ethernet devices may be stored to allow Ethernet frames to be routed through the cellular network.
US11006307B2	Mobile network signal strength identification and visualization system A processor-implemented method includes receiving, from a mobile device, signal strength information indicative of a signal strength of a signal between the mobile device and a network transceiver in a mobile device telecommunications network. The processor determines, based at least in part on the signal strength information, a coverage area associated with the network transceiver, determines, based at least in part on the signal strength information, an aggregated signal strength associated with a location within the coverage area, and determines a predicted signal strength associated with the location. The predicted signal strength is based at least in part on a signal strength estimation model. The processor determines a difference between the aggregated signal strength and the predicted signal strength, determines whether the difference meets or exceeds a signal strength threshold, and generates a message to update hardware component associated with the location.
US11006305B2	Physical and MAC layer processes in a wireless device A wireless device receives one or more messages from a base station. The one or more messages comprise: first configuration parameters of one or more cells grouped into a timing advance group; second configuration parameters of a time alignment timer for the timing advance group; and third configuration parameters of semi-persistent channel state information (CSI) reports for transmission via a first cell of the one or more cells. A downlink control information is received. The downlink control information indicates activation of a plurality of resources of the first cell for the semi-persistent CSI reports. A semi-persistent CSI report, of the semi-persistent CSI reports, is transmitted via a first resource of the plurality of resources. In response to the time alignment timer expiring, second resources of the plurality of resources that occur after the time alignment timer expires are cleared.
US11006304B2	Beam measurement in a wireless communication network for identifying candidate beams for a handover Beam measurement reporting circuitry is provided for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless telecommunications network. The beam measurement reporting circuitry receives from the network, beam measurement configuration data and measures signal qualities for a plurality of received beams originating from a beam source of the network (serving and neighbouring cells). Beam measurements are performed by the UE to facilitate identification of a non-zero integer, N, beams depending upon the signal quality measurements. The identified beams can be candidate beams for a handover. Circuitry for a NodeB is also provided. A UE, a NodeB and corresponding methods incorporating the beam measurement reporting circuitry and beam measurement configuration circuitry are also provided.
US11006299B2	Exchange of parameters relating to measurement periods Methods, a first, and a second network node as well as a user equipment for exchange of measurement period related parameters are provided. The user equipment performs a method for measuring a measurement quantity of a secondary cell on a second carrier operated by a second radio network node. The user equipment receives, from the second radio network node, an indication indicative of the second carrier and a first parameter indicating a measurement period for measuring the measurement quantity of the secondary cell. The user equipment measures said measurement quantity on the secondary cell on the second carrier over the measurement period. The measurement period is a predefined value times the first parameter.
US11006297B2	Wireless remote monitoring system and data collection and control and method of using the same System and method for collection, control and wireless transmission of environmental and other data. Nodes may wirelessly connect to other nodes to relay node specific information, collected sensor data or commands to and from other nodes and gateway nodes linked to a central database. Node connections can be autonomously or statically configured and maintained. Nodes in gateway mode may be capable of aggregating and relaying commands and data between other nodes and a centralized database. Nodes may bypass other nodes and/or gateway nodes and communicate directly with the central database via satellite or cellular link. Nodes may be self-contained devices, inclusive of a wind or solar power source and a battery, eliminating the need for an external power source. Nodes may be configured independently or as a system to monitor and control various types of equipment including utility lines or water systems or used to collect environmental data.
US11006296B2	Implantable medical device and method for measuring communication quality A method for determining quality of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided. The method includes receiving, with a receiver of an EI, data packets sent at intervals from an IMD and determining, with a processor of the EI, an expected time interval between a first data packet and a second data packet. The processor of the EI determines a difference between the expected time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet and an actual time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet. The processor of the EI also provides a time variant communication quality indicator based on the difference between the expected time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet and the actual time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet.
US11006295B2	Core Services Platform for wireless voice, data and messaging network services A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues.
US11006294B2	Diagnostic analyzer for content receiver using wireless execution device Techniques described herein relate to performing wireless diagnostic analyses including execution and evaluations of interactive content resources executed by execution devices on and/or for separate content receiver devices. A multi-phrase diagnostic session may proceed with an execution of an initial set of diagnostic modules on an execution device, during which interactive content is transmitted/received from a connected receiver device. The results of the diagnostic modules may be evaluated in real-time and transmitted to a diagnostic analyzer server to select additional diagnostic modules for execution during the diagnostic session. The diagnostic analyzer server may select the additional diagnostic modules based on based on response data received via the content execution device to the interactive content of the previously executed diagnostic modules, and/or data received from additional data sources related to the content receiver.
US11006290B2	Radio frequency database automation for 5G or other next generation network By utilizing a database module, retrieving configuration management data related to network parameters can generate additional network efficiencies. The database module can be strategically placed to be utilized by various activities such as system network optimization, load balancing, network coverage, etc. The database module can also be utilized to automatically print out a radio frequency data sheet and utilized to perform network planning, generate updated sector information and import manually data that is currently procured manually.
US11006286B2	Operation in an environment with two different radio access technologies The invention relates to a method for operating a first access node (100) of a first cellular network in which a first user entity (200) uses a first access technology with at least one first carrier frequency to access a first cell (110) of the first cellular network, the at least one first carrier frequency having a bandwidth. It comprises: determining that a second user entity (400) or a second access node (300) using a second access technology different from the first access technology may operate in the first cell (110) within the bandwidth of the at least one first carrier frequency in order to access a second cellular network, transmitting information to the first user entity (200) by which the first user entity is informed about the fact that the second user entity (400) or second access node may operate in the first cell within the bandwidth of the at least one first carrier frequency using the second access technology.
US11006284B2	Apparatus, computer program, and method for timing-based restriction of a data signaling direction An apparatus, computer program, and method are provided for timing-based restriction of a data signaling direction. An operating cell is included in at least one of a plurality of groups with one or more other cells. In operation, a time is identified for restricting a direction of data signaling from the cell to a region, based on such time, while at least one of the one or more other cells of the at least one group is permitted to direct a data signaling thereof outside the region.
US11006280B2	Evolved node-B, spectrum access system (SAS) controller and method for communication in shared spectrum Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), Private Spectrum Access System (SAS) controller, and methods for communication in shared spectrum are generally described herein. In some cases, primary usage of the shared spectrum by incumbent devices may be prioritized over secondary usage of the shared spectrum. The eNB may receive, from the Private SAS controller, a configuration message that allocates, to the eNB, a first channel included in the shared spectrum for secondary usage by the eNB. The eNB may further receive, from the Private SAS controller, a request that the eNB determine an interference measurement and may send the interference measurement to the Private SAS controller. The measurement may be based on an output transmit power used for transmission by the eNB in the shared spectrum.
US11006276B2	System and method providing interoperability between cellular and other wireless systems A method and corresponding apparatus for providing a cellular subscriber with access to a WLAN are provided. They involve identifying a multimode mobile terminal, which corresponds to the subscriber and the WLAN from an access request. Based on the identification, the WLAN is authorized to provide the mobile terminal with access. The mobile terminal is then provided with access to the WLAN as a cellular subscriber and enables interoperability between the two networks. For example, the subscriber does not have to supply a credit card to pay for WLAN access directly. Instead, the subscriber pays a cellular network provider, and, in turn, the cellular network provider pays a WLAN provider for the access.
US11006273B2	Location/things aware cloud services delivery solution Described embodiments provide systems and methods for policy-based authentication, where the policy may designate locations and/or forms of proof of locations, for use in authentication. Some embodiments include or utilize a database storing authentication policies. In an example system, an authentication server in communication with the database is configured to receive a request from a device needing authentication. The request may include a credential. The authentication server is configured to retrieve, from the database storing authentication policies, an authentication policy corresponding to the device, the retrieved authentication policy specifying a location parameter. The authentication server is configured to receive location data from the device and resolve the authentication request using the credential and the received location data pursuant to the retrieved authentication policy.
US11006270B2	Method and device for use in reporting terminal capability A method and device for use in reporting terminal capability, the method including: determining a frequency band pairing combination in an operating band that is supported by a terminal-side equipment, the frequency band pairing combination being composed of a first frequency band that consists of a first uplink operating frequency range and a first downlink operating frequency range as well as a supplementary uplink frequency band that consists of one or more second uplink frequency ranges; determining terminal capability information of the terminal-side equipment within the frequency band pairing combination, the terminal capability information including a first frequency band identifier, terminal uplink capability information and terminal downlink capability information that correspond to the first frequency band, as well as a supplementary uplink frequency band identifier and terminal uplink capability information that corresponds to a supplementary uplink frequency band; reporting the terminal capability information to a network-side equipment.
US11006269B2	Techniques for facilitating co-existence of radio access technologies in wireless communications Aspects described herein relate to transmitting, to at least one base station, at least one indication of a capability to simultaneously transmit using two different radio access technology (RAT) sidelinks over respective frequency bands. An indication of resources, corresponding to a first RAT sidelink of the two different RAT sidelinks, to exclude in assigning first resources, corresponding to a first RAT sidelink of the two different RAT sidelinks, can also be transmitted to the at least one base station or a second base station. One or more resource grants assigning at least one of the first resources for transmitting using the first RAT sidelink of the two different RAT sidelinks or second resources for transmitting using the second RAT sidelink of the two different RAT sidelinks can be received from the at least one base station or the second base station.
US11006268B1	Determining technological capability of devices having unknown technological capability and which are associated with a telecommunication network This disclosure describes techniques for determining technological capability of devices whose technological capability are unknown. The devices can be users of a wireless telecommunication network. A device, such as a cell phone, has a type allocation code (TAC) which can indicate a make and model of the device. Once the make and model of the device are known, the technical capability of the device is known. Certain TAC numbers, however, do not indicate the make and model of the device, and thus a device's technical capability is unknown. To determine the technological capability of the devices, a machine learning model is trained using usage data of the devices with known technological capability. After training, the machine learning model can be deployed to predict the technological capability of devices with unrecognizable TAC numbers by providing usage data associated with the devices with unrecognizable TAC numbers.
US11006267B2	Method and arrangement in a telecommunication system Handling of UE capability information in a mobile telecommunications network wherein an eNodeB receives information regarding the UE capability information from the UE and stores the information. The eNodeB sends the UE capability information to the EPC, i.e., to an MME, which receives and stores the UE capability information. When the UE transits from idle to active state, does an initial attach, or when a part of the UE capabilities have changed, it sends a message to the eNodeB regarding the update. The eNodeB forwards the message to the MME, which sends a response associated with the previously stored UE capability information to the eNodeB. The eNodeB decides whether the UE capabilities stored in the MME is up-to-date based on the message from the UE and the response from the MME. If the UE holds updated UE capabilities the eNodeB can request updated UE capability information from the UE.
US11006263B2	Vehicle-integrated drone A vehicle system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, the instructions including receiving an alert signal, deploying a drone from a host vehicle in response to receiving the alert signal, and commanding the drone to follow the host vehicle and to present a perceptible alert.
US11006262B2	Power outlet and method for use A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
US11006261B2	Selective pairing of wireless devices using shared keys A system, a method, and a computer program product for selective pairing of wireless devices are provided. A pairing device scans for an advertising packet. The pairing device checks each scanned advertising packet for a shared key. The pairing device responds to the scanned advertising packet only when the advertising packet contains the shared key.
US11006260B2	Wireless sensor information monitoring The disclosure is directed to a system, apparatus, and method for continuously monitoring data output from a wireless sensor on a mesh network at a frequency higher than mesh formation/propagation. For example, the system may include a wireless gateway, an amplifier coupled to the wireless gateway, a first antenna coupled to the amplifier, a second antenna coupled to the amplifier, and a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor may be a wireless temperature sensor configured to monitor the temperature of a cryopreserved material product. The wireless gateway forms the mesh network. The first antenna may be located on a first level of a building, and the second antenna may be located on a second level of the building, where the second level may be at an elevation higher than the first level.
US11006259B2	System acquisition mechanism for fixed devices in mobile broadband networks Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a fixed device synchronizes with a downlink channel of a network, acquires a master information block including a last system update time; and executes cell selection without acquiring other system information if the last system update time is before the last system access time. Furthermore, the fixed device may listen only for system information block messages that it needs, and ignore other system information blocks. A bitmap may indicate which system information block messages should be listed to for fixed devices, and which may be ignored. In some embodiments, one or more system information blocks may be designated for fixed devices.
US11006252B2	Multiple usage rates An example communications system for providing communication services between communications devices may employ multiple usage rates for metered communication services. A method for adjusting usage amounts to account for multiple usage rates may include determining a usage adjustment factor for a communications event; determining a metered usage amount for the communications event; and determining an adjusted usage amount based on the usage adjustment factor and the metered usage amount for the communications amount. Thus, a billing system in the communications system may determine an invoice amount based on the adjusted usage amount and a predetermined bill rate.
US11006249B2	Ensuring important messages are viewed by intended recipient based on time-to-live pattern A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that important messages are viewed by the intended recipient. A time-to-live pattern for a message identified as being important is determined for the target group, where the time-to-live pattern indicates a set of presentation criteria (e.g., impression analysis, such as the number of views of the message). The target group refers to the intended recipient(s) of the message identified as being important. The message is then monitored in the network environment with respect to the time-to-live pattern using the set of presentation criteria of the time-to-live pattern. An action (e.g., pinning the message for a period of time) may then be performed to increase the priority of the message for the target group if the time-to-live pattern has underachieved within a threshold period of time (i.e., has not met the requirements of the presentation criteria within the threshold period of time).
US11006242B1	Context sensitive presentation of content Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for displaying widgets. In some aspects, criteria for ranking widgets may be dynamically evaluated based on conditions associated with each widget. In some aspects, the conditions may consider a time or location of an event a social network user is scheduled to attend, and a relation to that time and location to a current time and/or current user location. Evaluation of the conditions may contribute to the determination of weights for each of the respective widgets, with the ranking based on the weights. Widgets with the highest rank may be invoked, and selectively displayed on an electronic display. Multiple possible parameter values for the displayed widgets may also be dynamically ranked and selected values applied when invoking the widget.
US11006241B2	Electronic radio frequency ID (RFID) tracker A server and a corresponding method for communicating over a network with a first mobile device that is registered on the network and configured to transmit, via the network, positional data of the first mobile device to the server. The server including circuitry that outputs an instruction to a first mobile device, computes a time delay incurred in commencing the instruction, authenticates identifying information from the first mobile device, monitors a location of the first mobile device, to determine a displacement of the location of the first mobile device with respect to the location of a second mobile device, updates a factor based on data received by the server from the first and second mobile devices. The server further determines, based on the factor being lower than a predetermined factor threshold, a second instruction to be sent to the first mobile device.
US11006237B2	System and method for low power data routing A system for data routing includes a set of beacons, an object, and a data routing system. A method for data routing can include: generating a routing table, determining a data routing path based on the routing table, and routing data to an endpoint based on the data routing path.
US11006234B2	Audio reproduction system, method for configuring an audio reproduction system and server for an audio reproduction system An improved method for configuring an audio reproduction device for detecting sound and providing different output audio signals in a plurality of rooms where at least two wireless microphones connect via a local network to an audio streaming server. Each of the wireless microphones detects room information indicating the room in which it is located, and transmits it to the server, together with an input audio signal. The server compiles at least two different output audio signals according to the respective room information from the input audio signals, and assigns each to a room. The output audio signals are provided via the local network in the rooms such that each of the output audio signals may be received in all rooms, and may be replayed only in the room to which it has been assigned. Each wireless microphone may be used in each of the rooms.
US11006227B2	Hearing aid device having wireless communication A hearing aid device having a telecoil and a power consuming element is disclosed. The hearing aid device further comprises an at least partial loop in the power supply line, which at least partial loop provides a magnetic signal that at least attenuates or cancels noise induced from the power draw of the power consuming component.
US11006219B2	Fiber microphone A microphone, comprising at least two electrodes, spaced apart, configured to have a magnetic field within a space between the at least two electrodes; a conductive fiber, suspended between the at least two electrodes; in an air or fluid space subject to waves; wherein the conductive fiber has a radius and length such that a movement of at least a central portion of the conductive fiber approximates an oscillating movement of air or fluid surrounding the conductive fiber along an axis normal to the conductive fiber. An electrical signal is produced between two of the at least two electrodes, due to a movement of the conductive fiber within a magnetic field, due to viscous drag of the moving air or fluid surrounding the conductive fiber. The microphone may have a noise floor of less than 69 dBA using an amplifier having an input noise of 10 nV/√Hz.
US11006216B2	Nonlinear adaptive filterbanks for psychoacoustic frequency range extension A system includes a circuitry that provides for psychoacoustic frequency range extension for a speaker. The circuitry generates quadrature components from an audio channel, and generates rotated spectral quadrature components by applying a forward transformation that rotates a spectrum of the quadrature components from a standard basis to a rotated basis. In the rotated basis, the circuitry isolates components of the rotated spectral quadrature components at target frequencies, and generates weighted phase-coherent harmonic spectral quadrature components by applying a scale-independent nonlinearity to the isolated components. The circuitry generates a harmonic spectral component by applying an inverse transformation that rotates a spectrum of the weighted phase-coherent harmonic spectral quadrature components from the rotated basis to the standard basis. The circuitry combines the harmonic spectral component with frequencies of the audio channel outside of the target frequencies to generate an output channel, and provides the output channel to the speaker.
US11006213B1	Shower entertainment system A shower entertainment system provides a waterproof exo-housing forming a cavity for receiving a smart phone. A waterproof speaker is supported within cavity and is in operational interconnection with the smart phone. A touchscreen access screen facilitates manual control of speaker through the smart phone. A hook extends from the housing for retention from a shower head. The hook further articulates between a flat nested position and an extended upward position. The hook alternately is positioned angular to the rear surface of the housing for the housing while placed flat on a horizontal surface. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US11006212B2	Upward firing loudspeaker having asymmetric dispersion for reflected sound rendering A speaker for transmitting reflected sound waves off an upper surface down to a listening environment, comprising: a cabinet containing a plurality of audio drivers, direct-firing drivers within the cabinet oriented to transmit sound along a horizontal axis substantially perpendicular to a front surface of the cabinet, and a pair of upward-firing slotted drivers placed proximate to ends of an top surface of the cabinet and oriented at an inclination angle relative to the horizontal axis. The slotted drivers are configured to create an overlapping reflected sound projection for high frequency sound when reflected down to a listening position located at a distance in front of the speaker pair. Such a speaker projects reflected sound that provides wider horizontal or side-to-side dispersion to better cover the listening area.
US11006210B2	Apparatus and method for outputting audio signal, and display apparatus using the same An apparatus for outputting an audio signal includes: a channel processor configured to generate two or more channel signals from audio data; a signal processor configured to render the generated two or more channel signals; and a directional speaker configured to reproduced a rendered channel signal as an audible sound. The signal processor may include a frequency converter configured to generate a channel signal of a frequency domain by converting the generated two or more channel signals through frequency conversion, and a re-panner configured to change a channel gain of at least one of the generated channel signals by as much as an adjustment value for the channel gain, wherein the adjustment value is monotonically changed as a frequency of the channel signal of the frequency domain increases.
US11006203B2	Wireless earphone and wireless earphone and charging box assembly The present invention provides a wireless earphone, wherein the wireless earphone includes a first pin, a microprocessor and a power management unit, the first pin is arranged to connect to an external charging device, the microprocessor includes a core circuit and a wakeup circuit coupled to the first pin, and the power management unit includes an uninterruptible power area for providing a power to the wakeup circuit. In the operations of the wireless earphone, when the core circuit is at a sleep mode, if the wakeup circuit detects that a voltage level of the first pin changes, the wakeup circuit generates a wakeup signal to wake up the core circuit.
US11006195B2	Audio speakers with integrated sealing and assembly features for “caseless” installation Small-scale audio speakers of various shapes are installed in parent devices. Inner casings, and the surrounding vibration-damping zone often required between such casings and the surrounding parent-device walls, are omitted from the assembly. During integration with the parent device, each un-encased speaker and its signal lines are sealed into a single-walled enclosure that incorporates a parent-device wall as at least one side. The entire interior of the single-walled enclosure becomes a back volume for the speaker. The single-walled enclosure may incorporate seals at the speaker's audio-output aperture, at the pass-through for the signal lines, and at the interface between the parent-device wall(s) and the added side(s) constituting the single-walled enclosure. Optional adhesive-free sealing options include sliding tabs held by a snap-lock latch.
US11006194B2	Grille and acoustic device A grille and an acoustic device having a superior exterior design without impairment of acoustic efficiency are provided. The grille includes: a through hole-provided region having a plurality of through holes; and a non-through hole-provided region having a plurality of non-through holes each with a bottom, and provided adjacent to the through hole-provided region. The through holes and the non-through holes entirely provide a plurality of openings on an exterior surface of the grille. In the non-through hole-provided region, a depth of the non-through holes on a side close to the through hole-provided region is greater than a depth of the non-through holes on a side distant from the through hole-provided region.
US11006186B2	Optimized delivery techniques Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for managing the delivery of electronic data, such as media content, through a network. An indication of a quantity of data transmitted via a network during a first time period may be received. Based on the quantity of data transmitted during the first time period, it may be determined that a first bandwidth utilization threshold of the network has been satisfied, and a first optimized version of a second portion of the content item may be subsequently sent.
US11006182B2	Surf mode for streamed content The described technology is generally directed towards a surf mode of operation for streaming content such as video content, in which different content is arranged as different channels though which a user can surf by changing the streaming channels. The starting times of the different content can be staggered. Aspects comprise streaming first content corresponding to a first interactively selectable streaming channel to an output device, receiving a change request to change to a second interactively selectable streaming channel, and in response to the receiving the change request, streaming second content corresponding to the second interactively selectable streaming channel to the output device.
US11006181B2	Method and apparatus for efficient delivery and usage of audio messages for high quality of experience A method and a system for virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, or 360-degree Video environment is disclosed. The system receives Video Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced and Audio Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced. There are provided a Video decoder which decodes signal from the Video Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene; an Audio decoder which decodes signal from the Audio Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene to the user; and a region of interest processor deciding, based e.g. on the user's viewport, head orientation, movement data, or metadata, whether an Audio information message is to be reproduced. At the decision, the reproduction of the Audio information message is caused.
US11006179B2	Method and apparatus for outputting information A method and an apparatus for outputting information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: in response to receiving voice inputted by a user, generating a voiceprint characteristic vector based on the voice; inputting the voiceprint characteristic vector into a voiceprint recognition model to obtain identity information of the user; selecting, from a preset multimedia file set, a predetermined number of multimedia files matching the obtained identity information of the user as target multimedia files; and generating, according to the target multimedia files, preview information, and outputting the preview information. This embodiment realizes the multimedia preview information recommendation with pertinence.
US11006177B2	System and method for utilizing a secured service provider memory A system and method for utilizing a secured service provider memory are disclosed. An electronic device is associated with a subscriber and is in communication with a data distribution network configured to deliver data by a service provider to the subscriber. The data distribution network comprises a server in communication with the data distribution network and the server configured to deliver a stream of data over the data distribution network. The electronic device comprises a first memory communicatively connected to the server. The first memory is configured to receive and store data from the server and it is accessible by the subscriber. A second memory is also communicatively connected to the server. The second memory is configured to receive and store data from the server, though the second memory is accessible only by the service provider.
US11006173B2	Information processing device, information recording medium, and information processing method, and program A configuration is realized in which a packet delimiter can be discriminated from an MMTP packet string including MMT format data, and a packet can be selectively acquired and reproduced. The MMT format data is input through a broadcast wave or the like, a packet length of an MMT protocol (MMTP) packet including the MMT format data is acquired, and recording data in which an additional header storing the acquired packet length is set before the MMTP packet, is generated, and is recorded in an information recording medium. A reproducing device is capable of discriminating a delimiter of each MMTP packet, according to the packet length of the MMTP packet, read from the additional header, is capable of acquiring reproducing data, for example, image data, from the selected packet, and is capable of decoding and reproducing the acquired data.
US11006172B2	Dynamic advertisement insertion and monitoring A communications system includes content distribution hardware operable to detect presence of a window in a video stream in which to insert an advertisement. Multiple viewers receive and view the video stream. Advertisement management hardware in the communications system receives notification of the window as well as attributes of the viewers receiving the video stream. Based on the attributes associated with viewers, the advertisement manager hardware selects a particular advertisement suitable for the viewers amongst multiple advertisements to insert in the window. The content distribution hardware inserts the selected advertisement in the window for distribution to the multiple viewers. During distribution of the advertisement in the window, if desired, the content distribution hardware monitors further use of the multiple communication devices to detect if any of the communication devices discontinue receiving the video stream during the window of time.
US11006170B2	Set-top box with interactive features and system and method for use of same A set-top box with interactive features and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box receives various types of set-top box data such as information about display-based interactions with the set-top box, information about a plurality of amenities on a residential property co-located with the set-top box, and information from a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device interacting with the set-top box. The set-top box may render a map view of the property based on obtained map data. The map view may include an interactive graphical representation of the residential property and be annotated with at least a portion of the set-top box data.
US11006169B2	Master computing device and method for synchronizing display of a digital content Master computing device and method for synchronizing display of a digital content (for example a digital signage content) on the master computing device and on one or more slave computing device. The master device transmits a synchronization request, comprising a digital content identifier for identifying the digital content, to the slave device(s). The master device determines a number of negative responses received from the slave device(s) in response to the synchronization request. Each negative response is indicative of one among the slave device(s) not being capable of displaying the digital content. The master device transmits a new synchronization request to the slave computing device(s) if the number of received negative responses reaches a threshold. The master computing device transmits a display command to the slave device(s) for displaying the digital content on their respective display(s) if the number of received negative responses does not reach the threshold.
US11006167B2	Display apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium thereof Disclosed are a display apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium thereof, the display apparatus including: a display; an infrared (IR) receiver; first and second interfaces; and a processor configured to: identify a remote-control code set corresponding to an external apparatus connected to the first interface, convert a first key code included in an IR signal of a remote controller into a second key code corresponding to the identified remote-control code set, based on the IR signal received in the IR receiver, transmit a signal including the converted second key code to the external apparatus through the first interface, and control the display to display an image based on a signal received from the external apparatus through the second interface.
US11006166B2	Method for television remote keypress response based on android operating system and television thereof This application provides a method for method for television (TV) remote keypress response based on Android operating system (OS) and a TV thereof, and includes: creating a first process when the Android OS is being initialized; executing the first process to obtain a key value of a remote key event; and performing a remote keypress operation according to the key value. The method creates and executes the first process during the initialization of the Android OS, thereby realizing responding to remote keypress during TV start-up, greatly enhancing user experience.
US11006164B2	TV and electronic device with external tuner and memory for personal video recording An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface configured to connect to a tuner device. The information processing apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to receive, from the tuner device, data packets corresponding to an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 service included in a digital broadcast signal, determine whether an indication to pause the ATSC 3.0 service is received, and in response to a determination that the indication to pause the ATSC 3.0 service is received, stop reading, from a first memory of the tuner device, subsequent data packets corresponding to the ATSC 3.0 service.
US11006159B2	Hybrid video time-bandwidth product improvement (HVTBPI) transmission A video aggregator can multiplex multimedia content, the multiplexed multimedia content being directed to a plurality of customer premises equipment, and aggregate the multiplexed multimedia content into a reduced number of broadcast channels to release at least one of bandwidth and radio frequency spectrum, not included in the reduced number of broadcast channels, for other applications. A system controller can electronically control delivery of the aggregated and multiplexed multimedia content to the plurality of customer premises equipment within the reduced number of broadcast channels, receive a request for unavailable other content, and electronically control delivery of the unavailable other content. A system processor can determine whether other content, the other content being at least one of not currently being broadcast via the aggregated and multiplexed multimedia content into a reduced number of broadcast channels and not stored by a particular customer premises equipment, is unavailable to the particular customer premises equipment to determine the unavailable other content, and formulate the request for the unavailable other content if the other content is determined to be unavailable.
US11006157B2	System and method for video conversations This disclosure describes methods and systems for viewing a collection of media objects, such as a video clip and associated responses (video, audio and text), in a seamless way. Provided with a media object and a series of responses and counter responses, a real time media combining methodology is coupled with a text and audio conversion process to generate a media stream, or downloadable media object, that contains the original media object and some or all of the associated responses. The media content is formatted into the stream so that ancillary content, like text associated with a particular video response, may also be displayed. Advertisements may be inserted into the stream between responses or overlaying some portion of the viewing area during rendering of the stream.
US11006154B2	Selected replacement of digital imagery portions using augmented reality Systems, devices and automated processes augment television broadcasts with digital content that automatically replaces static portions of the captured imagery. In a video broadcast of a live event, for example, signs or other advertisements that are physically present in the event venue can be automatically replaced in television broadcasts of the event by virtual imagery of other signs or objects, as desired.
US11006151B2	Method and device for encoding both a HDR picture and a SDR picture obtained from said HDR picture using color mapping functions A method and device of encoding both a HDR picture (IHDR) and a first SDR picture (ISDR1) obtained from said HDR picture, in at least one bitstream (F1, F2, F3, F4). The method comprises: —obtaining (210) a second SDR picture (ISDR2) by tone-mapping the HDR picture (IHDR); —obtaining (230) a color mapping function (CMF) that allows the mapping of the colors of the second SDR picture (ISDR2) onto the colors of a third SDR picture (ISDR3) obtained (220) from the first SDR picture (ISDR1); —encoding (240), in a bitstream, an information (INF) representative of the color mapping function; and —encoding (260), in a bitstream, a fourth SDR picture (ISDR4) obtained (250) from the first SDR picture (ISDR1). The present disclosure further relates to a method and device of decoding.
US11006150B2	Method and apparatus for video coding A method of video decoding can include receiving a bit stream including coded bits of bins of syntax elements. The syntax elements are of various types that correspond to transform coefficients of a transform block in a coded picture. Context modeling is performed to determine a context model for each bin of the syntax elements. In a given frequency region of the transform block, for one type of the syntax elements, a group of the transform coefficients having different template magnitudes within a predetermined range share a same context model, or one of the transform coefficients uses the same context model for possible different template magnitudes of the one of the transform coefficients. The possible different template magnitudes are within the predetermined range. The coded bits are decoded based on the context models determined for each bin of the syntax elements to determine the bins of the syntax elements.
US11006147B2	Devices and methods for 3D video coding An apparatus for decoding 3D video data is provided, the 3D video data comprising a plurality of texture frames and a plurality of associated depth maps, the apparatus comprising: a first texture decoder configured to decode a video coding block of a first texture frame associated with a first view; a first depth map decoder configured to decode a video coding block of a first depth map associated with the first texture frame; a depth map filter configured to generate an auxiliary depth map on the basis of the first depth map; a first view synthesis prediction unit configured to generate a predicted video coding block of a view synthesis predicted second texture frame associated with a second view on the basis of the video coding block of the first texture frame and the auxiliary depth map.
US11006146B2	Intra-prediction method, and encoder and decoder using same The present invention relates to an intra-prediction method and to an encoder and decoder using same. The intra-prediction method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of deriving a prediction mode of a current block; and generating a prediction block with respect to the current block on the basis of the prediction mode of the current block. When the prediction mode of the current block is an intra-angular prediction mode, values of boundary samples from among left boundary samples and upper boundary samples of the prediction block, which are not positioned in a prediction direction of the intra-angular prediction mode, are derived on the basis of reference samples positioned in the prediction direction of the intra-angular prediction mode, and on the basis of adjacent reference samples.
US11006144B2	Video decoding method and apparatus and video encoding method and apparatus Provided are a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus for obtaining, in a video encoding and decoding process, motion vector resolution information from a bit stream by using a high-level syntax which is a group of information that is applied to a predefined data unit group; determining a motion vector resolution of a current block included in the predefined data unit group based on the motion vector resolution information; determining a prediction motion vector of the current block to be a motion vector of a candidate block from among at least one candidate block, based on the motion vector resolution of the current block; and determining a motion vector of the current block by using the prediction motion vector of the current block.
US11006143B2	Motion vector candidate pruning systems and methods Systems and methods for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding system used to encode image data are provided. In embodiments, the video encoding system includes a low resolution pipeline that includes a low resolution motion estimation block, which generates downscaled image data by reducing resolution of the image data, performs a motion estimation search to determine motion vector candidates that are each indicative of location of a downscaled reference sample, and prunes one or more of the motion vector candidates. The video encoding system also includes a main pipeline that determines encoding parameters to be used to encode image data based at least partially the remaining motion vector candidates.
US11006136B2	Cluster-based dependency signaling The signalization of the inter-layer dependencies between layers of a multi-layered data stream is described. A good compromise between a too intensive restriction of the potential diversity of inter-layer dependencies on the one hand and a too complex signaling of the inter-layer dependencies on the other hand has been found by describing the inter-layer dependencies by way of a first inter-dependency syntax structure indicating inter-dependencies between pairs of different values representable by a base layer-ID and a second inter-dependency syntax structure indicating inter-dependencies between pairs of different values representable by an extension layer-ID, the base layer ID and extension layer ID indexing the layers the portions of the multi-layer data stream are associated with. In accordance with this concept, emphasis may be shifted between increased diversity of the signalizable inter-layer dependencies on the one hand and reduced side-information overhead for signaling the inter-layer dependencies on the other hand.
US11006133B2	Image compression technique Concepts are presented herein how to efficiently create a suitable palette for low complexity image and video coding. A combination of the palette coding with transform coding is feasible.
US11006132B1	Methods and systems for adaptive cropping A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bit stream, identify, as a function of the bitstream, a current frame, and a cropped sub-frame of the current frame, determine, as a function of the bitstream, a scaling constant associated with the cropped sub-frame, and reconstruct pixel data of the cropped sub-frame using the scaling constant.
US11006130B2	Intra block copy mode for screen content coding A video block of a current picture may be coded in an intra block copy (IBC) mode. Weighted prediction may be disabled for the IBC-coded screen content video block. Fractional block vectors may be used for the chroma components of the IBC-coded video block. An interpolation filter may be utilized to generate chroma prediction samples for the video block. A decoded version of the current reference picture may be added to both reference picture list L0 and reference picture list L1 that are associated with the IBC-coded video block. When constrained intra prediction is applied, reference samples that may be used to predict an intra-coded video block may be limited to those in intra-coded neighboring blocks. The range of IBC searches may be restricted by imposing a maximum absolute value for block vectors.
US11006128B2	Camera communication channel selection Adjusting communication channels used by camera to communicate with a base station are described. In one aspect, characteristics of communication channels can be determined and the operation of the camera can be adjusted to use a communication channel based on a comparison of the characteristics of multiple communication channels.
US11006127B2	System and method for foveated compression of image frames in a system on a chip An exemplary method for intelligent compression uses a foveated-compression approach. First, the location of a fixation point within an image frame is determined. Next, the image frame is sectored into two or more sectors such that one of the two or more sectors is designated as a fixation sector and the remaining sectors are designated as foveation sectors. A sector may be defined by one or more tiles within the image frame. The fixation sector includes the particular tile that contains the fixation point and is compressed according to a lossless compression algorithm. The foveation sectors are compressed according to lossy compression algorithms. As the locations of foveation sectors increase in angular distance from the location of the fixation sector, a compression factor may be increased.
US11006126B2	Picture coding device, picture coding method, and picture coding program There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal.
US11006125B2	Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, image decoding method, and image prediction device An image decoding device including an intra prediction unit for, when a coding mode for a coding block is an intra coding mode, carrying out an intra-frame prediction process on each of processing blocks to generate a prediction image, each of the processing blocks being the coding block or a sub-block obtained by dividing the coding block, wherein, when an intra prediction parameter indicates a vertical prediction process and a size of the processing block is less than a predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing and when the intra prediction parameter indicates the vertical prediction process and the size of the processing block is greater than or equal to the predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing.
US11006124B2	Method and apparatus for real-time SAO parameter estimation The disclosure provides a sample adaptive offset (SAO) encoder. The SAO encoder includes a statistics collection (SC) block and a rate distortion optimization (RDO) block coupled to the SC block. The SC block receives a set of deblocked pixels and a set of original pixels. The SC block categorizes each deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels in at least one of a plurality of band and edge categories. The SC block estimates an error in each category as difference between a deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels and corresponding original pixel of the set of original pixels. The RDO block determines a set of candidate offsets associated with each category and selects a candidate offset with a minimum RD cost. The minimum RD cost is used by a SAO type block and a decision block to generate final offsets for the SAO encoder.
US11006122B2	Static video recognition A computer-implemented method, system, or computer-readable medium may include estimating local motion of an input video frame of an input video by computing a local motion vector corresponding to a respective candidate pixel patch from among one or more candidate pixel patches within the input video frame. Global motion may be estimated by computing a global motion vector. One or more subject motion vectors may be computed based on a corresponding local motion vector and the global motion vector. A number of static frames of the video may be identified. The input video may be determined to be a static video if a ratio of the number of static frames to a number of the video frames in the input video meets a static frame threshold and determining that the input video is a motion video if the ratio fails to meet the static frame threshold.
US11006121B2	LIC signaling methods A method may include: receiving information regarding a current data block of an image; determining whether Local Illumination Compensation (LIC) is applicable for the current data block; based on determining that the LIC is applicable for the current data block, at least one of: infering an LIC flag for the current data block to be 1 or true corresponding to the LIC being enabled, or inheriting the current block's LIC flag from an LIC flag of a neighboring block; and based on the LIC flag for the current data block corresponding to the LIC being enabled, generate a prediction of at least one sub-block with a derived motion vector by applying LIC to the current data block using the inherited LIC flag.
US11006117B2	Method and apparatus for range derivation in context adaptive binary arithmetic coding A method and apparatus of entropy coding of coding symbols using Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coder (CABAC) are disclosed. According to the present invention, a math formula is used for calculating the LPS range for deriving rangeOne value and rangeZero value. For example, the LPS range is derived using one or more mathematical operations comprising calculating a multiplication of a first value and a second value, in which the first value is related to (2the LPS probability index+1) or the LPS probability index, while the second value is related to (2the range index+1) or the range index. Besides, the LPS range can be derived by using a look-up-table including table contents corresponding to values of LPS range associated with a set of LPS probability indexes and a set of range indexes for encoding or decoding a binary value of the current bin.
US11006112B2	Picture quality oriented rate control for low-latency streaming applications A derived quantization parameter for a section of a currently encoding picture of a plurality of pictures is incremented to produce an updated quantization parameter when the derived quantization parameter is less than a minimum quantization parameter for the currently encoding picture. The section is then encoded using the updated quantization parameter. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US11006110B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder determines a filter to be used for deblocking filtering from among a plurality of filters including a first filter and a second filter. The first filter uses M pixels located at an upper side of the block boundary and M pixels located at a lower side of the block boundary, and the second filter uses first pixels located at the upper side of the block boundary and second pixels located at the lower side of the block boundary, where M is an integer of at least 2. The number of the first pixels is any one of a plurality of first candidate values, and the number of the second pixels is any one of a plurality of second candidate values. The plurality of first pixel candidate values and the plurality of second pixel candidate values are each a value greater than or equal to M.
US11006109B2	Intra prediction mode based image processing method, and apparatus therefor The present invention provides an image processing method on the basis of an intra prediction mode and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for processing an image on the basis of an intra prediction mode may comprise the steps of: identifying whether weighted intra prediction is allowed for a current block and whether the weight intra prediction is applied to the current block; identifying whether reference sample filtering is applied to the current block when the weighted intra prediction is not allowed for the current block or when the weighted intra prediction is not applied to the current block; and performing reference sample filtering of reference samples neighboring the current block when the reference sample filtering is applied.
US11006101B2	Viewing device adjustment based on eye accommodation in relation to a display Examples disclosed herein relate to viewing device adjustment based on eye accommodation in relation to a display. In one implementation, a computing device determines accommodation information related to a viewer's focus on an image rendered on a display. The computing device may cause an optical component associated with a viewing device to adjust based on the determined accommodation.
US11006100B1	Smart glasses system A physician performing a physical examination can miss subtle abnormalities, such as alterations of respiratory rate or dangerous skin lesion. A surgeon performing surgery can miss small areas of bleeding or tumor implants. This invention comprises head display unit comprising sensors that gathers data and in real time analyzes the data for potential hazards and alerts the user of a potential hazardous scenario.
US11006096B2	Observation device comprising a control unit An observation device is provided with an image acquisition unit comprising at least one image sensor, an image display unit, that is arranged for displaying image data that is provided by the image acquisition unit, an image processing unit for image processing procedures, and a control unit comprising a multi-axis input module. The image acquisition unit is configured to provide recorded images having a predefined recording pixel quantity. The image display unit is configured to display display images having a predefined display pixel quantity, wherein the recording pixel quantity is equal to or greater than the display pixel quantity. Image pixels of the display pixel quantity are obtained from the recording pixel quantity. Subsets of the recording pixel quantity are selected to form the display pixel quantity. Image acquisition parameters and display parameters are controlled by the input module. The input module is arranged to be coupled with the image acquisition unit for controlling at least one image acquisition parameter.
US11006091B2	Opportunistic volumetric video editing A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a volumetric video that is a focus of a user viewing a presentation of the volumetric video, detect an obstruction of a view of the user of at least a portion of the first object in the volumetric video, and perform at least one manipulation of the presentation of the volumetric video to the user to mitigate the obstruction of the view.
US11006090B2	Virtual window The present disclosure is generally related to capturing a scene and projecting a virtual window to one or more observers. A virtual window may mimic the experience a viewer has when looking through a real window. In some embodiments, for a single observer looking at a digital display or digital screen, a head-tracking camera on the same side of the screen as the observer can determine the position of the observer relative to the screen. The camera may be a 3D camera, stereoscopic camera, a wide angle lens camera, or an array of cameras (e.g., two or more). A camera on the other side of the screen can then image the view on the other side of the screen and software can determine the correct portion of the view that should be displayed on the screen to the observer.
US11006079B2	Autonomous vehicle vision system In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of autonomously operating a vehicle. The method provides at least two cameras in operable communication with the vehicle for providing substantially similar views relative to the vehicle. The at least two cameras receive information relating to the views. The method also provides a laser in operable communication with the vehicle for selectively shining a single discrete mark on at least a portion of the views provided by the at least two cameras. Further, the method determines whether the information received by the at least two cameras is ambiguous regarding the views. The method activates the laser on at least a portion of the views based on whether the information received by the at least two cameras is ambiguous.
US11006076B1	Methods and systems for configuring multiple layouts of video capture Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for providing modifiable views when capturing an image of a video call. When a user takes a picture of a video call (e.g., a screen shot), associated applications may scrape the phone of the call participants to acquire a better-quality image than what might be displayed in the call interface, which may be of reduced quality due to compression and/or bandwidth limitations. Problematically, the layout of the call interface is different on each user's device, which can cause the resulting screenshot to not look as expected. Exemplary embodiments therefore place the data scraped from each device into movable elements, which can be rearranged on the screen to alter the layout (even post-capture). Moreover, new layouts are possible, potentially with additional graphical elements. In some embodiments, information gathered from a user's social networking information can determine the layout parameters.
US11006070B2	Display device and video display method therefor A display device is connectible to a first video signal output device and a second video signal output device. Upon receiving an input switch instruction from the first video signal output device, the display device is configured to inhibit a first video from the first video signal output device from being displayed when displaying a second video from the second video signal output device.
US11006069B2	Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and reception method To preferably transmit normal-frame-rate and high-frame-rate image data.A first ratio mixing processing is performed on two temporally-consecutive pictures in high-frame-rate image data to obtain basic-frame-rate image data, and a second ratio mixing processing is performed on the two temporally-consecutive pictures to obtain high-frame-rate image data of an extended frame. An encoding processing is performed on the reference-frame-rate image data to obtain a basic stream and an encoding processing is performed on the high-frame-rate image data of the extended frame to obtain an extended stream. A container including the basic stream and the extended stream in a predetermined format is transmitted.
US11006063B2	Pixel readout circuit, method of driving the same, and image sensor A pixel readout circuit including a reset circuit configured to reset a first node to a first power supply voltage in response to a signal on a first scan line being active; a photodetector configured to generate, responsive to incident light, a charge signal and integrate the charge signal, the integrated charge signal causing a change in a voltage level at the first node; a photosensitive circuit configured to generate a pixel current in response to the change in the voltage level at the first node; and a switch circuit configured to transfer the pixel current to a signal readout line for readout in response to a signal on a second scan line being active.
US11006061B2	Image correction method and image capture device In an image correction method and an image capture device, a one-frame addition average calculation unit calculates a one-frame addition average value. If the one-frame addition average value falls within an appropriate range, a determination circuit inputs image data for one frame to an adder and the adder adds the image data to a cumulative correction value to update the correction value. The updated correction value is stored in a frame memory. If the one-frame addition average value is outside the appropriate range, the image data for one frame is discarded. After updating the cumulative correction value until the number of updates reaches a prescribed number, an FPN correction value is calculated by dividing the cumulative correction value stored in the frame memory by the prescribed number, and an image is corrected by subtracting the FPN correction value from the image data inputted at the time of imaging.
US11006047B2	Imaging apparatus capable of detecting and displaying information with respect to an incline thereof An imaging apparatus including an incline detection device configured to detect an incline of the imaging apparatus, an image display device configured to display an image based on the image information, an incline computation device configured to compute an incline information that corresponds to a magnitude of the incline, an information storage device configured to store the incline information that is computed by the incline computation device, and a display processing device configured to display the image and an incline guide display corresponding to the incline information upon a screen of the image display device. The display processing device is configured to change a display format of the incline guide display in accordance with the magnitude of the incline.
US11006046B2	Image processing method and mobile terminal The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for image processing, and a mobile terminal. The method may include: acquiring image parameters of a real-time preview image displayed in a preview interface; evaluating, based on the image parameters and a pre-established image evaluation model, the real-time preview image to obtain an evaluation result; and displaying the evaluation result. The method enables the user of the mobile terminal to obtain the evaluation result of the real-time preview image displayed in the preview interface in real time, so that the user can get the quality of the current real-time preview image in real time, and the user can adjust the real-time preview image as needed, in order to obtain images with better evaluation results, thereby improving the overall quality of the images captured by the mobile terminal.
US11006044B1	Power-efficient dynamic electronic image stabilization Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for power-efficient image stabilization. An example method can include collecting measurements from a motion sensor, the measurements being based on movement of an image sensor while capturing frames; calculating parameters for counteracting motions in a frame, wherein first parameters are based on the measurements and second parameters are based on some of the measurements; adjusting, in a first stabilization pass of a dual-pass stabilization process, the first frame according to the second parameters; adjusting, in a second stabilization pass of the dual-pass stabilization process, the first frame according to the first parameters; based on a second frame having less motion than the first frame, enabling for the second frame a single-pass stabilization process for both a frame preview process and video record process; and adjusting, in the single stabilization pass, the second frame according to parameters for counteracting motions in the second frame.
US11006043B1	Image-capture control In a camera-enabled electronic device, photo capture is triggered by a press-and-hold input only if the holding duration of the press-and-hold input is greater than a predefined threshold duration. A press-and-hold input shorter in duration than the threshold triggers video capture. Thus, a short press triggers video capture, while a long press triggers photo capture.
US11006042B2	Imaging device and image processing method An imaging device includes a plurality of image sensors, and circuitry configured to determine whether a difference between average brightness values of first image data and second image data, both captured by a same image sensor, is equal to or greater than a first threshold. The second image data is captured at a timing later than capture of the first image data. The circuitry perform one of a) output of image data captured by a rest of the plurality of image sensors excluding the one of the plurality of image sensors and b) composition of the image data captured by the rest of the plurality of image sensors, in response to a determination that the difference in average brightness value is equal to or greater than the first threshold and the average brightness value of the second image data is equal to or smaller than a second threshold.
US11006035B2	Imaging system, imaging device, and imaging method To provide an imaging system, an imaging device, and an imaging method capable of accurately and easily synchronizing a plurality of imaging devices while suppressing a manufacturing cost and the like of the imaging device. Provided is an imaging system including three sound devices configured to output reference sounds different from one another, and a plurality of imaging devices configured to perform imaging in synchronization with one another on the basis of the reference sounds, in which each of the sound devices includes a first capture unit configured to capture the reference sound output from another of the sound devices, and an output unit configured to output the corresponding reference sound on the basis of the capture of the reference sound from the another of the sound devices, and each of the imaging devices includes a second capture unit configured to capture each of the reference sounds, a storage unit configured to store information regarding mutual relative positions of the three sound devices, and a synchronization signal generation unit configured to correct any one of the reference sounds on the basis of an interval of capturing each of the reference sounds and the relative positions to generate a synchronization signal for imaging.
US11006032B2	Exchangeable lens with focus adjustment lens and transceiver for transmitting image plane transfer coefficient A lens barrel of the invention includes: an imaging optical system including a focus adjustment lens; a driver that drives the focus adjustment lens in a direction of an optical axis; a transceiver that transmits and receives a signal to and from a camera body; and a controller that controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit a first image plane transfer coefficient which is determined in correspondence with a position of the focus adjustment lens included in the imaging optical system and a second image plane transfer coefficient which does not depend on the position of the focus adjustment lens to the camera body at a predetermined interval, and, when the controller repeatedly transmits the second image plane transfer coefficient to the camera body, the controller varies the second image plane transfer coefficient over time.
US11006028B2	Image capturing device [Problem] To provide a photographing apparatus that reduces motion blur caused by camera rotation, provides high quality binocular parallax video, and suppresses visually induced motion sickness. [Solution] A photographing apparatus 1 is provided with a plurality of photographing units 10 that can form an entire peripheral image, and further provided with: a photographing unit installation unit 20 in which the photographing units 10 are installed; a rotary driving shaft 30 that rotatably supports the photographing unit installation unit 20; a driving unit (motor) 40 that applies rotational force to the rotary driving shaft 30; a photographing unit shaft 50 that is provided to the photographing unit installation unit 20 so as to rotatably fix the photographing units 10 at prescribed respective positions; and driving force transmission means 60 that are provided to both the rotary driving shaft 30 and the photographing unit shaft 50 so as to transmit the rotary driving force of the rotary driving shaft 30, wherein the photographing units 10 can hold a state of facing the prescribed positions without following the rotation of the photographing unit installation unit 20 when the photographing unit installation unit 20 rotates.
US11006023B2	Camera apparatus for vehicle and manufacturing method for camera apparatus for vehicle A camera apparatus is mounted to a vehicle. The camera apparatus includes a camera module, a casing, and a restraining portion. The camera module includes a lens and a camera board on which an image sensor is provided. The casing houses the camera module. The restraining portion is configured to mechanically restrain movement of the camera module that is mounted in a predetermined mounting position within the casing, from the mounting position. The camera module is fixed to the casing by an adhesive.
US11006021B1	Non-copy correlation mark A method for rendering a correlation mark on a recording medium can involve encoding a pattern based on a correlation effect color based on a color recipe that includes a high density of one primary color and a mid-to-low density of at least one other primary color, and adjusting the pattern to ensure that the encoding is lost in a resulting rendering of a correlation mark embedded with the pattern. The pattern imposed on the correlation mark is not readily visible in an original without a decoding key. The correlation mark can include a frequency that is sufficiently high so that a copy of the correlation mark may not reproduce with the pattern.
US11006018B2	Image reading apparatus that reads originals, control method therefor, and storage medium An image reading apparatus which is capable of preventing occurrence of a paper jam and poor stacking during conveyance of originals. The image reading apparatus sets a type of an original, conveys the original based on the set type of the original, and reads an image on the conveyed original. An original detecting sensor detects placement of the original on an original tray. An LCD touch panel displays an object for setting a type of the original in response to the detection by the original detecting sensor.
US11006016B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus is configured to form an image on a recording medium by scanning of the image forming apparatus by a user. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and processing circuitry. The image forming device includes a plurality of image forming arrays. Each of the image forming arrays includes an image forming portion configured to form the image. The processing circuitry is configured to set an image forming array to be used to form the image, according to a use mode of the image forming apparatus.
US11006015B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.
US11006014B2	Information processing apparatus and method of controlling information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a direct current after converting an alternating current into the direct current and a power factor correction circuit configured to correct a power factor of the output unit, and is shifted from a first power state to a second power state. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect predetermined return request in the second power state, and a power control unit configured to shift, based on detection by the detection unit, the information processing apparatus from the second power state to a third power state in which processing corresponding to the predetermined return request is performable. The power control unit shifts the power state of the information processing apparatus from the third power state to the second power state after the processing is completed in the third power state.
US11006005B2	Methods, systems and applications for managing wireless services on a wireless device The application is directed to a method and system for tracking and managing data usage on a wireless device. A graphical user interface is displayed on a wireless device for tracking and managing data usage over a predetermined time. A request is received via the graphical user interface to set an alert. The alert indicates when the data usage exceeds a predefined value. A determination is made whether the data usage exceeds the predefined value. Further, an alert is transmitted to the wireless device.
US11006004B2	Manual roaming and data usage rights Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure relates to a session management method through selection of a roaming operator and utilization of data usage rights of a local operator by a user in a 5G system. The user selects the local operator by switching the operator to a manual mode during roaming, accesses a data usage rights purchase agency through a limited service provided by the operator and then purchases the data usage rights of the local operator, and connects to a data network through authentication of a session by using authentication information included in the data usage rights.
US11006001B1	Support services for virtual data centers Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual data-communications servers providing data communications services which may include Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, and support services for each account as specified in the settings file for the account.
US11006000B2	System and method for verifying telephone numbers Programmatically reversing numerical line identity presented at a communications services gateway into named IP Telephony users with “prior association”, delivers dynamic “reverse address resolution” switching connections from ground to cloud, permitting any conventional telephone to dial and connect to any associated IP Telephony endpoint in the world, without changes to the conventional telephone. Reversing line identity into associated named users bridges both the addressability and economic divide between mass conventional “paying” (mobile and fixed) and “free”. IP Telephony networks. A system for supporting communications between a user on an IP-addressed-communications-device and a telephony subscriber device, the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, includes: one or more service nodes configured to: receive from the user the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device and create an association from the telephone number to the user, wherein the association allows the telephony subscriber device to connect to the user.
US11005996B2	Contact center network and method for establishing a communication session in a contact center network A contact center network including a contact center unit connected via a communication network to a plurality of agents and to a plurality of IoT devices, wherein each one of the plurality of IoT devices is equipped with sensor devices adapted to measure predetermined IoT measurement data, and at least one actuator device adapted to control the IoT device remotely, wherein the contact center unit is connectable to the sensor devices and the actuator devices via a IoT middleware unit adapted to receive an incident notification, if sensor measurement data matches a predetermined criterion indicating an incident, and wherein the contact center unit includes a routing unit adapted to route a contact based on the incident information comprised in the incident notification to an agent. Further, embodiments relate to a method for establishing a communication session in a contact center network.
US11005989B1	Validating automatic number identification data Verifying caller identification information is described. A query to verify a first communications connection associated with an observed caller ID is received. Using a second communications channel, a message to a device associated with the observed caller ID is transmitted. A response to the message is received. The message is evaluated to perform a security determination. The security determination is provided as output.
US11005983B1	Thin mobile and wearable devices A wearable electronics device having a removable thin top touchscreen that is interchangeable to other touchscreens having different sizes and shapes to convert the device form factor and functions from a fitness-tracker to a smartwatch or a handheld smartphone, using an applications processor in the underlying electronics housing unit capable of running the device in various form factors. The smartphone touchscreen further provides additional power and memory/storage for smartphone-level functions and performance.
US11005981B2	Camera module and electronic device including the same A single camera module able to swivel to capture images in front of and behind an electronic device includes a housing, a camera module, and a turnover element. The turnover element includes a support plate and a connecting portion. The housing is arranged on the support plate, thus forming a receiving space together with the support plate. The camera assembly is received in the receiving space. The connecting portion is arranged on the support plate and located on an outside of the housing. The disclosure further provides an electronic device including the camera module.
US11005978B2	Information centric networking for long term evolution In one embodiment, a mobile network includes at least one Information Centric Networking (ICN) enabled mobile base station configured to support ICN transport protocol, and at least one ICN enabled evolved packet core (EPC) device configured to support ICN transport protocol, where the ICN enabled EPC device is operative to assign an ICN based identity to a user equipment (UE) according to an attach request, wherein the attach request indicates that the UE supports the ICN transport protocol.
US11005975B2	Rapid optimization of media stream bitrate An example data processing technique includes determining, by a first media server during a first media session between a client device and the first media server, a stable bitrate value based on a rate at which the first media server receives data from the client device in the first media session. Further, the example technique includes, based on determining the stable bitrate value, storing in a database the stable bitrate value for the client device, and receiving, from the client device, a request to establish a second media session. The example technique also includes, in response to receiving the request, searching the database for a particular stable bitrate value for the client device, and sending the particular stable bitrate value to the client device, wherein the client device is configured to estimate, based on the particular stable bitrate value, an initial bitrate value for transmitting data from the client device to a second media server in the second media session.
US11005974B2	Method and apparatus for accessing data or functions of a programmable controller via a network protocol A method and a programmable controller for accessing data or functions, the data being stored in a database of the programmable controller and the database being assigned to an application program of the programmable controller, and a web server of the programmable controller being accessed by a client via the network protocol, where at least one program module of the automation program of the programmable controller is assigned to a web service of the web server, and where execution of the program module is initiated by the web service such that flexible and simply implementable access to data or functions of the programmable controller is therefore possible, and the access to the data or functions can be controlled load-dependently.
US11005973B2	Automatic bootstrapping and dynamic configuration of data center nodes A device can receive, from a node of a set of nodes, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discovery request. The device can determine a DHCP offer based on metadata associated with the node. The device can transmit, to the node, pre-boot execution environment (PXE) instructions, which can cause the node to load a minimal operating system image and execute a node installation service. The device can receive, from the node installation service, a request for information associated with a node type. The device can provide the information associated with the node type to the node, causing the node to generate configuration data relating to the node type. The device can receive, from the node, a request for a full operating system image, which can be provided to the node and can support one or more capabilities included in the configuration data.
US11005971B2	System and method for user device authentication or identity validation without passwords or matching tokens A novel computerized method for authenticating a client computer is disclosed. The method for authenticating the client computer does not utilize any stored usernames, passwords, or tokens. The process stores a series of algorithmic functions on the client computer. When the user desires to login to a server computer the server computer provides multiple sets of variables to the client computer. The variables are input into the algorithmic functions. The functions generate an output. The output is sent to the server computer. The server computer utilizes the client generated output to authenticate the client device. Each time the user desires to login different variables are utilized to prevent prediction and hacking of the system.
US11005970B2	Data storage system with processor scheduling using distributed peek-poller threads A method of multitasked operation of a data storage node includes executing provider threads of an application, the provider threads distributed among processing cores along with respective peek-poller threads, each provider thread having regular operations of (1) continually polling interfaces of the data storage node for application events requiring processing, and (2) performing processing tasks for the application events until there are no unprocessed additional events for the provider thread, and thereupon entering a sleep state. The method further includes regularly executing the peek-poller threads on the processing cores, each peek-poller thread having operations of (1) checking interfaces of the data storage node for new application events to be processed by respective provider threads currently in the sleep state, and (2) for each new application event, activating the respective provider thread on the respective processing core.
US11005963B2	Pre-fetch cache population for WAN optimization Connectivity between data centers in a hybrid cloud system is optimized by pre-loading a wide area network (WAN) optimization appliance in a first data center with data to initialize at least one WAN optimization of application. The first data center is managed by a first organization and a second data center managed by a second organization, the first organization being a tenant in the second data center. The described technique includes receiving application packets having the application data generated by an application executing in the first data center at the WAN optimization appliance from a first gateway in the first data center, and performing the at least one WAN optimization on the application packets using the pre-loaded data to initialize the at least one WAN optimization.
US11005960B2	Relay apparatus, control method, and information processing system A relay apparatus that relays communication between a server which provides a service and a terminal which receives the service is provided. The relay apparatus executes a first communication to transmit a predetermined signal to the terminal in accordance with a first communication protocol, and executes a second communication to receive a response to the predetermined signal by the first communication from the terminal in accordance with a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol and without using the first communication protocol. In addition, a third communication is executed to communicate with the server based on the reception of the response.
US11005954B2	Method and device for accessing location related information The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for accessing location related information. The method includes: receiving a request for assigning a network address to a POI; encoding the POI based on a preset geographical name code database to obtain a POI code of the POI; mapping the POI code into a network address, the network address comprising at least one of an IPv6 unicast address, an IPv6 multicast address, or a domain name; and sending the network address to a network device, enabling the network device to obtain location related information of the POI by accessing a site corresponding to the network address.
US11005953B2	Location monitoring via a gateway A remote location monitoring system, for example, a home monitoring or weather monitoring system may include one or more sensors and/or receivers at a first location such as a residence or business to be monitored. The sensors and receivers may communicate with a remote central server via a gateway device and the detection data received from the sensors and receivers may be displayed via display circuitry coupled to a processor of the gateway device. The sensors, receivers, and gateway device may be controlled by users locally or remotely via the server. Users may register to receive remote notifications of weather events and other home monitoring events. Users may also access remotely sensors and receivers to configure alerts, notifications, and automatic responses for the devices and integrated appliances at the first location.
US11005948B1	Web content transfer utilizing messages of messaging protocol of cellular voice network An apparatus includes at least one processing device including a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to perform the step of monitoring a level of connectivity, of the at least one processing device, for one or more wireless data networks. The at least one processing device is also configured to perform the step of, responsive to determining that the monitored level of connectivity is at or below a designated threshold level of connectivity, utilizing a messaging protocol of one or more cellular voice networks to transfer web content. The at least one processing device is further configured to perform the step of, responsive to determining that the monitored level of connectivity is above the designated threshold level of connectivity, utilizing the one or more wireless data networks to transfer the web content.
US11005947B2	Network information processing A computer-implemented network communication method includes receiving, by a network access stratum device, an uplink message sent by a terminal device, in which the uplink message is sent over a persistent connection between the network access stratum device and the terminal device; encapsulating, by the network access stratum device, the uplink message and a session identifier of the persistent connection into a target message; transmitting, by the network access stratum device, the target message to a message forwarding device over a short-term connection between the network access stratum device and the message forwarding device; receiving, by the network access stratum device, from the message forwarding device, a downlink message corresponding to the target message, in which the downlink message includes the session identifier; identifying, by the network access stratum device, the terminal device as a receiving device of the downlink message based on the session identifier; and sending, by the network access stratum device, the downlink message to the terminal device.
US11005940B2	Network topology based on a useful wired connection A computing device may broadcast a first message via a wireless interface while operating according to a first network topology. After broadcasting the first message, the computing device may receive the first message via a wired interface. Based on receiving the first message via the wired interface, the computing device may broadcast a second message indicating a second network topology via the wireless interface. Based on receiving the first message via the wired interface, the computing device may operate according to the second network topology.
US11005937B2	System and method to enable sensory data for any devices connected to a phone in a 5G network A method of sharing information between an external device and a portable processing device in communication with the external device, including the steps of the portable processing device evaluating policy restrictions associated with the external device, evaluating requested data by the external device in view of the policy restrictions, if the requested data may be shared with the external device, then the portable process device providing access to the data requested. The method may further include setting policy restrictions as a function of the external device, 3rd party security requirements, subscriber preferences and/or predefined mobility network policies.
US11005935B1	Using multiple streams with network data management protocol to improve performance and granularity of backup and restore operations from/to a file server Multiple substantially concurrent data streams with NDMP protocol improve robustness, performance, and granularity of backup and restore operations from/to a filer. NDMP data streams are initially allocated based on inventorying the root level of each filer volume. A best effort to balance the multiple NDMP data streams allocates them based on data amounts used in each volume. Orphaned files are also collected and backed up. Subsequent full backup jobs leverage a proprietary index generated in preceding full backup jobs to obtain better performance and to better balance the NDMP data streams by creating substantially co-equal groupings of source data. The index comprises granular information which is not available from querying the filer. The size of each individual backup copy from a preceding full backup job and/or the size of subtending subdirectories or individual backed up files therein is used by later backup jobs to fine tune NDMP data stream allocation.
US11005933B2	Providing queueing in a log streaming messaging system Providing queuing in a log streaming system. A state of each of a set of queues of messages is maintained by sending messages to a state topic in the log streaming system. Responsive to a client writing a message to one of the queues, writing the message to a message topic for the queue in the log streaming system. Responsive to the client reading from one of the queues, reading a message from the message topic for the queue and storing property types relating to the availability of the message in the state topic for the queue by sending messages to the state topic referencing the message in the message topic.
US11005932B1	Method for associating data between a plurality of blockchain networks and apparatus thereof A method for interworking data between a plurality of blockchain networks according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes performing a first phase of a transaction by dividing steps of the transaction for recording data and performing a second phase of the transaction according to a result of performing the first phase, wherein performing the first phase comprises performing a first step of a first transaction for recording the data in a first blockchain network of a plurality of blockchain networks and requesting to perform a first step of a second transaction for recording the data in a second blockchain network of the plurality of blockchain networks. It may be available to interwork data between a plurality of blockchain networks without passing through a separate hub network, and ensure the concurrency of interworked data recording.
US11005931B2	WebRTC API redirection with window monitoring/overlay detection A server includes a real-time media application to provide real-time communications (RTC), and a processor to redirect a portion of the real-time media application based on redirection code injected into the real-time media application, with the injected redirection code defining at least one placeholder to indicate positioning geometry of at least one video stream within an RTC window. The processor determines the positioning geometry of the at least one placeholder within the injected redirection code for a client device to overlay the at least one video stream over the at least one placeholder within a displayed RTC window based on the positioning geometry.
US11005926B2	Privacy protection for proxy auto-configuration files A method may include generating a proxy auto-configuration file including a function and a hash value associated with a resource. The hash value may be determined based on an identifier of the resource. The proxy auto-configuration file may include the hash value instead of a plaintext value of the identifier to obscure the plaintext value of the identifier. The proxy auto-configuration file including the function and the hash value may be sent to at least enable the function to be invoked by a web browser at one or more clients. The function may be configured to respond to being invoked by the web browser by determining, based on the hash value, whether to bypass a proxy server when accessing the resource. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11005921B2	Sharing a data management policy with a load balancer In one general embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes analyzing a plurality of data management factors within an object-based storage system, including tracking which of a plurality of proxy servers within the object-based storage system currently holds a lock; determining a data management policy for predetermined data within the object-based storage system, based on the analyzing, including identifying a current location of the lock within one of the plurality of proxy servers within the object-based storage system; and sharing the data management policy for the predetermined data, including the current location of the lock within the object-based storage system, with a load balancer associated with the object-based storage system.
US11005920B2	Synchronized release of resources used in deferential cloud services A method is provided of using a set of servers to provide deferential services that have a pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes defining a virtual checkpoint frame interval that is constrained to a duration of up to half of the pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes, responsive to an end of the interval, (i) writing, to a shared state database, a state of processing of the packets and transactions occurring during the interval that are processed by a current one of the servers, and (ii) releasing the packets and transactions occurring during the interval. The method includes copying the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and the state, from the current server to another server for subsequent processing, responsive to an indication of an instance loss on the current server.
US11005918B2	Network-aware structured content downloads A request for a content document is sent by a client device to a content server through a first network connection. A current network characteristic of the first network connection differs from a configured download constraint to download a content portion of the content document. A root document that omits the content portion of the content document and that includes a content stub is downloaded from the content server. The content stub identifies the content portion using a content identifier and specifies the configured download constraint. A network connection change to the content server from the first network connection to a second network connection that satisfies the configured download constraint to download the content portion of the content document is detected, and the content portion is downloaded using the second network connection and the content identifier within the content stub.
US11005907B2	Single stream format for multiple display modes Disclosed herein are techniques to provide a unified display stream for multiple modes of a display specification. The display stream can include a link layer control protocol packet comprising link control information inserted between a set number of packets comprising display data. A packet can comprise indications of display data for a single stream or multiple streams.
US11005904B2	Method, device, and computer program for encapsulating HEVC layered media data The invention relates to a method for encapsulating multi-layer partitioned timed media data in a server, the multi-layer partitioned timed media data comprising timed samples, each timed sample being encoded into a first layer and at least one second layer, at least one timed sample comprising at least one subsample, each subsample being encoded into the first layer or the at least one second layer. The method comprises: obtaining at least one subsample from at least one of the timed samples; creating a track comprising the at least one obtained subsample; and generating a descriptive metadata associated with the created track, the descriptive metadata being organized into one main descriptive box per track, the descriptive information about the organization of the different layers being included into one or more sub-boxes, wherein at most one main descriptive box comprises the one or more sub-boxes.
US11005900B2	Notifications to all devices to update state A device state service supported on an application server is disclosed herein. The device state service is configured to dynamically monitor a device state across devices, and particularly monitor whether or not a device is currently active (e.g., incoming or outgoing ringing, incoming or outgoing busy signal, audio and/or video call in progress, etc.) The active device transmits device state data along with context data and sensor data (collectively “real-time data”). The inactive (or subject) devices may likewise transmit real-time data to the device state service. The device state service determines an action for the subject and/or active devices to perform based on the received real-time data. For example, when a user's smartphone is currently active (e.g., a call in-progress), the user's tablet may enter a power save mode to save resources.
US11005898B2	System for establishing a shared media session for one or more client devices A system is provided for establishing a shared media session for one or more client devices. One or more processors in the system are configured to establish a shared media session that includes a disparate live media output stream scheduled by a first client device to start at a defined timestamp, and played back on one of the first client device or a plurality of client devices that join the shared media session through a distributed communication network. A persistent record of event data and media, synchronized based on one or more criteria and received from a recording client device, is generated corresponding to the shared media session and previous shared media sessions until the shared media session is terminated by at least one of the first client device or by abandonment of the distributed communication network by the plurality of client devices.
US11005896B2	Service chaining for multiple uplink bridges in a virtualization environment A system and method for facilitating communication between one or more of a plurality of user virtual machines and external devices is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of uplink bridges configured to facilitate communication between the plurality of user virtual machines and the external devices, a plurality of local bridges, with each of the plurality of user virtual machines being connected to one or more of the plurality of local bridges, and a first multiplexing bridge connected to the plurality of local bridges. The first multiplexing bridge is configured to direct data between the plurality of user virtual machines and the plurality of uplink bridges. The system also includes a second multiplexing bridge connected to the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges. The second multiplexing bridge is configured to direct the data between the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges.
US11005883B2	Application graph builder Disclosed is a system for recommending content of a predefined category to an account holder, detecting spam applications, or account holders based on the account holder application graphs. The system receives information corresponding to applications executing on the client device of the account holders and generates an application graph for each account holder that includes a list of predefined application categories that are preferred by the account holder. For each predefined category, a list of account holders preferring content relevant to that category is predicted based on the set of generated application graphs. Some application graphs may be detected as spam application graphs by comparing the generated application graphs with a set of predefined spam application graphs. Alternatively, if the generated application graph does not match the predefined spam application graphs, they are compared to a set of application graphs from a database to find similar application graphs.
US11005867B1	Systems and methods for tuning application network behavior The disclosed computer-implemented method for tuning application network behavior may include identifying an application for a closed operating system. The closed operating system may prevent applications from implementing machine-level traffic control for network traffic. The method may include determining an expected network behavior of the application, intercepting network traffic of the application on the closed operating system, determining whether the intercepted network traffic conforms to the expected network behavior, and modifying, based on the determining whether the intercepted network traffic conforms to the expected network behavior, the network traffic. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11005862B1	Systems and methods of detecting and mitigating malicious network activity Disclosed herein are systems and methods executing a security server that perform various processes using alert elements containing various data fields indicating threats of fraud or attempts to penetrate an enterprise network. Using alert elements, the security server generate integrated alerts that are associated with customers of the system and assign a risk score for the integrated alerts, which the security server uses to store and sort the integrated alerts according to a priority, based on the relative risk scores. Analyst computers may query and fetch integrated alerts from an integrate alert database, and then present the integrate alerts to be addressed by an analyst according to the priority level of the respective integrated alerts. This allows to ensure that the right customer, is worked by the right analyst, at the right time, to maximize fraud prevention and minimize customer impact.
US11005857B2	Systems and methods for securing industrial data streams with a fog root of trust Systems and methods for security of industrial data streams are provided herein. Methods according to various embodiments include provisioning a fogNode that is communicatively coupled with a fog cloud manager through a forwarder of the fogNode and providing a fogLet within the fogNode, the fogLet communicating with a plurality of operational technology devices. Embodiments include providing fogLet identification information using hardware root of trust of the fogNode, the hardware root of trust of the fogNode being a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) of the fogNode. Embodiments further comprise communicating operational device authentication information with fogLet identification information to a third party tenant application, the third party tenant application validating industrial data streams from the operational technology devices by communicating the operational device authentication information with the fogLet identification information to a third party cloud application.
US11005856B2	Strengthening integrity assurances for DNS data One or more DNS services are provided that are configured to not only tolerate some commonly observed DNSSEC misconfigurations (while still providing DNSSEC's security guarantees), but also provide a more intelligent DNS resolution process informed by DNSSEC.
US11005855B2	Apparatus and method for securely managing the accessibility to content and applications A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receive secret information and non-secret information from a secure download application function, provide a request for a first verification to a secure element where the first verification is associated with access to content and/or an application that is accessible via the secure download application function, receive the first verification which is generated by the secure element based on the secret information without providing the secret information to the secure device processor, receive the non-secret information from the secure element, and generate a second verification for the access based on the non-secret information, where the content and/or application is accessible from the secure download application function responsive to the first and second verifications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11005854B2	Delivery security system A method and system for providing access to a location secured by an electronically activated locking mechanism, the method comprising: detecting a geographical position of a mobile device. Determining that the detected geographical position of the mobile device is proximate to the location secured by the electronically activated locking mechanism. Transmitting a signal causing the electronically activated locking mechanism to unlock.
US11005851B2	Retrieving digital content over a network An electronic device includes a user interface, the user interface being communicably coupled to processing circuitry configured to operate a research browser plugin, the research browser plugin, via the processing circuitry, being configured to determine a user's access permissions to a document, the document being stored at network locations in document versions that are categorized by a predetermined hierarchy. Additionally, the research browser plugin is configured to generate, on the user interface, a one-click control and associate the one-click control with a resource locator (e.g., URL) of a selected document version, the selected version being the highest version in the hierarchy to which the user has access permissions, and retrieve the document associated with the resource locator in response to one-click activation of the one-click control.
US11005850B2	Access control for database In an embodiment of the present invention, a command for performing a database operation with respect to a table of a database is received, whereby the table has a visible key column for identification information and one or more invisible token columns for token information. The user's role from the command is obtained. A record is identified in the table based on a combination of the identification information and the token information corresponding to the user's role. The database operation is performed on the identified record.
US11005848B2	Service processing method, apparatus and server The present application provides a service processing method, apparatus and server, and the method includes: when a first user logs on a client device based on a first account, receiving an operation request for requesting a service operation from the first user; according to the first account, searching account binding relationship which has been stored; if a second account of a second user bound with the first account is found, permitting the first user to accomplish the service operation using the second account authority of the second account; after the first user accomplishes the service operation using the second account authority of the second account, updating the second account information of the second account according to the operation result of the service operation. By applying the embodiments of the present application, the first user can accomplish various service operations on the basis of the account authorities of the multiple bound accounts, thus expanding the way of implementing services; and the times of transmission of service data among different accounts can be reduced, thus improving the interactive efficiency of service information.
US11005847B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for executing an application in clouds Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for executing an application in clouds. In the method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an application execution request from a user for executing an application in clouds is received. In response to the application execution request, a monitoring module and a protection data configuration are uploaded into a runtime environment, the protection data configuration defining sensitive data which are not allowed to be accessed by a user of low authorization level. By the monitoring module, data input and data output of the user during execution of the application are monitored based on the protection data configuration to prevent the user of low authorization level from accessing the sensitive data. Embodiments of the present disclosure can achieve effective protection for sensitive data during the process of executing the application.
US11005846B2	Method and apparatus for providing trust-based media services Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a trust-based media service. First user related data and second user related data are collected from a media service and other service, the trust is analyzed based on the collected data, trust information including the trust index of the first user or the second user is obtained, and the trust information is provided. The trust index is calculated based on a value of trustworthiness for a user obtained based on a first individual measurement index calculated based on the collected data and a value of relationship between the first user and the second user obtained based on a second individual measurement index calculated based on the collected data.
US11005845B2	Network device validation and management A second device seeking to access a network can be detected using a first device communicatively coupled to the network. Responsive to detecting the second device seeking to access the network, the first device can be caused to communicatively uncouple from the network and whether the second device poses a risk of corrupting the network's intended functioning if the second device accesses the network can be determined by the first device.
US11005840B2	Preventing unauthorized access to secured information systems using authentication tokens and multi-device authentication prompts Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing unauthorized access to secured information systems. A computing platform may receive, from an end user desktop computing device, a request to login to a user account associated with a user account portal. In response to receiving the request, the computing platform may generate an authentication token in an authentication database and may send a notification to at least one registered device linked to the user account. After sending the notification, the computing platform may receive, from the at least one registered device, an authentication response message. If the authentication response message indicates that valid authentication input was received, the computing platform may update the authentication token to indicate that the request to login to the user account has been approved. After updating the authentication token, the computing platform may provide, to the end user desktop computing device, access to a portal interface.
US11005833B2	Distributed, decentralized data aggregation Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for distributed and/or decentralized data aggregation. A method includes accessing each of a plurality of third party service providers, from a hardware device associated with a user, using the user's determined electronic credentials, to download data associated with the user from the third party service providers. A method includes accessing one or more other locations on one or more of a third party service providers, with one or more artificially introduced delays between accessing the one or more other locations and downloading data, thereby emulating a use pattern of a user for the one or more of the third party service providers. A method includes aggregating downloaded data from third party service providers and providing one or more communications to a user on a hardware device based on the aggregated downloaded data.
US11005823B2	Field level security system for securing sensitive data Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for securing data. In some embodiments, a system for securing data may comprise one or more processors configured to receive a request for data over a network. The one or more processors may be configured to identify one or more confidential portions of data within the requested data. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the confidential portions of data to a hardware device configured to secure the confidential portions of data, and receive the secured data from the hardware device.
US11005822B2	Securing substation communications using security groups based on substation configurations In one embodiment, a network policy engine obtains a substation configuration description for a substation, indicative of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), associated network communication devices, and related communication configuration information. The network policy engine then creates a mapping of the IEDs and the associated network communication devices based on the substation configuration description, associating each of the IEDs to a corresponding network port of the associated network communication devices. The network policy engine may then further create network control parameters based on the substation configuration description, which comprise defined communication flows for the IEDs and associated security group tags (SGTs) for the defined communication flows. The techniques herein may then cause the SGTs to be imposed at mapped network ports of the network communication devices for the IEDs according to security group access (SGA)-based network control to thereby establish secure network communication for the IEDs within the particular substation.
US11005819B1	Secure surrogate cloud browsing Surrogate browsing techniques are disclosed. A request for a page is received, from a client, by a surrogate. The specified page is requested by the surrogate from a site. Data received from the site in response to the request is rendered at the surrogate. A representation of the page is transmitted to the client.
US11005808B1	Multiple provisioning object operation A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium, and an apparatus operable to perform the method is provided for managing multiple provisioned domain name system (“DNS”) registry objects. The method can include receiving, at a DNS registry, a multiple domain extensible provisioning protocol (“EPP”) command from a registrar on behalf of a registrant to perform an action for each provisioned DNS registry object of the multiple provisioned DNS registry objects; comparing the action with one or more allowable actions in a policy maintained by the registry; determining, by a processor, that the action is allowable based on the comparing; and performing, based on the determining, the action on each of the provisioned DNS registry objects in one transaction.
US11005807B2	Determining traceability of network traffic over a communications network System and method for determining traceability of network request traffic over a communications network for reducing strain in traffic processing resources, which includes: provisioning a direct interconnect on the communications network between the server and a predefined source, the direct interconnect providing a private service interface, a defined pairings data of the predefined source with the direct interconnect stored in a storage as a network traffic almanac; provisioning a public service interface on the communications network; receiving a request traffic having an address of the predefined source via the public service interface; consulting the defined paring data with the address to determine if the request traffic matches the predefined source; and de-prioritizing processing of the request traffic based on the request traffic being received on the public service interface rather than the direct interconnect, by dynamically applying a prioritize criterion to the second request traffic before generating a response traffic.
US11005806B1	Methods and apparatus for deep packet inspection to identify intermediate network devices A method of identifying intermediate devices within a communications network includes intercepting a network data packet originating from a second compute device, and parsing the network data packet to identify a client hardware MAC address of the at least one network data packet. The identified client hardware MAC address is compared with a source MAC address stored in a memory operably coupled to the processor, and no match is found. The second compute device is classified as an intermediate device based on the lack of a match between the identified client hardware MAC address and the source MAC address.
US11005804B2	Tracking electronic mail messages in a separate computing system Content items found in a designated folder within an e-mail system are obtained by a separate computing system. The content items are converted into entities within the separate computing system, and associated with one or more other entities within the separate computing system, based on a set of mapping rules. The content items can then be surfaced, in context, in the separate computing system.
US11005801B1	Personalized dashboard chart for email subscriptions A method for managing a user's email subscriptions has been developed. The method provides a user interface (UI) to the user that allows the user to view and select multiple stand-alone components across multiple dashboard displays for an email subscription to an email address. The user's selections are received via the UI and include one or more stand-alone components from a first dashboard display and one or more stand-alone components from a second dashboard display in the email subscription. The first dashboard display is not the same was the second dashboard display. A display of each of the subscribed stand-alone components is rendered periodically based on the user's preference. The rendered displays are combined into a single email message that is sent to the email address upon completion of the rendering of the displays.
US11005800B1	System and method for regulating electronic message transmissions Systems and methods for regulating electronic messages transmissions. A message delay system is disposed between one or more first entities and a second entity within at least one network. Electronic messages are received from among at least one the first entities and the second entity at one or more message arrival times. A message delay component applies a delay to each received electronic message, based on a predefined delay time common to all of the first entities and a first entity delay offset associated with a first entity that is associated with the received message. The first entity delay offset is based on a geographical origin of the first entity relative to a geographical origin of the second entity. Each delayed message is transmitted to a designated recipient via the network, where the designated recipient is among the second entity and the first entities.
US11005798B2	Messaging system with dynamic content delivery A message handling system comprising connection handler circuitry, message parser circuitry, message modification circuitry, message processing circuitry, and content caching circuitry, wherein the message parser circuitry is operable to extract header(s) and/or content of a received message. The message modification circuitry is operable to generate a modified message by inserting, into the message, an HTML tag comprising a first unique uniform resource locator (URL). The connection handler circuitry is operable to send the modified message to a device that handles messages for the recipient. The message processing circuitry is operable to analyze the one or more headers and/or content. The message processing circuitry is operable to determine which image of a plurality of images to serve in response to a request containing the first unique URL, wherein the determination is based on the analysis of the one or more headers and/or content. The content caching circuitry is operable to serve the determined image.
US11005796B2	Animated delivery of electronic messages An electronic message is transformed into moving images uttering the content of the electronic message. Methods of the present invention may be implemented on devices such as smart phones to enable users to compose text and select an animation character which may include cartoons, persons, animals, or avatars. The recipient is presented with an animation or video of the animation character with a voice that speaks the words of the text. The user may further select and include a catch-phrase associated with the character. The user may further select a background music identifier and a background music associated with the background music identifier is played back while the animated text is being presented. The user may further select a type of animation and the animation character will be animated according to the type of animation.
US11005793B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining access control parameter discrepancies in group-based communication channels with a group-based communication system This disclosure describes a group-based communication system comprising a group-based communication server and a group-based communication repository. The group-based communication server manages access control parameter discrepancies between a group-based communication channel and a requested resource that is disposed in communication with the group-based communication channel.
US11005788B2	Event planning in a content sharing platform Systems and methods are provided for receiving a selection to add an event invite media overlay to a media content item, receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event, and adding to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay. The systems and methods further comprise causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item, receiving at least one user to which to send an invite to the event, and sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, an invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item.
US11005782B2	Multi-endpoint adapter/multi-processor packet routing system A multi-endpoint adapter includes endpoints configured to couple to respective processing subsystems, multi-endpoint adapter ports configured to couple to an external switch via respective external switch ports, and an internal switch coupled to the endpoints and multi-endpoint adapter ports. The internal switch receives a data packet from a first application provided by a first processing subsystem through a first endpoint, and matches the data packet to a data flow associated with QoS parameter(s). The internal switch then identifies a data flow action that is associated with the data flow and that provides for the transmission of the data packet via a first multiple endpoint adapter port that is configured in a manner that satisfies the at least one QoS parameter, and performs the data flow action to transmit the data packet through the first multi-endpoint adapter port and a first external switch port to the external switch.
US11005780B2	Device, system and method for allocating resources for video streaming A device, system and method for allocating resources for video streaming is provided. A device determines, respective differences between reserved and actual allocated resources for videos provided to a streaming system by client devices, and selects, at the streaming system, from a plurality of discrete selectable allocated resources available at the streaming system, first reserved aggregate allocated resources based on the actual allocated resources for the videos, the first reserved aggregate allocated resources for streaming the videos to video-playing devices. The device monitors used resources for streaming the videos to the video-playing devices and, in response to determining that the used resources are within a threshold value of the first reserved aggregate allocated resources: from the plurality of discrete selectable allocated resources, selects second reserved aggregate allocated resources based on the respective differences between the reserved allocated resources and the actual allocated resources for the videos.
US11005777B2	Software defined prober In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by one or more processors, a weight of a link between a first node and a second node of a network, wherein the weight is proportional to a probability value of forwarding a probe packet from the first node to the second node of the network. The method also includes adjusting, by the processors, the weight of the link between the first node and the second node using binary exponential backoff. The method further includes determining, by the processors, to forward the probe packet to the second node of the network based on the adjusted weight of the link and one or more field values of the probe packet.
US11005768B2	Optimising multicast video delivery in a wireless network The invention sets out a method where a critical loading related to jitter associated with a link between the access point and a client device is determined. This critical load is the load beyond which retransmissions are insufficient for the client device to repair the video stream. The critical load is determined by sending data at varying transmission rates during a calibration mode, and measuring the jitter and packet loss rate. A safe load is then set as a fraction of this critical load. The loading associated with a multicast stream is then monitored with reference to this safe load, and if the safe load is met or exceeded, then action is taken to avoid packet loss increasing to a critical level. One action may be to adjust the transmission rate of the multicast stream for example, such that the load is reduced to below the safe load level.
US11005767B2	Method, device and computer program product for data processing A data processing method comprises: receiving a data packet related to a service. The method also comprises determining whether predefined configuration information indicates a priority of the service. The method further comprises in response to the configuration information indicating the priority of the service, adding an indication of the priority into the data packet. The above method can enable the underlying network devices to adopt a suitable strategy to process data packets from services of different priorities, so as to improve the transmission efficiency of the data packets and enhance user experience of the services.
US11005766B1	Path profiling for streaming applications In an approach to improve online path profiling by identifying heavy trafficked paths in streaming applications embodiments track data tuples through a streaming application. Embodiments consist of periodically executing a tuple submission application programming interface (API) and a tuple processing API. Additionally, embodiments record active paths using a profiler thread by taking snapshots of a current path index across threads. Furthermore, embodiments generate path usage information based on the recorded active path, generate a path usage graph based on the path usage information; and optimize identified trafficked paths based on the path usage data and path usage map.
US11005764B2	Methods and systems for transmission control protocol (TCP) communications Methods and systems are disclosed for performing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications. A TCP packet may be received. An artificial error may be added to the TCP packet to prevent the occurrence of a TCP meltdown.
US11005761B1	Method, device, and computer-readable medium for automatic network traffic engineering A computer-implemented method for automatic configuring of a network of interconnected nodes to handle electronic data traffic comprises the steps of receiving a request to transfer a block of data from a source data storage device of the network to a destination data storage device, determining a status for each data storage device and a plurality of data transmission devices, determining paths through the network from the source data storage device to the destination data storage device based upon the status of the devices, sending a prioritized configuration to each subset of data transmission devices to establish the paths from the source data storage device to the destination data storage device, sending a signal to the source data storage device to transfer the block of data to the destination data storage device, and returning the data transmission devices to a default configuration after the block of data has been transferred.
US11005760B2	Ensuring data locality for secure transmission of data An approach is provided that selects a geographic location to which transmission of a data packet is disallowed. The approach identifies disallowed network devices that reside in the selected geographic location and builds a routing path through a public computer network through an allowed set of network devices with the allowed set of network devices not including any of the disallowed network devices. The approach then transmits the data packet from a transmitting network device to a receiving network device using the routing path.
US11005757B1	Network interface controller (NIC) with trusted execution environment (TEE) that redirects packets based on a processing policy A network interface controller (NIC). The NIC includes a first physical port, a second physical port, a non-transitory memory, a processor coupled to the first and second physical ports, and a data packet grooming application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application is configured to parse datagrams encapsulated within data link layer packets received by the first physical port, analyze the encapsulated datagrams based on a processing policy stored in the non-transitory memory, transmit some of the received data link layer packets via the second physical port to a server computer associated with the NIC, and transmit the remainder of the received data link layer packets via the first physical port to a second server computer.
US11005755B2	Packet processing method in cloud computing system, host, and system A packet processing method in a computing system is disclosed. The computing system comprises a host, wherein at least one network interface card is connected to the host. The network interface card includes switching equipment and at least two network ports. A first network port is corresponding to at least one physical function PF and multiple virtual functions VFs. At least one VF of the first network port is provided for a first virtual machine on the host in a passthrough manner. The first virtual machine sends a data packet from the VF that is connected to the first virtual machine. Switching equipment of the first network port forwards the data packet according to a destination MAC address of the data packet, and sends the data packet to a virtual bridge on VMM of the host. The VMM provides abundant network function processing for the data packet.
US11005754B1	Incremental development of a data plane program In one example embodiment, a network management device obtains a definition of a first network packet header, an identification of a condition indicating that a network packet has the first network packet header, and a definition of processing action information that includes a key and a processing action to be taken on the network packet when metadata in the network packet matches the key. The network management device merges custom network packet processing instructions written in a data plane programming language with pre-existing network packet processing instructions written in the data plane programming language to produce merged network packet processing instructions written in the data plane programming language. The custom network packet processing instructions define the first network packet header, identify the condition, and define the processing action information. The network management device provides the merged network packet processing instructions for execution by a network node.
US11005753B2	Defining routing domain for distributed packet processing For a managed network including multiple host machines implementing multiple logical networks, some embodiments provide a method that reduces the memory and traffic load required to implement the multiple logical networks. The method generates configuration data for each of multiple host machines including (i) data to configure a host machine to implement a set of logical forwarding elements that belong to a set of routing domains and (ii) identifiers for each routing domain in the set of routing domains. The method then receives data regarding tunnels endpoints operating on each of the host machines and an association with the routing identifiers sent to the host machines. The method then generates a routing domain tunnel endpoint list for each routing domain based on the data received from each of the host machines including a list of the tunnel endpoints associated with the routing domain which the host machines can use to facilitate packet processing.
US11005751B2	Techniques for exposing maximum node and/or link segment identifier depth utilizing IS-IS Techniques for exposing maximum node and/or link segment identifier depth using IS-IS are described. A network element in a Segment Routing (SR) network transmits a Type Length Value (TLV) element including a Maximum Segment Identifier Depth (MSD) value. The MSD value identifies a maximum number of segment identifier (SID) labels that the network element is able to push into packet headers of received packets to enable forwarding of the received packets through the SR network. The network element receives, from a controller, data for a path to be utilized by the network element for forwarding the received packets through the SR network. The data includes one or more SID labels to be pushed into the received packets, and the SID labels include fewer than or equal to the MSD value. The controller and the network element do not utilize the Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) over a southbound interface.
US11005747B2	Method for implementing network virtualization and related apparatus and communications system A method for implementing network virtualization, and a related apparatus and a communications system are provided. The method for implementing network virtualization may include: receiving, by an SDN controller, a virtual network creation request that carries virtual network topology information; creating a virtual network in response to the virtual network creation request; establishing, by the SDN controller, a device mapping relationship; establishing, by the SDN controller, a port mapping relationship; allocating, by the SDN controller, a virtual SDN controller to the virtual network; and registering, by the SDN controller, a first virtual forwarding device and a second virtual forwarding device with the virtual SDN controller. Technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention help to improve networking flexibility, reduce service costs, and shorten a service deployment period.
US11005746B1	Stack group merging system A stack group merging system includes a first stack group including a first master stack device and first slave stack device(s), and a second stack group includes a second master stack device and second slave stack device(s). The first master stack device determines a first total data traffic amount transmitted by itself and the first slave stack device(s) in the first stack group. The second master stack device determines a second total data traffic amount transmitted by itself and the second slave stack device(s) in the second stack group. The first and second master stack devices exchange the first and second total data traffic amounts, and the master stack device in the stack group that transmits a higher total data traffic amount then operates as a master slave device for a merged stack group including the first and second stack group.
US11005744B2	Port rate determining method and computer device A method and apparatus for determining a port rate determines a channel transmission rate of an SAS port including N physical channels. The method includes: determining M different negotiated rates of the N physical channels; separately determining M total port bandwidths corresponding to the M different negotiated rates; and determining a negotiated rate corresponding to a largest total port bandwidth in the M total port bandwidths as a channel transmission rate of the port. A lowest negotiated rate is no longer used as the channel transmission rate of the port, but the negotiated rate corresponding to the largest total port bandwidth is determined as the channel transmission rate of the port.
US11005743B2	Tunable low cost network Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising providing services over a network to a device, and constructing device capability and usage profiles. A level of service quality for the device is adjusted by adjusting a latency criterion regarding connection of the device to the network; adjusting a speed of transmissions to or from the device; and altering a routing of transmissions to or from the device. The network can be partitioned so that the adjusted service quality level is provided by a network portion having a predetermined level of resources. The adjusted service quality level can comprise a first level while the device is active and a second level while the device is inactive; the first level is higher than the second level. The first and second levels are lower than a service quality level provided by another network portion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11005736B2	Determining traceability of network traffic over a communications network A system and method for determining the traceability of network request traffic over a communications network for reducing strain in traffic processing resources, which includes: provisioning a direct interconnect on the communications network between the server and a predefined source, the direct interconnect providing a private service interface, a defined pairings data of the predefined source with the direct interconnect stored as a network traffic almanac; provisioning a public service interface on the communications network; receiving a request traffic having an address of the predefined source via the public service interface; consulting the defined pairing data with the address to determine the request traffic matches the predefined source; and de-prioritizing the processing of the request traffic based on the request traffic being received on the public service interface rather than on the direct interconnect by dynamically applying a prioritize criterion to the second request traffic before generating a response traffic.
US11005735B1	Configuration system and method for an integrated computing system An integrated computing system configuration system includes a computing system that executes an application to receive one or more user selected design elements (DEs) associated with a customized integrated computing system configuration in which each user selected DE includes abstracted information of a component used in a customized integrated computing system represented by the customized integrated computing system configuration. The application may then obtain an integrated computing system template representing a standardized integrated computing system product configuration, combine the user selected DEs with the established DEs to form the customized integrated computing system configuration, determine whether the customized integrated computing system configuration comprises a valid integrated computing system configuration, and generate a report indicating the results of the determination. The integrated computing system template having a plurality of established DEs representing a plurality of components of the integrated computing system product configuration.
US11005734B2	Service broker for cloud foundry platform Aurora Service broker for Cloud Foundry platform wherein the Aurora Service broker comprise an hardware and software arrangement to form an interface between the Cloud Foundry platform and Amazon Web Service (AWS) allowing the AWS Service available to applications through Cloud Foundry platform.
US11005733B2	Methods, systems, and apparatus to scale in and/or scale out resources managed by a cloud automation system Methods and apparatus to scale in and/or scale out arbitrary resources managed by a cloud automation system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an execution plan determiner to determine an execution plan for a scaling operation of an application in a platform environment based on a dependency graph; a component scaler to scale a scalable component in the platform environment corresponding to the application based on the execution plan by executing custom logic associated with the scalable component specified in the execution plan; and a dependent updater to update operation of a dependent component based on the scaling of the scalable component, the dependent component operating in conjunction with the scalable component.
US11005731B2	Estimating model parameters for automatic deployment of scalable micro services One aspect of the disclosure relates to, among other things, a method for optimizing and provisioning a software-as-a-service (SaaS). The method includes determining a graph comprising interconnected stages for the SaaS, wherein each stage has a replication factor and one or more metrics that are associated with one or more service level objectives of the SaaS, determining a first replication factor associated with a first one of the stages which meets a first service level objective of the SaaS, adjusting the first replication factor associated with the first one of the stage based on the determined first replication factor, and provisioning the SaaS onto networked computing resources based on the graph and replication factors associated with each stage.
US11005729B2	Satisfying service level agreement metrics for unknown applications In general, the disclosure describes techniques for assigning traffic originating from an unknown application to a link based on known application quality of experience metrics. For instance, a network device may receive an application data packet of a data flow for an application and determine an application signature of the application data packet. The network device may determine whether the application signature matches an entry in an application signature database, and if the application signature does not match, the network device may identify a class of the application based on one or more characteristics of the application data packet. The network device may then assign the application data packet of the data flow to a first link of a plurality of links based on the class of the application and quality of experience (QoE) metrics for each link.
US11005726B2	Systems and methods for configuring network interface affinity to system management features supported by a management controller In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a host system and a management controller communicatively coupled to the host system processor. The host system may include a host system processor and a device coupled to the host system processor. The management controller may be configured to provide management of the information handling system, provide a plurality of management interfaces, and provide a user interface for configuring a respective network interface affinity for each management interface to system management features supported by the management controller.
US11005720B2	System and method for a vehicle zone-determined reconfigurable display Methods and systems for a heads-up configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input.
US11005718B2	Determining capabilities of cognitive entities in a distributed network based on application of cognitive protocols A computer-implemented method includes: detecting, by a computing device, a triggering of a discovery request event for discovering capabilities of each of a plurality of cognitive entities (CEs) in a distributed cognitive network; outputting, by the computing device, discovery requests to each of the plurality of CEs; receiving, by the computing device, respective responses to the discovery request from each of the plurality of CEs, wherein each respective response identifies capabilities of each of the plurality of CEs; generating, by the computing device, a capabilities mapping table based on the receiving the respective responses; and storing, by the computing device, the capabilities mapping table to process a pending or future service request based on capabilities criteria associated with the pending or future service request and the capabilities of each of the plurality of CEs identified in the capabilities mapping table.
US11005706B2	Method for configuring forwarding table for user equipment, apparatus, and system A method for configuring a forwarding table for user equipment, an apparatus, and a system, where an operator server receives a service access request of user equipment, establishes a correspondence for the user equipment, and sends the correspondence to an access node (AN) controller. The correspondence includes a media access control (MAC) address of the user equipment and an identifier of an operator to which the user equipment belongs. The AN controller generates a first forwarding table according to the correspondence, and sends the first forwarding table to an AN. The AN forwards, using the first forwarding table, service data of the user equipment to the operator to which the user equipment belongs.
US11005705B1	Network fault detection and quality of service improvement systems and methods A Quality of Service (QoS) improvement system and method for transport network fault detection and QoS improvement so that a telecommunication network service provider can analyze the root cause on chronic performance issues and recommend potential solutions is disclosed. The system runs performance analysis on each AAV (mobile backhaul) or other transport networks and collects performance related metrics data. The system then selects a subset of the data related to certain key performance indicators (KPIs), such as latency, jitter, packet loss ratio, and availability. On this subset of KPI-related data, the system applies clustering techniques to identify clusters with similar performance issues. For each cluster, the system binds the AAV performance KPI data with one or more of the following site features—health, location, vendor, market, service type, etc.—to create a cluster map. The system can then generate inferences on root causes of the performance issues.
US11005704B2	Mobility robustness in a cellular network A user equipment starts a first timer in response to detecting a physical layer problem with a radio link between the user equipment and a node of a cellular network. Responsive to detecting a handover measurement event, the user equipment also starts a second timer and sends a measurement report to the node. The starting of the first and second timers causes the first and second timers to simultaneously elapse. Responsive to one of the simultaneously elapsing timers expiring, the user equipment sends a radio link failure report, to the node, indicating which of the simultaneously elapsing timers expired.
US11005697B2	Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing equalization using deep neural network Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) equalization using a Deep Neural Network (DNN) may be provided. First, a signal in a packet structure may be received at an OFDM receiver from an OFDM transmitter. The signal may have distortion. Training constellation points, pilot constellation points, and data constellation points may be extracted from the signal based on the packet structure. Each data constellation point may correspond to a data subcarrier within a data symbol of the signal. Next, the training constellation points and the pilot constellation may be provided as input for the data symbol to a DNN. A coefficient for each data subcarrier within the data symbol that reverses the distortion may be received as output from the DNN. Then, the coefficient for each data subcarrier may be applied to the corresponding data constellation point to determine a per subcarrier constellation point prediction.
US11005694B2	Apparatus for analyzing transmitter identification signal and method using the same Disclosed herein are an apparatus for analyzing a transmitter identification (TxID) signal and a method using the apparatus. The apparatus for analyzing the TxID signal includes a demodulator for decoding the bootstrap of a received signal; a cancellation unit for performing a host signal cancellation process for the received signal, thereby generating a host-signal-cancelled received signal; a correlator for calculating a correlation value between a signal corresponding to the host-signal-cancelled received signal and a signal corresponding to a TxID sequence; and a TxID profile analyzer for generating information about a channel between a transmitter corresponding to the TxID signal and a receiver using the correlation value.
US11005690B1	Method and device for digital compensation of dynamic distortion in high-speed transmitters A device and method of operation for digital compensation of dynamic distortion. The transmitter device includes at least a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) connected to a lookup table (LUT), a first shift register, and a second shift register. The method includes iteratively adjusting the input values via the LUT to induce changes in the DAC output that compensate for dynamic distortion, which depends on precursors, current cursors, and postcursors. More specifically, the method includes producing and capturing average output values for each possible sequence of three symbols using the shift register and LUT configuration. Then, the LUT is updated with estimated values to induce desired output values that are adjusted to eliminate clipping. These steps are performed iteratively until one or more check conditions are satisfied. This method can also be combined with techniques such as equalization, eye modulation, and amplitude scaling to introduce desirable output signal characteristics.
US11005688B2	Common-mode control for AC-coupled receivers Implementations provide a receiver circuit that includes: an alternate current (AC)-coupling network to filter an input signal, the AC-coupling network including a first RC filter connected between a first input node and a first common node and a second RC filter connected between a second input node and the first common node; a differential amplifier coupled to the AC-coupling network and configured to receive a filtered input signal from the AC-coupling network and generate an output signal, the differential amplifier including a differential pair of transistors and a common-mode measurement network coupled to source terminals of a first and a second transistors in the differential pair; and a first operational amplifier having an input coupled to output terminal of the common-mode measurement network and an output coupled to the first common node.
US11005686B2	Wireless communication system Methods and apparatus for communicating circuit switched voice data with a first cellular radio access network (RAN) and communicating voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) packets using session initiation protocol (SIP) with a second cellular RAN. The second cellular RAN does not support circuit switched voice communication.
US11005677B2	System and method for controlling building systems engineering The invention relates to a system for controlling building systems engineering on the basis of measured values detected by sensors. The system comprises a mobile device (3), at least one stationary sensor unit (14.1, 14.2, 14.3) and a data processing unit (16). The mobile device (3), the at least one sensor unit (14.1, 14.2, 14.3) and the data processing unit (16) are connected by at least one communications network. The system is distinguished in that the mobile device (3) has at least one sensor (5) for detecting a physical variable, and the data processing unit (16) generates a control signal for the building engineering system on the basis of a combination of information about the physically detected variable of the sensor of the mobile device (3) and of the stationary sensor unit (14.1, 14.2, 14.3).
US11005675B2	Electronic device and method for providing notification service therefor An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: a communication unit for performing communication with at least one external electronic device; and a processor for receiving, from the external electronic device, interest information of a user in the external electronic device and system information in the external electronic device, comparing the received interest information and system information with notification service information of the electronic device, and determining whether the user registers a notification service.
US11005662B2	Multimodal communication system A multimodal communication system includes a vehicle controller that controls one or more systems or subsystems of an unmanned vehicle. The communication controller manages communication and logical access to the unmanned vehicle. One or more sensors in communication with the communication controller detects and measures physical properties in proximity to the unmanned vehicle. Transceivers receive the unmanned vehicle commands that are transmitted simultaneously or concurrently and a monotonic generator generates a monotonic object each time the unmanned vehicle's operating state changes. The communication controller executes the first unmanned vehicle command received that has the correct cryptographic hash validating knowledge of the unmanned vehicle's current operating state.
US11005659B2	Protocol independent forwarding of traffic for content inspection service A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for, responsive to an attempted connection from a client to a server for establishing communications between the client and the server, redirecting the connection to a proxy and injecting protocol-independent header information into a datagram of the traffic between the client and the server, the protocol-independent header information including information based upon which the proxy enforces a security policy.
US11005655B2	System and method of providing information to a device In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may provide, to a device coupled to an information handling system, a request for salt data; may receive the salt data from the device; may determine a first position in an application that is executed by at least one processor of the information handling system; may determine a second position in the application, different from the first position; may determine a hash value of the application between the first position and the second position; may encrypt, utilizing a private encryption key, the salt data and the hash value as encrypted data; may provide the encrypted data to a buffer associated with the application; may retrieve the encrypted data from the buffer; and may provide the encrypted data to the device.
US11005651B2	Method and terminal for establishing security infrastructure and device A method, terminal and device for establishing security infrastructure, comprising: an intermediate service organization receives an organization secret key sent by a third-party service organization; the intermediate service organization encrypts the organization secret key by a first encryption means and sends the encrypted organization secret key to a security storage region of a terminal; the intermediate service organization receives a first terminal public key encrypted by the terminal using a second encryption means; and the intermediate service organization sends the first terminal public key obtained by decryption to the third-party service organization. The organization secret key of the third-party service organization may be sent to the terminal through the intermediate service organization, and the first terminal public key of the terminal may be sent to the third-party service organization, thus a universal security infrastructure and a technical frame work having good openness may be provided by the intermediate service organization.
US11005649B2	Autonomous driving controller encrypted communications An autonomous driving controller includes a plurality of parallel processors operating on common input data received from the plurality of autonomous driving sensors. Each of the plurality of parallel processors includes communication circuitry, a general processor, a security processor subsystem (SCS), and a safety subsystem (SMS). The communication circuitry supports communications between the plurality of parallel processors, including inter-processor communications between the general processors of the plurality of parallel processors, communications between the SCSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SCS cryptography, and communications between the SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SMS cryptography, the SMS cryptography differing from the SCS cryptography. The SCS and/or the SMS may each include dedicated hardware and/or memory to support the communications.
US11005647B2	Method for processing an image executed by a terminal forming a “white box” environment The present invention relates to a method for processing an image executed by a terminal (1), comprising steps of receiving a proof datum previously input by a user of the terminal (1), setting (104, 106) of at least one parameter to a first value when the proof datum is equal to a secret reference datum, and to a second value different to the first value when the proof datum is different to the secret reference datum, and generation (200) of an output datum from an input datum being or dependent on an image previously acquired by a sensor (4), and also from the parameter, the output datum having a value as function of the value the parameter has been set to.
US11005641B2	Distributed antenna system for multiple input multiple output signal According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a master unit included in a distributed antenna system of a frequency division duplex scheme, includes: a frequency converting unit converting a frequency of a first signal received from a base station into a predetermined frequency to generate a first frequency conversion signal; a signal combining unit combining the first frequency conversion signal and a second signal received from the base station to generate a transmit signal; and a signal transmitting/receiving unit transmitting the transmit signal to a remote unit connected through a single transmission line.
US11005640B2	Component carrier activation and deactivation using resource assignments This invention relates to a proposal of an uplink resource assignment format and a downlink resource assignment format. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the new uplink/downlink resource assignments in methods for (de)activation of downlink component carrier(s) configured for a mobile terminal, a base station and a mobile terminal. To enable efficient and robust (de)activation of component carriers, while minimizing the signaling overhead, the invention proposes a new uplink/downlink resource assignment format that allow the activation/deactivation of individual downlink component carriers configured for a mobile. The new uplink or downlink resource assignment comprises an indication of the activation state of the configured downlink component carriers, i.e., indicate which downlink component carrier(s) is/are to be activated or deactivated. This indication is for example implemented by means of a bit-mask that indicates which of the configured uplink component carriers are to be activated respectively deactivated.
US11005639B2	Methods and apparatus for associating carriers in a wireless communication network The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for associating carriers in a wireless communication network. One embodiments provides a method in a wireless terminal device. The wireless terminal device is configurable with a plurality of carriers for communication with one or more network nodes of a wireless network. The plurality of carriers comprise a first carrier operated by a first network node of the wireless network located at a first cell site. The method comprises: responsive to a determination that a second carrier of the plurality of carriers is operated by the first network node or a second network node of the wireless network that is located at the first cell site: obtaining one or more measured values for one or more radio characteristics for the first carrier; and utilizing the one or more measured values to transmit a wireless radio message over the second carrier.
US11005634B2	Dynamic flow control in AMPDU aggregation in wireless communications A first communication apparatus dynamically controls data flow in aggregated medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (AMPDU) aggregation by negotiating an initial block acknowledgement (Block-ACK) window size for the AMPDU aggregation with the second communication apparatus. The first communication apparatus adjusts the AMPDU aggregation during subsequent communication with the second communication apparatus by creating a Block-ACK frame with a reserved field, which has a value indicating a change to the AMPDU aggregation, and then transmitting the Block-ACK frame to the second communication apparatus.
US11005632B2	Dynamic signaling of the downlink and uplink subframe allocation for a TDD wireless communication system An apparatus for use in a wireless communication network, comprising a processing resource configured to determine a time interval for periodic time division duplex (TDD) Uplink/Downlink (UL/DL) reconfiguration windows, generate a UL/DL reconfiguration command to indicate a dynamic TDD UL/DL allocation change, and encode the UL/DL reconfiguration command in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) data, and a radio front end (RF) interface coupled to the processing resource and configured to cause the encoded UL/DL reconfiguration command to be transmitted to a first of a plurality of wireless user equipment (UEs) in a first of the UL/DL reconfiguration windows, wherein the encoded UL/DL reconfiguration command is transmitted via a PDCCH to provide a fast TDD UL/DL reconfiguration.
US11005625B2	Reference signal indication method and apparatus to improve spectrum efficiency This application discloses an indication method and apparatus, to support a requirement of a complex and fickle scenario. The method includes: generating and sending an arrangement indication used to indicate an arrangement manner of a reference signal, where the reference signal occupies at least one group of time frequency resources, and the arrangement manner is frequency division, time division, frequency division+code division, or time division+code division; in the frequency division manner, each group of time frequency resources occupy a symbol in time domain and at least one contiguous subcarrier in frequency domain; in the time division manner, each group of time frequency resources occupy at least one contiguous symbol in time domain and a subcarrier in frequency domain.
US11005619B2	Method and system for non-orthogonal multiple access communication A bit-level operation may be implemented prior to modulation and resource element (RE) mapping in order to generate a NoMA transmission using standard (QAM, QPSK, BPSK, etc.) modulators. In this way, the bit-level operation is exploited to achieve the benefits of NoMA (e.g., improved spectral efficiency, reduced overhead, etc.) at significantly less signal processing and hardware implementation complexity. The bit-level operation is specifically designed to produce an output bit-stream that is longer than the input bit-stream, and that includes output bit-values that are computed as a function of the input bit-values such that when the output bit-stream is subjected to modulation (e.g., m-ary QAM, QPSK, BPSK), the resulting symbols emulate a spreading operation that would otherwise have been generated from the input bit-stream, either by a NoMA-specific modulator or by a symbol-domain spreading operation.
US11005618B1	Adaptive high efficiency, low latency DOCSIS PGS scheduler Determining when to provide a Proactive Grant Service (PGS) scheduling grant. A plurality of PGS grants are issued to a cable modem (CM). The PGS grants that were utilized by the CM are monitored as well as those PGS grants that were not utilized by the CM. A compromise PGS grants pattern for that CM is generated based on the observations of which PGS grants the CM utilized and which PGS grants the CM did not utilize. The compromise PGS grants pattern for that CM optimizes a projected experienced latency and jitter for particular data flows of the CM verses a projected wasted upstream capacity.
US11005613B2	Multiple power control and timing advance loops during wireless communication A method of wireless communication includes receiving a signal from an base station. The method also includes determining a timing advance loop from a set of timing advance loops, and/or a power control loop from a set of power control loops. The determination is based on the received signal.
US11005610B2	Method for setting starting position of data channel in wireless communication system and device using method Provided are a method for setting a starting position in a time domain of a data channel in a wireless communication system and a device using the method thereof. The method comprises the steps of: receiving position information notifying the position at which data channels start in a plurality of subframes; receiving a control channel in a first downlink subframe; and receiving at least one data channel scheduled by the control channel in the plurality of the downlink subframes, wherein the position at which the data channel starts in the plurality of the downlink subframes is determined on the basis of the position information.
US11005609B2	Apparatus and method for avoiding deterministic blanking of secure traffic In one embodiment an apparatus, method, and system is described, the embodiment an apparatus, method including receiving a stream of data frames at an input interface, the data frames one of including security frames, or being included in security frames, wherein the security frames include payload data, performing forward error correction on the data frames a forward error correction (FEC) decoder, buffering received data frames at a buffer and blanker engine and building a complete security frame of the received data frames, determining whether or not to suppress taking a consequent action based on a frequency of authentication errors at an authentication engine, wherein the consequent action to be taken or suppressed, when taken, is taken upon payload data of one or more security frames including a data frame upon which an authentication error occurred. Related apparatus, methods and systems are also described.
US11005606B2	Systems and methods for removal of duplicated packets for transmission According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device includes transmitting a protocol data unit (PDU) or segment of a PDU on a first link and transmitting the PDU or the segment of the PDU on a second link. One or more retransmissions of the PDU or the segment of the PDU are scheduled on the second link. A positive acknowledgment is received from a receiver. The positive acknowledgement indicates a successful receipt of the PDU or the segment of the PDU on the first link. In response to receiving the positive acknowledgement, the one or more retransmissions of the PDU or the segment of the PDU on the second link are cancelled.
US11005602B2	HARQ buffer size design for communication systems Techniques and examples of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) buffer size design for communication systems are described. A user equipment (UE) communicates with a serving cell of a wireless network using a HARQ mechanism, with the communicating involving: (a) determining, by the processor, a respective size of each buffer of a plurality of buffers corresponding to a plurality of HARQ processes on a per-HARQ process basis; and (b) storing, by the processor, respective information in each buffer of the plurality of buffers for a corresponding HARQ process among the plurality of HARQ processes.
US11005601B2	Transmission device, reception device, and communication method In a case of a contention-based radio communication technique, it is necessary to identify a terminal apparatus that has performed data transmission among terminal apparatuses sharing frequency resources. There is a problem that it is difficult to identify the terminal apparatus that has performed data transmission in a case with a large number of terminal apparatuses that are non-orthogonally spatial multiplexed. Provided is a transmission device for transmitting a data signal to a reception device, the transmission device including: a transmission processing unit configured to transmit the data signal without performing SR transmission or receiving control information of transmission permission transmitted from the reception device; an identification signal multiplexing unit configured to multiplex an identification signal to an orthogonal resource; and a control information receiving unit configured to receive in advance a transmission parameter relating to transmission of the data signal. The transmission processing unit transmits the identification signal and a data signal in a case that the transmission processing unit repeatedly transmits the same data signal, based on the transmission parameter.
US11005599B2	Data transmission systems and data transmission methods of suppressing data error occurrences due to crosstalk A data transmission system includes a data transmitter and a data receiver. The data transmitter outputs ‘N’-bit transmission data (where ‘N’ denotes a natural number which is equal to or greater than two). The data receiver receives the ‘N’-bit transmission data through ‘N’-number of data transmission lines. The data receiver transmits a re-transmission request signal to the data transmitter when the ‘N’-bit transmission data inputted to the data receiver are erroneous data. The data transmitter divides the ‘N’-bit transmission data in response to the re-transmission request signal and operates in a first data re-transmission mode so that the divided transmission data are resent, together with first ground data, to the data receiver.
US11005597B2	Two-stage scrambling for polar coded PDCCH transmission A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may receive a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission and perform early termination on the PDCCH transmission. Transmissions that are not intended for the WTRU may be terminated. The WTRU may perform a first decode of the PDCCH transmission based on a first scrambling sequence. The first scrambling sequence may be generated using a Gold sequence, which may be initialized based on a WTRU identifier. If the first decode is not successful, the WTRU may determine that the PDCCH transmission is not intended for the WTRU. The WTRU may perform an assistance bit added (ABA) polar decode of the PDCCH transmission based on a second scrambling sequence (e.g., a cell radio network temporary ID (C-RNTI)). The WTRU may perform a CRC on the output of the ABA polar decode to obtain downlink control information (DCI).
US11005593B2	Systems and methods for multi-carrier signal echo management using pseudo-extensions A receiver is configured to capture a plurality of linearly distorted OFDM symbols transmitted over a signal path. The receiver forms the captured OFDM symbols into an overlapped compound data block that includes payload data and at least one pseudo-extension, processes the overlapped compound block with circular convolution in the time domain using an inverse channel response, or frequency domain equalization, to produce an equalized compound block, and discards end portions of the equalized block to produce a narrow equalized block. The end portion corresponds with the pseudo-extension, and the narrow block corresponds with the payload data. The receiver cascades multiple narrow equalized blocks to form a de-ghosted signal stream of OFDM symbols. The OFDM symbols may be OFDM or OFDMA, and may or may not include a cyclic prefix, which will have a different length from the pseudo-extension.
US11005591B2	Impulse noise management A discrete multitone transceiver (DMT) includes a deinterleaver operable to de-interleave a plurality of bits. The DMT further includes: a forward error correction decoder operable to decode the plurality of bits, a module operable to determine, during Showtime, an impulse noise protection value, wherein the impulse protection value specifies a number corrupted DMT symbols that can be corrected by the forward error correction decoder in combination with the deinterleaver, and a receiver coupled to the deinterleaver. The receiver receives using a first interleaver parameter value, receives a flag signal, and changes to receiving using a second interleaver parameter value that is different than the first interleaver parameter value, wherein the second interleaver parameter value is used for reception on a pre-defined forward error correction codeword boundary following reception of the flag signal.
US11005590B2	Method and system for adjusting packet length and mobile device using the method A method for adjusting packet length is disclosed. A first reference point currently closest to the mobile device is calculated. A current position of a mobile device is compared with GPS data of the first reference point to calculate brief GPS data. It is determined whether a second reference point has been uploaded to the server. It is determined whether the first reference point is identical to the second reference point if the second reference point has been uploaded to the server. The first reference point is uploaded to the server if the first reference point is not identical to the second reference point. The first reference point is uploaded to the server if the second reference point has not been uploaded to the server, and the brief GPS data is uploaded to the server.
US11005586B2	Reference signal monitoring mechanism for remote interference management Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reference signal monitoring and transmission for remote interference management. In some cases, an aggressor base station decides to monitor for reference signals (RSs) transmitted from at least one victim BS, for example, regardless of an amount of interference from at least one remote BS detected by the first base station and participating in a remote interference mitigation (RIM) process based on the monitored RS. In some cases, a first BS transmits reference signals (RSs) as part of a remote interference mitigation (RIM) process, in response to a determination that it is an aggressor BS whose downlink transmissions possibly interfere with reception of uplink transmissions by at least one remote BS, a victim BS whose reception of uplink transmissions are possibly interfered with by downlink transmissions from the at least one remote BS, or both an aggressor BS and a victim BS.
US11005584B2	Clock synchronization in a device To provide an indication of an accuracy level of a grandmaster clock, a solution using at least three different grandmaster types and grandmaster information maintained in a device is introduced. The three grandmaster types are a primary grandmaster, a secondary grandmaster and neither of them. The grandmaster information includes information on a primary grandmaster and information based on which one or more secondary grandmasters may be determined. After master-slave hierarchy negotiations, the grandmaster information and information on a master clock negotiated is used to determine whether the master clock negotiated for the device is the primary grandmaster, a secondary grandmaster setting a warning, or neither of them in which case an alarm is set.
US11005577B2	Reducing wireless interference from a wired digital interface Circuits and systems may be operable to provide improved wireless networking performance in the presence of a high speed wired interface. Filter circuits may be applied to wired interface leads to suppress frequency content that may interfere with wireless home networking. High speed digital wired interface systems on a chip may similarly be altered to suppress interfering frequency content before it leaves the chip. Systems with reduced radiated energy from wired interface circuits in frequencies of interest to wireless networking have improved wireless range and throughput characteristics.
US11005575B2	Wireless sensors in medical environments Monitoring a patient can include a vital sign device including a skin contact and a demodulator circuit in communication with the electrically conductive skin contact, the demodulator circuit including: a physiological waveform data processing module configured to process the waveform data received from the electrically conductive skin contact; and a digitally encoded data processing module configured to detect and decode digitally encoded data modulated at the carrier frequency. Also included can be a signal conductive blanket including an extended touch point. A clinician contacts the extended touch point of the signal conductive blanket and the patient monitoring device to connect the vital sign device and the patient monitoring device.
US11005572B1	Temperature-locked loop for optical elements having a temperature-dependent response Examples described herein generally relate to a temperature-locked loop for optical elements. In an example, a device includes a controller and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The controller includes a DC-controllable transimpedance stage (DCTS), a slicer circuit, and a processor. The DCTS is configured to be coupled to a photodiode. An input node of the slicer circuit is coupled to an output node of the DCTS. The processor has an input node coupled to an output node of the slicer circuit. The DAC has an input node coupled to an output node of the processor and is configured to be coupled to a heater. The processor is configured to control (i) the DCTS to reduce a DC component of a signal on the output node of the DCTS and (ii) an output voltage on the output node of the DAC, both based on a signal output by the slicer circuit.
US11005569B1	Optical transmitter having cascaded modulators An optical data transmitter comprising two or more serially connected optical modulators, each driven using a respective DAC. The digital signals applied to the individual DACs are produced using different respective subsets of the set of bitstreams representing the digital waveform or data stream to be transmitted, with the bitstream subsets being selected, e.g., such that (i) each of the individual DACs is able to support the digital resolution and sampling rate needed for properly handling the subset of bitstreams applied thereto and (ii) differences between average driving powers applied to different optical modulators are relatively small. In different embodiments, the two or more serially connected optical modulators can be arranged for generating optical communication signals of different modulation formats, e.g., PSK, ASK, PAM, IM, and QAM. Some embodiments can advantageously be used for generating optical communication signals employing constellations of relatively large sizes, e.g., larger than 1000 symbols.
US11005568B1	Optical transceiver system An optical transceiver system includes an optical transceiver chassis including a cable connector, a laser subsystem, and a sensor subsystem. A controller included in the optical transceiver chassis is coupled to the laser subsystem and the sensor subsystem. The controller receives a cable connection signal from the sensor subsystem that indicates that a cable has been connected to the cable connector included on the optical transceiver chassis and, in response, activates the laser subsystem. Subsequent to activating the laser subsystem, the controller receives a cable disconnection signal from the sensor subsystem that indicates that the cable has been disconnected from the cable connector included on the optical transceiver chassis and, in response, deactivates the laser subsystem.
US11005565B1	Free space optical communication terminal with wavelength dependent optic Embodiments relate to a free space optical (FSO) communication terminal. The terminal includes an optical source and optics. The optical source can produce optical beams at different wavelengths. The optics direct optical beams in a direction towards a remote FSO communication terminal. A wavelength dependence of the optics results in a divergence of the optical beam that depends on a wavelength of the optical beam. A controller may control the wavelength of the optical beam produced by the optical source, thereby adjusting the divergence of the optical beam (e.g., according to an acquisition process or a tracking process).
US11005564B2	Communication method and apparatus using hybrid modulation scheme in communication system Provided are a communication method and apparatus using a hybrid modulation scheme in a communication system. The communication node uses a hybrid modulation scheme in the communication system and includes a processor, a first light-emitting diode (LED) array configured to transmit a first signal by blinking a first LED set according to control of the processor, a second LED array configured to transmit a second signal by blinking a second LED set according to control of the processor, and a memory configured to store one or more instructions executed by the processor. Therefore, performance of the communication system can be improved.
US11005563B2	Systems and methods for performing self-diagnostic optics troubleshooting techniques A test instrument for providing an optics troubleshooting technique of an optical transceiver is disclosed. The test instrument may comprise a processor and a memory, which when executed by the processor, performs the optics troubleshooting technique. The optics troubleshooting technique may include identifying a test signal from the optical transceiver. The optics troubleshooting technique may include determining signal power associated with the signal. The optics troubleshooting technique may further include applying one or more expert mode settings. In some examples, the one or more expert mode settings may be applied in a predefined order until an acceptable BER result is achieved over a predefined test period. In this way, test instrument may determine which of the one or more expert mode settings is responsible for the acceptable BER result.
US11005560B1	Method and device for re-transmission of satellite dish signals Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system at a first premises, a request from a second premises for a channel signal to be obtained from a first signal received via a satellite dish system; the request specifies one channel provided by the satellite dish system. The method also includes converting the first signal to generate a converted signal, and encrypting and modulating the converted signal to generate a second signal; the modulating is performed by a first transceiver at the first premises, and the second signal includes the requested channel signal. The method further includes transmitting the second signal to a second transceiver at the second premises; the second transceiver demodulates and decrypts the encrypted second signal to provide the requested channel signal at equipment at the second premises. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11005559B2	Repeater and radiation pattern forming method for the same A repeater includes an up-link circuit and a down-link circuit. The down-link circuit includes a receiver, a radio frequency circuit and a transmitter. The transmitter transmits the repeated second signals to the user equipment and includes an antenna array, a plurality of power amplifiers, a plurality of first phase shifters, a first memory unit, and a first control logic circuit. The antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged along a first direction, and the number of the plurality of antenna elements is at least four. The first memory unit is configured to store predetermined parameters associated with a predetermined radiation pattern. The first control logic circuit selects a first number of the power amplifiers and the first number of the first phase shifters, and sets normalized gains for the selected plurality of power amplifiers range from 0.7 to 1 unit.
US11005557B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods Infrastructure equipment for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the infrastructure equipment operable to transmit radio signals for reception by a terminal device located within a first one of a plurality of predetermined geographical regions during a first portion of a periodically repeating time duration and to transmit radio signals for reception by a terminal device located within a second, different, one of the plurality of predetermined geographical regions during a second, different, portion of the periodically repeating time duration.
US11005556B2	Apparatus and method for selecting uplink transmission beams in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is an apparatus of a base station (BS). The BS may be configured to determine whether to use a beam of the BS and a beam of a terminal, which have been used in a downlink, in an uplink based on capability information received from the terminal and whether an antenna of the BS used for communication with the terminal is a transmission/reception common antenna and perform an uplink beam search when it is determined that the beam of the BS or the beam of the terminal is not used in the uplink.
US11005555B2	Apparatus and method for performing measurement The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless environment comprises at least one transceiver; and at least one processor operably coupled to the at least one transceiver. The at least one transceiver is configured to receive a reference signal configuration comprising information for indicating whether a reference signal of a transmission and reception point (TRP) is transmitted through beam sweeping from the TRP, and receive the reference signal from the TRP based on the received reference signal configuration.
US11005554B2	Mobility for beam-forming systems A method for a network node of a cellular communication network is disclosed. The network node and at least some other network nodes of the cellular communication network are each adapted to support a plurality of beams of a signal beam-forming scheme and to communicate with a wireless communication device using at least one of the plurality of beams. The method comprises initiating a mobility procedure, identifying interfering signals transmitted by one or more interfering beams, decreasing a transmit power level of the identified interfering signals, and executing at least part of the mobility procedure while the identified interfering signals use the decreased transmit power level. The mobility procedure may, typically, comprise transmission of a reference signal on each of one or more candidate beams (wherein the reference signals are for measurement by the wireless communication device), reception of a report from the wireless communication device (wherein the report is indicative of a result of measurements of the reference signals and is for making a beam switch decision), and execution of the beam switch (if applicable). Corresponding computer program product, arrangement and network node are also disclosed.
US11005552B2	Antenna port mode and transmission mode transition A wireless communication device may autonomously transition from a multiple antenna port mode to a single antenna port mode. The wireless communication device may implicitly notify a base station about the autonomous transition from the multiple antenna port mode to the single antenna port mode. The base station may reallocate resources that were previously allocated to the wireless communication device but that are no longer being used by the wireless communication device. In some cases, the base station may configure the wireless communication device's antenna port mode via radio resource control signaling.
US11005543B2	Transmission device, receiving device, transmission method, and receiving method This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).
US11005541B2	Method for transmitting feedback information and terminal therefor A method for transmitting feedback information by a terminal may comprise the steps of: measuring a channel; multiplying a first matrix associated with the measured channel by a transformation matrix, so as to obtain a second matrix and transmitting the obtained second matrix to a base station in a bit format. In addition, the transformation matrix may be determined on the basis of an angle offset satisfying a predetermined condition.
US11005533B2	Active near-field communication device facilitation of low power card detection A device implementing a system for NFC communication includes a processor configured to receive, from an other device, pulse signals for detecting proximity of the device with the other device. The processor is further configured to determine an interval at which the pulse signals are received from the other device. The processor is further configured to determine a time when the other device is expected to transmit a subsequent pulse signal based at least in part on the determined interval. The processor is further configured to transmit a signal to the other device based on the determined time when the other device is expected to transmit the subsequent pulse signal.
US11005532B2	Variable impedance circuit A power line communication device including a current path provided between a first terminal and a second terminal. A coupling circuit includes a first circuit of a first inductor connected in parallel with a first capacitor and a first resistor, wherein the coupling circuit is connected between the first and second terminals. A sensor is configured to sense a communication parameter of the coupling circuit. The communication parameter may be a resonance of the first circuit, the quality (Q) factor of the resonance, the bandwidth (BW) of the coupling circuit, the resistance of the first resistor, or the impedance of the first circuit. A transceiver is adapted to couple to the first and second terminal to transmit a signal onto the current path or receive a signal from the current path responsive to the parameter of the coupling circuit and a level of current in the current path sensed by the sensor.
US11005530B2	Data encoder for power line communications In a disclosed embodiment, a power line communication (PLC) transmitter includes a forward error correction (FEC) encoder that receives payload data and adds parity information to the data to create an encoded output, a fragmenter that receives the encoded output from the FEC encoder and segments the encoded output into a plurality of fragments, a fragment repetition encoder that receives the plurality of fragments from the fragmenter and copies each of the fragments a selected number of times, and an interleaver that receives the copies of the plurality of fragments from the fragment repetition encoder and interleaves the copies of the plurality of fragments for transmission on a power line.
US11005527B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting signals over wire connections A method and apparatus for transmitting data from a transmitter device to one or more receiver devices connected to the transmitter device via a respective wire connection, the transmitter device being operable to transmit signals onto the wire connections and a further wire connection at different tones, the method comprising: for each tone, measuring electromagnetic coupling between the further wire connection and each of the wire connections and using the measurements, identifying a wire connection that most strongly receives crosstalk interference from the further wire connection; based on the identifications, for each tones, allocating signals transmitted on the further wire connection as supporting signals for a particular wire connection; transmitting a first signal onto the particular wire connection that has been allocated a supporting signal; and transmitting a second signal onto the further wire connection, thereby to cause crosstalk interference in the particular wire connection transmitting the first signal.
US11005525B2	Methods for improving flexibility and data rate of chirp spread spectrum systems in LoRaWAN A transmitter stores mappings of distinct values of an information signal to corresponding ones of distinct combinations of K chirps taken from M chirps that are different from each other, such that each of the distinct values is mapped to a corresponding one of the distinct combinations of K chirps. The transmitter receives a distinct value among the distinct values of the information signal. The transmitter selects, based on the mappings, a distinct combination of K chirps among the distinct combinations of K chirps that is mapped to the distinct value. The transmitter sums the K chirps of the distinct combination of K chirps to produce a symbol that represents the distinct value. The transmitter modulates the symbol to produce a modulated symbol, and transmits the modulated symbol. A receiver receives a modulated symbol that conveys a distinct value, and recovers the distinct value using stored mappings.
US11005522B2	Terminal and transmission method In the present invention, regarding a narrowband used in a subframe for transmitting uplink data, if a switch is made from a first narrowband used in a first subframe to a second narrowband that is different from the first narrowband, with respect to a second subframe continuing to the first subframe, a final one symbol of the first subframe and an initial one symbol of the second subframe are punctured and set as a retuning time to transmit the uplink data in the first narrowband and the second narrowband.
US11005520B2	Method and system for spread spectrum code acquisition A code acquisition module for a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) receiver includes: a Sparse Discrete Fourier transform (SDFT) module configured to perform an SDFT on a finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies comprising a preamble of a received DSSS frame to calculate Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies; a multiplier configured to multiply the Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies of the received DSSS frame by complex conjugate Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies to generate a cross-correlation of the received DSSS frame and the complex conjugate Fourier coefficients; and a filter module configured to input the cross-correlation and output a delay estimation for the received DSSS frame.
US11005507B2	Targeted ratio of signal power to interference plus noise power for enhancement of a multi-user detection receiver According to some embodiments, in a multi-user detection (MUD) receiver, a method for identifying a beam which produces a specific signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) can include: determining a maximum output SINR; determining beam weights to achieve a target SINR using the determined maximum output SINR; applying the beam weights to one or more received signals to generate a beamformed signal having the target SINR, one or more of the received signals having a signal of interest (SOI), one or more interfering signals, and noise; and providing the beamformed signal to a multi-user detection unit to recover the SOI.
US11005505B2	Radio-frequency module There is provided a radio-frequency module that can reduce communication signal loss in both the case of employing one communication band of multiple communication bands and the case of employing two or more communication bands together. A radio-frequency module includes a first switching circuit and matching circuits. The matching circuits are provided individually for a first transmission path, a second transmission path, and a third transmission path. When communications are performed by using only a first communication band, the first switching circuit selects the first transmission path. When communications are performed by using together the first communication band and the second communication band, the first switching circuit selects the second transmission path and the third transmission path.
US11005504B2	Polar code rate matching method and apparatus The embodiments of the application provides a polar code rate matching method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a communications device, to-be-encoded information; determining, by the communications device, a to-be-used rate matching manner based on the code rate, a code rate threshold, a target code length, and a target code length threshold, where the rate matching manner is a puncturing manner or a shortening manner; and rate matching, by the communications device based on the determined rate matching manner, a polar code of the to-be-encoded information.
US11005502B2	Iterative decoding circuit and decoding method An iterative decoding circuit is provided. The iterative decoding circuit includes a first concatenated decoding circuit, a second concatenated decoding circuit, and a comparator. The first concatenated decoding circuit includes a first convolutional decoder, a first deinterleaver, and a first block decoder. The second concatenated decoding circuit is coupled to the first concatenated decoding circuit, and the second concatenated decoding circuit includes a second convolutional decoder, a second deinterleaver, and a second block decoder. The comparator receives a first convolutional decoding result corresponding to a first convolutional decoding operation and a second convolutional decoding result of a second convolutional decoding operation, and is configured to compare the first convolutional decoding result with the second convolutional decoding result to generate a comparing result. The second block decoder obtains an erasure address information according to the comparing result.
US11005501B2	Error correction on a memory device Some instances of a memory device include a memory die having an array of memory cells including a plurality of banks. In some cases, the memory die further includes a first error correcting code (ECC) circuit coupled with a first bank of memory cells, where the first ECC circuit is configured to perform operations associated with a first access operation (e.g., write operation) of the first bank of memory cells. In some examples, the memory die further includes a second ECC circuit coupled with the first bank of memory cells, where the second ECC circuit is configured to perform ECC operations associated with a second access operation (e.g., read operation) of the first bank. In some cases, the first ECC circuit is located under the footprint of the array and the second ECC circuit is located outside the footprint of the array.
US11005498B1	Methods and network device for uncoded bit protection in 10Gbase-T ethernet A network interface devices receives a plurality of bits, and encodes the plurality of bits into a plurality of bit blocks that includes a first set of bit blocks and a second set of bit blocks. The network interface device transcodes the first set of bit blocks to generate a third set of bit blocks, and aggregates the second set of bit blocks and the third set of bit blocks into an aggregated set of bit blocks. A first error correction encoder encodes a first portion of the bits in the aggregated set of bit blocks to generate a first set of encoded bits. A second error correction encoder encodes a second portion of the bits in the aggregated set of bit blocks to generate a second set of encoded bits. The network interface modulates the first set of encoded bits and the second set of encoded bits.
US11005493B2	Digital-to-analog conversion circuit A digital-to-analog conversion circuit (60) for converting a digital input sequence to an analog representation is disclosed. It comprises a first DAC, (100) wherein the first DAC (100) is of a capacitive voltage division type having a capacitive load (110). Furthermore, it comprises a second DAC (120) having a resistive load (130). An output (104) of the first DAC (100) and an output (124) of the second DAC (120) are connected, such that said capacitive load (110) and said resistive load (130) are connected in parallel.
US11005492B2	Dual output signal paths for signal source channels to optimize for bandwidth and amplitude range A signal source device includes at least one digital-to-analog converter, at least one connector, a first output path from the at least one digital-to-analog converter to the at least one connector, and a second output path from the at least one digital-to-analog converter to the at least one connector. A method of generating a analog signal includes generating at least one analog signal from at least one digital-to-analog converter, transmitting a first analog signal of the at least one analog signal along a first output path from the at least one digital-to-analog converter to at least one connector, and transmitting a second analog signal of the at least one analog signal along a second output path from the at least one digital-to-analog converter to the at least one connector.
US11005485B2	Frequency multiplier and method for frequency multiplying A frequency multiplier comprises a phase generator configured to receive an oscillation signal and to provide at phase generator outputs versions of the oscillation signal, which are phase-shifted with respect to each other. An injection-locked ring oscillator comprises a plurality of stages, wherein each of the phase generator outputs is coupled to a different stage of the plurality of stages for multi-point injection. A combiner combines output signals of the plurality of stages of the injection-locked ring oscillator into a signal having a frequency which is a multiple of a frequency of the oscillation signal.
US11005484B2	Integrated circuit including phase locked loop circuit A phase locked loop circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator configured to output a clock signal having a predetermined frequency based in a control voltage, a phase frequency detector configured to compare the clock signal with a reference signal to output a first control signal and a second control signal, a charge pump configured to output the control voltage based on the first control signal and the second control signal, a voltage supply including an output terminal connected to an output terminal of the charge pump by a transmission switch, and a leakage remover circuit connected to the transmission switch and configured to remove a leakage current flowing through the transmission switch while the transmission switch is turned-off.
US11005479B2	Phase detection circuit, and clock generating circuit and semiconductor apparatus using the phase detection circuit A phase detection circuit includes an edge trigger circuit and a duty detection circuit. The edge trigger circuit generates a reference pulse signal and a comparison pulse signal based on a target clock signal and at least two clock signals having phases adjacent to the phase of the target clock signal. The duty detection circuit generates a phase detection signal by detecting the duty ratio of the reference pulse signal and the comparison pulse signal.
US11005477B2	Driver circuit and control method therefor, and transmission/reception system The present technology relates to a driver circuit, a control method therefor, and a transmission/reception system that enable implementation of a large amplitude signal output required for long distance transmission with low power consumption. The driver circuit includes: a current drive circuit that outputs a predetermined current; and a termination resistance circuit connected in parallel with the current drive circuit, in which the termination resistance circuit connects a termination resistance to a transmission line when the current drive circuit outputs a current, and disconnects the termination resistance from the transmission line when the current drive circuit does not output the current. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a driver circuit that outputs a signal to a long distance transmission line, and the like.
US11005475B1	Emission driver and pump unit An emission driver includes a latch circuit and a buffer circuit. The latch circuit receives a first signal, a second signal, and a first clock signal. The latch circuit includes a first output terminal and a second output terminal. The first output terminal of the latch circuit outputs a third signal according to the first clock signal. The second output terminal of the latch circuit outputs a fourth signal in reverse to the third signal according to the first clock signal. The buffer circuit includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and a third output terminal. The first input terminal of the buffer circuit receives the third signal. The second input terminal of the buffer circuit receives the fourth signal. The third output terminal of the buffer circuit outputs an emission signal according to the third signal and the fourth signal.
US11005473B2	Voltage difference measurement circuit and associated voltage difference measuring method The present invention provides a voltage difference measurement circuit comprising a level shifting circuit, an ADC and a calculation circuit. In the operations of the voltage difference measurement circuit, the level shifting circuit adjusts levels of a supply voltage and a ground voltage to generate an adjusted supply voltage and an adjusted ground voltage, respectively. The ADC performs an analog-to-digital converting operation upon the adjusted supply voltage and the adjusted ground voltage to generate a first digital value and a second digital value, respectively. The calculation circuit calculates a voltage difference between the supply voltage and the ground voltage according to the first digital value and the second digital value.
US11005467B1	Low-noise duty cycle correction circuit and method thereof A method operates by receiving a first voltage, which is a logical signal; converting the first voltage into a second voltage using a first inverting buffer with a first pull-up resistance and a first pull-down resistance; and converting the second voltage into a third voltage using a second inverting buffer with a second pull-up resistance and a second pull-down resistance, wherein: the first pull-up resistance, the first pull-down resistance, the second pull-up resistance, the second pull-down resistance are all tunable, and a difference between the first pull-up resistance and the first pull-down resistance is approximately equal to a difference between the second pull-down resistance and the second pull-up resistance.
US11005462B1	Interface circuit and interface device An interface device, including a plurality of interface circuits, wherein each interface circuit of the plurality of interface circuits includes a first switching element connected in series to a second switching element, and a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected to an output terminal to which the first switching element and the second switching element are connected; and a controller configured to determine a plurality of output signals corresponding to the plurality of interface circuits by controlling the first switching element and the second switching element, and configured to adjust a slew rate of the plurality of output signals by charging and discharging the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US11005461B2	Level shift latch circuitry Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit having first devices arranged to operate as a latch. The first devices may include inner devices and outer devices. The integrated circuit may include second devices coupled to the first devices and arranged to operate as a level shifter. The second devices may include upper devices and lower devices. The lower devices may be cross-coupled to gates of the inner devices and the upper devices. The integrated circuit may include input signals applied to gates of the outer devices and the lower devices to thereby generate output signals from the outputs of the lower devices that are applied to the gates of the inner devices and the upper devices to activate latching of the output signals.
US11005459B1	Efficient retention flop utilizing different voltage domain A system and method for efficiently retaining data in sequential elements during power down modes. In various embodiments, a master latch of a flip-flop circuit receives an always-on first power supply voltage, whereas, a slave latch and other surrounding circuitry receives a second power supply voltage capable of being powered down. During a power down mode, circuitry consumes less power while the master latch retains stored data. In some designs, the flip-flop circuit is a level shifting circuit, and the always-on first power supply voltage is less than the second power supply voltage. The master latch uses complex gates with a p-type transistor at the top of a stack of p-type transistors receiving the always-on power supply voltage level on its source terminal and the retained data value on its gate terminal. This top p-type transistor is capable of remaining disabled even when used in a level shifting manner.
US11005452B2	Impedance tuner and signal amplification device A control circuit (16) is configured to detect the impedance P1 of a load (3) and control each of the reactance value L1 of a first variable reactance element (12), the reactance value L2 of a second variable reactance element (14), and the phase shift amount φ of a phase shifter (15) on the basis of the detected impedance P1. Consequently, impedance matching can be achieved even with the phase shifter (15) that performs discrete phase shift control.
US11005450B2	Acoustic filter using acoustic coupling A filter circuit includes a first input node and a second input node for receiving an input signal, and a first output node and a second output node for providing an output signal. A first series acoustic resonator is coupled in series between the first input node and the first output node. At least one coupled resonator filter (CRF) includes first and second transducers, which may be acoustically coupled to one another. The first transducer has a first electrode coupled to the first input node, a second electrode coupled to the second input node, and a first piezoelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. A second transducer has a third electrode coupled to the first output node, a fourth electrode coupled to the second output node, and a second piezoelectric layer between the third electrode and the fourth electrode.
US11005447B2	Microelectronic devices having vertical piezoelectric membranes for integrated RF filters Embodiments of the invention include microelectronic devices, resonators, and methods of fabricating the microelectronic devices. In one embodiment, a microelectronic device includes a substrate and a plurality of cavities integrated with the substrate. A plurality of vertically oriented resonators are formed with each resonator being positioned in a cavity. Each resonator includes a crystalline or single crystal piezoelectric film.
US11005445B2	Electronic component including a pad electrode and a bump stacked on a wiring electrode An electronic component including a pad electrode provided on a wiring electrode and a Au bump provided on the pad electrode, wherein the uppermost layer of the wiring electrode is a first Ti layer, the uppermost layer of the pad electrode is a Au layer, and the thickness of the first Ti layer in at least a portion on which the Au bump is superposed in plan view is greater than the thickness of at least a portion of the first Ti layer in a portion on which the Au bump is not superposed in plan view.
US11005441B2	Audio/video power processor and audio/video playback system An audio/video power processor for an audio/video playback device, and an audio/video playback system. The audio/video power processor for an audio/video playback device includes: a box having a grounded metal shell; an electric power input port for receiving AC electric power, the electric power input port comprising a first live line terminal and a first null line terminal; an electric power output port for outputting electric power to the audio/video playback device, the electric power output port comprising a second live line terminal and a second null line terminal; a first capacitor unit electrically connected between the first live line terminal and the first null line terminal; a first inductor electrically connected between the first live line terminal and the second live line terminal; and a second inductor electrically connected between the first null line terminal and the second null line terminal. The audio/video power processor has the advantage of improving the playback performance of the audio/video playback device.
US11005435B2	Amplifier with built in time gain compensation for ultrasound applications An ultrasound circuit comprising a trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) with built-in time gain compensation functionality is described. The TIA is coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an electrical signal generated by the ultrasonic transducer in response to receiving an ultrasound signal. The TIA is, in some cases, followed by further analog and digital processing circuitry.
US11005433B2	Continuous-mode harmonically tuned power amplifier output networks and systems including same The disclosed technology can include a power amplifier comprising an input, an output, and a transformer. The power amplifier can include a primary inductor coil coupled to the input, a secondary inductor coil coupled to the output, and three harmonic branches coupled to the primary coil. Each branch can comprise at least one electrical component having a tunable impedance.
US11005431B2	Power amplifier fault detector Herein disclosed in some embodiments is a fault detector for power amplifiers of a communication system. The fault detector can detect a portion of the power amplifiers that are in fault condition and can prevent or limit current flow to the power amplifiers in fault condition while allowing the rest of the power amplifiers to operate normally. The fault detector can further indicate which power amplifiers are in fault condition and/or the cause for the power amplifiers to be in fault condition. Based on the indication, a controller can direct communications away from the power amplifiers in fault condition and/or perform operations to correct the fault condition.
US11005425B2	Source switched split LNA A receiver front end capable of receiving and processing intraband non-contiguous carrier aggregate (CA) signals using multiple low noise amplifiers (LNAs) is disclosed herein. A cascode having a “common source” configured input FET and a “common gate” configured output FET can be turned on or off using the gate of the output FET. A first switch is provided that allows a connection to be either established or broken between the source terminal of the input FET of each LNA. Further switches used for switching degeneration inductors, gate capacitors and gate to ground caps for each legs can be used to further improve the matching performance of the invention.
US11005424B2	Power efficient amplifier A power efficient (PE) amplifier includes a cascode amplifier, a transistor amplifier, and a voltage supply. The transistor amplifier includes at least one differential pair of transistors and a plurality of transformers having a primary winding and a tapped secondary winding. The secondary winding is connected across emitters or sources of each transistor pair. The tap of each secondary has a current source. The primary windings of the plurality of transformers are connected in series. The transistor bases or gates are alternating current (AC) grounded. The collector or drain terminal pairs are connected in parallel. The voltage supply is low voltage and supplies a current to the cascode amplifier. The PE amplifier further includes a plurality of current sources which provide a total current to the transistor amplifier. The PE amplifier has, among other things, improved power gain, improved reverse isolation, improved power dissipation, and improved peak differential swing.
US11005418B2	Device for testing a concentrated photovoltaic module The invention relates to a device for testing a concentrated photovoltaic module comprising at least one assembly of a photovoltaic cell and of a concentrator, the device being characterized in that it comprises: a light source; a parabolic mirror coupled to the source so as to reflect the light emitted by the source in an almost collimated light beam toward the module to be tested, in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the module; and an intensity filter interposed on the path of the almost collimated beam upstream of the module to be tested, the filter comprising at least partially absorbent regions that have a neutral spectral density with respect to the light beam, the at least partially absorbent regions being arranged facing higher intensity zones of the beam, so as to attenuate differences in the intensity of the beam.
US11005416B2	Photovoltaic panel Modular photovoltaic (PV) panel, system, and method of mounting. The system including a mounting flashing configured to mounted to a mounting surface and a folding PV panel. The folding PV panel including: a first subpanel including first PV cells, wherein the first subpanel extends along a first lateral plane and comprises a plurality of mounting hooks extending laterally from and affixed to a backside of the first subpanel, the mounting hooks configured to couple to the mounting flashing; a second subpanel including second PV cells, wherein the second subpanel extends along a second lateral plane, wherein the second subpanel comprises a front edge support configured to hold a front edge of the second subpanel away from the mounting surface; and a hinge assembly rotationally coupling the first subpanel and the second subpanel to allow an angle between the first lateral plane and the second lateral plane to change.
US11005415B2	Solar shade structure A shade structure assembly includes at least one column member. A horizontal beam is secured at a top end of the column member. A first rail is secured to a first end and a second rail is secured to a second end of each horizontal beam. At least one truss assembly is secured to the rails. The truss assembly includes at least two truss members arranged in spaced parallel relation. Structural supports connect the truss members along two of the truss beams and panel supports connect the truss members along two of the truss beams. The panel supports mount a panel array. Each truss member may comprise a center truss portion and one or both of a first and second truss extension. Each truss member may be comprised of a universal center truss portion and one or both of a first and second truss extension.
US11005411B2	Battery pack and battery charger system A battery pack and charger system includes a first battery pack having a first set of battery cells and configured to provide only a first operating voltage and a second battery pack having a second set of battery cells and configured to provide the first operating voltage and a second operating voltage that is different from the first operating voltage and a battery pack charger configured to be able to charge the first battery pack and the second battery pack.
US11005407B2	Data obtaining method, inverter, and rotating electric machine Provided are a data obtaining method, an inverter, and a rotating electric machine capable of managing the operation state of a device without complicating the configuration thereof. Therefore, the data obtaining method uses an inverter for controlling a synchronous electric motor, wherein a position/speed calculation unit of the inverter calculates an electric angle of the synchronous electric motor from the value of the current flowing between the synchronous electric motor and the inverter and obtains data for each electric angle by sampling internal data within the inverter, said internal data being used for controlling the synchronous electric motor in synchronization with the information of the electric angle.
US11005406B2	Hysteresis based DC offset corrector for current reconstruction when using discontinuous PWM Disclosed embodiments are directed to a technique to remove DC offset from current measurement signals through shunt resistors in digital signal processing for current reconstruction when using discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM). Such measurements regarding current are pertinent to a feedback loop used for a system including a DC-link capacitor, inverter, and motor. A method of removing DC offset comprises: determining a three-phase output current signal of an inverter, wherein the inverter is coupled to a motor and a power supply; producing a voltage signal based on the three-phase output current signal and the resistances of one or more shunt resistors disposed in the inverter; applying an analog gain circuit to the voltage signal; processing the voltage signal with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); applying a DC offset corrector to the voltage signal; and performing current reconstruction on the voltage signal to produce a continuous current signal.
US11005405B2	Rotating-electric-machine control apparatus and electric power steering control apparatus equipped with the rotating-electric-machine control apparatus When a switching device cutoff failure determination unit determines a failure in a switching device cutoff switching unit, output torque produced based on the first armature winding and output torque produced based on the second armature winding are produced in such a way that the respective directions thereof are opposite to each other.
US11005404B2	Motor driving apparatus In a motor driving apparatus having an inverter for driving a motor capable of switching between a star connection and a delta connection, when currents detected by winding current detecting elements detecting currents flowing through windings become excessive, the inverter is made to stop. Moreover, inverter output currents are calculated after removing a circulating current component at the time of the delta connection, from the winding currents detected by the winding current detecting elements, and the inverter is controlled using the calculated inverter output currents. Because over-current protection is performed based on the detected values of the winding currents, it is possible to prevent demagnetization taking account oSf the circulating current. Also, the inverter control is prevented from being affected by the circulating current in the delta connection. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of the current detecting elements, and perform the over-current protection and control properly.
US11005398B2	Motor drive controller and motor drive control method Provided is a motor drive controller capable of a locking energization operation while preventing increase in temperature of a coil. The motor drive controller includes a motor drive section selectively energizing coils with a plurality of phases of a motor and a locking energization control section. The locking energization control section performs a locking energization operation when the motor is started or restarted and holds a rotor of the motor in a position corresponding to the coil in which the lock current flows. In case of performing the locking energization operation, the locking energization control section switches a locking energization pattern for applying the lock current in the coil from a locking energization pattern when the preceding locking energization operation was performed. The locking energization control section controls the motor drive section so that the lock current flows in the coil in accordance with the switched locking energization pattern.
US11005395B2	Circuit for selectively actuating DC motors in a motor vehicle The invention relates to a circuit for selectively actuating drive elements (1, 2), which are operated on direct current, in a motor vehicle by means of half-bridges (4, 5). According to the invention, the circuit is designed for selectively actuating eight drive elements (1, 2) for locking and, respectively, unlocking four doors of the motor vehicle from the outside and/or from the inside. The circuit contains nine half-bridges (4, 5), wherein the outputs of eight of the nine half-bridges (4) are each connected to a first pole of one of the eight drive elements (1, 2) and the output of the ninth half-bridge (5) is connected to all second poles of the eight drive elements (1, 2).
US11005391B2	Brake drive circuit A drive circuit for an electromagnetic brake is used in a circuit including a motor, a converter converting a DC voltage into an AC voltage to be generated between a pair of DC link buses, and an inverter converting the DC voltage into an AC voltage and driving the motor. A full-bridge circuit has a pair of power supply terminals connected to the pair of DC link buses, and a pair of output terminals connected to the electromagnetic brake.
US11005390B2	AC power transfer over self-passivating connectors Methods and systems to transform an alternating current into constant-polarity constant or pulsed voltages, provide these to a first group of contacts of an electrical connector assembly such that none of the contacts is subjected to polarity reversal, receive the constant-polarity constant or pulsed voltages from a second group of contacts of the electrical connector assembly, and reconstruct the alternating current from these voltages.
US11005388B2	Single-phase multi-level asymmetric inverter with AC-bypass and asymmetric modulation strategy A multi-level inverter includes a coupling to a DC power source and a coupling to an AC power source, a plurality of capacitors arranged to create a set of nodes, and a plurality of switches located between the capacitors and the AC power source. Switches are configured to create an AC bypass in which the capacitors coupled to the DC power source may be isolated from the AC power source. The AC bypass is utilized as one of the switching states in a switching sequence that provides enhanced performance including but not limited to reduced electromagnetic interference and ripple.
US11005386B2	Power converter circuit and power conversion method A power converter circuit includes a plurality of input nodes, an output, a plurality of switch and inductor circuits, a plurality of rectifier circuits, a first capacitor network, and a second capacitor network. Each of the plurality of switch and inductor circuits is connected between a respective pair of the plurality of input nodes, and each of the plurality of rectifier circuits is connected between a respective one of the plurality of switch and inductor circuits and the output. The first capacitor network includes at least two capacitors connected between at least one of the plurality of input nodes and the output, and the second capacitor network includes at least one capacitor and is connected to the output. A capacitance of the at least one capacitor of the second capacitor network is greater than a capacitance of each of the at least two capacitors of the first capacitor network.
US11005382B2	Synchronous rectification controlling device, isolated synchronous-rectification DC-DC converter, gate driving device, isolated DC-DC converter, AC-DC converter, power adapter, and electric appliance In an isolated DC-DC converter, in response to a switching transistor connected to the primary winding of a transformer turning off, a turn-on control circuit turns on a synchronous rectification transistor on the secondary side. A turn-off control circuit determines the turn-off time point of the synchronous rectification transistor by charging a capacitor with a current commensurate with the magnitude of an induced voltage appearing in the secondary wiring of the transformer during the on-period of the switching transistor and, after the synchronous rectification transistor turns on, discharging the capacitor with a current commensurate with the output voltage of the DC-DC converter.
US11005375B2	DC-DC converter and display device having the same A DC-DC converter including a first power supply including a first converter outputting a first power voltage, a first sensor detecting a panel current from an output of the first converter; and a first output group including a plurality of inverting converters outputting a second power voltage based on the panel current; a second power supply including a second converter outputting the first power voltage, and a second output group including a plurality of inverting converters outputting the second power voltage based on the panel current; and a first phase controller controlling operations of the inverting converters included in each of the first and second output groups based on the detected panel current. The second power supply operates when the panel current exceeds a predetermined enable value.
US11005373B2	Switching power supply control circuit with bottom point detection A switching power supply apparatus includes a switching device and a switching power supply control circuit for converting an AC source voltage to a DC voltage. A comparison circuit in the switching power supply control circuit produces an H-level output signal when its non-inverted input voltage exceeds a voltage value during each off-state period of the switching device. A delay circuit outputs a pulse signal after a predetermined delay time from detecting the H-level signal. This pulse signal indicates detection of a bottom point of drain voltage of the switching device. Since the output of the delay circuit is directly connected to the set input terminal S of a flip-flop, the switching device is surely turned on, without bottom skip, upon detection of the bottom point of its drain voltage.
US11005369B2	Switching regulator and integrated circuit package Provided is an integrated circuit package which complementarily switches on/off a MOS transistor Q1 (first switch) and MOS transistor Q2 (second switch) in accordance with an output voltage Vout, and which externally outputs a pulse signal having a fixed on-duty D during a step-up/step-down mode. The integrated circuit package has a determination unit 61 for determining the impedance of an external component connected to an external pin P5 that outputs the pulse signal to the exterior during the step-up/step-down mode, and determining whether the external component is a third switch on the basis of the impedance determination result.
US11005368B2	Hysteretic window adjustment of tri-level switching regulator A method for unbalancing a tri-level switching regulator uses hysteretic control when switching across multiple states of the tri-level switching regulator. The method includes determining a battery voltage and an output voltage of the tri-level switching regulator. The method also includes dynamically adjusting at least one of a first hysteretic window of a first hysteretic comparator associated with a second switching state of the tri-level switching regulator and a second hysteretic window of a second hysteretic comparator associated with a first switching state of the tri-level switching regulator based on the battery voltage and the output voltage.
US11005367B2	Boost spread-spectrum technique in pulse skip mode with fixed frequency clock reference A boost DC-DC switching converter architecture is provided, with a spread spectrum technique working in pulse skip mode, and a fixed frequency clock reference, comprising a high side switch and a low side switch, controlled by a voltage or current mode control loop operating in a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) mode, and having a pulse skip mode. The switching converter comprises an inductor, connected between an input voltage terminal and the high side switch, and also connected to the low-side switch, and a random delay generator, where the random delay generator randomly varies a time for entering, or exiting, or both entering and exiting pulse skip mode, and varies a time where the high side switch is turned off in pulse skip mode.
US11005365B2	Power converter using hysteretic boost architecture and method therefor In one form, a control circuit is adapted for use with a power converter having an inductor and a switch switching the inductor in response to a switching signal to regulate an output voltage of the power converter. The control circuit includes a slow feedback path, a fast feedback path, an integrator, a comparator, and a drive circuit. The slow feedback path provides a ripple signal in response to an average value of the output voltage. The fast feedback path provides a feedback signal in response to the output voltage. The integrator provides an error signal in response to a sum of the feedback signal and the ripple signal. The comparator provides a comparison output signal in response to a comparison of the error signal and a threshold voltage. The driver circuit provides the switching signal in response to the comparison output signal.
US11005361B2	Control circuit and method of a switching power supply A control circuit is configured to control a power factor correction (PFC) pre-regulator including a power switch and being configured to operate in a transition mode of operation and a valley-skipping mode of operation. The control circuit generates a drive signal to control a switching of the power switch based on a current threshold. A current threshold generator in the control circuit is configured to modulate the current threshold as a function of a number of valleys skipped in the valley-skipping mode of operation.
US11005358B1	Flexible direct current system of photovoltaic plant having active control-based protection system A DC collection system for a PV power plant contains a large number of feeders. When a fault occurs, the fault current rapidly increases, causing electronic devices to block to protect themselves. This blockage presents a challenge to the protection of the DC collection system because of extremely short data windows. To address this challenge, a protection method based on active control of DC/DC converters is disclosed. The fault current control principle is analyzed and derived so that DC/DC converters can provide an injected low-amplitude and controllable post-fault stable current signal. The disclosed protection method is designed based on identifying the direction of the injected signal. Simulation results indicate that the fault section can be accurately identified and that the disclosed protection method performs efficiently against transition resistance and noise.
US11005353B2	Lens moving apparatus and camera module including same A lens moving apparatus, according to one embodiment, comprises: a bobbin having a first coil installed on the outer circumferential surface thereof; a location detection sensor equipped to the bobbin; a housing in which the bobbin is provided; an upper elastic member disposed on the upper side of the housing; and a support member that supports the housing such that the housing can move in a second or third direction that is perpendicular to a first direction, wherein the upper elastic member is divided into a plurality of parts, at least two of which are disposed parallel to each other on the x-y plane in the second or third direction and are disposed such that end portions thereof face each other.
US11005352B2	Device for generating electrical power from low frequency oscillations An energy harvesting device for generating electrical power from low-frequency oscillations includes a high-frequency cantilever, a plurality of low-frequency cantilevers each configured to contact the high-frequency cantilever in response to environmental vibrations having a frequency within a near-resonance frequency range associated with said low-frequency cantilever, an a generator that produces electrical power in response to contact between at least one of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers and the high-frequency cantilever. The energy harvesting device may also include an impact mass coupled to a free end of each of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers. Some aspects may include a common base to which the high-frequency cantilever and the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers are coupled. Other aspects may include the generator comprising one or more of an induction coil and magnet, a variable distance capacitor, or a piezo-electric material.
US11005343B2	Electrical sub-assembly An electrical sub-assembly comprises a stator having a plurality of coils and a cooling means attached to the stator. The electrical sub-assembly further comprises a plurality of pairs of diodes attached to the cooling means, each pair of diodes being in antiparallel configuration and having three electrical terminals. One of the three electrical terminals is a common terminal shared by both diodes in each pair of diodes. A plurality of busbars electrically connect each of the diodes to at least one of the plurality of coils via one or more of the electrical terminals. In use, the cooling means is configured to simultaneously cool the stator and the plurality of diodes. The electrical sub-assembly may have particular application as a part of a switched reluctance machine.
US11005341B2	Sealing structure for peripheral area of generator fan Provided is a sealing structure for sealing a peripheral area of a fan of a generator. The sealing structure includes a rotor, a fan assembly including a ring-shaped fan body coupled to an axial end of the rotor, multiple fan blades radially arranged along a circumferential surface of the fan body, and an annulus groove recessed, in an axial direction of the rotor, from an axial outer end surface of the fan body, a stator surrounding the rotor with an air gap provided between the stator and the rotor, a cooler positioned a predetermined distance apart from the stator, and a cooling gas duct including an outlet connected with the cooler and an inlet configured to cover the axial outer end surface of the fan body and an axial end of the air gap between the stator and the rotor, wherein an inlet-side end of the cooling gas duct includes a first member and a second member that are coaxially arranged and are positioned close to the axial outer end surface of the fan body and the axial end of the air gap, respectively, and an inlet-side end of the first member is inserted into the groove with a clearance, and a sealing device is provided on the inlet-side end of the first member.
US11005339B1	Spinning amusement park ride with onboard power generation A spinning ride system adapted to convert kinetic energy to electrical energy onboard each of its vehicles. The system includes a passenger vehicle with a chassis for receiving a passenger. The system includes a ride structure including a support arm supporting the passenger vehicle, and the ride structure moves the support arm along a ride path. The system includes a mounting sleeve statically attached to the chassis and pivotally coupled to the support arm. A user input mechanism is attached to the mounting sleeve adapted to receive user input forces to cause the chassis to have movements relative to the support arm. The system includes an electrical component provided on or in the chassis and includes a kinetic energy conversion assembly with an electrical generator converting kinetic energy of the chassis during the movements (e.g., spinning) to electrical energy used to power the electrical component.
US11005337B2	Removable differential for an active core electric motor A gear assembly is provided that simplifies the integration of a differential assembly into the hollow rotor of an electric motor. The gear assembly utilizes a hollow cross member that includes a central portion and a plurality of hollow extension members onto which the gears are mounted. Within each of the hollow extension members is a pin. When the pins are withdrawn, the assembly fits unimpeded within the hollow rotor. When the pins are partially extended out of the corresponding extension members, the ends of the pins fit within apertures in the rotor. A plug fits within a centrally located thru-hole in the central portion of the hollow cross member, thereby locking the pins in the extended position and locking the gear assembly in place.
US11005335B2	Systems and methods for providing enhanced mechanical/electrical energy storage An energy apparatus that stores and disperses energy, the energy apparatus including: (1) an energy object that experiences movement so as to store kinetic energy in the energy object, the energy object including a magnet assembly through which electrons are driven resulting in electric output from the magnet assembly, and the electric output dependent on experienced EMF (electro-motive force) that is experienced by the magnet assembly; (2) a supporting structure that supports the energy object while providing for the movement of the energy object; (3) a first tuning magnet that is supported adjacent the energy object, the first tuning magnet positionable throughout a range of positions, the positions including a first position and a second position; (4) a second tuning magnet that is supported adjacent to the energy object.
US11005334B2	Annular member, method, and assembly for component displacement control An electric motor or generator assembly includes a stator, a housing, and an annular member fit between the stator and the housing, where the annular member is radially compressed so as to exert a radial force outward onto the housing and inward onto the stator to maintain a positional relationship therebetween.
US11005333B2	Electric motor having a stator with a radially outside rotor with the rotor having a fan mounting portion comprising a noncontact region and a contract region configured to contact a mouting surface of a fan An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor having a tubular shape and disposed radially outside of the stator, and a fan mounting portion located on one side of the stator along an axial direction and mounted to the rotor. An end face of the fan mounting portion has a contact region that contacts a mounting surface of a fan, and a noncontact region that does not contact the fan.
US11005331B2	Closed rotating electrical machine comprising an internal air cooling system of the magnets in the rotor The invention relates to an enclosed rotary electrical machine including a cooling system comprising two internal fans (181, 182) fixedly mounted on shaft (160) at both ends of rotor (150). The rotor and stator (190) are contained in an enclosure sealed by two flanges. The fans allow dual air circulation in flux barriers surrounding the rotor magnets and formed by axial recesses running throughout the rotor, and also air circulation in the space created between the internal fans and the inner faces of the flanges comprising fins (113, 123) which orient the air flows created by the fans to capture the heat thereof. External cooling allows the enclosure and the flanges to be cooled, by air or liquid cooling.
US11005326B2	Electric drive unit having cover assembly with integrated cooling channels An electric drive unit for powering a load, e.g., road wheels of a motor vehicle, includes a housing having a floor section separating the housing into upper and lower chambers. The floor section defines an elongated drain opening, drain holes, and an oil supply port in fluid communication with an oil pump. A rotary electric machine is enclosed within the lower chamber, and has electrical leads positioned directly below the drain opening. A cover assembly is fastened to the housing within the upper chamber, and has a coolant channel assembly integrally connected to a cover plate. The coolant channel assembly includes electrical terminals that project through the drain opening and are fastened at a first distal end of the electrical terminals to the electrical leads. The cover assembly defines a primary coolant channel in fluid communication with the oil supply port, and directs oil to the electrical terminals.
US11005325B2	Rotating electric machine, stator of rotating electric machine, and compressor Provided is a stator of a rotating electric machine including: a stator core; windings of multiple phases wound around the stator core via insulators attached to the stator core; and tab terminals that each have at least one slit and a plate-shaped tab and that electrically connect an end portion of a winding, of one of the multiple phases, of the windings to an end portion of an other of the windings of a different one of the multiple phases, wherein a portion of each of the insulators or a resin component different from the insulators has a connection terminal insertion hole into which the tab terminal is inserted, and the connection terminal insertion hole is formed on a circle centered on a shaft center of the stator, and a plate surface of the tab of the tab terminal to be inserted into the connection terminal insertion hole is placed to be tangential to the circle.
US11005322B2	Rotor assemblies for axial flux machines A rotor assembly for an axial flux machine may include at least one magnet and first and second support structures. The first support structure may be configured to have the at least one magnet attached thereto and to provide a flux return path for the at least one magnet. The second support structure may be configured to be attached to the first support structure so as to allow torque to be transferred between the at least one magnet and the second support structure via the first support structure, and may be further configured (A) to be attached to a rotatable shaft of the axial flux machine, or (B) to function as an output or input flange of the axial flux machine.
US11005320B2	Variable flux bridge for rotor of an electric machine An electric machine includes a rotor including a channel defined between a pair of magnets and a bridge assembly within the channel. The bridge assembly includes a bridge element and a spring arranged to bias the bridge element toward a center of the rotor such that responsive to spinning of the rotor, the bridge element moves radially away from the center against a force of the spring to alter a magnetic flux pattern associated with the magnets.
US11005311B2	Noncontact power transmission apparatus and power transmission device A noncontact power transmission apparatus includes an instrument including a first case, a power reception coil arranged to generate an induced current due to magnetic flux in a first direction intersecting a gravitational direction, and a holder configured to hold the power reception coil at a predetermined distance from an outer surface of the first case in the first case. A power transmission device includes a conductive second case that has an opening into which the instrument is inserted in which the instrument is stored, a power transmission coil provided in the second case so as to generate magnetic flux in the first direction, and disposed to generate an induced current in the power reception coil, and an elastic body that is provided in the second case, maintains a distance between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil to be constant, and supports the power transmission coil.
US11005303B2	Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor The present invention relates to a method for detecting foreign material, and an apparatus and a system therefor, and a method for detecting foreign material in a wireless power transmitter, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: measuring a quality factor value, which corresponds to a reference operation frequency, when an object is sensed; searching for a current peak frequency having a maximum quality factor value within an operation frequency band; receiving, form a wireless power receiver, a foreign material detection state packet including information on a reference peak frequency; correcting the measured quality factor value by using a difference value between the current peak frequency and the reference peak frequency; and determining whether the foreign material exists by comparing the corrected quality factor value with a predetermined quality factor threshold value. Therefore, the present invention has an advantage of enabling foreign material to be more effectively and accurately detected.
US11005301B1	System and method for encrypted resonant inductive power transfer Systems and methods for ensuring that resonant inductive power transfer goes only to authorized users using encryption. Resonant inductive power transfer requires near-identical resonant frequencies in the transmitter and the receiver. The frequency of the power transfer signal changes on a schedule known only to the transmitter and receiver so a “power eavesdropper” cannot track the frequency well enough to efficiently receive power. To make the frequency transitions energetically efficient, a capacitive or inductive element is switched in or out of each circuit at moments of zero-crossing: zero charge on a capacitor or zero current in an inductor. To maintain phase alignment, either switching an inductor on the transmit side is nearly simultaneous with switching a capacitor on the receive side, or switching a capacitor on the transmit side is nearly simultaneous with switching an inductor on the receive side.
US11005297B2	Power receiving apparatus, power transmission apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A power receiving apparatus for wirelessly receiving a power from a power transmission apparatus that uses a power supplied from a power supply apparatus is provided. The power receiving apparatus obtains, from the power transmission apparatus, a result of first device authentication between the power supply apparatus and the power transmission apparatus, performs second device authentication for the power transmission apparatus, and performs a negotiation concerning a transmission power with the power transmission apparatus based on the result of the first device authentication and a result of the second device authentication.
US11005296B2	Electrode unit, power transmitting device, power receiving device, electronic device, vehicle, and wireless power transmission system An electrode unit is used in a power transmitting device or a power receiving device of a wireless power transmission system based on an electric field coupling method. The electrode unit includes: a first electrode to which a first voltage is applied when power is transferred; a second electrode to which a second voltage antiphase to the first voltage is applied when power is transferred; and a third electrode spaced apart from the first and second electrodes, the third electrode having a third voltage whose amplitude is less than amplitudes of the first and second voltages when power is transferred. The first and second electrodes are arranged along an electrode installation plane. At least a portion of the third electrode does not overlap the first and second electrodes as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the electrode installation plane.
US11005295B2	Non-contact power feeding device A non-contact power feeding device includes multiple power feeding elements that are disposed spatially separated from one another in a movement direction, an AC power supply that supplies AC power to the power feeding elements, multiple power receiving elements that are provided in a moving body and that receive AC power in a non-contact manner, and a power receiving circuit that converts the AC power received by the power receiving elements and that outputs to an electrical load. When a length of the power feeding elements in the movement direction is LT, a separation distance between the power feeding elements is DT, a length of the power receiving elements in the movement direction is LR, and a separation distance between the power receiving elements is DR, the relationship DT≤DR and the relationship (2×LR+DR)≤LT are satisfied.
US11005288B2	Methods and apparatus for power generation and distribution Methods and apparatus according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a microgrid capable of connecting to a main electrical grid supplying electrical power at a frequency (or other characteristic, such as voltage). A sensor may provide a signal to a control system, wherein the signal corresponds to the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid. The control system may compare the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid to a first threshold, and automatically provide power from the microgrid to the main electrical grid if the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid crosses the first threshold.
US11005287B1	Advanced mobile energy storage device An advanced mobile energy storage device includes an energy storage component for the storage of electrical energy and characterized by a state of charge representative of an amount of energy stored within the energy component and by an energy storage rate into and out of the energy storage component. At least one power input transfers electrical energy into the device for storage in the energy storage component. At least one power output transfers electrical energy out of the device from the energy storage component. A processor determines, for indication to a user, an estimate of time until the state of charge at least reaches one or more particular levels, the estimate determined at least from the state of charge in conjunction with the energy storage rate. The device can network with an external computing device and can generate solar adjustment information.
US11005285B2	Wireless power transfer Provided is a base unit for wireless power transfer or charging through a time varying magnetic field, comprising. The unit may include one or more components including a magnetic material or layer, that guide a corresponding magnetic flux generated by a coil in the base unit in one or multiple dimensions and/or to guide the magnetic flux in such a manner as to create a preferential path for returning flux flow in one or multiple dimensions. When one or more power receivers, each having one or more receiver coils or receivers associated therewith, is placed in proximity to a base unit, the coil in the base unit is used to inductively generate a current in the one or more receiver coils or receivers associated with the one or more power receivers. The base unit and the one or more receivers communicate uni-directionally or bi-directionally through the coils by load modulation or another RF communication method including NFC, Bluetooth or WiFi communication to control and optimize the power transfer between the base unit and the one or more receivers.
US11005284B2	Electric power transmission device and electric power transmission system An electric power transmission device as one aspect of the present invention comprises: a power transmitter that generates a magnetic field; a storage; and a power transmission controller. The storage stores a first parameter set concerning frequency hopping performed on a first frequency band and a second parameter set concerning frequency hopping performed on a second frequency band. The power transmission controller controls the power transmitter such that the frequency hopping is performed based on the parameter set acquired from the storage. The first frequency band is a band corresponding to a first resolution bandwidth for measuring a leakage magnetic field. The second frequency band is a band corresponding to a second resolution bandwidth intended for a higher band than the first resolution bandwidth.
US11005276B2	Stacked variable voltage battery module arrangement The present invention comprises a reconfigurable variable voltage battery. One or more variable voltage battery (VVB) modules are connected in series to form a stacked variable voltage battery (SVVB or Stacked VVB). A variable voltage battery module may comprise at least one battery cell and processor controlled switches adapted to vary the output of the variable voltage battery module. By separately configuring the switches of each VVB module, the output of the stacked VVB module can produce any voltage up to the full sum of the voltages of all the cells in the individual VVB modules. In addition, charge balancing can easily be achieved with a stacked VVB configuration, as some VVB modules can be bypassed (e.g., by setting select switches to simulate a short condition) either to prioritize the discharging of stronger VVB modules, or to prioritize the charging of weaker VVB modules.
US11005275B2	Intelligent charging USB splitter A smart charging solution is provided. The smart charging solution includes a power supply, a power line connected to the power supply and at least one universal serial bus (USB) splitter module and/or wireless charging module. The smart charging solution further includes a cable compensation integrated circuit (IC) for improved output voltage stabilization and a locking mechanism for furniture installation.
US11005271B2	Battery balancing apparatus and battery balancing method Disclosed is a battery balancing apparatus and method. The battery balancing apparatus includes a plurality of balancing circuits, each balancing circuit is connected in parallel to a respective battery cell among a plurality of battery cells and the plurality of balancing circuits are connected in series to each other, in one-to-one relationship; and a control unit operably coupled to each balancing circuit. The control unit selects at least one of the plurality of battery cells as a balancing target, based on a SOC of each battery cell, and outputs an enable signal and a balancing message to each balancing circuit connected to each battery cell selected as the balancing target. Each balancing circuit transmits a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal corresponding to the balancing message by using electric energy stored in each battery cell, when the enable signal is received by each balancing circuit.
US11005270B2	Method for operating an island system, and island system A method for operating an island system is disclosed. The island system includes a group of voltage-controlling converters, wherein each of the voltage-controlling converters of the group are configured to convert power of respectively connected regenerative power sources into AC power in accordance with a respective frequency-power characteristic curve. The island system also includes a load having a power consumption that depends on a voltage amplitude of an AC voltage of the island system, and a control unit that is configured to transmit a default value of the voltage amplitude to the group of voltage-controlling converters. The method adapts the power to be consumed by the load.
US11005263B2	Electro-static discharge (ESD) protection clamp technology In some implementations, an apparatus can include a semiconductor region including an electrical device and a back-end region disposed on the semiconductor region. The back-end region can include a first terminal and a second terminal. The apparatus can include an insulator-metal transition (IMT) material electrically coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11005262B2	Arc mitigation in electrical power distribution system A circuit to mitigate arc failures in an electrical power distribution system can include a solid state distribution system connected to a source of power and to a load, a solid state power controller (SSPC) having a set of field effect transistors (FETs) responsive to command signals from the SSPC wherein an arc in a wire bond of a failed FET can trigger a predetermined sequence to quench the arc and isolate remaining wire bond material in the failed FET from contaminating a creepage path.
US11005253B2	Circuit and method of over-current protection A method of over-current protection includes: determining a current flowing through a first element to be protected, comparing the determined current with a plurality of thresholds, controlling a counter based on the comparing the determined current with a plurality of thresholds, and stopping the current flowing through the first element by activating a switch in series with the first element when an output of the counter reaches a predetermined counter threshold.
US11005249B2	Devices, systems and methods for routing wires through walls Devices, systems and methods for routing wires or other inserted members thru walls or other structural elements are described. For at least one embodiment, a device, for forming a channel between two structural elements, includes a first member configured for insertion into a first hole, and a second member configured for insertion into a second hole. The first member may be configured for mating with the second member while the second member is being inserted into the second hole such that a channel is formed by the first member mated with the second member. The channel facilitates routing of an inserted member into and thru the first hole, thru the channel formed by the first member mated with the second member, and thru and out of the second hole.
US11005242B2	Wiring member and composite harness A wiring member includes wires and a resin molded portion. The wires include a curved portion to be arranged along a curved path. The resin molded portion includes a main body portion and a curve reinforcing portion. The main body portion covers the curved portion of the wires. The curve reinforcing portion protrudes from an outer peripheral surface of the main body portion and extends along an extending direction of the curved portion so as to keep the wiring member in a curved state.
US11005240B2	Three phase switchgear or control gear A three phase switchgear or control gear includes: at least one compartment; a plurality of components for a first phase; a plurality of components for a second phase; and a plurality of components for a third phase. The plurality of components for the first phase, the second phase, and the third phase each include a connection to a main busbar, a circuit breaker actuator, a single phase circuit breaker pole, and a cable connection. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the first phase are oriented along a first axis. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the second phase are oriented along a second axis. The circuit breaker actuator and the single phase circuit breaker pole for the third phase are oriented along a third axis. The first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are inclined.
US11005231B2	Strain-balanced semiconductor structure Systems and methods are described herein to grow a layered structure. The layered structure comprises a first germanium substrate layer having a first lattice constant, a second layer that has a second lattice constant and is epitaxially grown over the first germanium substrate layer, wherein the second layer has a composite of a first constituent and a second constituent, and has a first ratio between the first constituent and the second constituent, and a third layer that has a third lattice constant and is epitaxially grown over the second layer, wherein the third layer has a composite of a third constituent and a fourth constituent, and has a second ratio between the third constituent and the fourth constituent, wherein the first ratio and the second ratio are selected such that the first lattice constant is between the second lattice constant and the third lattice constant.
US11005230B2	Combiner, fiber laser device, and method for manufacturing combiner A combiner, that optically combines input fibers that propagate pumping light launched from pumping light sources and a relay fiber connected to an amplification fiber, includes: a bundle portion where the input fibers are bundled together; and a melting portion where the input fibers are melted and integrated together. In an interface between the relay fiber and the melting portion, the input fibers are fused together without a gap between the input fibers.
US11005228B2	Laser machining device and laser machining method To appropriately change an output of laser light without deteriorating laser characteristics. A control section of a laser machining device controls, when a target output is larger than a predetermined threshold, an output of laser light by changing a driving current supplied to an excitation light source and, on the other hand, controls, when the target output is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the output of the laser light by changing a duty ratio of a Q switch while keeping the driving current supplied to the excitation light source substantially fixed.
US11005227B2	Multi-wavelength adjustable-radial-mode fiber laser A high-power fiber laser produces a compound output beam having a center beam and an annular beam. The center beam and the annular beam are independently adjustable in power and wavelength. The output beam is delivered from an output optical fiber having a center core and a concentric annular core. A fundamental beam generated by a seed laser is amplified by a fiber amplifier and partially converted to a second-harmonic beam by a second-harmonic generator. The residual fundamental beam and second-harmonic beam are separated, attenuated, and selectively coupled into the cores of the output optical fiber.
US11005222B1	Powered wall plate A powered wall plate with at least two wall plate electrical current features behind the rear surface of the wall plate, each with a receiving prong, at least two electrical current transfer plugs with an electrical wire extending therefrom and configured to removably mate with the receiving prong. A plurality of LED lights is located along a bottom edge of the front surface, a photocell is exposed on the front surface of the wall plate, and a control switch has an on position, an off position, and an auto position. A transformer housing may extend forward of the front surface and includes a circuit therein operatively coupled to a USB port on a perpendicular surface of the transformer housing. The USB port is configured to provide power when power is supplied to the at least two electrical wires.
US11005216B2	Connector and connector structure A connector includes: an outer housing including an arm that protrudes from a first wall portion to a space portion surrounded by a housing main unit; an inner housing inside the housing main unit; and a detection member supported between the first wall portion and the inner housing slidably. The housing main unit has an opening portion in which a counterpart housing having a protrusion is inserted. The arm includes an arm main unit with flexibility extending toward the opening portion and a lock tab protruding from the arm main unit. When the counterpart housing is inserted, the arm main unit is elastically deformed to enable the lock tab to ride over and lock the protrusion. When the lock tab completes riding over, the lock tab allows the detection member to move toward the opening portion.
US11005214B2	Locking electrical adaptor A locking electrical adaptor. The adaptor includes a housing with a pair of conductive prongs for carrying an electrical current, and a grounding prong for grounding an electrical connection of the pair of conductive prongs. The grounding prong is comprised of a flexible conductive material, and includes a lip on a portion thereof, such that upon insertion of the adaptor into an electrical outlet, the lip snaps into place behind a ridge of the electrical outlet to secure the adaptor thereto and lock it in place. The adaptor may be unlocked by depressing a button disposed on the housing, which bends the grounding prong and displaces the lip. After the adaptor is unlocked, the adaptor may be removed from the electrical outlet.
US11005212B2	Coaxial cable connector sleeve with cutout A torque sleeve includes sleeve body configured to extend along an axis. The sleeve body is further configured to at least partially receive a coupling member of a coaxial cable connector. The sleeve body has an outer surface configured to permit a user to tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a first torque, and the sleeve body includes a pair of opposed cutouts configured to receive a tightening tool so as to permit the tightening tool to grip the coupling member and tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a second torque, the second torque being greater than the first torque.
US11005211B2	Method for manufacturing cable with connector and cable with connector A method for manufacturing a cable with a connector is provided. In the method, a contact is attached to a reinforcing wire. The reinforcing wire to which the contact is attached is inserted into an insertion portion of a housing. The housing is connected to one end of a cable. The reinforcing wire is secured to the cable by a securing member.
US11005210B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises a plurality of conductive terminals, a housing and a holder. The housing has a plurality of terminal receiving grooves which extend forwardly from a rear end face of the housing and receive the terminals respectively and a locking structure which is formed to a top surface of the housing. The holder is provided to the housing, the holder has a transverse frame portion which extends in a transverse direction, a plurality of positioning arms which obliquely extend downwardly and forwardly from the frame portion and are respectively inserted into the grooves, and a lock plate portion which extends forwardly from a top of the frame portion to above a top surface of the housing and has elasticity, the arms respectively position the terminals along slopes inside the grooves, the lock plate portion has a lock structure which is locked with a locking structure of the housing.
US11005203B2	Terminal module A terminal module (10) has a metal case (20) with a ceiling wall (21), a bottom wall (51) facing the ceiling wall (21), opposed side walls (23) extending from the ceiling wall (21) toward the bottom wall (51) and retaining pieces (24). A coil spring (40) is sandwiched between the ceiling wall (21) and the bottom wall (51). The retaining pieces (24) face each other in a direction perpendicular to a facing direction of the side walls (23) and project toward the bottom wall (51) from the periphery of the ceiling wall (21). The side walls (23) and the retaining pieces (24) are disposed alternately on the periphery of the ceiling wall (21). A spring receiving portion (26) formed by the ceiling wall (21), the side walls (23) and the retaining pieces (24) receives an end part of the coil spring (40) on the side of the ceiling wall (21).
US11005202B2	Connector A connector includes a housing, a terminal attached to the housing, and a bending member that connects the housing and a substrate. The bending member can electrically connect to wiring of the substrate. The housing can be inserted in an opening of a panel positioned above the substrate. A guide cap can be attached to a tip end part of the housing.
US11005200B2	Connector assembly and connector A connector assembly comprises a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises a first insulator and a first metal member. The first metal member has a first metal plane. The second connector comprises a second insulator and a second metal member. The second insulator has at least one insulating plane. The second metal member has a second metal plane. The first metal plane, at least in part, faces each of the second metal plane and the at least one insulating plane in a first direction under a mated state where the first connector and the second connector are mated with each other. A distance from the first metal plane to the second metal plane in the first direction is shorter than a distance from the first metal plane to the at least one insulating plane in the first direction under the mated state.
US11005198B2	Connector A connector includes a body and a contact that is inserted into the body. The contact includes a protruding part that is protruded in a direction orthogonal to an insertion direction of the contact, a protrusion that is provided on an outer periphery of the contact, and an overhanging part that overhangs in the direction orthogonal to the insertion direction. The body includes, on an inner surface thereof, a guide groove that is fitted with the protruding part and is extended in the insertion direction, a housing part that has an internal dimension for press-fitting the contact, which includes the protrusion, thereto, and a press-fitting part that has an internal dimension for press-fitting the contact, which includes the overhanging part, thereto. An insertion distance A of the protruding part, an insertion distance B of the protrusion, and an insertion distance C of the overhanging part satisfy a relation A>B>C.
US11005195B2	Encapsulated IPC lug connector An electrical connector, including a body formed from an electrically conductive material, the body defining an open channel configured to receive a first electrical conductor, at least one first threaded hole transverse to and in communication with the open channel, a plurality of bores extending toward the open channel, each bore configured to receive a second electrical conductor, and a second threaded hole associated with each bore transverse to and in communication with the associated bore. At least one first set screw is configured to mate with the at least one first threaded hole in communication with the open channel and configured to secure the first electrical conductor within the open channel. A plurality of second set screws are configured to mate with the second threaded holes in communication with an associated bore and configured to secure the second electrical conductor within the bore.
US11005192B2	Intelligent metamaterial radar having a dynamically controllable antenna Examples disclosed herein relate to an intelligent metamaterial radar. The radar has an Intelligent Metamaterial (“iMTM”) antenna module to radiate a transmission signal with a dynamically controllable iMTM antenna in a plurality of directions based on a controlled reactance and generate radar data capturing a surrounding environment. The radar also has an iMTM interface module to detect and identify a target in the surrounding environment from the radar data and to control the iMTM antenna module.
US11005185B2	Millimeter wave conformal slot antenna The system and method for a conformal millimeter wave (mmW) cavity backed slot antenna with near positive gain and hemispherical gain coverage. The antenna has a microstrip launch and feed and a surface mount connector. The mmW antenna may have a stripline launch or waveguide launch instead of a microstrip launch. In some cases, the microwave electronics can be mounted on the launch substrate instead of a connector.
US11005183B2	Antenna module including dielectric material and electronic device including antenna module An antenna module of a wireless communication system is provided. The antenna module includes a radiator comprising a top face to which a radio wave is radiated, a dielectric material disposed on a bottom face of the radiator, the bottom face of the radiator being opposite to the top face of the radiator, a feeding unit disposed on a bottom face of the dielectric material, the feeding unit being configured to supply an electric signal to the radiator through the dielectric material, and a support unit disposed on the bottom face of the dielectric material, the support unit comprising a metallic material.
US11005181B2	Multi-layer antenna assembly and related antenna array A multi-layer antenna assembly and related antenna array are provided. In one aspect, a multi-layer antenna assembly includes a first radiating layer(s) and a second radiating layer(s). The second radiating layer(s) is provided below and in parallel to the first radiating layer(s). The second radiating layer(s) overlaps at least partially with the first radiating layer(s). In this regard, an electromagnetic wave radiated vertically from the second radiating layer(s) is horizontally guided by an overlapping portion of the first radiating layer(s). In another aspect, an antenna array can be configured to include a number of multi-layer antenna assemblies to enable radio frequency (RF) beamforming. By employing the multi-layer antenna assemblies in the antenna array, it may be possible to flexibly and naturally steer an RF beam in a desired direction(s) without causing oversized side lobes, thus helping to improve power efficiency and performance of the antenna array.
US11005179B2	Feed structure for a metamaterial antenna system The present invention is an antenna system having an array of metamaterial cells and a transmission array having a plurality of slots, wherein a signal propagates through the transmission array to the metamaterial cells and radiates a beamform. The system further includes reactance control means to adjust a phase of the beamform and to perform beam steering and beam switching.
US11005178B2	Antenna and antenna array configurations, antenna systems and related methods of operation The subject matter described herein relates to various antenna element configurations, antenna array configurations, their operations including various systems and methods to generate modulated data for transmission by an RF antenna array via an optical processing engine. The subject matter includes optical processing engine structure and methods (e.g., modulating in the optical domain, MIMO and spatial modulation via RF beam formation, coherent transmission of RF signal components, coherent operation of spatially separate RF antenna arrays) that may be implemented with the various RF antenna array structures. In some examples, the system combines the virtues of digital, analog and optical processing to arrive at a solution for scalable, non-blocking, simultaneous transmission to multiple UE-s. Much of the system architecture is independent of the RF carrier frequency, and different frequency bands can be accessed easily and rapidly by tuning the optical source (TOPS). In some examples, multiple communication channels may be transmitted simultaneously to different locations. The transmitter may be formed by an array of optically fed antennas.
US11005173B2	ESD protection for antenna port A transceiver device comprising transceiver circuitry (5) coupled to one or more antenna ports (2; 2′) by a balun arrangement (Lb, Lu; Lu′). For each of the antenna ports (2; 2′) an antenna switch (Ta; Ta′) is present having an antenna enabling input (4; 4′) and being arranged to connect an unbalanced coil (Lu; Lu′) from the balun arrangement (Lb, Lu; Lu′) to the antenna port (2; 2′) and a ground port (3). Also an electro-static discharge (ESD) protection circuit is provided with an ESD switch (Te; Te′) arranged to connect the antenna port (2; 2′) to the antenna enabling input (4; 4′) of the antenna switch (Ta; Ta′). The ESD switch (Te; Te′) has an ESD switch control input (A) connected to an ESD trigger arrangement (Rtrigger).
US11005172B2	Method for producing a radome and corresponding radome The invention relates to a method for producing a radome, a flexible printed circuit board having a metallic structure being used. Said flexible printed circuit board is embossed and is back-molded with a thermoplastic material and electric contact elements are connected to the flexible printed circuit board. A connector skirt is placed on the contact elements prior to back-molding.
US11005170B2	Millimeter-wave radar cover A millimeter-wave radar cover housing a millimeter-wave radar including an antenna and an electronic circuit configured to drive the antenna includes: a first site provided in front of the millimeter-wave radar to protect the millimeter-wave radar and transmit millimeter waves emitted from the antenna; and a second site including a housing space in which the antenna and the electronic circuit except for the first site are housed. The first site is made of a stacked structural body obtained by stacking at least one layer of a first constituent material having a negative permittivity in the frequency band of the millimeter waves and a second constituent material having a positive permittivity in the frequency band of the millimeter waves.
US11005165B2	Cubesat antenna system A system and method of using a transceiver antenna formed on a fixed outer panel of a cubesat includes electrically coupling an RF feed to a first edge of the outer panel and electrically coupling an RF return to a second edge of the outer panel, the second edge being opposite from the first edge. The RF feed and the RF return being disposed approximately one half a height of the outer panel. An RF distribution plane is electrically coupled to the RF feed and the RF return by substantially equal length circuits. A communication system is electrically coupled to the RF distribution plane. The transceiver antenna does not require deployment and thus improves reliability.
US11005162B2	Antenna structure of wireless communication device An antenna structure includes a first array antenna having a number of first antenna units. The antenna units are arranged along a first direction and a second direction. The first antenna units are monopole antennas. The monopole antennas include a radiating body having a strip portion and a bulb portion. The radiating body generates radiation along the first direction or the second direction. The strip portion is electrically coupled to a signal source. The bulb portion is electrically coupled to the strip portion. An end of the bulb portion away from the strip portion is semi-circular in shape.
US11005158B2	Electrically functional structure integration in ultrathin foldable device Systems and methods are disclosed for integration of an electrically functional structure in an information handling system. An information handling system may include may include a housing including a first housing portion coupled to a second housing portion. The first housing portion may include an electrically functional structure integrated within the first housing portion. The first housing portion may also include a first layer and a structural adhesive applied to the first layer. The first housing portion may further include a second layer and a thermally conductive adhesive applied to the second layer to bond the second layer to the first layer. The first housing portion may also include a PCB layer coupled between a first PCB and a second PCB, the PCB layer bonded to the second layer, and the electrically functional structure includes the first PCB and the second PCB.
US11005157B2	Liquid crystal cell and scanning antenna A liquid crystal cell including antenna units includes a TFT substrate, a slot substrate, an acidic group-containing orientation film, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealant. The TFT substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, TFTs supported by the first dielectric substrate, and patch electrodes electrically connected to the TFTs. The slot substrate includes a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode supported by the second dielectric substrate and including slots. The acidic group-containing orientation film on a surface of one of the TFT substrate and the slot substrate contains a polymer having an acidic group. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate in which the patch electrodes and the slot electrode are opposed to each other to constitute the antenna units. The sealant surrounds the liquid crystal layer and is interposed between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate.
US11005152B2	RFID transponder An RFID transponder, comprising an antenna, comprising a radiating element an IC, and a ground plane arranged under the radiating element, the ground plane being solid without openings. The radiating element comprises a near field communication section extending over the edge of the ground plane for enabling near field communication of the antenna by the ground plane from backside of the RFID transponder.
US11005145B2	Preloaded battery module safety plugs This disclosure relates to safety plugs for a battery of an electrified vehicle. An example battery includes a first battery module adjacent a second battery module, with each battery module having a respective housing. Further, the first battery module includes a first electrical contact and the second battery module includes a second electrical contact configured to electrically connect to the first electrical contact in a normal operating condition. The first and second electrical contacts are biased away from one another in a first direction, and the first and second electrical contacts are held together by a positive locking arrangement in the normal operating condition. Additionally, the first and second electrical contacts are configured to move out of contact with one another upon relative movement of the first and second battery modules in a second direction transverse to the first direction.
US11005144B2	Battery system with a cell connecting unit The present invention refers to a battery system (300) which comprises a cell stack (20), wherein at least two battery cells (10) of the cell stack (20) are electrically interconnected via a battery cell connector (90). The battery system (30) comprises a printed circuit board, PCB (150), and a cell connecting unit, CCU (140). The battery cell connector (90) is accommodated in the CCU (140), the CCU (140) being fixed onto the cell stack (20) and comprising one first flexible bracket (145) that is inserted into a corresponding mounting hole (151) of the PCB (150). According to the invention, the first flexible bracket (145) of the CCU (140) comprises a member (146) configured to fix the PCB (150) to the CCU (140) after the member (146) has been molten in a state in which the first flexible bracket (145) was inserted into the corresponding mounting hole (151).
US11005138B2	Battery module and battery pack A battery module includes a plurality of single cells, a battery chamber, an exhaust chamber, a partition wall, a smoke exhaust cover and a seal member. The exhaust chamber is provided adjacently to the battery chamber. Gas released from the single cells flows through the exhaust chamber. The exhaust chamber has one or more exhaust holes configured to release the gas to an outside. The partition wall isolates the exhaust chamber and the battery chamber from each other. The smoke exhaust cover is arranged so as to lace the partition wall. The exhaust chamber is surrounded by the partition wall, the smoke exhaust cover and the seal member. The smoke exhaust cover has a protective protrusion at a location between the seal member and the exhaust valves adjacent to the seal member. The protective protrusion is configured upright from the smoke exhaust cover toward the partition wall.
US11005137B2	Electrified vehicle battery pack to vehicle body attachment and sealing strategies This disclosure details electrified vehicles that are equipped with one or more attachment and sealing assemblies for securing a battery pack to the vehicle. An exemplary attachment and sealing assembly may establish a mid-span attachment point of the battery pack and may include a pass-through component, a fastener, and a seal. The fastener may be positioned relative to the pass-through component using either a bottom-up or top-down approach. The seal may radially seal between a portion of a battery pack enclosure assembly and the pass-through component.
US11005136B2	Battery module The present disclosure provides a battery module, which comprises a plurality of battery arrays, a first end plate, a second end plate and a separating plate. Each battery array comprises a plurality of batteries sequentially arranged in a longitudinal direction, the plurality of battery arrays are sequentially arranged in a transversal direction. The first end plate and the second end plate are respectively positioned at two ends of the plurality of battery arrays in the longitudinal direction. The first end plate has a passage. The separating plate is provided between two adjacent battery arrays, one end of the separating plate in the longitudinal direction is fixed with the second end plate, the other end of the separating plate in the longitudinal direction extends into the passage and is fixed with the first end plate. In the passage, the separating plate has a bending portion not parallel to the longitudinal direction.
US11005135B2	Electrified vehicle with battery arrangement permitting relative transverse movement of individual modules This disclosure relates to a battery arrangement for an electrified vehicle. Among other things, the battery arrangement includes first and second battery modules, each of which includes a battery module housing. Adjacent surfaces of these battery module housings are interlocked such that the first and second battery modules are configured to slide relative to one another in a transverse direction of the electrified vehicle. Accordingly, this disclosure increases safety while saving space and without requiring undue reinforcements of the chassis structure, which would increase the weight of the vehicle and reduce the energy efficiency the vehicle. These and other benefits will be appreciated from the following description.
US11005133B2	Sheet manufacturing apparatus and control method for sheet manufacturing apparatus A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a second web forming unit that processes fibers into a web shape, a sheet forming unit that pinches and transports a second web processed into the web shape by the second web forming unit, and a control unit that controls at least any of a pressing state and a transport state in the sheet forming unit. The control unit causes the second web to pass through a nip unit by controlling at least any of a transport speed of the sheet forming unit, a nip pressure of the sheet forming unit, and a nip width of the sheet forming unit depending on a position of a leading edge of the second web with respect to the nip unit in which the sheet forming unit pinches the second web.
US11005129B2	Systems and methods for closed-loop recycling of a liquid component of a leaching mixture when recycling lead from spent lead-acid batteries The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for recycling lead-acid batteries, and more specifically, relates to purifying and recycling the lead content from lead-acid batteries. A system includes a reactor that receives and mixes a lead-beating material waste, a carboxylate source, and a recycled liquid component to form a leaching mixture yielding a lead carboxylate precipitate. The system also includes a phase separation device coupled to the reactor, wherein the phase separation device isolates the lead carboxylate precipitate from a liquid component of the leaching mixture. The system further includes a closed-loop liquid recycling system coupled to the phase separation device and to the reactor, wherein the closed-loop liquid recycling, system receives the liquid component isolated by the phase separation device and recycles a substantial portion of the received liquid component back to the reactor as the recycled liquid component.
US11005128B2	Lithium ion batteries and methods of sterilization A lithium ion battery is provided that includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator comprising a material having a melt temperature of greater than 150° C.; and an electrolyte including an organic solvent and a lithium salt. A method for sterilizing a lithium ion battery is also provided that includes: providing a lithium ion battery (particularly one as described herein); either charging or discharging the battery to a state of charge (SOC) of 20% to 100%; and steam sterilizing the battery to form a sterilized lithium ion battery.
US11005127B2	Stable fluorinated alkylated lithium malonatoborate salts for lithium-ion battery applications The invention is directed in a first aspect to electrolyte salt of the general formula Li+Z−, wherein Z− has the following chemical formula: wherein R1 is an alkyl group (R′) containing at least one and up to twelve carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 are independently selected from fluorine atom, hydrocarbon groups R, alkoxy groups (—OR), and ester groups —OC(O)R, wherein R2 and R3 can optionally interconnect via R functionalities to form a boron-containing ring. The invention is also directed to electrolyte compositions in which the above electrolyte salt is incorporated. The invention is further directed to lithium-ion batteries containing these electrolytes.
US11005126B2	Electrolytic solution for secondary battery, secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic device A secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes at least one of a first heterocyclic compound and a second heterocyclic compound.
US11005120B2	Electrochemical cell The electrochemical cell includes an anode, a cathode active layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode active layer. The cathode active layer includes a first region which is disposed facing the solid electrolyte layer, and a second region which is disposed on the first region. An average particle diameter of first constituent particles which constitute the first region is smaller than an average particle diameter of second constituent particles which constitute the second region.
US11005113B2	Solids mitigation within flow batteries Solids can sometimes form in one or more electrolyte solutions during operation of flow batteries and related electrochemical systems. Over time, the solids can accumulate and compromise the integrity of flow pathways and other various flow battery components. Flow batteries configured for mitigating solids therein can include an autonomous solids separator, such as a lamella clarifier. Such flow batteries can include a first half-cell containing a first electrolyte solution, a second half-cell containing a second electrolyte solution, a first flow loop configured to circulate the first electrolyte solution through the first half-cell, a second flow loop configured to circulate the second electrolyte solution through the second half-cell, and at least one lamella clarifier in fluid communication with at least one of the first half-cell and the second half-cell. A hydrocyclone can be used as an alternative to a lamella clarifier in some instances.
US11005110B2	Energy supply system for a consumer unit and method for supplying energy to a consumer unit An energy supply system for a consumer unit with safety-relevant electronic consumers has an energy supply network with a main energy supply source for feeding electrical energy into the energy supply network in the normal operating mode of the energy supply system and an energy detection device for detecting the electrical energy being fed into the energy supply network by the main energy supply source. At least one thermal battery feeds electrical energy into the energy supply network in an emergency operating mode of the energy supply system if the electrical energy being fed into the energy supply network from the main energy supply source is insufficient. A controller switches the energy supply system into the emergency operating mode and activates the at least one thermal battery if the energy which is detected by the first energy detection device undershoots a predetermined threshold value.
US11005101B2	Block graft copolymer binders and their use in silicon-containing anodes of lithium-ion batteries A graft copolymer composition comprising the following structure: wherein: Ax represents a polymer backbone having a number of polymerized monomer units x; [By] represents a multiplicity of a graft polymer side chain having a number of polymerized monomer units y, and at least a portion of the monomer units in By contains a group —C(O)OM, with M independently selected from H and alkali metals; [C] represents a multiplicity of positions on the polymer backbone Ax where the graft polymer side chain B or any other graft polymer side chain is not attached; the subscript w represents a grafting density of the group By, wherein w is an integer within a range of 10-50%; and the subscript z represents a density of the group C, wherein z=(100−w) %. The invention is also directed to lithium-ion batteries in which the above-described composition is incorporated in an anode of the battery.
US11005100B2	Selenium-doped MXene material, and preparation method and use thereof The present invention discloses a selenium-doped MXene material and a preparation method thereof, comprising the following steps: (1) adding MXene and an organic selenium source into a dispersant, and stirring to prepare a dispersion with a concentration of 10 mg/ml to 100 mg/ml, wherein a mass ratio of MXene and an organic selenium source is 0.1 to 1:1; (2) transferring the dispersion into a reaction kettle, heating to 110° C. to 230° C., reacting for 10 h to 30 h, and then naturally cooling to a room temperature; and (3) washing the product obtained in the step (2) with a cleaning agent, centrifuging to collect a precipitate, and drying the precipitate under vacuum to obtain the selenium-doped MXene material. The composite material prepared by the present invention has high specific surface area, good electrical conductivity, cycle stability performance, rate performance and high theoretical specific capacity.
US11005098B2	Method of preparing lithium metal oxide and method of manufacturing lithium secondary battery In a method of preparing a lithium metal oxide, a preliminary lithium metal oxide is prepared. The preliminary lithium metal oxide is washed using a washing solution to remove lithium salt impurities. The washing solution includes water and an organic ligand multimer compound. The lithium metal oxide having improved structural uniformity and stability is obtained using the washing solution.
US11005096B2	Positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a positive electrode current collector mainly composed of aluminum (Al), a protective layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a lithium-containing transition metal oxide and disposed on the protective layer. The protective layer has a thickness of 1 to 5 μm and contains an electroconductive material and an inorganic compound having an oxidation power lower than that of the lithium-containing transition metal oxide.
US11005095B2	Negative electrode active material, mixed negative electrode active material, and method for producing negative electrode active material A negative electrode active material includes a negative electrode active material particle. The negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle including a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6). The silicon compound particle includes crystalline Li2Si2O5 in at least part of the silicon compound particle. Among peak intensities A derived from Li2SiO3, B derived from Si, a peak intensity C derived from Li2Si2O5, and D derived from SiO2 which are obtained from a 29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum of the silicon compound particle, the peak intensity C is the highest intensity, and the peak intensity A and the peak intensity C satisfy a relationship of the formula A
US11005093B2	Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a complex oxide A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes secondary particles of a lithium transition metal complex oxide as a main component. The main component is represented by a formula: Lit(Ni1-xCox)1-yMnyBαPβSγO2, where t, x, y, α, β, and γ satisfy inequalities of 0≤x≤1, 0.00≤y≤0.50, (1−x)·(1−y)≥y, 0.000≤α≤0.020, 0.000≤β=0.030, 0.000≤γ≤0.030, and 1+3α+3β+2γ≤t≤1.30, and satisfy at least one of inequalities of 0.002≤α, 0.006≤β, and 0.004≤γ. The secondary particles exhibit a pore distribution, where a pore volume Vp(1) having a pore diameter of not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 0.15 μm satisfies an inequality of 0.035 cm3/g≤Vp(1) and where a pore volume Vp(2) having a pore diameter of not less than 0.01 μm and not more than 10 μm satisfies an inequality of Vp(2)≤0.450 cm3/g.
US11005092B2	3D pattern cutting machine for lithium metal electrode A 3-dimensional (3D) pattern puncher for punching a lithium metal electrode to provide one or more unit electrodes is provided. The 3D pattern puncher includes a mold punch configured to move up and down, the mold punch corresponding to a size of the unit electrode; a die corresponding to the mold punch; a mold blade disposed at an edge of the mold punch and configured to punch the lithium metal electrode to provide the one or more unit electrodes; and a 3D pattern positioned at an inner portion of the mold punch where the mold blade is not disposed.
US11005086B2	Feedthrough forming a terminal for an electrochemical metal-ion battery and associated battery A feedthrough that forms a terminal for a metal-ion electrochemical accumulator, provided through an aperture opening out on either side of a wall including two opposite faces. The includes feedthrough an electrically conductive male part, and a female part made of an aluminum-based alloy. A portion of the male part is tight-fitted into a blind hole of the female part.
US11005085B2	Method for producing electrode tab having thickness difference, and rechargeable battery comprising same A method for producing an electrode tab according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a step of preparing a thin plate of a strip shape having a first thickness; a step of forming an adhesion part by compressing the thin plate from one end thereof to a second thickness; and a step of forming, from the other end of the thin plate to the adhesion part, a lead tab part formed to have the first thickness, by releasing the compression applied to the adhesion part.
US11005084B2	Method for manufacturing a display apparatus A method for manufacturing display apparatus comprises: forming a display panel by forming a plurality of display elements on a substrate having flexibility; providing a holding member at a part of or the entire of an outer edge of the display panel along the outer edge, the holding member engaging with an outer periphery of the display panel; preparing a supporting member having a surface on which the substrate of the display panel is to be placed; placing the substrate on the surface of the supporting member; bonding the holding member to the surface of the supporting member; and bringing the substrate into close contact with the surface of the supporting member at a strength lower than a bonding strength between the holding member and the surface of the supporting member.
US11005083B2	High-resolution Micro-OLED display module and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a high-resolution Micro-OLED display module and a manufacturing method thereof. The method for manufacturing the high-resolution Micro-OLED comprises: S1, providing a substrate, and manufacturing light-emitting pixel units on the substrate; S2, encapsulating the light-emitting pixel units by a film encapsulation technique, and forming a film encapsulation layer; S3, manufacturing sub-pixel units on the surface of the film encapsulation layer, and depositing a metal reflective layer between two sub-pixel units which are adjacent to each other; S4, manufacturing a metal oxide layer on the surfaces of the metal reflective layer and the sub-pixel units by a deposition technique, to obtain a high-resolution Micro-OLED matrix; and S5, using a cover plate to encapsulate the high-resolution Micro-OLED matrix produced in step S4, to finish the manufacturing of a high-resolution Micro-OLED.
US11005079B2	Anti-reflection bottom-emitting type OLED display device and manufacturing method thereof An anti-reflection bottom-emitting type OLED display device and a manufacturing method are provided. The anti-reflection bottom-emitting type OLED display device includes a substrate, multiple drive transistors, and a light emitting layer. The substrate is provided with a plurality of black matrixes spaced apart from each other. The drive transistors are arranged in an array on the substrate and arranged corresponding to the black matrixes respectively. The light emitting layer is disposed on the drive transistors. An opening region is arranged between each two adjacent black matrixes. The light emitting layer includes multiple light-emitting material layers arranged in an array. Each light-emitting material layer defines a display region and a non-display region. Each opening region is arranged corresponding to each display region, and each non-display region is arranged corresponding to each black matrix. Each display region coincides with each opening region between the black matrixes on the substrate.
US11005075B2	OLED light extraction using nanostructured coatings An apparatus for light diffraction and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) incorporating the light diffraction apparatus is disclosed. An apparatus for light diffraction may comprise an optional planarization layer, a transparent substrate, a waveguide layer. The planarization layer may have a refractive index of ns. The transparent substrate may have a refractive index of ng. The waveguide layer may have a refractive index nw distributed over of the transparent substrate. The waveguide layer may comprise a binding matrix, at least one nanoparticle. The waveguide layer may be interposed between the transparent substrate and the optional planarization layer.
US11005074B2	Display device A display device is provided. The display device includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting part, wherein a light extraction structure is disposed on a first surface of the light-emitting part. The light-emitting unit also includes a connective part disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the light-emitting part. The light-emitting unit further includes a protective part surrounding the light-emitting part and the connective part. In addition, the display device includes a substrate having a plurality of active elements and at least one bonding pad, wherein the bonding pad is electrically connected to the corresponding connective part of the light-emitting unit. The roughness of the light extraction structure is greater than or equal to 0.2 μm and less than or equal to 5 μm.
US11005073B2	OLED display panel and manufacturing method thereof An OLED display panel and a manufacturing method of the OLED display panel are provided. A light-transmissive hole is in the OLED display panel, a blocking wall is arranged outside some sub-pixel regions around the light-transmissive hole, and a thin-film encapsulation layer is on the blocking wall. A portion of light emitted from the sub-pixel regions inside the blocking wall is reflected at an interface of the thin film encapsulation layer by total internal reflection to cause a bright light spot, so that an image can also be displayed in the light-transmissive hole. Therefore, an opening for an under-screen camera less affects aesthetics and appearance integrity of the OLED display panel.
US11005071B2	Method for manufacturing light-emitting device An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a more convenient highly reliable light-emitting device which can be used for a variety of applications. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture, without complicating the process, a highly reliable light-emitting device having a shape suitable for its intended purpose. In a manufacturing process of a light-emitting device, a light-emitting panel is manufactured which is at least partly curved by processing the shape to be molded after the manufacture of an electrode layer and/or an element layer, and a protective film covering a surface of the light-emitting panel which is at least partly curved is formed, so that a light-emitting device using the light-emitting panel has a more useful function and higher reliability.
US11005070B2	Organic photoelectronic device and image sensor and electronic device An organic photoelectronic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and first and second photoelectronic conversion layers between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first and second photoelectronic conversion layers include a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor. The first photoelectronic conversion layer has a first composition ratio (p1/n1) of the p-type semiconductor relative to the n-type semiconductor, the second photoelectronic conversion layer has a second composition ratio (p2/n2) of the p-type semiconductor relative to the n-type semiconductor, and the first composition ratio (p1/n1) is greater than the second composition ratio (p2/n2).
US11005066B2	Organic electronic device using adhesive film encapsulation technology, and method of manufacturing same This organic electronic device using an adhesive film encapsulation technology includes: a substrate; an electrode layer formed of a transparent conductive material on the top surface of the substrate; an active region layer which is an active layer that induces the flow of holes or electrons in a portion of the electrode layer; a counter electrode formed of a conductive material on the top surface of the electrode layer and the active region layer; an adhesive film attached to cover a region including the active region layer; and a cover material disposed at a certain distance vertically upward and apart from the adhesive film, and sealing the space between counter electrodes by using an encapsulating material along both edges thereof, wherein a gap is formed between the adhesive film and the cover material.
US11005064B2	Transparent display substrate and driving method thereof and transparent display device A transparent display substrate and a driving method thereof, and a transparent display device are provided. The transparent display substrate includes a base substrate and pixel units which are located above the base substrate and arranged in an array, each of the pixel units comprises a display region and a transparent region; a first light emitting layer is provided in the transparent region, and a first electrode is provided at a side of the first light emitting layer proximal to the base substrate and a second electrode is provided at a side of the first light emitting layer distal to the base substrate; a brightness of light emitted by the first light emitting layer is adjusted according to change in a difference between a first voltage and a second voltage loaded on the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively.
US11005062B2	Light emitting apparatus and method of fabricating the same Although an ink jet method known as a method of selectively forming a film of a high molecular species organic compound, can coat to divide an organic compound for emitting three kinds (R, G, B) of light in one step, film forming accuracy is poor, it is difficult to control the method and therefore, uniformity is not achieved and the constitution is liable to disperse. In contrast thereto, according to the invention, a film comprising a high molecular species material is formed over an entire face of a lower electrode connected to a thin film transistor by a coating method and thereafter, the film comprising the high molecular species material is etched by etching by plasma to thereby enable to selectively form a high molecular species material layer. Further, the organic compound layer is constituted by a material for carrying out luminescence of white color or luminescence of single color and combined with a color changing layer or a coloring layer to thereby realize full color formation.
US11005060B2	Electroluminescent device, and display device comprising thereof An electroluminescent device including a first electrode, a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode, a first emission layer disposed on the hole transport layer, the first emission layer including a first light emitting particle on which a first ligand having a hole transporting property is attached, a second emission layer disposed on the first emission layer, the second emission layer including a second light emitting particle on which a second ligand having an electron transporting property is attached, an electron transport layer disposed on the second emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer, wherein a solubility of the first ligand in a solvent is different than a solubility of the second ligand in the solvent and a display device including the same.
US11005056B2	Flexible display panel and manufacturing method for the same A flexible display panel is disclosed. The panel includes: a flexible substrate; an organic material layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and the organic material layer includes multiple grooves; multiple thin-film transistors received in the multiple grooves; a planarization layer disposed on the organic material layer and the multiple thin-film transistors; a pixel definition layer disposed on the planarization layer, and including multiple openings; multiple organic light-emitting diodes received in the multiple openings; an encapsulation layer disposed on the multiple organic light-emitting diodes and the pixel definition layer. The formed organic material layer having the groove has good bending property, which can improve the stress absorption and release capability of the device, and can avoid the film from variations in the performance of the thin-film transistors (such as threshold voltage Vth, sub-threshold swing S.S, etc.) that occur during constant bending in order to increase the life of device.
US11005055B2	Flexible display apparatus A display apparatus may include a base substrate including a first portion and a second portion smaller than the first portion, a plurality of pixels disposed on the first portion, a protection substrate disposed below the base substrate, and a groove disposed in a portion of the protection substrate and overlapped with the second portion. The groove may include a first region extending in a first direction, and a second region and a third region, which are arranged along the first direction, wherein the first region is interposed between the second region and the third region. The first and second portions may be arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a width of each of the second and third regions may be larger than a first width of the first region, when measured in the second direction.
US11005053B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus comprising a light conversion film and composite film comprising a light conversion film An organic light emitting display apparatus can include a substrate including an active area and a non-active area; a bending area in the active area of the substrate; a non-bending area in the active area of the substrate, the non-bending area being adjacent to the bending area; and a plurality of light conversion particles disposed in the active area of the substrate.
US11005051B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound comprising a ligand LA of Formula I: as well as, devices and formulations containing the compound of Formula 1 are disclosed. In the compounds, having a ligand La of Formula I: wherein R1 represents mono, or di-substitution, or no substitution; wherein R2 represents di, tri, or tetra-substitution; wherein R is selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, and combinations thereof; wherein R1 and R2 are each independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and combinations thereof; wherein at least one pair of adjacent R2 substitutions are joined to form a fused ring; wherein the ligand LA is coordinated to a metal M; and wherein the ligand LA is optionally linked with other ligands to comprise a tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate ligand.
US11005049B2	Metal complexes The present invention relates to metal complexes, to compositions and formulations comprising these complexes, and to devices comprising the complexes or compositions.
US11005048B2	Organic molecules, in particular for use in optoelectronic devices The invention relates to an organic molecule, in particular for the application in organic optoelectronic devices. According to the invention, the organic molecule has a first chemical moiety with a structure of Formula I, and one second chemical moiety with a structure of Formula II, # represents the binding site of a single bond linking the first chemical moiety to the second chemical moiety; wherein at least one variable of X1, X2 is N, and at least one variable of X3, X4 is N.
US11005031B2	Stacked magnetoresistive structures and methods therefor A magnetoresistive device may include a first plurality of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) bits arranged in a first XY plane, and a second plurality of MTJ bits arranged in a second XY plane that is spaced apart from the first XY plane in a Z direction. And, the MTJ bits of the first plurality of MTJ bits may be spaced apart from the MTJ bits of the second plurality of MTJ bits in the X and Y directions.

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