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US11026361B2	Linear/angular correction of pick-and-place held component and related optical subsystem A pick-and-place machine and method includes use of a passive component feeder cartridge including a feeder gear. Rotation of the feeder gear causes a component-bearing tape to be fed through the feeder cartridge. A pickup head includes a vacuum nozzle to pick up the components from the tape and a rack gear to engage and drive the feeder gear of the feeder cartridge via translational motion of the pickup head when operatively disposed with respect to a selected feeder cartridge.
US11026359B1	Electromagnetic pulse shield assembly and enclosure for protecting electrical equipment A shielding enclosure for blocking electromagnetic pulses to protect electrical equipment includes shield panels having a layered structure of conductive sheets and insulating sheets between the conductive sheets with an outward conductive sheet at a first end of the layered structure and an inward conductive sheet at a second end of the layered structure, and a first ground wire connected to the outward conductive sheet for connecting to a ground, and a second ground wire incorporating a rectifier and connected to the inward conductive sheet for connecting to a ground, the rectifier being oriented to restrict the electric current in the second ground wire to flowing from the inward conductive sheet to the ground; where the shield panels are positioned so that the inward conductive sheet generally faces the electrical equipment and the outward conductive sheet generally faces away from the electrical equipment.
US11026357B2	Containing electro-magnetic interference (EMI) using a number of low-profile spring devices In one example in accordance with the present disclosure an electro-magnetic interference (EMI) containment device is described. The EMI containment device includes a number of spring devices to maintain contact between an electronic module and an enclosure. The spring device includes a spring portion to contact an electronic module disposed in the enclosure. A guide device of the spring device controls movement of the spring portion and an alignment mechanism maintains alignment of the spring portion.
US11026352B2	Closed loop cooling system for a junction box in a vehicle, and related components, systems, and methods A closed loop cooling system for a junction box in a vehicle includes a junction box housing and a storage compartment for a vehicle. A cool air duct interior volume of a cool air duct and a warm air duct interior volume of a warm air duct are each in fluidic communication with a housing interior volume of the junction box housing and a compartment interior volume of the storage compartment to form a closed loop cooling system. The cool air duct interior volume is sized to convey cool air from a cool air outlet of the storage compartment to a cool air inlet of the junction box housing, and the warm air duct interior volume is sized to convey warm air, which is warmer than the cool air, from a warm air outlet of the junction box housing to a warm air inlet of the storage compartment.
US11026347B2	Configurable cooling for rugged environments A configurable electronics cabinet cooling system includes a cabinet having multiple walls including at least one universal cabinet wall. The universal cabinet wall has a planar outward facing surface and multiple apertures. A heat transfer component is releasably connected to the universal cabinet wall. The heat transfer component is selected from either a conductive cooling member or a convective cooling member each adapted to be interchangeably and releasably connected to the universal cabinet wall using fasteners extending through same ones of the apertures. Each of the conductive cooling member and the convective cooling member includes a planar surface, the planar surface adapted to directly contact the outward facing surface of the universal cabinet wall.
US11026340B2	Passenger protection control device A passenger protection control device for effectively preventing an infiltration of water into the interior of a case without the use of a sealant includes: a printed circuit board; a connector; and a case that accommodates such that, while a connection end surface with a wire harness of the connector is exposed, the printed circuit board is isolated from the outside. The case is formed by: a box shaped cover in which the periphery of a ceiling wall is enclosed by side walls and a floor surface is opened; and a rear cover that plugs the floor surface of the cover. The connector is installed in an opening provided in the side wall of the cover. The rear cover has a first standing wall projecting so as to face a connector in the portion of the cover in which the connector is installed. The first standing wall of the rear cover has a planar region in a head top part. The planar region has an inclined surface having a falling gradient facing outwardly from the cover.
US11026337B2	Electronic control unit There is disclosed a motor vehicle electronic control unit casing. The casing includes a housing (1) for electronic components, and a cover (15). The housing and cover (15) are inter-engageable. The housing (1) has a base (2), and an upstanding peripheral side wall (3) defining a peripheral edge (4) in spaced relation to the base (2) and which extends around an access opening of the housing. The cover (15) has a closure part (16) and is configured to close the access opening via engagement between the closure part (16) and the housing (1) around the peripheral edge (4). The cover (15) also has a mounting portion configured to be mounted to a mounting surface (27) in a motor vehicle. The mounting portion depends from the closure part (16) so as to extend substantially alongside the peripheral sidewall of the housing (1) when the housing and the cover (15) are inter-engaged to close the access opening, the mounting portion thereby being configured to secure the housing relative to the mounting surface (27) such that the peripheral edge (4) is spaced from the mounting surface (27).
US11026332B2	Reel-to-reel flexible printed circuit fabrication methods and devices A reel-to-reel machine to fabricate a printed flexible circuit on the fly, the machine has a plurality of reels, a laser scanner to ablate a metal foil, a source of UV light or heat to curing an adhesive in a coverlay, another source of UV light or heat to debond a sacrificial liner on the fly. There is a depositor to deposit a sintering paste on the fly onto a predetermined spot for a pad on the metal foil. Removal of slugs are also possible on the fly.
US11026329B2	Device for fixing camera module circuit board, and camera module A device for fixing a camera module, includes a base part; and a fixing unit including a first fixing part for supporting one side of each of a plurality of boards, and a second fixing part for supporting the other side facing one side of each of the plurality of boards, wherein a plurality of first fixing parts extends in a first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts protruding in the direction perpendicular to the first direction in order to support one side of each of the plurality of boards, and a plurality of second fixing parts extends in the first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts for supporting the other side of each of the plurality of boards.
US11026328B2	Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a printed circuit board on which a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is mounted; a frame configured to support the printed circuit board, and including a frame hole passing through the frame; a chassis coupled to the frame, and including a chassis hole configured to correspond to the frame hole; and a bonding member positioned between the printed circuit board and the frame, through the frame hole and the chassis hole, the bonding member configured to bond the frame to the printed circuit board.
US11026324B2	Creating a secure volume Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for creating a secure volume. A method includes adhering a flexible circuit to a surface of an enclosure. A first portion of the flexible circuit extends outward from the perimeter of the enclosure. A second portion of the flexible circuit is adhered to the center portion of the enclosure. Pressure is applied to the flexible circuit to ensure that it is affixed to the enclosure. The flexible circuit and the enclosure are then subjected to an annealing temperature. The duration and temperature are based on the adhesive and flexible circuit material. The extended portion of the flexible circuit is coated with an adhesive and folded over the second portion of the flexible circuit. Pressure is applied to the folded flexible circuit. The folded flexible circuit is then subjected to an annealing temperature.
US11026320B1	Charged particle irradiation apparatus The invention provides a charged particle irradiation apparatus including: a focusing magnet that deflects a charged particle beam to continuously change an irradiation angle of the beam to an isocenter; an irradiation nozzle that continuously moves along a shape on an exit side of an effective magnetic field region of the focusing magnet, wherein the beam exiting the focusing magnet is emitted to the isocenter through the irradiation nozzle; a power supply rail along the shape on the exit side of the region; and a collector shoe fixed to the irradiation nozzle and configured to slide along the rail to supply power from the rail to the irradiation nozzle. A surface of the collector shoe contacted with the rail has the same bend radius as or average bend radius of the rail, and/or the collector shoe slides along the rail in contact with a flat side surface of the rail.
US11026319B2	Multi-output high-voltage power supply and distributed ray source with multi-output high-voltage power supply Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a multi-output high-voltage power supply including a channel selection circuit (103) including a plurality of switches; and a high-voltage power supply module (101) connected to the channel selection circuit (103), wherein the high-voltage power supply module (101) includes a fine adjusting power supply component (110) and a plurality of coarse adjusting power supply components (120-1 to 120-N) connected in series, wherein one high-voltage output terminal of the high-voltage power supply module (101) is connected to a common terminal of the channel selection circuit (103), and the other high-voltage output terminal of the high-voltage power supply module (101) is grounded through a current sampling resistor.
US11026318B2	Lighting sensor analysis A method for identifying sensor units (3) at fault in a lighting system (1) performed using three or more sensor units (3), each respective one of the sensor units (3) comprising a respective sensor (116) configured to generate sensor data, the method comprising at an external processing apparatus (20) external to the sensor units (3): receiving from each of the sensor units (3) the sensor data; generating correlation parameters from the sensor data for selected pairs of neighbouring sensor units (3); and monitoring the correlation parameters to determine a sensor unit (3) at fault.
US11026316B2	Lighting control A method and apparatus for controlling illumination of a monitored area, by detecting sound (202) originating from an area to be monitored, and analysing the sound to recognise one or more target sounds (222) corresponding to unwanted behaviours such as offensive shouting, chanting or singing. The location of target sounds is determined (224) based on the received sound, and the determined location is exposed to adverse lighting (212), such as over or under exposure, or flickering or flashing effects, which are irritating or uncomfortable.
US11026313B1	Illumination system An illumination system includes a measurement stage, a light-providing part, a light-receiving part, and a processing part. The light-providing part includes light sources arranged in a dome shape, which irradiate incident lights to a measurement target on the measurement stage. The light-receiving part acquires reflection lights. The processing part controls the light sources to be turned on/off according to a dome-shaped sine wave pattern. The processing part controls the light sources to be sequentially turned on/off by shifting N times according to the dome-shaped sine wave pattern for a specific measurement position of the measurement target, and calculates a phase at the specific measurement position, an average of intensities of N reflection lights, and a visibility of N reflection lights, from intensities of N reflection lights. Thus, material of the measurement target may be easily determined.
US11026311B2	Emergency lighting system with power rollback An emergency LED lighting system maintains power to an LED lighting source based on measured voltages and currents provided to the LED lighting source; rolls back or decreases power provided to an LED lighting source over time in order to increase the amount of time the battery can power the LED lighting source; executes a soft start procedure, such that the power provided to the LED lighting source is gradually ramped up during activation of the LED lighting sources; identifies a type of battery coupled to the emergency LED lighting system; cycles the emergency LED lighting system between charging mode and standby mode to reduce power consumption over a window of time; detects AC power or an absence of AC power; and/or uses a status LED to communicate information about the emergency LED lighting system with a remote device.
US11026308B2	Power converter and control method thereof A power converter can include: a rectifier circuit; a silicon controlled dimmer coupled between an AC input terminal and an input terminal of the rectifier circuit; and a bleeder circuit coupled to an output terminal of the rectifier circuit, and being configured to provide a bleeder current after the silicon controlled dimmer is turned off. A method of controlling a power converter, can include: generating a bleeder current flowing though output terminals of a rectifier circuit of the power converter after a silicon controlled dimmer is turned off; and where the silicon controlled dimmer coupled to the rectifier circuit receives an AC input voltage.
US11026300B2	Telescopic slide for a microwave oven A telescopic slide for a microwave oven has a first slide element and a second slide element each having two running surfaces with caged rolling bodies arranged on the running surfaces. The slide elements can be moved along against each other between a retracted position and an extended position. The slide elements each have at least one electrically conductive contact element arranged on the slide elements in such a way that in the retracted position either the contact elements are directly in engagement or that the contact element of the first slide element and the contact element of the second slide element are each in engagement with an electrically conducting conductive element that is moved concomitantly with the rolling-body cage. The result is that in the retracted position there is an electrically conducting connection between the first and the second slide elements, and in at least one position other than the retracted position the electrically conducting connection is broken.
US11026299B2	Induction heater and apparatus An induction-heating device for heating and or melting a heat affected product zone of shaving or cosmetic products stored in a product container which consists of a layer of said product heated by an electrically conductive metallic target member having through-passages overlying said top product surface and energized by an induction coil into which an electromagnetic field is generated by electronic circuitry for a predetermined time period into said product container, thereby permitting said heated and or melted product to flow through said through-passages onto said top surface of said target member to be collected by a user for shaving or cosmetic purposes.
US11026295B2	Communication apparatus, method for controlling communication apparatus, and program A communication apparatus includes a determination device configured to, in a case where the communication apparatus connects to a first network of a first base station via a first frequency channel and the communication apparatus participates in a second network via the first frequency channel without connection to a base station, determine whether a second frequency channel used by a second base station is usable in the communication performed, and a control device configured to control the communication without connection to the base station according to the determination by the determination device.
US11026289B2	Base station and resource allocation method based on semi-persistent scheduling The disclosure provides a base station and a resource allocation method based on semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). The method includes: periodically receiving a plurality of uplink data corresponding to a user equipment (UE) on a wireless resource assigned to the UE; in response to consecutively receiving a predetermined number of specific uplink data, performing a release SPS operation to cease receiving other uplink data corresponding to the UE on the wireless resource, wherein the specific uplink data consist of pending data and error data or consist of the error data.
US11026285B2	Systems and methods for establishing network connections In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by an access point, that a first connection between a first device and the access point is not functional. A non-functional connection between the first device and a backhaul network causes the first connection between the first device and the access point to become not functional. The method also includes selecting, by the access point, a second device operable to provide backhaul to the access point. The method also includes establishing, by the access point, a second connection between the second device and the access point and receiving, by the access point, information from the second device via the second connection. The second connection is a wireless connection. The method further includes communicating, by the access point, the information to the first device.
US11026283B2	Determining when to establish connection between mobile client and proxy devices A client device can be configured to identify data to be communicated with a network. In some examples, the client device can determine one or more transient properties of the client device and/or receive a connection request from a host device that is connected to the network, where the connection request comprises one or more connection properties of the host device. In some instances, the client device can also be configured to determine whether the host device is capable of transmitting the data to the network based at least in part on the one or more transient properties of the client device and the one or more connection properties of the host device and/or establish a connection with the host device in accordance with determining that the host device is capable of transmitting the data to the network.
US11026282B1	Use of secondary-node beamwidth as basis to control whether to use blind addition or rather threshold-based addition when configuring dual connectivity A mechanism for controlling configuration of dual connectivity for a UE that has a first connection with a first access node. The first access node could make a determination whether a beamwidth of a second access node with which the UE does not yet have a connection is at least as wide as a predefined threshold angle. If not, then the first access node could apply blind addition, in which the first access node works to add for the UE the second connection without requiring as a condition precedent the UE reporting being in threshold strong coverage of the second access node. Whereas, if so, then the first access node could instead apply threshold-based addition, in which the first access node works to add for the UE the second connection if and when the UE reports being in threshold strong coverage of the second access node.
US11026280B2	System and method for data communication A system and method of data communication is provided for use in a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes a base station, a relay user equipment (UE) and an out of coverage UE (OOC-UE). The method includes receiving, at the relay UE and from the base station, a relay cycle configuration, the relay cycle configuration defining a relay cycle including a first time period for device to device (D2D) communication, and a second time period for cellular communication. The method then includes receiving, at the relay UE by D2D communication, within the first time period and from the out of coverage UE (OOC-UE), relay data, and providing, from the relay UE by cellular communication, within the second time period and to the BS, the relay data.
US11026279B1	Systems and methods for network-enabled peer-to-peer communication using multi-access edge computing A network device may receive multi-access edge computing (MEC) proximity service information that identifies a set of MEC devices and a set of network services supported by respective MEC devices of the set of MEC devices. The network device may transmit, to a base station, at least a portion of the MEC proximity service information for broadcasting by the base station. The network device may receive, from a user device, a request to establish a peer-to-peer connection with a MEC device for the network service. The network device may authenticate the user device for access to the network service. The network device may transmit, to the user device and the MEC device, connection information that enables the user device and the MEC device to establish the peer-to-peer connection, based on authenticating the user device for access to the network service.
US11026272B2	Terminal apparatus, core network apparatus, and communication control method Provided are: a terminal apparatus that can support establishment of sessions that connect to various DNs; a measure for communication control that is preferable for an apparatus on a network that can connect to the terminal apparatus; a measure for communication control for recognizing the types of DNs with which the sessions are connected; and a measure for communication control for achieving user data communication. With this configuration, the preferable measures for communication control and measures for achieving user data communication can be provided to a control apparatus and a terminal apparatus included in a communication system that supports the establishment of sessions that connect to various DNs.
US11026270B2	Radio resource control RRC connection method and apparatus and RRC reconnection method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention relate to an RRC connection method and a serving node. In the embodiments, an RRC connection is established between an anchor node and a UE. Therefore, when a serving node of the UE is switched, a connection between an MME and the anchor node does not change. When the MME needs to send a paging message, the MME does not need to send the paging message to all base stations in a TA area that corresponds to the paging message, thereby effectively reducing signaling load of a core network.
US11026269B2	Preamble configuration method, sending method and related devices on an unlicensed carrier The present disclosure provides a preamble configuration method on an unlicensed carrier, which includes: PRACH configuration information. The PRACH configuration information includes sub-frame location information, CCA interval location information for a channel idle estimation, a channel detection mechanism, preamble format information and preamble sending location information; the sub-frame location information representing a sub-frame number of a sub-frame in which a preamble to be sent is located, the CCA interval location information representing a location on the sub-frame or on a previous sub-frame of the sub-frame, the CCA interval occupying at most N symbols at a head or at an end of the sub-frame, the preamble format information representing that the preamble is a format 0 preamble, the preamble sending location information representing a sending location of the format 0 preamble to be sent on the sub-frame. Control signaling carrying the PRACH configuration information to user equipment is sent.
US11026264B2	Apparatus and method of transmitting and receiving message 3 protocol data unit A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system 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. A method of a terminal for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. A method includes identifying whether physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions are configured for an active uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a serving cell; based on the PRACH occasions not being configured for the active UL BWP and the serving cell being a special cell (SpCell), switching an active downlink (DL) BWP of the SpCell; and performing the random access procedure on the active DL BWP of the SpCell and the active UL BWP of the serving cell. A method by a terminal for transmitting a message 3 (Msg3) in a random access procedure is provided. In addition, a method by a terminal for system information (SI) request is provided.
US11026263B2	System information obtaining and sending method and related apparatus A system information obtaining and sending method and a related apparatus are disclosed. A terminal receives configuration indication information sent by a network device, where the configuration indication information includes RACH preamble configuration information corresponding to first system information; and the terminal sends a first request message used to obtain the first system information, to the network device according to the RACH preamble configuration information corresponding to the first system information, so that the RACH preamble configuration information is reused in the first request message.
US11026260B2	Communication apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A communication apparatus capable of multi-user communication in which signals are multiplexed and communicated to one or more other communication apparatuses, the communication apparatus determines whether to transmit an MU-RTS (Multi User Request To Send) frame based on a size of data scheduled to be transmitted or received in accordance with the multi-user communication, and, in a case where it is determined to transmit the MU-RTS frame, transmits the MU-RTS frame prior to the multi-user communication.
US11026256B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method The terminal apparatus 1 receives an uplink grant to be used for scheduling a PUSCH in the serving cell and an uplink grant to be used for scheduling a sPUSCH in the serving cell, transmits a periodic channel state information report using a PUCCH in the serving cell, transmits the periodic channel state information report using the PUSCH in a subframe in which the PUSCH is scheduled, and does not transmit the periodic channel state information report using the sPUSCH in a subframe in which the sPUSCH is scheduled. According to the present invention, the terminal apparatus 1 can efficiently transmit the uplink control information. Also, the base station apparatus 3 can efficiently receive the uplink control information.
US11026251B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method therefor Provided are a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method, in a case that uplink data transmission based on orthogonal multiple access and uplink data transmission based on non-orthogonal multiple access coexist in a cell in which many terminal apparatuses present, capable of maintaining a prescribed communication quality for the uplink data. The base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus configured to support contention based access and non-contention based access transmits, in a case that an uplink data channel received in a non-contention based manner occurs in a subframe including the contention based access region, a contention based transmission configuration change notification with respect to a subframe configured to receive the uplink data channel.
US11026250B2	Scheduling method, device, and system The present invention relates to the wireless communications field, and provides a scheduling method, a device, and a system, to resolve a problem that a scheduling resource is wasted when SPS transmission with a relatively short scheduling interval is applied to a V2X service. The scheduling method provided in the present invention includes: receiving, by a first device, semi-persistent scheduling SPS configuration information from a second device; receiving, by the first device, SPS activation information from the second device, where the SPS activation information is used to indicate an activated SPS resource; and sending, by the first device, the SPS instruction information to the second device, where the SPS instruction information is used to instruct to use or not to use a scheduling resource of the activated SPS resource. Embodiments of the present invention are applied to V2X communication.
US11026248B2	Downlink multiplexing A mobile station which communicates with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a downlink control channel, and a controller configured to determine whether C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The controller is further configured to determine that resource allocation in the downlink control channel overrides persistent downlink resource allocation for a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) if the C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The transceiver is further configured to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission by using persistent downlink resources.
US11026245B2	Mission critical data support in self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for enabling at least one opportunity to transmit mission critical (MiCr) data and at least one opportunity to receive MiCr data in a time division duplex (TDD) subframe during a single transmission time interval (TTI). The single TTI may be no greater than 500 microseconds. The TDD subframe may be a downlink (DL)-centric TDD subframe or an uplink (UL)-centric TDD subframe. How much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to transmit the MiCr data and how much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to receive the MiCr data may be adjusted based on one or more characteristics of the MiCr data. The MiCr data may have a low latency requirement, a high priority requirement, and/or a high reliability requirement. Various other aspects are provided throughout the present disclosure.
US11026244B2	Method and device in terminal and base station for dynamic scheduling The disclosure provides a method and a device in a terminal and a base station for dynamic scheduling. The UE detects a first bit block in a first time-frequency resource set and a second bit block in a second time-frequency resource set. The first bit block includes a first and a second bit sub-block, the first bit sub-block is for generating the second bit sub-block. The second bit block includes a third and a fourth bit sub-block, and the third bit sub-block is for generating the fourth bit sub-block; or the second bit block includes a third bit sub-block which does not include CRC bits. The first and the second bit block are associated. Bits in the second bit sub-block is greater than bits in the fourth bit sub-block. The disclosure effectively reduce number of check bits in control signalings, thereby reducing overheads of control signalings and improving spectrum efficiency.
US11026240B2	Method and user equipment for predicting available throughput for uplink data A method in a user equipment for predicting an available throughput for uplink data to be sent from the user equipment to a base station over a radio link. The user equipment obtains (201) an information about a past scheduling of the user equipment. The user equipment obtains (202) a radio quality measure related to the radio link. The user equipment predicts (204) the available throughput based on a relationship between the information about a past scheduling of the user equipment and one or more previously obtained pieces of information about the past scheduling of the user equipment. The user equipment predicts the available throughput further based on a relationship between the radio quality measure and of one or more previously obtained radio quality measures. The user equipment predicts the available throughput further based on a previously obtained throughput. The previously obtained throughput is associated with the one or more previously obtained pieces of information about a past scheduling and the one or more previously obtained radio quality measures.
US11026238B2	Method and device for configuring semi-persistent scheduling A method and device for configuring semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). Information on transmission or reception opportunity is included in SPS configuration when a network device configures the SPS for a terminal device. Therefore, SPS operation with multiple duration (such as slot and/or mini-slot) is enabled and there may be match between the network device and the terminal device when SPS transmission occupy just slots or mini-slots within one subframe.
US11026235B2	Beam grouping for inter-band carrier aggregation In an aspect of the disclosure, methods, a computer-readable media, and apparatus are provided. An method for wireless communication includes identifying a first set of one or more beams for communication with a first cell on a first carrier. The method includes identifying a second set of one or more beams for communication with a second cell on a second carrier. The method further includes transmitting an indication of a group of beams to the first cell or the second cell. The indication of the group of beams indicates allowed or disallowed combinations of beams for concurrent transmission or reception at the UE on the first and second carriers.
US11026230B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods A wireless telecommunications system in which downlink communications are made using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth (host carrier) and supports at least some communications from a base station to least some terminal devices within a plurality of restricted frequency bands (virtual carriers) which are narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth. A terminal device conveys an indication of its identity, e.g. an IMSI, to the base station during an initial connection procedure as the terminal device seeks to access the radio interface. The terminal device and the base station both determine a selected restricted frequency band from among the plurality of restricted frequency bands based on the identity of the terminal device in the same way. Thus the terminal device and the base station select the same restricted frequency band and can accordingly configure their respective transceivers to allow for downlink communications between them within the selected restricted frequency band.
US11026229B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a frequency band There is provided a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a frequency band in a wireless communications network. The method includes determining a frequency separation between a frequency of a transmit signal and a frequency of a receive signal within the frequency band based on at least one of a power of the transmit signal, a number of physical channels associated with the transmit signal, and a number of physical channels associated with the receive signal. The method further includes transmitting and receiving signals in the frequency band in accordance with the determined frequency separation. The method may be performed by a User Equipment of a Network Node.
US11026228B2	Slot type indication method and apparatus, and slot type determining method and apparatus A slot type indication method and an apparatus and a slot type determining method and an apparatus are provided. Under the slot type indication method, a first indication information can be generated by a network device. The first indication information indicates a slot type of a first slot. When the slot type of the first slot is a predefined type, the first indication information further indicates whether a second slot is an uplink-only slot, and the first slot is a slot that includes a downlink control channel. The first indication information can be sent, by the network device, by using the downlink control channel of the first slot.
US11026220B2	Resource allocation method, apparatus and system The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications. Provided are a resource allocation method, apparatus and system applicable to an access network device. The method includes: acquiring J types of configuration information, each type of configuration information including information of a resource block to be allocated, where J≥1; and providing notification of the J types of configuration information.
US11026219B2	Systems and methods for fast control messaging for multiple numerology access zones A method is provided for detecting an access zone configuration of a downlink wireless transmission received from a wireless network by a receiver. The method includes steps of activating the receiver, synchronizing the receiver with the wireless network, detecting, by the receiver after the step of synchronizing, a received access zone of the downlink wireless transmission, determining a base symbol of the detected access zone, ascertaining a first gap and a second gap from repetitive information contained within the determined base symbol, concluding, from the ascertained first and second gaps, that the detected access zone is part of a multiple access zone configuration, and registering, after the step of concluding, the receiver with the wireless network.
US11026217B2	Sidelink signal transmission/reception method of UE in wireless communication system In one embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a sidelink signal transmission/reception method by which user equipment (UE) transmits/receives a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: allowing the UE to receive, in subframe n, a DCI including a timer resource pattern for transmission (T-RPT) from a base station; allowing the UE to transmit a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) in a sidelink subframe after n+4; allowing the UE to apply the T-RPT to subframes after a PSCCH-physical sidelink shared channel (PSCCH-PSSCH) offset from the subframe having transmitted the PSCCH; and allowing the UE to transmit the PSSCH in the subframes indicated in the T-RPT.
US11026215B2	UE specific search space and a common search space in a wide coverage enhancement This disclosure relates to implementations to support UE-specific search space (UESS) for wide coverage enhancement (WCE). One implementation relates to an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprising: an interface configured to receive configuration information of a UE specific Search Space (UESS) and a common search space (CSS) for enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) from a radio-frequency (RF) circuitry; and a processor configured to monitor the UESS and the CSS for ePDCCH transmission; wherein the interface and/or the processor is adaptable to support a wideband coverage enhancement (WCE).
US11026203B2	Methods, devices, and systems for initial grant-free transmission determination In accordance to embodiments, methods, devices, and systems for determining initial transmissions in grant-free transmissions are disclosed. A UE receives a resource configuration for grant-free (GF) transmissions. The resource configuration comprises a periodicity parameter (P), a repetition number (K), and a sequence of redundancy version (RV) numbers corresponding to one or more RV types. The periodicity parameter defines a period having K transmission occasions (TOs), and each of the KTOs is associated with one RV number in the sequence of RV numbers. The UE performs an initial GF transmission of data in a TO of the K TOs in the period defined by the periodicity parameter. The TO is associated with an RV number corresponding to RV0.
US11026202B2	Method and system for synchronizing a mesh network A system and method of synchronizing a mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes are provided. The method may include sensing and transmitting, by a first subset of the plurality nodes, temperature values of the first subset nodes; receiving, by at least one back-end unit, from the first subset nodes, the temperature values of the first subset nodes; determining, by the at least one back-end unit, for a second subset of the plurality of nodes including all the first subset nodes, respective ambient-related clock drift values, based on the temperature values of the first subset nodes and an inter-node data; transmitting, by the at least one back-end unit, the respective ambient-related clock drift values to the second subset nodes; and determining, by the second subset nodes, ambient-related time offset values between each respective two nodes of the second subset, based on the respective nodes' ambient-related clock drift values.
US11026194B2	Method, terminal, and base station for use in data transmission Disclosed are a method, a terminal, and a base station for use in data transmission. The present invention allows the terminal to receive a downlink control signaling at a low frequency band and to transmit data at a high frequency band when high-speed data transmission is required. The method comprises: when there is no data transmission, the terminal receives first indication information in a first cell using a first frequency band, the first indication information being used for indicating a terminal having received the first indication information to use a second frequency band for data transmission; the terminal transmits data in a second cell using the second frequency band on the basis of the first indication information when data transmission is required.
US11026192B2	System and method to enhance ranging resolution for localization of a LoRa sensor or device The invention provides a system and method of identifying when a message is received at a control station from at least one device in a network having a plurality of devices, said method comprising the steps of receiving at the control station a low bandwidth signal from at least one device; obtaining a coarse timestamp estimate of when said low bandwidth signal is received by correlating with a pre-programmed signal template; generating a higher resolution correlation estimate by phase shifting the pre-programmed signal template and repeating the correlation; and detecting where the correlation is above a preselected value; and applying a curve fitting function about the higher resolution correlation estimate to obtain an accurate timestamp when the message was received.
US11026189B2	Sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission protocol Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In certain aspects, the method generally includes determine a transmission power for each of at least one first sounding reference signal (SRS) to be transmitted using at least one first antenna, wherein the determination is based on whether the at least one first SRS is transmitted using an amplifier of a transmit chain configured for transmissions using a second antenna, and transmitting the at least one first SRS based on the determination.
US11026187B2	Clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold adaptation method Methods and apparatuses are described herein for determining a transmit power based on clear channel assessment (CCA) thresholds. A station (STA) associated with a first Basic Service Set (BSS) may receive, from an access point (AP) associated with the first BSS, a clear channel assessment (CCA) value for a group of STAs associated with a second BSS. The CCA value may indicate a minimum CCA threshold for a packet received from the second BSS. The STA may then determine, based on the CCA value, a STA specific CCA parameter and a target CCA parameter. The target CCA parameter may be greater than or equal to the STA specific CCA parameter. Based on the STA specific CCA parameter and the target CCA parameter, the STA may determine a target transmit power control (TPC) parameter of the STA, wherein the sum of target TPC parameter and target CCA parameter is constant.
US11026185B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus includes: signal generation circuitry which, in operation, generates a control signal including a target reception power value regarding a target value of a reception power for the communication apparatus to receive an uplink (UL) response frame transmitted by each of one or more terminal stations, the control signal being a trigger frame that solicits transmission of the UL response frame from each of the one or more terminal stations; and transmission circuitry which, in operation, transmits the generated signal.
US11026183B2	Configuring different uplink power control for long and short uplink bursts Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a user equipment (UE) to set uplink power control for a long uplink burst and a short uplink burst. The UE receives uplink power control information including a first set of power control parameters for a long uplink burst and a second set of power control parameters for a short uplink burst with the sets of power control parameters being different from each other. The UE configures uplink power control for the long uplink burst based at least on the first set of power control parameters and the short uplink burst based at least on the second set of power control parameters. The UE sends at least one of a long uplink burst and a short uplink burst based on the corresponding uplink power control and sends at least one uplink power-headroom report for the long uplink burst and short uplink burst.
US11026182B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit To efficiently transmit a power headroom. An apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive first information and receive a physical downlink control channel, the first information including a resource configuration of one or more sounding reference signals, and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating a first power headroom level for a physical uplink shared channel associated with a sounding reference signal resource index included in downlink control information carried on the downlink control channel, and transmit information indicating a second power headroom level for a physical uplink shared channel associated with a sounding reference signal resource index not included in the downlink control information carried on the downlink control channel.
US11026181B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit A terminal apparatus transmits uplink information on an uplink physical channel, encodes the uplink information and sets transmission power for the uplink physical channel at least based on a parameter, wherein in a case that a first error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a first value and a first number of bits before coding per resource element, and in a case that a second error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a second value and a second number of bits before coding per resource element, the second value being different from the first value, and the second error correction encoding method being different from the first error correction encoding method.
US11026177B1	Reducing battery consumption for portable devices with microphones Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for reducing battery consumption for portable devices with microphones. Example methods may include receiving, by a user device, a first indication from a first device indicating that voice data is forthcoming, where the first device comprises a first battery and a first microphone. Example methods may include determining that a first battery level of the first battery is less than a threshold, and determining that a second device is in an active state, where the second device comprises a second battery and a second microphone. Methods may include sending the second device a second indication to activate the second microphone, receiving the voice data from the second device, and causing presentation of a digital response to a request associated with the voice data at the first device.
US11026171B2	Two stage grant for a secondary cell in a wireless device A wireless device starts a deactivation timer of a secondary cell based on receiving a MAC command indicating activation of the secondary cell. The deactivation timer is restarted in response to receiving a first DCI comprising: a first field indicating an uplink resource block assignment; and a first trigger field indicating that the first DCI is triggered in response to a second trigger of a second DCI. The second DCI is received and comprises: a second trigger field indicating the second trigger; and a second field indicating a subframe offset value. The deactivation timer is restarted in response to receiving the second DCI. In response to the second trigger, transport block(s) are transmitted using the uplink resource block assignment of a subframe. A position of the subframe is determined based on the subframe offset value.
US11026169B2	Physical layer power save facility Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose a method to transmit information in unused fields of a physical layer header to improve performance of the system. The proposed method transmits, during single user transmission, a portion of the basic service set identifier (BSSID) of an access point in a field of a header that is usually used to indicate number of space time streams (Nsts).
US11026168B2	Systems and methods for enhanced mesh networking A method for enhanced mesh networking, including performing network analysis, configuring router link parameters, and managing routing paths, is described. A metric for routing path assessment, including a throughput metric and a channel utilization metric, is described. A Segment Table Announced Mesh Protocol, including determining network segments and designating forwarding devices for communication between the network segments, is described.
US11026167B2	Communication apparatus and communication method A communication apparatus performs packet transmission at the time of detecting an interference signal. Each STA records a pair of a measurement result of an RSSI of an OBSS and a BSS Color, and reports, to an AP, BSS Colors that correspond to a maximum value and a minimum value of the RSSI. The AP generates a database or a table by using a STA having a minimum or maximum RSSI for each of the OBSS's. When a signal of an OBSS is detected, the AP selects a STA that has the smallest RSSI of the OBSS or does not have the largest RSSI of the OBSS, and performs SR transmission.
US11026163B1	System, method and apparatus to maintain policy enforcement on a network device A computerized method performed by logic of a wireless transceiver coupled to an interior of an automobile. The computerized method includes operations of responsive to an application processing on a first network device detecting a speed below a predetermined threshold, receiving a first instruction initiating the logic of the wireless transceiver, obtaining sensory data indicating an acceleration value from an accelerometer of the wireless transceiver, and transmitting the sensory data to the first network device. The computerized method includes situations in which the acceleration value indicates at least one of positive acceleration or negative acceleration. The computerized method includes situations in which the sensory data includes one or more interrupts generated by the accelerometer when the acceleration value exceeds a predetermined threshold. The computerized method includes situations in which the application processing on the first network device utilizes the series of binary bits to decrement or reset a delay timer.
US11026158B2	Information transmission method and device Provided in the embodiment of the present application is an information transmission method and device. The method comprises: a network equipment sends scheduling information of system information; and the network equipment sends the system information according to the scheduling information. The method and the device can save signaling overheads and increase the utilization rate of resources.
US11026156B2	Protecting physical cell identifiers A base station device broadcasts a base station identifier. The base station identifier is assigned to the base station device, and is broadcasted in one or more system information messages that are receivable by user devices located within a threshold distance from the base station device. The base station device determines whether the base station identifier is to be altered, and processes the base station identifier to generate an altered base station identifier for the base station device. The base station device performs one or more actions to cause the altered base station identifier to be broadcasted. The altered base station identifier is broadcasted in one or more additional system information messages that are receivable by the user devices.
US11026149B1	Systems and methods for reducing slice access failures Systems, devices and automated processes are provided of selective access to multiple available slices of a network from at least one cell by a user equipment (UE) to enable reductions in slice failure accesses to the network. The method includes: accessing at a first cell, by the UE, slice A of the network wherein slice A provides higher bandwidth and lower latency access than slice B; and accessing at a second cell, by the UE, both slice A and slice B of the network wherein slice B has greater access availability than slice A wherein if the UE attempts to access the first or second cell then via cell reselection of the UE making a determination to select the second cell if the user is authorized for use of a premium service for the higher bandwidth and lower latency access of slice A else selecting by the UE the first cell for network access of slice B.
US11026146B1	Method and system for overcoming handover failures between mini macros A method of managing handovers between a plurality of relay access nodes, the method includes monitoring a latency of a donor access node communicating with the plurality of relay access nodes; determining that a quality of service corresponding to a wireless device communicating with a relay access node of the plurality of relay access nodes meets a quality of service criteria; and in response to the latency meeting a threshold, instructing the relay access node to handover the wireless device to a target access node, or instructing the donor access node to handover the relay access node to the target access node, where the target access node is the donor access node, a neighboring access node, or a second relay access node served by the neighboring access node.
US11026143B2	Network unit and methods therein for determining a target radio network node A method performed by a network unit (140) for determining a target radio network node (112). The network unit (140) and the target radio network node (112) are operating in a wireless communications network (100). The network node determines the target radio network node (112) as one radio network node out of a group of radio network nodes (110, 112, 112′) operating in the wireless communications network (100) and which one radio network node has a combination of a quality of a radio channel to a wireless device (120) and an amount of computational resources available for serving the wireless device (120), which combination is better than the other radio network nodes out of the group of radio network nodes (110, 112, 112′). The target radio network node (112) is for association with the wireless device (120) served by a serving radio network node (110).
US11026141B2	Mobility in dense networks A network node may predict, from user equipment, UE mobility attributes and/or state, likely target SCells and pre-configure the UE with information about those SCells, allowing quick deactivation and activation when the UE reports one of the predicted target SCells as being better than then the existing current SCell.
US11026139B2	Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) based concurrent scan of neighbor cells Methods, systems, and devices are described for concurrently performing handoff-related measurements for neighbor cells using multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna resources. In one example, a mobile device is in communication with a serving cell. Handoff-related measurements of first wireless signals from a first neighbor cell are performed. The first wireless signals are received at first MIMO antenna resources of a device. Handoff-related measurements of second wireless signals from a second neighbor cell are performed, as well. The second wireless signals are received at second MIMO antenna resources concurrently with the first wireless signals received at the first MIMO antenna resources. The first handoff-related measurements and the second handoff-related measurements may be performed during a scan interval. A type of handoff-related measurement to perform may be determined based on a determined length of the scan interval.
US11026138B1	Dynamic control of measurement threshold based on inter-band dual-connectivity capability A mechanism for controlling a measurement threshold used for triggering handover of a user equipment device (UE) when the UE is connected with a first access node, the first access node operating on a first frequency band and a second frequency band, and a second access operating on the second frequency band. A determination is made as to whether the UE supports inter-band dual-connectivity service with the UE being connected with the first access node on the first band and with the second access node on the second band. And responsive to the determination being that the UE does not support the inter-band dual-connectivity service, the measurement threshold is adjusted from a default level to an adjusted level to help facilitate handover of the UE from being connected with the first access node on the first band to being connected with the first access node instead on the second band.
US11026136B2	Handovers with simplified network topology Systems and methods for handovers with simplified network topology are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: at a coordinating gateway during a handover of a mobile device from a first base station to a second base station, receiving a first handover request from the first base station; discarding a first shared security key received in the first handover request; sending a tunnel switching request to a core network node; obtaining precursors for a second shared security key from the core network node in a response to the switching request; sending a second handover request to the second base station with the precursors to calculate the second shared security key for securing a data connection for the mobile device following the handover; deriving the second shared security key from the obtained precursors at the first base station; and deriving the second shared security key from the obtained precursors at the coordinating gateway.
US11026132B2	Communication method, core network device, access network device, terminal device, and communication system Disclosed by the embodiments of the present application are a communication method, core network device, access network device, terminal device, and communication system. Said communication method comprises: the core network device determining an access network device set, said access network device set comprising at least one access network device already accessed by the terminal device; said core network device and each access network device in said access network device set establishing a network connection for said terminal device. By means of the technical solution of the present application, each access network device in the access network device set establishes a network connection for the terminal device in advance, thereby allowing the terminal device to move within a range of coverage of at least one access network device, reducing communication delays.
US11026131B1	Dynamic carrier reconfiguration to facilitate voice-over-packet communication in response to predicted uplink intermodulation distortion When an access node is providing a UE with carrier-aggregation service on a PCell in combination with one or more SCells and the UE engages in a voice call including uplink voice communication on the PCell, the access node will determine that there is a threshold high level of IMD on the uplink resulting from concurrent downlink transmissions, and the access node will responsively swap the UE's PCell with one of the UE's one or more SCells. In a representative implementation, the decision to swap these carriers in the UE's connection could be based on a further determination that the level of IMD on the uplink of the SCell is not threshold high.
US11026129B2	System and method for returning to 5G after fallback Systems and methods described herein bring a 5G standalone-capable end device back into 5G service to leverage the 5G network's data capacity as soon as a VoLTE call is over. A network device receives a fallback connection, for a 5G New Radio (NR) standalone-capable end device, from a second network to the first network to support a voice call on the end device, wherein the fallback connection supports a voice-over-LTE call. The network device detects an end of the VoLTE call and initiates, in response to the detecting, a handover of the end device back to the second network, wherein the initiating occurs while the end device is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode.
US11026123B2	Method and device for configuring signaling category for access control mechanism in wireless communication system Provided are a method for a user equipment (UE) to perform early data transmission (EDT) in a wireless communication, and an apparatus supporting the same. The method may include: receiving system information including a threshold for the EDT; determining whether or not a condition for initiating the EDT is satisfied, by comparing the threshold for the EDT with a size of data for transmission; if the condition is satisfied, performing the EDT; and if the condition is not satisfied, performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment or resume procedure.
US11026121B2	Wireless communication method and system for network slicing A wireless communication method is provided. The wireless communication method includes the following steps. A user equipment (UE) sends a network slice request to a base station. The network slice request includes a UE ID and assistance information. The UE receives a network slice response from the base station. The network slice response indicates whether the network slice request is supported. The network slice response is generated in response to the assistance information for network slice selection.
US11026119B2	Radio communication system for an industrial automation system and method for operating the radio communication system A radio communication system for an industrial automation system includes at least one radio base station and at least one radio subscriber station that each have a multiplexer unit for data frames that are to be sent redundantly, where the radio base station and the radio subscriber station each transmit data frames that are to be sent redundantly in parallel using multiple different carrier frequencies and each comprise a redundancy handling unit for processing received redundant data frames, and where the redundancy handling units each detect received redundant data frames or restore redundantly sent data frames from different data frame fragments.
US11026117B2	Method for transmitting signals by user equipment in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting signals by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises skipping buffer status report (BSR) triggering procedure when a logical channel belongs to a specific logical channel group; receiving an uplink grant allowed to be used for transmission of buffer size information of the specific logical channel group; and transmitting buffer size information of the specific logical channel group based on the uplink grant.
US11026116B2	Apparatus and method for generating a buffer status report The method for a user equipment (UE) generating a buffer status report (BSR) comprises receiving logical channel configuration information from a network, the logical channel configuration information including information related to a plurality of numerologies mapped to each logical channel; when the BSR is triggered, calculating a buffer size of each numerology based on the logical channel configuration information; and generating a BSR including buffer size information of at least one numerology in decreasing order of numerology priority.
US11026114B2	Method and apparatus for generating cell measurement information in a wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a higher data transmission rate since fourth generation (4G) communication systems like long term evolution (LTE). A method for generating cell measurement information is provided. The method includes receiving measurement configuration information associated with a beam reference signal that is a beamformed reference signal, receiving beam reference signals per a plurality of beam pairs consisting of a base station's (5G-NB's) beam and a user equipment's (UE's) beam, generating beam measurement information based on the beam reference signals received per the plurality of beam pairs, and generating cell measurement information on a cell based on the beam measurement information.
US11026112B2	Method and apparatus for performing measurement in an extension carrier A method of configuring a measurement for a mobile terminal configured with a plurality of component carriers in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method is performed by a base station and includes transmitting, by the base station, configuration information to the mobile terminal. Further, when the transmitted configuration information includes an indication information for the measurement in an extension component carrier among the plurality of component carriers, the measurement in the extension component carrier is based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), and when the transmitted configuration information does not include the indication information for the measurement in the extension component carrier among the plurality of component carriers, the measurement in the extension component carrier is based on a common reference signal (CRS).
US11026108B2	Fault monitoring in a utility supply network Where elements in a utility supply network are dependent upon another element for their proper operation, determining, by reference to user queries about network performance, whether there are faults in the dependent elements or a fault in the element upon which the dependent elements rely.
US11026107B2	Data transmission method and terminal device Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method and a terminal device. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a first indication; and monitoring, by the terminal device, a physical channel within a preset first time region to obtain a second indication, where the first indication and the second indication are used by the terminal device to determine a resource for data transmission.
US11026102B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using plurality of carriers in mobile communication system A mobile communication system is provided. In particular, a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system is provided.
US11026099B2	System and method for identifying best location for 5G in-residence router location Disclosed are devices and methods for displaying optimal locations for telecommunications equipment. In one embodiment, a method comprises simultaneously recording video footage and wireless signal strengths of a respective room in a plurality of rooms; storing the video footage and wireless signal strengths in a database; accessing the database and analyzing whether the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; displaying one or more locations for telecommunications equipment on a floor plan of the respective room if the video footage and wireless signal strengths include useful information; and transmitting the video footage and wireless signal strengths to a technician if the video footage and wireless signal strengths do not include useful information.
US11026097B2	Coexistence between spectrum sharing systems and asynchronous channel access systems Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may select a plurality of channel access intervals during which the device is associated with a priority condition relative to another device for communications by the device, wherein each of the plurality of channel access intervals includes a respective contention interval and a respective transmission opportunity; and may transmit, during a contention interval of a first channel access interval of the plurality of channel access intervals, a signal that includes: channel occupancy information for the device for a first transmission opportunity of the first channel access interval, and information that identifies at least a portion of one or more subsequent channel access intervals, of the plurality of channel access intervals, associated with the device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11026094B2	Method and system for controlling UICC and EUICC An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a UICC in which a first profile is installed, an eUICC, and a processor electrically connected with the UICC and the eUICC. The processor requests a second profile to be installed in the eUICC from a first server based on the first profile, receives the second profile from a second server associated with the first server, and installs the received second profile in the eUICC. The second profile and the first profile include the same subscriber identification information.
US11026093B2	Extensible device identity attestation Provisioning a requesting device is provided using extended identity attestation for the requesting device. A provisioning request is received at a device provisioning system. The provisioning request includes a registration identifier provided by the requesting device. A plurality of extended attestation components is accessed in an enrollment datastore of the device provisioning system. Each extended attestation component identifies an external computing system. One of the extended attestation components in the enrollment datastore is selected based on the received registration identifier. Execution of the device attestation is initiated at the external computing system identified by the selected extended attestation component to yield an attestation result. Satisfaction of a validity condition by the attestation result is detected. The requesting device is provisioned from the device provisioning system, responsive to detection that the attestation result satisfies the validity condition.
US11026090B2	Internet of things system with efficient and secure communications network Systems and methods are described wherein sensor devices for gathering sensor data are in communication with a sensor processing application enabled to receive sensor data and to perform a function such as storing, processing, and redistributing sensor data or processed sensor data. A communication network to which the sensor devices are connected comprises a publish-subscribe broker network including a broker adapted to provide publish-subscribe broker services for entities including the sensor devices and the sensor processing application. A key management application distributes keys to entities that are authorized to send or receive on channels established within the broker network. An authorized subscriber entity connected to the broker network via a broker is enabled to receive data on a specific identified channel by subscribing to the channel and receive published data on the channel published by an authorized publisher entity. The broker network routes packets of sensor data, on behalf of an entity that is authorized to publish, to any sensor processing application which is an authorized subscriber to the sensor data.
US11026086B2	Systems, methods and devices for adding non-provisioned cellular devices to a subscription Non-pre-provisioned cellular Internet of things (IoT) devices can be added to an existing user's subscription with an operator and a service provider. The procedure can include obtaining a security association between a device and a user's smartphone using the operator's network. The operator and the service provider can verify the device with a certificate authority. In one embodiment, the smartphone reads (302) a URL pointer to the device certification and sends it (304) to the MME. The MME forwards (306) the URL to the HSS. The HSS verifies (312) the certificate and derives security credentials including the Master key K′. The HSS also derives another key K″ used to establish security context between the IoT device and the smartphone. The device uses its key deriving function KDF with K′ and Rand to generate K″.
US11026085B2	Authentication apparatus with a bluetooth interface Methods, apparatus, and systems for securing the interactions of a user with an application using a Bluetooth enabled authentication device are disclosed.
US11026083B2	Identification and user notification of mismatched devices This document describes techniques for detecting and providing user notification of mismatched devices. A device mismatch of a pair of wireless devices may be detected. A wireless indication of the device mismatch may be provided to another wireless device. That wireless device may provide a user notification that the pair of wireless devices are mismatched.
US11026081B2	RSP platform selection for ESIM profile procurement An eSIM management platform may receive service feature information on multiple remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that are designated by a mobile network operator (MNO) to distribute embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles for a partner MNO of the MNO. The eSIM management platform may evaluate multiple RSP platforms based on one or more service features of each RSP platform to select one or more RSP platforms of the multiple RSP platforms for population into a list of preferred RSP platforms for the geographical area. The eSIM management profile may send the list of preferred RSP platforms to a user device to configure the user device to use an eSIM profile provided by an RSP platform of the one or more RSP platforms. The user device may use the eSIM profile to obtain telecommunication services from the partner MNO while the user device is in a geographical area.
US11026078B2	Priority handling for data flow transport in communication systems Priority handling in a communications system. The system comprises one or more data bearers and a priority handling module. Each of the one or more bearers is configured to transport one or more of the data flows. The priority handling module is configured to prioritize between data flows, and is further configured to: receive a request for priority configuration or re-configuration of a first data flow; obtain a priority sharing identifier of the first data flow; identify other data flows in the communication system having the priority sharing identifier of the first transport data flow; and update priority rules associated with the first data flow and also with any other identified data flows in the communication system having the priority sharing identifier of the first transport data flow to agree with a shared priority rule.
US11026076B2	Mobile terminal, information processing method and program A method of correcting a radio wave strength of a packet received by a communication terminal is disclosed, comprising: displaying a first screen related to the correction of the radio wave strength of the received packet; acquiring first information indicating the radio wave strength of the received packet, according to acceptance of a predetermined user instruction via the first screen; displaying a second screen related to the correction of the radio wave strength of the received packet, at least according to completion of the acquisition; acquiring second information indicating the radio wave strength of the received packet, according to acceptance of a predetermined user operation via the second screen; and deciding a correction value at least based on the acquired first and second information. Thus, it is possible to accurately perform proximity determination of determining that a mobile terminal and an information processing apparatus are within a certain distance.
US11026070B2	Method for performing V2X communication in wireless communication system and apparatus for same Disclosed are a method for performing V2X communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the same. Specifically, a method for performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a transmission request of a V2X message of a V2X service identified by a V2X service identifier from an upper layer by using V2X communication through a PC5 interface, the transmission request including the V2X message and the V2X service identifier; requesting or selecting a resource for the V2X communication through the PC5 interface to a base station based on whether the UE is serviced by an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) for the V2X communication; and transmitting the V2X message through the PC5 interface by transferring the V2X message to a lower layer, and when mapping between the V2X service identifier and a transmission parameter is configured, the transmission parameter associated with the V2X service identifier may be transferred to the lower layer together with the V2X message.
US11026067B2	Power efficient ultra-wideband (UWB) tag for indoor positioning A system provides ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning. The system exchanges ranging signals at a first rate between a UWB beacon and a UWB tag. The system then determines movement or location information of the UWB tag; and select, based on the movement or location information, a second rate for exchanging subsequent ranging signals between the UWB beacon and the UWB tag. The system then exchanges the subsequent ranging signals at the second rate between the UWB beacon and the UWB tag.
US11026066B2	Determining wireless network device location A method for determining a location of a device in a wireless network includes transmitting a digital transmit signal from a digital transmitter including a first antenna. The first antenna is configured to transmit the digital transmit signal to two or more receivers. A first receiver including a second antenna and a second receiver including a third antenna receive the digital transmit signal from the digital transmitter. The digital transmit signal arrives at the receivers at two different time instances as a first digital signal and a second digital signal. A comparison of the digital signals is performed at the processor. A time difference of arrival of the digital signals is determined at the processor based on the performed comparison. The direction of travel of the digital transmit signal is estimated at the processor. A bearing to the digital transmitter is determined.
US11026063B2	Internet-of-things devices and related methods for performing in-call interactions A miniaturized multiprotocol audio/voice internet-of-things device (MAVID) initiates a wireless call in response to a command received from a first user. The MAVID carries out the wireless call between the first user and a second user. The wireless call utilizes wireless protocols such as WiFi, Bluetooth, third generation mobile technology (3G), fourth generation mobile technology (4G), and Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT). The MAVID performs an in-call interaction, such as connecting to and utilizing an internet-based application or controlling a consumer electronic device, in response to a voice command from either the first user or the second user, while carrying out the wireless call.
US11026055B1	Wireless communication network management for user devices based on real time mapping An apparatus for providing wireless communication between an RF communication device and remotely located RF base station devices or RF repeater devices to establish a wireless connection with a wireless carrier authorized to communicate with one or more wireless user devices (UEs) in communication with the RF communication device. The RF communication devices may employ separate wireless communication channels to communicate with one or more remote RF base station devices, remote RF repeater devices, remote network management applications, and local UEs. An RF communication device may employ a map to select a currently available RF base station device or an RF repeater device to establish a wireless connection between an authorized wireless carrier and the one or more local UEs in communication with the RF communication device.
US11026049B2	Communication between autonomous vehicles and operations personnel A mobile device having a communication system, one or more processors, and one or more memories. The communication system may be configured to communicate with a positional system. The one or more memories may store stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a signal from the positional system and generate a notification in response to the signal. The signal may be based upon a position of an autonomous vehicle and a position of the mobile device. The notification may be based upon the position of the autonomous vehicle and the position of the mobile device and identify a direction from which the autonomous vehicle approaches.
US11026047B2	Associating multiple user devices with a single user A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, respective locations of a plurality of user devices; determining, by the computing device, that a particular group of user devices of the plurality of user devices are located within a threshold distance of each other based on monitoring the respective locations of the plurality of user devices; and storing or outputting, by the computing device, grouping information indicating that the particular group of user devices are associated with a single user based on the determining that the particular group of user devices are located within a threshold distance of each other.
US11026046B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for visually connecting people A method for visually finding and interacting with people and places, operable on a computing system including a mobile device comprising a processor, a display a camera and other sensors, the method including obtaining the current location of members of a group, if the group members have similar mobile devices (i.e., having the disclosed app) and if they have set to permit their visibility or if they shared their location, by scanning their surroundings with the camera of their mobile device or by receiving location data from the group members; and, for each location obtained, displaying on the mobile device's display a group member representation associated with the group member's location.
US11026041B2	Compensation of own voice occlusion A method of equalising sound in a headset comprising an internal microphone configured to generate a first audio signal, an external microphone configured to generate a second audio signal, a speaker, and one or more processors coupled between the speaker, the external microphone, and the internal microphone, the method comprising: while the headset is worn by a user: determining a first audio transfer function between the first audio signal and the second audio signal in the presence of sound at the external microphone; and determining a second audio transfer function between a speaker input signal and the first audio signal with the speaker being driven by the speaker input signal; determining an electrical transfer function of the one or more processors; determining a closed-ear transfer function based on the first audio transfer function, the second audio transfer function and the electrical transfer function; and equalising the first audio signal based on a comparison between the closed-ear transfer function and an open-ear transfer function to generate an equalised first audio signal.
US11026035B1	Transducer electrical characteristic and state sensing using multiple voice coils An audio output system for energizing a multiple voice coil transducer supplies at least two power output signals to the voice coils, a pilot tone generator for generating a pilot tone signal, and a power output circuit. The power output circuit generates power output signals from the pilot tone and the input signal so that the voice coils respond to the input signal with an in-phase electro-mechanical relationship and respond to the pilot tone with an out-of-phase (motion canceling) electro-mechanical relationship, reducing the effect of the pilot town on mechanical movement of the voice coil. A sensing circuit senses electrical signal values at terminals of the at least two voice coils, and a processing circuit detects a response of the output transducer to the pilot tone and determines at least one operating characteristic of the output transducer from the electrical signal values.
US11026033B2	Audio component adjusting Examples associated with audio component adjusting are described. One example includes storing a degradation for an audio component embedded in a device. A characteristic of the audio component is compared to the degradation model for the audio component. When the characteristic of the audio component indicates the audio component has reached a certain point on the degradation model, an attribute of the audio component is adjusted.
US11026030B2	Earpiece with canal microphone, ambient microphone and receiver An earpiece for a hearing device, includes: an earpiece housing comprising an ear canal portion and an outer ear portion, the ear canal portion extending along an ear canal axis for positioning in an ear canal of a user, the ear canal portion having a first end; a first microphone for detecting ambient sound via a first input port in the earpiece housing; a second microphone; and a receiver for providing an audio output signal to the ear canal when the earpiece is inserted in an ear of the user; wherein the first microphone is arranged at a first distance from the first input port, wherein the first distance is at least 2 mm when measured parallel to a main plane having a main plane normal parallel to a main axis, the main axis forming a first main angle that is less than 30 degrees with the ear canal axis.
US11026025B2	Speaker A speaker includes a holder, a magnetic circuit unit, and a vibration unit including a diaphragm, a voice coil, and a centering support plate. The centering support plate is fixed to a side of the voice coil facing away from the diaphragm. One end of the centering support plate fixed to the voice coil is provided with a pad electrically connected to the voice coil. The diaphragm includes a central portion, a suspension portion surrounding the central portion, and a dome fixed to the central portion. The dome includes a body attached to the central portion, and a connection portion extending from an edge of the body towards the pad and fixedly connected to the pad. With the connection portion, the pad of the centering support plate can be fixed, preventing the tone quality of the speaker from being damaged by the pad, and t reducing noise.
US11026023B2	Wireless earphone A wireless earphone includes an earphone body with a concha contact surface. A sound outlet tube protrudes out from the concha contact surface. A convex positioning portion protrudes out from the concha contact surface. A laid slot is located on the concha contact surface and adjacent to the convex positioning portion. When the earphone body is mounted on a human ear, the concha contact surface is configured to face a concha of the human ear, the sound outlet tube is configured to insert into an auditory canal of the human ear, the convex positioning portion is configured to fit within a cavum of the human ear, and the laid slot is configured to fit within a crux helix of the human ear.
US11026021B2	Hybrid speaker and converter An audio converter system is provided. The system comprises an audio input configured to receive a source audio, an audio output configured to couple to a hybrid speaker comprising at least two nondirectional speakers and a directional speaker, and a processor configured to generate an output audio for the hybrid speaker based on the source audio by: identifying a specific sound in the source audio, isolating the specific sound from the source audio, generating a directional speaker output for the directional speaker of the hybrid speaker based on the specific sound, and generating at least two channels of nondirectional speaker output for the at least two nondirectional speakers of the hybrid speaker.
US11026020B2	Electronic device for forcing liquid out of space in housing to the outside using vibration plate included in speaker and control method thereof An electronic device includes a memory, a housing, an acoustic module comprising a coil and an acoustic membrane configured to be movable based on a signal applied to the coil, the acoustic module being disposed in an internal space of the housing, an amplifier, and a processor. The memory may store instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to apply a first signal to the coil through the amplifier to move the acoustic membrane in a first direction by a first distance and applying a second signal to the coil through the amplifier to move the acoustic membrane in a second direction different from the first direction and/or to move the acoustic membrane by a second distance different from the first distance after applying the first signal to the coil.
US11026017B2	Directive multiway loudspeaker with a waveguide The present invention relates to a loudspeaker including an enclosure having front portion, side portions and back portion defining an inner volume, the front portion is formed as a waveguide surface and includes at least one driver in the center of the waveguide surface and is capable to radiate the main acoustic power of the loudspeaker to ambient volume in direction of first acoustic axis, and an additional driver attached to the enclosure. In accordance with the invention the additional driver is attached inside the enclosure such that a sub volume is formed inside the inner volume, the sub volume limited by the driver, spacers between the driver and the front portion, and the front portion of the enclosure, and at least one port is adapted to open from the sub volume to ambient volume either to side portion or back portion of the enclosure and at least one resonator acoustically connected to the sub volume, the resonator being tuned to at least one of unwanted resonances of the sub volume.
US11026012B1	Earphone including tuning means An earphone includes a housing, the speaker unit disposed in the housing, a cover coupled with the housing and including a nozzle, a first space portion disposed in front of the speaker unit, and a second space portion disposed in the rear of the speaker unit and partitioned off from the first space portion. Here, the speaker unit includes a cylindrical yoke with an open top, a magnet fixed to a bottom surface of an inside of the yoke, a plate fixed to a top surface of the magnet, a voice coil disposed between an inner circumference of the yoke and outer circumferences of the magnet and the plate, a vibration plate disposed above the plate and to which the voice coil is fixed, a cap coupled with the yoke, and a frame coupled with the yoke and the cap.
US11026009B2	Earphone The present utility model provides an earphone, comprising: a casing, a mounting plate and a sound guiding tube; wherein a receiving cavity is formed inside the casing, and the casing is provided with a first mounting hole connecting with the receiving cavity; the mounting plate is fixedly mounted in the receiving cavity and the mounting plate completely blocks the first mounting hole from connecting with the receiving cavity; one end of the mounting plate adjacent to the first mounting hole is provided with a sound-transmitting groove; one end of the sound guiding tube is a movable end, and the other end is a mounting end, and a sound guiding channel passing through the movable end and the mounting end is provided inside the sound guiding tube so that when the movable end portion is installed in the first mounting hole the sound guiding channel connects with the sound-transmitting groove and the movable end can rotate in the first mounting hole so as to enable the sound guiding tube to rotate relatively to the casing. The in-ear angle of the earphone can be adjusted, which improves the wearing comfort and sound quality of the earphone.
US11026007B2	Display device A display device including: a display panel configured to display an image on a first surface thereof; a first sound generating device configured to provide a first sound; and a second sound generating device configured to provide a second sound, wherein the first sound generating device is attached to a second surface of the display panel, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, and wherein the first sound generating device is a vibration generating device configured to vibrate the display panel in accordance with a first sound signal to generate the first sound.
US11026006B2	Preparing method of speaker grill for vehicles A method of manufacturing a speaker grill for a vehicle includes coating a coating layer by depositing metal on one side of a steel sheet; pre-etching including forming a first masking layer on one portion of the coating layer, etching the other portion of the coating layer on which the first masking layer is not formed, and removing the first masking layer to form a first etched steel sheet; and performing hole etching including forming a second masking layer on one portion of the first etched steel sheet where the coating layer is present, etching the other portion of the first etched steel sheet on which the second masking layer is not formed, and removing the second masking layer to form a second etched steel sheet, wherein a total area of the first masking layer is smaller than a total area of the second masking layer.
US11026002B2	Method for managing ONU in passive optical network, OLT and system Provided are a method for managing an ONU in a passive optical network, an OLT and a system. The method includes determining a first quiet window and a second quiet window, and allocating the first quiet window to an ONU within a first preset distance range and allocating the second quiet window to an ONU within a second preset distance range, where the distance between the optical line terminal (OLT) and the ONU within the first preset distance range is less than the distance between the OLT and the ONU within the second preset distance range.
US11026001B1	Systems and methods for increasing granularity and fan-out of electric circuits with co-packaged optical interfaces Systems and methods increase the fan-out (radix) of optical connections that are co-packaged with electric circuits, e.g., Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Optical or electrical techniques are presented to break out multiple data streams from a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) integrated with an ASIC. This provides the ability to increase the I/O capability (radix) of an ASIC, allowing the ASIC to connect to a larger number of devices (e.g., servers). A cross-connect system includes one or more cross-connect devices optically interconnected to 1) a plurality of switches with each switch connected to one or more subtending servers, and 2) a plurality of switch circuits having Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) integrated therewith, each of the one or more cross-connect devices is configured to provide fan-out of the plurality of switches between the plurality of switch circuits to increase a number of the subtending servers.
US11025999B2	System of automatic creation of a scenario video clip with a predefined object A system for automatic creation a scenario video clip with a predefined object or a group of objects in the frame comprises: a shooting unit, a data storage module, a predefined object or a group of objects identification in primary video data unit; an object or a group of objects data input unit for their identification; provided that the system in addition comprises: a relevant video data retrieval unit with the predefined object or the group of objects in the frame; a relevant video data processing unit; at least one scenario pattern including data set for operation of shooting unit, retrieval unit and processing unit.
US11025998B2	Systems and methods for dynamically extending or shortening segments in a playlist Systems and methods are disclosed herein for dynamically modifying a playlist for reviewing highlights of a media event. A playlist comprising highlights of a media event may be generated by a media guidance application. A user command may be received by the media guidance application to extend or shorten the currently-playing segment of the playlist. To generate a longer version of the segment, the media guidance application may access the media asset from which the playlist was originally generated at a position corresponding to the currently-playing segment, and generate a longer version of the segment. To generate a shorter version of the segment, the media guidance application may remove a portion of the currently-playing segment. The media guidance application may replace the currently-playing segment with, and begin playing back, the modified version of the segment.
US11025995B2	Methods and apparatus to extend a timestamp range supported by a watermark Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein include a timestamp cycle evaluator to determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark, the timestamp including a set of timestamp symbols. Disclosed example watermark encoding apparatus also include a symbol modifier to modify a subset of data symbols of the watermark based on a further timestamp symbol not included in the set of timestamp symbols of the timestamp, the further timestamp symbol identifying the one of the timestamp cycles to be represented by the timestamp of the watermark. Disclosed example watermark encoding apparatus further include a watermark embedder to embed the watermark in a first piece of media.
US11025994B2	Active network support on adaptive virtual reality video transmission Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising: obtaining media content, such as video; receiving a request from a user and/or user equipment (UE) to view the media content; identifying a predicted field of view of the user; sending the predicted field of view to the equipment of the user at a normal priority; monitoring a line of sight (or actual field of view) of the user; determining a field of view error as a difference between the line of sight and the predicted field of view; and sending the field of view error to the equipment of the user at a higher priority. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11025992B2	Validating parameters on discrete computing applications to grant access control to content or commands A system for validating an authorization request to facilitate controlling access to content or computer commands, in which the access is requested by multiple entities operated on discrete computing environments. The techniques make use of a system including a switchboard and a rule engine that collect parameter sets required for validation from the entities and dynamically generate a lock and key combination based on the collected parameter sets. The key of the lock and key combination allows the system to validate each entity independently regardless of the required parameters specified in the lock and key combination.
US11025990B2	Search and recommendation of media assets through conversational use of catchphrases During a conversation the participants of the conversation may use catchphrases that are associated with particular characters, media assets, or media personalities. The catchphrases may be associated with information such as the media asset where the catchphrase was originally spoken, the speaker, and keywords relating to the media asset. Based on this associated information and the participant's use of the catchphrase, the system may provide a media asset recommendation to the participant for a media asset that does not include the catchphrase.
US11025989B2	Live event video stream service Apparatus and associated methods relate to a live event video stream service configured to distribute event video streams at diverse price levels, based on configuring video cameras to capture live event video streams from different locations, offering the video streams for purchase at prices based on the camera locations, and automatically maximizing profit by adjusting the quantity and price of the offered camera video streams. In an illustrative example, the cameras may be 360-degree video cameras. The camera locations may be, for example, preferred event viewing positions. In some examples, the cameras may be configured in live event viewing positions ranging from more preferred to less preferred, permitting a range of video stream prices determined based on each camera's position. Some embodiments may determine video stream price based on an auction. Various examples may advantageously maximize event profit based on adjusting the quantity and price of the offered video streams.
US11025983B2	Electronic program guide displaying relevant field based on time of day A method for programming an electronic program guide (EPG) grid guide is disclosed herein. The method includes determining EPG metadata from a database, sorting metadata based on a time and a metadata field, determining the metadata field to be displayed, and rendering the EPG grid guide based on the time and the metadata field. A method for programming a set top box (STB) is also disclosed herein. The method includes providing a time of day, receiving a user's viewing preferences, adjusting information based on the user's viewing preferences in at least one application, wherein the user's viewing preferences are a function of the time of day, and transmitting the adjusted information to a display device.
US11025981B2	Facilitating panoramic video streaming with brain-computer interactions Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining one or more signals, the one or more signals being based upon brain activity of a viewer while the viewer is viewing media content; predicting, based upon the one or more signals, a first predicted desired viewport of the viewer; obtaining head movement data associated with the media content; predicting, based upon the head movement data, a second predicted desired viewport of the viewer; comparing the first predicted desired viewport to the second predicted desired viewport, resulting in a comparison; and determining, based upon the comparison, to use the first predicted desired viewport to facilitate obtaining a first subsequent portion of the media content or to use the second predicted desired viewport to facilitate obtaining a second subsequent portion of the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11025980B2	User terminal apparatus, electronic apparatus, system, and control method thereof A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus for performing a remote control function for an electronic apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an electronic apparatus for providing a text input user interface (UI), an input unit configured to receive a user command for input of a specific text on the text input UI, a fingerprint scanner provided in the input unit and configured to recognize a user fingerprint, and a controller configured to recognize a user fingerprint according to the user command and to transmit information corresponding to the recognized user fingerprint to the electronic apparatus in response to the electronic apparatus entering a preset text input mode.
US11025979B2	Crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.
US11025976B2	System and method for state based content delivery to a client device Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations including: receiving an operational state of an audiovisual player of a client device, wherein the operational state comprises a foreground operational state or a background operational state; and sending an ad placement request comprising the operational state to a decision server for a content request for advertisement content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11025975B2	Targeting and demographics scheduling utilizing a framework for audience rating estimation An advertisement management system receives a commercial break schedule generated from a completed assignment of one or more spots, which correspond to deals including advertiser orders to place the one or more spots into one or more commercial breaks in the commercial break schedule based on constraints and placement requirements. The system determines which of one or more orders in one or more deals are targeting orders, and determine a baseline target delivery for the targeting orders based on expected viewership associated with the targeting orders. The system places a portion of the one or more spots for the targeting orders based on a lift goal over the baseline target delivery, determines a liability per pending spot for spots determined to be candidates for advertisement scheduling and reshuffles placement of a remaining portion of the one or more spots based on the liability per pending spot for the candidates.
US11025974B2	System and method for geographically associated or geographically disassociated enticing gift or video drop This application pertains to gift-giving and video-dropping methods and systems. A gift drop or a video drop is facilitated using a mobile smart device and an interactive map. The system includes a gift or video drop database stored in a remote gift drop computer server. The system includes a gift or video drop logic section operable on a smart mobile device or a computer. The gift or video drop logic section includes an interactive gift or video drop map. The gift or video drop logic section presents the interactive gift or video drop map to a user, and facilitates the dropping of a symbolic gift item or a video onto the interactive map. The gift or video drop logic section determines whether the user is within certain predefined geographic boundaries, and either makes visible or gives a symbolic gift item to the user based on their location, or plays the video.
US11025972B2	Method and system for analyzing audio, video, and audio-video media data streams A method and system for comparing video and audio information at first and second spaced-apart locations on a content distribution network. Network probes are located on the network and extract a respective first and second plurality of video frames and audio segments. Two fingerprints sequences are determined from each one of the frames and segments, then the sequences are matched and time-aligned. A beginning of a matched segment is determined and the individual fingerprints within each of the fingerprint sequences are compared from the beginning of the matched segment. Fingerprints that are determined to be different during the comparison process indicate a change in video or audio content between the two probes.
US11025971B2	Porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US11025970B2	Controlling bandwidth usage by media streams by limiting streaming options provided to client systems Systems and methods for controlling network bandwidth utilization by media streaming services are provided. According to one embodiment, a data stream associated with streaming media content being requested from an external service provider by a client device associated with a private network is intercepted by a network manager associated with the private network. Streaming options made available for streaming the streaming media content are limited by the network manager by: (i) identifying a policy applicable to the data stream; (ii) identifying a manifest specifying multiple versions in which the streaming media content is available to be streamed, within the data stream; (iii) determining the multiple versions by parsing the manifest; (iv) determining a prohibited version that exceeds a bandwidth limitation specified by the policy; (v) updating the manifest by removing information regarding the prohibited version from the manifest; and (vi) providing the updated manifest to the client device.
US11025969B1	Video packaging system using source encoding A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A content delivery service receives streaming content that is encoded according to an encoding profile. The content delivery service decodes the received encoded content and encodes the decoded content according to a plurality of encoding profiles. Additionally, the content delivery service reuses the received encoded content stream from the content provider.
US11025968B2	Audio splicing concept Audio splicing is rendered more effective by the use of one or more truncation unit packets inserted into the audio data stream so as to indicate to an audio decoder, for a predetermined access unit, an end portion of an audio frame with which the predetermined access unit is associated, as to be discarded in playout.
US11025966B2	Methods and apparatus for identifying media content using temporal signal characteristics Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method includes generating a reference signature based on a reference signal corresponding to known media, generating sums based on peaks in a media signal corresponding to media, identifying signal peaks based on the generated sums, generating a second signature based on normalized curve features, wherein the normalized curve features respectively correspond to the identified signal peaks at a corresponding temporal locations of the corresponding signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based on a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature.
US11025961B2	Improving processing for high-dynamic range images In a method to improve backwards compatibility when decoding high-dynamic range images coded in a wide color gamut (WCG) space which may not be compatible with legacy color spaces, hue and/or saturation values of images in an image database are computed for both a legacy color space (say, YCbCr-gamma) and a preferred WCG color space (say, IPT-PQ). Based on a cost function, a reshaped color space is computed so that the distance between the hue values in the legacy color space and rotated hue values in the preferred color space is minimized HDR images are coded in the reshaped color space. Legacy devices can still decode standard dynamic range images assuming they are coded in the legacy color space, while updated devices can use color reshaping information to decode HDR images in the preferred color space at full dynamic range.
US11025960B2	Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO filtering to the reconstructed picture according to the SAO parameters, and entropy encoding LCU specific SAO information for each LCU of the reconstructed picture in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the entropy encoded LCU specific SAO information for the LCUs is interleaved with entropy encoded data for the LCUs in the encoded video bit stream. Determining SAO parameters may include determining the LCU specific SAO information to be entropy encoded for each LCU according to an SAO prediction protocol.
US11025958B2	Video data stream concept Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream. In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.
US11025957B2	Method and apparatus for performing transform using layered givens transform A method for performing a transform by using Layered Givens Transform may include: deriving at least one rotation layer, a first permutation layer and a second permutation layer based on a given transform matrix H and an error parameter; obtaining a Layered Givens Transform (LGT) coefficient based on the rotation layer, the first permutation layer and the second permutation layer; and performing quantization and entropy encoding with respect to the LGT coefficient, the first permutation layer and the second permutation layer may include a permutation matrix obtained by permuting a row of an identity matrix, and the LGT coefficient may be obtained by sequentially applying the first permutation layer, the rotation layer and the second permutation layer respectively.
US11025956B2	Encoding device and encoding method for encoding a picture with a syntax structure which does not change based on video format An encoding method includes determining video format information, (i) setting each of all frames or all fields which are included in the video, as a picture, regardless of whether the video format is the interlace format or the progressive format, (ii) setting a POC indicating display order to each of all of the set pictures one by one, the POC being different each other, and encoding a picture to be encoded which is the frame or the field with reference to a picture previously encoded before encoding the picture to be encoded. In the encoding, the video is encoded with a syntax structure which is not dependent on the video format, the video format information is encoded in a header of a sequence which is a unit of the video, and the encoded bit stream is generated.
US11025951B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an affine prediction for the current block. Then processing circuitry determines an application of an interweaved affine prediction when the current block being within a larger region than the current block. The larger region has a flag that is indicative of enabling an interweaved affine prediction in the larger region. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the current block according to the interweaved affine prediction.
US11025949B2	Moving picture coding device, moving picture coding method and moving picture coding program, and moving picture decoding device, moving picture decoding method and moving picture decoding program A temporal merging motion information candidate generation unit derives, when information indicating whether or not to derive a temporal merging motion information candidate shared for all prediction blocks in a coding block is information indicating the derivation of a temporal merging motion information candidate shared for all the prediction blocks in the coding block, a temporal merging motion information candidate shared for all the prediction blocks in the coding block from a prediction block of a coded picture different from a picture having a prediction block subject to coding. A merging motion information candidate list construction unit generates a plurality of merging motion information candidates including a temporal merging motion information candidate.
US11025947B2	Method and apparatus for generating motion field motion vectors for blocks of current frame in on-the-fly manner A motion vector (MV) projection method includes generating motion field motion vectors (MFMVs) for a first portion of a current frame by applying MV projection to MVs of a portion of each of reference frames and storing the MFMVs of the first portion of the current frame into an MFMV buffer, and generating MFMVs for a second portion of the current frame by applying MV projection to MVs of a portion of each of the reference frames and storing the MFMVs of the second portion of the current frame into the MFMV buffer. The second portion does not overlap the first portion. Before generating the MFMVs for the second portion of the current frame is done, at least one of the MFMVs of the first portion is read from the MFMV buffer and involved in motion vector determination of at least one coding block included in the first portion.
US11025944B2	Method for encoding/decoding video signal, and apparatus therefor A method for decoding a video, according to the present invention, may comprise the steps of: parsing a first flag indicating whether inter prediction on the basis of a merge mode is applied to a current block; if the first flag is true, parsing a second flag indicating whether a regular merge mode or a merge offset encoding mode is applied to the current block; and if the second flag is true, parsing a third flag indicating whether the merge offset encoding mode is applied to the current block.
US11025939B2	Decoding device and decoding method, and encoding device and encoding method The present technology relates to a decoding device and a decoding method, and an encoding device and an encoding method that enable images that configure a packed image to be reliably displayed when an encoded stream is decoded and displayed. A decoding unit decodes an encoded data, the encoded data being an encoded packed image in which a plurality of images is packed, and generates the packed image. A display control unit identifies the images that configure the packed image based on packing SEI preferentially used when the packed image is displayed. The present technology can be applied to a decoding device, for example.
US11025933B2	Dynamic video configurations Techniques are disclosed for managing memory allocations when coding video data according to multiple codec configurations. According to these techniques, devices may negotiate parameters of a coding session that include parameters of a plurality of different codec configurations that may be used during the coding session. A device may estimate sizes of decoded picture buffers for each of the negotiated codec configurations and allocate in its memory a portion of memory sized according to a largest size of the estimated decoded picture buffers. Thereafter, the devices may exchange coded video data. The exchange may involve decoding coded data of reference pictures and storing the decoded reference pictures in the allocated memory. During the coding session, the devices may toggle among the different negotiated codec configurations. As they do, reallocations of memory may be avoided.
US11025932B2	Methods and systems for facilitating multimedia data encoding using storage buffers Several methods and systems for facilitating multimedia data encoding are disclosed. In an embodiment, a plurality of picture buffers associated with multimedia data are received in an order of capture associated with the plurality of picture buffers. Buffer information is configured for each picture buffer from among the plurality of picture buffers comprising at least one of a metadata associated with the corresponding picture buffer and one or more encoding parameters for the corresponding picture buffer. A provision of picture buffers in an order of encoding is facilitated based on the configured buffer information.
US11025928B2	Efficient scalable coding concept Scalable coding concepts are described. One aspect improves parallel decoding of inter-dependent layers of a multi-layer video data stream by introducing a long-term syntax element structure for guaranteeing that during a predetermined time period the pictures of the dependent layer are subdivided so that borders of the spatial segments of the pictures of the second layer and the spatial segments of the first layer overlay. Another aspect concerns upsampling from base layer to enhancement layer. Another aspect introduces a long-term syntax element structure allowing the decoder to determine the inter-layer offset for a predetermined time period. Another aspect introduces a type indicator field changing a way a layer indicator field within the NAL unit headers is to be interpreted. Another aspect allows different codecs/standards to be used for the different layers. Another aspect concerns a syntax element structure which indicates the inter-layer offset in units of the base layer blocks.
US11025925B2	Condensed coding block headers in video coding systems and methods Provided herein are systems and methods for encoding an unencoded video frame of a sequence of video frames using a condensed coding header format. After a frame is divided into coding blocks and the visual data encoded, the coding block header data for each coding block is combined and encoded. A flag is set in the frame's frame header indicating whether the condensed or non-condensed coding block header format is being used.
US11025922B2	Inverse transformation using pruning for video coding A method for inverse discrete cosine transformation (IDCT) in video coding is provided that includes receiving a transform block, identifying a region of non-zero transform coefficients in the transform block using a group significance map corresponding to the transform block, wherein any transform coefficients not in the region have a value of zero, applying a one-dimensional (1D) IDCT to the region of non-zero transform coefficients in a first direction to generate an interim results block, wherein 1D IDCT computations are not performed on transform coefficients outside the region, and applying a 1D IDCT to the interim results block in a second direction to generate a residual block.
US11025921B1	Providing a virtual view by streaming serialized data Streaming image data includes receiving a request for a video stream of a scene of a live event, generate a background portion of the scene, obtaining a model of an object in the scene, transmitting the background portion and the model of the object, generating a serialized data stream indicating a modification of the object from the model, and transmitting the serialized data stream for the object.
US11025920B2	Encoding device, decoding device, and image processing method An encoding device sets a region of interest corresponding to an input image, and prepares, as an intermediate image, data in which the input image is associated with region-of-interest information, designates an embedding position, embeds the region-of-interest information in a pixel value form into the intermediate image in accordance with the embedding position, prepares, as a region-of-interest setting image, data associated with the region-of-interest information, encodes the image by using a predetermined image coding scheme, and outputs an encoded image. A decoding device analyzes a decoded image obtained through decoding, reads the region-of-interest information, prepares, as a region-of-interest information read image, data in which the decoded image is associated with the region-of-interest information, applies a post-filter on the basis of the region-of-interest information read image, and outputs a post-filtered image.
US11025919B2	Client-based adaptive streaming of nonlinear media A method for adaptive streaming of nonlinear video is described wherein the method comprises receiving a manifest file comprising metadata defining a playback period defining video data of a predetermined playback duration, a playback period including at least one adaptation set defining a plurality of representations, each representation defining a set of segment identifiers, each segment identifier identifying a segment comprising a sequence of video frames; the metadata further comprising spatial playback information including at least a first region descriptor associated with a first adaptation set of a first playback period, the first region descriptor defining a destination identifier and a first region in video frames of the first adaptation set, the destination identifier signaling the client apparatus that the first region is linked to a second adaptation set; the client apparatus using the metadata to playback video data of the first adaptation set by requesting one or more network nodes to transmit segments of the first adaptation set; and, receiving or determining, during playback of requested segments, information associated with at least a second region in the video frames of the first adaptation set, the second region defining a region of interest (ROI) of a user of the client apparatus; the client apparatus selecting the second adaptation set for playback after the end of the playback of the first adaptation set on the basis of the first and second region, the selecting being based on a distance or an overlap between the first and second region.
US11025910B2	Video encoder, video decoder, and video system A video encoder, a video decoder and a video system are provided. The video encoder performs a video encoding operation on a first video frame stream to generate an encoded stream to the video decoder, wherein the encoded stream contains deblocking filtering information. The video decoder performs a video decoding operation on the encoded stream to generate a second video frame stream. The video decoder determines whether to forcibly perform a deblocking filtering operation on a current block of a current frame of the second video frame stream according to the deblocking filtering information.
US11025909B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry receives a bitstream including bits corresponding to residues of a block in a coded picture and parses the bitstream to extract at least one bit that is indicative of a potential usage of an angular prediction of the block. Further, the processing circuitry determines context for coding information of a secondary transform based on the at least one bit that is indicative of the potential usage of the angular prediction of the block, and decode the bits corresponding to the residues of the block using the secondary transform information that is decoded based on the context.
US11025906B2	Method for intra refresh encoding of a plurality of image frames Video encoding is provided using periodic intra refresh, which can adapt padding of an intra encoding region between image frames based on a current level motion in the image frame. Upon a current level of motion not exceeding a first threshold, an intra encoding region of the image frame according to a predefined periodic intra refresh pattern is intra encoded. Upon the current level of motion exceeding the first threshold, the intra encoding region of the image frame is expanded to overlap to a determined extent with a previously encoded intra encoding region among the plurality of image frames, and the expanded intra encoding region of the image frame is intra encoded. Regions of the image different from the intra encoding regions and the expanded intra encoded region, respectively are inter frame encoded.
US11025905B2	Method and device for decoding with palette mode A method for decoding a video sequence of a coded video stream, performed by at least one processor, using at least one color palette in a palette mode, each of the at least one color palette including at least one luma value or at least one chroma value, the method including determining whether a current tree structure is a dual tree structure where a luma color plane has a split tree structure that is different from a split tree structure of a chroma color plane; and decoding at least one image of the video sequence using one or more color palettes of the at least one color palette based on the determining whether the current tree structure is the dual tree structure.
US11025903B2	Coding video data using derived chroma mode An example device for decoding video data includes a memory for storing video data, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to construct an intra-prediction candidate list for a current chroma block of the video data indicating candidate intra-prediction modes for the current chroma block, wherein the intra-prediction candidate list indicates a subset of allowed luminance (luma) candidate intra-prediction modes, determine cost (e.g., sum of absolute transform difference (SATD)) values for each of the candidate intra-prediction modes in the intra-prediction candidate list for the current chroma block, and generate a prediction block for the current chroma block using one of the candidate intra-prediction modes indicated by the intra-prediction candidate list according to the cost values (e.g., the candidate intra-prediction mode having the lowest cost value).
US11025902B2	Systems and methods for the reuse of encoding information in encoding alternative streams of video data Systems and methods for reusing encoding information in the encoding of alternative streams of video data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, encoding multimedia content for use in adaptive streaming systems, includes selecting a first encoding level from a plurality of encoding levels using a media server, determining encoding information for a first stream of video data using the first encoding level and the media server, encoding the first stream of video data using the media server, where the first stream of video data includes a first resolution and a first bitrate, selecting a second encoding level from the plurality of encoding levels using the media server, and encoding a second stream of video data using the encoding information and the media server, where the second stream of video data includes a second resolution and a second bitrate.
US11025894B2	Head-mounted display device and display control method for head-mounted display device In a left and right pair of a first display device and a second display device that perform repositionable display, mutually different display contents can be visually recognized as a first video image and a second video image. Further, a display control portion controls the display content in accordance with at least one of the first video image and the second video image.
US11025890B2	Electronic device and method for acquiring depth information by using at least one of cameras or depth sensor In embodiments, an electronic device may include a first camera disposed on one surface of the electronic device, a second camera disposed on the one surface, a depth sensor disposed on the one surface, and a processor configured to: cause the first camera to acquire a first one or more images of an external object, and generate depth information of the external object using a selected one of the first camera and second camera or the depth sensor, the selected one based on color information or texture pattern information corresponding to the external object in the first one or more images.
US11025881B2	Method, computer storage media, and client for switching scenes of panoramic video A method, a computer storage medium, and a client for switching scenes of a panoramic video are provided. The method includes playing a first primary video stream in a first video stream group associated with a first perspective of a user; determining a video stream switching time when a perspective of the user is switched from the first perspective to a second perspective, the video stream switching time being associated with a time length of a video slice in a second backup video stream; and switching from the first primary video stream to the second backup video stream when a play time of the first primary video stream reaches the video stream switching time, so that content of the second backup video stream starting from the video stream switching time is played. The present application can improve the effects of switching between scenes of the panoramic video.
US11025880B2	ROI-based VR content streaming server and method A region of interest (ROI)-based virtual reality (VR) content streaming server and a method are disclosed. The streaming server includes a communication unit that receives a request signal for a media presentation description (MPD) file regarding tiles of a tiled video, ROI) information, and a request signal for a segment file from an electronic device, and transmits the MPD file and the segment file corresponding to the request signal to the electronic device. The streaming server further includes a controller configured to, when the request signal for the MPD file is received, control the MPD file corresponding to the request signal to be transmitted to the electronic device.
US11025877B2	Multi-camera system, camera, processing method of camera, confirmation apparatus, and processing method of confirmation apparatus A multi-camera system, including a first camera apparatus, a second camera apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a predetermined user input and in response to the predetermined user input, send, via the communication interface, a first control signal to the first camera apparatus that captures a first video, and send, via the communication interface, a second control signal to the second camera apparatus that captures a second video. The first control signal causes the first camera apparatus to assign first unique identifiers to frames of the first video captured by the first camera apparatus. The second control signal causes the second camera apparatus to assign second unique identifiers to frames of the second video captured by the second camera apparatus.
US11025870B2	Control system and method for a projector A projector control system and a control method corresponding to same. The system includes a main controller, a dynamic current adjusting module, a color wheel controller, a color wheel rotation speed feedback module, and a light source; the dynamic current adjusting module includes a DLP module, a light source controller, and a power supply module; the color wheel rotation speed feedback module generates a feedback signal; the DLP module receives the feedback signal, and the DLP module receives dynamic brightness information and sends processed dynamic brightness information and a control signal to the light source controller according to the feedback signal; the light source controller controls the power module according to the received processed dynamic brightness information and the control signal sent by the DLP module to turn on a power switch and output a corresponding current value.
US11025869B2	Image sensor, image sensor processor, and image processing system including the same An image sensor, an image signal processor, and an image processing system including the same are disclosed. The image sensor includes an active pixel sensor (APS) block provided with a (3×3) matrix in which three red color pixels, three blue color pixels, and three white color pixels are contained, and a data generation block configured to generate pixel data of each of the red color pixels, pixel data of each of the blue color pixels, and pixel data of each of the white color pixels.
US11025868B2	Imaging apparatus, reproducing apparatus, control method, and control system There is provided an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures a moving image and a communication unit that performs wireless communication. The imaging apparatus further includes a control unit that controls an imaging function and a transmission function for transmitting an image signal indicating a captured image that has been captured, on the basis of a time setting set in advance. The control unit at least controls switching between a standby state where the imaging function is not working and an operating state where the imaging function is working, based on the time setting.
US11025866B2	Network separation device and video surveillance system employing the same A network separation device that can separate an internal network and an external network with little changes in the networks in a video surveillance system providing monitoring picture data through the internal network and the external network. The network separation device receives monitoring picture data from a monitoring camera that acquires a monitoring picture, transmits outbound picture data unidirectionally to an external network client through an external network in response to a request of the external network client, and transmits inbound picture data to an internal network client through an internal network in response to another request from of the internal network client. The network separation device includes: a raw data extraction unit configured to receive the monitoring picture data and extract raw picture data from the monitoring picture data; a unidirectional data generation unit configured to receive the raw picture data and generate a unidirectional data by controlling a data flow of the raw picture data such that the raw picture data is transferred in one predetermined direction only; a first picture data generator configured to generate the outbound picture data by encoding the unidirectional data according to a first coding scheme; and a second picture data generator configured to generate the inbound picture data by encoding the unidirectional data according to a second coding scheme.
US11025865B1	Contextual visual dataspaces A method is disclosed. The method receives a two dimensional or a three dimensional computer generated representation of an area, receives a plurality of images of the area captured by one or more video cameras, detects a first moving object in the plurality of images, generates a computer representation of the first moving object, correlates the images of the area captured by the one or more video cameras with the two dimensional or three dimensional computer generated representation of the area, and displays the computer representation of the first moving object in the two dimensional or the three dimensional computer generated representation of the area.
US11025864B2	Video conference communication A method of video conference communication between N terminals of N users is described. The method can be implemented by one of the N terminals, and can include receiving, from a processing device, N audiovisual streams respectively transmitted by the N terminals, N items of voice activity information of the N users, respectively associated with N corresponding user identifiers, each of the N items of information assuming a first or a second value respectively representing the presence or absence of voice activity. The method can also include determining, for at least one of the N users, whether or not the information is at the same value from a certain time. The method can also include requesting, from the device upon determining that the information is at the first value from this time, a stream associated with the user as the main stream to be displayed, receiving, and displaying the main stream.
US11025860B2	Configuring output on a communication device In one general sense, display of content communicated by a sender communication device to a destination communication device may be enabled by receiving, at a destination communication device, content to be displayed by the destination communication device. Characteristics of a display of the received content by the destination communication device may be algorithmically identified in accordance with display configuration settings for the destination communication device. Based on the identified characteristics, at least one change to be made to capture configuration settings at a capturing communication device used to capture the received content may be identified. At least one alternative capture configuration setting may be communicated to the capturing communication device. Content that is captured by the capturing communication device is received at the destination communications device based on the alternative capture configuration setting communicated.
US11025857B2	Camera system, video processing apparatus, and camera apparatus Disclosed herein is a camera system including, a camera apparatus having, an image sensor, a correction section, a first transmission processing section, and a synchronization processing section, and a video processing apparatus having a second transmission processing section and a conversion section, wherein the video processing apparatus outputs the video data obtained by the conversion by the conversion section.
US11025854B2	Method of integrating driver assistance systems in vehicles, corresponding system, circuit, kit and vehicle In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes providing a camera on a vehicle; supplying video frames from the camera to video signal handling circuitry in a mobile communication device; and actuating the video signal handling circuitry in the mobile communication device to produce driver assistance signals based on the video frames.
US11025851B2	Fast image sensor with pixel binning An image sensor including (a) an array of pixels, each of which includes: (a1) a photodetector; and (a2) a read-out circuit coupled to the photodetector and including an active amplifying element; and (b) pixel binning means configured to form macropixels such that, in each macropixel, the inputs of the read-out circuits of at least two pixels are coupled to one another, and the outputs of the read-out circuits of said pixels are coupled to the input of a single memory element including a capacitor; wherein the output of each read-out circuit is coupled to an input of a memory element that is different from those of the other pixels; and wherein the binning means include connection switches for the read-out circuits inserted between the read-out circuits and the memory elements.
US11025850B2	Solid-state image-capturing device and method for driving solid-state image-capturing device A solid-state image-capturing device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns. Each pixel circuit includes: a photoelectric conversion element that generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion between a bias terminal and a first node, and amplifies the electric charge according to a bias voltage applied via the bias terminal and the first node; a transfer circuit that electrically connects the first node to a second node according to a first control signal; a reset circuit that applies a reset voltage to the second node according to a second control signal; an output circuit that reads out a voltage of the second node according to a third control signal; and an analog memory that is electrically connected to the second node according to a fourth control signal.
US11025847B2	Imaging device including an imaging cell having variable sensitivity An imaging device including a first imaging cell having a variable sensitivity; and a first sensitivity control line electrically connected to the first imaging cell, where the first imaging cell comprises a photoelectron conversion area that generates a signal charge by incidence of light, and a signal detection circuit that detects the signal charge. The photoelectron conversion area includes a first electrode, a translucent second electrode connected to the first sensitivity control line, and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and during an exposure period from a reset of the first imaging cell until a readout of the signal charge accumulated in the first imaging cell by exposure, the first sensitivity control line supplies to the first imaging cell a first sensitivity control signal having a waveform expressed by a first function.
US11025844B2	Image sensor and driving method thereof A method of driving an image sensor includes integrating an overflowed charge from a photodiode in the floating diffusion area and a dynamic range capacitor. The dynamic range capacitor is formed between the floating diffusion area and a power supply voltage. The method further includes sampling a first voltage formed in the floating diffusion area by the integrated overflowed charge, resetting the photodiode, the floating diffusion area, and the dynamic range capacitor, sampling a reset level of the reset floating diffusion area, transferring a charge accumulated in the photodiode to the floating diffusion area, and sampling a second voltage formed in the floating diffusion area.
US11025843B2	Device and method for the continuous and non-invasive determination of physiological parameters of a test subject The present invention relates to a device for the non-invasive determination of physiological parameters of a test person with a lighting unit (32), having a plurality of LED types whose emission maxima are at different wavelengths from the visible to the NIR wavelength range and include an emission maximum below 590 nm, a photo sensor for application to the skin, a data processing unit (11) for reading out the photo sensor and for controlling the illumination unit (32), so that the different types of LEDs individually in a predetermined activation sequence at successive activation start times tk (k=1, 2 . . . M) are activated for a respective predetermined activation period, and to repeat the activation sequence with a clock frequency as a result n=1, 2 . . . N, wherein the clock frequency—sufficiently high for the resolution of the pulse—is characterized in that the photo sensor is a camera sensor (34) on CCD or CMOS base, which is arranged to the illumination unit (32) in a way that it can detect by transflection light passing through the body, that the data processing unit (11) reads out the camera sensor in each activation sequence at the activation start times tk (k=1, 2 . . . M) and over the respective activation period, with the detected intensities via subregions of sensor elements being added up and assigned to the respective activation sequence and to the respective activation start time tk (k=1, 2 . . . M), and records them as time series, wherein subareas of the camera sensor are added up by reading out the lines of the camera sensor, which are parallel to the connection axis between the illumination unit and the camera sensor and along which increases the distance from the illumination unit, and parallel lines are summarized to a single averaged line, and the data processing device is arranged to evaluate the averaged line as a function of the distance from the illumination unit to the muscle oximetry.
US11025842B2	Binner circuit for image signal processor Embodiments relate to image signal processors (ISP) that include binner circuits that down-sample an input image. An input image may include a plurality of pixels. The output image of the binner circuit may include a reduced number of pixels. The binner circuit may include a plurality of different operation modes. In a bin mode, the binner circuit may blend a subset of input pixel values to generate an output pixel quad. In a skip mode, the binner circuit may select one of the input pixel values as the output pixel pixel. The selection may be performed randomly to avoid aliasing. In a luminance mode, the binner circuit may take a weighted average of a subset of pixel values having different colors. In a color value mode, the binner circuit may select one of the colors in a subset of pixel values as an output pixel value.
US11025841B2	Method for designing a freeform surface reflective imaging system The present invention relates to a method for designing a freeform surface reflective imaging system, comprising: selecting an initial system, wherein an FOV of the initial system is X0×Y0; selecting an FOV sequence as [X0, Y0], [X1, Y1], [X2, Y2], . . . , [Xn, Yn], while the FOV of the system to be designed is Xn×Yn, and X0
US11025839B2	Camera apparatus and capturing control method of camera apparatus There is provided a camera apparatus including: a capturing unit that includes a lens to which light, from a capturing area including IR light and visible light is incident, and that performs capturing based on the light; an IR lighting unit that irradiates the capturing area with IR light; and a controller that generates an instruction to change a focal position of the lens and an instruction to adjust a quantity of the IR light, in which the controller calculates an IR light ratio which indicates a ratio of the quantity of the IR light to the light included in a captured image of the capturing area, and selects and performs any one of a first focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the IR light, a second focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the visible light, and an IR light quantity adjustment determination processing to determine whether or not to adjust the quantity of the IR light, based on the IR light ratio.
US11025837B2	Replacing a background portion of an image Systems and methods are described for replacing a background portion of an image. An illustrative method includes receiving a first image, identifying a background portion of the first image and a subject portion of the first image, identifying a geographic location corresponding to the background portion of the first image, retrieving a plurality of other images depicting the geographic location, selecting a second image from the plurality of other images, wherein the second image is associated with metadata indicating that the second image was captured during a predetermined time period, and generating for display a third image comprising the subject portion of the first image placed over the second image.
US11025836B2	Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and driving assistance program A driving assistance device includes a gaze detection unit that detects a gaze of a driver of a vehicle, an imaging selection unit that selects a first imaging unit corresponding to a direction of the gaze from among a plurality of first imaging units that image the periphery of the vehicle, and a display control unit that processes first captured image data obtained by imaging using the selected first imaging unit on the basis of second captured image data obtained by imaging using a second imaging unit that images the front of eyes of the driver and displays an image based on the first captured image data after the processing on a transmission type display unit fixed at the front of the eyes of the driver of the vehicle.
US11025835B2	Imaging device, endoscope apparatus, and method for operating imaging device An imaging device includes a processor. The processor, in a manual focus mode, sets a focus evaluation area to have a larger size than the focus evaluation area set in an auto focus mode, generates assist information assisting adjustment of the in-focus object plane position based on a focus evaluation value obtained from an image of the focus evaluation area, and outputting the assist information to a display section.
US11025832B2	Imaging device that generates multiple-exposure image data An imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, where the pixel captures first data in a first exposure period and captures second data in a second exposure period different from the first exposure period, the first exposure period and the second exposure period being included in a frame period. A sensitivity of the photoelectric converter in the first exposure period is different from a sensitivity of the photoelectric converter in the second exposure period, and the imaging device generates multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.
US11025829B2	Imaging apparatus, accessory, processing apparatus, processing method, and storage medium An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system in at least three states in which positions of light sources configured to emit light are different from each other, and to output at least three image data, and a luminance distribution acquirer configured to acquire information on a plurality of luminance distributions of the image data based on common information on a common light amount distribution regarding the at least three states.
US11025828B2	Imaging control apparatus, imaging control method, and electronic device There is provided an imaging control apparatus including a control section that creates a first image by performing exposing to a pixel with first exposure by a first exposure time and creates a second image by performing exposing to a pixel with second exposure by a second exposure time in succession to the first image and a synthesizing section that synthesizes a synthesized image in which the first image and the second image have been synthesized and a selected image selected from either the first image or the second image. The control section decides the first exposure time and the second exposure time such that an image to be selected as the selected image in the synthesizing section is switched over on a basis of an exposure ratio being a ratio of an exposure time of the synthesized image and an exposure time of the selected image.
US11025826B2	Display system, display device, and control method for display device An HMD includes a display section configured to display an image to enable visual recognition of an outside scene by transmitting external light, an operation detecting section configured to detect operation, a HMD control section configured to generate, according to the operation detected by the operation detecting section, a command for operating a first mobile body, a communication control section configured to acquire first mobile body image data concerning a captured image captured by the mobile body, and a display control section configured to cause the display section to display an image based on the first mobile body image data acquired by the communication control section. The display control section controls visibility of the outside scene in the display section.
US11025824B2	Systems and methods for stabilizing videos Images with an optical field of view are captured by an image capture device. An observed trajectory of the image capture device reflects the positions of the image capture device at different moments may be determined. A capture trajectory of the image capture device reflects virtual positions of the image capture device from which video content may be generated. The capture trajectory is determined based on a subsequent portion of the observed trajectory such that a portion of the capture trajectory corresponding to a portion of the observed trajectory is determined based on a subsequent portion of the observed trajectory. Orientations of punch-outs for the images are determined based on the capture trajectory. Video content is generated based on visual content of the images within the punch-outs.
US11025818B2	Edge detection signal processing To satisfactorily detect an edge detection signal of a high frequency band from a captured image signal at all times.A filtering unit extracts an edge detection signal of a high frequency band from an image signal obtained from imaging, and a band control unit controls the high frequency band on the basis of lens information. For example, the filtering unit includes a first high-pass filter with a first cutoff frequency, a second high-pass filter with a second cutoff frequency that is lower than the first cutoff frequency, and an α blending unit that performs α blending on output of the first high-pass filter and output of the second high-pass filter. Even if the frequency of the edge detection signal included in the captured image signal varies due to a change in a zoom position, a lens model number, an F value or the like, the edge detection signal can be satisfactorily detected at all times.
US11025816B2	Image processors and image processing methods Image processor circuitry includes a memory storing a program of instructions, and processing circuitry configured to execute the program of instructions to receive input data from an image sensor and detect an operation mode of the image sensor based on the input data, provide configuration data determined in association with the operation mode of the image sensor, and process image data in the input data in accordance with the operation mode and the configuration data.
US11025813B2	Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method and memory medium A control apparatus includes a focus detecting unit configured to detect a defocus amount, a continuity determining unit configured to determine a continuity of a focus detection result, a characteristic detecting unit configured to detect characteristics of a main object and of surroundings of the main object, a controlling unit configured to change a parameter relating to a tracking operation based on the characteristics during the tracking operation and a focus adjusting unit configured to perform a focus adjustment based on the defocus amount, the continuity of the focus detection result and the parameter.
US11025811B1	System for live streaming a trail camera A system for live streaming a trail camera preferably includes a position adjustable camera, a cellular hotspot, a power source, a WiFi switch, a wireless device and a control software program. The position adjustable camera includes being actuated by a motion detector; the capability of being remotely operated; and the ability to live stream images and video including sound. The cellular hotspot converts a cellular signal to a WiFi signal, or a WiFi signal to a cellular signal. The WiFi switch allows operation of the position adjustable camera. The control software program provides an interface between the user and control of the position adjustable camera. The control software program includes choosing between livestream and still images; powering the position adjustable camera; controlling the pan, tilt and zoom of the position adjustable camera; triggering of camera operation; choice of multiple cameras; image inversion; and storage of images in an images gallery.
US11025806B2	Imaging apparatus with cover capable of changing reflectance of surface An imaging apparatus includes a camera, a cover covering the camera and capable of changing reflectance of a surface thereof, and a control unit configured to control the reflectance of the surface of the cover so as to be switchable between a first mode and a second mode. The first mode causes light to reflect at the surface of the cover. The second mode causes light to pass through the cover and the reflectance in which is different from that in the first mode.
US11025805B2	System-level camera module with electrical support and manufacturing method thereof A camera module includes an optical lens, a photosensitive chip and an electrical support. The electrical support includes a circuit module embedded in a support body to form an integral structure, a connecting member provided on the support body to electrically connect with the circuit module, and a camera component coupled at the support body and electrically connected to the connecting member. Therefore, the electrical support not only forms a circuit board to electrically connect with the camera component but only serves as a base to support the camera component.
US11025800B2	Systems and methods for imaging fine art paintings Color values as a function of position within a painting may be determined by acquiring a plurality of sets of images of the painting. Each set of images may correspond to a different region within the painting. Each image in a set of images may be acquired using a different lighting condition. An optical system comprising a telecentric lens may be used to acquire each image. Within a set of images, corresponding lightness values of pixels may be compared. Lightness values varying from other corresponding lightness values more than a threshold amount may be eliminated. The non-eliminated lightness values for a pixel may be used to generate a processed value for the pixel. The processed values for each pixel representing an imaged region may be combined into a single image. Eliminating lightness values may remove specular highlights and/or shadows. Each of the single images corresponding to each set of images may be registered together to generate a color map image of the painting. The generated color map image may be used to correct color data collected by laser scanning the painting. A 3D printer may, for example, use the corrected laser color data in combination with an elevation map of the painting to produce a faithful reproduction of the painting.
US11025795B2	Operation mode control system and image forming apparatus An operation mode control system includes an obtainment processing portion and a shift processing portion. The obtainment processing portion obtains sound volume data indicating a sound volume level of ambient sound around an image forming apparatus that is operating in a first mode in which all or a part of functions relating to image formation is restricted. The shift processing portion shifts, when a count of a number of times it is determined during a preset specific time period that the sound volume level is a first reference level or more, is a preset specific count or more, the image forming apparatus into a second mode in which it is possible for image formation to begin.
US11025792B2	Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for document processing An image processing apparatus includes a camera, an image reading unit, and a controller. The camera is configured to capture an image of a face of a person. The image reading unit is configured to read a document and to output a document image. The controller is configured to perform control to permit certain processing on the document image if the image of the face captured by the camera matches a face image extracted from the document image.
US11025789B2	Ordering system, ordering server apparatus, and non-volatile computer readable recording medium An ordering server apparatus includes a controller circuit configured to receive remaining amount information from an image forming apparatus, determine to order a consumable product to be used in the image forming apparatus on a basis of the remaining amount information, obtain image forming apparatus location information, the image forming apparatus location information indicating location information of the image forming apparatus, obtain stock manager server location information, the stock manager server location information indicating location information of each of one or more stock manager server apparatuses, determine, on a basis of the image forming apparatus location information and the stock manager server location information, one stock manager server apparatus having a smallest distance from the image forming apparatus, and send, to the determined stock manager server apparatus, an order request to order the consumable product.
US11025784B2	Roaming method The invention relates to a roaming method for an electrical charging system with at least two subsystems. In the method, a charging data set is received through a communication module of a gateway device from a charging station assigned to the gateway device. The charging data set is forwarded by a peer-to-peer module assigned to the gateway device to a peer-to-peer application of a peer-to-peer network, and a roaming action is controlled by a roaming controlling means of the peer-to-peer application executed by at least a part of the nodes of the peer-to-peer network based on the received charging data set.
US11025783B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for extending new radio (NR) usage indications to application function (AF) A method for extending new radio (NR) usage indications to an application function (AF) includes, at a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) including at least one processor, receiving an indication of NR usage by a user equipment (UE). The steps further include determining that an AF is subscribed to receive indications of NR usage for the UE. The steps further include, in response to determining that an AF is subscribed to receive indications of NR usage for the UE, communicating the indication of NR usage to the AF. The steps further include receiving a message from the AF to effect a change in service provided to the UE based on the indication of NR usage. The steps further include effecting the change in service provided to the UE based on the indication of NR usage.
US11025780B2	Systems and methods for search based call routing A computerized method of routing calls includes the following steps performed by a server computing device: receiving a set of call attributes associated with an incoming call; identifying a document containing call routing instructions corresponding to the call attributes by querying a search index in electronic communication with the server computing device; identifying, based on the document, a set of suitable agents having a skill and a suitable proficiency in the skill by querying an agent skills database in electronic communication with the server computing device; identifying a set of available agents in the set of suitable agents by querying an agent status database in electronic communication with the server computing device; and routing the incoming call to a target agent in the set of available agents, if there is at least one available agent; or a customer waiting queue, if there is no suitable agent.
US11025773B1	Virtual communication service for mobile devices One example method of operation may include identifying a failed call connection via a notification identifying a calling device and a called device stored in a carrier network, and responsive to identifying the notification, transmitting an invocation request to a virtual computing network comprising a plurality of virtual machines, selecting a virtual machine corresponding to the called device, selecting a virtual mobile device from among a plurality of virtual mobile devices operating on the virtual machine, initiating a virtual mobile device application associated with the virtual mobile device, and responsive to initiating the virtual mobile device application, transmitting one or more of a first message to the called device and a second message to the calling device.
US11025772B2	Method for sharing bluetooth communication information and electronic device therefor An electronic device is provided to include a user interface, a communication circuitry that supports Bluetooth (BT) communication and store a first BT address, a processor operatively connected with the user interface and the communication circuitry, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to establish a communication connection with a first external electronic device based on the first BT address, end the communication connection with the first external electronic device, receive a reconnection request based on the first BT address from the first external electronic device, transmit a communication connection request to the first external electronic device based on a second BT address different from the first BT address, using the communication circuitry in response to the reconnection request, and store information about whether the first external electronic device accepts or declines the communication connection request in the memory.
US11025771B2	Method, system, and device for network control Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, device, and system for network control. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, whether a target application is running in a foreground of a terminal, the target application being included in a set of target applications, and in response to determining that the target application is running in the foreground, blocking or throttling, by the one or more processors, network communication for at least one application not included in the set of target applications.
US11025770B2	Mobile terminal and electronic device having the same The present disclosure relates to an electronic device comprising a case and a mobile terminal configured to be coupled with the case, where the mobile terminal includes a controller; a connection port provided at one side of the mobile terminal, and a first display, and where the case includes a first body configured to accommodate at least part of the mobile terminal, a connector protruding inward at one side of the first body and configured to engage with the connection port when the mobile terminal is accommodated at the first body, a second body comprising a second display, and a wiring unit electrically connecting the first body and the second body and configured to transfer a signal from the mobile terminal to the second display.
US11025768B2	Information displaying method and terminal An information displaying method and a terminal are provided. The method includes: obtaining audio data to be played in a chronological order; determining, based on attribute information at any moment of a sound represented by the audio data, a shape of a graph corresponding to the any moment, where the graph corresponding to the any moment including a closed curve with a bump, and a maximum distance in distances from points on the bump to a center of the graph is positively correlated to a value indicated by the attribute information at the any moment; and displaying the graph corresponding to the any moment. The bump in the graph changes with the value indicated by the attribute information of the sound, and such graph is presented to a user, to enhance perception of the user on the attribute information of the audio data and improve user experience.
US11025764B2	Method and system for reducing current noise of touch terminal A method and a system for reducing current noise of a touch terminal are provided. The method includes: determining that a user receives a voice call via an earpiece of the touch terminal, and controlling the touch terminal to switch from a first touch scan frequency to a second touch scan frequency, where the second touch scan frequency is less than the first touch scan frequency. As can be seen, if the user receives the voice call via the earpiece of the touch terminal, the touch terminal is controlled to switch from the first touch scan frequency to the second touch scan frequency, to effectively reduce the current noise heard by the user by decreasing the touch scan frequency of the touch terminal, so that the periodic current noise is outside a frequency band perceptible to a human ear, thereby improving user experience when receiving the voice call.
US11025763B2	Telephony terminal Methods and apparatus implementing a telephony terminal for connecting a telephone to a data network. In one implementation, a telephony system includes: a phone connection for connecting to a telephone; a network connection for connecting to a network; and a controller connected to said phone connection and to said network connection; wherein said controller provides a phone service for processing information for said phone connection, said controller provides a network service for processing information for said network connection, and said controller provides a network voice service for converting information to and from a network voice format.
US11025760B2	Terminal capable of facilitating assembly and disassembly of display panel A terminal is disclosed. The terminal includes a display module, a terminal main body, and two sealing elements. A first main portion and two extension portions of the protection cover are enclosed to form a receiving space, and the display panel is mounted on a lower surface of the first main portion. The terminal main body is mounted in the receiving space, the terminal main body includes a second main portion, and the two sealing elements are mounted on both sides of the protection cover and terminal main body. When installing the display panel, only the terminal main body needs to be embedded in the receiving space of the protection cover, and then the sealing member can be fixed. When the display screen is disassembled, only the sealing member needs to be removed first, and then the terminal main body is removed from the receiving space of the protection cover.
US11025755B2	Method and device for supporting streaming service Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for supporting a streaming service of a terminal, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: requesting a streaming service from a server; receiving, from the server, metadata associated with the streaming service; and receiving predetermined configuration information and the streaming service, wherein the predetermined configuration information is included in a transmission control protocol (TCP) option.
US11025748B2	Method for controlling simultaneous access to data produced by devices coupled to a mobile system coupled to a CPE A mobile system (S1) comprises i) a first operating system (OS1), capable of exchanging data with a CPE (E1), ii) a second operating system (OS2) with a tunnel layer and coupled to devices (D1-D3) having respective IP prefixes and producing data to be accessed from a central application, via a client gateway (CG), iii) a first means (M1) for obtaining a first IP address for the second operating system (OS2) from the CPE (E1) and through the first operating system (OS1), and a second means (M2) for triggering transmission of this first IP address and the device prefixes by the second operating system (OS2) to the client gateway (CG), through the first operating system (OS1) and the CPE (E1), for requesting the establishment of a tunnel between the second operating system (OS1) and the client gateway (CG) to allow the central application to access to data generated by the devices.
US11025747B1	Content request pattern-based routing system A pattern-based content request routing system is described herein that can route content requests according to user and/or user device behavior. For example, the routing system can cause requests for byte-heavy content to be routed to content delivery networks (CDNs) that have a sufficiently large cache width—even if such CDNs are not the geographically-closest CDNs to the source of the requests—to reduce the negative impact on content retrieval latency for other user devices that may be requesting other content. In particular, CDNs may store access logs that indicate the types of content requested by various user devices. The routing system can retrieve and analyze the access logs to identify patterns of requests. The routing system can then evaluate the properties of various CDNs, determine which CDNs may be suitable for the identified patterns of requests, and instruct a DNS server to route user devices accordingly.
US11025744B2	Server-side caching for web user interfaces The described technology relates to rendering a client-side user interface using a server-side cache for providing the displayed data. In an example implementation, in response to a user interface (e.g., dashboard with multiple widgets in a web application) being launched on the client device, the server initiates a refresh of the cache for the widgets; and transmits a first set of data obtained from the cache for widgets in the user interface before the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The first set of data is followed by a second set of data obtained from the cache for at least some of the widgets after the cache is updated in response to the initiated refresh. The client displays the user interface using the second set of data while overwriting, for one or more of the widgets, information previously displayed using the first set of data.
US11025741B2	Dynamic cognitive user interface A system, method and program product for a query-based interface in a cognitive computing platform. A system is provided that includes a query processor that inputs a query for an identified user and determines a set of results for inclusion in a cognitive response based on a set of information sources; a modality selection system that selects an interface modality for the cognitive response based on user profile data and at least one external input; and a response formatting system that determines a response format for the set of results in the cognitive response, wherein the response format is determined based on confidence levels determined from social networking information associated with the identified user.
US11025740B2	Edge cache segment prefetching Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for pre-loading video chunks of a video program at an edge server are disclosed. For example, a processor may receive a manifest file for a video program, determine a bitrate for a first segment of the video program, request a video chunk of the first segment at the first bitrate from an edge server in accordance with the manifest file, and request a subset of a video chunk of a second segment of the video program from the edge server.
US11025737B2	Transmission device, transmission method, reception device, and a reception method A transmission system is provided. The transmission system includes a first server and a second server. The first server is configured to transmit a metafile including location information for a reception device to acquire an audio stream into which metadata is inserted. The second server is configured to transmit the audio stream to the reception device according to a request from the reception device. Identification information indicating that the metadata is inserted into the audio stream corresponding to the location information is inserted into the metafile in association with the location information.
US11025733B2	Device identification techniques using shared device graph Systems and methods for building a device graph for cooperative device identification are disclosed. Various information is received at a computing system over a communications network, include information defining a relationship between (i) a unique identifier associated with a first device of a user and (ii) a unique identifier associated with the user, and information defining a relationship between (i) a unique identifier associated with a second device of the user and (ii) the unique identifier associated with the user. The unique identifiers associated with the devices are each mapped to the platform-wide identifier based at least in part on the unique user identifier. A device graph comprising a plurality of device nodes is constructed, with related device nodes connected by one or more edges. Nodes representing the devices are linked based on a relationship identified between them using the platform-wide identifier.
US11025728B2	Methods for facilitating secure connections for an operating system kernel and devices thereof A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and local storage node computing device that establishes a first connection between a first endpoint in a kernel of an operating system and a second endpoint. A proxy application in a user space is invoked and a second connection is established from the operating system kernel to the proxy application. The proxy application is linked to a secure protocol implementation. Handshake messages are proxied between the second endpoint and the proxy application using the first and second connections. Security parameters for the first connection and determined from the handshake messages are sent from the proxy application to the operating system kernel via the second connection. Data is exchanged between the first endpoint in the operating system kernel and the second endpoint using the first connection and the security parameters.
US11025725B2	Providing safety related contextual information in a personal protective equipment system A personal protection equipment (PPE) system with a remote user interface comprises an article of PPE including an active wireless communication device for transmitting a signal and a controller for managing settings on the article of PPE; and a communication hub including a user interface, an electronic connection to a PPE management software, and a wireless communication device. When the wireless communication device of the communication hub detects that the article of PPE is in proximity to the communication hub, the hub displays information on the user interface. The user interface displays settings for the article of PPE, and the settings can be adjusted by a user through interaction with the user interface. The wireless communication device of the communication hub transmits information related to the adjusted settings to the wireless communication device of the article of PPE; and the controller adjusts the settings on the article of PPE.
US11025724B2	Transport of control data in proxy-based network communications The present disclosure relates to techniques for controlling a client device. The techniques may include receiving, from a client device, a request for a web resource; generating control data associated with one or more functionalities of the client device; and transmitting a response to the client device including the web resource and the control data to control the one or more functionalities of the client device.
US11025722B2	IoT device jobs The disclosed technology is generally directed to communications in an IoT environment. In one example of the technology, device twins for corresponding IoT devices are stored, wherein the device twins include metadata that is associated with the corresponding IoT devices. A schedule job instruction may be received, and at least one candidate IoT device among the IoT devices that is associated with the schedule job instruction may be identified. In some examples, executors associated with the at least one candidate IoT device are created, and jobs are executed via the executors such that the executors are capable of resuming execution after at least one of an outage or a failure.
US11025721B2	Data transfer between an x-ray detector and an arithmetic unit via a network protocol A detector apparatus for use as part of a data network includes a plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a network-capable network interface, and a switch or router, connected to each of the network-capable network interfaces of the plurality of x-ray detectors, each of the plurality of x-ray detectors including a distinct IP address such that the data network is adjustable to take a change in a number of the plurality of x-ray detectors into account. The plurality of x-ray detectors are configured to detect x-rays generated from a single x-ray source.
US11025720B2	Systems and apparatus for enhanced detection of an environmental anomaly related to a shipping container using a node-enhanced detection blanket A blanket apparatus is described for enhanced detecting of an environmental anomaly relative to a shipping container temporarily maintaining packages. Generally, the apparatus includes a detection blanket disposed proximate the packages and multiple sensor-based ID nodes integrated as part of the detection blanket in a geographically disperse configuration relative to the detection blanket. Each of the sensor-based ID nodes has a processor, memory (with ID node monitoring program code), an environmental sensor, and a wireless radio transceiver. The sensor generates sensor data related to an environmental condition adjacent the sensor and indicative of the environmental anomaly when the sensor data generated is above a threshold condition for that sensor. The transceiver is configured to access and broadcast the sensor data generated in response to a report command from the ID node's processor when the ID node processor executes the ID node monitoring program code.
US11025714B2	System and method for announcing cryptographic keys on a blockchain A method and apparatus is presented for announcing the existence of cryptographic key pairs within a distributed ledger system in which no central trusted authority is available, consisting of sending a key announcement message by a network connected device to other network connected devices over a peer-to-peer network for inclusion in the distributed ledger. Once a valid key announcement message for a public key is included in the ledger, any future transactions that reference an address associated with the public key or other messages concerning said public key are accepted by other network connected devices on the peer-to-peer network and are included in the distributed ledger. If transactions or other messages reference an address not associated with an announced public key, they may be rejected by the peer-to-peer network and may not be included in the distributed ledger.
US11025710B1	Systems and methods for dynamic load balancing based on server utilization and content popularity Provided is a controller for dynamically balancing load between different servers using different thresholds that are continually modified for each of the servers. The controller may generate a baseline load measure based on load measures received from the different servers, and may configure a first threshold for a first server and a second threshold for a second server based on the load measure at the first server deviating from the baseline load measure by a first amount that is greater than a second amount by which the load measure at the second server deviates from the baseline load measure. The controller may allocate an additional server to distribute first content with the first server in response to first content load at the first server satisfying the first threshold and the same load or a greater load of second content at the second server not satisfying the second threshold.
US11025708B1	Group load balancing for virtual router redundancy Load balancing in a network section implementing VRRPv3 may be supported in a way that is easier to implement than that described in § 4.2 of RFC 5798. This may be done by (a) receiving, by a virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) router on a local area network (LAN), a group load balancing identifier (GLB ID) value; (b) sending, by the VRRP router, the GLB ID value to at least one peer VRRP router on the LAN, the VRRP router and the at least one peer VRRP router on the LAN defining a group of peer VRRP routers; and (c) responsive to receiving, by the VRRP router, a GLB ID value from a peer VRRP router on the LAN, (1) selecting a master for the group of peer VRRP routers, and (2) responsive to the VRRP router selecting itself as the master for the group of VRRP routers, (A) adjusting, by the VRRP router, a priority value of the VRRP router for the group of VRRP routers, and (B) sending, by the VRRP router, a notification to the at least one VRRP peer device, that the VRRP router is the master for the group of VRRP routers.
US11025705B1	Real-time content integration based on machine learned selections A content integration system is configured to rapidly select online content for distribution in response to a user-generated request. The content integration system can analyze available online content items and data describing the user to generate one or more numerical likelihoods estimating how the user will interact with each of the given online content items. The highest scoring content can be selected and transmitted to the user without a noticeable delay.
US11025694B2	ABR video white spot coverage system and method A scheme for managing ABR streaming of content in a wireless radio network environment that may have radio white spot areas. Upon determining that the wireless UE device executing an ABR client application is in a radio white spot area, the current ABR streaming session may be suspended at a particular segment. Thereafter, playback of other content locally cached at the wireless UE device may be commenced in lieu of the ABR media segments. When the wireless UE device exits the radio white spot area, the ABR streaming session may be resumed from a point adjacent to the particular segment where the ABR streaming session was suspended.
US11025693B2	Event detection from signal data removing private information The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for event detection from signal data removing private information. A signal is ingested. A portion of the signal is selected from within the signal. A first score is computed from the selected portion. The first score indicates a likelihood of the signal including information related to an event type. It is determined that processing of another signal is warranted based on the indicated likelihood. Resources are allocated to process the other signal. The other signal is ingested. Parameters associated with the other signal are accessed. A second score is computed from the parameters utilizing the allocated resources. A previously unidentified event of the event type is identified based on the second score and utilizing the allocated resources. A privacy infrastructure spans signal ingestion, event detection, and event notification and protects the integrity of private information.
US11025691B1	Consuming fragments of time-associated data streams Disclosed are various embodiments for consuming fragments of time-associated data streams. A streaming gateway receives a request from a consumer via a network to obtain a stream of time-associated data. The gateway determines that a first fragment of the stream of time-associated data is stored in a data store. The first fragment is obtained from the data store and sent to the consumer via the network. The gateway determines that the stream of time-associated data is currently being received by an endpoint from a producer. A second segment of the stream is obtained from the endpoint and sent to the consumer via the network.
US11025690B2	Audio-video (AV) packet delivery over a local area network A network device providing audio-video packet delivery over a local area network may include a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to receive data packets from a server, the data packets being addressed to an electronic device downstream from the network device. The at least one processor may be further configured to determine whether the data packets satisfy an offload condition. The at least one processor may be further configured to, when the data packets satisfy the offload condition: transmit, to the server, acknowledgement packets corresponding to the received data packets, store the data packets in a buffer, transmit the data packets to the electronic device, and retransmit the data packets to the electronic device responsive to request therefor, the retransmitted data packets being retrieved from the buffer.
US11025689B1	Multicast support Various example embodiments for supporting multicast in communication systems are presented. In at least some example embodiments, supporting multicast in communication systems may include supporting use of multicast domain information of a penultimate hop router of the multicast domain by an egress leaf router associated with the multicast domain for multicast service signaling to a root router of the multicast domain. In at least some example embodiments, in which the multicast domain is based on Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER), supporting multicast in communication systems may include supporting use of BIER domain information (e.g., a BIER Forwarding Router Identifier (BFR-ID) or the like) of a PH BIER router by an egress leaf router associated with the BIER domain for multicast service signaling to a root BIER router of the BIER domain.
US11025680B2	Method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform A method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform includes a method and device for registering a peripheral device on a social networking platform, which includes: at a user device having one or more processors and memory: executing a social networking client application of the social networking platform on the user device; through the social networking client application, receiving an input identifying a peripheral device; and in response to receiving the input identifying the peripheral device: sending a request to establish a social networking identity for the peripheral device; and upon successful establishment of the social networking identity for the peripheral device, presenting the peripheral device as a social network contact of the user account in a user interface of the social networking client application.
US11025675B2	Data processing systems and methods for performing privacy assessments and monitoring of new versions of computer code for privacy compliance In various embodiments, a data map generation system is configured to receive a request to generate a privacy-related data map for particular computer code, and, at least partially in response to the request, determine a location of the particular computer code, automatically obtain the particular computer code based on the determined location, and analyze the particular computer code to determine privacy-related attributes of the particular computer code, where the privacy-related attributes indicate types of personal information that the particular computer code collects or accesses. The system may be further configured to generate and display a data map of the privacy-related attributes to a user.
US11025672B2	Approaches for securing middleware data access Systems and methods are provided for determining an access request provided by an entity that seeks to interact with one or more backend systems through a middleware system, the access request including a genuine access token. The entity can be authenticated based on the genuine access token. When a client request is made to the middleware system with a genuine access token, the request can be made through a smart ingress and egress proxy which intercepts the request and replaces the genuine access token with an invalid access token. The middleware system can subsequently make authorized requests to downstream systems on behalf of the middleware system's client by treating the smart proxy as an egress proxy for those subsequent requests, and the smart proxy replaces the invalid access token with a genuine one.
US11025668B2	Detecting attacks using compromised credentials via internal network monitoring The threat of malicious parties exposing users' credentials from one system and applying the exposed credentials to a different system to gain unauthorized access is addressed in the present disclosure by systems and methods to preemptively and reactively mitigate the risk of users reusing passwords between systems. A security device passively monitors traffic comprising authorization requests within a network to reactively identify an ongoing attack based on its use of exposed credentials in the authorization request and identifies accounts that are vulnerable to attacks using exposed credentials by actively attempting to log into those accounts with exposed passwords from other networks. The systems and methods reduce the number of false positives associated with attack identification and strengthens the network against potential attacks, thus improving the network's security and reducing the amount of resources needed to securely manage the network.
US11025667B2	System and method for applying a plurality of interconnected filters to protect a computing device from a distributed denial-of-service attack Disclosed are a system, method, and computer readable storage medium having instructions for applying a plurality of interconnected filters to protect a computing device from a DDoS attack. The method includes, responsive to detecting the computing device is subject to the DDoS attack, intercepting data from a network node to the computing device, determining data transmission parameters, assigning an initial danger rating to the network node, identifying a subset of the plurality of the interconnected filters which are concurrently triggered, changing the danger rating of the network node based on an application of the subset of the plurality of interconnected filters that are triggered and the data transmission parameters, and responsive to determining that the danger rating of the network node exceeds a threshold value, limiting a transmittal of data from the network node to the computing device by limiting channel capacity between the network node and the computing device.
US11025657B2	Selective database logging with smart sampling A method by a security analysis server to generate a traffic monitoring rule. The method includes receiving, from a database agent because of a current configuration of the database agent, counts of an amount of traffic sent over a first set of one or more of the database connections being monitored by the database agent and generating a traffic monitoring rule that indicates database connections for which the database agent is to send counts of an amount of traffic, rather than all the traffic, sent over those database connections to the security analysis server because those database connections have been determined by the security analysis server to be of an application database connection type based on an analysis by the security analysis server of the counts. The method further includes applying the traffic monitoring rule by sending instructions to the database agent to alter the current configuration.
US11025653B2	Anomaly detection with machine learning The technology disclosed relates to machine learning based anomaly detection. In particular, it relates to constructing activity models on per-tenant and per-user basis using an online streaming machine learner that transforms an unsupervised learning problem into a supervised learning problem by fixing a target label and learning a regressor without a constant or intercept. Further, it relates to detecting anomalies in near real-time streams of security-related events of one or more tenants by transforming the events in categorized features and requiring a loss function analyzer to correlate, essentially through an origin, the categorized features with a target feature artificially labeled as a constant. It further includes determining an anomaly score for a production event based on calculated likelihood coefficients of categorized feature-value pairs and a prevalencist probability value of the production event comprising the coded features-value pairs.
US11025651B2	System and method for enhanced security analysis for quarantined email messages A method of enabling enhanced security analysis for quarantined email messages, comprises receiving, at an email gateway an inbound email message from an external network, determining whether the email message is to be quarantined, restructuring the email message, if the message is to be quarantined, as an attachment for a new email, constructing a new email message addressed to a secure repository on a secure pathway, attaching the restructured email message to the new email message and releasing the new email message that includes the restructured email message as an attachment. Threat analysis is performed by one or more security services in the secure pathway. Suspicious emails and analysis results are stored in the secure repository.
US11025648B2	Detection of algorithmically generated domains based on a dictionary Techniques for detection of algorithmically generated domains based on a dictionary are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for detection of algorithmically generated domains based on a dictionary includes receiving a DNS data stream, wherein the DNS data stream includes a DNS query and a DNS response for resolution of the DNS query; generating a graph based on the DNS data stream; and identifying a malicious dictionary based on the graph.
US11025645B2	Data integrity protection method and apparatus A data integrity protection method and apparatus in a network environment are described. A terminal device obtains an integrity protection algorithm and a key corresponding to a session or a flow, and a DRB corresponding to the session. The terminal device performs, by using the integrity protection algorithm and the key corresponding to the session, integrity protection on data of the DRB corresponding to the session or the flow, where one session includes a plurality of flows. Different integrity protection algorithms and keys can be used for different sessions, and different integrity protection algorithms and keys can also be used for different flows. In this way, integrity protection is more flexible and meets security requirements of a same user for different services.
US11025642B1	Electronic message authentication An electronic message delivery service receives a request to transmit an electronic message to a recipient. In response to the request, the electronic message delivery service determines first information from the electronic message usable to uniquely identify the electronic message. The electronic message delivery service obtains, based at least in part on the first information and a cryptographic key, cryptographic information that can be inserted into the electronic message. The electronic message delivery service inserts the cryptographic information and second information usable to validate at least a portion of the electronic message with the cryptographic information into the electronic message. The electronic message is transmitted to the recipient.
US11025640B2	Verification of geolocation of devices in a cloud data center A method alters a computer resource in response to the computer resource moving from a first geolocation to a second geolocation. One or more processors receive a message indicating that a computer resource has moved from a first geolocation to a new geolocation. In response to receiving the message that the computer resource has moved from the first geolocation to the new geolocation, the processor(s) encrypt data that is stored on the computer resource, and apply decryption information to the encrypted data from the new geolocation, where the decryption information is specifically for decrypting encrypted data at the new geolocation. In response to the decryption information failing to decrypt the encrypted data at the new geolocation, the processor(s) and/or a user alter the computer resource.
US11025638B2	System and method providing security friction for atypical resource access requests A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing security friction to a request for access to a resource based on whether the access request is atypical. In certain embodiments, a request to access the resource based on a user identity is received electronically. The system determines whether the request is typical or atypical. If the request is typical, access to the requested resource is granted. However, if the request is atypical, access to the requested resource is only allowed if the correct information is provided in response to one or more access control methods that provide an amount of security friction that would otherwise not have been asserted if the resource request was typical. In certain embodiments, an elapsed time between access requests based on the user identity is used to determine whether the access request is atypical.
US11025637B2	Offline sales execution system An interaction execution system with an interaction application for installation on a client device for deriving an actual location of the client device, receiving user interaction data indicating a user interaction with an interaction partner at a pre-determined location. The actual location of the client device is compared with the pre-determined location of the user interaction and an automated message is generated if a mismatch between the actual location of the client device and the pre-determined location of the user interaction is detected.
US11025635B2	Secure remote support authorization A request for access to a user's account is made to an authenticator. The authenticator sends a request for access to the user associated with the user's account. In response to user authorization, the authenticator sends an access link to a service engineer. The service engineer access the link to access the user's account with limited and restricted access. When a remote service session associated with the activated access link is terminated, the authenticator sends a termination of session notice to the user.
US11025630B2	System, method and computer-readable medium for utilizing a shared computer system The present invention is directed to a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for utilizing a shared computer system. The method includes receiving, utilizing at least one interface, an access request associated with a potential user for access to a secure data processing center. The method may also include processing, utilizing at least one processor, the access request. The system may also include determining, based on the processed access request, a classification of the potential user with respect to one or more potential or actual access rights to be associated with the potential user for accessing the secure data processing center. In the method, the determined classification of the potential user is that the potential user is at least one of a non-user, an eligible user, a limited user and an authorized user of the secure data processing center. In the method, the determining includes identifying whether the potential user is associated with an entity that is at least one of a financial entity, a health care entity, a national security entity, a law enforcement entity an educational entity or a combination thereof.
US11025626B1	Decentralized identities for access to multiple computing resource systems At least one identity for a given entity is established in accordance with a decentralized identity management system maintained in accordance with a distributed ledger, wherein the identity of the given entity and a set of attributes relating to the identity are defined by a secure token file. The secure token file is referenced in the distributed ledger enabling two or more computing resource systems (e.g., storage systems) to at least one of authenticate and authorize the given entity in accordance with the secure token file.
US11025625B2	Integrated bot and captcha techniques Integrated techniques for computer bot detection and human user based access include determining if a client device has been identified as a computer bot based upon client information extracted from a service request and a service policy. The service policy is also utilized to determine if the client device is operating under control of a human user or operating autonomously based upon matching a captcha response to an expected captcha response.
US11025621B2	Enhancing privacy of network connections An example method may include detecting, by an operating system component of a computing device, that a client requesting a network connection is operating in a non-persistent mode that prevents tracking of network locations accessed by the client; in response to the detecting, performing privacy enhancing operations before establishing the network connection for the client. The privacy enhancing operations include: broadcasting network messages to discover networks without using previously stored information related to the networks; receiving network identifying information from the networks; providing the network identifying information for the networks to the client; requesting the client to perform media access control (MAC) address randomization; receiving a random MAC address and authentication information for a connection to a network selected from the networks; and authenticating the client; and causing the network connection to be established upon a successful authentication of the client.
US11025619B2	Biometric identity registration and authentication An authentication information request packet of user equipment is received at an authentication server. The authentication information request packet includes a device identity of the user equipment. A virtual account identity corresponding to the device identity is obtained. The authentication information response packet is signed using a server private key. An authentication request packet of the user equipment is received. The authentication request packet includes the device identifier, the virtual account identity, and a biometric feature token. A registered service public key and a registered biometric feature token corresponding to the device identifier, the virtual account identity, and a biometric authentication type are obtained. A signature verification is performed by the authentication server on the authentication request packet using the registered service public key. An identity authentication is performed based on the biometric feature token in the authentication request packet and the registered biometric feature token.
US11025617B2	Identification of a related computing device for automatic account login In an implementation of identifying related computing devices for automatic user account login, a login request to a user account that includes a unique identification (ID) of a user computing device and an internet protocol (IP) address of the user computing device are received. One or more user computing devices that have logged in to the user account using a same IP address as the user computing device are identified based on a user ID of the user account and the unique ID of the user computing device. Whether one or more unique IDs corresponding to the one or more user computing devices that have logged in to the user account are correlated with the unique ID of the user computing device is determined. If yes, data corresponding to login information used by the one or more user computing devices to log in to the user account to the user computing device for automatic account login are sent.
US11025616B2	Limited user authentication by self-recognition A system and method for provides unverified users an ability to act upon private records known to them while protecting user privacy by not reflecting private information back to the unverified user. As an unverified user inputs information related to their identity into an interface, the system searches an indexed database which may include both registered users and/or unregistered customers indexed from a single data source or from disparate data sources.
US11025615B2	Dynamic multi-device authentication and access control system Arrangements for dynamically authenticating multiple devices in a key network are provided. In some examples, registration information associated with a plurality of devices in a key network may be received. The registration information may include device attributes. Device keys including cross reference data may be generated and transmitted to the plurality of devices. A reference key including one or more starting points for executing one or more hop sequences based on generated hop counts in the reference key may be generated. A first authentication code may also be generated and a hash value of the first authentication code may be stored. Upon receiving a request for authentication, the reference key may be transmitted to the requesting device. The hop sequence(s) may then be executed by one or more of the computing devices in the key network to generate a comparison authentication code. The comparison authentication code may be compared to the first authentication code to determine whether the device(s) may be authenticated.
US11025610B2	Distributed ledger-based profile verification The described embodiments employ aspects of distributed ledger technologies to facilitate electronic verification and sharing of profile information. Nodes maintaining a distributed ledger include—a first node that generates profile data, and second nodes that generate certificates verifying the generated profile data. The first node can be employed by a client device to generate profile data associated with a first identifier and referencing a second identifier for inclusion on a personal profile, such as a social media webpage. The client device can send the first node a request to have the profile data verified by the referenced second identifier. The profile data can be stored on a distributed ledger so that a second node associated with the second identifier can generate, on behalf of the second identifier, a certificate that verifies the stored profile data. The certificate can be stored on the distributed ledger, so that the first node can access the certificate and provide the client device with an indication that the stored profile data was verified. The first node can also generate additional certificates corresponding to the stored profile data for storage on the distributed ledger, providing selective access to the verified stored profile data.
US11025604B2	Methods and apparatus for providing access to a service Methods and apparatus for providing access to a service are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one processor, and memory including machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including, in response to receipt of a first network communication, retrieve a first list identifying multicast group memberships of a device existing at a first time, the first list retrieved from a storage device based on an identifier in the first network communication, the first network communication including a second list identifying multicast group memberships of the device existing at a second time later than the first time. The device is authenticated based on a comparison of the first list to the second list. A second network communication is transmitted indicating the device has been authenticated in response to the authentication.
US11025603B2	Service providing system, service delivery system, service providing method, and non-transitory recording medium When providing a service to a communication terminal, a service providing system causes an authentication system to perform authentication of a user of the communication terminal. The service providing system includes a processor configured to receive, from the communication terminal, terminal identification information to identify the communication terminal, the terminal identification information including a to-be-authenticated section to be used for the authentication of the user and a not-to-be-authenticated section not to be used for the authentication of the user; and transmit, to the authentication system, only the to-be-authenticated section out of the received terminal identification information.
US11025596B1	Cloud messaging system Data items such as files or database records associated with particular applications (such as messaging applications and other applications) can be stored in one or more remote locations, such as a cloud storage system, and synchronized with other devices. The remote storage can be configured such that each application executing on a client device can only view data items stored at the remote location to which the application has permission to access. An access manager on each client device enforces application specific access policies. Storage at the remote location can be secured for each application associated with a user or user account, for example, using isolated containers. The cloud storage of data can be anonymized and anonymous group data can be stored in the cloud storage.
US11025592B2	System, method and computer-accessible medium for two-factor authentication during virtual private network sessions An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for authenticating a second device, can include initiating a first network connection between a server and a first device, initiating a second network connection between the server and the second device, and authenticating the second device based on the first network connection and the second network connection. Access to a network resource(s) can be granted to the second device based on the authentication. Access to the network resource(s) by the second device can be revoked if the first network connection is severed. The first network connection can be a first encrypted network connection and the second network connection can be a second encrypted network connection. The first network connection can be a first virtual private network (“VPN”) connection and the second network connection can be a second VPN connection.
US11025591B2	Method for controlling the functioning of a complex electronic component A method for controlling the functioning of a complex electronic component transferring data frames to physical ports, the method inserts, in each data frame to be transferred by the complex electronic component, a first signature determined at least from the source address included in the data frame and from an identifier of the physical port by means of which the data frame is transferred, and transfers the data frame in which the signature has been inserted, and a routing protection device associated with the physical port receives the data frame in which the signature was inserted, determines, from the identifier of the physical port and the source address, a second signature, compares the signatures, and performs a first operation if the first and second signatures are different and a second operation if the first and second signatures are identical.
US11025590B1	Network connectivity policy management system A network security system implements connectivity policies of a network environment. The network security system may use a network topology mapping to implement connectivity policies, where the network topology mapping includes sets of security zones, security devices, and zone paths between the security zones via the one or more security devices. The network security system can generate a universal representation of a connectivity policy for the network environment using a universal syntax. Using the network topology mapping, the network security system can identify zone paths between the security zones for implementing the connectivity policy. The network security system can configure security devices along the zone paths in accordance with the connectivity policies. Configuring security devices may include converting some or all of the universal representation of the connectivity policy into a device-specific representation in a native syntax of the security device.
US11025589B1	Location-independent data-object name mapping A networked electronic device produces a data object comprising content and assigns a location-independent application-level name to the data object. The location-independent application-level name is independent of any network location at which the content is available. The networked electronic device maps the location-independent application-level name to an IP address, generates a DNS resource record specifying the mapping of the location-independent application-level name to the IP address, and provides the DNS resource record to a DNS network node.
US11025586B2	Multipath TCP with LTE connections It is provided a method, comprising configuring a first internet protocol address and a second internet protocol address different from the first internet protocol address for a connection between an apparatus performing the method and a packet data network; assigning the first internet protocol address to a first data path for the connection and to assign the second internet protocol address to a second data path for the connection, wherein at least a part of the first data path belongs to a radio access technology; at least a part of the second data path belongs to the radio access technology; and the part of the first data path is different from the part of the second data path.
US11025585B2	Enhanced content route selection in content delivery networks Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for an edge network that serves content to end user devices is presented. In one example, a method includes establishing domain name relationships for use by a top-level DNS to recurse DNS queries to a DNS node associated with the edge network. The method also includes establishing address correlations between prefixed IPv6 network addresses and PQDNs that comprise indicators for at least a routing provider identifier and a server node grouping. The method also includes receiving recursed DNS queries and responsively translating domain names in the recursed DNS queries into associated IPv6 network addresses to reach content indicated by the domain names, the associated IPv6 network addresses each determined by at least selecting one of the prefixed IPv6 network addresses according to a desired routing provider and a desired server node grouping indicated in the PQDNs.
US11025583B2	Recommendation system based on common interests in social networks Social network friend-based recommendations are provided. Based on user consumption data provided by one or more service providers, a determination may be made as to which social network contacts a user has who may have preferences for video, music, and other media that are close to the user's. The determination of social network contacts who share a common interest and the user consumption data of those social network contacts may be utilized to infer recommendations for the user. Other functionalities may be provided, such as manual recommendations, placing emphasis on recommendations from particular friends, email notifications of content that a friend has consumed that the user has not, an option to view what a social network contact is viewing, providing a list of programs that the user and a social network contact have both seen, and providing advertisements based on consumption data, recommendations, and/or discovered areas of interest.
US11025579B2	Message spacing system with badge notifications using online and offline notifications A message spacing system evenly distributes the communication of one or more notifications to a computing device communicatively coupled with an online service. The message spacing system also instructs an application residing on the computing device to display a badge notification. The badge notification indicates a number of pending notifications awaiting review by a member of the online service. The badge notification may be overlaid an icon corresponding to an application that the member uses to access or interact with the online service. The badge notification may also be overlaid on an icon displayed on a webpage, where the icon represents a selectable topic that the member may select to interact with the online service. The notifications that the messaging spacing system may send include offline notifications and online notifications.
US11025576B1	Techniques for backend-specific cursor tracking Techniques for backend-specific cursor tracking are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a local database synchronization component operative to initiate a client update at a messaging client on a client device, the client update associated with a specific backend service for a messaging system; retrieve an opaque backend-specific update cursor for the specific backend service; and store an updated opaque backend-specific update cursor for the messaging client; and a local network component operative to send the opaque backend-specific update cursor to the messaging system in association with a client update request; and receive an update package at the messaging client on the client device, the update package comprising the updated opaque backend-specific update cursor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11025574B2	RNA targeting methods and compositions Provided herein are CRISPR/Cas methods and compositions for targeting RNA molecules, which can be used to detect, edit, or modify a target RNA.
US11025572B2	Electronic mail delivery system having a spool function A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a first mail transfer agent having a first spool, an electronic mail. The computer-implemented method further includes issuing, by the first mail transfer agent, a first unique identifier to be associated with the electronic mail. The computer-implemented method further includes holding the electronic mail in the first spool for a first predetermined period of time. The computer-implemented method further includes transferring the electronic mail from the first spool to a second mail transfer agent having a second spool. The computer-implemented method further includes issuing, by the second mail transfer agent, a second unique identifier to be associated with the electronic mail. The computer-implemented method further includes holding the electronic mail in the second spool for a second predetermined period of time. The computer-implemented method further includes prohibiting a transfer of the electronic mail from the second mail transfer agent to a mail recipient agent.
US11025566B2	Techniques for intent-based search for bots Techniques for intent-based search for bots are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a bot application interface component operative to receive a plurality of bot capability catalogs for a plurality of bots at a bot-service system, wherein each of the plurality of bot capability catalogs expresses bot capability in natural language for an associated bot; a client communication component operative to receive a user service prompt from a user client device, the user service prompt expressed in natural language; and identify one or more selected bots to the user client device in response to receiving the user service prompt from the user client device; and an interaction processing component operative to determine the one or more selected bots of the plurality of bots by matching the user service prompt against the plurality of bot capability catalogs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11025565B2	Personalized prediction of responses for instant messaging At an electronic device with a display screen, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes an incoming message. Determine, based at least in-part on the message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Determine if the user of the device has, in the past, frequently inputted a response different from the plurality suggested one or more characters when the plurality were presented for user selection. Optionally, determine if the frequently inputted response is synonymous with a suggested one or more characters. Display the frequently-inputted response, in place of at least one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters, under some circumstances based on these determination(s).
US11025560B2	Method and system for sharing user configuration data between different computing sessions A method includes receiving a request from a client device to establish a first computing session for a first resource hosted on a virtual machine (VM). The method includes generating a session transfer key for accessing a second resource provided by a second resource provider. The method includes issuing instructions, to the VM that hosts the first resource, for establishing a second computing session to host the second resource, wherein the instructions include a mapping of the session transfer key to a session identifier. The method includes providing the instructions to the client device to establish the second computing session for the second resource without input for the second resource from the user of the client device. The establishment of the second computing session being between the VM and the second resource provider and based on the mapping of the session transfer key to the session identifier.
US11025554B2	Support of quality of service for V2X transmissions The present disclosure relates to a transmitting device for transmitting vehicular data via a sidelink interface to one or more receiving devices. The transmitting device performs autonomous radio resource allocation for transmitting the vehicular data via the sidelink interface. An application layer generates the vehicular data and forwards the vehicular data together with a priority indication and one or more quality of service parameters to a transmission layer responsible for transmission of the vehicular data via the sidelink interface. The transmission layer performs autonomous radio resource allocation based on the received priority indication and the one or more quality of service parameters. The transmission layer transmits the vehicular data via the sidelink interface to the one or more receiving devices according to the performed autonomous radio resource allocation.
US11025545B2	Conditional composition of serverless network functions using segment routing Embodiments herein describe branch statements for a segment routing (SR) list that are inserted into a packet header for use when performing Service function chaining (SFC). For example, the branch statement may be embedded within a SR list and includes a serverless function ID and two different segment IDs (SIDs). When reaching a network node assigned to perform the serverless function, the node uses the function ID to determine the appropriate serverless function to use when evaluating the packet and then uses the results of that function to determine which segment to use when forwarding the packet. Thus, rather than forming a linear chain, the branch statement permits the SR list to form different routes (depending on the results of the serverless function) as part of SFC.
US11025540B2	Mobile overlay virtual enterprise network and virtual internet for enterprises An overlay network for use with a data network that routes packets from one location on the data network to another location on the data network, the overlay network comprising one or more software nodes, at least one of the software nodes configured to receive commands from an application, the application including software for generating the commands and sending the commands to the at least one of the software nodes, the commands used by the at least one of the software nodes to control routing of packets, generated by the application, through the data network. In addition, a method of routing packets through a physical network by providing one or more software nodes connected to each other over the physical network to form an overlay network and forming a communications channel between at least one of the software nodes and an application, wherein the application instructs the at least one software node on how to route data over the physical network. Further, a software platform for network communications that includes computer-executable instructions configured to generate a global overlay network, which enables an application to determine a network path through an underlying access network for data generated by the application.
US11025539B1	Overlay network hardware service chaining Presented herein are techniques to support service chains in a network, such as a spine-leaf switch fabric network, that also uses overlay networking technology. More specifically, in accordance with the techniques presented herein, a linecard at an ingress network node for an overlay network is configured to receive a packet. Using information obtained from the packet, a hardware lookup is performed at the linecard to identify a service chain with which the packet is associated. An entry corresponding to the identified service chain is identified within a memory location of the linecard, where the entry includes overlay network information for forwarding packets along the identified service chain via an overlay network. Using the overlay network information included in the identified entry, the packet is encapsulated with an overlay packet header for use in forwarding the packet via the overlay network.
US11025535B2	Detecting path Methods of detecting a path and forwarding devices are disclosed. In an example of the present disclosure, a first forwarding device constructs a detection packet for a service flow, wherein forwarding information in a packet head of the detection packet is same as forwarding information in a packet head of the service flow; forwards the detection packet based on the forwarding information in the packet head of the detection packet; when an error controlling packet corresponding to the detection packet is received from a second forwarding device in a set time period, the first forwarding device determines an address of the second forwarding device, returns to perform a process of constructing the detection packet for the service flow; otherwise, determines the path of the service flow based on the at least one respective address of the at least one second forwarding device.
US11025532B2	Data transmission method, transmitting terminal device and receiving terminal device The implementations of the present disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a transmitting terminal device and a receiving terminal device. The method comprises: packaging a first media access control (MAC) control element (CE) and a second MAC CE into a first transmission block (TB), and packaging a third MAC CE and a fourth MAC CE into a second TB, wherein the first MAC CE and the third MAC CE are the same MAC CE, the second MAC CE indicates a MAC CE that is the same as the first MAC CE, and the fourth MAC CE indicates a MAC CE that is the same as the third MAC CE; and transmitting the first TB to a receiving terminal device through a first carrier, and transmitting the second TB to the receiving terminal device through a second carrier.
US11025523B2	Path detection Methods for detecting a path, a forwarding device and a machine-readable storage medium are provided. In an example, a first forwarding device receives a first detection packet sent from a previous hop forwarding device on a path of a designated service flow and used for detecting the path of the designated service flow; the first forwarding device obtains a second detection packet by adding a device address of the first forwarding device to a payload of the first detection packet; the first forwarding device forwards the second detection packet to a next hop forwarding device on the path of the designated service flow based on forwarding information in a header of the second detection packet; and the first forwarding device sends to a SDN controller a forwarding error message in which a device address of at least one forwarding device in the payload of the first detection packet is carried.
US11025520B2	Quality-of-service in cellular information centric network Systems and techniques for quality-of-service (QoS) in cellular information centric network (ICN) are described herein. To this end, QoS characteristics may be obtained for an ICN packet. The QoS characteristics may then be applied to the ICN packet. The ICN packet may then be transmitted in accordance with the QoS characteristics.
US11025513B2	Data consistency of policy enforcement for distributed applications Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a Policy Enforcement as a Service (PEaaS) are described. A processor may, in response to identification of a suspension of user(s) for one of one or more services, generate a suspension value indicative of the suspension and transmit the suspension value to a corresponding one of third party platforms of the service(s), respectively. The suspension value usable by the corresponding third party platform to determine whether to deny request(s) from the user for the distributed service, or not. A service of the service(s) comprises a distributed service provided by a plurality of hosts. In response to the service corresponding to the suspension including the distributed service, the suspension value may be transmitted to the first host, and the suspension value may be propagated to the one or more second hosts, respectively. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11025509B2	Playback device connection An example playback device includes programming to perform functions including detecting a triggering event that causes the playback device to transmit a first message indicating the playback device is available for setup and establishing an initial communication path with a computing device. The functions also include processing a second message received from the computing device via the initial communication path containing network configuration parameters for a secure WLAN defined by one or more network devices, wherein the initial communication path with the computing device does not traverse any of the one or more network devices, and wherein the network configuration parameters include an identifier of, and security information for, the secure WLAN. The functions also include using the network configuration parameters to connect to the secure WLAN and transitioning from communicating with the computing device via the initial communication path to communicating with the computing device via the secure WLAN.
US11025506B2	Interactive software renormalization A system may include a database and server device(s) disposed within a remote network management platform. The database may contain established normalization information for a plurality of software applications installed on computing devices of a managed network. The server device(s) may be configured to: update a content library to include canonical normalization information for a particular software application of the plurality; after updating the content library, make a determination that established normalization information for the particular software application is inconsistent with the canonical normalization information for the particular software application; in response to making the determination, provide, to a client device associated with the managed network, a representation of a graphical user interface that displays (i) a suggestion to update the established normalization information for the particular software application based on the canonical normalization information for the particular software application and (ii) prompts to accept or reject the suggestion.
US11025499B2	Methods and systems relating to impact management of information technology systems Described are various embodiments of methods and systems relating to impact management of IT systems, including a server-based IT management system comprising a network server having a service function object store that stores a plurality of service function objects, each service function object being a digital representation of a service function and comprising one or more service attributes and one or more service function links for linking each service function object to at least one other service function object; and a network communications interface for receiving information indicative of an operating state for each service function; wherein the operability of any given service function is determined automatically upon the reduction of operating state of any one or more other service functions based on direct and indirect linkages between the given service function and the other service functions and the respective service-loss impact values associated with each said direct and indirect linkages.
US11025496B2	Smart component monitoring One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatic discovers and monitors enterprise components. During operation, the system scans an enterprise environment for an item of meta-data. Next, the system analyzes the item of meta-data to determine a monitoring instruction for a corresponding enterprise component. Finally, the system performs the monitoring instruction for the corresponding enterprise component.
US11025492B2	Packet data unit (PDU) structure for supporting distributed relay control protocol (DRCP) A method supporting distributed resilient network interconnect (DRNI) in a link aggregation group at a network device is disclosed. The method starts with encapsulating a distributed relay control protocol data unit (DRCPDU) in a frame, wherein the DRCPDU includes a protocol data unit (PDU) structure. The PDU structure includes a type field indicating that the DRCPDU is for DRCP, a version field indicating a version number of the DRCP, and a set of type/length/values (TLVs) including: a terminator TLV indicating an end of the PDU structure, a portal information TLV indicating characteristics of the first portal, a portal configuration information TLV indicating configuration information of the first portal, a DRCP state TLV indicating variables associated with an intra-portal link (IPP), a home ports information TLV and a neighbor ports information TLV. The method continues with transmitting the frame encapsulating the DRCPDU from the network device to a neighbor network device.
US11025486B2	Cascade-based classification of network devices using multi-scale bags of network words In one embodiment, a device classification service extracts, for each of a plurality of time windows, one or more sets of traffic features of network traffic in a network from traffic telemetry data captured by the network. The service represents, for the time windows, the extracted one or more sets of traffic features as feature vectors. A feature vector for a time window indicates whether each of the traffic features was present in the network traffic during that window. The service trains, using a training dataset based on the feature vectors, a cascade of machine learning classifiers to label devices with device types. The service uses the classifiers to label a particular device in the network with a device type based on the traffic features of network traffic associated with that device. The service initiates enforcement of a network policy regarding the device based on its device type.
US11025483B1	Fault tolerant virtual private network endpoint node A provider network includes a service that creates fault tolerant virtual private network (VPN) endpoint nodes. Each such VPN endpoint node is created as a plurality of virtual machines executing on host computers. Each of the virtual machines is configured from a common machine image that includes software capable of causing the respective virtual machine to configure a secure communication tunnel such as an IPSec tunnel. One of the virtual machines, however, is operated in an active mode to actively configure the tunnel and send and receive encrypted traffic over the tunnel, while another virtual machine is configured to operate in a standby mode. The standby mode VPN endpoint virtual machine can be quickly transitioned to the active mode to take over the role of configuring and exchanging encrypted packets over the tunnel should the active mode VPN endpoint experience a failure.
US11025477B2	Overlay network ingress edge region selection This disclosure relates to enhanced overlay network-based transport of traffic to and from customer branch office locations, facilitated through the use of the Internet-based overlay routing. A method of selecting an ingress edge region of the overlay network begins by mapping a service hostname to an IKEv2 destination of an outer IPsec tunnel associated with a first overlay network edge. An IKEv2 session is established from the first overlay network edge to the customer router. Upon tunnel establishment, a secondary lookup is performed to determine whether the first overlay network edge is an appropriate ingress region. Based on a response to the secondary lookup, a IKEv2 redirect is issued to a second overlay network edge. A new tunnel is then established from the second overlay network edge to the customer router. Thereafter, an additional lookup may also be performed to determine whether the second overlay network edge remains an appropriate ingress region.
US11025475B2	Method, apparatus, server, and systems of time-reversal technology The present teaching relates to collecting and processing location-specific wireless waveforms for use in wireless communication, components, methods, apparatuses, servers, and systems. In one embodiment, a disclosed system comprises a first wireless transceiver of a first device, and at least one second wireless transceiver of at least one second device. The first wireless transceiver of the first device is wirelessly coupled to the at least one second wireless transceiver through a wireless multipath channel associated with a space. The first device with the first wireless transceiver comprises a processor and a memory, which are configured to obtain a set of channel information (CI) and perform a task associated with the space based on the set of channel information. The set of channel information is captured when at least one probing signal is either (1) sent from the first wireless transceiver to a particular second wireless transceiver through the wireless multipath channel associated with the space, or (2) sent from the particular second wireless transceiver to the first wireless transceiver through the wireless multipath channel. The set of CI comprises a channel impulse response, a channel frequency response, a channel profile, and/or another channel data of the wireless multipath channel.
US11025469B2	Modulated signature added for enhanced authentication and integrity link Various embodiments relate to a demodulator configured to receive a legacy signal and a secured signal using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation, including: an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to receive an OFDM modulated signal; an fast Fourier transform (FFT) unit configured to receive the output of the ADC; a frequency de-mapper configured to map the output of the FFT to legacy frame samples and secured signal samples including a secured hash; a sample to bit converter, a channel de-interleaver, and a channel decoder configured to process the legacy samples to produce a legacy frame; frame checking logic configured to check the validity of the legacy frame and produce a frame validity signal; a de-channelization module configured to convert the sample rate of secured signal samples; a channel decoder configured to decode the converted secured signal bits; a frame selector configured to select specific portions of the input legacy frame to produce a secured frame; a hash module configured to hash and encrypt the secured frame; a hash comparator configured to compare the received secured hash to the hashed and encrypted secured frame configured to produce a hash compare signal; and attack detection logic configured to determine when a received OFDM signal has been attacked based upon the hash compare signal.
US11025466B2	Reference signal configuration method and apparatus and training field configuration method and apparatus The present application discloses a reference signal configuration method, including: generating a reference signal, where the reference signal includes a first part and a second part, the first part and the second part have a same length, and a sum of a DC component of the first part and a DC component of the second part is zero; generating an enhanced directional multi-gigabit EDMG packet including the reference signal; and sending the EDMG packet. Embodiments of the present application further provide a reference signal configuration apparatus. According to the embodiments of the present application, a reference signal with a zero DC component can be obtained, thereby facilitating channel estimation that is based on CE.
US11025464B1	Passive intermodulation reduction with frequency shifting A system for reducing or eliminating PIM interference in an RX signal is disclosed. The system is configured to use RX and TX signals to generate a frequency-shifted output that includes a RX carrier signal component of the RX signal, as well as first and second TX carrier signal components of the TX signal, positioned in a frequency spectrum so that a frequency spacing between the first and the second TX carrier signal components and a frequency spacing between the RX carrier signal component and a closest one of the first and the TX second carrier signal components is smaller than a frequency spacing between the first and the second TX carrier signal components in the TX signal. The system may then use the frequency-shifted output to generate an estimate of a PIM signal component in the RX signal.
US11025456B2	Time domain resource allocation for mobile communication Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11025450B2	Cable media converter management method, apparatus, and system A cable media converter (CMC) management method, including receiving, by a CMC controller by using a management channel, a second message packet sent by a CMC, where the second message packet has an identifier of the CMC and configuration file information of a cable modem (CM), and where the identifier of the CMC uniquely identifies the CMC, and determining, by the CMC controller according to a locally saved correspondence between an optical line terminal (OLT) and a CMC, an OLT corresponding to the CMC identified by the identifier in the second message packet, and sending the configuration file information in the second message packet to the determined OLT.
US11025448B2	Systems and methods for wireless monitoring and maintenance of pool pumps Embodiments of the invention provide a system for adapting a pool pump for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a system for adapting a pool pump with a serial communication port for communication with a user via a remote server, an internet connection, and internet enabled device is provided, the system comprising: a wireless gateway device connected to a router; and a wireless adapter connected to the serial communication port, comprising: a gateway node; a transceiver; and a processor programmed to: establish a wireless connection with the wireless gateway; receive a first message from the pool pump; cause the gateway node to modify the first message; cause the first modified message to be transmitted to the remote server via the wireless gateway; receive a second message from the remote server; modify the second message for output to the pool pump; and transmit the second modified message to the pool pump.
US11025443B2	Power sourcing equipment, and method and apparatus for power over ethernet An Ethernet power sourcing equipment (PSE), and a method and an apparatus for power over Ethernet (PoE), where the Ethernet PSE includes a PSE chip, a master control processor, a power supplying port, and a preprocessor. The preprocessor is configured to determine whether the master control processor starts upon power-on, control the PSE chip to detect whether the power supplying port is connected to a valid powered device (PD) when the master control processor starts upon power-on, and control, according to a preset rule, the PSE chip to power on the valid PD when the power supplying port is connected to the valid PD. Hence, the Ethernet PSE has abundant management functions and can quickly power on a PD.
US11025440B2	Secure time-to-live Determining whether to allow access to a message is disclosed. A message is received from a sender. The message is associated with a first time-to-live (TTL) value. A determination is made that the first time-to-live value has not been exceeded. The determination is made at least in part by obtaining an external master clock time. In response to the determination, access is allowed to the message.
US11025437B2	Post-manufacture certificate generation A method for post-manufacture certificate generation for an electronic device 4 comprises obtaining a public key from the electronic device 4, and enrolling the device in to a chain of trust provided by a public key infrastructure in which a child certificate is attested as valid by an attestor associated with a parent certificate in the chain. The enrolling comprises generating an electronic device certificate 30-I for the chain of trust using the public key 32 obtained from the electronic device. The enrolling is performed at an enrolment device 6 separate from the electronic device 4. The electronic device certificate 30-I is a descendant certificate of the enrolment device certificate 30-D associated with the enrolment device 6.
US11025433B1	Secure ledger assurance tokenization In a system and methods for secure ledger assurance tokenization, a request circuit is structured to access a first block of a first blockchain. The first block includes a first block identifier of the first blockchain and first block content. The request circuit is structured to audit the first block content so as to generate a first audit result. A secure ledger assurance token (SLAT) generation circuit is structured to generate a first SLAT, the first SLAT comprising the first block identifier of the first blockchain and the first audit result. The cryptographic circuit is structured to cryptographically protect the first SLAT. The SLAT generation circuit stores the cryptographically protected first SLAT in a journal, where the cryptographically protected first SLAT is accessible by an authorized stakeholder to provide integrity and origin authenticity of the first audit result. In some embodiments, an audit anchor is associated with a SLAT and the content of the first blockchain is pruned up to the point defined by the audit anchor.
US11025430B2	File provenance database system An example operation may include one or more of creating a source file, segmenting the source file into source file segments, creating a number of auxiliary data segments corresponding to source file segments, performing a chameleon hash of the source file segments and the auxiliary data segments, obtaining a source file signature from the chameleon hash, performing a cryptographic hash of the auxiliary data segments, obtaining an auxiliary data signature from the cryptographic hash, and storing the source file and cryptographic signatures to a shared ledger of a blockchain network. Each auxiliary data segment includes a random string of data that is generated based on a corresponding source file segment.
US11025429B2	Trusted contextual content Described herein are systems for the production, communication, routing, service, authentication, and consumption of cryptographically authenticable contextual content produced by cryptographically authenticable devices; example implementations of the architecture for a Trusted Contextual Content Device which produces Trusted Contextual Content; and example implementations of the architecture for a Trusted Drone Device which produces Trusted Contextual Content. For example, some of the methods used may include accessing a first set of sensor data from one or more sensors; receiving, a first trusted contextual content that includes a first digital signature; generating a data structure including the first trusted contextual content and data based on the first set of sensor data; signing the data structure using a signing key to generate a second trusted contextual content including a second digital signature; and storing or transmitting the second trusted contextual content.
US11025426B2	Encryption function and authentication of a replaceable printer component The disclosure concerns an encryption function applied to a first word, a second word, a third word, and a fourth word including: multiplying the third word by the fourth word; adding the result of the multiplication; subtracting the result of the addition to the second word from the result of the addition to the first word; adding the result of the subtraction; combining with a constant the result of the addition of the third word to the result of the subtraction; and multiplying by two the result of said combination and circularly shifting the codes of the respective results of the addition of the fourth word to the result of the subtraction, of the addition of the second word to the result of the multiplication, and of the addition of the first word to the result of the multiplication.
US11025425B2	User security token invalidation Provided are methods and systems for invalidating user security tokens. An example method may include providing, by one or more nodes in a cluster, a list of revoked security tokens. The method may include receiving, by the one or more nodes, an indication of invalidating a user security token associated with a user device. The indication may include a request from the user to invalidate the user security token. The method may further include, in response to the receiving, adding, by the one or more nodes, the user security token to the list of revoked security tokens. The user security token can be added to the list of revoked security tokens prior to the expiration time of the user security token. The method may further include replicating, by the one or more nodes, the list of revoked security tokens between further nodes of the cluster.
US11025423B2	Technologies for private key recovery in distributed ledger systems In an example system for private key recovery performed by a processor of a key recovery computing system, a key recovery computing system is configured to provide an original private key. The original private key is associated with a storage location of a blockchain-based asset. The key recovery computing system is configured to receive supplemental recovery information provided by a user via a user computing device. A recovery seed is derived from at least a subset of the supplemental recovery information, wherein the recovery seed is non-invertible. The original private key and the recovery seed are stored relationally to the supplemental recovery information. In some embodiments, the processor is further configured to cryptographically protect at least one of the original private key and the recovery seed via a universal second-factor authentication (U2F) device.
US11025422B2	Cloud-native global file system with constant-time rekeying A cloud-native global file system in which a local filer creates objects and forward them to a cloud-based object store is augmented to include constant-time rekeying (CTR). At volume creation time on the filer, a random Intermediate Key (IK) is generated. The IK is encrypted using one or more public key(s) for the volume in question, and then stored in encrypted form in a volume metadata file (e.g., cloudvolume.xml) alongside the other volume information. Once created, the IK is treated like any other volume metadata. During startup of a volume manager on the filer, the one or more per-volume IK blobs (present) are decrypted using an appropriate secret key, and then cached in memory. All objects sent to the cloud are then symmetrically encrypted to the current IK for that volume. All objects read from the cloud are decrypted using the locally-cached IK.
US11025420B2	Stateless service-mediated security module Secure operations can be performed using security module instances offered as a web service through a resource provider environment. State data and cryptographic material can be loaded and unloaded from the instance as needed, such that the instance can be reused for operations of different customers. The material and data can be stored as a bundle encrypted using a key specific to the hardware security module and a key specific to the resource provider, such that the bundle can only be decrypted in an instance of that type of security module from the associated manufacturer and operated by that particular resource provider. The customer is then only responsible for the allocation of that instance during the respective cryptographic operation(s).
US11025418B2	Cryptographic entropy tree A device may include a secure processor and a secure memory coupled to the secure processor. The secure memory may be inaccessible to other device systems. The secure processor may store some keys and/or entropy values in the secure memory and other keys and/or entropy values outside the secure memory. The keys and/or entropy values stored outside the secure memory may be encrypted using information stored inside the secure memory.
US11025415B2	Cryptographic operation method, method for creating working key, cryptographic service platform, and cryptographic service device A cryptographic service device includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to operate as a registration module, a working key creation module, and a cryptographic operation calling module. The registration module is configured to call a secondary security module to generate an asymmetric key pair including a target public key and a target private key. The working key creation module is configured to receive a working key creation request of a business system, and call a primary security module to generate a working key for the business system. The cryptographic operation calling module is configured to receive a cryptographic operation request of the business system, and call a target security module to obtain an operation result of the target security module.
US11025412B2	Synchronizing content Some embodiments of the subject technology provide a novel system for synchronizing content items among a group of peer devices. The content synchronizing system of some embodiments includes the group of peer devices and a set of one or more synchronizing servers communicatively connected with the peer devices through one or more networks. In some embodiments, the synchronizing system uses a star architecture, in which each peer device offloads its synchronization operations to the synchronizing server set. Without establishing a peer-to-peer communication with any other peer device, the particular peer device in these embodiments supplies an encrypted content item set along with the N−1 encryptions of a content key used to encrypt the content item set to the synchronizing server set so that this server set can distribute the encrypted content item set and an encrypted content key to each of the N−1 peer devices.
US11025407B2	Hash-based digital signatures for hierarchical internet public key infrastructure Techniques for signing internet data are disclosed. The techniques include accessing a plurality of internet data records. The techniques also include generating, using at least one electronic processor, leaf nodes from the plurality of internet data records, and constructing a recursive hash tree from the plurality of leaf nodes. The techniques also include deriving information sufficient to validate the root node, and publishing, in an internet public key infrastructure (PKI) as a synthesized public key, the information sufficient to validate the root node. The techniques also include providing, through the internet and as a signature on at least one of the plurality of internet data records, validation data including sibling path data from the recursive hash tree, such that an internet client validates the at least one of the internet data records using at least the validation data and the synthesized public key.
US11025405B2	High capacity optical data transmission using intensity-modulation and direct-detection The present invention relates to a multi-channel IM-DD optical transceiver comprising at least one transmitter and a receiver, and a method for equalizing input samples at an adjusted sampling phase using a quality parameter linearly proportional to a BER. The data transmission and reception use a single master channel and slave channels, which have a baud rate equal to or lower than the baud rate of the master channel. A reliable and identical clocking of all the channels is obtained through either the receiver clock of the master channel when they are received from a single transmitter or a reference clock whose frequency is higher than the highest clock frequency amongst all the channels when they are received from a combination of transmitters. An enhanced timing recovery circuit is also provided to select optimized finite impulse response filters, calculate filter coefficients and generate the receiver clock of the master channel.
US11025404B2	Enhancing synchronization in computer network A method, apparatus, and computer program product for operating a network node of a computer network is provided. According to an embodiment, in a first network node of a time synchronization network interconnecting the first network node with at least one second network node of the time synchronization network is detected synchronization of the first network node and the at least one second network node; and in the first network node is determined, at least one criterion for processing at least one packet of a time synchronization protocol wherein said at least one criterion is capable of causing discarding of the at least one packet of the time synchronization protocol when the at least one criterion is fulfilled.
US11025400B2	Information transmission method, user equipment, and base station An information transmission method, user equipment, and a base station are provided. The method may include: obtaining, by user equipment, first subframe configuration information used to instruct to receive information on a first subband resource; determining, by the user equipment according to the first subframe configuration information, a first subframe for receiving the information on the first subband resource; and receiving, by the user equipment, the information only on the first subband resource in the first subframe.
US11025393B2	Wireless communication method, wireless communications apparatus, and wireless communications system This application discloses a wireless communication method, a wireless communications apparatus, and a wireless communications system. An example wireless communication method includes: receiving, by a terminal, indication information of uplink data transmission from a base station; determining, by the terminal, a base sequence configuration of a reference signal sequence corresponding to the modulation scheme of the uplink data transmission, and generating a dedicated demodulation reference signal based on the determined base sequence configuration of the reference signal sequence, where the modulation scheme of the uplink data transmission is one of a plurality of modulation schemes supported by the terminal, the plurality of modulation schemes include at least π/2 binary phase shift keying (BPSK), and a base sequence configuration of a reference signal sequence corresponding to the π/2 BPSK is different from a base sequence configuration of a reference signal sequence corresponding to another modulation scheme in the plurality of modulation schemes.
US11025390B2	Method for transmitting uplink sounding reference signal, terminal, network side device, and storage medium A method for transmitting uplink Sounding Reference Signal, SRS, a terminal, a network side device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes determining a transmission manner for one or more uplink SRSs in a wideband system by a terminal according to a configuration from a network side device, wherein the wideband system is configured with a plurality of basic parameters; transmitting the one or more uplink SRSs to the network side device in the wideband system by the terminal according to the transmission manner.
US11025386B2	Signaling information in physical broadcast channel (PBCH) demodulation reference signals (DMRS) The present disclosure relates to signaling information in physical broadcast channel (PBCH) demodulation reference signals (DMRS). In one example, a network entity may transmit the signaling information carried by a DMRS in one or more resource elements of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block. In another example, a user equipment (UE) may receive the signaling information carried by the DMRS within one or more resource elements of PBCH symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block on a broadcast channel from the network entity.
US11025385B2	Method and apparatus for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) Channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) reporting includes receiving and decoding higher-layer configuration information for N CSI reporting settings and M Resource settings. A downlink control information (DCI) that includes a DCI field for requesting aperiodic CSI reporting is received. A CSI is calculated according to the configuration information and the DCI and transmitting the calculated CSI on an uplink (UL) channel. N is at least one, M is at least one, and the DCI field includes a selection of one out of XSTATE configured states.
US11025382B2	Payload transmission in a subframe There is provided mechanisms for transmitting payload in a subframe. A method is performed by a first network device. The method comprises obtaining a transport block size (TBS) value by accessing an array storing a plurality of TBS values. The TBS value is proportional to number of user data symbols in a subframe of a given subframe length. One and the same array is accessed regardless of the given subframe length. The method comprises transmitting a physical channel carrying payload in the subframe to a second network device. The amount of data in the payload is determined by the TBS value.
US11025381B2	Transmitter and receiver and methods of transmitting and receiving A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal comprises a radio frequency demodulation circuit, a detector circuit and a demodulator circuit. The radio frequency demodulation circuit detects the received signal. The received signal carries the payload data as OFDM symbols in one or more of a plurality of time divided frames, each frame including a bootstrap signal, a preamble signal and a plurality of sub-frames. The demodulator circuit detects bootstrap OFDM symbols to identify communications parameters for detecting the fixed length signalling data, detects the fixed length signalling data to identify the communications parameters for detecting the variable length signalling data, detects the variable length signalling data, and uses the fixed and variable length signalling data to detect the payload data.
US11025380B2	Transmission method, reception method, transmitter, and receiver When transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations (broadcasting stations), the base stations include at least a first base station having a first antenna with a first polarization and a second base station having a second antenna with a second polarization that is different from the first polarization. Then, when the first base station transmits a signal from the first antenna having the first polarization, the second base station transmits the same signal as the first antenna of the first base station from a second antenna having the second polarization, at the same time.
US11025373B2	Repetition-based transmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, devices may implement transmission repetitions for transport blocks (TBs) to improve reception reliability. However, to support low latency, TBs may be transmitted in any transmission time interval (TTI) within a subframe. The systems may implement process to handle these TB repetitions. In some cases, a device may receive, during a TTI of a subframe, control information including an indication of transmission repetitions of a TB for a plurality of TTIs, identify a quantity of transmission repetitions of the TB based on the control information, and monitor for the transmission repetitions of the TB.
US11025372B2	Semi-persistent scheduling management in new radio Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one example, a method includes receiving signaling from a base station to activate a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration for transmission between the base station and the UE, and receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing for downlink transmissions based at least in part on the SPS configuration being activated. In another example, the method includes establishing a connection with a base station using a component carrier (CC), the CC having a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs), receiving signaling that indicates an SPS configuration or other types of pre-configured resources associated with at least a first BWP of the plurality of BWPs and transmitting or receiving using at least the first BWP according to the SPS configuration or other types of pre-configured resources associated with at least the first BWP.
US11025371B2	UE feedback for point-to-multipoint transmissions A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one configuration, the apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives PTM data from a base station. The UE attempts to decode the PTM data based on an identifier. The UE determines whether to transmit feedback information to the base station based on the attempt to decode the PTM data. In another configuration, the apparatus may be a base station. The base station transmits PTM data to a UE. The base station retransmits the PTM data to the UE based on feedback information associated with the transmitted PTM data.
US11025368B2	Physical layer frame format for WLAN A preamble of a physical layer (PHY) data unit that conforms to a first communication protocol is generated. The preamble includes a legacy field that is formatted according to a second communication protocol, and a signal field having a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol. The first OFDM symbol (i) immediately follows the legacy field and (ii) is modulated using binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation, whereas a third communication protocol specifies that an OFDM symbol, defined by the third communication protocol, that immediately follows the legacy field is modulated using BPSK modulation rotated by 90 degrees (Q-BPSK). The second OFDM symbol (i) immediately follows the first OFDM symbol and (ii) is modulated using Q-BPSK to indicate to a receiver device that conforms to the first communication protocol that the data unit conforms to the first communication protocol.
US11025364B2	Robust line coding scheme for communication under severe external noises A system to implement a communication line coding scheme using a non-complex bit-to-symbol mapping, a forward error correction (FEC) coding, and an additive bit scrambler after the FEC at the PHY layer is provided. The system may be a part of or implemented by an automobile component. The system may be a PHY device configured to convert data from the MAC layer into 2D-PAM3 symbols that are transmitted across a communication link at a predetermined transmission rate, such as to be compliant with a communication standard. The PHY device may select characteristics of the conversion, such as the FEC coded symbol, based on the target transmission rate. The PHY device may include a transceiver, and may convert the data from MAC layer to PHY layer and back.
US11025363B2	Data processing method, precoding method, and communication device An encoder outputs a first bit sequence having N bits. A mapper generates a first complex signal s1 and a second complex signal s2 with use of bit sequence having X+Y bits included in an input second bit sequence, where X indicates the number of bits used to generate the first complex signal s1, and Y indicates the number of bits used to generate the second complex signal s2. A bit length adjuster is provided after the encoder, and performs bit length adjustment on the first bit sequence such that the second bit sequence has a bit length that is a multiple of X+Y, and outputs the first bit sequence after the bit length adjustment as the second bit sequence. As a result, a problem between a codeword length of a block code and the number of bits necessary to perform mapping by a set of modulation schemes is solved.
US11025361B2	System and method for configuring photonic components using photonic abstraction interface The present disclosure provides system to configure one or more photonics components using a method. The method includes a first step to initialize a photonic abstraction interface driver at a photonic abstraction system. In addition, the method includes another step to call a node detection function at the photonic abstraction system. Further, the method includes yet another step to call a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs) at the photonic abstraction system. Furthermore, the method includes yet another step to de-initialize the photonic abstraction interface driver at the photonic abstraction system. Moreover, the photonic abstraction interface driver is initialized by a photonic abstraction interface host. Also, the photonic abstraction interface host and the photonic abstraction interface driver are layers of a photonic abstraction interface (PAI). Also, the photonic abstraction interface driver translates the photonic abstraction interface (PAI) into a plurality of shared libraries.
US11025360B2	Optical add and drop multiplexer, optical communication system, and method for controlling optical add and drop multiplexer A branching unit branches a first wavelength-multiplexed optical signal input through a first transmission line, the first wavelength-multiplexed optical signal including first and second optical signals. A wavelength selection unit receives the branched first wavelength-multiplexed optical signal branched by the branching unit, receives a second wavelength-multiplexed optical signal including a third optical signal in the same band as that of the first optical signal and a fourth optical signal in the same band as that of the second optical signal through a second transmission line, outputs a third wavelength-multiplexed optical signal including the first and fourth optical signals optical to a third transmission line and output the third optical signal. A multiplexing unit outputs a fourth wavelength-multiplexed optical signal in which the branched first wavelength-multiplexed optical signal branched by the branching unit and the third optical signal output from the wavelength selection unit are multiplexed to a fourth transmission line.
US11025357B1	Robust sensor timestamp management Systems, methods and devices are provided to improve management and accuracy of timestamps associated with sensor-based data. An indication is received of a sensor event associated with data samples provided from a sensor having an output data rate. A respective timestamp is assigned to each of the data samples. Assigning the respective timestamp may include, responsive to a determination that the indicated event is an interrupt event, calculating an actual data sampling interval based at least in part on time intervals between previous sensor events and a on a quantity of the one or more data samples. Assigning the respective timestamp may alternatively include, responsive to a determination that the event type is a data flush event, assigning the respective timestamp based on an actual data sampling interval associated with one or more previous sensor events if the actual data sampling interval has been previously stored, and otherwise assigning the respective timestamp based at least in part on the output data rate. Correction logic and drift compensation may be applied to the assigned respective timestamps.
US11025355B2	Interactive device for internet radio station Disclosed is an interactive device for an internet radio station including a content presentation unit and a content selection unit. The content selection unit includes an operation module, a processing module, an indication module and a communication module. The operation module is used by a user to input a channel selection command by means of manual rotation and to generate a corresponding electrical signal. The processing module is used for acquiring corresponding audio resources from the network radio according to the electrical signal and issuing the corresponding audio resources to the content presentation unit which is used for playing back the audio resource. The processing module is further used for driving the indication module to generate a state change corresponding to the electrical signal. Hence, the user may select audio resources by rotating the operation module, so that the channel selection is similar to a traditional rotary tuning method.
US11025354B2	Targeted fingerprinting of radio broadcast audio A system comprises an intermediate communication platform that provides an interface to an Internet network; and a first server including: a port operatively coupled to the intermediate communication platform, processing circuitry, and a service application for execution by the processor. The service application is configured to: receive geographic location information of a radio receiver via the intermediate communication platform; determine one or more radio broadcasts available to the radio receiver according to the geographic location information; and send metadata for the radio broadcast, the metadata including an indication whether content of the radio broadcast is suitable for an audio fingerprinting process to the radio receiver via the intermediate communication platform.
US11025353B2	Authentication of digital broadcast data A broadcast receiving system is disclosed that verifies a current digital certificate extracted from a digital broadcast signal using a previous digital certificate previously stored as trusted. The current and previous digital certificates are associated with digital signatures with which data received with the broadcast signal has been signed. Also disclosed is a system for signing application data to be broadcast together with a digital certificate in a digital broadcast signal. A current digital certificate attesting the validity of a digital signature attached to broadcast data is in turn signed with a digital signature using one or more previous private keys associated with respective previous certificates identifying the issuer of the current digital certificate. These disclosures are in particular applicable to HbbTV.
US11025351B2	Resolving media source detection and simulcast monitoring ambiguities with motion sensor data Example methods disclosed herein to resolve media source detection ambiguities include detecting an ambiguity condition associated with media source detection when monitoring media presented by a media output device in communication with at least two media source devices, and in response to detecting the ambiguity condition, determining a source of the media output from the media output device using motion data reported by accelerometers affixed to remote control devices associated with the at least two media source devices. Example methods disclosed herein to resolve simulcast crediting ambiguities include detecting an ambiguity condition associated with simulcast broadcasting when monitoring media presented by a media output device, and in response to detecting the ambiguity condition, adjusting a time associated with a channel change using motion data reported by an accelerometer affixed to a remote control device associated with the media output device.
US11025349B1	Method for decoding channel using noise level correction in high-speed mobile reception environment and apparatus using the same Disclosed herein are a method for channel decoding using noise level correction in a high-speed mobile reception environment and an apparatus for the same. The method includes estimating, by a signal receiver that is based on OFDM and is moving at high speed, Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) power for received signal power based on the movement speed of the signal receiver; calculating, by the signal receiver, a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for a received signal using an estimate of the ICI power; and decoding, by the signal receiver, a channel code based on a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) per bit, calculated based on the SNR, and the received signal.
US11025346B2	Systems and methods for underwater illumination, survey, and wireless optical communications Embodiments of the present disclosure describe an underwater optical communication and illumination system employing laser diodes directly encoded with data, including spectrally efficient orthogonal frequency division multiplex quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM-OFDM) data. A broadband light source may be utilized to provide both illumination to an underwater field of interest and underwater optical communication from the field of interest to a remote location.
US11025344B2	Fiber communication systems and methods An injection locked transmitter for an optical communication network includes a master seed laser source input substantially confined to a single longitudinal mode, an input data stream, and a laser injected modulator including at least one slave laser having a resonator frequency that is injection locked to a frequency of the single longitudinal mode of the master seed laser source. The laser injected modulator is configured to receive the master seed laser source input and the input data stream, and output a laser modulated data stream.
US11025342B2	Camera communication method and apparatus A method includes receiving X pilot symbols, determining light source sequence numbers of the X light sources based on the X pilot symbols, receiving M×X undersampled pulse width modulation-based pulse position modulation (UPPM) symbols and parsing the M×X UPPM symbols thereby obtaining original data from a sending node by using N light sources. Each of the X pilot symbols includes W waveform segments. Each of the W waveform segments includes a first light source sequence number indication part that indicates a light source sequence number. Waveforms of waveform segments with odd sequence numbers in the W waveform segments are the same, waveforms of waveform segments with even sequence numbers in the W waveform segments are the same, and a duration of each of the W waveform segments is equal. The X pilot symbols are in a one-to-one correspondence with X light sources.
US11025341B2	LED module for emitting signals An LED module (200) comprising: a first set of LEDs (D1) for emitting illumination to illuminate an environment, arranged within a first circuit path; a second set of one or more LEDs (D2) for emitting light, arranged within a second circuit path; both the first and second sets being powered by a portion of the power received via a same pair of input terminals, and the first circuit path being longer than the second circuit path; and filter circuitry (206, 208) arranged to filter a modulation in the power received via the terminals, the filtering comprising allowing a component of the modulation at a predetermined modulation frequency to be passed only to the second set of LEDs (D2) and not the first set (D1), thereby causing a corresponding signal to be embedded in the light emitted by the second set but not in the illumination emitted by the first set.
US11025339B2	Method for compensating channel distortions by pre-distortion of Mach-Zehnder modulators, based on symmetric imbalance A method for compensating the distortions introduced by impairments of MZMz implementing an optical transmitter, according to which the level of total amplitude and phase distortions caused by the optical transmitter is measured and all impairments in the constellation domain are compensated by pre-distorting the input signal to be transmitted by symmetrically adding imbalance to the voltage applied to the MZM arms. The imbalance is determined by introducing a phase rotation in either I or in the Q path of the optical transmitter, which compensates the total amplitude distortion, and also introducing a phase rotation to both I and Q paths of the optical transmitter, which compensate the total phase distortion and the phase shift caused by compensating the amplitude distortion, until reaching a desired operating point, which corresponds to the level of pre-distortion.
US11025337B2	Signal conversion in communications satellites Apparatus for use in a communications satellite can include a first mixer arranged to mix and down-convert a received signal in an input frequency range with a first local oscillator LO signal so that a signal within the received signal at a center frequency of a first frequency range is converted to an intermediate frequency IF, a bandpass filter having a passband with a center frequency at the IF arranged to filter the mixed signal such that the filter bandwidth defines the width of the first frequency range, and a second mixer arranged to mix the filtered IF signal with a second LO signal to up-convert the IF signal to an output frequency range. One of the first and second LO signals is a mixed LO signal obtained by mixing the other one with a third LO signal, and the output frequency range is different from the input frequency range.
US11025335B2	System information processing apparatus and information processing method Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.
US11025332B2	Management of beam level measurement filtering A method for use in a wireless device comprises detecting a first set of beamformed signals from one or more cells. The method further comprises allocating beam-level filters of the wireless device to a subset of beamformed signals of the first set of beamformed signals based on the detected beamformed signals. The method further comprises monitoring the subset of the first set of beamformed signals using the allocated beam-level filters. A wireless device comprises one or more interfaces, memory, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, whereby the wireless device is configured to perform the method above.
US11025331B2	Timing in beam failure recovery procedure A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters. The configuration parameters indicate: a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) comprising a first BWP and a second BWP; and a timer value for a BWP inactivity timer. The BWP inactivity timer associated with the timer value starts in response to switching to the first BWP as an active BWP. A beam failure recovery procedure is initiated based on reaching a number of beam failure instance indications for the first BWP. Based on an expiry of the BWP inactivity timer during the beam failure recovery procedure: the beam failure recovery procedure for the first BWP is aborted; and the active BWP is switched from the first BWP to the second BWP.
US11025323B2	Apparatus and method for controlling transmission in a communication system The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
US11025322B2	Progressive advanced CSI feedback Methods, wireless devices and base stations for determining multi-beam channel state information, CSI are provided. According to one aspect, embodiments include a method of determining multi-beam channel state information, CSI. The method includes generating a first CSI report associated with a first beam; and generating a second CSI report associated with a second beam, the second CSI report including at least a co-phasing coefficient between the first and second beams.
US11025320B2	Method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station The disclosure provides a method and a device for multi-antenna transmission in a base station and a User Equipment (UE). The UE, in turn, receives a first higher-layer signaling, monitors a first-type physical layer signaling in a first radio resource pool, and receives second downlink information in a second radio resource pool. The first higher-layer signaling is used for determining first information and second information, and the first information is used for multi-antenna related receiving in the first radio resource pool. The first-type physical layer signaling is detected, and the first-type physical layer signaling is used for multi-antenna related receiving in the second radio resource pool, or, the first-type physical layer signaling is not detected, and the second information is used for multi-antenna related receiving in the second radio resource pool. The second radio resource pool is related to the first radio resource pool.
US11025319B2	Method for transmitting/receiving data signal between base station and terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus supporting same Disclosed are a method for transmitting/receiving a data signal between a base station and a terminal, and an apparatus supporting the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for reliably transmitting/receiving a data signal between a terminal and a base station when the data signal transmission/reception between the terminal and the base station is performed according to an analog beamforming method, and apparatuses supporting the same.
US11025317B2	Adaptation of hierarchical codebooks An electronic device, a method, and computer readable media for adapting a hierarchical codebook. The electronic device includes a memory for storing a hierarchical codebook and a processor operably connected to the memory, which is configured to determine usage probabilities for codewords in the hierarchical codebook. The codewords are represented by nodes assigned to one of a plurality of tiers of the hierarchical codebook based on a tier identifier. The processor is also configured to change a structure of the hierarchical codebook based on the usage probabilities so that nodes associated with codewords having relatively higher usage probabilities are located closer to a root node than nodes associated with codewords having relatively lower usage probabilities, and select a codeword from the hierarchical codebook for use in wireless communication. The codeword is selected by a codeword selection procedure performed on the changed structure of the hierarchical codebook.
US11025315B2	Method of indicating spatial characteristic parameter set, user-side device and network-side device A method of indicating a spatial characteristic parameter set, a user-side device and a network-side device are provided. The method includes: acquiring first indication information, wherein the first indication information indirectly indicates a spatial characteristic parameter set scheduled to the user-side device, the spatial characteristic parameter set is one of a plurality of spatial characteristic parameter sets configured for the user-side device; determining, according to the first indication information, the spatial characteristic parameter set scheduled to the user-side device.
US11025310B2	Codebook design for new radio (NR) systems Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to assist a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) for beamforming is disclosed. The UE can determine a covariance matrix for a channel between the UE and the gNB. The UE can quantize the covariance matrix to obtain a quantized covariance matrix. The quantized covariance matrix can include M best diagonal entries that are selected from the covariance matrix, wherein M is an integer. The UE can encode the quantized covariance matrix as feedback for transmission to the gNB.
US11025306B2	Node unit and method of processing signal for distributed antenna system According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a signal processing method performed in a distributed antenna system, includes extracting at least a part of sample data corresponding to an occupied frequency band from a digitized analog RF signal; and combining the extracted sample data.
US11025305B2	Systems and methods for a wirelessly powered interactive guest device A wireless power system includes a control system configured to output radio waves to an environment and a wearable device having an energy harvesting device configured to receive the radio waves and to harvest energy from the received radio waves. The wearable device also includes a processor and a sensor configured to detect a state of the wearable device and output a state signal to the processor. The processor is configured to output a device control signal based on the detected state signal. The wearable device further includes a communicator configured to receive the device control signal from the processor and to provide an output to the control system based on the state of the wearable device. At least the processor, the sensor, or the communicator receive power via the energy harvested by the energy harvesting device.
US11025300B2	Transmission medium and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium having a core. A conductive layer forms an uninsulated outer surface of the transmission medium. The conductive layer is configured to impede accumulation of water to support propagation of first electromagnetic waves guided by the uninsulated outer surface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11025298B2	Near-end crosstalk cancellation The present disclosure relates to near-end crosstalk (NEXT) cancellation. A transmit communication signal is transmitted over a first Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connection using a first group of frequencies and a receive communication signal is received over a second DSL connection using a second group of frequencies that at least partially overlaps the first group of frequencies. A crosstalk correlation between the first and second communication signals is determined. Based on the crosstalk correlation, a crosstalk cancellation signal is generated. The crosstalk cancellation signal is subtracted from the second communication signal, with the intention of reducing NEXT.
US11025297B2	Full-duplex cancellation Facilitating echo cancellation within communication networks is contemplated, such as but not necessarily limited to facilitating echo cancellation within full-duplex (FDX) communication networks. The echo cancellation may optionally be performed with an echo canceller included as part of or otherwise associated with an FDX node used to facilitate interfacing signaling between a digital domain and an analog domain of a FDX or other communication network.
US11025295B2	Optimizing MRC coefficients for RAKE receiver for increasing SNR There is described a method of determining an MRC coefficient vector for a RAKE receiver. The method comprises (a) estimating a channel impulse response vector, (b) estimating a noise variance vector, (c) calculating a multiplication factor vector based on the estimated channel impulse response vector and the estimated noise variance vector, (d) calculating a modified channel impulse response vector by multiplying each element in the estimated channel response vector with a corresponding element in the multiplication factor vector, and (e) calculating the MRC coefficient vector as the complex conjugate of the modified channel impulse response vector. There is also described a corresponding device, an UWB receiver, a computer program and a computer program product.
US11025294B2	Clock and data recovery circuit Circuits and methods for performing a clock and data recovery are disclosed. In one example, a circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes an FSM. The FSM includes: a first accumulator, a second accumulator, and a third accumulator. The first accumulator is configured to receive an input phase code representing a phase timing difference between a data signal and a clock signal at each FSM cycle, to accumulate input phase codes for different FSM cycles, and to generate a first order phase code at each FSM cycle. The second accumulator is coupled to the first accumulator and configured to accumulate the input phase codes and first order phase codes for different FSM cycles, and to generate a second order phase code at each FSM cycle. The third accumulator is coupled to the second accumulator and configured to accumulate the input phase codes and second order phase codes for different FSM cycles, and to generate a third order phase code at each FSM cycle.
US11025293B2	Data transmission in synchronization slots Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for data transmission in synchronization slots. A method for use by a base station for data transmission in synchronization slots includes transmitting a synchronization signal (SS) burst, wherein different SS blocks of the burst are transmitted using different transmit beams and performing frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or time division multiplexing (TDM) to include one or more other types of signals that need to be multicast and are also transmitted using the different transmit beams.
US11025288B2	Transceiver arrangement The present disclosure relates to a transceiver arrangement (1) comprising a transceiver device (2) having at least two transceiver ports (8b, 9b, 10b, 11 b), a beamforming network (5), and at least two antenna ports (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d). The transceiver device (2) comprises at least two low-noise amplifier (LNA) arrangements (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d), where each LNA arrangement (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) is connected to a respective transceiver port (8b, 9b, 10b, 11 b). The beamforming network (5) is arranged between the antenna ports (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) and the transceiver ports (8b, 9b, 10b, 11 b), whereby a radio frequency (RF) signal received on an antenna port (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) traverses the beamforming network (5) prior to being received on the transceiver ports (8b, 9b, 10b, 11 b). In a receive mode configuration of the transceiver arrangement, the beamforming network (5) is arranged to provide a beam-forming function, whereby the RF signal received on an antenna port is received on the transceiver ports with specific respective phase shifts.
US11025286B2	System and method for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) transmission An OFDMA subframe carrying different data fields in different time segments may include a separate short training field (STF), and a separate set of long training fields (LTFs), for each of the data fields to accommodate time-reuse scheduling. Communicating a separate STF for each data field may allow receivers to re-adjust automatic gain control (AGC) when the data fields carry different numbers of space-time-streams. Likewise, communicating separate sets of LTFs for each data field may allow different beamforming parameters to be applied to different data fields.
US11025285B2	Electronic device with millimeter wave antennas An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
US11025282B2	Transmitter and repetition method thereof A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate an LDPC codeword including the input bits and parity bits; a repeater configured to select at least a part of bits constituting the LDPC codeword and add the selected bits after the input bits; and a puncturer configured to puncture at least a part of the parity bits.
US11025280B2	Transmitting apparatus and interleaving method thereof A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US11025274B2	Memory controller and method of data bus inversion using an error detection correction code Memory controllers, devices and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory controller includes write circuitry to transmit write data to a memory device, the write circuitry includes a write error detection correction (EDC) encoder to generate first error information associated with the write data. Data bus inversion (DBI) circuitry conditionally inverts data bits associated with each of the write data words based on threshold criteria. Read circuitry receives read data from the memory device. The read circuitry includes a read EDC encoder to generate second error information associated with the received read data. Logic evaluates the first and second error information and conditionally reverse-inverts at least a portion of the read data based on the decoding.
US11025265B2	Method and system for an asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with word completion function Methods and systems for an asynchronous successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with word completion may include a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including a switched capacitor digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a word completion block, a comparator, and a metastability detector. The SAR ADC may sample a received analog electrical signal using the DAC, and convert the electrical signal to an n-bit digital signal by evaluating bits from a most significant bit to a least significant bit using the comparator. If the metastability detector determines that a time to evaluate one of the bits is longer than a threshold time, the metastability detector generates a metastability flag for each such bit. The converting may be initiated using a conversion enable clock pulse generated in the first SAR ADC. The metastability flag may be generated when a conversion enable pulse overlaps with a sampling clock pulse.
US11025260B1	Phase-locked loop (PLL) with multiple error determiners An apparatus is disclosed that implements a phase-locked loop (PLL) that uses multiple error determiners as part of a feedback loop. In an example aspect, an apparatus for generating a frequency includes a PLL. The PLL includes a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a frequency divider, and multiple error determiners. The loop filter includes a filter input node and a filter output node. The VCO includes a VCO input node and a VCO output node. The VCO input node is coupled to the filter output node. The frequency divider includes a divider input node and multiple divider output nodes. The divider input node is coupled to the VCO output node. The multiple error determiners are coupled between the multiple divider output nodes and the filter input node.
US11025255B2	Signal generation circuit synchronized with a clock signal and a semiconductor apparatus using the same A signal generation circuit includes a clock divider circuit, an off-pulse generation circuit, and an output signal generation circuit. The on-pulse generation circuit delays an input signal in synchronization with the first and second divided clock signals and generates an even on-pulse signal and an odd on-pulse signal. The off-pulse generation circuit delays the even on-pulse signal and the odd-on pulse signal in synchronization with the first divided clock signal and the second divided clock signal and generates a plurality of delay signals. The output signal generation circuit generates a first pre-output signal based on the delay signals delayed in synchronization with the first divided clock signal, generate a second pre-output signal based on the delay signals delayed in synchronization with the second divided clock signal, and generate an output signal based on the first and second pre-output signals.
US11025252B2	Circuit for detection of single bit upsets in generation of internal clock for memory A failure determination circuit includes a latch circuit that receives an internal clock from a clock latch that rises in response to an external clock rising. In response to a rising edge of the external clock, the circuit generates a rising edge of a fault flag. In response to a rising edge of the internal clock if it occurs, the fault flag falls. The fault flag is then latched. The latched fault flag indicates a single bit upset in the clock latch if the falling edge of the fault flag was not generated prior to latching, if the clock latch is in an active mode, and indicates a single bit upset in the clock latch if the falling edge of the fault flag was generated prior to latching, if the clock latch is in an inactive mode.
US11025251B2	Button assemblies According to the present invention there is provided a button assembly, comprising, an actuator member; a base member having a cavity defined therein which can receive a least a part of the actuator member; a flexible film which comprises piezoelectric material, wherein the piezoelectric material is preferably dipolar particles; a first electrode which is located between the piezoelectric material of the flexible film and the actuator member, and a second electrode which is located between the piezoelectric material of the flexible film and the base member, and wherein the flexible film is arranged to overlay the cavity in the base member, and to be interposed between the base member and the actuator member, such that moving at least a part of the actuator member into the cavity of the base member will cause the film to stretch thereby generating an electrical signal in the first and second electrodes.
US11025250B2	Oscillation sensor with calibration unit and measurement device The invention relates to an oscillating sensor for a measurement device comprising: an oscillator comprising: a resonance circuit for providing an oscillation signal; a gain stage configured to provide a feed-back to the resonance circuit to inject energy for excitation of the oscillator to maintain oscillation; at least one calibration element to adjust the open loop gain of the oscillator; a calibration unit to provide a modulated calibration control signal to selectively adjust an electrical measure of the at least one calibration element based on at least one predetermined duty cycle, wherein the calibration unit is further configured to provide the modulated calibration control signal with at least one cycle frequency which depends on the oscillation frequency.
US11025248B2	Hybrid power devices A device includes a first diode and a second diode connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal of a switching element, wherein the switching element is a unidirectional device and an anode of the first diode is directly connected to an anode of the second diode, a third diode connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the switching element and a switch connected in parallel with the first diode.
US11025241B2	Comparator circuit and mobile device A comparator circuit includes a differential input circuit, a load circuit, a first current source, a first bias voltage supplying circuit, a third connection circuit, and a fourth connection circuit. The differential input circuit includes a first transistor to which a first input signal is supplied and a second transistor to which a second input signal is supplied. The load circuit includes a third transistor connected to the first transistor through a first connection circuit and a fourth transistor connected to the second transistor through a second connection circuit, gates of the third and fourth transistors being connected to the first connection circuit through a third capacitor. The first bias voltage supplying circuit supplies a first bias voltage to the gates of the third and fourth transistors and the third capacitor.
US11025239B2	Static compensation of an active clock edge shift for a duty cycle correction circuit Duty cycle correction devices for static compensation of an active clock edge shift. A duty cycle correction circuit in the duty cycle correction device corrects a clock input signal, according to a first control signal. A programmable delay circuit or a modified duty cycle correction circuit in the duty cycle correction device compensates a shift of an active clock edge in a clock output signal of the duty cycle correction circuit, according to a second control signal. A mapping circuit in the duty cycle correction device generates the second control signal by mapping a digital value of the first control signal and a digital value of the second control signal.
US11025238B2	Level-shifting circuit configured to limit leakage current In one general aspect, a level-shifting circuit includes a first supply terminal configured to receive a first supply voltage, and a second supply terminal configured to receive a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage. The level-shifting circuit includes a shifting circuit having electrical connections to an input terminal and an output terminal and configured to, in response to a first voltage at a first node, produce a second voltage at a second node. The shifting circuit is used to shift a first voltage level to a second voltage level. The level-shifting circuit includes a clamping circuit having an electrical connection to the first node where the clamping circuit is configured to limit current at the first node from flowing to a ground.
US11025234B1	Process and temperature compensated ring oscillator Methods and systems for regulating supply voltage is described. In an example, a device can receive unregulated supply. The device can be connected to a ring oscillator and an integrated circuit. The device can be configured to regulate the unregulated supply to a first voltage. The device can be further configured to provide the regulated supply to the ring oscillator, where the ring oscillator operates with the regulated supply. The device can be further configured to, in response to a change in the regulated supply from the first voltage to a second voltage, adjust the changed regulated supply to return to the first voltage to cause the ring oscillator to operate with a constant regulated supply having the first voltage.
US11025233B1	Oscillator circuit resistant to noise and jitter An oscillator circuit includes a bias circuit, a signal generation circuit, and a control circuit. The bias circuit is configured to generate a reference voltage based on a reference current and a bias resistor. The signal generation circuit is configured to generate a bias current based on the reference current, perform charging and discharging of a capacitor using the bias current, and generate an oscillation signal based on the charging and the discharging of the capacitor. The control circuit is configured to generate a control signal having a constant discharging time, based on the reference voltage and the oscillation signal, controlling the charging and the discharging of the capacitor.
US11025228B1	Dynamic noise shaping filters and corresponding methods Various embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, systems, or computer program products for providing a signal with dynamically shaped noise. In an example embodiment, the system comprises a dynamic filter, wherein a dynamic filter is a filter that is capable of switching between at least two responses; a signal generator configured to generate a signal; and a controller configured to control operation of the signal generator and selection of an operating response from the at least two responses of the dynamic filter. The controller causes the signal generator to generate a signal, the signal is provided to the dynamic filter, and the controller causes the dynamic filter to filter the signal in accordance with the operating response. The filtered signal is then provided to an electrical component of the system to cause at least a portion of the system to perform a function.
US11025227B2	Multiplexer, high-frequency front-end circuit, and communication device A first filter of a multiplexer includes serial resonators and parallel resonators that are acoustic wave resonators. A first of the serial resonators that is closer to a common terminal than the other serial resonators is connected to the common terminal without the parallel resonators interposed therebetween. Each of the elastic wave resonators includes a substrate having piezoelectricity, an IDT electrode provided on the substrate, and a dielectric layer provided on the substrate to cover the IDT electrode. A thickness of the dielectric layer of the first serial resonator is smaller than a thickness of each of the dielectric layers of the remainder of the elastic wave resonators.
US11025215B2	High input impedance, high dynamic range, common-mode-interferer tolerant sensing front-end for neuromodulation systems Neuromodulation systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can use a feed-forward common-mode cancellation (CMC) path to attenuate common-mode (CM) artifacts appearing at a voltage input, thus allowing for the simultaneous recording of neural data and stimulation of neurons. In several embodiments of the invention, the feed-forward CMC path is utilized to attenuate the common-mode swings at Vin,CM, which can restore the linear operation of the front-end for differential signals. In several embodiments, the neuromodulation system may utilize an anti-alias filter (AAF) that includes a duty-cycles resistor (DCR) switching at a first frequency f1, followed by a DCR switching at a second frequency f2. The AAF allows for a significantly reduced second frequency f2 that enables the multi-rate DCR to increase the maximum realizable resistance, which is dependent upon the frequency ratio f1/f2.
US11025212B1	Operational transconductance amplifier and a method for converting a differential input voltage to a differential output current An operational transconductance amplifier, that may include a first differential pair that comprises a first transistor and a second transistor that are coupled to each other at a certain node; wherein the first differential pair is configured to convert a differential input voltage to first and second output currents; a current source that is coupled to the certain node and may include an adjustable current sources; and a feedback unit that is coupled to the certain node and is configured to (a) receive the differential input voltage, and maintain a voltage of the certain node substantially fixed regardless of changes in the differential input voltage.
US11025211B2	Amplification apparatus and transmission apparatus An amplification apparatus as the embodiment of the present invention includes a switching amplifier and an adjuster. The switching amplifier is driven on the basis of a control signal and amplifies an input signal to be amplified to generate an amplified signal. The adjuster adjusts the control signal before it is inputted into the switching amplifier. Specifically, the adjuster adjusts at least one of a pulse width of the control signal and a delay time of the control signal with respect to the signal to be amplified.
US11025207B2	Bias techniques for controlled voltage distribution in stacked transistor amplifiers Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing gates of stacked transistors of a cascode amplifier are presented, where the amplifier is configured to operate according to different modes of operation. Such circuital arrangements operate in a closed loop with a feedback voltage that is based on a sensed voltage at one or more nodes of a replica circuit of the stacked transistors, the amplifier and the replica circuit biased with same gate voltages. According to one aspect, one gate voltage is adjusted based on a comparison of the feedback voltage with a reference voltage, and other gate voltages are derived by offsetting of the one gate voltage with voltages generated by a current flow through a resistive ladder network.
US11025206B2	Power supply for envelope tracking Provided is a power supply for envelope tracking, comprising: a first driving unit for finally providing a first current based on a preset and variably-set first high-frequency threshold or threshold interval; a second driving unit for finally providing a second current based on a preset and variably-set second low-frequency threshold or threshold interval; a third driving unit for providing a third current based on a delayed signal; and a superimposing unit for superimposing the first current, the second current, and the third current to provide a supply voltage of a radio-frequency power amplifier. A new power supply for envelope tracking is provided, which is capable of more efficiently providing a supply voltage of the radio frequency power amplifier by superimposing a first current to a third current.
US11025204B2	Circuit having high-pass filter with variable corner frequency The present invention provides a circuit having a filter with an amplifier circuit for filtering and amplifying an input signal to generate an output signal, wherein a corner frequency of the filter is adjustable to control a settling time of the output signal.
US11025203B2	Communication device and operating method thereof The inventive concept relates to a communication device comprising a DPD processor configured to output a plurality of pre-distorted signals by pre-distorting each of a plurality of input signals using an extracted feedback signal, a first signal combiner configured to combine a plurality of feedback signals corresponding to the plurality of pre-distorted signals and output a combined feedback signal, an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the combined feedback signal into a digital signal and output a digital-converted combined feedback signal and a signal extractor configured to extract the digital-converted combined feedback signal and output the extracted feedback signal.
US11025200B2	Magnetic coupling layers, structures comprising magnetic coupling layers and methods for fabricating and/or using same A magnetic structure is provided. The magnetic structure may have a first magnetic layer with a first magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer with a second magnetization direction and a coupling layer interposed between the first and second magnetic layers. The coupling layer may include at least one non-magnetic element and at least one magnetic element. The atomic ratio of the at least one non-magnetic element to the at least one magnetic element is (100−x):x, where x is an atomic concentration parameter. Atomic concentration parameter, x, may cause the first magnetic layer to be non-collinearly coupled to the second magnetic layer such that, in the absence of external magnetic field, the first magnetization direction is oriented at a non-collinear angle relative to the second magnetization direction.
US11025197B2	Resonator circuit The invention relates to a resonator circuit, the resonator circuit comprising a transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding, wherein the primary winding is inductively coupled with the secondary winding, a primary capacitor being connected to the primary winding, the primary capacitor and the primary winding forming a primary circuit, and a secondary capacitor being connected to the secondary winding, the secondary capacitor and the secondary winding forming a secondary circuit, wherein the resonator circuit has a common mode resonance frequency at an excitation of the primary circuit in a common mode, wherein the resonator circuit has a differential mode resonance frequency at an excitation of the primary circuit in a differential mode, and wherein the common mode resonance frequency is different from the differential mode resonance frequency.
US11025195B2	Swing tracking and control In certain aspects, an apparatus includes a transformer including an input inductor and an output inductor, wherein the input inductor is magnetically coupled to the output inductor. The apparatus also includes a transconductance driver configured to drive the input inductor based on an input signal. The apparatus further includes a feedback circuit configured to detect an output voltage swing at the output inductor, generate a regulated voltage at the input inductor, and control the regulated voltage based on the detected output voltage swing.
US11025194B2	Integrated circuit device, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle An integrated circuit device includes an oscillation circuit that generates an oscillation signal by causing a resonator to oscillate, a temperature compensation circuit that performs temperature compensation of an oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit, an output circuit that outputs a clock signal based on the oscillation signal, a first regulator that generates a first regulated power supply voltage based on a power supply voltage and supplies the first regulated power supply voltage to the temperature compensation circuit, and a second regulator that generates a second regulated power supply voltage based on the power supply voltage and supplies the second regulated power supply voltage to the output circuit.
US11025193B2	Compact, low-profile, multiply configurable solar photovoltaic module with concealed connectors A solar module comprising a substrate, a honeycomb structure on the substrate, a solar panel on the honeycomb structure, such that the substrate, honeycomb and solar panel form a sandwich having an exterior perimeter, a rotary junction box configured to be manipulated through the substrate between at least first and second electrical configurations, a plurality of electrical couplers along the exterior perimeter, and a plurality of electrical connectors connecting the solar panel, the rotary junction box, and the electrical couplers; wherein the honeycomb structure defines one or more channels and a pocket, the channels facilitating the electrical connectors and the pocket receiving the rotary junction box.
US11025186B2	Electric linear motor, elevator and method for controlling rotation of a mover with respect to a stator beam of an electric linear motor An electric linear motor, an elevator and a method for controlling rotation of a mover with respect to a stator beam are presented. The electric linear motor includes a number of stator beams, wherein at least one of the stator beams includes a plurality of stators extending in a longitudinal direction of the stator beam, a number of movers, wherein at least one of the movers includes a plurality of armatures, wherein each one of the armatures is adapted for establishing an electromagnetic coupling with a corresponding one of the stators for moving the mover along said stator, and wherein at least one of the armatures is arranged to be offset from the aligned position with respect to the corresponding one of the stators in a perpendicular direction relative to the longitudinal direction.
US11025180B2	Variable speed accelerator A variable speed accelerator is provided, including an electric driving device generating a rotational driving force, and a planetary gear transmission device changing the speed of the rotational driving force and transmitting the changed rotation driving force to a driving target. The electric driving device includes: a variable-speed motor having a variable-speed rotor connected to a variable-speed input shaft of the transmission device; and a constant-speed motor having a constant-speed rotor connected to a constant-speed input shaft of the transmission device. The variable-speed rotor and the planetary gear carrier shaft have a shaft insertion hole formed to pass therethrough in the axial direction.
US11025179B2	System for controlling motors, and inverter air conditioner A motor control system includes a plurality of inverters each configured to be connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of motors, a plurality of current samplers coupled to the plurality of inverters, respectively, and each configured to sample a phase current of a corresponding one of the plurality of motors to generate a phase current signal for the corresponding one of the plurality of motors, and an operation controller including an analog-digital (AD) sampling circuit. The operation controller is configured to synchronously generate a plurality of triangular carrier signals each corresponding to one of the plurality of motors, and sample the phase current signals of the plurality of motors in a time sharing manner through the AD sampling circuit in rising half cycles or falling half cycles of the plurality of triangular carrier signals, respectively. The half cycles of the triangular carrier signals for sampling the phase current signals of the plurality of motors are staggered in time from each other.
US11025177B2	Piezoelectric generator system and electrical system including such piezoelectric generator system The piezoelectric generator system (100) comprises at least one piezoelectric generator unit (650) comprising an array (400) of piezoelectric modules (Mji,i) each including a piezoelectric element (Eji,i) and a AC/DC converter (Cji,i). The piezoelectric modules (Mji,i) in the array (400) are connected to each other in series and they are each arranged in sets (i) connected to each other in parallel. When dynamic loads (F1, F2 . . . Fn) act on the piezoelectric generator units (650), said loads (F1, F2 . . . Fn) are adjusted such that a predetermined amount of force (F) is applied with a predetermined speed to the piezoelectric modules (Mji,i), such that the array (400) supplies high electric power (Pout-tot) to one or more batteries (250) in, for example, an electric vehicle (1000), with each battery (250) being capable of working in at least storage, standby and supply conditions according to the corresponding electric power level thereof.
US11025175B1	Planarization layers for nanovoided polymers In some examples, a device includes a nanovoided polymer element, a planarization layer disposed on a surface of the nanovoided polymer element, a first electrode disposed on the planarization layer, and a second electrode. The nanovoided polymer element may be located at least in part between the first electrode and the second electrode. The planarization layer may be located between the nanovoided polymer element and the first electrode.
US11025173B2	Vehicle power control systems Vehicles and vehicle power circuits are disclosed for providing multiple different voltages from the same power source. An example vehicle includes a power source, a plurality of electrical loads, and a power circuit. The power circuit is electrically connected to the power source and the plurality of electrical loads. The power circuit includes a plurality of power segments connected in parallel to the power source, each power segment comprising a DC to DC converter and an ultra capacitor in series with the DC to DC converter, wherein the ultra capacitors of the plurality of power segments are connected in series.
US11025170B2	Systems and methods for reducing switching loss in power conversion systems Power converter and method thereof according to certain embodiments. For example, the power converter includes a primary winding, and a secondary winding coupled to the primary winding. Additionally, the power converter includes a first switch including a first switch terminal, a second switch terminal, and a third switch terminal. The first switch is configured to affect a first current associated with the primary winding. The first switch terminal corresponds to a first voltage, and the second switch terminal corresponds to a second voltage. The first voltage minus the second voltage is equal to a voltage difference. Moreover, the power converter includes a second switch including a fourth switch terminal, a fifth switch terminal, and a sixth switch terminal and configured to affect a second current associated with the secondary winding.
US11025169B2	Overload protection for power converter A circuit includes an overload monitor comparing a current sense signal to a threshold signal to generate a comparison result and adjusting a value of a first count signal in response to the comparison result and a monitoring signal. The monitoring signal indicates a time interval during which the overload monitor adjusts the value of the first count signal. The circuit further includes an overload protection signal generator generating an overload protection signal in response to the first count signal, the overload protection signal indicating whether the power converter is operating in an overload condition.
US11025167B2	Bidirectional inverting buck-boost converter converting dissipation current into recycling current A system having a load that generates an EMF energy, comprising: a controller; a switch having a control terminal coupled to the controller and a second terminal coupled to the load; a recycling circuit coupled to the load and the second terminal of the switch, the recycling circuit including a capacitor and a converter coupled to the capacitor, a voltage source and the load; and wherein the capacitor is operable to store the EMF energy.
US11025164B2	Fault detector for voltage converter Various embodiments of a fault detector for a voltage converter are described. In one example embodiment, briefly, the fault detector is capable to detect one or more fault events during operation of a voltage converter. Likewise, the fault detector is capable to generate one or more fault signals with respect to the one or more to be detected fault events. The one or more fault signals, in the example embodiment, to signal a disconnect switch of the voltage converter to electrically disconnect or otherwise via a high impedance state to limit current flow through at least one switch of a set of switches of the voltage converter. In another example embodiment, the fault detector, responsive to the one or more fault signals, capable to generate a bus interrupt signal on a pin out, such as of an integrated circuit (IC) for use with the voltage converter, or capable to toggle a fault indicator pin out of the IC. Other additional embodiments are also described.
US11025161B2	Electric vehicle and charging apparatus thereof Disclosed are an electric vehicle capable of improving the charging efficiency of a charging apparatus by reducing the switching loss that may occur in the charging apparatus of an electric vehicle and a charging apparatus thereof. To this end, a power factor correction apparatus of an on board charger includes a first boost circuit receiving AC power through a first inductor to charge a load, a second boost circuit receiving the AC power through a second inductor to charge the load, and a third inductor provided between a leg of the first boost circuit and a leg of the second boost circuit so that parasitic capacitors of the first boost circuit and the second boost circuit are discharged.
US11025158B2	Power supply apparatus capable to extend hold-up time length of output voltage A power supply apparatus including a rectifier circuit, an energy storage circuit, a power conversion circuit, a detection circuit, an energy supplement circuit, and a control circuit is provided. The rectifier circuit rectifies an AC voltage and provides a DC voltage. The energy storage circuit and the energy supplement circuit store electrical energy according to the DC voltage. The power conversion circuit converts the DC voltage into an output voltage. The detection circuit detects a voltage amplitude of the AC voltage according to the DC voltage and generates a detection signal group accordingly. The control circuit is coupled to the detection circuit to receive the detection signal group. When the control circuit determines that the voltage amplitude of the AC voltage is less than or equal to a first threshold according to the detection signal group, the control circuit instructs the energy supplement circuit to charge the energy storage circuit.
US11025156B2	Power apparatus, current detecting circuit and current detecting method A power apparatus, a current detecting circuit and a current detecting method are provided. The power apparatus includes a power conversion circuit and the current detecting circuit. The power conversion circuit generates an output current. The current detecting circuit includes first and second current sensing resistors and a control circuit. The first current sensing resistor and the second current sensing resistor sense the output current to generate first and second sensing voltage, respectively. The control circuit receives the first sensing voltage and the second sensing voltage, and converts the first sensing voltage and the second sensing voltage respectively into a first current sensing value and a second current sensing value. The control circuit triggers a protection mechanism when the first current sensing value is greater than a first overcurrent protection value. In the case where the first current sensing value is not greater than the first overcurrent protection value, the control circuit triggers the protection mechanism if the second current sensing value is greater than a second overcurrent protection value. The first overcurrent protection value is greater than the second overcurrent protection value.
US11025155B2	Power supply control device for setting minimum on width of output switch There is provided a power supply control device as a control main entity of a switching power supply. The power supply control device includes a minimum ON width setting part configured to set a minimum ON width of an output switch according to a load.
US11025153B2	Electric generator with a rotational resistance avoidance feature The electric generator with the rotational resistance avoidance feature in the present invention comprises a rotating set of magnet parts interposed between at least two rotating sets of conductor coil parts, which are respectively installed on opposite sides of the rotating set of magnet parts. The diameters of the rotating sets of conductor coil parts are configured to be larger than the diameter of the rotating set of magnet parts. The rotational speed of the conductor coil parts and the magnet parts are therefore different, which causes the induction of the electromotive force within the conductor coils by way of variation of the magnetic field. When the mechanical power input is applied only on the rotating set of magnet parts and the electromotive force induced in the conductor coil, which has been connected to a load, is applied to a load; the electrical current will induce the conductor coil itself to generate magnetic polarities which are similar to the original magnetic polarities of the permanent magnet. The sets of conductor coils are pushed by the said pushing force to be continuously rotated in a clockwise direction (freely rotated without being driven by the mechanical power input). The rotating set of magnets in the middle is also continuously rotated by the mechanical power input. With this configuration, the rotational resistance can be avoided. Therefore, the additional mechanical power input is not necessary (rather, only a partial increase is required), and the electrical power can be generated by converting the magnetic energy stored in permanent magnets, to be supplied to the load.
US11025150B2	Linear vibration motor Provided is a linear vibration motor, including: a housing; a vibration unit received in the housing, including a mass with a through hole and a permanent magnet mounted in the through hole; an elastic module; and a driving unit including an iron core fixedly mounted in the housing and passing through the through hole and a coil. The iron core includes an iron core body portion passing through the through hole and two iron core propping portions extending from two ends of the iron core body portion facing away from a central axis of the iron core body portion. The coil is wound on the iron core body portion. A side of the permanent magnet close to the coil and a side of the permanent magnet close to the mass have opposite magnetic polarities, and after the coil is energized, the two iron core propping portions have opposite magnetic polarities.
US11025146B2	Linear vibration motor having elastic pieces provided with vibration arms A linear vibration motor having elastic pieces provided with vibration arms comprises housing, a mass block, and elastic pieces. The elastic pieces connect the mass block and the housing to provide an elastic force in Z axis direction such that the mass block performs a movement up and down. The elastic pieces are provided with two vibration arms, and the two vibration arms are symmetrical about the X axis when rotating 180 degrees around the X axis. The elastic pieces are S-shaped or inverted Z-shaped, or formed by the combination of two V-shaped vibration arms. The elastic pieces have two or four elastic pieces, and disposed on symmetrical two sides of the mass block.
US11025144B2	Outer rotor motor having support member A motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a support member, and a circuit assembly. The circuit assembly includes a plurality of electronic components. The rotor is rotatably mounted to the support member. The stator is received in the rotor. The stator is fixed to the support member, and the support member is at least partially received in an inner side of the stator. A portion of the support member received in the inner side of the stator defines a receiving space, and at least part of the electronic components of the circuit assembly is received in the receiving space of the support member. The support member is partially received in the inner side of the stator, and the circuit assembly is at least partially received in the support member, which makes the motor have a relatively smaller axial size.
US11025141B2	On-board electric compressor with a motor and noise reducing unit with inverter device having a damping unit reducing Q value of low pass filter circuit An on-board electric compressor that comprises: a housing; a compression unit; an electric motor; and an inverter device. The inverter device comprises: an inverter circuit that converts direct current power to alternating current power; and a noise reduction unit that is provided on an input side of the inverter circuit and that reduces common mode noise and normal mode noise that are included in the direct current power The noise reduction unit comprises: a common mode choke coil; and a smoothing capacitor that, in cooperation with the common mode choke coil, constitutes a low pass filter circuit. The common mode choke coil has: a core that has a first core part and a second core part; a first winding that is wound around the first core part; and a second winding that is wound around the second core part.
US11025140B2	Rotary electric machine having heat sink for semiconductor device of controller In a rotary electric machine in which a controller and a heat sink are arranged in an extending direction of an output shaft of a motor, in order to provide a rotary electric machine which secures a heat rejection performance and an insulation performance of a semiconductor device to be mounted to the controller and is downsized as a whole, the controller includes a semiconductor device having a drive circuit provided so as to correspond to a stator winding of the motor, and the semiconductor device has a main face held in close contact with the heat sink. On a close contact face between the semiconductor device and the heat sink, a drive circuit is formed so as to extend along an outer edge portion of the heat sink to increase a cooling area.
US11025136B2	Dynamo-electric machine Dynamo-electric machine (10) has cylindrical frame (11), cylindrical stator (12) fixed to an inside of the frame (11), cylindrical rotor (13) provided inside the stator (12) such that gap (G) is formed between the rotor (13) and the stator (12), rotation shaft (14) fixed to the rotor (13) so as to penetrate an inside of the rotor (13), and bracket (15) fixed to the frame (11) and rotatably supporting the rotation shaft (14). The stator (12) has duct (12a) radially formed at a middle portion in an axial direction of the stator (12) and communicating with the gap (G). The frame (11) has first supply opening (16) through which cooling air flow (1) is supplied in the frame (11) at axial direction both end sides of the frame (11), and second supply opening (17) through which cooling air flow (1) is supplied to the duct (12a) of stator (12).
US11025135B2	Electrical machine with liquid cooling An electrical machine includes a stator including a plurality of stator windings; and a rotor in magnetic cooperation with the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of cooling passages extending therethrough, each cooling passage including an inlet for receiving oil and an outlet for discharging the oil. The electrical machine includes a rotating oil distribution member coupled to the rotor, the oil distribution member including a radially inward portion and a radially outward portion, the radially outward portion being disposed adjacent to the inlets of the plurality of cooling passages. A stationary oil delivery nozzle is constructed to discharge oil toward the radially inward portion of the oil distribution member. The oil distribution member is constructed to receive the oil discharged by the oil delivery nozzle, and to direct the oil to the inlets of the cooling passages to cool the rotor.
US11025133B2	Electric motor brake An electric motor including a rotor, a stator disposed adjacent to the rotor, and a brake mechanism. The stator is configured to cause a rotational movement of the rotor during operation of the electric motor and the brake mechanism is configured to selectively maintain a stationary rotational position of the rotor against a force exerted by an external source.
US11025131B2	Adaptor for generator An adaptor for connecting a generator to a prime mover. The adaptor includes a first flange member for connection to the prime mover, a second flange member for connection to the generator, and a plurality of angled cross members between the first and second flange members. By providing a plurality of angled cross members between the first and second members, the adaptor may use less material for a given stiffness.
US11025130B2	Onboard device An onboard device includes a first cover member having a first abutment surface, a second cover member having a second abutment surface abutting on the first abutment surface and an internal space for housing an electrical apparatus with the first cover member, a transmission portion that is formed in one or both of the first and second cover members, extends, from the first and second abutment surfaces, outward in an abutment direction in which the first and second abutment surfaces abut against each other and transmits sound more easily from the internal space to outside of the first and second cover members than adjacent regions in the first and second cover members, and a soundproof cover that has a through-hole penetrating in the abutment direction. The first abutment surface, the second abutment surface, and the transmission portion are located inside the through-hole.
US11025124B2	Motor and blower using the motor A motor includes a mounting bracket; a stator mounted to one of opposite sides of the mounting bracket; a rotor is rotatably supported on the stator; and a control unit the other of the opposite sides of the mounting bracket away from the stator. The control unit includes a plate-shaped heat dissipating member fixed to the mounting to the mounting bracket, and a circuit board attached to a side of the heat dissipating member away from the mounting bracket. A seal is formed between a periphery of the heat dissipating member and the mounting bracket.
US11025123B2	Motor and fan motor A motor includes a stator unit and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator unit. The stator unit includes a stator, a resin portion, a support portion, and an annular recess. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator, and a conducting wire wound around the stator core with the insulator interposed therebetween. The resin portion covers at least part of the stator. The support portion supports the stator. At an end portion of the stator unit on one side in an axial direction, the recess is recessed toward another side in the axial direction. The resin portion is positioned further in a radially outer direction than the recess. The rotor includes an annular projection extending toward the other side in the axial direction. At least part of the projection is accommodated in the recess.
US11025121B2	Foil bearing supported motor with adjustable thrust bearing cap An electric motor includes a stator; an annular end cap, fastened at a first end of the stator; a threaded seat that is mounted at an outward end face of the annular end cap for receiving a first gas foil thrust bearing; a shaft, inserted through the stator, through the annular end cap, and through the threaded seat; a thrust runner mounted at an end of said shaft adjacent the threaded seat; a first gas foil thrust bearing that is mounted into the threaded seat, adjacent a face of the thrust runner facing the stator; a bearing cap that has a threaded fitting by which it is attached onto the threaded seat; and a second gas foil thrust bearing that is mounted into the bearing cap adjacent to a face of the thrust runner opposite the first gas foil thrust bearing.
US11025113B2	Hybrid rotor assembly A hybrid rotor assembly is provided. The assembly utilizes two different types of magnets within the lamination cavities of the lamination stack: sintered permanent magnets and bonded magnets.
US11025112B2	Electrical machine rotor A rotor for an electrical machine is provided. The rotor comprises: a rotor body; one or more magnets arranged around the rotor body; and a non-magnetic containment sleeve positioned radially outwardly of the one or more magnets. The containment sleeve has axially-alternating solid ring sections and reticulated ring sections.
US11025110B2	Brushless direct current motor and dual clutch transmission thereof A brushless direct current motor and a dual clutch transmission employing the motor are provided. The motor includes a stator including stator core and a winding wound around the stator core, and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core is fixed to the shaft and includes a plurality of accommodations arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor. Each of the accommodations substantially extends along a radial direction and an axial direction of the rotor. The permanent magnets are respectively arranged at corresponding accommodations. A relationship of an axial length Lr of the rotor core, an axial length Lm of each of the permanent magnets, and an axial length Ls of the stator core is Lm>Lr≥Ls.
US11025108B2	Electrical machines with liquid cooling A stator includes a core and a coolant jacket. The core has an outer surface extending about a rotation axis and defining one or more surface discontinuity within the outer surface. The coolant jacket is deposited on the outer surface of the core and has two or more layers conformally disposed on the outer surface of the core, the coolant jacket inhabiting the one or more surface discontinuity. Electrical machines, motor-type electrical machines, and methods of making stators are also described.
US11025107B2	Fan impeller to cool an axial flux rotating machine, and applications thereof Embodiments involve rotors for axial flux induction rotating electric machines that use a soft magnetic composite for the rotor core. A first embodiment is directed to a rotor for a rotating electrical machine that transmits magnetic flux parallel to a shaft of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor winding and a plurality of cores. The rotor winding consists of a solid piece of conductive material that comprises a plurality of cavities. Each core is placed in a respective cavity and comprises a highly resistive isotropic ferromagnetic powder.
US11025106B2	Stator winding for motor A conducting wire includes an incoming portion, coil portions, an outgoing portion leading out of an armature, and circumferentially extending portions. The circumferentially extending portions include an alternately arranged portion extending alternately on first and second axial sides of circumferentially adjacent ones of teeth, and a passage line portion extending on a same axial side of circumferentially adjacent ones of the teeth. One to two rounds of the circumferentially extending portions extend along a core back. The passage line portion extends on a same axial side over two of the teeth which have at least one of the incoming portion and the outgoing portion located circumferentially therebetween, and is radially outside of at least one of the incoming portion and the outgoing portion.
US11025105B2	Motor stator and permanent magnet synchronous submersible motor The present invention is a permanent magnet synchronous submersible motor comprised of a motor stator and a rotor core. The motor stator includes a stator core formed by laminating a plurality of stator punching sheets. Each of the stator punching sheets is provided with an odd number of stator slots and any two of a X-phase coil, a Y-phase coil and a Z-phase coil are wound in each of the stator slots. The rotor core is formed by laminating a plurality of rotor punching sheets wherein each of the rotor punching sheets is provided with rotor slots and a permanent magnet inserted into each of the rotor slots. Furthermore, the permanent magnet submersible motor can be started with a conventional V/F controlled (variable frequency) converter.
US11025104B2	Electric machine An electric machine includes a stator assembly including a first stator segment and a second stator segment, the first and second stator segments each including a plurality of laminations extending generally along a circumferential direction, each pair of adjacent laminations of the first and second stator segments defining a gap therebetween. The first and second stator segments are assembled together such that the laminations of the first stator segment are arranged at least partially in the gaps between the laminations of the second stator segment.
US11025097B2	Wireless charging management system and wireless power transmitting terminal A wireless charging management system and a wireless power transmitting terminal are disclosed. By managing a plurality of wireless power transmitting terminals distributed at different geographic positions through a server, the user can obtain position information and state information of the wireless power transmitting terminal through the client terminal, and at the meanwhile, the wireless power transmitting terminal can operate in response to the control of the server, which enables the user to use the wireless charging device in a shared manner conveniently.
US11025095B2	Techniques for facilitating beacon sampling efficiencies in wireless power delivery environments In retrodirective wireless power delivery environments wireless power receivers generate and send beacon signals that are received by multiple antennas of a wireless power transmission system. The beacon signals provide the charger with timing information for wireless power transfers and also indicate directionality of the incoming signal. As discussed herein, the directionality information is employed when transmitting in order to focus energy (e.g., power wave delivery) on individual wireless power receiver clients. Techniques are described herein for reducing the burden of sampling the beacon signals across the multiple antennas and determining the directionality of the incoming wave. In some embodiments, the techniques leverage previously calculated values to simplify the receiver sampling.
US11025093B2	Personal care product system with flux guiding members A personal care product system is provided. The personal care product system has a stand that has a first and second stand permanent docking magnet. A stand inductive charging coil is also positioned within the stand. A handle that has first and second handle permanent docking magnets is removably mounted to the stand. A handle inductive charging coil is positioned within the handle. The handle has a first handle flux guiding member and a second handle flux guiding member. The stand has a first stand flux guiding member.
US11025090B2	Determining location and disruption sequence of power outages Systems and a method are provided. A system includes a set of power loss detecting and reporting apparatuses. Each of the power loss detecting and reporting apparatuses includes a power loss detection circuit for detecting a local power loss. Each of the power loss detecting and reporting apparatuses further includes a cellular transmitter for transmitting (i) a preloaded code indicative of a power loss location and (ii) a time stamped alarm, to a remote designee entity using a cellular network, responsive to a detection of the power loss. The set of apparatuses collectively provide an outage pattern and sequence for a plurality of supplied locations based on the preloaded code and the time stamped alarm.
US11025084B2	Dynamic adjustment of charging voltage supplied from a first device to a second device A first electronic device, electronically coupled to a second device for supplying a charge to the second electronic device, tracks the voltage requirements of the second device and dynamically adjusts its output voltage upwards or downwards to match such requirements. The second electronic device may provide feedback to the first electronic device through a feedback loop. The feedback may include an indication of the voltage requirements and/or instructions for adjusting the voltage output of the first electronic device. The second device may be, for example, a wearable audio device, while the first device is a case for the wearable audio device.
US11025083B2	Energy storage system The present disclosure is directed to an energy storage system including a power source and a power converter coupled to the power source. The power converter is configured to output power suitable for consumption in a utility grid. The energy storage system also includes an energy storage device configured to receive the power output from the power converter and a charge discharge converter coupled between the power converter and the energy storage device. The charge discharge converter is configured to control at least one of charging or discharging the energy storage device. Furthermore, the energy storage device includes a transformer coupled between the charge discharge converter and the power converter.
US11025082B2	Method and apparatus for wireless charging An electronic device and a method thereof, which supports fast wireless charging, are provided. The electronic device includes a wireless power circuit, and one or more processors which are functionally connected with the wireless power circuit, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute detecting an external electronic device through the wireless power circuit, determining wireless power information corresponding to the external electronic device, determining whether the external electronic device supports a first charging power or a second charging power, at least partially based on the wireless power information, providing the first charging power to the external electronic device through the wireless power circuit, at least partially based on the determination that the external electronic device supports the first charging power, and providing the second charging power to the external electronic device through the wireless power circuit, at least partially based on the determination that the external electronic device supports the second charging power.
US11025078B2	Supplemental batteries for electronic devices One embodiment provides a device, including: a device housing; a display device disposed in the device housing; a main battery disposed in the device housing; a supplemental battery operatively coupled to the main battery in a parasitic arrangement, wherein the main battery draws power from the supplemental battery; and a processor operatively coupled to the display device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11025076B2	Portable power case with lithium iron phosphate battery Systems, methods, and articles for a portable power case are disclosed. The portable power case is comprised of at least one battery and at least one PCB. The portable power case has at least one USB port and at least two access ports, at least two leads, or at least one access port and at least one lead. The portable power case is operable to supply power to an amplifier, a radio, a wearable battery, a mobile phone, and a tablet. The portable power case is operable to be charged using solar panels, vehicle batteries, AC adapters, non-rechargeable batteries, and generators. The portable power case provides for modularity that allows the user to disassemble and selectively remove the batteries installed within the portable power case housing.
US11025075B2	Portable power case with heat-resistant material Systems, methods, and articles for a portable power case are disclosed. The portable power case is comprised of at least one battery and at least one PCB. The portable power case has at least two access ports, at least two leads, or at least one access port and at least one lead and at least one USB port. The portable power case is operable to supply power to an amplifier, a radio, a wearable battery, a mobile phone, and a tablet. The portable power case is operable to be charged using solar panels, vehicle batteries, AC adapters, non-rechargeable batteries, and generators. The portable power case provides for modularity that allows the user to disassemble and selectively remove the batteries installed within the portable power case housing.
US11025074B2	Charging management apparatus An on-board charging management apparatus includes a vehicle-side earth line connected with an external-side earth line of an external power unit; a vehicle-side signal line connected with an external-side signal line of the external power unit; and a detection signal line configured to connect the vehicle-side signal line and the vehicle-side earth line. Presence or absence of a disconnection of the external-side earth line and the vehicle-side earth line is determined based on an electric current value or a voltage value of the detection signal line, when the external power unit is in a connected state. As a consequence, the on-board charging management apparatus can detect a disconnection of the earth line at the time of charging an on-board electric storage device.
US11025072B2	System and method for operating an electrical energy storage system Systems and methods for operating an electric energy storage system are described. The systems and methods include ways of coupling electric energy storage cell stacks to an electric conductor or bus. The coupling is performed to reduce current flow through contactors and to increase a life span of the contactors.
US11025069B2	System for distributing mixed DC and AC electrical power for supplying variable frequency loads and fixed frequency loads Electrical power distribution system for supplying a set of fixed-frequency loads and a set of variable-frequency loads, includes a set of at least one fixed-frequency AC voltage generator and a set of at least one variable-frequency AC voltage generator, a DC distribution network supplying the variable-frequency loads by means of inverter stages, a first set of rectifier stages connected between the fixed-frequency generators and the distribution network, and a second set of rectifier stages connected between the variable-frequency generators and the DC distribution network. The first set of rectifier stages includes bidirectional rectifiers capable of providing a bidirectional transfer of power and protection means against fault currents connected between the bidirectional rectifiers and the distribution network.
US11025068B2	Modular power conversion system A modular power conversion system and power electronics enabling any power production device or entity to connect to any load or electrical grid including, but not limited to, electricity conversion between low level producer(s) such as a diesel or gas generator, Stirling engine, wind turbine or photovoltaic array, to a consumer such as a commercial or residential building, either directly or via the grid, is disclosed. The modular power conversion system including hardware and software power electronics designed as a modular power stage aggregating different power production entities, transmission systems, consumption and loads as well as energy storage is also disclosed.
US11025062B2	Apparatus for use in a microgrid and methods of operating the same Apparatus for use in a microgrid, which comprises a DC bus with at least one DC power source connected thereto, an AC bus connected to a mains power grid that supplies the microgrid, and a DC/AC converter coupling the DC bus and the AC bus, wherein the DC/AC converter may be a one-way DC/AC inverter or a bidirectional DC/AC converter, the apparatus comprising a control system, which is configured to control number (at least one) DC power converters, each of which is configured to couple a respective controllable DC load to the DC bus, and to control the power flowing from the DC bus to each of the number controllable DC loads, so as to control each of the number controllable DC loads to fulfil its function and the voltage on the DC bus.
US11025057B2	Systems and methods for determining and utilizing customer energy profiles for load control for individual structures, devices, and aggregation of same A system and method for creating and making use of customer profiles, including energy consumption patterns. Devices within a service point, using the active load director, may be subject to control events, often based on customer preferences. These control events cause the service point to use less power. Data associated with these control events, as well as related environment data, are used to create an energy consumption profile for each service point. This can be used by the utility to determine which service points are the best targets for energy consumption. In addition, an intelligent load rotation algorithm determines how to prevent the same service points from being picked first each time the utility wants to conserve power.
US11025055B2	Inverter with at least two direct converters The disclosure relates to an inverter with at least one inverter bridge and at least two DC converters, the outputs of the DC converters being connected to inputs of the inverter. The inverter includes an exchangeable adapter having input terminals for connection to power sources or loads and output terminals connected via input terminals to inputs of the DC-DC converters. Within the adapter each of the output terminals is connected to one of the input terminals and/or another of the output terminals.
US11025053B2	Surge protection circuit and surge protection method A surge protection circuit protection circuit includes a first series-connected line formed by at least two TVSs connected in series. One end of the line is connected to a positive terminal, and another is connected to a negative terminal. A second series-connected line is formed by at least one TSS. One end is connected between the at least two TVSs in the first series-connected line, and another end is grounded. The first line is connected in parallel to a protected circuit. When a differential-mode surge voltage appears at the ends of the first line, a voltage of a backend connection circuit is clamped to a first value. When a common-mode surge voltage appears at the two ends of the first line to the ground end, respectively, voltages to ground of the positive terminal and the negative terminal are reduced to a second value.
US11025050B2	Device for connecting an electric power source with an electric appliance A device (1) for connecting an electric power source (8) with an electric appliance (9) comprising a first electric coil (4), connecting the electric power source (8) with the device (1) and a second electric coil (5), connecting the electric appliance (9) with the device (1), at least one sensor (6) arranged outside the device (1) for identifying a speed of air, an alarm device connected to the at least one sensor (6) configured such that depending on the speed of air generates a pre-alarm signal and/or a main alarm signal and/or cuts an electric connection between the electric power source (8) and the electric appliance (9), and an electric circuit having an input element (7) configured such that by operating the input element (7) after the end of a preset period of time, the electric connection between the electric power source (8) and the electric appliance (9) is activated, if the at least one sensor (6) does not identify a preset speed of air.
US11025049B2	Self-test auto monitor ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) with power denial A circuit interrupting device including one or more line terminals for connecting to an external power supply, one or more load terminals for connecting to an external load, one or more contacts electrically connecting one or more line terminals to one or more load terminals; and an auto-monitoring circuit. The auto-monitoring circuit continuously monitoring one or more signals to determine an operating state of said circuit interrupting device. Wherein if said auto-monitoring circuit determines that said circuit interrupting device has reached its end-of-life and it is determined that the contacts have not failed, then a signal is driven to a first level to actuate a switch and open the contacts. Wherein said signal is further driven to a second level to inhibit said circuit interrupting device from resetting when it is determined that contacts of said interrupting device have failed. Wherein the second level has a voltage greater than zero volts.
US11025040B2	Modular electrical conduit split assembly A modular electrical conduit split assembly for efficient installation of electrical wiring. The modular electrical conduit split assembly includes an elongated, tubular conduit having at least one dividing wall running through the interior channel therein, defining separate chambers wherein each chamber includes an indicium disposed along an external surface of the conduit. A connection mechanism such as a coupling sleeve is disposed on an end of the conduit and configured to receive the end of a separate piece of conduit therein. Each chamber within the conduit is configured to receive electrical wiring therethrough which can be coordinated using color coded indicia appearing along the external surface.
US11025038B2	Methods and apparatus for a current circuit Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and apparatus for a current circuit. According to various embodiments, the current circuit may be utilized for current detection or current limiting. The current circuit may be configured to compensate for a base current, making detection of an input current more accurate.
US11025035B2	Generating laser pulses A laser pulse generator includes a pulse shape generation device and a clock unit. The generation device includes a pulse shape repository, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a first terminal for connecting a start signal line, a second terminal for connecting a clock signal line, and a third terminal for connecting a pulse line. The first and second terminals are connected to the pulse shape repository and the DAC such that when a predefined start signal is present, data is transferred from the pulse shape repository to the DAC and converted by the DAC into an output pulse, for example, at a rate of a clock signal. The output pulse is supplied at the third terminal for actuating a driver of a laser diode. The clock unit is connected to the second terminal via the clock signal line and includes a reset terminal connected to the start signal line.
US11025034B2	Laser cooling system A laser cooling system includes a first tubing, a second tubing, and a cold plate assembly including a first channel to receive the first tubing and a second channel to receive the second tubing. A joint removably couples the first tubing to the second tubing and at least one component mounted on the cold plate assembly over the first tubing or the second tubing. The inlet end of the first tubing receives a cooling fluid and an outlet end of the second tubing discharges the cooling fluid after the cooling fluid flows through the first tubing, the joint, and the second tubing to maintain uniform a temperature of the at least one component mounted on the cold plate assembly.
US11025025B2	Integrated optics for high energy laser applications An optical laser beam director assembly is disclosed. The beam director assembly includes a monolithic optics piece formed of transparent optical material, a laser source is coupled to the monolithic optics piece to provide a laser beam to the optics piece, and a beam steerer connected to the optics piece to direct the laser beam output from the optics piece onto a target.
US11025018B2	Charging inlet It is aimed to provide a charging inlet easily mountable on a body of a vehicle. A charging inlet is fixed to a vehicle body (10) and includes a housing main body (30) having a plurality of terminals accommodated inside, a mounting plate provided on an outer peripheral surface of the housing main body and arranged on an inner surface side of the vehicle body (10), bolts (50) inserted into first through holes formed in the mounting plate and second through holes formed in the vehicle body (10), and nuts (60) provided on an outer surface side of the vehicle body (10) and threadably engaged with the bolts (50).
US11025016B2	Electrical assembly to prevent improper installation An electrical assembly is provided with a housing with an opening. An electrical terminal assembly is received within the housing. A cover is in cooperation with the housing to enclose the opening. An interference projection extends from a terminal position assurance assembly (TPA) or the cover and is in cooperation with the other of the TPA or the cover to prevent the cover from enclosing the opening of the housing when the electrical terminal assembly is improperly installed in the housing.
US11025014B1	Shield component for use with modular electrical connector to reduce crosstalk A shield member for use in a modular electrical connector. The shield member includes mounting sections and shielding sections. The mounting sections are for mounting to a substrate. The shielding sections have first sections and second sections. The second sections are positioned in a different plane than the first sections. Transition sections extend between the first sections and the second sections. Substrate receiving slots are provided in the first sections and the second sections. Resilient portions are provided on either side of the substrate receiving slots. Contact surfaces extend into the substrate receiving slots. The resilient portions cause a normal force to be applied to the contact surfaces to maintain the contact surfaces in mechanical and electrical engagement with respective ground traces of modules of the modular electrical connector.
US11025010B2	High frequency electrical connector An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained therein. The housing forms a central slot along a longitudinal direction, and includes a base, opposite first wall and second wall extending from the base and located by two sides of the central slot. The contact includes a retaining section retained to the corresponding first or second wall, and a spring arm with a contacting section at a free end, extending from the retaining section and into the central slot wherein a width/thickness ratio in the contacting section is set within a range between 0.8˜1.28.
US11025004B2	Circuit card assemblies for a communication system A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB and a first electrical connector having a receptacle housing and a mating housing received in the receptacle housing and being movable in the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction along a connector mating axis. The second circuit card assembly includes a second PCB and a second electrical connector having a header housing holding second contacts. The first PCB and/or the second PCB includes a slot receiving the other PCB in a board loading direction. The receptacle housing is coupled to the header housing in the board loading direction and the mating housing is movable within the receptacle housing toward the header housing in a connector mating direction generally perpendicular to the board loading direction.
US11024992B2	Tap clamp A clamp provides electrical communication between a first conductor and a second conductor. The clamp includes a first housing portion having a first surface, a second surface, a first housing bore, and a cavity, the first housing bore extending along a longitudinal axis. The clamp further includes a clamp member at least partially disposed within the cavity of the first housing portion, the clamp member including a first clamp surface adjacent the second surface of the housing in a facing relationship. The clamp further includes a shaft oriented parallel to the longitudinal axis, the shaft coupling the first housing portion and the clamp member. The clamp further includes a second housing portion movably coupled to the first housing portion by the shaft, the second housing portion including a second housing bore and a second clamp surface, the second housing bore aligned with the longitudinal axis, the second clamp surface adjacent the first surface of the first housing portion in a facing relationship.
US11024991B2	Receptacle terminal A receptacle terminal includes a base portion having a plate shape extending in a transverse direction and a longitudinal direction and a plurality of pairs of elastic arms arranged in sequence and spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction. Each of the elastic arms has a contact portion contacting a plug terminal inserted into the receptacle terminal. A distance from the contact portions of a middle pair of elastic arms to the base portion is less than a distance from the contact portions of another two pairs of elastic arms to the base portion.
US11024990B2	Connector assembly for connecting multiple cables to electrical device A connector is configured to mate with a second connector and a third connector. The connector includes a housing, terminals equipped in the housing that are configured to connect to third terminals provided in the third connector, and coupling terminals that can at least connect to a second terminal provided in the second connector. The terminals include an electric wire connecting part that is configured to connect to electric wires included in a cable connected to the housing and a contact part that is configured to make contact with the third terminals. The electric wire connecting part and contact part positions are offset with regard to a direction orthogonal to a mating direction.
US11024984B2	Contact carrier, electrical contact unit and a method of producing a cable assembly A contact carrier for an electrical contact device comprises a contact carrier body and a contact element disposed in the contact carrier body. The contact carrier body has a connecting section and a conductor clamping section. The conductor clamping section is substantially closed in a circumferential direction of the contact carrier body and extends along a longitudinal direction of the contact carrier body. The contact element has a contact section extending from the connecting section for contacting a mating contact element.
US11024983B2	Terminal-equipped electric wire A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire having a core wire and a covering, a crimp terminal including a core wire crimp portion and a covering crimp portion, and a resin that integrally covers a range from a tip of the core wire to side surfaces of the covering crimp portion and that shields the core wire from an external space. The covering crimp portion has each of the bottom wall portion, the first crimping piece, and the second crimping piece coming in close contact with the covering, and the covering crimp portion is crimped to the covering with the first crimping piece laid over a tip portion of the second crimping piece. The resin closes a gap surrounded by the tip surface of the second crimping piece, an inner surface of the first crimping piece, and an outer surface of the covering.
US11024982B2	Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus may include: a feed line; a ground plane disposed around a portion of the feed line; a feed via electrically connected to the feed line; a first end-fire antenna pattern disposed in front of the ground plane to be spaced apart from the ground plane, and electrically connected to the feed via; a second end-fire antenna pattern electrically connected to the feed line and disposed farther forward than the first end-fire antenna pattern; and a third end-fire antenna pattern electrically connected to the feed via, and disposed in front of the first end-fire antenna pattern in such a manner that a portion of the third end-fire antenna pattern overlaps the second end-fire antenna pattern.
US11024981B2	Multi-band endfire antennas and arrays An antenna assembly includes a first antenna element coupled to RF circuitry via a first feeder, and a second antenna element coupled to the RF circuitry via a second feeder. The first feeder and the second feeder have different shapes. The first antenna element and the second antenna element radiate in different frequency bands and in a direction parallel to a ground plane. The ground plane is disposed on at least one layer in a substrate that includes a plurality of layers parallel to one another. The first antenna element is disposed on first one or more of the layers and the second antenna element is disposed on second one or more of the layers, which are different from the first one or more of the layers. Another antenna assembly includes a first subarray of the first antenna elements and a second subarray of the second antenna elements.
US11024976B2	Mobile terminal The present invention provides a mobile terminal, which includes a Vivaldi antenna system arranged in the mobile terminal, wherein the Vivaldi antenna system includes two pairs of Vivaldi antenna arrays, opening directions of one pair of the Vivaldi antenna arrays are along a length direction of the mobile terminal, opening directions of the other pair of the Vivaldi antenna arrays are along a thickness direction of the mobile terminal, and each pair of the Vivaldi antenna arrays includes two Vivaldi antenna arrays with opposite opening directions, and the Vivaldi antenna arrays operate in a frequency band of 5G millimeter waves. Compared with the related art, the mobile terminal provided by the present disclosure has wide and uniform beam bandwidths in a non-scanning direction, thus achieving excellent spatial coverage efficiency.
US11024966B2	Antenna and terminal device having same An antenna includes first and second feed points spaced apart at a same side of a device main body, and a first grounding point in a receiving area. The first and second feed points and the first grounding point are respectively electrically connected with a first contact point at a first frame, a second contact point at a second frame, and a third contact point at the first frame and a fourth contact point on the main body. An electrical connection body including the first feed point, the first and third contact points, the first grounding point, and the fourth contact point constitutes a first antenna. An electrical connection body including the second feed point, the second contact point, and junction point of the second frame and the main body constitutes a second antenna. The first grounding point is adjacent to the second antenna.
US11024963B2	Dual band antenna plate and method for manufacturing A wireless device with an antenna plate includes one or more components; and at least one antenna integrally formed with the antenna plate. The at least one antenna has a low frequency section and a high frequency section, wherein the high frequency section has a slot, the dimensions of the slot being formed in part by a parasitic arm formed within the high frequency section. A method for manufacturing a wireless device having an antenna plate includes stamping a metallic sheet to form the antenna plate having at least one antenna element; and folding the at least one dual-band antenna element about a portion of a perimeter of the stamped sheet forming an upper surface, a side wall and a lower surface of the at least one antenna element.
US11024962B2	Beam forming using an antenna arrangement There is provided mechanisms for beam forming using an antenna array comprising dual polarized elements. A method comprises generating one or two beam ports, wherein the one or two beam ports are defined by combining at least two non-overlapping subarrays. Each subarray has two subarray ports, the two subarray ports having identical power patterns and mutually orthogonal polarization. The at least two non-overlapping subarrays are combined via expansion weights. The expansion weights map the one or two beam ports to subarray ports such that the one or two beam ports have the same power pattern as the subarrays. At least some of the expansion weights have identical non-zero magnitude and are related in phase to form a transmission lobe. The method comprises transmitting signals using said one or two beam ports.
US11024960B2	Scanned antenna and method of manufacturing scanned antenna A scanning antenna includes a TFT substrate including a plurality of TFTs supported by a first dielectric substrate and a plurality of patch electrodes, a slot substrate including a slot electrode supported by a second dielectric substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate, and a reflective conductive plate disposed opposing the second dielectric substrate across a dielectric layer. The slot electrode includes a plurality of slots disposed corresponding to the plurality of patch electrodes, each patch electrode is connected to a drain of the corresponding TFT, the slot electrode includes Cu layers, and lower metal layers and/or an upper metal layer, and the lower metal layer and/or the upper metal layer decrease about a half or more of a tensile stress of the Cu layer.
US11024958B2	1D phased array antenna for radar and communications A phased array antenna system has at least one trough reflector, each trough reflector having at least one phased array located at a feed point of the reflector, and an array of elements located near to a point equal to one half of a center transmission wavelength. A method of decoding a receive signal includes propagating a transmit signal through a transmit and a receive path of a phased array to generate a coupled signal, digitizing the coupled signal, storing the digitized coupled signal, receiving a signal from a target, and using the digitized coupled signal to decode the signal from the target. A method of modeling the ionosphere includes transmitting measuring pulses from an incoherent scattering radar transmitter, receiving incoherent scatter from the transmitting, and analyzing the incoherent scatter to determine pulse and amplitude of the incoherent scatter to profile electron number density of the ionosphere.
US11024954B2	Semiconductor package with antenna and fabrication method thereof A method of forming a semiconductor package structure includes providing a first wafer-level package structure having a die region surrounded by a scribe line region. The first wafer-level package structure includes a first encapsulating layer, a first redistribution layer (RDL) structure formed on the first encapsulating layer, a first antenna element formed in the first RDL structure and corresponding to the die region, and a semiconductor die in the first encapsulating layer and corresponding to the die region. A second wafer-level package structure is bonded onto the first RDL structure using a first adhesive layer. The second wafer-level package structure includes a second encapsulating layer attached to the first adhesive layer, and a second antenna element formed on the second encapsulating layer. The second antenna element and the first antenna element form a pitch antenna after the bonding of the second wafer-level package structure.
US11024951B2	Antenna devices A vehicular antenna device includes an antenna unit transmitting and receiving various electromagnetic waves or signals, an antenna cover configured to cover the antenna unit, and a pad attached to an inner peripheral surface of the antenna cover. The antenna unit is attached to the antenna cover with the pad disposed therebetween. The pad includes a postural adjusting member formed therein. The postural adjusting member is configured to be elastically compressed in a condition in which the antenna device is attached to a roof of a vehicle.
US11024950B2	Wideband laser-induced plasma filament antenna with modulated conductivity An antenna comprising: a radio frequency (RF) coupler; a transceiver communicatively coupled to the RF coupler; a laser configured to generate a plurality of femtosecond laser pulses so as to create, without the use of high voltage electrodes, a laser-induced plasma filament (LIPF) in atmospheric air, wherein the laser is operatively coupled to the RF coupler such that RF energy is transferred between the LIPF and the RF coupler; and wherein the laser is configured to modulate a characteristic of the laser pulses at a rate within the range of 1 Hz to 1 GHz so as to modulate a conduction efficiency of the LIPF thereby creating a variable impedance LIPF antenna.
US11024948B2	User device having half slot antenna A user device includes an enclosure having an interior mounting surface for receiving one or more functional components. An antenna assembly has an electrical interface connectable to at least one of the one or more functional components. The antenna assembly includes a first half slot antenna angularly formed along both inner perimeter sides of a first corner of the enclosure.
US11024946B2	Antenna device and wireless communication device An antenna device includes: a ground plane which has an edge side; a metal member arranged along the edge side of the ground plane; a first connection line which couples the metal member and the ground plane; a second connection line which couples the metal member and the ground plane; and a power feeding element which has a power feeding point, extends along the metal member from the power feeding point between the first connection line and the second connection line, and is electromagnetic-field-coupled to the metal member.
US11024944B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device using same An antenna structure includes a metal housing, a first feed source, and a second feed source. The metal housing includes a front frame, a backboard, and a side frame. The side frame is positioned between the front frame and the backboard. The side frame defines a slot and the front frame defines a gap. The gap communicates with the slot and extends across the front frame. The metal housing is divided into at least a long portion and a short portion by the slot and the gap. The first feed source is electrically connected to the long portion and the second feed source is electrically connected to the short portion.
US11024941B2	Window glass for vehicle and antenna A window glass for a vehicle includes a glass plate; a dielectric having a first surface on a side facing the glass plate, and a second surface; a first electrode arranged between the glass plate and the first surface; a second electrode arranged on the second surface side such that the dielectric is interposed between the first and second electrodes; and an antenna element arranged between the glass plate and the first surface, and connected to the first electrode, the antenna element receiving at least an electromagnetic wave in a frequency band of AM broadcasting, and a coupling capacitance between the first and second electrodes satisfying a condition determined by an antenna capacitance of the antenna element, an input capacitance of an amplifier connected to the second electrode, a voltage value output from the second electrode, and a reception voltage value of the antenna element.
US11024937B2	High power broadband terahertz emitter with enhanced stability and beam polarity Systems and methods are provided for enhancing the terahertz power output of a terahertz beam while increasing its stability and its beam polarity by implementing a pair of pinched ripple electrodes and a small flat section in the middle of each electrode. By using tight control over the design parameters and by exploiting the plasmonic effect and the superradiance effect, systems and methods according to embodiments of the present disclosure can achieve a dramatic improvement in the terahertz output power and beam quality as well as the beam stability.
US11024934B2	Three-dimensional dielectric structure The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional dielectric structure comprising at least one input and at least one output configured to transmit electromagnetic waves of at least one predetermined wavelength, a metamaterial between the at least one input and the at least one output comprising a substrate and objects with a predetermined dielectric characteristic different to the dielectric characteristic of the substrate, the objects being distributed in the substrate according to a spatially varying distribution function that depends on the wavelength. The disclosure further relates to a method of forming a three-dimensional dielectric structure.
US11024932B1	Tunable frequency selective limiter A tunable frequency selective limiter is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the tunable frequency selective limiter includes a first electrically conductive path. The tunable frequency selective limiter also includes a ferrimagnetic layer disposed adjacent to the first electrically conductive path. The tunable frequency selective limiter further includes a second electrically conductive path coiled around the first electrically conductive path and the ferrimagnetic layer. An electromagnetic current transmitting through the second electrically conductive path produces a magnetic field coupled to the ferrimagnetic layer. The tunable frequency selective limiter further includes a dielectric layer, wherein the ferrimagnetic layer is disposed on the dielectric layer. The portions of the second electrically conductive path that are at the interface of the dielectric layer and the ferrimagnetic layer may be embedded into the dielectric layer or may be disposed on the surface of the dielectric layer.
US11024929B2	Battery pack including release cover A battery pack including: a battery cell provided with electrode terminals formed on one surface thereof and including a sealing surplus portion; a release cover having a label portion attached onto the one surface of the battery cell and displaying information; and a protection circuit module assembly connected to the battery cell through the electrode terminals, wherein the protection circuit module assembly may include: a protection circuit substrate electrically connected to the electrode terminals; an external input/output terminal formed on the protection circuit substrate; and an insulation member positioned between the protection circuit substrate and the battery cell, and wherein the release cover may be formed to enclose the protection circuit module assembly seated on the sealing surplus portion.
US11024927B2	Electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery An electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment includes a belt-like current collector, a mixture layer formed on each surface of the current collector, and a lead bonded to an exposed portion of the current collector where the surfaces of the current collector are exposed, the lead extending from one end of the current collector, the one end and another end constituting both ends of the current collector in the width direction. The mixture layer on at least one surface of the current collector is formed in the width direction of the current collector and adjacent to the exposed portion on the other end side, and the length in the width direction of a portion of the lead disposed on the current collector ranges from 60% to 98% of the width of the current collector.
US11024926B2	Leadtab assembly and battery cell having the same A leadtab assembly may include an electrode non-coating portion having a plurality of stacked electrodes collected inside a battery cell, a leadtab for forming an electrical path to the outside of the battery cell, and a bonding portion for mutually bonding the electrode non-coating portion and the leadtab, wherein a cutting prevention portion is elastically deformed by the force applied to the electrode non-coating portion as the electrode is expanded at the bonding point located between the bonding portion and the leadtab.
US11024924B2	Methods of welding a bonding connector of a contact plate to a battery cell terminal Embodiments are directed to establishing a direct electrical bond between a bonding connector of a contact plate and a battery cell in a battery module. In a first embodiment, an oscillating laser is used to weld the bonding connector to a battery cell terminal over a target area over which the bonding connector makes non-flush contact. In a second embodiment, the bonding connector is flattened to reduce a gap between the bonding connector and the target area on the battery cell terminal, and then laser-welded (e.g., using an oscillating or non-oscillating laser). In a third embodiment, at least one hold-down mechanism is applied over the bonding connector to secure the bonding connector to the battery cell terminal, after which the bonding connector is laser-welded to the battery cell terminal.
US11024923B2	Electrochemical cells comprising short-circuit resistant electronically insulating regions The present disclosure is related to electrochemical cells and associated methods. According to certain embodiments, the electrochemical cells comprise an electronically insulating region. In some embodiments, the electronically insulating region can be mechanically compliant. In some embodiments, the insulating region may comprise multiple layers (e.g., mechanically separable layers). The use of such arrangements can, according to certain embodiments, reduce the degree to which the electronically insulating region is breached by lithium dendrite growth.
US11024922B2	Cap assembly comprising guide member for preventing escape of safety vent Disclosed herein is a cap assembly disposed on an open upper end part of a cylindrical can of a battery, the battery being configured to have an electrode assembly mounted in the cylindrical can, the cap assembly including a safety vent configured to rupture in order to exhaust gas when the interior pressure of the battery reaches a predetermined pressure limit, an upwardly-protruding cap plate disposed on the upper part of the safety vent, the cap plate having a through-opening configured to receive the gas exhausted therethrough, a current interrupt member attached to the lower end of the safety vent, the current interrupt member configured to interrupt electric current when the interior pressure of the battery reaches the predetermined pressure limit, and a guide member attached to the inside of the cap plate, the guide member being configured to prevent escape of a ruptured portion of the safety vent.
US11024919B2	Battery pack with secure-locking mechanism and shock absorbing system with easy insertion mode An improved battery pack is inserted in a handle portion of a handheld scanner. The battery pack has an integral shock absorbing system where the structure surrounding the battery cell provides advantageous shock protection. The improved battery pack has a locking and unlock mechanism for retention of the battery pack. The locking and unlock mechanism retains the battery pack in the handheld scanner in the event of a shock or impact.
US11024914B2	Assembled battery Productivity of an assembled battery is improved by shortening the takt time for assembly. An assembled battery (100) includes a battery module group (B) including one or more battery cells (150) and a cell holder (120) for holding the one or more battery cells (150), and an auxiliary module group (S) including components (210, 220, 230, 240) and a pedestal (200) on which the components (210, 220, 230, 240) are arranged. The battery module group (B) and the auxiliary module group (S) are attached together by the pedestal (200) being fastened to the cell holder (120) with bus bars (164, 165, 285, 286).
US11024912B2	Method of sealing side portion of pouch-shaped battery including two-step sealing process Disclosed herein is a method of sealing a side portion of a pouch-shaped battery including an electrode current collector and a pouch-shaped battery case, the method including bending a lower case and an upper case connected to the lower case such that the upper case faces the lower case and the electrode current collector is disposed in the lower case, the lower case and the upper case being connected to one another at a bent portion of the pouch-shaped battery case, a primary sealing step of sealing the lower end part of the side portion of the pouch-shaped battery case adjacent to the bent portion of the pouch-shaped battery case, and a secondary sealing step of sealing the entirety of the side portion of the pouch-shaped battery case.
US11024901B2	Battery cooling plate with integrated air vents A cooling system for cooling battery cells includes a plate assembly defining a chamber. The chamber is configured to receive a fluid therein. A plurality of apertures extend through the plate assembly. Each of the plurality of apertures is configured to align with a cell vent of one of the battery cells.
US11024895B2	Charging apparatus for lithium-ion secondary battery and method for charging and discharging lithium-ion secondary battery A charging apparatus for a lithium-ion secondary battery in which a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte are housed in a battery case, includes an electrode shape changing unit that physically changes the shape of at least one electrode of the cathode and the anode at the time of charging or discharging the lithium-ion secondary battery so as to expand at least a part of a void which is formed in the electrode and which is to be penetrated by the electrolyte, and restores the physically changed shape of the electrode after charging or discharging the lithium-ion secondary battery.
US11024891B2	Reusable battery indicator with lock and key mechanism A reusable battery indicator includes a voltage sensor configured to convert sensed analog characteristics of a battery to digital information; a communication circuit communicatively connected to the voltage sensor; an antenna operatively coupled to the communication circuit; and a connection mechanism having at least a first connector and a second connector that are electrically connected to the voltage sensor, the first connector and the second connector being adapted to be removably connected to a first battery terminal and to a second battery terminal, respectively, thereby completing an electrical circuit between the voltage sensor and the first and second battery terminals when the connection mechanism is coupled to the first battery terminal and to the second battery terminal. One or more of the first connector and the second connector include part of a mechanical lock and key assembly.

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