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| US11096689B2 |
Shaft assembly comprising a lockout
An end effector is disclosed comprising a cartridge channel, a staple cartridge positionable in the cartridge channel, and a firing assembly configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge is not positioned in the cartridge channel. Moreover, the firing assembly is configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge has been at least partially spent. |
| US11096683B2 |
Powered endoscopic suturing device
An endoscopic stitching device includes an actuation shaft, a tool assembly, and a drive assembly. The tool assembly includes a suture needle and a pair of jaws transitionable between open and closed positions. Each jaw includes a needle engaging blade slidably supported thereon. Each needle engaging blade is transitionable between an extended position in which the needle engaging blade engages the suture needle and a retracted position in which the needle engaging blade is disengaged from the suture needle. The drive assembly includes first, second, and third electrical actuators. The first actuator is operatively coupled with the actuation shaft to cause axial displacement of the actuation shaft. The axial displacement of the actuation shaft causes opening and closing of the pair of jaws. The second and third actuators are operatively coupled with the needle engaging blades to provide axial displacement of the needle engaging blades. |
| US11096682B2 |
Surgical instrument for manipulating and passing suture
A suture manipulating instrument for passing and retrieving suture through a tissue includes a handle mechanism, an elongate shaft extending from the handle, and a working distal end. The working distal end includes a needle body, a lumen defined by the needle body, a tissue penetrating distal tip, and a lateral slot. A preformed inner member is movably disposed within the lumen of the needle. The handle mechanism is used to extend the wire from the lateral slot of the needle, and to retract the wire into the lateral slot, allowing the working end of the instrument to grasp and manipulate suture by pinning and/or trapping the suture against the needle. In embodiments the inner member is further retracted within the needle lumen, drawing a length of suture into the needle lumen. The suture is subsequently ejected from the needle lumen to form a suture loop. |
| US11096681B2 |
All-suture suture anchor systems and methods
An all-suture suture anchor system includes an all-suture anchor, an inserter, and a specially designed drill. The drill is used to enlarge the hole and create a pocket under the bone surface from the pre-drilled hole. The created pocket is intended to accommodate the expansion of the anchor when deployed into the bone, generating a true mechanical interference under the bone surface. The anchor is loaded on the inserter and placed at full length vertically inside the drilled hole. While holding the inserter on top of the drilled hole, so that a feature on the inserter keeps the anchor to a desired depth below the bone surface, tension is applied to the suture limb that is connected to the bottom end of the anchor. This tensioning step causes the length of the anchor to contract vertically and the anchor is simultaneously expanded circumferentially to fill the pocket previously created by the drill. Since the pocket created by the drill is intended to contain the deployed anchor, the deployed position of the anchor is consistently predictable. |
| US11096677B2 |
Regions of varying physical properties in a compressible cell collection device
Methods, apparatuses and systems for collecting cells from a body lumen are described. The system may include a cell collection device and a capsule configured to releasably retain the cell collection device. The cell collection device may comprise a plurality of distinct regions, each region comprising one or more material properties. In some instances, at least one material property of at least one distinct region differs from at least one material property of at least one other distinct region. The distinct regions may comprise different materials or may comprise the same material where at least one of the distinct regions is mechanically or chemically altered to yield the at least one differing material property. |
| US11096675B2 |
System for the asservation of hair samples
A system for asservation of at least one hair including a hair root and a hair shaft are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes transport and/or storage containers, or cultivation containers. Also disclosed are methods for transporting and/or storing hair, for culturing keratinocytes from hair, and for generating induced pluripotent stem cells from keratinocytes. |
| US11096673B2 |
Ultrasound imaging system with a transmit pulse sequence generator circuit
A transmit signal generator is provided. The transmit signal generator has an n−1 bit comparator having a first set of n−1 input lines and a second set of n−1 input lines and an output line, the n−1 bit comparator operable to compare signals of the first set of n−1 input lines and signals of the second set of n−1 input lines and provide the output of the n−1 bit comparator based on the comparison, and an n-bit binary counter having a clock signal input line, a reset signal input line, a clock enable line connected to the output line of the n−1 bit comparator, and n output lines. One of the n output lines provides a sequence of pulse as an output of the transmit signal generator. |
| US11096671B2 |
Sparkle artifact detection in ultrasound color flow
Sparkle in color flow imaging is detected. Color flow data is estimated with different pulse repetition frequency (PRF). By correlating the color flow data estimated with different PRFs, sparkle is identified. Color flow images may be filtered to reduce motion while maintaining the sparkle region (e.g., kidney stone imaging) or reduce the sparkle region while maintaining motion (e.g., remove sparkle as system noise). |
| US11096668B2 |
Method and ultrasound apparatus for displaying an object
An ultrasound apparatus includes a touch screen configured to display, on an ultrasound image, a touch recognition region of an object used as a measurement mark; and a controller configured to move the object and the touch recognition region, in response to an input for touching and dragging the touch recognition region, to detect, from a portion of the ultrasound image which corresponds to the touch recognition region, a line formed by connecting points at which a brightness variation of a pixel is greater than a threshold value, and to move the object to a position of the detected line by using coordinates of the detected line. |
| US11096667B2 |
Ultrasound imaging apparatus and method of controlling the same
A method of controlling an ultrasound imaging apparatus includes setting a region of interest on a contrast-enhanced image or an ultrasound image that is registered and displayed; obtaining feature information of the contrast-enhanced image or the ultrasound image from the set region of interest; detecting at least one region, in which feature information similar to the feature information of the region of interest is obtained; and displaying the at least one region that is detected. |
| US11096666B2 |
Ultrasound apparatus having switches
An ultrasound apparatus includes transducers, switches, a pulser, receiver, and processing unit, each transducer connected to the pulser and receiver via one switch and a single communications channel; the processing unit includes a memory and processor, is connected to the pulser and receiver, and identifies a first number that indicates a first aperture size, generates responses from the transducers, and processes the responses to produce image data; and the processor generates each response by selecting contiguous or non-contiguous transducers, the number being equal to the first number, for each switch connected to a selected transducer, sending a signal instructing the switch to connect the transducer to the communications channel, sending instructions to simultaneously fire selected transducers, with a pulse provided simultaneously to each selected transducer via the communications channel, and receiving a single response via the communications channel and receiver, which is the combination of outputs of the selected transducers. |
| US11096661B2 |
Coherent spread-spectrum coded waveforms in synthetic aperture image formation
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging using spread-spectrum, wide instantaneous band, coherent, coded waveforms. In one aspect, a method includes synthesizing a composite waveform formed of a plurality of individual orthogonal coded waveforms that are mutually orthogonal to each other, correspond to different frequency bands and including a unique frequency with a corresponding phase; transmitting an acoustic wave based on the composite waveform toward a target from one or more transmitting positions; and receiving at one or more receiving positions acoustic energy returned from at least part of the target corresponding to the transmitted acoustic waveforms, in which the transmitting and receiving positions each include one or both of spatial positions of an array of transducer elements relative to the target and beam phase center positions of the array, and the transmitted acoustic waveforms and the returned acoustic waveforms produce an enlarged effective aperture. |
| US11096660B2 |
Ultrasound devices methods and systems
Ultrasound methods, devices, and systems are described which support a useful compromise in terms of spatial resolution and temporal resolution for capturing motion in tissue structures. Tissue engineering articles, methods, systems, and devices which employ ultrasound to deliver biological agents to selected regions of a tissue scaffold, deliver mechanical stimulation to cells growing in a tissue scaffold, and enhance the perfusion of fluids through tissue scaffolds. |
| US11096657B2 |
Laser light source for instrument tip visualization
A laser light source transmits laser light to a tip of an interventional instrument such as a needle via an optical fiber. The laser light is absorbed at the distal tip of the instrument and generates a photoacoustic signal. The laser light source is configured to receive a trigger signal from an ultrasound machine when a laser pulse is to be produced. The light source signals the ultrasound machine when an optical connector is connected to the laser light source to automatically begin a needle tip (NTV) visualization mode. If the optical connector is removed from the laser light source, the laser light source stops producing laser light pulses. |
| US11096651B2 |
Systems and methods for mechanically calibrating a multidetector of a nuclear medicine imaging system
Methods and systems are provided for calibrating a nuclear medicine imaging system having more than 5 detector heads. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining residual center of gravity determinations corresponding to each of a plurality of detector units based on point source projections acquired over a series of detector unit rotational steps, obtaining center of gravity determinations for each of the plurality of detector units based on point source projections acquired over a series of detector unit sweep angles, obtaining a fit of the center of gravity determinations for each of the plurality of detector units, and determining a sweep offset for each of the plurality of detector units based on the residual center of gravity determinations and the fit of the center of gravity determinations for each of the plurality of detector units. In this way, a sweep axis zero degree position for each of the plurality of detector units is determined. |
| US11096644B2 |
X-ray mammography with tomosynthesis
A method and system for producing tomosynthetic images of a patient's breast. An x-ray source that delivers x-rays through a breast immobilized and compressed between a compression paddle and a breast platform and form an image at a digital x-ray receptor panel. Multiple x-ray images are taken as the x-ray source and the receptor move relative to the immobilized breast. In one preferred embodiment, the x-ray source travels from −15° to +15°. The source can travel in an arc around the breast while the receptor travels linearly while remaining parallel and at the same distance from the breast platform. The sets of x-ray image data taken at different angles are combined to form tomosynthetic images that can be viewed in different formats, alone or as an adjunct to conventional mammograms. |
| US11096643B2 |
Medical image processing apparatus, method, and program
An image acquisition unit acquires a brain image of a subject. A cisternal region extraction unit extracts a cisternal region from the brain image by performing registration between a standard brain image and the brain image. Then, a bleeding region specifying unit specifies a bleeding region based on a first signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of the cisternal region extracted from the brain image, and a second signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of a cisternal region of the standard brain image. |
| US11096642B2 |
Methods and systems for X-ray tube conditioning
Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray tube conditioning for a computed tomography imaging method. In one embodiment, a scout scan may be carried out prior to a diagnostic to warmup the x-ray tube to a desired temperature for the diagnostic scan. A scout scan parameter optimizing algorithm may be used to determine scout scan parameters based on a selected patient absorbed dose range and an amount of energy to be imparted to an x-ray tube during the scout scan preceding a diagnostic scan. By using a hardening filter in the path of the x-ray beam, radiation absorbed dose of the subject being scanned may be limited to the selected patient absorbed dose range. |
| US11096637B2 |
X-ray imaging apparatus and patient support safety mechanism
The invention concerns an X-ray imaging apparatus for imaging a skull or a partial area of the skull, which apparatus comprises between the X-ray source and detector a patient support means (17). The patient support means (17) comprise a rear rest structure (170) containing a support part (171) arranged to get positioned at occipital area and a safety mechanism (173) in an area between its mounting point to the X-ray imaging apparatus (10) and said support pan (171). The safety mechanism (173) is arranged to go off when a force greater titan predetermined is acting on said support pan (171) and to release said support part (171) from its patient support position. |
| US11096636B2 |
Method and apparatus to obtain limited angle tomographic images from stationary gamma cameras
A nuclear imaging system and method for performing three-dimensional imaging of anatomical structures. The system and method includes two or more gamma ray detectors each used in combination with a variable-slant hole collimator. The detectors are positioned in close proximity to, or in contact with, the structure being imaged. The detectors remain in a stationary position during the data collection process. An imaging or reconstruction method is then used to reconstruct a three-dimensional image from the data derived from the detectors. |
| US11096622B2 |
Measuring muscle exertion using bone conduction
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for measuring user exertion via bone conduction. According to one aspect, a device can generate a measurement signal. The device can cause a transducer to transmit the measurement signal through a body of a user. The device can receive, via the transducer, a modified measurement signal. The modified measurement signal can include the measurement signal as modified by the body of the user. The device can compare the modified measurement signal to a modified baseline signal. The device can determine, based on a result of comparing the modified measurement signal to the modified baseline signal, a level of exertion experienced by the user while the measurement signal was transmitted through the body of the user. |
| US11096621B2 |
Detection of BRCA and other high risk carriers in breast tissue
A method and system for detecting the presence of BRCS carriers in breast tissue, comprises obtaining spectral data from breast tissue using a magnetic resonance spectroscopy device and producing spectral data by said device which provides chemical markers to enable detection of whether the breast tissue contains BRCA carriers. |
| US11096619B2 |
Neural analysis and treatment system
A neural analysis and treatment system includes a computing device with a memory for storing an application that is executable on a processor to receive amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) and range-EEG (rEEG) measurements associated with a patient. The systems determine a spectral edge frequency (SEF) measurement from the received EEG measurements, and determine one or more neural characteristics of the patient according to the determined SEF, aEEG, and rEEG measurements. These neural characteristics may then be used to identify and implement an appropriate therapeutic treatment. |
| US11096612B2 |
Methods of personalized microfiltration to detect cells from blood
The present application provides a Capillary number-based method of isolating circulating rare cells from a blood sample from a subject using filtration parameters determined based on the measurement of hemorheological parameters of the sample. The present application also provides a method for determining filtration parameters in a microfluidic elasto-filtration process for isolating circulating rare cells from a blood sample from a subject. The present application further provides a device for isolating circulating rare cells from a blood sample from a subject and a non-transitory computer storage medium for performing methods described in the present application. |
| US11096611B2 |
Method for providing a signal quality degree associated with an analyte value measured in a continuous monitoring system
A method providing a signal quality degree associated with an analyte value measured in a continuous monitoring system is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a measured analyte value from a biosensor; determining at least two impact parameters, wherein each of the impact parameters is influenced by an operational status of the continuous monitoring system and wherein each of the impact parameters is capable of exerting an influence on the signal quality of the biosensor and wherein the influence of each of the impact parameters on the signal quality of the biosensor is expressed by a weight assigned to each of the impact parameters; and determining the signal quality degree associated with the measured analyte value as a function of the weights and the corresponding impact parameters; and providing the signal quality degree associated with the analyte value. A method of calibration using the signal quality degree is also disclosed. |
| US11096608B2 |
Device and method for non-invasive measuring of analytes
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for non-invasive measuring of analytes. At least one embodiment relates to a wearable system for non-invasive measuring of a concentration of an analyte in skin tissue. The wearable system includes an integrated circuit that includes a first optical unit. The first optical unit includes a Raman spectrometer. The first optical unit also includes an OCT spectrometer and an interferometer optically coupled to the OCT spectrometer or an infrared (IR) spectrometer. The first optical unit additionally includes a light coupler. The wearable system further includes a first light source for performing Raman spectroscopy. The wearable system additionally includes a second light source for performing OCT spectroscopy or IR spectroscopy. Still further, the wearable system includes read-out electronics to determine an optical model of the skin tissue based on the spectroscopic data and to determine the concentration of the analyte. |
| US11096605B2 |
Modular coil assembly
In various specific embodiments, a localizer can include a plurality of coil groups, where each coil group includes three coils that are formed around a single center. Each of the three coils can be formed around separate jigs and the jigs can be interconnected to form the coil group. The jigs need not be annular, but may be formed in any appropriate configuration of shape or geometry for forming the final coil group. |
| US11096604B2 |
Determining a presence of an object
Methods, computing devices, and computer-readable medium are described herein related to producing detection signals configured to induce an excited state of an object. A computing device may receive reflection signals, where the reflection signals correspond to at least one detection signals reflected from the object. Based on the received reflection signals, a presence of the object in the excited state may be determined. Further, an output device may provide an indication of the presence of the object in the excited state. |
| US11096603B2 |
Systems and methods using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to evaluate pain and degenerative properties of tissue
NMR spectroscopy is performed on intervertebral disc tissue. Extent of degeneration is determined based on the NMR spectroscopy. Correlation between NMR spectral regions and at least one of tissue degeneration and pain are made. Accordingly, NMR spectroscopy is used to determine location and/or extent of at least one of degeneration or pain associated with a region of tissue, such as for example in particular disc degeneration, or discogenic pain. NMR spectral peak ratios, such as between N-Acetyl/cho and cho/carb, are readily acquired and analyzed to predict degree of tissue degeneration and/or pain for: tissue samples using HR-MAS spectroscopy; and larger portions of anatomy such as joint segments such as a spine, using clinical 3T MRI systems with surface head or knee coils; and tissue regions such as discs within spines of living patients using 3T MRI systems with a surface spine coil, thus providing a completely non-invasive diagnostic toolset and method to image and localize degeneration and/or pain. |
| US11096602B2 |
Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject utilizing a machine learning
Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject include acquiring and receiving data for a plurality of time series of fluorescence images, identifying one or more attributes of the data relevant to a clinical characterization of the tissue, and categorizing the data into clusters based on the attributes such that the data in the same cluster are more similar to each other than the data in different clusters, wherein the clusters characterize the tissue. The methods and systems further include receiving data for a subject time series of fluorescence images, associating a respective cluster with each of a plurality of subregions in the subject time series of fluorescence images, and generating a subject spatial map based on the clusters for the plurality of subregions in the subject time series of fluorescence images. The generated spatial maps may then be used as input for tissue diagnostics using supervised machine learning. |
| US11096596B2 |
Body-worn vital sign monitor
The invention provides a body-worn monitor featuring a processing system that receives a digital data stream from an ECG system. A cable houses the ECG system at one terminal end, and plugs into the processing system, which is worn on the patient's wrist like a conventional wristwatch. The ECG system features: i) a connecting portion connected to multiple electrodes worn by the patient; ii) a differential amplifier that receives electrical signals from each electrode and process them to generate an analog ECG waveform; iii) an analog-to-digital converter that converts the analog ECG waveform into a digital ECG waveform; and iv) a transceiver that transmits a digital data stream representing the digital ECG waveform (or information calculated from the waveform) through the cable and to the processing system. Different ECG systems, typically featuring three, five, or twelve electrodes, can be interchanged with one another. |
| US11096594B2 |
Multi-use endoscope with integrated device-patient monitoring and patient-provider positioning and disassociation system
A system having a scope with a longitudinal length extending between a proximal end and a distal end includes a plurality of markers spaced along the longitudinal length. The system also includes a disassociation and positioning device that is configured to enhance unsedated transnasal endoscopic procedures by at least partially occluding the vision of a patient while enabling body cavity access, and optionally record and sense body functions such as temperature, heart rate and oxygenation of the blood stream. The system further includes a sensor integrated into the distraction device, wherein the sensor is configured to detect the markers on the longitudinal length of the scope. |
| US11096592B2 |
Sensor module and biological information display system
A sensor module includes a light emitter that emits light beams including near-infrared light beams towards a subject; a light receiver that receives light beams having passed through the subject; and a controller that estimates biological information based on signals output from the light receiver. The light emitter includes a plurality of light emitting elements that emit near-infrared light beams having central wavelengths different from each other. The light emitter produces sets of light emissions by causing the plurality of light emitting elements to sequentially and intermittently emit the near-infrared light beams. In given two consecutive sets of light emissions produced by the light emitter, a second non-light-emission period of time T4 is longer than a first non-light-emission period of time T2. The controller estimates the biological information in a processing period of time T41 that is set in correspondence with the second non-light-emission period of time T4. |
| US11096590B2 |
Patch-based physiological sensor
The invention provides a body-worn patch sensor for simultaneously measuring a blood pressure (BP), pulse oximetry (SpO2), and other vital signs and hemodynamic parameters from a patient. The patch sensor features a sensing portion having a flexible housing that is worn entirely on the patient's chest and encloses a battery, wireless transmitter, and all the sensor's sensing and electronic components. It measures electrocardiogram (ECG), impedance plethysmogram (IPG), photoplethysmogram (PPG), and phonocardiogram (PCG) waveforms, and collectively processes these to determine the vital signs and hemodynamic parameters. The sensor that measures PPG waveforms also includes a heating element to increase perfusion of tissue on the chest. |
| US11096589B2 |
Bio-information output device, bio-information output method and program
The reliability of calculated bio-information of a subject is determined. When the reliability of the bio-information is determined to be high, the bio-information is output, whereas when the reliability of the bio-information is determined to be low, the bio-information is not output. Thus, among the calculated bio-information, only the bio-information of high reliability may be output, or distinctive display may be performed depending on the reliability, whereby it is possible to provide a bio-information output device and the like capable of easily determining bio-information of high reliability. |
| US11096585B2 |
Non-invasive optical measurement system and method for neural decoding
A non-invasive optical measurement system comprises an optical source for generating source light, and an interferometer for splitting the source light into sample light and reference light, delivering the sample light into an anatomical structure, resulting in physiological-encoded signal light that exits the anatomical structure, and combining the signal light and the reference light into at least three phase-modulated interference light patterns. The optical path lengths of the respective source light and sample light match within a coherence length of the source light. The system further comprises at least three optical detectors configured for respectively detecting the interference light patterns, and a processor configured for determining a time-lapsed complex field of the signal light based on the interference light patterns, determining a decorrelation speed of the time-lapsed complex field of the signal light, and identifying a physiological event in the anatomical structure based on the determined decorrelation speed of the signal light. |
| US11096582B2 |
Vascular access devices, systems, and methods for monitoring patient health
The present technology relates to vascular access devices, systems, and methods configured to monitor a patient's health. In some embodiments, the vascular access device may include a sensing element, and the system of the present technology may be configured to obtain physiological measurements of the patient via the sensing element, determine at least one physiological parameter based on the physiological measurement, compare the at least one physiological parameter to a predetermined threshold, and, based on the comparison, provide an indication of the patient's health. |
| US11096577B2 |
Proactive patient health care inference engines and systems
Health care monitoring and alerting systems are presented. Contemplated systems include a rule repository storing rules for sending notifications to interested parties regarding a patient's wellness status. An inference engine correlates actual, possibly real-time, patient wellness information with rule sets. If a patient's wellness status satisfies triggering criteria of a rule sets, the inference engine instructs a communication engine to send a notification to interested parties according to the rules set. |
| US11096576B2 |
Tunable-lens-based refractive examination
An apparatus, and corresponding method, for determining a refractive property of an eye includes a housing with a port configured to receive an eye and also light from the eye. A tunable lens can be mounted to the housing to apply a variable focal power to the light from the eye and to pass the light along an optical path toward a wavefront sensor within the housing. The wavefront sensor can receive the light via the optical path and measure a wavefront thereof. A determination module can be configured to determine a property of the eye based on the wavefront. Embodiments can be handheld, portable, and open view, while providing objective wavefront aberrometry, subjective phoroptry, and accommodation and presbyoptic evaluation, as well as lensometry functions. |
| US11096575B2 |
Rebound tonometer docking station and probe dispenser
A docking station for receiving a hand-held rebound tonometer and a probe container carrying disposable tonometer probes has a docking cavity for receiving a portion of the rebound tonometer and a container receptacle for receiving the probe container. The docking station has an actuation feature arranged to move a cover associated with the probe container from a closed position to an open position as the container is inserted into the container receptacle so that tonometer probes in the container are accessible. The actuation feature may include a projection extending into an entryway leading to the container receptacle for engaging the cover but not the container, such that further insertion of the container moves the cover from the closed to the open position. The docking station may also have a storage recess for receiving an empty probe tube and cap after the probe has been removed from the tube for use. |
| US11096572B2 |
Scanning optical system and observation apparatus
The disclosed technology is directed to placing two galvanometer mirrors in a pupil conjugate relationship and at the same time preventing astigmatism from occurring while preventing images from being degraded by flaws and foreign matter on a lens. A scanning optical system includes two one-dimensional scanning means disposed closely to each other at a spaced interval therebetween in an optical axis direction for scanning a light beam from a light source in two scanning directions. An objective lens for focusing the light beam scanned by the scanning means onto a target. A plurality of optical elements is disposed in positions spaced from an intermediate image plane in the optical axis direction and having different optical powers in the two scanning directions. The positions and the optical powers of the respective optical elements are set to compensate for the spaced interval between the two scanning means in the optical axis direction. |
| US11096571B2 |
Anomaloscope having pixels emitting monochromatic light at three wavelengths
An anomaloscope comprises a display and a controller of the display. The display has pixels arranged in a plurality of groups, each group containing at least three pixels, each pixel being capable of emitting monochromatic light at a distinct wavelength. The controller of the display causes the display to emit, in at least one of the plurality of groups, light at a first wavelength and causes the display to emit, in at least another one of the plurality of groups, light at two other wavelengths. The controller of the display controls intensities of the light emitted at each of the distinct wavelengths to generate of a pair of metameric colors between the light emitted at the first wavelength and a combination of the light emitted at the two other wavelengths. A method uses the anomaloscope to assess an ability of a subject to discriminate between colors. |
| US11096570B2 |
Method and system of enhancing ganglion cell function to improve physical performance
A method and a system of enhancing ganglion cell function using a gaming environment corresponding to a physical activity. The method and system may be used to implement one or more processes to improve a person's visual processing profile. In particular, the method and system may be used to improve a player's skill in the corresponding physical activity. |
| US11096564B2 |
Curved tube for endoscope and method of manufacturing curved tube for endoscope
A curved tube for an endoscope includes: a curved tube body including a locked portion provided on an inner peripheral surface of the curved tube body; an operation wire configured to perform a bending operation of the curved tube body; a pipe member which is press-fitted to the operation wire and is locked to the locked portion of the curved tube body; and particles interposed between an outer peripheral surface of the operation wire and an inner peripheral surface of the pipe member. The particles are higher in hardness than materials forming the operation wire and the pipe member and are buried to dig into the outer peripheral surface of the operation wire and the inner peripheral surface of the pipe member. |
| US11096563B2 |
Method of determining the shape of a bendable instrument
A method for determining a shape of a bendable instrument can include placing the bendable instrument in a neutral position; moving a first control element a first amount until slack is removed from the first control element; moving a second control element a second amount until slack is removed from the second control element; sensing a position of the first control element after moving the first control element the first amount, the sensed position of the first control element being defined as a first control element calibration position; sensing a position of the second control element after moving the second control element the second amount, the sensed position of the second control element being defined as a second control element calibration position. The method can further include bending the instrument by moving one or both of the first control element and the second control element from the respective first control element calibration position and the second control element calibration position; and determining a resulting shape of the bendable instrument based on a distance one or both of the first control element and the second control element respectively moved from the first control element calibration position and second control element calibration. |
| US11096562B2 |
Optical fiber scanning system and endoscope system
An optical fiber scanning system includes: an optical fiber with a magnet; four drive coils configured to apply a drive magnetic field generated using a drive power signal to the magnet; four detection coils configured to output a detection signal in response to variation of a magnetic field; a controller configured to perform feedback control of the drive power signal; a signal output circuit configured to output a drive signal; a voltage-current conversion circuit configured to convert the drive signal to the drive power signal; and a correction circuit configured to output a magnet magnetic field signal by removing the drive magnetic field signal from the detection signal, and the controller controls the signal output circuit based on the magnet magnetic field signal. |
| US11096558B2 |
Endoscope cover, endoscope, and cover unit
An endoscope cover includes: a cylindrical cover main body that is to be attached to a distal framing portion along a longitudinal axis of an insertion section, and that includes an annular portion which is to cover part of an outer periphery of the distal framing portion; and a fragile portion, at least part of which is provided on the annular portion of the cover main body. The cover main body is spaced apart from at least part of the distal framing portion, and forms a gap between the cover main body and the distal framing portion. The fragile portion is broken under application of an intended stress and configured to have a user recognize breakage of the fragile portion in cooperation with the gap. |
| US11096557B2 |
Endoscopy system having a miniature closed head
An endoscope assembly comprising a handle incorporating a liquid reservoir and injection system, a flexible or rigid cannula attaching to the handle, and a distally attached miniature imaging head. The imaging head is a transparent tubular shaped body having an essentially closed proximal end, and a tubular wall extending from the closed proximal end to the distal open end of the body. An optical source is attached to the closed proximal end, and its emitted illumination directed into the tubular wall of the body, such that said illumination is internally reflected within the tubular walls and is emitted from the distal open end. A detector array is disposed within the inner surfaces of the tubular wall section, and a lens images light reflected back into said imaging head, onto the detector array. The optical source is disposed radially inwards of the outer dimensions of the tubular shaped body. |
| US11096550B1 |
Semi-automatic ware washing sprayer system
A control box for a sprayer system is provided. The control box may include a wash flow path, a wash flow solenoid disposed in the wash flow path, a detergent supply assembly disposed in wash flow path, a rinse flow path, a rinse flow solenoid disposed in the rinse flow path, a common flow path, a flow switch disposed in the common flow path, an alternating relay, and a connection valve leading to a discharge flow path. The flow switch may be configured to provide a signal to the alternating relay. The alternating relay may be configured to control both the wash flow solenoid and the rinse flow solenoid. The connection valve may receive both the wash flow path and the rinse flow path. In another embodiment, a sprayer system including a control box and a sprayer unit is provided. |
| US11096547B1 |
Water discharge control structure of washing bucket capable of separating clean water from dirty water for washing cleaning tool
A water discharge control structure of a washing bucket capable of separating clean water from dirty water for washing a cleaning tool includes: a washing bucket body and a water storage tank, wherein the washing bucket body is internally provided with a lifting frame fitted with the cleaning tool, and the lifting frame is driven by the cleaning tool to be lifted and lowered relative to the washing bucket body; the water storage tank is connected to the washing bucket body and has a water outlet directing to the cleaning tool, a discharge of water of the water outlet is controlled by a plug, and when the lifting frame is in a high position, the lifting frame drives the plug to block the water outlet; and when the lifting frame is in a low position, the lifting frame drives the plug in a linked manner to open the water outlet. |
| US11096546B2 |
Mop head
The present invention provides a mop head comprising: a mop head frame formed with a plurality of concave connecting portion, a narrow connecting portion of each concave connecting portion includes a first set of protruding elements, a first hollow portion, a second set of protruding elements and a second hollow portion; and a cleaning member. The first set of protruding elements and second set of protruding elements of the narrow connecting portion clamp the cleaning member. The first hollow portion and the second hollow portion provide space that allows the cleaning member be firmly punched in concave connecting portion without damaging the narrow connecting portion by a punch. |
| US11096545B2 |
Robot cleaner
The present application relates to a robot cleaner. The robot cleaner of the present application includes: a main body which forms an external shape; a moving mechanism which moves the main body; a bumper which is positioned to protrude from an outer periphery of the main body; an impact sensor which is positioned obliquely in the main body to detect movement of the bumper; and a pressing unit having a curved end portion which presses the impact sensor, when the bumper moves. |
| US11096543B2 |
Surface cleaning apparatus
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly and adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid to a brushroll and at least one fluid delivery channel forming a portion of a fluid delivery pathway. The fluid delivery channel can extend adjacent to a portion of the suction nozzle assembly. An interference wiper interfaces with a portion of the brushroll to remove excess liquid from the brushroll. |
| US11096539B2 |
Surface cleaning apparatus
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly and adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid to a brushroll and at least one fluid delivery channel forming a portion of a fluid delivery pathway. The fluid delivery channel can extend adjacent to a portion of the suction nozzle assembly. An interference wiper interfaces with a portion of the brushroll to remove excess liquid from the brushroll. |
| US11096532B2 |
Vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped. |
| US11096529B1 |
Toothpaste rolling assembly
A toothpaste rolling assembly for squeezing toothpaste from a tube of toothpaste includes a key that has a slot extending therethrough to receive an end of a toothpaste tube thereby facilitating the toothpaste tube to be wrapped around the key. A gear is positionable around the key and a sleeve is slidable over the key. The sleeve has a slot therein to accommodate the toothpaste tube when the sleeve is slid over the key. The sleeve has a pair of lobes thereon and each of the lobes releasably engages the gear for retaining the sleeve at various points of rotation about the key. In this way the sleeve can be continually rotated on the key for squeezing toothpaste out of the toothpaste tube. |
| US11096527B2 |
Illuminated shower handle assembly
An illuminated shower handle assembly for dimly illuminating a bathroom at night includes a handle that is positionable in a recess of a shower stall in a residential bathroom. The handle can be gripped during showering and the handle is comprised of a translucent material. A light emitter is integrated into the handle and the light emitter illuminates the handle when the light emitter is turned on. In this way the handle acts as a night light for dimly illuminating the residential bathroom at night. |
| US11096526B2 |
Adaptable cooking apparatus
A cooking apparatus that combines microwave based heating/cooking with either of blender/mixer grinder functionality and traditional cooking using open flame and/or induction cooking is disclosed. The cooking apparatus comprises a lid and at least one microwave producing device coupled to the lid. A lifting and lowering mechanism carries the lid and microwave producing device at a lower end for enabling vertically raising and lowering the lid along with the coupled microwave producing device. Upper end of lifting and lowering mechanism is slidably configured with a lower side of a chimney. Lid in lowered position gets operatively coupled with a container holding a food item. The container can be one for cooking food using conventional source of heat, or a container for preparatory operations such as blending, stirring, grinding and mixing. Coupling of the lid with the containers enables heating of the contents of the container through the microwaves generated by the at least one microwave producing device. |
| US11096525B2 |
Cheese grater
A grating device is for grating a substantially solid product capable of being grated. A first housing of the grating device is positioned, shaped and sized for encasing the product to be grated. A second housing is operatively connectable to the first housing, the second housing having a loading section configured for receiving the product to be grated. A grating drum is rotatably mountable about the second housing, and positioned, shaped and sized for grating the product from the loading section of the second housing via rotation of the grating drum against the product. A biasing assembly is operatively cooperable with the first housing for biasing the product to be grated inside the loading section of the second housing towards and against the grating drum. |
| US11096520B2 |
Air flow cooking appliance
Food cooking appliance comprising: a centrifugal turbine arranged to create an air flow inside a cooking space, a steam extraction window arranged so as to extract, toward the exterior of the appliance, steam present inside the cooking space, wherein the extraction window has, at every point on its passageway surface, a normal direction with at least one non-zero component along a tangential direction to a circle centered on the centrifugal turbine and passing to the center of the extraction window. |
| US11096519B2 |
Automatic food preparation apparatus
In an embodiment, an automatic food preparation and serving apparatus comprises: a digital electronics storage controller configured to send signals representing an order input; a storage apparatus comprising a plurality of temperature-control regions and configured to hold one or more magazines in the plurality of temperature-control regions, each of the one or more magazines configured to store a plurality of food canisters, and configured to regulate temperature of contents in the plurality of food canisters in the plurality of temperature-control regions; a canister transport mechanism configured to transport the plurality of food canisters away from the storage apparatus; a food dispensing mechanism configured to receive the plurality of food canisters transported away from the storage apparatus and to dispense one or more ingredients stored in one or more of the plurality of food canisters according to the signals from the digital electronics storage controller. |
| US11096517B2 |
Selection valve and beverage system including same
A selection valve for a beverage preparation machine comprises a valve body with a hot water inlet, an air inlet, and at least a first outlet. A selector member is movably mounted relative to the valve body for movement between a first position in which the hot water inlet is in fluid communication with the at least first outlet, and a second position in which both the hot water inlet and the air inlet are in fluid communication with the at least first outlet. A satellite element has a predefined limited amount of free relative movement relative to the selector member for allowing the satellite element to be independently positioned between the first and second positions of the selector member. |
| US11096510B2 |
Self-assembling artificial tree
A disclosed artificial tree includes telescoping tubes in series of progressively smaller diameters nested within each other. The telescoping pole is engineered to erect in response to an erecting force. A base is configured to support the telescoping pole orthogonal to a top side of the base parallel to a floor side of the base. The base includes a release control switch for erection and for retraction of the artificial tree. An artificial helical bough encircles the telescoping pole many times. The artificial helical bough is mounted at an outside end to the base and mounted on an inside end to a smallest diameter telescoping tube. The artificial helical bough is preconfigured with an engineered spring force greater than a weight of the bough plus a weight of the telescoping pole to erect the artificial tree based on a state of the release control switch. |
| US11096509B2 |
Dual-chambered beverage container assembly
A dual-chambered beverage container assembly for separating two beverages includes a shell that defines an interior space. The shell has a top that is open. A wall is coupled to an inner surface of the shell and bisects the interior space from the top to a bottom of the shell to define a first and second chambers. A first beverage that is positioned in the first chamber is separated by the wall from a second beverage that is positioned in the second chamber. Each of a pair of tubes is coupled to a respective opposing side of the wall. A lower end of the tube is positioned proximate to a bottom of the shell and an upper end extends from the top of the shell. The tubes are configured to permit a user to simultaneously draw the first beverage and the second beverage into a mouth of the user. |
| US11096507B2 |
Cash wrap greeting card display
The present invention provides a flexible greeting card display assembly. The display includes a plurality of adjacent card pockets and flexible attachment plate which allows the display to be attached to various surfaces within a retail environment. |
| US11096501B2 |
Bedding retention assembly
A bedding retention assembly retains a fitted sheet over a mattress. The bedding retention assembly includes at least one base disposed adjacent the mattress. The base is flat in one embodiment and has a flange extending perpendicularly thereto in a second embodiment. At least one boss extends out from the at least one base. Each of a plurality of lines is partially redirected by the at least one boss. Each of the plurality of lines includes an attachment portion and a tightening portion. A plurality of attachment devices is fixedly secured to each of the attachment portions for attaching a portion of the bedding periphery to the bedding retention assembly. |
| US11096500B2 |
Floor-supported graduated lateral rotation apparatus
A lateral rotation apparatus includes a first frame, a second frame, and a third frame that are independently rotatable. The first frame, the second frame, and the third frame support a person support surface having head, torso, and leg segments. A first pair of legs is positioned below the first frame to rotate a head segment to a head tilt angle in the range of about 7 to about 30 degrees relative to a horizontal support plane. A second pair of legs is positioned below the second frame to rotate a torso segment to a torso tilt angle that is within a range of about 5 degrees to about 10 degrees less than the head tilt angle. |
| US11096498B1 |
Chair with integrated hanger
A chair includes a seating portion connected to a back portion and a hanger connected to the back portion. The hanger includes a front plate, a back plate opposing the front plate, and a plate separator defining a lower and an upper gap between the front plate and the back plate. An interior surface of the front plate that at least partially defines the lower gap includes a first concave radius of curvature opening away from the back plate and a sidewall portion angled towards the back plate. An interior surface of the plate separator that at least partially defines the lower gap includes a second concave radius of curvature opening away from the back plate and a sidewall portion angled towards the back plate. |
| US11096497B2 |
Seating arrangement
A seating arrangement includes an upwardly-extending back arrangement movable between upright and reclined positions, and a seat arrangement that includes a first link member extending horizontally and having forward and rearward portions, a second link member spaced from the first link member, a third link member coupled to the first and second link members and substantially flexible along a majority of a length thereof, and a fourth link member operably coupled to the first and second link members, the fourth link member being substantially rigid along a majority of a length thereof, wherein the link members cooperate to form a four-bar linkage assembly, and wherein the seat arrangement moves in a rearward direction as the back arrangement is moved between the upright position and the reclined position. |
| US11096496B2 |
Therapeutic chair with adjustable back and method of using the same
A therapeutic chair with an adjustable backrest and cushioned fulcrum pad allows users to extend their thoracic spine over the fulcrum of the adjustable chair back. The device allows the individual to sit on the chair and adjust the height of the backrest so the fulcrum is matched to the patient's need for movement. |
| US11096494B1 |
Fixing structure for a foot ring of a chair
A fixing structure for a foot ring of a chair includes a hub with a central hole formed with internal threads on an inner surface thereof; and a bush being a cylindrical body having a tapered outer surface with external threads. The bush has a shaft hole penetrating along a longitudinal axis of the bush, a groove penetrating through a wall of the bush, and at least one pad provided on an inner surface of the shaft hole. The bush is assembled with the hub by screwing the external threads of the bush with the internal threads of the hub. A supporting post penetrates through the shaft hole. When the bush rotates toward a first direction, the shaft hole is reduced to clamp and fix the supporting post, and when the bush rotates toward a second direction, the shaft hole is enlarged to release the supporting post. |
| US11096492B2 |
Oscillation system for chairs
An oscillation system (1) for chairs includes a backrest support (3) oscillating about a rotation axis (4), a first support element (6) of the seat coupled to the frame (2) to assume, in the at rest position of the backrest support (3), a plurality of relative vertical positions with respect to the frame (2) depending on, and by effect of, a weight force applied to the first support element (6). A first elastic element (21) opposes an elastic reaction to the backrest support oscillation with respect to an at rest position of the backrest support (3). A lever (31) connects to the first support element (6) to be rotated by the first support element (6) during variation of the relative position, and connects to the first anchoring end (22) to displace the first anchoring end (22). A fulcrum axis (60) does not coincide with the rotation axis (4). |
| US11096490B2 |
Furniture leg sock
A furniture leg protective sock is constructed of a stretchable/expandable non-friction material, which forms an outer surface and an inner surface. The furniture leg protective sock includes non-penetrating material to prevent the furniture leg from piercing through the non-friction material. |
| US11096488B2 |
Three-section linkage drawer slides apparatus
A three-section linkage drawer slides apparatus, includes an upper rail, a middle rail, a fixed rail, an upper linkage rack, and a lower linkage rack, wherein the middle rail is slidably connected to the fixed rail through the lower linkage rack, the upper rail is slidably connected to the middle rail through the upper linkage rack, the upper linkage rack and the lower linkage rack are of separate structures, the upper linkage rack is mounted between the middle rail and the upper rail after being assembled, and the lower linkage rack is mounted between the fixed rail and the middle rail after being assembled. The upper linkage rack and the lower linkage rack are configured as separate structures, the manufacturing process can thus be simplified, so the manufacturing cost is reduced. |
| US11096482B2 |
Benching system for vertically adjustable desks
A vertically adjustable desk benching system wherein a plurality of desks may be joined together. The vertically adjustable desks may each have a planar work surface and telescoping support legs which are operable to raise and lower the work surface. The vertically adjustable support legs may be telescoping legs. The benching system may include a main bracket which attaches to a plurality of adjoining vertically adjustable desks while a first and a second end bracket may attached front facing desks on either side of the centrally adjoining main bracket. |
| US11096480B2 |
Collapsible tray table
A collapsible tray table is provided. The collapsible tray table is adapted for use in confined seating situations. The collapsible tray table is movable between a collapsed condition and at least one operable condition. The collapsible tray table may have one or more tray legs and one or more second leg portions that depend from a tray top. The tray legs and second leg portions are interchangeable for providing different operable conditions and thus elevations of the tray table relative from its footing. The tray legs and second leg portions are adapted to removably connect to the underside of the tray table in a collapsed condition, thereby minimizing the low profile of the assembly in crowded seating arrangements. The collapsible tray table may provide handles and a carrying strap for facilitating transportation and manipulation of the tray table while in use. |
| US11096478B2 |
Device for filament end-rounding and a method for end-rounding toothbrush filaments
An end-rounding device comprises a movable body comprising an abrasive surface; a gearing for transferring a movement from a motor to the movable body; a providing unit for providing a plurality of bristle filament ends to the abrasive surface, wherein the providing unit comprises a clamping unit for clamping a bunch of filaments, wherein the bunch comprises a multiple of filaments of a bristle tuft; wherein the abrasive surface has a diameter from 80 mm to 300 mm and comprises a concave curvature oriented in the direction of the clamping unit; and wherein the clamping unit is movably spaced from the abrasive surface at a distance. A method of smoothening bristle filament ends utilizes the end-rounding device. |
| US11096477B2 |
Method and system for determining compliance with a guided cleaning session
A method (400) for determining a user's compliance with a guided cleaning session during use of an oral cleaning device (10) includes the steps of: (i) providing (410) an oral cleaning device including a sensor (28), a guidance generator (46), and a controller (30); (ii) providing (420), by the guidance generator, a guided cleaning session to the user; (iii) generating (430), at a first location during the guided cleaning session, sensor data from the sensor indicating a position or motion of the oral cleaning device; (iv) comparing (440) the generated sensor data to expected sensor data for the first location; and (v) generating (450), based on the comparison, an estimate of the user's compliance with the guided cleaning session. |
| US11096476B2 |
Personal care appliance with self-adaptive amplitude regulation via actuator non-linearity and active driving adjustment and method thereof
A personal care appliance 10 comprises an actuator 14, a current sensor 28 for monitoring a driving current, and a controller 24. The actuator 14, operable according to a non-linear response characteristic 58 of amplitude versus frequency, includes a movable shaft 18 configured for resonant movement 38 in response to a drive signal 25, further for being coupled with a workpiece 20. The controller 24 (i) detects at least one of a plurality of different characteristic load states (100,102,104,106,108,110) in response to a perturbation in the monitored driving current 29 and (ii) actively delivers the drive signal 25 to the actuator 14 selected from at least two different drive signals (66,70) as a function of a detected characteristic load state. In this manner, the controller 24 implements self-adaptive amplitude regulation of the movable shaft's resonant movement 38 among the plurality of difference characteristic load states that include additional loads of force, spring, mass, and/or damping to a given load state of a resonant spring mass system of actuator 14 coupled with workpiece 20. |
| US11096473B2 |
Insert for pliable magazine carrier
A semi-rigid pocket insert for holding an ammunition magazine or clip within a pliable magazine carrier is provided. The pocket insert comprises opposing walls, a base, and a slip-resistant liner on the interior and exterior surface of the walls. The walls further comprise flared top ends. |
| US11096468B2 |
Makeup applicator to deposit a patterned and textured makeup layer
An application utensil for transferring a coloring composition in one of many patterns onto skin includes a wheel comprising a pattern of raised and submerged regions on an outer tread surface of the wheel; a wheel well that supports the wheel and allows rotation of the wheel, wherein the wheel is removable from the wheel well; and a manual grip connected to the wheel well. A plurality of different application utensils and wheels are disclosed. Application utensils are interchangeable as are the wheels to allow many combinations according to consumer preference. |
| US11096464B2 |
Hair styling flat iron
A hairstyling flat iron includes a first arm having a first gripping portion and a first styling portion; a second arm having a second gripping portion and a second styling portion; a biasing member coupled with the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion to move the second arm relative to the first arm; a first heat heating plate located on the first styling portion and facing the second arm, the first heating plate having a first heat transmissive plate and a first coating disposed on the first heat transmissive plate, the first coating having ceramic and lava rock incorporated therein; and a second heat heating plate located on the second styling portion and facing the first arm, the second heating plate having a second heat transmissive plate and a second coating disposed on the second heat transmissive plate, the second coating having ceramic and lava rock incorporated therein. |
| US11096459B2 |
Luggage protector assembly
A luggage protector assembly includes an article of luggage that has a plurality of rollers thereon. A first enclosure is positionable on the article of luggage when the article of luggage is being loaded onto a vehicle for travel. The first enclosure surrounds respective ones of the rollers thereby protecting the respective rollers from is damaged. A pair of first straps is each wrapped over the article of luggage to retain the first enclosure on the article of luggage. A second enclosure is slidably coupled to the first enclosure. The second enclosure is positionable on the article of luggage when the article of luggage is being loaded onto a vehicle for travel. The second enclosure surrounds respective ones of the rollers thereby protecting the respective rollers from is damaged. A pair of second straps is each wrapped over the article of luggage to retain the article of luggage on the second enclosure. |
| US11096454B2 |
Double-sided usable belt buckle and belt thereof
The present invention provides a double-sided usable belt buckle, a belt having the double-sided usable belt buckle can be available on both sides. The two ends of the pin shaft can be connected with the buckle and the tail clamp by matching the clamping block arranged on the pin shaft with the clamping groove. The clamping block extends into the pin shaft mounting hole firstly, and after the connecting convex block is clamped into the connecting groove, the clamping block can be clamped into the clamping groove. When it is needed to use the other side of the belt having the double-sided usable belt buckle, simply pressing the pin shaft to make the clamping block slide out of the clamping groove so as to separate the tail clamp from the buckle, and then replace the tail clamp and connect it with the buckle again. |
| US11096449B2 |
Clip with side opening
A clip includes an inner housing slidably received in an outer housing with a spring housed in the outer housing between a base of the outer housing and the inner housing. Each of the inner and outer housings include a side opening and a main cavity. When a user manipulates the inner housing, the side openings are aligned with one another, such that a user can insert an object through the respective side openings to be secured within the main cavity of the clip. The clip may further include a decorative member coupled to the outer housing, wherein the decorative member includes a design or a safety feature formed on an outerwardly directed surface thereof. |
| US11096444B2 |
Particulate foam with partial restriction
An article of footwear includes an upper, an outsole attached to the upper, and a midsole disposed between the upper and the outsole. The outsole includes a ground-engaging surface, an inner surface formed on an opposite side of the outsole than the ground-engaging surface, and a wall surrounding a perimeter of the outsole. The wall cooperates with the inner surface to define a cavity. The midsole includes a footbed and a bottom surface disposed on an opposite side of the midsole than the footbed and opposing the inner surface of the outsole. The article of footwear also includes fibers received within the cavity. The fibers cooperate with one another to form a mesh that at least partially fills the cavity. The article of footwear also includes particulate matter disposed within the cavity and received within interstitial spaces of the mesh. |
| US11096440B2 |
Multifunctional lens assembly
A multifunctional lens assembly includes a functional transparent plate and a layered adhesive body. The functional transparent plate includes spaced apart through holes disposed in an outer peripheral region thereof. Each through hole extends through two opposite surfaces of the outer peripheral region. The layered adhesive body is attached to the functional transparent plate for adhering the functional transparent plate to a face shield of a mobile helmet. The layered adhesive body has a first layer 61 disposed on one of the two opposite surfaces of the outer peripheral region facing toward the face shield, and connection studs respectively extending through the through holes and integrally connecting the first layer. |
| US11096438B1 |
All weather electric indoor/outdoor heat exchanger face mask
A face mask apparatus is formed with a breathing chamber that provides adjustable warm and humidified air for inhalation. The breathing chamber heats cold air that is breathed in through the face mask during normal breathing, which is worn over the nose and mouth of a person. A temperature gauge monitors temperature for future adjustment of the amount of heat generating current. The air in the chamber is heated for inhalation by a resistive carbon fiber tape. The temperature of the resistive material (and by extension the warm air generated), is regulated/adjusted by increasing or decreasing the current output settings on the power source. Warm and humidified air is produced. The face mask may be part of a balaclava hood or a hat, or to other head gear, or as a stand-alone with straps around the head, optionally with an adjustable solar powered battery. |
| US11096436B2 |
Beadings
Embodiments of the present invention may include beading for decorating a target member. The beading has a linear member, a leg portion and a colored portion. The linear member has a main portion formed of a light-transmitting material. The linear member has a first end and a second end opposite the first end on an outer periphery thereof. The leg portion extends from the first end of the linear member. The leg portion has a sewn portion that is sewn onto the target member by sewing thread. The colored portion is provided in the linear member or the leg portion. The colored portion has a smaller quantity of transmitting light than that of the main portion. The colored portion is situated and configured to suppress the visibility of the sewing thread when the linear member is seen from above the second end. |
| US11096435B2 |
Protective glove
A protective glove includes at least a first finger section and a second finger section, each finger section comprising a protective layer configured to be at least partially arranged over a finger part of a user; and a pivot connecting said first finger section and said second finger section. The pivot has a pivot axis that substantially coincides with a finger joint of a user's hand. One of the first and second finger section comprises a rounded protrusion and wherein the other of the first and second finger section comprises a corresponding rounded recess configured to receive said rounded protrusion, said protrusion and recess together forming said pivot connecting said first finger section and said second finger section. The first and second finger section and said pivot define a substantially continuous and flush wall. |
| US11096434B1 |
Fast deployment fogless face mask
Disclosed is a face mask for filtering inhaled and exhaled air without fogging glasses of the mask wearer by providing superior seal along its upper edge. The mask of the invention also features quick switching between two stable positions on the wearer's face, deployed and stand-by and may be manipulated without touching the filter media. A large breathing chamber of the disclosed mask provides for comfortable wearing without undue touching of the wearer's facial features and for easy breathing by maximizing active filtering area of the filter media. In one preferred embodiment the mask may be constructed as a disposable filter media removably attached to the external frame. In another preferred embodiment a single use disposable mask with a built in wireframe is disclosed. |
| US11096433B2 |
Trousers with waist protection belt
This disclosure is related to trousers with a waist protection belt. The trousers include the waist protection belt that is detachably attached to a belt cloth of the trousers, a trouser body that includes a stretchable cloth at a position corresponding to a waist part of a back body part of the trousers, and a position adjusting part that is provided at substantially a center of the waist protection belt and is provided at a position on a back surface of the belt cloth corresponding to the waist part of the trouser body. The position adjusting part is configured to adjustably change an attachment position of the waist protection belt in a vertical direction with respect to the trouser body. |
| US11096432B1 |
Nursing garment
In some embodiments, a nursing garment may include a dress body having a front and a back. The dress body may include a neck opening, a left arm opening, a right arm opening, a legs opening, an upper placket, and a lower placket. The upper placket may include at least one buttonhole. The lower placket may include at least one button operable to couple with the at least one buttonhole. The dress body may further include a first zipper member coupled to either or the upper placket and the front. The dress body may further include a second zipper member coupled to the lower placket. The second zipper member may be operable to couple with the first zipper member. The upper placket and the lower placket may be separable to allow an infant to nurse. |
| US11096430B2 |
Reinforced seamed outer garments with hidden support
A lower body outer garment, such as a pant or legging or skirt, is provided which has a construction and hidden support which helps to redefine the wearer's appearance. The support is provided in the form of internal mesh re-enforcing panels that lift the buttocks and flatten the tummy. The garment also includes external seaming that provides structure and has a visual effect to re-draw the wearer's outline. |
| US11096429B2 |
System and method for wireless charging of smart garments
Techniques for wirelessly charging smart textiles, such as smart garments, are provided. Aspects of the present application provide a smart garment device with an array of integrated coils and rectifiers that enable wireless charging of the device from a drawer or other enclosure that produces a roughly uniform AC magnetic field. The smart garment can draw power from the magnetic field once placed within the enclosure, regardless of how the garment is placed in the enclosure. The method can be applied to garments of any shape, and multiple garments can be charged simultaneously by placing the multiple garments into the same magnetic field. |
| US11096426B2 |
Infant teething bodysuit
Articles for Infant teething bodysuit in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, an article of clothing comprising: a first arm portion comprising: a first teething surface wherein the first teething surface is affixed to a distal end of the first arm portion, and the first teething surface curves perpendicular to the length of the first arm portion; and a first water resistant surface attached to an outer surface of the distal end of the first arm portion; and a second arm portion comprising: a second teething surface wherein the second teething surface is affixed to a distal end of the second arm portion; and the second teething surface curves perpendicular to the length of the second arm portion; and a second water resistant surface attached to an outer surface of the distal end of the second arm portion. |
| US11096422B2 |
Atomizer and electronic cigarette having same
A heating device includes: a liquid storage chamber configured for storing tobacco liquid; the liquid storage chamber comprising a liquid conducting hole; a heating component comprising at least one heating element and a receiving cavity; the at least one heating element being received in the receiving cavity; and between the heating element and the receiving cavity or between the adjacent heating elements including a liquid storage sump; the heating component being connected with the liquid storage chamber; and the heating element being disposed under the liquid conducting chamber and corresponding with the liquid conductive hole; the tobacco liquid in the liquid storage chamber flowing towards the heating element, through the liquid conductive hole, the heating element heating the tobacco liquid for atomization; the liquid storage sump configured for storing some of tobacco liquid leaking from the heating element, the heating element atomizes the tobacco liquid in the liquid storage sump. |
| US11096420B2 |
Personal vaporizer with medium and chamber control
A personal vaporizer comprises structure enabling a user to control the configuration of the vaporization chamber in which vaporizing media is atomized. In some embodiments, a personal vaporizer has an atomizer module having a heating element and a bowl for receiving vaporizing media. An adapter module is releasably attached to the atomizer module so as to be adjacent the bowl. The adapter module receives and holds a plug that can be advanced toward and away from the heating element so as to selectively change the configuration of the vaporization chamber, which is defined between the heating element and a distal end of the adapter plug. |
| US11096419B2 |
Air pressure sensor for an aerosol delivery device
An aerosol delivery device is provided. The aerosol delivery device includes a power source, an aerosol production component, a sensor to produce measurements of atmospheric air pressure in an air flow path through at least one housing, and a switch coupled to and between the power source and the aerosol production component. The aerosol delivery device also includes processing circuitry coupled to the sensor and the switch. The processing circuitry determines a difference between the measurements of atmospheric air pressure from the sensor and a reference atmospheric air pressure. Only when the difference is at least a threshold difference, the processing circuitry outputs a signal to cause the switch to switchably connect and disconnect an output voltage from the power source to the aerosol production component to power the aerosol production component for an aerosol-production time period. |
| US11096415B2 |
Heated aerosol-generating article with liquid aerosol-forming substrate and combustible heat generating element
A heated aerosol-generating article is provided, including a plurality of components assembled in the form of a rod, the article having a mouth end and a distal end upstream from the mouth end, and the article further including a combustible heat-generating element disposed at the distal end of the article and configured to heat air drawn into the article, and a liquid aerosol-forming substrate disposed downstream of the combustible heat-generating element. |
| US11096412B2 |
Nicotine pouch composition and pouch comprising such
A nicotine pouch composition is disclosed, the pouch composition comprising free-base nicotine and having a water content of at least 15% by weight of said pouch composition. Furthermore, an oral nicotine pouch product comprising the pouch composition and a method for manufacturing the oral nicotine pouch product is disclosed. |
| US11096411B2 |
Apparatus for coating a food product with a batter
An apparatus for coating a food product with a batter, includes a frame having a conveyor belt mounted on a rotatably driveable belt support member. The coating apparatus has a batter pump for pumping batter from a batter container towards an upper applicator positioned over the conveyor belt to form a stream of batter flow from the applicator to the conveyor belt to provide batter to an upper surface of the food product. The front roller is positioned at the food product entry section to provide a layer of batter on the conveyor belt at the entry section by a thrust on the batter towards the entry section by the front roller and/or the conveyor belt. The coating apparatus comprises a batter overflow device positioned at the entry section and is mounted between the transport run and the return run of the conveyor belt. |
| US11096402B2 |
Production of a coffee extract preserving flavour components
Disclosed herein is a process for preparing a coffee extract, comprising the steps of: providing a mixture of roasted coffee beans and water, milling the mixture of roast coffee beans and water in a pressurised chamber, and separating the milled mixture in a liquid coffee extract and spent coffee grounds. The coffee extract maintains many of the flavour components of the roasted beans. |
| US11096400B2 |
Methods for treating a food product and compositions thereof
Disclosed herein is a method for producing a package of cheese shreds. Cheese shreds and anticaking agent are mixed at a load between 2 wt. % and 10 wt. % in relation to the cheese shreds to form anticake-coated cheese shreds. The anticaking agent comprises 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar; 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase; and 0.5-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The anticake-coated cheese shreds are then sealed into a package without modifying the atmosphere in the package or using an inert gas flush. |
| US11096397B2 |
Method for highly concentrating aqueous solutions
A method for highly concentrating aqueous solutions containing thermally sensitive organic constituents and with or without mineral constituents, wherein firstly, a major portion of the water is extracted by membrane filtration from the solution for pre-concentration and is discharged from the process and the solution which is pre-concentrated is then subjected to a freeze concentration procedure, in which, in the form of separated ice crystallisate, further water is extracted from the solution. To promote results, that concentration may be effected in the freeze concentration procedure until a viscosity of the mother solution of at least 0.0002 m2/s is achieved, and in that the separated ice crystallisate from the freeze concentration with the mother solution adhering thereto as a suspension is returned to the membrane filtration upstream of the membrane filtration or after melting of the ice crystallisate. |
| US11096395B2 |
Food discoloration inhibitor
A food discoloration inhibitor contains, as an effective ingredient, a low molecular weight lignin having a molecular weight peak in a molecular weight range of 4,000 to 9,500 and/or a high molecular weight lignin having a molecular weight peak in a molecular weight range of 10,000 to 40,000, wherein the molecular weight peak is measured at a wavelength of 254 nm by GPC molecular weight analysis using an UV detector. |
| US11096393B2 |
Bakery product
The present invention relates to a soft bakery product having a slowly-available-glucose (SAG) content of at least 15 wt % and a water activity of from 0.4 to 0.9, the product comprising a dough-based, baked portion and optionally a coating and/or a filling, the product comprising: cereals in an amount of at least 35 wt %; at least 5 wt % sugars, having a degree of polymerisation of 1 or 2, by weight of the soft bakery product; and from 0.1 to 15 wt % maltitol by weight of the soft bakery product. |
| US11096387B2 |
Cryopreservative compositions and methods
This disclosure describes a cryopreservative composition and methods for storing cells. Generally, the cryopreservative composition includes a sugar component and a sugar alcohol component, and is effective for storing and recovering cells without requiring dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). |
| US11096382B2 |
Methods and compositions for determining bovine ovulation rate
Described herein are methods and compositions for modulating bovine birth rate by following a breeding scheme based on the presence of the trio haplotype, which is strongly linked to the propensity to give birth to multiple calves in one event. |
| US11096381B2 |
Interactive fish tank system, and interaction providing method of the same
An interactive fish tank system includes a nozzle array provided in a water tank, wherein a plurality of bubble nozzles from which bubbles are emitted are arranged in the nozzle array; a computing device configured to receive user action information inputted from at least one user action input device, generate bubble conversion information by which characteristics of the user action information are expressed as bubbles generated from at least one of the plurality of bubble nozzles, and generate a control signal for supplying air to emit bubbles corresponding to the bubble conversion information; and an air injection device connected to the plurality of bubble nozzles through hoses, wherein the air injection device supplies air to at least one of the plurality of bubble nozzles based on the control signal. |
| US11096374B1 |
Pet house accessory with functions of air purification, sterilization and temperature regulation
A pet house accessory with functions of air purification, sterilization and temperature regulation, including a shell, a mounting plate, a thermal conduction device, a semiconductor refrigeration sheet and a sterilization device, wherein a heat dissipating hole is arranged at the center of the bottom of the shell, the thermal conduction device is arranged at the center of the bottom of the mounting plate, the semiconductor refrigeration sheet is fixedly installed at the bottom of the thermal conduction device, and a through hole is defined inside the thermal conduction device. The pet house accessory with functions of air purification, sterilization and temperature regulation provided by the present disclosure is capable of cooling and heating by controlling the semiconductor refrigeration sheet through the control switch to cool down and warm the pet house, and is convenient for pets to live. |
| US11096373B2 |
Animal kennel
Examples are disclosed that relate to an animal kennel having a door secured to a body of the animal kennel by a plurality of releasable fasteners. One example provides an animal kennel comprising a body defining an enclosed space and an opening into the enclosed space, a door configured to selectively block the opening, and a plurality of releasable fasteners securing the door to the body, the plurality of releasable fasteners positioned such that the door is selectively openable in a vertical direction or in a horizontal direction based upon different combinations of releasable fasteners being released. |
| US11096372B1 |
Sifting waste scooper
A sifting waste scooper including a rod assembly and a basket assembly is disclosed herein. The rod assembly includes a telescoping rod and a battery. The battery is located at the bottom portion of the telescoping rod. The rod assembly further includes an LED attachment disposed at top portion of the elongated rod. The basket assembly is located the distal top portion of the elongated rod. Furthermore, the basket assembly includes a grated basket having a plurality of holes to allow soil and sand to sift through the basket while collecting waste. The basket assembly further includes a scraper along the outer portion of the grated basket to allow a user to pick up animal waste. The shifting waste scooper allows a user to pick up small objects of waste in soil or sand without having to carry the soil or sand into a waste container. |
| US11096368B1 |
Soybean variety 5PYMR85
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PYMR85 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PYMR85, cells from soybean variety 5PYMR85, plants of soybean 5PYMR85, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PYMR85. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PYMR85 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PYMR85, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PYMR85, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PYMR85. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PYMR85 are further provided. |
| US11096364B2 |
Soybean cultivar 81111940
A soybean cultivar designated 81111940 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 81111940, to the plants of soybean cultivar 81111940, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 81111940, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 81111940. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81111940. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81111940, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 81111940 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US11096357B2 |
Soybean variety 01073351
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073351. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073351. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073351 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073351 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods. |
| US11096356B2 |
Variety corn line LFX6362
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated LFX6362, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line LFX6362 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line LFX6362, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line LFX6362, and plants produced according to these methods. |
| US11096354B1 |
Maize inbred 6CWXI1550
A novel maize variety designated 6CWXI1550 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 6CWXI1550 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 6CWXI1550 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 6CWXI1550 or a locus conversion of 6CWXI1550 with another maize variety. |
| US11096351B2 |
Canola inbred G5264590R
A novel canola variety designated G5264590R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety G5264590R with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into G5264590R through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety G5264590R or a locus conversion of G5264590R with another canola variety. |
| US11096350B2 |
Canola inbred G00555
A novel canola variety designated G00555 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety G00555 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into G00555 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety G00555 or a locus conversion of G00555 with another canola variety. |
| US11096349B2 |
Cannabis farming systems and methods
Methods to produce cannabis plants are described, the methods include growing the cannabis plants in a growing medium within an interior of an enclosure by providing a common reservoir including water, and transferring the water from the common reservoir to the cannabis plants within the interior of the enclosure, the water within the common reservoir includes, fish, treated water, evaporator condensate, and a microorganism. Methods to asexually clone, harvest, trim, grind, and heat the cannabis plants are also described. |
| US11096340B1 |
Sprinkler control systems and methods
Methods, systems, and devices are described for controlling a sprinkler system, including an apparatus for sprinkler system control that includes a processor, a memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory. The instructions are executable by the processor to receive operation instructions for the sprinkler system from a source that is separate from a control panel of the sprinkler system, and operate valves of the sprinkler system independent of instructions from the control panel. |
| US11096338B2 |
Agile spectrum LED lighting fixture and control
Disclosed are various embodiments of an agile spectrum LED lighting fixture with a control. In one embodiment, a lighting fixture includes a light emitting device comprising multiple channels. Each channel includes one or more light emitting diodes configured to emit light at a respective predominant wavelength. The lighting fixture also includes a control device to control a respective light intensity of each channel based at least in part on a desired spectrum of light and the respective predominant wavelengths of the channels. |
| US11096337B1 |
Method and apparatus for a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system for indoor farming
An HVAC system used in a growing room to grow plants, including lighting and other heat producing pieces of equipment, wherein operating parameters are modified over time in response to and anticipation of changes in heat production by the lighting and other heat-producing pieces of equipment and moisture production from the plants and plant growing systems located in or near the growing room. The operating parameters of the system are modified during the growth cycle of the plants to provide environmental conditions appropriate to each phase of the plant growth. Additionally, the system comprises components carrying a load such that energy use can be reduced during times when less than maximum load is required. Algorithms and tables to control airflow, heating, cooling, dehumidification, and chemical composition of the air are included to maximize plant growth. CO2 and other byproducts of heating, cooling, and cogeneration are recycled for use in connection with plant growth. |
| US11096335B2 |
Mixed air flow fan for aerating an agricultural storage bin
An agricultural storage system including an agricultural storage bin for storing agricultural products therein. At least a mixed air flow fan is connected to the agricultural storage bin for generating an air flow and air pressure and providing the same to the agricultural storage bin. |
| US11096334B2 |
Round baler including ultrasonic film sensor
A round baler includes a bale chamber in which a round bale can be produced, and a wrapping device with which a completely pressed round bale can be wrapped with a first film in the bale chamber, and a feed device for introducing the first film into the bale chamber. The round baler also includes a feed point at which the first film can be fed to the bale chamber, and an ultrasonic sensor which is arranged at the bale chamber. The ultrasonic sensor is arranged at the bale chamber in such a way that with the ultrasonic sensor it is possible to determine whether the film is present on a surface of the round bale. |
| US11096331B2 |
Bale wrap removal device utilizing shape memory wire
A wrap removal assembly includes an elongated support member extending along a central longitudinal axis and having an exterior surface. A snagging wire is disposed adjacent the exterior surface of the elongated support member and includes an active material changeable between a first shape and a second shape in response to a control signal. The snagging wire presents a catch spaced outward and away from the exterior surface when disposed in the first shape to snag the wrap material and gather the wrap material around the elongated support member. The snagging wire is positioned substantially flat against the exterior surface of the elongated support member when disposed in the second shape to release the wrap material and allow removal of the wrap material from the elongated support member. |
| US11096330B2 |
Retention mechanism for agricultural machinery
A fork assembly including a retention mechanism to retain an agricultural machine having a remotely controllable moveable element that is moveable between a number of positions. The retention mechanism includes a control element positioned so that, when engaged with the agricultural machine, the movement of the control element due to movement associated with the remotely controllable moveable element is arranged to cause actuation and deactuation of the retention mechanism. |
| US11096326B2 |
Shutter locking assembly for a lawnmower, lawnmower having same, and convertible lawnmower
A shutter assembly for a lawnmower can include a cutter housing, a shutter, and a lever. The shutter can be rotatably attached to the cutter housing so as to be movable between (a) a first shutter position in which a blocking panel is positioned such that the blocking panel opens the discharge opening, and (b) a second shutter position in which the blocking panel is positioned such that the blocking panel closes the discharge opening, and the second shutter position corresponds to a mulching position. The lever can be attached to the shutter and extend through the cutter housing slot. The lever can move the shutter between the first shutter position and the second shutter position. The lever can include a handle knob assembly that includes a button that is biased, by a spring, to lock in any one of a plurality of positions on the cutter housing. |
| US11096325B2 |
Lawn mower robot
A lawn mower robot includes an inner body provided with casters and wheels for moving, a plurality of blades rotatably provided on a bottom surface of the inner body to cut grass, a drive motor mounted on the wheels, respectively, to independently drive the wheels, and an outer cover mounted on and configured to surround an outer side of the inner body to be movable in forward, backward, leftward and rightward directions with respect to the inner body when colliding with an obstacle. A plurality of ultrasonic sensors are provided to sense an obstacle, and an ultrasonic guide unit is formed to be recessed rearward from a front end portion of the outer cover so as to restrict a downward propagation angle of ultrasonic waves generated from the ultrasonic sensors. |
| US11102921B2 |
Electrically testing cleanliness of a panel having an electronic assembly
A method of assessing a cleanliness of an assembly in a panel during a manufacturing process is provided, wherein an electrical signal of at least one of a predetermined voltage, current or frequency is applied across a first subset and a second subset of nonconnected electrical contacts in a test coupon associated with the assembly, such that the first subset and the second subset have different pitches. In one configuration, the test coupon is tested at higher voltages, currents or frequencies to a point of failure or above a predetermined threshold. |
| US11102910B2 |
Flexible service air baffle
A baffle is provided that is usable in an information handling system. The information handling system may have a first compartment at a first elevated pressure that is higher than an ambient pressure and a second compartment at a second elevated pressure that is higher than the ambient pressure. Further, a region adjacent to the first and second compartments and in fluid communication therewith may be operable to receive a removable baffle therein. When the baffle is inserted into the region, it may be operable to maintain the region at a third elevated pressure that is higher than the ambient pressure. However, when not inserted into the region, the baffle may be foldable into a substantially flat shape. |
| US11102907B2 |
Serviceability of a networking device with orthogonal switch bars
Networking device serviceability may be provided. A networking device may be disposed in a rack between uprights. The networking device may comprise a first plurality of switch bars each comprising a first switch type arranged parallel to one another, a second plurality of switch bars each comprising a second switch type arranged parallel to one another, and a third plurality of switch bars each comprising a third switch type arranged parallel to one another. The first plurality of switch bars, the second plurality of switch bars, and the third plurality of switch bars may be arranged orthogonally. A hinge device associated with the networking device may be configured to allow the networking device to rotate at least a predetermined angle value from a first position between the uprights to a second position where both the first plurality of switch bars and the second plurality of switch bars are clear from the uprights. |
| US11102905B2 |
Structure for mounting servers, subassembly for rapid disassembly, and server cabinet with the subassembly
A structure for mounting servers includes at least one cross beam, at least one mounting column, and at least one fastening subassembly. A guide rail is fixed on each of the cross beam and extends along the cross beam. A first space is formed by the guide rail and the cross beam. The mounting column is connected to the cross beam by the fastening subassembly. The mounting column is perpendicularly connected to the cross beam by the fastening subassembly. The fastening subassembly comprises a first fastener which comprises a thumb screw and an extrusion subassembly. The extrusion subassembly is located in the first space and capable of moving back and forth along the cross beam. The thumb screw passes through the mounting column, enters into the first space, and matches with the extrusion subassembly to tighten the cross beam and the mounting column. |
| US11102904B2 |
Electronic component assembly, combination of electronic component assembly and adherend, and method for mounting electronic component
An electronic component assembly including a fixing part fixable to a first face on a first-direction side of an adherend, an electronic component, and a housing. The adherend has a housing hole opening in the first face. The housing includes a fixed portion fixed to the fixing part and a housing body to house the electronic component. The housing body includes a first portion disposed on a second-direction side relative to the fixing part. The second direction is opposite to the first direction. The first portion of the housing body has a dimension in the second direction that is equal to, or smaller than, a dimension in the second direction of the housing hole of the adherend. The first portion of the housing body is configured to be housed in the housing hole of the adherend. |
| US11102902B2 |
Data storage system connectors with parallel array of dense memory cards and high airflow
Data storage system connectors are described for a parallel array of dense memory cards that allow high airflow. In one example, a connector has a horizontal plane board having a plurality of memory connectors aligned in a row and a plurality of external interfaces, a plurality of memory cards, each having an edge connector at one end of the memory card to connect to a respective memory connector of the board, each memory card extending horizontally parallel to each other memory card and extending vertically and orthogonally from the board, and a plurality of interface connectors each to connect an edge connector to a respective board connector, the interface connectors extending horizontally from the one end of the memory cards and vertically to the respective plane board connector. |
| US11102897B2 |
Hinged cable management system
Techniques for cable management are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus for managing cables comprises a base for securing the apparatus to another object and a finger for supporting a plurality of cables. The finger and the base are coupled through an interlocking mechanism providing a fixed arrangement and a pivoting arrangement such that pivoting is prevented between the finger and the base in the fixed arrangement and enabled between the finger and the base in the pivoting arrangement. The pivoting arrangement allows for support to be maintained for the plurality of cables while the finger is pivoted in relation to the base. The apparatus may further comprise a detent that provides resistance to prevent unintentional transitions between the fixed arrangement and the pivoting arrangement. |
| US11102896B1 |
Anti-impact LED display screen
Provided is an anti-impact LED display screen, comprising a box body (1), a module (2), a protective mechanism (3), a first resilient assembly (4), a second resilient assembly (5) and a limit member (6). The protective mechanism (3) comprises a movable base (31) and a corner armor (32). The corner of box body (1) is provided with a groove (11) for accommodating protective mechanism (3), the first resilient assembly (4) is arranged between corner armor (32) and movable base (31); The second residual assembly (5) is arranged between the side wall of groove (11) and protective mechanism (3); When protective mechanism (3) is turned on, the second resilient assembly (5) pushes protective mechanism (3) to move outward of groove (11), and the first resilient assembly (4) pushes the corner armor (32) out of groove (11), corner armor (32) can protect module (2); when reset, the upper end of corner armor (32) abuts against the upper wall of groove (11), limit member (6) limits protective mechanism (3) within groove (11), protective mechanism (3) does not affect the splicing of LED display screens. |
| US11102891B2 |
Method of manufacturing a polymer printed circuit board
A method of manufacturing a polymer printed circuit board contains in a sequential order steps of: A), B), C), D, and F). In the step A), a material layer consisting of polymer is provided. In the step B), circuit pattern is formed on the material layer. In the step C), metal nanoparticles are deposited on the laser induced graphene (LIG) of the circuit pattern so as to use as a material seed. In the step D) a metal layer on the nanoparticles are deposited and the LIG of the circuit pattern are formed. In the step E), the circuit pattern is pressed. In the step E), the circuit pattern, the material layer, the metal nanoparticles, and the metal layer are pressed in a laminating manner to obtain the polymer printed circuit board. |
| US11102875B2 |
Battery-powered retrofit remote control device
A remote control device may be configured to be mounted over the toggle actuator of a light switch and to control a load control device via wireless communication. The remote control device may include a base portion and a rotating portion supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable about the base portion. The remote control device may include a control circuit and a wireless communication circuit. The control circuit may be operably coupled to the rotating portion and to the wireless communication circuit. The control circuit may be configured to translate a force applied to the rotating portion of the remote control device into a control signal and to cause the communication circuit to transmit the control signal to the load control device. |
| US11102874B2 |
Controllable light source
A controllable light source is provided that includes a load control circuit and an integrated lighting load. The controllable light source is configured to receive wirelessly communicated commands transmitted by a remote control device associated with the controllable light source, such as a rotary remote control device. The controllable light source may include an actuator for associating the controllable light source with the remote control device, such that the load control circuit is operable to adjust the intensity of the lighting load in response to wireless signals received from the remote control device. The controllable light source may support the actuator such that the actuator may be actuated when the controllable light source is installed in a fixture. |
| US11102870B1 |
Lighting device with physiological dimming and dimming method for the same
A lighting device with physiological dimming and a dimming method for the same are provided. The lighting device includes a lighting unit with lighting modules, a light sensor, and a control circuit. According to a first illumination requirement and a light sensing value of the light sensor, the control circuit controls the lighting unit to output a first illumination light source that meets a first predetermined illuminance in a first time slot. According to a second illumination requirement and the light sensing value, the control circuit controls the lighting unit to output a second illumination light source that meets a second predetermined illuminance in a second time slot. According to the first and the second illumination requirements, the control circuit dynamically controls lighting from any one or a combination of the lighting modules, such that the lighting unit generates correspondingly the first and the second illumination light sources. |
| US11102863B2 |
Multi-channel white light device for providing tunable white light with high color rendering
The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within white, red, and yellow/green color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output. |
| US11102862B2 |
Lamp and brain-controlled lamp system
A lamp includes a light emitting device, and a control device. The control device is configured to control a light emitting state of the light emitting device according to a brain wave signal detected by a brain wave detecting device. As such, the light emitting state corresponds to a mental state corresponding to the brain wave signal detected by the brain wave detecting device. |
| US11102857B1 |
Curved display and curved display support
An emissive surface assembly includes an emissive surface configuration having a substantially contiguous emissive surface on which visual content may be presented. The emissive surface configuration has emissive surface sections including at least a first substantially flat emissive surface section, at least first and second curved emissive surface sections that are curved about first and second non-parallel axis, the first curved section positioned adjacent a first edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, the second curved section adjacent a second edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, each of the curved and flat surface sections forming a portion of the substantially contiguous emissive surface, and a driver for presenting content on the substantially contiguous emissive surface. |
| US11102855B2 |
Method for detecting the status of popcorn in a microwave
A method of popping popcorn in a microwave includes operating an energy source to provide energy to a cooking chamber and detecting, by a microphone sensor, sound waves in the cooking chamber and providing an output signal indicative of the detected sound waves to a control unit. The control unit can determine that the output signal is indicative of a popping sound generated by popcorn kernels popping and control the energy source to stop providing energy to the cooking chamber based on the detected popping sounds. |
| US11102852B2 |
Apparatus and method for sensing and processing by RF
Apparatus for processing an object includes a cavity for receiving therein the object. A plurality of processing antennas are configured to coherently feed the cavity with RF radiation generated by a processing RF source. A memory stores processing instructions for each object from a given group of objects. A user interface is configured to receive identification of an object to be processed from a user. A processor is configured to receive from the interface indication of the identification of the object, select a processing instruction based on the indication, and control the processing RF source to radiate according to the selected processing instruction. The energy processing instruction includes a plurality of excitation setups, each excitation setup of said plurality of excitation setups including amplitudes, each of which is associated with one of the plurality of antennas, and one or more phase differences associated with each two antennas associated with non-zero amplitudes. |
| US11102851B2 |
Method for voice control on microwave oven, and microwave oven
A method for voice control on a microwave oven, and a microwave oven. The method for voice control on a microwave oven comprises a step of receiving a voice instruction input by a user (S10), a step of checking whether default menu parameters corresponding to the voice instruction are pre-stored (S20), a step of controlling the operation of a microwave oven according to the default menu parameters (S30), and a step of controlling, when receiving a parameter change instruction, the operation of the microwave oven according to changed parameters, and updating the default menu parameters (S40). The microwave oven comprises a receive module (10), a check module (20), a control module (30) and an update module (40). The parameters of the microwave oven can be changed to meet different requirements. |
| US11102846B2 |
Downlink control information to support uplink partial subframe transmission on licensed assisted access secondary cell
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) or a next generation Node B (gNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to encode downlink control information (DCI) to be transmitted in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to a user equipment (UE) to schedule an uplink subframe including partial uplink subframe information, and to decode the scheduled uplink subframe from a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) received from the UE, and a memory to store the partial uplink subframe information. |
| US11102845B2 |
Wireless communication device
In an in-vehicle router, a narrow-range communication module (10A) is a device capable of wireless communication. A wide-range communication module is a device capable of wireless communication in the wider range than the narrow-range communication module. An Ethernet module is connected to an in-vehicle LAN in a vehicle so that communication is possible. A CPU controls the narrow-range communication module and the wide-range communication module and communicates with the in-vehicle LAN through the Ethernet module. The narrow-range communication module, the wide-range communication module, the Ethernet module, and the CPU are assembled to a housing, and the housing is provided to the vehicle. |
| US11102844B2 |
Policy control method, device, and system
Embodiments of this application provide a policy control method, device, and system. The method includes: sending, by a mobility management network element to a first session management network element, a first request message used to create a first session, where the first request message includes an identifier of a terminal, single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), and a data network name (DNN); receiving, by the first session management network element, the first request message from the mobility management network element, and sending a second request message to a binding support network element, where the second request message includes the identifier of the terminal, the S-NSSAI, and the DNN; and receiving, by the first session management network element, an identifier of a policy control network element from the binding support network element, and selecting the policy control network element based on the identifier of the policy control network element. |
| US11102843B2 |
Path construction under MAC address randomization
Constructing and/or recovering paths of mobile devices is enabled. For instance, a method comprises: receiving, by wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) sensors, respective probes from mobile devices, grouping probes having a same media access control (MAC) address into segments, identifying fingerprints of information elements the mobile devices, grouping segments according to an identified fingerprint, determining an increment of a sequence number corresponding to consecutive segments of a segment group, determining a time gap between the sequence number corresponding to a first probe and an incremented sequence number corresponding to a second probe having a timestamp that is later in time than the first probe, and comparing a growth rate of the sequence number corresponding to the consecutive segments to determine a forward segment of the consecutive segments, resulting in a constructed path of the mobile devices, and storing the constructed path in a database. |
| US11102840B2 |
Process for monitoring a control channel in a wireless device
A wireless device receives an uplink grant triggered in response to receiving a trigger during a validation duration. A determination is made that the wireless device is not in an Active Time, during at least a portion of the validation duration, by a process controlling monitoring of a control channel for: a pre-defined radio network temporary identifier (RNTI); and at least one RNTI. During the at least a portion of the validation duration: the control channel addressed to the pre-defined RNTI is monitored for the trigger; and the control channel addressed to the at least one RNTI is not monitored. |
| US11102839B2 |
Unicast sidelink establishment
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a unicast connection over a sidelink communications with a second UE. To establish the unicast connection over the sidelink, the first UE may transmit a request message (e.g., a first message) to the second UE, and the second UE may transmit a response message (e.g., a second message) to the first UE accepting the request. The unicast connection over the sidelink may then be established between the first UE and the second UE, and user data may then be transmitted over the sidelink on the established unicast connection. Additionally, the first UE may transmit a connection complete message (e.g., a third message) to the second UE indicating that the unicast connection has been established. The request message, the response message, and the connection complete message may be radio resource control (RRC) messages. |
| US11102836B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring sidelink communication in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first UE (User Equipment) in RRC_CONNECTED to detect configuration failure. In one embodiment, the method includes the first UE transmitting a first PC5 RRC (Radio Resource Control) message to a second UE, wherein the first PC5 RRC message includes an AS (Access Stratum)-layer configuration for a unicast link established with the second UE. The method also includes the first UE transmitting a fourth RRC message to a network node if a configuration failure of the AS-layer configuration is detected, wherein the fourth RRC message indicates the configuration failure occurs. |
| US11102830B2 |
Communication system, communication apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
A mobile terminal (communication apparatus) selects a data item that needs to be obtained from an MFP (information processing apparatus) according to a user instruction given via an operation screen. Upon establishment of NFC communication between the mobile terminal and an NFC tag of the MFP as a result of the mobile terminal being brought closer to the NFC tag by the user, the mobile terminal reads, from the NFC tag, connection information for connecting to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct. The mobile terminal connects to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct based on the obtained connection information, and obtains data corresponding to the selected data item from the MFP through the Wi-Fi Direct communication. |
| US11102825B2 |
Method and device for responding to random access
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for responding to a random access. The method includes: a user equipment (UE) sending a random access request, wherein information including a UE identifier is carried in the random access request; and the UE receiving a random access response, wherein when UE identifier carried in the random access response is consistent with the UE identifier in the random access request, a contention resolution is completed; when the UE identifier carried in the random access response is inconsistent with the UE identifier in the random access request, the UE determines that the random access fails this time, and re-initiates a random access attempt; and when no UE identifier is carried in the random access response, the UE falls back to a random access process in which no UE identifier information is carried in the random access request. |
| US11102817B2 |
System and method for supporting bursty communications in wireless communications systems
A computer implemented method for operating an access node includes: generating, by the access node, an initial block and a time-dependent signal for transmission in a channel occupancy time (COT) of a shared communications channel, the initial block including a time-independent initial sequence that enables the initial block to be transmitted over any slot in the COT, wherein the time-dependent signal is transmitted after the initial block; and transmitting, by the access node, the initial block and the time-dependent signal in a first slot of the COT. An access node is also described. |
| US11102814B2 |
Discovery reference signal transmission for LTE in unlicensed band
Described are mechanisms for eNB support of DRS in LAA, in which DRS is transmitted at one or more DRS occasions within a DMTC window, subject to LBT. In some embodiments, an eNB may include hardware processing circuitry comprising an antenna port, a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine a DMTC window of a wireless communication channel. The second circuitry may be operable to initiate one or more CCA checks through an antenna coupled to the antenna port prior to a DRS occasion within a DMTC time window. The third circuitry may be operable to initiate a DRS transmission through the antenna within the DMTC window upon a CCA check of the set of one or more CCA checks sensing that the wireless communication channel is idle. Also described are mechanisms for proactive support of DRS in LAA. |
| US11102811B2 |
Method and device used for wireless communication
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in wireless communication. A User Equipment receives first information; and then transmits a first radio signal; and transmits a second radio signal. The first information comprises P1 piece(s) of configuration information, each of which is used to determine first-type resources, a first-type integer, and a first-type set; the first radio signal and the second radio signal comprises M1 first and M2 second radio sub-signal(s), respectively; the M2 is an element within a target set which is a positive integer; time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal belong to the first-type resources determined by first configuration information, the M1 is the first-type integer determined by the first configuration information, the target set is the first-type set determined by the first configuration information. The present disclosure provides a method of determining a number of non-grant uplink repeated transmissions while avoiding timing confusion. |
| US11102810B2 |
Method and apparatus for requesting system information
Provided are a method for a user equipment (UE) to request system information in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. The method may include: transmitting a random access preamble for requesting system information to a base station (BS); receiving, from the BS, a random access response including only a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) corresponding to the transmitted random access preamble; and considering that a random access procedure is completed. |
| US11102808B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
The present invention is designed to provide a user terminal and a radio communication method, whereby the period to apply contention-based UL data transmission can be configured adequately. A user terminal according to the present invention has a transmission section that transmits UL data to a radio base station, and a control section that controls application of contention-based UL data transmission in which UL data is transmitted without a UL grant from the radio base station, and the control section controls whether or not to apply the contention-based UL data transmission based on a running state of a timing advance (TA) timer. |
| US11102804B2 |
Duplicated DCI transmission
There is disclosed a network node for a Radio Access Network, the network node (100) being adapted for communication utilising a carrier aggregation comprising at least a first carrier and a second carrier. The network node is adapted for transmitting first downlink control information on the first carrier of the carrier aggregation, and second downlink control information on the second carrier of the carrier aggregation, wherein the first downlink control information and the second downlink control information pertain to transmission on the same uplink carrier. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods. |
| US11102801B2 |
Location based access to selected communication bands
Technology for a signal booster is disclosed. The signal booster can identify a current location of the signal booster. The signal booster can determine one or more bands in which signals are permitted to be boosted by the signal booster based on the current location of the signal booster. The signal booster can boost signals in the one or more bands that are permitted to be boosted by the signal booster for the current location of the signal booster. |
| US11102799B2 |
Method and apparatus for reporting buffer status report
User equipment includes: a receiving module, configured to receive first uplink resource scheduling information sent by a base station, where the first uplink resource scheduling information is used to indicate a first uplink resource allocated to the UE; a processing module, configured to determine whether the first uplink resource can carry an entire BSR of the UE; and a sending module, configured to: the processing module determines that the first uplink resource cannot carry the entire BSR of the UE, send a first part of the entire BSR of the UE to the base station on the first uplink resource, where the first part does not include an entire BSR of the UE. |
| US11102794B2 |
Device-to-device (D2D) channel management with network-assisted reference signal transmission
A base station (eNB) determines device-to-device (D2D) transmission parameters for signal transmission over a D2D communication link between a first user equipment (UE) device and a second UE device. The eNB instructs the first UE device to transmit a reference signal that is received by the second UE device. The second UE device reports D2D channel characteristic information indicative of the received reference signal. Based on the D2D channel characteristic information, the base station determines the D2D transmission parameters and provides the parameters to the first UE device. |
| US11102792B2 |
Method and apparatus for demodulating signal by using subframe combination in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.A method, by which a base station demodulates a signal in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step for allowing the base station to receive at least one subframe through at least one antenna from a terminal; a step for allowing the base station to combine the subframe including the continuously same data as much as the predetermined number of data; and a step for demodulating the received subframe on the basis of the combined subframe. |
| US11102784B2 |
Method and network node for enabling measurements on reference signals
A method and network node for enabling mobility measurements performed by wireless devices. A set of resource blocks are distributed across an available frequency bandwidth, and a pre-defined maximum average transmit power per resource block is available for transmission by the network node. The network node transmits (5:3A) a subset of resource blocks using a first transmit power per resource block which is higher than the pre-defined maximum average transmit power per resource block. The network node also transmits (5:3B) other resource blocks in the set not included in the subset using a second transmit power per resource block which is lower than the pre-defined maximum average transmit power per resource block so that the total transmit power used for transmitting the set of resource blocks does not exceed a total available maximum transmit power. |
| US11102777B2 |
Timing advance offset for uplink-downlink switching in new radio
The embodiments herein relate to timing advance offset for uplink/downlink switching in New Radio (NR). In one embodiment, there proposes a method in a wireless communication device, comprising: determining a timing advance (TA) offset for uplink/downlink switching, wherein the TA offset is at least based on the time offset requirement for uplink/downlink switching in different scenarios used in communication between the wireless communication device and a network node; applying the determined TA offset in the uplink communication from the wireless communication device to the network node. With embodiments herein, uplink/downlink switching time for NR is defined. |
| US11102774B2 |
Data transmission method and terminal device
A data transmission method and a terminal device are disclosed, which may solve the data transmission problems of a sidelink when the size of a time unit of a downlink and the size of a time unit of the sidelink are not the same. The method includes that a terminal device receives first control information sent by a network device, and determines a sending time for sidelink data according to the first control information. |
| US11102772B2 |
Method and terminal device for allocating resources in a plurality of subframes
A method operating a telecommunications system including a base station and plural terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices. The control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective of the terminal devices. The radio interface is based on a radio frame structure including plural subframes each including a control region supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region supporting the downlink shared channel. The method uses the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe subsequent to the first radio subframe. |
| US11102770B2 |
Resource allocation method, network device, and terminal device
Disclosed are methods and systems for determining, by a terminal device, downlink control information that includes a first information field and a second information field. The first information field is used to indicate whether to switch an active bandwidth part of a terminal device. When the first information field indicates to switch the active bandwidth part of the terminal device, the second information field is used to indicate one or more active bandwidth parts and frequency domain resource location of a data channel in the active bandwidth parts to switch; or when the first information field indicates not to switch the active bandwidth part of the terminal device, the second information field is used to indicate a frequency domain resource location of a data channel in a currently accessed active bandwidth part. A working bandwidth part of the terminal device can be indicated, and resource utilisation is improved. |
| US11102765B2 |
Enhanced uplink grant-free/downlink semi-persistent scheduling for ultra-reliable low latency communications
Techniques and apparatus for enhancing uplink grant-free transmissions and/or downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmissions for uplink ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) are described. One technique includes receiving a first configuration for a first grant-free communication and a second configuration for at least one second grant-free communication. Grant-free communications are performed based on at least one of the first configuration or the second configuration. |
| US11102759B2 |
Resource management in a wireless communication system
A method of performing, by a user equipment (UE), wireless communication using a serving cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: starting a deactivation timer associated with the serving cell, the deactivation timer relating to a duration of time after which the serving cell is deactivated; determining whether there is an uplink (UL) grant or a downlink (DL) assignment for the serving cell in a time unit; based on a determination that there is an UL grant or a DL assignment, determining whether a data unit is transmitted on the UL grant or is received on the DL assignment; based on a determination that the data unit is transmitted on the UL grant or is received on the DL assignment: restarting the deactivation timer associated with the serving cell; and transmitting the data unit on the UL grant or receiving the data unit on the DL assignment. |
| US11102756B2 |
Enhancement for paging indication and radio resource management (RRM) measurements for UE power saving in a wireless network
In one aspect, a User Equipment (UE) performs Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements on downlink signals with a first cycle period equal to the UE's Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle period. The RRM measurements cycle period is lengthened when UE detects that a signal quality measurement of the primary cell is greater than the sum of a positive offset and a signal quality measurement of a neighboring cell having the best signal quality among all of UE's neighboring cells. In another aspect, a UE de-multiplexes a paging indication which precedes a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) in time and is generated using the same sequence generation formula as that for generating a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) in the SSB. From the de-multiplexed paging indication, the UE detects that it is paged for message reception and wakes up to receive the message in a next data reception period of the UE's DRX cycle. |
| US11102755B2 |
Paging method and apparatus for wireless communication system
A method of operating an infrastructure node in a wireless communications system is provided. The method comprises detecting that downlink messages for a communications device to decode should be transmitted by the node in one or more of a plurality of temporally spaced paging occasions, and determining that a wake-up signal (WUS) should be transmitted by the node to the communications device in advance of each of the one or more paging occasions which comprise the downlink messages for the communications device to decode, determining that a time since a most recent transmission of a signal which can be used by the communications device to re-synchronise with the node is greater than a predetermined threshold and transmitting, in response to determining that the time since the most recent transmission from the infrastructure equipment to the communications device is greater than the predetermined threshold, a preamble signal to the communications device. |
| US11102754B2 |
Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods
A method of paging a terminal, by a base station and via a relay node, wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the base station via the relay node. The method comprises notifying the relay node of a paging identifier for identifying the terminal at least in paging messages; and the base station transmitting a paging message for the terminal. The paging message comprises the paging identifier; the paging message is transmitted at a paging time for a destination identifier; and the method further comprises the relay node monitoring the paging time for the destination identifier for paging messages comprising the paging identifier. |
| US11102751B2 |
Determining paging occasion resources
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining paging occasion resources. One method includes determining a first control resource set for receiving system information. The method includes determining to use a second control resource set to determine a paging occasion. The first control resource set is the same as the second control resource set in response to not receiving information indicating to use a different control resource set than the first control resource set. |
| US11102745B2 |
Method and apparatus for downlink synchronization of broadcast signals in a wireless communication system
A downlink synchronization method and apparatus, the method including receiving configuration information of a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block and that is sent by a transmission reception point (TRP), where the configuration information of the synchronization signal and PBCH block includes at least one of location indication information or time cycle indication information, determining at least one of a location of the synchronization signal and PBCH block in a synchronization signal burst set according to the location indication information or a time cycle of a synchronization signal burst set according to the time cycle indication information, receiving the synchronization signal and PBCH block according to at least one of the location or the time cycle, and performing downlink synchronization according to the synchronization signal and PBCH block. |
| US11102741B2 |
System and methods for controlling out-of-network D2D communications
Embodiments are provided herein for determining a synchronizing master for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network environment. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a discovery signal comprising a timing reference, and determines a transmitter of the discovery signal. In accordance with the determination of the transmitter of the discovery signal, the UE performs one of synchronizing to the timing reference in the discovery signal and transmitting a second discovery signal. The UE performs the synchronizing to the timing reference if the transmitter of the discovery is a cellular network. Alternatively, the UE transmits the second discovery signal upon determining that the transmitter of the discovery signal is a second UE that is out of coverage of a cellular network. |
| US11102735B2 |
Method and device performing communication in wireless communication system
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. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of a base station in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: generating a first synchronization signal; confirming symbol index information on a plurality of symbols transmitted through beams in directions different from each other; and transmitting the first synchronization signal and the symbol index information in each of the plurality of symbols. |
| US11102733B2 |
Absolute power control tolerance for NB-IoT/MTC
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or evolved NodeB (eNB) may process and assign narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) resources based on a comparison between a measured narrowband reference signal received power (NRSRP) in a narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) transmission and at least one threshold value. Embodiments describe how to configure the NPUSCH transmission utilizing NPRACH procedure at very low receiving Signal-to Noise ratio (SNR) to alleviate negative impacts caused by less accurate NRSRP measurements and/or increased absolute power tolerance at very low receiving SNR scenarios. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US11102731B2 |
Method for transmitting a power headroom reporting in wireless communication system and a device therefor
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a power headroom reporting in wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating a PHR MAC CE including PH information per BWP within a serving cell, in a state that the UE is configured with one or more BWPs per serving cell; and transmitting the PHR MAC CE, wherein the PHR MAC CE includes a BWP bitmap indicating presence of the PH information per BWP within the serving cell, wherein the BWP bitmap is present when the serving cell is activated. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network. |
| US11102724B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for communication in a wireless local area network
Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects. |
| US11102716B2 |
Connection configuration method
A method for configuring a connection between a User Equipment, UE, and a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, compliant mobile communications network at the UE. The method comprises checking a service equivalency indicator, the service equivalency indicator indicating zero or more mobile communications networks the UE is permitted to transmit a new request for a PDN connection corresponding to a previously rejected request for a PDN connection. If the service equivalency indicator indicates that there is at least one mobile communications network including the mobile communications network to which the UE is currently attached for which it is permitted to transmit a request for a PDN connection corresponding to a previously rejected request for a PDN connection, and a new PDN connection corresponding to a previously rejected request for a PDN connection is required, the method further comprises transmitting a new request for a PDN connection, the new request corresponding to a previously rejected request for a PDN connection. |
| US11102713B2 |
Selective offloading of cellular subscriber to WLAN based on cell utilization
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to permit equipment of a subscriber of a mobile service provider that provides a subscribed service via a licensed frequency spectrum to access the subscribed service via a wireless access terminal according to an unlicensed frequency spectrum. A radio adapted to provide access to the subscribed service via the licensed frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the wireless access terminal resides within a coverage area of the identified radio. A current utilization of the identified radio is determined and a response to the request is generated according to the current utilization of the identified radio, wherein access to the subscribed service via the wireless access terminal is conditional according to the response to the request, resulting in conditional access. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11102712B2 |
Beamforming
Antenna weights of a plurality of beamformed directions are determined. Transmission on the first beamformed direction is prioritized over transmission on the second beamformed direction, e.g., during beam sweeping. Such techniques may find application in discovery of an access node by a device attached to a wireless network. |
| US11102711B2 |
Methods and apparatus for mobility management between fixed transmission points and mobile transmission points
In a network comprising both fixed transmission points and mobile transmission points, the transmission points may transmit discovery reference signals that allow WTRUs to detect and/or synchronize to the transmission points. The fixed and mobile transmission points may transmit discovery reference signals with different characteristics that allow the WTRUs to distinguish between fixed and mobile transmission points. The mobile transmission points may also transmit a separate maintenance reference signal that allows WTRUs to maintain a connection with the mobile transmission point. For networks in which fixed a mobile transmission points operate in different frequency bands, the mobile transmission points may also periodically transmit discovery beacon signals in the frequency band of the fixed transmission points to allow discovery. Conditions may be imposed on WTRUs before the WTRU will transmit to the network a measurement report reporting on a potential transmission point to which it may be switched. Such conditions may include the speed of a WTRU relative to the transmission point with which it is currently associated, the speed of the WTRU relative to the newly discovered transmission point or both. |
| US11102702B2 |
Method for establishing network clusters between networked devices
A method for establishing a network cluster between a plurality of devices having a wireless radio configurable in access point mode and a client mode involves causing a first device to be configured in client mode and in response to a determination by the first device that networking services associated with a network cluster name are not currently offered by another device, causing the first device to be configured in access point mode. In response to receiving a connection request at the first device from a second device configured in client mode, the method involves accepting the connection, determining a user identifier of the second device, and adding an entry to a connection listing on the first device. The method involves, in response to receiving data packets at the first device having a destination corresponding to the second device user identifier, transmitting the data packets to the second device. |
| US11102700B2 |
Method and apparatus for device-to-device interconnected local area network
A method can include receiving member information from first member devices at a first gateway UE in a device-to-device (D2D) LAN. The D2D LAN can include a first sub-LAN and at least one second sub-LAN. The first sub-LAN can include the first gateway UE and the first member devices. Each of the second sub-LANs can include a second gateway UE and a set of second member devices. The first and second gateway UEs can be connected with sidelinks. The member information can indicate a first DEVICE ID associated with the respective first member device. A first member device list including the first DEVICE IDs of the first member devices can be updated based on the received member information. A first mapping update message including the updated first member device list and a first gateway ID of the first gateway UE can be broadcast to the second gateway UEs. |
| US11102697B2 |
Method for controlling earphone switching and earphone
A method for controlling earphone switching and an earphone are provided. The method includes the following. A first earphone acquires a first remaining power and a first operating parameter of the first earphone and a second remaining power and a second operating parameter of a second earphone. The second earphone serves as a slave earphone. The first earphone predicts a first battery life of the first earphone according to the first remaining power and the first operating parameter and a second battery life of the second earphone according to the second remaining power and the second operating parameter. The first earphone predicts switches the second earphone to serve as a master earphone and the first earphone to serve as a slave earphone, when a difference between the second battery life and the first battery life is greater than a first preset threshold. |
| US11102694B2 |
High speed train in new radio (NR)
A network device such as an evolved NodeB (eNB) or next generation NodeB (gNB) can configure a set of user equipment (UE) to identify high speed train (HST) cell or high speed rail (HSR) dedicated longer term evolution (LTE) (HSDN) cells associated with a train or train station from a public LTE network. A UE can perform selection/reselection/handover operations to the HST LTE network cells with a higher priority based on various criteria, including a high mobility state of the UE, a marker, a cell ID, a measurement report comparison, or a location. Mobility state estimation of an HSDN cell can be based on a weight broadcast in a system information or system information block (SIB) of HSDN cell. A network load can further be considered in order to better serve high speed rail network conditions for users. |
| US11102693B1 |
Systems and methods for assigning a mobility parameter to a wireless device operating in connected mode
Systems and methods are described for assigning a mobility parameter to a wireless device. One or more measurement reports may be collected at an access node from the wireless device. A pathloss change for the wireless device may be calculated based on the collected measurement reports. When the calculated pathloss change exceeds a threshold, the wireless device may be instructed to report surplus transmit power at the access node. The reported surplus transmit power may be correlated to preset location environments and a position of the wireless device classified based on the correlation. A mobility parameter may be assigned for the wireless device. |
| US11102692B2 |
Method and device for distributing idle user equipment in multi-carrier based mobile communication system
The present invention relates to a method and device for distributing idle UE by a carrier in eNB of a multi-carrier based mobile communication system. The method of distributing idle UE in a multi-carrier based mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a process of determining a search rate by a carrier on the basis of information representing load on the carrier, a step of determining a cell reselection priority on the idle UE on the basis of the determined search rate, and a process of transmitting the determined cell reselection priority to the idle UE. |
| US11102687B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing handover in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a 5G or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than a system after a 4G communication system such as LTE. |
| US11102686B2 |
Device and method of handling a handover
A network comprising a first BS and a second BS for handling a handover comprises at least one storage device storing instructions of: the first BS transmitting a first RRC message configuring a DRB on a SRB to a communication device and receiving a first RRC response message on the SRB; the first BS receiving a first plurality of PDCP SDUs; the first BS performing a handover preparation procedure with the second BS and transmitting a second RRC message on the SRB to the communication device; the second BS receiving a second RRC response message on the SRB; the first BS transmitting at least one of a RX_NEXT, a RX_DELIV and a RX_REORD; the second BS receiving a second plurality of PDCP SDUs and processing the second plurality of PDCP SDUs according to the at least one of the RX_NEXT, the RX_DELIV and the RX_REORD. |
| US11102685B2 |
Method of switching measurement mode and device thereof
A method of switching a measurement mode and a device thereof are provided. The method includes: sending, by a network equipment, configuration information to a user equipment, to enable the user equipment to switch from a first measurement mode to a second measurement mode according to the configuration information; where the first measurement mode is a mode of triggering the user equipment to measure a current cell and/or a neighboring cell in the case that a first measurement trigger condition is met; and the second measurement mode is a mode of triggering the user equipment to measure a current cell and/or a neighboring cell in the case that a second measurement trigger condition is met. |
| US11102682B2 |
PDU sessions with various types of session continuity
For providing data connectivity with various types of continuity, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network. The processor receives a request to establish a data session, identifies a request characteristic corresponding to the request, and selects a data session continuity type by applying a continuity selection policy to the identified request characteristic. If the selected continuity type matches the data session continuity type of a first existing PDU Session, then the processor routes traffic of the data session through a first existing PDU Session. Otherwise, if the selected continuity type does not match the data session continuity type of any existing PDU Session, then the processor establishes a first data connection having the selected data session continuity type. |
| US11102674B2 |
Transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information
A transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information are provided. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device downlink control information sent by an access network device, the downlink control information comprising a first information field and a second information field, wherein the first information field is used for indicating a timing relationship of a feedback acknowledge information corresponding to the downlink control information and the second information field is used to indicate a downlink allocation index; and determining, according to the first information field and the second information field, the number of first bits of the feedback acknowledge information transmitted in a target transmission unit. |
| US11102673B2 |
Method and apparatus for distinguishing transmission feedback mode in sidelink buffer status report in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment) to handle a sidelink buffer status report (SL BSR). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE transmitting a SL BSR to a network node, wherein a format of the SL BSR includes at least one field of buffer size associated with HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) feedback enabled and one field of buffer size associated with HARQ feedback disabled. The method also includes the UE receiving a sidelink grant from the network node. The method further includes the UE selecting data from a logical channel for transmission according to a HARQ feedback mode of the logical channel and whether the sidelink grant is associated with a HARQ feedback resource or not. |
| US11102668B2 |
User device and measurement report transmitting method
Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell. |
| US11102667B2 |
Device and method of handling wireless local area network measurement configuration
A communication device of handling a wireless local area network (WLAN) measurement configuration comprises instructions of establishing a connection to a base station (BS) of a cellular network; receiving the WLAN measurement configuration on the connection from the BS; performing WLAN measurement on a WLAN according to the WLAN measurement configuration; transmitting a first WLAN measurement result of the WLAN measurement on the connection to the BS according to the WLAN measurement configuration; receiving a cellular-WLAN aggregation (CWA) configuration on the connection from the BS; communicating a plurality of packets with the WLAN according to the CWA configuration; keeping the WLAN measurement configuration, when detecting a connection failure on the WLAN; and releasing the WLAN measurement configuration, when detecting a connection failure on the cellular network. |
| US11102659B2 |
Method, device, and system for transmitting signals in unlicensed band
A method, device, and system for receiving a downlink signal is provided. The method includes: detecting a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) in a time unit #n on an unlicensed band cell; verifying whether the CSI-RS is used for Discovery RS (DRS) using an initialization value of a CSI-RS sequence of the CSI-RS; and performing a Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement when the CSI-RS is used for the DRS. The CSI-RS is used for the DRS when an index of the time unit #n is not used for the initialization value of the CSI-RS sequence. |
| US11102658B2 |
Methods and systems for resource planning in a shared spectra
Techniques for modelling a radio network in a geographic region utilizing shared spectra are disclosed. Population data is obtained for the geographic region. A number of radios per channel in the geographic region, N′, is determined. Candidate geographic location for radios in the geographic region are determined. For every channel in the shared spectra, at least one of a static dataset and a dynamic dataset is determined. At least one set of output data, that is a statistical characterization of the radio network, is generated using at least one of the static dataset and the dynamic dataset, to aid in design of the radio network. |
| US11102657B2 |
Method and apparatus for pre-registering and deploying base stations/access points in a private network
A method and apparatus for deploying Base Stations/Access Points (BS/APs) in an enterprise wireless communications network. The method is useful to deploy BS/APs in a managed radio communication environment to mitigate and prevent interference between competing transmitters in the area. The BS/APs may comprise Citizens Broadband radio Service Devices (CBSDs) deployed in 4G and 5G enterprise communications networks operating under FCC rules relating to Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). Spectrum may be managed by a Spectrum Management Entity (SME). In order to pre-register BS/APs prior to deployment, location coordinates corresponding to an enterprise address may be used. A domain proxy (DP) may request registration, obtain a spectrum grant, and maintain the grant. After installation of the BS/APs, the spectrum grant is used to make Radio Environment Monitoring (REM) measurements and determine an RF environment, which is then used to mitigate interference in the enterprise network by assigning optimized channels to each BS/AP for operation. |
| US11102653B2 |
Protection from counterfeit ranging
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for location measurement reporting in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a responder station (RSTA) is disclosed, the apparatus including processing circuitry configured to decode a null data packet (NDP) announce (NDPA) frame from an initiator station (ISTA), the NDPA frame including an indication of a temporary key and an identification of the RSTA. The processing circuitry further configured to decode a NDP from the ISTA, the NDP including long training fields (LTFs), the NDP received on a channel. The processing circuitry further configured to determine whether the NDP from the ISTA is consistent with the NDP being generated using a temporary key shared between the ISTA and RSTA based on a comparison of the channel estimates. The processing circuitry may be further configured to determine for authentication whether the indication of the temporary key was generated based on the temporary key. |
| US11102648B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for enhanced personal identification
Within a mobile device, a method and system to produce a probability the mobile device is in possession of a known person, the first user. Sensors are used to detect and quantify the behavioral biometrics of the human traits of the person in possession of the device. On a continuous basis, a machine learning process collects the biometrics of several traits of the first user memorizing the artifacts of neural networks used for learning. Subsequently, a prediction neural network provisioned with these artifacts and processing new biometric inputs of the present user of the device produces a probability the present user of the device is the first user. Affirmation of identity can then be made based on that probability. |
| US11102646B1 |
Triggering electronic subscriber identity module activation
A method of configuring an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) of a wireless communication device. The method comprises storing provisioning data packages in an eSIM of a wireless communication device, receiving a short message service (SMS) message by an eSIM management application executing on the mobile communication device from a provisioning application executing on a computer system, in response to the SMS message, determining by the eSIM management application a current location of the mobile communication device and the identities of the provisioning data packages, sending the current location and the identities of the provisioning data packages by the eSIM management application to the provisioning application, receiving a provisioning command message by the eSIM management application from the provisioning application, wherein the provisioning command message identifies one of the stored provisioning data packages, and activating the identified provisioning data package in the eSIM for communication by the wireless communication device. |
| US11102640B2 |
Handling identifier validation
A network function performs a method to identify an invalid subscription concealed identifier, SUCI. When the network function receives a message containing a SUCI, it determines a size of the SUCI contained in the received message, and also determines an expected size of the SUCI in the received message. The network function then determines whether the size of the SUCI contained in the received message satisfies a criterion associated with the expected size. If the size of the SUCI contained in the received message does not satisfy the criterion associated with the expected size, the network function determines that the SUCI in the received message is invalid, and it rejects the SUCI in the received message if it is determined to be invalid. |
| US11102636B1 |
Information exchanging system
A system for facilitating personal information exchange includes a first computer peripheral device comprising a first near field communication system. A second computer peripheral device includes a second near field communication system. The first near field communication system is communicatively coupled to the second near field communication system. A web server is communicatively coupled to the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device. The web server is configured to receive personal information from the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device into a database. The near field communication between the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device results in sharing the information in the database. |
| US11102633B2 |
Methods for dynamically provisioning a virtual SIM card
A method for dynamically provisioning virtual subscriber identity modules (SIMs) to enable a user equipment (UE) to use a service from a service provider. The method can include a UE transmitting a user request to a virtual SIM marketplace. The virtual SIM marketplace can receive a plurality of service offers from a plurality of service providers. The virtual SIM marketplace can match details in the user request with offers made by the plurality of service providers. When a match is found, the virtual SIM marketplace can send user information from the user request to the matching provider. The provider can then send a SIM over-the-air (OTA) message to the UE. The UE can use the SIM-OTA message to enable the UE to provide a user device service on the provider's network. |
| US11102630B2 |
Method for service placement in a multi-access/mobile edge computing (MEC) system
The disclosure relates to a method, an apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable media for service placement in a multi-access/mobile edge computing (MEC) system, comprising: iteratively, for each subset of services or applications su of each type u, u being element of a set of U of unique V2X services or applications sorted in order of latency requirement: calculating an average latency for the subset of services or applications su; selecting a node c providing a latency smaller than or equal to the calculated average latency and providing enough capacity to run the subset of services or applications su; placing the subset of services or applications su on the node c; and updating a list of available nodes. |
| US11102629B2 |
V2X message communication method performed by terminal in wireless communication system, and terminal using method
Provided are a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message communication method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device using the method. The method simultaneously receives link adaptation parameters for each of a plurality of cell groups, and receives a V2X message from each of the plurality of cell groups by applying the corresponding link adaptation parameters. |
| US11102627B1 |
Service type symbols
A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service. |
| US11102618B2 |
Smart signaling of location updates for arrival estimation and generation of arrival alerts
The present disclosure is directed to providing smart signaling of location updates. A method includes receiving a first location update from a tracking device; determining a remaining time for the tracking device to reach a destination location; determining whether the remaining time is within a threshold time of a timing of an arrival alert to be sent to a device associated with the destination location; based on whether the remaining time is within the threshold time or not, configuring the tracking device to send location updates to a server in one of a continuous reporting mode or a significant reporting mode, wherein the tracking device is configured to send the location updates to the server less frequently in the significant reporting mode compared to the continuous reporting mode; and determining when to send the arrival alert based on the location updates received from the tracking device. |
| US11102617B2 |
Indoor navigation and tracking with mesh network
This application discloses systems, devices, and methods for indoor navigation and tracking with a mesh network. In one aspect, a navigation device includes a receiver configured to receive a locational signal from a node network. The locational signal identifies a respective node of the node network, and the node network is distributed throughout a physical space. The navigation device includes a memory storing a program and a processor in communication with the receiver and configured to execute the program to calculate a position of the navigation device from the identity of the respective node, determine a routing instruction from the position of the navigation device to a destination based on the position of the navigation device and a known mapping of the node network in the physical space, and update the position of the navigation device and the routing instruction as the navigation device moves through the physical space. |
| US11102616B2 |
Method of tracking objects using thermostat
Provided are techniques for tracking a tagged object using a thermostat. The techniques include utilizing a controller that includes a display, wherein the controller is located in a thermostat and is configured to receive a scan request. The techniques also include a tag that is coupled to an object, where the tag is configured to transmit a beacon, and one or more sensors are configured to detect the beacon and transmit data associated with the tag to the controller, wherein each of the one or more sensors are located in one or more zones of a structure. |
| US11102615B2 |
Unified device access
A master system for providing a single interface between a user and service providers associated with the user's telematic devices. A storage module stores information, including serial numbers of the telematic devices, car information associated with the telematic devices, buyer information associated with the telematic devices, and location information associated with the telematic devices. An interface receives queries from the user and provides selected subsets of the information as responses to the user. An input-output holds multiple simultaneous communication sessions with service providers. A processor receives the queries from the user through the interface, analyzes the information on the storage module to identify a selection of the service providers to which the queries pertain, requests data from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, receives feedback from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, associates the feedback with relevant portions of the information, and presents at least portions of the feedback with the relevant portions of the information to the user through the interface as the response to the user's query. |
| US11102614B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing service in a mobile communication system
A method for receiving a service by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes transmitting an attach request message to a network, upon detection of entry into an area of a non-legacy mobile communication system, receiving an attach accept message from the network including information indicating whether the network supports VoIP or CSFB and receiving voice service by the VoIP or the CSFB through the non-legacy mobile communication system if the information included in the attach accept message indicates that the network supports the VoIP or the CSFB. |
| US11102612B2 |
Recreational vehicle group management system
Systems and methods are provided to permit groups of recreational vehicle riders and others the ability to quickly create and join groups without prior knowledge of the contact information of everyone in the group. In one embodiment, groups are joinable based on the proximity information of the prospective member and the current group members. |
| US11102610B2 |
Methods and apparatus for maintaining and using geolocation data in a wireless system
A user device includes and maintains a geolocation list (GLL) including sets of information corresponding to Citizens Broadband radio Services Devices (CBSDs). The GLL stored in the user device contains entries corresponding to the areas most recently visited by the UE, each entry including location information of a CBSD. User devices typically frequent a limited set of the same areas repetitively. Thus this maintained relatively small list provides the UE with a highly relevant set of information which can be quickly accessed without additional wireless signaling and the additional power loss associated with a typical search. When the UE desires to find and connect to a CBSD, the UE first searches its GLL for a CBSD providing coverage in its currently located area. However, if GLL search does not identify a CBSD, then the UE sends a request to a geolocation server for active CBSDs. |
| US11102608B2 |
Selectively highlighting map features associated with places
Systems and methods of providing a user interface in which map features associated with places are selectively highlighted are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a request for a transportation service associated with a place, retrieves an entrance geographic location for the place from a database, with the entrance geographic location being stored in association with the place in the database and representing an entrance for accessing the place, generating route information based on the retrieved entrance geographic location, with the route information indicating a route from an origin geographic location of a computing device of a user to the entrance geographic location of the place, and causing the generated route information to be displayed within a user interface on a computing device of the user. |
| US11102607B2 |
Realtime, location-based home automation systems and methods
Enhancements of and to cell phone operations are based in whole or in part on determining the location of the cell phone. Systems and methods select and determine locations or areas of importance or relevance, and based on that information and other programmed factors affect or alter the operations of the cell phone. While the systems and methods are illustrated by use of cell phone embodiments and applications, they are equally applicable to virtually any portable or mobile communication device, including for example, wireless laptop computers and PDAs. |
| US11102604B2 |
Apparatus, method, computer program or system for use in rendering audio
An apparatus, a method and a computer program product are provided for use in rendering audio. An apparatus is configured for: receiving a first audio signal representative of a virtual sound scene, wherein the first audio signal is configured for rendering on an arrangement of loudspeakers to a user; determine a first portion of the virtual sound scene to be rendered on headphones of the user; generating a second audio signal representative of the first portion of the virtual sound scene; determining a second portion of the virtual sound scene to be rendered on the arrangement of loudspeakers; generating a third audio signal, representative of the second portion of the virtual sound scene; and wherein the second and third audio signals are generated such that, when rendered, an augmented version of the virtual sound scene is rendered to the user. |
| US11102601B2 |
Spatial audio upmixing
Spatial audio upmixing enables mixing spatial sound on a more granular per-channel level than is possible using conventional upmixing. A spatial bed is a multi-channel audio content that represents a complete sound field description, e.g., a virtual sphere of sound, for example surrounding a simulated reality listener in a simulated reality environment. A new spatial bed is generated by combining sections of at least two of such spatial beds. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US11102600B2 |
Parametric audio decoding
An apparatus includes a receiver and an up-mixer. The receiver is configured to receive a bitstream that includes an encoded mid signal and encoded stereo parameter information. The encoded stereo parameter information represents a first value of a stereo parameter and a second value of the stereo parameter. The first value is associated with a first frequency range. The second value is associated with a second frequency range that is distinct from the first frequency range. The up-mixer is configured to perform an up-mix operation on a frequency-domain decoded mid signal generated from the encoded mid signal. A particular value based on the first value and the second value is applied to the frequency-domain decoded mid signal during the up-mix operation. |
| US11102598B1 |
Personal air vehicle and control method thereof
A personal air vehicle (PAV) and a control method thereof are provided for compensating for distortion in a speaker due to changes in altitude. The. PAV provides communication through a speaker in an emergency. In particular, the PAV includes an air pressure sensor that is configured to sense external air pressure and a propulsion device that is configured to supply propulsion for flight. A speaker is provided and includes an enclosure having a preset internal air pressure. A controller is configured to adjust an acoustic signal supplied to the speaker based on a difference value between the external air pressure and the internal air pressure changing according to altitude. |
| US11102595B2 |
Audio/visual conferencing system integrated with personal mobile devices
An audiovisual conferencing system provides a centrally controlled system for managing and broadcasting the audiovisual data sent from a group of members using their own personal devices. In an exemplar embodiment, a moderator controls requests from various participant members to broadcast audio or video from their personal mobile device to the other group members. In various embodiments, the moderator has the capability to manage the member requests to broadcast social media or registered user profile information about the member or other textual or graphic information originating from or about the group member. In various embodiments, the audio and video broadcasts from group members, the member requests to broadcast and the set or queue of member requests to broadcast, which may be prioritized or otherwise organized by the moderator, are hosted in the cloud or Internet. |
| US11102591B2 |
Ear-worn electronic device incorporating motor brain-computer interface
An ear-worn electronic device comprises a plurality of EEG sensors configured to sense EEG signals from or proximate a wearer's ear. At least one processor is configured to detect, during a baseline period of no wearer movement, EEG signals from the EEG sensors, and detect, during each of a plurality of candidate control movements by the wearer, EEG signals from the EEG sensors. The at least one processor is also configured to compute, using the EEG signals, discriminability metrics for the candidate control movements and the baseline period, the discriminability metrics indicating how discriminable neural signals associated with the candidate control movements and the baseline period are from one another. The at least one processor is further configured to select a subset of the candidate control movements using the discriminability metrics, each of the selected control movements defining a neural command for controlling the ear-worn electronic device by the wearer. |
| US11102586B2 |
MEMS microphone
An MEMS microphone is provided, comprising a first substrate and a vibration diaphragm supported above the first substrate by a spacing portion, the first substrate, the spacing portion, and the vibration diaphragm enclosing a vacuum chamber, and a static deflection distance of the vibration diaphragm under an atmospheric pressure being less than a distance between the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate, wherein: one of the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate is provided with a magnetic film, and the other one of the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate is provided with a magnetoresistive sensor cooperating with the magnetic film, the magnetoresistive sensor being configured to sense a change in a magnetic field of the magnetic film during a vibration of the vibration diaphragm and output a varying electrical signal. |
| US11102584B1 |
Speaker unit for earphone
Disclosed is a speaker unit for an earphone. The speaker unit includes a magnet, a voice coil, a vibration plate, a fixing ring on which an edge of the vibration plate is mounted, and a frame configured to accommodate the magnet, the upper plate, and the voice coil. Here, a pipe conduit is formed in the frame along a circumferential direction. A first hole configured to allow the pipe conduit and a first space disposed in front of the speaker unit to communicate with each other is formed in at least one first position at a top of the frame in a circumferential direction. A second hole configured to allow the pipe conduit and a second space disposed in the rear of the speaker unit to communicate with each other is formed in at lest one second position at a bottom of the frame in a circumferential direction. |
| US11102582B2 |
Audio transducers and devices incorporating the same
The invention relates to audio transducers, such as loudspeaker, microphones and the like, and includes improvements in or relating to hinge systems for rotational action audio transducers. The hinge systems of the invention being configured to operatively support a diaphragm in use, and comprising a hinge assembly having one or more hinge joints, wherein each hinge joint comprises a hinge element and a contact member. The contact member comprises a contact surface and the configuration is such that during operation each hinge joint is configured to allow the hinge element to move relative to the associated contact member, while maintaining a substantially consistent physical contact with the contact surface. The hinge assembly biases the hinge element towards the contact surface. Preferably the hinge assembly is configured to apply a biasing force to the hinge element of each joint toward the associated contact surface, compliantly. Various applications and implementations are described and envisaged for the audio transducer embodiments including, for example, personal audio devices such as headphones, earphones and the like. |
| US11102579B2 |
Spatial low-crosstalk headset
An apparatus for reducing cross-talk between transmitted audio signals and received audio in a headset. The headset includes one or more of a set of earphones, a headset frame, a microphone boom with an array of MEMS microphone configured to isolate the earphone audio from the microphone audio, a VOX circuit, low crosstalk cable(s), and/or other components. Sets of microphones may be enabled and/or disabled to reduce cross-talk between received audio signals and transmitted audio signals. The VOX circuit is configured to reduce cross-talk between received audio signals and transmitted audio signals. |
| US11102578B1 |
Audio system and method of augmenting spatial audio rendition
An audio system and method of using the audio system to augment spatial audio rendition is described. The audio system can include a device to receive user inputs designating positions on an augmented reality view of a listening environment. Sound source icons can be presented in the augmented reality view at the designated positions. The sound source icons can visually represent sound sources at locations in the listening environment that correspond to, but are different than, the positions. One or more processors of the audio system can apply head-related transfer functions, which correspond to the locations in the listening environment, to audio input signals to generate binaural audio signals. The audio system can include a headset that uses the binaural audio signals to render spatialized audio localizing sounds to the locations in the listening environment. Other aspects are also described and claimed. |
| US11102575B1 |
Loudspeaker with passively controlled voice coil sections
A method for driving a voice coil of a loudspeaker may include providing a magnetic circuit having an air gap, providing a voice coil suspended in the air gap, and applying an audio signal to the voice coil to move the voice coil along a travelling axis. The voice coil comprises a center voice coil section, an upper voice coil section, and a lower voice coil section arranged on respective sides of the center voice coil section. A center driving signal is provided to the center voice coil and an upper rectified driving signal, attenuating a first direction of current, and a lower rectified driving signal, attenuating a second direction of current, are provided respectively to the upper and lower voice coil sections. The invention further relates to a voice coil driving system and a loudspeaker comprising a voice coil driving system. |
| US11102566B2 |
Capacitive wireless charging for wireless earbuds
A case for a pair of earbuds including a housing having first and second cavities formed within the housing, the first cavity configured to receive a first earbud in the pair of earbuds and the second cavity configured to receive a second earbud in the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the housing; a first pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the first cavity; a second pair of electrodes positioned within the housing adjacent to the second cavity; and charging circuitry coupled to the first and second pairs of electrodes, the charging circuitry including a high frequency inverter configured to receive a DC power signal and output a high frequency AC signal to each of the first and second pairs of electrodes. |
| US11102559B2 |
Extendable patch panel
An extendable telecommunications patch panel (10) is disclosed. In one aspect, the patch panel can include a plurality of interconnectable connection parts (100) for holding telecommunications connectors (12), such as adapters. Each connection part (100) may be provided with features that allow the connection parts (100) to be interlocked with each other to form the extendable patch panel (10). In one aspect, a first connection feature (122) can be located on a connection part first side (102) and a second connection feature (124) can be located on a connection part second side (104). The first connection feature (122) can be configured to interlock with the second connection feature (124) of an adjacent connection part (100). The connection part (100) may also be provided with an adapter (150) that allows the connection parts (100) to be connected in a staggered formation to result in a staggered patch panel (10). |
| US11102554B2 |
System and method for retrieving a previously transmitted portion of television program content
A system comprises a storage and a processor. The storage is for storing a plurality of Internet protocol multicast video streams, each associated with a live television program content. The processor is in communication with the storage, and the processor is configured to receive the Internet protocol multicast video streams. The processor is also configured to receive a request for a previously transmitted portion of one of the Internet protocol multicast video streams from customer premises equipment in response to the customer premises customer requiring the previously transmitted portion for display. The processor is also configured to begin transmission of the previously transmitted portion as an Internet protocol unicast video stream to the customer premises equipment for immediate display. |
| US11102547B2 |
Transmission method, reception method, transmission device, and reception device
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a transmission method for enabling transmission of content using a broadcast wave and a communication channel includes: transmitting auxiliary information using at least the broadcast wave, the auxiliary information being information for synchronizing content transmission using the broadcast wave and content transmission using the communication channel when the content is transmitted using the broadcast wave and the communication channel, and the auxiliary information causing a reception side to perform the syncronization when the reception side receives the auxiliary information. Therefore, even if timing of starting reception of the content through the communication is delayed, the reception side can play back the content by a combination of the broadcasting and the communication. |
| US11102546B1 |
Systems and methods for obtaining and displaying videos
Systems and methods for obtaining and playing video advertisements in conjunction with play of video content use information about the viewability of an instantiation of a video player software application. An instantiation of the video player software application generates a viewability score which is intended to reflect a degree of confidence that the instantiation of the video player software application is located on a part of a webpage that currently appears on a user's display screen. Information used to generate the viewability score can be gathered during play of a video. The information used to generate a viewability score can include information about user performed actions and information that indicates the degree to which the user is engaged by a video. |
| US11102543B2 |
Control of large screen display using wireless portable computer to pan and zoom on large screen display
A multi-window user interface (UI) on a control device such as a tablet computer communicates commands to a display controller, which may be implemented by a game console. The controller controls presentation on a large screen display according to the commands. The control device may always present a multi-window UI which the control device can command to have mimicked on the display, with the UI also being configured to cause a single video to be presented whole screen on the display while the multi-window UI remains presented on the control device. The video feeds that populate the multi-window UI are of the same content but of lower resolution than those which are presented on the display. A movable window on the control device can be dragged and dropped to cause a corresponding magnifying focus on the display over the corresponding portion of video in focus on the control device. |
| US11102542B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling access from a first content platform to content items available on a second content platform
Systems and methods are described herein for controlling access from a first content platform to content items available on a second content platform to which a user will temporarily have access in the near future. The first content platform identifies a period of time during which the user will have access to the second content platform and determines an access duration of the period of time. The first content platform retrieves a plurality of content identifiers of content items that will be available on the second content platform during the period of time. Upon receiving selection of a content identifier, the first content platform determines a duration of the content item corresponding to the selected content identifier and generates for display the content item. The first content platform then reduces the access duration by an amount of time equal to the duration of the content item. |
| US11102539B2 |
System and method for scalable physical layer flow of packetized media streams
A media stream receiver is provided for scalable physical layer flow of packetized media streams. The media stream receiver replicates the processing block in time, rather than in hardware, through the use of a single shared memory and pointer alignment calculations, which combines multiple buffering stages as the single, shared memory buffer to offer redundancy and alignment, while acting as a receiver buffer to account for packet delay variations. By doing so the media stream receiver can perform a vertical interval switch between received media streams. |
| US11102537B2 |
Remote control activation based on predicted events
Systems and methods for predicting trigger events, such as an advertisement during a video program, and activating a remote control device in response to the prediction are described. By activating the remote control device at a particular time, the remote control device may save energy when listening for data from one or more terminal devices. The time to activate the remote control may be based on one or more factors, including the current presentation position and/or presentation speed of the video program. A remote control device may take additional actions the next time it listens for data, including illuminating backlights, turning on a display, displaying content on the display, interacting with other devices, etc. |
| US11102536B2 |
Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and data processing method
A configuration is implemented by which, in a case where delivery time periods of transmission contents through different channels overlap with each other, a reception apparatus can select an acquisition target on the basis of priority information. A transmission apparatus sets, for each of transmission contents, service selection priority information (Service Selection Priority) capable of being utilized as a cache process priority criterion in the reception apparatus, and transmits the service selection priority information to the reception apparatus. The service selection priority information is utilized as priority information that makes it possible, in a case where delivery time periods of transmission contents through different channels overlap with each other, for the reception apparatus to select a content having a high value of the service selection priority information as a cache target. |
| US11102531B2 |
Correcting systematic tuning defects
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for correcting systematic tuning defects. An example apparatus includes a defect analyzer to identify a suspect time window in tuning volume data of return path data reported by set top boxes. The example apparatus further includes a return path data transformer to identify a first return path data entry indicating a first set top box reported a first transition to an off state at a first time during the suspect time window and to modify the first return path data entry to (1) eliminate the first transition to the off state at the first time and (2) assign the first return path data entry a first duration to remain in an on state after the first time, where the first duration is determined based on monitoring data reported from media device meters monitoring media presentation devices. |
| US11102525B2 |
Injecting customized content into 360-degree videos
Methods and systems for inserting targeted advertisements into video content. One or more embodiments analyze video content to identify media insertion locations on digital object surfaces for inserting advertisements. Additionally, one or more embodiments select advertisements to insert into the video content at the media insertion locations based on the media insertion locations, a viewer, or a viewing device of the viewer. One or more embodiments also digitally insert the advertisements into the video content by placing the selected advertisements at the media insertion locations corresponding to the digital object surfaces. One or more embodiments then provide the video content with the targeted advertisements to the viewing device of the viewer. |
| US11102523B2 |
Systems and methods for selective audio segment compression for accelerated playback of media assets by service providers
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selective audio segment compression for accelerated playback of media assets by service providers. A playback speed of the video segment of a media asset is calculated based on the duration of the video segment and a received playback time period. The system receives audio segments and corresponding priority weights. The audio segments with the lowest priority weight are removed from the group of various audio segments. The system then determines whether the duration of the remaining audio segments exceeds the received playback time period. If so, the system modifies the remaining audio segments by removing another audio segment with the lowest priority weight from the remaining audio segments. The system then rechecks whether the received playback time period is exceeded. If not, the system generates for playback the video segment based on the video playback speed and the remaining audio segments. |
| US11102522B2 |
Electronic program guide provisioning in real-time
According to one implementation, an electronic program guide (EPG) provisioning system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive traffic data for programming content included in a programming content stream, extract programming content metadata describing the programming content from the traffic data, and obtain supplemental metadata further describing the programming content. In addition, the hardware processor executes the software code to enrich the programming content metadata using the supplemental metadata to produce an enhanced programming content metadata, conform the enhanced programming content metadata to each of multiple formats corresponding respectively to EPG providers for the programming content stream, and distribute the enhanced programming content metadata to the EPG providers in real-time with respect to receiving the traffic data. |
| US11102521B2 |
Method and apparatus for capacity exchange
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for fault tolerant network storage and delivery of recorded content. Two or more network digital video recorders may each receive a plurality of requests to record, archive, and/or play back content items, such as television programs. Each network digital video recorder may receive capacity reports of statistics such as storage and/or bandwidth from one or more other network digital video recorders. At least one of the network digital video recorders may determine whether, based on a network capacity, to record, archive, and/or playback content items. The methods, systems, and apparatuses may accommodate equipment failures that lead to partitions between network digital video recorders. |
| US11102518B2 |
Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division
Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications. |
| US11102511B2 |
Method for intra prediction and device therefor
A method for intra prediction comprises determining a first MPM candidate corresponding to a left-side candidate block on the basis of a position of the left-side candidate block adjacent to a left side of a current block; determining a second MPM candidate corresponding to an upper-end candidate block on the basis of a position of the upper-end candidate block adjacent to an upper end of the current block; generating an MPM candidate list including a plurality of MPM candidates, on the basis of the first MPM candidate and the second MPM candidate; and determining one MPM candidate of the plurality of the MPM candidates that constitute the MPM candidate list as an intra prediction mode of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block. |
| US11102510B2 |
Method and apparatus for intra prediction with interpolation
An improved method of performing intra prediction for encoding or decoding uses interpolation such that substitute samples are found for samples to be used in the interpolation calculation that lie outside a normal reference range. The substitute samples can be repeated end samples from the bottom of a reference portion to the left of the target block, or right samples of a reference portion above the target block. An encoder can signal to a decoder whether to use intra prediction or interpolation prediction. |
| US11102509B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium storing bit stream
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise configuring an MPM list based on intra-prediction modes of neighbor blocks of a current block and a number of frequencies of the intra-prediction modes of the neighbor blocks, deriving an intra-prediction mode of the current block based on the MPM list, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode. |
| US11102508B2 |
Method and image processing unit for forming a video stream
A method and an apparatus for forming a video stream based on images of a scene captured by a camera. The method comprises: encoding image frames based on images captured by the camera, forming an encoded portion; determining a length of motion for a sample image frame, the length of motion being indicative of the amount of relative motion between the camera and the scene in the sample image frame relative a temporally preceding image frame; setting a motion length threshold based on a motion vector search range of the encoder; comparing the determined length of motion with the set motion length threshold; based on the outcome of the comparison, adjusting a chosen temporal frame distance of at least an adjustment portion (PA) of the video stream, wherein the adjustment portion is comprised in the encoded portion or in a temporally later encoded portion. |
| US11102507B2 |
Intra block copy (IntraBC) cost estimation
A method for encoding video data is provided that includes determining whether or not a parent coding unit of a coding unit of the video data was predicted in intra-prediction block copy (IntraBC) mode and, when it is determined that the parent coding unit was not predicted in IntraBC mode: computing activity of the coding unit, determining an IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit by computing the IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit using a two dimensional (2D) search when the activity of the coding unit is not than an activity threshold, and computing the IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit using a one dimensional (1D) search when the activity of the coding unit is less than the activity threshold, using the IntraBC coding cost to select an encoding mode from one of a plurality of encoding modes, encoding the coding unit using the selected encoding mode. |
| US11102501B2 |
Motion vector field coding and decoding method, coding apparatus, and decoding apparatus
A motion vector field coding and decoding method, where the method includes obtaining an original signal of a current motion vector field block, where the current motion vector field block is obtained by dividing a current motion vector field into blocks, and the current motion vector field is a motion vector field corresponding to a video frame at a moment t, obtaining a prediction signal of the current motion vector field block and prediction information of the current motion vector field block, calculating a prediction residual signal of the current motion vector field block according to the prediction signal and the original signal, where the prediction residual signal is used to indicate a residual between the original signal and the prediction signal, and writing the prediction information and the prediction residual signal into a bitstream. |
| US11102500B2 |
Tracking a reference picture on an electronic device
A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing. The method additionally includes decoding a picture based on the decoded reference picture. |
| US11102497B2 |
Signaling decoded picture buffer size in multi-loop scalable video coding
A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions of the video sequence being encoded in the second layer encoder are predicted using reference portions of the video sequence encoded in the first layer encoder, combining the first sub-bitstream and the second sub-bitstream to generate the scalable bitstream, and signaling in the scalable bitstream an indication of a maximum decoded picture buffer (DPB) size needed for decoding the second sub-bitstream and the first sub-bitstream when the second sub-bitstream is a target sub-bitstream for decoding. |
| US11102494B2 |
Method for scanning transform coefficient and device therefor
The method for scanning a transform coefficient of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a reference transform block for a block to be decoded; deriving a scanning map of the block to be decoded using scanning information of the reference transform block; and executing a reverse-scan on the transform coefficient of the block to be decoded using the derived scanning map. The present invention enhances image encoding/decoding efficiency. |
| US11102490B2 |
Coefficient scanning methods on adaptive angle mode
A method of controlling intra prediction for decoding or encoding of a video sequence, is by at least one processor and includes obtaining an index of an intra prediction mode of a current block of the video sequence, obtaining a coefficient scanning direction based on the obtained index, using a first look up table indicating a mapping between a plurality of indices of a plurality of intra prediction modes and respective coefficient scanning directions, and performing a coefficient scanning of the current block, based on the obtained coefficient scanning direction. |
| US11102488B2 |
Multi-scale metric-based encoding
A processing system analyzes pixel activity levels of blocks of a picture at a plurality of spatial scales and/or dynamic ranges to generate a multi-scale metric that indicates how bit allocation or assignment of a given quantization parameter (QP) will affect the perceptual quality of the block. Blocks that have similar multi-scale metrics are likely to be visually similar and to benefit from similar bit allocations or QPs. Based on the multi-scale metric, an encoder encodes each block of the picture with a QP and/or a number of bits. |
| US11102483B2 |
System and method for video coding
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry determines whether to split a current luma virtual pipeline decoding unit (VPDU) into smaller blocks. When it is determined not to split the current luma VPDU into smaller blocks, scaling prediction residuals of chroma samples based on prediction residuals of luma samples is not performed. When it is determined to split the luma VPDU into smaller blocks, scaling the prediction residuals of chroma samples based on prediction residuals of luma samples is performed. The block is encoded based on the prediction residuals of chroma samples. |
| US11102478B2 |
Method and apparatus for inter prediction in video processing system
Disclosed is an inter prediction method which includes deriving control points (CPs) for the current block, wherein the CPs include a first CP and a second CP, deriving a first motion vector predictor (MVP) for the first CP and a second MVP for the second CP based on neighboring blocks of the current block, decoding a first motion vector difference (MVD) for the first CP, decoding a difference of two MVDs (DMVD) for the second CP, deriving a first motion vector (MV) for the first CP based on the first MVP and the first MVD, deriving a second MV for the second CP based on the second MVP and the DMVD for the second CP, and generating a predicted block for the current block based on the first MV and the second MV. |
| US11102477B2 |
DC coefficient sign coding scheme
A sign value of a DC coefficient of a current block is determined using neighbor blocks of the current block. First and second sign values are identified as respectively corresponding to an above neighbor block of the current block and a left neighbor block of the current block. A context value is calculated by applying a first weighting value to the first sign value and a second weighting value to the second sign value. The first weighting value is based on a boundary between the above neighbor block and the current block, and the second weighting value is based on a boundary between the left neighbor block and the current block. A probability value is selected based on the context value. The sign value of the DC coefficient of the current block is then determined using the probability model. |
| US11102476B2 |
Subblock based affine motion model
A device for processing video data includes a memory configured to store video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry. The one or more processors are configured to select two or more subblocks of one or more blocks of video data and generate an affine motion model for a current block of video data using a subblock motion vector from each of the two or more subblocks as control-point motion vectors for the current block. The one or more processors are further configured to determine one or more prediction blocks based on the affine motion model and predict the current block with the one or more prediction blocks. |
| US11102475B2 |
Video encoding device, operating methods thereof, and vehicles equipped with a video encoding device
A video encoding device includes a local decode generation unit for generating a reference image based on a result of encoding of a divided image, a compression unit for compressing the reference image to generate a compressed data, a reference image storage determination unit for determining whether to store the compressed data in a memory, and an inter-prediction unit for performing motion vector search for inter-coding based on a reference image stored in the memory. The reference image storage determination unit sets an allowable data amount used for storing the reference image for each determined area of the moving image data, and determines whether or not to store the compressed data obtained by compressing the reference image in the memory based on the allowable data amount. Inter-prediction unit sets the reference image corresponding to the compressed data stored in the memory as the search range of motion vector search. |
| US11102472B2 |
Video decoding device and video decoding method
A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures. |
| US11102463B2 |
Method for processing an input image, device, terminal equipment and associated computer program
A method for processing at least one digital image for reproduction on a display device. The image includes image elements, an image element being associated with color information having, in a first color space, a luminance component and chrominance components. The method includes the following acts: determining a number of image elements, known as “bright” elements, at least the luminance component of which has a value greater than a first predetermined threshold; evaluating a maximum tolerated brightness value as a decreasing function of the number of counted image elements; and transforming the first luminance components of the image elements to second luminance components, including for an image element, calculating an intermediate luminance value by applying an expansion exponent to the first luminance component value and multiplying the intermediate value calculated by the evaluated maximum tolerated luminosity value. |
| US11102462B2 |
Vision defect determination via a dynamic eye characteristic-based fixation point
In certain embodiments, vision defect information may be generated via a dynamic eye-characteristic-based fixation point. In some embodiments, a first stimulus may be displayed at a first location on a user interface based on a fixation point for a visual test presentation. The fixation point for the visual test presentation may be adjusted during the visual test presentation based on eye characteristic information related to a user. As an example, the eye characteristic information may indicate a characteristic of an eye of the user that occurred during the visual test presentation. A second stimulus may be displayed during the visual test presentation at a second interface location on the user interface based on the adjusted fixation point for the visual test presentation. Vision defect information associated with the user may be generated based on feedback information indicating feedback related to the first stimulus and feedback related to the second stimulus. |
| US11102461B1 |
Projection system, projection method, and projection display system
A projection system includes a projection device including a projector unit and a camera unit, a signal transmitter unit mounted to a projection screen, and a processing unit. The camera unit captures an image of a projection image projected by the projector unit onto the projection screen, and the processing unit obtains a position of the projection image accordingly. The processing unit obtains a position of the projection screen based on signals wirelessly transmitted by the signal transmitter unit and adjusts setting parameter(s) related to the projector unit based on a comparison between the positions of the projection image and the projection screen to reduce dimensional and/or positional differences between the two. |
| US11102448B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and recording medium
An image processing system includes circuitry to: obtain a wide-angle image captured by an image capturing apparatus; generate a first image representing a part of the wide-angle image; and determine whether a first area includes a second area, the first area being a viewable area to be displayed on a display, the second area being represented by the first image. Based on a determination that the first area does not include the second area, the circuitry further converts the first image into a second image, the second image having definition lower than that of the first image, and converts the wide-angle image into a third image, the third image having definition lower than that of the wide-angle image, such that the second image and the third image are displayable on the display of the information processing apparatus. |
| US11102442B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes a signal processor, a substrate, and a conductive housing. The signal processor includes an oscillator that outputs oscillation signal. The substrate has a ground component, the signal processor being disposed on the substrate. The conductive housing is connected to a first site of the ground component and to a second site that is different from the first site. The first site and the second site are disposed at positions where a first area of the housing that is an odd-numbered multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the first site overlaps at least part of a second area of the housing that is a multiple of ¼ wavelength of the oscillation signal away from the second site. |
| US11102436B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and signal processing method thereof, and electronic device
Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion with respect to a pixel signal output from the pixel of the pixel array portion, a memory configured to retain a digital pixel signal after the AD conversion, and an image signal processing circuit configured to perform predetermined signal processing with respect to the digital pixel signal. The image signal processing circuit includes two or more PUs including one or more PEs configured to execute predetermined arithmetic processing, and a CU configured to operate the PE in an SIMD format, an IMEM configured to store one or more arithmetic processing instructions, and a CCU configured to control the PU. |
| US11102433B2 |
Solid-state imaging device having a photoelectric conversion element with multiple electrodes
To enhance, in the device that transfers the electric charges in the photodiode, the transfer efficiency of the electric charges.A photoelectric conversion element in a solid-state imaging device is provided with a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of detection terminals. A driver generates at a same time in the photoelectric conversion element a plurality of electric fields having directions different from each other by supplying a potential to each of the plurality of electrodes so as to transfer electric charges from all of terminals not corresponding to a transfer destination out of the plurality of detection terminals to a terminal at the transfer destination. A detection section detects a signal corresponding to an amount of the electric charges transferred to the terminal at the transfer destination. |
| US11102432B2 |
Image sensor with photoelectric conversion units arranged in different directions
An imaging device includes: a first image sensor comprising first pixels that receive incident light, and that include a first and second photoelectric conversion units that are arranged in a first direction; and a second image sensor including second pixels that receive light that has passed through the first image sensor, and that include a third and fourth photoelectric conversion units that are arranged in a second direction that is different from the first direction. |
| US11102431B2 |
Image sensor
An image sensor which relates to a technology for estimating crosstalk of each pixel is disclosed. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit test patterns, each of which is used to measure values of crosstalk components of a plurality of light blocking pixels generated by a single open pixel, the light blocking pixels and the single open pixel included in the unit test pattern, a storage circuit configured to store the measured values of the respective unit test patterns, a calculation circuit configured to calculate a crosstalk value about each target pixel included in the pixel array by combining the stored values, and a correction circuit configured to correct pixel data of the target pixel by reflecting the calculated crosstalk value in the pixel data. |
| US11102430B2 |
Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes
In one example, a pixel cell comprises a first photodiode to generate a first charge and a second photodiode to generate a second charge. The pixel cell may include a charge sensing unit shared between the first photodiode and the second photodiode. The charge sensing unit may include a charge storage device to temporarily store a charge and convert the charge to a voltage. The pixel cell may include a quantizer to quantize the voltage output by the charge sensing unit, and a memory to store the quantization output. Depending on an operation mode, the first charge and the second charge can be controlled to flow simultaneously to the charge sensing unit for read out, or can be controlled to flow separately to the charge sensing unit for read out. The pixel cell further includes a memory to store a quantization result of the first charge and the second charge. |
| US11102429B2 |
Integrated global shutter image sensor
In one embodiment, an integrated image sensor includes an array of pixels in which each pixel includes a photosensitive area configured to integrate a luminous signal by generating electron-hole pairs so as to form a first signal representative of the number of electrons in the generated electron-hole pairs and a second signal representative of the number of holes in the generated electron-hole pairs. A first circuit portion is configured to store the first signal sheltered from light. A second circuit portion is configured to store the second signal sheltered from light. A third circuit portion is configured to read the first signal and the second signal and able to perform combination operations between the first signal and the second signal so as to generate a combined signal representative of an image, where the integrated image sensor is tailored to operate in a global shutter control mode. |
| US11102428B2 |
Single image sensor for capturing mixed structured-light images and regular images
An integrated image sensor for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed. The integrated image sensor comprises a pixel array, one or more output circuits, one or more analog-to-digital converters, and one or more timing and control circuits. The timing and control circuits are arranged to perform a set of actions including capturing a regular image and a structured-light image. According to the present invention, the structured-light image captured before or after the regular image is used to derive depth or shape information for the regular image. An endoscope based on the above integrated image sensor is also disclosed. The endoscope may comprises a capsule housing adapted to be swallowed, where the components of integrated image sensor, a structured light source and anon-structured light source are enclosed and sealed in the capsule housing. |
| US11102427B2 |
Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium that records image processing program
An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor with Bayer array structure. The imaging apparatus includes a calculation circuit, an interpolation operating circuit, and a G-step detecting circuit. The calculation circuit calculates a first value and a second value, for each predetermined image area of image data output from the solid-state image sensor. The first value is a mean value or integrated value of pixel values of first green pixels. The second value is a mean value or integrated value of pixel values of second green pixels. The interpolation operating circuit performs, for a plurality of the image areas, an interpolation operation by using a plurality of the first values and a plurality of the second values. |
| US11102426B1 |
Photonic integrated circuit for heterodyne imaging
An apparatus includes a first light source to produce a first reference light, a first pair of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) to demultiplex a first optical signal and the first reference light, respectively, into multiple first signal beams and multiple first reference beams. A first heterodyne optical detector can mix the multiple first signal beams and the multiple first reference beams to generate first quadrature optical signals. A first pair of photo-detectors can convert the first quadrature optical signals to first in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) electrical signals. The apparatus is implemented as a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) incorporating the first pair of AWGs, the first heterodyne optical detector and the first pair of photo-detectors. |
| US11102425B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
Visibility of a description on a description field hidden by a presenter is to be ensured while maintaining a positional relationship between the presenter and the description on the description field.The moving image data obtained by imaging a state where the presenter is giving the description onto the description field is processed to determine the description portion. Display data for displaying each of portions determined to be the description portion as a description is generated and superimposed on moving image data. For example, a difference value for each of pixels between a current frame image and a reference frame image is extracted, a group including a series of consecutive pixels having a difference value being a threshold or more is grasped and then, whether or not the group is a description portion is determined for each of the groups. |
| US11102420B2 |
Smart shutter in low light
A method is disclosed for improving the quality of photographs taken in low-light conditions by adjustment of shutter speed and digital gain based on a shutter prioritization value. Using a network of sensor, a digital camera processes various parameters, such as luminance of the scene and movement of the camera or of subjects within the scene, to compute a shutter prioritization value. The value is then used to select the most appropriate shutter speed and digital gain combination from a constant exposure curve. Higher prioritization values correspond to faster shutter speeds and higher digital gain. Lower prioritization values correspond to lower shutter speeds and lower digital gain. In further embodiments, the shutter prioritization value may be manually customized by a user in order to produce artistic effects. |
| US11102416B2 |
Mobile zoom using multiple optical image stabilization cameras
Some embodiments include a camera system having a first camera unit and a second camera unit. The first camera unit may include a first actuator. The second camera unit may include a second actuator. In some embodiments, the first actuator may move one or more components of the first camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the first camera unit. In some embodiments, the second actuator may move one or more components of the second camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the second camera unit. In some examples, the first camera unit may be configured to capture a first image of a first visual field. The second camera unit may be configured to capture, simultaneously with the first camera unit capturing the first image, a second image of a second visual field. |
| US11102400B2 |
Pulsed illumination in a fluorescence imaging system
Pulsed fluorescence imaging in a light deficient environment is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm. |
| US11102397B2 |
Method for capturing images, terminal, and storage medium
A method for capturing images, a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided, relating to the technical filed of electronics. The method includes the following. A preview image is acquired through a capturing component of a terminal and an exposure parameter value corresponding to the preview image is acquired, when the capturing component is enabled. An image capturing parameter value in a current blurred scene is forecasted according to the preview image, the exposure parameter value, and an image capturing parameter related pre-trained forecasting model with an image data parameter, an exposure parameter, and an image capturing parameter as variables, where an image capturing parameter in the current blurred scene includes the number of images for synthesis. An image is captured according to the image capturing parameter value forecasted, upon receiving a capturing instruction. |
| US11102396B2 |
Electronic device, imaging control apparatus and control method thereof
An electronic device sets, in accordance with a use operation, which one of a plurality of objects is to be used to display a specific setting item on a setting screen. The plurality of objects include a first object and a second object whose display size, information amount to be displayed, and number of types of operable setting values are larger than the first object. In case where the first object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes a first setting value concerning the specific setting item in accordance with an operation on one of a first or second operation member. In case where the second object is displayed on the setting screen, the electronic device changes the first and second setting values in accordance with the operations on the first and second operation members, respectively. |
| US11102392B2 |
Image pickup apparatus detecting focus with phase difference detection method, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of obtaining a defocus amount for focus detection with high accuracy at high speed with a simple configuration even in a time of image stabilization. The image pickup apparatus including a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to obtain optical parameters about an image pickup optical system and an image sensor as reference information, correct the reference information based on a relative moving amount of the image sensor with respect to an optical axis of the image pickup optical system, obtain a control parameter corresponding to corrected reference information by referring to an information data set that stores the control parameter used for finding a defocus amount for focus detection in association with the reference information, and find the defocus amount based on the control parameter obtained. |
| US11102390B2 |
Versatile viewing device
An apparatus includes a frame, a screen supported by the frame for displaying an image; a first optical sensor for capturing an image, an extendable arm connected to the frame; and a second optical sensor connected to the arm for capturing an image. Such an apparatus can be used for capturing and displaying information for low vision persons. |
| US11102389B2 |
Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor
An image pickup apparatus is configured to change a shooting process based on data on a shot image. The image pickup apparatus is configured to, when the image pickup apparatus changes the shooting process, assign greater weights to the data on the shot image based on an instruction from a user than to the data on the shot image automatically processed. |
| US11102385B2 |
Playground apparatus comprising a camera support
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a playground apparatus that is configured to support a camera, typically a smartphone or similar photo/video device. The apparatus is configured to both (a) position the camera to take a photograph or video of the user during the play activity and (b) to maintain the camera in place during the play activity. Embodiments of the play apparatus include swings, whirls, and spinners. |
| US11102384B2 |
Camera substrate assembly, camera module, and terminal device
A camera substrate assembly, a camera apparatus, and a terminal device, where the camera substrate assembly includes a rigid support plate and a printed circuit board laminated, where at least two mounting holes for accommodating camera chips are disposed on the printed circuit board, the rigid support plate has mounting surfaces facing the mounting holes respectively and are configured to support the camera chips, strength of the rigid support plate is greater than strength of the printed circuit board, and flatness of the mounting surfaces is less than a specified threshold. The mounting holes disposed on the printed circuit board and the mounting surfaces disposed on the rigid support plate are used to support cameras. This avoids impact of warpage on camera mounting when the printed circuit board and a flexible circuit board are laminated, and improves flatness after camera mounting. |
| US11102382B2 |
Direction control device, direction control method and recording medium
A direction control device includes: a camera unit that acquires an image captured by photographing a subject by a camera targeted for adjustment of a photographing direction; an image-processing unit that calculates a position of a first setting image that represents the subject in the captured image; a posture detection unit that detects a difference between a position of a second setting image that represents the subject in a reference image registered in advance and the position of the first setting image; and a camera control unit that shifts the photographing direction of the camera based on the difference. |
| US11102381B1 |
Methods, systems and controllers for facilitating cleaning of an imaging element of an imaging device
Disclosed herein are technological solutions that are configured to limit sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic and manual laparoscopic surgery. Such technological solutions are configured to systematically assess cleanliness of an imaging element of a laparoscope (or other type of similar imaging apparatus) and take action for enabling or causing the imaging element to be cleaned. In preferred embodiments, assessment of the cleanliness of the imaging element provides information that can be used for enabling or causing cleaning of the imaging element to be performed in-vivo in either a manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous manner. In this manner such technological solutions advantageously enable the surgical field during surgery to be more efficiently and consistently maintained in an optimal condition. |
| US11102380B2 |
Motion detection circuit and motion detection method applied to CIS
The present invention discloses a motion detection circuit applied to CIS and a motion detection method. Through the current frame pixel signal sampling branch and the previous frame pixel signal sampling branch, the sampling of the current frame and the previous frame pixel signal is respectively controlled, and the previous frame pixel signal is transmitted to the first end of the first capacitor and the second capacitor connected in series, and then the first error reference signal and the second error reference signal related to the pixel signal of the previous frame, which are respectively output by the second ends of the first capacitor and the second capacitor that are not connected, are transmitted to the first comparator branch and the second comparator branch of the comparator branch respectively, by judging the high and low-state of the comparison signals of the current frame pixel signal and the first error reference signal, and the current frame pixel signal and the second error reference signal respectively output by the first comparator branch and the second comparator branch, so as to determine whether an image point reflected by the pixel points of the pixels connected with the motion detection circuit has moved or not. |
| US11102379B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing time synchronization in a digital television system
Methods (900, 1000) and apparatuses (110, 120, 400) are provided for transmitting and receiving a signal. The method (900) of transmitting a signal includes modulating (920) data into a plurality of modulation symbols to generate a signal, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter, and transmitting (930) the signal over a communication medium. The method (1000) of receiving a signal includes receiving (1010) a signal over a communication medium, and demodulating (1020) the signal to generate a plurality of demodulated symbols, the demodulated symbols including data, the data including time synchronization information including one of a time offset parameter and a frame length parameter selected according to a frame length mode parameter. |
| US11102376B2 |
Recursive halftoning and gray value substitution
An example system in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a halftone engine and a gray value engine. The halftone engine is to apply halftoning to an image recursively across a plurality of levels of image scales and spatial resolutions, to generate a pattern that is at least quasi-periodic across the plurality of levels. The gray value engine is to substitute gray values recursively for at least a portion of the halftoning. |
| US11102368B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An apparatus includes a forming unit, a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction, a reading unit configured to read an image based on the instruction, a memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of pixel data, a first output unit configured to output the plurality of pieces of pixel data at an output cycle, a data bus configured to transfer the pixel data, and a controller configured to operate a first process and a second process. The forming unit forms an image based on the plurality of pieces of pixel data transferred via the data bus. In a case where the receiving unit receives the instruction, the controller sets the output cycle as a first cycle if the controller is not operating the second process, or sets the output cycle as a second cycle longer than the first cycle if the controller is operating the second process. |
| US11102364B2 |
Inclination detecting device, reading device, image processing apparatus, and method of detecting inclination
An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on an outline of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of the main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on the outline of the object in the image information; detect a boundary group including detection results of the second boundary at the detection positions; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from detection results of the first boundary, the second boundary, and the boundary group. |
| US11102360B2 |
Information processing apparatus configured to create image data with different sizes, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions therefor
A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to receive image data representing a first size image, the first size being a size within which a first number of first objects can be printed, extract second image data included in the first image data, the second image data representing the first object, create first print data used to print the second number of first objects on the second size sheet in an arranged manner based on the extracted second image data, the second number being less than the first number, the first size being a size of a sheet on which the first number of first objects can be arranged, the second size being a size of a sheet on which the first number of first objects cannot be arranged but the second number of first objects can be arranged, the first print data being transmitted to a printer. |
| US11102353B2 |
Video call routing and management based on artificial intelligence determined facial emotion
A video stream of a video call between a communication endpoint of customer and a communication endpoint of a contact center agent is received. The video stream of the video call is processed in real-time to generate a real-time emotion transcript. The real-time emotion transcript tracks a plurality of separate emotions based on non-verbal expressions (e.g. facial expressions) that occur in the video stream of the video call. For example, different emotions of both the customer and the contact center agent may tracked in the real-time emotion transcript. The real-time emotion transcript is compared to an emotion transcript of at least one previous video call to determine if the video call should be handled differently in the contact center. In response to determining that video call should be handled differently in the contact center, an action determined to change how the video call is managed in the contact center. |
| US11102348B1 |
User-configurable recording of VoIP calls
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more VoIP servers configured and arranged to route VoIP calls to and from users of a plurality of customer accounts. Each customer account has a respective plurality of users and a respective settings file. For each of the customer accounts, a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the VoIP servers, records an audio portion of a VoIP call to or from a user of the customer account in response to the VoIP call satisfying a set of recording criteria specified in the settings file for the customer account. The recording criteria for at least one of the customer accounts includes account-level settings for selecting VoIP calls to be recorded and sets of user-level settings indicating criteria for preventing recording of VoIP calls of the individual users. |
| US11102346B2 |
Providing additional information to called parties
A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing additional information to called parties comprises receiving a call from a calling party, performing a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receiving the information from the database, and forwarding the information to a called party. The system comprises at least one device for receiving a call from a calling party, and at least one database for storing information associated with the calling party, wherein the at least one device is operable to perform a lookup of information associated with the calling party in a database, receive the information from the database, and forward the information to a called party. |
| US11102343B2 |
Mobile terminal and control method therefor
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of sensing an operation for gripping a terminal, including: a main body having a case for forming an exterior; a memory for storing a plurality of pieces of visual information; a touch screen arranged at the front surface of the main body and displaying at least one of the plurality of pieces of visual information; a grip sensor arranged at a lateral surface of the main body and attached to an inner surface of the case so as to sense a user input applied to the lateral surface; and a control unit for executing a select-all function, which sets at least one of the pieces of displayed visual information into an editable selection state, on the basis of the sensing of the user input through the grip sensor during the execution of an editing mode for editing the plurality of pieces of visual information, wherein the control unit does not set remaining pieces of visual information, excluding at least one piece of displayed visual information, into the selection state even if the select-all function is executed. |
| US11102339B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display module; a support part on a rear surface of the display module and comprising a support plate and a plurality of support bars; a first case accommodating the display module and the support part; a second case combined with the first case so as to be moved in a direction away from or close to the first case along a first direction; and a sub-support part under the support part so as to overlap a part of the support part, wherein both sides of the plurality of support bars are respectively inserted into first guide grooves defined in inner surfaces of the first case, which face with each other in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the plurality of support bars are configured to be moved along the first guide grooves. |
| US11102335B1 |
Apparatus, method and system for a tunneling client access point
The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system comprising a portable device configured to communicate with a terminal and a network server, and execute stored program code in response to user interaction with an interactive user interface. The portable device contains stored program code configured to render an interactive user interface on a terminal output component to enable the user the control processing activity on the portable device and access data and programs from the portable device and a network server. |
| US11102334B2 |
Subscription-notification mechanisms for synchronization of distributed states
Apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for synchronizing distributed states amongst a plurality of entities and authenticating devices to access information and/or services provided by a remote server. Synchronization techniques include client devices and remote servers storing buckets of information. The client device sends a subscription request to the remote serve identifying a bucket of information and, when that bucket changes, the remote server sends the change to the client device. Authentication techniques include client devices including unique default credentials that, when presented to a remote server, provide limited access to the server. The client device may obtain assigned credentials that, when presented to the remote server, provide less limited access to the server. |
| US11102331B2 |
Enterprise health score and data migration
One or more computers receive a request from a user to change a configuration of a computing environment provided by one or more servers. In response to receiving the request and before performing the requested change in the configuration of the environment, the computers determine an estimated measure of performance that represents a level of performance of the computing environment if changed according to the request and provide data indicating performance measures indicating the estimated measure of performance for the environment corresponding to the change in the configuration of the environment. After providing the data indicating the estimated performance measures, the computers receive data indicating user input confirming the request to change the configuration of the environment, and perform the requested change in the configuration of the computing environment. |
| US11102329B2 |
Miniaturized network nodes
A method includes identifying a first validation parameter of a first network node and a second validation parameter of a second network node. The method includes creating an authentication node based on the first and second validation parameters. The method also includes receiving a request to access a microservice that utilizes the first network node and the second network node. The authentication node analyzes the request to make a validation determination indicative of whether the request satisfies the first and second validation parameters and controls access to the microservice based on the validation determination. |
| US11102321B2 |
Selectively transforming assets returned by a proxy device
A device acting as a proxy for an asset host receives a message from a requesting device. The message includes an access request specifying an asset hosted by the asset host. The message includes embedded pipeline language parameters specifying desired asset characteristics of the hosted asset. The proxy routes the access request to the asset host. The asset received in response to the request has characteristics. The proxy compares the asset characteristics of the asset to the desired asset characteristics specified by the embedded pipeline language parameters. In response to a result of the comparison indicating that the asset's characteristics do not match the first desired asset characteristics specified by the embedded pipeline language parameters, the proxy transmits a transformed asset back to the requesting device. |
| US11102314B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a social media knowledge base
A method of identifying and presenting accounts and postings of a social media system may include: retrieving, via at least one communication interface of the social media system, account information for a plurality of social media accounts; classifying, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to account type; ranking, based on the retrieved account information, the plurality of social media accounts according to perceived importance or influence; storing, in an account database, a representation of a subset of the plurality of social media accounts having a ranking greater than a predetermined threshold; retrieving, via the at least one API, postings of the stored social media accounts; and generating, for display on a user system, a user interface to present the retrieved social media postings for the stored accounts organized according to at least one of: account type, or ranking. |
| US11102313B2 |
Transactional autosave with local and remote lifecycles
A system performs autosave. The system receives, by a web browser of a client device, a user action performed by a user that interacts with a website corresponding to a server. The system determines a change record corresponding to the user action, queues the change record in a first queue to commit corresponding changes to local models, and queues the change record in a second queue that communicates with the server to persist the change record at the serve. The first queue may be an ordered persistence queue that maintains a history of change records for performing undo and redo operations in interacting with the website. The second queue may be an ordered queue where change records are processed one at a time and each change record is sent to the server only if a prior change record in the second queue has been successfully recorded on the server. |
| US11102311B2 |
Registration during downtime
A downtime registration service is discussed herein that enables client systems that rely on electronic record management systems to continue generating records during a downtime event for the electronic record management system without relying on a workaround that requires temporary identifiers or reentry of data. The downtime registration system improves the efficiency and accuracy of electronic systems because workarounds that involve using temporary identifiers, or reentering data collected during the downtime, increase the amount of work done and the chance for errors to be introduced into the records. The client systems are in communication with an outside facility providing advanced services, which track the records generated during normal operation (i.e., not downtime) so that new records created during downtime properly reuse existing record identifiers or assign new identifiers that correspond to the clients' record keeping policies. |
| US11102309B2 |
Pairing a voice-enabled device with a display device
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for pairing a speech-enabled device with a display device. A determination may be made to pair a speech-enabled device with a display device of a particular type. A set of display devices that are associated with the speech-enabled device may be identified in response to determining to pair the speech-enabled device with the display device of the particular type. An instruction may be provided to each of the display devices. The instruction may cause the display device to determine (i) whether the display device is of the particular type and (ii) whether the display device and the speech-enabled device both share a local area network and display on the display device an indication regarding pairing with the speech-enabled device. |
| US11102302B2 |
Conversion of aircraft data over wireless networks for flight deck and cabin airline applications
An in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) system is configured to interconnect an avionics data bus to a local area network. An avionics interface is connectable to the avionics data bus, and receptive to avionics data transmitted on the avionics data bus by one or more avionics nodes over a predetermined protocol. A local network interface establishes the local area network, and portable electronic devices may be connectable to the local network interface over the local area network to establish a data communications link thereon. A data processor is connected to the avionics interface and the local network interface, and relays the avionics data from the avionics interface to the local network interface for transmission to the one or more portable electronics devices. This transmission is according to the predetermined protocol over the data communications link established on the local area network. |
| US11102299B2 |
Data processing system
A data processing system includes a plurality of computers which include a processor and a memory, a storage device which is connected to the plurality of computers to store data, and a management computer controls the plurality of computers. The computer includes a node pool which can perform, stop, and delete one or more nodes. The node pool includes one or more first nodes which function as a data buffer. The management computer causes the node to measure a performance of data transmission between the data buffer and the storage device, determines a number of increased/decreased nodes on the basis of a measurement result of the performance, and notifies the node pool of a command of performing or deleting the first node according to the determined number of increased/decreased nodes. The node pool adjusts a number of the first nodes according to performing or deleting command. |
| US11102296B2 |
Big bang approach in datacenter migrations
Methods and systems for datacenter migrations are disclosed. A method includes: virtualizing, by a computing device, servers in a source environment; installing, by the computing device, an isolation firewall to isolate a target environment from the source environment; installing, by the computing device, shared services in the target environment; installing, by the computing device, monitoring and management tools in the virtualized servers in the source environment; replicating, by the computing device, between the source environment and the target environment; and cutting over, by the computing device, from the source environment to the target environment by switching a route advertisement from the source datacenter to the target datacenter. |
| US11102295B2 |
Methods, systems and devices for parallel network interface data structures with differential data storage and processing service capabilities
Systems, methods and devices relating to a network-accessible data storage device comprising a network interface in data communication with a network, the network interface for receiving and sending data units, the data units being assigned to at least one of a plurality of network data queues depending on at least one data unit characteristic; a data storage component communicatively coupled with the network interface, the data storage component comprising a plurality of data storage resources for receiving and responding to data transactions communicated in data units; and a queue mapping component for mapping each network data queues to at least one data storage resource for processing of data transactions. |
| US11102293B2 |
System and method for migrating an agent server to an agent client device
In a network of mobile agents, data integrity can be improved by providing an agent server that can migrate between devices operating in the region of interest (ROI). The agent server distributes agent clients onto devices in the ROI and provides agent server services to the agent clients, including receiving and storing data from the agents. When the agent server device is to leave the ROI, the agent server can migrate to any device executing an agent client and continue to provide the agent server services, including data collection and aggregation, from the device to which the agent server has migrated. |
| US11102292B2 |
System and method for real-time cloud data synchronization using a database binary log
A system synchronizes change-data in a multi-tenant system with one or more external service provider systems. The system comprises a system interface configured to receive transaction events; a write-optimized transactional database for recording the transaction events; a replicated read-optimized transactional database; a transaction log of change-data generated from the read-optimized transactional database; a first change-data processor configured to identify the change-data in the transaction log that is relevant to at least one external service provider system, and to generate an aggregate relevant change-data log; a second change-data processor configured to identify aggregate relevant change-data that is relevant to a particular external service provider system, and to generate a service provider relevant change-data log; a service provider connector configure to await a real-time trigger condition, and to, in response to the trigger condition, perform a synchronization session to synchronize the service provider relevant change-data with the particular external service provider system. |
| US11102291B2 |
Coordinating inter-region operations in provider network environments
Methods and apparatus for coordinating inter-region operations in provider networks. An inter-region coordinator (IRC) operates asynchronously to the control planes of regional networks to coordinate inter-region operations. The IRC in a region may include one or more IRC servers. To perform inter-region operations, the servers may implement a local-remote-local method in which a server invokes an API in the local region to get work, sends the work to a control plane of a remote region, receives a response from the remote region, and informs the control plane in the local region of the status of the work. |
| US11102284B2 |
Service processing methods and systems based on a consortium blockchain network
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for consortium blockchain network-based service processing. In one example, the method includes generating, by a target client device associated with a target service node of a consortium blockchain network, a service-related transaction; sending, by the target client device, the service-related transaction to the target service node; determining that the service-related transaction has not been recorded in the consortium blockchain network by the target service node; identifying, by the target client device, one node identifier in a candidate list maintained at the target client device as a designated node identifier; and sending, by the target client device, the service-related transaction to a different service node in the consortium blockchain network that corresponds to the designated node identifier. |
| US11102281B2 |
Tool for managing and allocating resources in a clustered computing environment
This present invention is directed towards a container orchestration system such as Kubernetes in which pods monitor themselves to determine if they are likely to require additional resources or vertical scaling within a given timeframe. If the pod determines that it will need additional processing power it notifies the state manager to begin allocating these resources on the same node or a different virtual or physical node before the CPU usage reaches 99%+. The state manager receives this request and allocates the necessary resources ahead of time. When the pod's CPU usage reaches 99%+, the state manager will remove the pod from the existing node and moves the application to the new pod on a different node in which sufficient resources are allocated. This invention brings about efficient utilization of nodes. |
| US11102280B1 |
Infrastructure imports for an information technology platform
A method includes a dispatch node receiving a policy file and infrastructure plan data from a cloud infrastructure provisioning platform. The policy file comprises one or more imports that include a configuration import, a plan import, and/or a state import. Each import of the one or more imports comprises one or more data fields. The dispatch node parses the policy file to determine at least the one or more imports. The dispatch node queries the infrastructure plan data stored in a memory via an API for object data related to the one or more data fields of the one or more imports. The dispatch node determines, based on the query, the object data via the API. The dispatch node executes the policy file based on the object data to obtain a policy check result. The dispatch node then provides the policy check result to the cloud infrastructure provisioning platform. |
| US11102279B2 |
System for external validation of private-to-public transition protocols
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for generating and using a block chain distributed network for tracking and validating protocols and other operations associated with the transition of one or more resources from being arranged in a consolidated, privately-held structure to being arrange and/or distributed in a publicly available structure. In example implementations, the block chain database is used and updated to reflect the status degree of completion of protocols associated with the identification, characterization, and dissemination of resource characteristics and resource shares, including the fractional distribution of resource portions to effectuate the efficient transition of a resource. |
| US11102278B2 |
Method for managing a software-defined data center implementing redundant cloud management stacks with duplicate API calls processed in parallel
A method for managing a software-defined data center is disclosed. The method involves implementing redundant cloud management stacks, processing duplicate application program interface (API) calls in parallel with the redundant cloud management stacks, and performing a data center operation corresponding to the processed duplicate API calls. |
| US11102275B2 |
System and method for determining an interest in promotional content displayed at a mobile communication device
Determining interest in promotional content to be displayed at a mobile communication device is described. The promotional content, including a first portion that is visible and a second portion that is hidden in a first state, may be received. The first and second portions are each selectable only when visible. A promotional display that includes the promotional content in the first state is generated. Upon receipt of a first input from the user in relation to the first portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the first state to a second state such the first portion becomes hidden and the second portion becomes visible. Upon failing to receive a second input from the user in relation to the second portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the second state to the first state. Upon receipt of the second input, an interest in the promotional content may be indicated. |
| US11102274B2 |
Providing geocoded targeted web content
A system and method are disclosed for providing geocoded web content to a user based on a specific geographic location specified by the user. A determination module receives a geographic location from the user and determines latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the geographic location from a geographic information database. The determination module further determines a geographic boundary associated with the latitude and longitude coordinates based at least in part on an area of interest surrounding the geographic location. A web content search module determines web content comprising substance associated with a location within the geographic boundary. A front end interface transmits the determined web content for display in an order based at least in part on distance from the location associated with the web content to the geographic location. |
| US11102271B2 |
Temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management
Various techniques for temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management are described, including configuring a host group using a manifest file, receiving a data file at a platform using an application programming interface, parsing the data file to generate a processed data file, the processed data file having a time characteristic associated with the data file, storing the data file at a location by comparing the time characteristic to the time range to determine the class, the server type, and the server on which to store the data file, reconciling the host group to determine whether the data file has changed, and modifying the data file by performing a data operation on the data file if the reconciling indicates the data file has changed. |
| US11102269B1 |
Media stream patching using dynamic frame prediction
Techniques for media stream patching using dynamic frame prediction are described. A frame loss detector of a decoder can detect a frame loss condition of an input media stream and cause a request for a substitute frame to be sent to a frame predictor. The frame predictor uses one or more machine learning models to infer a substitute frame, which is inserted into the media stream for further processing and distribution. |
| US11102265B2 |
System and method for providing a real-time digital virtual audience
The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for providing a real-time digital virtual audience. The system and method may include processing video associated with an event to produce a corresponding data stream, combining the corresponding data stream with at least one sequence of predictability data stream to create a digital framework, processing the digital framework into at least one representation of at least one object depicted in the video, and transmitting the at least one representation to one or more communication devices associated with one or more virtual audience members, wherein the one or more virtual audience members are viewing the same event using their respective communication devices. |
| US11102264B2 |
Methods and systems for initiating a coordinated effect
Exemplary embodiments relate to the application of media effects to visual data such as a video. A coordinated activity protocol is provided for synchronizing interactive effects and experiences across multiple devices. The protocol allows effects to be initiated and coordinated on multiple devices via a real-time communications (RTC) channel. Messages may be exchanged to cooperatively initiate the effect, and (once initiated) generic data may be exchanged via application programming interface (API) calls. Accordingly, the system is both data-type and platform agnostic, allowing effects developers to define how data will be interpreted. In some embodiments, higher-level services may be provided to exchange data of predefined types (e.g., for common activities such as turn negotiations, turn yielding, scorekeeping, leadership elections, etc.). |
| US11102260B1 |
Dynamic congestion control through real-time QOS monitoring in video streaming
Methods and apparatus are described for providing thinned manifests during a live event. As network usage of a regional internet service provider (ISP) or content delivery network (CDN) becomes unsustainable, new streaming sessions for a live event are provided a thinned manifest that does not have playback options for bitrates above a bitrate limit. |
| US11102255B2 |
Project creation and distribution system
An embodiment comprises methods of managing and systems for processing media projects. The project processing system comprises a hardware processor and a communication circuit. The processor receives a first request from a first viewer to view first media content, determine whether the first viewer is permitted to view the first media content, provide a first viewer interface to the first viewer permitted to view the first media content, the first viewer interface enabling the first viewer to stream or download the first media content, determine that the first viewer requests to share viewing of the first media content with at least one additional viewer, and enable the first viewer to share viewing of the first media content with the at least one additional viewer. The communication circuit provides the first media content to the first viewer and the at least one additional viewer for streaming or downloading over a network. |
| US11102251B1 |
Systems and methods for deploying configurations on computing devices and validating compliance with the configurations during scheduled intervals
Deploying configurations on computing devices and validating compliance with the configurations during scheduled intervals. Particular embodiments described herein include computing devices that send a requests to a management platform at different time periods for lists of configurations that are assigned to those computing devices at those different time periods. Received lists include identifiers of the configurations that are assigned to the those computing devices during the different time periods. Local agents on the computing devices use the received lists to determine if each of the configurations in that list are implemented. If a configuration is not implemented on a computing device, the local agent on that computing device implements that configuration or alerts the management platform that the configuration could not be implemented. |
| US11102249B2 |
System and method for monitoring and grading a cybersecurity framework
A cybersecurity system is provided that sums and scores one or more cybersecurity controls for different client computing systems that each have different attributes, needs, and interests. In addition, the cybersecurity system provides to each different client computing system auto-suggestions that suggest one or more ways in which the client computing system may improve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information stored on the client computing system and/or improve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the underlying characteristics of the client computing system. In addition, the cybersecurity system verifies that the functioning of the client computing system has improved. |
| US11102241B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing operation being secure against side channel attack
An apparatus and method for performing an operation which are secure against side-channel attack are provided. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus includes a first outputter configured to output a first output value corresponding to a seed value using a first parameter candidate value set, a second outputter configured to output a second output value using a second parameter candidate value set wherein the second output value corresponds to the seed value and is capable of being generated using the first output value, a third outputter configured to output a third output value using the seed value and the first output value, and a fourth outputter configured to output a fourth output value using the second output value and the third output value, wherein the fourth output value is capable of being generated using the seed value. |
| US11102240B2 |
Early-warning decision method, node and sub-system
Early-warning decision method, node and system are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes obtaining a flow analysis result of a portion of service requests that are targeted at a same server; calculating a flow of all the service requests that are targeted at the server based on a flow indicated by the flow analysis result and a weight of a current distributed node, the weight being a weight or proportion of all the service requests targeted at the server that accounts for the flow indicated by the flow analysis result that is obtained by the current distributed node; comparing a flow of all the service requests that are targeted at the server with an abnormal flow threshold; and determining whether to send an instruction for performing subsequent processing on the server based on a comparison result. |
| US11102238B2 |
Detecting triggering events for distributed denial of service attacks
An endpoint in an enterprise network is monitored, and when a potential trigger for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is followed by an increase in network traffic from the endpoint to a high reputation network address, the endpoint is treated as a DDoS service bot and isolated from the network until remediation can be performed. |
| US11102234B2 |
System and method for performing remote security assessment of firewalled computer
Methods and systems for scanning an endpoint terminal across an open computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a scanner engine in a computer server in communication with an open computer network, and establishing a secure connection across the open computer network between the scanner engine and a scanner agent installed on the endpoint terminal in communication with the open computer network. Commands for collecting data regarding the endpoint terminal are sent from the scanner engine across the secure connection to the scanner agent. The scanner engine then receives the collected data from the scanner agent across the secure connection, analyzes the data to assess a current posture of the endpoint terminal, and determines any updates for the endpoint terminal from the analysis. Updates are sent across the secure connection to the scanner agent for installation on the endpoint terminal, and the secure connection may then be terminated. |
| US11102232B2 |
Blockchain web browser interface
A processor-implemented method records and maintains a record of browser events in a blockchain using a peer-to-peer network. One or more processors detect one or more browser events for a browser on a computer. The processor(s) transmit transactions associated with the browser event(s) to a peer-to-peer network of devices that create a blockchain, which includes one or more blocks that describe the browser event(s), where the blockchain records and maintains a record, of browser events, that includes records of uniform resource locators (URLs) browsed by a user, bookmarks added to the browser, and search terms searched by the user. The processor(s) perform a vulnerability analysis to determine how vulnerable the computer and the browser are to a malicious attack, and adjust a frequency of transmitting the transactions from the computer to the peer-to-peer network of devices according to how vulnerable the computer and the browser are to the malicious attack. |
| US11102227B2 |
Ecosystem-aware smart arrays for unified analytics and troubleshooting
The described technology is generally directed towards providing unified analytics and troubleshooting for enterprise software systems. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components, and a processor that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a remote service component that receives first information from an edge array installed in a second security zone, wherein the edge array employs an application programming interface of an application to generate the first information from the application on a server in the second security zone. The system can further comprise a processing component that processes the first information, resulting in second information. The system can further comprise a communication component that communicates the second information to the edge array. |
| US11102220B2 |
Detection of botnets in containerized environments
A method and system for runtime detection of botnets in containerized environments. The method includes creating a domain name system (DNS) policy for a software container, wherein the DNS policy defines at least a plurality of allowed domain names for the software container, wherein the DNS policy is created based on historical DNS queries by the software container; detecting a botnet based on traffic to and from the software container, wherein the botnet is detected when at least a portion of the traffic does not comply with the DNS policy, wherein the botnet is implemented via communication with a bot executed in the software container; and blocking at least one DNS query in the at least a portion of traffic, wherein each blocked DNS query is to a domain having a domain name that does not match any of the plurality of allowed domain names for the software container. |
| US11102217B2 |
Method and system for confirming e-mail authenticity and non-transitory storage medium thereof
A method and a system for confirming e-mail authenticity and a non-transitory storage medium thereof are provided. A sender electronic device produces a data fingerprint based on mail content of an e-mail, inserts the data fingerprint into the e-mail, and transmits the data fingerprint and the mail content to a data storage device to be stored. A receiver electronic device obtains the data fingerprint from the e-mail and acquires, based on the data fingerprint, the corresponding mail content from the data storage device. If the corresponding mail content is not stored in the data storage device or the acquired mail content does not accord with the mail content of the received e-mail, the receiver electronic device marks the e-mail as counterfeit. |
| US11102215B2 |
Graphical user interface privacy, security and anonymization
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for restricting and anonymizing a graphical user interface for a remote access session is provided. The present invention may include determining a plurality of appropriate permissions for the graphical user interface of a client computer for fixing a problem. The present invention may also include determining a plurality of restricted graphical user interface panels associated with the graphical user interface, wherein the determined plurality of restricted graphical user interface panels includes a minimum access level for the third party to fix the problem. |
| US11102211B2 |
Computer network for a secured access to online applications
A computer network (1) adapted to provide secured access to online applications hosted on application servers (10) to a requesting user (U). The network (1) comprises a login security server (20) configured for deciding access for the user based on data contained in a central generic access control file (32) and in the access request. The network (1) further comprises a centralized user identification component (40) configured for receiving identification data from user through a central login panel (42) and for sending an access grant or denial command to the application servers (10). |
| US11102202B2 |
Architecture for cloudchain driven ecosystem
Described are platforms, systems, and methods for a secure exchange of personal data with brand data. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving, from a computing device, a request for ownership of a brand, the request comprising a data grouping; persist a smart contract to a distributed ledger, the smart contract associated with the brand and generated based on the data grouping satisfying a criterion for ownership of the brand; and providing, to the computing device, by executing the smart contract, a plurality of opportunities based on the data grouping satisfying the criterion for ownership. |
| US11102201B2 |
Robust encoding of machine readable information in host objects and biometrics, and associated decoding and authentication
This disclosure details image and audio signal processing methods and associated equipment to robustly encode transaction parameters in rendered displays, printed objects and audio. It also details corresponding decoding methods and equipment to recover these parameters. Further, it details object authentication processing and equipment to validate a transaction for an object, employing a trust network protocol for maintaining a trusted transaction history of the object. Various alternative forms of this technology are described. |
| US11102199B2 |
Methods and systems for blocking malware attacks
User identities, password, etc. represent the barrier between a user's confidential data and any other third party seeking to access this data. As multiple software applications, web applications, web services, etc. embody this confidential data it is a tradeoff between easy recollection of said identities, passwords, etc. and data security. However, malware by intercepting user credentials provides third parties access to even complex passwords, user credentials, security keys etc. even where these are changed/updated regularly. Within the prior art substantial work has gone into addressing malware. However, in many instances the user is at or very near the computer with a software application executing a transaction requiring credentials/authorization with a portable electronic device or another device. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide users with an out-of-band communications channel for exchanging credentials and/or keys etc. |
| US11102196B2 |
Authenticating API service invocations
A computer-implemented method and system for authenticating API is provided. An API invocation request associated with a user is received. An API operation and the shareable API key includes validating API key credentials of the shareable API key associated with the API invocation request. There is an additional validation of user credentials of the user associated with the API invocation request. It is determined whether the user having the validated user credentials is authorized to use the shareable API key to invoke the API operation. The API operation is executed in response to determining the user having validated user credentials is authorized to use the shareable API key to invoke the API operation. The authentication integrates validation of the user and the shareable API key, and determines whether a user is a subscriber of a multi-tenant subscription service. |
| US11102192B2 |
Harvesting and distributing a certificate based on a DNS name
According to certain embodiments, a delivery manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a certificate that a Domain Name Service (DNS) associates with a DNS name of a recipient system. The processing circuitry is configured to distribute the certificate to a plurality of sending systems. Each sending system is configured to store the certificate in a local memory of the sending system, use the certificate from the local memory of the sending system to perform encryption in response to a future determination to send an encrypted message to the recipient system, and send the encrypted message directly to the recipient system. |
| US11102190B2 |
Method and system for blockchain based cyber protection of network entities
A system and method for blockchain-based access authorization to a protected entity. The method includes: receiving, by the protected entity, an access request to a protected entity, wherein the access request is received from a client device; extracting a unique client identifier from the received access request; causing the client device to perform an admission process; monitoring a blockchain network to identify at least one admission transaction, wherein the at least one admission transaction designates admission criteria; determining if the admission criteria satisfy a set of conditions for accessing the protected entity; and granting access to the client device when the admission criteria satisfies the set of conditions, wherein the access is access to the protected entity. |
| US11102187B2 |
Systems and methods for managing workflow transactions including protected personal data in regulated computing environments
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed for managing workflow transactions including protected personal data (PPD) in regulated computing environments. The method includes determining, by a first application, that a record of a first network group includes PPD; transmitting, by the first application, a packet to an encryption logging service application in response to determining that the record includes the PPD; encrypting, by the encryption logging service application, the PPD payload and a data identification record; transmitting, by the encryption logging service application: the encrypted PPD payload, the encrypted data identification record, and an unencrypted header, to a system log database; decrypting, by the encryption logging service application, the encrypted PPD payload in response to a query of a system log database by a second network group for data contained in the unencrypted header; and transmitting, by the encryption logging service application, the decrypted PPD payload to the second network group. |
| US11102183B2 |
Satellite based internet of things network
A system and method for communicating with an Internet of Things (IoT) User Terminal (UT) population. The method includes storing UT parameters for each UT of the UT population with a security and repository server (SRS), where the UT parameters include a UT identifier, a UT IP address, and an application server IP address; communicating from the UT population using a one-shot transmission via an over-the-air (OTA) link; receiving the one-shot transmission from a sender UT of a UT population; and sending an IP packet including a portion of the one-shot transmission to an application server. In the method, the one-shot transmission includes an unscheduled transmission between the GW and UT, the one-shot transmission includes a sender UT identifier, and the UT identifier for each UT of the UT population is unique. |
| US11102179B2 |
System and method for anonymous message broadcasting
A system and method for anonymous message broadcasting uses secret shares of a first vector of size i and a second vector of size j from each client device with a message in an anonymity set of client devices. Each secret share of the first and second vectors is received at each of a plurality of message broadcasting servers to construct a matrix M of i and j dimensions, which is added to a matrix A of i and j dimensions maintained at that message broadcasting server. The matrix A at each message broadcasting server is shared with the other message broadcasting servers and a final matrix A is constructed using the shared matrices A at each message broadcasting server, wherein the final matrix A includes the messages from the client devices in the anonymity set. The messages in the final matrix A are broadcasted from the message broadcasting servers. |
| US11102178B2 |
Establishing concealed communications between parties
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an input from a user identifying specified persons that are to be included in a concealed list of persons. The specified persons may be unaware of their inclusion in the concealed list of persons. The method may also include generating the concealed list of persons and determining that a potential participant from the user's concealed list of persons has selected the user in a corresponding concealed list of persons that belongs to the potential participant and, in response to the determination, the method may include creating a private conversation instance that is unique to the user and the potential participant. The generated private conversation instance may include an interaction interface that allows the user and the potential participant to interact in a confidential manner. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11102176B2 |
Community WiFi access point (AP) virtual network function (VNF) with WiFi protected access 2 (WPA2) pass-through
A service provider (SP) network device or system can operate to enable a WiFi protected access 2 (WPA2) pass-through with a user equipment (UE). The WPA2 pass-through can be an interface connection that passes through a computer premise equipment (CPE) or wireless residential gateway (GW) without the CPE or GW modifying or affecting the data traffic such as by authentication or security protocol. The SP network device can receive traffic data from a UE through or via the WPA 2 pass-through from a UE of a community Wi-Fi network at a home, residence, or entity network. Regardless of whether the UE is connected to any other home network at the CPE or is a subscriber to the SP network, the UE can communicate transparently by the WPA 2 pass-through with the SP network device to establish a secure initial access process with the SP network. |
| US11102174B2 |
Autonomous alerting based on defined categorizations for network space and network boundary changes
Introduced here are Internet monitoring platforms configured to define, monitor, and assess the boundary of a private network associated with a client. By monitoring the entire Internet, a private network, and relationships between these networks, an Internet monitoring platform can discover changes in the boundary of the private network that is defined by those assets on the private network capable of interfacing with a public network, such as the Internet. The Internet monitoring platform may, in response to discovering the boundary of the private network has experienced a change, identify an appropriate remediation action by mapping the change to a technological issue, a relevant business relationship, etc. For example. If the Internet monitoring platform discovers that the boundary of the private network has expanded due to the introduction of a new cloud computing asset, the Internet monitoring platform may automatically reconfigure a network tool so that traffic generated by the new computing device is examined. |
| US11102171B2 |
Virtual distributed domain name server
An approach for intercepting and caching Domain Name System (DNS) related data and sharing the cached DNS related data among hypervisors is provided. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a DNS query from a virtual machine, determining whether a DNS reply to the DNS query has been received from a DNS server and whether an Internet Protocol (IP) address has been stored in a local DNS cache; in response to determining that tire DNS reply to the DNS query has been received from the DNS server and the IP address has been stored in the local DNS cache; retrieving the IP address from the local DNS cache; and providing the IP address to the virtual machine. |
| US11102166B2 |
Explicit service function chaining (SFC) using DNS extensions
A method for service function chaining within an end-to-end path of a network connection between a source and destination node includes: executing, for a defined service function chain including an ordered sequence of network service functions, an address resolution process that translates names of the network service functions of the defined service function chain into their corresponding IP addresses. The address resolution process is performed at a name server of the destination node by a sequence of name server queries sent in succession to respective name servers of each of the selected network service functions of the defined service function chain in accordance with their order. Each of the name server queries is answered by a response from a name server of the respective network service function that includes IP addresses of selected instances of a respective network service function chosen by the respective name server according to predefined criteria. |
| US11102159B2 |
Method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device
A method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device is provided. It is detected that the data comprises an attachment. An address of a copy of the attachment is determined, the attachment present on a storage device external to the communication devices. An address of the copy of the attachment is substituted in the data such that the copy is retrievable at the second communication device via the address. The data is then transmitted to the second communication device. |
| US11102154B2 |
Method, system, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for providing a copied message list
A message providing method, system, apparatus, and/or non-transitory computer readable recording medium thereof may include storing at least one message selected from a chatroom of a messenger; and transmitting the stored at least one message and data information associated with the corresponding message through a specific chatroom in response to a selection on the specific chatroom. A user-side client included in the specific chatroom may display the stored at least one message in an existing message style based on the data information. |
| US11102153B2 |
Multistate presence and responsiveness tracking and indication
Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status. |
| US11102151B1 |
Automated chat agent for abbreviation definitions
A messaging server employs a chat agent for gather and transmitting abbreviations and definitions via a messaging application. In this application, abbreviations include acronyms, shortened phrases, and colloquial terms or language. Definitions describe an abbreviation and may include textual information and contextual media. The chat agent may receive an abbreviation and definition from a user or may automatically determine the abbreviation and definition from messages on the messaging application. The chat agent transmits the definition and abbreviation to an approval system, which verifies the definition. Once approved, the abbreviation database stores the abbreviation and definition. When another user requests the definition for an abbreviation, the chat agent queries abbreviation database and returns the definition in a message to the user via the messaging application. In some embodiments, the abbreviation database stores abbreviations and definitions in relation to group tags, which describe user groups within the messaging application. |
| US11102148B2 |
Method to generate stable and reliable 6TiSCH routing paths
A device for computing a routing path from a source node to a destination node across a 6TISCH mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, the device comprising: an interface for communicating with one or more nodes in the network; a memory configured to store data regarding the stability and availability of individual nodes in said network to receive packet data; a controller configured to: employ said data regarding the stability and availability of individual nodes in said network to receive packet data to calculate a path stability metric for each of a plurality of potential routing paths between said source node and said destination node, employ said path stability metric to select one of said plurality of potential routing paths for data transmission between said source node and said destination node, and cause said interface to transmit a signal configured to cause said plurality of nodes to transmit data from said source node to said destination node via said selected route. |
| US11102137B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing data packet of electronic device
Disclosed is an electronic device including a wireless communication modem, at least one processor connected with the communication modem and comprising a plurality of cores, and a nonvolatile memory operatively connected with the processor, wherein the nonvolatile memory stores instructions that cause a first core of the processor to receive first data packets having a first size from the wireless communication modem, and to transmit at least a portion of the first data packets to a second core of the processor, and that cause the second core to receive the at least a portion of the first data packets from the first core, to merge the at least a portion of the first data packets into a plurality of second data packets having sizes larger than the first size, based at least in part on a type of the first data packets, and to transmit the second data packets to at least one other core of the processor than the first core and the second core. |
| US11102134B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining contention window size in clear channel assessment
A method for determining a contention window size in clear channel assessment, including: determining, at least one user equipment first UE that occupies an uplink subframe on an unlicensed carrier and that is in at least one UE scheduled in a reference subframe, where the uplink subframe is an uplink subframe in which at least one UE scheduled by the base station in the reference subframe feeds back a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ status for the reference subframe; and determining, a CWS in CCA for downlink transmission based on a HARQ status of the at least one first UE that occupies the uplink subframe. |
| US11102132B2 |
Extracting data from network communications
Examples relate to extracting data from network communications. In one example, a programmable hardware processor may: receive a first set of network packets; store each network packet included in the first set in a first storage device; identify, from each network packet included in a subset of the first set of network packets, data included in the network packet, the data meeting at least one condition defined by first programmable logic of the programmable hardware processor; and for each network packet included in the subset: extract, from the network packet, data of interest; and store, in a second storage device, i) the extracted data of interest, and ii) an identifier associated with the network packet. |
| US11102128B2 |
System and method for efficient network isolation and load balancing in a multi-tenant cluster environment
A system and method for supporting load balancing in a multi-tenant cluster environment, in accordance with an embodiment. One or more tenants can be supported and each associated with a partition, which are each in turn associated with one or more end nodes. The method can provide a plurality of switches, the plurality of switches comprising a plurality of leaf switches and at least one switch at another level, wherein each of the plurality of switches comprise at least one port. The method can assign each node a weight parameter, and based upon this parameter, the method can route the plurality of end nodes within the multi-tenant cluster environment, wherein the routing attempts to preserve partition isolation. |
| US11102124B2 |
System and method for managing bandwidth usage rates in a packet-switched network
A computer-implemented system is disclosed for managing bandwidth usage rates in a packet switched network. The system includes one or more servers configured to execute computer program steps. The computer program steps comprises monitoring bandwidth usage rate at a first provider interface, determining if bandwidth usage rate at the provider interface exceeds a bandwidth usage rate limit; and rerouting Internet traffic from the provider interface having bandwidth that exceeds the bandwidth usage rate limit to a second provider interface having available bandwidth capacity. |
| US11102123B2 |
Sensor network system
A server device includes a determination unit and a control unit. The determination unit determines the degree of congestion of a communication network on the basis of a difference between the time difference, between the transmission time and the reception time of sensor data transmitted from a gateway device to the server device, and the communication period of time taken in a state where congestion does not occur. The control unit determines a sensor device from which sensor data is collected and a sensor device in which collection of sensor data is withheld on the basis of the determination result of the degree of congestion of the communication network, and sends an instruction including the determined content to the gateway device. |
| US11102122B2 |
Internet of things end-to-end service layer quality of service management
Methods, system, and apparatuses may support end-to-end (E2E) quality of service (QoS) through the use of service layer (SL) sessions. For example, an application can communicate with a targeted device based on application specified schedule, latency, jitter, error rate, throughput, level of security, and cost requirements. |
| US11102112B2 |
System and method for scalable multi-homed routing for vSwitch based HCA virtualization
Systems and methods are provided for supporting scalable multi-homed routing for virtual switch based host channel adapter (HCA) virtualization in a subnet. An exemplary method can provide one or more switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, a plurality of hypervisors, and a plurality of virtual machines. The method can arrange the plurality of host channel adapters with one or more of a virtual switch with prepopulated local identifiers (LIDs) architecture or a virtual switch with dynamic LID assignment architecture. The method can further perform a multi-homed routing for the subnet, wherein at least one of the plurality of host channel adapters comprises two virtual switches, wherein the two virtual switches are treated as endpoints of the subnet, and wherein the multi-homed routing for the subnet ensures that each the two virtual switches are routed through independent paths. |
| US11102111B2 |
Validation of routing information in a network fabric
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating routing table information in a network. A network assurance appliance may be configured to retrieve routing table information from a plurality of nodes in a network fabric. The routing table information includes path information from at least one source node to at least one destination node. A graph representation of the routing table information is constructed with the at least one destination node as a sink vertex for the graph representation. The network assurance appliance determines, for each leaf node in the network fabric, whether the leaf node can reach the sink vertex based on the graph representation and determines that there is a misconfiguration of the network fabric based on whether each leaf node in the fabric can reach the sink vertex. |
| US11102106B2 |
Dynamic flooding for link state protocols
One or more embodiments of the invention may relate to a method, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions, for distributing link state information. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the method includes building a link state database on a plurality of network devices; electing a leader from among the plurality of network devices; computing, by the leader, a flooding topology; encoding, by the leader, the flooding topology to obtain an encoded flooding topology; distributing, by the leader, the encoded flooding topology to other network devices of the plurality of network devices. |
| US11102103B2 |
Network stabilizing tool
Apparatus and methods for protecting a server network from a failure. The network may include a central console. The network may include one or more client servers. The central console may include a transmitter that is configured to periodically transmit to the client server a diagnostic probe. The probe may be selected to ascertain a state of an agent of the client server. The diagnostic probe may include a sequence of queries. Each query may be configured to cause, when the state is “ONLINE,” a normal result in the agent. A processor may be configured to record a reaction of an agent to the query. The reaction may be anomalous. A processor may be configured to map the reaction to a system administrator instruction. The transmitter may be configured to transmit the system administrator instruction to the client server. |
| US11102102B2 |
System and method for using real-time packet data to detect and manage network issues
A system and method is disclosed of extracting information from real-time network packet data to analyze connectivity data for client devices in a network. The method includes: detecting when client devices initiate a connectivity event; after detecting a connectivity event, waiting a period of time for the client device to either reach or fail to reach a network connected state; after waiting a period of time, recording connectivity event information; and sending the recorded connectivity event information to an analytics system for network incident and/or network congestion analysis. |
| US11102101B2 |
In-vehicle services through attendant devices, user-provided devices, and/or an in-vehicle computer system
An approach to facilitating in-vehicle services through attendant devices, user-provided devices, and/or an in-vehicle computer system is provided. In one implementation, one or more communication sessions with the in-vehicle computer system may be facilitated by an attendant device. Passenger information relating to one or more passengers of a vehicle and service information relating to one or more services to be provided to the one or more passengers may be obtained by the attendant device from the in-vehicle computer system via the one or more communication sessions. The passenger information and the service information may be provided by the attendant device. An indication that at least one service is in progress or is complete is received by the attendant device. |
| US11102099B2 |
Systems and methods for in-line loss measurement on SD-WAN overlay paths
An advancement over previous techniques using only certain out-of-band probe PDUs to determine loss. Packet loss statistics for a SD-WAN overlay path can be calculated for every packet transmitted by one endpoint and every packet received at the other endpoint. The roles of the positions of circular buffers can be periodically rotated from active to pre-stable to stable to post-stable. Counters in the active role can be incremented whenever a packet is transmitted. A position identifier can indicate which counter to increment when the packet is received. Counters in positions that are stable can be used to produce loss statistics for the SD-WAN overlay path. |
| US11102092B2 |
Pattern-based examination and detection of malfeasance through dynamic graph network flow analysis
A system is configured for extracting historical information for a first plurality of resource pools, generating a historical dynamic graph based on the historical information, identifying from the historical information, a historical set of resource distribution events associated with a malfeasance, determining from the historical dynamic graph, at least one historical malfeasance pattern, receiving current resource distribution request information for a second plurality of resource pools, generating a current dynamic graph comprising a current plurality of nodes and a current plurality of edges, monitoring the current dynamic graph and identify a current malfeasance pattern, and executing one or more remediation actions on one or more of the second plurality of resource pools associated with the current dynamic graph. |
| US11102091B2 |
Analyzing SCADA systems
At least one aspect disclosed herein is directed to a SCADA project analysis system. The system includes memory ad at least one processor coupled to memory. The processor is configured to receive information regarding a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system configured to monitor an industrial process, the information describing at least one first programmable device within the SCADA system, identify at least one analyzer from a plurality of analyzers based on the information, the at least one analyzer being configured to generate an assessment of the SCADA system based on the information, the assessment describing at least one capability of the SCADA system, execute the at least one analyzer to generate the assessment of the SCADA system based on the information, and provide the assessment to an external entity. |
| US11102085B2 |
Service implementations via resource agreements
An example electronic device includes a processor to receive, from an intent publishing device, a resource agreement associated with a service to be implemented via the intent publishing device. The processor is further to transmit the resource agreement to a claiming device. The processor is further to receive a confirmation from the claiming device, wherein the confirmation is to indicate that the claiming device is to implement the resource agreement. The processor is further to match the intent publishing device with the claiming device based on the confirmation. |
| US11102082B1 |
System and method for inferring operating systems using transmission control protocol fingerprints
A system and method for inferring device operating systems. A method includes applying a sequence-based model to an option-types sequence in order to output a plurality of first features, wherein each of the first features is a value representing a probability that the options-type sequence is associated with a respective operating system; applying a distribution dissimilarity model to metadata field distribution data extracted from the headers of the packets sent by the device in order to output a plurality of second features, wherein the plurality of second features includes a plurality of distances, wherein each distance is based on a difference between a distribution of values of each metadata field indicated in the metadata field distribution data; and applying an operating system inference model to the plurality of first features and the plurality of second features in order to output an inferred operating system for the device. |
| US11102080B2 |
Network layer method of configuration of a bare-metal server in a virtual network
Methods, systems and software program products for configuring a virtual network port for a physical server to support packets transfer between the physical server and other network nodes in a virtual network, comprising transmitting one or more configuration Protocol Data Units (PDU) comprising extension configuration message(s) of a network management protocol to a network circuitry connecting a physical server to a network. One or more of the extension configuration message comprise one or more virtual network settings for a virtual network port mapping the physical server in a virtual network. The network circuitry is configured to deploy the virtual network port to support exchange of packets between the physical server and one or more of a plurality of nodes of the virtual network by encapsulating and de-capsulating outgoing and incoming packets according to one or more virtual network encapsulation protocols using one or more of the virtual network settings. |
| US11102078B2 |
Datacenter topology definition schema
In various embodiments, methods and systems for modeling or representing hardware inventory based on a topology definition is provided. A topology definition having physical elements and logical elements corresponding to a physical topology layer and a logical topology layer is received. An instance definition for a rack, cluster, or datacenter for a hardware management operation is received. The instance identifies a physical topology and a logical topology for the operation. A hardware management service is executed, based on the topology definition and the instance definition, to manage the hardware inventory of the topology definition. Hardware management of the hardware inventory corresponding to the separately defined physical elements and logical elements is performed with attributes that are defined in the schema. The topology definition can include precision levels that indicate a hierarchical classification of topology components classified at a device level, a rack level, a cluster level, and a datacenter level. |
| US11102072B2 |
Synthetic objects in service models
A method for determining a misconfiguration of components in an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure includes decomposing one or more components into sub parts, creating one or more synthetic objects, each synthetic object being associated with a sub part of a respective component, and including the components and the synthetic objects in a model of the IT infrastructure. The method further determines a relationship between a first component and a first synthetic object based on attributes of the first component and attributes of the first synthetic object, includes the determined relationship in the model of the IT infrastructure, and loads a graph of the IT infrastructure in a graph database with the first component and the synthetic object as nodes and the determined relationship as an edge in the graph. The method further determines the misconfiguration of components in the IT infrastructure by identifying components having improper relationships in the graph. |
| US11102066B1 |
Server-based service configuration system and approach
Network service providers are managed using a server-side configuration approach. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a host network location includes two or more servers that automatically reconfigure their services in response to controller service settings corresponding to each server. Each server reads configuration information provided at a controller such as a domain name server (DNS), and in response, runs a network-based service corresponding to the configuration information. |
| US11102065B2 |
Detecting and resolving multicast traffic performance issues
The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving multicast traffic flows in a computer network. In some aspects, a method of the technology includes steps for receiving multicast traffic statistics from each of a plurality of switches in a computer network, aggregating the multicast traffic statistics into a time-series database, and identifying a low-performing multicast flow based on the time-series database. In some aspects, the method can include steps for automatically reconfiguring the computer network to improve the low-performing multicast flow. Systems and machine readable media are also provided. |
| US11102063B2 |
Methods and apparatus to cross configure network resources of software defined data centers
Methods and apparatus to cross configure network resources of software defined data centers are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a first configuration change for a first component of a first one of a virtual network or a physical network, the virtual network to provide networking for a virtual computing system, and the physical network to implement the virtual network, identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, a second component of a second different one of the virtual network or the physical network corresponding to the first component, and making a second configuration change to the second component corresponding to the first configuration change. |
| US11102055B2 |
Network self-diagnosis control device based on block chain
Disclosed is a network self-diagnosis control device based on a block-chain. The device includes a management policy registering unit configured for registering, in a block-chain gateway, an identification code for each of a plurality of network nodes constituting a target network and a management policy indicating a permission range, an operation verifying unit configured for verifying an operation of a specific network node executed by a specific user through the block-chain gateway, and an operation permission determining unit configured for, when the operation of the specific network node is not registered on the block-chain gateway, self-diagnosing management policies of other network nodes of the same type as the specific network node in the block-chain gateway and for determining whether to permit the operation based on the self-diagnosing result. |
| US11102054B1 |
System and method for remotely identifying physical location of communications device
Systems and methods for evaluating a customer premise equipment (CPE) device. A network element management system may send an alteration request to a configurable coaxial tap that cause the configurable coaxial tap to alter the characteristics of the configurable coaxial tap and/or to manipulate the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of a customer premise device (CPE) coupled to the configurable coaxial tap. The network element management system may then receive impaired operation reports from a cable modem termination system, sending an un-alteration request to the configurable coaxial tap to undo the alterations, and receive restored operation reports from the cable modem termination system. The network element management system may use any or all of the received information to generate and use modem-tap-port correlations to determine the physical location of the CPE. |
| US11102053B2 |
Cross-domain assurance
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing network assurance across a network. In some embodiments, network traffic data of a cluster of nodes in a network environment can be gathered based on first network traffic flowing through the nodes using a first group of sensors implemented in the network environment. Network events occurring in the network environment can be identified, e.g. using sensors deployed in an infrastructure of the network environment. Subsequently, the network events can be correlated with the network traffic data to generate correlated network data for the network environment. The correlated network data for the network environment can be used to provide assurance between at least one server in the cluster of nodes and the network infrastructure of the network environment as part of providing assurance across the network environment. |
| US11102049B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for quadrature amplitude modulation optimized for phase noise
Methods and apparatus for facilitating wireless communication using digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation are disclosed. A wireless communication device utilizes a signal constellation for quadrature modulating a signal for transmission or quadrature demodulating a received signal. The signal constellation includes multiple constellation symbols and associated bit sequences, which can be translated there between. Specific signal constellations are disclosed. |
| US11102046B2 |
Method and user equipment for receiving downlink signals, and method and base station for transmitting downlink signals
Provided are methods and devices for transmitting/receiving downlink signals in a Wireless communication system. Carrier information is provided to user equipment, the carrier information including cell identifier information which indicates Whether a first cell identifier related to a first carrier operating on one resource block (RB) and a second cell identifier used for a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) on the first carrier are the same or different. If the second cell identifier is the same as the first cell identifier, the user equipment assumes that the number of antenna ports for the CRS on the first carrier is the same as the number of antenna ports for a reference signal defined for NB-IoT (reference signal for NB-IoT, NRS). If the second cell identifier is different from the first cell identifier, the carrier information further includes antenna port number information, and the user equipment assumes that the number of the antenna ports for the CRS is the same as the number of antenna ports based on the antenna port number information. |
| US11102045B2 |
Method for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method for receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on a reference subcarrier spacing (SCS) from among a plurality of SCS numerologies; receiving downlink control information through a terminal group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and obtaining information on a slot format from the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information indicates the slot format on the basis of the reference SCS, and when the SCS of the terminal is different from the reference SCS, the terminal may convert the slot format of the reference SCS according to the SCS of the terminal. |
| US11102043B2 |
Systems and methods for OFDM duobinary transmission
A method of modulating a series of input digital symbols of a first modulation scheme is provided. The method is implemented by a transmitter and includes receiving a sequential series of samples of the digital symbols in a first domain of the first modulation scheme. The first domain is one of the time domain and the frequency domain. The method further includes determining a dual of the first modulation scheme. The dual has a second modulation scheme in a second domain that is different from the first domain the second domain is the other of the time domain and the frequency domain. The method further includes applying a 90 degree rotational operation to the second modulation scheme to generate a rotational modulation format, modulating the series of digital symbols with the generated rotational modulation format, and outputting the modulated series of digital symbols to a receiver. |
| US11102040B2 |
Reconfiguration of active component carrier set in multi-carrier wireless systems related application
In a multi-carrier wireless system, potential problems from reconfiguring mobile station resources to accommodate changes in component-carrier configuration are mitigated by inserting a guard period each time the configuration of component carriers changes, so that transceiver reconfiguration can be carried out without interfering with ongoing transmission. A base station is configured to transmit data to a mobile station according to a first configuration of two or more component carriers, to determine that a change of configuration to a second component carrier configuration is required, and to signal the change of configuration to the mobile station, using the first configuration of component carriers. The base station then refrains from transmitting data to the mobile station during a pre-determined guard interval of at least one transmission-time interval subsequent to the signaling of the change of configuration. After the guard interval, data is transmitted to the mobile station according to the second component carrier configuration. |
| US11102038B2 |
Methods, devices and systems for receiving and decoding a signal in the presence of noise using slices and warping
A method may comprise receiving and sampling a signal. The signal may encode a data packet. A slice may be generated and stored comprising a pair of values for each of a selected number of samples of the signal representing a correlation of the signal to reference functions in the receiver. The presence of the data packet may then be detected and the detected packet decoded from the stored slices. The generating and storing slices may be carried out as the received signal is sampled. The sampled values of the signal may be discarded as the slices are generated and stored. The slice representation of the signal can be manipulated to generate filters with flexible bandwidth and center frequency. |
| US11102037B2 |
Mission critical wireless communication link master gateway
A master gateway operable in a wireless system is provided. The master gateway includes a plurality of receivers configured to wirelessly communicate over the mission critical wireless link system with a plurality of devices; a processing circuitry coupled to the plurality of receivers; and a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the processing circuitry to at least control the operation of the plurality of receivers, such that at least one of the plurality of receivers is configured to receive a plurality of transmissions from the plurality of devices in succession wherein a guard time between transmissions is significantly smaller than a processing time of a receiver. |
| US11102036B2 |
Preamble design for wake-up signals
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for identifying wake-up signals. Some implementations more specifically relate to PHY preamble designs for wake-up signals such as Wake-Up Radio (WUR) packets conforming to IEEE 802.11ba. In some implementations, the preamble designs can include a combination of modulation schemes, data rate indications and length indications enabling devices capable of receiving and decoding wake-up signals to identify the signals as wake-up signals (for example, WUR packets), while ensuring that devices not capable of receiving and decoding wake-up signals identify the wake-up signals as legacy packets, or otherwise not WUR packets. |
| US11102032B2 |
Routing data message flow through multiple public clouds
Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network. |
| US11102030B2 |
Daisy chaining point-to-point link sensors
Embodiments of this present disclosure may include an industrial control system that uses a daisy chain communication network to couple point-to-point sensors (P2P sensors) for communication of data between respective P2P sensors and a controller. Each P2P sensor may couple to the daisy chain communication network via accessing circuitry. The accessing circuitry may include switching circuitry and flip-flop circuitry to control when each P2P sensors may communicate with the controller via the daisy chain communication network. |
| US11102029B1 |
Integration of knob sensors in monitoring systems
Techniques are described for using information from a knob sensor of an appliance in a property monitoring system. In some implementations, a monitoring system may be configured to receive sensor information from a knob, receive monitoring device information from a monitoring device and, based on the sensor information from the knob, identify a knob event. The monitoring system may integrate the knob event with the monitoring device information and analyze the integrated knob event and monitoring device information against one or more rules related to usage of the appliance in view of the state of the property. Based on analyzing the integrated knob event and monitoring device information, the monitoring system may determine whether to perform an action, such as notifying a user or activating an appliance. |
| US11102028B2 |
Appliance state recognition device and methods
Embodiments herein relate to recognition of an appliance state based on sensor data and determination of a response based at least in part on the appliance state. In various embodiments, an apparatus to recognize an appliance state may include a sensor data module to identify sensor data in one or more signals relating to data from one or more sensors associated with an appliance, an appliance state recognition module to determine an appliance state of the appliance based at least in part on the sensor data, a response module to determine a response based at least in part on the appliance state, and a transmission module to send the response to at least one of an appliance controller for the appliance or a presentation device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11102026B2 |
Method for configuring and method for controlling a home automation apparatus
The invention relates to a method for configuring a home automation apparatus including a plurality of home automation devices and a plurality of central control units (U1, U2). The method is executed by a management unit (Sv) connected to the at least one home automation apparatus and includes the following steps: receiving (ETCfSv1) a configuration message (MCf) from a user (Usr) or an application (A) that is executed on the management unit (Sv) or another connected management unit, determining (ETCfSv3) a list (UL) of central control units (U1, U2) capable of executing at least one condition (Cnd) and/or at least one action (AcU1, AcU2) of a conditional expression (CE), and sending (ETCfSv6) a configuration message (MCfU1, MCfU2), including a definition of a conditional software code module (CCM), to the at least one central control unit (U1, U2) included in the list (UL). |
| US11102021B2 |
Responsive communication system
A spoken communication system includes a plurality of domestic devices and a server. Each of the devices is responsive to spoken communication to communicate that spoken communication to other devices, and to receive spoken communications received by other communication devices. The server is in digital communication with domestic devices to communicate that spoken communication among the registered devices. |
| US11102012B2 |
Process for digital signing of a document with a predetermined secret key
A method for digital signing of a document using a predetermined secret key. An initial internal state is determined by application to a condensate of the document of a first white box implementation of generation of a main nonce; then a modular sum of the main nonce and of a predetermined constant. The method also determines a first internal state by application to the initial internal state of a first modular arithmetic operation, then of a modular product with exponentiation of the predetermined constant. The method then determines a second internal state by application to said condensate of a second white box implementation of generation of the main nonce; and a second modular arithmetic operation function of the first internal state, of the main signature nonce and of the secret key. It then generates a digital signature of the document from the first internal state and the second internal state. |
| US11102010B2 |
System and apparatus for providing authenticable electronic communication
The present disclosure relates to security risk warning system that a recipient may acknowledge and act accordingly. Security insights may be provided explicitly in a security insight panel that may clearly identify vulnerabilities specific to a particular authenticable communication. This may limit risk that a recipient would ignore or not understand the risk. Security insights may be provided for a combination of indicated source, recipients, and content, such as links, text, attachments, and images. Security insights may be provided on site, such as on or proximate to the reviewed portions of the authenticable communication. |
| US11102007B2 |
Contactless card emulation system and method
A system and method are described that enables mobile devices (e.g. including but not limited to a mobile phone or the like), to intercept and respond to contactless card authentication requests, allowing mobile devices to be used in place of contactless cards. Enabling mobile phone devices to emulate contactless cards decreases issues related to lost or damaged cards, enabling a single device to be used to provide tokens related to multiple different contactless cards, and leverages functionality of the mobile device to provide dual-factor authentication. |
| US11102006B2 |
Blockchain intelligent security implementation
In some examples, Blockchain intelligent security implementation may include determining whether a Blockchain transaction has been initiated, generating, based on a determination that the Blockchain transaction has been initiated, a password, and storing the generated password. The stored password may be forwarded to a user associated with the Blockchain transaction. A further password may be received from the user associated with the Blockchain transaction, and validated, based on comparison of the stored password to the further password. Based on the validation of the further password, the Blockchain transaction may be processed. |
| US11102004B2 |
Systems and methods for distributed verification of online identity
At least one aspect is directed to improving the performance of real-time verification of online identity. The issuer computing system can receive a request to generate a composite token, the composite token configured to authorize certain verifying parties to authenticate a first-party token comprising information about a client. The issuer can generate a composite token using cryptographic keys and distribute it to the client, who can distribute it to other content item networks. The verifying parties can receive the composite token from the content item networks, use a cryptographic key verify the authenticity of the token corresponding to the client device, and use the token to further process content item operations. The system can distribute the cryptographic keys prior to the generation and verification of the composite token, and as such allow the parties to verify the composite token in real-time without contacting outside verification parties. |
| US11102003B2 |
Ledger-independent token service
Techniques for implementing a ledger-independent token service are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system executing the service can receive, from a user, a request to create a token on a distributed ledger network. The computer system can further provide to the user one or more token templates, where each token template corresponds to a type of physical or digital asset and defines a set of one or more attributes and one or more control functions associated with the type. The computer system can then receive, from the user, a selection of a token template in the one or more token templates and create the token on the distributed ledger network, where the created token includes the set of one or more attributes and one or more control functions defined in the selected token template. |
| US11102002B2 |
Trust domain isolation management in secured execution environments
An established root of trust supports a secure execution environment (SEE) that supports execution of validated software instructions on behalf of trust domains that operate within the SEE to implement functions and to support hardware supported by the IHS. Embodiments support isolated operation of such trust domains within the SEE while avoiding the overhead of isolation within separate software environment enclaves. Signed instructions for the operation of a trust domain are retrieved and authenticated based on a signing token associated with the trust domain. If authenticated, the trust domain is granted access to resources set forth in a privilege policy token linked to the signing token of the trust domain. The privileges assigned to a trust domain may be modified by linking the trust domain's signing token to a new privilege policy token. |
| US11102001B2 |
Trust management system and trust management method
A verification node in a trust management system manages, in a blockchain, a smart contract and an execution transaction of the smart contract as well as an evaluation execution transaction for the smart contract. The verification node includes and manages a verification result of the smart contract in the evaluation execution transaction, the verification result including a predetermined value for evaluation specified by a predetermined one of transaction issuing nodes and an output value obtained when the predetermined value is inputted to the smart contract, or includes and manages the output value in state information. |
| US11101999B2 |
Two-way handshake for key establishment for secure communications
The present application describes a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for end-to-end encryption during a secure communication session. According to the present disclosure, a first device initializes a secure communication session with at least one second device. Initializing the secure communication session includes transmitting an invitation to a secure communication session to the at least one second device. The at least one second device may generate a transmission root key, which may be used to derive a first key for encrypting data transmitted to the first device and a second key for decrypting received data from the first device. The at least one second device may transmit the transmission root key to the first device, which may use the transmission root key to derive a first key to encrypt data transmitted to the at least one second device and a second key to decrypt data received from the at least one second device. |
| US11101994B2 |
Method of provisioning key information and apparatus using the method
A method of provisioning key information and a device using the method are provided. The method of provisioning key information according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes generating key information for encryption and decryption from seed information using a key information generation algorithm and deleting code that corresponds to the key information generation algorithm from the device based on the generation of the key information. |
| US11101993B1 |
Authentication and authorization through derived behavioral credentials using secured paired communication devices
A system and method for biobehavorial identification may include a user device, a secure system/client device, and a server. The elements of the system work together to monitor the biologic features (e.g., fingerprints, pupils, or the like) and behavior (e.g., wake time, exercise time, location) to verify the authenticity of a user requesting access to a database and/or secure facility. |
| US11101986B2 |
Authentication processing service
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating an authentication processing service are provided. |
| US11101985B2 |
Key transfer method and system based on shared security application, storage medium, and device thereof
One embodiment provides a key transfer system and method based on a shared security application. During operation, an application executing on a terminal device receives an application key comprising at least a service key from a management server of the application and forwards the application key to a management server of a shared security application residing in a secure element in the terminal device, thereby facilitating the management server of the shared security application to deliver the application key to the shared security application. The application invokes the application key stored in the shared security application to perform services associated with the application. The application key is isolated from other application keys associated with other applications stored in the shared security application. |
| US11101979B2 |
Method and system for creating word-level differential privacy using feature hashing techniques
The present invention discloses a method of creating word-level differential privacy with the hashing trick to protect confidentiality of a textual data, the method comprising: receiving a list of a plurality of hashes with a weight (or weights) associated with each of the plurality of hashes; Updating said list with new hashes that are within the range of allowable hash values but not included in said received list of hashes; Updating said list with a new weight to each of said plurality of hashes that are missing said weight; Fitting a probability distribution to said list of said weights of said plurality of hashes; and generating said new weights and said adjusted weights based on sampling of said probability distribution. |
| US11101978B2 |
Establishing and managing identities for constrained devices
A method (100) for establishing a new identity for a constrained device is disclosed, wherein the device has an existing identity and is associated with an asymmetric key pair comprising a device public key and a device private key. The method comprises applying a hash function to the existing identity (106) and setting the resulting value as the new identity for the constrained device (108), wherein the existing identity comprises at least a first generation hash value of a hash chain formed by applying the hash function to the device public key. Also disclosed is a method (200) for managing an identity of a constrained device, the device being associated with an asymmetric key pair comprising a device public key and a device private key. The method comprises maintaining a record of the device public key (202), receiving an identity from the device (204), sequentially applying a hash function to the device public key to generate a hash chain of the device public key (206), and identifying a hash value in the hash chain matching the identity received from the device (208). |
| US11101976B2 |
Terminal device performing homomorphic encryption, server device processing ciphertext and methods thereof
An encryption method of a terminal device includes: setting a scaling factor; and reflecting the scaling factor in a message to be encrypted, and performing encryption using a public key to generate a homomorphic ciphertext. The homomorphic encryption is, based on a decryption being performed, in a form that a result value obtained by adding an error value to a value obtained by reflecting the scaling factor in the message is restored. |
| US11101975B2 |
Ciphertext matching system and ciphertext matching method
A ciphertext matching system, includes: a registration target data generation apparatus, a matching request apparatus, a data matching apparatus, and a matching support apparatus. The data matching apparatus generates a first-distance-related ciphertext in which a first distance between registered data and matching target data is kept secret by random numbers. The matching support apparatus generates a public key and a secret key and transmits the generated public key to the individual apparatuses. The data matching apparatus transmits the first-distance-related ciphertext to the matching support apparatus. The matching support apparatus determines whether the first distance obtained by decrypting the first-distance-related ciphertext with the secret key is included in a set of second distances in which the registered data and the matching target data are allowable to be matched each other and transmits a result of the determination to the data matching apparatus. |
| US11101972B2 |
Communication apparatus, replacement unit, and image forming apparatus
A processing unit processes an input signal from an external apparatus and includes a first terminal to which a reference voltage is input from the external apparatus, a second terminal to which a first pulse signal having a first frequency is input from the external apparatus, and a control portion to process the input signal. A memory stores data to be transmitted to the external apparatus, and a clock generating unit generates a clock signal having a higher frequency than the first frequency of the first pulse signal. To transmit a data signal to the external apparatus from the processing unit, the control portion switches a load between the first terminal and the second terminal based on the data stored in the memory during a period in which a second pulse signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency is input from the external apparatus. |
| US11101969B2 |
User terminal, base station, and radio communication method
The present invention is designed so that uplink transmission is carried out adequately even when CA is executed by applying different duplex modes between multiple cells. A user terminal that receives downlink control information (DCI) including Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) in a frequency division duplex (FDD) cell and controls, based on the DAI, transmission of a transmission acknowledgement signal for a downlink shared channel that is scheduled to the FDD cell by the DCI. |
| US11101968B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing activation/deactivation of inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation
The present invention relates to the technical field of radio communications, and particularly to a method and apparatus for processing activation/deactivation of inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing activation/deactivation of inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation, comprising the steps of: receiving, by UE, an MAC CE for activation/deactivation of an SCell sent by a master eNodeB or a secondary eNodeB; determining, by the UE, the corresponding SCell; and performing, by the UE, activation/deactivation to the corresponding SCell according to the indication information in the MAC CE for activation/deactivation. |
| US11101967B2 |
Techniques for control resource set (CORESET) configuration for shared radio frequency spectrum
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for a control resource set (CORESET) of a shared radio frequency spectrum carrier. The UE may identify a bitmap included in the configuration. Each bit in the bitmap may be associated with a respective control resource block group. The UE may identify, based at least in part on a value for each bit in the bitmap, one or more control resource block groups that are included in the CORESET. The UE may monitor for downlink communications in the one or more control resource block groups. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11101965B2 |
Handling null A-CSI report overlap with other uplink transmissions
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for communication which may include a user equipment (UE) and a base station. In one aspect, the UE may receive a trigger to measure an uplink Aperiodic Channel State Information Reference Signal (A-CSI-RS). The UE may also receive an allocation of a first resource for an uplink shared channel. Additionally, the UE can receive at least one indication for an A-CSI report to comprise a null A-CSI report. Moreover, the UE can determine whether to alter another uplink transmission. In some aspects, this determination can be based, at least in part, on whether the first resource allocated for the uplink channel overlaps in time with a second resource for the other uplink transmission. |
| US11101962B2 |
Communicating a transport block in a wireless network
A communication device receives a repetition index, a set indicator, and a downlink transmission. The downlink transmission spans a plurality of subframes. The communication device uses the repetition index as an index into one of a plurality of sets of subframe values specified by the set indicator to determine the number of subframes spanned by the downlink transmission, and decodes the downlink transmission according to the determined number of subframes. |
| US11101960B2 |
Method for transmitting uplink control information and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting uplink control information and an apparatus, applicable to a multi-carrier system. A user terminal receives physical layer signaling from a network device, where the physical layer signaling includes first indication information. The user terminal determines, according to the first indication information, a bit quantity of periodic CSI that can be sent on a channel resource or a piece quantity of periodic CSI that can be sent on a channel resource. The user terminal determines, according to the bit quantity or the piece quantity of the periodic CSI that can be sent, to-be-sent periodic CSI from periodic CSI corresponding to multiple downlink carriers. The user terminal sends HARQ-ACK information and the to-be-sent periodic CSI on the channel resource. |
| US11101954B2 |
Communication techniques based on adaptive numerology
A mobile communication device has a receiver configured to receive a radio signal over a radio channel. The radio signal has a predetermined pilot preamble. The mobile communication device has a processor configured to determine mobility information, in particular a Doppler and/or a Delay Spread, based on the pilot preamble. The processor is further configured to signal the mobility information to a second communication device. A base station is also provided, having: a receiver configured to receive mobility information, in particular a Doppler and/or a Delay Spread, signaled by a mobile communication device; and a processor, configured to select a numerology based on the mobility information and to generate a radio signal for transmission to the communication device based on the numerology. |
| US11101944B2 |
Method and device for transmitting information by using sparse coding
A method by which a transmitting end operates in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: performing sparse coding on information so as to have sparsity of which the number of non-zero symbols is K; configuring a codebook by including a code for spreading for each user; spreading the coded information by using one or more codes in the codebook; and transmitting a channel by overlapping the spread information. Therefore, even if the number of encoded symbols increases, the number of symbols actually having a value is very sparsely configured such that the complexity of a transmitter and a receiver does not increase, and thus restoration performance improves. |
| US11101943B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting UCI in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a method of a user equipment (US) for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a wireless communication system. The method performed by the user equipment includes: determining a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) timing or HARQ timings of a dynamically scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH and/or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that indicates SPS releasing according to information sent from a base station; and transmitting generated hybrid automatic retransmission request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information according to the HARQ timing or the HARQ timings determined. By applying present disclosure, it is possible to simplify the HARQ-ACK timing determination mode and can perform HARQ-ACK information transmission in time. |
| US11101942B2 |
HARQ in spatial multiplexing MIMO system
A method and apparatus for signaling scheduling information in a spatial multiplexing wireless communications system, as well as corresponding methods and apparatus for processing such signaling information, are disclosed. Signaling scheduling information includes scheduling first and second transport blocks for simultaneous transmission during a first transmission interval on first and second data substreams, respectively, and assigning a single re-transmission process identifier for the first transmission interval and transmitting first scheduling information for the first transmission interval. The first scheduling information includes the re-transmission process identifier and first disambiguation data. Additionally, at least one of the first and second transport blocks is scheduled for re-transmission during a second transmission interval. Second scheduling information for the second transmission interval is also transmitted; the second scheduling information including the re-transmission process identifier and second disambiguation data. |
| US11101935B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting packet data units
A method is provided in a user equipment for retransmitting a packet data unit, PDU, that has previously been transmitted in an uplink to a receiver, the previously transmitted PDU comprising one or more service data units, SDUs. The method comprises receiving an uplink grant for retransmission, wherein the uplink grant for retransmission comprises a time transmission interval, TTI, duration associated therewith. The method comprises determining whether a SDU of the one or more SDUs of the previously transmitted PDU comprises a TTI duration which is not suited to the TTI duration associated with the uplink grant for retransmission, and, if so repackaging the PDU for retransmission. |
| US11101934B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving status report in a mobile communication system
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting a status report by a receiving device including an automatic repeat request (ARQ) entity and a hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processor, in a mobile communication system. The method includes transmitting, by the HARQ processor, a packet provided from the ARQ entity to a receiving device; receiving, by the HARQ processor, a packet including a status report including a reception status of the transmitted packet from the receiving device; and providing, by the HARQ processor, the status report to the ARQ entity. The status report is generated, by an ARQ entity of the receiving device at a transmission opportunity indicated by a HARQ processor of the receiving device, in response to the status report being triggered based on at least one triggering condition by the ARQ entity of the receiving device. |
| US11101931B2 |
Information transmission method, terminal device, and network device
The application provides an information transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that: a terminal device acquires a first sequence, the first sequence being used for determining a sequence carrying feedback information for downlink data; the terminal device determines target feedback information for target downlink data sent by a network device according to the target downlink data; the terminal device determines a second sequence carrying the target feedback information according to the first sequence; and the terminal device sends the second sequence to the network device. Therefore, the terminal device may efficiently acquire a sequence configured to carry uplink control information. |
| US11101929B1 |
Dynamically caching data for storage in storage units of a content delivery network
A method for execution by a computing device includes, receiving, from a requesting device, a request for a data segment of a data object that is or is to be stored in storage units of a content delivery network. The method further includes determining whether the data segment is stored in a cache memory of the content delivery network or in the storage units. When stored in the cache memory, the method includes retrieving the cached data segment, and sending it to the requesting device. When stored in the storage units, the method includes, sending read requests regarding the data segment to the storage units, receiving, in response to the read requests, at least a decode threshold number of encoded data slices, decoding the at least the decode threshold number of encoded data slices to reproduce the data segment, and sending the data segment to the requesting device. |
| US11101925B2 |
Decomposable forward error correction
Network communication systems may employ coding schemes to provide error checking and/or error correction. Such schemes may include parity or check symbols in a message that may add redundancy, which may be used to check for errors. For example, Ethernet may employ forward error correction (FEC) schemes using Reed-Solomon codes. An increase in the number of parity symbols may increase the power of the error-correcting scheme, but may lead to an increased in latencies. Encoders and decoders that may be configured in a manner to produce variable-length messages while preserving compatibility with network standards are described. Decoders described herein may be able to verify long codewords by checking short codes and integrating the results. Encoders described herein may be able to generate codewords in multiple formats without replicating large segments of the circuitry. |
| US11101922B1 |
Stream-based power allocation in multi-stream transmissions
A wireless communications device comprises a transmitter configured to distribute a data stream as a plurality of sub-streams, allocate power to each sub-stream of the plurality of sub-streams, and convert the sub-streams into one or more transmit signals. The wireless communications device also comprises a processor which is configured to obtain channel-quality indicators corresponding to the sub-streams and adjust one or more power allocations of one or more sub-streams to reduce a collective error rate of the data stream based on the channel-quality indicators, subject to a total power limit. |
| US11101920B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting a partial sub-frame data transmission in LTE systems
A transmitting device performs a channel assessment in a previous sub-frame in an unlicensed carrier. After a successful channel assessment, the transmitting device starts a data transmission. The transmitting device transmits a control message for indicating the data transmission in (E)PDCCH. The control message may include the starting time of the data transmission and/or at least one transmission characteristic in the previous sub-frame. The transmission device may transmit an initial control message for indicating a potential data transmission being started in the sub-frame in which the initial control message is transmitting. Method and apparatus enable (E)CCA to take place at any time, and data transmission to start earlier than the next sub-frame boundary after a successful completion of (E)CCA, thus improving the data transmission capacity, especially in circumstances when the maximum length of transmission is constrained. |
| US11101914B2 |
Optical transmission system and optical transmission method
An optical transmission system includes a plurality of transmission paths that transmit a mode multiplexing signal, and one or more mode permutation units provided between the transmission paths. The mode permutation unit performs mode permutation to interchange modes to be used between at least some optical signals among respective optical signals of a plurality of types of modes that are multiplexed to the mode multiplexing signal input from the transmission path on an input side, and outputs the mode multiplexing signal subjected to the mode permutation to the transmission path on an output side. |
| US11101911B2 |
User terminal, radio base station, and radio communication method
Communication is performed by using an uplink control channel of a configuration matching each shortened TTI. A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a transmission section that transmits uplink control information via an uplink control channel by using a shortened TTI configured by a smaller number of symbols than symbols of a normal TTI; and a control section that controls the transmission of the uplink control information, and the control section transmits the uplink control information by using a resource block subjected to frequency hopping between slots in the second TTI, and maps a demodulation reference signal on at least one symbol that configures the slots. |
| US11101908B2 |
Service data transmission method and apparatus
A service data transmission method includes determining, by a first device, a switching request, and sending, by the first device, the switching request to a second device, where the first device is connected to the second device using a flexible Ethernet (FlexE) group including at least one FlexE connection instance (FlexE Instance). The switching request includes first slot configuration information and second slot configuration information, the switching request is used to request to switch a slot configuration of a FlexE Instance from a configuration indicated by the first slot configuration information to a configuration indicated by the second slot configuration information, and a slot division quantity indicated by the first slot configuration information is different from a slot division quantity indicated by the second slot configuration information. |
| US11101904B2 |
Communication schemes for small cyclic delay diversity reference signals
The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support communication schemes for small cyclic delay diversity (SCDD) reference signals. A base station may transmit a control message comprising at least one channel state information (CSI) configuration parameter to a user equipment (UE). The UE may identify a time offset between a plurality of virtual antennas of the base station based at least in part on the CSI configuration parameter. The UE may perform measurements of a plurality of CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) transmitted by the base station and associated with the virtual antennas. The UE may transmit a feedback message based at least in part on the determined time offset and the measurements of the CSI-RSs. |
| US11101903B2 |
Locating external interference in a wireless network
A method for localizing interference uses data available to wireless communication networks to determine probabilities of a source of external interference being located at a plurality of predetermined locations. In a heterogeneous network, data from sites using omnidirectional antennas can be combined with data from multi-sector sites to accurately locate a source of interference. |
| US11101902B2 |
Method for measuring signal reception power of terminal in wireless communication system and terminal using method
The present invention relates to a method for measuring signal reception power of a vehicle to everything (V2X) terminal in a wireless communication system and provides a method which receives information on at least one of whether a transmission diversity mode coexists on V2X resource pool set by the terminal, the number of antenna ports used by the transmission diversity mode of another terminal for which the terminal intends to measure the signal reception power, and the transmission diversity technique type of the other terminal, and detects a specific terminal performing a transmission diversity-based V2X transmission operation based on the information, and measures the physical sidelink shared channel reference signal received power (PSSCH RSRP) for the specific terminal. |
| US11101900B2 |
Radio wave environment display device and radio wave environment display method
A radio wave environment analysis device includes: a processor which acquires radio wave environment data obtained by associating, with position information within an area including a plurality of observation points, an analysis result based on an analysis of the radio wave environment corresponding to a radio wave transmitted from at least one wireless transmitter disposed within the area; and a memory configured to store the radio wave environment data. The processor is configured to select a region that is a part of the area, extract partial radio wave environment data corresponding to the selected part, and output predetermined radio wave environment distribution data based on the extracted partial radio wave environment data on a display device. |
| US11101893B2 |
Optical cryptography for high speed coherent systems
A pseudo-random cipher stream is used to band-spread an optical carrier signal with coded data. A legitimate receiver uses an agreed-upon key to modulate its local oscillator and a resulting beat signal uncovers the band-spread signal. An eavesdropper who does not have the key finds the spread signal with too low signal-to-noise ratio to perform any useful determination of the message sequence. Theoretical bounds based on Shannon's Theory of Secrecy are used to show strength of the encoding scheme and predict it to be superior to the prior art. |
| US11101892B2 |
Signal sending method and apparatus
Signal sending method and apparatus. The signal sending method includes: sending, by a first apparatus, an optical signal to a second apparatus in a slot before a first wavelength slot; sending, by the first apparatus, a first optical signal to the second apparatus in the first wavelength slot; and sending, by the first apparatus, an optical signal to a second apparatus in the slot after the first wavelength slot. A wavelength of the first optical signal is a first wavelength. The first optical signal sent by the first apparatus in one first wavelength slot is used to carry first wavelength data on one symbol. Wavelengths of the optical signals sent by the first apparatus in the slots before and after the first wavelength slot are wavelengths other than the first wavelength. |
| US11101890B2 |
Unequal spacing on multilevel signals
The present disclosure provides signal management with unequal eye spacing by: determining a dispersion slope of a channel between a transmitter and a receiver based on a temperature of the transmitter and a wavelength used by the transmitter to transmit signals over the channel; determining maximum and minimum powers for transmission over the channel; assigning a plurality of rails to a corresponding plurality of power levels, wherein amplitude differences between adjacent rails of the plurality of rails are based on the dispersion slope and produce a first eye pattern with a first Ratio of Level Mismatch (RLM) less than one; encoding, by the transmitter, data onto a conditioned signal according to the plurality of rails; and transmitting the conditioned signal over the channel, so that the conditioned signal demonstrates a second eye pattern with a second RLM greater than the first RLM when received at the receiver. |
| US11101884B1 |
Localizing anomalies of a fiber optic network within the context of a geographic map
Systems and methods for displaying a localization of one or more anomalies in a fiber optic network are provided. In one implementation, a system includes a processing device and a memory device. The memory device is configured to store an anomaly localization module having logic instructions, which, when executed, cause the processing device to display, on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), Network Elements (NEs) and physical fiber plant links of a fiber optic network on a generalized geographical map. Responsive to a user selection, the logic instructions are further configured to cause the processing device to display, on the GUI, a physical fiber plant map based on obtained geographical coordinates of components associated with the fiber optic network. |
| US11101883B1 |
Control plane redundancy for optical networks
In an optical communications network, the supervisory control signal is duplicating at the OSI layer 2 or layer 3 level to generate a primary supervisory control signal and a secondary supervisory control signal. Access to the primary supervisory control signal is enabled at a network interface of a network device. In response to detecting a failure of the optical communications network or the device, access to the primary supervisory control signal is disabled and access to the secondary supervisory control signal is enabled. |
| US11101882B1 |
Low order regenerator with high order traffic conditioning in optical transport network
A network element configured to operate in an Optical Transport Network (OTN) network includes one or more modules including a first regenerator port and a second regenerator port, wherein the one or more modules are configured to provide a Low Order (LO) regenerator function; and circuitry configured to detect the one or more modules are part of the LO regenerator function, and, responsive to detection of a fault on the first regenerator port, cause forward traffic conditioning at a High Order (HO) path to the second regenerator port. The forward traffic conditioning can include an Alarm Indication Signal (AIS) on the HO path. |
| US11101877B2 |
Access node farm for end-to-end beamforming
Methods and systems are described for providing end-to-end beamforming. For example, end-to-end beamforming systems include end-to-end relays and ground networks to provide communications to user terminals located in user beam coverage areas. The ground segment can include geographically distributed access nodes and a central processing system. Return uplink signals, transmitted from the user terminals, have multipath induced by a plurality of receive/transmit signal paths in the end to end relay and are relayed to the ground network. The ground network, using beamformers, recovers user data streams transmitted by the user terminals from return downlink signals. The ground network, using beamformers generates forward uplink signals from appropriately weighted combinations of user data streams that, after relay by the end-end-end relay, produce forward downlink signals that combine to form user beams. |
| US11101875B2 |
Selectable geolocation for vehicle entertainment systems
Vehicle entertainment systems in commercial passenger vehicles can provide passengers with entertainment options that are based at least in part on geolocation information selected by the passengers. For example, based on a passenger's selection of a home country to which the passenger belongs, the vehicle entertainment system may route data traffic comprising the passenger's entertainment selections via a point of presence (PoP) device located in the selected home country. The vehicle entertainment system may also group data traffic for passengers that have selected the same home country so that the vehicle entertainment system can more efficiently use network resources as the commercial passenger vehicle travels to its destination. |
| US11101871B1 |
Beam selection for multi-subscriber identity module (MSIM) devices
In a particular implementation, a method of wireless communication includes searching, at a user equipment (UE) having a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM, transmit beams from a base station and receive beams from the UE to determine a subset of transmit beams. The method also includes storing indicators of the subset of transmit beams in a database accessible to the UE in response to the second SIM performing a particular operation that causes the first SIM to perform a tune away operation. The method further includes, after completion of the particular operation, performing measurement operations on the subset of transmit beams to select a particular transmit beam of the subset of transmit beams and a corresponding particular receive beam for attachment to the base station. |
| US11101868B2 |
Method, apparatus and storage device for performing decorrelation across spatial layers
This document discloses a solution for improving transmission characteristics of a communication signal transmitted from a transmitter. According to an aspect, a method includes arranging, in a transmitter, information to be transmitted to a receiver, to a plurality of spatial layers where each spatial layer is associated with a unique precoding configuration amongst the plurality of spatial layers, wherein the information includes at least one signal that is identical in a plurality of the plurality of spatial layers; performing, in the transmitter, a decorrelation operation across the plurality of spatial layers such that the at least one signal in one of the plurality of spatial layers becomes decorrelated with the at least one signal in another one of the plurality of spatial layers; and causing, in the transmitter, transmission of a transmission signal including the information in the plurality of spatial layers to the receiver. |
| US11101867B2 |
Reducing beamforming feedback size in WLAN communication
Mechanisms of reducing beamforming feedback reporting sizes in WIFI communication. At a beamformee STA, beamforming feedback matrices generated from channel estimation are subject to two compression processes: first compressed to angles through Givens rotation and then further compressed by using source coding. The double compressed feedback information is transmitted in a report to the beamformer. Accordingly, the beamformer reconstructs the feedback matrices by first decompressing the reported information by source decoding and then further decompressing based on the Givens rotation. In some other embodiments, the beamformee STA uses a beambook to map the beamforming feedback matrices to predetermined beamforming vectors. The associated indices of the vectors, which may be compressed, are transmitted in a beamforming feedback report. |
| US11101866B2 |
Rank indication reporting method and apparatus, and indication method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a rank indication reporting method and apparatus, and an indication method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: receiving at least two pieces of indication information, where each of the at least two pieces of indication information is used to indicate a maximum value of an RI that a network device associated with the indication information allows a terminal to report, and at least two network devices associated with the at least two pieces of indication information cooperate to provide a service for the terminal; and reporting RIs based on the at least two pieces of indication information. |
| US11101862B2 |
Beam update techniques in wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide efficient beam updates in beamformed communications between a transmitting device and receiving device. The transmitting device and the receiving device may establish a connection using one or more beamformed transmission beams. The devices may periodically perform beam refinement procedures or beam training procedures and may update the transmission beams used for communications based on such procedures. Signaling to indicate the updated transmission beams may be transmitted that indicates one or more of a difference or delta from a prior beamforming parameter, a beam that was used at the receiving device for one or more measurements of a reference signal from the transmitting device, or any combinations thereof. |
| US11101856B2 |
Method and apparatus for uplink signal transmission based on codebook in a wireless communication system
A method for transmitting an uplink signal based on a codebook by a UE in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) for determining a precoding matrix applied to transmission of the uplink signal; determining the precoding matrix applied to the transmission of the uplink signal from a codebook subset related to the transmission of the uplink signal based on the DCI; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal based on the determined precoding matrix, I which based on that a difference between phase values applied to antenna ports for the transmission of the uplink signal is maintained in some antenna ports among all antenna port pairs, the codebook subset includes at least one specific precoding matrix applying different phase values to antenna ports included in all or some of the some antenna ports. |
| US11101852B2 |
Channel state information feedback method and device
The present invention provides a channel state information feedback method and device. The method includes: selecting, by a communication node, N information groups from configured M information groups; where N and M are positive integers, and N is less than or equal to M; processing, by the communication node, the selected N information groups in a preset manner to obtain index information of the N information groups and parameter information of the preset manner, wherein the index information comprises group indices of the N information groups or index of information in the N information groups; and feeding back, by the communication node, the index information and the parameter information. |
| US11101851B2 |
User device beamforming training in wireless networks
A technique is provided for beamforming training, including: transmitting, by a network node, common control signaling via a plurality of beams periodically according to a predetermined beam sweeping pattern, and transmitting, via a set of one or more beams in each of one or more sequential time-domain resources, an aperiodic downlink sounding burst to at least one user device to allow the at least one user device to perform beamforming training. |
| US11101846B2 |
Partitioned wireless communication system with redundant data links and power lines
Embodiments are disclosed for a partitioned wireless communication system for a vehicle with redundant data links and power lines. In an embodiment, a system comprises: a communication gateway unit (CGU) located at a first location of the vehicle includes a communication processor, a first power supply, and a first data interface. A remote wireless transceiver unit (RWTU) located at a second location of the vehicle includes a second data interface coupled to the first data interface using redundant data links, a power interface coupled the first power supply to the RWTU using redundant power lines, and wireless transceiver(s) coupled to antenna(s) on the vehicle. The communication processor detects a loss of a first data link or a first power line, and in response to the detecting, selecting a second data link or second power line to transfer data or power, respectively, between the CGU and the RWTU. |
| US11101843B1 |
Selective narrowband interference cancellation
The present disclosure relates to selectively determining whether to attenuate frequencies in a received signal by converting the received signal into frequency-domain data, filtering frequency components that are likely to include an interference component, and calculating signal quality of the signal data before and after filtering. |
| US11101842B2 |
Interference mitigation techniques in directional beamforming repeaters
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a repeater for beamforming a received signal at a first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions and then retransmitting and beamforming the transmitted signal at the first radio frequency via one or more scan angles or beamforming directions. Repeaters may perform heterodyning or downconverting on the received signal to reduce a frequency of the signal from the first frequency to an intermediate frequency (IF), and then band-pass filter the IF signal around a desired center frequency. The repeater may then heterodyne or upconvert the filtered IF signal back to the first frequency for the retransmission of the signal. |
| US11101838B2 |
Magnetic mount for electronic devices
A case for an electronic device wherein the electronic device has a receiver coil for wireless charging and the receiver coil is formed in between an inner circle and an outer circle, includes: a hard protective frame constructed to receive the electronic device therein wherein the hard protective frame faces the electronic device; and a metal plate constructed to be received in the recess. The metal plate is constructed to enable magnetic retention or attachment of the case to a support having a magnet. The metal plate has a rounded concave edge, and the metal plate does not overlap with the inner circle. Preferably, the rounded concave edge, the inner circle, and the outer circle are substantially symmetrical with respect to a same line. |
| US11101836B2 |
Portable computing device cover with fully encapsulated stiffeners
A cover for a portable computing device includes a cover panel having a first portion of a solid silicone rubber sheet and a first stiffener panel that is fully encapsulated in the first portion of the solid silicone rubber sheet. |
| US11101835B2 |
Modular communications systems with dynamically positionable antenna elements
A modular communications systems includes an apparel item with a surface. Landing pads are positioned proximate to the surface with each landing pad uniquely positioned on the surface. Non-metallic antenna elements are each demountably, intermittingly, and conductively coupled to a unique landing pad; includes a non-metallic conductive composition; and a unique operational frequency compared to at least one antenna element. A hub is positioned on the surface and conductively coupled to each landing pad. Each communications device is demountably affixed to the surface; intermittingly, demountably, and conductively coupled to the hub; and includes a unique operational frequency. The hub intermittingly, demountably, and conductively couples each communications devices to a unique landing pad included in the plurality of landing pads. |
| US11101833B2 |
Demodulators
A radio receiver device is arranged to receive a radio signal including a data packet having an address portion and a payload portion, said radio receiver comprising: a first demodulation circuit portion arranged to demodulate the data packet and produce a first estimate of the address portion and a first estimate of the payload portion; a second demodulation circuit portion arranged to demodulate the data packet and produce a second estimate of the payload portion; a first comparison circuit portion arranged to compare said first and second estimates of the payload portion and produce a flag only if they are identical; and a second comparison circuit portion arranged, upon receipt of said flag, to compare said first estimate of the address portion to an expected address portion and to discard the data packet if they are not identical. |
| US11101827B2 |
Electronic device comprising antenna and method for transmitting or receiving signal
Disclosed is an electronic device which includes a housing that includes a first plate, a second plate facing away from the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, wherein the side member includes a first conductive portion including a first end and being elongated, a second conductive portion including a second end and a third end and being elongated, the second end being adjacent to the first end, a third conductive portion including a fourth end adjacent to the third end and being elongated, a first insulating portion disposed between the first end and the second end to contact the first end and the second end, and a second insulating portion disposed between the third end and the fourth end to contact the third end and the fourth end, a display that is exposed through the first plate, at least one wireless communication circuit that is electrically connected with a first point placed at the first conductive portion and adjacent to the first end, a first switching element electrically connected with a second point, which is placed at the second conductive portion and is adjacent to the third end, through a capacitive element and electrically connected with a third point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the third end, and a fourth point placed at the third conductive portion and adjacent to the fourth end, at least one ground member that is electrically connected with a fifth point placed at the first conductive portion and more distant from the first end than the first point, a second switching element electrically connected with a sixth point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the second end, a seventh point placed at the second conductive portion and adjacent to the third point, and an eighth point placed at the third conductive portion and more distant from the fourth end than the fourth point, and a control circuit that is configured to control the first switching element and the second switching element. Moreover, various embodiment found through the present disclosure are possible. |
| US11101825B2 |
Butterfly network on load data return
A method is shown that is operable to transform and align a plurality of fields from an input to an output data stream using a multilayer butterfly or inverse butterfly network. Many transformations are possible with such a network which may include separate control of each multiplexer. This invention supports a limited set of multiplexer control signals, which enables a similarly limited set of data transformations. This limited capability is offset by the reduced complexity of the multiplexor control circuits. |
| US11101823B2 |
Memory system
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform iterative correction on a plurality of frames of data read from the non-volatile memory. The iterative correction includes performing a first error correction on each of the frames including a first frame having errors not correctable by the first error correction, generating a syndrome on a set of second frames that include the first frame, performing a second error correction on the second frames using the syndrome, and performing a third error correction on the first frame. Each of the frames includes user data and first parity data used in the first error correction, the first parity data of the first frame also being used in the third error correction. |
| US11101822B1 |
Data writing method, memory control circuit unit and memory storage apparatus
A data writing method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving first data and second data from a host system; generating a first array error correcting code based on the first data, and generating a second array error correcting code based on the second data; programming a first group including the first array error correcting code into a first chip enable group by using a first programming mode; and programming a second group including the second array error correcting code into a second chip enable group by using a second programming mode. |
| US11101818B2 |
Method and device for storing time series data with adaptive length encoding
Provided are a method and device for storing time series data with adaptive length encoding, including: acquiring data values corresponding to timestamps according to a sequential order of timestamps; using a ratio of storage space values required to pre-store the previous n data values to storage space values required to pre-store rule information of a preset encoding rule and encoding data according to the previous n data values as a storage gain corresponding to the time at which the n-th data value is acquired; storing the rule information of the preset encoding rule and the encoding data corresponding to a previous n−1 data values when the storage gain corresponding to the time at which the n-th data value is acquired is less than that corresponding to the time at which the (n−1)-th data value is acquired. |
| US11101815B2 |
Encoder and control system
A control system includes an encoder and a control device that controls a target object. The encoder includes a position information generating unit that generates position information made of a predetermined amount of data and including absolute position data of an object to be detected; a configuration information generating unit that generates configuration information representing a ratio of the absolute position data in the amount of data during serial communication; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the control device, the position information and the configuration information as serial data. The control device includes a reception unit that receives the position information and the configuration information transmitted from the encoder; a storage unit that stores the received configuration information; and a notification unit that performs notification of a configuration mismatch when the stored configuration information does not match the next received configuration information. |
| US11101814B2 |
Time-interleaved successive approximation register analog to digital converter with grouped digital to analog capacitors
The present invention is a system and method for providing a modified Digital-to-Analog converter (DAC) for use in a time-interleaved successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the DAC including grouping of capacitance electrodes by Bit in a DAC, thereby reducing parasitic capacitances, and substantially improving power efficiency and speed to operate at GHz frequencies. |
| US11101812B2 |
Analog-to-digital converter controllers including configurable contexts
Various embodiments relate to analog-to-digital converter (ADC) controllers. An ADC controller may include a number of contexts configured for coupling to an ADC, wherein each context having at least one register for storing at least one configurable parameter. The ADC controller may also include a sequencer operatively coupled to the number of contexts and configured to perform a programmed conversion sequence based on one or more configurable parameters of one or more contexts of the number of contexts. Methods of performing an analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion sequence, and methods of configuring a number of contexts for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) controller, are also disclosed. |
| US11101811B2 |
Systems and methods for testing analog to digital (A/D) converter with built-in diagnostic circuit with user supplied variable input voltage
A method for testing an A/D converter with a built-in diagnostic circuit with a user supplied variable input voltage includes generating a charge by a binary-weighted capacitor array responsive to an external voltage and a user specified code. The method further includes applying the charge to a first input of a voltage comparator and applying a bias voltage to a second input of the voltage comparator, and generating, by the voltage comparator, a comparison voltage responsive to the applied charge and the bias voltage. The method also includes applying the comparison voltage to an input of a successive approximation register and generating, by the successive approximation register, an approximate digital code responsive to the comparison voltage. The method also includes determining if at least one bit of the approximate digital code fails to toggle independent of adjacent bits. |
| US11101810B1 |
Training a machine learning system for ADC compensation
Analog to digital conversion errors caused by non-linearities or other sources of distortion in an analog-to-digital converter are compensated for by use of a machine learning system, such as a neural network. The machine learning system is trained based on simulation or measurement data, which utilizes a filtered output of the analog-to-digital converter that has less distortion errors than the unfiltered output of the analog-to-digital converter. The effect on the analog to digital conversion errors by Process-Voltage-Temperature parameters may be incorporated into the training of the machine learning system. |
| US11101808B2 |
Frequency multiplier, digital phase-locked loop circuit, and frequency multiplication method
A frequency multiplier, a digital phase-locked loop circuit, and a frequency multiplication method, where the frequency multiplier includes a clock controller configured to: receive an output signal from a time-to-digital converter in the digital phase-locked loop circuit, and generate a control signal based on a duty cycle error of the output signal, a clock calibration circuit configured to: receive a reference clock signal, calibrate a duty cycle of the reference clock signal based on the control signal, and output a calibrated clock signal, and a clock frequency multiplier configured to: receive the calibrated clock signal, multiply a frequency of the calibrated clock signal, and output a frequency multiplied signal to the time-to-digital converter. |
| US11101807B2 |
Phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit
One example includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit. The circuit includes a frequency divider and phase detector configured to generate a plurality of non-overlapping switching signals based on an input signal and a PLL output signal. The circuit also includes a linear frequency-to-current (F2I) converter configured to generate a control current having an amplitude that is based on the plurality of non-overlapping switching signals. The circuit further includes a linear current-controlled oscillator configured to generate the PLL output signal to have a frequency and phase to be approximately equal to the input signal based on the amplitude of the control current. |
| US11101804B2 |
Fast memory for programmable devices
An integrated circuit device may include a programmable fabric die having programmable logic fabric and configuration memory that may configure the programmable logic fabric. The integrated circuit device may also include a base die that may provide fabric support circuitry, including memory and/or communication interfaces as well as compute elements that may also be application-specific. The memory in the base die may be directly accessed by the programmable fabric die using a low-latency, high capacity, and high bandwidth interface. |
| US11101801B2 |
Logic drive using standard commodity programmable logic IC chips
An expandable logic scheme based on a chip package, includes: an interconnection substrate comprising a set of data buses for use in an expandable interconnection scheme, wherein the set of data buses is divided into a plurality of data bus subsets; and a first field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip comprising a plurality of first I/O ports coupling to the set of data buses and at least one first I/O-port selection pad configured to select a first port from the plurality of first I/O ports in a first clock cycle to pass a first data between a first data bus subset of the plurality of data bus subsets and the first field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip. |
| US11101800B1 |
Interlayer exchange coupling logic cells
An NAND or NOR logic device has multiple layers of ferromagnetic material separated from each other by non-magnetic layers of electrically conductive material of atomic thickness, sufficient to generate anti-magnetic response in a magnetized layer. The anti-magnetic response in a layer below a layer magnetized with a polarity is summed in a region which is coupled to an output, the output generating at least one of a NAND, or NOR logic function on applied input magnetization. |
| US11101799B2 |
Voltage driving circuit
An input/output driving circuit may include a pad, an open-drain driving circuit, a high-voltage protection unit and a control unit. The open-drain driving circuit may be configured to output a transmission signal to the pad. The high-voltage protection unit may be configured to input a received signal from the pad. The control unit may include a gate control logic, a transmission control logic and an inverter for controlling the open-drain driving circuit. The control unit may also include a reception control logic and a well voltage generation unit for controlling the high-voltage protection unit. |
| US11101796B2 |
Gate drive apparatus and control method
An apparatus includes a capacitive device configured to provide bias power for a high-side switch, a gate drive path having variable resistance connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a first resistance value in response to a turn-on of the high-side switch, and the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a second resistance value in response to a turn-off of the high-side switch, and wherein the second resistance value is greater than the first resistance value, and a control switch connected between the gate of the high-side switch and ground. |
| US11101793B2 |
Drive circuit
A drive circuit for driving a switching element on a SiC substrate, includes: a comparator for comparing a current flowing through the switching element with an overcurrent threshold; a determination unit for determining whether an overcurrent flows, based on a comparison result; a control unit for generating a drive signal for controlling a drive operation of the switching element based on a drive command, and for turning off the switching element when determining that the overcurrent flows; and a setting unit for variably setting the overcurrent threshold according to a physical quantity correlated with a voltage between main electrodes of the switching element. |
| US11101791B2 |
Power circuit switching device having a passive protection circuit
A power circuit switching device comprises two switching terminals, a high-voltage depletion mode transistor and a low-voltage enhancement mode transistor arranged in series between the two switching terminals, a first terminal for receiving a switching signal and electrically connected via a driver circuit to the gate of the high-voltage transistor, and a second terminal for receiving a control signal and electrically connected to the gate of the low-voltage transistor. The device comprises a normally-on protection circuit electrically connected between the second terminal and the gate of the high-voltage transistor to keep the high-voltage transistor in an off-state when the driver circuit is not electrically powered. |
| US11101788B2 |
Electronically tuned RF termination
Systems and methods for a tunable impedance are provided. A tunable impedance includes a transistor assembly having two terminals and a control input. The transistor assembly includes one or more transistors electrically connected between the two terminals to provide a first impedance between the two terminals, based upon a control signal. One or more replica transistors react to the control signal in a similar fashion as the transistor assembly, to provide a replica impedance based upon the control signal. A control circuit is configured to generate the control signal based upon a voltage across the replica transistor(s) and/or a current through the replica transistor(s). |
| US11101787B2 |
Multiplexer including filter with two types of acoustic wave resonators
Multiplexers are disclosed. A multiplexer can include a first filter and a second filter that are coupled to a common node. The second filter can include a first type of acoustic wave resonators (e.g., bulk acoustic wave resonators) and a series acoustic wave resonator of a second type (e.g., a surface acoustic wave resonator) that is coupled between the acoustic wave resonators of the first type and the common node. The first filter can provide a single-ended radio frequency signal. In certain embodiments, the first filter can be a receive filter and the second filter can be a transmit filter. |
| US11101784B2 |
Electrical component with heat dissipation
In order to improve heat dissipation from electrical components with heat-generating component structures, it is proposed to provide a radiation layer with a large surface in the area of the component structures. Preferably, the radiation layer is very heat-conductive or in heat-conductive connection with the component structures. |
| US11101783B2 |
Structures, acoustic wave resonators, devices and systems to sense a target variable, including as a non-limiting example corona viruses
Techniques for improving Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonator structures are disclosed, including fluidic systems, oscillators and systems that may include such devices. A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator may comprise a substrate and a first layer of piezoelectric material. The bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator may comprise a top electrode. A sensing region may be acoustically coupled with the top electrode of the bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator. |
| US11101782B1 |
Polyphase filter (PPF) including RC-LR sections
Polyphase filters (PPFs) can be used to generate quadrature or other phase-shifted representations of an input signal provided to the PPF. In one approach, a “passive” polyphase filter can include a combination of resistive and capacitive elements. Such a topology can be referred to as an RC-PPF topology. Another passive circuit topology can be used to provide a PPF, by replacing the resistive elements with inductive elements, and by replacing the capacitive elements with resistive elements. A filter circuit can include cascaded RC-PPF and LR-PPF sections, such as in an alternating manner (e.g., an “RC-LR” topology). In this approach, a total insertion loss of cascaded LR-PPF and RC-PPF sections can be reduced as compared to using LR-PPF or RC-PPF sections, alone. |
| US11101780B2 |
Comparator circuit
According to an embodiment, a comparator circuit includes first and second PMOS transistors that compose a differential pair, a first switching transistor with a main current path that is connected between an input terminal and a gate of the first PMOS transistor, a voltage source that applies a reference voltage to a gate of the second PMOS transistor, and a first bias circuit that applies a first bias voltage to a control electrode of the first switching transistor. |
| US11101775B2 |
Wideband tunable hybrid-based combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture
The disclosure relates to a wideband, tunable hybrid-based combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture. The architecture includes two parallel power amplifiers: a carrier amplifier and a peaking amplifier. The peaking amplifier modulates the load seen by the carrier amplifier, allowing the carrier amplifier to remain in high-efficiency, saturated operation even at back-off. This load modulation can be achieved using impedance matching networks having an impedance matched to a specific frequency. Typically, a multi-mode/multi-band power amplifier module that does not include a tunable impedance circuit as disclosed herein, several Doherty power amplifier modules (each of which uses two amplifiers) would be used to cover several bands, which may make implementation costly and/or impractical. Thus, the architectures described herein provide wideband amplification using a Doherty amplifier configuration. |
| US11101774B1 |
Audio power source with improved efficiency
One example includes a differential amplifier, a voltage weighting element, coupled to a voltage source which provides an input voltage, to provide a reference voltage with a constant power limit when the input voltage varies, an error amplifier configured to receive and compare the reference voltage provided from the voltage weighting element and a feedback sensed voltage provided from the differential amplifier to identify whether the sensed voltage exceeds the reference voltage, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller, coupled to a power transformer and the error amplifier, that reduces a transformer input current provided to the power transformer based on the comparison of the reference voltage from the voltage weighting element and the feedback sensed voltage from the differential amplifier. |
| US11101772B2 |
Mixer circuit
A resistive mixer includes a LO matching circuit inserted between the gate of an FET and a LO terminal, a bias circuit that is connected to the gate and applies a bias voltage to the gate, an RF matching circuit inserted between the drain of the FET and an RF terminal, and an IF matching circuit inserted between the drain and an IF terminal. The source of the FET is grounded. The impedance of the RF matching circuit seen from the drain of the FET at an IF frequency is open-circuit, and the impedance of the IF matching circuit seen from the drain of the FET at an RF frequency is open-circuit. |