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| US11363750B2 |
Method and control device for the throughput-optimised production of printed circuit boards on a pick-and-place line
A method and a control device for the throughput-optimized production of printed circuit boards on a pick-and-place line is provided. Further provided is a method for the throughput-optimized production of printed circuit boards on a pick-and-place line, wherein: the printed circuit boards are divided into groups known as clusters; each cluster is produced using one set-up; the set-up is realized by changing tables that can be attached to the pick-and-place line, each changing table having at least one feed device for keeping ready stocks of components; a quantity of changing tables needed for each set-up is referred to as a changing table set and an empty changing table set includes changing tables having feed devices that are empty. |
| US11363747B2 |
Fan board module for a computer chassis
A system and method are directed to a fan board sled assembly comprising a fan circuit board including a first end and an opposing second end, a fan cage module including a front section for receiving and removably securing the first end of the fan circuit board to the fan cage module, and a guide bracket including a base section for receiving and removably securing the second end of the fan circuit board to the guide bracket. The fan cage module further includes a back section for receiving one or more fan bodies. The combined fan circuit board, fan cage module and guide bracket are a single integrated unit insertable and extractable from a chassis opening of a computer chassis. |
| US11363746B2 |
EMI shielding for a signal trace
An example apparatus includes a cover to shield, at least partly, a conductive trace on a surface of a circuit board from electromagnetic interference. The cover includes a conductive surface that faces the conductive trace. The cover at least partly encloses a volume over the conductive trace. The volume is for holding air over the conductive trace. One or more contacts electrically connect the conductive surface of the cover to electrical ground on the circuit board. |
| US11363745B1 |
Housing for display electromagnetic shielding and electrostatic grounding
Example embodiments described herein involve a structural support for shielding from electromagnetic interference between components in a display system and for discharging electrostatic charges. The display system may be implemented in an autonomous vehicle. A display system may include a screen, a printed circuit board (PCB), and a cast housing comprising a metal. At least the screen and the PCB may be grounded to the cast housing. The cast housing may shield at least the screen and the PCB from electromagnetic interference. A grounding cable may be connected to the cast housing via a self-tapping screw, the grounding cable extending to an electrical ground. |
| US11363744B2 |
Cooling system and cooling method
When an enclosed space is formed, by at least one of surfaces forming an exterior shape of a shielding member and an intake or exhaust surface among surfaces forming an exterior shape of heat-generating housings, in such a way that a taken-in airflow and an exhausted airflow of the heat-generating housings installed in at least two rows can be separated or substantially separated, a cooling system includes: a duct formed to be able to separate or substantially separate a first airflow and a second airflow being intake/exhaust of a specific heat-generating housing among the heat-generating housings, and heat-generating housings other than the specific heat-generating housing, respectively; and a cooling enhancement unit enhancing cooling for the specific heat-generating housing by acting on the first airflow, thereby avoiding occurrence of a hot spot due to a high-heat-generating housing, in a system building an air-conditioning environment such as aisle capping. |
| US11363742B2 |
Variable temperature heat exchange switch
Apparatuses, systems, devices, and methods for variable temperature heat exchange switch are disclosed. An apparatus includes a heat exchanger coupled to an electronic component to dissipate heat from the electronic component. The apparatus includes a heat pipe connected to the heat exchanger and configured to dissipate heat. An apparatus includes a thermal-activated switch located at the connection between the heat exchanger and the heat pipe. The thermal-activated switch may be configured to allow heat transfer from the heat exchanger to the heat pipe in response to a temperature satisfying a threshold temperature. |
| US11363741B2 |
Systems and methods for cooling of superconducting power transmission lines
A cooling system includes a coolant transmitter that transmits coolant at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure. The cooling system also includes an evaporation vessel at atmospheric pressure. The evaporation vessel can contain an amount of coolant at the boiling point of the coolant. The cooling system also includes a pressure reducer fluidically coupled to the coolant transmitter and the evaporation vessel. The pressure reducer can include an orifice. The cooling system is configured such that heat is transferred from the coolant in the coolant transmitter to the coolant contained in the evaporation vessel. An exit stream conduit can fluidically couple the coolant transmitter and the pressure reducer, with the exit stream conduit diverting a portion of the coolant from the coolant transmitter to the evaporation vessel. |
| US11363736B2 |
Cable management arm and rack applying the cable management arm
The present disclosure provides a cable management arm and a rack applying the cable management arm. The cable management arm includes: a left cable management assembly, a right cable management assembly, a connection assembly, and an elastic assembly. When a chassis in the rack is pulled out of the rack, the elastic assembly causes the left cable management assembly and the right cable management assembly to move following the movement of the controller at the rear of the chassis in the pulling out direction, and causes the left cable management assembly and the right cable management assembly to reset due to elastic force. The connection assembly and the elastic assembly assist the movement of the left cable management assembly and the right cable management assembly to cause their resetting, and ensure them to move in an approximately horizontal space. |
| US11363733B2 |
Electronic device including waterproof printing structure and manufacturing method therefor
An electronic device, according to various embodiments, may comprise: an outer housing comprising a front plate facing a first direction, a rear plate facing a direction opposite to the front plate, and a side member for surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate, wherein the side member protrudes toward the space and includes a protrusion having a first surface facing the first direction; an opaque layer disposed in the space so as to be parallel with the front plate and including a first portion located between the first surface and the front plate, wherein the first portion includes a second surface facing the first surface; an adhesiveness improvement layer formed on the second surface of the opaque layer and having a repetitive pattern; and a waterproof layer disposed between the adhesiveness improvement layer and the first surface and attached to the adhesiveness improvement layer and the first surface. Other various embodiments may be possible. |
| US11363732B2 |
Electronic device and waterproof structure for electronic device
Disclosed are an electronic device and a waterproof structure for the electronic device. The waterproof structure for the electronic device includes: an outer housing having a housing opening; and an electronic device housing at least partially mounted in the outer housing through the housing opening, wherein the electronic device housing has an electronic device housing surface, the housing opening has an opening surface opposite to the electronic device housing surface, and the electronic device housing surface and the opening surface are spaced apart to define a gap therebetween, and wherein one of the electronic device housing surface and the opening surface defines a longitudinally extending groove, and an opening of the groove is orientated toward the other one of the electronic device housing surface and the opening surface. |
| US11363731B1 |
Wrist-worn electronic device and waterproof structure
A waterproof structure includes a shell which is provided with an air hole extending therethrough, a waterproof membrane is provided in a mounting cavity in the shell which abuts the inner side opening of the air hole, and the air hole is internally provided with a ball having waterproof performance and a constraint structure which constrains the ball in a preset range in the air hole; the preset range has a space allowing the ball to freely move; in a gas environment, there is gap between the ball and a boundary face of the present range, so as to allow the communication between the inner side opening and the outer side opening of the air hole; and the ball can press against the constraint structure under the pushing of liquid entering from the outer side opening and seal the inner side opening. |
| US11363730B2 |
Housing
A housing for accommodating electrical components, in particular in a liquid pump, includes a housing pot including a bottom and a surrounding wall protruding from the bottom, as well as a housing cover closing the housing pot, including a shoulder protruding in the direction of the bottom. A simplified and cost-efficient production of the housing as well as an increased operational safety of the liquid pump are attained in that the housing cover forms a caulking connection with the surrounding wall of the housing pot with the help of at least one recess formed in the shoulder. The disclosure furthermore relates to a liquid pump including a housing of this type as well as a method for producing a liquid pump of this type. |
| US11363728B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel in which a plurality of pixels is defined. The display device further includes a back cover configured to be rolled together with the display panel. The display device further includes a roller winding or unwinding the back cover and the display panel, and including a flat surface and a curved surface. The display device further includes a buffer member covering at least a part of the back cover fixed to the roller, and having a width smaller than a width of the display panel. Therefore, the display panel is wound around the roller with a gentle slope, and non-display areas on both side portions of the display panel are wound around a roller with a space by the buffer member. Accordingly, a stress applied to the display panel and a crack may be reduced to improve reliability of the display device. |
| US11363727B1 |
Terminal apparatus and terminal equipment including the same
A terminal apparatus includes: a case configured to be selectively engaged with a bracket installed on a wall; and a locker unit configured to move with respect to the bracket to prevent the case from coming out of the engagement or to allow the case to come out of the engagement. The locker unit includes a first locker configured to move in a first direction by an external force applied by a user, and a second locker configured to move in a second direction different from the first direction by the movement of the first locker. |
| US11363725B2 |
Fixture to hold part before and after reflow, and method
A clamping assembly for use in a pick and place assembly process includes a fixture and a carrier. The fixture includes at least one retaining feature configured to releasably secure to the carrier such that a part and a substrate are clamped together between the fixture and the carrier. |
| US11363724B1 |
Fabrication method of flexible electronic package device
A fabrication method of a flexible electronic package device including the following steps is provided. A tolerable bending radius of the flexible electronic package device is obtained. A minimum surface curvature radius of a selected portion of an applied carrier is obtained. A relationship of the tolerable bending radius being smaller than the minimum surface curvature radius is ensured. The flexible electronic package device is disposed on the selected portion. |
| US11363722B2 |
Hermetic chip on board
A low permeability laminate film includes one or more low moisture permeability homogeneous polymer films with a total thickness between 0.5 and ten mils without glass or ceramic fillers and with a moisture permeability measured at 37° C. and 100% RH of less than 2.6 E-05 atm·cc·mm/in2·sec of air. The polymer film includes one of polychlorotrifluoroethylene, polytetrafluorethylene, fluorinated ethylene propylene, and perfluoro alkoxy alkane. The low permeability laminate film further includes a nanolaminate including alternate combinations of nanolaminate material that is selected from the group consisting of alumina, titanium dioxide, zirconium oxide, beryllium oxide, hafnium oxide, titanium oxide, silicon nitride, tantalum nitride, silica, parylene F, parylene AF-4, parylene HT® and PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). A resulting coated nanolaminate film has a moisture permeability less than an equivalent standard leak rate per square inch of 3.0 E-08 atm·cc/in2·sec of air. |
| US11363713B1 |
System and method for trace generation and reconfiguration on a breadboard or printed circuit board
A system, method and computer program product for automated circuit trace generation and reconfiguration on a breadboard, includes a breadboard having a plurality of contact points; a switching matrix coupled to the contact points of the breadboard, and connected to a computer. The switching matrix is programmed by the computer to generate one or more circuit traces onto the contact points of the breadboard. |
| US11363712B2 |
Flexible printed circuit board and electronic device including the same
A flexible printed circuit board that includes a signal transmission part that is disposed in a first direction and that includes a signal line that transmits an electrical signal and a ground part disposed in a second direction. The ground part includes a conductive adhesive layer disposed in the first direction and the conductive adhesive layer includes a plurality of conductive balls having electrical conductivity. Various other embodiments are disclosed in the specification. |
| US11363711B2 |
Printed circuit board including electroconductive pattern and electronic device including printed circuit board
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device may include: a housing including a first plate and a second plate; a printed circuit board having a first surface and a second surface; and a communication circuit arranged inside the housing. The printed circuit board may include: a plurality of insulating layers laminated on each other between the first surface and the second surface; an antenna element arranged in a first region above the second surface of the printed circuit board or between a first pair of insulating layers of the printed circuit board, when seen from above the second surface of the printed circuit board; and a plurality of first electroconductive patterns arranged in a second region that at least surrounds one surface of the first region. Various embodiments may be possible. |
| US11363706B2 |
Target supply device, extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus, and electronic device manufacturing method
A target supply device may include a first containing member configured to contain a target substance; a second containing member configured to contain the target substance flowing from the first containing member; a ring-shaped sealing portion which is formed integrally with one of the first containing member and the second containing member, and is brought into close contact with the other containing member; and a fastening member which fastens the first containing member and the second containing member to each other so that the first containing member communicates with the second containing member through the communication portion, and presses the sealing portion against the other containing member. Here, the sealing portion being plastically deformed by being pressed against the other containing member by the fastening member to seal a gap between the first containing member and the second containing member around the communication portion due to the plastic deformation. |
| US11363704B1 |
Color changing LED (light emitting diode) module for ceiling fans
Modules, devices, systems and methods that allow for remotely changing the white colors of LEDS (light emitting diodes) in overhead or wall mounted lights, as well as in ceiling fan lights by a remote control or wall switch, without requiring a three-position mechanical switch mounted on the light. |
| US11363702B2 |
Light system
A light system configured for reserving and/or dynamically moving/arranging spaces for participants in a class may include a plurality of cells disposed on a surface, each cell having one or more lights disposed therein. Each light is in communication with a controller configured to control at least one of a color, a pattern, and a brightness of each light. The light system may be configured to allow a participant of the class to reserve a space prior to the class and have the space emit light indicating the space is reserved proximate a start time of the class. |
| US11363701B2 |
Method for controlling a lighting system using a lighting control console
A method for controlling a lighting system using a lighting control console generating digital adjusting commands transmitted to lighting devices of the lighting system via data links at least one moving an adjustable lighting device towards different positions, and a preprogrammed lighting program being carried out in several consecutive program steps, an acoustic parameter characterizing the noise sensitivity being assigned to each programs step. The method includes driving the actuator towards the next predefined position of the lighting device as a function of a result of a comparison of the acoustic parameters of the program steps. |
| US11363700B2 |
Intelligent control system for touch switch based on infrared sensor detection
The present application provides an intelligent control system for touch switch based on infrared sensor detection, which comprises: a position determination module, for setting infrared sensors in the first position, the second position, the third position, and the fourth position respectively, which are used to detect whether a person passes the current position; a time statistics module, for calculating the total time consumed by the target person passing through the first position, the second position, and the third position based on the detection result of those infrared sensors; a time determination module, for calculating the target time consumed by the target person passing from the third position to the fourth position; an intelligent control module, for selecting whether to turn on the light guide line from the fourth position to the position of the touch switch. |
| US11363694B2 |
Drive circuit and light emitting device
A drive circuit 3 includes a power source 11; current control units 12-1 to 12-n configured to control the amount of currents supplied to a light emitting element in accordance with a pulse modulation signal; and a calculation unit 13 configured to change a duty ratio of a pulse modulation signal. The current control units 12-1 to 12-n include a first switching element 21 configured to be switched on/off in accordance with a pulse modulation signal; and a second switching element 22 configured to be switched on/off in accordance with an inversion signal of the pulse modulation signal input to the first switching element 21; and an inductor 23. The first switching element 21 and the inductor 23 are serially connected between the power source and the light emitting element. The second switching element 22 is connected between ground 25 and a contact point 24 of the first switching element 21 and the inductor 23. The two or more current control units 12-1 to 12-n are connected in parallel. |
| US11363691B2 |
Driver incorporating a lighting ballast for supplying constant voltage loads
Apparatus and associated methods relate to powering a constant voltage DC load using a rectified output of a lighting ballast. In an illustrative example, the ballast may be configured to operate as a constant-current source. The DC load may, for example, comprise an array of LED strings connected in parallel. The number of LED strings may, for example, be selected to match a power output of the ballast. The number of LEDs in each string may, for example, be selected to match a rectified voltage output range of the ballast. A normally-open thermostat may, for example, be connected in parallel between the ballast and a rectifier and be configured to short-circuit the ballast if the circuit overheats. Various embodiments may advantageously utilize existing power processing functions of an electronic ballast to reduce complexity of a driver circuit for a constant voltage DC source. |
| US11363689B2 |
Method for generating light spectra and corresponding device
Method for generating light spectra and corresponding device. Starting from a plurality of light sources (2), comprising the steps of selecting a target colour from a target region (7) of a colour space, and emitting a target light (6) from said light sources (2) according to a weighted combination of light sources (2) corresponding to said target colour, using an output model (3) which is optimized according to an optimization parameter, and previously determined in a modelling stage comprising: —calculating a plurality of mixed spectra (4), as weighted combinations of said plurality of light sources (2), their colour coordinates and their optimization parameters; —partitioning in sectors a modelling region (5) of said colour space; —for each sector, selecting the mixed spectrum having the best optimization parameter; thus obtaining an optimized weighted combination; —using the optimized weighted combinations, establishing a correspondence between colours and weighted combinations; —thus obtaining said output model (3). |
| US11363688B2 |
Toggle control for lighting system
Lighting systems and methods implementing toggle control are provided. In one example implementation, a lighting system can include a first LED array having one or more LED devices and a second LED array having one or more LED devices. The system can further include a single throw circuit interrupter configured to receive power from a power source. The system can further include a power conversion circuit configured to convert an input power received via the toggle switch to a power output for the first LED array and the second LED array. The power conversion circuit can be configured to control a power distribution ratio between the first LED array and the second LED array based at least in part on a detected toggle input (e.g., a toggle pattern) implemented using the single throw circuit interrupter. |
| US11363686B2 |
Microwave oscillator and matrix-type microwave oscillator based thereon
The invention relates to the field of microwave emitting equipment, in particular to microwave oscillators. The proposed variants of an oscillator and a matrix-type microwave oscillator enable to efficiently direct microwave radiation from one or more microwave sources and sum up microwave radiations, thus ensuring high values of efficiency and output power, superior functional capabilities of the device, a high degree of synchronization of radiations emitted by said microwave sources. The microwave oscillator comprises a microwave source and a resonator with a microwave channel made therein. The resonator comprises a box and a base electrically connected to each other, while the microwave channel accommodates a suppressing means for suppressing a back wave. The matrix-type oscillator comprises a plurality of said microwave oscillators electrically connected to each other. |
| US11363683B2 |
PTC radiant heating system and method
Systems and methods are provided for radiant heating by PTC radiant patches. A radiant heating system for warming an occupant of an enclosed space includes patches to radiate heat into the enclosed space toward the occupant. A power supply supplies electric power to the patches. A controller controls the electric power supplied to the patches based on a temperature in the enclosed space and locations of the patches within the enclosed space. |
| US11363676B1 |
Systems and method for autonomously performing a Wi-Fi site survey using LPWAN and IoT technology
Embodiments of a system include a graphical user interface (GUI), a wireless access network, a sensor node, and a server node. The GUI is disposed on a user device. The GUI is configured to display a control to conduct a wireless network throughput test. The wireless access network operates on a first communication band. The first communication band provides access to a device connecting to the wireless access network. The wireless access network includes an access point coupled to a central switch to provide wireless communication for network access by devices in range of the access point. The sensor node corresponds to the access point. The sensor node communicates with the access point of the wireless network over the first communication band. The server node communicates with the sensor node over a second communication band distinct from the first communication band and communicates with the central switch. |
| US11363674B2 |
Processing delay tolerant communications
Methods and apparatus are provided for processing communications. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving first data from a first device and receiving second data from a second device, wherein the first data has a longer latency constraint than the second data. The method also comprises sending the first data over a network link to a processing node for processing the first data. |
| US11363673B2 |
Cloud-based data-driven Wi-Fi connectivity management in a network of moving things including, for example, autonomous vehicles
Systems and methods are provided for cloud-based data-driven Wi-Fi connectivity management in a network of moving things. |
| US11363668B2 |
Discontinuous reception method, network device and terminal device
Disclosed by the present application are a discontinuous reception method, a network device and a terminal device, the method comprising: a network device determining a first sequence corresponding to a terminal device according to information of a device group to which the terminal device belongs, the first sequence being used for instructing the terminal device to awaken or sleep within the activation period of a discontinuous reception (DRX) period after the first sequence; the terminal device belongs to a device group from among M device groups, and the first sequence corresponds to the device group to which the terminal device belongs, different device groups from among the M device groups corresponding to different first sequences; the network device sending a DRX instruction signal to the terminal device, the DRX instruction signal comprising the first sequence. The first sequence is related to specific information, such as the device group of the terminal device, and thus terminal devices of different attributes may effectively identify respective first sequences, and awaken or sleep during the DRX period after the first sequence according to the instruction of the first sequence. |
| US11363667B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device, and network device
A method for wireless communication includes: entering, by a terminal device, a second state from a first state; when the terminal device stores first measurement configuration information used by the terminal device in the first state, releasing, reserving or updating, by the terminal device, the first measurement configuration information; and/or when the terminal device does not store the first measurement configuration information, obtaining, by the terminal device, second measurement configuration information used by the terminal device in the second state, wherein the first state is an idle state or an inactive state, the second state is any one of an idle state, an inactive state or a connected state, and the measurement configuration information is used by the terminal device to obtain a measurement result. |
| US11363664B2 |
Method for transmitting SM signal to terminal capable of connecting to plurality of network systems
To achieve the aforementioned objective, one disclosure of the present specification may provide a method for transmitting an SM signal to a terminal capable of connecting to a plurality of access networks. The method may comprise the steps of: an AMF node receiving a request for transmission of the SM signal from an SMF node, the request comprising information about an access network to transmit the SM signal; the AMF node determining an access network to transmit the SM signal to the terminal on the basis of information about the access network; and if the terminal is connected to the AMF node via the determined access network, the AMF node transmitting the SM signal to the terminal via the determined access network. |
| US11363661B2 |
Methods and arrangements for assisting recovery of call setup failure in a wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to arrangements and methods performed in a wireless network comprising an operation support system (OSS) and a plurality of radio base stations, (RBSs), each RBS providing one or more cells. When performed in a wireless device, the method comprises registering of a set number of consecutive call setup failures to an RBS providing a first cell. The method further comprises initiating a cell reselection procedure to a RBS providing a default cell, and providing, at call setup in the default cell, a call setup failure report to the RBS providing the default cell, wherein the call set up failure report comprises information on the call setup failures to the RBS providing the first cell. Additionally the method comprises causing forwarding of the call setup failure report from the RBS providing the default cell to the OSS, wherein the forwarding of the call setup failure report is caused in compliance with a latency constraint for call setup recovery. |
| US11363652B2 |
Establishment of a UE to UE relay link
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described Generally, the described techniques provide for a base station transmitting a relay link beam sweep configuration to a first UE for establishing a relay link with a second UE. Based on the relay link beam sweep configuration, the first UE may perform a relay link beam sweep procedure with the second UE using a plurality of beams. Based at least in part on the relay link beam sweep procedure, the first UE may select a first beam pair. The first UE may establish a relay link with the second UE using the selected beam pair. |
| US11363650B2 |
Fifth generation (5G) global unique temporary identity (GUTI) reallocation for cellular-internet of things (CIOT)
Wireless communications systems and methods related to globally unique temporary identity (GUTI) reallocation for cellular-Internet of thing (CIoT) are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network, a paging associated with a mobile-terminated early data transmission (MT-EDT). The UE transmits, by the UE to the network, a data request in response to the paging. The UE receives, from the network in response to the data request, a message including a global unique temporary identifier (GUTI) and at least one of data associated with the paging or a connection release indication. |
| US11363649B2 |
Methods and apparatus to facilitate relayed uplink transmissions
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating relayed uplink transmissions are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first device includes receiving an uplink transmission from a second device. The example method also includes relaying the uplink transmission to a base station, and providing an indication that the second device is an originating source of the uplink transmission when relaying the uplink transmission to the base station. |
| US11363643B2 |
Random access procedures for satellite communications
Systems and methods are disclosed for random access in a wireless communication system such as, e.g., a wireless communication system having a non-terrestrial (e.g., satellite-based) radio access network. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device and corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for random access comprises performing an open-loop timing advance estimation procedure to thereby determine an open-loop timing advance estimate for an uplink between the wireless device and a base station. The method further comprises transmitting a random access preamble using the open-loop timing advance estimate. In this manner, random access can be performed even in the presence of a long propagation delay such as that present in a satellite-based radio access network. Embodiments of a method performed by a base station and corresponding embodiments of a base station are also disclosed. |
| US11363642B2 |
Multiple MSG1 for PDCCH ordered RACH
Methods, systems, and devices for multiple random access channel (RACH) message 1 (Msg1) transmission for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) ordered RACH are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform the multiple Msg1 transmission as part of a CFRA or CBRA procedure for access. The UE may perform the multiple Msg1 transmissions in a cyclic consecutive manner during configured RACH occasions or according to explicit time and frequency indications of a random access response (RAR) window. Based on the multiple Msg1 transmission procedure, the UE may reduce latency for random access procedure on the RACH and improve signaling throughput. In some cases, the UE may support beam correspondence and may perform multiple Msg1 transmissions to enhance multi-beam diversity during RACH transmission by performing transmission corresponding to RACH occasions mapped to different synchronization signal blocks (SSBs). |
| US11363635B2 |
Apparatus and method for extremely high throughput (EHT) medium reservation
Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for Extremely High Throughput (EHT) medium reservation. Some embodiments include a first station configured to exchange EHT-Request to Send (RTS) and/or EHT-Clear to Send (CTS) capabilities with a second station, and determine CTS response mode (e.g., rules) for the first station based at least on the RTS and CTS capabilities of the first and the second stations. Some embodiments include transmitting RTS frames and receiving CTS frames in the presence of punctured channels, implementing a flexible channel reservation scheme, reserving punctured bandwidths, and receiving CTS frames even when a primary channel is busy. Some embodiments include an RTS or an CTS frame that includes an EHT bandwidth puncture (BnP) signaling address and/or a modified scrambler seed that enable channel reservations for an EHT bandwidth. |
| US11363633B2 |
Device and method in radio communication system, and radio communication system
A device at a transmitting side includes a channel detection unit configured to detect whether a transmitting-end channel in an unlicensed frequency band is idle; and a coordination unit configured to enable, if the transmitting-end channel is idle, the transmitting side to broadcast an inter-operator coordination signal before transmitting a data stream, so as to realize information interaction between apparatuses of different operators, wherein the inter-operator coordination signal implements, by means of presence/absence of energy in a specified frequency band, an energy pattern signal on a time-frequency domain plane for the information interaction between the apparatuses of different operators. By enabling inter-operator information interaction in an unlicensed frequency band by means of an energy pattern signal, the embodiments of the present disclosure eliminate difficulties of reception and demodulation for signal detection between apparatuses of different operators, thus effectively realizing coordination between the apparatuses of different operators, and improving system performance. |
| US11363632B2 |
Frequency division duplex device and method for use in a wireless network
A device on a wireless network generates duration data for determining a duration of a time interval. A transmission is then instructed, by the device, to transmit the duration data and a downlink payload including an aggregated Media Access Control (MAC) layer data unit, the downlink payload being transmitted on first subcarriers. The transmission also includes a trigger that configures the at least one other device on the network to transmit an uplink payload within the time interval, and during at least part of the transmission of the downlink payload, on second subcarriers that are at different frequencies to the first subcarriers. |
| US11363626B2 |
Method and apparatus for scheduling multiple transmission in a wireless communication system
The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting and/or receiving a transport block. The method includes: receiving and/or transmitting a transport block according to information for scheduling multiple transport blocks. The present disclosure also provides a method for downlink transmission, a method of receiving an NRS on a non-anchor carrier, and corresponding UE, base station, and computer readable medium. |
| US11363625B2 |
Bandwidth part operation in new radio
A base station determines to activate an antenna panel for transmission of a transport block. A determination is made for a time domain resource assignment field in a downlink control information (DCI), a slot offset value based on an activation delay of the antenna panel such that the slot offset value is larger than the activation delay. The base station transmits the DCI scheduling the transmission of the transport block. |
| US11363620B2 |
Resource request method and user equipment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource request method and user equipment. The method includes: obtaining first information when UE triggers a scheduling request SR; and executing, by the UE based on the first information, any one of the following actions: at least one of skipping increasing counting of a first counter and increasing counting of a second counter, and at least one of stopping a timer and prohibiting starting a timer, where the first information is used to indicate that the UE has currently stopped transmitting the SR, the UE is unable to transmit the SR on an SR resource within a duration corresponding to the timer, the first counter is used to record a count of transmitting the SR, and the second counter is used to record a count of stopping transmitting the SR. |
| US11363619B2 |
Relay network duplex coordination method and relay node device
Embodiments of the present application provide a relay network duplex coordination method and a relay node device. The method includes: according to configuration information, receiving, by a first node device, on a first time domain resource a first message sent by a second node device, and sending a second message to a third node device on a second time domain resource; wherein the configuration information indicates the first time domain resource and/or the second time domain resource, the second node device is a parent node of the first node device, and the third node device is a child node of the first node device. |
| US11363618B2 |
Method and device for narrow band communication in UE and base station
The present disclosure discloses a scheduling method and device. AUE receives a first signaling firstly and transmits a wireless signal on a target time frequency resource. The first signaling indicates a first time frequency resource, and the first time frequency resource includes a second time frequency resource. The target time frequency resource includes a time frequency resource of the first time frequency resource except the second time frequency resource. The target and the second time frequency resources are orthogonal. The first time frequency resource includes T1 sub frames in a time domain, and includes P1 sub carriers in a frequency domain. The second time frequency resource includes T2 sub frames of T1 sub frames and P1 sub carriers in a time domain. T1 and P1 are a positive integer, T2 is smaller than T1. A position of the second time frequency resource in the first time frequency resource is fixed. |
| US11363616B2 |
Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system
A network device, based on received location from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE may determine that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other. Based on the proximity determination, the network device may provide at least one of the first and second UE uplink LTE resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs. |
| US11363615B2 |
Assignment of communication resources in an unlicensed frequency band to equipment operating in a licensed frequency band
Communication equipment communicating in a licensed frequency band identifies unused unlicensed communication resources within an unlicensed frequency band. The communication equipment uses the identified unlicensed communication resources to communicate within the unlicensed frequency band. In some circumstances, the unused unlicensed communication resources are identified based on resource information received from a base station where the resource information identifies unlicensed communication resources that will be used by the base station. In other circumstances, the unused unlicensed communication resources are identified based on frequency band measurements of the unlicensed frequency band over an observation time duration longer than a sensing time duration used by unlicensed equipment using the unlicensed frequency band. |
| US11363613B2 |
Wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for transmitting uplink by multiple users
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling simultaneous uplink transmissions of a plurality of terminals.To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, the terminal including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: generate an uplink packet, wherein a predetermined field of a MAC header of the uplink packet indicates information on uplink data of the terminal, and transmit the generated uplink packet to a base wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method using the same. |
| US11363607B2 |
Resource indication method and device
A resource indication method includes generating, by a network device, first control information, where the first control information is used to indicate a frequency resource occupied to transmit data in N time resource units, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and sending, by the network device, the first control information to a terminal device. Therefore, the network device may indicate, for the scheduled N time resource units, the frequency resource occupied to transmit data in the N time resource units. |
| US11363602B2 |
Triggering resource allocation configuration switching for sidelink communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish an access link with a base station using one or more of a first beam or a first set of beams. The UE may therefore receive, via the access link, control signaling indicating a first configuration for a sidelink channel. In some examples, the UE may switch from the first configuration to a second configuration for the sidelink channel based on detection of an event for one or more of the first beam or the first set of beams and communicate with a second UE via the sidelink channel using the second configuration. |
| US11363601B1 |
Coordinated beamforming of receiving nodes in a wireless mesh network
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated beamforming in a wireless mesh network, are disclosed. One system includes a network that includes a plurality of nodes connected through wireless links, and a controller. The wireless links including aggressor links and victim links wherein the aggressor links interfere with the victim links. The controller is operative to identify aggressor links and victim links of a group of nodes of the plurality of nodes, coordinate beam scans of the one or more victim receive nodes associated with the victim links of the group, coordinate transmission of one or more aggressor transmit nodes associated with the aggressor links of the group, characterize or receive characterizations of measured interference at the one or more victim receive nodes during the coordinated beam scans, and select beamforming coefficients for the victim receive nodes based at least on the characterizations of the measured interference. |
| US11363598B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving signal by terminal supporting dual-connectivity between E-UTRA and NR and terminal performing the method
Provided is a method for transmitting and receiving a signal by a terminal supporting dual-connectivity between evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) and new radio (NR). In the method, when the E-UTRA uses at least one of E-UTRA operating bands 1, 3, 5, and 7, when the NR uses one of NR operating bands n77, n78, and n79, when an uplink center frequency of a first operating band among the E-UTRA operating bands and the NR operating bands is a first value, and when a downlink center frequency of the first operating band is a second value, a predetermined maximum sensitivity degradation (MSD) is applied to reference sensitivity used for reception of the downlink signal. |
| US11363597B2 |
Methods, apparatus and systems for performing multi-radio access technology carrier aggregation
A method of managing carrier aggregation for a multi-radio access technology (RAT) wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method may include: receiving, by the WRTU over a primary channel associated with a RAT of a first type, provisioning information for provisioning a supplementary channel associated with a RAT of a second type; establishing the supplementary channel associated with the RAT of the second type based on the received provisioning information; and wirelessly exchanging, by the WRTU, first data associated with a communication over the primary channel via the RAT of the first type, while wireless exchanging second data associated with the communication over the supplementary channel via the RAT of the second type. |
| US11363596B2 |
Wireless communications system, communications device and wireless network infrastructure
A method performed by a communications device, the method comprising allocating a fraction of the data for transmitting to a first infrastructure equipment using a first carrier frequency, allocating a remainder of the data for transmitting to a second infrastructure equipment using a second carrier frequency, transmitting the fraction of data using the first carrier frequency and the remainder of data using the second carrier frequency, determining an attribute associated with communicating the data from the communications device to the first infrastructure equipment using the first carrier frequency based upon signals received from the first infrastructure equipment, modifying the fraction based on at least the determined attribute, and transmitting the data using at least one of the first and second carrier frequencies according to the modified fraction. |
| US11363594B2 |
Time-domain resource determination method and apparatus, and computer storage medium
Disclosed are a time-domain resource determination method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first indication information sent by a network device, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate whether a first time-domain resource determination rule or a second time-domain resource determination rule is used to determine whether a first time slot is used for transmitting a first channel scheduled by first scheduling information; determining, by the terminal, a time-domain resource determination rule to be used according to the first indication information, and determining at least one time slot for transmitting the first channel based on the determined time-domain resource determination rule; and performing, by the terminal, transmission of the first channel with the network device in the determined at least one time slot. |
| US11363593B2 |
Waveform generation in millimeter wave band with time domain implementation
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A waveform for communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station may be generated or decoded based on a resource allocation of a slot for the communications. In some cases, the UE may receive control information from the base station that indicates the resource allocation for the slot, where the slot contains a defined number of symbol periods (e.g., 14 symbol periods), or the defined number of symbol periods and at least one additional symbol period. The waveform may then be generated (e.g., transmitted) or decoded (e.g., received) based on the number of symbol periods in the slot. Additionally or alternatively, the UE and base station may identify an operating mode of the UE, identify allowed resource allocation sizes for generating or decoding the waveform, and generate or decode the waveform based on the allowed resource allocation sizes. |
| US11363591B2 |
Antenna orchestration as a service
A matchmaking service can match a satellite owner/operator with antennas that are available and capable of servicing a communication request from the satellite owner/operator (e.g., to exchange data with the satellite owner/operator's satellite). The communication request may be received at a ground station service, and information included therein may be compared to capabilities of antennas registered with the ground station service to determine antennas that are compatible with the request. The ground station service may reserve a time slot for a selected compatible antenna to service the request and control the selected compatible antenna (e.g., to track and communicate with the satellite) during the time slot. In some embodiments, the matchmaking of satellite owners/operators to antennas uses models to determine communication parameters for a communication request and to determine capabilities of antennas registered with the ground station. |
| US11363586B2 |
Resource configuration method, apparatus, and system
This application discloses a resource configuration method, an apparatus, and a system, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving PDCCH signaling; switching to a target uplink BWP; and sending a preamble sequence by using a PRACH resource included in the target uplink BWP, where the PDCCH signaling is used to trigger a random access procedure. |
| US11363573B2 |
Terminal and communication method
In a terminal, in a case where the sum of the transmission power for a first signal and the transmission power for a second signal that requires lower latency and higher reliability than the first signal exceeds the maximum transmission power in an overlap interval in which a transmission of the first signal and a transmission of the second signal occur at the same time, a control unit carries out power scaling with the quality of the second signal being prioritized over the quality of the first signal, in at least the overlap interval. A transmission unit transmits the first signal and the second signal obtained after the power scaling. |
| US11363571B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling retransmission indication for configured grant in sidelink in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example, a first device receives first information and second information from a base station. The first device is configured with a configured grant for sidelink communication via the first information. The configured grant is indicative of first resources for sidelink communication. The second information is indicative of one or more timing offsets and an identity for second resources. The first device transmits sidelink data to a second device via a first resource of the first resources. The first device receives and/or detects a first signal, from the second device, indicative of a reception result associated with the sidelink data. The first device determines a second time and a frequency location based on the second information. The first device transmits a second signal to the base station via a second resource associated with the second time and the frequency location. |
| US11363568B2 |
Resource selection method and apparatus for device-to-device/vehicle-to-everything communication supporting carrier aggregation
A resource selection method and apparatus for device-to-device/vehicle-to-everything communication supporting carrier aggregation are disclosed. The resource selection method includes: initializing at least two resource pools, wherein each resource pool corresponds to one carrier; excluding an expected-busy resource from each resource pool associated with a resource of which channel signal strength is greater than a comparison threshold during a sensing period; determining whether remaining resources of a candidate resource pool meet a criterion for stopping resource exclusion, wherein the candidate resource pool comprises a portion of or all the resource pools, and the criterion comprises that a criteria parameter of the candidate resource pool is greater than or equal to a preset threshold of the criteria parameter; selecting a resource subset from the remaining resources of the candidate resource pool when the criterion is met, and otherwise incrementing the comparison threshold. |
| US11363565B2 |
Method for paging information in cellular system
Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer. |
| US11363560B2 |
Communication system, terminal device and base station for machine type communication
The present invention has an object to provide a communication system capable of avoiding congestion in downlink communication or uplink communication and a shortage of radio resources arising therefrom. In the present invention, in a communication system including a normal user equipment (normal UE) that performs human to human communication and a machine type communication device (MTCD) that performs machine to machine communication, a base station device transmits a paging message to the normal UE and the MTCD for calling the normal UE and the MTCD. The paging message contains, for example, an equipment identity (UE-ID). A maximum number of equipment identities (UE-IDs) that can be accommodated within this paging message is set individually for the normal UE and the MTCD. Alternatively, the paging message contains a calling indicator in place of the equipment identity of the MTCD (UE-ID of MTCD). |
| US11363557B2 |
Detection of mobile transmitters in an office environment
A computer implemented method of detecting unauthorized mobile wireless transmitters, comprising using one or more processors adapted for obtaining, from one or more radio frequency (RF) sensors deployed in a monitored location, RF sensory data relating to a plurality of transmissions transmitted by one or more of a plurality of mobile wireless transmitters, detecting a change in a location of one or more of the mobile wireless transmitters by analyzing the RF sensory data, classifying one or more of the mobile wireless transmitters as unauthorized in case the detected location change deviates from one or more mobility rules and outputting an indication of the classification. |
| US11363556B2 |
Method for reporting of positioning data
Method for providing positioning data in a positioning node of a radio network, which positioning data is associated with a mobile device including a radio unit, the method comprising the steps of establishing a radio session for receiving positioning data in the positioning node from the radio unit; transmitting report control data to the radio unit, wherein the report control data identifies a request to report positioning data obtained in the device, wherein said positioning data includes inertial measurement data; and receiving positioning data from the radio unit in accordance with the report control data. |
| US11363553B2 |
Identifying a synchronization master for radio nodes
A radio node may calculate one or more performance metrics based on measured satellite signals, which are associated with a global positioning system, or wireless signals that are associated with a cellular-telephone network. Then, the radio node may determine, based on the one or more performance metrics, whether the radio node is a synchronization master in a cluster of radio nodes. When the radio node is the synchronization master, the radio node may provide information intended for a computer specifying that the radio node is the synchronization master and the one or more performance metrics. In response, the radio node may receive a synchronization request associated with another radio node in the cluster. Furthermore, the radio node may provide the synchronization information intended for the other radio node, where the synchronization information specifies time, frequency, and phase synchronization for at least the cluster. |
| US11363550B2 |
Wireless communication device for detecting synchronization signal and method of searching for synchronization signal by using the same
A wireless communication device including processing circuitry configured to generate first synchronization signal measurement values by combining sets of correlation values, the sets of correlation values being based on a reception signal, and each of the sets of correlation values having a number of correlation values equal to a first accumulation count, determine whether a valid synchronization signal measurement value is detected among the first synchronization signal measurement values based on a criterion, determine a frequency corresponding to the first valid synchronization signal measurement value as a synchronization frequency in response to determining the valid synchronization signal measurement value is detected, determine a second accumulation count in response to determining the valid synchronization signal measurement value is not detected, generate second synchronization signal measurement values based on the second accumulation count, and perform an initial access operation for synchronization with a base station using the synchronization frequency. |
| US11363544B1 |
Wireless connection management
A system and method includes a first audio device (e.g., a primary wireless earbud) connected to a second audio device (e.g., a secondary wireless earbud) using a first wireless connection. The first audio device is also connected to a user device (e.g., a smartphone or smart watch) using a second wireless connection. The second audio device receives data, such as packets, sent from the third device to the first device by monitoring the second wireless connection. If a signal quality of the second wireless connection as determined by the first and/or second audio device changes, the first and/or second audio device may exchange primary/secondary roles and/or enable or disable wireless signal amplifiers. |
| US11363542B2 |
Communication system, method and computer program product therefor
A communication system includes a base station. The base station includes a plurality of distributed units (DUs), a central unit (CU) and a main processor. The main processor selects a mode corresponding to user equipment from a centralized control mode (CM) and a distributed control mode (DM) according to the current communication quality of the user equipment, wherein a functional split mode (FSM) includes the centralized control mode (CM) and the distributed control mode (DM). |
| US11363541B2 |
Apparatus and method for transmitting a power headroom report in a wireless communication system supporting multi-carriers
An apparatus and method for transmitting a power headroom report in a communication system supporting multi-carriers are disclosed, by which a user equipment is enabled to transmit the power headroom report. According to the present invention, a user equipment calculates a power headroom for each of at least one activated serving cell using a maximum transmission power of the user equipment for each of at least one activated serving cell and transmits the power headroom report including the power headroom for each of the at least one activated serving cell and the maximum transmission power of the user equipment for each of the at least one activated serving cell to a base station. In this case, the power headroom includes an information on power status of the user equipment for each of the at least one activated serving cell. |
| US11363540B2 |
Power control for retransmissions
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Wireless communications between a base station and one or more wireless devices are described. A wireless device may use power ramping for transmissions and/or retransmissions. Power ramping may be used during a random access procedure. A wireless device may fail a listen before talk procedure before sending a preamble or a transport block on an unlicensed band. The wireless device may use power ramping to determine a power of transmission of the preamble and/or transport block based on the prior preamble or a transport block transmission. Power ramping may be determined using a power ramping counter value and/or a power ramping step value, which may be shared or associated with the preamble and/or a transport block. |
| US11363538B2 |
Base station power management using solar panel and battery forecasting
A system is disclosed, comprising: a solar panel; an electric power supply source; a wireless fronthaul access point coupled to a radio mast and in communication with a remote baseband unit, the wireless fronthaul access point further comprising a first millimeter wave wireless interface; a self-organizing network module in communication with a coordinating server; and an antenna-integrated radio for providing access to user equipments (UEs), mounted within line of sight on the radio mast with the wireless fronthaul access point, the antenna-integrated radio further comprising: a second millimeter wave wireless interface configured to receive the digital I and Q signaling information from the remote baseband unit wirelessly via the wireless fronthaul access point, wherein the wireless fronthaul access point thereby wirelessly couples the remote baseband unit and the antenna-integrated radio. Synchronization is used to pack used resource blocks to reduce the duty cycle of the PAs, thereby reducing power. |
| US11363537B2 |
Communication control apparatus and wireless communication apparatus
[Object] To achieve both prevention of harmful interference and promptness of power allocation under conditions in which multiple secondary systems may be managed.[Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a calculation unit configured to calculate a transmit power to be allocated, including a nominal transmit power and a margin for interference avoidance, for one or more secondary systems that secondarily use frequency channels protected for a primary system; and a determination unit configured to determine a variation in a number of secondary systems, and cause the calculation unit to adjust the margin for interference avoidance on a basis of the determined variation. |
| US11363536B2 |
Intermodulation mitigation for inter-radio access technology (RAT) communications
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for user equipment (UE)-side and network-side mitigation of intermodulation (IM) interference, such as IM interference associated with multi-radio access technology communications. For example, the UE or a base station may detect an IM interference condition, and may perform an IM mitigation action based on detecting the IM interference condition. The UE may reduce an uplink transmit power so that IM interference on the downlink is reduced. Various base station IM mitigation actions are provided, such as suspending scheduling on a bearer, using a scheduling pattern that avoids concurrent transmission, reducing a maximum transmit power of an uplink grant of the UE, allocating resource blocks or bandwidth parts that do not overlap with an IM interference resource, changing a secondary cell group channel to a non-interfering channel, releasing a secondary cell group channel, deactivating a carrier, or changing a channel of the UE. |
| US11363534B2 |
Multi-RAT wireless communication
A wireless communication device (12) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The wireless communication device (12) comprises a first radio access technology, RAT, module (18-1) configured to perform functions relating to a first RAT. The wireless communication device (12) also comprises a second RAT module (18-2) configured to perform functions relating to a second RAT and perform a subset (22-1S) of the functions relating to the first RAT on behalf of the first RAT module (18-1). In some embodiments, the first RAT module (18-1) is configured to operate in a low-power mode, a sleep mode, or a disabled mode when the second RAT module (18-2) handles performance of the subset (22-1S) of the functions relating to the first RAT on behalf of the first RAT module (18-1). |
| US11363529B2 |
Software emulation of parallelized packet detection across channels
A system and method for detecting and receiving packets that are transmitted over a network that utilizes a plurality of channels is disclosed. The system includes a radio circuit, which can be configured to receive packets over a plurality of channels, a processing unit, and a memory in communication with the processing unit. The processing unit loads a set of operating parameters in the radio circuit, which enables the radio circuit to detect and receive packets on a particular channel. If a preamble is not detected within a predetermined time period, the system hops to a different channel by loading a second set of operating parameters in the radio circuit. This process can be repeated for an arbitrary number of channels. |
| US11363525B2 |
Control method using application in portable terminal
A control method that is achieved by a refrigerator application installed in portable terminal, the control method including the steps of instructing an operating system (OS) of portable terminal to connect to a refrigerator in operation in a software access point mode, and sending a service set identifier (SSID) of an access point and a password for connecting to the access point to the refrigerator. An SSID of the refrigerator that operates in the software access point mode, and a password for connecting to the refrigerator that operates in the software access point mode are incorporated in the refrigerator application in advance. |
| US11363524B2 |
Network slice selection
Network nodes and methods for control thereof for dynamic network slice selection. An AMF receives a UE request originating from the UE, the UE request being any one of a registration request and a session request. A network slice requester controls a transmitter to transmit a network slice selection request to a PC_NSS. A selection data manager of the PC_NSS determines selection data specifying one or more UE specific parameters affecting network slice selection. A network slice selector selects a network slice assignable for the UE, based on the selection data, determines network slice data and a corresponding network slice routing rule, and transmits them to the AMF. A network slice manager of the AMF controls assignment of a network slice to the UE in dependence on the received network slice data and network slice routing rule. |
| US11363522B2 |
Method of controlling electronic apparatus and computer-readable recording medium
A method for controlling an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes, based on a user input for registering an external device being received, performing capturing through a camera of the electronic apparatus and obtaining an image, identifying a registrable device from among at least one device included in the image based on a signal received from an external device, displaying a graphic object indicating the registrable device in the image, and based on a user input for registering the registrable device being received, registering the registrable device as a controllable device. |
| US11363516B2 |
Electronic device and method for beam failure recovery
Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device including processing circuitry and a method for beam failure recovery (BFR). When beam failure is determined to occur on at least one of a plurality of cells configured for the electronic device, the processing circuitry can send a BFR scheduling request (SR) to a network. The BFR SR can indicate the beam failure and requesting resources to report the beam failure. The processing circuitry can receive priority scheduling for the resources from the network. The processing circuitry can send a BFR request (BFRQ) using the resources. The BFRQ can indicate cell information of the at least one of the plurality of cells and new beam information of one or more new candidate beams for the at least one of the plurality of cells. |
| US11363513B1 |
Proactive control of UE service based on quality of an access node's RF-circuitry as to frequency bands on which the access node operates in coverage zones through which the UE is predicted to move
A mechanism for controlling service of a user equipment device (UE), including (i) predicting that the UE will move sequentially through multiple zones of coverage of an access node that operates on a different respective set of one or more frequency bands in each zone of coverage and that has a respective radio-frequency (RF) circuitry quality as to each frequency band, (ii) based on the predicting, determining an RF-circuitry-quality score of the access node as an aggregate of the RF-circuitry-qualities of the access node as to the frequency bands on which the access node operates in the multiple zones of coverage through which the UE is predicted to move, and (iii) before the predicted movement of the UE through the multiple zones of coverage occurs, proactively using the determined RF-circuitry-quality score of the access node as a basis to control whether the UE is served by the access node. |
| US11363509B2 |
V2X communication over multiple radio access types
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for V2X communication over multiple radio access types. One method includes establishing, via a remote unit, multiple network connections for communication with a mobile network and multiple network connections for V2X communication with other remote units over multiple radio access types. The method includes receiving a request to transmit a V2X communication. The method includes determining whether the V2X communication is to be transmitted via a communication with a mobile network or a V2X communication with other remote units. The method includes determining a radio access type of the multiple radio access types for transmitting the V2X communication via V2X communication. The method includes selecting a cell that supports V2X resource management for the V2X communication. The method includes requesting resources via the cell for transmitting the V2X communication. |
| US11363506B2 |
Beam consolidation and selection based on external information
In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed a method comprising: measuring, by a user equipment, more than one communication beam established at the user equipment in a communication network; acquiring information associated with measurements of more than one communication beam established at the user equipment in the communication network; based on the information, deriving a cell measurement quantity as a function of the performed measurements of more than one communication beam. |
| US11363504B2 |
Base station and handover control method thereof
A base station and a handover control method thereof are provided. The base station supports dual connectivity (DC) technology. The method includes the following steps. A handover request is transmitted, and a handover request response corresponding to the handover request is received. Whether the handover request response includes DC information is determined. In response to the handover request response not including the DC information, the DC information related to releasing a DC configuration is generated, and a handover command including the DC information is transmitted. The handover command corresponds to the handover request response. Accordingly, user equipment can be informed to release the DC configuration, so as to reduce power. In addition, a proper resource configuration would be provided. |
| US11363501B2 |
Intelligent connectivity switching mechanisms
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for intelligent connectivity switching techniques. The techniques include, for example, determining that a wireless connection is encrypted, and in response to determining that the wireless connection is encrypted, employing one or more intelligent connectivity switching mechanisms to ensure a desirable level of user experience may be maintained and data stall conditions may be avoided or overcome. When a wireless station is in an area where two radio access technology (RAT) connections are present, the intelligent connectivity switching mechanisms can include responding to a user interface prompt, evaluating one or more signal-to-noise (SNR)-related metrics, or comparing an application, task or activity to a whitelist. |
| US11363500B1 |
Ultra-wideband control of smart streaming devices
Systems and methods for transitioning a call between two devices are disclosed herein. An origin device for the call is determined based on a first position of an ultra-wideband (UWB) device. A destination device for the call is then determined based on a second position of the UWB device. The UWB device sends transition commands to both the origin device and the destination device, each transition command including an identifier of the other device. Using the identifier of the origin device, the destination device connects to the call the origin device is currently participating in. When the origin device detects that the destination device has connected to the call, the origin device disconnects from the call. |
| US11363493B2 |
Carrier aggregation configurations in wireless systems
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may configure a secondary component carrier (CC) for a user equipment (UE) which is not aligned on a valid channel raster entry. The location of the secondary CC may be indicated based on a reference location relative to another frequency or another CC. The reference location of the secondary CC may be the center of the new CC, an edge of the secondary CC, the position of a subcarrier within the secondary CC, or the position of a resource. In some examples, the reference location of the secondary CC may be indicated relative a currently used CC, an arbitrary channel entry, or an absolute frequency location. In some examples, the relative location may be provided in resource blocks or subcarriers and the subcarrier spacing (SCS). The base station may indicate the width of the secondary CC to the UE. |
| US11363492B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device and network device
Provided are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The wireless communication method is used for the terminal device, and when the network device connected to the terminal device is switched from a source network device to a target network device, the connection between the terminal device and the source network device and the connection between the terminal device and the target network device are both maintained. Said method comprises: when the terminal device satisfies a first condition, releasing the connection between the terminal device and a source network device. In the implementations of the present application, during switching of the terminal device, the connection between the terminal device and the source network device and the connection between the terminal device and the target network device are both maintained, effectively reducing the delay in the process of switching the network device connected to the terminal device from the source network device to the target network device. |
| US11363490B2 |
Systems and methods for mobile network guidance for over-the-top applications
Systems and methods for providing mobile network guidance to applications communicating with devices via a mobile network. |
| US11363489B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving data in mobile communication system
The present specification relates to a communication method and a communication device, and a random access method of a user equipment (UE), according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: sensing a random access trigger in a connected state; determining the type of the random access trigger when the random access trigger is sensed; and performing congestion control if the type of the random access trigger is a preset type. |
| US11363488B2 |
Congestion control method and related device
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a congestion control method and a related device. The method may include: learning, by an application server from a communications device, that a terminal device has handed over from a source cell to a target cell; detecting, by the application server, a round-trip time RTT and a bandwidth BW; and determining, based on detection values of the RTT and the BW, whether network congestion occurs on the link from the application server to the terminal device. By using this application, in some communication scenarios, a probability that a transmit end enters a network congestion control phase in advance due to erroneous determining may be reduced, and utilization of network bandwidth is improved. |
| US11363486B2 |
Information processing method and device for improving system capacity
Embodiments of this application provide an information processing method. The method includes: obtaining first dedicated channel DCH user quantities, first power, and first adaptive multi-rate AMR traffic volumes that respectively correspond to a plurality of phase groups; obtaining a target value corresponding to each of the plurality of phase groups through calculation based on the first DCH user quantities, the first power, and the first AMR traffic volumes that respectively correspond to the plurality of phase groups, where the target value is used to represent a system capacity; determining, based on the target value, the first phase group in the plurality of phase groups; and sending the first phase group to an access network device, where the first phase group is used by the access network device to adjust a phase of a transmission channel by using the first phase group in a current period. |
| US11363485B2 |
Electronic device transmitting and receiving packets and method of operating the same
According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to: receive a first message indicating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) state of a network from the network, identify a first missing count (FMC) of the network based on the first message, identify a count of a message scheduled to be transmitted by the electronic device, compare the count of the message scheduled to be transmitted with the FMC, and adjust the count of the message scheduled to be transmitted based on a result of the comparison. |
| US11363484B2 |
Method for performing measurement and device supporting the same
Provided are a method for performing measurement and a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes: receiving a first configuration of a first reference signal (RS) type based measurement; performing the first RS type based measurement on a serving cell based on the first configuration; and initiating a second RS type based measurement on the serving cell, when a radio link problem related to the serving cell is detected. |
| US11363480B2 |
Conditional radio resource management measurements
A wireless device receives radio resource control (RRC) message(s) comprising configuration parameters of: a measurement object of a carrier. The measurement object indicates one or more reference signals. The RRC message(s) comprise a measurement report associated with the measurement object. The RRC message(s) comprise one or more conditions to initiate, based on the measurement object, a first measurement of a signal quality of the one or more reference signals. A determination is made of whether one or more conditions are met. In response to the determination indicating that the one or more conditions are met, the first measurement of a signal quality of the one or more reference signals is initiated. The signal quality based on the measurement report transmit. |
| US11363478B2 |
Adaptive monitoring
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a first message indicating a plurality of measurement configurations, each measurement configuration of the plurality of measurement configurations may include different sets of measurement parameters used for measuring a reference signal (RS) of a cell. The UE may also receive, from the base station, a second message indicating that the UE activate a first measurement configuration, deactivate the first measurement configuration, or switch to the first measurement configuration, where the first measurement configuration is from the plurality of measurement configurations. The UE may determine a measurement reporting scheme based at least in part on the indication to activate, deactivate, or switch to the first measurement configuration. |
| US11363475B2 |
Network implementation of spectrum analysis
Access devices may receive signals over a network and calculate a frequency spectrum of the received signals. An analyzer system may collect the frequency spectrum data from multiple access devices, and based on the collected data, detect, identify, and locate sources of anomalies in a communication network. |
| US11363474B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing measurement in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for measuring a reference signal strength indication (RSSI) in a wireless communication system is provided. When a semi-static downlink/uplink (DL/UL) configuration or a dynamic slot formation indication (SFI) is not received from a network, a user equipment (UE) determines RSSI measurement resources based on detected synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block, and measuring the RSSI based on the RSSI measurement resources. |
| US11363472B2 |
Control method for activation and deactivation of data duplication transmission
A data transmission method includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), first indication information from a wireless access device, where the first indication information is activation indication information or deactivation indication information; and when the first indication information is the activation indication information, executing, by the UE, a processing operation; or when the first indication information is the deactivation indication information, stopping, by the UE, the processing operation; where the processing operation includes at least one of a duplication operation and a switching operation; the duplication operation means transmitting same data through a plurality of links; and the switching operation means selecting one from a plurality of links to perform data transmission. |
| US11363470B1 |
Systems and methods for beam sweeping optimization based on a service threshold
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing intra-cell beam sweeping based on a service threshold. The system transmits a plurality of beams including a first beam at a first direction. When it is determined that a first feedback from a user device is below a service threshold, the system will associate the first beam with a second direction. Then, the system will transmit the plurality of beams with the first beam at a second direction. |
| US11363464B2 |
Usage dependent optimization of radio access network partition
A domain manager (320) of a Radio Access Network, RAN, determines a configuration of a RAN resource partition of a network slice. The configuration defines which network elements of the RAN are assigned to the RAN resource partition of the network slice. The domain manager (320) receives at least one report (407, 408, 409) indicating, for at least one of the network elements assigned to the RAN resource partition, an amount of traffic of the network slice handled by the network element in an observation time window. Based on the at least one report (407, 408, 409), the domain manager (320) adapts the configuration of the RAN resource partition by removing one or more of the network elements from the RAN resource partition. |
| US11363462B2 |
Crowd-sourcing of potentially manipulated radio signals and/or radio signal parameters
A method is disclosed that includes obtaining one or more pieces of spoofing information indicative of a data set enabling positioning based on radio signals sent by a respective radio node. The data set is further indicative of one or more parameters based on which said positioning is performed and/or controlled and which is considered to be at least partially unexpected. The method further includes aggregating spoofing information based on the one or more parameters of the respective data set of the one or more pieces of spoofing information; and providing at least a part of the aggregated spoofing information for usage in a positioning. A corresponding apparatus, computer-readable storage medium and system are also disclosed. |
| US11363455B2 |
Near field communication forum data exchange format (NDEF) messages with authenticated encryption
A first apparatus may generate a set of Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum Data Exchange Format (NDEF) records, and each NDEF record of the set of NDEF records may include an NDEF record header and an NDEF record payload. The first apparatus may apply an authentication-encryption function to each NDEF record of the set of NDEF records based on the NDEF record header of each NDEF record, the NDEF record payload of each NDEF record, and a value associated with each NDEF record to obtain a set of authentication-encrypted NDEF record payloads respectively corresponding to the set of NDEF records. Each authentication-encrypted NDEF record payload may include an encrypted NDEF record payload and an authentication tag associated with a corresponding NDEF record. The first apparatus may transmit a protected NDEF message including the set of authentication-encrypted NDEF records to a second device. |
| US11363453B2 |
Prepaid digital delivery service
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. In response to receiving a request associated with a data transfer, embodiments of the present invention dynamically determine a first device to facilitate the data transfer. Embodiments of the present invention automatically create a link between the first device that contains data to be transferred and a second device that is an intended recipient for the data. |
| US11363452B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time remote control of mobile applications
Systems and methods for real-time, remote-control of mobile applications are provided. A communication session between a network device and a terminal device can be established. The network device can be configured to execute a mobile application. For example, the mobile application can include an input element at an initial state. The mobile application can be remotely controlled by the terminal device. Further, a data stream including content data can be received and transmitted during the communication session. For example, the content data can include an object presented by the mobile application. The content data can be displayed on the terminal device. An input event associated with the content data can be detected. Control data can be generated based on the detected input event. The control data can be received at the network device and the initial state of the input element can be modified. |
| US11363450B2 |
Paging area update failure handling
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for paging area update (PAU) failure handling are provided. One method may include configuring a user equipment in UE centric mobility mode, wherein failure of a paging area update procedure is handled in an access stratum layer. |
| US11363449B2 |
Cellular wireless service preferences transfer
Apparatus and methods to transfer user preferences for cellular wireless service associated credentials transferred from a source device to a target device. Transfer of credentials can include physically moving a physical subscriber identity module (SIM) card between devices, transfer of cellular wireless service from a first SIM card at the source device to a second SIM card at the target device, and/or transfer of cellular wireless services for one or more electronic SIMs (eSIMs) from the source device to the target device. Preferences associated some or all of the transferred SIMs/eSIMs can be applied at the target device when certain matching criteria of the SIMs/eSIMs are satisfied. Exemplary matching criteria include matching identifiers, such as integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) values, mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) values, and/or mappings thereof. Transfer of preferences can occur via a local peer-to-peer connection, a secure cloud-based service, and/or a backup and restore process. |
| US11363445B2 |
Recovery techniques for subscriber identification module detection error
Methods, systems, and devices for recovery techniques for subscriber identification module (SIM) detection error are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine an operating mode for the UE based on a SIM card switch occasion. The SIM card switch occasion may be a “hotswap” occasion of a SIM card while the UE is powered on. The UE may power a SIM card associated with the UE based on the operating mode for the UE and a previous status of a SIM slot associated with the UE. The UE may detect a presence of the SIM card in the SIM slot based on powering the SIM card. The UE may set a SIM sensing operation at the UE based on the detected presence of the SIM card. |
| US11363443B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
A communication method and an apparatus are provided herein. The method includes: sending, by a mobility management entity (MME), a track area update (TAU) accept message to a user equipment (UE), the TAU accept message comprising an identifier constructed from at least a resource pool identifier (pool-ID) that identifies a resource pool in a public land mobile network (PLMN), a mobility management entity identifier (MME-ID) that uniquely identifies the MME within the resource pool, and a UE temporary identifier that uniquely identifies the UE within the MME; and receiving, by the MME, a TAU complete message from the UE. |
| US11363442B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying user equipment, and method for transmitting and allocating a temporary identifier
A method and an apparatus for identifying a UE in an SAE network, and an MME are provided herein. The method includes: receiving an SAE-TMSI which is allocated to a UE that accesses an SAE network and includes at least: a pool-ID, an MME-ID, and a UE temporary identifier; using the SAE-TMSI to temporarily identify the UE in the SAE network. The apparatus includes: a receiving unit and a temporary identifying unit. The MME includes a temporary identifier allocating unit. Moreover, a method for transmitting and allocating a temporary identifier, and a method for receiving and transmitting information according to the temporary identifier are disclosed herein. |
| US11363437B2 |
Patron service method utilizing near-field communication tag identifiers
A near-field communication (“NFC”) tag identifier (ID) associated with an establishment obtain by scanning an NFC tag at a location in the establishment using a wireless device of a patron is received. Login credentials associated with the patron and the wireless device are received. A location of the patron in the establishment is determined from the login credentials associated with the patron and the wireless device, and from the NFC tag ID. An available service of the establishment is communicated to the wireless device of the patron based on the login credentials associated with the patron and the wireless device, and from the NFC tag ID. The identified location is associated with exact order items so the service staff is able to keep track of an order made by the patron. |
| US11363435B2 |
Network slicing-aware access network
According to some embodiments, a method for use in a core network node comprises: obtaining a mapping of core network (CN) slice identifiers to radio access network (RAN) slice identifiers; receiving a slice registration request from a user equipment (UE); determining a slice identifier associated with the slice registration request; and sending a slice registration response to the UE. The slice registration response includes the determined slice identifier. According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node comprises obtaining a mapping of CN slice identifiers to RAN slice identifiers. The method may further comprise receiving a connection request from a UE that includes a network slice identifier; determining a RAN slice identifier based on the network slice identifier; and applying a policy of a network slice associated with the determined network slice identifier to the requested connection. |
| US11363431B2 |
Wireless communication device, work vehicle and work vehicle wireless communication system
This wireless communication device is equipped with: a communication control unit for wirelessly connecting a work vehicle and a portable terminal with one another, an acquisition unit which is connected to a work vehicle onboard network, and acquires, from the work vehicle, work vehicle identification information for identifying the work vehicle; a generation unit for generating first character string data on the basis of the work vehicle identification information; and a setting unit for setting the generated first character string data to as a network name the communication control unit. |
| US11363429B2 |
Communication device, communication method, transmission device and reception device
An electronic device including: circuitry configured to receive a signal from at least one of a base station or road side unit (RSU); determine whether the a least one of the base station or RSU support cooperative vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication; and perform cooperative V2X communication with a vehicle-mounted electronic device with support from the at least one of the base station or RSU based on the determination. |
| US11363427B2 |
Wireless sensor nodes for equipment monitoring
A sensing system includes a first wireless sensor device configured to generate sensor data on an object of interest and communicate with a first wireless node, the first wireless node configured to communicate with the first wireless sensor device and a section node, and the section node configured to communicate with the first wireless node and a server, and the server. The first wireless node is located within a communication range of the first communication interface of the first wireless sensor device and is configured to receive the generated sensor data. The first wireless node analyzes the received sensor data to determine whether events relevant to the object of interest have occurred. |
| US11363425B2 |
Systems and methods for locating a wireless device
A system may include at least one computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions for locating a wireless device having wireless fidelity (WiFi) capability, and at least one processor in communication with the computer-readable storage medium, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to: obtain a positioning request from the wireless device, the wireless device is in communication with at least one WiFi network; obtain WiFi data from the wireless device; and determine a default location associated with the WiFi data as a location of the wireless device. |
| US11363422B2 |
Method and network node for enhancing message communication in a communication network
A network node and method for enhancing message communication between a first network node and a second network node in a communication network is provided. The first network node receives an input message from the second network node wherein the input message contains at least one parameter. The first network node then identifies in the received input message the presence of the at least one parameter, wherein the parameter is unknown to the first network node. After identifying at least one unknown parameter, the first network node sends a request message to the second network node for obtaining meta-data associated with the identified unknown parameter. The first network node then receives a response message from the second network node containing the said obtained meta-data associated with the identified unknown parameter. After receiving the response message, the first network node updates the obtained meta-data associated with the unknown parameter. |
| US11363419B2 |
Intelligent location estimation for assets in clinical environments
A system identifies a first position of a tag in a clinical environment based on first times at which first receivers received a first wireless signal from the tag. The system estimates a second position of the tag in the clinical environment based on second times at which second receivers received a second wireless signal from the tag. The system determines that a boundary is located between the first position and the second position, defines a path range around the first position of the tag based on an expected movement of the tag during a time interval between the first and second wireless signals, determines that the boundary lacks a door within the path range, adjusts the second position of the tag based on the boundary map, and transmits a message indicating that the tag is located at the adjusted position at the second time. |
| US11363418B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling positioning of a target device
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a target device, for handling positioning of the target device. The target device determines one or more displacements of the target device in relation to a reference position based on measurements performed by at least one location source. The target device sends, to a network node, a report comprising the determined one or more displacements of the target device, and a reference time to which the reference position is associated. Embodiments herein further relate to a method performed by a network node, for handling positioning of the target device. The network node obtains, from the target device, a report comprising the determined one or more displacements of the target device in relation to a reference position, wherein the one or more displacements have been determined based on measurements performed by at least one location source, and a reference time to which the reference position is associated. The network node determines an absolute position of the target device based on the obtained one or more displacements and the reference position associated to the reference time. |
| US11363417B2 |
Determining a motion zone for a location of motion detected by wireless signals
In a general aspect, a method is presented for determining a motion zone for a location of motion detected by wireless signals. In some aspects, the method includes obtaining a time series of statistical parameters derived from sets of channel response data. The method also includes identifying time intervals in the time series of statistical parameters, each time interval associated with a respective motion zone in the space. The method additionally includes determining, by analyzing multiple time windows within each of the time intervals, ranges of motion-zone parameters associated with each respective motion zone. The method further includes storing, in a database of a motion detection system, the ranges of motion-zone parameters for the respective motion zones. The ranges of motion-zone parameters are used to identify one of the motion zones based on a motion event detected by the motion detection system. |
| US11363414B2 |
Method for creating positioning support table and positioning using the positioning support table
Provided is a positioning support table generation method performed by a computing apparatus, the method including generating a three-dimensional (3D) map based on geographic and building information about a predetermined area; setting a plurality of grid points on the 3D map; determining a first base station corresponding to a grid point with respect to each of the plurality of grid points set on the 3D map; calculating at least one physical parameter about a first signal that arrives at the grid point from the first base station and at least one physical parameter about a second signal that arrives at the gird point from a second base station that is one of base stations adjacent to the first base station; and generating a positioning support table based on the at least one physical parameter about the first signal and the at least one physical parameter about the second signal. |
| US11363412B2 |
Movement track recording method and apparatus
A movement track recording method and an apparatus used for movement track recording, and relate to the communications field, where power consumption of a terminal can be reduced without affecting track recording precision. The method includes determining a positioning trigger condition according to positioning precision, positioning a terminal when the positioning trigger condition is met, and recording a location of the terminal. |
| US11363411B2 |
Methods for combining sensor data to determine vehicle movement information
According to some embodiments of the invention, movement measurements may be obtained from a movement sensor (e.g., an accelerometer) of a mobile device in a vehicle. In addition, location measurements may be obtained from a location sensor (e.g., a GPS) of the mobile device in the vehicle. The movement measurements and the location measurements may be cross-referenced to each other to remove erroneous measurements, such as physically impossible measurements. The remaining measurements may be used to draw conclusions about the movements or locations, such as to identify a movement event (e.g., a braking event, an acceleration event, or the like). |
| US11363410B2 |
Enhanced mobile base station
Systems and methods for an in-vehicle base station are described. In one embodiment, a mobile base station is disclosed comprising a first access radio for providing an access network inside and outside a vehicle; a second backhaul radio for providing a backhaul connection to a macro cell; and a global positioning system (GPS) module for determining a location of the mobile base station, and for transmitting the location of the mobile base station to a core network, wherein a transmit power of the first access radio is configured to increase or decrease based on a speed of the vehicle. |
| US11363409B2 |
Emergency alert systems with tracked user interactions
Aspects discussed herein relate to providing alerts to a community of devices located in or near a geographic are such as a building or property. The alerts override any alert-inhibiting state of the mobile device to deliver audio, visual, and/or haptic alerts in emergency situations. The communication and emergency alert system may be used to communicate with many different communities of people. Moreover, certain individuals may be members of more than one community at the same time, and the communities themselves may change over time based both on the user's preferences and on their physical locations. User interaction with their mobile devices and/or provided alerts can be monitored and tracked to determine engagement with the emergency alert system. Additional alerts can be provided on other devices associated with the user until the user is confirmed to have received the alert. |
| US11363406B2 |
Latency reduction and range extension system for radio networks
A radio access network system is described that determines a signal metric associated with a user equipment or device. The user equipment device can implement an altered transmission policy. The altered transmission policy can alter a strength of transmissions by increasing power consumption per transmission, increasing a length of timer per transmission, and altering other parameters of transmissions. The altered transmission policy can also alter an error correction policy. The error correction policy can indicate that error correction transmissions are to be decreased. The altered transmission policy can be implemented until the signal metric changes to a more desirable level. |
| US11363403B2 |
Spatial audio augmentation and reproduction
An apparatus including circuitry configured for: obtaining at least one spatial audio signal including at least one audio signal, wherein the at least one spatial audio signal defines an audio scene forming at least in part media content; rendering an audio scene based on the at least one spatial audio signal; obtaining at least one augmentation audio signal; transforming the at least one augmentation audio signal to at least two audio objects; augmenting the audio scene based on the at least two audio objects. |
| US11363400B2 |
Method for influencing an auditory direction perception of a listener and arrangement for implementing the method
A method for influencing an auditory direction perception of a listener, and to an arrangement for it the method is disclosed, to provide a solution, by means of which the improvement of the suppression of the auditory localization of a direction of one or more real sources S1 of a sound projecting audio playback system is achieved in that a localization-masking additionally generated sound entity is provided and is radiated by the real source S1 with a directional effect in a defined direction. |
| US11363396B2 |
Automatically switching active microphone for wireless headsets
The present disclosure provides an audio playback system adapted to automatically switch an active microphone back and forth between two or more devices. For example, where the system is a pair of earbuds, where each earbud is worn by a separate user, the system may switch the active microphone to the device worn by the user that is speaking at a given time. While that device holds the active microphone, the other device may wait until a particular event that frees up the microphone, such as if the user wearing the device with the active microphone stops talking. According to some examples, a notification may be provided through one or more of the devices in the system to let the user know, for example, that he does not have the active microphone, that the active microphone is free, that the active microphone has been switched, etc. |
| US11363385B1 |
High-efficiency motor for audio actuation
The disclosed high-efficiency motor may include the following: at least two magnets, a rigid structure arranged between the at least two magnets, where the rigid structure has traces configured to act as a moveable coil, and at least two couplings that respectively link the magnets to the rigid structure in a flexible manner. An electrical input signal applied to the moveable coil may cause motive force to be applied the rigid structure according to the input signal, so that the rigid structure moves orthogonally relative to the magnets as driven by the input signal. In this manner, the high-efficiency motor may be incorporated into a system that may reproduce a full-range audio signal. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11363379B2 |
Audio/visual device with central control, assistive listening, or a screen
Systems, devices, and methods that utilize assistive listening systems, central control of endpoint devices, and a screen are described herein. Some environments, such as a classroom, may include legacy assistive listening systems. Systems may be configured to coordinate assistive listening functions between the legacy assistive listening system and other audio output devices. In such cases, the audio output devices and/or a stationary device may be used in conjunction with a legacy assistive listening system. The audio output devices and/or the stationary device may be configured to communicate one or more settings for one or more control parameters of the audio output devices. The stationary device may provide centralized control of at least some control parameters of the audio output devices. The stationary device may include a screen or display to output visual data in addition to audio data. |
| US11363378B2 |
Method and device for sound processing for a synthesized reality setting
In one implementation, a method of transforming a sound into a virtual sound for a synthesized reality (SR) setting is performed by a head-mounted device (HMD) including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a microphone, a speaker, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image representation of a synthesized reality (SR) setting including a plurality of surfaces associated with an acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method includes recording, via the microphone, a real sound produced in a physical setting. The method further includes generating, using the one or more processors, a virtual sound by transforming the real sound based on the acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method further includes playing, via the speaker, the virtual sound. |
| US11363375B2 |
Mobile communication devices having adaptable features and methods for implementation
Provided are communication devices having adaptable features and methods for implementation. One device includes at least one adaptable component and a processor configured to detect an external cue relevant to operation of the at least one adaptable component, to determine a desired state for the at least one adaptable component corresponding to the external cue, and then to dynamically adapt the at least one adaptable component to substantially produce the desired state. One adaptable component comprises at least one adaptable speaker system. Another adaptable component comprises at least one adaptable antenna. |
| US11363374B2 |
Signal processing apparatus, method of controlling signal processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A signal processing apparatus that processes a plurality of audio signals obtained by acquiring a sound in a target area by performing sound acquisition by a plurality of sound acquisition units, comprising: a specification unit configured to specify a position of a sound source in the target area and positions and directivities of the plurality of sound acquisition units; and a selection unit configured to select, among the plurality of audio signals based on the sound acquisition by the plurality of sound acquisition units, an audio signal to be played back based on a degree of misalignment of the directivity of each of the plurality of sound acquisition units with respect to the specified position of the sound source. |
| US11363370B2 |
Receiver module integrated with duct
Disclosed is a receiver module integrated with a duct. The present disclosure provides a receiver module integrated with a duct in which a back volume and a duct are provided at an outer circumference of a frame of a receiver. |
| US11363369B2 |
Audio loudspeaker system
An audio loudspeaker system for reproducing frequencies between 16 Hz and 700 Hz, comprising a loudspeaker housing defining an inner resonance chamber and at least two loudspeaker drivers arranged in the housing and having front faces arranged facing each other in an opposed manner. The housing comprises vertical wall elements arranged with a distance approximately defining a width of the resonance chamber, where each wall element comprises first and second side surfaces and a circumferential edge surface. A first side surface of the wall elements constitutes and inner surface of the housing and partly defines an enclosure of the resonance chamber, and a second side surface of the wall elements constitutes exterior side surfaces of the audio loudspeaker system. The loudspeaker drivers are arranged within substantially hemispherical cups arranged on the second side surfaces of the wall elements and enclosing the loudspeaker drivers in a close manner. |
| US11363367B1 |
Dual-microphone with wind noise suppression method
A dual-microphone arrangement (300) provides improve voice performance in a wireless headset (12). A vibration sensor (1130) is used for voice pickup and will add low-frequency voice audio content in windy conditions. An equalizer (810) is used to restore low-frequency voice audio content in wind-free conditions. Depending on the measured wind power, the output will derive more signal from the equalizer (810) or more signal from the vibration sensor (1130). |
| US11363361B2 |
Variable microphone shelter, sound collection system, sound collection method, and program
A sound collection system includes a sound collection unit, a variable shelter configured to cover the sound collection unit, an optimum form determination unit configured to determine a form of the variable shelter on a basis of an ambient environmental state, and a shelter optimization control unit configured to change the form of the variable shelter on a basis of a determination result by the optimum form determination unit. |
| US11363351B2 |
Embedding watermarking data
The disclosure provides a method of making watermarking data embedded in an Elementary Stream ES accessible to a receiver. The ES comprises video and/or audio data and is to be transmitted as a Packetized Elementary Stream PES in a Transport Stream TS such that the receiver can use the watermarking data to watermark the video and/or audio data in the ES without reconstructing the ES from the TS. The watermarking data identifies one or more watermarking locations in the video and/or audio data in the ES to be modified by the receiver in accordance with the watermarking data. The method comprises determining respective one or more watermarking TS locations in the TS corresponding to the one or more watermarking locations. The method further comprises embedding, in the ES, the watermarking data including watermarking location information identifying the one or more watermarking TS locations, or modifying watermarking data embedded in the ES by adding the watermarking location information. The method may further comprise subsequent to embedding or modifying the watermarking data, packetizing the ES into one or more PES packets, each packet comprising a packet header, and adding watermarking data location information identifying a location in the TS corresponding to a location of the watermarking data in the ES to the packet header of a PES packet (or in a TS header or elsewhere in the TS). The disclosure also provides a corresponding method of watermarking and related systems, devices, computer programs and Transport Streams. |
| US11363347B1 |
Creating customized programming content
A customized programming content creation system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a media content search engine locates and retrieves media segments, and a storage component stores a user location indicator. A processor accesses scheduling information data structures for the media segments, and filters the media segments to generate a set of current local media segments. The filtering is based on a comparison of a user-associated location value with a geography value from the scheduling information data structure, and a comparison of a current time value with an expiration value from the scheduling information data structure. The set of current local media segments includes at least one local weather segment. The media segments are also filtered to identify at least one current news media segment. An integrated video stream is assembled. The stream is then transmitted for presentation on a user device of the user. |
| US11363346B2 |
Video service quality assessment method and apparatus
A video service quality assessment method and apparatus, where a monitoring device is configured to: obtain an identifier of a to-be-monitored channel, an identifier of to-be-monitored user equipment, and configuration information of a video service transmission system; obtain a multicast video stream of the to-be-monitored channel based on the identifier of the to-be-monitored channel; obtain a retransmitted video stream based on the identifier of the to-be-monitored channel, the identifier of the to-be-monitored user equipment, and the configuration information of the video service transmission system; determine a to-be-assessed video stream based on the multicast video stream and the retransmitted video stream; parse the to-be-assessed video stream; and obtain an assessment result based on a parsing result and the configuration information of the video service transmission system. |
| US11363345B2 |
Unified end-to-end quality and latency measurement, optimization and management in multimedia communications
Correlated quality-of-experience (QoE) and latency measures are generated at a plurality of monitoring points along a multimedia delivery chain including multiple video operations. At each of the plurality of monitoring points, an absolute QoE measure defined on a human perceptual quality scale for media content is computed, and one or more of content extraction or feature extraction on the media content are performed. To a common middleware from each of the plurality of monitoring points, the respective QoE measure and results of the one or more of content extraction or feature extraction are transmitted. Computing and updating an absolute QoE measure for each of the plurality of monitoring points is performed. Computing and updating latencies between multiple monitoring points at the middleware using the results from each of the plurality of monitoring points is also performed. |
| US11363344B2 |
Method and system of displaying subtitles, computing device, and readable storage medium
The present invention discloses techniques for generating and presenting subtitles. The disclosed techniques comprise extracting target audio information from a video; converting the target audio information to first text information, wherein the target audio information and the first text information are in a first language; translating the first text information to at least one second text information, wherein the at least one second text information is in at least one second language; generating a first subtitle based on the first text information; generating at least one second subtitle based on the at least one second text information; obtaining a first target subtitle and at least one second target subtitle by implementing a sensitive word processing to the first subtitle and the at least one second subtitle, respectively; and presenting at least one of the first target subtitle or the at least one second target subtitle in response to user input. |
| US11363343B2 |
Methods and systems of facilitating sharing of information among service providers
Methods and systems for a media guidance application that aggregates media content and media guidance data for users. For example, the media guidance application may aggregate content from numerous providers and provide the content through a single interface. Moreover, the media guidance application described herein may provide service providers with finder's fees for sharing information about media assets that users are interested in viewing. |
| US11363341B2 |
Method and apparatus for interacting in live broadcast room
A method and an apparatus for interactions in a live broadcast room are disclosed. The method may include: in response to an opening operation for a question interaction function in a live broadcast room: obtaining at least one piece of question information from a server and displaying the at least one piece of question information in a first display area of the live broadcast room, in which the at least one piece of question information is sent by at least one audience client to the server; obtaining an interaction parameter value corresponding to each piece of question information from the server; and adjusting a position of the question information in the first display area based on the interaction parameter value corresponding to each piece of question information. |
| US11363340B2 |
Video quality optimization based on display capabilities
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming/downloading and playback, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing video quality optimization based on display capabilities. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive user input from a user indicating a user request for media content. The computing system might autonomously determine characteristics or attributes of a playback device (i.e., a display device and/or audio playback device, etc.). The computing system might send, to a media content source over a network, a request for the media content, the request comprising information regarding presentation characteristics that are based at least in part on the determined characteristics of the playback device. The computing system might receive a version of the media content having the one or more presentation characteristics, and might relay the received version of the media content to the playback device for presentation to the user. |
| US11363338B2 |
Natural language navigation relative to events in content of an audio video stream
The disclosed embodiments include a computer implemented method to control the presentation of an audio video stream. The method includes obtaining an audio video stream and associating the audio video stream with events. The events include an interpretation of content of the audio video stream. The method further includes obtaining a natural language command, generating a control signal based on the natural language command by referencing a particular event, and using the control signal to control presentation of the audio video stream relative to the particular event. |
| US11363337B2 |
User interface method, system, and device in multitasking environment
In a user interface method, system and device in a multitasking environment, it is possible for a user to view all of a plurality of simultaneously executed applications by assigning different display areas to the plurality of applications. In the method, system and device, priorities of applications already being executed and of additional applications for which execution is requested are determined, and a display area size is determined and assigned to each application according to its priority. The system comprises a set-top box for performing the latter functions and a user terminal for transmitting a user request, while the device comprises a control unit for performing the latter functions. |
| US11363334B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify user presence to a meter
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes a user input receiver to obtain presence information from a panelist via a prompt displayed by a user interface of the apparatus, the presence information indicating that the panelist is present at the meter separate from the apparatus, a configuration controller to package the presence information and insert an indication in the packaged presence information, the indication indicating the packaged information is to be sent to the meter via a remote server, and a wireless transceiver to transmit the packaged presence information to the remote server. |
| US11363331B2 |
Measuring video-program-viewing activity
A computer-implemented method of using video viewer interaction data as input to a measurement engine which then calculates: demographic level and aggregate level (a) household reach for advertisements and video content based on user defined reach periods, (b) One-minute, Thirty-minute, and Sixty-minute channel viewing metrics, and (c) One-minute, Thirty-minute, and Sixty-minute aggregate viewing metrics, all based on second-by-second household level viewing activity. Also shows creation of Commercial Schedule Cumulative Audience, Impressions for Reach Periods, Demographic Group Impressions, Average Audience, Average Audience Share, Average Rating, Households Using Television, and Households Using Television Percent using household level data. Works with IP and linear video delivery. Together these metrics provide detailed information on customer viewing behavior which can be used to drive business decisions for service providers, advertisers, and content producers. |
| US11363329B2 |
Object discovery and exploration in video content
A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to discover, select, explore, and manipulate objects within the modeled worlds used to generate video content. The RVE system may implement methods that allow users to view and explore in more detail the features, components, and/or accessories of selected objects that are being manipulated and explored. The RVE system may also implement methods that allow users to interact with interfaces of selected objects or interfaces of components of selected objects. |
| US11363327B2 |
Method for displaying virtual item, terminal and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a method for displaying a virtual item, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving an instruction for customizing a virtual item; displaying a window on the live broadcast interface in response to the instruction; acquiring a custom content through the window input by the first user, wherein the custom content is configured to define a form of the virtual item; generating the virtual item based on the custom content; and displaying the virtual item on the live broadcast interface. |
| US11363326B2 |
Digital contents receiver, digital contents receiving method and digital contents transmitting and receiving method
In a digital contents receiver for receiving transmitted digital contents, the digital contents include at least component information indicating an element which constitutes a program of the contents. When the component information indicates that the received digital contents are a 3D component, it is determined whether a display part corresponds to display of the 3D component. If the display part corresponds to display of the 3D component, the received digital contents are displayed in 3D. |
| US11363318B2 |
Display inserts, overlays, and graphical user interfaces for multimedia systems
A disclosed digital media device operational at user premises to receive media signals from a media source for presentation via endpoint devices such as a television display. The digital media device can include gateway and digital media management functionality and can be referred to as a gateway and digital media device. The device offers application services obtained over a wide area network and a user premises network. The digital media device may form a composite signal from the media signal and application service information, for example, for a composite audio and/or video signal for television type presentation to the user. The digital media device may receive a selection signal based on the presentation, for transmission to the application service provider device or to the media source. The media device also offers a GUI presenting a moveable arrangement of icons for selectively accessing application services. |
| US11363317B2 |
Inserting secondary content into primary content presented by an online system
An online system receives a request for a video to be presented by the online system to a target user. The online system determines whether to insert secondary content into the video. For such a determination, the online system identifies a position in the video for inserting secondary content. Further, the online system determines a loss score and a gain score. The loss score measures a loss of interaction by the target user if the secondary content were inserted. The gain score includes a monetary compensation to be received by the online system for inserting the secondary content at the identified position. The online system compares the loss score and the gain score. Based on the gain score offsetting the loss score, the online systems modifies the video by inserting the secondary content at the identified position and provides the modified video for display to the target user. |
| US11363314B2 |
Network-based processing and distribution of multimedia content of a live musical performance
Methods, systems, and computer program products for network-based processing and distribution of multimedia content of a live performance are disclosed. In some implementations, recording devices can be configured to record a multimedia event (e.g., a musical performance). The recording devices can provide the recordings to a server while the event is ongoing. The server automatically synchronizes, mixes and masters the recordings. The server performs the automatic mixing and mastering using reference audio data previously captured during a rehearsal. The server streams the mastered recording to multiple end users through the Internet or other public or private network. The streaming can be live streaming. |
| US11363313B2 |
Networked video management and recording system
A number of variations may include a method comprising a computer system for networked video management, the computer system comprising at least one computer having non-transitory memory for storing machine instructions that are to be executed by the at least one computer, the machine instructions when executed by the at least one computer implements functions. The functions may include compiling a list of available network cameras on a network in at least one work queue; requesting a tunnel from a web service proxy container; receiving the tunnel request at the web service proxy container; requesting the tunnel from at least one video gateway device; establishing the tunnel with the available network cameras; and recording video data from the available network cameras. |
| US11363309B2 |
Point cloud geometry compression using octrees and binary arithmetic encoding with adaptive look-up tables
An encoder is configured to compress point cloud geometry information using an octree geometric compression technique that utilizes a binary arithmetic encoder, a look-ahead table, a cache, and a context selection process, wherein encoding contexts are selected based, at least in part, on neighborhood configurations. In a similar manner, a decoder is configured to decode compressed point cloud geometry information utilizing a binary arithmetic encoder, a look-ahead table, a cache, and a context selection process. |
| US11363303B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for processing video
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for processing video. A method may comprise receiving video content comprising a plurality of frames and determining a splitting parameter of a partitioning of at least a portion of a first frame of the plurality of frames. Deblock filtering may be implemented on at least the first frame of the plurality of frames based at least on the splitting parameter. |
| US11363301B2 |
Conditionally parsed extension syntax for HEVC extension processing
A system for signaling extension functions used in decoding a sequence including a plurality of pictures, each picture processed at least in part according to a picture parameter set is disclosed. An extension presence signaling flag is read and used to determine whether flags signaling the performance of extension functions are to be read. The flags are only read if indicated by the extension presence signaling flag. |
| US11363300B2 |
Coding apparatus, coding method, decoding apparatus, decoding method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus
Moving image data of a wide viewing angle image is divided into blocks to obtain a coding target block. A motion-compensated reference block is extracted for each coding target block. The reference block is subjected to adjustment processing of rotation and/or scaling. A residual signal is calculated on the basis of a pixel value of the coding target block and a pixel value of the reference block subjected to the adjustment processing for each coding target block, and the residual signal of the coding target block is coded to obtain an encoded stream. Adjustment processing information is inserted into the encoded stream together with the motion vector for each coding target block. The residual can be reduced, the coding bit rate can be reduced, and consequently the coding performance of motion prediction can be improved. |
| US11363297B2 |
Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus
An image coding method includes selecting two or more transform components from among a plurality of transform components that include a translation component and non-translation components, the two or more transform components serving as reference information that represents a reference destination of a current block; coding selection information that identifies the two or more transform components that have been selected from among the plurality of transform components; and coding the reference information of the current block by using reference information of a coded block different from the current block. |
| US11363296B2 |
Lossless reduction of data by using a prime data sieve and performing multidimensional search and content-associative retrieval on data that has been losslessly reduced using a prime data sieve
Input data can be losslessly reduced by using a data structure that organizes prime data elements based on their contents. Alternatively, the data structure can organize prime data elements based on the contents of a name that is derived from the prime data elements. Specifically, video data can be losslessly reduced by (1) using the data structure to identify a set of prime data elements, and (2) using the set of prime data elements to losslessly reduce intra-frames. The input data can be dynamically partitioned based on the memory usage of components of the data structure. Parcels can be created based on the partitions to facilitate archiving and movement of the data. The losslessly reduced data can be stored using a set of distilled files and a set of prime data element files. |
| US11363295B2 |
Method and system for intra mode coding
A video decoding method is provided. The method includes obtaining a current frame of a video input; partitioning the current video frame into a plurality of coding blocks; predicting a symbol level for each coding block in intra prediction modes included in an allowed intra prediction mode (AIPM) set, where the intra prediction modes included in the AIPM set are a subset of all available intra prediction modes in video coding formats of different video coding schemes and are determined based on coding efficiency and compression performance, and each of the intra prediction modes included in the AIPM set is identified by an index number; transforming and quantizing a residual symbol level; entropy coding the transformed and quantized residual symbol level; and outputting a bitstream. |
| US11363293B2 |
Motion-compensation prediction based on bi-directional optical flow
A device may determine whether to enable or disable bi-directional optical flow (BIO) for a current coding unit (CU) (e.g., block and/or sub-block). Prediction information for the CU may be identified and may include prediction signals associated with a first reference block and a second reference block (e.g., or a first reference sub-block and a second reference sub-block). A prediction difference may be calculated and may be used to determine the similarity between the two prediction signals. The CU may be reconstructed based on the similarity. For example, whether to reconstruct the CU with BIO enabled or BIO disabled may be based on whether the two prediction signals are similar, it may be determined to enable BIO for the CU when the two prediction signals are determined to be dissimilar. For example, the CU may be reconstructed with BIO disabled when the two prediction signals are determined to be similar. |
| US11363289B2 |
Method and device for decoding image in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring information on inter prediction of a target block through a bit stream; deriving motion information of the target block on the basis of the information on inter prediction; deriving a prediction sample by performing inter prediction for the target block on the basis of the motion information; generating a reconstruction block on the basis of the prediction sample; deriving modified motion information of the target block on the basis of the reconstruction block; and updating the motion information of the target block on the basis of the modified motion information. According to the present invention, modified motion information of the target block can be calculated, and the motion information of the target block can be updated on the basis of the modified motion information, so that the overall coding efficiency can be improved. |
| US11363288B2 |
Motion vector generation for affine motion model for video coding
Techniques are described to unify the motion vectors of sub-blocks of an affine block and the motion vector information that is stored and used as predictors for determining motion vectors for subsequent blocks. A video coder may determine that the motion vector for a sub-block is the same as the motion vector information that is used to determine motion vectors for subsequent blocks. |
| US11363287B2 |
Future video prediction for coding and streaming of video
Video data is obtained or received. At least a current frame or previous frame(s) of the obtained or received video data are provided to an input of a neural network. A predicted output is generated at an output of the neural network. The predicted output includes at least one of predicted future frame(s) of the video data and predicted properties of future frame(s) of the video data. Processing decision(s) are determined based, at least in part, on the predicted output. The current frame of the video data is processed at least partially according to the processing decision(s). |
| US11363286B2 |
System and method for improved video operations
A method of video operations includes generating derivative byproducts related to encoded video captured of a scene, initializing a first operation based on the encoded video, and initializing a second operation different from the first operation based on the derivative byproducts. |
| US11363279B2 |
Method and apparatus in video coding with flexible coding order
An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an intra block copy mode. The current block is one of a plurality of coding blocks in a coding tree block (CTB) with a right to left coding order being allowed within the CTB. Further, the processing circuitry determines a block vector that points to a reference block in a same picture as the current block and checks that two corner samples of the reference block of the reference block have been reconstructed. In addition, the processing circuitry checks that an additional sample of the reference block has been reconstructed. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least a sample of the current block based on reconstructed samples of the reference block that are retrieved from the reference sample memory. |
| US11363277B2 |
Methods on affine inter prediction and deblocking
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for decoding video data. Video data coded with affine inter prediction is received. A deblocking method corresponding to edges of affine subblocks associated with the received video data is changed. The video data is decoded based on the changed deblocking method. |
| US11363275B2 |
Techniques for increasing the accuracy of subjective quality experiments
In various embodiments, a data optimization application mitigates scoring inaccuracies in subjective quality experiments. In operation, the data optimization application generates a model that includes a first set of individual scores and a first set of parameters. The first set of parameters includes a first subjective score set and a first set of subjective factor sets. The data optimization application performs one or more optimization operations on the first set of parameters to generate a second set of parameters. The second set of parameters includes a second subjective score set and a second set of subjective factor sets, wherein the second subjective score set compensates for at least a first subjective factor set included in the second set of subjective factor sets. The data optimization application also computes a participant evaluation report based on at least a second subjective factor sets included in the second set of subjective factor sets. |
| US11363274B2 |
Video data inter prediction method and apparatus
A video data inter prediction method is provided, which includes: determining a candidate motion information list of a current picture block, where the candidate motion information list includes at least one first candidate motion information group, at least one second candidate motion information group, the first candidate motion information group is a motion information group determined based on motion information of preset locations on a first neighboring picture block of the current picture block and a motion model of the first neighboring picture block, the second candidate motion information group is a set of motion information of at least two sample locations that are respectively neighboring to at least two preset locations on the current picture block; determining target motion information from the candidate motion information list; and performing inter prediction on the current picture block based on the target motion information. |
| US11363267B2 |
Encoding method and device, and decoding method and device
Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining affine parameter group candidates of a current block based on whether adjacent blocks of the current block are decoded; determining an affine parameter group of the current block from among the affine parameter group candidates, according to affine parameter information of the current block; and reconstructing the current block, based on one or more affine parameters included in the affine parameter group. |
| US11363266B2 |
Method and system of performing inter-frame prediction in video compression
Systems, devices, and methods of performing inter-frame prediction in video compression. A method includes: partitioning a video frame into superblocks, each superblock includes a plurality of macroblocks; determining an upper boundary on attributes that are associated with residual blocks of the plurality of macroblocks, based on pre-defined constraints on the total number of bits allocated for motion vector descriptions in a superblock; for each macroblock in a superblock, determining a partition size and a motion vector resolution which yield, for all macroblocks in the superblock, a motion vector description and a corresponding residual with attributes less than or equal to the upper boundary. |
| US11363262B1 |
Adaptive GOP structure using temporal dependencies likelihood
A first aspect is a method for coding a group of pictures (GOP) that includes frames of a video. The method includes encoding, at least some of the frames of the GOP, using a first encoding pass to obtain encoding statistics; obtaining, using the encoding statistics, respective temporal dependency likelihoods (TDLs) for the at least some of the frames of the GOP, where the respective TDLs indicate contributions that the at least some of the frames make in reducing prediction errors of the GOP; obtaining a reference frame based on the respective TDLs; and using the reference frame in encoding at least some of the frames of the GOP in a second encoding pass. |
| US11363260B2 |
Method and apparatus for deriving intra prediction mode
Disclosed herein are a decoding method and apparatus and an encoding method and apparatus for deriving an intra-prediction mode. An intra-prediction mode may be derived using a method for deriving an intra-prediction mode based on a neighbor block of the target block, a method for deriving an intra-prediction mode using signaling of the intra-prediction mode of the target block, or a method for deriving an adaptive intra-prediction mode based on the type of a target slice. An MPM list may be used to derive the intra-prediction mode, and a temporal neighbor block or the like may be used to configure the MPM list. |
| US11363259B2 |
Intra-prediction mode concept for block-wise picture coding
In accordance with a first aspect, an improved compression efficiency is achieved by letting a block-wise picture codec support a set of intra-prediction modes according to which the intra-prediction signal for a current block of a picture is determined by applying a set of neighboring samples of the current block onto a neural network. A second aspect of the present application is that, additionally or alternatively to the spending of neural network-based intra-prediction modes, the mode selection may be rendered more effective by the usage of a neural network dedicated to determine a rank or a probability value for each of the set of intra-prediction modes by applying a set of neighboring samples thereonto with the rank or probability value being used for the selection of one intra-prediction mode out of the plurality of intra-prediction modes including or coinciding with the set of intra-prediction modes. |
| US11363256B2 |
Video picture prediction method and apparatus
A video picture prediction method and apparatus are provided, to provide a manner of determining a maximum length of a candidate motion vector list corresponding to a subblock merge mode. The method comprises: parsing a first indicator from a bitstream; if the first indicator indicates that a candidate mode used to inter predict the to-be-processed block comprises an affine mode, parsing a second indicator from the bitstream, where the second indicator is used to indicate a maximum length of a first candidate motion vector list, and the first candidate motion vector list is constructed for the to-be-processed block, a subblock merge prediction mode is used for the to-be-processed block; and determining the maximum length of the first candidate motion vector list based on the second indicator. |
| US11363251B2 |
Methods and associated devices and systems for enhanced 2D and 3D vision
Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for improved depth perception in stereoscopic night vision devices. Among these are embodiments for aligning information overlays in the stereo view with associated objects, and for generating stereo information from single lenses or intensifiers. In some illustrative embodiments, a camera and position sensor are provided for at least two viewers, e.g., a pilot and a copilot, such that when a scene overlaps between viewers, the system produces a stereoptic scene, in which the users can more accurately determine a difference in depth between two or more distant objects. An illustrative binocular night vision system uses a high-resolution depth map to present binocular images to a user. In some embodiments, supplementary content can be overlaid, with an appropriate binocular disparity that is based on the depth map. |
| US11363248B2 |
Method and device for transmitting region information of 360-degree video
A 360-degree video data processing method performed by a 360-degree video transmission device, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: acquiring 360-degree video data; processing the 360-degree video data so as to acquire a 2D picture; dividing the 2D picture so as to derive sub-pictures; generating metadata for the 360-degree video data; encoding at least one of the sub-pictures; and performing processing for storing or transmitting the encoded at least one sub-picture and the metadata, wherein the metadata includes position information of the sub-picture on the 2D picture. |
| US11363241B2 |
Surveillance apparatus, surveillance method, and storage medium
An apparatus acquires a video image from a surveillance camera 2 and displays an image based on the video image on a display 3. The apparatus 1 records the video image acquired from the surveillance camera 2 in a recording unit 105. The apparatus 1 includes an abnormality detection unit 106 configured to detect an abnormality from the video image, an attention period determination unit 107 configured to determine an attention period based on a period from a start to an end of a detected abnormality, and a displaying unit 102 configured to display a video image acquired from the surveillance camera 2 as it is on a display 3 until the abnormality being detected ends, and, when the abnormality being detected ends, acquire, from a recording unit 105, a recorded video image recorded in a period corresponding to the attention period and play back the acquired recorded video image. |
| US11363235B2 |
Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method
The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image processing method that can reduce an amount of transfer of images.The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that performs imaging to obtain a captured image; and a transmission control unit that performs transmission control to transmit a region image within a plurality of transfer regions, which corresponds to an entire or partial region of the captured image, at a frame rate set for each of the transfer regions. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a camera that images the surroundings of a mobile body such as a camera that images the surroundings of a vehicle that performs automated driving. |
| US11363231B2 |
Image sensor
An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels connected to row lines extending in a first direction and to column lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a ramp voltage generator configured to output a ramp voltage, a plurality of comparators, each of the plurality of comparators including a first input terminal to which the ramp voltage is input, and a second input terminal connected to one of the column lines, and a replica circuit having a same structure as a structure of a portion of the comparators. Each of the comparators includes a plurality of transistors, a first auto-zero transistor connected to the first input terminal, a second auto-zero transistor connected to the second input terminal, and wirings connected to the plurality of transistors, the first auto-zero transistor, and the second auto-zero transistor. |
| US11363228B1 |
Current steering architecture with high supply noise rejection
Techniques are described for implementing ramp voltage generators with current steering architectures that provide high power supply noise rejection. For example, a current steering architecture uses a sample and hold block and a driver block to control and drive a current steering network. Both generate signals that track supply voltage variations, and those signals are used to generate a ramp voltage. For image sensor applications, image tolerance to ramp noise can be very low when the ramp voltage is low, but can increase appreciably as the ramp voltage increases. As such, embodiments can be implemented to provide high PSR at low ramp voltages, even if the PSR degrades at higher ramp voltages, while maintaining high linearity over the entire ramp voltage. |
| US11363227B1 |
Image sensors with hybrid analog-to-digital converter architecture
An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array, row control circuitry, and column readout circuitry. The column readout circuitry may include analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry. The ADC circuitry may have a first portion that selectively converts pixel signals associated with a low light or high conversion gain operating environment and a second portion that converts any pixel signals. As an example, the first portion may be a ramp ADC and the second portion may be a successive approximation register (SAR) ADC. |
| US11363226B2 |
Ping pong readout structure in image sensor with dual pixel supply
An image sensor includes a pixel array having a plurality pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel clusters coupled to a plurality of column busses, a plurality of voltage supplies coupled to the plurality of pixel clusters, and ping-pong readout circuitry. Pixel clusters in adjacent column busses are supplied with different voltage supplies. The ping-pong readout circuitry includes multiplexing circuitry coupled to the plurality of column busses, and a plurality of analog-to-digital converters coupled to the multiplexing circuitry. The image sensor also includes a controller configured to selectively couple a pixel signal of a pixel cluster to a column bus to an ADC for signal conversion. |
| US11363216B2 |
Vehicle-mounted device
A video processing circuit outputs a video signal from an imaging device for imaging a scene outside a vehicle. A processing circuit generates an image from vehicle information and outputs the image to the video processing circuit. The video processing circuit superimposes the image from the main processing circuit on the video signal from the imaging device and outputs a resultant video. The processing circuit is capable of outputting a video signal from a source other than the imaging device to the video processing circuit. The processing circuit outputs an instruction signal for setting an image blending function to be on or off to the video processing circuit. In a case of outputting the video signal from the source other than the imaging device to the video processing circuit, the processing circuit outputs the instruction signal for setting the image blending function to be off. |
| US11363215B2 |
Light observation apparatus
A light observation apparatus includes: a first photodetector that, upon irradiation of at least part of a physical object with irradiation light, receives first light containing ambient light and at least one selected from the group consisting of reflected light returning from the at least part and fluorescence produced from the at least part, and that outputs a first output signal representing a reception intensity of the first light; a second photodetector that receives second light containing the ambient light and outputs a second output signal representing a reception intensity of the second light; and a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit attenuates a first signal component corresponding to the ambient light from the first output signal based on the first output signal and the second output signal. |
| US11363214B2 |
Local exposure compensation
Image signal processing includes generating an exposure compensated image based on a gain value applied to an exposure level of a first image and a gain value applied to an exposure level of a second image. The gain value may be progressively increased from an approximate center of the first image to an edge of the first image to a common exposure level. The gain value may be progressively decreased from an approximate center of the second image to an edge of the second image to the common exposure level. Gain values may be scaled on each color channel for a pixel based on a saturation level of the pixel. |
| US11363211B2 |
Image generation control device, image generation control method, and image generation control program
Provided are an image generation control device, an image generation control method, and an image generation control program that are capable of generating an image of an object to be imaged positioned in a vicinity of an imaging-hindering light source with high precision. In an image generation control device, based on luminance variation within a target area including the imaging-hindering light source and the object to be imaged, a calculation unit calculates an expected light-off period during which the imaging-hindering light source is turned off. An image-capturing control unit, by setting an exposure period of an image-capturing unit within the expected light-off period calculated by the calculation unit, makes the image-capturing unit capture an image including the target area within the expected light-off period. |
| US11363209B1 |
Systems and methods for camera zoom
Examples are described of digital zoom retaining image characteristics such as sharpness, clarity, and/or contrast. In some aspects, a device can receive an image and can determine various image characteristic scores corresponding to digitally zoomed variants of the image having different zoom strengths. For instance, the device can determine a first image characteristic score for a first zoom strength and a second image characteristic score for a second zoom strength. The device can compare the image characteristic scores to an image characteristic threshold, and can select the highest zoom strength for which the corresponding image characteristic score is not below the image characteristic threshold. For example, the device can select the first zoom strength if the first image characteristic score meets or exceeds the image characteristic threshold while the second image characteristic score does not. The device can output image data corresponding to the image at the selected zoom strength. |
| US11363208B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing meihod
An image processing apparatus that is capable of communicating with an image capturing apparatus, acquires a first image generated by performing an image capture process at a first zoom magnification, sets a division condition for dividing a detection range included in the first image, divides the detection range into a plurality of divided areas in accordance with the division condition, controls the image capturing apparatus to change an image capture direction on the basis of each position of the respective divided areas of the detection range and performs an image capture process at a second zoom magnification greater than the first zoom magnification so as to sequentially generate second images, acquires each of the second images, and performs a data reading process for each of the second images. |
| US11363207B2 |
Photographing method for compensating dynamic scenes and a camera device using the same
In capturing images, a method applied in a camera device taking images of a dynamic scenes which provides compensation for blurring and lack of clarity caused by movement of objects within the scene. From images captured in preview mode, determining whether a target object is a dynamic object. A preset number of the preview images are stored as first images of a target object determined as being dynamic, and a second image is also taken, the second image being analyzed for an area of fuzziness. The camera device takes feature information from each first image and the feature information corresponding to the area of fuzziness of the second image and combines feature information having a highest similarity with the fuzzy area to generate a final target image with sharpness and full clarity, and outputting the target image. |
| US11363206B2 |
Method for correcting rolling shutter phenomenon, rolling shutter phenomenon correcting apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium
A method, for correcting a rolling shutter phenomenon, includes obtaining a double fish-eye image to be processed using a photographing device; obtaining an image processing parameter including gyro data of the photographing device; calculating a rolling shutter phenomenon correcting parameter based on the image processing parameter; and correcting the rolling shutter phenomenon with respect to the double fish-eye image in a spherical-coordinate system using the rolling shutter phenomenon correcting parameter. |
| US11363204B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, and image processing method
An image processing apparatus that corrects image blurring with respect to image data that has been captured using a lens that forms a subject image which has been compressed in at least one of first and second directions that are orthogonal to an optical axis is disclosed. The apparatus applies geometric transformation processing to the image data based on first information related to a compression ratio of a subject image applied by the lens and on second information related to a rotation angle of the device motion. The geometric transformation processing includes correction processing for rotation transformation of the subject image attributed to the device motion around the optical axis, and shearing processing. |
| US11363203B2 |
Image stabilization apparatus, image stabilization control method, and computer-readable storage medium
An image stabilization apparatus comprises: a first obtaining unit that obtains orientation information of an image capturing apparatus; a determining unit that, on the basis of the orientation information, determines a reference position of an image sensor included in the image capturing apparatus; and a calculating unit that calculates a correction amount for performing image stabilization by moving a position of the image sensor from the reference position in a plane intersecting with an optical axis. The reference position is different between when the orientation information indicates that the image capturing apparatus is in a first orientation and when the orientation information indicates that the image capturing apparatus is in a second orientation. |
| US11363202B2 |
Methods and systems for video stabilization
A method for video stabilization may include obtaining a target frame of a video; dividing a plurality of pixels of the target frame into a plurality of pixel groups; determining a plurality of first feature points in the target frame; determining first location information of the plurality of first feature points in the target frame; determining second location information of the plurality of first feature points in a frame prior to the target frame in the video; obtaining a global homography matrix; determining an offset of each of the plurality of first feature points; determining a fitting result based on the first location information and the offsets; for each of the plurality of pixel groups, determining a correction matrix; and for each of the plurality of pixel groups, processing the pixels in the pixel group based on the global homography matrix and the correction matrix. |
| US11363198B2 |
Optical sensor with jitter stabiliization
A system and method for measuring and removing jitter from an optical sensor includes a jitter stabilization system and at least one focal plane array. The jitter stabilization system is positioned at a shared focus of the focal plane array, which can be generated by an optical imager. A jitter signal of the jitter stabilization system makes a double pass through the system, contacting every reflective surface along the optical path within the system, before returning to a position sensing detector (PSD). |
| US11363194B2 |
Imaging system, method, and applications
A multicamera panoramic imaging system having no parallax. In an example, the multicamera panoramic imaging system includes multiple discrete, imaging systems disposed in a side-by-side array, wherein a field of view of each discrete, imaging systems is conjoined with a field of view of each adjacent discrete imaging system, further wherein a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any one of the discrete imaging systems will be substantially parallel to a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any adjacent ones of the discrete imaging systems such that all of the substantially parallel stencils of chief rays appear to converge to a common point when viewed from object space. A method for forming an image of an object having no parallax. |
| US11363193B2 |
Electronic apparatus and image correction method thereof
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a communication interface, and a processor configured to capture an image of a background of a display device through the camera, to divide the captured image into a plurality of blocks, to compare a target gradation value with gradation values of the each of the plurality of blocks, to adjust the gradation values of the each of the plurality of blocks, and to transmit an image of which the gradation values are adjusted, to the display device through the communication interface, wherein the sizes of the plurality of blocks are identified based on a background pattern of the display device. |
| US11363192B2 |
Method, and apparatus for clock synchronization, device, storage medium and vehicle
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for clock synchronization, a device, a storage medium and a vehicle. The method includes: determining a first pose change of an image acquirer with respect to a reference coordinate system at different image acquisition time points; determining a second pose change of a calibration acquirer with respect to the reference coordinate system at different corrected image acquisition time points, in which, the different corrected image acquisition correction time points are determined according to the different image acquisition time points and each predetermined correction time variable; and performing a clock synchronization on the image acquirer and the calibration acquirer according to the first pose change of the image acquirer and the second pose change of the calibration acquirer corresponding to the each correction time variable. |
| US11363189B2 |
Apparatus and method for recognizing voice and face on basis of change in camera driving method
Various embodiments related to an electronic device are disclosed, and an electronic device according to one embodiment comprises: a camera; at least one microphone; at least one motor for rotating the camera around at least one axis; and at least one processor, wherein the processor can be configured to: receive a voice through at least one microphone and an image through the camera; perform a first control on at least one motor on the basis of at least a first motor control mode; use at least one motor on the basis of at least the first control so as to perform first face tracking using the received image; perform a second control on at least one motor on the basis of a second motor control mode during the first tracking; and perform voice recognition or face recognition by using at least one motor on the basis of at least the second control. Other various embodiments are possible. |
| US11363186B2 |
Image pickup device and electronic apparatus with an image plane phase difference detection pixel
The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device that enables inhibition of occurrence of color mixture or noise, and an electronic apparatus. The image pickup device of the present disclosure includes an image plane phase difference detection pixel for obtaining a phase difference signal for image plane phase difference AF. The image plane phase difference detection pixel includes: a first photoelectric conversion section that generates an electric charge in response to incident light; an upper electrode section that is one of electrodes disposed facing each other across the first photoelectric conversion section, the upper electrode section being formed on an incident side of the incident light on the first photoelectric conversion section; and a lower electrode section that is another of the electrodes disposed facing each other across the first photoelectric conversion section, the lower electrode section being formed on an opposite side of the incident side of the incident light on the first photoelectric conversion section, the lower electrode section being multiple-divided at a position that avoids a center of the incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to image sensors. |
| US11363184B2 |
Camera module, molded circuit board assembly, molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof
A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demoulding and avoiding stray lights. |
| US11363175B2 |
Camera module and electronic device
A camera module includes a housing, a unitary element, an optical lens assembly, an image-side light blocking assembly and a driving device. The unitary element is one-piece formed from a lens carrier and a lens barrel and movably disposed in the housing. The optical lens assembly is disposed in the unitary element. The image-side light blocking assembly includes at least one light blocking sheet, and the image-side light blocking assembly does not contact the optical lens assembly. The driving device is disposed between the housing and the unitary element. The driving device drives the unitary element, the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly to move in an optical axis direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical lens assembly by electromagnetic force. A minimal inner opening of the unitary element is located between the optical lens assembly and the image-side light blocking assembly. |
| US11363174B2 |
Lens module with air hole and electronic device having lens module
A lens module includes a circuit board, a carrier, and a photosensitive chip. The carrier and the photosensitive chip are arranged on a surface of the circuit board. The carrier includes a first surface arranged facing the circuit board and a second surface facing away from the circuit board. A window is defined in the carrier penetrating the first surface and the second surface. The photosensitive chip is received in the window. The carrier, the photosensitive chip, and the circuit board cooperatively form an enclosed space. An adhesive filler is arranged in the enclosed space. At least one air hole is defined in the adhesive filler. The at least one air hole communicates an inside of the enclosed space to outside the enclosed space. |
| US11363169B2 |
Color adjustment system and method
A method comprising determining a recipe vector of a recipe to a printing device, wherein the recipe is representative of a spot color in an input image, the recipe vector being based on one or more recipe color properties of the recipe, and determining a pixel vector of a pixel of an output of a printing device based on one or more pixel color properties of the pixel, wherein the pixel vector is representative of a spot color in an output of a printing device. The method also comprises comparing the recipe vector and pixel vector to determine a difference between the recipe and pixel and adjusting one or more pixel color properties of the pixel when the difference is below a predetermined threshold, to reduce the difference so as to substantially reproduce the spot color of the input image in the output of the printing device. The adjusted pixel color properties are then provided to the printing device. |
| US11363166B2 |
Duplex scanning content alignment
There is disclosed an apparatus and method of aligning content put through a duplex scanner. By performing operations on data extracted from physical documents, digital documents that would otherwise appear skewed can be un-skewed. The process compares two images, e.g. a front and a back page for a document, and determines how they are offset from one another. The process uses a projection profile error minimization technique to calculate a translation for one or both pages to digitally align the margins for a digital document such that the margins match. |
| US11363165B2 |
Image forming apparatus and control method
Provided is an image forming apparatus including a controller, a communicator that communicates with a management server, and an image former that forms an image. The communicator includes a first communicator and a second communicator. The controller transmits usage information of the image forming apparatus and state information of the image forming apparatus to the management server via the first communicator, and if an abnormality occurs in the first communicator, the controller transmits the usage information of the image forming apparatus or the state information of the image forming apparatus to the management server via the second communicator. |
| US11363162B2 |
System and method for automated organization of scanned text documents
A system and method provides automated prediction of filenames and storage locations for scan files generated from a user's scan of their financial documents. A prediction model is generated for the user based on weighted values derived from preexisting filenames and preexisting storage locations for their stored electronic files. Text or images from each scan document is analyzed and weighted and compared to the user's prediction model and a suggested name and storage location is automatically generated. The suggestions are confirmed or corrected by the user prior to storage, and any corrections are used to update the user's prediction model. |
| US11363159B2 |
Line sensor, image reading device, and image forming apparatus
In a line sensor including color filters that are periodically disposed in a light-receiving-element row, a problem called a “mixture of colors” occurs. A “mixture of colors” occurs when light that has been transmitted through a color filter differing from a color filter corresponding to a light receiving element is incident upon the light receiving element.In a CMOS sensor 107 including a light-receiving-element row in which a plurality of photodiodes 1204 are disposed side by side in a main scanning direction and a plurality of color filters 1202 that are disposed in correspondence with the plurality of photodiodes 1204, the center of each color filter 1202 is displaced in a direction of the center of the light-receiving-element row from the center of the photodiode 1204 corresponding to the color filter. |
| US11363158B2 |
Multifunction apparatus executing plurality of image processes in parallel, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
A multifunction apparatus that is capable of executing a scan job and another image process in parallel without lowering a reading speed of a scanner unit. A reading unit reads a document according to an execution instruction for a predetermined image process. An image processing unit applies the predetermined image process to image data obtained by the reading unit. A clock controller controls an image transfer clock for transferring the image data to the image processing unit from the reading unit. The clock controller sets a frequency of the image transfer clock to a predetermined frequency in a case where the predetermined image process is executed independently. And the clock controller sets the frequency of the image transfer clock to a frequency lower than the predetermined frequency in a case where the predetermined image process is executed in parallel with another image process that differs from the predetermined image process. |
| US11363157B2 |
Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
An information processing apparatus includes a detection section that detects an operation to be performed with respect to a device by a user in a non-operation state with respect to the device, and a prohibition section that prohibits reboot of the device in a case where the operation to be performed on the device is detected by the detection section. |
| US11363153B2 |
Medium conveying apparatus for determining whether a conveyed medium is ID card
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller to convey a medium, an imaging device to generate an input image acquired by imaging the conveyed medium, and a processor to extract edge pixels from the input image, detect a degree of roundness at a corner of the medium in the input image based on the edge pixels, determine whether the conveyed medium is an ID card based on the degree of roundness, and control the conveying roller based on a result of the determination or outputs the result of the determination. |
| US11363151B2 |
Program, information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and printing system
A non-transitory recording medium for an information processing apparatus having a computer program that, when executed by a hardware circuitry of the information processing apparatus, causes the information processing apparatus to request an image forming apparatus to print a document by executing steps of receiving a position of a specific color area which is printed with a specific color; and sending information of the specific color area including the received position of the specific color area and data of the document to the image forming apparatus. |
| US11363146B2 |
Unsupervised method and system to automatically train a chatbot using domain conversations
The present disclosure relates to techniques for automatically training a chatbot using utterances not understood by the chatbot itself and thus improve its understanding in a fast, effective and unsupervised way. This disclosure implements techniques to update known intents, to create new ones, and to modify the dialog manager so that new responses can be provided. Known intents can be updated with the chatbot's non-understood messages in three different ways: 1) when the user is asked to reformulate his request due to the chatbot not understanding the user, and the confidence of the new intent is greater than a confidence threshold, and the new detected intent is the same as the previous intent; 2) when the user accepts an intent suggestion from the chatbot; and 3) when the agent accepts a response suggestion from the chatbot. New intents, on the other hand, can be automatically created and automatically associated with real answers provided by human agents. These two strategies used simultaneously allow unsupervised training of a dialog system. The benefits of this approach are twofold: 1) there is no need for human intervention to improve the chatbot (unsupervised training), and 2) the new learning introduced in the models comes from real data, not from utterances produced artificially by a human. |
| US11363145B2 |
Methods for linking recommendations
A computer-implemented method and system for enhancing interaction between a customer and a customer service representative of a company. D related to the customer is stored and received at a computer operated by the company, wherein the data can include a customer name, a customer address and a customer number. A telephonic interaction is preferably commenced between the customer and the customer service representative and a Web session is preferably commenced on a Web site for a client computer of the customer service representative. At least a part of the data is displayed on a workstation of the customer service representative as a first Web page, wherein the first Web page includes at least one selectable link to a second Web page. At least one selectable link is selected by the customer service representative to display the second Web page. |
| US11363144B2 |
Device-based audio processing for enhanced customer support
A text representation is received from a virtual assistant application on a user device. The text representation may be generated via a speech-to-text engine of the virtual assistant application from audio speech spoken by a customer. Device diagnostic data of the user device is also received from the virtual assistant application. An identifier of the customer is placed in an assistance queue. At least information in the text representation and the device diagnostic data is analyzed to determine an issue associated with the user device and a solution for resolving the issue, so that the solution is applied. In response to the identifier of the customer reaching a front of the assistance queue, session state information that includes at least the text representation and a description of the issue is provided to a support application. A voice support session is initiated between the support application and the virtual assistant application. |
| US11363141B2 |
Systems and methods relating to asynchronous resolution of customer requests in contact center
A method for resolving customer requests that includes: providing a personal bot assistant and an asynchronous resolution facilitator; receiving a customer request from a first customer and producing a transcript thereof; determining an intent based on the transcript and customer information relating to the determined intent; transmitting an initial set of data to the asynchronous resolution facilitator and assembling therefrom a resolution package that includes an agent interface showing information required to expeditiously resolve the customer request including one or more recommended business processes; displaying the agent interface on a screen of the agent device; receiving input from the agent device that indicates the agent has completed preparing a resolution for the customer request; and providing notification to the first customer of the achieved resolution via the personal device of the first customer. |
| US11363134B2 |
Gateway and method for managing VoIP telephone service
The method performed by a gateway between a LAN and a WAN that includes a platform of the VoIP telephone service, is characterized in that it includes a step of activating the VoIP telephone service on detecting a connected state of a terminal connected to the gateway. |
| US11363131B2 |
Prevention of usage of harmful radio systems of a mobile apparatus in a delimited area
The invention relates to a wireless set, beacon apparatus, method and a computer program product for preventing the use of means that can generate harmful interference in a “prohibition area”. A beacon broadcasts a state signal, specifying prohibition or permission to use potentially harmful means, while its transmission range delimits the prohibition area in which the prohibition applies. A beacon receiver, included in the wireless set which also includes potentially harmful means, is active only in a beacon location area, including at least a fraction of a prohibition area. The beacon location areas are defined and stored in a digital memory of the wireless set. According to the received state signal, the potentially harmful means are induced to a deactivation state or to a regular operation state. |
| US11363130B2 |
Context aware airplane mode
An example method includes, responsive to receiving user input to activate an airplane mode of a mobile computing device: disabling a first wireless protocol; determining, based on activity of a media session, whether to maintain an enabled state of a second wireless protocol of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to stream audio data associated with the media session to an audio sink device via a second wireless protocol; and selectively maintaining the enabled state of the second wireless protocol based on the determination. |
| US11363126B2 |
On-board self-healing network for delivery of vehicle passenger-consumable content
A self-healing network on-board a vehicle includes multiple wireless devices that are directly and communicatively interconnected via communications backbone(s). One of devices is collectively determined by the other devices to be a lead device of the network, and therefore establishes a wireless link (e.g., an only wireless link) communicatively connecting any of the self-healing network devices to other devices/servers on-board the vehicle and external to the network. Passenger-consumable content may be delivered between any device of the self-healing network and the other on-board, external devices via the lead wireless device, its established wireless link, and the communications backbone(s). Any wireless device of the self-healing network may serve as a hot spare for the lead wireless device, so that the self-healing network may automatically reconfigure to mitigate and recover from faults, e.g., by automatically forming multiple, mutually exclusive sub-self-healing networks, each of which has its own cooperatively selected lead wireless device. |
| US11363120B2 |
Method for running an application on a distributed system architecture
A method for executing an application on a distributed system architecture having an application client for receiving input data and for providing output data; a local application server on the application client; at least one remote application server for receiving input data from the application client for processing input data for the application client and for returning processed input data to the application client; and an application manager for assigning the application to the local application server or to the at least one remote application server. The method includes determining a first round-trip time, determining a second round-trip time, determining a tolerance time for receiving and processing input data for the application, comparing the two round-trip times with the tolerance time, and assigning the application to the local application server or to the at least one remote application server based on the comparison. |
| US11363119B1 |
Remote processing of augmented reality workloads
In a method of distributing augmented reality workloads, a task module receives an augmented reality task. The task module identifies at least one workload and at least one workload parameter, wherein the workload comprises sensor data from one or more sensors. The task module determines whether a local processor is available and meets the workload parameters associated with the augmented reality task. If task module determines that the local processor does not meet at least one workload parameter, task module determines whether one or more remote processors meet the at least one workload parameter. The task module sends one or more workloads to any capable remote processors. |
| US11363118B2 |
User interface and content translation system
A system solution offers a Business Entity an automatically generated set of User Interfaces to run on a plurality of Client Devices of different characteristics in terms of operating system, hardware, and look and feel, and yet provide the same user experience. A User Interface that offers a user experience on a Reference Client Device is automatically translated to offer the same user experience on a plurality of Client Device having different characteristics from the Reference Client Device. The objects displayed in the User Interface for the Reference Client Device are placed on a Translation Grid that is generated and superimposed on the User Interface. A Client Translator and Generator translates the User Interface from the Reference Client to the plurality of Client Devices using the Translation Grid and a set of Translation Rules. A measurement of the automatic translation process identifies optimal and sub-optimal translation for each Client Device. |
| US11363117B2 |
Software-specific auto scaling
Techniques are disclosed for modifying an application-level configuration of a cluster of virtual application servers in response to an automatic provisioning of server instances to or from the cluster. An auto-scaling service receives an indication that one or more metrics associated with a cluster in a service provider environment triggers a specified scaling condition. The cluster includes application server instances executing one or more services provided by an application. The auto-scaling service provisions an additional application server instance in response to the indication. One or more services provided by the application are installed on the additional application server instance. A configuration engine obtains one or more scripts for configuring the additional application server instance to execute the services as part of the cluster. The scripts are executed on the application server instances to include the additional application server instance to the cluster. |
| US11363114B1 |
Securing communications in a network function virtualization (NFV) core network
A method of electronic communication via a virtual network function (NFV) implementation of a core network. The method comprises receiving a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) content request from a user equipment (UE), wherein the HTTP content request comprises an identification of a content source and determining by an orchestrator service that insufficient NFV processing capacity is available to perform the HTTP content request, where the orchestrator service is an application that executes on a first physical host. The method further comprises dynamically increasing the NFV processing capacity by the orchestrator service, performing the HTTP content request using the increased NFV processing capacity, and returning a HTTP content response to the UE, wherein the HTTP content response does not comprise identification of the content source. |
| US11363110B2 |
Content distribution systems
An example of an apparatus to connect devices to distribute content is provided. The apparatus includes a communication interface to communicate with a first device and a second device. The apparatus also includes an administration engine to manage a subscription service. In addition, the apparatus includes a memory storage unit to store a first record associated with the first device and a second record associated with the second device. The apparatus further includes an authentication engine to authenticate a request from the first device for content based on the first record. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a selection engine to select the second device based on the request. The second device is to generate the content and to transmit the content to the first device. |
| US11363109B2 |
Autonomous intelligent system for feature enhancement and improvement prioritization
Systems and methods for prioritizing enhancement and/or improvements of features of a user application are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a method includes retrieving analytics data generated by an analytics engine, where the analytics data includes data relating to user interactions with a feature of the user application. A plurality of vectors is generated from the analytics data. The plurality of vectors include vectors corresponding to user interactions with the feature. A priority is assigned to enhancing and/or improving the feature of the user application based on a weighted sum of the plurality of vectors. |
| US11363106B2 |
Electronic system for combination of temporal resource activity data and resource transmission
Embodiments of the present invention relate to, in general, combination of temporal resource activity data and resource transmission. Typically, a system configured to concatenate time dependent sequential activity data structures such that resource transmission for an impending resource activity may be performed at an antecedent resource activity associated with the sequential activity data structures, is provided. In some embodiments, based on analyzing a trigger signal, the system is configured to identify a first resource activity initiated by the user. The system may then modify the first resource activity at the first networked device, in order to link a second resource activity with the first resource activity such that the second resource activity is initiated concurrently with the first resource activity prior to the second time interval associated with the second resource activity. |
| US11363103B2 |
Dynamic user plane function (UPF) selection based on supported protocol type
A solution for establishing a data traffic (e.g., PDU) session for a user equipment (UE) on a network (e.g., 5G cellular network) comprises receiving, by a session management node, a request for the data traffic session for the UE; determining a requested traffic type for the data traffic session, wherein the requested traffic type comprises a first traffic type or a second traffic type; determining whether the session management node is connected to a first user plane function that can support the requested traffic type; based at least on determining that the first user plane function cannot support the requested traffic type, connecting, by the session management node, to a second user plane function that can support the requested traffic type; and based at least on connecting to the second user plane function, establishing the requested data traffic session for the UE using the second user plane function. |
| US11363096B2 |
Weighted auto-sharding
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatic sharding and load balancing in a distributed data processing system. In one aspect, a method includes determining workload distribution for an application across worker computers and in response to determining a load balancing operation is required: selecting a first worker computer having a highest load measure relative to respective load measure of the other work computers; determining one or more move operations for a partition of data assigned to the first worker computer and a weight for each move operation; and selecting the move operation with a highest weight the selected move operation. |
| US11363091B2 |
System and method for capturing interaction data relating to a host application
Systems and methods for capturing interaction data relating to a host application (app) implemented on a mobile device are disclosed. A tracking module is embedded in the host application. Interaction data relating to the host application is captured on the mobile device with the tracking module. The captured interaction data is transmitted from the mobile device. |
| US11363090B2 |
Integrating web applications with local client applications in multi-user client environment
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to load a web application into a browser; generate a random character string; and access a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to trigger execution of a protocol handler. The protocol handler is registered with the operating system to handle the URI scheme. The URI includes the random character string. The at least one processor is further configured to cause the protocol handler to start a local client application and provide the random character string to the local client application. The at least one processor is further configured to cause the local client application to start a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) listener on a local loopback HTTP endpoint configured for communication between the web application and the local client application. The pathname of the endpoint includes the random character string. |
| US11363086B2 |
Method and network equipment for establishing a manifest
Network equipment for establishing a manifest to be provided to a requesting terminal configured to receive a multimedia content divided into segments from a network equipment, each segment being available in one or more representations, said manifest listing available representations for the multimedia content and specifying a plurality of adaptation sets, each adaptation set defining a spatial object of the multimedia content, the spatial objects of the adaptation sets defining a whole spatial object is described. The network equipment includes at least one memory and at least one processing circuitry configured to define, in the manifest, a type of mapping of the multimedia content to the whole spatial object and a point of reference in one adaptation set of reference amongst the adaptation sets, and associate depth information with each adaptation set. |
| US11363084B1 |
Methods and systems for facilitating conversion of content in public centers
A public center is disclosed. The public center includes at least one content source configured to provide a plurality of input contents and at least one content converter device for generating a plurality of output contents from the plurality of input contents based on user requests from a plurality of users. The content converter device includes an input module configured to receive a user request from a user of the plurality of users and an input content of the plurality of input contents based on the user request. The content converter device further includes a processing module configured to generate an output content from the input content based on input content characteristics. The public center includes a plurality of content access devices configured to provide the plurality of output contents received from the at least one content converter device to the plurality of users. |
| US11363083B2 |
Managing streamed audio communication sessions
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for managing streamed audio communication sessions between user devices (50) configured to send streamed data indicative of received audio contributions from respective participants in a multiple-participant audio communication session via a communications network to one or more other user devices (50) for conversion to audio representations of said received audio contributions for other participants. The method comprises monitoring audio contributions from respective participants, and in response to detection therefrom that a first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution at a first one of said user devices (50a) after a period of silence, providing a signal for at least one of said other user devices (50b, 50c, 50d) indicating that the first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution; and in response to receipt at said at least one other user device (50b, 50c, 50d) of such a signal, triggering a predetermined audible indication for a participant at said at least one other user device (50b, 50c, 50d) that said first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution. |
| US11363078B2 |
System and method for augmented reality video conferencing
A system includes a plurality of capturing devices and a plurality of displaying devices. The capturing devices and the displaying devices can be communicatively connected to a server. The server can receive captured data from the capturing devices and transform the data into a digitized format. At least one of the capturing devices can record a video during a meeting and the capturing device can transmit the captured video to the server as a video feed. The video feed can show an area that includes handwritten text, e.g., a whiteboard. The server can receive the video feed from the capturing device and perform various processes on the video. For example, the server can perform a voice recognition, text recognition, handwriting recognition, face recognition and/or object recognition technique on the captured video. |
| US11363076B2 |
High-definition voice for fixed mobile convergence on mobile and wireline networks
Concepts and technologies provided herein can provide high-definition voice for fixed mobile convergence on mobile and wireline networks. A processor executing instructions can detect a call request associated with a called telephone number to setup a call session, where the call request is initiated from a calling device associated with an originating network. The processor can determine a call path for the call session from the originating network to a receiving network. The processor can create a fixed mobile convergence request to alert an electronic number mapping system of the call path for the call session from the originating network to the receiving network. The electronic number mapping system can provide a network presence map identifying a plurality of call receiving devices associated with the called telephone number that are available to participate in the call session via the receiving network. |
| US11363073B2 |
On-demand security association management
An ingress network element obtains data from a source endpoint associated with the ingress network element. The data identifies a destination endpoint remote from the ingress network element. The ingress network element provides a map request identifying the destination endpoint to a mapping server. The ingress network element obtains a map reply including a network address of an egress network element associated with the destination endpoint and a security association. The ingress network element encrypts the data for the destination endpoint with the security association according to a cryptographic policy based on the source endpoint, the destination endpoint, and the availability of cryptographic resources on the network. The ingress network element provides the encrypted data to the egress network element. |
| US11363072B1 |
Identifying and mitigating vulnerable security policies
This disclosure is directed to technologies for identifying and mitigating vulnerable security policies. Using techniques described herein, vulnerable or “weak” ciphers may be identified and updated before the use of the weak security policies and/or weak ciphers cause a disruption in service. A cipher agent may be authorized to monitor the SSL handshake messages which negotiate SSL ciphers and protocols happening from and to a server application. The cipher agent identifies the security policies and/or the ciphers that are utilized by the client application and determines whether the ciphers are weak ciphers. The cipher agent stores security data associated with security policies and ciphers supported by the client device. The cipher agent may store this data in a log, and/or make it available to the client and/or one or more services for further action. |
| US11363070B2 |
Preventing cross-site request forgery
A computer security method including detecting a request, made by a computer software application, prior to transmission of the request to a recipient, accessing a predefined security requirement associated with the recipient, determining whether the predefined security requirement is met, and preventing at least a portion of the request from being transmitted to the recipient if the predefined security requirement is not met. |
| US11363066B2 |
Method and device for information processing, test terminal, test platform and storage medium
A method for information processing, applied to a test terminal and includes: a test case is executed through a test application run by the test terminal to generate a message to be sent to a server supporting running of the test application; information of the message is acquired; and the information of the message is sent to a test platform, the information of the message being configured for the test platform to analyze a location of the server and obtain a risk detection result about whether the test application has a cross-border transmission risk or not based on whether the location is outside a safe region range or not. A device for information processing, a test terminal, a test platform and a storage medium are also provided. |
| US11363065B2 |
Networked device identification and classification
A method of identifying network devices such as a router includes accessing an HTTP server on at least one network device, and evaluating a web page served by the device's HTTP server. The web page is evaluated to determine whether it is similar to a page group from a plurality of page groups, where each of the plurality of page groups comprises a group of web pages similar to other pages in the page group. If the evaluated web page is determined similar to a page group, the page group most similar to the evaluated web page is identified as corresponding to the identity of the network device. |
| US11363063B2 |
Botnet detection and mitigation
A method and system for detecting and mitigating a malicious bot is disclosed. Address information is obtained from a third-party threat intelligence provider, the address information corresponding to network traffic that has been identified as malicious network traffic. Network traffic originating on a networked device is inspected in search of packets that correspond to the obtained address information. A check is performed to determine if a given one of the searched packets corresponds to an address associated with the address information and, responsive to the check indicating that the given one of the searched packets corresponds to the address associated with the address information, a managed router service is configured to mitigate the malicious network traffic. |
| US11363062B1 |
System and method for decentralized internet traffic filtering policy reporting
A system and method to filter potentially unwanted traffic from trackers, third-party cookies, malicious websites or other sources and present the aggregated results of said filtering to the VPN user. One of the embodiments enables a VPN user to opt-in or opt-out from the filtering activities while being able to access the aggregated information about filtering. In another embodiment, the user can choose to customize the filtering parameters to add or remove specific targets from the filtering policies. |
| US11363056B2 |
Compromised password detection based on abuse and attempted abuse
Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a plurality of failed login records that correspond to failed login attempts detected by a computing system, to identify suspicious patterns of activity that can facilitate the supplementation of password blacklists for improving account security. To accomplish the foregoing, failed login records that include information associated with failed login attempts are obtained for analysis. The failed login records are analyzed to identify a set of failed login records that show initial characteristics of a suspicious pattern of activity. The information included in the set of failed login records are further analyzed to determine whether a suspicious pattern of activity is actually present. When a suspicious pattern of activity is identified in the set of failed login records, the passwords used in the failed login attempts are stored in password blacklists associated with the account identifier(s) with which the passwords were used. |
| US11363052B2 |
Attack path and graph creation based on user and system profiling
Methods and systems for generating an attack path based on user and system risk profiles are presented. The method comprises determining user information associated with a computing device; determining system exploitability information of the computing device; determining system criticality information of the computing device; determining a risk profile for the computing device based on the user information, the system exploitability information, and the system criticality information; and generating an attack path based on the risk profile. The attack path indicates a route through which an attacker accesses the computing device. The system exploitability information indicates one or more of: the vulnerability associated with the computing device, an exposure window associated with the computing device, and a protection window associated with the computing device. The system criticality information indicates one or more: assets associated with the computing device and services associated with the computing device. |
| US11363045B2 |
Vehicle anomaly detection server, vehicle anomaly detection system, and vehicle anomaly detection method
A vehicle anomaly detection server includes: a communicator that communicates with a vehicle to receive a log of an in-vehicle network in the vehicle; a processor; and a memory including at least one set of instructions that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations including: selecting, when information indicating that an anomaly is occurring to a first vehicle among vehicles is obtained by the processor, an anomaly-related vehicle from among the vehicles based on the anomaly, the first vehicle being the vehicle that communicates with the communicator; transmitting, to the anomaly-related vehicle via the communicator, a first request to transmit a log of an in-vehicle network in the anomaly-related vehicle; and determining whether an anomaly is occurring to the anomaly-related vehicle, based on information indicated by the log transmitted from the anomaly-related vehicle and received by the communicator. |
| US11363040B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically restricting the rendering of unauthorized content included in information resources
Systems and methods for dynamically restricting rendering of unauthorized content included in information resources are provided herein. A computing device can identify an information resource including a content object specifying one or more graphical characteristics. The computing device can determine that the content object corresponds to a restricted content object by applying at least one of an action-based detection policy to detect actions performed on the information resource or a visual-based detection policy to detect the graphical characteristics of the content object. The computing device can modify by applying a content rendering restriction policy the information resource to alter rendering of the content element on the information resource responsive to the determination. |
| US11363039B2 |
Detection of data leaks using targeted scanning
Techniques are disclosed relating to detecting data leaks using targeted scanning. For example, in various embodiments, a scanner module may monitor communications between a user device and a server system, where the user device requests access to a resource provided via the server system. The scanner module may perform various data loss prevention operations to detect the leaking of sensitive data associated with an organization. For example, the scanner module may perform an initial scan of the resource to capture an initial version of the resource at an establishment of a connection between the user device and the server system. The scanner module may perform a subsequent scan that captures a subsequent version of the resource. Based on the initial and subsequent versions of the resource, the scanner module may determine whether any data loss prevention rules have been violated and, if so, initiate one or more corrective actions. |
| US11363038B2 |
Detection impersonation attempts social media messaging
Embodiments include a method, system and computer program product for detecting impersonation attempts in social media messaging. Aspects include receiving, via a social media network, a message from a sender to a recipient and analyzing a content of the message to extract factual statements from the message. Aspects also include analyzing a profile of the recipient to extract facts from the profile and comparing each of the factual statements to the facts from the profile. Based on a determination that one of the factual statements are verifiable by at least one of the facts, aspects include assigning a likelihood score to the factual statements. Aspects further include calculating a legitimacy score for the message based at least in part on the likelihood score of each verified factual statement from the message and transmitting the legitimacy score and the message to the recipient. |
| US11363037B2 |
Real-time detection of malicious activity through collaborative filtering
A machine compromised by malicious activity is detected by identifying an anomalous port opened on an entity of a network. The anomalous port is detected through collaborative filtering using usage patterns derived from normal network traffic using open ports of entities on the network. The collaborative filtering employs single value decomposition with alternating least squares to generate a recommendation score identifying whether an entity having a newly-opened port is likely to be used for malicious activity. |
| US11363034B2 |
Method and device for operating a control unit in a network of control units
A method for operating a control unit in a network of control units, including the following features: a request to change a mode of the network is received, the request is subjected to a check, which provides a check result; a communication is disseminated to the remaining control units and a response is received in each case with respect to the check result and to a status of the network known to the control unit; and the request is complied with or rejected as a function of the responses. |
| US11363033B2 |
Time-dependent blockchain-based self-verification user authentication method
A time-dependent blockchain based self-verification user authentication method of the present disclosure includes, a reservation registration step for registering reservation time which is obtained by adding a set time to an input time, and an authentication subject to a blockchain which is distributed and stored in a plurality of nodes; a reservation notification step for notifying a notification group, which is associated with the authentication subject, of a reservation registered in the reservation registration step; a verification step for verifying authentication request time and the reservation time, which has been registered to the blockchain, when there is an authentication request with respect to the authentication subject; and a step for granting authentication when the authentication request time is within a valid range of the reservation time in the verification step. |
| US11363032B2 |
Resolving decentralized identifiers at customized security levels
The resolving of a decentralized identifier at a customized security level. When a decentralized identity is resolved, it is resolved into a data structure (e.g., a document) that corresponds to the decentralized identity. The resolving includes causing a user interface to be rendered to the user, detecting user interaction with the user interface, and then based on that user interaction identifying a level of resolver security to use when resolving that decentralized identifier. The method then resolve the decentralized identity using that identifier level of resolver security. As an example, higher levels of resolver security may be obtained by using consensus from multiple resolvers. |
| US11363031B2 |
Network architecture providing device identification and redirection using whitelisting traffic classification
A network edge device includes switching circuitry configured to switch traffic from one or more endpoint devices to corresponding application services over a network; and processing circuitry configured to monitor the traffic from the one or more endpoint devices, compare the monitored traffic to classify the one or more endpoint devices into a corresponding trust level of a plurality of trust levels, and route the traffic from each of the one or more endpoint devices based on its corresponding trust level. The network edge element is configured to provide network connectivity to the one or more endpoint devices. |
| US11363029B2 |
Big data distributed processing and secure data transferring with hyper fencing
Aspects of the disclosure relate to resource allocation and rebating during in-flight data masking and on-demand encryption of big data on a network. Computer machine(s), cluster managers, nodes, and/or multilevel platforms can request, receive, and/or authenticate requests for a big data dataset, containing sensitive and non-sensitive data. Profiles can be auto provisioned, and access rights can be assigned. Server configuration and data connection properties can be defined. Secure connection(s) to the data store can be established. The big data dataset can be uncompressed based on a codec and uncompressed data blocks can be distributed for processing. Sensitive information can be redacted into a sanitized dataset based on one or more data obfuscation types. The encrypted data can be transmitted, in response to the request, to a source, a target, and/or another computer machine and can be decrypted back into the sanitized dataset. |
| US11363026B2 |
Workflow control method and system based on one-to-one correspondence between roles and users
The present invention discloses a workflow control method and system based on a one-to-one correspondence between roles and users, including: building a three-layer structure model of user-role-permission, wherein each role is an independent individual, one role can only be related to a unique user during the same period, and one user is related to one or more roles; using the three-layer structure model to control a workflow, selecting an approval role, and authorizing the approval role; and determining, according to a user's related role, an approval task to be processed, and performing an approval operation with the permission of the related role. In the present invention, the subject of the approval operation in the workflow is the role. Even if changes on an employee or a user have occurred (such as transfer or resignation), or the approval permissions of the employee have changed, it is only necessary to relate the employee to a new role, or adjust the approval permissions of the existing role accordingly, but not necessary to reset or adjust the processes. The setting is convenient and not prone to errors or omissions. This avoids impact on the normal operation of a company, and significantly improves the reliability of the workflow. |
| US11363025B2 |
Diabetes management partner interface for wireless communication of analyte data
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In embodiments, a method of using a diabetes management partner interface to configure an analyte sensor system for wireless communication with a plurality of partner devices is provided. The method includes the analyte sensor system receiving authorization to provide one of the partner devices with access to a set of configuration parameters via the diabetes management partner interface. The set of configuration parameters is stored in a memory of the analyte sensor system. The method also includes, responsive to input received from the one partner device via the diabetes management partner interface, the analyte sensor system setting or causing a modification to the set of configuration parameters, according to a system requirement of the one partner device. |
| US11363024B2 |
Supplanting access credentials for shared data visualizations
Supplanting access credentials for shared data visualizations including receiving, from a first identity provider (IDP) account, a request to generate a data visualization utilizing restricted data from a cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the data visualization is generated by accessing the restricted data using the first IDP account; in response to receiving a request to share the data visualization with a receiving entity without access to the restricted data, associating, by a data visualizer, the data visualization with a service account with access to the restricted data, wherein the service account is not authenticated as a user of the first IDP account; and providing, by the data visualizer to the receiving entity, access to the data visualization including generating the data visualization by accessing, using the service account, the restricted data from the cloud-based data warehouse. |
| US11363020B2 |
Method, device and storage medium for forwarding messages
Embodiments of this application disclose a method for detecting a security breach. The method includes: receiving a target message sent by a terminal of a first account to a terminal of a second account; determining that there is a potential security risk associated with the first account; interrupting transmission of the target message from the first account to the second account; randomly selecting an identity authentication question from a preset question database; separately sending the identity authentication question to the first account and the second account, respectively; receiving a first answer to the identity authentication question from the first account and a second answer to the identity authentication question from the second account; and resuming transmission of the message from the first account to the second account when the first answer matches the second answer. |
| US11363016B2 |
Biometrics hub for changing a schedule for processing biometrics data in response to detecting a power event
A biometrics hub may establish a session with a first biometric device, receive first biometric data of a user from the first biometric device, establish a session with a second biometric device, receive second biometric data of the user from the second biometric device, and store the first biometric data and the second biometric data at the biometrics hub. The biometrics hub may further detect a power event associated with at least one of the first biometric device or the second biometric device, and change, in response to detecting the power event, a schedule for processing at least one of the first biometric data or the second biometric data. |
| US11363015B2 |
Provisioning transferable access tokens
Methods and systems for provisioning transferable access tokens are disclosed. An access device associated with a resource provider can communicate with a first communication device as part of an interaction between a first user and the resource provider. The access device can generate an authorization request message comprising a first access token and an interaction value. The access device can transmit the authorization request message to an authorization computer. The authorization computer can authorize the interaction and generate an authorization response message. After authorizing the interaction, the authorization computer can provide a transferable access token to the first communication device. The first communication device can transmit the transferable access token to a second communication device, so that a second user can use the transferable access token in an interaction. |
| US11363013B2 |
Authentication identity management for mobile device applications
An identity authenticator receives a first authentication credential from a first application at a first computing device. The identity authenticator then determines that the first authentication credential is associated with a second authentication credential for the first application at a second computing device based on a stored authentication identity. The identity authenticator then provides a stored execution state for the first application to the first computing device, wherein the stored execution state is associated, based on the stored authentication identity, with at least one of the first authentication credential or the second authentication credential. |
| US11363010B2 |
Method and device for managing digital certificate
A method and device for managing a digital certificate are provided. A digital certificate requesting device negotiates with a digital certificate issuing device by using an acquired authorization code, to establish a security data channel and generate a security key, and messages can be encrypted with the generated data communication key during a process of message interaction between the digital certificate requesting device and the digital certificate issuing device, thereby effectively increasing the security in data transmission. The method and device are applicable for automatically requesting for, querying, updating, revoking a digital certificate and acquiring a digital certificate revocation list in various scenarios. |
| US11363009B2 |
System and method for providing secure cloud-based single sign-on connections using a security service provider having zero-knowledge architecture
Systems and methods for providing secure single sign-on authentication and management of encrypted vault in a fully cloud-based zero-knowledge environment. A user on a client device attempts to use a network resource. The user is directed to login to the identity provider. The identity provider authenticates the user through a login process. If the user is identified to be a valid user, the identity provider sends the user an attestation sign-on key to confirm the user is valid. The client device sends the attestation sign-on key to a vault service provider, which verifies the attestation using a configured public key. The client device retrieves a data decryption key and an encrypted data key, which are stored in different entities in the system. The encrypted data key is decrypted on the client device using the data decryption key. |
| US11363000B1 |
System for virtual private network authentication sensitivity with read only sandbox integration
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system that performs virtual private network authentication with a read only sandbox integration for virtual private network security. In this way, the invention matches an internet protocol address to a user portrait of user internet protocol addresses to confirm that the connecting device is the authentic user for accessing the virtual private network. If there is a discrepancy between the user portrait and the internet protocol address of the connecting device, the system launches a read only sandbox for connecting device interaction. The read only sandbox allows for bilateral communication with the connecting device where the system has full access to the connection device at a file level to interrogate file level data for confirmation. |
| US11362999B2 |
Client-only virtual private network
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform, including a processor and a memory; and executable instructions encoded in the memory to provide a client-only virtual private network (VPN) including a VPN client and a VPN server on a single physical device, wherein the VPN client is configured to communicatively couple to the VPN server and to provide proxied Internet protocol (IP) communication services via the VPN server. |
| US11362992B2 |
Allocating additional bandwidth to resources in a datacenter through deployment of dedicated gateways
Some embodiments provide a method for deploying edge forwarding elements in a public or private software defined datacenter (SDDC). For an entity, the method deploys a default first edge forwarding element to process data message flows between machines of the entity in a first network of the SDDC and machines external to the first network of the SDDC. The method subsequently receives a request to allocate more bandwidth to a first set of the data message flows entering or exiting the first network of the SDDC. In response, the method deploys a second edge forwarding element to process the first set of data message flows of the entity in order to allocate more bandwidth to the first set of the data message flows, while continuing to process a second set of data message flows of the entity through the default first edge node. The method in some embodiments receives the request for more bandwidth by first receiving a request to create a traffic group and then receiving a list of network addresses that are associated with the traffic group. In some embodiments, the method receives the list of network addresses associated with the traffic group by receiving a prefix of network addresses and receiving a request to associate the prefix of network addresses with the traffic group. Based on this request, the method then creates an association between the traffic group and the received prefix of network addresses. |
| US11362977B2 |
Method and system for prioritizing communications responses
Methods, information handling systems and computer readable media are disclosed for prioritizing communications. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a communications prioritization engine including a processor, communication data reflecting a communication. The communication data comprises source information representing a source of the communication. This method embodiment further includes identifying subject characteristic information within the communication data, and determining a subject characteristic score component using the subject characteristic information. The embodiment further includes determining a source score component using the source information and determining a response priority score using the subject characteristic score component and the source score component. The embodiment further includes determining, based on the response priority score, whether the communication data should be forwarded to a response function of the provider, and forwarding the communication data to the response function in response to a determination that the communication data should be forwarded. |
| US11362976B2 |
Secure forum facilitator in controlled environment
An forum facilitator device is provided that allows for a controlled environment to provide a secure forum for residents to provide communications to other registered users of the secure forum. The communications are provided through posts made in the secure forum and through other types of communications from the inmate such as but not limited to emails and text messages. The forum facilitator device operates the secure forum and implements rules to control what is posted on the secure forum, who is able to access the secure forum, and what entities are allowed to view and interact with residents of the controlled environment. |
| US11362975B1 |
Visibility filtering
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for visibility filtering. One of the methods includes receiving a request for particular data on a social messaging platform; passing the request to one or more services, wherein each service is configured to call to data sources or to additional services to collect the particular data according to a request path defined for a type of request; performing visibility filtering at each service upon obtaining responses to calls made by that service, wherein performing visibility filtering at a service comprises calling a local visibility library that evaluates one or more rules with respect to the obtained response data, and wherein the results of the visibility filtering are passed upstream along the request path until a last service obtains all filtered response data; and assembling a final response to the request based on the filtered response data. |
| US11362973B2 |
System and method for providing unique interactive media content
A system and method for displaying content to a user comprises a database containing a plurality of media, each of the plurality of media having an associated user image and a processor operably coupled to the database. The processor is configured to receive an image captured by a user device, receive an inputted code entered into the user device, lookup a specific media content corresponding to the image and the code and transmit the specific media content to the user device for display to the user in real time. The method comprises receiving the scanned image and the inputted code, looking up the specific media corresponding to the scanned image and the code and transmitting in real time, the specific media to the user device for display to the user. |
| US11362972B2 |
Systems and methods for messaging patient information in medical system environments
A messaging server may receive message data which may comprise message information. The messaging server may generate one or more messages which may be formatted according to different endpoint protocols. The messaging server may send the messages using the same protocol as the protocol used for formatting the messages. |
| US11362966B2 |
Method of ethernet auto-negotiation over one cable
Examples include a method of identifying single twisted pair cable Ethernet auto-negotiation requests or double twisted pair cables Ethernet auto-negotiation requests using detection of message time interval patterns. The method includes receiving, by a first Ethernet device, a plurality of messages transmitted by a second Ethernet device over a single twisted pair cable connecting the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device; storing one or more time intervals between starting times of successive pairs of the plurality of messages; determining if a pattern is found in the time intervals; when the pattern is found, setting a single twisted pair cable communications mode between the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device; and performing priority resolution between the first Ethernet device and the second Ethernet device. |
| US11362964B2 |
Methods and apparatus for scheduling of services in a traffic-engineering network
Apparatus and methods are provided for scheduling services in a traffic-engineered communications network. In one aspect a method comprises: receiving a request to schedule a second service utilizing the network in a second time period, wherein the second time period overlaps a first time period in which a first service utilizing the network has already been scheduled; and computing a path for the second service through the network. The step of computing the path for the second service through the network comprises: responsive to a determination that the request is received less than the threshold period of time before the start of the first time period, disallowing the second service from pre-empting the first service. |
| US11362962B2 |
Systems and methods for queue control based on client-specific protocols
The present disclosure generally relates to controlling access to resources by selectively processing requests stored in a task queue to prioritize certain requests over others, thereby preventing automated scripts from accessing the resources. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a normalization and prioritization system for controlling access to resources by queuing resource requests based on a client-defined normalization process that uses one or more data sources. |
| US11362960B2 |
Layer 3 fair rate congestion control notification
A network device, including ports that receive/send data packets from/to a network, receives data packets of multiple traffic flows, and populates a queue in memory with the data packets. The network device periodically updates a fair rate for the multiple traffic flows to converge a length of the queue to a reference length. Specifically, the network device determines a length of the queue, a change in the length from a previous length, and a deviation of the length from the reference length. The network device detects an increase in the change in length above a threshold that is based on the reference length. If the increase is not above the threshold, the network device derives the fair rate from a previous fair rate using proportional integral control. The network device identifies elephant flows among the multiple traffic flows, and sends the fair rate to a source of each elephant flow. |
| US11362958B2 |
Device and method for transferring identification and/or data flow control information between devices
A device and a method for communicating with a link partner device. The device may include a fragmentation unit configured to fragment a packet into multiple fragments if a size of the packet is greater than a maximum fragment size, a packet control header unit configured to generate a packet control header for a packet or each fragment of the packet, and a transceiver configured to send the packet or the fragments of the packet with the packet control header via a connection between the device and the link partner device. The packet control header may include at least one of a traffic control identifier field for identifying a data stream to which the packet belongs, a priority field for indicating a priority for the packet, or a data flow control field for congestion control between the device and the link partner device. |
| US11362957B2 |
Jitter elimination and latency compensation at DetNet transport egress
In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a transport layer executed by a processor circuit in an apparatus, an identifiable grouping of data; storing, by the transport layer, the data as transport layer packets in a buffer circuit in the apparatus, the storing including inserting into each transport layer packet a grouping identifier that identifies the transport layer packets as belonging to the identifiable grouping; and causing, by the transport layer, a plurality of transmitting deterministic network interface circuits to deterministically retrieve the transport layer packets from the buffer circuit for deterministic transmission across respective deterministic links, the grouping identifier enabling receiving deterministic network interface circuits to group the received transport layer packets, regardless of deterministic link, into a single processing group for a next receiving transport layer. |
| US11362954B2 |
Tunneling inter-domain stateless internet protocol multicast packets
A router is configured for deployment in a first domain of a network. The router includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to access addresses of egress routers for a multicast flow that are partitioned into local addresses of egress routers in the first domain and external addresses of egress routers in a second domain of the network. The processor is also configured to prepend an explicit multicast route (EMR) to a packet in the multicast flow to form a first EMR packet. The EMR includes information representing the external addresses. The transmitter is configured to unicast the first EMR packet to an advertising border router (ABR) that conveys the multicast flow from the first domain to the second domain. In some cases, the router includes a receiver configured to receive another EMR packet from another router in another domain via a tunnel between the routers. |
| US11362953B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling congestion
A method, performed by a receiver, for controlling congestion, including receiving packets from a transmitter, determining a maximum transmission rate of the received packets; determining a minimum packet delay of the received packets; determining characteristics of a congestion window of next packets to be received from the transmitter based on the maximum transmission rate and the minimum packet delay; and transmitting information on the determined characteristics of the congestion window to the transmitter. |
| US11362947B2 |
Interconnecting multiple separate openflow domains
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first controller device in a first OpenFlow domain, a packet from an originating endpoint in the first OpenFlow domain destined for a destination endpoint in a second OpenFlow domain that is separate from the first OpenFlow domain; outputting, by the first controller device, a broadcast message identifying the destination endpoint to a plurality of respective controller devices associated with separate OpenFlow domains; receiving, by the first controller device, a response to the broadcast message from the destination endpoint via a second controller device associated with the second OpenFlow domain; updating, by the first controller device, a local flow table identifying a flow for transmitting the packet to the destination endpoint based on information included in the response; and transmitting, by the first controller device, the packet towards the destination endpoint based on updating the local flow table. |
| US11362945B2 |
Dynamic lookup optimization for packet classification
A method is implemented by a network device to dynamically optimize lookup speed in a packet processing table maintained at the network device while the network device is in operation. The method includes determining one or more runtime metrics of the packet processing table, selecting a lookup algorithm for the packet processing table from a set of lookup algorithms supported by the network device based on the one or more runtime metrics of the packet processing table, and configuring the network device to match incoming packets against rules in the packet processing table using the selected lookup algorithm for the packet processing table. |
| US11362943B2 |
System and method for validating virtual session requests
A computing system may include a computing device configured to store and update published resource entitlements for a plurality of client devices. The system may further include a plurality of virtual delivery appliances configured to receive connection requests from the client devices, with the connection requests including a connection lease issued based upon the published resource entitlements for the client devices, request validation of the connection leases from the computing device, and provide the client devices with access to virtual sessions corresponding to the published resource entitlements responsive to validation of connection leases from the computing device. The computing device, responsive to validation requests from the virtual delivery appliances, may also compare the connection leases to the updated published resource entitlements and validate virtual session requests based thereon. |
| US11362935B2 |
Automatic multi-chassis link aggregation configuration with link layer discovery
A computer network includes a server computer having communication ports that are wired to switch ports of two separate network switches. The network switches receive link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) packets from other network devices, and automatically aggregate corresponding switch ports into a port channel aggregation based on the contents of the LLDP packets. |
| US11362932B2 |
Achieving highly available autonomous systems (AS) in a source-selected path routing network
The present application refers to a method and a system for reliably forwarding data packets in a source-selected path routing network including a plurality of autonomous systems. For this purpose, a data plane of each of the plurality of autonomous systems that comprises one or more border routers and a control plane of each of the plurality of autonomous systems that comprises a control service are split into two or more shards. Each of said shards contains exactly one control service and at least one border router and is responsible for processing, storing and propagating path information only for a subset of existing links between an autonomous system and a neighboring autonomous system within the source-selected path routing network. Hence, in the source-selected path routing network, each individual shard is not critical and thus can fail without compromising the availability of the entire system. |
| US11362931B2 |
Optimized processing based on processing job requirements
A system is provided for optimized selection of a plurality of processing units for resource intensive processing operations. The system includes a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, to perform the scheduling operations which include receiving a processing operation for a data input that requires processing in a computing environment, determining at least one constraint requirement imposed on performing the processing operation that are all required to be fulfilled for successful completion of the processing operation, accessing a routing table associated with the computing environment, determining one of the plurality of processing units from the routing table based on fulfilling all of the at least one constraint requirement, and assigning the processing operation to the one of the plurality of processing units on the least costly basis or other optimization consideration. The processing units are serverless in a preferred embodiment. |
| US11362929B2 |
System and method for remote management of sale transaction data
This invention discloses a novel system and method and system for sharing a data item among a plurality of computers connected in an arbitrary network topology. In the preferred embodiment, each of the plurality of computers has a local copy of the data item, but can only edit the copy by obtaining a token from the current token owner, thereby becoming a new current token owner. When the token owner makes a change to the data item, the change is broadcast to the other computers, along with the identity of the new current token owner. Routing of token requests and broadcasts is accomplished by means of each computer calculating a routing table based on information it receives from those computers to which it is directly connected on the network. |
| US11362928B2 |
Method, electronic device and computer program product for generating network topology
Techniques for generating a network topology are provided. For example, a method comprises: sending, at an edge node of a network, first exploration data to a first node of the network. The method also comprises receiving from the first node first feedback information for the first exploration data. The first feedback information includes identity information of the first node and first associated node list information, and the first associated node list information includes identity information of nodes associated with the first node in the network. In addition, the method comprises: determining latency between the first node and the second node based on the first latency information and the second latency information. Then, the method further comprises updating the network topology based on the latency between the first node and the second node. Through the method, the present disclosure can provide accurate data support for path optimization. |
| US11362927B2 |
Methods, switch and frame capture managing module for managing ethernet frames
A switch and a Frame Capture Managing Module (FCMM) for managing Ethernet frames. The FCMM receives a request for capturing Ethernet frames at a network interface of the switch. The request comprises an identity of the network interface and information relating to a second filter indicating Ethernet frames for monitoring by the network node. The FCMM sends to the switch, a configuration comprising the identity of the network interface of the switch, an indication about a first multicast channel, and information relating to a first filter. The FCMM sends a response comprising a second multicast channel relating to the first multicast channel. Furthermore, the switch receives a request for receiving Ethernet frame sent to the first multicast channel. The switch filters, by use of the first filter, received Ethernet frames into a collection of Ethernet frames. The switch sends the collection of Ethernet frames on the first multicast channel. |
| US11362925B2 |
Optimizing service node monitoring in SDN
A method implemented by a switch in a software defined networking (SDN) network to monitor a service node communicatively coupled to the switch. The method includes generating a first flow entry that matches packets received from the service node, generating a second flow entry that matches packet received from the service node, wherein the second flow entry has a priority that is lower than a priority of the first flow entry, removing the first flow entry and transmitting a flow removed message to an SDN controller in response to a determination that the first flow entry has timed out, maintaining a statistic associated with the second flow entry, and transmitting a statistics trigger event message to the SDN controller in response to a determination that the statistic associated with the second flow entry exceeds a threshold value. |
| US11362924B2 |
Methods and apparatus to monitor media in a direct media network
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a message extractor to extract message information from a message obtained from a streaming monitor at a media exposure measurement location, the message information including media identification information of media presented in a direct media network and media device information associated with at least one of a streaming client device associated with the direct media network or a media presentation device associated with the direct media network, a media device identifier to identify at least one of the streaming client device or the media presentation device based on the media device information, a media identifier to identify the media based on the media identification information, and a media creditor to credit the media as having been accessed in response to identifying the media. |
| US11362919B2 |
Method and device for monitoring data related to broadcasting and/or streaming
A method for monitoring data related to broadcasting and/or streaming is described wherein broadcasting and/or streaming data are provided. At least one still image within the broadcasting and/or streaming data is detected in order to identify a possible error. The still image detected is compared with a whitelist of images. A still image alarm is suppressed provided that the still image detected is in the whitelist. Further, a device for monitoring data related to broadcasting and/or streaming is described. |
| US11362918B2 |
Intelligent analytics virtual network orchestration system and method
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a request for a network service between two network nodes and identifying a network path between the two network nodes, wherein the network path is realized by equipment performing a number of network functions. A first network function of the number of network functions is associated with a first number of redundant virtualized network resources performing at least a similar network function as the first network function. Usage metrics are determined corresponding to the first number of redundant virtualized network resources and a first virtualized network resource of the first number of redundant virtualized network resources is assigned to the network path based on the usage metrics to obtain a first assigned virtualized network resource. The network service is provided between the two network nodes using the first assigned virtualized network resource. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11362916B2 |
Visual identification of a port and a cable in a network
Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for a visual identification of a port and a previously connected cable of a link in a network environment including a network switch or a network device. The apparatus having an LED arrangement at a port assembly configured for illumination at the port and configured to provide illumination via the cable to a remote end of the link. An identifier providing component controls the LED arrangement based on a unique attribute of the link including: detecting a status change of a link; obtaining the unique attribute related to the link from a layer of a protocol received on both ends of the link; selecting an identifier based on the unique attribute related to the link; and instructing the LED arrangement to be configured to provide a light output of the selected identifier. |
| US11362915B2 |
Distributed computing system for intensive video processing
A method for distributing load in a network of processing nodes, wherein the network includes a requesting node, and a set of external processing nodes. The method includes sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) message to each external processing node, classifying each external processing node as being either a responding or a non-responding node based on its response time, identifying a responding node that has the capability to fulfill a video processing request, determining first and second sets of excluded responding nodes, selecting the identified node for fulfilling the video processing request, when the identified node does not form a part of the first and second sets of excluded responding nodes, sending a transmission package from the requesting node to the selected identified node for processing, and receiving a binary response from the selected node. |
| US11362914B2 |
Method and control system for controlling and/or monitoring devices
A simple management of complex control instruction chains in a blockchain for a specific task for controlling devices is provided. In particular, a prescribed validity is assigned for a specific task of a blockchain-based device controller, the validity being defined by the life cycle (e.g. the period of use) of a device, for example. |
| US11362913B2 |
Systems and methods for managing service level agreements of support tickets using a chat session
Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate managing information technology service level agreements. In some embodiments, the system includes a server that accesses a database storing a support ticket in memory. The support ticket can include a creation time and a service level agreement. The service level agreement can include a maximum response time. The server initiates, via the computer network, responsive to input from a computing device, a chat session associated with the computing device and the support ticket. The initiating can be associated with a time stamp. The server can be configured to determine a compliance with the service level agreement. The compliance can be computed as a difference between the time stamp and the creation time being less than the maximum response time. The server can be configured to generate a notification of the compliance with the service level agreement. |
| US11362911B2 |
Network management device and method for discovering and managing network connected databases
Systems, software, and methods for managing traditional (i.e., TCP/IP-based), non-traditional, and traditional-non-traditional hybrid networks of connected electronic devices are described. In one example, network management policy and network management applications are downloaded automatically upon detection and identification of a new device, application or service on a network. In another example, information related to at least one aspect of the network is obtained by a network management device through connection to a non-TCP/IP network, or by way of a gateway device or application, at least one applicable management policy is identified, and the identified policy is used to manage at least one aspect of the network's operation. In another example, devices, applications or services presenting various behaviors under various scenarios are evaluated and placed under management. |
| US11362903B2 |
High performance and scalable multi-layer topology discovery systems and methods
High performance and scalable multi-layer topology discovery systems and methods provide awareness of what services are present across a multi-layer network. The present disclosure achieves a high level of performance in service discovery, and, in addition, provides a form of scalability in proportion to network size by distributing service observation across servers in a cluster. The present disclosure defines a concept of change-proportional online run-time efficiency and thus provides an optimal design. Further, the present disclosure achieves horizontal scale, leveraging multiple cores across multiple servers. |
| US11362901B1 |
Dynamic balloon network coverage map
Example embodiments may relate to web interfaces for a balloon-network. For example, a computing device may display a graphical interface that provides information related to a balloon network configured to provide service in a geographic area, where the graphical interface includes a map. The computing device may receive real-time bandwidth data related to balloons in the balloon network, where the balloons are each configured to change position via altitudinal movement and via horizontal movement with respect to the ground. Based at least in part on the received real-time bandwidth data, the computing device may display, on the map, a visual representation of bandwidth information corresponding to one or more regions in the geographic area, where the visual representation of bandwidth information updates from time to time based at least in part on a change in position of one or more balloons in the balloon network. |
| US11362896B2 |
Devices, systems and processes for rapid install of IoT devices
Devices, systems, and processes for rapid installation of numerous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are described. For at least one embodiment, a system for installing multiple Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices may include a multi-device hub communicatively coupled to each of multiple IoT devices. One or more gateways are coupled to the multi-device hub. One or more IoT servers are coupled to at least one of the one or more gateways. The multi-device hub is configured to facilitate a bulk installation of the multiple IoT devices by executing non-transient computer instructions for registering and activating each of the IoT devices with use with one or more IoT servers. |
| US11362895B2 |
Automatic configuration of an extended service appliance for network routers
An external processing system includes a port to exchange signals with a router. The external processing system also includes a processor to receive, from the router via the port, information representing an operating system and a hypervisor in response to the external processing system being connected to the router via the port. The processor instantiates the operating system and the hypervisor based on the received information. The router includes a port allocated to an external processing system and configured to exchange signals with the external processing system. The router also includes a controller to provide, to the external processing system via the port, information representing the operating system and the hypervisor in response to the external processing system being connected to the external processing system via the port. |
| US11362894B2 |
Wiring management system and wiring management method
When separate service apparatuses that provide various communication services to users are connected by a wiring with communication functional units interposed, if there is a wiring abnormality, the location of the abnormality is easily identified. When a wiring connection is completed between separated service apparatuses X and Y that provide various communication services to user terminals 31 and 32 with communication functional units A1 and B2 interposed, a wiring management system 10A includes a transmission network management apparatus 14A that identifies a wiring abnormality. The transmission network management apparatus 14A associates endpoint names of the service apparatuses X and Y and of the functional units A1 and B2 with opposite endpoint names on the opposite sides, defines opposite endpoint IDs of the endpoints of the functional units A1 and B2 as expected values, and saves the end points in association with the opposite endpoint IDs in a DB 14b. Upon completing the wiring connection between the service apparatuses X and Y, an opposite endpoint ID of each of the functional units A1 and B2 and the service apparatuses X and Y opposite to predetermined functional units A1 and B2 is received as a received value via a wiring, and if the received value does not match the expected value, it is determined that the wiring is abnormal. |
| US11362892B2 |
Communication device, certification method, and computer readable recording medium for recertification of devices
A home energy management system (HEMS) controller certifies a plurality of devices participating in an HEMS network. When a request for re-certification is issued to a given device among the plurality of devices and when a response is not available from the device, the HEMS controller suspends a re-certification process for the device and performs a re-certification process for another device first. |
| US11362886B2 |
Distinguishing between network- and device-based sources of service failures
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for distinguishing between network- and device-based sources of service failures in service networks. For instance, in one example, a method includes merging a first set of data with a second set of data to produce a merged data set. The first set of data relates to a customer device connected to a service network and the second set of data relates to the service network. A failure is predicted in the delivery of a service from the service network to the customer device, based on the merged set of data. It is determined whether a source of the failure is rooted in the customer device or in the service network. |
| US11362885B2 |
Method, apparatus, device and readable medium for disaster recovery processing for infrastructure areas
A method, an apparatus, a device and a readable medium for disaster recovery processing for infrastructure areas which relate to the technical field of infrastructure area management are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request for the service; under the condition that a monitoring system detects that there is an identifier of a faulty infrastructure area in identifiers of at least two infrastructure areas having a binding relationship with the request for the service, unbinding the binding relationship between the identifier of the faulty infrastructure area and the service; scheduling traffic for the request for the service to an unfaulty infrastructure area, according to a remaining unbound binding relationship between the service and the identifier of the unfaulty infrastructure area. According to the technical solutions, the damages may be stopped in time when the fault occurs in the infrastructure area. |
| US11362884B2 |
Fault root cause determining method and apparatus, and computer storage medium
In a fault root cause determining method, a management device obtains a fault feature of a target network in which a fault occurs. The fault feature is determined based on a knowledge graph of the target network in which the fault occurs. The knowledge graph includes a network entity and an abnormal event entity. The abnormal event entity is connected to an abnormal network entity. The abnormal network entity is a network entity that generates an abnormal event in the target network. The abnormal event entity is configured to indicate the abnormal event generated by the abnormal network entity. A type of the network entity is a network device, an interface, a protocol, or a service. The management device determines a fault root cause of the target network based on the fault feature. |
| US11362879B2 |
Constellation rotation method and base station
A constellation rotation method is presented. The method includes: determining a statistical characteristic of a received signal of a Base Station (BS) according to a channel coefficient of one or more User Equipments (UEs), at least one of noise information and interference information, the received signal being a signal received by the BS through a physical channel from the one or more UEs; determining a constellation rotation angle of each UE according to the determined statistical characteristic of the received signal; and for each UE, rotating a constellation of a data stream of a UE according to the constellation rotation angle of the UE. |
| US11362876B2 |
Receiving device and receiving method, and mobile terminal test apparatus provided with receiving device
A receiving device 100 includes a reception unit 10, a delay signal generation unit 22, a difference calculation unit 23 that calculates a phase difference between the received signal and the delay signal, a variance calculation unit 24 that calculates a variance of the phase difference within a plurality of calculation sections while sliding a set of the plurality of calculation sections which are set corresponding to a cyclic prefix group assigned to a predetermined symbol group included in the received signal, together on the time axis, a symbol detecting unit 25 that detects a position of a symbol in the symbol group on the time axis, based on the position of the minimum peak of the variance on the time axis, and a synchronization timing signal generation unit 29 that generates a synchronization timing signal, based on information on the position of the symbol on the time axis. |
| US11362875B2 |
Transmission method, transmitter apparatus, reception method and receiver apparatus
Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted. |
| US11362870B2 |
Frequency modulation demodulation device and control method of frequency modulation demodulation device
A frequency modulation demodulation device and a control method thereof are provided. The frequency modulation demodulation device includes an input terminal, a phase converter, a phase-locked loop circuit, and a frequency offset/shift detector. The phase converter receives an input signal to obtain a phase signal. The phase-locked loop circuit generates a phase adjustment signal according to the phase signal and adjusts the phase signal according to the phase adjustment signal to perform demodulation of the input signal. The phase-locked loop circuit performs signal alignment and signal compensation on the phase signal to generate a filtered phase signal. The phase adjustment signal provides a feedback of and adjusts the phase signal. The frequency offset/shift detector generates a frequency offset/shift determining signal according to the phase adjustment signal. The frequency offset/shift determining signal is related to a phase frequency offset/shift of the input signal. |
| US11362869B2 |
Method, transmitter, structure, transceiver and access point for provision of multi-carrier on-off keying signal
A method of transmitting an On-Off Keying, OOK, signal which includes an ON waveform and an OFF waveform forming a pattern representing transmitted information. The method includes obtaining a basic baseband waveform; scrambling the basic baseband waveform by applying a first binary randomised sequence where one of the binary values cause transformation to a complex conjugate; modulating the information to be transmitted by applying the scrambled basic baseband waveform for the ON waveform and applying no waveform for the OFF waveform; and transmitting the modulated information. |
| US11362868B2 |
Neuromorphic device and neuromorphic system including the same
A neuromorphic device includes a neuron block, a spike transmission circuit and a spike reception circuit. The neuron block includes a plurality of neurons connected by a plurality of synapses to perform generation and operation of spikes. The spike transmission circuit generates a non-binary transmission signal based on a plurality of transmission spike signals output from the neuron block and transmits the non-binary transmission signal to a transfer channel, where the non-binary transmission signal includes information on transmission spikes included in the plurality of transmission spike signals. The spike reception circuit receives a non-binary reception signal from the transfer channel and generates a plurality of reception spike signals including reception spikes based on the non-binary reception signal to provide the plurality of reception spike signals to the neuron block, where the non-binary reception signal includes information on the reception spikes. |
| US11362867B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for transmission of data using M-ARY time reversal pulse position modulation
A system, method and apparatus that includes two or more sensor nodes that obtain sensed data from a structure. A controller receives the sensed data from the sensor nodes, via a network formed by the sensor nodes and the controller. The controller controls functionality of each of the sensor nodes, controls time synchronization among the sensor nodes, detects information collected by the sensor nodes, and communicates, utilizing an M-ary time-reversal based protocol, the detected information using a planar surface of the structure as the transmission medium for elastic waves. |
| US11362865B2 |
Virtual network
A virtual network includes a virtual entry device, a virtual exit device, and a communication channel that couples the virtual entry device to the virtual exit device in a web that lies between and interconnects a local router/switch with a remote router/switch device, where the virtual entry device and the virtual exit device have static forwarding tables which provide substantially improved performance. |
| US11362863B2 |
Handling packets travelling from logical service routers (SRs) for active-active stateful service insertion
Example methods and computer systems for packet handling for active-active stateful service insertion are disclosed. One example may involve in response to detecting a first packet from a first active logical service router (SR), a computer system generating and storing state information that associates (a) the first active logical SR and (b) first tuple information specified by the first packet. The first active logical SR and a second active logical SR may be both associated with the service endpoint address and configured to operate in an active-active mode. In response to detecting the second packet from a destination responsive to the first packet, the computer system may select the first active logical SR over the second active logical SR based on the state information and second tuple information specified by the second packet; and send the second packet towards the first active logical SR for processing according to a stateful service. |
| US11362858B2 |
Method for transmitting data via a communication channel, correspondingly designed device and communication interface, as well as correspondingly designed computer program
The invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a communications channel (106), in which the data is transmitted with a transmission frame, wherein the transmission frame has at least one prioritisation field (PCP) for establishing the priority of the message and a data field, wherein the prioritisation field (PCP) functions to control the bus access by prioritising the messages. For this purpose, a bus access controller is used, in which the priority of at least the last received data packet is stored in a minimum priority storage cell (330). After receiving a data packet, a timer (320) is started, for which a timeout value is set, which is reset when a following packet is received. After reaching the timeout value, a decrementing of the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330) occurs. Thereafter, for the purpose of bus access control, when sending a packet, it is checked whether the priority of the packet to be sent is lower than the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330), and the sending of the data packet is prevented if the priority of the packet is lower than the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330). |
| US11362854B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire apparatus characteristic information output from a reproduction apparatus; and a generation unit configured to generate an image reflecting characteristics of the reproduction apparatus on the basis of the acquired apparatus characteristic information. |
| US11362851B2 |
System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices. |
| US11362843B1 |
Certificate rotation on host
Techniques are disclosed to automate TLS certificate rotation. For example, a certificate rotation event may be detected from a certificate management tool. The certificate rotation event may be associated with a first certificate and may indicate that the first certificate is to be updated with a second certificate. An application server that is running on a host and to which the first certificate is bound may be identified. A certificate identifier for the second certificate may be provided to one or more agents running on the host. A distribution service may obtain certificate information, e.g., a public key, a private key, or a certificate identifier for the second certificate, from the certificate rotation tool. Some or all of the certificate information for the second certificate may be obtained by the one or more agents running on the host. The one or more agents may instruct the application server to bind the second certificate. Binding may be accomplished by the application server establishing new connections using the second certificate. |
| US11362840B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, devices and systems for backtracking service behavior
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and media for backtracking a user's operation of services. One method comprises: receiving an authorization request from a service device, the authorization request based on a service processing request from a client device, and comprises: data corresponding to a user's operation related to a service, authorization information for accessing the data granted to the service device; a first digital identity of the user; and a second digital identity of the service device; in response to determining that the authorization information satisfies a condition, generating a claim based on the data, the authorization information, the first digital identity, and the second digital identity; recording the claim to a blockchain; and in response to determining that a supervising user has permission to access the claim, granting permission to the supervising user to backtrack the user's operation corresponding to the service based on the claim in the blockchain. |
| US11362838B2 |
Systems and methods for secure data transmission
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for transmitting data. The methods may include obtaining, by a first module, a first packet, wherein the first packet includes a first random code, first data, and a first signature, wherein the first signature is generated by a second module by encryption based on an original random code and original data; generating, by the first module a second signature by encryption based on the first random code and a checksum of the first data; and generating, by the first module, a first response to the first packet upon determining whether the second signature matches the first signature. |
| US11362834B2 |
Systems and methods for managing digital rights
Systems and methods are described for managing digital rights. Methods may comprise causing an encrypted content asset to be stored at a storage location. The encrypted content asset at the storage location may be accessible by one or more user devices. A transaction may be generated and may comprise an identifier and a decryption key, wherein the decryption key is configured to decrypt at least a portion of the encrypted content asset. The transaction may be caused to be stored in a distributed database, wherein the distributed database is accessible by the one or more user devices using at least the identifier. |
| US11362831B2 |
Systems and methods for privacy-enabled biometric processing
In one embodiment, a set of feature vectors can be derived from any biometric data, and then using a deep neural network (“DNN”) on those one-way homomorphic encryptions (i.e., each biometrics' feature vector) can determine matches or execute searches on encrypted data. Each biometrics' feature vector can then be stored and/or used in conjunction with respective classifications, for use in subsequent comparisons without fear of compromising the original biometric data. In various embodiments, the original biometric data is discarded responsive to generating the encrypted values. In another embodiment, the homomorphic encryption enables computations and comparisons on cypher text without decryption. This improves security over conventional approaches. Searching biometrics in the clear on any system, represents a significant security vulnerability. In various examples described herein, only the one-way encrypted biometric data is available on a given device. Various embodiments restrict execution to occur on encrypted biometrics for any matching or searching. |
| US11362827B2 |
IOT security mechanisms for industrial applications
The disclosure provides methods and systems for securing internet of thing systems. One method includes receiving, at a computing device, a token, wherein the token comprises a cryptographically signed list of rights that the computing device is authorized to request. The method also includes requesting, using the computing device, an action of a receiving device in an industrial location, wherein requesting the action comprises sending the token with the request to cause the receiving device to authenticate the user of the computing device and confirm the user is authorized to perform the action. |
| US11362826B2 |
Endorsement process for non-deterministic application
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a storage request which comprises respective data sets generated by a plurality of endorser peers via simulation of a blockchain request, detecting that a key value of a data set generated by a first endorser peer is different than a respective key value of a data set generated by a second endorser peer, and committing the storage request to a data block of a blockchain in response to verifying that the detected different key values generated by the first and second endorser peers correspond to a multi-value key of the blockchain request. |
| US11362825B2 |
Extended reality authentication
Methods and systems for secure authentication in an extended reality (XR) environment are described herein. An XR environment may be output by a computing device and for display on a device configured to be worn by a user. A first plurality of images may be determined via the XR environment. The first plurality of images may be determined based on a user looking at a plurality of objects, real or virtual, in the XR environment. The first plurality of images may be sent to a server, and the server may return a second plurality of images. A public key and private key may be determined based on different portions of each of the second plurality of images. The public key may be sent to the server to register and/or authenticate subsequent communications between the computing device and the server. |
| US11362823B2 |
Cryptographic device
A device is provided comprising a first memory for storing a first key, a second memory for storing a second key, the device being capable of conducting a first cryptographic algorithm, wherein the first cryptographic algorithm uses the first key, the device being capable of conducting a second cryptographic algorithm, wherein the second cryptographic algorithm uses the second key, and a selection unit, which is programmable to use either the first cryptographic algorithm or the second cryptographic algorithm. Also, a method for operating such device is provided. |
| US11362822B2 |
Shared keys based on multiple features
A method for secret sharing utilizing multiple features of an input includes: receiving a registration input; obtaining features from the registration input; generating a secret key and a plurality of shared keys according to a shared secret scheme; associating each of the plurality of shared keys with a respective feature of the registration input; generating a plurality of additional features associated with additional keys having a similar format as a shared key associated with a respective feature; storing the plurality of shared keys associated with respective features together with the plurality of additional keys associated with additional features; and encrypting an element to be protected by the secret key using the secret key. |
| US11362820B2 |
Shared secret generation
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to receive from a pressure sensor matrix data describing a time-varying pressure interaction of the pressure sensor matrix with a second pressure sensor matrix, process the data to obtain a bit sequence, and use the bit sequence as a shared secret in a cryptographic procedure with a device. |
| US11362818B2 |
Method for issuing quantum key chip, application method, issuing platform and system
A method for issuing a quantum key chip, a method for applying a quantum key chip, an issuing platform and a system. The method comprises: feeding, by a a quantum key issuing platform, a quantum key into a quantum key chip and binding an ID of the quantum key chip in a one-to-one correspondence to an ID of a user using the quantum key chip, where the ID of the quantum key chip and/or the ID of the user serve as identification information of the quantum key in the quantum key chip, and the quantum key is obtained by pre-negotiation between the quantum key issuing platform and a key distribution center (KDC); and sending, by the quantum key issuing platform, the identification information of the quantum key to the KDC, so that the KDC binds the identification information to the quantum key corresponding to the identification information. |
| US11362813B2 |
Cryptographic systems and methods for extending apparent size of pools of truly random numbers
A first copy of a True Random Number (TRN) pool comprising key data of truly random numbers in a pool of files may be stored on a sender and a second copy of the TRN pool is stored on a receiver. An apparent size of the TRN pool on each device is expanded using a randomizing process for selecting and re-using the key data from the files to produce transmit key data from the first copy and receive key data from the second copy. |
| US11362812B2 |
Method of end to end securing of a communication
The aim of the invention is to strengthen the security of secure voice and/or video communications established through a network of Internet type. The security of these communications, which are based on the use of the SRTP protocol, is strengthened by the invention which makes it possible, without significantly modifying the protocols, to use better quality session keys produced by a security server of HSM type. These keys are configured by an intermediate server of SIP proxy type when establishing the communication. |
| US11362806B2 |
System and methods for recording codes in a distributed environment
Systems and methods for recording codes in a distributed environment are provided. A first node receives data including at least one code from a code generation computing device via a network. The first node adds a first new block to a first cryptographically verifiable encrypted ledger, the first block containing the at least one code. The first node adds a second new block to a second cryptographically verifiable, the second block containing the at least one code. The first node or a second node retrieves the at least one code from the second cryptographically verifiable unencrypted ledger. The first node or the second node analyzes the at least one code pursuant to a set of rules. |
| US11362803B2 |
Method and system for providing explanation for output generated by an artificial intelligence model
This disclosure relates to method and system for providing explanation for output generated by artificial intelligence (AI) model. The method may include receiving encrypted input data and a public encryption key from a client device, wherein the encrypted input data is encrypted using the public encryption key. The method may further include generating an encrypted AI model by encrypting an AI model using the public encryption key. The method may further include generating an encrypted output and an encrypted feature data based on the encrypted input data using the encrypted AI model, and generating an encrypted explanation for the encrypted output based on the encrypted feature data. The method may further include providing the encrypted output and the encrypted explanation to the client device for rendering, wherein the encrypted output and the encrypted explanation are decrypted by the client device using a private encryption key. |
| US11362800B2 |
Dynamically weighted exclusive or gate having weighted output segments for phase detection and phase interpolation
Methods and systems are described for receiving a reference clock signal and a phase of a local oscillator signal at a dynamically-weighted XOR gate comprising a plurality of logic branches, generating a plurality of weighted segments of a phase-error signal, the plurality of weighted segments including positive weighted segments and negative weighted segments, each weighted segment of the phase-error signal having a respective weight applied by a corresponding logic branch of the plurality of logic branches, generating an aggregate control signal based on an aggregation of the weighted segments of the phase-error signal, and outputting the aggregate control signal as a current-mode output for controlling a local oscillator generating the phase of the local oscillator signal, the local oscillator configured to induce a phase offset into the local oscillator signal in response to the aggregate control signal. |
| US11362799B2 |
Digital return receiver with digital data aggregation
In some embodiments, a digital clock management system includes input signal conversion circuitry, logic circuitry and output signal conversion circuitry. The input signal conversion circuitry converts input signals to corresponding first digital data streams, each of which contains digital data synchronized to a first data clock. First digital logic circuitry converts the first digital data streams to second digital data streams, each of which contains digital data synchronized to the first data clock, and converts the second digital data streams to third digital data streams, each of which contains digital data synchronized to a common clock. Second digital logic circuitry converts the third digital data streams to a single digital data stream. The output signal conversion circuitry converts the single digital data stream to a modulated output signal. |
| US11362797B2 |
System and methods for mapping and demapping digitized signals for optical transmission
An optical network includes a transmitter portion configured to transmit a digitized stream of symbols over a digital optical link, a mapping unit disposed within the transmitter portion and configured to code the transmitted digitized stream of symbols with a mapping code prior to transmission over the digital optical link, a receiver portion configured to recover the coded stream of symbols from the digital optical link, and a demapping unit disposed within the receiver portion and configured to map the recovered coded stream of symbols into an uncoded digitized signal corresponding to the digitized stream of symbols at the transmitter portion prior to coding by the mapping unit. |
| US11362794B2 |
Determining a relationship between a first and a second node
It is provided a method for determining a relationship between a first node and at least one second node each serving one different or the same wireless communication network, the method comprising the steps of detecting pilot contamination; and determining a relationship between the first node and at least one of the second nodes based on the detected pilot contamination. |
| US11362786B2 |
Channel acquisition using orthogonal time frequency space modulated pilot signals
Techniques for performing channel estimation in an orthogonal time, frequency and space (OTFS) communication system include receiving a wireless signal comprising a data signal portion and a pilot signal portion in which the pilot signal portion includes multiple pilot signals multiplexed together in the OTFS domain, performing two-dimensional channel estimation in a time-frequency domain based on a minimum mean square error (MMSE) optimization criterion, and recovering information bits using a channel estimate obtained from the two-dimensional channel estimation. |
| US11362783B2 |
Transmitting reference signals in 5G or other next generation communication systems
Techniques for transmitting reference signals (RSs) having respective signal patterns in the coding chain to improve performance of multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communication systems are presented. For downlink transmissions, an RS management component (RSMC) of a network node can determine a first resource element (RE) pattern for RSs of a first cell and a second RE pattern for RSs of a second cell in the time, frequency, or code domain. RSMC can utilize an adaptive interleaver in the coding chain to improve performance of MIMO systems. RSMC can facilitate configuring user equipment (UE) about the interleaver at the RE domain or as part of virtual resource block (VRB)-to-physical resource block (PRB) domain. RSMC can thereby reduce interference on RSs from other co-channel RSs, thereby improving channel estimation performance for channel-state-information estimation and data detection by the UE, and achieving significant gains in link and system throughputs. |
| US11362782B2 |
Method and device for controlling transmission of sounding reference signal in wireless access system supporting machine type communication
The present invention provides methods for controlling transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless access system supporting machine type communication (MTC) and devices for supporting same. A method for controlling transmission of an SRS by an MTC terminal in a wireless access system supporting MTC, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal comprising information about an SRS which is to be repeatedly transmitted; configuring the SRS on the basis of the information about the SRS; and transmitting the SRS by means of a subband to which a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is allocated and which is being frequency hopped. The subband comprises six physical resource blocks (PRB), and the SRS can be sequentially transmitted to the subband being frequency hopped. |
| US11362781B2 |
Reference signal configuration method, apparatus, and system
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for reference signal configuration. The method includes: determining a time domain density of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) according to a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and correspondence information between MCSs and PTRS time domain densities; determining a frequency domain density of the PTRS according to a first scheduled bandwidth and correspondence information between scheduled bandwidths and PTRS frequency domain densities; and mapping the PTRS to one or more resource elements (REs) according to the time domain density of the PTRS and the frequency domain density of the PTRS when certain conditions are met. |
| US11362774B2 |
Transmission adaptation in a wireless network
Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to transmission adaptation in a wireless network. According to another example embodiment, an apparatus may include a processor. The processor may be configured to measure a channel quality for a plurality of wireless resources (e.g., physical resource blocks), determine one or more proposed resources based on the measured channel quality for the wireless resources, determine at least one proposed transmission parameter based on a number of the proposed wireless resources and the channel quality of the proposed wireless resources, and send a report to an infrastructure node, the report including the at least one proposed transmission parameter and identifying the proposed wireless resources. |
| US11362768B2 |
Robust acknowledgement retransmission
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a transport block (TB) of data from a network, decode the TB of data, transmit to the network a first acknowledgement based on a result of the decoding, receive a signal from the network that includes an acknowledgement retransmission request and a TB indication that indicates a TB of data to which the acknowledgement retransmission request relates, determine a second acknowledgement based on the acknowledgement retransmission request and the TB indication, and transmit the second acknowledgement to the network. |
| US11362763B2 |
Techniques and apparatuses for spatial diversity in a coordinated multipoint network
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of communications from a corresponding plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs) included in a coordinated multipoint network. At least two communications, of the plurality of communications, may have different redundancy versions from a common codebook, and may be received in a same transmission time interval (TTI). The UE may decode the plurality of communications using joint decoding. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11362762B2 |
Method and system for the error-correcting transmission of a data record via a unidirectional communication unit
A method and a system for fault-correcting transfer of a dataset from a first network into a second network via a unidirectional communication unit, the receiving apparatus having a limited computing and main memory capacity is provided. The dataset is divided into partial datasets and are each coded by adding at least one correction mark. The marks and correction marks are decoded repeatedly in the second network, wherein marks and correction marks associated with a first encoded partial dataset are stored in a main memory, marks and correction marks associated with other encoded partial datasets are buffered in a background memory, and the first coded partial dataset is decoded, and then the previously received marks and/or correction marks of one of the other coded partial datasets are shifted from the background memory into the main memory. The dataset is reproduced from the decoded partial datasets in the second network. |
| US11362761B2 |
Communication method and communication device
A communication method includes executing a cyclic block permutation for a codeword generated based on a quasi-cyclic parity-check code including a repeat-accumulate quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check code, where the cyclic block permutation is permutation of cyclic blocks within the codeword, and mapping each bit of the codeword for which the cyclic block permutation is executed to any one of constellation point of a non-uniform constellation. |
| US11362759B2 |
Transmission power control for an uplink control channel
A base station indicates, to a user equipment (UE) configured for operation with carrier aggregation, a resource for a transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format that conveys acknowledgement information from the UE, and the UE determines the resource and a transmission power for the PUCCH format. |
| US11362758B2 |
Communication method and communications device
A communication method and a communications device are provided. The communication method includes: determining a modulation and coding scheme index; determining first information based on received DCI; determining, based on the first information, modulation and coding scheme information corresponding to the modulation and coding scheme index, wherein the first information comprises a search space in which the DCI is located, and the search space in which the DCI is located is a common search space or a user-specific search space. |
| US11362757B2 |
Apparatus including a transmission processing unit that generates transmission signal sequences of multiple power layers
An apparatus including: a first transmission processing unit that generates transmission signal sequences of multiple power layers that are to be multiplexed using power allocation; and a second transmission processing unit that processes a transmission signal sequence of a power layer using an interleaver, a scrambler, or a phase coefficient corresponding to the power layer for each of one or more of the multiple power layers. The apparatus improves accuracy of decoding of a desired signal when multiplexing/multiple access is performed using power allocation. |
| US11362755B2 |
Adaptive capacity optimization in optical transmission systems
A system comprising an optical receiver for multi-wavelength-channel optical communication, an optical source of spontaneous emission light and a tunable optical filter connected to receive the light at an input. The tunable optical filter can have a filter spectrum with spectral passbands separated by spectral notches. The system also includes an optical fiber link connecting an output of the optical filter to the optical receiver for multi-wavelength-channel optical communication. The receiver can be configured to make a measurement indicative of an optical power level in at least one of the notches or to make measurements of optical power levels and at least one of the passbands and at least one of the notches in response to the optical source transmitting the filtered light to the optical fiber link. Another embodiment includes an apparatus comprising an optical test module including a source of spontaneous emission light and an optical filter connected to receive the spontaneous emission light from the source. |
| US11362752B2 |
Device and method for communications signalling through a fragmented spectrum
The invention relates to a device for transmission of data on a frequency spectrum divided into a plurality Nf of spectrum fragments (f1, f2) each of which covers a frequency band, the frequency bands being discontiguous. The device comprises a packet generator configured to generate a data packet comprising a payload and at least one occurrence of a constant envelope signalling sequence. Said sequence, for example a modified Zadoff-Chu sequence, comprises N complex symbols and consists of a plurality of complex symbol sets each associated with one of the spectrum fragments. Each set comprises N/Nf complex symbols and each complex symbol of a set comprises a scaling term to the frequency band covered by the spectrum fragment associated with this set and a spectral transposition term in the frequency band covered by the spectrum fragment associated with this set. |
| US11362751B2 |
Timing adjustment for distributed network architecture
In some embodiments, a first computing device detects a loss of a connection to a first source of timing information that the first computing device and a second computing device use to maintain synchronization with a first clock and a second clock. The first computing device receives a second source of timing information from the second computing device. The second source of timing information is also being transmitted to a third computing device. The first computing device uses the second source of timing information to determine a first timestamp and determines a second timestamp from the first clock. The first computing device uses the first timestamp and the second timestamp to adjust a rate of the first clock where the first clock is used to transmit the second source of timing information from the second computing device to the third computing device. |
| US11362739B2 |
Optical transceiver and optical transmission/reception method
In order to suppress any reduction in the reception performance of an optical transceiver, the optical transceiver includes a light source, an optical splitter that splits the output of the light source into a first split light and a second split light, an optical modulation unit that modulates the first split light, a coherent receiver that causes the inputted received light to interfere with the second split light, and a first control unit that controls the split ratio of the optical splitter on the basis of the reception characteristic of the received light received by the coherent receiver. |
| US11362738B2 |
Individually routable digital subcarriers
Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, electrical signals or digital subcarriers are generated in a DSP based on independent input data streams. Drive signals are generated based on the digital subcarriers, and such drive signals are applied to an optical modulator, including, for example, a Mach-Zehnder modulator. The optical modulator modulates light output from a laser based on the drive signals to supply optical subcarriers corresponding to the digital subcarriers. These optical subcarriers may be received by optical receivers provided at different locations in an optical communications network, where the optical subcarrier may be processed, and the input data stream associated with such optical subcarrier is output. Accordingly, instead of providing multiple lasers and modulators, for example, data is carried by individual subcarriers output from an optical source including one laser and modulator. Thus, a cost associated with the network may be reduced. Moreover, each of the subcarriers may be detected by a corresponding one of a plurality of receivers, each of which being provided in a different location in the optical communication network. Thus, receivers need not be co-located, such that the network has improved flexibility. |
| US11362735B1 |
Silicon photonics multicarrier optical transceiver
Disclosed herein are techniques, methods, structures and apparatus that provide a silicon photonics multicarrier optical transceiver wherein both the transmitter and receiver are integrated on a single silicon chip and which generates a plurality of carriers through the effect of an on-chip modulator, amplifies the optical power of the carriers through the effect of an off-chip amplifier, and generates M orthogonal sets of carriers through the effect of an on-chip basis former. |
| US11362734B2 |
Systems and methods for optical modulation index calibration in a CATV network
Systems and methods for optical modulation index calibration in a CATV network. |
| US11362732B2 |
Dual LEO satellite system and method for global coverage
The present invention relates to satellite systems and more particularly, to the provision of a satellite system and method for communications applications, with global coverage. An optimal method of providing global broadband connectivity has been discovered which uses two different LEO constellations with inter-satellite links among the satellites in each constellation, and inter-satellite links between the constellations. The first constellation is deployed in a polar LEO orbit with a preferred inclination of 99.5 degrees and a preferred altitude of 1000 km. The second constellation is deployed in an inclined LEO orbit with a preferred inclination of 37.4 degrees and a preferred altitude of 1250 km. |
| US11362731B2 |
Method for transmitting data from an object on board an aircraft to a network of connected objects
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting data from an object (6) on board an aircraft (1) to a server (3) of a network of connected objects (4), the method comprising: if the aircraft (1) is detected as being in flight, the sending (108) of the data item by the object (6) to an aircraft radio communication device (10) of the aircraft (1) for communication with the ground, and the transmission of the data item by the aircraft communication system (10) to a ground station (2), for subsequent retransmission of the data item by the ground station (2) to the server (3); and, if the aircraft (1) is detected as not being in flight, the sending (116) of the data item by the object (6) to the server (3) without passing through the aircraft radio communication system (10) of the aircraft (1). |
| US11362727B2 |
Restarting a bandwidth part inactivity timer of a wireless device
A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a timer value of a bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer. The BWP inactivity timer associated with the timer value is started in response to switching to a first BWP as an active BWP. The BWP inactivity timer is stopped based on initiating a random-access procedure. In response to receiving a control information, the random-access procedure is stopped before the random-access procedure completes. The BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the stopping of the random-access procedure. |
| US11362726B2 |
Method and device for selecting the beam indication information from a network node when receiving
The present disclosure provides a beam indication processing method, a user equipment and a network device. The beam indication processing method includes: determining beam indication information to be used currently; determining a beam for reception according to the determined beam indication information; and performing receiving according to the determined beam. |
| US11362725B2 |
Reshaping beams of a beam pattern
There is provided mechanisms for reshaping individual beams of a beam pattern. A method is performed by a control node. The method comprises determining the beam pattern by distributing available transmission energy in individual beams according to a weighted combination of the individual beams. Different weights are applied for at least two of the individual beams. The weighted combination of individual beams is based on radio propagation channel properties. The method comprises truncating transmission energy of the individual beam with highest transmission energy in the beam pattern to not be over a threshold. The method comprises redistributing the truncated transmission energy among the remaining individual beams in the beam pattern, thereby reshaping the individual beams of the beam pattern. |
| US11362723B2 |
Method and apparatus for beam management
Methods and apparatuses for high speed beam management. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states; receiving configuration information for group TCI indices, wherein a group TCI index, m, of the group TCI indices is associated with a group of TCI states; receiving configuration information on which TCI states within the group of TCI states to apply to at least one of downlink channels and uplink channels; and receiving the group TCI index. The method further includes decoding a channel conveying the group TCI index; determining, at least based on the decoded group TCI index, one or more TCI states to apply to the at least one of downlink channels and uplink channels; and at least one of (i) receiving the downlink channels and (ii) transmitting the uplink channels using the determined one or more TCI states. |
| US11362722B2 |
Beam failure recovery procedure for secondary cell in mobile communications
An apparatus detects a beam failure of a serving cell. In response, the apparatus triggers a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ). The BFRQ remains pending until cancelled. In triggering the BFRQ the apparatus generates a BFRQ medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) and transmits the BFRQ MAC CE to a wireless network using a resource according to an uplink (UL) grant. |
| US11362721B2 |
Grid of beams (GoB) adaptation in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS)
Grid of beams (GoB) adaptation in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS), is disclosed. The wireless communications circuit may be provided in the WCS to provide radio frequency (RF) coverage in a wireless communications cell. In this regard, an antenna array is provided in the wireless communications circuit to radiate the GoB, which includes a number of RF beams corresponding to an RF communications signal(s), in the wireless communications cell. In examples discussed herein, the wireless communications circuit can be configured to detect a coverage condition change in the wireless communications cell and modify the GoB accordingly. By adapting the GoB to the coverage condition change, it may be possible to reduce processing overhead and improve resource usage, data throughput, and system adaptability of the wireless communications circuit, thus helping to optimize RF coverage in the wireless communications cell. |
| US11362719B2 |
Multi-level beam scheduling in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS)
Multi-level beam scheduling in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS), is disclosed. The WCS includes a central unit(s) and a wireless communications circuit(s) configured to reduce beamforming overhead and improve radio frequency (RF) coverage in a wireless communications cell(s) based on a multi-level beam scheduling scheme. In a non-limiting example, the multi-level beam scheduling scheme includes a first level (L1) scheduler, a second level (L2) scheduler, and a third level (L3) scheduler configured to perform cross-cell beam scheduling, in-cell beam scheduling, and in-beam user equipment (UE) scheduling, respectively. By employing the multi-level beam scheduling scheme in the WCS, it may be possible to reduce processing overhead and improve resource usage, data throughput, and system adaptability of the wireless communications circuit(s), thus helping to optimize capacity and throughput in the wireless communications cell(s). |
| US11362713B2 |
Controlling transmitter output
Methods, apparatus and computer programs are disclosed for controlling the output of a transmission point for a wireless communications network. One embodiment provides a method for controlling the output of a transmission point for a wireless communications network. The method comprises determining an average output power of the transmission point over a period of time; comparing the average output power to an output power reference value; and allocating data, to be transmitted by the transmission point to one or more wireless devices, to a pool of radio resources. The pool of radio resources is adjusted as a function of the comparison between the average output power and the output power reference value, and the output power reference value varies as a function of a maximum antenna gain of an antenna array of the transmission point during the period of time. |
| US11362706B2 |
System and method for combining MIMO and mode-division multiplexing
A communications system comprises a maximum ratio combining (MRC) circuit for receiving a plurality of input data streams and for processing the plurality of input data streams using maximum ration combining to improve signal to noise ratio. A MIMO transmitter transmits the MRC processed carrier signal over a plurality of separate communications links from the MIMO transmitter, each of the plurality of separate communications links from one transmitting antenna of a plurality of transmitting antennas to each of a plurality of receiving antennas at a MIMO receiver. |
| US11362700B2 |
Efficient methods for generating chirp spread spectrum signals
An apparatus comprises a frequency accumulator to produce a frequency ramp, and a symbol modulator to receive symbols and to add to the frequency ramp frequency offsets representative of the symbols, to produce a modulated frequency ramp for a modulated chirp. The apparatus includes a spreading factor controller to control a roll-over rate of the modulated frequency ramp responsive to spreading factor and frequency bandwidth control signals, to control a spreading factor and a frequency bandwidth of the modulated chirp. The apparatus includes a center frequency controller to control a center frequency of the modulated frequency ramp responsive to a center frequency control signal. The apparatus includes a phase accumulator to accumulate frequency samples of the modulated frequency ramp to produce phase samples corresponding to the modulated chirp, and a vector rotator to rotate the phase samples based on an input vector to produce a modulated chirp. |
| US11362692B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling a switchable filter for coexistence between wireless protocols
Certain aspects of the disclosure related to communications apparatus provides isolation between wireless protocols when operating currently while incurring the additional insertion loss based on providing the isolation only when needed. In an aspect, an apparatus include a switched filter coupled to an antenna where the switched filter includes a filter and a bypass line along with switching circuitry configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a filtered signal path including the filter. The apparatus further includes a switched filter controller configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect a transceiver unit to the antenna via the bypass signal path or via the filtered signal path based at least on a frequency band of a carrier signal and a bandwidth of the carrier signal. |
| US11362691B2 |
Broadcast signal receiver and operation method thereof
Disclosed are a broadcast signal receiver and an operation method thereof. When there are multiple broadcast signals representing the same broadcast content, the broadcast signal receiver calculates signal quality values of the respective broadcast signals, select one of the plurality of broadcast signals for a specific channel, on the basis of the signal quality values, and sets information of the selected broad cast signal as the specific channel in the channel map. Therefore, the broadcast signal receiver can prevent the number of channels from being increased due to a plurality of same channels and can provide a higher quality image to the user. |
| US11362688B2 |
Radio frequency module
A radio frequency module includes a radio frequency filter (10), and the radio frequency filter (10) includes a terminal (11), a terminal (12), an impedance element (Z) disposed in series on a path (13) connecting the terminal (11) and the terminal (12), and a parallel arm resonator (P) connected between a node (N) on the path (13) and the ground. The impedance element (Z) is a capacitor or an inductor, capacitance (C) between the ground and a wiring line (14) connecting the node (N) and the parallel arm resonator (P) is larger than capacitance between the ground and a wiring line (16) connecting the impedance element (Z) and a terminal out of the terminal (11) and the terminal (12) having a shorter wiring length to the impedance element (Z) (terminal (11), for example). |
| US11362685B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and read and copy-back methods thereof
A read method of a nonvolatile memory device is provided. The method includes storing data sensed from selected memory cells of the nonvolatile memory device into a page buffer, performing an error decoding operation by performing error detection on the sensed data to detect and error, correcting the detected error if the error is detected, and overwriting the page buffer with the corrected data, and de-randomizing data stored in the page buffer by using a seed after the error decoding operation has completed. |
| US11362681B2 |
One-shot state transition probability encoder and decoder
In a one-shot state transition encoder, L-bits of user data are received and encoded into a codeword of N-bits, wherein N>L. The encoding of the user data involves repeatedly performing: a) encoding a portion of user bits from the user data to a portion of encoded bits of the codeword based on a set of state transition probabilities, thereby reducing a size of a remaining buffer of the codeword and reducing a number of unencoded bits of the user data; and b) based on the number of unencoded bits of the user data being greater than or equal to the remaining buffer size of the codeword, terminating further encoding and storing the unencoded bits of the user data into the remaining buffer of the codeword. |
| US11362677B2 |
Channel encoding method and encoding apparatus
The application provides a channel encoding method, an encoding apparatus, and a system. A bit sequence X1N is output by using X1N=D1NFN, where D1N is a bit sequence obtained after an input bit sequence u1N is encoded based on locations of K to-be-encoded information bits in an encoding diagram that has a mother code length of N, u1N is a bit sequence obtained based on the K to-be-encoded information bits, and FN is a Kronecker product of log2 N matrices F2. A design considers that the locations of the K to-be-encoded information bits in the encoding diagram that has a mother code length of N include a row location index set H of the information bits in the encoding diagram and a layer location index set M of the information bits in the encoding diagram, where 0≤H≤N, and 0 |
| US11362675B2 |
Transmission method and reception method
In a multi-antenna communication system using LDPC codes, a simple method is used to effectively improve the received quality by performing a retransmittal of less data without restricting applicable LDPC codes. In a case of a non-retransmittal, a multi-antenna transmitting apparatus (100) transmits, from two antennas (114A,114B), LDPC encoded data formed by LDPC encoding blocks (102A,102B). In a case of a retransmittal, the multi-antenna transmitting apparatus (100) uses a transmission method, in which the diversity gain is higher than in the previous transmission, to transmit only a part of the LDPC encoded data as previously transmitted. For example, the only the part of the LDPC encoded data to be re-transmitted is transmitted from the single antenna (114A). |
| US11362672B2 |
Inline decompression
Stack compression refers to compression of data in one or more dimensions. For uncompressed data blocks that are very sparse, i.e., data blocks that contain many zeros, stack compression can be effective. In stack compression, uncompressed data block is compressed into compressed data block by removing one or more zero words from the uncompressed data block. A map metadata that maps the zero words of the uncompressed data block is generated during compression. With the use of the map metadata, the compressed data block can be decompressed to restore the uncompressed data block. |
| US11362671B2 |
Systems and methods of data compression
There is provided a computer-implemented method of compressing a baseline dataset, comprising: creating a weight function that calculates a weight for each instance of each unique data elements in the baseline dataset, as a function of sequential locations of each of the instances of each respective unique data element within the baseline dataset, creating an output dataset storing a codeword for each one of the unique data elements, wherein codewords are according to a compression rule defining data elements associated with a relatively higher weight as being associated with codewords that are relatively shorter, dynamically creating the compressed dataset by sequentially iterating, for each current sequential location of the baseline dataset: determining an encoded data element mapped to the respective data element of the current sequential location according to the weight function, and adjusting the codewords of the output dataset according to the current weights to maintain the compression rule. |
| US11362668B1 |
Leakage compensation for analog decoded thermometric digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
A method of converting an N-bit digital code into analog output currents includes switchably connecting a first number of PN junctions to a positive output terminal and a second number of PN junctions to a negative output terminal based on the N-bit digital code; and switchably connecting a plurality of additional PN junctions to the positive output terminal and the negative output terminal based on the N-bit digital code, including connecting a first number of additional PN junctions to the positive output terminal based on the N-bit digital code and connecting a second number of additional PN junctions to the negative output terminal based on the N-bit digital code such that a first sum of the first number of PN junctions and the first number of additional PN junctions is equal to a second sum of the second number of PN junctions and the second number of additional PN junctions. |
| US11362663B2 |
Quantum pulse determining method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium
Provided are a quantum pulse determining method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium, where basic pulses corresponding to basic logic gates are set in advance, the method including: when manipulating a qubit according to a quantum logic gate, splitting the quantum logic gate to obtain sub-logic gates; and searching for sub-pulses corresponding to the sub-logic gates among the basic pulses, and manipulating the qubit according to the sub-pulse. Basic pulses are set in advance in the method, apparatus, device and readable storage medium provided by the embodiments. When a qubit is to be manipulated, the quantum logic gate can be split into multiple sub-logic gates, and then sub-pulses corresponding to the sub-logic gates are searched for among the basic pulses. Thus, sub-pulses read can be used directly to manipulate the qubit, avoiding the computing power consumed in generating pulses according to the quantum logic gate, thereby improving an operation speed. |
| US11362661B2 |
Magnetic logic device
Disclosed is a magnetic logic device including: a plurality of input branches configured by a magnetic nanowire including a non-magnetic metallic layer, a free layer, and an insulating layer sequentially stacked; an output branch configured by the magnetic nanowire; a coupling portion configured by the magnetic nanowire and where the input branches and the output branch meet; gate electrodes arranged adjacent to the insulating layer in each of the plurality of input branches; and in-plane anisotropic ferromagnetic layers arranged adjacent to the non-magnetic metallic layer in each of the plurality of input branches. |
| US11362655B2 |
RF switch device
Provided is an RF switch device (100) in which body contact regions (190) are formed at respective positions adjacent to or partially overlapping opposite ends of a gate region (110) so that holes in a body of the device can escape or flow in either or both of two directions, rather than in only a single direction. |
| US11362654B2 |
Auxiliary circuit
An auxiliary circuit for outputting a supplying voltage or a detection signal includes a normally-on device and a signal processing circuit. A drain terminal of the normally-on switching device is coupled to a first terminal, a gate terminal of the normally-on switching device is coupled to a second terminal. An input voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal switches between two different levels. The signal processing circuit is configured to output the supplying voltage or the detection signal according to a voltage at a source terminal of the normally-on switching device. |
| US11362651B1 |
Protecting a body diode of a power switch
This disclosure is directed to circuits and techniques for protecting a body diode of a power switch from an inductive load when the power switch is turned OFF. A driver circuit may detect whether the power switch is in a desaturation mode when the power switch is turned ON and disable the power switch in response to detecting that the power switch is in the desaturation mode. In addition, the driver circuit may detect whether the body diode of the power switch needs protection when the power switch is turned OFF, and in response to detecting that the body diode needs protection, control the power switch according to a body diode protection scheme. |
| US11362650B2 |
Overcurrent protection by depletion mode MOSFET and bi-metallic temperature sensing switch
Circuits for providing overcurrent and overvoltage protection are disclosed herein. The circuits feature a depletion mode MOSFET (D MOSFET) as a current limiter, the D MOSFET being connected to a bi-metallic switch, where the bi-metallic switch acts as a temperature sensing circuit breaker. In combination, the D MOSFET and bi-metallic switch are able to limit current to downstream circuit components, thus protecting the components from damage. |
| US11362645B2 |
Power managers for an integrated circuit
Systems and methods manage power in an integrated circuit using power islands. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of power islands wherein a power consumption of each power island within the plurality of power islands is independently controlled within each power island of the plurality of power islands. A power manager determines a target power level for one power island of the plurality of power islands. The power manager then determines an action to change a consumption power level of the one power island of the plurality of power islands to the target power level. The power manager performs the action to change the consumption power level of the one power island of the plurality of power islands to the target power level. |
| US11362642B2 |
Acoustic wave filter device, composite filter device, and multiplexer
An acoustic wave filter device includes a longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter on a series arm that connects an input terminal and an output terminal, first and second parallel arm resonators on first and second parallel arms that connect the series arm and a ground potential, an input-side ground port of the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter and a ground port of at least one of the first and second parallel arm resonators are connected in common, an output-side ground port of the longitudinally coupled resonator acoustic wave filter and a ground port of at least another of the first and second parallel arm resonators are connected in common, and an electrostatic capacitance of the first parallel arm resonator is different from an electrostatic capacitance of the second parallel arm resonator. |
| US11362641B2 |
Piezoelectric resonator device
In a piezoelectric resonator device according to an embodiment, an internal space is formed by bonding a first sealing member to a crystal resonator plate and bonding a second sealing member to the crystal resonator plate. The internal space hermetically seals a vibrating part including a first excitation electrode and a second excitation electrode of the crystal resonator plate. Seal paths that hermetically seal the vibrating part of the crystal resonator plate are formed to have an annular shape in plan view. A plurality of external electrode terminals is formed on a second main surface of the second sealing member to be electrically connected to an external circuit board. The external electrode terminals are respectively disposed on and along an external frame part surrounding the internal space in plan view. |
| US11362637B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave structure, bulk acoustic wave device, and manufacturing method thereof
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) structure includes a single crystal piezoelectric material layer, a first electrode, a second electrode and an acoustic reflector. The first and second electrodes are respectively located on a first surface and a second surface of the single crystal piezoelectric material layer. The area of the second electrode is greater than or equal to that of the second surface of the single crystal piezoelectric material layer, and the contact area of the single crystal piezoelectric material layer with the second electrode is equal to the area of the second surface of the single crystal piezoelectric material layer. The acoustic reflector is disposed on a surface of the first electrode. |
| US11362634B2 |
Filter module and high frequency module
A filter module includes a first ground terminal, a second ground terminal, a low pass filter, and a second inductor. The low pass filter includes a first inductor provided in an input/output path of signal, a first capacitor provided in a first path connecting a first node and the first ground terminal, and a second capacitor provided in a second path connecting a second node and the second ground terminal. The second inductor is connected in series to the second capacitor in a path connecting the second capacitor and the second ground terminal. The first path and the second path are not connected to each other by any path except the one between the first node and the second node. |
| US11362630B2 |
Amplifying circuit and rectifying antenna
An amplifying circuit and a rectifying antenna are provided. The amplifying circuit includes: a first rectifying circuit, configured to output a first direct current signal according to a first alternating current signal; a second rectifying circuit, configured to output a second direct current signal according to a second alternating current signal; a differential amplifying circuit, configured to receive the first direct current signal and the second direct current signal, amplify a difference between the first direct current signal and the second direct current signal, and output an amplified difference between the first direction current signal and the second direct current, the first direct current signal and the second direct current signal have directions opposite to each other. |
| US11362628B2 |
Input stage for an LVDS receiver circuit
An input stage for an LVDS receiver circuit is provided, which includes at least one supply voltage connection as well as a first and a second stage input to be acted upon by a differential input signal pair. The input stage further includes a first and a second differential stage, the stage inputs being directly connected to one input each of the first differential stage and indirectly, via one level-shifting circuit each, to one input each of the second differential stage. According to the present invention, the first and the second differential stage are connected to the supply voltage connection via one transistor each of a third differential stage, the control input of one of these transistors being connected to a measuring path connecting the stage inputs to one another, with the control input of the other transistor being connected to an apparatus/device (arrangement) for providing a reference voltage. |
| US11362615B1 |
Model-based current limiter for an electric motor
A current limiter for protecting a motor from overheating. An algorithm is disclosed for dynamically limiting the motor current, such as motors used in robotics. The algorithm uses a thermal model of the motor, which provides a real-time estimate of a coil temperature using instantaneous power consumption of the motor and a thermocouple measurement from the motor's printed circuit board. There are multiple potential outputs from the current limiter algorithm, such as the maximum power that can be consumed without overheating the coils, and an estimate of how long the motor could deliver a specified high torque before overheating. |
| US11362605B2 |
Drive methods for a three-phase motor
A method of driving a three-phase motor includes, while a first phase is energized, driving a second phase using a first drive function which is sinusoidal. The first phase is switched to a non-energized state and a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the first phase is detected. For at least a portion of a time when the first phase is non-energized the driving of the second phase depends on the output of a second drive function different from the first drive function. The second drive function may be non-sinusoidal and may be a cosine function. The second drive function may drive the second phase when the output of the second drive function is a modulation ratio less than 1. When the output of the second drive function is a modulation ratio greater than or equal to 1 the second phase may be driven to a modulation ratio of 1. |
| US11362602B2 |
Motor control apparatus and method
Disclosed herein are a motor control apparatus and method. The motor control apparatus includes a compensation signal generator configured to apply a DC-Link voltage (VLink) for driving a motor to a parameter map preset in order to estimate a gain and phase of a motor torque ripple generated when the motor is driven according to a motor command current and a motor rotation speed, and to generate a compensation signal (icomp) for compensating for the motor torque ripple corresponding to a current input motor command current (iq*), motor rotation speed (ωm), and DC-Link voltage (VLink), and a current controller configured to control the current of the motor by controlling an inverter such that a compensation command current (iq*_comp), generated by reflecting the compensation signal (icomp), in the motor command current (iq*), coincides with a motor drive current (iq) supplied to the motor from the inverter. |
| US11362598B2 |
Power supply circuit and photovoltaic power generation system comprising same
A power supply circuit and a photovoltaic power generation system comprising same. The power supply circuit utilizes the condition that a voltage output by discharge of a capacitor is a direct-current voltage which decreases with time, a CCFL conversion circuit is connected behind the capacitor, the CCFL conversion circuit converts the input direct-current voltage which decreases which time into a sinusoidal alternating-current for output. Since the CCFL conversion circuit operates in an open-loop mode, a peak-to-peak value of the sinusoidal alternating-current output by the CCFL conversion circuit is in direct proportion to an operating voltage of the CCFL conversion circuit, the voltage decreases with time, that is, the peak-to-peak valve of the sinusoidal alternating-current output by the CCFL conversion circuit decreases with time, thus, an effective value of the sinusoidal alternating-current decreases with time, and an attenuated sinusoidal alternating-current voltage is obtained. |
| US11362590B1 |
Current limit mode detection and control in a switch mode power supply
One or more embodiments relate to a current limit mode control circuit for a buck-boost converter which can provide a stable switching of the converter by operating the converter in a current limit mode during an overcurrent condition, performing fewer state transitions while in the current limit mode, and/or by clamping (reducing to a lower value) the output of an error amplifier in the current limit mode for controlling a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal that drives the switching transistors. |
| US11362585B2 |
Multiple-stage power conversion via regulated and unregulated conversion
An apparatus includes a first power converter and a second power converter. The first power converter converts an input voltage into a first output voltage; the second power converter converts the first output voltage into a second output voltage that powers a load. The second power converter includes a switched-capacitor converter combined with a magnetic device. The switched-capacitor converter provides capacitive energy transfer; the magnetic device provides magnetic energy transfer. Additionally, the second power converter provides unregulated conversion of the first output voltage into the second output voltage via the capacitive energy transfer and the magnetic energy transfer. To maintain the magnitude of the second output voltage within a desired range or setpoint value, the first power converter regulates a magnitude of the first output voltage based on comparison of a magnitude of the second output voltage with respect to a desired setpoint reference voltage. |
| US11362584B2 |
Adaptive ramp signal generation
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a first charging path including a first capacitor coupled to a first output node. The circuit further includes a second charging path comprising a first switch and a second capacitor. The circuit further includes a third charging path comprising a second switch and a third capacitor. The circuit further includes a first discharging path comprising the second capacitor, a third switch coupled between the second charging path and a second output node, and a fourth switch coupled between the second charging path and a fourth node. The circuit further includes a second discharging path comprising the third capacitor, a fifth switch coupled between the third charging path and the second output node, and a sixth switch coupled between the third node and the fourth node. |
| US11362581B2 |
Starter circuit for energy harvesting circuits
The present disclosure provides a starter circuit for energy harvesting circuits for an energy source having a first and a second potential of an input voltage, in particular for thermoelectric generators. |
| US11362579B2 |
Peak voltage overshoot control for switch mode power converters
A switching power converter circuit may include output voltage overshoot mitigation circuitry that can modify operation of the converter responsive to an overvoltage condition by switching from a pulse width modulation (PWM) mode to a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) mode. A clamp may be provided to clamp a control voltage or a compensating capacitor voltage of the main output voltage control loop (e.g., a PWM control loop) to a control voltage of the PFM loop. An output pull down circuit may be provided to temporarily apply a load to the converter output. |
| US11362575B1 |
Spring assisted magnetic energy harvester
A magnetic spring based energy harvester which includes a casing and a first retained magnet and a second retained magnet positioned within the casing. A levitated magnet is positioned between the first and second retained magnets and a spring assembly connected to the casing and the second retained magnet, wherein the spring assembly is configured to allow limited movement of the second retained magnet toward and away from the levitating magnet. Lastly, a conductive coil winding is positioned around the levitated magnet such that movement of the levitated magnet induces a current in the coil winding. |
| US11362572B2 |
Electronic board, in-vehicle electric motor and electric pump
An electronic board includes a board, and includes on the board: a power input part inputting power output from an in-vehicle power supply; a drive circuit driving a drive source; a controller controlling driving of the drive source performed by the drive circuit; and a drive command signal input part inputting a drive command signal transmitted from outside. The electronic board further includes on the board: a drive command signal detection circuit capable of detecting the drive command signal, and controlling whether to supply the power input to the power input part to the controller based on whether the drive command signal is detected; and a voltage varying part varying a voltage from the power input part and outputting a varied voltage to the drive command signal detection circuit. |
| US11362571B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus includes a wiring board. The wiring board includes a wiring and a through-hole and is provided by dividing a multi-board providing board into the wiring board. The electronic apparatus further includes a circuit component having a surface mounting structure, mounted to the wiring board, and electrically connected to the wiring. A side wall of the wiring board has a cut portion that is provided when cutting and dividing the multi-board providing board. In the wiring board, the through-hole is formed adjacent to the cut portion without arranging the circuit component between the cut portion and the through-hole. |
| US11362562B2 |
Axial anti-backlash stepper/servo motor
A motor is provided. The motor includes a motor body and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetic core mounted to a rotor shaft. The rotor assembly may include standoffs for accurately axially locating the magnetic core relative to rotor bearings. A drive nut adjustment arrangement may be provided. A mechanical interconnection between the drive nut and rotor shaft may be provided. A trailing end lead screw support may be provided. An axial preload arrangement may be provided to axially locate the rotor assembly within the motor body. |
| US11362555B2 |
Rotor with permanent magnets forming a portion of a rotor core
The disclosure relates to a rotor for an electrical machine having internal permanent magnets including a yoke consisting of a stack of sheets defining a plurality of recesses for receiving parallelepipedal permanent magnets, the recesses being surrounded by magnetically saturated external transverse isthmuses, by radial isthmuses, lateral isthmuses and oblique isthmuses, wherein the magnets are assembled in pairs of magnets magnetized in the same direction and perpendicular to the radial direction of the radial isthmuses arranged between the coupled magnets, the radial isthmuses having a thickness of less than 5% of the diameter of the rotor, and the perimeter of the cross section of the rotor is formed by a succession of curved profiles, between two consecutive pairs of magnets, and tangential linear profiles at the external transverse isthmuses. The disclosure also relates to the application of such a rotor for creating a motor, in particular a motor for a turbo compressor, or an electrical generator. |
| US11362551B2 |
Stator core of motor
A stator core for an electric motor may include a main body part formed by a plurality of stacked electromagnetic steel sheets, the main body part being provided with at least a first through hole extending axially with a first pin located in the first through hole. A first end cover is located at a first end of the main body part and connected to a first pin end of the first pin. A second end cover is located at a second end of the main body part and connected to a second pin end of the first pin. The connections of the first end cover and the second end cover to the first pin generate tensile stresses in the main body part to reduce core losses. |
| US11362550B2 |
Electrical machine with hybrid tooth design
Provided is a stator segment for the stator or the rotor of an electrical machine including a segment body circumferentially extending about a longitudinal axis of the stator segment between two circumferential ends. The segment body includes: a plurality of teeth protruding according to a radial direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, each tooth circumferentially extending between two respective side faces, the teeth being circumferentially distributed between two end teeth of the teeth, the teeth including at least one intermediate tooth circumferentially included between the end teeth, a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots including a plurality of intermediate slots circumferentially included between the two end slots, wherein side faces of the two end teeth are inclined with or parallel to each other and the side faces of the at least one intermediate tooth are respectively parallel to each other or inclined with respect to each other. |
| US11362545B2 |
Hybrid foreign-object detection and positioning system
An apparatus is disclosed for a hybrid foreign-object detection and position system. In an example aspect, a foreign object detection (FOD) system of the base power-transfer system detects a passive beacon of an electric vehicle power-transfer system based on a beacon loop of the passive beacon overlapping an array of FOD sense loops effective to cause a change in impedance or admittance of one or more of the FOD sense loops. In aspects, the impedance reflects a modulation signal from the passive beacon. A position detection system integrated with the FOD system determines a passive beacon response in the input data based on the modulation frequency from the passive beacon. Then, a position of the beacon loop is determined relative to the array of FOD sense loops using a result of the passive beacon response canceled from input data. |
| US11362539B1 |
Artificial intelligence-based power controller for low voltage ride-through control of grid connected distributed generation networks
An artificial intelligence reactive power control system for low voltage ride-through in a grid connected distributed generation network includes a grid, a circuit breaker, a distributed generation circuit including 3-phase terminals, and a voltage and current measurement unit connected to the 3-phase terminals and configured to generate a set of measured variables. An intelligent low voltage ride-through detector receives the set of measured variables and identifies a low voltage ride-through status of the utility grid. An intelligent reactive power controller receives a low voltage ride-through status signal from the intelligent low voltage ride-through detector and controls a low voltage ride-through during a grid voltage sag and a voltage reduction by transmitting one or more of an active power reference and a reactive power reference value to the distributed generation circuit based on the low voltage ride-through status signal. |
| US11362537B2 |
Backup power supply system
A balancing system for balancing respective voltages of N consecutively connected capacitors during charging or discharging includes balancing units, each having a pair of associated switches and an electromagnetic coil. An inter-switch junction is connected to an inter-capacitor junction of a corresponding group of capacitors through the electromagnetic coil. A control and generation circuit generates PWM control signals and transmits a generated PWM control signal to each of the switches. The PWM control signals have fixed duty cycles that do not vary temporarily during charging or discharging of the N capacitors. The duty cycles of two PWM control signals transmitted to two associated switches are complementary for each balancing unit. |
| US11362535B2 |
Battery charging with charging parameters sweep
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media may charge a battery. A value of at least one battery parameter is determined, and a range of values to which the value of the at least one battery parameter corresponds to is identified. Based on the identified range of values, a set of values for at least one charging parameter is determined, and a battery is charged while a value of the at least one charging parameter is swept among the set of values. |
| US11362533B2 |
Printing apparatus
A printing apparatus includes: a battery accommodating portion; a conveyor; a printing device; a power-source connector; an electric charger that charges the battery power source from an external power source when the power-source connector is connected to the external power source; and a degradation-degree detector that detects a degradation degree of the battery power source. A controller executes: a charge processing for controlling the electric charger using at least one charge parameter to charge the battery power source; storing data on the degradation degree of the battery power source based on a result of detection of the degradation-degree detector; a determining processing for determining whether a particular determination criterion relating to the degradation degree is satisfied in the stored data; and correcting the at least one charge parameter in accordance with a result of determination in the determining processing. |
| US11362532B2 |
Method for supplying power and device therefor
Provided is a device including: a battery; a receiving terminal configured to receive power from an external device; a first path configured to supply a portion of the power received from the external device to the battery to charge the battery; and a second path configured to supply a portion of the power received from the external device to a heater to heat the heater. |
| US11362528B2 |
Mitigation of audible output in a charging circuit
Mitigation of audible output of one or more components in a charging circuit. A charging circuit may include a mitigation controller operative to monitor a frequency of voltage at an input of a charging circuit. The frequency of the voltage at the input node may result in a mitigation condition associated with audible output of one or more components of the charging circuit. In response to detection of the mitigation condition, the mitigation controller may temporarily disable the supply of power from charging circuit to a system load to mitigate (e.g., potentially eliminate) audible output of the circuit. During a time in which the charging circuit is disabled from supplying power to the system load, a battery of the device may supply power to the system load. |
| US11362515B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection circuit having false-trigger prevention mechanism
The present invention discloses an electrostatic discharge protection circuit having false-trigger prevention mechanism. A RC circuit, including an input control terminal, is coupled between an electrostatic discharge input terminal for receiving an input power and a ground terminal. An inverter includes a P-type transistor circuit, including P-type transistors coupled between the electrostatic discharge input terminal and an output control terminal in series and having an internal connection terminal between two of the P-type transistors, and an N-type transistor, coupled between the output control terminal and the ground terminal. Gates of the P-type and N-type transistors are controlled by the input control terminal A switch transistor, having the gate controlled by the input control terminal, is coupled between the internal connection terminal and the ground terminal. A discharging transistor having the gate controlled by the output control terminal, is coupled between the electrostatic discharge input terminal and the ground terminal. |
| US11362511B2 |
Electronic unit having an assembly for limiting current
An electronic assembly, has at least one circuit board with conductor tracks, at least one current-limiting arrangement in the form of a thermal predetermined breaking point in at least one of the conductor tracks, and a fire-containment device in the region of the current-limiting arrangement. |
| US11362507B2 |
Ground fault protection in a high resistance grounding system
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of ground fault protection are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a power switch being structured to receive a load current from a power source at a source-side and selectively output the load current from a load-side to a load; a first voltage measuring device structured to measure a first voltage of the source-side while the power switch is conducting the load current; a second voltage measuring device structured to measure a second voltage of the load-side while the first voltage measuring device is measuring the first voltage; and a controller structured to determine a source-side-to-ground voltage based on the first voltage, determine a load-side-to-ground voltage based on the second voltage, determine a ground fault is occurring, and determine a direction of the ground fault relative to the power switch by comparing the source-side-to-ground voltage and the load-side-to-ground voltage. |
| US11362502B2 |
Adapter for cable hanger
An adapter for a plurality of cable hangers includes: first, second and third mounting panels, each mounting panel including a round mounting hole, the mounting panels serially attached to each other at edges thereof, each mounting panel being disposed at an oblique angle relative to its adjacent mounting panels; a base attached with the first and third mounting panels; wherein the base includes features for mounting the adapter to a mounting structure; and wherein the adapter is a monolithic structure formed of a polymeric material; and further comprising projections on the mounting panels located and configured to limit rotation of a cable hanger mounted in one of the mounting holes. |
| US11362501B2 |
Insulator insert for weatherhead and methods of installing
An improved weatherhead and insulator, and methods for using and installing same, for improved insertion and installation of wiring/cabling to new or existing structures. The weatherhead includes a replaceable disc insulator that may be initially installed or replaced as part of a new weatherhead, or replaced in an installed weatherhead if damaged without passing the end of the service through the insulator. The open spaces through which the service passes are accessible from the top of the insulator. Where the cap is metallic, additional insulation may be inserted at the top of the insulator. The insulator is configured to prevent relative movement between the insulator and collar during installation. |
| US11362500B2 |
Mounting device for an elongate flexible member
A mounting device (110) for an elongate flexible member extending through an aperture (102), comprising: an elongate body (130) having a longitudinal axis; an internal passageway passing through the elongate body (130) parallel to the longitudinal axis, for receipt of the elongate flexible member; a plurality of apertures (132) in the elongate body (130); an engagement member (136) in each apertures (132) and constrained to move along a displacement axis inclined to the longitudinal axis of the elongate body (130); a plurality of actuation members (142), each engaged with a respective engagement member (136), whereby displacement of the actuation member (142) in a first direction displaces the engagement members (136) outwardly to project beyond the periphery of the elongate body (130) and displacement of the actuations members (142) in a second, opposite direction displaces the engagement members (136) inwardly; and biasing means (182) biasing the actuation members (142) in the first direction. |
| US11362499B2 |
Harness outlet adapter of a cable tray and method for installing such an adapter
The invention relates to a cable harness output adaptor (5) for a cable tray including two semi-cylindrical half-shells (5A, 5B) made of plastic material, assembled in a complementary manner to form a cylindrical piece extending along at least one longitudinal axis (X′X) and defining two cylindrical parts (P1, P2): a first cylindrical part (P1) for internal cable harness support (3) and for externally receiving at least one clamping collar for the assembled half-shells (5A, 5B), and a second, cylindrical output part (P2) with external grip (20) of at least one protective sheath of the cable harness. |
| US11362497B2 |
Support member—attached wiring member
A support member-attached wiring member includes: a wiring member flatly formed; a support member including a fitting part formed into a cylindrical shape opening in one portion in a circumferential direction so as to be able to be fitted to an outer peripheral part of a rod-like member; a penetration part passing through the wiring member in a state where the wiring member is disposed on an outer side of the support member; and a retaining part which does not pass through the wiring member but is provided on an outer side of the wiring member to prevent the penetration part from coming out of the wiring member. |
| US11362495B1 |
Cradle for industrial power cables
A cable cradle device for retaining and protecting industrial power connectors that are used to charge industrial equipment. The cable cradle device is configured to retain the special power charging cable and plugs which fits the dimensions of the charger plugs. The cable cradle device comprises a rectangular base wall configured for mounting the cable cradle device a wall or a pole. The cable cradle device further comprises two opposite brackets extending laterally from the base wall, a bottom bracket extending outwards from a bottom edge of the rectangular base wall having two symmetric cut outs. The cable cradle device forms a housing to hold a power plug which rests on the bottom bracket and is supported by the opposite brackets with the cables passing through the cut outs. A method of forming the cable cradle device is also disclosed. |
| US11362494B2 |
Assembly, system, and methods for installing conductive elements in an aircraft
There is provided a raceway cover assembly for installing conductive element(s) in an aircraft. The raceway cover assembly includes a raceway cover for removable coupling to a raceway. The raceway is configured for attachment to a sidewall assembly for use in a cabin of the aircraft. The raceway cover includes a first cover side, a second cover side, and retaining element(s) disposed on the first cover side. The raceway cover assembly further includes the conductive element(s) coupled and retained to the first cover side, with the retaining element(s), to form the raceway cover assembly. The conductive element(s) and the raceway cover are assembled together at a location off of the aircraft, prior to installing the raceway cover assembly with the one or more conductive elements in the aircraft, which allows for routing of the one or more conductive elements in the raceway cover at the location off of the aircraft. |
| US11362492B2 |
Cable preparation machine having arcing contour blades
A cable preparation machine includes a frame forming a cable cutting zone, the frame having a cable opening along a cable axis at the cable cutting zone receiving an end of a cable. The cable preparation machine includes a pulley assembly rotatably coupled to the frame about the cable axis and a drive assembly operably coupled to the pulley assembly to rotate the pulley assembly about the cable axis. The cable preparation machine includes a blade assembly operably coupled to the pulley assembly and rotated with the pulley assembly about the cable axis. The blade assembly includes a blade having an arcuate cutting edge configured for cutting an insulator from the end of the cable. |
| US11362491B2 |
Conduit space recovery system
Space in a conduit having at least one cable therein which is surrounded by a duct is recovered by longitudinally cutting the duct and removing the duct from around the cable. The duct may be pulled out of the conduit and past a blade to affect the cutting, or a blade may be pulled through the conduit to cut the duct while still in the conduit. |
| US11362487B2 |
Laser emitter including nanowires
A laser emitter is provided, including a substrate and a dielectric mask layer located proximate to and above the substrate in a thickness direction. The dielectric mask layer may have a plurality of trenches formed therein. The plurality of trenches may have a plurality of different respective widths. The laser emitter may further include a respective nanowire located within each trench of the plurality of trenches. Each nanowire may include a first semiconductor layer located above the substrate in the thickness direction. Each nanowire may further include a quantum well layer located proximate to and above the first semiconductor layer in the thickness direction. Each nanowire may further include a second semiconductor layer located proximate to and above the quantum well layer in the thickness direction. |
| US11362485B1 |
Techniques for bonding multiple semiconductor lasers
Embodiments of the present disclosure include method for sequentially mounting multiple semiconductor devices onto a substrate having a composite metal structure on both the semiconductor devices and the substrate for improved process tolerance and reduced device distances without thermal interference. The mounting process causes “selective” intermixing between the metal layers on the devices and the substrate and increases the melting point of the resulting alloy materials. |
| US11362484B2 |
Light-emitting-element housing member, array member, and light emitting device
A light-emitting-element housing member includes: a bottom base material having a first surface, and a mounting part on the first surface on which a light emitting element is to be mounted; and a frame member that includes side walls erected on the first surface to surround the mounting part, and an opening that penetrates through one of the side walls. The opening includes an inner edge having a first side and a second side, the first side extends along the first surface and is arranged at a position close to the bottom base material, and the second side extends along the first surface and is arranged at a position far from the bottom base material, and the second side is longer than the first side. An array of the plurality of light-emitting-element housing members, and a light emitting device are also described. |
| US11362483B2 |
System and method for generating a spatially localised high-intensity laser beam
Disclosed is a system for generating a spatially localized, high-intensity laser beam, including: a laser source designed to generate a burst of N laser pulses with a duration of less than or equal to one picosecond, the N laser pulses having a first repetition frequency greater than or equal to 0.5 gigahertz; a resonant optical cavity designed to receive and store the burst of N laser pulses, the resonant optical cavity being designed to focus the burst of N laser pulses in an interaction region of the resonant optical cavity; and a servo control system designed to control the first repetition frequency relative to the roundtrip distance in the resonant optical cavity, such that the N pulses of the burst are superimposed temporally and spatially by constructive interferences in the interaction region so as to form one giant ultra-short and high-energy pulse. |
| US11362482B2 |
Integrated fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator, application and communication system
An integrated Fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator and its application and a communication system are provided, which relates to the technical field of microwave photonics. The integrated Fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator includes an optoelectronic chip and an electronic chip. The optoelectronic chip includes a laser, a modulator, an optical notch filter, and a photodetector coupled via an optical waveguide. The electronic chip includes an electrical amplifier and a power splitter coupled via a coplanar microwave waveguide. The volume, weight and power consumption of the Fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator is greatly reduced by integrating all the devices on the chip. A tunable sweeping microwave signal output is realized, and the sweeping speed of the output signal is increased. The integrated Fourier domain mode-locked optoelectronic oscillator can be used in radars and communication systems. |
| US11362481B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring optical pulses
A pulse analysis system or method includes a frequency filter that receives an ultrafast pulse under test and disperses the pulse under test over a frequency range. The frequency filter separates the pulse under test into component frequency slices and provides the frequency slices to a detector coupled to a digitizer, which processes the digitized signal and collects a sonogram characteristic of the pulse under test. The frequency slices are arranged to overlap. Ptychography is performed on the sonogram to obtain characteristics of the pulse under test. |
| US11362479B2 |
Non-reciprocal optical assembly for injection locked laser
A non-reciprocal optical assembly for injection locking a laser to a resonator is described. The laser emits a light beam, and the resonator receives the light beam and returns a feedback light beam to the laser such that the feedback light beam causes injection locking. The non-reciprocal optical assembly is interposed between and optically coupled to the laser and the resonator. The non-reciprocal optical assembly includes a first port that receives the light beam from the laser, and a second port that outputs the light beam to the resonator and receives the feedback light beam from the resonator. The first port also outputs the feedback light beam to the laser. The light beam passes through the non-reciprocal optical assembly with a first power loss, and the feedback light beam passes through the non-reciprocal optical assembly with a second power loss (the first power loss differs from the second power loss). |
| US11362478B2 |
Hollow core fiber laser system, apparatus, and method
An optical system, apparatus, or method can comprise or implement a seed module to generate and output electromagnetic radiation at a predetermined amplitude and at a predetermined wavelength. The seed module can include at least one non-hollow core optical fiber and at least one hollow core optical fiber. One at least one non-hollow core optical fiber can be optically coupled to one at least one hollow core optical fiber. The non-hollow core optical fiber and the hollow core optical fiber may receive and pass electromagnetic radiation emitted from a laser diode or amplifier. |
| US11362477B2 |
Fiber laser system and control method therefor
A fiber laser system, includes: N fiber laser units that generates respective laser beams, where N≥2; an output combiner that: combines the respective laser beams, and generates output light including, as the respective laser beams, laser beams different from each other in terms of NA power cumulative distribution; and a control unit that sets a power of each of the respective laser beams such that an upper limit NA corresponding to each of not more than (N−1) predetermined power cumulative rate(s) is equal to a specified value for the output light. |
| US11362476B2 |
System and device with laser array illumination
A system includes a heat sink module and a driving circuit module. The heat sink module includes stepped through-holes that each includes a cylindrical upper and lower portions connected by a ring-shaped surface. The bottom surface of the heat sink module includes grooves that respectively pass through the lower portions of respective sequences of the stepped through-holes. The driving circuit module includes conductive connectors and electrical driving surfaces that are disposed external to the heat sink module. Each conductive connector lies within a respective groove in the bottom surface of the heat sink module. The conductive connectors include internal connectors that each link at least two stepped through-holes in a respective sequence of stepped through-holes passed by a respective groove, and include external connectors that each link at least one stepped through-hole in the respective sequence of stepped through-holes to the electrical driving surfaces. |
| US11362473B2 |
Device and method for producing a patterned functional coating for a glass layer
A device and a method for producing a patterned functional coating on a first curved glass layer, the device including a support for holding the first curved glass layer, at least one laser, and a guidance unit, provided for guiding the beam of the laser over the functional coating, such that parts of the functional coating are removed in order to pattern the functional coating. |
| US11362470B2 |
Combination outlet and power distribution unit incorporating the same
A combination outlet connector is disclosed. The combination outlet connector includes an outlet core having three T-shaped apertures. The outlet core has a core outer surface to mate with a first connector type, such as a C14 connector, and electrical terminals are positioned in corresponding apertures. A removable adapter sleeve is positionable around the outlet core and has a sleeve outer surface to mate with a second connector type, such as a C20 connector. The adapter sleeve includes a sleeve aperture at least partially congruent with the core outer surface. The electrical terminals are configured to connect with mating terminals of the first and second connector types. A removable adapter shroud can be positioned around the outlet core. The shroud includes a shroud inner surface to receive the first connector type and a shroud flange having a shroud aperture at least partially congruent with the core outer surface. |
| US11362469B1 |
Lamp socket structure
The present disclosure provides to a lamp socket structure. The lamp socket structure includes a plastic outer housing, a metal inner housing, an insulating bottom plate, a live-wire metal connecting piece, and a neutral-wire metal connecting piece, wherein the metal inner housing is in a cylindric structure, a receiving chamber configured to receive a lamp cap is disposed inside the metal inner housing, a positioning chamber having a small upper portion and a large lower portion vertically runs through a top portion of the metal inner housing, the live-wire metal connecting piece is plugged into the two matting columns, a riveting head is integrally and protrusively fixed to both a top portion of the live-wire metal connecting piece and a top portion of the neutral-wire metal connecting piece, the riveting head being in a U-shaped plate structure; and the metal inner housing, the insulating bottom plate, the live-wire metal connecting piece, and the neutral-wire metal connecting piece constitute a conducting base for conduction of the lamp cap, the plastic outer housing being mounted to the conducting base by an injection molding process. The lamp socket structure is reasonable in design, and may prevent poor contacts at a wire junction due to high temperature at the lamp cap when the wire is mounted. Therefore, this lamp socket structure is suitable to promotion and application. |
| US11362461B2 |
Connector having movable housings respectively holding one ends of terminals
Provided is a connector including a plurality of terminals respectively corresponding to a plurality of mating terminals of a mating connector, a plurality of movable housings respectively holding one ends of the terminals respectively in contact with the plurality of mating terminals, and a fixed housing fixed to a mounting target and housing the plurality of movable housings. The other ends of the plurality of terminals are fixed to the fixed housing, and the plurality of terminals operate independently with respect to the plurality of mating terminals, and thus respectively support the plurality of movable housings movably with respect to the fixed housing. |
| US11362459B2 |
Moisture-sealed connector
A method of forming a fluid resistant insulator for use in a connector includes collecting a part having a surface and electrically insulating properties. The method further includes applying a superhydrophobic sealant to the surface of the part having the electrically insulating properties. The method further includes curing the part with the superhydrophobic sealant applied to allow the superhydrophobic sealant to dry. |
| US11362458B2 |
Bidirectionally installable intermediate modular adapter for a rack-mounted panel
A bidirectionally installable intermediate modular adapter for a rack mounted panel is provided, including a front face, an opposing rear face, a first side surface and opposing second side surface each comprising a spring tab latch and spring tab latch receiver. The spring tab latch comprises a first ramp positioned towards the front face and a second ramp positioned towards the opposing rear face, a groove defined at least in part by the first ramp and second ramp, a first latch arm positioned towards the front face, a second latch arm positioned towards the opposing rear face, a spring tab latch connector positioned towards the spring tab receiver, and a compression spring. At least one opening extends from the front face through the body to the opposing rear face and an upper surface comprises a groove extending at least partially lengthwise across the upper surface. |
| US11362453B2 |
Connector assembly and connector
A first housing of a first connector has a first end wall which is located downward of a first accommodation portion in an up-down direction. When viewed from beneath along the up-down direction, the first end wall hides, in part, a first contact located in the first accommodation portion. A second housing has a second end wall which is located upward of a second accommodation portion in the up-down direction. When viewed from above along the up-down direction, the second end wall hides a second contact located in the second accommodation portion. The first end wall prevents a finger of an operator from coming into contact with the first contact, and the second end wall prevents the finger of the operator from coming into contact with the second contact. |
| US11362452B2 |
Multi-connection device
A multi-connection device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing; and a first or a second connection terminal for electrical connection, the first and second connection terminals protruding in first and second directions from the housing, respectively. Various other embodiments may also be possible. |
| US11362449B2 |
Miniaturized connector
Disclosed herein is a receptacle and a plug for a miniaturized connector for use in an audio device, a hearing device or a similar device. |
| US11362446B2 |
Earthing technique
An earth connector for a fence panel includes a member with a sharp edge which penetrates protective material on rods of the panel to come into electrical contact with at least two of the rods. |
| US11362438B2 |
Configurable guided wave launcher and methods for use therewith
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a guided wave launcher includes an array of antennas configured to generate near field signals. A controller is configured to: select, in response to a first control signal, at least one of a plurality of guided wave modes; and adjust beam steering parameters of the array of antennas according to the selected one(s) of the plurality of guided wave modes. The near field signals combine to induce a guided electromagnetic wave having the selected one(s) of the plurality of guided wave modes, wherein the first guided electromagnetic wave is guided by the transmission medium and propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. |
| US11362437B2 |
Antenna for mobile communication
The present disclosure relates to an antenna for mobile communication comprising a plurality of first radiators and at least one second radiator, which are disposed on a common reflector plane, the first radiators each including a reflector environment raised relative to the reflector plane, wherein the second radiator is disposed between a plurality of first radiators and is formed by parts of the respective reflector environment of the first radiators surrounding it. |
| US11362436B2 |
Plastic air-waveguide antenna with conductive particles
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a plastic air-waveguide antenna with conductive particles. The described antenna includes an antenna body made from a resin embedded with conductive particles, a surface of the antenna body that includes a resin layer with no or fewer conductive particles, and a waveguide structure. The waveguide structure can be made from a portion of the surface on which the embedded conductive particles are exposed. The waveguide structure can be molded as part of the antenna body or cut into the antenna body using a laser, which also exposes the conductive particles. If the waveguide is molded as part of the antenna body, the conductive particles can be exposed by an etching process or by using the laser. In this way, the described apparatuses and techniques can reduce weight, improve gain and phase control, improve high-temperature performance, and avoid at least some vapor-deposition plating operations. |
| US11362431B1 |
Optically transparent radar absorbing material (RAM)
An optically transparent radar absorbing material has alternating layers of optically transparent conductive material with layers of even thickness of optically transparent material having a homogenous dielectric constant. The even thickness is one quarter of the wavelength of a targeted electromagnetic energy. |
| US11362430B1 |
Tunable antenna isolators
A tunable antenna isolator includes a first wall, a second wall, and an electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure located between the first wall and the second wall. The first wall may be a metallic wall or an EBG structure, and the second wall may be a metallic wall or an EBG structure. |
| US11362427B2 |
Deployable horn antenna and associated methods
An outer space deployable antenna may include a waveguide antenna feed section. A first plurality of wires and a first plurality of biased hinges may couple the first plurality of wires together to be self-biased to move between a collapsed stored configuration and an extended deployed configuration. A horn antenna section may be coupled to the waveguide antenna feed section and may include a second plurality of wires and a second plurality of biased hinges coupling the second plurality of wires together to be self-biased to move between the collapsed stored configuration and the extended deployed configuration. A flexible electrically conductive layer may cover the waveguide antenna feed section and the horn antenna section in at least the extended deployed configuration. |
| US11362422B2 |
Device and method for intra-ship communication
The present invention relates to an interphone device for use in ships, the interphone device comprising: an input/output unit to which a voice is input or from which a voice is output; a transmission/reception circuit unit which receives the voice from the input/output unit and provides a first signal obtained by encoding and modulating the received voice; and an antenna which is attached to the metal hull of the ship, forms an electromagnetic field in the metal hull, and carries the first signal received from the transmission/reception circuit unit by the electromagnetic field, so as to propagate the first signal. |
| US11362421B2 |
Antenna and device configurations
An electronic device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a device cover. The first antenna may be configured to transmit or receive signals at a first frequency, and the second antenna may be configured to transmit or receive signals at a second frequency. The device cover may be configured to enclose at least a portion of the device, the and may have a first thickness in a first area and a second thickness in a second area. The first area may be substantially aligned with a boresight of the first antenna, and the second area may be substantially aligned with a boresight of the second antenna. The first thickness may be different than the second thickness. |
| US11362417B1 |
End cover and radome assembly with the end cover
An end cover includes an end cover plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of a radome and passes through a connection part of the end cover and the radome. Outlines of a cross section of the end cover includes a first spline curve between a first end point and a first intermediate point having at least one first curvature, and a second spline curve between a second intermediate point and a third intermediate point having at least one second curvature. The first intermediate point and the second intermediate point are not in the end cover plane. A distance between the first intermediate point and the end cover plane and a distance between the second intermediate point and the end cover plane are equal and not less than a distance between any point on the cross section of the end cover and the end cover plane. |
| US11362414B2 |
Antenna system for vehicles
A communication system and method for vehicles, particularly trains, are described with the vehicle having antenna sets. Each antenna set includes a plurality of antennas mounted onto a convex-shaped vehicle roof in which an axis of one antenna set is approximately perpendicular to an axis of another antenna set and in which the antenna sets are mounted below roof level of the convex-shaped vehicle roof A switching device is operable to switch between a first antenna configuration and a second antenna configuration based on a difference in measured signal power received at the antenna sets. The first antenna configuration is associated with a first stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems and a second antenna configuration is associated with a second stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems. |
| US11362412B2 |
Antenna device, antenna module, and communication apparatus
A radiation conductor is constructed of a metal plate having a pair of main surfaces pointing in opposite directions. Each main surface of the pair of main surfaces includes a first surface region that includes at least part of a peripheral edge portion of the main surface. At least one main surface of the pair of main surfaces includes a second surface region that is a region other than the first surface region. A dielectric member holds the radiation conductor in such a manner that the first surface region of each main surface of the pair of main surfaces is sandwiched between portions of the dielectric member in a thickness direction of the radiation conductor. The second surface region of the at least one main surface is exposed. |
| US11362405B2 |
Filter
A filter includes a waveguide formed in a dielectric surrounded by a conductor wall. The conductor wall includes at least one control wall protruding toward an inner side of the waveguide. The at least one control wall includes an end portion in a protruding direction of the at least one control wall and a central portion in the protruding direction. The end portion includes a wall portion of which wall thickness is different from the central portion. |
| US11362399B2 |
Polyolefin microporous membrane, separator for electricity storage devices, and electricity storage device
According to the present invention, a microporous membrane contains a polyolefin resin and inorganic particles; the primary particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 100 nm or less; the content of the inorganic particles is 10-60% by mass or 10% by mass or more but less than 40% by mass based on the mass of the microporous membrane; and the retention time at 150° C. is less than 200 seconds or the retention time at 145° C. is more than 1 second but less than 300 seconds in the thermal behavior evaluation of the microporous membrane. |
| US11362397B2 |
Energy storage device, motor vehicle, and housing cover assembly
An energy storage device for a motor vehicle, wherein the energy storage device has a battery module with a battery cell, which has an opening on the upper side thereof, it being possible to release said opening when there is overpressure, and a battery housing, wherein the battery module is arranged with its lower side facing a housing base, wherein the battery housing has a housing cover made of a first material, which can be arranged on a housing lower part of the battery housing, and which has an inner side, which is facing the at least one battery module when the housing cover is in the state in which it is arranged on the housing lower part. |
| US11362392B2 |
Battery pack
The present disclosure provides a battery pack and a device comprising the battery pack, the battery pack comprises a double-layer battery module bracket, an upper-layer battery module, a lower-layer battery module and a supporting mechanism; the double-layer battery module bracket comprises an upper plate; a lower fixing member, an upper fixing member and a fastener; the lower fixing member and the upper plate are configured to enclose a lower accommodating space; the upper fixing member and the upper plate being are configured to enclose an upper accommodating space, a lower portion of the fastener exposed from the lower fixing member is fixed on the supporting mechanism; the upper-layer battery module is accommodated in the upper accommodating space and supported on the upper plate; the lower-layer battery module is accommodated in the lower accommodating space; the supporting mechanism supports the lower-layer battery module and the lower fixing member. |
| US11362387B2 |
Energy storage device
An energy storage device includes a substrate having a portion that is optically transparent in a predefined range of wavelengths, and at least one electrochemical energy storage system comprising, as from a face of the transparent portion, a stack having successively a first current collector, a first electrode, an electrolyte, a second electrode and a second current collector, the stack being covered partially by a cover characterised in that wherein at least one part of the cover has a coefficient of light absorbance greater than or equal to 80%, and preferably greater than 90%. |
| US11362381B2 |
Battery box for automotive battery temperature management
A battery box, supporting structure and insuring thermal management of one or more battery cells allowing a temperature control of said battery cells environment to insure its optimal operational condition, the battery box comprises at least one aluminum hollow profile, wherein said aluminium hollow profile comprises at least two chambers, wherein at least one chamber is filled with a first phase change material having a melting point T1F and at least one chamber is filled with a second phase change material having a melting point T2F, where T1F>T2F. |
| US11362380B2 |
Electric vehicle battery pack cooling system and electric vehicle battery pack system cooling method using same
A battery pack cooling system for an electric vehicle, which may be utilized during quick charging, includes a battery pack; a water-cooling device; a thermoelectric module installed at an coolant conduit of the water-cooling device; a current sensor configured to detect a magnitude of a charging current supplied to the battery pack; and a control unit configured to determine a charging C-rate based on the magnitude of the charging current and configured to operate the thermoelectric module when the charging C-rate is at a preset threshold or above. A method of cooling such a battery pack system for an electric vehicle is also provided. |
| US11362378B2 |
Degassing device, and facility and method for manufacturing secondary battery comprising the same
A degassing device includes a piercing unit including a piercing body configured to be disposed on a first surface of the secondary battery to seal one side of the first surface of the secondary battery, and a piercing member configured to pierce the sealed one side of the first surface of the secondary battery to form an opening hole; and a gas discharge unit including a gas discharge body configured to be disposed on a second surface of the secondary battery to seal one side of the second surface of the secondary battery, and a gas discharge member configured to discharge the gas within the secondary battery to the outside through the opening hole, wherein the piercing member is configured to form the opening hole passing from the one side of the first surface to the one side of the second surface of the secondary battery. |
| US11362372B2 |
Secondary cell with high recharging efficiency and long term stability
A secondary zinc-manganese dioxide secondary cell is disclosed. The cell includes a zinc gel anode, high manganese content cathode in either prismatic or jelly roll form. An aqueous based continuous reel to reel process for formulation and fabrication of the anode and cathode is provided. The cell is contained in a box assembly. |
| US11362365B2 |
Electrode including solid electrolyte ionically interconnecting porous active material particles, and methods of fabricating the same
A metal or metal-ion battery composition is provided that comprises anode and cathode electrodes along with an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode. At least one of the electrodes includes active material particles provided to store and release ions during battery operation. Each of the active material particles includes internal pores configured to accommodate volume changes in the active material during the storing and releasing of the ions. The electrolyte comprises a solid electrolyte ionically interconnecting the active material particles. |
| US11362360B2 |
In-situ monitoring of flue gas contaminants for fuel cell systems
A power production system includes a fuel cell separation system configured to receive a flue gas and to produce electrical power therefrom; a flue gas polishing system positioned upstream of the fuel cell separation system and configured to remove contaminants in the flue gas; a flue gas analyzer configured to measure in real-time an amount of the contaminants in the flue gas; and a plant control system operatively coupled to the flue gas polishing system, the flue gas analyzer, and the fuel cell separation system and configured to adjust operational parameters of the flue gas polishing system. |
| US11362357B2 |
System and method for generating vibrations in at least one component of a fuel cell system, and fuel cell system
A system and method for generating vibrations in a fuel cell system include a vibration device which can be arranged on the fuel cell system or is formed by at least one component of the fuel cell system, for generating excitation vibrations which can be transmitted to the component. An electronic actuating system includes a controller and memory for actuating the vibration device, which may include a coolant pump or a compressor, at a natural frequency of a fuel system component for de-icing. At temperatures below 0° C., the electronic actuating system is adapted to actuate the vibration device during a switch-on process and/or a switch-off process of the fuel cell system taking into consideration at least one natural frequency of the component. Embodiments including actuating a compressor, cooling pump, and/or valve to transmit vibrations to a component to be de-iced at a natural frequency of the component. |
| US11362355B2 |
Fuel cell system and anode off-gas discharge amount estimation system
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a supply flow passage and a discharge flow passage for anode gas, a gas-liquid separator, a discharge valve, a differential pressure detection unit configured to detect a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of the discharge valve, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate an effective cross-sectional area of the discharge valve for the anode off-gas, which is decreased by an amount of water flowing into the gas-liquid separator and flowing out from the discharge valve, based on the differential pressure, and to estimate a discharge amount of the anode off-gas based on the estimated effective cross-sectional area. |
| US11362352B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method of fuel cell system
Provided is a fuel cell system including: a fuel cell that supplies electricity to a load; a fuel cell converter that is connected between the fuel cell and the load and boosts a voltage output from the fuel cell; and a control unit that causes the fuel cell converter to perform a voltage boosting action and controls output electricity to the load. Upon detecting a voltage boosting disabling failure that is a failure in which the fuel cell converter is unable to perform the voltage boosting action and able to pass a current, the control unit stops the voltage boosting action of the fuel cell converter and passes a current through the fuel cell converter. |
| US11362350B2 |
Fuel cell system and a method and apparatus for starting a fuel cell stack
The invention concerns fuel cell systems and methods for converting chemical energy of a fuel containing hydrogen into electricity. According to the invention, a fuel cell stack is provided having at least one anode and one cathode separated by a proton-exchange membrane. A fuel transport circuit feeds fuel to the fuel cell stack, and a temperature control system is adapted to control the temperature of the fuel cell stack by circulating a coolant medium through said fuel cell stack. The temperature control system includes a pump for circulating the coolant medium, a heater unit connected to a coolant transport circuit for heating the coolant with a PTC heater, a heat radiation unit connected to the coolant transport circuit for removing excess heat, and a temperature sensor. In response to a startup condition of the fuel cell stack, a controller is adapted to read a temperature signal indicative of the fuel cell stack temperature, to bypass the heat radiation unit, if the fuel cell stack temperature is below a first predetermined value, and to connect electric power generated by said fuel cell stack to be started-up to said PTC heater. |
| US11362349B2 |
Closed anode fuel cell startup method
A process for starting a PEM fuel cell module includes blowing air through the cathode side of the module using external power. An amount hydrogen is released into the anode side of the module under a pressure greater than the pressure of the air on the cathode side, while the anode is otherwise closed. Cell voltages in the module are monitored for the appearance of a charged state sufficient to start the module. When the charged state is observed, the module is converted to a running state. |
| US11362348B2 |
Replaceable modular device for hydrogen release
A modular device for generating hydrogen gas from a hydrogen liquid carrier may include a housing;an inlet for receiving the hydrogen liquid carrier; and at least one cartridge arranged within the housing. The cartridge may include at least one catalyst configured to cause a release of hydrogen gas when exposed to the hydrogen liquid carrier. The modular device may include a gas outlet for expelling the hydrogen gas released in the modular device and a liquid outlet for expelling spent hydrogen liquid carrier. |
| US11362344B2 |
Fuel cell and cell stack device
A cell stack device includes a manifold and a fuel cell. The manifold includes a gas supply chamber and a gas collection chamber. The fuel cell includes a support substrate and a power generation element portion. The support substrate includes first and second gas channels. The first gas channel is connected to the gas supply chamber, and the second gas channel is connected to the gas collection chamber. The first gas channel is open in the gas supply chamber at a proximal end portion. The second gas channel is open in the gas collection chamber at a proximal end portion. The first and second gas channels are connected to each other on the distal end portion side. The first and second gas channels are configured such that a pressure loss of gas in the first gas channel is smaller than a pressure loss of gas in the second gas channel. |
| US11362339B2 |
Spinodal-based co-continuous composites for high performance battery electrodes
Electrodes and methods of creating co-continuous composite electrodes based on a highly porous current collector are provided. In one embodiment, a method for creating an electrode includes depositing a thin layer of material on the polymer template, removing polymer material of the polymer template and depositing a second material. The method may also include controlling internal surface area per unit volume and the active material thickness of at least the second material to tune the electrochemical performance of the electrode. In one embodiment, a composite electrode is provided including interpenetrating phases of a metal current collector, electrolytically active phase, and electrolyte. |
| US11362336B2 |
Electrolytic copper foil and secondary battery using the same
The present disclosure provides an electrolytic copper foil composed of a single layer or a stack of two or more layers, wherein the electrolytic copper foil has Total Organic Carbon (TOC) content equal to or smaller than 4 ppm, and has chlorine (Cl) content equal to or smaller than 10 ppm, wherein the electrolytic copper foil has a thickness, a tensile strength, and an elongation satisfying a relationship 1 below: relationship 1: thickness (μm)/(tensile strength (kgf/mm2)*elongation (%))≤0.1. |
| US11362334B2 |
Binder composition for electrical storage device, slurry composition for electrical storage device electrode, electrode for electrical storage device, and electrical storage device
Provided is a binder composition for an electrical storage device that can both ensure stability of a slurry composition and enhance peel strength of an electrode and rate characteristics of an electrical storage device. The binder composition contains a particulate polymer. The particulate polymer includes a cyano group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of not less than 5 mass % and not more than 45 mass % and includes an amide group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of not less than 0.3 mass % and not more than 10 mass %. Moreover, the particulate polymer has a core-shell structure including a core portion and a shell portion at least partially covering an outer surface of the core portion, and has at least one glass-transition temperature at 10° C. or lower. |
| US11362331B2 |
Cathode active materials for lithium-ion batteries
Compounds, powders, and cathode active materials that can be used in lithium ion batteries are described herein. Methods of making such compounds, powders, and cathode active materials are described. |
| US11362330B2 |
Composite positive electrode active material, method of preparing the same, positive electrode including composite positive electrode active material, and lithium battery including positive electrode
A composite positive active material represented by Formula 1, LiaNibCocMndMeO2 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M is zirconium (Zr), aluminum (Al), rhenium (Re), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), gallium (Ga), silicon (Si), boron (B), ruthenium (Ru), titanium (Ti), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), magnesium (Mg), or platinum (Pt), 1.1≤a≤1.3, b+c+d+e≤1, 0≤b≤0.3, 0≤c≤0.3, 0 |
| US11362329B2 |
Negative electrode active particle and method for manufacturing the same
A negative electrode active material particle and a method for preparing the same are provided. The negative electrode active material particle includes SiOx (0 |
| US11362327B2 |
Double layer-coated nano-silicon negative electrode material, a method for preparing the same and use thereof
This invention relates to a double layer composite-coated nano-silicon negative electrode material, and its preparation methods and use, the negative electrode material comprising: a silicon-based nanoparticle, a copper layer coated on the surface of the silicon-based nanoparticle, and a conductive protective layer coated on the surface of the copper layer. Nano-copper has superplastic ductility and conductivity, and the prior art has proved that lithium ions can penetrate nano-copper; therefore, the copper coating layer has effects of inhibiting the volume expansion of the silicon-based nanoparticle and keeping the silicon-based nanoparticle from cracking so that direct contact between the silicon-based nanoparticle and an electrolyte is effectively avoided and a stable SEI is formed, and increasing the conductivity of the electrode. The surface of the nano-copper is coated with a further conductive protective layer to effectively inhibit the oxidation of the nano-copper, thereby improving the electrochemical performance. |
| US11362326B2 |
Method for preparing silicon-carbon-graphene composite, composite prepared according thereto, and secondary battery to which same is applied
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for preparing a silicon-carbon-graphene composite, comprising the steps of: (step 1) adding a carbon precursor solution to silicon and performing wet grinding so as to prepare a suspension: (step 2) forming a silicon-carbon composite by spray drying the suspension; and (step 3) spray drying and heat treating a solution comprising the silicon-carbon composite and graphene oxide. |
| US11362321B2 |
Negative electrode material and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A negative electrode material includes a graphite material, an alkali metal salt, and at least one metal material selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Mg, Ni, Pd, Rh, Os, and Pt. The graphite material contains natural graphite. |
| US11362319B2 |
Method and system for depositing solid electrolyte on electrode active material while retaining crystal structure of solid electrolyte
A method for deposition of solid electrolyte material on electrode active material, comprising the steps of a feed of electrode active material from a first storage unit to a first dosing means with a simultaneous feed of solid electrolyte material from a second storage unit to a second dosing means, a feed of inert gas to the first dosing means and to the second dosing means via an inert gas feed means, a feed of the electrode active material via the first dosing means into a reaction space with simultaneous feed of the solid electrolyte material via the second dosing means into the reaction space, wherein the electronic structure of the electrode active material and of the solid electrolyte material is influenced during the feed to the reaction space via the first and second dosing means, such that the electrode active material and the solid electrolyte material bond to one another at least in part while retaining the crystal structure of the solid electrolyte material. |
| US11362317B2 |
Electrode for solid-state batteries and solid-state battery
An electrode for solid-state batteries, comprising a PTC resistor layer, and a solid-state battery comprising the electrode. The electrode may be an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode active material layer, a current collector and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the electrode active material layer and the current collector; wherein the PTC resistor layer contains an electroconductive material, an insulating inorganic substance and a polymer; and wherein a porosity of the PTC resistor layer is from 5% to 13%. |
| US11362315B2 |
Transfer lamination of electrodes in silicon-dominant anode cells
Systems and methods are provided for high volume roll-to-roll transfer lamination of electrodes for silicon-dominant anode cells. |