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| US11871680B2 |
Device for guiding charge carriers and use thereof
A device for guiding charge carriers and uses of the device are proposed, wherein the charge carriers are guided by means of a magnetic field along a curved or angled main path in a two-dimensional electron gas, in a thin superconducting layer or in a modification of carbon with a hexagonal crystal structure, so that a different presence density is produced at electrical connections. |
| US11871677B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a MRAM region and a logic region; forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MRAM region; forming a top electrode on the MTJ; and then performing a flowable chemical vapor deposition (FCVD) process to form a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the top electrode and the MTJ. |
| US11871674B1 |
Integrated multilayer actuators
A multilayer actuator includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and an electroactive layer disposed between and abutting the primary electrode and the secondary electrode. The multilayer actuator further includes a primary antireflective coating overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode opposite the electroactive layer, a secondary antireflective coating overlapping at least a portion of the secondary electrode opposite the electroactive layer, and a barrier layer overlapping the secondary antireflective coating opposite the secondary electrode. |
| US11871673B2 |
Methods of fabricating actuator assemblies
Actuator assemblies, mechanical assemblies including the actuator assemblies, and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed herein. The actuator assemblies include a piezoelectric element having a first side and a second side, a first electrode in electrical communication with the first side, and a second electrode in electrical communication with the second side. The first electrode includes a flexible, electrically conductive membrane. The mechanical assemblies include a first structure, which includes a first interface surface, a second structure, which includes a second interface surface, and the actuator assembly. The actuator assembly is configured to provide a motive force for relative motion between the first structure and the second structure. The methods include defining a first electrode on a first side of a piezoelectric element and defining a second electrode on a second side of the piezoelectric element. The first electrode includes a flexible, electrically conductive membrane. |
| US11871672B2 |
3D piezoelectric polymer materials and devices
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for fabricating 3D piezoelectric materials. In one aspect, a method includes photopolymerizing a selected portion of a two dimensional plane in a sample of a photolabile polymer solution containing piezoelectric nanoparticles to form a layer of a piezoelectric material, the photopolymerizing including directing light from a light source based on a pattern design in the selected portion of the photolabile polymer solution; and moving one or both of the sample and the directed light to photopolymerize another selected portion of another two dimensional plane in the sample to form another layer of the piezoelectric material. |
| US11871669B2 |
Thermoelectric power generation structure and temperature measuring sensor
This application discloses a thermoelectric power generation structure and a temperature measuring sensor. The thermoelectric power generation structure includes: a semiconductor power generation element, a first thermal-conductive element arranged in a first environment and connected to an inner side face of the semiconductor power generation element, and a second thermal-conductive element connected to an outer side face of the semiconductor power generation element. When there is a temperature difference between the first environment and the second environment, the semiconductor power generation element generates electric power. This application solves the technical problem that the thermoelectric power generation structure cannot match a sensor probe and fails to create a thermoelectric power generation environment, and accordingly cannot effectively generate electric power to the sensor probe in an enclosed high-temperature food heating scene. |
| US11871667B2 |
Methods and apparatus for warpage correction
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, a system for processing a substrate includes a process chamber comprising a first processing volume and a second processing volume, a carrier disposed in the first processing volume, comprising a first thermoelectric module (TEM), and configured to support the substrate while the substrate is being heated or cooled, a chuck disposed within the second processing volume, comprising a second TEM, and configured to receive the substrate from the carrier and to support the substrate while the substrate is being heated or cooled, and a system controller configured to monitor a temperature of at least one of the substrate, the carrier, or the chuck during operation, and based on the temperature of the at least one of the substrate, the carrier, or the chuck, supply current to at least one of the first TEM or the second TEM. |
| US11871660B2 |
Compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
A compound is represented by Formula 1. An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes the compound represented by Formula 1. The compound represented by Formula 1 suppresses or reduces the generation of dark spots by chelating metal that migrates from an electrode. |
| US11871655B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device and manufacturing method therefor
The present specification relates to a coating composition for a hole injection or transporting layer or a charge generating layer of an organic electroluminescent device, the coating composition including: an organic metal complex including one or more of Group V, Group VI, and Group VII transition metals; an organic metal complex or metal salt including one or more of Group I, Group VIII, Group XI, and Group XII metals; and an organic solvent, and a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device and an organic electroluminescent device using the same. |
| US11871653B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Novel metal complexes incorporating boron-containing aromatic compounds useful as a phosphorescent OLED material are disclosed. The metal complex includes a first ligand LA having the following formula |
| US11871651B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device and polycyclic compound for organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region. The emission layer may include a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1 to thereby exhibit high luminous efficiency: |
| US11871649B2 |
Organic light-emitting device
An organic light-emitting device is provided. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including: an emission layer; a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer; and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, 50% or more of a total volume of the second electrode being silver (Ag), the hole transport region including an amine-based polymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1, and a number average molecular weight of the amine-based polymer being about 1,000 or more. |
| US11871648B2 |
Organic photomultiplication photodetector with bi-directional bias response and method for producing same
This application relates to preparation of organic photomultiplication photodetectors, and more particularly to an organic photomultiplication photodetector with bi-directional bias response and a method for producing the same. The photodetector includes an anode layer, an anode modification layer, an interfacial modification layer, an active layer and a cathode layer arranged in sequence. The interfacial modification layer is made of Al2O3. The anode layer is made of indium tin oxide (ITO). The anode modification layer is made of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS). The active layer is made of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):[6,6]-phenyl-C70-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PC70BM). The cathode layer is made of aluminum, silver or gold. |
| US11871647B2 |
Flexible substrate, manufacturing method for flexible substrate and display device
The present disclosure provides a flexible substrate, the flexible substrate is divided into a display region, a binding region on a side of the display region, a to-be-bent region between the display region and the binding region, two transition regions between the to-be-bent region and the display region and between the to-be-bent region and the binding region respectively; the transition regions comprise a plurality of transition sub-regions arranged in a first direction, the first direction is a direction from the display region to the binding region; the flexible substrate comprises a flexible base and a back film disposed on the flexible base, a portion of the back film is located in the transition regions; in any one of the transition regions, the amount of distribution per unit area of the back film in each of the transition sub-regions gradually decreases in a direction gradually approaching the to-be-bent region. |
| US11871645B2 |
Display substrate, display device and manufacturing method of display substrate
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a display device and a manufacturing method of the display substrate. The display substrate includes: a stretchable base including a plurality of opening patterns distributed along a surface of the stretchable base, wherein each of the plurality of opening patterns includes a plurality of opening areas, a plurality of bridge areas configured to enclose a first island area are formed between adjacent opening areas among the plurality of opening areas, and each of the plurality of opening patterns is configured to enclose a plurality of second island areas with at least two adjacent opening patterns; a plurality of display units respectively arranged on the first island area and the plurality of second island areas; and a plurality of signal lines respectively connected between the plurality of display units and respectively arranged in the plurality of bridge areas. |
| US11871642B2 |
Organic light emitting diode panels and display devices including the same
An OLED panel for implementing biometric recognition influencing an aperture ratio of an OLED light emitter i includes a substrate, an OLED on the substrate, and a driver on the substrate. The OLED may emit visible light, and the driver may drive the OLED. The driver may include a visible light sensor configured to detect the visible light emitted by the OLED, and the visible light sensor may overlap the OLED in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. The OLED panel may include a near infrared ray OLED that is configured to emit near infrared rays, and the driver may include a near infrared ray sensor configured to detect near infrared rays emitted by the near infrared ray OLED. The near infrared ray sensor may overlap the OLED in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. |
| US11871639B2 |
Display device
A display device including: a display panel including a light emitting element; and an input detection layer disposed on the display panel and including sensing electrodes and trace lines electrically connected to the sensing electrodes, respectively, in which at least one of the trace lines includes a single layer part including one conductive layer, and a multilayer part including at least two conductive layers disposed on different layers, a length of an ith trace line and a length of a jth trace line are different from each other, each of the ith trace line and the jth trace line includes the single layer part and the multilayer part, and a length ratio of the single layer part and the multilayer part of the ith trace line is different from a length ratio of the single layer part and the multilayer part of the jth trace line. |
| US11871638B2 |
Display device with touch unit having reflection prevention unit overlapping valley
Provided is a display device in which a defect by external light reflection is minimized in a non-display area. The display device includes a display panel and a touch unit arranged on the display panel. The display panel may include: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area arranged around the display area; an insulator including a valley portion, the valley portion being defined as an opening arranged along an outer side of the display area in the non-display area; and a display unit arranged in the display area and including a light-emitting element electrically connected to a thin film transistor. The touch unit may include a reflection prevention unit that overlaps the valley portion and is configured to reduce reflectivity of external light. |
| US11871634B2 |
Display device
In one example embodiment, a display device for suppressing reflected light includes a driving circuit and a display region which includes a plurality of pixels. In one example embodiment, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel having a first light emitting element which includes a first light emitting portion having a first layer surface. In one example embodiment, first pixel includes a second light emitting element which includes a second light emitting portion having a second, different layer surface. In one example embodiment, the first pixel includes a third light emitting element which includes a third light emitting portion having a third, different layer surface. |
| US11871633B2 |
Display device and tiled display device including the same
A display device includes a substrate including a display area including emission areas and a light blocking area; and a non-display area adjacent to the display area; a thin-film transistor layer disposed on the substrate and including thin-film transistors; a light-emitting element layer disposed on the thin-film transistor layer and including light-emitting elements; a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the light-emitting element layer that converts a peak wavelength of a light from at least a part of the of light-emitting elements; and a color filter layer disposed on the wavelength conversion layer, and including color filters corresponding to the emission areas and a first light blocking part corresponding to the light blocking area and the non-display area. A transmittance of the first light blocking part with respect to a light having a wavelength of about 1000 nm or more is about 80% or more. |
| US11871629B2 |
Organic light-emitting display panel and display device
Provided are an organic light-emitting display panel and a display device. The organic light-emitting display panel includes: a plurality of organic light-emitting units, a first display area and a second display area. The plurality of organic light-emitting units includes first organic light-emitting units in the first display area and second organic light-emitting units in the second display area. The first organic light-emitting units share a first cathode. The second organic light-emitting units include at least one organic light-emitting unit group, each of the at least one organic light-emitting unit group includes at least one organic light-emitting unit. The at least one organic light-emitting unit in a same organic light-emitting unit group shares a second cathode. The second cathode has a zigzag edge segment. |
| US11871628B2 |
Method of manufacturing conductive line for display device including the same
A conductive line for a display device may include a first layer including aluminum (Al) or an aluminum alloy, a second layer disposed on the first layer, the second layer including titanium nitride (TiNx), and a third layer disposed on the second layer, the third layer including titanium (Ti) and having a multilayer structure including a plurality of stacked sub-layers. |
| US11871625B2 |
Display substrate, preparation method thereof, and display apparatus
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a silicon-based substrate and an array structure layer arranged on the silicon-based substrate; a driving transistor and a first power line being arranged in the silicon-based substrate in the display area, a light emitting element being disposed on the array structure layer in the display area, a first electrode of the driving transistor being connected with the first power line, and a second electrode of the driving transistor being connected with an anode of the light emitting element; a power supply electrode and a second power line being arranged in the silicon-based substrate in the peripheral area, the power supply electrode being connected with the second power line. |
| US11871624B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a scan line disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer on the scan line; an inverted scan line on the second insulating layer; a third insulating layer disposed on the inverted scan line; a second semiconductor layer disposed on the third insulating layer; a fourth insulating layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer; an initializing voltage line disposed on the fourth insulating layer and overlapping the scan line; a first transistor including a channel disposed in the first semiconductor layer and receiving a gate signal through the scan line; and a second transistor including a channel disposed in the second semiconductor layer and receiving a gate signal through the inverted scan line. |
| US11871623B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of light emitting areas; and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and having a first conductive layer and a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The first insulating layer includes a plurality of optical patterns that extend in a direction away from the first conductive layer. |
| US11871616B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
An organic light emitting display device may include a first thin film transistor including a first active layer formed of a first material and includes a first source region, a first channel region, and a first drain region, a first gate electrode and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, a second thin film transistor including a second active layer formed of a second material and includes a second source region, a second channel region, and a second drain region, a second gate electrode, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode, a light blocking layer overlapping a lower portion of the second active layer and formed on the same layer as the second capacitor electrode, and a first protrusion pattern and a second protrusion pattern disposed on the same layer as the first gate electrode and overlapping the light blocking layer. |
| US11871615B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing same
A display device includes: a base substrate; a TFT layer including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged; and a light-emitting element layer. Each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes: a TFT including a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode; and a capacitor including the gate electrode, a first inorganic insulating film, and a capacitive electrode. The capacitive electrode extends all around a perimeter of the gate electrode and extends to an outside of the perimeter. An angle formed between an upper surface of the base substrate and at least a part of an end surface in a circumferential direction of the gate electrode not overlapping the semiconductor layer in the plan view is greater than an angle formed between the upper surface of the base substrate and an end surface of the gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer in the plan view. |
| US11871613B2 |
Organic light emitting display device having a resonance structure of proper internal reflection by including a light extraction reduction preventing layer
An organic light emitting display device including a light extraction reduction preventing layer disposed between a display unit disposed on a substrate and an encapsulation layer for protecting the display unit, which improves light emission efficiency by reducing an amount of light dissipating while light generated from an emission layer of the display unit is extracted to the outside. |
| US11871612B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a first pixel region, a second pixel region, and a third pixel region that are adjacent to each other in a plan view; a display panel including a first light emitting element overlapping with the first pixel region, a second light emitting element overlapping with the second pixel region, and a third light emitting element overlapping with the third pixel region; and a refractive index control layer including a first refractive index control part corresponding to the first light emitting element, and a second refractive index control part corresponding to the second light emitting element. The first refractive index control part and the second refractive index control part have different refractive indices from each other. |
| US11871611B2 |
Display unit with reflector layer and electronic apparatus
A display unit includes a plurality of pixels, a reflector layer, and an auxiliary electrode. Each of the plurality of pixels has a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode in this order. The organic layer and the second electrode are provided on the first electrode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The reflector layer has a light-reflecting surface around each of the pixels. The auxiliary electrode is provided on the reflector layer and is projected from an upper end of the light-reflecting surface. The auxiliary electrode has a portion which is exposed from the organic layer, and the exposed portion is covered with the second electrode. |
| US11871610B2 |
Dual bank structure for improved extraction from an emissive layer
A light-emitting structure includes a substrate, a sub-pixel stack over a surface of the substrate, and a bank including a first bank portion and a second bank portion. The sub-pixel stack has an emissive stack including an emissive layer between a first transport layer and a second transport layer, a first electrode layer coupled to the first transport layer, and a second electrode layer coupled to the second transport layer. The second bank portion is between the first bank portion and the sub-pixel stack, and the bank surrounding at least the emissive stack and the first electrode layer forms an interior space above the sub-pixel stack. |
| US11871605B2 |
Display panel and manufacturing method thereof, display device
This disclosure relates to a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a display area, an opening area and an isolation area located between the display area and the opening area and surrounding the opening area, and includes: a base substrate; a driving circuit layer including a thin film transistor and a storage capacitor that are formed on the base substrate and located in the display area, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a first gate insulating layer, an interlayer dielectric layer and source and drain electrodes that are sequentially formed, the storage capacitor including a first electrode plate on the same layer as the gate electrode and a second electrode plate between the first gate insulating layer and the interlayer dielectric layer; a first isolation column formed on the base substrate and located in the isolation area. |
| US11871604B2 |
Cover window, method of manufacturing the same, and display device having the same
A cover window includes a base layer including a bending portion bent about a bending axis extending in one direction, a first flat portion, and a second flat portion spaced apart from the first flat portion with the bending portion interposed therebetween in a direction crossing the one direction and facing each other and a first coating portion disposed on the bending portion and having a first modulus less than a modulus of the base layer. |
| US11871601B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a first display area at which a plurality of main sub-pixels are on the substrate; and a second display area at which a base unit is on the substrate, the base unit comprising a plurality of pixel groups including auxiliary sub-pixels and transmission portions, wherein the pixel groups and the transmission portions are alternately arranged along a first direction, and auxiliary sub-pixels included in one pixel group among the pixel groups are provided in two rows, and a size of an emission area of a first auxiliary sub-pixel among the auxiliary sub-pixels is greater than a size of an emission area of a first main sub-pixel exhibiting a same color as that of the first auxiliary sub-pixel among the main sub-pixels. |
| US11871600B2 |
Display device
A display device with high display quality is provided. The display device includes a first lower electrode, a first EL layer over the first lower electrode, a second lower electrode, a second EL layer over the second lower electrode, an upper electrode over the first EL layer and the second EL layer, a first region not provided with the first lower electrode below the first EL layer, and a second region not provided with the second lower electrode below the second EL layer. In the first region, the upper electrode is positioned not to be in contact with the first lower electrode. In the second region, the upper electrode is positioned not to be in contact with the second lower electrode. |
| US11871598B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing thereof
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode on the substrate, the first electrode and the second electrode being arranged on a same layer to be spaced apart from each other; a first insulating layer on the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light emitting element on the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer includes a groove concave toward the substrate, and the light emitting element is in the groove. |
| US11871594B2 |
Electroluminescent device, and display device comprising thereof
An electroluminescent device and a display device including the electroluminescent device. The electroluminescent device includes a first electrode and a second electrode each having a surface opposite the other; a light emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the light emitting layer including quantum dots; and an electron transport layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the second electrode, the electron transport layer including inorganic material nanoparticles including an anion dopant including P, N, C, Cl, F, Br, S, or a combination thereof. |
| US11871593B2 |
Method for manufacturing color-converting substrate including shared light-emitting areas using printing
A method for manufacturing a display device including forming a first color filter transmitting a first color light on a base substrate to overlap first light-emitting areas, forming a second color filter transmitting a second color light different from the first color light to overlap second light-emitting areas and a first portion of a light-blocking area disposed between the first light-emitting areas, forming a partition wall including a first opening continuously overlapping the first light-emitting areas and the first portion of the light-blocking area, providing a first composition including a wavelength-converting material in the first opening, and curing the first composition to form a first color-converting layer. |
| US11871590B2 |
Thin film of metal oxide, organic electroluminescent device including thin film, photovoltaic cell including thin film, and manufacturing method of thin film
A thin film of metal oxide includes zinc (Zn); tin (Sn); silicon (Si); and oxygen (O). In terms of oxide, based on 100 mol % of total of oxides of the thin film, SnO2 is greater than 15 mol % but less than or equal to 95 mol %. |
| US11871589B2 |
Memory device having 2-transistor memory cell and access line plate
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods using a substrate, a pillar having a length perpendicular to the substrate, a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, a memory cell located between the first and second conductive plates and electrically separated from the first and second conductive plates, and a conductive connection. The first conductive plate is located in a first level of the apparatus and being separated from the pillar by a first dielectric located in the first level. The second conductive plate is located in a second level of the apparatus and being separated from the pillar by a second dielectric located in the second level. The memory cell includes a first semiconductor material located in a third level of the apparatus between the first and second levels and contacting the pillar and the conductive connection, and a second semiconductor material located in a fourth level of the apparatus between the first and second levels and contacting the pillar. |
| US11871586B2 |
Magnetic memory
A magnetic memory of the present embodiment includes an electrode extending along a plane including a first direction and a second direction, a first wiring extending in the first direction, second wirings between the electrode and the first wiring, extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction, first magnetic members each including a first part electrically connected to the first wiring and a second part electrically connected to the electrode, extending in a third direction, and being positioned between neighboring two of the second wirings when seen from the third direction, and a control circuit. When writing first information to one first magnetic member, the control circuit supplies first current to at least two second wirings positioned on one side of the one first magnetic member in the first direction. |
| US11871584B1 |
Multi-level hydrogen barrier layers for memory applications
A device includes, in a first region, a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect, where the electrode structure includes a first conductive hydrogen barrier layer and a first conductive fill material. A memory device including a ferroelectric material or a paraelectric material is on the electrode structure. A second dielectric includes an amorphous, greater than 90% film density hydrogen barrier material laterally surrounds the memory device. A via electrode including a second conductive hydrogen barrier material is on at least a portion of the memory device. A second region includes a conductive interconnect structure embedded within a less than 90% film density material. |
| US11871583B2 |
Ferroelectric memory devices
A pocket integration for high density memory and logic applications and methods of fabrication are described. While various embodiments are described with reference to FeRAM, capacitive structures formed herein can be used for any application where a capacitor is desired. For example, the capacitive structure can be used for fabricating ferroelectric based or paraelectric based majority gate, minority gate, and/or threshold gate. |
| US11871581B2 |
Ferroelectric memory cell
A ferroelectric memory cell (FeRAM) is disclosed that includes an active device (e.g., a transistor) and a passive device (e.g., a ferroelectric capacitor) integrated in a substrate. The transistor and its gate contacts are formed on a front side of the substrate. A carrier wafer can be bonded to the active device to allow the active device to be inverted so that the passive device and associated contacts can be electrically coupled from a back side of the substrate. |
| US11871580B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device including low-k drain-select-level isolation structures and methods of forming the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, an array of memory opening fill structures located within an array of memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a drain-select-level isolation structure vertically extending through drain-select-level electrically conductive layers between two rows of memory opening fill structures. The drain-select-level isolation structure may comprise a low-k dielectric material or an air gap. |
| US11871579B2 |
Semiconductor memory device having ferroelectric gate insulating layer
A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment includes: a semiconductor layer extending in a first direction; a first gate electrode layer; a second gate electrode layer provided apart from the first gate electrode layer in the first direction; and a gate insulating layer containing oxygen and at least one metal element of hafnium or zirconium, the gate insulating layer including a first region between the first gate electrode layer and the semiconductor layer, a second region between the first gate electrode layer and the second gate electrode layer, and a third region between the second gate electrode layer and the semiconductor layer, the first region including a crystal of an orthorhombic crystal system or a trigonal crystal system as a main constituent substance, and a distance between the second region and the semiconductor layer being larger than a distance between the first region and the semiconductor layer. |
| US11871576B2 |
Semiconductor memory device including integrated control circuit and solid-state drive controller
According to one embodiment, the array chip includes a three-dimensionally disposed plurality of memory cells and a memory-side interconnection layer connected to the memory cells. The circuit chip includes a substrate, a control circuit provided on the substrate, and a circuit-side interconnection layer provided on the control circuit and connected to the control circuit. The circuit chip is stuck to the array chip with the circuit-side interconnection layer facing to the memory-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is provided between the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is bonded to the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer. |
| US11871571B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device and method for fabricating the same
A three-dimensional nonvolatile memory device and a method for fabricating the same include a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of active pillars, a plurality of gate electrodes, and a plurality of supporters. The semiconductor substrate includes a memory cell region and a contact region. The active pillars extend in the memory cell region perpendicularly to the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrodes intersect the active pillars, extend from the memory cell region to the contact region and are stacked on the semiconductor substrate. The supporters extend in the contact region perpendicularly to the semiconductor substrate to penetrate at least one or more of the gate electrodes. |
| US11871569B2 |
Nonvolatile memory device having multiple numbers of channel layers
A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a channel structure extending in a direction perpendicular to the substrate; a charge storage structure disposed to be in contact with the channel structure; and a cell electrode structure disposed to be in contact with the charge storage structure in a lateral direction, wherein the channel structure comprises a hole conduction layer and an electron conduction layer. |
| US11871566B2 |
Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers above a substrate. Horizontally-elongated trenches are formed into the stack to form laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Catalytic material is formed in a bottom region of individual of the trenches. Metal material is electrolessly deposited onto a catalytic surface of the catalytic material to individually fill at least a majority of remaining volume of the individual trenches. Channel-material strings are formed and extend through the first tiers and the second tiers. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed. |
| US11871564B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; forming an initial trench in the substrate; forming a sacrificial layer, the sacrificial layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion filling the initial trench and the second portion covering an upper surface of the substrate and an upper surface of the first portion; forming a division groove in the second portion, to pattern the second portion into a sacrificial pattern, the sacrificial pattern being arranged corresponding to the first portion; forming a filling layer in the division groove, the filling layer filling the division groove; removing the sacrificial pattern and the first portion, to form a word line trench; and forming a buried gate word line in the word line trench. |
| US11871563B2 |
Method of forming contact included in semiconductor device
A contact forming method may include providing a semiconductor substrate including a silicon oxide film to an interior of a chamber, subjecting a surface of the silicon oxide film to plasma nitrification treatment, supplying a source gas including TiCl4 and H2 onto the silicon oxide film subjected to the plasma nitrification treatment, and forming a barrier layer by igniting a plasma using the source gas. |
| US11871559B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a plurality of active regions extending in a first direction and a device isolation region electrically isolating the plurality of active regions, a gate trench extending across the plurality of active regions and the device isolation region, a gate structure extending in the gate trench of each of and along opposite sidewalls of the plurality of active regions, a gate dielectric film formed between the gate trench and the gate structure in each of the plurality of active regions, and an insulating barrier film provided in each of the plurality of active regions under the gate trench spaced apart from a lower surface of the gate trench and extending in an extension direction of the gate trench. |
| US11871553B2 |
Semiconductor device and stack of semiconductor chips
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a logic cell region and a connection region, a dummy transistor on the connection region, an intermediate connection layer on the dummy transistor, the intermediate connection layer including a connection pattern electrically connected to the dummy transistor, a first metal layer on the intermediate connection layer, an etch stop layer between the intermediate connection layer and the first metal layer, the etch stop layer covering a top surface of the connection pattern, and a penetration contact extended from the first metal layer toward a bottom surface of the substrate penetrating the connection region. |
| US11871551B1 |
RF shielding pouch and garment for electronic devices
A RF (“Radio Frequency”) shielding container with an associated garment such as a jacket is described. The RF shielding container may be a pouch that holds and encapsulates an electronic mobile device such as a cell phone. The pouch is made of multiple layers of fabric including metalized layers that effectively block the reception and/or transmission of RF signals to and from the cell phone. A sealing mechanism formed on the pouch ensures the blockage of RF signals while offering ease of use while in combat. A garment such as a jacket or pants is designed to have internal pockets or cavities which can hold the RF shielding container. The RF shielding container may remain in the jacket during use, as well as when the mobile device is placed into or retrieved from the container. |
| US11871549B2 |
Heat conduction mechanism
Provided is a heat conduction mechanism including: a first member including at least one heat source; a second member including a heat dissipation element, the second member displaceable with respect to the first member; and a heat conductive sheet that transfers heat of the heat source to the heat dissipation element, in which a protective sheet is provided to a portion of the heat conductive sheet that can be in contact with at least a part of the first member or the second member. |
| US11871542B2 |
User device and case
A user device that can be touched by a user includes a heat source that can generate heat; a case body covering the heat source; and a polymer-containing heat storage body attached to the case body. |
| US11871540B2 |
Optimizing waste heat recovery and return water temperature using dynamic flow control based on server power profiles and cooling capacity of servers
Method, system, and computer program product embodiments of heating a flow of liquid by transfer of heat with computing devices. Embodiments also include determining a dynamic cooling capacity index for each of the computing devices, and allocating processing workload among the first computing device and the second computing device based on the dynamic cooling capacity indexes of the computing devices. Embodiments further include allocating workload and/or regulating flow rate of the flow of liquid to maintain a predetermined value or range of values of temperature of the liquid. |
| US11871539B2 |
Electronic apparatus with cooling system
An electronic apparatus with a cooling system includes a chassis having a mounting slot, and a removable device. The removable device includes a housing detachably disposed in the mounting slot; a first pump disposed in the housing, and detachably affixed to a bottom of the housing; a second pump detachably affixed to the bottom of the housing, and connected to the first pump; and a tank disposed on the first pump and configured to store cooling liquid. when the first pump or the second pump is operating, the cooling liquid in the tank flows into the first pump, and the cooling liquid in the first pump flows into the second pump. |
| US11871537B2 |
Cooling system for a material surface treatment system
The present disclosure describes systems and methods to provide electrode cooling for material surface treatment systems. A cooling fluid is employed to cool electrodes with a high voltage applied. For example, a conduit conveys a cooling fluid through the electrode, as the conduit also provides electrification for the electrode by being connected to an electrical power source. Further, cooling is implemented by use of a voltage isolator disposed between the conduit and a reservoir, with the voltage isolator providing a pathway to a reference voltage for residual electric charge from the cooling fluid passing through the voltage isolator. |
| US11871536B2 |
Eccentric heat dissipation for fin cold plate
A cooling system for a heat-generating electronic device includes a cold plate module, a flow channel, and a fin arrangement. The cold plate module includes a base plate and a top cover. The flow channel is for a liquid coolant and extends between an inlet connector and an outlet connector. The liquid coolant flows along a flow direction. The fin arrangement is located between the base plate and the top cover. The fin arrangement is thermally coupled to the flow channel and is eccentrically located relative to the cold plate module. |
| US11871529B2 |
Display device
A display device can include a display panel, a roller which guides the sliding of the display panel, a rotary shaft which passes through both ends of the roller, and an elastic member having one end connected to an inner circumferential surface of the roller and the other end connected to the rotary shaft, and the roller and the rotary shaft are rotatably connected to each other. Accordingly, according to the present disclosure, one end and the other end of the elastic member are configured to be rotatable to minimize the excessive increase of the tensile stress of the elastic member which is transmitted to the display panel and improve the reliability of the display panel. |
| US11871523B2 |
Electronic component module and method for manufacturing electronic component module
An electronic component module includes a substrate, an electronic component, an insulating resin, and a shield film. The insulating resin covers a first main surface side of the substrate. The insulating resin exposes an opposite surface of the electronic component. The shield film covers the insulating resin and the opposite surface of the electronic component. The opposite surface has an uneven portion. A concave portion of the uneven portion has a smoother shape than a convex portion of the uneven portion. |
| US11871521B2 |
Component mounting machine
A component mounting machine includes a mark imaging camera that images a board mark of a circuit board and has a function of identifying an identification target, such as a character attached to an upper surface of a component supplied by a component supply device. An illumination light source illuminates the identification target on the upper surface of the component imaged by the mark imaging camera and is attached to a lower portion of an electric component holding frame provided to protrude to the side of the mounting head. As the identification target on the upper surface of the component, which is illuminated by the illumination light source from obliquely above, is imaged by the mark imaging camera from above and the image is processed, the identification target on the upper surface of the component is identified. |
| US11871518B1 |
Backlight module and display device
A backlight module and a display device is disclosed. The backlight module includes a backplate, a light board framework, and assembled light board arranged in sequence. The assembled light board include multiple light boards with a seam formed between adjacent light boards. The light board framework is arranged on the backplate and includes a main body defining multiple mounting grooves provided in a number equal to the number of the light boards in the assembled light board. Each of the light boards is installed in one of the mounting grooves. A supplementary light-emitting diode (LED) is disposed between adjacent mounting grooves to supplement light for the seam between every two adjacent ones of the light boards. |
| US11871517B1 |
Electronic devices with stacked circuitry
An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels for displaying images. The electronic device may also have a lens through which the images are viewable on the display. The display may have a display panel that is mounted to a printed circuit stack. The printed circuit stack may include multiple printed circuit layers to which components are mounted. The components may include an orientation sensor overlapped by the display panel. A camera may be mounted to a printed circuit stack and may overlap one or more electrical components such as an orientation sensor. The printed circuit stacks may include rigid and flexible printed circuits coupled together using solder and other conductive connections. Air gaps may be created between stacked printed circuit layers. |
| US11871511B2 |
Flexible circuit mother board and detection method thereof
Provided are a flexible circuit mother board and a detection method. The flexible circuit mother board includes flexible circuit daughter boards, at least one detection terminal group and external pad groups corresponding to the flexible circuit daughter boards in one-to-one correspondence. Each flexible circuit daughter board has a bonding pad area adjacent to a corresponding one of the plurality of external pad groups. Each detection terminal group detects at least one flexible circuit daughter board, and each of the at least one detection terminal group comprises a plurality of detection terminals. Each flexible circuit daughter board includes a plurality of capacitors including a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. Each of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate is electrically connected to one detection terminal. |
| US11871509B2 |
Insertable wireless communication device for a power tool
A power tool may include a compartment in its housing and a first printed circuit board (PCB) located in the housing and electrically coupled to a first connector. An insertable wireless communication device may include a second electronic processor and an antenna that are each mounted to a second PCB. The insertable wireless communication device may be configured to be received in the compartment and may include a second connector configured to electrically and physically couple to the first connector. The insertable wireless communication device may be configured to wirelessly communicate with an external device. When the insertable wireless communication device is inserted into the compartment, a first conductive layer of the first PCB may be configured to be electrically coupled to the antenna via the first connector and the second connector such that the first conductive layer of the first PCB serves as a ground plane of the antenna. |
| US11871508B2 |
Radio-frequency module and communication device
There is provided a radio-frequency module and a communication device with which miniaturization can be achieved and quality deterioration can be suppressed. A radio-frequency module includes a mount board on which a ground terminal is disposed, a first chip, a second chip, and a cover (a shield cover). The first chip is disposed on the mount board. The second chip is disposed on the first chip. The cover covers at least a part of the first chip and at least a part of the second chip. The second chip has a first connection terminal (a ground terminal) on an opposite side from the first chip in a thickness direction of the mount board. The cover includes a shield layer connected to the ground terminal disposed on the mount board. The first connection terminal is connected to the shield layer. |
| US11871502B2 |
Display module
A display module is disclosed. The display module includes: a display panel body; a backplate; a composite functional layer disposed on a back side of the backplate; and an electrostatic discharging part including an electrostatic conductive element and an electrostatic discharging element connected to the electrostatic conductive element. Wherein, the electrostatic conductive element is in contact with the display panel body and/or the backplate, and the electrostatic discharging element is in electrical contact with the metal layer of the composite functional layer. Therefore, fluctuations of driving voltages caused by static electricity can be eliminated. |
| US11871499B2 |
Induction cooking apparatus with heatsink and method of assembly
An induction cooking apparatus including a coil beam assembly, an inverter assembly, and a heatsink. The coil beam assembly includes one or more induction coils. The inverter assembly includes a first circuit board that is electrically connected to the induction coil(s) such that the inverter assembly is configured to supply electricity to the induction coil(s). The heatsink has a beam-like structure and is attached to both the coil beam assembly and the inverter assembly. The heatsink is positioned above the inverter assembly and below the coil beam assembly such that the heatsink is the sole support structure for the inverter assembly. A method for assembling the induction cooking apparatus is also described. |
| US11871493B2 |
Timing adjustments for accurate zero-crossing determination
Timing adjustment for accurate zero-crossing determination includes obtaining time offset(s) representing amounts of time between (i) zero-crossings of an input signal waveform, representative of an input AC waveform, input to a zero-crossing detector circuit and (ii) corresponding transitions of an output signal from an output of the circuit to a microcontroller, and determining times of the zero-crossings of the input AC waveform, which includes determining times of the corresponding transitions as detected by the microcontroller and adjusting the determined times using the time offset(s) to produce the times of the zero-crossings of the input AC waveform. In another aspect, input AC frequency is determined by determining pulse width(s) of pulse(s) of the output signal, and adjusting a half-cycle time corresponding to the pulse width(s) using the time offset(s) to provide a duration of half-cycles of the input AC waveform and inform a frequency of the input AC waveform. |
| US11871491B1 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus includes a base plate, a driver module, a light source, a mechanical switch, a main housing, and a manual switch. The driver module is disposed on a top surface of the base plate. The light source is also disposed on the top surface of the base plate. The mechanical switch is disposed on the base plate. The mechanical switch has multiple states to be selected. The driver reads a selected state to control the light source. The main housing encloses the base plate. The manual switch is disposed on the main housing. An operating part of the manual switch is exposed outside the main housing to be operated by a user. When a user moves the operating part of the manual switch, the connecting part of the manual switch carries the mechanical switch to change the selected state. |
| US11871486B2 |
Low smoke, zero halogen self-regulating heating cable
A low smoke, zero halogen self-regulating heating cable includes a semi-conductive heating core and two conductive wires embedded within and separated by the semi-conductive heating core. The cable also includes a primary jacket surrounding the semi-conductive core, a braid surrounding the primary jacket, and a final jacket surrounding the braid. At least one of the primary jacket and the final jacket includes a low smoke, zero halogen material. |
| US11871485B2 |
Verification of interactions system and method
A node in a plurality of nodes can perform an identity set generation process. The node can then determine a leader node. The node may diffuse an identity set from each node of the plurality of nodes to the plurality of nodes. The node can then determine a majority set including identities occurring in at least one half of the identify sets, wherein the leader node diffuses the majority set of the leader node to the plurality of nodes. The node can verify the majority set of the leader node. The node may then update the identity set based on the majority set of the leader node. |
| US11871483B2 |
Control device having a secondary radio for waking up a primary radio
A control device may comprise a primary radio circuit for receiving radio-frequency signals via an antenna, and a secondary radio circuit for waking up the primary radio circuit when a radio-frequency signal is presently being transmitted by an external device. The control device may include a control circuit that may be coupled to the primary radio circuit, and may control the primary radio circuit into a sleep mode. The secondary radio circuit may generate a first control signal indicating that the radio-frequency signal is presently being transmitted by the external device. The control circuit may wake up the primary radio circuit from the sleep mode in response to the secondary radio circuit generating the first control signal indicating that the radio-frequency signal is presently being transmitted by the external device. |
| US11871481B2 |
Content filtering for packet data network gateway (PGW) and session management function (SMF) selection
A method and system for content filtering. A network repository function unit registers a session management function unit. The session management function unit initiates a session in response to a session request from a user equipment. The session management function unit accesses a subscriber profile stored by a data management unit, and the subscriber profile includes one or more content filtering settings. In response to the session being established, the session management function unit is configured to determine data packets for the user equipment to be filtered based on the one or more content filtering settings. Absent triggering an instruction to be sent via a Gx interface, an access and mobility management function (AMF) unit is configured to select the session management function unit in compliance with the one or more content filtering settings for filtering the data packets for the user equipment. |
| US11871476B2 |
Configuring discontinuous reception for different groups of cells
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for configuring DRX parameters for groups of serving cells operating in different frequency bands. An example method generally includes receiving first discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration parameters for communications with a first group of cells and second DRX configuration parameters for communications with a second group of cells, wherein the first DRX configuration parameters and the second DRX configuration parameters share common starting time parameters; monitoring for communications by cells operating in first frequency resources based on the first DRX configuration parameters; and monitoring for communications by cells operating in second frequency resources based on the second DRX configuration parameters. |
| US11871472B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for wireless device timer configuration
A wireless device (14) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The wireless device (14) starts a timer (28) (e.g., T312) when each of multiple conditions (30) have been fulfilled and physical layer problems for a serving cell of the wireless device (14) have been detected. The multiple conditions (30) have been fulfilled when one or more events have been triggered for measurements of multiple different types and/or for measurements on multiple different types of signals. The wireless device (14) may initiate a connection re-establishment procedure, or transitioning to an idle state, at expiry of the timer (28). |
| US11871471B1 |
Process for managing reconnections of devices in a network
Techniques for a server-based reconnection of disconnected devices in a network are described. In an example, a computer system receives, from a second device, first data of a first device. The first data indicates that the first device has disconnected from the network due a change in the password of the network. The computer system determines that the first device is authorized to connect to the network. Based on the first device being authorized, the computer system transmits a request for a token. The computer system compares the token to a token stored by the computer system. In response to the tokens matching, the computer system transmits second data to the first device via the second device. The second data includes an updated password of the network. The first device uses the second data to reestablish a connection with the network. |
| US11871469B2 |
Techniques for triggering radio access technology (RAT) fall back at a user equipment (EU) based on data traffic information
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may support multiple radio access technologies (RATs). The UE may communicate using both a Long Term Evolution (LTE) connection for control signaling and a New Radio (NR) connection for data signaling in a non-standalone (NSA) mode. However, if the UE uses a data rate below a threshold, the NR connection may be inefficient. To reduce processing overhead, the UE may fall back to using the LTE connection for data communications. For example, the UE may delay or abort adding an NR connection based on the data rate. In some examples, the UE may transmit a fake report or a fake uplink message to trigger dropping an NR connection. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may indicate a preferred mode of operation to the network indicating a preference for communicating data via an LTE connection. |
| US11871463B2 |
Implantable medical device and method for managing advertising and scanning schedules
A method and device for managing establishment of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) are provided. The method stores, in a memory in at least one of the IMD or the EI, a base scanning schedule that defines a pattern for scanning windows over a scanning state. The method enters the scanning state during which a receiver scans for advertisement notices during the scanning windows. At least a portion of the scanning windows are grouped in a first segment of the scanning state. The method stores, in the memory, a scan reset pattern for restarting the scanning state. Further, the method automatically restarts the scanning state based on the scan reset pattern to form a pseudo-scanning schedule that differs from the base scanning schedule and establishes a communication session between the IMD and the EI. |
| US11871458B2 |
Architecture for random access messaging
User equipment may request to communicate with a basestation over a contention-based wireless communication channel. The basestation and the user equipment may perform a multiple-step random access protocol to determine whether the user equipment may communicate over the wireless communication channel. The architecture, e.g., the fields and structure of the messages sent by the basestation may indicate the content and type of those same messages. |
| US11871451B2 |
Sub-band operations in unlicensed spectrums of new radio
Sub-band (SB) indications and listen-before-talk (LBT) outcomes may be used to adjust communications between devices such as wireless terminals and base stations. For example, a wireless terminal may receive SB indications including SB configurations and/or LBT outcomes of a base station, and other information such as a remapped CORESET. Similarly, a terminal may determine that a physical resource block (PRB) is invalid based at least in part on whether the PRB overlaps with a guard band. The terminal may be arranged to adjust its searches and transmissions based on received SB indications, and to provide the base station with LBT outcomes of the terminal. |
| US11871449B2 |
Backoff method and apparatus in transmission process, device, system, and storage medium
The present application discloses a backoff method and apparatus in a transmission process, a device, a system, and a storage medium, which relate to the field of communication technology. The method includes: a transmitting device performing LBT in an unlicensed frequency band; the transmitting device transmitting an RTS to a receiving device when the LBT has been successfully performed, the RTS including a first backoff time period; the transmitting device transmitting, after having received a CTS transmitted by the receiving device, a C-CTS to the receiving device, the C-CTS including a second backoff time period. |
| US11871448B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink channel in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink channel in a wireless communication system. The method performed by a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving resource information related to transmission of an uplink channel from a base station; detecting a downlink channel transmitted from the base station; and transmitting the uplink channel to the base station on the basis of the resource information according to the result of detecting the downlink channel, wherein the uplink channel is transmitted within a channel-occupancy time (COT) initiated by the base station or transmitted within a a COT initiated by the terminal. |
| US11871446B2 |
Physical layer preamble and signaling for wireless communication
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for including signaling regarding enhanced features of new wireless communication protocols. The signaling may be included in various portions of a physical layer preamble of a wireless transmission. In some implementations, the physical layer preamble may be used to indicate puncturing of subbands or content channels that may carry further signaling in accordance with preamble signaling designs of this disclosure. The physical layer preamble signaling be parallelized for different subchannels of a wireless channel that consists of multiple subchannels. Some implementations of the physical layer preambles may be used to multiplex different types of wireless local area network communications into different subsets of the plurality of subchannels of the wireless channel. |
| US11871445B2 |
Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in nodes for wireless communication. A first node receives first control information, the first control information being used for indicating a first radio resource group, and the first control information being used for indicating a first priority; chooses a target radio resource from a target resource pool; and transmits a first radio signal in the target radio resource; the first radio signal corresponds to a second priority; if the second priority is lower than the first priority, the target resource pool is orthogonal with the first radio resource group. The method adopted in the present disclosure allows part of reserved resources to be released temporarily to meet abrupt service requirements, so as to achieve timely transmission of aperiodic and emergent service data, and thereby realizing efficient utilization of radio resources. |
| US11871442B2 |
Methods and devices for resource selection
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for resource selection. The method comprises: receiving, at a first terminal device, a message from a second terminal device, the message indicating information associated with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication during movement of the second terminal device; and determining, at least partially based on the message, a resource for the first terminal device to perform the V2X communication. |
| US11871441B2 |
Method and device for reselecting sidelink transmission resource in NR V2X
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for performing sidelink communication by a first device. The method may comprise the steps of: reserving periodic transmission resources on the basis of a first priority value; generating a MAC PDU related to a second priority value; on the basis of the second priority value, determining whether to reselect a first SL resource among the periodic transmission resources; and on the basis of the determination on whether to reselect the first SL resource, transmitting the MAC PDU and SCI including the second priority value to a second device, wherein the first SL resource is at least one SL resource after the MAC PDU is generated. |
| US11871440B2 |
Dynamic slot format configuration
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a dynamic switch between slot formats. The base station and the UE may communicate first data in one or more first slots according to a first slot format. The first slot format may be a first cyclic prefix-based or guard interval-based slot format. The base station may transmit control signaling to the UE to indicate a second slot format different from the first slot format. The second slot format may be a second cyclic prefix-based or guard interval-based slot format. The UE and the base station may switch to communicating second data in one or more second slots in accordance with the second slot format based on the control signaling. |
| US11871437B2 |
Method and system for traffic shaping at the DU/CU to artificially reduce the total traffic load on the radio receiver so that not all the TTLs are carrying data
Systems and methods are provided for adaptive channel and traffic shaping management in a network including configuring an element management control unit comprising a set of distribution (DU) and central units (DU/CU) for monitoring power and channel traffic at a plurality of cell sites in a network; transmitting and receiving by a scheduler unit, data traffic data of user equipment (UE); receiving control data, by the scheduler unit, about congested network channels in Uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions from the UE; applying channel management solutions, by the scheduler unit, at a cell site to choke off congested channels via a schedule schema based on the control data about the traffic amounts on a channel; applying, by a control unit coupled to the scheduler unit to manage network traffic at the cell site, adaptive traffic management solutions to shape network data traffic on select channels based on the control data of traffic type on the channel; and iteratively applying, by the control unit, the channel and traffic management solutions at the cell site based on data received by the DU/CU of the power and channel traffic condition. |
| US11871436B2 |
Apparatus for UE measurement delay and granularity for new radio positioning measurement
An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) Node B (gNB), a method, and a storage medium. One or more processors of the apparatus are to: encode for transmission to a user equipment (UE) a message to configure the UE with a measurement gap pattern for positioning reference signal (PRS) measurements; and set a gap pattern length of a measurement gap corresponding to the measurement gap pattern depending on whether an overlap exists between a PRS to be measured and one or more other NR data scheduled to be received by the UE. |
| US11871433B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving physical uplink control channel in wireless communication system, and device for same
According to one embodiment of the present application, a method for transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) by a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises a step of receiving setting information associated with a PUCCH, and a step of transmitting the PUCCH on the basis of the setting information. The PUCCH is transmitted from a specific PUCCH resource selected from among overlapped PUCCH resources. The specific PUCCH resource is characterized by being associated with beam failure recovery (BFR). |
| US11871429B2 |
Determination of search space sets for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring
A user equipment, a base station, and a method for determining search space sets for PDCCH monitoring. The UE includes a receiver and a processor and is configured to receive a configuration for search space sets. The configuration includes a first group of search space sets, a second group of search space sets, a first group index for the first group of search space sets, and a second group index for the second group of search space sets. The UE is also configured to determine an indication corresponding to either the first group index or the second group index, and to receive, based on the indication, physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) according to either the first group of search space sets or the second group of search space sets. |
| US11871427B2 |
Data transmission method, terminal device and network device
The present application discloses a method for transmitting data, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first resource indication information from a network device at a first moment, the first moment being located in the n-th time domain resource unit, the first resource indication information indicating a frequency domain resource allocated for transmission of a target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit, and the target channel including a data channel or a control channel of the terminal device, where n and i are positive integers; and receiving, by the terminal device, second resource indication information from the network device at a second moment after the first moment, the second resource indication information indicating a time domain resource allocated for transmission of the target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit. |
| US11871423B2 |
Transmission on a PCell scheduled by an SCell PDCCH in a 5G NR network
A user equipment (UE) configured for operating in a fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) network may monitor search space sets for a number of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates within a number of non-overlapped control-channel elements (CCEs) for a primary cell (PCell). The number of PDCCH candidates and the number of non-overlapped CCEs may include PDCCH candidates and non-overlapped CCEs on a scheduling secondary cell (SCell). The scheduling SCell may be an SCell that schedules a transmission on the PCell. The UE may decode one or more of the PDCCH candidates on the scheduling SCell for a downlink control information (DCI) format which may schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission and/or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission of the PCell. |
| US11871416B2 |
Multiplexing forward and reverse sidelink resource allocation for bidirectional communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive sidelink control information from a second wireless device. The sidelink control information may include an allocation of a first set of resources for a sidelink transmission from the second wireless device to the first wireless device, along with an indication that schedules a second set of resources for additional sidelink transmissions between the first wireless device and the second wireless device that are scheduled to occur after the sidelink transmission from the second wireless device to the first wireless device. Based on the received indication, the first wireless device may communicate with the second wireless device via a sidelink shared channel using the first set of resources and the second set of resources. |
| US11871415B2 |
Beam indication for wireless devices
Wireless devices may communicate via a plurality of transmission and/or reception beams. Control information may be used to indicate one or more beams to be used by wireless devices. A configuration message may indicate a portion of the control information corresponding to a particular wireless device of the wireless devices. |
| US11871413B2 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic beam indication mechanism
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information including a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states; receiving a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) indicating activation of M TCI states from the set of TCI states, where M is a positive integer; identifying a medium for indicating a TCI state update, wherein the medium is the MAC-CE or a downlink control information (DCI), and the TCI state update is from the M activated states; determining a beam based on the TCI state update; and applying the beam for a reception of both downlink (DL) control and data channels. |
| US11871412B2 |
Data transmission method, apparatus, and system
A data transmission method includes: generating a first data packet, where a signaling field in the first data packet includes bandwidth information and space-time stream information, the bandwidth information is used to indicate first bandwidth, and the space-time stream information is used to indicate k first space-time stream quantities corresponding to k receive ends, where k≥1; and sending the first data packet to the k receive ends, where a maximum value of the first bandwidth is greater than 160 MHz, and/or the k first space-time stream quantities meet a preset condition, where the preset condition includes: when k=1, a maximum value of the first space-time stream quantity indicated by the space-time stream information is greater than 8, and when k>1, a maximum value of a sum of the k first space-time stream quantities is greater than 8. |
| US11871408B2 |
Physical uplink control channel repetition across slot types
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator, which indicates a first PUCCH resource for a first instance of a repeated PUCCH message, and a second PUCCH resource indicator, which indicates a second PUCCH resource for a second instance of the repeated PUCCH message. The UE may determine a first slot for the first instance and a second slot for the second instance, and transmit the first instance in the first PUCCH resource in the first slot and the second instance in the second PUCCH resource in the second slot. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11871402B2 |
Method and apparatus for long term evolution operation in unlicensed and shared spectrum for cloud radio access networks
There is provided a system, method, and interfaces for Radio Access Networks and Cloud Radio Access Networks. |
| US11871398B2 |
Method for processing scrambling information, terminal, and network apparatus
Disclosed in embodiments of the present invention are a method for processing scrambling information, a terminal, and a network apparatus. The method comprises: a network apparatus determining first information, wherein the first information is associated with at least one piece of the following information: a transmission point, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) data layer of the transmission point, a code block transmitted from the transmission point, and a data channel and a preamble transmitted from the transmission point; and the network apparatus determining, at least on the basis of the first information, initialization information for scrambling. |
| US11871396B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for handling beam failure
Some embodiments of this disclosure provide a method performed by one or more transmission points, TRPs, for communicating with a user equipment, UE. In some embodiments, the method includes: using a first transmit, TX, beam to communicate with the UE; receiving, from the UE, information indicating that the UE has determined that the first TX beam has experienced a beam failure; and after the information is received, using a second TX beam to communicate with the UE. |
| US11871395B2 |
Techniques for improved beam management
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a beam, according to a measurement configuration, to determine a channel condition value of the beam, modify the channel condition value based at least in part on at least one of one or more beam characterizations, a derivation of a beamforming gain value, or an estimation of the beamforming gain value, and transmit, to a base station, a measurement report indicating the modified channel condition value. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11871392B2 |
Determining a priority order based on uplink transmission parameters
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a priority order based on uplink transmission parameters. One apparatus includes a processor that: indicates uplink transmission parameters to a medium access control layer, wherein the uplink transmission parameters correspond to an uplink grant, the uplink transmission parameters comprise an indication of a numerology and an uplink transmission duration, and the numerology comprises a subcarrier spacing; and assigns, by the medium access control layer, resources allocated by the uplink grant to the logical channels based on the uplink transmission parameters and a logical channel priority of the plurality of logical channels, wherein each logical channel of the plurality of logical channels is configured with a set of numerologies allowed by the respective logical channel, a maximum uplink transmission duration, and information indicating whether a data of the respective logical channel is allowed to be transmitted on a configured grant. |
| US11871388B2 |
Pre-emption, congestion control, and Tx/Rx alignment for NR V2X UE with limited power
A method and apparatus are provided for pre-emption, congestion control, and Tx/Rx alignment for use by a partial sensing UE. A method includes measuring resources within a first window; determining a number of the measured resources having an RSSI greater than a first threshold; determining a CBR based on the measured number of resources; and determining a CR limit based on the determined CBR and transmission priority. Determining the CBR based on the measured number of resources includes comparing a total number of measured resources within the first window to a second threshold; in response to the total number of measured resources being less than the second threshold, determining the CBR as a pre-configured CBR; and in response to the total number of measured resources being greater than or equal to the second threshold, determining the CBR based on a ratio of the number of the measured resources having the RSSI greater than the first threshold to the total number of measured resources within the first window. |
| US11871383B2 |
Timing-aware scheduling
Wireless communications systems and methods related to monitoring and/or measuring synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) in one or more beam directions based on timing offsets associated with the beam directions are provided. In some aspects, a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: receiving, from a wireless communication device, a synchronization signal block (SSB); and measuring, based on timing offsets for each of a plurality of beams of the SSB, one or multiple beams of the SSB. In some instances, the UE determines a number of beams of the SSB to measure based on the timing offsets for each of the plurality of beams of the SSB. |
| US11871382B2 |
Resource management for multi-hop networks
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central unit (CU) may receive, from a distributed unit (DU), a first DU configuration. The CU may transmit to the DU, a second DU configuration to change a DU configuration from the first DU configuration to the second DU configuration, the first DU configuration being different from the second DU configuration. The DU may override the first DU configuration to communicate in accordance with the second DU configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11871381B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus
A data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving physical configuration information of a terminal sent by the terminal, in which the physical configuration information includes a memory size and/or a read-write speed of the memory; determining target radio resource configuration parameters matching the physical configuration information; and transmitting data to the terminal using the target radio resource configuration parameters. |
| US11871379B2 |
Techniques for enhanced resource sensing in sidelink communication
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for requesting inter-UE coordination messages for sidelink communications. An example method for wireless communications by a first user equipment (UE) generally includes sending a sidelink communication on a first set of one or more subchannels in a first slot of sidelink resource pool, performing channel sensing on a second set of one or more subchannels in the first slot, and selecting one or more resources for a subsequent sidelink communication in at least a second slot of the sidelink resource pool on the channel sensing. |
| US11871377B2 |
Communication method and apparatus for information transmission in a monitoring occasion for a beam
A method includes: determining, by a communications device, information about a target beam; determining a target monitoring occasion based on the information about the target beam and a mapping relationship between information about a beam and a monitoring occasion, where the target monitoring occasion is in a system information window, and the system information window is used for OSI; and monitoring downlink control information in the target monitoring occasion. This application is applicable to a process of information transmission between a network device and the communications device. |
| US11871375B2 |
Devices and methods for flow-control triggering and feedback
Devices, methods, communication nodes, base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a New Radio (NR) node is configured for NR user-plane protocol communications between a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN). The NR node is configured to generate a downlink (DL) user data message with downlink user data, initiate transmission of the DL user data message to a second node, and process a DL data delivery status message from the second node in response to the DL user data message. In various embodiments, polling and SCG split-bearer configurations are supported by such messaging. In some embodiments, packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) serial numbers are communicated for transmission and retransmission management. In some embodiments, DL configurations initiated by and SN are enabled, as well as UL configurations initiated by either an MN or an SN. |
| US11871372B2 |
Commissioning electronic devices for use in a tracking system
An electronic device can be commissioned with an identifier for use in a centralized tracking system. The electronic device is assigned an interim unique identifier and authentication key, for instance by a manufacturer of the electronic device. The electronic device and the centralized tracking system each separately generate a permanent unique identifier and a permanent authentication key based on the interim unique identifier and interim authentication key, without requiring the permanent unique identifier and permanent authentication key from being transmitted between the electronic device and the central tracking server. Upon generating the permanent unique identifier and permanent authentication key, tracking device functionality can be enabled within the electronic device, enabling the electronic device to function as a tracking device within the centralized tracking system. |
| US11871369B1 |
Time module apparatus for use with fixed-beacon time transfer system
In various time-transfer systems, one or more fixed-position time beacons broadcast radio-frequency (RF) time-transfer messages to time-keeping modules disposed in remote radio heads and other strategic locations to achieve highly reliable and accurate synchronized time, phase, and frequency transfer over a metropolitan or other wide-field area. |
| US11871367B2 |
Frame formats for distributed MIMO
Disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. In one aspect, during a first time period, a master access point transmits, to a slave access point, information for a joint transmission by the master access point and the slave access point. In one aspect, the slave access point estimates synchronization information for the joint transmission, according to the information for the joint transmission. In one aspect, during a second time period after the first time period, the master access point transmits a portion of a null data packet to a station device. In one aspect, during the second time period, the slave access point transmits the portion of the null data packet to the station device, based on the synchronization information for the joint transmission. In one aspect, the station device determines steering information for the MIMO communication, according to the null data packet. |
| US11871364B2 |
Power headroom reporting with grating lobes
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may transmit a power headroom (PHR) parameter. The PHR parameter may be based at least in part on a beam being associated with a grating lobe and a main lobe. A power of the grating lobe may be within a power threshold of a power of the main lobe. The apparatus may perform a communication using the beam based at least in part on the PHR parameter. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11871360B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for power efficient beam management in wireless systems
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message. The RRC message may comprise information that indicates an association between each of a plurality of beams and power information. The WTRU is configured to receive a trigger message. The WTRU is configured to select a beam in response to the received trigger message. The WTRU is configured to send a control channel transmission using a power level. The power level may be based on the power information mapped to the selected beam. |
| US11871351B2 |
Method of physical downlink control channel monitoring and related device
A method for a UE to monitor a PDCCH comprises receiving a first configuration from a base station to configure the UE with a first search space of the PDCCH, where the first search space is used for monitoring a scheduling signal used for indicating scheduling information, receiving a second configuration from the base station to configure the UE with a second search space of the PDCCH, wherein the second search space is used for monitoring a power saving signal used for indicating wake-up information associated with a DRX functionality, monitoring the first search space in response to the UE being in a DRX active time of the DRX functionality, wherein the DRX active time is a time during which the UE monitors the PDCCH, and not monitoring the second search space in response to the UE being in the DRX active time of the DRX functionality. |
| US11871348B1 |
Frequency division multiple access (FDMA) support for wakeup radio (WUR) operation
A wireless network interface of a first client station negotiates with an access point a first component channel of an operating channel via which the first client station is to receive wakeup frames from the access point. A wakeup radio of the first client station receives a wakeup packet from the access point. The wakeup packet spans the operating channel, which comprises at least four component channels, and one or more of the component channels within the operating channel are punctured so that the access point does not transmit the wakeup packet in the one or more component channels that are punctured. The wakeup packet includes a first wakeup frame for the first client station in the first component channel and one or more respective second wakeup frames for one or more second client stations in one or more respective second component channels. |
| US11871342B2 |
Wireless event notification system
An event notification system includes a wireless device, an Access Point device, a server, and a user application. The server is configured to receive a plurality of heartbeats from the wireless device and through the Access Point device, and send a heartbeat response of a plurality of heartbeat responses in response to a respective heartbeat of the plurality of heartbeats. The user application is configured to send enable and disable commands to the server. The enable command is sent to the wireless device as part of the next heartbeat response of the plurality of heartbeat responses. The disable command is sent to the wireless device after the server receives an event condition from the wireless device through the AP device. |
| US11871341B2 |
Cell selection based on user capability
A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection. |
| US11871339B2 |
Filters for bulk subscriptions
A method performed by a first node (e.g., a network exposure function (NEF)) is provided. The method includes: the first node subscribing to an event for one or more user equipments (UEs) at a second node (e.g., a policy and control function (PCF)). Subscribing to the event comprises indicating one or more filters selected from the group of (i) a set of network identifiers (e.g., data network names (DNNs)) that the subscription applies to, (ii) a set of network slice identifiers (e.g., single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAIs)) that the subscription applies to, and (iii) a set of locations that the subscription applies to. |
| US11871338B2 |
Distributed multi-access edge service delivery
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining capability data of a shared ledger data structure, wherein the capability data specifies one or more capability for respective ones of a plurality of service capability applications; joining a service capability application of the plurality of service capability applications to a service delivery application in dependence on the examining; and running the service delivery application, with the service capability application joined to the service delivery application. . |
| US11871336B2 |
Aid allocation method for multi-link device and related apparatus
An AID allocation method for a multi-link device, includes: An access point multi-link device generates and sends a first frame. Correspondingly, a station device receives and parses the first frame to obtain an AID that is allocated to the station device and carried in the first frame. The AID is neither a BSSID that can be supported by a first-type access point in the access point multi-link device nor an identifier of an access point in the access point multi-link device. The first-type access point is an access point for establishing a link between the station device and the access point multi-link device. |
| US11871335B2 |
Physical downlink control channel transmissions for multicast/broadcast system services
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a search space associated with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to a multicast/broadcast (MBS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for at least one MBS PDCCH communication having a payload that is scrambled according to a PDCCH payload scrambling sequence based on a value of a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), wherein the value of the RNTI is equal to a group-RNTI (G-RNTI) or zero. The UE may receive the at least one MBS PDCCH communication. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11871331B2 |
Adaptive user equipment capability management for varying network conditions
The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques of adaptive PLMN management for varying network conditions. In some aspects, a PLMN manager of a user equipment (UE) searches, as part of a registration procedure, a data repository of PLMN information that includes a PLMN blocked from registration for a duration of time and determines that the PLMN is blocked due to a signal-related condition with a cell of the PLMN (e.g., weak signal). The PLMN manager then determines, during the duration of time, that the signal-related condition between the UE and the cell has improved. In response to the improvement, the PLMN manager unblocks the PLMN before expiration of the duration of time. By so doing, the UE may reattempt registration with the unblocked PLMN at least once before the duration of time expires, which may allow the UE to register more quickly and reestablish network services. |
| US11871330B2 |
Transparent session migration between user plane functions
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to migrating a communication session from a path including a stressed user plane function (UPF) to a path including a replacement UPF. A communication session may traverse a first path including the first UPF. After establishing the communication session, the first UPF may be determined to be stressed. In response, the communication session can be proactively migrated to a second path including a second UPF. According to various implementations, the existing communication session can be maintained during the migration, thereby substantially eliminating interruptions caused by the stressed first UPF. |
| US11871329B2 |
Rescinding routing participant status of a node in a network, by the node's peer
In a first participant in a network—such as an ad hoc wireless network—a facility performs peer regulation of the network. The facility monitors behavior of a second participant in the network that has appointed itself a routing participant for the network. Among the monitored behavior, the facility identifies behavior of the second participant that is inconsistent with its routing participant status. In response to this identifying, the facility sends a message to participants of the network including a third participant indicating that the second participant is no longer a routing participant. |
| US11871327B2 |
Terminal device and method by which terminal device switches data transmission path
The present invention relates to a terminal device and a method by which a terminal device switches a data transmission path, the terminal device being capable of switching a data transmission path by determining by itself whether the data transmission path for transmission of user plane data is switched without a link, among core configurations of respective networks in a mutual interworking environment among heterogeneous networks. |
| US11871325B2 |
Systems and user interfaces for emergency data integration
Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media providing emergency data to public safety answering points (PSAPs). Also provided are systems, methods, and media for utilizing location data and geofences to provide emergency data to PSAPs and interactive graphical displays to efficiently display relevant emergency data. |
| US11871319B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing edge computing service in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication scheme for converging a 5th generation (5G) system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4th generation (4G) system with Internet of things (IoT) technology, and a system thereof. A wireless communication system, and more particularly, an application layer network structure for providing an edge computing device in a cellular wireless communication system (a 5G system), and a method thereof are provided. An edge enabler server (EES) receives a first message including information about one or more edge application servers (EASs) from an EAS management system, and transmits a second message for requesting instantiation for at least one EAS among the one or more EASs to the EAS management system, based on the information about the one or more EASs included in the first message. The information about the one or more EASs includes at least one of information about an identifier (ID) of each of the one or more EASs, information indicating whether each of the one or more EASs supports instantiation, or instantiation type information for each of the one or more EASs. |
| US11871318B2 |
Systems and methods for tiered network slice design and management in a wireless network
A system may provide for the design and/or modification of network slices associated with a wireless network. The wireless network may include different slices that are associated different sets of service parameters. Slices may include radio access networks (“RANs”), core networks, or other types of networks, which may include respective sets of network functions (“NFs”), which may perform specific functions with respect to a given RAN and/or core network. Different slices, RANs, core networks, and/or NFs may be associated with particular policies and/or tags which may be specified by one or more users associated with a first access level. One or more users associated with a second access level may configure portions of the wireless network, and the policies and/or tags associated with particular slices, RANs, core networks, or NFs may be automatically implemented by an orchestration system that configures the wireless network based on the provided configuration information. |
| US11871317B2 |
Method for controlling a data interchange between a control device of a motor vehicle and an external device, control device for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle having such a control device
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a data interchange between a control device of a motor vehicle and an external device. The motor vehicle has multiple vehicle functions each having at least one associated subservice. Based on the subservice, the respective vehicle function is performed and the data interchange with the external device takes place independently of the activity of the vehicle function. If the control device receives a deactivation signal for one of the vehicle functions, it deactivates this at least one vehicle function and checks whether one of the subservices is associated with at least one other vehicle function that is currently activated. If a subservice is not associated with a currently activated vehicle function, this subservice is deactivated, as a result of which the data interchange between the control device and the external device is terminated by this subservice. |
| US11871316B1 |
System and method for persisting mobile agents within a mobile region of interest
Mobile agents can be deployed to mobile devices within specific regions of interest to achieve specific goals in respect of events occurring in the region of interest. In order to ensure that the agent can persist within the region of interest until the agent goals are achieved, the agent is configured to locate other devices within the region of interest and to propagate itself, by moving or copying itself, to those other devices. The region of interest may be a mobile and/or dynamic region of interest defined by, for example, a proximity to one or more mobile wireless access points or by an overlapping peer-to-peer communication range of a plurality of mobile devices that are configured to support the agent. |
| US11871310B2 |
Content recommendation and display based on geographic and user context
A travel system generates and provides content recommendations to a user of the travel system. The travel system identifies content categories that are likely to be of interest to the user of the travel system based on context characteristics of the user such as whether the user is a traveler or a local at a particular geographic location. Additionally, the travel system further identifies content objects (e.g., attractions, activities, events, restaurants, businesses, and the like) for each identified content category that are likely to be of interest to the user based on characteristics of each content object. The identified content categories and content objects are provided as content recommendations for display to a user of the travel system, enabling a user to quickly navigate between content categories and content objects within each content category. |
| US11871308B2 |
System and method for link-initiated dynamic-mode communications
A system and method for a dynamic-link communication process between an electronic device and a target product or service by serving content or facilitating communication between two electronic devices. The first step is engagement by an electronic device with an initiator that is linked with a specific product or service that triggers a text message to auto-populate on the electronic device. The message comprising metadata about the specific product or service. The second step is for the electronic device to send the auto-populated message to a message gateway thus initiating the communication between the electronic device and a product or service. The message gateway works with a management service and one or more databases to send content back to the electronic device or to facilitate and convert messages between the electronic device and a second electronic device, the second electronic device associated with a product or service. |
| US11871307B2 |
Electronic device for sharing data and method for controlling the same
A method for sharing data in a transmitting-side electronic device communicating with a receiving-side electronic device is provided. The method includes connecting a voice call with the receiving-side electronic device; obtaining a sharing object to be shared with the receiving-side electronic device; and transmitting data corresponding to the sharing object to the receiving-side electronic device through a data session formed based on information related to the voice call. |
| US11871306B2 |
Device that initiates transmission of SMS messages via a cellular network and packet switched messages via a PSMS
A method may comprise initiating the sending of first information representing a phone number of a first receiving mobile phone to a server of a packet switched message service (PSMS). According to a first response to the sending of the first information, the sending of an SMS message may be initiated to the first receiving mobile phone. Second information representing a phone number of a second receiving mobile phone may be sent to the server and a packet switched message to the second receiving mobile phone may be initiated. The packet switched message sent to the second receiving mobile phone may be sent via the PSMS. The packet switched message may be delivered to a plurality of receiving mobile wireless devices. |
| US11871305B2 |
System, apparatus, and computer program product for generating a group-based communication interface having improved panes positioned in a defined display window
This disclosure is directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to generate a group-based communication interface comprising a priority pane, a last actions pane, and a missed pane. Each of the priority pane, the last actions pane, and the missed pane and configured for efficient positioning within a defined display window of a client device. |
| US11871303B2 |
Method and system of supporting continuous access to content transmitted over two or more networks
A system and method of supporting access to content over first and second networks that allows a user to access content over different networks, either on the same device or with different devices. The access may be supported in a continuous or seamless matter without substantially interrupting access to the content, such as by instigating the transition during a period of time when minimal, if any content, or content of value, is likely to be missed. |
| US11871296B2 |
Systems and methods for decoupling and delivering geofence geometries to maps
System and methods for delivering geofence geometries to a physical map are disclosed. At least one user device is constructed and configured in communication with a server associated at least one database. The at least one user device receives data regarding a scale unit of the physical map and latitude and longitude of all corners of the physical map. The at least one user device converts the latitude and longitude to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses via communication with the server. The at least one user device queries the at least one database for at least one geofence geometry associated with the IP addresses. The at least one user device decouples the at least one geofence geometry from the at least one database and delivers as an overlay to the physical map. |
| US11871295B2 |
Registration management method for terminal accessing 5G network on non-3GPP access
A communication technique of fusing a fifth generation (5G) communication for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an Internet of things (IoT) technology and a system thereof is provided. The technique may be applied to an intelligent service (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. A method is provided for effectively managing a registration state for a terminal in a 5G core network such as an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a situation of accessing a 5G network via a non-3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access. |
| US11871294B2 |
Frequency band handover in dual-connectivity systems
A cellular communication network may be configured to use a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base station and a New Radio (NR) base station to implement a Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) configuration, in an environment in which the NR base station uses multiple frequency bands that provide respective bandwidths. During an NSA connection with a mobile device, LTE signal strength is used as an indicator of whether the device is within the coverage area of a given NR frequency band. When the LTE signal strength indicates that the device has moved into the coverage area of a frequency band having a higher bandwidth than the currently active NR connection, the device is instructed to release and reestablish its NR connection in order to reconnect using the best available NR frequency band. LTE A1 and/or A5 event measurements may be used to evaluate signal strengths and as triggers for NR release/reestablish operations. |
| US11871291B2 |
Data forwarding tunnel establishment between two user plane functions in fifth generation
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to data forwarding tunnel establishment between two user plane functions in fifth generation (5G). A device may determine an association of an access and mobility management function (AMF) with a first radio access network (RAN). The device may identify a handover request message received from the first RAN via the AMF. The device may identify a request to establish an indirect data forwarding associated with the handover, wherein the request is received from the first RAN via the AMF. The device may cause to send a response addressed to the AMF indicating that the indirect data forwarding is established. |
| US11871290B2 |
Methods and devices for monitoring a radio link quality
A user terminal includes a control section that, in a case where a maximum number of secondary cells to which a beam failure recovery is applied is 1 and where a specific secondary cell for an uplink control channel is configured, applies the beam failure recovery to the specific secondary cell, and a transmitting section that transmits, in the beam failure recovery, a beam failure recovery request to one of a plurality of cells. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a BFR procedure can be appropriately executed. |
| US11871289B2 |
Systems and methods for small cell uplink interference mitigation
Systems and methods for facilitating the mitigation of interference in the uplink of a small cell caused by macrocell user equipment in the case where the macrocell cannot identify the interfering macrocell user equipment because the user equipment cannot detect and report the small cell's downlink due to the small cell's uplink/downlink coverage imbalance. In an embodiment, the small cell provides the macrocell with a notification of the interference, the configuration information about its Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), and a plurality of unique preambles and transmission times for non-contention-based transmissions on the small cell's PRACH. The macrocell orders each of one or a plurality of macrocell user equipment to transmit one of the unique preambles on the small cell's PRACH. The small cell reports to the macrocell the detected preamble transmissions, which allows the macrocell to identify interfering user equipment and perform corrective actions. |
| US11871288B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless communication system
A method and device for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention receive Random Access Channel (RACH) configurations, and transmit random access preambles on a specific RACH occasion (RO) on the basis of the RACH configurations. The number of reference points in a cell is derived on the basis of the number of the RACH configurations, and the reference points can have respective initial Timing Advance (TA) values for the RACH process. |
| US11871287B2 |
Method and apparatus for handover in wireless communication system
A handover method of a first terminal in a wireless communication system may comprise: transmitting a first measurement report message to a first cell that is a primary cell (PCell); receiving, from the first cell, one or more first configuration messages for one or more target cells determined according to the first measurement report message; adding each of the one or more target cells as a candidate PCell based on the one or more first configuration messages; and performing data transmission and reception with at least one cell among the first cell and the one or more candidate PCells. |
| US11871285B2 |
Handover processing method based slice and device for performing the method
Disclosed is a method of ensuring a service continuity based on a utility slice in case of a handover. The method includes receiving a handover request message from a source base station when a user equipment (UE) moves from a coverage of the source base station to that of a target base station, setting a session for the UE based on slice information included in the handover request message, and transmitting a handover request acknowledgment (ACK) message for the handover request message to the source base station, wherein the target base station may provide, when a service slice corresponding to a service provided from the source base station to the UE through a protocol data unit (PDU) session is not supported by the target base station, the service using a utility slice. |
| US11871282B2 |
Method for preserving a data transmission rate of a terminal in a communications network
A method for preserving a transmission rate of second data transmitted by a first terminal destined for a second terminal attached to at least one access device in a communications network. A communications network node capable of routing the second data identifies an inability of the at least one access device to send first data received from the first terminal to the second terminal, processes the first data received from the first terminal during the identified period of inability of the at least one access device, and transmits to the first terminal a notification indicating that the first stored data is not subject to congestion. |
| US11871279B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring an assistance information bit for local cache bit
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. A method, performed by a terminal dual-connected to a master base station and a secondary base station in a wireless communication system, of configuring an assistance information bit for local cache (AILC) bit includes receiving, from the master base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including AILC bit configuration information (ailc-BitConfig), configuring an AILC bit of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data packet data unit (PDU) based on at least one of a terminating base station of a data radio bearer (DRB) through which the PDCP data PDU is transmitted, whether the PDCP data PDU includes a service data unit (SDU) to be transmitted to a local cache, whether the DRB is configured with evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) PDCP or New Radio (NR) PDCP, or a PDCP sequence number (SN) of the PDCP data PDU, and transmitting, to the terminating base station, the PDCP data PDU in which the AILC bit is configured. |
| US11871275B2 |
Node apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium
An MEC node acquires, from each base station, a measured traffic volume in a cell (target cell) formed by each base station, and predicts a traffic volume after a unit time in the target cell based on the measured traffic volume. Upon receiving from a vehicle in the target cell an inquiry regarding whether or not data transmission is permitted, the MEC node determines whether or not to permit data transmission by the vehicle, based on a prediction result of the traffic volume, and a volume of data to be transmitted by the vehicle which is indicated by information included in the inquiry. In accordance with a result of the determination, the MEC node transmits, to the vehicle that has transmitted the inquiry, a response indicating whether or not to permit data transmission. |
| US11871274B2 |
Performance measurements and KPIs related to packet delay in NG-RAN and 5GS
An apparatus and system for generating KPIs based on packet delay performance measurements through a NG-RAN or 5GC are described. Integrated average UL and DL delays in NG-RAN, gNB DU delays and e2e delays are determined for each sub-network, network slice subnet, and network slice, and for a gNB DU. An overall NR cell DU delay including air interface delay and delay within the NR cell DU, and an overall gNB-CU delay including F1 interface delay and delay within the gNB-CU-UP, are each independently weighted for each gNB and in each direction for the integrated delay KPI in the NG-RAN. The e2e delay KPIs are average UL or DL delays between a UPF and UE(s) for a network slice based on e2e delays for each N-3 and N9 interface weighted by number of packets or data volume of the interface for the corresponding direction. |
| US11871270B2 |
Reassembly of service data units for radio link control duplication
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to reassembly of service data units (SDUs) for radio link control (RLC) duplication. In some aspects, a receiving device may receive, via a first RLC entity, one or more first protocol data units (PDUs) encapsulating a first portion of an SDU. The receiving device may receive, via a second RLC entity, one or more second PDUs encapsulating a second portion of the SDU, where the second PDUs are associated with duplication of the one or more first PDUs. The receiving device may assemble, based at least in part on a determination that neither the first portion nor the second portion is a complete version of the SDU, a combined SDU from the first portion and the second portion. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11871267B2 |
Transport block size determining method and apparatus
This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a transport block size determining method and an apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device determines, based on control information sent by a network device, K transmission occasions used to transmit a first data packet, where at least two of the K transmission occasions include different quantities of valid REs. Further, the terminal device may determine, based on a target quantity of valid REs, a TBS corresponding to the first data packet, where the target quantity of valid REs may be an average quantity of valid REs of the K transmission occasions, or may be a quantity of valid REs included in a target transmission occasion in the K transmission occasions. |
| US11871261B2 |
Transformer-based cross-node machine learning systems for wireless communication
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a transformer configuration that includes a transmitter neural network configured to be used to generate at least one latent vector corresponding to one or more computation tasks of a plurality of computation tasks associated with a transformer-based cross-node machine learning system. The UE may transmit the at least one latent vector based at least in part on instantiating the transmitter neural network. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11871256B2 |
Signal processing method, device, and base station
A signal processing method includes: obtaining first indication information, where the first indication information includes a measurement parameter; performing, by a signal forwarding device based on the measurement parameter, signal quality measurement on a received first uplink signal sent by a target user terminal UE; sending a signal quality measurement result to a base station; if obtaining second indication information sent by the base station, receiving a second uplink signal sent by the target UE, and forwarding the second uplink signal to the base station, where the second indication information is sent by the base station to the signal forwarding device, after the base station determines, based on the signal quality measurement result, to determine to allocate the target UE to the signal forwarding device as subordinate UE. |
| US11871255B2 |
Discontinuous downlink channel monitoring
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, otherwise known as a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information including an indication of a discontinuous monitoring delay period. The UE may receive a message including an indication to adjust monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and monitor for the PDCCH during the discontinuous monitoring delay period. The UE may adjust monitoring for the PDCCH following the discontinuous monitoring delay period during a temporal period based on the received indication to adjust monitoring of the PDCCH. In some examples, at least one of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, downlink reference signal monitoring, uplink reference signal transmissions, and channel reporting is enabled during the temporal period while monitoring of the PDCCH is adjusted. |
| US11871252B2 |
Methods of receiving data using unequally spaced quadrature amplitude modulated 64 point symbol constellations
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation. |
| US11871251B2 |
Method of association of user equipment in a cellular network according to a transferable association policy
A method for associating user equipment with base stations of a cellular network, in particular of a heterogeneous network such as a 5G network, uses a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm. When a user equipment enters the network, the agent associated with this equipment downloads the instance of an association meta model to a coordinating unit, pre-trained by means of reinforcement learning. The agent subsequently constructs a local observation vector, comprising observables relating to the user equipment, and a global observation vector, including observables relating to the environment of this equipment. The local and global observation vectors are projected into the same reference space, the concatenation of the vectors thus projected encoding the state of the agent. It deduces from the model and from this state, an association decision. The model is updated according to a policy gradient method to consider evolution of the environment of the user. |
| US11871248B2 |
Communication network with control plane network
A communication network includes nodes communicating over a current generation network, such as 5G and some, or all of the nodes are also capable of communicating over a previous generation network, such as 4G for instance. A third node receives a first signal from a first node over the current generation network, a second signal that is a retransmission of the first signal from a second node over the current generation network, and network dimensional parameters from the first node and/or the second node over the previous generation network. The network dimensional parameters enable the third node to determine precise locations of the first node and the second node. Using a function of the network dimensional parameters, the third node correlates the first signal and the second signal to generate a simplified signal therefrom. A secondary wireless mesh acts as an overlay control plane via a non-shared non-virtualized external controller. |
| US11871245B2 |
Architecture for simultaneous spectrum usage by air-to-ground and terrestrial networks
A network for providing air-to-ground (ATG) wireless communication in various cells may include an in-flight aircraft including an antenna assembly, a plurality of ATG base stations, a plurality of terrestrial base stations. Each of the ATG base stations defines a corresponding radiation pattern, and the ATG base stations are spaced apart from each other to define at least partially overlapping coverage areas to communicate with the antenna assembly in an ATG communication layer defined between a first altitude and a second altitude. The terrestrial base stations are configured to communicate primarily in a ground communication layer below the first altitude. The terrestrial base stations and the ATG base stations are each configured to communicate using the same radio frequency (RF) spectrum in the ground communication layer and ATG communication layer, respectively. |
| US11871244B2 |
Primary signal detection using distributed machine learning in multi-area environment
Methods and systems for primary signal detection using distributed machine learning in a multi-area environment are disclosed. In an example method, it is determined that a first user equipment (UE) device moved to a first predefined area from a second predefined area. A controller sends, to the first UE device, a first machine learning model configured to detect an anomaly in an RF environment associated with the first area. The first machine learning model may have been determined by a second UE device associated with the first area. The controller receives, from the first UE device, anomaly data indicative of an anomaly detected by the first UE device via the first machine learning model. The controller may optionally determine that a primary signal is present in an RF environment associated with the first area based on the anomaly data from the first UE device. |
| US11871243B2 |
Spectrum sharing between fifth generation new radio and long term evolution in licensed and unlicensed bands
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for enabling coexistence between Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation (5G) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Technologies (RATs). Disclosed embodiments enable 5G and LTE to simultaneously operate on the same licensed or unlicensed band such as for spectrum sharing between 5G and LTE RATs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11871242B2 |
Systems and methods for coordinated access point channel assignment
A multiple access point system includes a wireless network including a first channel and a second channel. The system further includes a first access point and a second access point co-located within a single physical location environment, a wireless backhaul connecting the first and second access points to the wireless network, and a processor configured to (i) assign the first channel as a primary channel of the first access point and the second channel as a primary channel of the second access point, and (ii) assign the first channel as a secondary channel of the second access point and the second channel as a secondary channel of the second access point. The primary channel of the first access point does not overlap with the primary channel of the second access point, and the secondary channel of the second access point overlaps with the first access point. |
| US11871241B2 |
Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal for spatial reuse of overlapped basic service set
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for supporting a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set to efficiently use a wireless resource. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives a trigger frame indicating an uplink multi-user transmission, and transmits a trigger-based PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) in response to the received trigger frame, wherein the trigger-based PPDU comprises a spatial reuse parameter for spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) terminal and a wireless communication method using the same. |
| US11871239B2 |
Terminal device, personal authentication system and personal authentication method
A technology which is highly safe and furthermore highly convenient in personal authentications via a mobile terminal is provided. A terminal device 200 of the present invention includes: a position determining section 271 that determines a position of the terminal device 200 at predetermined time intervals, and accumulates the position as position information; a movement history generating section 272 that generates a movement history by using the position information accumulated in a predetermined period, and stores the movement history as movement history information; a registration processing section 276 that transmits, for registration, the movement history information to a personal authentication apparatus; and an authentication requesting section 279 that makes an authentication request to the personal authentication apparatus 310 by using the movement history information stored after the transmission by the registration processing section 276 to the personal authentication apparatus 310. |
| US11871235B2 |
Secure URL shortener for character-limited messages
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing secure shortened URLs in character-limited messages. A computing platform may receive one or more character-limited messages sent to a user device. The computing platform may detect a URL within the one or more character-limited messages for replacement and generate a shortened URL corresponding to the detected URL, wherein a domain of the shortened URL is hosted by the message security system. The computing platform may then modify the one or more character-limited messages by replacing the URL with the shortened URL, and then cause transmission of the modified one or more character-limited messages to the user device. Next, the computing platform may receive, from the user device, a request to access the shortened URL, and redirect the user device to the detected URL corresponding to the shortened URL. |
| US11871230B1 |
Systems and methods for coordinated security enhancement
A method of securing data transmission from a plurality of spatially distributed transmitters to a receiving device includes steps of: determining first and second receiving device propagation delays for first and second transmission paths, respectively; portioning a contiguous stream of data into first and second data portions; transmitting the first data portion by the first transmission path utilizing a coordinating system and first propagation delay, and the second data portion such that first and second data portions arrive at the receiving device during a first and second time period, respectively, wherein, when seen from the receiving device, the first data portion and second data portion are seen as transmitted as contiguous data from the same transmitter, and wherein that transmitted data is received as a contiguous stream of transmitted data at a location of the receiving device. |
| US11871228B2 |
System and method of manufacturer-approved access to vehicle sensor data by mobile application
A subscription system and method of facilitating permission-based access to a subset of vehicle sensor data in a vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) to augment an information application. The system includes a vehicle subscription server. The method includes generating, by the vehicle subscription server, a sensor key and a subscription key, installing in a memory of the vehicle ECU the vehicle sensor key. In response to a request for a subscription by a mobile device, transmitting by the vehicle subscription server the subscription key. The vehicle ECU uses the subscription key to authenticate the mobile device as having a current subscription, and augments the information application with the subset of vehicle sensor data accessed based on the sensor subscription key. |
| US11871227B2 |
Device changing method and apparatus of wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. A method and an apparatus for enabling inter-device profile movement using only two devices without separately carrying out identity verification or ID authentication verification are provided. The method includes receiving an input for moving a first profile installed in a first terminal, deleting the first profile on a first eUICC, generating, for data including first profile information, digital signature data of the first eUICC, and displaying data including the first profile information and the corresponding digital signature data as a QR code on a screen of the first terminal. |
| US11871226B2 |
Method and system for providing location-aware multi-factor mobile authentication
A method performs location-based multi-factor authentication. The method includes a mobile device that receives a first set of authentication credentials provided by a user, and transmits the first set of authentication credentials to an authentication server, which verifies the first set of authentication credentials. The authentication server transmits verified first factor authentication to the mobile device that sends a request for second factor authentication to an authentication system, which causes the mobile device to scan identifier information associated with a secure device, the secure device then sending a second set of authentication credentials to the authentication system. The authentication system verifies the second set of credentials system and transmits verified second factor authentication to the authentication server, which subsequently grants final authentication based on the verified first factor authentication and the verified second factor authentication. |
| US11871208B2 |
Methods and systems for spatial rendering of multi-user voice communication
An illustrative application executing on a first device establishes a first network connection between the first device and a collaboration platform server managing a set of components for a collaboration platform providing voice communication services with respect to a virtual space. Using the first network connection, the application: 1) sets a first location within the virtual space at which a first voice component is positioned, and 2) determines a second location within the virtual space at which a second voice component is positioned. The application receives, by way of a second network connection between the first and second devices, audio data representing voice communication originating at the second device. Based on the first and second locations, the application generates a spatialized rendering of the audio data for presentation to a user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11871207B1 |
Acoustic editing
A method for acoustic damping of sound clips includes identifying an audio clip for a location of a user in an environment and fragmenting the audio clip into a plurality of sound clips. The method further includes, responsive to determining at least one sound clip from the audio clip requires acoustic damping, performing the acoustic damping on the at least one sound clip, where a damping ratio for the at least one sound clip is altered. The method further includes responsive to determining to stitch the plurality of sound clips, stitching the plurality of sounds clips to form the audio clip, where the plurality of sound clips includes the at least one sound clip with the acoustic damping. The method further includes displaying a visual representation of the audio clip with the plurality of sound clips. |
| US11871205B2 |
Parametric stereo upmix apparatus, a parametric stereo decoder, a parametric stereo downmix apparatus, a parametric stereo encoder
A parametric stereo upmix method for generating a left signal and a right signal from a mono downmix signal based on spatial parameters includes predicting a difference signal comprising a difference between the left signal and the right signal based on the mono downmix signal scaled with a prediction coefficient. The prediction coefficient is derived from the spatial parameters. The method further includes deriving the left signal and the right signal based on a sum and a difference of the mono downmix signal and said difference signal. |
| US11871201B2 |
Speaker
The present disclosure provides a speaker including a housing and a vibration system and a magnetic circuit unit that are received in the housing. The magnetic circuit unit includes lower clamp plate and magnetic circuit assembly arranged on lower clamp plate. A central area of lower clamp plate abuts against bottom wall of the housing. An edge area of lower clamp plate is spaced from the bottom wall. The edge area is provided with flange portion bending and extending from lower clamp plate toward the bottom wall. The flange portion abuts against the bottom wall. The flange portion abuts against the bottom wall. In this way, when speaker falls off, flange portions come in contact with bottom wall, such that stability of magnetic circuit unit can be improved, then operational performance and service life can be improved. |
| US11871200B2 |
Speaker and electronic device
A speaker and an electronic device are provided. The speaker includes a counterweight body, and a lower shell, a middle shell, an electric vibration plate, and a dome where the lower shell, the middle shell, and the electric vibration plate are matched to form an accommodating cavity, and the counterweight body is disposed in the accommodating cavity and is connected to a first surface of the electric vibration plate; the dome is disposed on a second surface of the electric vibration plate away from the counterweight body; and when a voltage is applied to the electric vibration plate, the electric vibration plate drives the dome to move. |
| US11871197B2 |
Multifunctional earphone system for sports activities
A multifunctional earphone system for sports activities is described which comprises the following: a first apparatus configured to be carried in one of a user's ears, the first apparatus comprising a first data communication unit and a first loudspeaker, and a second apparatus configured to be carried in the user's other ear, the second apparatus comprising a second data communication unit and a second loudspeaker, wherein at least one of the first apparatus and the second apparatus comprises a sensor unit and a data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit is configured to generate performance data based on measurement data acquired by the sensor unit, wherein the first apparatus further comprises a signal processing unit configured to generate a binaural audio signal based on the performance data, the binaural audio signal comprising a first signal part to be output by the first loudspeaker and a second signal part to be output by the second loudspeaker, and wherein the first data communication unit is configured to communicate the second signal part of the binaural audio signal to the second data communication unit. Furthermore, a method is described. |
| US11871193B2 |
Microphone system
A microphone system, comprises a first transducer, for generating a first acoustic signal, and a second transducer, for generating a second acoustic signal. A high-pass filter receives the first signal and generates a first filtered signal, and a low-pass filter receives the second signal and generates a second filtered signal. An adder forms an output signal of the microphone system as a sum of the first filtered signal and the second filtered signal. |
| US11871190B2 |
Separating space-time signals with moving and asynchronous arrays
A method for separating sound sources includes digitizing acoustic signals from a plurality of sources with a plurality of microphone arrays, wherein each of microphone arrays includes one or more microphones, wherein at least one of the microphone arrays may be asynchronous to another one of the microphone arrays or may be moving with respect to another one of the microphone arrays. Spatial parameters are estimated of the digitized acoustic signals. The method includes estimating time-varying source spectra for the sources from the digitized acoustic signals as a function of the digitized acoustic signals and data received from at least one other microphone array. Source signals are estimated for one or more of the sources by filtering the digitized acoustic data digitized at the respective microphone array using the spatial parameters of the digitized acoustic data and the time-varying source spectra from all or a subset of the microphone arrays. |
| US11871183B2 |
Single microphone hearing aid noise reduction method based on bluetooth headset chip and bluetooth headset
The present invention discloses a single microphone hearing aid noise reduction method. The method comprises: acquiring an original sound signal, identifying the noise characteristics of noise in the original sound signal; iteratively training the noise reduction formula obtained by noise identification, optimizing the noise reduction formula, and acquiring the optimal values of parameters in the noise reduction formula; calculating the original sound signal according to the noise reduction formula optimized by iterative training and the specific value of each parameter, and outputting the signal to noise ratio of the noise; and judging whether the signal to noise ratio is qualified, and if qualified, carrying out hearing aid processing of the processed sound signal. The present invention can quickly identify, suppress and converge unsteady noise by single microphone noise reduction without the aid of special iterative adaptive learning filter hardware built in a hearing aid chip. |
| US11871182B2 |
Sound processors
A sound processor comprises one or more electrical signal outputs configured to generate a plurality of electrical signals. The plurality of electrical signals are generated in specific tuned audio frequency bands in respective audio channels, in response to sound information received at the sound processor in the specific tuned audio frequency bands. The sound processor further comprises a transmitter coupled to the one or more electrical signal outputs for transmission of the plurality of electrical signals. The transmitter is configured to transmit the electrical signal in the respective audio channel over a separate respective transcutaneous communication link. |
| US11871174B1 |
Personalized directional audio for head-worn audio projection systems, apparatuses, and methods
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are taught that provide audio signals to a user from an eyewear device utilizing a personal projection micro speaker system. A method includes generating audio signals within a chamber. The chamber is a part of a volume of the eyewear device. The audio signals are concentrated for delivery to the user's ear. The audio signals are transmitted to the user's ear through a port in the chamber. |
| US11871171B1 |
Open earphones
The present disclosure relates to an open earphone. The open earphone may include a sound production device and an ear hook including a first part and a second part connected in sequence. The first part may be hooked and arranged between an auricle and a head of a user. The second part may extend to a front lateral surface of the auricle and may be connected to the sound production device. The sound production device may be worn at a position that is near an ear canal without blocking an earhole of the user. The sound production device may be at least partially inserted into an auricular concha cavity of the user. An overlap ratio of a projection area of the sound production device on a sagittal plane to a projection area of the auricular concha cavity on the sagittal plane may be not less than 44.01%. |
| US11871168B2 |
Hearing device with two microphone filters
A hearing device and related methods are disclosed. The hearing device comprises a housing comprising a wall, a microphone inlet comprising a through-going opening, a microphone arranged within the housing for receiving audio via the microphone inlet, a first filter device comprising a first filter material, the first filter device being arranged at the microphone, and a second filter device substantially having the shape of a torus or a hollow cylinder and comprising a second filter material, the second filter device being arranged at the wall, wherein the first filter device is arranged between the microphone and the second filter device, and wherein the through-going opening comprises an outer recess in an outer surface of the wall, wherein the second filter device is arranged in the outer recess. |
| US11871167B2 |
Power tool and method for wireless communication
A power tool having multiple wireless communication states and a method of wirelessly communicating by a power tool. The power tool includes a motor, a battery pack interface that selectively receives a battery pack, a backup power source, and a wireless communication controller coupled to the backup power source and the battery pack interface. The wireless communication controller operates in a connectable state when coupled to a battery pack and transmits tool operational data to the external device and receives tool configuration data from the external device. The wireless communication controller operates in an advertisement state when the wireless communication controller is coupled to and powered by the backup power source. In the advertisement state, the wireless communication controller is configured to transmit the unique tool identifier. The external device may also display an indication of the communication state of the power tool. |
| US11871166B2 |
Sensor system
There is provided a sensor system for use in a high voltage direct current network. The sensor system comprises a plurality of sensor devices, each sensor device configured to obtain a respective sensor measurement, wherein the plurality of sensor devices are configured to generate a serial data unit for transmission to a recipient system, the serial data unit configured to include the plurality of sensor measurements (S1, S2, Sn), the serial data unit further configured to include a plurality of validity indicators (FCS1, FCS2, FCSn), each validity indicator (FCS1, FCS2, FCSn) configured to provide an individual validity status of a respective one of the plurality of sensor measurements (S1, S2, Sn). |
| US11871164B2 |
Systems and methods for intelligent edge to edge optical system and wavelength provisioning
An optical access network includes an optical hub having at least one processor. The network further includes a plurality of optical distribution centers connected to the optical hub by a plurality of optical fiber segments, respectively, and a plurality of geographic fiber node serving areas. Each fiber node serving area of the plurality of fiber node serving areas includes at least one optical distribution center of the plurality of optical distribution centers. The network further includes a plurality of endpoints. Each endpoint of the plurality of endpoints is in operable communication with at least one optical distribution center. The network further includes a point-to-point network provisioning system configured to (i) evaluate each potential communication path over the plurality of optical fiber segments between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, and (ii) select an optimum fiber path based on predetermined path selection criteria. |
| US11871163B2 |
Data center architecture utilizing optical switches
Embodiments of the invention describe flexible (i.e., elastic) data center architectures capable of meeting exascale, while maintaining low latency and using reasonable sizes of electronic packet switches, through the use of optical circuit switches such as optical time, wavelength, waveband and space circuit switching technologies. This flexible architecture enables the reconfigurability of the interconnectivity of servers and storage devices within a data center to respond to the number, size, type and duration of the various applications being requested at any given point in time. |
| US11871160B2 |
Projection apparatus
A projection apparatus capable of appropriately performing shift control of a projection image when a posture or a projection direction of a projection lens is changed by rotating the projection lens is provided. A projection apparatus (1) includes a projection apparatus main body (2) that causes a DMD (22B) to emit a projection image; a projection lens (3) that projects the projection image emitted from the DMD (22B), the projection lens (3) including a second optical system and a third optical system, the second optical system being provided rotatably around a first rotation axis with respect to the projection apparatus main body (2), the third optical system being rotatable around a second rotation axis extending in a direction intersecting with the first rotation axis; a posture information acquisition unit that acquires posture information indicating a posture of the projection lens (3) with respect to the projection apparatus main body (2); a lens shift mechanism (80) that causes the projection lens (3) to move in a plane intersecting with an axial direction of the first rotation axis; and a control unit that controls the lens shift mechanism (80) based on the posture information acquired by the posture information acquisition unit to shift a projection image that is projected from the projection lens (3). |
| US11871159B2 |
Display unit for reducing degradation of optical components
A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a light source section that outputs light; a light uniformization section including at least one uniformization optical member and having a light entrance surface through which the light outputted from the light source section enters and a light output surface through which light is outputted; a condenser lens for the light outputted from the light uniformization section to enter; and a reflective light valve to be illuminated by light outputted from the condenser lens. A light condensing position for return light that is reflected by the light valve and returns to the light output surface of the light uniformization section via the condenser lens is configured to be located off a light condensing position of the light uniformization section on a light output surface side for the light outputted from the light source section. |
| US11871153B1 |
Method for managing graphic user interface (GUI) for video conference calls
A system and method is used to manage GUI for group video calls. The method ensures effective communication and control over shared video content during group video calls. The method enables to combine feed videos from a plurality of attendee accounts and other shared video content to be displayed in one single slide. Further, the method allows control over slide presentations and positioning of participant videos by cursor movement of the host account holder or the presenter. This allows the participants to follow the presenter, while viewing the presentation slides and other feed videos. Furthermore, the method allows users to switch mouse cursor control between the presenter and the participants by clicking on the video on a primary slot. Additionally, the presenter as well as the participants may individually select background views as well as arrangement patterns for videos of attendees of the video conference, from a selection of patterns. |
| US11871150B2 |
Apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for generating a collaborative contextual summary interface in association with an audio-video conferencing interface service
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for generation of a collaborative contextual summary interface in association with an audio-video conferencing interface service. An example embodiment is configured to monitor an active audio-video conference presentation that is configured for display to participating client devices by the audio-video conferencing interface service, identify a first capture content request associated with the active audio-video conference presentation, generate a first captured content data object based at least in part on the first capture content request, correlate a first captured content interface indicator to the first captured content data object, and generate a collaborative contextual summary interface based at least in part on the first captured content data object, wherein the collaborative contextual summary interface comprises the first captured content interface indicator. |
| US11871145B2 |
Optimization of adaptive convolutions for video frame interpolation
Embodiments are disclosed for video image interpolation. In some embodiments, video image interpolation includes receiving a pair of input images from a digital video, determining, using a neural network, a plurality of spatially varying kernels each corresponding to a pixel of an output image, convolving a first set of spatially varying kernels with a first input image from the pair of input images and a second set of spatially varying kernels with a second input image from the pair of input images to generate filtered images, and generating the output image by performing kernel normalization on the filtered images. |
| US11871144B2 |
Image processing apparatus and operation method thereof
Provided is an image processing apparatus for generating a high-resolution image. The image processing apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to extract feature information regarding a low-resolution image of a current frame by using a first convolutional neural network, generate, based on the feature information, a first high-resolution image of the current frame, remove flickering of the first high-resolution image by using a high-resolution image of a previous frame, and remove flickering of a high-resolution image of a next frame by using at least one of a flickering-removed second high-resolution image of the current frame, or the feature information. |
| US11871143B2 |
Subpicture tracks in coded video
Systems, methods and apparatus for processing visual media data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between visual media data and a visual media file that includes one or more tracks that store one or more bitstreams of the visual media data; and wherein the visual media data comprises one or more pictures comprising one or more subpictures or one or more slices; wherein the visual media file stores the one or more tracks according to a format rule; and wherein the format rule specifies that a track that includes a sequence of the one or more slices or the one or more subpictures covers a rectangular area of the one or more pictures. |
| US11871142B2 |
Synergistic temporal anti-aliasing and coarse pixel shading technology
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a frame rate of video content, sets a blend amount parameter based on the frame rate, and temporally anti-aliases the video content based on the blend amount parameter. Additionally, the technology may detect a coarse pixel (CP) shading condition with respect to one or more frames in the video content and select, in response to the CP shading condition, a per frame jitter pattern that jitters across pixels, wherein the video content is temporally anti-aliased based on the per frame jitter pattern. The CP shading condition may also cause the technology to apply a gradient to a plurality of color planes on a per color plane basis and discard pixel level samples associated with a CP if all mip data corresponding to the CP is transparent or shadowed out. |
| US11871139B1 |
Multi-camera recording using a visual media recording device
Methods, systems, and storage media for simultaneously recording multiple visual media using a plurality of cameras of a visual media recording device are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: record a first visual medium using a first camera (e.g., a front-facing camera) of the plurality of cameras of the visual media recording device; record a second visual medium using a second camera (e.g., a rear-facing camera) of the plurality of cameras of the visual media recording device simultaneously with recording of the first visual medium, at least one of the first camera and the second camera utilizing face-tracking technology during recording; combine the first visual medium and the second visual medium into a single visual output during a post-recording process; and cause display of the single visual output. |
| US11871135B2 |
Circuit and method for image artifact reduction in high-density, high-pixel-count, image sensor with phase detection autofocus
In an embodiment, a method of reducing resistance-capacitance delay along photodiode transfer lines of an image sensor includes forking a plurality of photodiode transfer lines each into a plurality of sublines coupled together and to a first decoder-driver at a first end of each subline; and distributing selection transistors of a plurality of multiple-photodiode cells among the plurality of sublines. In embodiments, the sublines may be recombined at a second end of the sublines and driven by a second decoder-driver at the second end. |
| US11871133B2 |
Gaze-based non-regular subsampling of sensor pixels
An imaging system including: image sensor including pixels arranged on photo-sensitive surface; and processor configured to: obtain information indicative of gaze direction of user's eye; identify gaze position on photo-sensitive surface; determine first region and second region on photo-sensitive surface, wherein first region includes and surrounds gaze position, while second region surrounds first region; read out first pixel data from each pixel of first region; select set of pixels to be read out from second region based on predetermined sub-sampling pattern; read out second pixel data from pixels of selected set; generate, from second pixel data, pixel data of remaining pixels of second region; and process first pixel data, second pixel data, and generated pixel data to generate image frame(s). |
| US11871130B2 |
Compact perception device
A compact perception device for an autonomous driving system is disclosed. The compact perception device includes a lens configured to collect both visible light and near infrared (NIR) light to obtain collected light including collected visible light and collected NIR light. The device further includes a first optical reflector optically coupled to the lens. The first optical reflector is configured to reflect one of the collected visible light or the collected NIR light, and pass the collected light that is not reflected by the first optical reflector. The device further includes an image sensor configured to detect the collected visible light directed by the first optical reflector to form image data; and a depth sensor configured to detect the collected NIR light directed by the first optical reflector to form depth data. |
| US11871129B2 |
Signal-charge estimator and method
A method for estimating a signal charge collected by a pixel of an image sensor includes determining an average bias that depends on the pixel's floating-diffusion dark current and pixel-sampling period. The method also includes determining a signal-charge estimate as the average bias subtracted from a difference between a weighted sum of a plurality of N multiple-sampling values each multiplied by a respective one of a plurality of N sample-weights. |
| US11871123B2 |
High dynamic range image synthesis method and electronic device
In the technical solutions of a high dynamic range image synthesis method and an electronic device provided in embodiments of this application, a plurality of images with different depths of field in a current photographing scene are obtained based on an HDR photographing operation entered by a user, and each image has an exposure value. A plurality of images with a same exposure value are synthesized to generate a full depth-of-field image. Full depth-of-field images with a plurality of exposure values are synthesized by using an HDR algorithm to generate a high dynamic range image. Therefore, a high dynamic range image that is clear at each depth of field can be obtained, and a problem that a shallow depth of field leads to a blurred background and an insufficient dynamic range, and then results in overexposure or underexposure of a high dynamic range image can be resolved. |
| US11871121B2 |
Video signal conversion device and method thereof
A video signal conversion method includes: receiving an input signal from a video source; extracting an image metadata from the input signal; determining whether the input signal corresponds to a high dynamic range (HDR) imaging format according to at least one format information of the image metadata and determining whether a video receiver supports the high dynamic range imaging format; in response to the input signal corresponding to the high dynamic range imaging format and the video receiver being not support the high dynamic range imaging format, generating a conversion command; receiving, by a video processor, the conversion command; converting, by the video processor, the input signal into an output signal corresponding to a standard dynamic range (SDR) imaging format according to the conversion command; sending, by the video processor, the output signal to the video receiver; and receiving by the video receiver, the output signal in SDR imaging format. |
| US11871118B2 |
Video processing apparatus, video processing method, and recording medium for video processing
A video processing apparatus includes a light irradiation unit, a video acquisition unit, a motion detection unit, and an imaging control unit. The light irradiation unit irradiates a face of an object of shooting with light. The video acquisition unit acquires a video capturing the face of the object of shooting. The motion detection unit detects a speed of motion of at least a portion of the face in the video acquired by the video acquisition unit. The imaging control unit changes an open period of a shutter in the video acquisition unit and a light emission intensity of the light irradiation unit based on the speed detected by the motion detection unit. |
| US11871115B2 |
Color night vision through the spatial filtering of TOLED technology
An optical device includes an underlying device configured to output light in a first spectrum. A stacked device is coupled to the underlying device and configured to be coupled in overlapping fashion to an optical output of the underlying device. The stacked device is transparent to light in the first spectrum. The stacked device includes electro-optical circuits including: light emitters and detectors. Each detector is associated with one or more light emitters. Each detector is configured to detect light emitted from the underlying device. The light emitters are configured to output light dependent on light detected by an associated detector. Optical filters are optically coupled to an optical input of the underlying device. Each filter is aligned with a detector to suppress absorption of certain wavelengths of light by the underlying device thereby affecting light detected by the detectors and thus further affecting the light output by the light emitters. |
| US11871110B2 |
Single image ultra-wide fisheye camera calibration via deep learning
Techniques related to calibrating fisheye cameras using a single image are discussed. Such techniques include applying a first pretrained convolutional neural network to an input fisheye image to generate camera model parameters excluding a principle point and applying a second pretrained convolutional neural network to the fisheye image and a difference of the fisheye image and a projection of the fisheye image using the camera model parameters to generate the principle point. |
| US11871108B2 |
Integrated internal and removable battery power management for image capture device
A method and system for continuously supplying power to an image capture device during an image capture session are disclosed. The image capture device includes an integrated internal battery located internal to the image capture device and a removable battery connected to the image capture device. Power is provided to the image capture device from the removable battery. When the removable battery is disconnected from the image capture device, power is provided to the image capture device from the integrated internal battery. When a new removable battery is connected to the image capture device, power is provided to the image capture device from the new removable battery. Power is continuously supplied to the image capture device from the integrated internal battery while the removable battery is disconnected and replaced with the new removable battery. |
| US11871105B2 |
Field of view adjustment
Systems and methods are disclosed for field of view adjustment for image capture devices. For example, methods may include receiving a field of view selection; oversampling, using an image sensor, to obtain an image at a capture resolution that is greater than an encode resolution; determining a crop setting based on the field of view selection; cropping the image using the crop setting to obtain a cropped image; down-scaling the cropped image to obtain a scaled image at the encode resolution; encoding the scaled image at the encode resolution; and storing, displaying, or transmitting an output image based on the scaled image. |
| US11871101B2 |
ALS camera system
A system for detecting foreign materials comprising an alternative light source (ALS), one or more filters operationally associated with the ALS, one or more camera lenses operationally associated with the ALS and the filters, one or more processors, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium operatively associated with a computing device operatively associated with the ALS, one or more sensors operationally associated with the computing device and the ALS, wherein the sensors detect the presence of the filter and a camera operationally associated with the lens and the computing device. |
| US11871100B2 |
Camera module and blocking-type photosensitive assembly, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device
Disclosed are a camera module, a blocking-type photosensitive assembly, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device. The camera module includes a blocking-type photosensitive assembly and at least one motor camera lens assembly arranged on the blocking-type photosensitive assembly. The blocking-type photosensitive assembly includes a molded photosensitive assembly and a blocking structure arranged on the molded photosensitive assembly. A blocking surface of the blocking structure is higher than an upper surface of a filter element, and at least a part of the projection of the blocking surface of the blocking structure on the molded photosensitive assembly overlaps with the projection of an optical lens of the motor camera lens assembly on the molded photosensitive assembly to block the optical lens from directly contacting the filter element. |
| US11871097B2 |
Electronic device, imaging apparatus, and mobile body
An electronic device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a first metal plate, and a second metal plate. On each of the first substrate and the second substrate, an electronic component is mounted. The first substrate and the second substrate are positioned toward a stacking direction with respective main surfaces facing each other. The first metal plate includes a flat portion that is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and that directly or indirectly abuts the electronic component mounted on the first substrate and the electronic component mounted on the second substrate, and a first shield portion that covers a portion of the side surface of the first substrate. The second metal plate includes a second shield portion that covers the entire circumference of the side surface of the second substrate and the side surface of the first substrate exposed from the first metal plate. The first metal plate and the second metal plate abut each other directly or indirectly. |
| US11871096B2 |
Fin shaped underwater camera housing and system incorporating same
The present invention provides a board mountable system for filming underwater video. The inventive board mountable system can be mounted to the underside of water vehicles for incorporating a camera for filming from an underwater perspective. The inventive board mountable system is shaped to minimize drag as a result of the mounted camera or camera system. Embodiments of the inventive system includes a fin shaped housing for holding a camera or camera system. In certain embodiments, the fin is removably attached to the water vehicle, such as a surf board, where the fin housing can be swapped with other fins being used with the water vehicle for controlling the direction of a watersports board in motion. These embodiments of the inventive system further include a connection means for connecting the fin to the underside of a water vessel. |
| US11871093B2 |
Socially annotated audiovisual content
A system that includes a content distributor, a reaction content server, and a plurality of viewer computer devices. The content distributor provides original content to the viewer computer devices. The viewer computer devices present the original content to viewers and generate viewer-reaction content of the viewers during presentation of the original content. The viewer computer devices provide the viewer-reaction content to the reaction content server to provide to other viewer computer devices. The viewer computer devices also present viewer-reaction content received from the reaction content server to the viewers in synchronization with the original content, which allows the viewers to experience other viewer's reactions while experiencing the same original content. |
| US11871088B2 |
Systems, apparatus, and methods for providing event video streams and synchronized event information via multiple Internet channels
A broadcaster device generates a live stream including video-based commentary regarding a live event combined with an audio and/or video feed of the live event itself. A viewer device receives a copy of the integrated live event and commentator stream and synchronized event information (e.g., real-time scores), and displays the integrated stream and the event information (e.g., as a “scorebug”). Viewers of a given live event may seamlessly select amongst different broadcasters for the same live event to access different integrated live event and commentator streams respectively synchronized with the event information. A social media platform is provided in tandem with live streaming of digital content relating to live events to allow a given broadcaster and their associated viewers to communicate with one another, comment on the event and/or the broadcaster's live stream, and send digital gifts. |
| US11871086B2 |
Method of displaying comment information, computing device, and readable storage medium
Techniques for displaying comments relative to a video frame are described herein. The disclosed techniques include receiving a frame of a video; receiving bullet screen data comprising a plurality of comments associated with the frame; receiving a mask frame data segment corresponding to the frame; determining a mask area based on the mask frame data segment, wherein the mask area corresponds to a main area of the frame; and displaying the plurality of comments relative to the frame in areas other than the mask area. |
| US11871085B2 |
Methods and apparatus for delivering content and/or playing back content
Content delivery and playback methods and apparatus are described. The methods and apparatus are well suited for delivery and playback of content corresponding to a 360 degree environment and can be used to support streaming and/or real time delivery of 3D content corresponding to an event, e.g., while the event is ongoing or after the event is over. Portions of the environment are captured by cameras located at different positions. The content captured from different locations is encoded and made available for delivery. A playback device selects the content to be received based in a user's head position. |
| US11871084B2 |
Systems and methods for displaying subjects of a video portion of content
Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of action signatures are identified. Each action signature is associated with a particular subject within the content. The action signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the action signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of action signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the action signature is played back. |
| US11871080B2 |
Projecting television parameters onto 2D space for daypart competitor analysis
A system and method for determining a similarity measure between a first network broadcast time segment and a second network broadcast time segment. The method includes generating first training data comprising groupings of similar broadcast networks and groupings of dissimilar broadcast networks, extracting second training data comprising audience data and genre data for time segments of network broadcasts, and training an encoder neural network based on the first and second training data. The method includes executing the trained neural network with input data comprising the first network broadcast time segment and determining a similarity measure relative to the second network broadcast time segment. |
| US11871071B2 |
Broadcast receiving apparatus, broadcast receiving method, and contents outputting method
A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video decoder that decodes the coded program video data to reproduce program video information; a cooperation information generator that interprets the program-cooperation data to generate program-cooperation information; and a control unit that, when an instruction to display a given screen is input while the presentation processor divides video display region into sub-regions based on the screen layout control information, places the program video information in one of the sub-regions, places the program-cooperation information in another sub-region, and outputs the data of the video display region as the video information, outputs information of the given screen as the video information without dividing the video display region based on the screen layout control information. |
| US11871064B2 |
Systems and methods for presenting content simultaneously in different forms based on parental control settings
Systems and methods for identifying objects displayed in a media asset are provided. First and second parental control restrictions associated with first and second users within a perceivable range of a user equipment device are retrieved. The first parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a first authorization level and the second parental control restriction enables access to content associated with a second authorization level. A common authorization level that does not violate the first and second parental control restrictions is identified. A media asset that satisfies the common authorization level is presented to the first and second users in a first form. Supplemental content associated with the media asset that violates the second parental control restriction but does not violate the first parental control restriction is selected. The supplemental content is presented in a second form while the media asset is being presented in the first form. |
| US11871061B1 |
Automated adaptive bitrate encoding
Various embodiments of an automated adaptive bitrate (“ABR”) encoding system and method that encodes an input video into a set of encoded video streams for ABR delivery, also known as an ABR ladder. The automated ABR encoding system encodes the input video into an initial number of speculative encodings, based on respectively determined resolution and quality level settings for the individual speculative encodings. It then estimates quality scores for a plurality of potential output encodings based on respective output statistics of the speculative encodings. It selects a plurality of better quality output encodings from the plurality of potential output encodings based on the quality scores. It then encodes the input video a second time into the plurality of better quality output encodings. The automated ABR encoding system selects one or more output encodings from the plurality of better quality output encodings to include in the ABR ladder. |
| US11871059B2 |
Systems and methods for implementing primary/secondary configuration data to reduce an amount of configuration data that needs to be centrally stored for large-scale distribution
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for storing configuration data as a set of master data and override data where one set of configuration data is defined as the master and every other set of configuration data is defined as override configuration data. A media guidance application may generate master configuration data including the most common configuration data used in the geographical region served by the media guidance application, and number of override configurations which contain only those data which differ from the master configuration data for a number of sub-regions of the geographical region. This reduces duplicative configuration data, and the media guidance application need only store one full set of configuration data, namely the master configuration data, and a number of smaller override configurations. |
| US11871058B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration. Example apparatus a receiver to obtain a first tuning session duration indicative of an amount of time between channel changes of a first media presentation device at a first media presentation location, a presentation session estimator to select a model from storage, the model selected based on a match of the first tuning session duration and a second tuning session duration, the model including a relation between the second tuning session duration and a first presentation session duration of media presented on a second media presentation device at a second media presentation location, and estimate a second presentation session duration of media presented within the first tuning session duration based on the model. |
| US11871055B2 |
Video generating device and method thereof
A video generating device obtains Laplace pyramid levels of 360° video frames; upscales each of the obtained Laplace pyramid levels so as to recover a set of corresponding Gaussian pyramid levels for each 360° video frame; determines a recovered Gaussian pyramid level among the set of recovered Gaussian pyramid levels for each pixel in each 360° video frame based on a bitrate budget for live streaming and a viewport region by performing a pyramid level assignment procedure; composes a 360° video with heterogeneous spatial quality based on summing up the determined recovered Gaussian pyramid levels for each pixel in each 360° video frame. Thereby, reduction of bitrate while providing a high video quality to the user when watching 360° videos is possible. Furthermore, the disclosure also relates to a download proxy comprising such a video generating device, corresponding methods, and a computer program. |
| US11871052B1 |
Multi-band rate control
In one implementation, a method of generating a bit stream encoding a video stream is performed by a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes decomposing a video stream into a plurality of frequency band video streams. The method includes determining a target bitrate and determining, for each frequency band video stream, a respective frequency band bit rate based on the target bit rate. The method includes encoding each of the plurality of frequency band video streams at its respective frequency band bit rate and transmitting, over a channel, each encoded frequency band video stream. |
| US11871050B1 |
Just-in-time dynamic ad insertion (DAI)
Some implementations include methods for replacing advertisements that have been inserted into a manifest associated with live streaming and may include receiving a request for a manifest from a player to enable a user to watch a live stream of an event. The request may be received at a first time when the live stream is already in progress. The manifest may be generated to include content fragments associated with the live event and advertisements based on first set of selection criteria. The manifest may be sent to the player to enable the user to watch the live stream. A seek back request may be received from the player to enable the user to watch the live stream at a second time earlier than the first time. The manifest may be updated to replace at least one advertisement with a replacement advertisement selected based on second set of selection criteria. |
| US11871045B2 |
Set-top box with enhanced features and system and method for use of same
A set-top box with enhanced features and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The set-top box generates a default interactive portal as well as a guest-specific interactive portal, which is generated from a guest configuration profile having information including guest identification, a guest channel preference presentation, and a guest service preference presentation with guest account information. The guest configuration profile may also enable the creation of a local area wireless network with substantially the same behavior as the guest's home wireless network. The guest configuration profile may further enable the control of in-room amenities, such as temperature control, lighting, shades, and availability, for example. |
| US11871044B1 |
Inheritance in sample array multitree subdivision
A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision. |
| US11871031B2 |
Method for inducing prediction motion vector and apparatuses using same
Disclosed are a method for inducing a prediction motion vector and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method can include: a step of determining the information related to a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from peripheral predicted blocks of a predicted target block; and a step of determining the information related to temporal candidate prediction motion vectors on the basis of the information related to the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce complexity and can enhance coding efficiency when inducing the optimum prediction motion vector. |
| US11871028B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder: generates, in an inter prediction mode, a first prediction image of a current block to be processed, based on a derived motion vector; and generates a final prediction image of the current block by applying an update process to the first prediction image. Candidates for the update process include a first process and a second process. The first process is a BDOF process. The second process is a process of mixing the first prediction image with a second prediction image generated in intra prediction for the current block. In the applying of the update process, the first process and the second process are mutually exclusively applied. |
| US11871026B2 |
Decoding device and operating method thereof
A decoding device includes a controller classifying a bitstream as a first bitstream and a second bitstream based on a plurality of blocks defined by a matrix and included in a frame, a first decoder including a first processor performing decoding on the first bitstream and outputting first decoding data and a first memory, a second decoder including a second processor performing decoding on the second bitstream and outputting second decoding data and a second memory, a first buffer transmitting the first decoding data to the second memory, and a second buffer transmitting the second decoding data to the first memory. The first processor controls the second memory to store the first decoding data, and the second processor controls the first memory to store the second decoding data. |
| US11871018B2 |
Parallel processing of video frames during video encoding
Disclosed are techniques for compressing data of an image. Intermediate pixels may be determined. Each location of the image may be associated with a block of a plurality of blocks of a first size and a block of a plurality of blocks of a second size. For each block of the first size and of the second size, a first cost for a first mode and a second cost for a second mode may be determined in parallel using the intermediate pixels. A final mode and a final block size may be selected for each location of the image using the first cost and the second cost for each of a respective block of the first size and a respective block of the second size associated with a corresponding location. Final pixels may be determined, and a representation of the image may be obtained based on the final pixels. |
| US11871016B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder which encodes a video including a plurality of pictures includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs: encoding a first picture among the plurality of pictures; and performing (i) a first operation for encoding a parameter set for a second picture which follows the first picture in coding order among the plurality of pictures after encoding the first picture, and encoding the second picture after encoding the parameter set, or (ii) a second operation for encoding the second picture without encoding the parameter set after encoding the first picture. The circuitry performs the first operation when the second picture is a determined picture, in the performing of the first operation or the second operation. |
| US11871015B2 |
Frame-rate scalable video coding
Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented. |
| US11871012B2 |
Signaling of subpicture level and buffering information
Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream comprises one or more output layer sets comprising one or more video layers according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies a particular decoding order between a subpicture level information (SLI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and a buffering period (BP) SEI message that apply to a particular output layer set, responsive to a condition that the SLI SEI message and the BP SEI message are included in an access unit. |
| US11871008B2 |
Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, and transmission system
It is an object to provide a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, and a transmission system that are capable of performing an image quality adjustment process on a partial region of interest (ROI) segmented from a captured image. The transmitting apparatus includes a controlling section that controls acquisition of image quality adjusting information including information for use in adjusting image quality of each of a plurality of ROIs, and a transmitting section that sends out image data of the plurality of ROIs as payload data and sends out ROI information of each of the plurality of ROIs as embedded data. |
| US11871000B2 |
Method and system for selectively breaking prediction in video coding
Described are techniques in video coding and/or decoding that allow for selectively breaking prediction and/or in loop filtering across segment boundaries between different segments of a video picture. A high layer syntax element, such as a parameter set or a slice header, may contain one or more indications signalling to an encoder and/or decoder whether an associated prediction or loop filtering tool may be applied across the segment boundary. In response to such one or more indications, the encoder and/or decoder may then control the prediction or loop filtering tool accordingly. |
| US11870999B2 |
Method for encoding and decoding motion information and device for encoding and decoding motion information
A method of decoding motion information according to an embodiment includes: determining a base motion vector of a current block; determining a primary differential motion vector for the current block based on information obtained from a bitstream from among one or more primary differential motion vector candidates classified according to a disparity distance and a disparity direction; and determining a motion vector of the current block by applying the primary differential motion vector to the base motion vector. |
| US11870997B2 |
Affine motion model derivation method
Systems and methods are described for video coding using affine motion prediction. In an example method, motion vector gradients are determined from respective motion vectors of a plurality of neighboring sub-blocks neighboring a current block. An estimate of at least one affine parameter for the current block is determined based on the motion vector gradients. An affine motion model is determined based at least in part on the estimated affine parameter(s), and a prediction of the current block is generated using the affine motion model. The estimated parameter(s) may be used in the affine motion model itself. Alternatively, the estimated parameter(s) may be used in a prediction of the affine motion model. In some embodiments, only neighboring sub-blocks above and/or to the left of the current block are used in estimating the affine parameter(s). |
| US11870995B2 |
Method and device for processing video signal by using cross-component linear model
The video signal processing method comprises the steps of: downsampling luma components of reconstructed blocks adjacent to a current block; acquiring a maximum luma value from among the downsampled luma components based on a first index; acquiring a next-highest maximum luma value from among the downsampled luma components based on a second index; acquiring a maximum average luma value based on an average value of the maximum luma value and the next-highest maximum luma value; acquiring a next-lowest minimum luma value from among the downsampled luma components based on a third index; acquiring a minimum luma value from among the downsampled luma components based on a fourth index; and acquiring a minimum average luma value based on the next-lowest minimum luma value and the minimum luma value. |
| US11870993B2 |
Transforms for large video and image blocks
Improved transforms are used to encode and decode large video and image blocks. During encoding, a prediction residual block having a large size (e.g., larger than 32×32) is generated. The pixel values of the prediction residual block are transformed to produce transform coefficients. After determining that the transform coefficients exceed a threshold cardinality representative of a maximum transform block size (e.g., 32×32), a number of the transform coefficients are discarded such that a remaining number of transform coefficients does not exceed the threshold cardinality. A transform block is then generated using the remaining number. During decoding, after determining that the transform coefficients exceed the threshold cardinality, a number of new coefficients are added to the transform coefficients such that a total number of transform coefficients exceeds the threshold cardinality. The transform coefficients are then inverse transformed into a prediction residual block having a large size. |
| US11870991B2 |
Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding video blocks with constraints during block partitioning
Video processing methods include receiving input data of a current block in a current slice, determine determining whether one or more components of the current block satisfy one or more predefined criteria during partitioning, and applying a mode constraint to the current block only if the one or more components of the current block satisfy the one or more predefined criteria, wherein the mode constraint restricts all blocks within the current block to be processed by a same prediction mode when the current block is split into a plurality of blocks. The methods adaptively split the current block into one or more blocks, and pare one or more prediction mode syntax elements of a first block in the current block according to a constrained mode of the current block. The methods further encode the current block with the mode constraint. |
| US11870990B2 |
Video coding method and apparatus using any types of block partitioning
The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure in video coding technology, and a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using the same, wherein the video encoding and decoding method includes the steps of: acquiring quad-partitioning information of a block; acquiring bi-partitioning information of the block when the acquired quad-partitioning information of the block does not indicate four partitions; acquiring partitioning direction information for bi-partitioning of the block when the acquired bi-partitioning information of the block indicates two partitions; acquiring information on whether to perform any other type of partitioning, when the acquired bi-partitioning information of the block does not indicate two partitions; and acquiring additional information required for the any other type of partitioning, when the acquired information on whether to perform any other type of partitioning indicates that the any other type of partitioning is performed. |
| US11870989B2 |
Interplay between subpictures and in-loop filtering
An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a block of a first sub-picture of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, whether to apply a deblocking process across an edge between the block and a neighboring block of a second sub-picture based on whether a loop filtering process is allowed across subpicture boundaries. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining. |
| US11870987B2 |
Blending method for inter prediction with geometry partition
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes using default motion candidates for video coding, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, weights to use for a weighted average of prediction samples along an edge of two partitions of the block. The two partitions are generated according to a geometry partition mode, and the weights are selected from a first weighting factor group that at least one of the weights is equal to 0 or 1. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining. |
| US11870980B2 |
Selection of adjacent neighboring block for intra coding
Devices, systems and methods for digital video processing, which includes selection of adjacent neighboring block for intra coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes selecting, for a conversion between a current block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current block, an intra prediction mode based on at least one of spatial neighboring blocks to the current block, and performing the conversion based on the intra prediction mode. The at least one of the spatial neighboring blocks is different from a first block that is located to a left of a first row of the current block and a second block that is located above a first column of the current block. |
| US11870974B2 |
Multiple-hypothesis affine mode
A method, a video processing apparatus and computer-readable program medium for video process is disclosed. The method of video processing includes deriving, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, a new affine model using multiple original affine models with control point motion vectors; and performing the conversion by using the new affine model. |
| US11870973B2 |
Camera calibration tool
A camera calibration tool for calibrating one or more cameras of a mobile machine comprising calibration targets and a net. Each of the calibration targets comprises identifiable indicia. The net is adapted to be coupled to the mobile machine. The net has one or more configurations that define predetermined target locations, with location markers, in a predetermined layout. The calibration targets are positioned respectively at the predetermined target locations in the predetermined layout to calibrate the one or more cameras by use of the calibration targets. |
| US11870968B2 |
Systems and methods for an improved camera system using filters and machine learning to estimate depth
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to estimating depth using a machine learning (ML) model. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring image data according to criteria from a detector that uses a lens to resolve multiple angles of light per section of the detector. The method also includes mapping a kernel to the image data according to a view associated with the section and a size of the kernel. The method also includes processing the image data using the ML model to produce the depth according to the size of the kernel. |
| US11870963B2 |
Image forming apparatus
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance unit that is configured to transport a print medium along a conveyance path. An antenna is configured to emit radio waves towards a predetermined portion of the conveyance path. A controller is configured to control the antenna to emit the radio waves towards the predetermined portion with a polarization direction set according to a type of the print medium being transported by the sheet conveyance unit. The print medium may have, for example, one or more wireless tags thereon or therein. |
| US11870962B2 |
Information processing device and image forming apparatus that communicates with a user terminal operated by a user via a network
A correspondence relationship between user information and document data is stored as document management information. A user who has accessed an information processing device via a network is classified as a remote access user. In deletion of the document management information of the user classified as the remote access user together with the user information thereof, the document management information will remain stored if the to-be-deleted user information belongs to the user. |
| US11870961B2 |
Image-reading apparatus and image-forming system
An image-reading apparatus includes: a light-receiving unit that receives reflected light from a recording material on which an image is formed; and multiple light-reflecting members that reflect the reflected light from the recording material toward the light-receiving unit. At least one light-reflecting member of the multiple light-reflecting members reflect the reflected light multiple times. |
| US11870951B2 |
Photographing method and terminal
Provided are a photographing method and a terminal, relating to the field of electronic devices, and by which a user can be instructed based on a template to adjust a position or an attitude of a mobile phone, to obtain a photo or a video whose composition is the same as or similar to that of the template, thereby improving the user photographing experience. The method specifically includes: after starting a first function of a camera application, an electronic device calculates a moving direction and distance of the electronic device and/or calculates a rotation direction or a rotation angle of the electronic device based on a target template selected by a user and a currently acquired preview and through feature point matching or an AR repositioning technology, so that the electronic device can photograph a photo or a video whose composition is the same as that of the target template. |
| US11870949B2 |
Systems and methods for skip-based content detection
An electronic device obtains a listening history for a media item, the listening history including retention information indicating, for each respective portion of a plurality of portions of the media item, a number of listeners who listened to the respective portion of the media item. The electronic device, using the retention information, determines a pattern indicating a reduction in the number of listeners who listened to corresponding portions of the media item and determines a start time and an end time corresponding to a first portion of the corresponding portions of the media item. In accordance with the determination that the first portion of the corresponding portions of the media item meets predefined sub-content criteria, the electronic device stores an indication that the first portion of the media item comprises first sub-content, different from primary content, embedded in the media item. |
| US11870946B2 |
Prediction decoding method and apparatus
A prediction decoding method, a prediction decoding apparatus, and a non-transitory computer storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. First multiple neighbouring reference samples of a coding block are determined, where the first multiple neighbouring reference samples include reference samples in a reference row or a reference column neighbouring the coding block. Positions corresponding to K reference samples are determined from a starting position of the reference row or the reference column, where K is a positive integer. Second multiple neighbouring reference samples are determined according to the determined positions corresponding to the K reference samples, where the second multiple neighbouring reference samples include neighbouring reference samples among the first multiple neighbouring reference samples. Prediction decoding is performed on the coding block according to the second multiple neighbouring reference samples. |
| US11870944B2 |
Imaging device and image processing method
There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background. |
| US11870941B2 |
Audio processing method and electronic device
Embodiments of this application belong to the field of audio processing technologies and provide an audio processing method and an electronic device. The method is applicable to an electronic device including a camera. The electronic device records a plurality of channels of audio and video pictures corresponding to the audio in a video recording mode, and plays, during video playback, some video pictures and audio obtained after the plurality of channels of audio are combined. When a speaker in a video picture starts to speak, played audio is switched to audio corresponding to the video picture in which the speaker is located; thereby resolving a feeling of a sudden change of sound caused by switching required for obtaining audio content when the electronic device that does not support playback of a plurality of channels of audio plays a video. |
| US11870940B2 |
Method and system for facilitating high-fidelity audio sharing
An apparatus and/or method discloses a video conference with enhanced audio quality using high-fidelity audio sharing (“HAS”). In one embodiment, a network connection between a first user equipment (“UE”) and a second UE is established via a communication network for providing an interactive real-time meeting. After sending a first calibration audio signal from the first UE to the second UE, a second calibration audio signal is retuned from the second UE to the first UE according to the first calibration audio signal. Upon identifying a far end audio (“FEA”) delay based on the first calibration audio signal and the second calibration audio signal, a first mixed audio data containing the first shared audio data and first FEA data is fetched from an audio buffer. The first FEA data is subsequently removed or extracted from the mixed audio data in response to the FEA delay. |
| US11870933B2 |
Emergency dispatch command information management system, device, and method capable of providing relevant emergency dispatch command information
Provided is an emergency dispatch command information management method capable of providing relevant emergency dispatch command information. The method includes: a step of receiving report input data from a reporter terminal; a step of generating reception input data of a recipient on the basis of the report input data; a step of generating first emergency dispatch command information on the basis of the reception input data; a step of detecting at least one second emergency dispatch command information relevant to the generated first emergency dispatch command information; and a step of transmitting the first and second emergency dispatch command information to a command receiver terminal. |
| US11870932B2 |
Systems and methods of gateway detection in a telephone network
Embodiments described herein provide for detecting whether an Automatic Number Identification (ANI) associated with an incoming call is a gateway, according to rules-based models and machine learning models generated by the computer using call data stored in one or more databases. |
| US11870929B2 |
Telecommunication mediation using blockchain based microservices
Disclosed herein are techniques for telecommunication mediation platforms using a blockchain-based distributed microservice architecture. Upon generation, usage events are assigned a blockchain-based identification, which is used by subsequent mediation microservice processes to enable traceability of a given usage event from endpoint to endpoint in the mediation process. Separate, distributed microservices for file collection, file validation, record validation, record aggregation, and record distribution provide for flexible and finely grained scalability based on where demand surge occurs and what step of the mediation process is experiencing heightened demand. Incoming usage events are ultimately transformed into billing system compatible records corresponding to the appropriate billing accounts for the usage event. |
| US11870927B2 |
In-vehicle hands-free apparatus, in-vehicle hands-free system, and data transfer method
An in-vehicle hands-free apparatus is configured to: perform control relating to data transfer using a transfer protocol to achieve transfer of first incoming call history data representing a source of an incoming call received by first communication of voice using a phone application dedicated to an operating system of a mobile phone, first outgoing call history data, phone book data, second incoming call history data representing a source of an incoming call received by second communication of voice using a communication application, second outgoing call history data, and registration data, stored in the mobile phone, when the mobile phone exists in a wireless connection area; and store the received first incoming call history data, first outgoing call history data, phone book data, second incoming call history data, second outgoing call history data, and registration data. |
| US11870924B2 |
Mobile terminal
Provided is a mobile terminal including a front case, a display disposed at a front surface of the front case, a rear case disposed to oppose a rear surface of the front case, and a finger scan sensor part coupled to the rear surface of the front case. The finger scan sensor part may be configured to sense at least a portion of light incident after passing through the display and the front case among light reflected by an external object. Other embodiments are implementable. |
| US11870923B2 |
Electronic device with metal frame antenna
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing and a connection part. The housing includes a first housing portion that includes a first side face, and a second housing portion that includes a second side face. The connection part connects the first housing portion and the second housing portion. A first conductive member extends along at least a portion of the first side face, a first non-conductive member is disposed on the first side face, a second conductive member extends along at least a portion of the second side face, a second non-conductive member is disposed on the second side face, and when the second housing portion faces the first housing portion, the first non-conductive member and the second non-conductive member are substantially aligned. |
| US11870922B2 |
Mobile terminal and electronic device having mobile terminal
A mobile terminal of an electronic device, according to the present invention, comprises a terminal body coupled to a case, and a first display unit coupled to the case, wherein the case comprises: a first body formed to accommodate at least a portion of the terminal body; a second body in which a second display unit is arranged; a wiring part electrically connecting the first body to the second body so that data received from the mobile terminal is transmitted to the second display unit; and a wireless communication unit connected to the wiring part so as to transmit/receive a signal to/from the mobile terminal. In addition, a control unit of the mobile terminal detects a state in which an execution screen of a first application is displayed on the first display unit and an execution screen of a second application is displayed on the second display unit, controls the execution screen of the first application according to a control signal corresponding to a touch signal of a first touch when the touch signal of the first touch applied to the execution screen of the first application is received, and transmits, when a touch signal of a second touch applied to the execution screen of the second application is received, a second control signal corresponding to the received touch signal of the second touch to the second display unit through the wireless communication unit and the wiring part so as to control the execution screen displayed on the second display unit. |
| US11870920B2 |
Graph models of relationships between data stored in blocks on distributed ledgers that are learned through machine learning and platforms for creating, cataloging, and storing the same
Introduced here is a computational architecture (also referred to as a “computational infrastructure”) that addresses the limitations of traditional data management solutions using a highly secure data management solution coupled with consent-based sharing. At a high level, the computational architecture applies blockchain methodologies to both transaction data and business data such that both types of data are stored “on chain” in the same computational architecture. This enables several significant advantages over traditional data management solutions with respect to data security, data ownership, data sharing, and intelligence. |
| US11870919B2 |
Method and system for authentication credential
An issuing authority (IA) may validate the identity of a user and issue a digital license to the user. IA may generate IA public-private key pair, and provide IA public key to the certification authority (CA). IA may sign the digital license with IA private key, and provision the signed digital license on the user device. IA may request CA to certify the digital license. CA may use IA public key to validate the digital license, and sign IA public key with CA private key, thereby generating a digital certificate associated with the issuing authority that is linked to the digital license. A relying party may use CA public key to validate the digital license. The relying party can retrieve the information from the digital license and trust that the retrieved information is legitimate. |
| US11870918B2 |
Security descriptor generation
Methods, systems, and devices for security descriptor generation are described. An end device may be authenticated based on a certificate and a device key based on a security descriptor. The security descriptor may be generated based on publicly-available information such as time of day information, geographical information, or a default set of information. The security descriptor may be used for generation of a certificate accessible by a server used for authenticating the device and also may be used by an end device to generate a device key for verification by the server authenticating the device. |
| US11870917B2 |
Systems and methods for facilitating policy-compliant end-to-end encryption for individuals between organizations
Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating policy-compliant end-to-end encryption for individuals between organizations. Accordingly, the method may include a step of receiving, using a communication device, a first recipient indication associated with a first recipient of a first tenant from a sender device associated with a sender of a second tenant. Further, the method may include a step of retrieving, using a storage device, a predefined policy definition associated with the first tenant. Further, the method may include a step of identifying, using a processing device, a recipient certificate associated with the first recipient based on the predefined policy definition. Further, the method may include a step of retrieving, using the storage device, the recipient certificate associated with the first recipient based on the identifying. Further, the method may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the recipient certificate to the sender device. |
| US11870915B2 |
Unified programming environment for programmable devices
A secure programming system can receive a job control package having a security kernel and a target payload of content for programming into a pre-defined set of trusted devices. A device programmer can install a security kernel on the trusted devices and reboot the trusted devices using the security kernel to validate the proper operation of the security kernel. The target payload can then be securely installed on the trusted devices and validated. |
| US11870914B2 |
Digital signatures
A computer-implemented method of generating a share of a digital signature of a message, wherein a threshold number of different signature shares from respective participants of a group of participants are required to generate the digital signature, wherein each participant has a respective private key share, the method being performed by a first one of the participants and comprising: generating a first message-independent component and a first message-dependent component, wherein the message-independent component is generated based on a first private key share and wherein the message-dependent component is generated based on the message; causing the first message-independent component to be made available to a coordinator; and causing a first signature share to be made available to the coordinator for generating the signature based on at least the threshold number of signature shares, wherein the first signature share comprises at least the message-dependent component. |
| US11870912B2 |
Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms
Disclosed examples include accessing a search term from a client device; accessing a first identifier, the first identifier corresponding to a first database proprietor, the first identifier to access first user information corresponding to a user of the client device; accessing a second identifier, the second identifier corresponding to a second database proprietor, the second identifier to access second user information corresponding to the user of the client device; providing the search term, the first identifier, and the second identifier in a message; and transmitting the message to a server. |
| US11870908B1 |
End-to-end encryption based on a simple shared secret
This invention enables asynchronous encrypted communication under a protection of a simple password which must be communicated out-of-band. The password is easily communicable in-person, by telephone or by a text message. The invention assumes that one of the parties has an online device, such as a smartphone. After the encrypted session has been established, it can be used for a variety of cryptographic applications, such as encrypting or decrypting messages, sharing of cryptographic keys, and verifying data. The invention also has the secondary benefit of authenticating both parties to each other. |
| US11870904B2 |
Method for encrypting and decrypting data across domains based on privacy computing
A method for encrypting and decrypting data across domains based on privacy computing is provided. A data provider deploys a base key for a data user in advance, and when the data user needs to use the data at a later stage, the data provider generates a data token about a data key based on the base key, and then transmits encrypted data and the data token to the data user. The user obtains the data key based on its own base key in a privacy environment according to the data token, and uses the data key in the privacy environment to realize use of the encrypted data. A transmission process does not involve transmission of the key; therefore, even if a transmission channel is not secure, security of the data can still be ensured, and even if private data is used, the data itself cannot be obtained. |
| US11870903B2 |
Cloud token provisioning of multiple tokens
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a token service computer, a token request message, the token request message being originated from a token requestor computer. The method also includes determining, by the token service computer, two or more access tokens based upon a single credential, and then transmitting the two or more access tokens to the token requestor computer in a token response message. |
| US11870899B2 |
Secure device access recovery based on validating encrypted target password from secure recovery container in trusted recovery device
Secure access recovery to a network device includes encrypting a user password into an encrypted target password using a secret regenerative key, and adding a one-time password seed and the encrypted target password into a secure recovery container, which is stored securely in the network device and a trusted recovery device. In response to a recovery request, a one-time password can be generated using the one-time password seed to retrieve the encrypted target password from the recovery device. A decrypted recovery password is generated based on executing decryption on an input string based on the secret regenerative key. The encrypted target password, retrieved from the secure recovery container in the network device, is decrypted into a decrypted target password based on the secret regenerative key. Secure access is recovered in response to determining the decrypted recovery password matches at least a part of the decrypted target password. |
| US11870887B2 |
Managing central secret keys of a plurality of user devices associated with a single public key
It is provided a method for managing central secret keys of a plurality of user devices associated with a single public key. The method is performed in a key manager and comprises the steps of: receiving, from a first user device, transformation data and an identifier of a second user device; obtaining a first central secret key associated with the first user device; generating a second central secret key by applying the transformation data to the first central secret key, wherein the transformation data is applied in reverse to how the same transformation data is applied by the first user device to a device secret key of the first user device; and storing the second central secret key in association with the second user device. |
| US11870878B2 |
Enhancing transmission efficiency of electronic devices in a wireless network
An electronic device in a network capable of enhancing transmission efficiency of other electronic devices in the network is provided. The electronic device includes a network interface, a non-transitory memory having instructions stored thereon, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to request transmission of data from another electronic device in the wireless network. Moreover, the hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to receive, using the network interface, the data from the other electronic device using a first protocol, and determine a condition of a transmission delay of the data. In response to determining the condition of the transmission delay, an instruction is transmitted to the other electronic device to retransmit the data using a second protocol. The data is received from the other electronic device using the second protocol. |
| US11870874B2 |
System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices. |
| US11870872B2 |
Method and apparatus for splitting and storing probalistic content between cooperative nodes
Disclosed are an electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device and operating method are configured to detect the number for splitting one piece of content and allowing a plurality of edge nodes to split and store at least some of packets split from the content based on the number. Detecting the number may be performed based on an average amount of storage of the edge nodes for the content. |
| US11870871B2 |
Methods and apparatus for serving content to customer devices based on dynamic content popularity
Methods and apparatus for processing requests for content received from customer devices are described. A decision on how to respond to a request for content is made at an edge node based on a locally maintained popularity list. The local popularity list reflects the local popularity of individual pieces of content at the edge node. A white list of content to be cached and served irrespective of popularity is sometimes used in combination with the local popularity list to make decisions as to how to respond to individual requests for content. In some embodiments the edge node decides on one of the following responses to a content request: i) cache and serve the requested content; ii) serve but don't cache the requested content; or iii) redirect the content request to another node, e.g., an alternate serving node, which can respond to the content request. |
| US11870868B2 |
Common storage management device and common storage management method
A common storage management device for a system including a common storage and at least one computer includes at least one processor, the at least one computer storing a plurality of applications configured to write and read data in the common storage. The at least one processor is configured to manage a reservation of a storage space of the common storage in response to a request from the plurality of applications to reserve the storage space for storing the data. The at least one processor is configured to notify one application of the plurality of applications of a request to reduce data size of the data for which the storage space is required to be reserved per one request, when the one application requests to reserve the storage space for the data and free storage space is insufficient for reserving the storage space for the data. |
| US11870864B2 |
System and method for automatic storyline construction based on determined breaking news
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a content system supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods determine a breaking news story and track breaking developments in such story. The present disclosure can construct a breaking news storyline from the developments in the detected breaking news story, whereby a user can view the storyline as individual breaking news messages or as a complete timeline of events displayed on a provided page. |
| US11870861B2 |
Geofence information delivery systems and methods
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for querying a database of geofences, with each geofence in the database being associated with a plurality of IP addresses, preferably IPv6 addresses, and each IP address corresponding to a specific geographic coordinate. The method and system convert location coordinates to IP addresses and determine whether a location anchor point is associated with a geofence. |
| US11870856B2 |
Session establishment method and apparatus
A session establishment method and an apparatus, such that an established packet data network (PDN) connection is transferred to a network slice in a fifth generation (5G) network during inter-system mobility of a terminal. The method includes receiving, by a terminal from a control plane function entity, corresponding network slice information used for transferring an established PDN connection to a 5G network, where the corresponding network slice information includes corresponding single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). The method further includes sending a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment request, where the PDU session establishment request includes corresponding S-NSSAI used for transferring a first PDN connection to the 5G network and a corresponding data network name (DNN) used for transferring the first PDN connection to the 5G network, and the first PDN connection is any one of one or more established PDN connections. |
| US11870855B2 |
Proxyless protocol
A method for a proxyless protocol includes intercepting, from a client, a first Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection request requesting to establish a TCP connection between the client and a proxy for routing data to a destination server. The request includes client information and a first sequence number. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a second TCP connection request to establish a TCP connection between the client and the destination server. The second request includes a second sequence number less than the first sequence number. The method also includes intercepting, from the destination server, an acknowledgment message indicating acknowledgment of the second TCP connection request. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a proxy protocol header message with the client information. The method also includes generating a new acknowledgment message using the first TCP connection request and transmitting, to the client, the new acknowledgment message. |
| US11870852B1 |
Systems and methods for local data transmission
A computer-implemented method for local data transmission may include determining that data being requested from a remote server by a plurality of artificial reality devices in a shared physical location includes the same data and, in response to determining that the plurality of artificial reality devices are requesting the same data, (i) preventing downloading of the data from the remote server by a set of artificial reality devices within the plurality that excludes a designated artificial reality device, (ii) downloading, by the designated artificial reality device, the data from the remote server, and (iii) transmitting the data from the designated artificial reality device to the set of artificial reality devices via a local data transfer method enabled by the plurality of artificial reality devices being in the shared physical location. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11870846B2 |
Post-copy migration cross cluster synchronization for post-copy migration of virtual machines
Systems and methods of the disclosure include: publishing, by a first host computer system of a computing cluster comprising a plurality of host computer systems running a plurality of virtual machines, a list of memory page identifiers, wherein each memory page identifier is associated with a corresponding content identifier; receiving, from a second host computer system of the computing cluster, a memory page request comprising a first memory page identifier; and sending, to the first host computer system, a first memory page identified by the first memory page identifier. |
| US11870845B2 |
Selectively adding users to channels in a group-based communication system
Methods, media, and systems are disclosed for adding new users to a channel in a group-based communication system. The system receives a request to add new users to a channel. The system adds a new user by classifying the new user's email address domain as internal or external. If the domain is internal, the first user is added to the channel as a member, and if the domain is external, the user is prompted for a type of access for the new user. If the new user's access type is guest, the new user is added to the channel as a guest. If the type of access is shared, the channel is shared with an organization associated with the domain, and the new user is added as a member of the channel that has been shared. |
| US11870833B2 |
Methods and systems for encoder parameter setting optimization
Methods and systems for encoder parameter setting optimization. A media item to be provided to one or more users of a platform is identified. The media item is associated with a media class. An indication of the identified media item is provided as input to a first machine learning model. The first machine learning model is trained to predict, for a given media item, a set of encoder parameter settings that satisfy a performance criterion in view of a respective media class associated with the given media item. One or more outputs of the first machine learning model are obtained. The one or more obtained outputs include encoder data identifying one or more sets of encoder parameter settings and, for each of the sets of encoder parameter settings, an indication of a level of confidence that a respective set of encoder parameter settings satisfies the performance criterion in view of the media class associated with the identified media item. The identified media item is encoded using the respective set of encoding parameter settings associated with the level of confidence that satisfies a confidence criterion. |
| US11870820B2 |
Handling of lawfully intercepted SIP messages
Automatic preparation of data related to session initiation protocol (SIP) based traffic flows in a lawful interception (LI) scenario is disclosed. The dataset that is obtained may, e.g., be used for machine learning-based (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can identify lawfully intercepted SIP-based traffic cases. Such preparation of data reduces the 5 risk of misunderstandings between a communications service provider (CSP) and a law enforcement agency (LEA), which reduces the time dedicated by both parties in understanding the correctness of LI data provided by the CSP to the LEA. |
| US11870813B2 |
Security operation selection using machine-learned model in document management system
A system and a method are disclosed for providing recommendations for sets of security operations for improving security of documents created or executed within an online document system. A supplier entity may select sets of security operations to be performed for a request provided to a signing entity. The online document system computes an aggregate measure of security for the selected sets of security operations and compares it to a threshold measure of security. If the aggregate measure is less than the threshold measure, the online document system uses a machine-learned model to identify additional sets of security operations that when added, results in an updated aggregate measure of security greater than the threshold. The additional sets of security operations are presented to the supplier entity for inclusion within a security operation workflow in combination with the selected sets of security operations. |
| US11870812B2 |
Cyberrisk governance system and method to automate cybersecurity detection and resolution in a network
A cyberrisk governance method to automate cybersecurity detection and resolution in a network is disclosed. The method includes monitoring data related to one or more cybersecurity, Information Technology (IT) operation responses, and governance controls to address regulation, compliance and enterprise risk. Further, the method includes detecting one or more threats in the data using Machine Learning (ML). The one or more threats correspond to at least a malware detection, an intrusion detection, fraud detection for IT, and user behavioral analysis for the internet of things (IoT). The method further includes generating a report for a user based at least on the detected one or more threats. The generated report includes one or more security information and one or more security patches. Thereafter, the method includes sending the generated report to the user, thereby automating cybersecurity detection and resolution in the network. |
| US11870811B2 |
Trusted execution security policy platform
Embodiments are directed to systems that attempt to establish trust in relation to operations on a customer endpoint of a computer network. The systems monitor, in real-time, operations to file systems, registries, application processes and threads, and OS kernels at the customer endpoint. The systems maintain compute components affected by the operation in a quarantine state. The systems then attempt to establish trust in the affected compute components (e.g., by applying rule-based policies). The systems remove the affected compute components from the quarantine state, if trust of the one or more affected compute components is established. The systems execute callback routines to mitigate results of the operation, if trust of the affected compute components is not established. The executed callback routines may terminate one or more processes associated with the operation, move the affected compute components to a quarantine area, restore a valid copy of the affected compute components, load one or more patches to remedy the affected compute components, and reporting the operation and the affected compute components. |
| US11870810B2 |
Host-based network socket security controls and telemetry
An electronic device includes a network communications interface, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to instantiate a set of processes; receive, over a network and via the network communications interface, a policy for network socket creation; receive, from the set of processes, a set of requests to create a first set of network sockets used to communicate over the network via the network communications interface; collect telemetry pertaining to a second set of network sockets used to communicate over the network via the network communications interface; allow or block creation of network sockets in the first set of network sockets, in accordance with the collected telemetry and the policy for network socket creation; and transmit at least part of the collected telemetry to a controller, over the network and via the network communications interface. |
| US11870809B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing the number of open ports on a host computer
Typically, clients request a service from a computer hosting multiple services by specifying a destination port number associated with the desired service. In embodiments, the functionality of such a host computer is enhanced by having it condition client access to services available at a particular port number based on client authentication and/or authorization. A host computer can change the service(s) available at a given port number on a client by client basis, enabling access to service(s) for trusted clients unavailable to untrusted clients. Preferably, client trust is based on client authentication via a certificate and a valid, signed transport layer security (TLS) handshake (or similar mechanism in other protocol contexts). In some embodiments, an authorization step can be added following authentication. The systems and methods disclosed herein find wide uses in bundling services on ports, as well as protecting access to services from untrusted and/or malicious clients, among others. |
| US11870802B1 |
Identifying automated responses to security threats based on communication interactions content
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide security actions based on related security threat communications. In one example, a method of operating an advisement system includes identifying a security threat within the computing environment, wherein the computing environment comprises a plurality of computing assets. The method further provides obtaining descriptor information for the security threat, and retrieving related communication interactions based on the descriptor information. The method also includes generating a response to the security threat based on the related communication interactions. |
| US11870800B1 |
Cyber security risk assessment and cyber security insurance platform
A cyber security risk assessment system is described. In an example implementation, the system may generate an input feature space including data associated with a computing system by collecting the data from a plurality of computer sources. The system may compute a likelihood of data-security breach incidents based on the input feature space using a first computer model, recognize events based on the input feature space using a second computer model, and determine a severity of the data-security breach incident or the event using a third computer model. In some instances, the system may generate risk factor scores based on the determined severity, data-security breach incident, and the event, where the risk factor scores indicate a computer security risk of a certain computer security aspect of the computing system. The system may then perform an action based on the risk factor scores. |
| US11870788B2 |
Utilizing a machine learning model to determine real-time security intelligence based on operational technology data and information technology data
A device may receive historical operational technology data and historical information technology data associated with historical systems and may train a machine learning model with the historical operational technology data and the historical information technology data to generate a trained machine learning model. The device may receive real-time operational technology data and real-time information technology data associated with a system and may process the real-time operational technology data and the real-time information technology data, with the trained machine learning model, to determine a trust score and a risk score for an event or set of events associated with the real-time operational technology data and the real-time information technology data. The device may perform one or more actions based on the trust score and the risk score. |
| US11870784B2 |
Systems and methods for deploying and managing secure limited-administration server systems
A method comprises creating template limited-administration ontologies, the template limited-administration ontologies each identifying a plurality of different managers, each of the different managers having distinct and limited system access privileges. A request is received for a limited-administration server system, the request being associated with a client entity. A particular template limited-administration ontology of the template limited-administration ontologies is selected based on the request. A deployment ontology is generated based on the particular template limited-administration ontology and the request. A limited-administration server system deployment package is generated based on the deployment ontology. The limited-administration server system deployment package is provided for execution, wherein execution of the limited-administration server system deployment package creates a limited-administration server system, the limited-administration server system being capable of controlling access to one or more other systems associated with the client entity, and the limited-administration server system being limited to administration according to the different managers. |
| US11870783B2 |
Classification management
Classification management is disclosed, including: obtaining, via a user interface, mappings of stored elements to a plurality of classifications, wherein the mappings include prescribed security attributes corresponding to the plurality of classifications; obtaining, via the user interface, a policy that includes identifying information associated with a set of actors and a specified at least portion of the plurality of classifications; comparing a set of configured security attributes associated with the set of actors to at least a portion of the prescribed security attributes corresponding to the specified at least portion of the plurality of classifications; and outputting information pertaining to a set of discrepancies determined based at least in part on the comparison. |
| US11870782B2 |
Management of hosted channel membership in a communication platform
Management of hosted channel membership of a communication platform is described. A request can be received from a first client of a first user, associated with a first organization, of the group-based communication platform, wherein the request is to associate a second user, associated with a second organization, with a communication channel of the first organization. An invitation to join the communication channel can be sent to a second client of the second user. In response to receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation, the second user can be associated with the communication channel. A request can be received from the second client to associate other user(s) associated with the second organization with the communication channel and the other user(s) can be associated with the communication channel based at least in part on permission(s) associated with the communication channel. |
| US11870773B2 |
System and method for passwordless logins
A login system allows users to access computer systems without using a password. The passwordless system and method can use other information to securely and reliably identify true authorized system users. The identity of a user can be associated with their mobile device. The login can be based upon a minimal amount of information such as a name and a phone number which can be stored as an identification record for each of the users in a database. |
| US11870771B2 |
Method for secure communication between a field device of automation technology and an end device as well as a system for secure communication between a field device and an end device
A method for secure communication between a field device and an end device is disclosed. The method includes: storing an individual access code in the end device, transmitting an access code of the end device to the field device, connecting the field device to an authentication server via a server communication link, using the field device to transmit the access code or an access code derived from the access code to the authentication server, storing authentication data on the authentication server, checking the authenticity of the access code on the authentication server using the authentication data, transmitting the resulting authentication result from the authentication server via the server communication link to the field device, and, depending on the authentication result transmitted to the field device, making resources of the field device available to the end device. |
| US11870770B2 |
Multi-tenant identity cloud service with on-premise authentication integration
Embodiments are directed to a multi-tenant cloud system. Embodiments receive a request for an authentication action for a user and create an authenticate target action. Embodiments register a cache listener to listen for a target action response that is responsive to the authenticate target action and initiate the authentication action for the user at an on-premise active directory (“AD”) via a bridge. Embodiments wait for a cache callback and, at the cache callback, receive a target action response comprising a result of the authentication action. |
| US11870768B1 |
Certificate-based techniques to securely onboard a radio interface unit
Presented herein are certificate-based techniques through which a Radio Interface Unit may be securely onboarded to a service provider network. In one example, a method is provided that includes obtaining, by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, an address assignment request for the, wherein the address assignment request comprises a vendor device certificate, a signed nonce, a non-encrypted serial number for the RIU, a signed serial number for the RIU, and a vendor identifier; validating the vendor device certificate, the signed nonce, and the signed serial number for the RIU based on a vendor root certification authority certificate; validating the non-encrypted serial number for the RIU; and generating an address assignment response based on validating the non-encrypted serial number for the RIU, the vendor device certificate, the signed nonce, and the signed serial number for the RIU. |
| US11870764B1 |
Data exchange on a distributed computing system
A system includes at least one processor and at least one memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include providing a secure link to an auditable, machine-readable dataset to a client device of a user, the auditable, machine-readable dataset comprising data. At least one policy constraint is provided to at least a portion of the data in the dataset. In response to detecting activation of the secure link at the client device, one or both of the user and the client device is authenticated based on the policy constraint. Streaming access is provided to the auditable, machine-readable dataset in real-time. |
| US11870762B2 |
MACsec key exchange attribute reflection for transparent provider backbone bridge forwarding over public ethernet provider backbones
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for transparent Provider Backbone Bridge forwarding of MACsec key exchanges over public Ethernet provider backbones. The method includes the steps of receiving, at a first PBB device, an Ethernet frame from a first edge router for transmission to a second edge router via a MACsec connection, the Ethernet frame comprising a plurality of fields; performing a lookup of one or more fields of the plurality of fields to determine a match with one or more pre-defined values; determining that the one or more fields of the Ethernet frame match the one or more pre-defined values; rewriting the one or more fields of the Ethernet frame to one or more open values operable to allow the Ethernet frame to be transmitted to a next hop device; and transmitting the Ethernet frame to the next hop device. |
| US11870760B2 |
Secure virtual personalized network
A computer provides a secure, virtual personalized network (SVPN) for a first user with master privileges and at least a second user with guest privileges in the SVPN. Notably, the computer may execute a virtual machine that provides a container for the SVPN of the first user, and the first electronic device associated with the first user and a second electronic device associated with the second user may execute instances of an application that facilitates secure communication in the SVPN. Moreover, the first electronic device may store a set of first encryption keys and the second electronic device may store a set of second encryption keys, which allow the first electronic device and the second electronic device to securely communicate with each other via the SVPN. Note that the computer may not be able to access the set of first encryption keys or the set of second encryption keys. |
| US11870755B2 |
Dynamic intent-based firewall
Systems and methods provide for provisioning a dynamic intent-based firewall. A network controller can generate a master route table for network segments reachable from edge network devices managed by the controller. The controller can receive zone definition information mapping the network segments into zones and Zone-based Firewall (ZFW) policies to apply to traffic between a source and destination zone specified by each ZFW policy. The controller can evaluate a ZFW policy to determine first edge network devices that can reach first network segments mapped to the source zone specified by the ZFW policy, second edge network devices that can reach second network segments mapped to the destination zone specified by the ZFW policy, and routing information (from the route table) between the first network segments, the first and second edge network devices, and the second network segments. The controller can transmit the routing information to the edge network devices. |
| US11870747B2 |
Blockchain-driven certification of iterative electronic communications
A communication system configured to provide blockchain-driven certification of iterative electronic communications such as e-mail-based communications. The system provides blockchain-driven certification by storing the hash of an e-mail thread in a blockchain each time the message or its elements are modified. This allows the system to verify whether or not the thread has been tampered with since it was last modified, when the last verified message was added to the thread. The system creates a baseline that is used towards creating trust certificates ensuring the recipients of such iterative electronic communications that the message has not been breached during its iterations that are shared between two or more parties, e.g., communications participants including senders and recipients. |
| US11870744B2 |
Message modification based on device compatability
Systems and methods are presented herein for modifying messages transmitted between a first computing device and a second computing device based on the determination of a context of messages transmitted between the first and second computing devices. A first message, prepared to be transmitted to a second computing device, is prepared at a first computing device. Based on an identifier corresponding to the second computing device, a plurality of devices communicably coupled to the second computing device are determined. Selectable options are generated at the first computing device which, when selected, determine which of the second computing device or one of the plurality of communicably coupled devices will receive the transmitted message. Based on the selection of an option, the message may be modified to fit the format of the device corresponding to the selected option and transmitted to the device corresponding to the selected option. |
| US11870743B1 |
Customized digital avatar accessories
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating customized images with avatars of different users within electronic messages. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with images generated to include avatars representing themselves as well as their friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances. |
| US11870742B2 |
Information exchange method and apparatus, device, and medium
An information exchange method and apparatus, a device, and a medium are provided. Said method comprises: receiving, from a sharing party, a sharing request for sharing a target mail; and creating, in response to the sharing request, an instant messaging IM group comprising the sharing party and a shared party at an IM end, displaying a discussion interface corresponding to the IM group at a mail end, and sharing the target mail with the shared party, to enable information exchange between the sharing party and the shared party in the IM group and/or in the discussion interface based on the target mail. |
| US11870739B2 |
Auto-adjust app operation in response to data entry anomalies
There is much data that is currently not being captured during user interaction with mobile apps that could provide insight into how to effectively address a user concern. Capturing such data may allow auto-adjustments of operational responses provided by mobile apps in response to detecting anomalous user inputs. Such anomalous user inputs may include keyboard dynamics or mobile device movement that deviate from an average or user specific levels. Such anomalous user inputs may indicate that a user concern is particularly urgent. Auto-adjustments to operation of a mobile app may include initiating targeted chatbot or live chat responses. |
| US11870737B2 |
Enhanced duplexing capability signaling
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless node may transmit enhanced duplexing capability signaling that indicates a level from a plurality of levels, wherein the level corresponds to a supported enhanced duplexing capability of the first wireless node. The first wireless node may communicate with at least a second wireless node based at least in part on the supported enhanced duplexing capability of the first wireless node. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11870736B2 |
Search space set activation
Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion defined by an active search space (SS) set. The UE may receive, during the PDCCH monitoring occasion, a downlink control information (DCI). In response, the UE may activate at least one deactivated SS set based on the DCI and a mapping that associates an SS set to a DCI type, DCI format, transmission direction, or specific combinations thereof. In another aspect, a UE may monitor a subset less than all of PDCCH monitoring occasions defined by an active SS set. The UE may receive, during a PDCCH monitoring occasion, a DCI. In response, the UE may monitor a larger number of PDCCH monitoring occasions defined by the active SS set. |
| US11870734B2 |
Dormant bandwidth part (BWP) configuration for full-duplex operation
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support dormant bandwidth part (BWP) configurations that may be used for full-duplex operation. In a first aspect, a user equipment (UE) in a full-duplex mode may, in at least one symbol, receive a downlink signal in a dormant downlink BWP and transmit an uplink signal in an uplink BWP. In a second aspect, a dormant downlink BWP may be further configured into one of multiple possible resource bandwidths (RBWs), which may include at least one dormant RBW. Each of the multiple RBWs that may be configured in the dormant BWP may be associated with a size and location as well as a set of one or more operational constraints. In a third aspect, a dormant downlink BWP may be further configured into one of multiple possible RBWs, which may include a downlink dormant RBW and an uplink dormant RBW. |
| US11870731B2 |
Method and device for transmitting/receiving uplink reference signal or channel in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, in which a method of transmitting an uplink reference signal or channel, according to an embodiment, includes receiving, from a base station, information about a direction of a beam to be used for transmission of the uplink reference signal or channel; performing beamforming on the uplink reference signal or channel based on the information about the direction of the beam; and transmitting the beamformed uplink reference signal or channel to the base station. |
| US11870725B2 |
Method and apparatus for requesting and receiving assistance data on positioning reference signal in mobile wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving a System Information Block1 (SIB1), acquiring a System Information (SI), transmitting a RequestAssistanceData and receiving a ProvideAssistanceData. The SI includes a second PRS data. The RequestAssistanceData includes a physical cell identity of PCell and the second identifier. |
| US11870720B2 |
Channel state information reference signal configuration
A channel state information reference signal configuration (CSI-RS configuration) indicates a period and a plurality of offsets. For example, a base station may send a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) to a wireless communication device (e.g., a user equipment) according to the period and at least one of the offsets indicated by the CSI-RS configuration. |
| US11870719B2 |
Method and device used in communication node for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and device used in communication node for wireless communication. The communication node first receives first information on a first carrier, the first information being used for determining a first time interval; then receives a first reference signal in a first time window on a second carrier; the first time window is one of X time windows; each of the X time windows belongs to the first time interval, X being a positive integer greater than 1; at least one of a physical-cell identifier to which a transmitter of the first reference signal belongs, a position of frequency-domain resources occupied by the first reference signal in frequency domain or a position of the first time interval in time domain is used for determining the first time window out of the X time windows. The present disclosure reduces interference and overhead. |
| US11870714B2 |
Communication system, base station, mobile station, method for mobile station, and method for communication system
A device and method in which a plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences is allocated to a frame, a value of a parameter in the Zadoff-Chu sequence is different among the plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences, and the Zadoff-Chu sequence allocated to the frame is different among a plurality of cells. |
| US11870713B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving carrier aggregation in next-generation mobile communication system
Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed is a method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving a message including secondary cell (SCell) configuration information from a base station; identifying whether a condition for transitioning the SCell to a dormant state is satisfied; and in case that the condition for transitioning the SCell to the dormant state is satisfied, releasing periodic transmission resources for the SCell configured in the UE. |
| US11870711B2 |
Automated network change system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically changing a network system. A method includes receiving a set of first intents that describe a state of a first switch fabric; receiving a set of second intents that describe a state of a second switch fabric; computing a set of network operations to perform on the first switch fabric to achieve the second switch fabric, the set of operations also defining an order in which the operations are to be executed, and the set of operations determined based on the set of first intents, the set of second intents, and migration logic that defines a ruleset for selecting the operations based on the set of first intents and the second intents; and executing the set of network operations according to the order, to apply changes to elements within the first switch fabric to achieve the state of the second switch fabric. |
| US11870702B1 |
Dynamic resource allocation of cloud instances and enterprise application migration to cloud architecture
Cloud migration may be performed by identifying applications that are currently operating in the enterprise and performing certain determinations as to whether those applications are proper candidates for the migration to the cloud. One example method of operation may provide identifying at least one application operating on an enterprise network, retrieving current usage data of the at least one application, comparing the current usage data of the at least one application to a threshold amount of usage data to determine whether the application has exceeded the threshold amount of usage data. Next, the creation of an instance process may be performed on an entity operating outside the enterprise network and the application may be operated via the instance process and otherwise terminated in the enterprise network to alleviate resources. |
| US11870696B2 |
Method and system for triggering augmented data collection on a network device based on traffic patterns
A method and system for increasing the collection of network traffic data in a network based on the occurrence of predetermined criteria. A network appliance manages network traffic in the network and passes data traffic on the network. Network traffic data is collected based on the data traffic passing through the network appliance at a normal level. It is determined whether the network traffic data indicates an abnormal condition. The collection of network traffic data is increased through the network traffic appliance when an abnormal condition is detected. The network traffic data from the increased collection is stored in a memory device. |
| US11870691B2 |
Intelligent wide area network (IWAN)
In one embodiment, an electronic device maintains one or more tunnel-based overlays for a communication network. The communication network includes two or more physical provider networks. The device maintains a mapping between a particular application and the one or more overlays for the communication network. The device adjusts the mapping between the particular application and the one or more overlays for the communication network. The device causes one or more routers in the communication network to route traffic for the particular application according to the adjusted mapping between the application and the one or more overlays for the communication network. |
| US11870688B2 |
Ethernet services with segment routing with dataplane MAC learning
A node in a Segment Routing network includes circuitry configured to signal first service Segment Identifiers (SIDs), for one or more first Ethernet services configured at the node, to other nodes in the Segment Routing network, receive second service SIDs for one or more second Ethernet services configured at the other nodes in the Segment Routing network, and configure the second service SIDs for one or more second Ethernet services. The first service SIDs and the second service SIDs can be signaled by one of Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). |
| US11870687B2 |
Method and device for sending data packets over an IP/MPLS network
A method for sending data packets encapsulated according to the MPLS protocol, and a sending device of an IP/MPLS network configured to implement the method. The sending method includes obtaining an identifier representative of a group of data packets having at least one data packet, inserting the identifier into at least one part of a data field associated with an entropy label of the MPLS protocol of the at least one data packet, and sending the at least one data packet in the IP/MPLS network. |
| US11870686B2 |
Routing information processing method and apparatus
A routing information processing method and apparatus. The method includes a first network device determines a first segment identifier corresponding to a second network device and a first locator. The first network device determines a second segment identifier corresponding to a third network device and a second locator. The first network device sends routing information that includes the first segment identifier and the second segment identifier. A fourth network device advertises mirror routing information specific to the first network device, where the mirror routing information includes the second segment identifier or the second locator. |
| US11870682B2 |
Deadlock-free local rerouting for handling multiple local link failures in hierarchical network topologies
A method for communication includes partitioning local links in a subnetwork of a packet data network into at least first and second groups. For each local link that connects a first upper-tier switch to a first lower-tier switch in the subnetwork, a corresponding detour route is defined, passing through a first local link belonging to the first group from the first upper-tier switch to a second lower-tier switch, and from the second lower-tier switch over a second local link to a second upper-tier switch, and from the second upper-tier switch over a third local link belonging to the second group to the first lower-tier switch. Upon a failure of the local link connecting the first upper-tier switch to the first lower-tier switch, data packets arriving from the network at the first upper-tier switch are rerouted to pass via the corresponding detour route to the first lower-tier switch. |
| US11870680B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
A communication method and apparatus are provided for transmitting packets of a data stream between user equipment. After receiving a first packet from a first user equipment, a user plane function (UPF) forwards the first packet to a second user equipment at a first moment, so that the first packet that arrives at the UPF before the first moment is not forwarded to the second user equipment until the first moment, to support deterministic sending and ensure that a time sensitive communication (TSC) packet is sent at a determined moment, so as to provide deterministic delay assurance for applications such as industrial control and telemedicine. |
| US11870679B2 |
Primary datacenter for logical router
Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical router that spans multiple datacenters. The method receives a configuration for a set of logical switches and a logical router (LR) that (i) handles data traffic between data compute nodes (DCNs) connected to the logical switches and endpoints not connected to the set of logical switches and (ii) performs stateful services on the traffic. The DCNs include at least one DCN operating in each datacenter. For each datacenter, the method defines a centralized routing component (SR) for the LR for handling the traffic between the DCNs in the datacenter and the endpoints not connected to the set of logical switches. The method designates one of the SRs as a primary SR and the other SRs as secondary SRs. The secondary SRs forward traffic, received from DCNs in their respective datacenters and for which stateful services are required, to the primary SR. |
| US11870667B2 |
Delay statistical method, apparatus, storage medium, and system
The disclosure provides a delay statistical method and apparatus thereof. In the delay statistical method, a first packet and a second packet that belong to a measurement period are obtained, where the first packet includes a first in-situ flow information measurement (iFIT) header with first flow detection information, and the second packet includes a second iFIT header with second flow detection information; a first delay parameter is obtained based on the first flow detection information and sent to a statistical apparatus; and a second delay parameter is obtained based on the second flow detection information and sent. |
| US11870666B2 |
System to collect and visualize software usage metrics
Example embodiments involve a metrics collection system for collecting software usage metrics from one or more client devices at deployments. A computer, such as a server configured to execute the metrics collection system, collects software usage metrics (e.g., as a metrics submission from a client device) of the software product at the deployment, identifies a metrics type of the software usage metrics collected, assigns the software usage metrics to a metrics category, and calculates and updates a metrics score of the metrics category, based on the software usage metrics collected. |
| US11870664B2 |
Network service activation system
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices. |
| US11870663B1 |
Automated regression investigator
Embodiments are directed to automated investigation of regression or other defects. A time-series of values for a metric associated with an execution of a verification action for a service may be provided. If a metric value in the time-series of values is outside of a control range, further actions may be performed, including: determining a last valid version of the service based on the time-series of values; determining a first invalid version of the service based on the time-series of values; determining changes associated with differences between the last valid version of the service and the first invalid version of the service based on the time-series of values; determining responsible users based on the determined changes; and generating a defect report based on the changes and the metric value that is outside of the control range such that the responsible users are associated with the defect report. |
| US11870661B2 |
Network slice instance provisioning based on a permissioned distributed ledger
A method and system for deployment of services for customers. Network service templates (NSTs) are determined, from a permissioned distributed ledger that is distributed between network operator systems of one or more network operators and customer systems. The NSTs include respective descriptions of network characteristics that provide respective logical networks. A subset of the NSTs and a corresponding subset of the network operator systems are selected based on a service description of the first service for deployment of the first service. Instantiation of the subset of the NSTs is requested on the corresponding subset of network operator systems as a subset of network slice instances to form the first service deployed for the first customer. |
| US11870656B2 |
Network data analytics method and apparatus
A network data analytics method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving, by a network repository function network element, a first message from a first device, where the first message is used to discover a network data analytics function network element, and the first message carries a first analytics identifier and first analytics filtering information. |
| US11870653B2 |
Adaptive scalable numerology for high speed train scenarios
The present disclosure provides for adaptive resource management in new radio operations that adapts a numerology including a subcarrier spacing and/or cyclic prefix for a user equipment (UE) traveling at a high speed. A base station may transmit via a plurality of remote radio heads (RRH) to a user equipment (UE) is moving along a high speed track. The base station may transmit, in a first time period, using a first numerology including a first subcarrier spacing and a first cyclic prefix ratio, a first transmission for the UE. The base station may transmit, in a subsequent time period, using a second numerology including a second subcarrier spacing and a second cyclic prefix ratio, a second transmission for the UE. At least one of the second subcarrier spacing is different than the first subcarrier spacing or the second cyclic prefix ratio is different than the first cyclic prefix ratio. |
| US11870650B2 |
System, method and computer program product for network function optimization based on locality and function type
A network function optimization method, system, and computer program product include optimizing network function chain components of a software by modifying a structure of the network function chain components by removing a function of the network function chain components. |
| US11870649B2 |
Multi-access edge computing based visibility network
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing traffic visibility in a network. An embodiment operates by a third-party component in communication with a network component—each located at a network's edge—maintaining a rule table including a first rule comprising first identifiers and a first action for deriving a first packet characteristic. The third-party component receives a first packet copy including second identifiers from the network component. Upon the second identifiers matching the first identifiers, the third-party component determines the rule table's second rule includes a second action for deriving a second packet characteristic. Thereafter, the third-party component receives a second packet copy comprising third identifiers from the network component. Upon the third identifiers matching the first identifiers, the third-party component identifies the rule table's second rule and performs the second rule to derive the second packet characteristic based on the second packet's data. |
| US11870645B1 |
Configuration drift management tool
A system includes one or more databases configured to store at least one configuration rule and one or more processors in communication with the databases. The processors may be configured to compare a product parameter to configuration rules to determine a drift item based on a current value of the product parameter being different than acceptable values defined by a test specified by the configuration rule, the test comprising one of a plurality of test types. The processors may be further configured to store, based on a determination that the drift item is not in a drift database of the databases, the drift item in a database, receive a record of one or more actions performed to resolve the drift item, and in response to receipt of the record, modify a status of the drift item from unresolved to resolved in the database. |
| US11870644B2 |
Exchange of routing information to support virtual computer networks hosted on telecommunications infrastructure network
Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present. In some situations, the networking functionality provided for a managed computer network of a client includes receiving routing communications directed to the virtual networking devices and using included routing information to update the configuration of the managed computer network, such as to allow at least some computing nodes of a managed computer network to dynamically signal particular types of uses of one or more indicated target network addresses and/or to dynamically signal use of particular external public network addresses based on such routing information. |
| US11870642B2 |
Network policy generation for continuous deployment
In an example, a method comprises obtaining, by a policy controller from a first SDN architecture system, flow metadata for packet flows exchanged among workloads of a distributed application deployed to the first SDN architecture system; identifying, using flow metadata for a packet flow of the packet flows, a source endpoint workload and a destination endpoint workload of the packet flow; generating a network policy rule to allow packet flows from the source endpoint workload to the destination endpoint workload of the packet flow; and adding the network policy rule to a configuration repository as configuration data for a second SDN architecture system to cause a deployment system to configure the second SDN architecture system with the network policy rule to allow packet flows from the source endpoint workload to the destination endpoint workload when the distributed application is deployed to the second SDN architecture system. |
| US11870631B2 |
Duration of shortened semi-persistent scheduled intervals
A user equipment, UE, for a wireless communication network, performs Semi-Persistent Scheduled, SPS, transmissions of messages using SPS, e.g., data or control messages, in the wireless communication network with a certain SPS interval and during a certain SPS overall time duration. The UE selects the certain SPS overall time duration for the certain SPS interval from one of a plurality of sets of SPS overall time durations, each set including a plurality of SPS overall time durations. |
| US11870629B2 |
Enhanced phase tracking reference signal for digital post distortion assist
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may identify a set of data resource elements for transmitting data in one or more symbols periods. The first wireless device may generate, for the one or more symbol periods based on the set of data resource elements, a sequence of a set of pilot resource elements associated with the set of data resource elements, the sequence of the set of pilot resource elements including a phase tracking reference signal. The first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device in the one or more symbol periods, the set of data resource elements and the set of pilot resource elements. The second wireless device may decode a first subset of the set of pilot resource elements based on a second subset of the set of pilot resource elements to determine the phase tracking reference signal. |
| US11870626B1 |
Multi-cluster low peak to average power ratio waveform design
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device allocated two sets of non-contiguous frequency domain resources may divide a set of modulation symbols associated with a codeword into two subsets of modulation symbols. The wireless device may map the two subsets of modulation symbols into two sets of pre-discrete Fourier transform (DFT) resource elements (REs). The wireless device may pad the pre-DFT REs according to a block based scheme or a comb based scheme. The wireless device may perform a first DFT on the first set of pre-DFT REs and a second DFT on the second set of pre-DFT REs to generate first and second sets of frequency domain samples. The wireless device may perform an inverse fast Fourier transform on the first and second sets of frequency domain samples to generate a time domain waveform that may have a low peak to average power ratio. |
| US11870625B2 |
Methods and apparatus for generation of physical layer protocol data units for vehicular environments
A communication device selects a frequency bandwidth via which a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) will be transmitted in a vehicular communication network, and generates, the PPDU i) according to a downclocking ratio of 1/2, and ii) based on an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology defined by an IEEE 802.11ac Standard. In response to the selected frequency bandwidth being 10 MHz, the PPDU is generated according to the downclocking ratio of 1/2 and based on the OFDM numerology defined by the IEEE 802.11ac Standard for 20 MHz PPDUs. In response to the selected frequency bandwidth being 20 MHz, the PPDU is generated according to the downclocking ratio of 1/2 and based on the OFDM numerology defined by the IEEE 802.11ac Standard for 40 MHz PPDUs. |
| US11870621B2 |
Remote device telemetry and communication
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a control system for communicating with a remote device. In at least some examples, the method includes determining a frequency of operation of the remote device and determining whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes determining a frequency scaling factor based on whether the frequency of operation of the remote device varies from a programmed frequency. The method further includes generating a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal, scaling the FSK signal to generate a frequency scaled shift keying (FSSK) signal, and transmitting the FSSK signal to the remote device. |
| US11870620B2 |
Satellite receiver including pre-equalizer to compensate for linear impairments
A receiver and method for compensating for linear impairments at a receiver including receiving an Rx signal including an asymmetric response of a satellite filter; pre-equalizing the Rx signal with a coefficient; and demodulating, after the pre-equalizing, the Rx signal. |
| US11870618B2 |
Data processing for automatic modulation classification of wireless signals
Systems and methods for classifying a modulation scheme of a wireless signal are described. In some embodiments, a system receives a wireless signal modulated based on a modulation scheme having a constant modulus. The system can generate a resampled signal from the wireless signal based on features extracted from the wireless signal and perform blind equalization on the resampled signal based on a constant modulus criterion to generate an equalized signal. Then, the system can cause a modulation classifier to classify the received wireless signal to a modulation scheme from a plurality of predetermined modulation schemes based on the equalized signal. By preconditioning the wireless signal to reduce feature variability imparted by a propagation channel onto the wireless signal, the system can increase the classification accuracy of the modulation classifier. |
| US11870617B2 |
Multilevel coding for physical layer security
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a multilevel encoding scheme, a transmitting device may divide a stream of information bits in a message into multiple substreams, and the transmitting device may input each substream to a different level of an encoder such that each substream is encoded separately. The transmitting device may also input excess bits to some levels of the encoder to add physical layer security to the message. To improve the chances that a receiving device is able to correctly decode the message, the receiving device may be configured to identify the levels at which the excess bits are encoded. Accordingly, the receiving device may be able to decode the information bits in the message and avoid attempting to decode the excess bits in the message as information bits. |
| US11870616B2 |
Postamble for multi-level signal modulation
Methods, systems, and devices for postamble for multi-level signal modulation are described. One or more channels of a bus may be driven with a multi-level signal having at least two (2) distinct signal levels. After driving the bus with the multi-level signal, at least one (1) of the channels may be terminated. In some examples, the channel may be terminated to a relatively high signal level. Before termination, the channel may be driven with a postamble having an intermediate signal level. Driving the channel to an intermediate signal level before terminating the channel (e.g., to a high signal level) may avoid maximum transitions of the signal. For example, transitions between a lowest potential signal level and the high signal level (e.g., the termination level) may be avoided. |
| US11870615B2 |
Summing circuit and equalizer including the same
Provided are a summing circuit and an equalizer including the summing circuit. The summing circuit includes: a reference signal generator generating a first reference signal and a second reference signal, based on a coefficient code; a first non-overlap clock buffer generating a first switching signal and a second switching signal by using the first reference signal; and a first current source receiving the first switching signal and the second switching signal generated by the first non-overlap clock buffer, generating a first output current by using a bias voltage, and outputting the first output current to an output line, wherein the first switching signal includes a switching signal and a complementary switching signal that is a complementary signal to the switching signal, and wherein a logic low period of the second switching signal is included in a logic high period of the complementary switching signal of the first switching signal. |
| US11870613B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit and receiver device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a converter configured to convert an analog signal into a digital signal based on a clock signal; a comparator configured to determine first data having data of a first number of bits per symbol and second data having data of a second number of bits, less than the first number, per symbol based on the digital signal; a recovery circuit configured to recover the clock signal; and a control circuit configured to input the digital signal and the first data to the recovery circuit in a case where a condition is not satisfied, and to input the digital signal and the second data to the recovery circuit in a case where the condition is satisfied. |
| US11870597B2 |
Incremental billing with blockchains
A method for determining a resource use of resources provided by one or more devices (50) in order to carry out a service, the method comprising at a miner (100): determining (S41) a latest block (35b) of a blockchain (35) related to the service and a total resource information present in the latest block, wherein the total resource information represents the total amount of resources used by the one or more devices (50) for providing the service since a defined starting point in time, determining (S42) that a new use case of resources of a first device of the one or more devices (50) has occurred which is not reflected by the total resource information and determining a new amount of the resources used by the first device during the new use case, determining (S43) a new total resource information in which the total resource information is combined with the new amount of the resources and which reflects a complete use of the resources of the one or more devices from the defined starting point until determining the new total resource information, generating (S44) a new block of the blockchain (35), adding the new total resource information to the new block (35c), and adding the new block to the blockchain (35). |
| US11870596B2 |
Systems and devices for power supply
A power sourcing equipment is provided. The power sourcing equipment may include an input terminal, an output terminal, a switch, and a device detection circuit. The input terminal may receive a power signal. The output terminal may be electrically coupled to a powered device via a coaxial cable, which transmits the power signal from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device or a data signal from the powered device to the power sourcing equipment. The switch may control an electrical connection between the input and output terminal(s). The device detection circuit may detect whether the data signal is being transmitted from the powered device to the power sourcing equipment. If the data signal is not being transmitted from the powered device to the power sourcing equipment, the device detection circuit may control an operation of the switch based on an electrical parameter associated with the powered device. |
| US11870592B2 |
Trigger retransmission of a feedback in unlicensed spectrum
Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing feedback for DL data are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates with a second wireless communication device, a first communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device, a grant for retransmitting a feedback associated with the first communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates with the second wireless communication device, the feedback based on the grant. |
| US11870589B2 |
Method and apparatus with multi-configuration HARQ message
Aspects are provided in which a UE and a base station are configured to manage a multi-configuration HARQ message. The base station may generate a control signal including an HARQ configuration and transmit the control signal to the UE. The HARQ configuration may include a timing information and/or a transmission method. The HARQ configuration may include a first configuration for ACK and a second configuration for NACK. The first configuration may be different from the second configuration. The UE may apply the corresponding HARQ configuration to an ACK or NACK message in response to the control signal from the base station. The base station may also transmit the HARQ configuration prior to the control signal. Thus, the ACK message generated and transmitted based on the first configuration different from the second configuration may have improved reliability to increase the stability of the 5G network. |
| US11870587B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system
A terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention can: encode a plurality of UCIs comprising a first UCI and a second UCI; perform resource mapping on the encoded bits of the plurality of UCIs on a single physical uplink channel; and perform uplink transmission on the basis of the resource mapping. Even when the first UCI and the second UCI have different priorities, the terminal can separately encode the first UCI and the second UCI on the basis that the first UCI and the second UCI are configured to be multiplexed on the single physical uplink channel, and perform the resource mapping on the second UCI having the lower priority on the basis of the resource mapping of the first UCI having the higher priority. |
| US11870586B2 |
Method and device for determining HARQ feedback option in NR V2X
Provided are a method for performing, by a first device, group cast communication with one or more second devices in a group, and a device for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: determining the number of physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources associated with a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) resource; on the basis of the number of PSFCH resources and the size of the group, determining a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback option; and transmitting, to the one or more second devices, information associated with the HARQ feedback option. Here, the HARQ feedback option can be any one of a first HARQ feedback option or a second HARQ feedback option. |
| US11870585B1 |
Adapting hybrid automatic repeat requests
An apparatus is configured to transmit a preconfigured number of transmissions of a first data with hybrid automatic repeat requests consecutively without waiting between the transmissions for response to any of the requests, wherein the preconfigured number is an integer and greater than one. |
| US11870578B2 |
Forward-compatible puncturing indications
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication that can be used for channel puncturing. A wireless station (STA) may receive an indication of a first puncturing pattern to be used for transmitting or receiving data over a wireless channel, where the first puncturing pattern is defined by a first wireless communication protocol release and the STA is configured to operate according to a second wireless communication protocol release. The STA may select, from a set of puncturing patterns defined by the second wireless communication protocol release, a second puncturing pattern that includes one or more non-punctured subchannels that are subsets of one or more corresponding non-punctured subchannels of the first puncturing pattern. The STA may use the second puncturing pattern to transmit or receive one or more packets over the wireless channel. |
| US11870577B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in a physical uplink shared channel, and storage medium
Provided are a transmission method, apparatus and system. The transmission method includes: in response to UCI being configured to be transmitted in a PUSCH, and the PUSCH does not have a UL-SCH, determining to transmit the UCI according to an actual code rate of the UCI and a preset threshold. The preset threshold is determined according to a predetermined code rate and a predetermined value β. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the UCI is transmitted based on a given modulation mode, the UCI is determined to be transmitted according to the actual code rate of the UCI and the preset threshold. |
| US11870576B2 |
Control of error correction decoder operation and usage in a receiver device
An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus may be a receiver device that includes an error correction decoder, such as a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder. The apparatus may achieve power savings and/or operation cycle savings by disabling the error correction decoder in scenarios where bits of a codeword in a signal transmission are received without errors. The apparatus obtains a first set of bits of a codeword, wherein the codeword includes the first set of bits and a second set of bits, and wherein the second set of bits is punctured. The apparatus recovers the second set of bits based on at least the first set of bits and determines whether to operate an error correction decoder based on a result of an error detection operation performed on the codeword using the first set of bits and the second set of bits. |
| US11870573B2 |
Polar coding method, apparatus, and device
Embodiments of this application disclose a polar coding method, apparatus, and device, so as to reduce storage overheads of a system. A sequence for polar coding is obtained based on a length M of a target polar code, wherein the sequence comprises L sequence numbers, ordering of the L sequence numbers in the sequence is the same as ordering of the L sequence numbers in a maximum mother code sequence, wherein the maximum mother code sequence is obtained by sorting N sequence numbers of N polarized channels in ascending order or descending order of reliability metrics, wherein L and N are integer power of 2, M is smaller than or equal to L, L is smaller than or equal to N. |
| US11870567B2 |
Method and apparatus for channel state information feedback in communication system
An operation method of a base station in a communication system may comprise: transmitting first indication information to a terminal, the first indication information indicating use of a first CQI table among CQI tables; transmitting a first reference signal to the terminal; and receiving first CSI from the terminal, the first CSI including a first CQI index selected within the first CQI table based on the first reference signal, wherein the CQI tables include the first CQI table and a second CQI table, and a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the first CQI table is identical to a spectral efficiency indicated by at least one CQI index within the second CQI table. |
| US11870566B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving control information in wireless cellular communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than 4G communication systems, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving control information. |
| US11870562B2 |
Function generation in named function networks
A named function network (NFN) system includes a routing node, a function generation node, and a server node. The routing node receives requests for new functions, the requests including data values for generating the new functions. The function generation node receives the data values from the routing node and generates a new function for the NFN using the data values. The server node receives a request from the routing node to execute the new function, executes the new function, and transmits results of the execution to the routing node. |
| US11870554B1 |
Enhanced ethernet timestamping on RGMII using existing DLL
A network node device of an area network includes physical layer (PHY) circuitry configured to transmit and receive frames of data via a communication link of the communication network; medium access layer (MAC) circuitry; a receive interface between the PHY circuitry and the MAC circuitry, and timestamp circuitry. The receive interface includes a receive clock signal and a DLL. The timestamp circuitry is configured to produce multiple sample signals derived from the receive clock signal using the DLL and a local clock signal of the network node, and produce a timestamp offset using the multiple sample signals. The timestamp offset is representative of an instantaneous phase offset between a local clock of the network node and a local clock of a neighbor node of the network node. |
| US11870551B2 |
Multi-codeword transmission method and apparatus
This application discloses a multi-codeword transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a network device, downlink control information corresponding to each of a plurality of code words to be sent to a terminal device, where the downlink control information corresponding to each code word includes at least one of the following: a physical downlink shared channel resource element mapping and quasi-co-location indicator, and an antenna port(s), scrambling identity and number of layers; and sending, by the network device, downlink control information corresponding to the plurality of code words to the terminal device. Corresponding apparatuses are further disclosed. According to the technical solutions of this application, the network device generates the downlink control information corresponding to each of the plurality of code words to be sent to the terminal device, and the terminal device may demodulate data for the plurality of code words based on downlink control information corresponding to the plurality of code words. This ensures that the terminal device correctly demodulates data in a multi-codeword transmission scenario. |
| US11870549B2 |
System and method for selecting input feeds to a media player
System and methods are provided for managing use of media feeds in a media player. A media feed may be selected from a plurality of media feeds based on a feedback signal corresponding to an audio output signal of a media player, and a corresponding transmit signal may be configured for transmittal to the media player. The transmit signal may include a plurality of channels, and configuring the transmit signal may include selecting one channel from the plurality of channels based on the feedback signal, and conveying the media feed over the selected channel. The selected channel may be processed to carry the media feed, such as by frequency-modulating the media feed into the selected channel. The feedback signal may be processed, and control information may be determined based on the processing for controlling one or both of the selecting of the media feed and configuring of the transmit signal. |
| US11870543B2 |
Data transmission systems and methods for low earth orbit satellite communications
A radio communication system transmits data between terrestrial sites using one or more stochastically distributed orbiting satellites. The satellites and ground stations have the capability of sending and receiving data content in different radio technologies (signal formats) and over different satellite routes. Data content is assembled into packets and divided into segments and transmitted multiple times in different signal formats and/or over different routes, with each segment including error correction coding. A system node (satellite or ground station) that receives the multiple data packets applies error correction to each segment and re-assembles the data content from the separate segments in each transmission deemed to have the fewest errors. |
| US11870542B2 |
Satellite communication transmitter
An earth station transmitter device is arranged for generating a signal to be transmitted to an earth station receiver device of a satellite communication system. The earth station transmitter device includes: shaping encapsulation for shaping and encapsulating downlink data traffic based on a modulation and coding decodable by an earth station receiver device. The shaping encapsulation is arranged to output downlink baseband frames, and further encapsulation is arranged to receive the downlink baseband frames and to generate uplink baseband frames by segmenting the downlink baseband frames based on a modulation and coding decodable by a satellite receiver device, encoding and modulation means for converting the uplink baseband frames into an uplink transmission signal using the modulation and coding decodable by the satellite receiver device. |
| US11870541B1 |
Feeder link for transparent NTN nodes
Method including: receiving, on a feeder link, a signal including feeder link slots having a feeder link bandwidth; mapping each of the feeder link slots onto a respective slot-subband in a respective service link slot according to a rule; transmitting, on plural service links, service signals, wherein each of the service signals includes service link slots each including m of the slot-subbands having a same bandwidth; the m slot-subbands do not overlap, are continuous with each other, and cover an entire service link bandwidth of the respective service link slot; wherein the feeder link slots have a feeder link slot duration; the service link slots have a service link slot duration longer than the feeder link slot duration; each of the feeder link slots including respective symbols; each of the slot-subbands includes the symbols of the feeder link slot mapped onto the respective slot-subband. |
| US11870540B2 |
System and method for high throughput fractionated satellites (HTFS) for direct connectivity to and from end user devices and terminals using flight formations of small or very small satellites
A high throughput fractionated satellite (HTFS) system and method where the functional capabilities of a conventional monolithic spacecraft are distributed across many small or very small satellites and a central command and relay satellite, the satellites are separated and flight in carefully design formations that allows the creation of very large aperture or apertures in space drastically reducing cost and weight and enabling high throughput capabilities by spatially reuse spectrum. |
| US11870534B2 |
Enhanced beam failure indicator and applications
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing beam failure indications and detections. In particular, the present disclosure provides techniques for identifying and indicating reasons associated with beam failures. For example, in aspects, a user equipment (UE) may evaluate multiple beam failure indicator (BFI) trigger conditions based on beam failure detection (BFD) reference signal (RS) measurements. The UE logs different types of BFIs based on the evaluating. If a logged number of BFIs exceeds a threshold value within a measurement period, the UE declares a beam failure and transmits, to a network entity, an indication of the beam failure and a reason for the beam failure based on the different types of BFIs detected. |
| US11870531B2 |
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods
A communications device for use in a wireless communications network providing a wireless access interface within a system bandwidth, the system bandwidth comprising a plurality of bandwidth parts, the communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals using a plurality of activated bandwidth parts, a receiver configured to receive signals using the plurality of activated bandwidth parts, the received signals being signals transmitted using a plurality of activated beams, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver so that the communications device is operable: to determine that an activated beam associated with a first bandwidth part satisfies beam failure criteria; to select from the plurality of activated bandwidth parts a second bandwidth part; and to transmit using communications resources associated with the selected second bandwidth part a beam failure indication indicating that the activated beam associated with the first bandwidth part satisfies the beam failure criteria. |
| US11870528B2 |
Machine learning in beam selection
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam selection using data radio bearer specific machine learning are provided. For example, a method can include providing one or more inputs regarding a plurality of beams to a machine learning model. The method can also include obtaining at least one output value regarding the plurality of beams from the machine learning model. The machine learning model can be a data radio bearer specific machine learning model, a data radio bearer group specific machine learning model, or a model trained to output selectively data radio bearer specific values or data radio bearer group specific values. |
| US11870527B2 |
Wireless communication network with master distributed unit and methods for use therewith
A radio access network operates by obtaining, at a scheduler, CSI corresponding to a plurality of RUs associated with a master DU and another plurality of RUs associated with at least one other DU, wherein the CSI associated with the another plurality of RUs is obtained via another scheduler or via the at least one other DU; allocating, based on the CSI, a resource allocation for resource blocks associated with the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs; negotiating with the another scheduler to obtain PRB resources of RUs controlled by the another scheduler; generating, based on the CSI, precoders associated with the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs; and facilitating, via the master DU and based on the precoders and the resource allocation, contemporaneous transmission to a user equipment UE via the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs and contemporaneous reception from the user equipment UE via the plurality of RUs and the another plurality of RUs. |
| US11870524B2 |
Method for reporting channel state information in order for performing antenna array-based beamforming in wireless communication system, and device therefor
A method for reporting channel state information (CSI) by user equipment (UE) for beamforming based on an antenna array in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS); generating channel state information using the CSI-RS and a codebook generated in advance; and reporting the channel state information. The channel state information includes information related to a codevector determined in the codebook, the antenna array has a three-dimensional shape having omnidirectional symmetry, the codebook is generated based on a position of the UE having a center of the three-dimensional shape as an origin, and the position of the UE is represented based on a polar coordinate system. |
| US11870523B2 |
Method and apparatus for indication of reference signals in wireless systems
A method for channel state information (CSI) reporting comprises receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a base station (BS), a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) signaling including a quasi co-location (QCL) indication between a first resource and a second resource and activation of the second resource, wherein the UE is configured with the second resource for CSI reporting; and identifying, by the UE from the MAC-CE signaling, the activation of the second resource and a QCL relation between the first resource and the second resource based on the QCL indication. |
| US11870521B2 |
UE based determination of inter-band carrier aggregation modes
In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), beamforming information for two or more frequency bands. The method also includes determining, by the UE, an inter-band carrier aggregation (CA) mode based on the beamforming information and one or more conditions. The method further includes transmitting, by the UE, a message indicating the inter-band CA mode. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described. |
| US11870519B2 |
Methods, systems, and devices to compress reference signals to enhance massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) uplink in split radio access network (RAN) deployments
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining compressed sounding reference signal (SRS) information associated with a user end device from a distributed unit device. The distributed unit device compresses SRS information utilizing a first compression algorithm resulting in the compressed SRS information. Further embodiments include decompressing the compressed SRS information utilizing a first decompression algorithm resulting in the SRS information and determining SRS channel estimation based on the SRS information. Additional embodiments include determining a group of beamforming weights based on the SRS channel estimation, and adjusting an antenna array according to the group of beamforming weights. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11870517B2 |
Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, transmitting station device and receiving station device
According to the present invention, in a wireless communication system that performs single carrier MIMO transmission between a transmitting station device and a receiving station device, the transmitting station device includes a time-domain linear equalization unit, a propagation path characteristics estimation unit configured to receive a training signal and estimate a transfer function matrix of propagation path characteristics, a filter tap calculation unit configured to calculate filter tap coefficients for the time-domain linear equalization unit based on the transfer function matrix by a predefined approach, and a transmission mode determination unit configured to make the filter tap calculation unit calculate the filter tap coefficients when the transfer function matrix meets a predefined condition, and to change a transmission mode and determine the transmission mode that meets the predefined condition when the transfer function matrix does not meet the predefined condition. The receiving station device includes a training signal generation unit configured to generate the training signal for use in estimation of propagation path characteristics and transmit the training signal to the transmitting station device. |
| US11870513B2 |
Neuron calculator for artificial neural networks
Examples described herein include systems and methods, including wireless devices and systems with neuron calculators that may perform one or more functionalities of a wireless transceiver. The neuron calculator calculates output signals that may be implemented, for example, using accumulation units that sum the multiplicative processing results of ordered sets from ordered neurons with connection weights for each connection between an ordered neuron and outputs of the neuron calculator. The ordered sets may be a combination of some input signals, with the number of signals determined by an order of the neuron. Accordingly, a kth-order neuron may include an ordered set comprising product values of k input signals, where the input signals are selected from a set of k-combinations with repetition. As an example in a wireless transceiver, the neuron calculator may perform channel estimation as a channel estimation processing component of the receiver portion of a wireless transceiver. |
| US11870511B2 |
Near-field interface device
One example discloses a near-field interface device, including: a near-field antenna; a physical port configured to be coupled to a computer; a controller coupled to the antenna and the physical port; wherein the controller is configured to translate a near-field signal received from the near-field antenna into an input command generated by a user; and wherein the controller is configured to transmit the input command to the computer through the physical port. |
| US11870509B2 |
Wireless power transmitter for high fidelity communications at high power transfer
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a damping circuit, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of the wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal. |
| US11870508B2 |
System for supply chain management
A system for tracking a product from origin to destination is disclosed. The system includes a probe that comprises two plates, a power source and a processor. The power source is controlled by the processor to produce an oscillating output at the plates. Using the oscillating voltage, the probe interrogates a device through capacitive coupling. The device includes a control unit, a memory unit, and first and second materials physically associated with the device for communication using capacitive coupling. Information associated with the device is transferred from the device to the probe through capacitive coupling between the first and second materials and the first and second plates, respectively. |
| US11870504B2 |
Translation device, test system including the same, and memory system including the translation device
A translation device, a test system, and a memory system are provided. The translation device includes plural first input/output (I/O) circuits that respectively transmit and receive first signals through plural pins based on a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)-M mode, a second I/O circuit that transmits and receives a second signal through one or more pins based on a PAM-N mode, and a translation circuit that translates the first signals into the second signal and translates the second signal into the first signals. M and N are different integers of 2 or more. |
| US11870499B2 |
Optical channel plan process
Methods for configuring an optical link in which a distribution of transmission data rates and line rates are configured for a predetermined amount of optical bandwidth to maximize transmission capacity. In these methods, a controller of an optical network obtains input parameters that include a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for optical signals and an allocated bandwidth of the optical link, further obtains, for each line rate, a mapping of transmission data rates along a frequency spectrum of the allocated bandwidth compatible with the SNR, and generates a channel plan in which a number of traffic modes and a distribution of a plurality of channels in the allocated bandwidth are set to maximize transmission capacity. The plurality of channels is used for transmitting the signals on the optical link. The controller configures at least one optical network element in the optical network to establish the optical link based on the channel plan. |
| US11870492B2 |
Optical structures in directional free-space optical communication systems for portable electronic devices
A directional free-space optical communication system includes a source device including a laser diode and an endpoint device including a photodiode. The endpoint device also includes an optical structure, such as an optical adapter, that increases both angular and spatial offset tolerance between the two source device and the endpoint device. |
| US11870489B2 |
S/N ratio estimation circuit, and adaptive filter circuit
A tentative decision is made for symbols on the basis of a received signal and a decision threshold, and a tentative decision signal including a sequence of the symbols is output. A scale value indicating a rate of increase or reduction of the received signal or a threshold change rate indicating a degree of change in the decision threshold is updated so that an appearance frequency of each of symbols included in the tentative decision signal matches an appearance frequency of each of symbols in a reference signal obtained by modulating a transmitted signal with a modulation method used in transmission which is shared between a transmitting side and a receiving side, and an SN ratio is calculated using the scale value or the threshold change rate when a degree of agreement between the appearance frequencies is within a predetermined permissible range. When the scale value is updated, a tentative decision is made for the symbols on the basis of the received signal increased or reduced by the updated scale value and the decision threshold, and when the threshold change rate is updated, the tentative decision for the symbols is made on the basis of the received signal and the decision threshold to which the updated threshold change rate is applied. |
| US11870488B2 |
Fast fiber transient locating systems and methods
Systems and methods include detecting a fast fiber transient on a span based on analyzing power data, wherein the power data is for any of optical wavelengths of traffic channels, optical service channel (OSC) wavelengths, and telemetry from a network element; and responsive to detecting the fast fiber transient, causing an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) trace on the span with a specific configuration based on the fast fiber transient. |
| US11870485B2 |
Processing device, network node, client device, and methods thereof
This disclosure relates to techniques for synchronization signals. The synchronization signal comprise a primary synchronization signal (PSS) generated based on a PSS sequence and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) generated based on an SSS sequence. The SSS sequence may be generated based on a first sequence corresponding to a first cyclic shift and a second sequence corresponding to a second cyclic shift. The first cyclic shift and the second cyclic shift are associated with a Cell ID. The PSS sequence may be generated based on one of the first and the second sequences. |
| US11870481B1 |
Full-body protective phone case for fully protected foldable screen
The present disclosure provides a full-body protection phone case for a fully protected foldable screen, comprising: a lower backboard, an upper cover plate and hinge protector assembly; the hinge protector assembly is installed on one side of the lower backboard and the upper cover plate; the hinge protector assembly comprises a hinge protection frame, fixed supports, movably threading needle pieces, connecting plates and threaded holes; the fixed supports are fixed on both sides of the hinge protection frame close to the lower backpboard and the upper cover plate; the movably threading needle pieces run through the interior of the fixed supports; the two ends of the movably threading needle pieces are rotatably connected with the connecting plates, and the side of the connecting plate is equipped with the threaded holes, the inner side of the upper cover plate is equipped with a front screen protection frame. |
| US11870477B2 |
Transmission structure of antenna and proximity sensing circuit
The present application provides a transmission structure of an antenna and a proximity sensing circuit. The transmission structure includes a transmission line and at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element, a first coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to an antenna, and a second coupling end of the transmission line is coupled to a proximity sensing circuit, and the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element is coupled between the transmission line and a ground, and is located between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit. Utilizing the at least one radio-frequency short-circuit element in conjunction with the transmission line so that the transmission path between the antenna and the proximity sensing circuit has the high impedance, and hence preventing a radio-frequency signal from the antenna from affecting the sensing accuracy of the proximity sensing circuit. |
| US11870476B2 |
System and method for multiple wireless systems of a vehicle to share cabling
A system for multiple wireless systems of vehicle to share cabling. The system may include a plurality of first antennas to interface signals with a first transceiver as part of a first wireless system and a plurality of second antennas to interface signals with a second transceiver as part of a second wireless system. The system may include a first switch configured to selectively connect the first and second antennas to first and second cables and a second switch configured to selectively connect the first and second transceivers to the first and second cables such that the first and second antennas and transceivers share the first and second cables. |
| US11870475B2 |
Audio playback management of multiple concurrent connections
Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources. Portable playback devices, such as wearable wireless headphones and earbuds, as well as portable battery-powered speakers, may include multiple network interfaces for connection to different types of networks, such as an 802.11-compatible network interface for connection to wireless local area networks (e.g., Wi-Fi® networks) and an 802.15-compatible network interface for connection to a mobile device via a personal area network (Bluetooth®). Via such connections, the playback devices may receive two or more concurrent streams. By managing these streams according to playback policies, the portable playback devices may play the user's intended audio without necessarily requiring user input to explicitly select among the concurrent streams. |
| US11870474B2 |
Signal processing apparatus and method, and access network device
Example access network devices are described. One example access network device includes a signal processing apparatus. The signal processing apparatus includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a first filter, a second filter, and a combiner. The first filter filters a second signal obtained by the first power amplifier, to obtain a first sub-signal belonging to a first frequency band and a second sub-signal belonging to a second frequency band. The second filter filters a fourth signal obtained by the second power amplifier, to obtain n sub-signals including at least a third sub-signal belonging to a third frequency band. The combiner combines the first sub-signal and i sub-signals in the n sub-signals based on a preset condition, to obtain a first combined signal. The communication module sends the first combined signal by using a first port, and sends the second sub-signal by using a second port. |
| US11870469B2 |
Device and method for acquiring system information by decoding signals in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a device of a terminal, in a wireless communication system, can include at least one processor and at least one transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a first signal transmitted using a first beam of the base station and including system information and receive, from the base station, a second signal transmitted using a second beam of the base station and including the system information, and the at least one processor is configured to decode the second signal in combination with the first signal, thereby enabling the system information to be acquired. |
| US11870467B2 |
Data compression method and apparatus, and computer readable storage medium
A data compression method, comprising: obtaining a plurality of values of a parameter and an occurrence probability of each of the plurality of values (S101); comparing the occurrence probability with a predetermined threshold, wherein values with the occurrence probability less than the predetermined threshold are first set of values, and values with the occurrence probability greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold are second set of values (S102); performing pretreatment on the first set of values (S103); and encoding the second set of values and the pretreated first set of values (S104). By means of the data compression method, the maximum codeword length can be effectively reduced, so as to reduce the requirements of a code table to the storage space. |
| US11870464B2 |
Rate matching methods for LDPC codes
A method of producing a set of coded bits from a set of information bits for transmission between a first node and a second node in a wireless communications system, the method comprises generating a codeword vector by encoding the set of information bits with a low-density parity-check code, wherein the codeword vector is composed of systematic bits and parity bits. The method comprises performing circular buffer-based rate matching on the generated codeword vector to produce the coded bits for transmission, wherein the circular buffer-based rate matching comprises puncturing a first plurality of systematic bits. |
| US11870463B2 |
Data reliability for extreme temperature usage conditions in data storage
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices such as solid state drives. In one approach, data is received from a host system (e.g., data to be written to an SSD). The received data is encoded using a first error correction code to generate first parity data. A temperature at which memory cells of a storage device (e.g., the SSD) will store the received data is determined. In response to determining the temperature, a first portion of the received data is identified (e.g., data in memory storage that is error-prone at a predicted higher temperature that has been determined based on output from an artificial neural network using sensor(s) input). The identified first portion is encoded using a second error correction code to generate second parity data. The second error correction code has a higher error correction capability than the first error correction code. The encoded first portion, the first parity data, and the second parity data are stored in the memory cells of the storage device. |
| US11870462B2 |
Fault tolerant and error correction decoding method and apparatus for quantum circuit, and chip
This disclosure discloses a fault tolerant and error correction decoding method and apparatus for a quantum circuit, and a chip. This disclosure relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. The method includes: obtaining actual error syndrome information of a quantum circuit by performing a noisy error syndrome measurement on the quantum circuit by using a quantum error correction (QEC) code; decoding the actual error syndrome information to obtain a logic error class and perfect error syndrome information that correspond to the actual error syndrome information; and determining error result information of the quantum circuit based on the logic error class and the perfect error syndrome information, the error result information being indicative of a data qubit in which an error occurs in the quantum circuit and a corresponding error class. |
| US11870453B2 |
Circuits and methods for a noise shaping analog to digital converter
Systems and methods are provided for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC). A first quantization stage may be configured to receive an analog input signal and sample the analog input signal to generate a first digital signal, the first quantization stage may be further configured to filter the first digital signal with a first noise-shaping transfer function to generate a first noise-shaped digital output and to generate a quantization error signal based on a comparison of the analog input signal and the first noise-shaped digital output. A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based second quantization stage may be configured to receive the quantization error signal and sample the quantization error signal to generate a second digital signal, the VCO-based second quantization stage may be further configured to filter the second digital signal with a second noise-shaping transfer function to generate a second noise-shaped digital output. A first digital filter may be configured to filter the first noise-shaped digital output with an equivalent signal transfer function of the VCO-based second quantization stage to generate a first stage digital output. A second digital filter may be configured to filter the second noise-shaped digital output with the first noise-shaping transfer function to generate a second stage digital output with second order noise-shaping characteristics A combination circuit may combine the first stage digital output and the second stage digital output to generate a digital ADC output signal with second order noise shaping characteristics. |
| US11870451B1 |
Frequency synthesizer using voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) core of wideband synthesizer with integrated VCO
A frequency synthesizer employs a combination of a low divide ratio divider phase-locked loop (PLL) and a wide band, on-chip voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). To reduce phase noise, low divide ratio phase detection is employed. By using the off-chip PLL with a bank of on-chip VCOs, the frequency synthesizer may have enhanced frequency stability and avoid having to include an acquisition circuit. A separation between the PLL and VCO may reduce integer boundary spurs (IBS) eliminating or reducing a need for a filter bank and switches reducing a complexity of the frequency synthesizer. |
| US11870447B2 |
Phase synchronization device
A third signal having a phase intermediate between a first signal based on a reference signal and a second signal with a phase shifted by an element of a previous stage is generated, a signal obtained by shifting the phase of the third signal by a first phase shill amount is output as a second signal to an element of a subsequent stage, a phase difference between the third signal and a fourth signal obtained by shifting the phase of a first signal output from the element of the subsequent stage by the first phase shift amount is detected, and the first phase shift amount is controlled on the basis of the detected phase difference. |
| US11870445B2 |
Radio frequency device and voltage generation and harmonic suppressor thereof
A radio frequency (RF) device and a voltage generation and harmonic suppressor thereof are provided. The RF device includes the voltage generation and harmonic suppressor and a RF circuit. The voltage generation and harmonic suppressor is configured to receive a RF signal to output at least one direct current (DC) voltage related to the RF signal, and configured to suppress a harmonic generated by the RF signal in the voltage generation and harmonic suppressor. The RF circuit is configured to receive the RF signal, and configured to perform an operation according to the at least one DC voltage. |
| US11870438B2 |
Schottky-CMOS asynchronous logic cells
Integrated circuits described herein implement multiplexer (MUX) gate system. An integrated circuit includes a plurality of inputs coupled with a first stage of the integrated circuit. The first stage includes a plurality of first Schottky diodes and a plurality of N-type transistors. Each input is coupled with a respective first Schottky diode and N-type transistor. The integrated circuit also includes a plurality of outputs of the first stage coupled with a second stage of the integrated circuit. The second stage includes a plurality of second Schottky diodes and a plurality of P-type transistors. Each output coupled with a respective second Schottky diode and P-type transistor. The integrated circuit further includes a plurality of outputs of the second stage coupled with a set of transistors including a P-type transistor and an N-type transistor, and an output of the set of transistors coupled with an output of the MUX gate system. |
| US11870436B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
A semiconductor device that can perform product-sum operation with low power is provided. The semiconductor device includes a switching circuit. The switching circuit includes first to fourth terminals. The switching circuit has a function of selecting one of the third terminal and the fourth terminal as electrical connection destination of the first terminal, and selecting the other of the third terminal and the fourth terminal as electrical connection destination of the second terminal, on the basis of first data. The switching circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor each having a back gate. The switching circuit has a function of determining a signal-transmission speed between the first terminal and one of the third terminal and the fourth terminal and a signal-transmission speed between the second terminal and the other of the third terminal and the fourth terminal on the basis of potentials of the back gates. The potentials are determined by second data. When signals are input to the first terminal and the second terminal, a time lag between the signals output from the third terminal and the fourth terminal is determined by the first data and the second data. |
| US11870428B1 |
System and method for pulsed gate control of a transistor
A method of controlling current through a transistor is provided. A voltage and current through the transistor are measured. A safe operating current for the voltage is determined. For each of a first sequence of current pulses, a voltage of a voltage pulse applied to a control node of the transistor using a feedback controller is adjusted until the current measured through the transistor is not greater than a first function of the safe operating current. For each of a second sequence of current pulses after the first sequence of current pulses, the voltage of the voltage pulse applied to the control node of the transistor using the feedback controller is adjusted until the current measured through the transistor is not greater than a second function of the safe operating current. |
| US11870427B2 |
Power supply control device
A power supply control device controls power supply by switching on or off a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch that are arranged on a current path. A first diode and a second diode are connected between a drain and a source of the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch, respectively. Cathodes of the first diode and the second diode are arranged downstream and upstream of the respective anode on the current path. If current flows through the current path even though a microcomputer has given an instruction to switch the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch off, a first drive circuit switches the first semiconductor switch on. |
| US11870424B2 |
Filters using transversly-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with frequency-setting dielectric layers
Filter devices are disclosed. A filter device includes a piezoelectric plate comprising a supported portion, a first diaphragm, and a second diaphragm. The supported portion is attached to a substrate and the first and second diaphragms spans respective cavities in the substrate. A first interdigital transducer (IDT) has interleaved fingers on the first diaphragm. A second interdigital transducer (IDT) has interleaved fingers on the second diaphragm. A first dielectric layer is between the interleaved fingers of the first IDT, and a second dielectric layer is between the interleaved fingers of the second IDT. A thickness of the first dielectric layer is greater than a thickness of the second dielectric layer. The piezoelectric plate and the first and second IDTs are configured such that radio frequency signals applied to first and second IDTs excite primary shear acoustic modes in the respective diaphragms. |
| US11870422B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave resonator filters with integrated capacitors
A device includes a piezoelectric layer on a substrate and including a portion included in an acoustic resonator, a first conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer and including a first electrode of the acoustic resonator on a first side of resonator portion of the piezoelectric layer, and a second conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer and including a second electrode of the acoustic resonator on a second side of the resonator portion of the piezoelectric layer. An insulating layer is disposed on the second conductive layer and an interconnection metal layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer or the first conductive layer and has a portion extending onto the insulating layer and overlapping a portion of the second conductive layer to provide a capacitor electrode of a capacitor coupled to the first electrode and/or the second electrode. |
| US11870421B2 |
Surface acoustic wave resonator with suppressed transverse modes using second bus bar
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a surface acoustic wave resonator. The surface acoustic wave resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate, interdigital transducer electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a dielectric temperature compensation layer disposed on the piezoelectric substrate to cover the interdigital transducer electrodes, and a dielectric passivation layer over the temperature compensation layer. The passivation layer may include an oxide layer configured to have a sound velocity greater than that of the temperature compensation layer to suppress a transverse signal transmission. |
| US11870419B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave resonator
A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode, wherein a cavity is formed between the substrate and the first electrode, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode and overlapping at least a portion of the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer and overlapping at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer, a passivation layer having at least a portion disposed on the second electrode and overlapping at least a portion of the second electrode, and a lower frame spaced apart from the substrate and having a portion of the cavity disposed therebetween. Any one of the second electrode and the passivation layer includes a protruding portion having a first thickness and an extended portion having a second thickness less than the first thickness, and an inner end of the lower frame and an end of the protruding portion are spaced apart horizontally. |
| US11870418B2 |
Acoustic wave device
An acoustic wave device includes first and second acoustic wave elements. The first acoustic wave element is disposed on a piezoelectric substrate, and includes at least one first IDT electrode. The second acoustic wave element is disposed on the piezoelectric substrate, and includes at least one second IDT electrode. The first and second acoustic wave elements are adjacent to each other in the direction of acoustic wave propagation. A diffracting component that diffracts an acoustic wave is disposed between the first IDT electrode and the second IDT electrode. The diffracting component includes a gap that defines and functions as a slit to diffract an acoustic wave. |
| US11870414B2 |
Film bulk acoustic resonator chip and package structure with improved temperature coefficient
A film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) chip and package structure with an improved temperature coefficient that is capable of being more stable with respect to surrounding temperature changes, without any decrease in performance of Q factor or k2e. The FBAR chip and package structure includes a plurality of FBARs located on a central area of one surface of a substrate and each having a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric material, and a top electrode; and a temperature compensation layer formed around the central area of one surface of the substrate. |
| US11870413B2 |
Antenna structure and communications terminal
An antenna structure includes a first antenna radiator, a second antenna radiator, a first impedance matching circuit, a second impedance matching circuit, and a signal source, wherein the first antenna radiator is coupled to the second antenna radiator by means of a slot; the end of the first antenna radiator away from the slot is grounded, and the first antenna radiator is provided with a feed point, the end of the second antenna radiator away from the slot is grounded; a first end of the first impedance matching circuit is connected to the feed point, and a second end of the first impedance matching circuit is connected to a first end of the signal source; a first end of the second impedance matching circuit is connected to a third end of the first impedance matching circuit, and a second end of the second impedance matching circuit is grounded. |
| US11870411B2 |
Method for manufacturing a substrate for a radiofrequency device
A process for fabricating a substrate for a radiofrequency device by joining a piezoelectric layer to a carrier substrate by way of an electrically insulating layer, the piezoelectric layer having a rough surface at its interface with the electrically insulating layer, the process being characterized in that it comprises the following steps: —providing a piezoelectric substrate having a rough surface for reflecting a radiofrequency wave, —depositing a dielectric layer on the rough surface of the piezoelectric substrate, —providing a carrier substrate, —depositing a photo-polymerizable adhesive layer on the carrier substrate, —bonding the piezoelectric substrate to the carrier substrate by way of the dielectric layer and of the adhesive layer, in order to form an assembled substrate, —irradiating the assembled substrate with a light flux in order to polymerize the adhesive layer, the adhesive layer and the dielectric layer together forming the electrically insulating layer. |
| US11870409B2 |
Compact transformer-based notch filter
A notch filter is coupled to a first input node and a second input node, and is configured to present a capacitive load to a differential signal provided to the first and second input nodes, and to present a series-resonant inductive-capacitive load to a common-mode signal provided to the first and second input nodes. The notch filter includes a transformer and a capacitor bank. The transformer includes a first winding having a positive-polarity terminal coupled to the first input node and a second winding having a positive-polarity terminal coupled to the second input node. The capacitor bank includes a first capacitor coupled between a negative-polarity terminal of the first winding and a bias node, and a second capacitor coupled between a negative-polarity terminal of the second winding and the bias node. The first and second capacitors may be variable capacitors. |
| US11870408B2 |
Two-stage lateral bulk acoustic wave filter
Acoustic wave filter devices are disclosed. A device includes a layer providing or on a topmost layer of an acoustic reflector. The intermediary layer has a first region and a second region. The first region has a first layer thickness and the second region has a second layer thickness different from the first layer thickness. The device includes a first multilayer stack on the first region and a second multilayer stack on the second region of the intermediary layer. Each of the first and the second stacks includes a piezoelectric layer on a counter electrode that is located on the respective region, an input and an output electrode. Application of a radio frequency voltage between the input electrode and the counter electrode layer of the first stack creates acoustic resonance modes in the piezoelectric layer between the input and output electrodes of the first and the second stack. |
| US11870407B2 |
Method and apparatus for bias control with a large dynamic range for Mach-Zehnder modulators
Improved dither detection, measurement, and voltage bias adjustments for an electro-optical modulator are described. The electro-optical modulator generally includes RF electrodes and phase heaters interfaced with semi-conductor waveguides on the arms of Mach-Zehnder interferometers, where a processor is connected to output a bias tuning voltage to the electro-optical modulator for controlling optical modulation. A variable gain amplifier (VGA) can be configured with AC coupling connected to receive a signal from a transimpediance amplifier (TIA) that is configured to amply a photodetector signal from an optical tap that is used to measure an optical signal with a dither signal. The analog to digital converter (ADC) can be connected to receive output from the VGA. The processor can be connected to receive the signal from the ADC and to output the bias tuning voltage based on evaluation of the signal from the tap. |
| US11870405B2 |
Optimized multi gain LNA enabling low current and high linearity including highly linear active bypass
An LNA having a plurality of paths, each of which can be controlled independently to achieve a gain mode. Each path includes at least an input FET and an output FET coupled in series. A gate of the output FET is controlled to set the gain of the LNA. Signals to be amplified are applied to the gate of the input FET. Additional stacked FETs are provided in series between the input FET and the output FET. |
| US11870404B2 |
Gain stabilization
An apparatus is disclosed for gain stabilization. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an amplifier and a gain-stabilization circuit. The amplifier has a gain that is based on a bias voltage and an amplification control signal. The gain-stabilization circuit is coupled to the amplifier and includes a replica amplifier. The replica amplifier has a replica gain that is based on the bias voltage and the amplification control signal. The gain-stabilization circuit is configured to adjust at least one of the bias voltage or the amplification control signal based on a gain error associated with the replica amplifier. |
| US11870401B2 |
Power amplifier module, frontend circuit, and communication device
A PA module includes: a multilayer substrate having a ground pattern layer connected to a ground of a power source; amplifier transistors disposed on the multilayer substrate; a bypass capacitor having one end connected to the collector of the amplifier transistor; a first wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a second wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a third wiring line connecting the other end of the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer to each other; and a fourth wiring line formed between the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer and between the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer and connecting the first wiring line and the third wiring line to each other. |
| US11870399B2 |
Receiver for cancelling common mode offset and crosstalk
A receiver for cancelling common mode offset and crosstalk that amplifies a voltage difference between an input signal and a reference voltage to generate first and second output signals and an internal signal, that generates the same third and fourth output signals as the first and second output signals, generates average voltage levels of the third and fourth output signals by using first and second switching elements and low pass filters to output the average voltage levels as first and second feedback signals, and cancels a common mode offset between the first output signal and the second output signal based on a voltage difference between the first feedback signal and the second feedback signal, and that generates a control signal to cancel crosstalk of the internal signal by turning on/off the first and second switching elements connected to the low pass filters. |
| US11870398B2 |
Constant VDS1 bias control for stacked transistor configuration
Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are presented, where the amplifier can have a varying supply voltage. According to one aspect, the gate of the input transistor of the amplifier is biased with a fixed voltage whereas the gates of the other transistors of the amplifier are biased with variable voltages that are linear functions of the varying supply voltage. According to another aspect, the linear functions are such that the variable voltages coincide with the fixed voltage at a value of the varying supply voltage for which the input transistor is at the edge of triode. According to another aspect, biasing of the stacked transistors is such that, while the supply voltage varies, the drain-to-source voltage of the input transistor is maintained to a fixed value whereas the drain-to-source voltages of all other transistors are equal to one another. |
| US11870396B2 |
Open-loop valley regulation for supply voltage modulation in power amplifier circuits
Techniques are described for using valley detection for supply voltage modulation in power amplifier circuits. Embodiments operate in context of a power amplifier circuit configured to be driven by a supply voltage generated by a supply modulator and to receive an amplitude-modulated (AM) signal at its input. The output of the power amplifier circuit can be fed to a valley detector that can detect a valley level corresponding to the bottom of the envelope of the AM signal. The detected valley level can be fed back to the supply modulator and compared to a constant reference. In response to the comparison, the supply modulator can vary the supply voltage to the power amplifier circuit in a manner that effectively tracking the envelope of the power amplifier circuit's output signal, thereby effectively seeking a flat valley for the output signal's envelope. |
| US11870395B2 |
Detection circuit for connection impedance and electronic device
The present invention provides a detection circuit for a connection impedance and an electronic device. The detection circuit includes: a detection operational amplifier module, wherein the detection operational amplifier module includes: a first buffer, a switch unit, and a main operational amplifier; a first input terminal of the first buffer is connected to a first acquisition electrode through a first front-end circuit, an output terminal of the main operational amplifier is connected to a back-end circuit, and an output terminal of the first buffer is connected to a second input terminal of the first buffer; a first terminal of the switch unit is directly or indirectly connected to the first front-end circuit, and a second terminal of the switch unit is connected to the back-end circuit; and the switch unit is configured to: control the first front-end circuit to be directly connected to the back-end circuit, to form a straight-through channel. |
| US11870394B2 |
Demodulator and wireless receiver including the same
There is provided a demodulator that makes it possible to reduce or avoid deterioration in demodulation performance due to nonlinearity of input amplitude-frequency characteristics of a variable capacitive element included in an analog control signal input section of a frequency variable oscillator, while suppressing an influence of noise. The demodulator includes: a low-resolution A/D converter that performs analog-digital conversion of a first phase difference signal to generate a second phase difference signal that is digital; a low-resolution D/A converter that performs digital-analog conversion of the second phase difference signal to generate a third phase difference signal; an analog subtractor that subtracts the third phase difference signal from the first phase difference signal to generate a first control signal; an ADPLL that generates a second control signal; and an FVO that generates the oscillation signal on the basis of the first control signal and the second control signal. |
| US11870392B2 |
Solar energy system
A modular, solar energy system comprising one or more modular solar panels. The solar panels include a pair of general planar, plates that are secured together to form a narrow channel therebetween for the circulation of a liquid. The solar panels have inlet and outlet fluid lines in fluid communication via manifolds with a cold fluid supply line and a warm fluid return line, respectively. The plates are preferably constructed of aluminum and one plate has a photovoltaic cell matrix affixed thereto to face the sun. The plates have dividers or partitions that enhance the heat transfer characteristics with respect to the liquid flowing though the channel between the plates. |
| US11870390B2 |
Receiver for free-space optical power beaming
A free-space optical power beaming device may be configured to receive a light beam from an external source. The device may include a plurality of photovoltaic elements configured to convert light to electrical energy; a plurality of electrical charge storage elements, and a light reflector element configured to reflect a light beam toward one or more of the plurality of photovoltaic elements. Each electrical charge storage element may be coupled with at least of one of the plurality of photovoltaic elements and configured to store electrical energy output from the at least one of the plurality of photovoltaic elements. In some aspects a set of the plurality of photovoltaic elements may be configured in a tilted manner. In other aspects the light reflector element may be steerable to reflect a light beam toward one or more of the plurality of photovoltaic elements to provide a desired time-averaged light intensity distribution. |
| US11870388B2 |
Modular, retractable, solar array and methods for manufacturing same
A portable, retractable, solar racking system comprises a modular set of solar panel frames, each solar panel frame comprising a solar panel, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of struts, the arms and the struts forming a structure to which the solar panel is secured, a pivoting connector assembly mechanically connecting one of the solar panel frames to another one of the solar panel frames to form a solar panel array having a longitudinal extent, the pivoting connector assembly of the solar panel frames configured to collapse the solar panel array along the longitudinal extent into a storage position and to expand the solar panel array along the longitudinal extent into an extended position in which each solar panel is tilted from vertical to an angle away therefrom, and the solar panel array comprising sets of wheels permitting the solar panel array to roll upon ground. |
| US11870387B2 |
Corner piece for palletization of solar cell panels
Proposed is a corner piece for palletization of solar cell panels, wherein the corner piece prevents stacked solar cell panels from colliding with each other, keeps the stacked solar cell panels from being shaken or impacted, and enables a solar cell panel having a frame fabricated with two types of sides having different widths to be interlocked. The corner piece includes: a right-angled corner part covering two right-angled sides of a frame of a solar cell panel, a support piece supporting the frame thereon; a pressing piece extending inward from the right-angled corner part so as to press the frame, and having a first locking protrusion; a fixing protrusion part protruding upward from the top of the right-angled corner part; and a concave hole formed in the lower surface of the right-angled corner part so as to receive the fixing protrusion part of another corner piece for combination. |
| US11870385B2 |
Linear motors with embedded encoder
A linear motor includes a magnetic assembly and a coil assembly having at least one coil positioned to magnetically engage the magnetic assembly for linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly. The linear motor further includes an encoder strip attached to one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly and an encoder reader attached to the other one of the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly to read the encoder strip during the linear displacement between the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly. |
| US11870379B2 |
Control device for rotating electrical machine
The control device includes a target-value calculation unit calculating a target-value of a controlled variable that is torque of a rotating electrical machine, drive force, or acceleration of a vehicle, based on redundant signal and non-redundant signals, an inverter operation unit operating the inverter to control the controlled variable to the target-value, and a monitoring-value calculation unit calculating a target-monitoring-value of the controlled variable based on the redundant signal. A difference calculation unit that, when the vehicle travels forward, calculates a difference between the target-value and the target-monitoring-value when the target-value is a first determination value or more, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is less than the first determination value, and that, when the vehicle travels rearward, calculates the difference when the target-value is a second determination value or less, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is more than the second determination value. |
| US11870378B2 |
Rotary electric machine control apparatus
A rotary electric machine control apparatus is provided which controls energization of a rotary electric machine having a plurality of winding sets. The apparatus includes an energization control circuit that is provided for each of the winding sets and has a switching element related to switching of energization to the winding set, a driver circuit that outputs a drive signal to the switching element through a signal line connected to the switching element, and a protection element that is connected to the signal line and in parallel with the switching element. When combinations of the winding sets and electronic components including the energization control circuit provided for each of the winding sets are regarded as systems, in at least one of the systems, performance of the protection element is differentiated from that in the other system to make noise resistance different from noise resistance in the other system. |
| US11870376B2 |
Method and device for calibrating an offset angle
A method (100) for calibrating an offset angle (PhiO) for field-oriented control of an electric machine (210) between an angle signal (W) of a position encoder (220) and the direction of the rotor flux (RF), having the steps of: periodically varying (120) a current vector (Is) along a line of constant torque; ascertaining (130) a speed signal (n_t) of the position encoder (220) of the electric machine (210); calibrating (140) the offset angle (PhiO) on the basis of the ascertained speed signal (n_t). |
| US11870375B2 |
Motor apparatus and vehicle
A motor apparatus is provided. The motor apparatus includes a motor having a rotor and a stator, an inverter used to covert an input voltage into a three-phase alternating current (AC) voltage and provide the three-phase AC voltage to the motor, an inverter controller used to control the inverter, and a rotation angle sensor. The rotation angle sensor is fixed to the motor and is used to detect a rotation angle of the motor. The inverter controller includes a calculator. The calculator calculates an offset angle of an installation position of the rotation angle sensor according to a difference between a measured value and a theoretical value of a voltage phase of the motor. |
| US11870373B2 |
Predictive torque control and capacitor balancing of a silicon-carbide based dual t-type drive system
Capacitor balancing of a dual three-level (3L) T-type converter based on silicon carbide (SiC) discrete semiconductors was performed with the converter feeding an open-ends induction motor (OEIM). A model predictive control (MPC) using a two step cost function calculation was developed to balance the DC link capacitors and control the machine torque simultaneously. The number of redundant switching states used was reduced without affecting the operating voltage vectors, which substantially reduced the computational time. A simulation and experimental results are in good agreement. |
| US11870370B2 |
Variable resistance brake caster assembly
A brake mechanism for a brake caster is disclosed. In various embodiments, the brake mechanism includes a roller cylinder having a hollow interior and an inner cylindrical surface; a brake shaft disposed within the hollow interior of the roller cylinder and having an outer cylindrical surface; a piezoelectric disk disposed within the hollow interior of the roller cylinder; and a rotor disk disposed adjacent the piezoelectric disk. |
| US11870364B2 |
Two-wire electronic switch and dimmer
A bidirectional switch and dimmer for the control of power from an AC source to a load is described. The approach uses power MOSFETs in a bidirectional switch subcircuit configuration that includes a floating AC/DC power supply and a solid state double pole switch that alternates between connection of the AC source to the load and periodic connection of the AC source to the AC/DC power supply. The switch and dimmer circuit configuration allows insertion into an existing single-phase circuit using only two wires. The design allows for manufacturing the entire circuit on a single chip. |
| US11870363B2 |
High-speed, accurate peak and valley sensing for secondary-controlled flyback converter
A secondary side controller for a flyback converter includes an integrated circuit (IC), which in turn includes: a synchronous rectifier (SR) sense pin coupled to a drain of an SR transistor on a secondary side of the flyback converter; a capacitor having a first side coupled to the SR sense pin, the capacitor to charge or discharge responsive to a voltage sensed at the SR sense pin; a diode-connected transistor coupled between a second side of the capacitor and ground; a first current mirror coupled to the diode-connected transistor and configured to receive, as input current, a reference current from a variable current source; and a peak detect transistor coupled to the diode-connected transistor and to an output of the first current mirror. The peak detect transistor is to output a peak detection signal in response to detecting current from the capacitor drop below the reference current. |
| US11870355B2 |
Power converting device, and control method for power converting device
The present disclosure includes a conversion circuit (10) having a switching element and converting DC voltage into AC voltage by switching operation of the switching element, an isolation transformer (3) for which an input side is connected to the conversion circuit (10), a rectifier circuit (4) connected to an outside of the isolation transformer (3), a resonance circuit connected to the output side of the isolation transformer (3), and a control circuit (100) for controlling the switching element, wherein the control circuit (100) turning on the switching element in a period when current flowing through resonance circuit flows from a low potential side terminal to a high potential side terminal of the switching element via the isolation transformer (3). |
| US11870354B2 |
Asymmetric half-bridge flyback circuit-based converter and control method thereof
An asymmetric half-bridge flyback circuit-based converter is provided. The converter is configured to convert an alternating current (AC) input at an AC input end into a direct current (DC) within a preset voltage value range. The converter includes a full-bridge rectifier circuit, a half-bridge circuit, a resonant circuit, a transformer, a load output circuit, and a control circuit. |
| US11870353B2 |
Dynamic loading for a switching power supply
A power supply unit provides power to a common output node. The power supply unit includes a first power conversion block electrically coupled to convert the electrical power input to a first output power supply share supplied to the common output node. The first power conversion block is configured to decrease output voltage from the first power conversion block based on output current from the first power conversion block reaching a rated current level. A second power conversion block is electrically coupled to convert the electrical power input to a second output power supply share supplied to the common output node. The second power conversion block is configured with a predesignated open circuit voltage setting and is further configured to contribute the second output power supply share to the common output node based on the output voltage at the common output node decreasing to the predesignated electrical voltage setting. |
| US11870350B2 |
Switched-mode power controller with multi-mode startup
A switched-mode power controller includes a primary side controller circuit configured in a startup mode of operation to generate a fixed switching frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) signal with incrementing duty-ratio value. The PWM signal drives a main-switch that charges an inductive device with stored energy and discharges the stored energy into a capacitor on a secondary side to generate a power controller output voltage. Based on a comparison of the power controller output voltage with a reference voltage, the primary side controller circuit is configured to stop the incrementing of the duty-ratio of the PWM signal and begin a quasi-resonant mode of operation during which the primary side controller circuit reduces a number of valleys detected in one or more off-times of the main-switch in one or more respective main-switch switching periods. |
| US11870349B2 |
Input voltage ripple compensation of interleaved boost converter using cycle times
A method and apparatus are described for compensating input voltage ripples of an interleaved boost converter using cycle times. In an embodiment, a phase compensator receives a first duty cycle measurement of a first converter and a second duty cycle measurement of a second converter, compares the first duty cycle to the second duty cycle and generates a phase compensation in response thereto. A phase combiner combines a phase adjustment output and the phase compensation and produces a phase control output, and a cycle controller is coupled to the first and the second converters to generate a first drive signal to control switching of the first converter and to generate a second drive signal to control switching of the second converter, wherein a time of the second drive signal is adjusted using the phase control output. |
| US11870348B1 |
High speed, low quiescent current comparator
An integrated circuit device includes: an input stage configured to receive first and a second input signals and generate a first voltage based on the first input signal and generate a second voltage based on the second input signal; an amplification stage configured to generate a first output current based on the first voltage and a second output current based on the second voltage; a bias stage configured to generate a bias voltage for the amplification stage based on the first and second voltages; a load stage configured to output a differential voltage signal proportional to a current through a device for which current is sensed based on a comparison of the first and second output currents; and an output stage configured to output a signal to control a duty cycle of the device for which current is sensed. |
| US11870341B2 |
Isolated power converter package with molded transformer
An isolated power converter package includes a leadframe including a first and second die pad, first and second supports connected to first leads, second leads. A first semiconductor die is on the first die pad and a second semiconductor die is on the second die pad. The molded transformer includes a top and bottom side magnetic sheet each having a magnetic mold material including magnetic particles in a second dielectric material on respective sides of a laminate substrate including a dielectric material and a first coil and a second coil that each include a coil contact. Edges of the laminate substrate are on the supports. Bond wires are between the first die bond pads and the second leads, between the second die bond pads and the second leads, between the first die bond pads and coil contacts, and between the second die bond pads and the coil contacts. |
| US11870329B2 |
Air-cooled radiator
An radiator includes a radiator body. A first side of the radiator body defines an arc-shaped heat conducting surface. A second side of the radiator body defines a heat dissipating tooth area. The heat dissipating tooth area includes a middle heat dissipating tooth area and two trunk heat dissipating tooth areas symmetrically arranged on two sides of the middle heat dissipating tooth area. A plurality of first heat dissipating fins is arranged in the middle heat dissipating tooth area. Each of the trunk heat dissipating tooth areas includes a trunk and a plurality of second heat dissipating fins. Each trunk is obliquely arranged on the radiator body. The plurality of second heat dissipating fins is arranged on one side of a corresponding trunk away from the plurality of first heat dissipating fins. |
| US11870327B2 |
Vehicle drive device
A vehicle drive device includes: a first electric machine; an electric machine housing accommodating the first electric machine; a live part that is provided inside the electric machine housing and is electrically connected to the first electric machine; and a temperature-control circuit for temperature control for the first electric machine. The temperature-control circuit includes: a first temperature-control circuit through which a non-conductive first temperature-control medium circulates; a second temperature-control circuit through which a conductive second temperature-control medium circulates; and a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first temperature-control medium and the second temperature-control medium. A protection cover including a first protection wall is provided inside the electric machine housing. |
| US11870325B2 |
Motor
The present disclosure provides a motor router comprising: an annular body having a first coil guide; and a guide part formed to protrude from the body, and having a second coil guide to which the first coil guide is connected, and thus the present invention reduces the number of parts and has a simplified configuration, thereby providing an advantageous effect of reducing manufacturing processes and manufacturing costs. |
| US11870315B2 |
Electric pump
An electric pump includes an impeller, a rotor connected to the impeller, a housing housing the rotor, a plurality of divided iron cores surrounding an outer surface of the housing, a plurality of divided coil bobbins respectively attached to the plurality of the divided iron cores, a plurality of divided coils respectively wound around the plurality of the divided coil bobbins, and a bus bar unit including a plurality of bus bars. |
| US11870314B2 |
Current regulators for dual wound synchronous motor drives
A method of controlling a dual wound synchronous machine (DWSM) includes: determining virtual current commands based on a current command associated with each of two winding sets of the DWSM; determining virtual half-motor currents by applying a mathematical transformation on measured output currents; determining half-motor difference currents based on differences between the corresponding virtual current command and the virtual half-motor current; calculating forward path voltage commands based on the corresponding difference currents and using first and second gain factors; determining feedback voltage commands by applying third and fourth gain factors to the virtual half-motor currents; determining virtual final voltage commands based on the corresponding forward path and feedback voltage commands; determining final voltage commands by applying a second mathematical transformation to the virtual final voltage commands; commanding, based on the final voltage commands, inverters to apply corresponding voltages to the two winding sets and thereby generating the output currents. |
| US11870312B2 |
Field coil type rotating electric machine
A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a field coil having first and second windings connected in series with each other, a rotor having main poles on which the first and second windings are wound, and a stator having a stator coil comprised of phase windings to which harmonic currents are respectively supplied to induce field current in the field coil. In the rotor, there are formed a series resonant circuit including the first winding and a capacitor and a parallel resonant circuit including the second winding and the capacitor. The first winding is radially located closer to the stator than the second winding is. Moreover, N1 |
| US11870310B2 |
Method of repairing a hydrogenerator
A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the spider arms. The method for repair includes supporting the rim from the top of the spider and thereby relieving some or all of the weight of the rim being supported by the rim support ledges. |
| US11870309B2 |
Motor and motor drive arrangement
An integrated motor and motor drive arrangement includes a motor having a stator, and a rotor, rotatable relative to the stator to drive a load, the rotor being arranged radially outside the stator, and the stator having an inner surface defining a radially inner space, the motor arrangement further comprising: motor drive components mounted to the inner surface of the stator within the radially inner space. |
| US11870305B2 |
System and method for reduced rotor losses
A rotor assembly includes a plurality of segmented magnets disposed about an outer surface of a rotor core and a plurality of segmented metallic bands configured to secure the plurality of segmented magnets to the outer surface of the rotor core. The number of segments of the segmented metallic bands in an axial direction is greater than the number of segments of the segmented magnets. |
| US11870304B2 |
Rotary electric machine with tubular housing and flange
The present invention provides a rotary electric machine with improved reliability by suppressing a partial increase in surface pressure generated in a stator using a housing with improved roundness. The rotary electric machine of the present invention has a rotor, a stator, and a tubular housing for fixing the stator from an outer peripheral side. The housing has a flange extending in an outer peripheral direction at an axial end portion of an outer peripheral surface, and the flange has a recess extending in a circumferential direction. |
| US11870293B2 |
Wireless charging receiver circuit, control method, and terminal device
A wireless charging receiver circuit, a control method, and a terminal device are disclosed, to compensate for, to some extent, decreases in an output voltage and an output power of the wireless charging receiver circuit due to a great increase in a transmission distance between a secondary coil in the wireless charging receiver circuit and a primary coil in a corresponding wireless charging transmitter circuit. |
| US11870290B2 |
System of determining power generation margin for vehicle, control method thereof and power control apparatus
A vehicle includes: an electrical load; a generator; a battery; and a controller configured to, control the operation of the generator based on the charging rate of the battery, identify a power generation margin representing a ratio of the power that the generator can output to a maximum power based on the duty ratio of the input voltage applied to the generator, and reduce power consumption of the electrical load based on a comparison between the power generation margin and a target margin. The vehicle can prevent or minimize the voltage drop phenomenon of the generator by using the power generation margin of the generator. |
| US11870289B2 |
Method for charging traction battery and battery management system
A method for charging a traction battery includes obtaining a battery parameter of the traction battery that includes a state of charge and/or an open-circuit voltage, and, during a charging process of the traction battery, controlling the traction battery to discharge or stop being charged in response to the battery parameter changing by a parameter gap value. The parameter gap value is a first preset parameter gap value in a scenario in which the battery parameter of the traction battery is in a first parameter interval, and is a second preset parameter gap value in a scenario in which the battery parameter of the traction battery is in a second parameter interval. The first preset parameter gap value is greater than the second preset parameter gap value, and the battery parameter in the first parameter interval is less than the battery parameter in the second parameter interval. |
| US11870288B1 |
Intelligent battery system and method of operation
Provided is a battery system, including: at least two batteries, each battery comprising a battery management system; a plurality of sensors for sensing battery operation data; at least one external connection port; wherein: at least two battery management systems of the at least two batteries are coupled to the at least one external connection port; and at least two battery management systems of the at least two batteries store machine-executable instructions, that when executed, cause the at least one battery management system to communicate battery operation data to at least one external load. |
| US11870286B2 |
Battery charger for electric or hybrid motor vehicles
A battery charger for electric or hybrid motor vehicles including one container body installable on a motor vehicle and defining one housing compartment, the container body comprises one grounding connector to be connected to one grounding electrical potential by one electrical grounding cable, and one electronic appliance housed inside the housing compartment, connectable to one electric battery of the motor vehicle and configured to recharge the battery, wherein the connector comprises a retaining device/structure/unit/component of the electrical grounding cable adapted to block the position thereof. |
| US11870282B2 |
Charging system, method, apparatus and terminal device
A charging system includes: a first battery, a second battery, a switch device, a charging component, and a control component. A capacity of the second battery is smaller than that of the first battery. The switch device is disposed outside the second battery and connected to the second battery. The charging component is connected to the first battery and connected to the second battery via the switch device, and configured to output a charging current to the first battery and the second battery. The control component is connected with the first battery and the second battery, and configured to detect remaining capacity of the first battery and the second battery during a charging process and control the switch device to turn on or turn off based on the remaining capacity. |
| US11870281B2 |
Voltage balancing system
The invention provides a voltage balancing system for balancing controlling of voltage of battery cells including a first set of battery cells and a second set of battery cells connected in series. The system includes a high-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the first set of battery cells, a low-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the second set of battery cells, a microcontroller communicating with the high-side AFE and the low-side AFE, and a communication isolating module interconnecting between the high-side AFE and the microcontroller. The system further includes a balancing module arranged at a back end of the low-side AFE or the high-side AFE to equalize voltages output by the low-side AFE and the high-side AFE. Compared with the prior arts, the system employs a balancing module to balance the voltages of the two sets of battery cells, which can shorten the voltage difference therebetween. |
| US11870280B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling super capacitor charge voltage to extend super capacitor life
A method of determining a lifetime parameter of a capacitor in a failsafe device including measuring an amount of energy required to return the failsafe device to a failsafe position, measuring an effective capacitance of the capacitor, and comparing the amount of energy to the effective capacitance to determine the lifetime parameter of the capacitor. |
| US11870278B2 |
Implantable and external device and method
A device includes: a wireless power receiver configured to receive wireless power from an external device external to a body; a capacitor configured to store therein the wireless power received by the wireless power receiver; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit, to the external device, information associated with stored energy of the capacitor and scheduled energy to be used; and a processor configured to operate with the stored energy of the capacitor and process a biosignal of the body, wherein an operation of the external device and an operation of the device are synchronized, and a wireless power quantity of the wireless power to be received by the wireless power receiver from the external device is determined based on the information transmitted from the wireless transceiver to the external device. |
| US11870276B2 |
Wireless terminal apparatus and wireless power transmitter
A wireless power transfer system includes a wireless terminal apparatus, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless base station (a wide-area base station and a narrow-area base station). The wireless base station creates schedule information containing allocation of wireless resources regarding the wireless data communication and the wireless power transfer on the basis of grasp of a request of the wireless data communication and a request of the wireless power transfer from the wireless terminal apparatus, and transmits the schedule information to the wireless power transmitter and the wireless terminal apparatus. The wireless power transmitter executes the wireless power transfer to the wireless terminal apparatus in accordance with the schedule information. The wireless terminal apparatus receives the wireless power transfer from the wireless power transmitter in accordance with the schedule information, and executes the wireless data communication via the wireless base station. |
| US11870272B2 |
Wireless charging receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, and system of terminal
A wireless charging receiving apparatus of a mobile terminal. The wireless charging receiving apparatus is configured to be disposed inside the mobile terminal and close to a metal rear housing of the mobile terminal, and includes two interconnected coils. The two coils are located in a same plane and are connected in series, and winding directions of the two coils are opposite, so that directions of magnetic fluxes generated by the two coils on the metal rear housing are opposite, thereby resolving a problem of an eddy current on the metal rear housing of the mobile terminal such as a smartphone including a wireless charging system, and reducing a temperature of a metal body and reducing an energy loss without forming a hole or a seam on the metal rear housing. |
| US11870271B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing firmware update in wireless power transmission system
The present specification relates to a wireless power transmission apparatus and a wireless power reception apparatus, which can transmit and update firmware of the wireless power transmission apparatus through out-band communication between the wireless power transmission apparatus and the wireless power reception apparatus, and to firmware updating of the wireless power transmission apparatus using out-band communication. |
| US11870265B2 |
Wind turbine for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply network
Provided is a method for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply network having a network voltage using a wind turbine having an inverter, which has a DC voltage intermediate circuit having an intermediate circuit voltage and a chopper circuit connected to the intermediate circuit for discharging electrical energy from the intermediate circuit. The method includes feeding electrical power into the network in a normal operation if no network fault has been detected, detecting a fault if the network voltage falls below an undervoltage value, interrupting or reducing the feed if the fault has been detected, and ending the interruption or reduction if the end of a network fault is detected. During the fault and/or from the end of the fault, the fed-in power is limited to a limit, and, to limit the power, the intermediate circuit voltage is limited using the chopper circuit depending upon the limit. |
| US11870263B2 |
Appliance level battery-based energy storage
A powered building system that includes an electric power distribution system configured to distribute electrical power to a plurality of receptacles; one or more load sources; and one or more battery systems associated with: a respective receptacle of the plurality of receptacles and a respective load source of the one or more load sources. |
| US11870259B2 |
Electrical load balancing device
A method for controlling an electric device includes monitoring a usage of an electric supply of an electric network and determining that an excess capacity of the electric supply is less than a required power of the electric device. Monitoring the use of the electric supply where the monitoring of the electric supply includes filtering expected electric supply oscillations of the electric supply. Determining that the excess capacity has become greater than the required power. Waiting, in response to determining that the excess capacity has become greater than the required power, a delay time based on a usage profile of the electric supply and enabling the power of the electric device. |
| US11870258B2 |
Power control for a container vessel
Disclosed is a power control system for a container vessel. The power control system has a power interface for supplying energy to at least one reefer container transportable by the container vessel. The power control system also has a controller configured to obtain load data representative of a load on a generator of the container vessel, and target load range data representative of a target load range for the generator. The power control system is configured to control the load such that the load falls within the target load range by the controller increasing energy supplied to the power interface for storage at the at least one reefer container, when the load is below the target load range. |
| US11870247B2 |
Failsafe input/output electrostatic discharge protection with diodes
Systems and methods are provided for fail-safe protection of circuitry from electrostatic discharge due through input and output connections. The power circuitry may include a string of diodes, connections to power lines, and particular diodes for voltage pull-up and pull-down clamping. There may be both a pull-up third diode in the diode string for connection between I/O and VDD and a pull-down third diode between I/O and VSS. During an ESD event the ESD device is configured to hold voltage from exceeding a threshold voltage and damaging internal circuitry. During operational mode the ESD device is turned off and does not interfere with circuit operations. |
| US11870246B2 |
Overshoot current detection and correction circuit for electrical fast transient events
A positive overshoot detection circuit comprises a transistor coupled to a current mirror, a reference current source coupled to the current mirror, and a comparator coupled to the reference current source and the current mirror. The comparator output indicates whether the current mirror's current is greater than the reference current source's current. A control input and a current terminal of the transistor are coupled to a clamping circuit. A negative overshoot detection circuit comprises a biasing sub-circuit coupled to a transistor, a resistor coupled to the transistor, and a comparator coupled to the transistor and the resistor. The comparator output indicates whether the transistor is in an on or off state. The biasing sub-circuit is coupled to a clamping circuit. In some implementations, the comparator outputs from the positive and negative overshoot detection circuits are provided to a driver circuit, which modifies its operation. |
| US11870244B2 |
Common-mode transient immunity (CMTI) circuit and method of operation therefor
A CMTI circuit includes a first detector that receives one or more output signals from an oscillator and a first enable signal and generates a first detection signal when the received output signals are determined to be substantially not oscillating at a first time. The CMTI circuit further includes a first activation signal generator that generates a first activation signal in response to the first detection signal to resume oscillation of the output signals. |
| US11870243B2 |
Method of controlling a renewable power generation plant
Provided is a renewable power generation plant, a computer program product and method of controlling a renewable power generation plant including a power converter for connecting the renewable power generation plant to a power transmission network; a circuit breaker arrangement between the power converter and the power transmission network including a circuit breaker for each phase of the renewable power generation plant; and a converter controller configured to generate control signals for the power converter and control signals for the circuit breaker arrangement; which method includes the steps of detecting the occurrence of a phase-to-ground fault event in one of the phases of the power transmission network; issuing control signals to the circuit breaker arrangement to keep the circuit breakers closed during the phase-to-ground event; and issuing control signals to the power converter to ride through the phase-to-ground fault event. |
| US11870234B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting series arcing in an electrical circuit
Series arcing in wiring is a potentially catastrophic situation that has proven to be difficult to detect reliably with existing methods. This invention allows for the quick and accurate detection of series arcing in an electrical circuit. The method works with AC or DC power sources, and at any voltage or current level. This method will also detect high resistance in a circuit, which is another indicator of a potentially hazardous fault condition. The method compares the voltage at each end of a conductor, and will declare a fault when this voltage exceeds the minimum voltage required to sustain arcing. |
| US11870232B2 |
Battery electric vehicle supermodule
An electrical power distribution module for a vehicle. The electrical power distribution module provided with an upper module and a lower module. The upper module provided with circuit boards for various vehicle components and a temperature control system. The lower module provided with a plurality of isolated busbars, isolated from the surrounding structure. Each isolated busbar is one of a positive busbar, a negative busbar, and a ground busbar. The plurality of isolated busbars are arranged on opposite sides of the lower module and are arranged in an alternating fashion based on polarity. The plurality of isolated busbars are electrically connected to the circuit boards. The plurality of electrical connectors are spaced apart from each other and are configured to provide power and ground connections for the vehicle components. The plurality of isolated busbars are configured to carry different voltages. |
| US11870230B2 |
Connection structure for housing member and protective tube
An object of the present invention is to reduce the size of a connection structure for a housing member for housing a portion of a wire-shaped transmission member and a protective tube for covering the wire-shaped transmission member. A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube includes a wire-shaped transmission member, a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member, and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes a housing body portion for housing the first portion and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion. |
| US11870227B2 |
Building integrated photovoltaic system
A building integrated photovoltaic system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules installed in an array on a roof deck. Each of the photovoltaic modules at least one solar cell, a first encapsulant encapsulating the at least one solar cell, a frontsheet juxtaposed with a first surface of the first encapsulant, and a backsheet juxtaposed with a second surface of the first encapsulant. The frontsheet includes a glass layer, a second encapsulant, and a first polymer layer. The backsheet includes a first layer and a second polymer layer attached to the first layer. Each of the photovoltaic modules includes a wire cover bracket, which is configured to overlap the wire cover bracket of an adjacent one of the photovoltaic modules. |
| US11870226B2 |
Press fit condulet devices, assemblies systems and methods for electrical raceway fabrication
A conduit outlet assembly for a rigid metal conduit raceway of an electrical system is provided. A conduit outlet assembly includes a gasket, a gripping ring, and a condulet assembly. The gasket is sized to circumscribe an outer surface of a rigid metal conduit of the rigid metal conduit raceway. The gripping ring is sized to circumscribe the outer surface of the rigid metal conduit. The condulet assembly is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit, and includes an adapter and a condulet. The adapter includes a compression section and a coupling section, wherein the compression section is sized to receive the rigid metal conduit with the gasket and the gripping ring disposed thereon. The condulet is sized to receive the coupling section of the adapter. |
| US11870225B2 |
Sheathed cable stripper and methods for using same
Disclosed herein is a sheathed cable stripping device and method for using same. A method for stripping and cutting non-metallic sheathed cable (NMSC) using a sheathed cable stripper, the method includes receiving a non-metallic sheathed cable in a wire channel of the sheathed cable stripper; sliding the non-metallic sheathed cable along the wire channel; cutting and removing the sheathing of the non-metallic sheathed cable by pulling the sheathed cable stripper toward the user. In yet other aspects, the sheathed cable stripper reduces time and labor costs associated with wiring while providing a safer, more effective, and efficient manner for cutting and removing sheathing from non-metallic sheathed cable. |
| US11870223B2 |
Method for removing a shielding foil of an electrical cable by means of a rotary stripping machine, and device for supporting the removal of a shielding foil of an electrical cable
A method for removing a shielding foil of an electrical cable includes creating an incision of a first depth in an insulating sheath of the electrical cable wherein the first depth is smaller than or the same as the thickness of the insulating sheath; creating a predetermined breaking point in the shielding foil through at least one radially adjustable perforation tool until the perforation tool has reached a second depth, wherein the second depth corresponds to at least the thickness of the insulating sheath plus at least half of the thickness of the shielding foil; tearing the shielding foil at the predetermined breaking point; and removing the shielding foil. |
| US11870215B2 |
Reconfigurable laser pulse generating circuit
An electrical drive circuit may charge one or more inductive elements, where the electrical drive circuit includes the one or more inductive elements and a capacitive element in series between the one or more inductive elements and the optical load, and where the electrical drive circuit is connected to one or more sources. The electrical drive circuit may generate, after the charging and for a first time interval, a main electrical pulse. The electrical drive circuit may discharge, after the charging and for a second time interval, the one or more inductive elements to provide a compensation electrical pulse, where at least a portion of the second time interval overlaps with the first time interval. The electrical drive circuit may combine the main electrical pulse and the compensation electrical pulse into a combined electrical pulse. The electrical drive circuit may provide the combined electrical pulse to the optical load. |
| US11870213B2 |
Semiconductor laser, semiconductor laser array and method of manufacturing semiconductor laser
A semiconductor laser in which a PD unit monitoring an optical output is integrated is provided. A semiconductor laser (100) includes: a DFB unit including a back surface side first cladding layer (3), a first diffraction grating layer (9), a light emitting layer (1) having a first MQW structure and emitting a laser beam, a front surface side first cladding layer (6), and a first contact layer (12) which are stacked; a DBR unit including a back surface side second cladding layer (4) having a resistivity higher than that of the back surface side first cladding layer (3), a second diffraction grating layer (10) reflecting part of the laser beam toward the DFB unit, a first core layer (2a) guiding a remnant of the laser beam and having an effective bandgap energy smaller than that of the first MQW structure, and a front surface side second cladding layer (7) having a resistivity higher than that of the front surface side first cladding layer (6) which are stacked; and a PD unit including a back surface side third cladding layer (5), a second core layer (2b) having a second MQW structure absorbing the remnant of the laser beam guided by the first core layer (2a), a front surface side third cladding layer (8), and a second contact layer (14) which are stacked. |
| US11870204B2 |
PSE device and powered device of optical power supply system, and optical power supply system
An optical power supply system includes a first data communication device and a second data communication device. The first data communication device includes a power sourcing equipment device including a first semiconductor laser; and a first transmitter including a second semiconductor laser and a first modulator. The second data communication device includes a powered device comprising a photoelectric conversion element; a receiver; a data processing unit; and a second transmitter including a third semiconductor laser and a second modulator. The first data communication device and the second data communication device perform optical communication with each other. The electric power obtained by the conversion of the feed light by the photoelectric conversion element is driving power for the second transmitter and the receiver. |
| US11870202B2 |
Solid-state power amplifiers with cooling capabilities
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate. For example, a processing chamber can include a power source, an amplifier connected to the power source, comprising at least one of a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor or a gallium arsenide (GaAs) transistor, and configured to amplify a power level of an input signal received from the power source to heat a substrate in a process volume, and a cooling plate configured to receive a coolant to cool the amplifier during operation. |
| US11870201B2 |
Fiber optic device operational monitoring
A monitoring device may receive sensor information, associated with an optical device included in a high-power fiber laser, from a set of sensors associated with the optical device. The monitoring device may determine, based on the sensor information, a set of operational properties of the optical device. The set of operational properties may include: a health property that describes a health of one or more components of the optical device, a degradation property that describes degradation of one or more components of the optical device, an environmental property that describes an environment of the optical device, or a process property associated with a process in which the optical device is being used. The monitoring device may identify whether an operational property, of the set of operational properties, satisfies a condition, and may selectively perform a monitoring action based on whether the operational property satisfies the condition. |
| US11870199B2 |
Terminal protection voltage detector circuit for protecting terminals of power supply apparatus
A terminal protection voltage detector circuit is provided for protecting a terminal block having output terminals in a power supply apparatus. A current detector detects output currents flowing from the power supply apparatus to loads via output terminals, and a first comparator configured to compare a sum of the detected output currents with a predetermined first threshold and output a first comparison result signal when the sum of output currents is larger than or equal to the first threshold. A second comparator configured to compare a maximum value of detected output currents with a predetermined second threshold and output a second comparison result signal when the maximum value is equal to or larger than the second threshold. A current stop circuit stops a current from flowing from the power supply apparatus to the output terminals based on the first or second comparison result signal. |