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| US11910503B2 |
System and method for determining a characteristic of an input signal
An LED power supply (100) configured to detect a characteristic of an input signal, includes a Buck power factor control circuit (D1, U1, Q1, D2, L1, C1) being configured to receive an input signal, the input signal (VAC) being referenced to a power ground, and to output an output signal, the output signal (Vout) being referenced to an output ground, wherein the output ground is level shifted with respect to the power ground; and a controller (106) configured to output an LED drive signal, the controller referenced to the output ground, wherein the controller is configured to determine the characteristic of the input signal according to a switching time of the Buck power factor control circuit, the switching time of the Buck power factor control circuit being determined by the controller according to a switching signal referenced to the output ground. |
| US11910502B2 |
LED driver for LED lighting systems for replacing a high-intensity discharge lamp
An LED driver for an LED lamp, which also comprises an LED load. The LED driver is adapted to connect to an input source at a first and second terminal. The LED driver comprises a switching arrangement configured to enable a controller to control at least a magnitude and phase of the voltage between the first and second terminals. The phase of the voltage between the first and second terminals may be defined to control an amount of power that flows from the input source to power the LED lamp. |
| US11910500B2 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source and a driver. The first light source has multiple first LED modules. The second light source has multiple second LED modules. The driver controls the first light source and the second light source to generate an output light of a required mixed color temperature. The driver selects a first subset of the multiple first LED modules and a second subset of the multiple second LED modules to generate a first output light with a first color temperature. The driver selects a third subset of the multiple first LED modules and a fourth subset of the multiple second LED modules to generate a second output light with a second color temperature. The first subset is not equal to the third subset. The second subset is not equal to the fourth subset. |
| US11910495B2 |
Conductive ink with enhanced mechanical fatigue resistance
A conductive ink may comprise a high temperature thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and a plurality of conductive particles disposed in the high temperature TPU. The plurality of conductive particles may comprise between 60% and 95% of the conductive ink by weight. The high temperature TPU may include a melting point between 120° C. and 200° C. The conductive ink may be used for external heated composite structures, such as rotor blades, fixed wings, faring, engine lip electrothermal ice protection, or the like. The conductive ink may have enhanced mechanical fatigue resistance. |
| US11910494B2 |
High-temperature component and method for the production thereof
A method for producing a high-temperature includes forming a dimensionally stable green body of the high-temperature component from a matrix material and pyrolizing the matrix material. A material mixture of the matrix material with a carbon material is used to form the high-temperature component, and a thermoplastic is used as the matrix material. The green body is formed by additive manufacturing. |
| US11910493B2 |
Heating a bulk medium
The present disclosure generally relates to a system for heating a bulk medium includes two or more electrodes spaced apart from one another and coupled to the bulk medium; and a power control system coupled to the electrodes, the power control system configured to heat the bulk medium by shaping a density of the current along a current path between the electrodes, thereby, producing an effective resistance along the current path in the bulk medium that is greater than the resistance of the bulk medium to a DC current, in which the power control system shapes the density of the current within a depth of the bulk medium by tuning a skin-depth of the current, and in which the power control system shapes the density of the current in a direction across the current path by the power control system by tuning a proximity effect of the current. |
| US11910488B2 |
Enhancement of feature support after interworking
A method of enhancing IP packet forwarding feature support after interworking is proposed. When a PDU session in 5GS is transferred to a PDN connection in EPS, the UE shall assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from 5GS to EPS. When a PDN connection is established in EPS, the network indicated that the feature is not supported, and the network provided 5GSM parameters for ESM/5GSM interworking for this PDN connection, then UE shall assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from EPS to 5GS, the UE shall also assume the feature is supported after inter-system change from 5GS back to EPS. The IP packet forwarding features include PS data off and local IP address in TFT. |
| US11910487B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring control information in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, including receiving, from a base station, at least one parameter for a search space, monitoring, on the search space, downlink control information (DCI) related with power saving, the search space being identified based on the at least one parameter, and the DCI including a wake up signal indicating whether to monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a bandwidth part (BWP) indication related with the wake up signal, and performing a PDCCH monitoring based on the wake up signal and the BWP indication included in the DCI. |
| US11910473B2 |
Wireless communication device, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and recording medium
A wireless communication device includes a processor and a memory configured to store a program for establishing a wireless connection with a terminal device. The processor establishes, in accordance with the program stored in the memory, the wireless connection with the terminal device upon request for the wireless connection from one of the wireless communication device and the terminal device. Upon establishment of the wireless connection with the terminal device, the processor queries the terminal device with which the wireless connection is established to check a state of an application program for causing the wireless communication device to execute a specific function. The processor maintains or cuts off the wireless connection with the terminal device based on a state of a response of the terminal device with respect to the query. |
| US11910469B2 |
Early connected discontinuous reception
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for connected discontinuous reception (CDRX), the configuration indicating a first condition associated with a first CDRX parameter and a second condition associated with a second CDRX parameter. The UE may transition to a CDRX cycle when the first condition and the second condition are satisfied prior to an expiration of a CDRX inactivity timer. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11910467B2 |
Channel detection indication method, terminal, and network device
This disclosure discloses a channel detection indication method, a terminal, and a network device. The method includes: obtaining at least two sets of configuration information, where the at least two sets of configuration information are related to monitoring a physical downlink control channel PDCCH; determining target configuration information from the at least two sets of configuration information; and monitoring the PDCCH based on the target configuration information. |
| US11910466B2 |
Method and apparatus for operating of network and user equipment supporting mobility of user equipment in wireless communication system
A wireless user device comprises at least one antenna, at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that cause the wireless user device to: receive first radio access network-based notification area (RNA) information, wherein the wireless user device is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive mode; receive, from a base station, second RNA information different from the first RNA information, and an access barring threshold value, based on a difference between the first RNA information and the second RNA information and based on the access barring threshold value, determine that an RNA update indication is allowed, transmit, to the base station and based on determining that the RNA update indication is allowed, an RNA update indication message, receive an RNA update reject message responsive to the RNA update indication message, and after receiving the RNA update reject message and while a timer is running, start a cell reselection. |
| US11910464B2 |
Radio bearer establishment in wireless communication networks
A terminal apparatus that communicates with one or multiple base station apparatuses includes: a receiver configured to receive an RRC connection reconfiguration message including a DRB configuration from a base station apparatus of the one or multiple base station apparatuses; and a processing unit configured to associate an DRB that is established with an EPS bearer identity included in information of a DRB configuration in a case that information indicating that a full configuration is applied is included in the RRC connection reconfiguration message received by the receiver, a DRB identity included in the information of the DRB configuration is not present in a part of a current configuration of the terminal apparatus, and an LTE PDCP entity is established in the DRB that is established and has the DRB identity. |
| US11910458B2 |
Non-terrestrial network user equipment behavior in case of failures in location tracking
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include establishing a connection between the UE and a network node of a non-terrestrial network, identifying, based on a synchronization failure event and while the UE is in a connected mode in accordance with establishing the connection, that a location failure condition has occurred for the connection, and performing, at least in part in response to the location failure condition, one or more actions of a location failure recovery procedure to restore a synchronization associated with the connection. |
| US11910451B2 |
Method and apparatus for identifying user in radio access network communication system
A method and an apparatus for identifying a user in a radio access network (RAN), and a first node in the wireless communication system are provided. The method includes identifying a unique identifier of a UE, identifying a radio access network (RAN) UE identifier of the UE, and transmitting information related to a mapping relation between the RAN UE identifier and the unique identifier of the UE to a second node, based on the unique identifier of the UE. |
| US11910449B2 |
Methods, infrastructure equipment and wireless communications networks
A method of operating a first infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises transmitting radio signals to and/or receiving radio signals from a second of infrastructure equipment using frequency resources of a first of bandwidth parts, a first infrastructure equipment being connected to the second infrastructure equipment on a downlink of the first infrastructure equipment and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the second infrastructure equipment, and transmitting radio signals to and/or receiving radio signals from a third of the infrastructure equipment using frequency resources of a second of bandwidth parts, the first infrastructure equipment being connected to the third infrastructure equipment on an uplink of the first infrastructure equipment and configured to receive allocated uplink communications resources from the third infrastructure equipment. |
| US11910445B2 |
Random access method and device
A method and device of random access are provided. The method may be applied to a base station. The base station may transmit a broadcast message to a user equipment (UE). The broadcast message may include physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information and supplementary resource indication information. The PRACH configuration information may include first indication information for characterizing first physical resource and second indication information for characterizing a random access preamble sequence. The base station may obtain a location of a first reference synchronization broadcast block (SSB) synchronization signal according to the first physical resource corresponding to the PRACH configuration information. The base station may monitor, when the sending of the first reference SSB synchronization signal fails, the random access preamble sequence on the second physical resource corresponding to the supplementary resource indication information. |
| US11910444B2 |
Random access channel (RACH) response (RAR) reception in an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum band
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses to enable a user equipment (UE) and a base station to improve reception of a random access response (RAR) by the UE in an unlicensed spectrum. A network may define a procedure for calculating a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) specific to unlicensed spectrum based on an extended RAR window. The calculation procedure may allow UEs transmitting in the window to calculate a unique RA-RNTI and identify a RAR addressed to the UE using the unique RA-RNTI. Additionally, or alternatively, a base station may transmit a RAR including timing information associated with a corresponding random access request. Accordingly, a UE may receive the RAR and compare the timing information with its own random access request in order to determine whether the RAR is addressed to the UE. Additionally, a UE may monitor a secondary cell or a sub-band for the RAR. |
| US11910442B2 |
Random access control method and random access control device
The present disclosure provides a random access control method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes that a user equipment (UE) determines whether the random access process is successfully completed in response to receiving a bandwidth part switch command for a cell associated with a random access process during the random access process. Additionally, the UE stops the random access process in response to determining that the random access process is unsuccessfully completed. Furthermore, the UE switches a bandwidth part according to the bandwidth part switch command without continuing the random access process in the switched bandwidth part. |
| US11910437B2 |
Conflict avoidance in a cellular network
Methods for managing transmission resource conflicts, particularly for cellular networks utilised unlicensed resources. Mobile devices may be configured using higher layer signalling to respond to RTS signals if the transmission resources are available. |
| US11910434B2 |
Sidelink channel access timeline techniques for wireless communications systems
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a configuration for performing channel sensing. The configuration may include one or more parameters corresponding to a processing time associated with the channel sensing. The UE may adjust the processing time associated with the channel sensing based on the one or more parameters and a full duplex capability of the first UE. The UE may transmit, using a first set of resources, a sidelink message based on the adjusted processing time. In some examples, the UE may transmit a first data message associated with a first priority level and perform channel sensing for a second data message associated with a second priority level that is higher than the first priority level. The UE may drop the first data message, skip an interference cancellation, or a combination thereof. |
| US11910430B2 |
Collision resolution for channel state information reporting on a physical uplink control channel
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify multiple channel state information (CSI) reports scheduled to be transmitted in a slot on respective physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. For example, the multiple CSI reports may include one or more CSI reports associated with a first service type and one or more CSI reports associated with a second service type. The UE may select, from the multiple CSI reports, one or more CSI reports to be transmitted in the slot based at least in part on a first priority associated with the first service type and a second priority associated with the second service type. Accordingly, the UE may transmit, in the slot, one or more PUCCH transmissions that include the one or more selected CSI reports. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11910426B2 |
Interference management for sidelink relaying
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For instance, a first wireless device may transmit a first transmission of a transport block to a user equipment (UE). The UE may decode the received transport block and may receive control signaling indicating that a second wireless device is to transmit a second transmission of the transport block based on decoding the transport block. The UE may perform interference cancellation for the second transmission of the transport block from the second wireless device based on receiving the control signaling and may receive a third transmission based on performing the interference cancellation, where a first resource of the second transmission overlaps in time, frequency, or both with a second resource of the third transmission. |
| US11910425B2 |
User equipment and base station involved in the transmission of data
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which comprises a transmitter, which transmits a signal to a base station over a channel, wherein the signal is transmitted based on an initial channel quality information indicating a first channel quality of the channel. A receiver of the UE receives a transmission quality information indicating a second channel quality of the channel used for transmitting the signal. A processing circuitry of the UE estimates a transmission quality based on the initial channel quality information and the transmission quality information, wherein the transmission quality indicates whether the transmission of the signal over the channel was successful or not. |
| US11910424B2 |
Reducing interference from devices at extraordinary altitudes
A method of reducing interference in a mobile communication system is provided to reduce interference caused by a first user equipment, UE, device operating in a cell at a significantly higher altitude than other UE devices in the cell so as to cause interference. The method detects that the first UE device is operating at an altitude considered by the mobile communication system to be an extraordinary altitude and reduces interference caused by the first UE device operating at the extraordinary altitude by controlling the operation of the first UE device. |
| US11910423B2 |
Systems and methods for reducing false radar detection
Methods and systems for distinguishing between radar signals and Wi-Fi signals are provided. When a set of electromagnetic signals are received, various tests are performed on the signals to determine if the signals are associated with radar pulses or if the signals are more likely to be associated with stray Wi-Fi signals or other non-radar interference. One such test relies on the relatively small variance of frequencies used by radar pulses when compared to the high variation of Wi-Fi signals. Another test relies on the relatively low peak to average power ratio of signals associated with radar pulses when compared to Wi-Fi signals. The tests described herein are an improvement on existing methods for distinguishing radar signals from Wi-Fi signals and result in less switching of Wi-Fi channels due to erroneously detected radar signals. |
| US11910421B2 |
Steering data among serving cells in carrier aggregation
A base station that controls carrier aggregation for a user equipment (UE) includes a memory configured to store weight factors for serving cells that are aggregated to provide wireless connectivity to the UE. The weight factors are determined based on characteristics of the serving cells. In some cases, the weight factors are determined based on frequencies of carriers used by the serving cells to provide the wireless connectivity to the UE. The base station also includes a processor configured to determine, based on the weight factors and a total weight assigned to the UE, weights for transmitting data to the UE via the serving cells. The base station further includes a transceiver configured to transmit data to the UE via the serving cells at priorities that are determined based on the weights for the serving cells. |
| US11910419B2 |
Communication and data processing in wireless communications
Wireless communications may be used to support data processing. A plurality of resources may be indicated for a wireless device to use to communicate and/or process data. Data may be received and processed based on groups of the plurality of resources to be used. For example, the plurality of resources to be used may be associated with different resource groups. |
| US11910418B2 |
Electronic device and method for determining uplink operation in wireless communication system
An electronic device, according to various embodiments of the present invention, may comprise: a first communication circuit configured to provide first wireless communication using a first frequency band; a second communication circuit configured to provide second wireless communication using a second frequency band; a processor operatively connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected with the processor, and configured to store information about the first frequency band and the second frequency band, wherein the memory can store instructions configured to, when executed, enable the processor to communicate with a first base station using the first communication circuit, to receive a first signal from the first base station, and to receive a second signal from a second base station using the second communication circuit on the basis of information on the frequency band while communicating with the first base station, and to select one of a single uplink operation or a dual uplink operation on the basis of information obtained or measured in response to receiving the first signal or the second signal. |
| US11910417B2 |
Base station device, terminal device, and communication method
A terminal apparatus of the present invention receives setting of an initial DL BWP by using an RRC message, the setting of the initial DL BWP comprises setting a first parameter and a second parameter of a CORESET #0, a value of an identifier of the CORESET #0 is 0, the first parameter represents the size of the CORESET #0, and the second parameter represents the size of the initial DL BWP. The terminal apparatus of the present invention receives a DCI format that schedules a PDSCH in an active DL BWP, and identifies, based on a field in the DCI format, a resource block set to which the PDSCH is allocated. A value of the field is determined based on the size of the DL BWP, the start resource block, and the number of consecutively allocated resource blocks. The size of the DCI format in a USS is determined based on the size of the CORESET #0, and when the field is applied to the active DL BWP, the size of the DL BWP is the size of the CORESET #0. |
| US11910416B2 |
Default quasi-colocation for single downlink control information-based multiple transmission reception points
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The DCI may include one or more of an indication of a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states related to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, or a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheme. The UE may decode the DCI and may determine a temporal period associated with the indication of the set of TCI states. The UE may receive, based on the temporal period, the PDSCH according to one or more of the set of TCI states, the one or more receive beams associated with the set of TCI states, the PDSCH scheme, or one or more default receive beams. |
| US11910413B2 |
Traffic-aware channel state information feedback
Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods relate to selecting transmission parameters that optimize a dimension (e.g., time, frequency, and/or spatial) under a set of constraints. A UE may receive a resource allocation mode indication and a traffic parameter indication from a BS. The resource allocation mode indication informs the UE to optimize along a time dimension, a frequency dimension, and/or a spatial domain. The traffic parameter indication informs the UE what constraints to consider for the transmission parameters. The UE may use this information upon receipt of a reference signal in selecting transmission parameters based on the received reference signal, resource allocation mode indication, and traffic parameter indication. The resource allocation mode may correspond to optimization within a single slot or across multiple slots. Once selected, the UE may transmit the transmission parameters to the BS for use in sending the message to the UE. |
| US11910411B2 |
Prediction-based non-terrestrial network satellite beam configuration and switching
A method and apparatus for prediction-based non-terrestrial network beam configuration and switching are provided. A base station determines a bandwidth part configuration for a user equipment, which includes a plurality of bandwidth parts respectively corresponding to a plurality of geographic areas. The base station configures the user equipment with the bandwidth part configuration and determines a position or movement of the user equipment in a first geographic area corresponding to a first bandwidth part. The base station determines, based on the position or movement, whether a criterion for reconfiguring the bandwidth part configuration is met. In response to determining that the criterion is met, the base station reconfigures the bandwidth part configuration of the user equipment while the user equipment is positioned in the first geographic area. The reconfiguration includes modifying the plurality of bandwidth parts to include a second bandwidth part corresponding to a second geographic area. |
| US11910407B2 |
Method for resource allocation in device to device communication
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node configured to, and/or comprising a radio interface and/or comprising processing circuitry configured to receive a unicast request message from a wireless device where the unicast request message includes information associated with a request for a unicast connection, and determine whether to permit establishment of the requested unicast connection based at least in part on the information in the unicast request message. |
| US11910401B2 |
Base station and user equipment
A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: transmit, to the at least one user equipment, a multi-level pre-emption indicator for indicating, as first level information, first information about resources used for at least one short-data transmission within a transmission region which may contain at least one long-data transmission of the at least one user equipment, and, as second level information, second information about the resources used for the short-data transmission, wherein the second information more accurately indicates the resources used than the first information. |
| US11910400B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system
User equipment according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may: receive a radio resource control (RRC) release message including small data transmission (SDT) configuration information related to a configured grant (CG); switch to an RRC INACTIVE state; and, on the basis of a case in which a resource for the CG is activated on the basis of the SDT configuration information, transmit SDT data via the resource. |
| US11910395B2 |
Indication of power boosting for physical downlink control channel and its impact on search space
Aspects presented herein may improve the efficiency of power boosting of PDCCH by a base station and the blind PDCCH detection/decoding performed by a UE. In one aspect, the UE receives, from a base station, a power boost indication for a PDCCH. The UE determines at least one search space based on the power boost indication from the base station. The UE monitors for the PDCCH with the indicated power boost from the base station in the at least one search space. In another aspect, a base station transmits, to a UE, a power boost indication for a PDCCH. The base station applies a power boost to the PDCCH. The base station transmits the PDCCH with the power boost to the UE. |
| US11910393B2 |
Uplink control information sending, uplink control information receiving method, and apparatus
This application discloses methods an apparatuses for sending and receiving uplink control information in the field of communications technology. In some implementations, a terminal device may receive first downlink control information (DCI) from a network device; determine, based on the received first DCI, that an uplink shared channel scheduled by using the first DCI is used to send only uplink control information (UCI); and send first UCI to the network device through the uplink shared channel scheduled by using the first DCI. In other words, the network device indicates to the terminal device by using DCI so that the terminal device can determine, based on an indication of the network device, whether the uplink shared channel scheduled by using the DCI is used to send only the UCI. |
| US11910389B2 |
Scheduling request (SR) overlap with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a collision is to occur between a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission that includes a scheduling request (SR), and multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions in a slot. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), the PUCCH transmission or the multiple PUSCH transmissions based at least in part on determining whether the collision is to occur in the slot. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11910388B2 |
Uplink control channel configuration for wireless communications
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. In some wireless systems (e.g., new radio (NR) systems), a system may employ fixed or variable length uplink burst regions (e.g., in an uplink-centric slot). The base station may semi-statically or dynamically configure a user equipment (UE) or group of UEs for uplink control channel transmissions within an uplink burst region. In semi-static configuration, the UE may determine the uplink control channel transmission based on values transmitted or indicated via higher-layer signaling or based on default values. In dynamic configuration, the UE may receive an indication of actual resources used by the base station in a physical layer message. The UE may transmit using an uplink control channel transmission based on the indication. In some cases, the base station may allocate code division multiplexing (CDM) groups based on which UEs are semi-statically configured and which are dynamically configured. |
| US11910385B2 |
Control channel monitoring configurations for cross-carrier scheduling
Mechanisms for cross-carrier scheduling from a first cell to a second cell in a wireless networking scheme are provided. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first configuration for scheduling in a first cell, the first configuration comprising at least one of a first monitoring periodicity parameter or a first monitoring offset parameter associated with a search space in a second cell different than the first cell; receiving, from the BS, a second configuration for scheduling in the second cell, the second configuration comprising at least one of a different second monitoring periodicity parameter or a different second monitoring offset parameter associated with the search space in the second cell; and monitoring, in the search space in the second cell based on the first configuration and the second configuration, for downlink control information (DCI). |
| US11910383B2 |
Data transmission method, device, equipment, system and storage medium
A data transmission method includes: obtaining data transmission configuration information; determining at least two time-frequency resources according to the data transmission configuration information, the time-frequency resources being used to indicate frequency-domain resources in a time-domain unit; and for each time-frequency resource occupied by user equipment (UE), performing data transmission at a frequency-domain resource location in the time-domain unit indicated by the time-frequency resource. |
| US11910382B2 |
Method of transmitting physical uplink control channel and related device
A method of transmitting a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration including a first PUCCH resource configuration and a second PUCCH resource configuration, receiving a first Downlink Control Information (DCI) format that schedules a first Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and a second DCI format that schedules a second PDSCH, determining a first PUCCH for a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) codebook corresponding to the first PDSCH according to the first PUCCH resource configuration, determining a second PUCCH for a second HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the second PDSCH according to the second PUCCH resource configuration, and transmitting the first PUCCH when the first PUCCH overlaps the second PUCCH in a time domain, the first HARQ-ACK codebook and the second HARQ-ACK codebook multiplexed in the first PUCCH. |
| US11910381B2 |
Multiplexing techniques for uplink transmissions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for a set of uplink data messages. In some examples, the scheduled PUSCH resources may overlap with reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. The UE may determine, in accordance with a multiplexing configuration, a multiplexing schedule for multiplexing the scheduled PUSCH resources with the reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. The UE may transmit the set of uplink data messages on one or more of the scheduled PUSCH resources based on the multiplexing schedule. The described techniques may enable the UE to transmit the set of uplink data messages with improved reliability based on reducing a number of collisions between the set of uplink data messages and other uplink signals transmitted on the reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. |
| US11910379B2 |
Systems and methods for regional assignment of multi-access edge computing resources
A MEC relocation service automatically directs user equipment (UE) away from a “home” multi-access edge computing (MEC) cluster to a different MEC cluster when the home MEC cluster cannot support service while the UE is outside a regional area. A MEC cluster may receive an application service request for MEC services from a UE device outside a regional service area of the MEC cluster. The MEC cluster may determine if service level requirements for the application service request can be met by the MEC cluster. When the service level requirements cannot be met by the network device, the MEC cluster may submit, to a network device, a query for a different MEC cluster in another regional service area. The MEC cluster may establish a direct connection with the different MEC cluster to transfer customer data for the application service request. |
| US11910377B2 |
Method and apparatus for requesting scheduling sidelink resource, and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for requesting scheduling sidelink resources, and a storage medium. The method is applied to a terminal device, and includes: sending a sidelink terminal message to a network device, wherein the sidelink terminal message comprises a request initiated by the terminal device for performing sidelink resource scheduling by the terminal device; receiving a response message corresponding to the sidelink terminal message sent by the network device; in response to that the response message is a first response message indicating that the request from the terminal device is approved, obtaining assigned sidelink resource configuration information from the first response message; and performing sidelink resource scheduling for respective terminal devices within a user group including the terminal device based on the assigned sidelink resource configuration information. |
| US11910376B2 |
Data transmission method, and terminal and network device
A data transmission method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The transmission method includes: acquiring a target uplink transmission manner corresponding to a transmission capability of a terminal; transmitting a data layer of uplink data via at least one antenna panel of the terminal according to a correspondence between data layers of the uplink data and antenna panels of the terminal in the target uplink transmission manner. |
| US11910372B2 |
Enhanced initial access with multi-beam operations
Wireless communication systems and methods related to enhancing initial access for multi-beam operations. A user equipment (UE) selects a synchronization signal block (SSB) that corresponds to a beam and has a reference signal received power (RSRP) above a threshold. The UE receives a system information block (SIB) that includes a plurality of SSB and beam-specific system information pairs. The UE selects beam-specific system information by matching the selected SSB to one of SSBs in the multiple SSB and beam-specific system information pairs. The UE establishes a connection with a base station (BS) using the beam-specific system information. |
| US11910369B2 |
Uplink transmission method, terminal device and network device
The present application provides a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: a terminal device determines a first interlace set on a first carrier according to a first frequency domain reference point, where the first interlace set includes at least one first interlace, the first interlace includes at least two frequency domain units, any two adjacent frequency domain units of the at least two frequency domain units arc non-consecutive, and a frequency domain spacing between any two adjacent frequency domain units of the at least two frequency domain units is equal; and the terminal device performs uplink transmission through frequency-domain units included in the first interlace set. |
| US11910368B2 |
Dynamically capturing location at networks in motion
Systems and methods of controlling a mobile network include processors and memory storing instructions that cause the processors to perform receiving, from an external source or receiver, dynamically updated location data of a controller of the mobile network; determining, based on the dynamically updated location data, one or more permitted radiofrequency (RF) channels through which RF signals are transmitted from a mobile access point associated with the mobile network and traffic data corresponding to the permitted radiofrequency channels; and adjusting a frequency behavior of the mobile access point based on the permitted RF channels and the traffic data. |
| US11910362B2 |
Resource selection for device to device discovery or communication
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to manage interference caused by D2D communications. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a processor. The processor may be configured to perform one or more of the following. The processor may determine to send information using a device-to-device transmission via a resource pool from a plurality of resource pools. Each resource pool may be associated with a range of reference signal receive power (RSRP) values. The processor may determine a RSRP measurement of a cell associated with the WTRU. The processor may select a resource pool from the plurality of resource pools based on the RSRP measurement of the cell. The RSRP measurement of the cell may be within the range of RSRP values associated with the selected resource pool. The processor may send the information using the selected resource pool. |
| US11910349B2 |
Physical layer signaling by devices for requesting positioning-resources
Improved positioning resolution and latency may be achieved via physical layer signaling between a mobile device (UE) and a base station. The physical layer procedures may aid target UEs in enhancing their positioning accuracy and latency, and/or reducing network overhead while boosting UE power efficiency. Accordingly, a UE may transmit, via physical layer signaling to a base station, a request for positioning-resources, for example in response to a determination that current positioning-resources of the UE need to be adjusted. The UE may in turn receive, via physical layer signaling from the base station, an indication of adjusted positioning-resources, and may optionally receive an indication of corresponding allocated grant-resources. The UE may use the adjusted positioning-resources to perform new positioning measurements, and may use the corresponding allocated grant-resources to transmit, via physical layer signaling to the base station, positioning information resulting from the new positioning measurements. |
| US11910347B2 |
Method and apparatus for network controlled radio resource control connection establishment
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to provide a network controlled radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment mechanism. The method, apparatus and computer program product receive a registration request originating with user equipment in a communication network. The method, apparatus and computer program product then construct a registration accept message. The registration accept message includes an Access Stratum Connection Establishment NSSAI (Network Slice Selection assistance information) Inclusion Mode parameter. The method, apparatus and computer program product then transmit the registration accept message to the user equipment. |
| US11910345B2 |
Random access preambles using transmit beams of base station
A method may include receiving, by a base station from a wireless device via a cell, one or more random access preambles from transmit beams of the wireless device. The method may include transmitting at least one random access response identified by a cell radio identifier of the wireless device. The at least one random access response may include a first preamble identifier corresponding to a first random access preamble of the one or more random access preambles. The first random access preamble may be transmitted by a first transmit beam of the transmit beams. The method may include receiving, from the wireless device, data using the first transmit beam. |
| US11910344B2 |
Conference audio management
A method for managing audio during a conference includes steering, at a spatial steering processor of a mobile device, first decoded audio to be projected from a speaker at a first angle. The method also includes steering, at the spatial steering processor, second decoded audio to be projected from the speaker at a second angle. The first decoded audio corresponds to a decoded version of a first audio stream from a first device associated with a first participant of the conference, and the second decoded audio corresponds to a decoded version of a second audio stream from a second device associated with a second participant of the conference. The first decoded audio is synchronized with the second decoded audio. |
| US11910342B2 |
System and methods for controlling out-of-network D2D communications
Embodiments are provided herein for determining a synchronizing master for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network environment. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a discovery signal comprising a timing reference, and determines a transmitter of the discovery signal. In accordance with the determination of the transmitter of the discovery signal, the UE performs one of synchronizing to the timing reference in the discovery signal and transmitting a second discovery signal. The UE performs the synchronizing to the timing reference if the transmitter of the discovery is a cellular network. Alternatively, the UE transmits the second discovery signal upon determining that the transmitter of the discovery signal is a second UE that is out of coverage of a cellular network. |
| US11910337B2 |
Synchronization of audio streams and sampling rate for wireless communication
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for providing a time-stamp based controller for synchronization of sink or source sampling rate with external packet rate. A method for wireless communications includes receiving a transmission of a packet using a wireless transceiver of an electronic device, and using a processor of the electronic device to read a first value of a system timer and store the first value as an arrival time-stamp. The packet is decoded and processed by the processor, and sent to an output. When the processed packet is sent, a second value of the system timer is read, adjusted and stored as a departure time-stamp. The arrival time-stamp and the departure time-stamp are used to calculate an adjustment stimulus for a sample rate actuator of the electronic device. The sample rate actuator is configured to maintain synchronization of sampling rate with an external packet rate. |
| US11910336B2 |
Signal transmission method and related device
A signal transmission method and a related device, to transmit a signal between a network device and a terminal device. The method in the embodiments includes: sending a first synchronization signal/broadcast channel block (SSB) to a first terminal device, where the first SSB includes a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), the synchronization signal and the PBCH use a frequency division multiplexing (FDM) manner in resource occupation, a quantity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols occupied by the synchronization signal is greater than 2, and a quantity of OFDM symbols occupied by the PBCH is greater than 3. |
| US11910334B2 |
Method and device for transmitting synchronization indication information
A method for transmitting synchronization indication information includes: determining, in alternative offset transmission positions, an actual offset transmission position of a synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) to be transmitted; generating actual sending position indication information according to the actual offset transmission position; and transmitting the SSB at the actual offset transmission position, and transmitting the actual sending position indication information through a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). |
| US11910329B2 |
Clutter reflection mitigation in full-duplex communication
A clutter-induced interference at a base station is mitigated through a command from the base station to a user equipment that commands the user equipment to transmit using an increased transmit power. During acquisition, the command may comprise a SIB. During a connected mode of operation, the command may comprise a TPC message, assistance information, an RRC message, or a DCI message. |
| US11910326B2 |
Sub-band-full-duplex interference mitigation
During an uplink TDD slot, an UL UE transmits an UL signal that occupies a slot frequency range. Similarly, during a DL TDD slot, a DL UE receives a DL signal that occupies the slot frequency range. But during an SBFD slot, a UL UE transmits a UL signal that occupies only a first sub-band of the slot frequency range. Similarly, a DL UE receives a DL signal during an SBFD slot that occupies only a second sub-band of the slot frequency range. The second sub-band is distinct from the first sub-band. The DL UE may thus mitigate UE-to-UE interference during an SBFD slot by filtering the DL signal to substantially block the second sub-band from being received at the DL UE. |
| US11910323B2 |
Method for monitoring PDCCH, terminal device, and network device
Embodiments of the present application provide a method for monitoring a PDCCH, a terminal device, and a network device, capable of reducing power consumption when a terminal device monitors a PDCCH. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving a first message sent by a network device, the first message indicating a first time duration and/or whether to monitor a PDCCH within the first time duration; and the terminal device monitoring the PDCCH according to the first message. |
| US11910321B2 |
Repetitive data transmission method and apparatus
This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, to reduce a quantity of times of repeated transmission of data, reduce power consumption of a terminal device, save transmission resources, and maintain a high time diversity gain. The method includes: A network device sends first information, and a terminal device receives the first information, where the first information is used to configure K repeated transmission occasions. The network device and the terminal device repeatedly transmit first data on N repeated transmission occasions in the K repeated transmission occasions, where the N repeated transmission occasions are discontinuous in time domain, K is an integer greater than 1, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than K. |
| US11910315B2 |
Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of terminal in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g. smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, and security and safety-related services), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. In addition, the disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a terminal in a wireless communication system. |
| US11910314B2 |
Sensor aided beam management
System and method for determining positional and activity information of a mobile device in synchronization with the wake-up period of the mobile device to perform antenna beam management and adjusting the wake-up period based on the positional and activity information of the mobile device. A mobile device comprises: a memory; at least one sensor for detecting data: a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor is configured to: synchronize the at least one sensor with a wake-up period of the mobile device; receive the data detected by the at least one sensor; determine positional information based on the received data; determine activity information based on the received data; estimate a forward position of the mobile device based on the positional information and the activity information; and perform a management of antenna beams of the mobile device based on the positional information, the activity information and the forward position. |
| US11910313B2 |
System and method for dynamic adjustment of target wake time service period intervals
A method for communicating over a WiFi channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met; in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met, skipping N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer; after skipping N1 target wait time service periods, determining, by the non-access point station, whether a second skipping criterion is met; and in response to determining that the second skipping criterion is met, skipping N2 subsequent target wait time service periods, N2 being a positive integer greater than N1. |
| US11910308B2 |
Communications devices and methods for selecting a wireless access interface
A communications device transmits data to a mobile communications network or receives data from a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network includes plural infrastructure equipment each providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interfaces may have a different frequency but operate in accordance with the same standard or may use different radio access technologies. The communications device selects one of the wireless access interface by generating a signal reception metric for each of the wireless access interfaces provided by the one or more neighbouring infrastructure equipment and each if the wireless access interfaces provided by the selected infrastructure equipment, and selects or reselects one of the wireless access interfaces provided by the one or more neighbouring infrastructure equipment or one of the wireless access interfaces provided by the selected infrastructure equipment in accordance with predetermined criteria based on the generated signal reception metrics. |
| US11910304B2 |
PLMN selection for massive IoT over satellite access
A communication system including a UE, a base station, and a PLMN is disclosed. The UE may access a radio cell supported by a communication satellite. The UE may select a preferred PLMN for each of multiple potential geographic locations of the UE. The UE may transmit, to the base station via the radio cell and the communication satellite, an indication of the preferred PLMN for each of the multiple potential geographic locations of the UE. The base station may attempt to determine a current geographic location of the UE. The base station may determine a serving PLMN as the preferred PLMN for the current geographic location of the UE and may later determine a second PLMN if the current geographic location changes. The base station determination may not be visible to the UE which may reduce UE signaling and resource usage. |
| US11910302B2 |
Multi-band channel discovery for WLAN
In some examples, in response to determining that a new communication channel is required, a wireless device retrieves information provided from a network node of availability of alternative communication channels for the wireless device. In response to retrieving information that a second communication channel is available for a location within which the wireless device is located, the wireless device removes wireless device specific information and initiates a request to connect to the second communication channel, where the second communication channel is in a frequency range different from a frequency range of the first communication channel. |
| US11910299B2 |
Providing slice attribute information to user equipment in a mobile network environment
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate providing slice attribute information to a user equipment (UE) for one or more slice types with which the user equipment is allowed to establish one or more session(s). In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a network element, a registration request for connection of a UE to a mobile network; performing an authentication for connection of the UE to the mobile network; and upon successful authentication, providing, by the network element, a registration response to the UE, wherein the registration response identifies one or more network slice types with which the UE is authorized to establish a session and the registration response identifies one of: attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types or network location information from which attribute information for each of the one or more network slice types is to be obtained. |
| US11910298B2 |
Communication device, vehicle, and method
A communication device that attaches to a network and performs radio communication, the communication device is configured to receive, from the network, a reject message indicating rejection in response to a request from the communication device to the network or a request for a detach from the network. The communication device is configured to transmit an attach request message to the network. The communication device configured to determine that a state of a service contract with respect to the network is a contract-canceled state when a first condition is satisfied and then a second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is a condition that the receiver consecutively receives the reject message from the network over a predetermined time period, and the second condition is a condition that the attach request message transmitted by the transmitter is rejected by the network. |
| US11910295B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling network slice data rate in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a method for operating a network node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises obtaining slice policy information including a maximum data rate, monitoring a data rate of protocol data unit (PDU) sessions associated with the slice, determining whether a sum of data rates of PDU sessions associated with the slice exceeds the maximum data rate, transmitting, to a second network node, a policy enforcement request message for controlling the sum of data rates of the PDU sessions associated with the slice. |
| US11910292B2 |
Support of user plane transactions over a mobile network
In an embodiment, there is provided an architecture for the support of user plane transactions over a mobile network between an User Equipment UE and an IP network, the mobile network comprising at least one node, referred to as control plane node, supporting control plane transactions between the UE and the mobile network over control plane bearer, the architecture includes the UE and the control plane node adapted to support user plane transactions over the mobile network between the UE and the control plane node, over control plane bearer, the control plane node adapted to support user plane transactions over the mobile network between the control plane node and the IP network without need of user plane bearer in the mobile network, the control plane node interfacing, with or without IP tunneling, with a gateway function interfacing with the IP network. |
| US11910288B2 |
Integrated circuit for transmitting a PUCCH repetition signal using a channel format that accommodates SRS transmission
A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating an uplink signal over a plurality of subframes. If the plurality of subframes do not include a transmission candidate subframe of a sounding reference signal used to measure uplink reception quality, a controller sets a first transmission format to all the plurality of subframes, and if the plurality of subframes include the transmission candidate subframe, the controller sets a second transmission format to all the plurality of subframes. A transmitter transmits the repetition signals using the set transmission format. |
| US11910284B2 |
Alert system for vehicle to output alert about occupant being left in vehicle
An alert system outputs one or more alerts about an occupant being left in a vehicle. The alert system includes an in-vehicle object detector and an alert controller. The in-vehicle object detector detects objects in a vehicle compartment, including the occupant. If the occupant is left in the compartment after a driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller controls outputting of the one or more alerts to mobile terminals of persons including the driver. If the driver has left the vehicle, the alert controller causes the in-vehicle object detector to begin a detection processing for detecting the occupant being left in the compartment. If the occupant is left in the compartment, the alert controller determines whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment. The alert controller switches outputting of the one or more alerts to among the mobile terminals of the persons in accordance with whether the mobile terminal of the driver is left in the compartment. |
| US11910283B2 |
Wireless in-vehicle networking enhanced interference detection via external sensors
Techniques described herein leverage existing localization sensors or V2X devices to detect one or more other vehicles that include wireless systems that can interfere with in-vehicle wireless networks. The localization sensors or V2X devices can provide information to determine a location, a heading, a speed, a size, and a type of other vehicles. This information can be used to determine a probability of network interference and allow the in-vehicle wireless networks to employ one or more techniques to mitigate the effects of the interference. The interference mitigation techniques can include increasing or decreasing transmitter power, changing a frequency or a channel of a wireless transmitter, or activating one or more additional transmitters as relays to improve reliability. |
| US11910282B2 |
Roadside communication device and road-to-vehicle communication method
Determination is made as to whether or not to enable communications by a communication processing unit with an on-board unit, on the basis of a receive strength detected from a radio wave received via a communication antenna, and the angle of arrival and the receive strength of a direct wave and the angle of arrival and the receive strength of a reflected wave, the angles of arrival and the receive strengths being estimated from one or more radio waves received via an angle measurement antenna. |
| US11910278B2 |
Automated text-to-speech conversion, such as driving mode voice memo
Various embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for creation of voice memos while an electronic device is in a driving mode. In some embodiments, a triggering event can be used to indicate that the electronic device is within a car or about to be within a car and that text communications should be translated (e.g., via an application or a conversion platform) into a voice memo that can be played via a speaker. These triggering events can include a manual selection or an automatic selection based on a set of transition criteria (e.g., electronic device moving above a certain speed, following a roadway, approaching a location in a map of a marked car, etc.). |
| US11910277B2 |
Multicast-broadcast services configuration exchange for mobility, single-frequency network and interference coordination
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a first base station and a second base station may be neighbor base stations and the first base station may receive, from the second base station, information relating to a multicast-broadcast services (MBS) session context of an MBS session supported by the second base station. The first base station may use the received MBS session context information to control communication or connections between the first base station and one or more user equipment (UEs) that are served by the first base station. For example, the first base station may use the received MBS session context information for target cell selection in a handover procedure, an MBS-specific measurement configuration, interference avoidance, or system information block (SIB) construction, among various other use cases. |
| US11910276B2 |
Rapid detection of mobile station locations using Wi-Fi
A method for communication includes identifying a media access control (MAC) address of a mobile station of interest. Independently of receiving any probe request frame from the mobile station, a probe response frame addressed to the identified MAC address is transmitted over a wireless local area network (WLAN). An acknowledgment of the probe response frame is received from the mobile station and is used in ascertaining a location of the mobile station. |
| US11910275B2 |
Method to correlate an object with a localized tag
A method performed within a user device includes receiving at least one response signal corresponding to a respective tag. The method includes, identifying a directional location of the respective tag relative to the user device. The method includes estimating a distance of the respective tag relative to the user device. The method includes correlating the directional location and distance of the respective tag to generate corresponding position information. The position information provides more precise point location of the object. The method includes outputting the corresponding position information to an electronic display. |
| US11910272B2 |
Method and system for accessing historical sensor data without location services
A method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a notification, executing, in response to receiving the notification, a data collection application over a time interval, and requesting, by the data collection application, sensor measurements from an operating system of the mobile device. The sensor measurements are collected prior to receiving the notification and before execution of the data collection application. The method also includes receiving, by the data collection application and from the operating system, a set of sensor measurements and transmitting, by the data collection application, the sensor measurements to a server during the time interval. The data collection application terminates upon expiration of the time interval. |
| US11910270B2 |
Method of and device for performing a touchless handshake between two or more mobile device users
To prevent the spread of Covid-19 and other contagious diseases, a touchless handshake is able to be implemented using mobile devices. The touchless handshake is able to be performed by sending an ultrasonic signal from one device to another (or to multiple devices) which triggers the device to vibrate to simulate a handshake. Additionally, mobile devices are able to be used to send and/or display a wave. |
| US11910265B2 |
Hyper-localization based edge-converged telemetry
Edge-converged telemetry is provided. A system, method, and computer readable storage device are provided for collecting telemetry data from a plurality of telemetry sources in an edge network, determining geolocations of the telemetry, tagging the telemetry with geolocation metadata corresponding to the determined geolocations, correlating telemetry based at least in part on the geolocation, converging the telemetry, and providing the edge-converged telemetry to a client decisioning system that is enabled to use the converged telemetry for making or influencing decisions made by the system. In an example aspect, the decisioning system is configured to make decisions for controlling a device, wherein the decisions are based at least in part on telemetry data. Accordingly, edge-converged telemetry enhance capabilities of the decisioning system by providing data that may have not been previously available to the system and/or by providing a more comprehensive representation of the environment in which the system is operating. |
| US11910264B2 |
Network reselection method and apparatus
A method includes: obtaining a first geographical location in which UE is currently located; according to a correspondence between a geographical location and network information of a communications network, determining at least one second geographical location that, relative to the first geographical location, meets a preset proximity condition, and determining network information of at least one second communications network corresponding to each second geographical location; and performing network reselection processing based on at least the network information of the at least one second communications network corresponding to each second geographical location. |
| US11910257B2 |
Radio resource management (RRM) measurement for new radio (NR) network
Apparatus and methods are provided for RRM measurement in the NR network. In one novel aspect, the RRM measurement is configured with one measurement gap for SS block and CSI-RS. In one embodiment, an extended MGL (eMGL) is configured such that the SS block and CSI-RS is measurement within one measurement gap. In another embodiment, the shorter MGL (sMGL) that is shorter than the standard MGL is configured. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS is allocated adjacent to the SS blocks such that one measurement gap is configured for both the SS block and CSI-RS measurement. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS measurement is conditionally configured. In yet another novel aspect, the UE decodes the time index of the SS block conditionally. |
| US11910252B2 |
Radio network node, wireless device, and methods performed in a wireless communication network
Embodiments herein relate, e.g., to a method performed by a wireless device for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The wireless device transmits to a radio network node, a first preamble associated with a selected downlink beam. The wireless device further monitors for a random access response, RAR, in a first RAR reception window and when the RAR is not received in the first RAR reception window, monitors for the RAR in a second RAR reception window of a different beam or to transmit, to the radio network node, a second preamble associated with a second beam wherein the first preamble is associated with a channel state information reference signal and the second preamble is associated with a synchronization signal block. |
| US11910251B2 |
Conditional handover and radio link failure timer interaction
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling a radio link failure timer in the presence of a conditional handover command. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a serving cell, a conditional handover command for handing over the UE to a target neighbor cell, wherein the conditional handover command includes one or more triggering conditions for executing a handover to a candidate target cell; monitoring one or more first signals from the candidate target cell for the one or more triggering conditions; and performing one of: stopping a timer based on performing a conditional handover to the target candidate cell; or detecting a timer has expired while monitoring the one or more first signals from the candidate target cell for the one or more triggering conditions. |
| US11910245B2 |
Ultra-wideband control of smart streaming devices
Systems and methods for transitioning a call between two devices are disclosed herein. An origin device for the call is determined based on a first position of an ultra-wideband (UWB) device. A destination device for the call is then determined based on a second position of the UWB device. The UWB device sends transition commands to both the origin device and the destination device, each transition command including an identifier of the other device. Using the identifier of the origin device, the destination device connects to the call the origin device is currently participating in. When the origin device detects that the destination device has connected to the call, the origin device disconnects from the call. |
| US11910242B2 |
Flexible resource reservation indication in sidelink
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for flexible resource reservations in sidelink communications. An example method that may be executed by a first user equipment (UE) includes determining, for sidelink communications with a second UE, one or more first resource reservations and one or more second resource reservations. The second resource reservations may have a different frequency resource allocation than the first resource reservations. The method also includes transmitting, to the second UE, control information having an indication of the first resource reservations and the second resource reservations. The method further includes communicating with the second UE based on the first resource reservations and the second resource reservations. |
| US11910240B1 |
Traffic characteristics for target wake time (TWT) negotiation
A first communication device generates a beacon frame that includes i) parameters of a broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedule and ii) information regarding a quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule. The first communication device transmits the beacon frame to inform one or more second communication devices of i) the parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) the quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule. |
| US11910231B2 |
Delay measurement method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to delay measurement methods and apparatus. In one example method, a first communications device receives a data unit from a second communications device, where the data unit includes time information, the time information is used to indicate a first moment at which the second communications device sends the data unit, and the time information indicates the first moment based on a part of bits of a frame number. The first communications device determines a delay from the second communications device to the first communications device based on the first moment and a second moment, where the second moment is a moment at which the first communications device receives the data unit. |
| US11910229B2 |
Systems and methods for selectable application-specific quality of service parameters in a wireless network
A system described herein may apply an authorized set of traffic parameters, such as network slicing parameters, Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, etc. to traffic associated with a particular application, without exposing an identifier of the traffic to one or more network devices of a network that handles the traffic. A client associated with a User Equipment (“UE”) may selectively apply traffic parameters to traffic associated with the particular application further based on whether a UE-side authorization of the particular application for the traffic parameters has been performed. The UE may present a user interface via which a user may select whether to authorize or deny the use of traffic parameters, authorized by the network, for the particular application. If the particular application has been authorized by both the network and the user of the UE, the UE may apply the traffic parameters to traffic associated with the particular application. |
| US11910225B2 |
Adaptive adjustment for target wake time duration configuration
A wireless communication device comprising a processor configured to obtain first information on network conditions and second information on packets delivered to another communication device during a current target wake time (TWT) session, and to update a TWT service period (SP) duration for a future TWT session based on the first information and the second information. |
| US11910223B2 |
Packet data converge protocol protocol data unit pre-processing
For pre-processing Packet Data Converge Protocol (PDCP) Protocol Data Units (PDU), a method receives a configuration of a reference uplink grant. In response to receiving the configuration of the reference uplink grant, the method calculates a preprocessing threshold of PDU for preprocessing by a Radio Link Control (RLC)/Medium Access Control (MAC) for each of one or more radio bearers. |
| US11910222B1 |
Method for reporting measurement data, and terminal therefor
A method for a terminal for reporting measurement data may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, interference measurement resource (IMR) configuration data or sounding reference symbol (SRS) configuration data for measuring terminal-to-terminal (UE-to-UE) cross-link interference; measuring UE-to-UE cross-link interference on the basis of IMR or SRS configuration data; and transmitting a report containing the measured UE-to-UE cross-link interference measurement value to the base station. |
| US11910215B2 |
Information reporting method, information reporting configuration method, user equipment and network side device
An information reporting method, an information reporting configuration method, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The information reporting method is applied to the user equipment and includes reporting information of a frequency domain location where the user equipment is located recorded by the user equipment and/or information of a frequency domain location where the user equipment is currently located. |
| US11910210B2 |
Methods and devices for sub-channelized transmission schemes in WLANS
Device, systems, and/or techniques for using sub-channel signaling information between an access point and a first station are disclosed. An uplink trigger sent from the access point to the first station may be received. A map may be transmitted from the first station indicating at least one sub-channel that is available for spatial sharing by a second station. The first station may receive an acknowledgement from the access point that data was transmitted from the second station on the at least one sub-channel and/or received by the at least one access point. An OFDMA transmission having a sub-channel/sub-band available for transmitting data may be determined. An energy in the sub-channel/sub-band may be measured and/or compared to a dynamic and/or static threshold. Whether a sub-channel/sub-band is free or busy may be determined for example based on if the measured energy is, or is not, greater than the threshold. |
| US11910204B2 |
Provisioning an access point device using an eirp mask
An enhanced network environment is provided by provisioning a device to utilize the 6 GHz frequency band. The device requires provisioning so as not to interfere with legacy systems. The provisioning includes obtaining exterior multiple fixed power measurements to obtain a virtualized location and a virtualized power level. The elevation is then modified based on an actual height from ground level of the device. The location of the device and a virtualized equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) can then be sent to an automated frequency controller (AFC) resource to obtain an EIRP mask that can be used to provision the device so that the device can operate in the 6 GHz frequency band without causing interference with any other systems. Once provisioned, the device can be registered with the AFC resource. |
| US11910200B2 |
Broadcast/broadband convergence network
A broadcast/broadband convergence system that delivers content from content sources to user equipment devices. The system provides: significantly enhanced mobile capability to the broadcast industry; an additional revenue source for the broadcast industry by dynamically selling available spectral resources for use by wireless broadband networks and/or broadcast content off-loaded from wireless broadband networks; additional spectrum for the broadband industry through the dynamic purchase of available spectrum; and an enriched user experience. A spectrum server may facilitate the dynamic allocation of radio spectrum made available by the broadcast networks. The broadcast networks may broadcast with enhanced waveform parameters to support mobile devices as well as fixed devices. |
| US11910199B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data. |
| US11910197B2 |
Service processing method and device
A service processing method includes receiving, by a mobile phone, a first identifier from a head device of a vehicle after the head device receives a trigger request to perform a vehicle door opening service, determining, by the mobile phone based on the first identifier, to perform authentication, indicating, by the mobile phone, the head device to perform the vehicle door opening service when the authentication succeeds, or determining, by the mobile phone based on the first identifier, not to perform the authentication, and sending, by the mobile phone, location information of the mobile phone, and an indication that indicating a location of the mobile phone and a location of the head device are normal to the head device. |
| US11910196B1 |
Dynamic keyboard for electronic computing device
A method of authenticating a passcode entered by a user on an unstable electronic computing device. The method includes receiving an indication that an input is unstable, impacting the ability of a user to provide the input; generating a dynamic keyboard including at least one alphanumeric key, the dynamic keyboard being configured to address the unstable input; presenting the dynamic keyboard to the user; receiving the input from the user, the input comprising a selection of at least one alphanumeric character of a passcode on the dynamic keyboard; and authenticating the input received from the user by comparing the at least one alphanumeric character and a stored passcode. |
| US11910192B2 |
Device identifier access method and apparatus
A device identifier access method and in the field of communications technologies. The method, implemented by a terminal, includes receiving request information for accessing a first device identifier by a target application; determining first access permission used when the target application accesses the first device identifier, where the first access permission includes one of the following: prohibiting access to the first device identifier, allowing access to a real value of the first device identifier, and allowing access to a dummy value of the first device identifier; and when the first access permission is allowing access to the dummy value of the first device identifier, returning the dummy value of the first device identifier to the target application. |
| US11910191B2 |
Efficient policy enforcement using network tokens for services—user-plane approach
One aspect relates to initiating, by a device, a connection with an application server associated with one or more application services. A gateway derives an uplink network token and/or a downlink network token. The tokens are provisioned to the device and/or an application server over the user-plane. The tokens are included with uplink and/or downlink packets, respectively. Another aspect relates to receiving a data packet at a gateway. The gateway determines a requirement for a network token from the packet. The gateway derives the network token based on a device subscription profile maintained by a network. The network token may be sent with the packet to a destination address associated with the packet. A packet including a network token may be received at a gateway. The gateway may verify the network token and send the data packet to an application server or a device if the verifying is successful. |
| US11910190B1 |
System for binding multiple SIM cards to an electronic device
Subscriber identity modules can be bound to devices and utilized for authentication. An initial or additional subscriber identity module can be bound to a user device, for instance after successful user authentication by way of an alternate mechanism. A subscriber identity module of a device can be identified, and carrier data associated with the subscriber identity module can be requested and received. A determination can be made regarding whether the subscriber identity module is linked to the device, for instance by an original linkage. A user profile can be automatically updated with the carrier data to bind the user to the user device based on the subscriber identity module when the subscriber identity module is verified to be linked to the user device. Subsequently, the subscriber identity module can be utilized as a basis for authentication. |
| US11910187B2 |
Invocation path security in distributed systems
Systems, methods, and computer program products for an application to securely record and propagate an invocation context for invoking other applications are described. The applications being invoked not only receive a user's authentication token, but also authentication tokens of an entire invocation chain. Accordingly, the applications being invoked can verify a chain of custody through verification of nested, cryptographically signed payloads of a chain of authentication tokens. An application can thus verify identities of each application in the chain of custody, as well as the invocation contexts (e. g. the HTTP request method and path) in which each application in the chain invoked the next application. |
| US11910185B1 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for data privacy protection based on geofence networks
Systems, methods and apparatus for location-based services with data privacy protection. A privacy agent in network communication with a global privacy policy registry is installed on a mobile device. The privacy agent is operable to enforce rules based on privacy agreements when the mobile device is within and/or within a predetermined proximity of one or more geofences. |
| US11910183B2 |
Multi-application audio rendering
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for efficiently rendering audio. A method may include receiving a request to present a first audio track, wherein the first audio track is based on a first audio model comprising a shared model component and a first model component; receiving a request to present a second audio track, wherein the second audio track is based on a second audio model comprising the shared model component and a second model component; rendering a sound based on the first audio track, the second audio track, the shared model component, the first model component, and the second model component; and presenting, via one or more speakers, the an audio signal comprising the rendered sound. |
| US11910182B2 |
Method for processing an audio signal, signal processing unit, binaural renderer, audio encoder and audio decoder
A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is processed with an early part of the room impulse response separate from a late reverberation of the room impulse response, wherein the processing of the late reverberation has generating a scaled reverberated signal, the scaling being dependent on the audio signal. The processed early part of the audio signal and the scaled reverberated signal are combined. |
| US11910177B2 |
Object-based audio conversion
An audio system that is configured to convert a plurality of audio input channels to object-based audio, and a related computer program product. Correlation between input channels and energy balance between the input channels are determined. The determined correlation and energy balance are mapped to output three-dimensional spatial locations. |
| US11910174B1 |
Radially arcuated unistructural speaker cone with segmented dome
An unistructurally formed acoustic speaker cone unit includes (a) a suspension ring with at least one continuous loop rib; (b) a central dome-shaped cone with thin, arcuate pie-shaped segments which radiate outwardly, and with a plurality of arc ribs; and (c) a main diaphragm having a plurality of segments radiating outwardly and extending to the suspension ring. Each main diaphragm segment has an arcuate cross-section, thereby creating a concave side and a convex side. The central cone segments are preferably equal in number to the diaphragm segments and are in alignment therewith. |
| US11910167B2 |
Hearing protection calibration adapter device
A calibration device and method of manufacturing the same. The calibration device for a hearing earpiece configured to at least partially protrude into the ear canal of a user includes a calibration base. The calibration base a calibration insert. An air chamber is defined between the calibration base and the calibration insert. The calibration device also includes at least one earpiece receiving mechanism defined on the calibration insert. The at least one earpiece receiving mechanism is configured to create an sealed connection between given ear piece and the air chamber for calibration. The earpiece receiving mechanism is configured to at least partially receive the given earpiece. A corresponding method of manufacturing is also included. |
| US11910166B2 |
Convertibility of a bone conduction device
An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another. |
| US11910162B2 |
Method and device for frequency-selective processing of an audio signal with low latency
A method for processing an input audio signal includes using a first analytical filter bank to divide the input audio signal in a first frequency splitting process into a plurality of first frequency bands. The first frequency bands of a first subgroup are divided in a further frequency splitting process by a further analytical filter bank into a plurality of frequency subbands. The divided input audio signal is frequency-selectively processed or amplified. The divided and processed input audio signal is then combined again into an output audio signal. A prediction is applied to the first frequency bands of the first subgroup and/or the frequency subbands derived therefrom, to compensate for latency differences between the first frequency bands and the frequency subbands as a result of the or each further frequency splitting process. A device or hearing aid for carrying out the method is also provided. |
| US11910159B2 |
Laminated piezoelectric element and electroacoustic transducer
An object is to provide a laminated piezoelectric element capable of preventing a short circuit between adjacent piezoelectric films and an electroacoustic transducer using the laminated piezoelectric element. The object is solved by laminating a plurality of layers of piezoelectric films polarized in a thickness direction, in which a piezoelectric layer is interposed between two thin film electrodes, and causing polarization directions of the adjacent piezoelectric films to be opposite to each other. |
| US11910156B1 |
Audio modules with fins to reduce acoustic noise due to airflow
Implementations of the subject technology provide an acoustic module with fins integrated within the acoustic module to reduce acoustic noise. Airflow caused by pressure changes due to an oscillating diaphragm can be diverted by the fins within the acoustic module. The diverted airflow provide a more uniform airflow distribution within the acoustic module, which leads to a lower peak velocity and less unwanted noise. Fins may include a curved or crescent shape and may be spaced in a certain manner to divert the airflow. |
| US11910155B2 |
MEMS speaker
The present disclosure discloses a MEMS speaker including a housing with a receiving space; a MEMS speaker chip with an inner cavity, accommodated in the receiving space and connected with the housing, the MEMS speaker chip dividing the receiving space into a first cavity and a second cavity communicating with the inner cavity; a sound hole communicating with the first cavity or the second cavity; and a damping mesh connected to the housing and covering the sound hole; wherein sounds emitted by the MEMS speaker chip transmit outward through the sound hole and the damping mesh. Compared with the related art, MEMS speaker disclosed by the present disclosure has a better reliability. |
| US11910147B2 |
Wireless earbud charging
Examples described herein relate to a charging system for wireless earbuds involving charging adapters that are attachable to the wireless earbuds. In some implementations, the charging adapter is attachable to an external surface of an earbud using a magnetic or mechanical interface that align electrodes of the charging adapter with electrodes on the wireless headset, allowing an internal battery of the earbud to draw current and charge from the charging adapter while the earbud is in-ear. Then, when the internal battery is and recharged using a charging case or wall charger, the charging adapter can be detached from the earbud. |
| US11910146B1 |
Open earphones
Disclosed is an open earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook may include a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion may be hung between the auricle of a user and the head of the user, the second portion may extend toward a front outer side of the auricle and connect the sound production component, and the sound production component may be located close to the ear canal but not block the opening of the ear canal; wherein the sound production component and the auricle may have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, a centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction, a ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be within a range of 0.25-0.6, the centroid of the first projection may have a second distance from an end point of the second projection in a sagittal axis direction, and a ratio of the second distance to a width of the second projection in the sagittal axis direction may be within a range of 0.4-0.7. |
| US11910145B2 |
Power management of the modular ear-cup and ear-bud
Introduced here is a wearable audio system including modular ear-cup and ear-bud that can be attached and detached to the user together, or independently of each other. Further, the modular ear-cup and ear-bud can operate together, or independently of each other. The wearable audio system can perform active noise cancellation by measuring noise inside the ear-cup and/or the ear-bud, computing the noise canceling sound, and forwarding the noise canceling sound to a speaker inside the ear-cup and/or the ear-bud. The wearable audio system can be wirelessly charged while operating, thus allowing the user to continuously listen to music more than previously possible. The wearable audio system can optimize power consumption by redistributing power intensive tasks to power sources with the highest amount of power. Further, the ambient sound outside the ear-cup can be measured and played by the speakers in the earbud allowing the user to hear the surrounding environment. |
| US11910143B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus including the same
Display panel and display apparatus including the same. A display panel includes a first substrate including a display portion configured to display an image, a second substrate attached to the first substrate by an adhesive member, and a vibration generating module within the adhesive member to overlap the display portion. The vibration generating module is surrounded by the second substrate and the adhesive member. |
| US11910139B2 |
Acoustic device and electronic apparatus
Disclosed is an acoustic device, comprising a sound generating unit, a sound wave at a front side of the vibrating diaphragm radiates to outside through the sound outlet, a first sealed cavity is formed at a rear side of the vibrating diaphragm, a cavity wall of the first sealed cavity is provided with a mounting hole, a flexible deformation part is provided at the mounting hole, the second sealed cavity encloses a sound wave, in the second sealed cavity, a protective cover plate located at outside of the flexible deformation part is further provided on the mounting hole, and an escape space used for avoiding vibration of the flexible deformation part is formed between the protective cover plate and the flexible deformation part; air permeable micropores are provided on the protective cover plate, the air permeable micropores have an area less than or equal to 0.2 mm2. |
| US11910137B2 |
Processing time-series measurement entries of a measurement database
A method for execution by a monitoring data analysis system includes receiving a plurality of measurement data from the gateway device, each indicating a measurement generated by one of a plurality of multi-sensor units. A set of measurement entries are generated based on the plurality of measurement data, and the set of measurement entries are added to a measurement database. A custom function definition for a custom function is received from a client device based on user input to a graphical user interface. Custom function output is generated by performing the custom function on a filtered subset of the plurality of measurement entries by utilizing the custom function definition. The custom function output is transmitted to the client device for display via the graphical user interface. |
| US11910136B2 |
Test instruments and methods for emulating optical network terminal (ONT) devices and testing optical networks based on the emulation
Disclosed are apparatuses and testing methods for emulating an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) device for communicating or otherwise working with an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) device that was configured to operate with the ONT device. Such emulation may include configuring various settings of the apparatus so that the apparatus may appear to the OLT to be the ONT device. For example, the emulation may include accessing and using authentication/authorization related settings and network configuration settings of the ONT, thus permitting the apparatus to connect to a Passive Optical Network and test services and the quality of service experience without having to reconfigure the OLT. |
| US11910128B2 |
Enhanced video interaction for a user interface of a telepresence network
A telepresence device may relay video, audio, and/or measurement data to a user operating a control device. A user interface may permit the user to quickly view and/or understand temporally and/or spatially disparate information. The telepresence device may pre-gather looped video of spatially disparate areas in an environment. A temporal control mechanism may start video playback at a desired point hi a current or historical video segment. Notations may be associated with time spans in a video and recalled by capturing an image similar to a frame in the time span of the video. An area of interest may be selected and video containing the area of interest may be automatically found. Situational data may be recorded and used to recall video segments of interest. The telepresence device may synchronize video playback and movement. A series of videos may be recorded at predetermined time intervals to capture visually trending information. |
| US11910122B1 |
Synthesizing intermediary frames for long exposure images
Techniques for synthesizing intermediary frames for long exposure images are disclosed. Video stream data, comprising a plurality of arriving frames, is received. An indication that the video stream data should be processed into a long exposure image that incorporates one or more synthesized frames is received. A set of arriving frames is used to generate at least one synthesized frame. At least one received frame is blended with the at least one generated synthesized frame to form a long exposure image. The long exposure image is provided as output. |
| US11910120B2 |
Visual experience modulation based on stroboscopic effect
An approach for modifying in real-time by removing or reinforcing stroboscopic effect from images associated with a viewing experience is disclosed. The approach includes identifying video clips, detecting environmental parameters and calculating display setting. The approach also analyzes display setting using recommendation from GAN, output displaying setting on an AR display and receiving feedback from user. |
| US11910117B2 |
Solid-state imaging element and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging element and an electronic apparatus that can achieve a higher image quality. The imaging element includes a pixel having a global drive portion in which all rows are driven at a same timing and a rolling drive portion in which each row is driven at a corresponding timing, a pixel array region in which a plurality of the pixels is placed in an array, a global drive circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the global drive portion, and a rolling drive circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the rolling drive portion. Further, the global drive circuit is placed on each of at least three or more sides of four sides surrounding the pixel array region. The present technology is applicable to a stacked CMOS image sensor, for example. |
| US11910115B2 |
Imaging element, imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging element, and program
An imaging element incorporates a reading portion, a storage portion, a processing portion, and an output portion. The reading portion reads out image data obtained by imaging from a photoelectric conversion element at a first frame rate. The storage portion stores the image data read out from the photoelectric conversion element. The processing portion processes the image data. The output portion outputs the image data processed by the processing portion at a second frame rate. The processing portion detects first image data indicating a specific image from the image data stored in the storage portion. The output portion outputs second image data based on image data different from the first image data detected by the processing portion in the image data of a plurality of frames. The second frame rate is a frame rate lower than the first frame rate. |
| US11910112B2 |
Image sensors including phase detection pixel
An image sensor is presented which includes a pixel array including a plurality of image sensing pixels in a substrate, a phase detection shared pixel in the substrate, the phase detection shared pixel including two phase detection subpixels arranged next to each other, a color filter fence disposed on the plurality of image sensing pixels, and the phase detection shared pixel, the color filter fence defining a plurality of color filter spaces, a plurality of color filter layers respectively disposed in the plurality of color filter spaces on the plurality of image sensing pixels, and the phase detection shared pixel, a first micro-lens disposed on each of the plurality of image sensing pixels to have a first height, and a second micro-lens disposed to vertically overlap the two phase detection subpixels of the phase detection shared pixel and to have a second height greater than the first height. |
| US11910111B2 |
Pixel cell and method for operating a pixel cell
A pixel cell includes a pixel set with a plurality of pixels, with each pixel of the pixel set being configured to capture optical information incident upon the respective pixel and generate electrical information representative of the optical information. The pixel cell further includes a readout circuit which is configured to manage collection and output of the electrical information from each pixel of the pixel set and to operate the pixel set in a global shutter mode and in a rolling shutter mode of operation. In the global shutter mode, the electrical information from each pixel is combined for generating a global shutter output signal, while in the rolling shutter mode, the electrical information from each pixel is used to generate individual rolling shutter output signals. |
| US11910106B2 |
Light source device and endoscope system including the same
A light source device includes a plurality of light emitters, an optical system configured to combine light from the light emitters, a wavelength selective filter located on an optical path of the optical system, and an optical sensor configured to receive light from one light emitter among the light emitters through an optical filter. The optical filter has a wavelength selection characteristic corresponding to a wavelength selection characteristic of the wavelength selective filter. |
| US11910100B2 |
Detection circuit, device and method for detecting light source flicker, and photoelectric detection device
A detection circuit, a method for detecting light source flicker, a device for detecting light source flicker, and a photoelectric detection device are provided by the examples of the present disclosure, and the detection circuit includes a power supply; a photodiode configured to output a current based on a light source; a driving circuit connected in series with the photodiode and configured to generate an output voltage based on the current output by the photodiode, a current output by the power supply, and a resistive component, the driving circuit includes a plurality of circuits with different illumination correlation coefficients; and a control unit connected with the driving circuit and configured to select a circuit with a matched illumination correlation coefficient from the driving circuit to control the output voltage within a designate voltage range. |
| US11910095B2 |
Incident light information acquisition method, incident light information acquisition system, and information processing device
In an information processing apparatus, a captured image acquiring section acquires data of an image captured of a reference object while part of incident light applied thereto is being blocked. An incident light information acquiring section acquires, according to a predetermined model equation, a brightness distribution of partial incident light in each of light-blocked states on the basis of the image of the reference object, and acquires a brightness distribution of overall incident light by calculating brightness distributions of partial incident light. A target information acquiring section acquires the shape and material of a target by using the brightness distribution of overall incident light. |
| US11910093B2 |
Digital image capture device having a panorama mode
A hand-held digital camera has a touch-sensitive display screen (“touch screen”) for image preview and user control of the camera, and a user-selectable panorama mode. Upon entering panorama mode the camera superimposes upon the touch screen a horizontal rectangular bar whose width and/or height are user-adjustable by interaction with the touch screen to select a desired horizontal sweep angle. After the sweep angle is set the camera automatically captures successive horizontally overlapping images during a sweep of the device through the selected sweep angle. Subsequently the camera synthesizes a panoramic image from the successively captured images, the panoramic image having a width corresponding to the selected sweep angle. |
| US11910092B2 |
Panoramic look-around view generation method, in-vehicle device and in-vehicle system
The current disclosure relates to a panoramic look-around view generation method, an in-vehicle device and an in-vehicle system. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring images of areas around a vehicle, steering wheel angle information and vehicle speed information; transforming and mosaicking the images to generate a time-related look-around view, and using an ORB algorithm to extract characteristic points; using steering wheel angle information and vehicle speed information to calculate a positron of a characteristic point of the look-around view at previous time in the look-around view at current time according to a vehicle motion model, and selecting a characteristic point located near the position in the look-around view at current time to be matched with the characteristic point of the look-around view at previous time; calculating an affine transformation matrix and performing affine transformation, and performing weighted fusion with the look-around view at current time and storing it; repeating the above steps to obtain a continuously updated panoramic look-around view. The method, the device and the system can eliminate blind area in the underbody region, realize a panoramic perspective view, and have fast calculation and high accuracy. |
| US11910091B2 |
Camera device and portable electronic device
Provided is a camera device, including: a camera lens having an optical axis; a lens driving mechanism configured to drive the camera lens to move along the optical axis; an image stabilization mechanism including a movable frame, and an image sensor chip and a first flexible substrate arranged at the movable frame. The image stabilization mechanism is movable in a plane of the image sensor chip, and the first flexible substrate is made of liquid crystal polymer. The use of the LCP substrate for the first flexible substrate can greatly reduce elasticity of existing flexible substrates due to polyimide, so it has frequency characteristics similar to other rigid bodies and system resonance is not easily generated during movement of the image stabilization mechanism. Therefore, more precise servo control of the movable frame can achieved, thereby enabling camera device to have higher-quality hand-shake correction control and image stabilization control. |
| US11910088B2 |
Increasing sensitivity of a probe sensor for lens position
Increases to the sensitivity of a probe magnet sensor are implemented for a camera lens. Probe magnet sensors may be located on carrier of a surface of an actuator coil to reduce the distance between the probe magnet sensor and a probe magnet mounted on an optics component that includes the camera lens. A probe magnet may be located within the camera so that the flux region of the probe magnet does not overlap with a flux region of a drive magnet for an actuator of the camera. |
| US11910074B2 |
Housing of an image capturing device
Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a housing of an imaging unit. The housing comprising an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inner surface of the housing defines a lens channel, wherein the inner surface of the lens channel defines a contact point that protrudes outwardly from the inner surface into the lens channel. The inner surface of the lens channel further defines a through hole, in the lens channel, that extends from the inner surface of the lens channel to the outer surface of the housing. The lens channel is configured to receive a lens barrel comprising a groove, wherein the groove is exposed to the through hole when the lens barrel is received in the lens channel. |
| US11910073B1 |
Automated preview generation for video entertainment content
A respective set of features, including emotion-related features, are extracted from segments of a video for which a preview is to be generated. A subset of the segments is chosen using the features and filtering criteria including at least one emotion-based filtering criterion. Respective weighted preview-suitability scores are assigned to the segments of the subset using at least a metric of similarity between individual segments and a plot summary of the video. The scores are used to select and combine segments to form a preview for the video. |
| US11910065B2 |
Automatic contact information transmission system
According to one aspect, a DVR sends a user's contact information over a network to a third party. Upon determining that a television program or advertisement contains a special tag that is associated with a third party, the DVR displays, to the user, a prompt that invites the DVR user to allow the DVR to send the user's contact information to the third party. If the user gives permission for the DVR to send the contact information to the third party, then the DVR sends the contact information to the third party (e.g., over the Internet). |
| US11910059B2 |
Method for retrieving program data and circuit system
A method for retrieving a program data and a circuit system thereof are provided. The method that uses a dynamic packet identifier (PID) filter to retrieve the program data can be applied to a digital TV system. In the method, a master guide table is retrieved from a transport stream of digital TV signals, and a parsing method is executed to obtain a series of the PIDs. A polling method is used to obtain the program data corresponding to each of the PIDs. A filter window is applied to scan the PIDs for polling the program data corresponding to each of a group of the PIDs at once. After that, the filter window is shifted to a next group of the PIDs for polling the program data with respect to each of the PIDs, and an electronic program guide is accordingly formed. |
| US11910057B2 |
Environment object recognition
Methods, systems, and devices for displaying additional or targeted content to a user are disclosed. An image or data capture device associated with a display device may capture an image of a space associated with the user or capture data related to what is being viewed by the viewer's eyes. Objects in the captured image or objects being viewed may be recognized, including any identifiable image, item, detail, or article and the like. A recognized object may then be compared to a target list to determine a match. If matched, and if there is additional content associated with the target object, the additional content may be presented to the user. |
| US11910051B2 |
Systems and methods for storing offsets of a recorded program in a network DVR
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in the conventional network storage systems via novel techniques to store offsets of a recorded program in a network digital video recorder (DVR). Storing offsets of a recorded program may be beneficial to users that would like to record media content that is broadcast either prior to a start time of a program, or media content that is broadcast after an end time of a program. This feature may be useful when start times and end times of a program are variable (e.g., in the case of sporting events, or other real-time events). This feature may also be useful for recording content of interest that is scheduled for broadcast prior to a start time of or after an end time of the program. |
| US11910050B2 |
Distributed network recording system with single user control
A master recording session at a server computer corresponds to a video content stored in memory accessible by the server computer. A first device and a second device are provided access to the master recording session and the master recording session is updated responsive to receipt of an update from the first device, where the update reflects initiation of playback of the video content at a time stamp corresponding to the timeline of the video content and includes an audio input configuration for the second device. The update is provided to the second device and an audio recording is received from the second device corresponding to a portion of the video content from the time stamp, where the audio recording is recorded by the second device using the implemented audio input configuration for the second device. |
| US11910049B2 |
Systems and methods for providing synchronized supplemental content to a subset of users that are disinterested in live content
Systems and methods are described herein for providing supplemental content to a group of users when the group of users is disinterested in content from a live content stream. When users are disinterested in a segment of the live content, the users will be provided with supplemental content to consume during the not interesting portion of the live content while other users that are viewing the live content will continue to receive the live content stream. After the segment of the live content is completed, the group of users will resume consumption of the live content stream. |
| US11910048B2 |
Synchronizing video content among clients in a collaboration system
Systems and techniques are provided for synchronizing playback of a video at a plurality of client-side nodes in a network including a server-side node and the plurality of client-side nodes. The system includes logic to receive a sync video message at the server from a first client-side node identifying a sync event time. The system includes logic to map the sync event time at the server to a sync frame identifier. The server sends a follower sync video message to a follower set of one or more other client-side nodes including the sync frame identifier. In response to the follower sync video message the one or more client-side nodes in the follower set can synchronize playing the video at a frame corresponding to the sync frame identifier. |
| US11910046B2 |
Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information
Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include means for determining reference media, the means for determining reference media to identify a plurality of first signatures in a database that matches a plurality of second signatures included in media presentation data representative of media output by a media device in response to a mismatch between the media presentation data and reference data associated with first reference media corresponding to a first station, the plurality of second signatures generated from the media output by the media device; and determine second reference media corresponding to the plurality of first signatures; and means for storing the media presentation data. |
| US11910044B1 |
Systems and methods for switching the processing of a live content stream to another datacenter
Techniques for migrating live broadcast streams from one data center to another data center are described herein. A data center from a plurality of data centers may be determined to transfer live streaming video content from a first data center to the data center. A separate live streaming session for each live streaming session being broadcast by the first data center may be generated by communicating with an ingest service server that receives media content used to generate each separate live streaming session and the live streaming session. Each separate live streaming session may be routed to the candidate data center. A determination that each separate live streaming session of the candidate data center is synchronized with each live streaming session of the first data center may be made. An update to a mapping of IP addresses to redirect requests from the first data center to the candidate data center. |
| US11910041B2 |
In-stream controls for national video distribution
Systems and methods are described for delivering regional content for a lineup over a national network. A content provider may select a particular regional broadcast for inclusion in a regional service lineup. The content provider may be able to broadcast multiple, or even all, services nationally. At regional distribution centers, a multiplexer may select only those services that are desired for the region in response to in-stream signals. In some instances, a single region-specific version of a given service may be selected from multiple versions broadcasted nationally. The regional lineup, including the selected services, can then be multiplexed and transmitted to customers throughout the region. |
| US11910036B2 |
Systems and methods for targeted advertisement insertion into a program content stream
A computerized system for targeted ad insertion receives a program content stream and detects images in the content stream. The system recognizes at least one visual object within the images and matches the recognized visual object to an advertisement that correlates with the recognized visual object. The system may then select an advertisement that advertises, correlates to, is directed to or is otherwise relevant to products or services falling under the theme, topic, category of interest and/or relevant viewer demographic and inserts an identifier of the matched advertisement at an insertion point into the program content stream. This enables playback of the matched advertisement during playback of the program content stream at a time that correlates to the insertion point into the program content stream of the identifier of the matched advertisement. |
| US11910034B2 |
Network-based assistance for receiver processing of video data
An intermediary system and method may be provided for assisting a receiver system in processing video data which is streamed as a video stream to the receiver system via a network. The processing of the video data by the receiver system may be dependent on an analysis of the video data. The intermediary system may provide processing assist data to the receiver system which comprises an analysis result or a processing instruction derived from the analysis results. Accordingly, the receiver system may process the video data without a need for the receiver system itself to analyze the video data, thereby offloading computational complexity to the intermediary system. Compared to techniques in which most or all of the processing is performed by the intermediary system, an advantage of continuing to process the video data at the receiver system is that the receiver system may already decode the video stream while the video stream is decoded and/or analyzed by the intermediary system, thereby reducing the delay from transmission to display of the video stream. |
| US11910030B2 |
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. |
| US11910029B2 |
Coding of a spatial sampling of a two-dimensional information signal using sub-division preliminary class
Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications. |
| US11910026B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that enable decoding of encoded data of an octree in various processing orders. The octree corresponding to point cloud data is encoded after the context is initialized for each layer of the octree. Further, a breadth-first order or a depth-first order is selected as the decoding order for the encoded data of the octree corresponding to point cloud data, and the encoded data is decoded in the selected decoding order. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, a program, or the like, for example. |
| US11910016B2 |
Method and device for multi-view video decoding and method and device for image processing
A method and a device for decoding a data stream representative of a multi-view video. Syntax elements are obtained from at least one part of the stream data, and used to reconstruct at least one image of a view of the video. Then, at least one item of metadata in a predetermined form is obtained from at least one obtained syntax element, and provided to an image processing module. Also, a method and a device for processing images configured to read the at least one item of metadata in the predetermined form and use it to generate at least one image of a virtual view from a reconstructed view of the multi-view video. |
| US11910013B2 |
Image encoding method using a skip mode, and a device using the method
Disclosed are an image encoding method using a skip mode and a device using the method. The image encoding method may comprise the steps of: judging whether there is residual block data of a prediction target block on the basis of predetermined data indicating whether residual block data has been encoded; and, if there is residual block data, restoring the prediction target block on the basis of the residual block data and an intra-screen predictive value of the prediction target block. Consequently, encoding and decoding efficiency can be increased by carrying out the encoding and decoding of screen residual data only for prediction target blocks where there is a need for a residual data block in accordance with screen similarity. |
| US11910011B2 |
Intra prediction-based image decoding method and device therefor in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving an intra prediction type for a current block from among intra prediction types; constituting an intra prediction mode candidate list of the current block on the basis of intra prediction modes of neighboring blocks of the current block; deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode candidate list; and generating prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction type and the intra prediction mode. |
| US11910001B2 |
Real-time image generation in moving scenes
A method comprising: receiving a high frame rate video stream of a scene, wherein the scene comprises at least one object in motion relative to an imaging device acquiring the video stream; continuously dividing, in real time, the video stream into at least one consecutive sequences of n frames each; with respect to each current sequence: (i) estimating pixel motion between at least some pairs of frames in the sequence, (ii) calculating a motion vector field for each pixel in the sequence, (iii) generating a representative frame which co-locates all of the pixels to respective pixel positions, based on the calculated motion vector fields, and (iv) aggregating, for each of the respective pixel positions, pixel values from all frames in the sequence; and outputting, in real time, a stream of the representative frames, wherein the stream has a lower frame rate than the high frame rate. |
| US11909999B2 |
Coding management method and apparatus based on high efficiency video coding
Disclosed are a coding management method and apparatus based on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The method includes: obtaining a calculated correlation result for a HEVC basic unit before and after division, the correlation result including a spatial correlation result for the basic unit before the division and N basic units generated after the division, and N being an integer greater than 1; and judging whether or not to perform the division on the basic unit according to the calculated correlation result. |
| US11909998B2 |
System and method for video coding
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry determines whether a first virtual pipeline decoding unit (VPDU) is split into smaller blocks and whether a second VPDU is split into smaller blocks. In response to a determination the first VPDU is not split into smaller blocks and a determination the second VPDU is split into smaller blocks, a block of chroma samples is predicted without using luma samples. In response to a determination the first VPDU is split into smaller blocks and a determination the second VPDU is split into smaller blocks, the block of chroma samples is predicted using luma samples. In response to a determination the first VPDU is not split into smaller blocks and a determination the second VPDU is not split into smaller block, the block of chroma samples is predicted using luma samples. The block is encoded using the predicted chroma samples. |
| US11909996B2 |
Ordering of NAL units in coded video
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. The bitstream includes one or more layers including one or more network abstraction layer (NAL) units according to a format rule that specifies that a first layer identifier in a header of an end of sequence network abstraction layer (EOS NAL) unit is required to be equal to a second layer identifier of one of the one or more layers in the bitstream. |
| US11909995B2 |
Indication of end of sequence in coded video
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. The bitstream conforms to a format rule. The bitstream includes one or more layers including one or more picture units (PUs). The format rule specifies that, responsive to a first PU in a layer of the bitstream following an end of sequence network abstraction layer (EOS NAL) unit in the layer in a decoding order, a variable of the first PU is set to a particular value, wherein the variable indicates whether the first PU is a coded layer video sequence start (CLVSS) PU. |
| US11909991B2 |
Restrictions on picture width and height
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding a video sequence. Video data comprising one or more luma samples is received. A YUV format associated with the received video data is determined. A height setting value and a width setting value corresponding to the one or more luma samples are restricted based on the determined YUV format. The YUV format may include a YUV4:4:4 format, a YUV4:2:2 format, a YUV4:2:0 format, and a YUV4:0:0 format. |
| US11909988B2 |
Systems and methods for multiple bit rate content encoding
Systems and methods for encoding a video stream at multiple bit rates is disclosed herein. An encoder divides each frame of a video stream into a plurality of portions and allocates an available number of bits between the plurality of portions based on user preference information. Portions having one or more objects of interest to the viewer determined based on the user preference information are allocated a higher number of available bits while portions of the frames that do not include one or more objects of interest are allocated a minimum number of bits from the available bits. |
| US11909986B2 |
Video decoding method and device therefor, and video encoding method and device therefor
Provided is a video decoding method including: obtaining a first motion vector indicating a first reference block of a current block in a first reference picture and a second motion vector indicating a second reference block of the current block in a second reference picture; obtaining a parameter related to pixel group unit motion compensation of the current block, based on at least one of information of the parameter related to the pixel group unit motion compensation and a parameter related to an image including the current picture; generating a prediction block by performing, with respect to the current block, block unit motion compensation based on the first motion vector and the second motion vector and performing the pixel group unit motion compensation based on the parameter related to the pixel group unit motion compensation; and reconstructing the current block. Here, a pixel group may include at least one pixel. |
| US11909985B2 |
Electronic device and method of operating the same
An electronic device and a method of operating the same, the electronic device including a first decoder that decodes frames configuring a multimedia file stored in an external storage device; an encoder that encodes decoded frames included in a first decoded file; memory; and a controller that reads the multimedia file from the external storage device, extracts the frames from the read multimedia file, controls the first decoder and the encoder, and controls the memory to store the video thumbnail file output from the encoder. |
| US11909984B2 |
Video encoding and decoding for cloud gaming
A video encoding method of a cloud game is provided. Network bandwidth information of a video playback terminal is determined. Decoding computing power information of the video playback terminal is determined. At least one encoding parameter of a video of the cloud game is dynamically adjusted based on (i) the network bandwidth information and (ii) the decoding computing power information. The network bandwidth information and the decoding computing power information indicate a playback environment of the video of the cloud game. The video of the cloud game is encoded based on the at least one encoding parameter. |
| US11909977B2 |
Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems directed to improved linear model estimation for template based video coding
Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to improved linear model estimation for template-based video coding are provided. Included therein is a method comprising determining minimum and maximum (“min/max”) values of luma and chroma samples neighboring a coding block, wherein the min/max chroma values correspond to the min/max luma values; determining a first linear model parameter of a template-based video coding technique (i) based on a single look-up table and the min/max chroma values and (ii) at a precision no greater than 16 bits; determining a second linear model parameter of the template-based video coding technique (i) based on the first linear model parameter and the minimum chroma and luma values and (ii) at a precision no greater than 16 bits; and predicting chroma samples of the coding block based on reconstructed luma samples of the coding block and the first and second linear model parameters. |
| US11909975B2 |
Dependent scalar quantization with substitution in neural image compression
Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for end-to-end neural image compression using dependent scalar quantization with substitution, including receiving an input image; determining a substitute image based on the input image using a neural network based substitute feature generator; compressing the substitute image; quantizing the compressed substitute image to obtain a quantized representation of the input image with higher compression performance by using a first dependent scalar quantizer; and entropy encoding the substitute image using a neural network based encoder to generate a compressed representation of the quantized representation. |
| US11909973B2 |
Video decoding method and device
Provided are a video decoding method and device. This specification provides a video decoding method comprising the steps of: acquiring a parameter indicating whether a multiple transform set is applicable to a block to be decoded, as well as information about the width of the block to be decoded and the height of the block to be decoded; determining the transform type of the block to be decoded on the basis of at least one of the parameter indicating whether a multiple transform set is applicable, or the information about the width and height of the block to be decoded, and setting a zero-out region of the block to be decoded; and inverse-transforming the block to be decoded on the basis of the zero-out region of the block to be decoded and the result of determining the transform type. |
| US11909972B2 |
Coding of information about transform kernel set
An image decoding method includes: acquiring a multiple transform selection (MTS) index and residual information from a bitstream; deriving transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the MTS index and the transform coefficients, wherein the MTS index indicates a transform kernel set to be applied to the current block among transform kernel set candidates, at least one bin among bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived on the basis of context coding, the context coding is performed on the basis of values of increase and decrease in a context index pertaining to the MTS index, and a single value of increase and decrease in the context index can be used for the context coding of the first bin among the bins of the bin string. |
| US11909969B2 |
Methods and apparatus of video coding for triangle prediction
A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: partitioning video pictures into a plurality of coding units (CUs), at least one of which is further portioned into two prediction units (PUs) including at least one triangular shaped PU with a partitioning orientation in one of: from top-left corner to bottom-right corner, and from top-right corner to bottom-left corner; constructing a uni-prediction motion vector candidate list; determining whether a current CU is coded as triangle prediction mode according to coded information; signaling a partition orientation flag indicating the partitioning orientation; and signaling index values that indicate selected entries in the constructed uni-prediction motion vector candidate list. |
| US11909964B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
A depth value calculation unit (102) calculates, for an image divided into a plurality of blocks, a depth value (Da, Db) for determining presence or absence of processing of a deblocking filter and determining strength of the deblocking filter according to a division state of respective blocks adjacent to a block boundary (Bv). A filter processing execution determination unit (104) determines whether or not to cause the deblocking filter to operate on the block boundary (Bv) on the basis of the depth value (Da, Db). A filter strength setting unit (105) sets the strength of the deblocking filter to operate on the block boundary (Bv) on the basis of the depth value (Da, Db). |
| US11909963B2 |
Image encoding method, decoding method, encoder, and decoder
Provided is an image encoding method. The method includes: determining an intra prediction mode of an encoding block, and constructing a first prediction value of the encoding block according to the intra prediction mode; determining a filtering parameter according to the first prediction value and an original value of the encoding block, where the filtering parameter includes a filtering indication parameter; in a case where the filtering indication parameter indicates performing filtering processing on the first prediction value, performing the filtering processing on the first prediction value to obtain an intra prediction value; calculating a prediction difference parameter according to a difference between the original value of the encoding block and the intra prediction value; and encoding the intra prediction mode, the filtering parameter, and the prediction difference parameter, and writing encoded bits into a bitstream. |
| US11909953B2 |
Representation of affine model
A method, a video processing apparatus and computer-readable program medium for video process is disclosed. A method of video processing includes storing, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, affine model parameters for the current block; and performing the conversion using the affine model parameters, wherein the affine model parameters are derived at least from motion vectors of control points of the current block. |
| US11909952B2 |
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device
A three-dimensional data encoding method encodes a plurality of three-dimensional points, and includes: selecting one of two or more prediction modes for calculating a predicted value of an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point, in accordance with attribute information items of one or more second three-dimensional points in the vicinity of a first three-dimensional point; calculating the predicted value by the selected prediction mode; calculating, as a prediction residual, a difference between a value of the attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point and the calculated predicted value; and generating a bit stream that includes the one prediction mode and the prediction residual. |
| US11909948B2 |
Multiview backlight, multiview display, and method employing reflective multibeam elements
A multiview backlight, multiview display, and method of multiview backlight operation include reflective multibeam elements configured to provide emitted light having directional light beams with directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview image. The multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light and an array of the reflective multibeam elements, each reflective multibeam element including a plurality of reflective sub-elements and being configured to reflectively scatter out a portion of the guided light as the emitted light. The multiview display includes the multiview backlight and an array of light valves to modulate the directional light beams to provide the multiview image. |
| US11909944B1 |
Dynamic calibration of cameras in a stereoscopic configuration
Dynamic calibration of cameras in a stereoscopic configuration may include: determining a disparity between first image data from a first camera and second image data from a second camera, wherein the first camera and the second camera are in a stereoscopic configuration, and wherein the disparity comprises a difference in placement of one or more objects in the first image data relative to the second image data; and adjusting one or more of the first camera or the second camera, based on the disparity and sensor data from a sensor other than the first camera and the second camera, to calibrate the stereoscopic configuration of the first camera and the second camera to achieve stereoscopic camera distance functionality. |
| US11909938B2 |
Printing method including gradation region ink amount calculation step
A printing method includes: a color space conversion step; a gradation determination step of determining whether a pixel group forms a gradation; and a gradation region ink amount calculation step of calculating an ink amount of the pixel group determined to form the gradation. The gradation region ink amount calculation step includes an array information acquisition step of acquiring whether pixel values are arranged linearly, in a planar manner, or in a polyhedron manner in a uniform color space, a grating color value calculation step of determining a grating color value which is a color value of a grating point in the array, a grating ink amount calculation step of calculating, using the determined grating color value, a grating ink amount which is an ink amount of the grating point in the array, and an interpolation calculation step of calculating an ink amount of the pixel group determined to form the gradation by interpolation using the calculated grating ink amount. |
| US11909935B2 |
Image forming apparatus, and control method for controlling image forming apparatus for remotely performing a setting process on or configuration control of a image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus provided to perform a setting process according to a written instruction includes an identifying unit configured to, with respect to a first command included in the written instruction, identify a second command to cancel a process executed with the first command, a creation unit configured to, in a case where an instruction to execute a process with the first command is given according to the written instruction, create a written instruction to execute the second command identified by the identifying unit, and a control unit configured to, according to a user operation, execute the written instruction created by the creation unit. |
| US11909934B1 |
Consolidation of bounding boxes generated from text type pattern localizer
A digital image processor includes a region proposal network configured to transform digital image inputs into region proposals and bounding box refinement logic configured to transform the region proposals by determining a first set of the region proposals exhibiting dense spacing, determining a second set of the region proposals exhibiting sparse spacing, executing a first transformation to merge at least some of the region proposals exhibiting dense spacing to generate refined region proposals, executing a second transformation to join at least some of the region proposals exhibiting sparse spacing to generate additional ones of the refined region proposals, and applying an expansion transformation to the refined region proposals. |
| US11909931B2 |
Feeding device and image forming apparatus
A feeding device includes: a feeder that feeds a first medium disposed on a top of plural media loaded; a detector that detects at least one of a curved state and an inclination of the first medium and following media including a second medium disposed immediately below the first medium; and a modifier that modifies a condition related to a feeding operation of the feeder based on the at least one of the curved state and the inclination detected by the detector. |
| US11909927B2 |
Image processing apparatus, for setting a notification destination user when image data generated by scanning an image is shared by a chat service
An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server which controls displaying of received image data in a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server, based on received information about the talk room, and controls transmission of a notification, based on received user information on a notification destination user, the image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image of a document to generate image data based on the image, a registration unit configured to register the talk room of the chat service and the notification destination user in association with an object, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by reading of the reading unit, the information about the talk room, and the user information on the communication destination user to the chat server, in response to selection of the object. |
| US11909925B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method of detecting malfunction in data communication
An information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus in response to completion of a specific software activation process in the controller, transmits an activation completion notification to the operation device and the operation device in response to receiving the activation completion notification, updates a timeout period of a timer started after activation of software of the operation device to a shorter period of time and restart the timer, and in a case data communication is not established on the communication path within the updated timeout period, detects a malfunction and notifies the controller of the malfunction, and the controller performs a recovery process. |
| US11909924B1 |
Vehicular communication system
The vehicular communication system is a communication device. The vehicular communication system incorporates a primary control circuit, an exterior control circuit, and a vehicle. The vehicle further comprises a cab and an exterior surface. The primary control circuit mounts within the cab of the vehicle. The external control circuit mounts on the exterior surface of the vehicle. The primary control circuit forms a first wireless communication link with a personal data device. The primary control circuit enables hands free operation of the personal data device within the cab of the vehicle. The primary control circuit forms a second wireless communication link with the external control circuit. The external control circuit enables hands free operation of the personal data device from the exterior of the vehicle. |
| US11909923B2 |
Automated communications response system
In one embodiment, a system provides for end-user control over the automatic recognition of communication situations by detection of unique telecommunication event characteristics and the consequential responses to those situations by invocation of related programmatic responses. The system allows an end user to specify various patterns of telecommunication event characteristics that describe various situational aspects of incoming communications, such as the timing and originator of voice calls, the content of, timing of, and author of chat messages, etc., as well as appropriate sets of programmatic response actions to be performed in response to those communications, such as initiating conference calls, sending chat messages, routing calls to other users, etc. The system monitors incoming communications, matches characteristic patterns to recognize the situations, and then invokes the matching response actions, thereby automating many functions of the communication system that previously would have had to be performed manually. |
| US11909922B2 |
Automatic reaction-triggering for live presentations
The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to provide processing that automatically analyzes acoustic signals from attendees of a live presentation and automatically triggers corresponding reaction indications from results of analysis thereof. Exemplary reaction indications provide feedback for live presentations that can be presented in real-time (or near real-time) without requiring a user to manually take action to provide any feedback. As a non-limiting example, reaction indications may be presented in a form that is easy to visualize and understand such as emojis or icons. Another example of a reaction indication is a graphical user interface (GUI) notification that provides a predictive indication of user intent derived from analysis of acoustic signals. Further examples described herein extend to training and application of artificial intelligence (AI) processing, in real-time (or near real-time), that is configured to automatically analyze acoustic features of audio streams and automatically generate exemplary reaction indications. |
| US11909921B1 |
Persistent digital video streaming
Systems and methods for social media music streaming may include (1) creating a digital video room for a group of users that is configured to alternate between a lobby state and a live state and, in response to a triggering event, (2) toggling between (i) a lobby interface, corresponding to the lobby state, that enables asynchronous digital exchanges between the users of the group and (ii) a live interface, corresponding to the live state, that enables synchronous video conferencing between the users of the group. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11909919B2 |
Communication routing based on user characteristics and behavior
An enhanced routing system determines a service provider best suited to fulfill a user's request to interact and establishes a communication session between the user's client device and a device of the service provider. The enhanced routing system may use user characteristics and behavior to select the service provider. For example, the enhanced routing system receives a request to connect to a customer service system from a user who has recently started a new job and has been accessing a banking application on his mobile phone. The enhanced routing system may determine that a payroll service provider is best suited to fulfill the user's request. For example, the enhanced routing system uses a machine learning model that has been trained on previously fulfilled requests. In this way, the enhanced routing system improves upon systems that continuously prompt the user for information by selecting a service provider without overburdening the user. |
| US11909917B2 |
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for dynamically navigating interactive communication systems
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for dynamically navigating interactive communication systems. An example method may comprise: receiving, from a user device, sound waves or audio information, the sound waves or audio information indicative of a request to initiate an interactive communication session with a communication system of a biller or merchant; interpreting, based on the sound waves or audio information, an intent of the communication session and an identity of the biller or merchant; retrieving a predetermined interaction coding associated with the biller or merchant; and initiating the interactive communication session with the communication system of the biller or merchant based on the predetermined interaction coding. |
| US11909916B2 |
Platform for emergency event subscriptions
A data subscription system provides emergency event data to receiving systems. The data subscription system includes an event emitter and a distribution module. The event emitter receives event data describing an event in a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system; the event is related to an emergency call. The event emitter identifies a subscription subscribed to the event based on a tenant identifier identifying a CAD tenant associated with the event, and adds a data message with the event data to a queue for the identified subscription. The distribution module retrieves the data message from the queue, transforms the data message based on one or more filtering or formatting rules, and transmits the transformed data message to a receiving system associated with the subscription. |
| US11909914B2 |
Forwarding emergency messages from IoT devices to PSAPs
A system for routing emergency events reported by IoT devices to nearby Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), comprising an IoT server and a phone call server. The IoT server configured to receive emergency messages from IoT devices associated with users and distributed in a plurality of geographical regions and transmit the emergency messages indicative of emergency events relating to the associated users and comprise at least a location of the IoT devices to the phone call server which is configured to adjust call routing record(s) used by the PSTN to associate certain caller IDs with the location of the IoT devices, and initiate emergency call(s) to the PSTN using the certain caller IDs. The PSTN forwards emergency calls to PSAPs located in geographical regions nearest to the IoT devices determined based on between the location of the IoT devices and the certain caller IDs in the adjusted call routing record(s). |
| US11909913B2 |
Nuisance call countermeasure apparatus, method and program
A spam call prevention apparatus 11 includes: a response unit 111 configured to convey, to a phone terminal of a sender of a call, a response that, in a case where the call from the sender is evaluated as a spam or a fraud by a receiver of the call, the sender is billed a sum of money corresponding to a probability of being evaluated as the spam or the fraud; a notification unit 112 configured to notify, when the sender has requested, in responding to the response, the call to the receiver, a phone terminal of the receiver of a request for returning an evaluation result of evaluating the call from the sender after the call between the sender and the receiver has ended; and a determination unit 114 configured to determine, when the call from the sender has been evaluated as the spam or the fraud in the evaluation result, the sum of money corresponding to the probability of being evaluated as the spam or the fraud, as a sum of billing. |
| US11909908B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring a communication line
Embodiments relate to an apparatus comprising means configured for: obtaining echo response data representative of the echo response of a communication line, wherein the echo response data specifies the echo response based on two dimensions and includes first dimension data and second dimension data, determining at least one property of the communication line based on processing the echo response data with a neural network, wherein the neural network comprises at least: a first convolutional branch for processing the first dimension data, a second convolutional branch for processing the second dimension data, a dense part for processing the outputs of the first and second convolutional branches. |
| US11909907B2 |
Charging policy information for a home session management function
A home session management function (SMF) of a home public land mobile network (PLMN) receives, from a visited SMF of a visited PLMN from a visited SMF of a visited PLMN, a request for creation of a packet data unit (PDU) session of a wireless device. The request comprises first charging policy information determined based on a first policy of the visited PLMN. The home SMF sends, to the visited SMF and based on the request, a second charging policy information comprising: a charging method for the PDU session; and a charging parameter indicating a charging level for the PDU session. |
| US11909903B2 |
System and method of managing contact information of a terminal recognized by a vehicle
A system and a method of managing contact information of a terminal recognized by a vehicle include: a communication unit, which communicates with one or more terminals located in a vehicle and recognizes the terminal, and which receives information stored in the recognized terminal; a connection confirming unit which confirms a function, to which the terminal recognized through the communication unit is connected through communication, among the functions provided by an Audio, Video, and Navigation (AVN) system of the vehicle; a priority calculating unit, which calculates a priority of the terminal with respect to other terminals according to the connection between the terminal confirmed by the connection confirming unit and the function provided by the AVN system and generates priority list information for maintaining contact information stored in the terminal; and a contact information renewing unit, which downloads and stores the contact information stored in the terminal in a linked database according to the priority list information generated by the priority calculating unit or deletes the contact information stored in the database. |
| US11909898B2 |
Mobile terminal, cover, display component
This application provides a mobile terminal and relates to the field of display technologies. The mobile terminal includes a display panel, a cover body, a photoelectric conversion apparatus, and a bearer layer. The bearer layer includes a non-polarized part, where the bearer layer is disposed between the cover body and the display panel, and the bearer layer is located in a partial transmissive region of the display region, where an orthographic projection of the photoelectric conversion apparatus on the bearer layer is located in an orthographic projection of the non-polarized part on the bearer layer, and the non-polarized part is configured to enable a polarization direction of light. Furthermore, the mobile terminal includes an ink layer, disposed on a surface of the bearer layer, where the ink layer is located in a peripheral region of the mobile terminal. As discussed herein, the techniques resolve a problem of how to evenly print ink in a corresponding peripheral region of the mobile terminal. |
| US11909897B2 |
Mobile phone film attaching device equipped with reinforced glass film
A mobile phone screen protector attaching device equipped with a reinforced glass film, which includes: a screen protector attaching device main body, a connector, and a reinforced glass film. The bottom surface of the screen protector attaching device main body is formed with a holding space that matches the contour of the mobile phone and can cover the cell phone. The reinforced glass film is configured inside the area of the holding space with connection to the connector; a stopper is configured inside the area of the holding space; when the screen protector attaching device main body covers the cell phone, of the two relative ends of the reinforced glass film, one end contacts the screen of the cell phone, the other end is separated from the screen of the mobile phone by a gap due to the block of the stopper. |
| US11909895B2 |
Mobile terminal
Disclosed is a mobile terminal varying in size, including a first frame, a second frame moving against the first frame in a first direction or a second direction reverse to the first direction, a drive unit switching the mobile terminal to an extended state or a contracted state by moving the second frame against the first frame in the first direction or the second direction, a display unit including a fixed part coupled to a front side of the first frame and a variable part extended in the first direction of the fixed part and bent to a backside by enclosing the second frame, a main board installed in the first frame, and a battery installed in the second frame to move together with the second frame. |
| US11909894B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating a dynamic security certificate
A method and apparatus for generating a dynamic security certificate. The method creates an entropic element from user input, receives metadata from user input and generates a dynamic security certificate using the entropic element and the metadata. The dynamic security certificate is then trusted through user input. |
| US11909892B2 |
Authentication system, client, and server
Provided is an authentication system capable of preventing determination that authentication of a person to be authenticated succeeds even though determination as to whether matching information matches registration information is not performed when authentication using two factors is performed. A determination unit 43 determines whether or not the matching information matches the registration information. A signature generation unit 21 of a client 10 generates a signature based on the message by using a signature key. A signature determination unit 34 determines whether or not the signature is a correct signature by using a first verification key, a message, and the signature. When it is determined that the matching information matches the registration information and it is determined that the signature is the correct signature, the authentication determination unit 37 determines that the authentication succeeds. |
| US11909890B2 |
Software release verification
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for verifying a software release. To illustrate, as software (e.g., one or more files or artifacts) completes one or more stages of a development process, one or more digital signatures are generated. The one or more digital signatures are generated using private keys that correspond to the stage of the development process that is completed. The one or more digital signatures, and one or more public keys corresponding to the private keys, are sent to a node device. Upon receipt of the one or more digital signatures and the public keys (e.g., as part of a software release), the node device verifies the digital signatures before processing the software. |
| US11909889B2 |
Secure digital signing
A public-private key cryptographic scheme is described for granting authenticating a client to a remote device or service in order to access a secure resource. The client is provided the public key, but the private key is stored in a hardware security module (HSM) that the client is not able to access. The client requests a digital signature be generated from the private key from a secure vault service. The secure vault service accesses the HSM and generates the digital certificate, which is then passed to the client. The digital certificate may be added to a security token request submitted to an identity provider. The identity provider determines whether the digital signature came from the private key. If so, the identity provider provides authenticates the client and provides an access token that is usable by the client for authentication to the remote device with the secure resource |
| US11909888B2 |
Shared ecosystem for electronic document signing and sharing (DSS)
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an electronic document sharing and signing (DSS) ecosystem for electronic document authentication and authorization. The DSS ecosystem may preferably provide a communication platform between a first user information database associated with a first entity and a second user information database associated with a second entity. The DSS ecosystem may include a signer information database. The signer information database may be coupled to the first user information database and the second user information database. The signer information database may be configured to be readable by the first entity and writeable to by the first entity, and readable by the second entity but not writeable to by the second entity. The signer database may include a list of signatory names associated with the first entity, and a plurality of electronically signed documents. Each of the documents may include an electronic signature applied by a signatory whose name appears on the signatory list. The list of electronically signed documents may be accessible by the second entity. |
| US11909886B2 |
Method, apparatus for blockchain-based multi-party computation, device and medium
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for blockchain-based multi-party computation, a device and a medium, relate to blockchain technology in the field of computer technology. An embodiment of the method can include: encrypting business data, to obtain a ciphertext of the business data; hashing the ciphertext of the business data, to obtain a hash result of the business data; sending the hash result of the business data to a blockchain node, so that the blockchain node writes the hash result of the business data into a blockchain; and sending the ciphertext of the business data to a target trusted computing module in a target server, for instructing the target trusted computing module to perform multi-party computation based on the ciphertext of the business data and the hash result of the business data in the blockchain. |
| US11909885B2 |
Passive optical network security
Improved optical network security (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. Various embodiments herein can send (e.g., via a network) to a group of network devices comprising a first network device and a second network device, a first encrypted data stream, a second encrypted data stream, a first hash code, and a second hash code, wherein the first network device deletes the second encrypted data stream after the first network device hashes the second encrypted data stream, and in response to the second network device being determined not to have received the second hash code within a defined threshold time, determine that the first network device is unauthorized to use the network. |
| US11909882B2 |
Systems and methods to cryptographically verify an identity of an information handling system
Various embodiments of systems and methods are provided to bind a system identifier that uniquely identifies an information handling system (IHS) to the system platform, so that the identity of the IHS can be cryptographically verified. More specifically, the present disclosure provides methods to bind a unique system identifier to an IHS platform, and methods to cryptographically verify the identity of the IHS using the unique system identifier and a plurality of keys generated and stored with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) of the IHS. Systems are provided herein to perform such methods. As such, the systems and methods disclosed herein enable system identity to be irrefutably verified, thereby preventing theft and misuse of system identity. |
| US11909880B2 |
Centralized credential issuance and rotation
Embodiments relate to a system that may include a third-party server and a domain name system (DNS). The third-party server may be configured to receive a request for a credential from a named entity device for the named entity device to communicate with an application programming interface (API). The API may be associated with a domain. The third-party server may obtain the credential from the API. The third-party server may encrypt the credential with a public key corresponding to the named entity device to generate an encrypted credential. The DNS may be configured to receive the encrypted credential and publish a DNS record at a namespace of the DNS, the DNS record containing the encrypted credential for the named entity device to retrieve the credential. The named entity device may decrypt the encrypted credential by the private key stored at the device. |
| US11909878B2 |
Systems and methods for authenticating a user on an augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality platform to deploy experiences
Systems and methods for authenticating a user on an augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality platform are provided. Once the user is authenticated, advertisements, experiences, appless apps, and/or tools may be deployed to a user, such as transforming an object on gaze into an advertisement, experience, scripted or un-scripted 3D object, animated or still 2D image, appless app, and/or tool. Using augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality technology, when a user looks/gazes at a virtual object, the bubble may then pop, transitioning into a video screen. The video screen is not being augmented on the virtual object itself. |
| US11909876B1 |
Multi autonomous secure domain name systems
Embodiments disclosed herein allow multiple providers to answer for DNS while having DNSSEC enabled for the same zone. To do so, the system shares DNSKEY records between autonomous DNS vendors. Sharing DNSKEY records allows customers to use multiple DNS providers with DNSSEC enabled without sharing private keys amongst providers. |
| US11909875B2 |
System for certificating and synchronizing virtual world and physical world
A device or space existed in a physical space is registered in the form of a digital object in a virtual space, a digital twin service is provided through connection between an offline device or space and the digital object in the virtual space. |
| US11909874B2 |
Secure confidential use of communication session keys
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium, that at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions for (a) generating master keys by a keys security entity (KSE) that is established within a KSE; (b) generating one-time connection session keys, by the KSE, based on the master keys; (c) outputting, by the KSE, the one-time connection session keys to a Connection Security Entity (CSE) enclave in which a CSE is established, over a secure communication link; and (d) preventing access, by the KSE, to the master keys. |
| US11909866B2 |
Systems and methods for configuring a networked system to perform threshold multi-party computation
Methods and systems are presented for providing a multi-party computation (MPC) framework for dynamically configuring, deploying, and utilizing an MPC system for performing distributed computations. Based on device attributes and network attributes associated with computer nodes that are available to be part of the MPC system, a configuration for the MPC system is determined. The configuration may specify a total number of computer nodes within the MPC system, a minimum number of computer nodes required to participate in performing a computation process, a key distribution mechanism, and a computation processing mechanism. Encryption keys are generated and distributed among the computer nodes based on the key distribution mechanism. Upon receiving a request for performing the computation, updated network attributes are obtained. The configuration of the MPC system is dynamically modified based on the updated network attributes, and the MPC system performs the computations according to the modified configuration. |
| US11909864B2 |
Secure multi-party reach and frequency estimation
Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attributes in a networking environment are disclosed. The system can maintain a set of data records including device identifiers and attributes associated with device in a network. The system can generate a vector comprising coordinates corresponding to counter registers. The system can identify hash functions to update a counting bloom filter. The system can hash the data records to extract index values pointing to a set of counter registers. The system can increment the positions in the min-increment counting bloom filter corresponding to the minimum values of the counter registers. The system can obtain an aggregated public key comprising a public key. The system can encrypt the counter registers using the aggregated shared key to generate an encrypted vector. The system can transmit the encrypted vector to a networked worker computing device. |
| US11909859B2 |
Removing access to blockchain data
Access to blockchain data may be removed by deleting an encryption key held in a remote server. Incoming data is stored in the blockchain after being encrypted at the key server. An ordinary blockchain user gains access to the data, after forwarding the encrypted data to the remote key server for decryption. Upon receipt of an input (e.g., time stamp), the key server deletes the key. Thereafter, the encrypted data on the blockchain is rendered inaccessible to the ordinary blockchain data user. At no point, does the ordinary data user have access to the key stored in the remote server. Embodiments may find particular use in removing access to personal data stored in a blockchain following the elapse of a predetermined amount of time, as may be required by privacy laws. Granular control over data access can may be afforded through the use of composite keys and/or key hierarchies. |
| US11909858B1 |
System and method for generating and performing a smart contract
A semantic parser can process natural language of a traditional contract to generate variables and rules which can be implemented in a smart contract. The smart contract can be provided to a distributed ledger, such as a blockchain network, to execute the smart contract. Execution of the smart contract can be documented in the distributed ledger and in association with the smart contract. |
| US11909852B1 |
Frequency and gain calibration for time synchronization in a network
A method includes, at a first node: transmitting a first calibration signal at a first time-of-departure measured by the first node; and transmitting a second calibration signal at a second time-of-departure measured by the first node. The method also includes, at a second node: receiving the first calibration signal at a first time-of-arrival measured by the second node; and receiving the second calibration signal at a second time-of-arrival measured by the second node. The method further includes: defining a first calibration point and a second calibration point in a set of calibration points, each calibration point comprising a time-of-departure and a time-of-arrival of each calibration signal; calculating a regression on the set of calibration points; and calculating a frequency offset between the first node and the second node based on the first regression. |
| US11909849B2 |
Method of communicating information and corresponding device and system
A communication circuit supports a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol that is different from the first communication protocol. A number of signals include first signals conveying first information messages and second signals conveying second information messages. The first information messages include a repetitive message having fixed repeated content and the second information messages include a non-repetitive message having variable content. The first signals and the second signals are transmitted via the communication circuit using the first communication protocol for the first signals and the second communication protocol for the second signals. |
| US11909842B2 |
System and method for providing database content on a client device
A system and method for providing content for display form data sources on a client device are provided. The method includes receiving, by a distribution server, a report identifier associated with a report and a request for information, wherein the information is requested based on the report; determining by the distribution server at least a data source, the at least a data source storing at least a portion of the information; requesting access from the integration server to the at least a data source to retrieve the at least a portion of the information; and sending from the distribution server to the client device, the at least a portion of the information, wherein the at least a portion of information is utilized in the report. In an embodiment, the data sources are accessible by an integration server. |
| US11909841B2 |
System, apparatus and method for adaptive peer-to-peer communication with edge platform
In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, in an edge platform, a plurality of messages from a plurality of edge devices coupled to the edge platform, the plurality of messages comprising metadata including priority information and granularity information; extracting at least the priority information from the plurality of messages; storing the plurality of messages in entries of a pending request queue according to the priority information; selecting a first message stored in the pending request queue for delivery to a destination circuit; and sending a message header for the first message to the destination circuit via at least one interface circuit, the message header including the priority information, and thereafter sending a plurality of packets including payload information of the first message to the destination circuit via the at least one interface circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11909838B1 |
Dynamic user data filtering
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for dynamic user data filtering. In some implementations, a method includes determining one or more values using data representing a sequence of one or more types of interactions between a user and content; using the one or more values to determine whether to include each interaction of the one or more types of interactions in the sequence within a reduced user data set; generating the reduced user data set by removing one or more interactions from the sequence based on determining not to include the one or more interactions using the one or more values; and providing the reduced user data set to a processing server. |
| US11909832B1 |
Dynamic cable operator plant discovery
The present disclosure describes a point-to-multipoint communication system having a service provider system and one or more subscriber devices. The one or more subscriber devices include multiple physical layer (PHY) devices that can be used for upstream direction and/or downstream direction transfer of information to and/or from the service provider system. The one or more subscriber devices receive subscriber device configuration information from the service provider system indicating which of these multiple PHY devices are to be used for the upstream direction and/or the downstream direction transfer of the information to and/or from the service provider system. In some situations, the subscriber device configuration information identifies various types of information, such as video, audio, and/or data to provide some examples, to be transferred in the upstream direction and/or the downstream direction and/or one or more PHY devices to be used for transferring the various types of information. |
| US11909831B2 |
Multi-session cookie swap
A web browser can manage different session cookies associated with a website by storing the session cookies in distinct tab storage locations associated with different tabs of the web browser, instead of in a global storage location accessible by any tab of the web browser. When the web browser prepares to send a request associated with an active tab to a server associated with the website, the web browser can temporarily copy a corresponding session cookie into the global storage location from the tab storage location associated with the active tab. Accordingly, even if the website does not natively support multiple concurrent user sessions with the web browser, the web browser can send different session cookies to the website based on which tab of the web browser is active, and thereby allow users to engage in different user sessions with the website in different tabs. |
| US11909828B2 |
Device and method for handling always-on PDU session in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the disclosure, provided is a method for operating an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving, from user equipment (UE), a service request including a list of protocol data unit (PDU) sessions to be activated, or a message about a mobility registration update; checking, on the basis of UE context information about the UE, whether identifiers (IDs) of all of always-on PDU sessions are included in the list of PDU sessions to be activated; and, when an omitted always-on PDU session is checked from the list of the PDU sessions to be activated, transmitting, to a session management function (SMF), a Nsmf_PDUSession_UpdateSMContext request message for requesting user plane activation of the omitted always-on PDU session. |
| US11909823B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating alternative routines in an IoT environment
Provided are an apparatus and a method for generating an alternative routine, the method comprising monitoring a first routine comprising at least one activity representing at least one interaction of a user with one or more IoT devices, determining semantic information associated with the at least one activity, and generating at least one second routine comprising one or more activities corresponding to the at least one activity based on the semantic information associated with the at least one activity. |
| US11909819B1 |
Synchronization of client IP binding database across extended networks leveraging BGP control plane
A method and system are provided which facilitate synchronization of client IP binding databases across an extended network by leveraging the BGP control plane. During operation, a switch configures a first synchronization identifier indicating validated Internet Protocol (IP) binding information of an associated client. The switch receives a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update message associated with a first client, wherein the BGP update message includes a second synchronization identifier. Responsive to determining that the second synchronization identifier matches the first synchronization identifier, the switch: extracts from the BGP update message reachability information, which includes media access control (MAC) and IP information associated with the first client; validates the MAC and IP information based on security policies; and adds the MAC and IP information to a local IP binding database, thereby allowing synchronization of the validated IP binding information of the first client between the switch and other switches. |
| US11909818B2 |
Reaching a quorum with a number of master nodes
Managing containerized workloads, such as by Kubernetes, provides a robust and expandable platform. Kubernetes high-availability (HA) mode provides additional safeguards against failure that allows services to be maintained without interruption in the event of a partial system or network failure. However, Kubernetes requires an odd number of master nodes (e.g., three) in order to be able have a quorum and maintain certain operations (e.g., election of a leader). In the event a master node loses functionality, the remaining master nodes are unable to have a quorum. System and methods are provided to convert a worker-only node into a master node in order to reestablish a quorum. Once functionality is restored, the converted master is reverted back to a worker-only node and the restored master, and remaining masters, maintain the quorum. |
| US11909814B1 |
Configurable computing resource allocation policies
Disclosed are various embodiments for resource allocation policies for a hosted computing environment that can be configured by organizations that use the hosted computing environment under a utility computing model. In one embodiment, a resource allocation request to allocate a computing resource within a hosted computing environment is received. The resource allocation request is associated with an account of an organization. It is determined that a fulfillment of the resource allocation request would violate a resource allocation policy configured by the organization within the hosted computing environment. The resource allocation request is prevented from being automatically fulfilled in response to determining that the fulfillment of the resource allocation request would violate the resource allocation policy. |
| US11909810B2 |
Image data segmentation and transmission
A computing device is provided, including a logic subsystem with one or more processors, and memory storing instructions executable by the logic subsystem. These instructions are executed to obtain one or more source images, segment the one or more source images to generate a plurality of segments, determine a priority order for the plurality of segments, and transmit the plurality of segments to a remote computing device in the priority order. The plurality of segments are spatial components generated by spatial decomposition of the one or more source images and/or frequency components that are generated by frequency decomposition of the one or more source images. A remote computing device may receive these components in priority order, and perform certain algorithms on individual components without waiting for the entire image to upload. |
| US11909809B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring part, a copying part, and a controller. The acquiring part acquires a file structure at a migration source and an identification information item to identify a file at the migration source. Before migration of a content data item of the file at the migration source, the copying part copies the file structure and the identification information item to a migration destination in accordance with necessity or nonnecessity of copying the file structure and the identification information item, and the necessity or nonnecessity is determined by using an attribute information item of the file at the migration source and a history of access to the file at the migration source. |
| US11909801B1 |
Ultra-low latency parsing system and method
A first code generator identifies a value representing a start of a data frame. In response the first code generator outputs a first code representing at least the start of data frame. Fixed parsing components each output a portion of the data located at a respective offset and having a respective data length, in response to receiving the first code from the first code generator. The extracted respective portion of the data is output. For each respective one of a plurality of data messages a finite state machine identifies a length of the respective data message. For each of a plurality of portions of data in the respective data message, the finite state machine reads a length of a respective portion of data, traverses the portion of the data, calculates an associated adjust factor, and outputs a GO control signal and the adjust factor, used by a plurality of variable parsing components. |
| US11909794B2 |
Method to re-synchronize live media streams, commands, and on-screen events transmitted through different internet pathways
Systems maintain synchronicity among elements intended to be displayed at various points during a live media stream. At a multimedia player, start playback of a live media stream. The systems receive input from a user selecting a new time of the media stream to playback, which is different than the current playback time of the media stream. The systems adjust playback of the media stream to restart at the new selected time, such that the current playback time of the output media stream is updated to the new selected time. The systems monitor the current playback time of the media stream as adjusted. The systems determine a user-initiated command to execute for displaying one or more visual elements at the multimedia player by polling a command manifest file based on the current playback time as adjusted. |
| US11909793B2 |
Method, user terminal, network node, and system for controlling transmission of media stream service, storage medium, and electronic device
A method for controlling transmission of a media stream service includes: receiving, from a network node in a data network, policy template information for controlling transmission of media stream services and service differentiators corresponding to the policy template information; determining a service differentiator of a to-be-initiated media stream service based on the policy template information and the service differentiators; determining whether a protocol data unit session capable of carrying the to-be-initiated media stream service exists; binding the to-be-initiated media stream service to the quality of service stream in the protocol data unit session in response to a determination that the protocol data unit session exists; and establishing, in response to a determination that the protocol data unit session does not exist, a protocol data unit session including the quality of service stream corresponding to the service differentiator of the to-be-initiated media stream service. |
| US11909786B2 |
Systems and methods for improved group communication sessions
Systems and techniques are provided for processing audio data. For instance, a process can include detecting a first audio data between two or more in-person participants of a plurality of in-person participants of a group communication session. The first audio data can be identified as private based on one or more cues associated with the first audio data. A second audio data can be identified between the two or more in-person participants. The second audio data can be identified as non-private based on one or more additional cues associated with the second audio data, wherein the one or more additional cues associated with the second audio data are different from the one or more cues associated with the first audio data. The second audio data can be output based on identifying the second audio data as non-private. |
| US11909785B2 |
Video communications system for rideshare service vehicle
A method for a video communication system for a rideshare system includes conducting at least a portion of a video communication session involving a passenger using at least one exterior audio/video component on an exterior surface of an AV dispatched to a designated location; and transferring the video communication session to at least one interior audio/video component on an interior of the AV. |
| US11909783B2 |
Providing trust and safety functionality during virtual meetings
Techniques for providing trust and safety functionality during virtual meetings are provided. In an example, a method includes establishing a video conference between client devices. The method includes receiving, from a first client device of the client devices, a stream corresponding to the video conference and including one or more items of content. The method further involves applying, to the stream, a machine learning model that is trained to identify inappropriate or harmful content in the stream. The method further includes determining, via the machine learning model, that an item of content in the stream is inappropriate or harmful. The method further includes editing the stream to remove the item of content. The method further includes transmitting the edited stream to the client devices. |
| US11909780B2 |
Enabling vertical application layer server for peer-to-peer media parameter negotiation
A method, computer program, and computer system for enabling peer-to-peer media streaming using service enabler architecture layer (SEAL). The method may be executed by one or more processors, and the method may include receiving, by a vertical application layer (VAL) server, a request for a media session negotiation between one or more client devices, and retrieving, by the vertical application layer (VAL) server, transport layer information associated with each of the one or more client devices using network address translation traversal. The method may further include transmitting, by the vertical application layer (VAL) server, agreed session description protocol (SDP) parameters based on the transport layer information, wherein the agreed session description protocol (SDP) parameters are used to establish a peer-to-peer media streaming session. |
| US11909779B2 |
Providing enhanced functionality in an interactive electronic technical manual
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for displaying a data source of data found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation via an IETM viewer. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: providing a window comprising (1) textual information from and/or an illustration related to the data and (2) a selection mechanism; receiving a first type or a second type of selection of the mechanism; responsive to receiving the first type of selection, generating a data source window comprising a relevant section of the data source that relates to the textual information and/or the illustration; responsive to receiving the second type of selection, generating the data source window comprising the data source; and providing the data source window for display via the IETM viewer. |
| US11909765B2 |
Personal device network for user identification and authentication
Established user habits in carrying multiple wirelessly detectable devices are used to provide or substantiate authentication. In some embodiments, simply detecting that expected devices are co-located within a limited spatial region is sufficient to establish that the devices are being carried by a single individual. In other embodiments, particularly where the potential for spoofing by multiple individuals is a concern, single-user possession of the devices may be confirmed by various corroborative techniques. This approach affords convenience to users, who may be working at a device that lacks the necessary modality (e.g., a fingerprint or vein reader) for strong authentication. |
| US11909764B1 |
Man-in-the-middle interceptor for application security testing
Various embodiments include implementing an interceptor for application security testing. The interceptor may intercept traffic, including one or more traffic items, between a scan engine and a target application. The traffic item(s) may include a request directed to the target application from a scan engine implementing application security testing or a response from the target application responsive to request(s) from the scan engine. The interceptor may determine that a particular traffic item satisfies a particular traffic trigger associated with a particular traffic action comprising a manipulation to the traffic between the scan engine and the target application. The particular traffic action is one of a plurality of predefined traffic actions that the interceptor is configured to perform across different scan engine versions, different scan configurations, or both. Responsive to determining that the particular traffic item satisfies the particular traffic trigger, the interceptor may perform the particular traffic action. |
| US11909763B2 |
BGP blackhole and hijack mitigation
Techniques for mitigating BGP blackholes and hijackings are disclosed herein. The techniques include methods for determining, by a victim autonomous system (AS), that a first AS is associated with a first BGP route that includes the victim AS as the destination or as an AS along the first BGP route to the destination and sending a message to a second AS directing the second AS to refrain from using the first AS to propagate data to the victim AS. The message can include a set of one or more AS numbers to avoid in refraining from using to propagate data to the victim AS, a timestamp, an expiration interval, a signature of the victim AS, and an identifier identifying a certificate to be used to verify the signature. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided. |
| US11909761B2 |
Mitigating malware impact by utilizing sandbox insights
Systems and methods for mitigating the impact of malware by reversing malware related modifications in a computing device are provided. According to an embodiment, a sandbox service running within a network security platform protecting an enterprise network receives a file containing malware and associated contextual information from an endpoint security solution running on an endpoint device, which has been infected by the malware. The sandbox service captures information regarding a first series of actions performed by the malware and based on the first series of actions generates a remediation script specifying a second series of actions that are configured to restore the endpoint device to a pre-infected state. The network security platform causes the endpoint device to be returned to the pre-infected state by causing the endpoint security solution to execute the remediation script on the endpoint device. |
| US11909760B2 |
Malware classification and attribution through server fingerprinting using server certificate data
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives certificate data for an encrypted traffic flow associated with a client node in the network. The device determines one or more data features from the certificate data. The device determines one or more flow characteristics of the encrypted traffic flow. The device performs a classification of an application executed by the client node and associated with the encrypted traffic flow by using a machine learning-based classifier to assess the one or more data features from the certificate data and the one or more flow characteristics of the traffic flow. The device causes performance of a network action based on a result of the classification of the application. |
| US11909757B2 |
System and method for assessing cybersecurity risk of computer network
Systems and methods for assessing cybersecurity risk of a computer network include the use of a risk model application that is configured to determine an initial cyber risk score value based upon an underwriting process. A cyber risk data stream is sent from the client's computer network to the system processor to periodically calculate an updated cyber risk score based upon actual data. The system processor is adapted to use the data stream to generate client information that is accessible by the client via a web-based client portal. In embodiments, the cyber risk data stream can be actively monitored to identify a threat of a cybersecurity breach. |
| US11909746B2 |
Multi-path user authentication and threat detection system and related methods
Embodiments of systems and methods are provided to enhance network security by providing secure, multi-path user authentication, while also providing a more convenient login experience to the user. In the present disclosure, a cloud-based user authentication and threat detection system is provided with an artificial intelligence (AI) engine and a training dataset. Utilizing a cloud-based system enables the AI engine to collect data from multiple devices located within different physical locations or environments (such as, for example, the user's home and office). The collected data is stored within the training dataset and used to create a personalized user profile for each user. Each time a user initiates login to a system or network from a particular location, the AI engine collects data from multiple devices within that location and utilizes the user profile data previously stored within the training dataset to securely authenticate the user or detect potential security threats. |
| US11909741B2 |
Validating a device class claim using machine learning
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives an access policy and a class behavioral model for a node in the network that are associated with a class asserted by the node. The device applies the access policy and class behavioral model to traffic associated with the node. The device identifies a deviation in a behavior of the node from the class behavioral model, based on the application of the class behavioral model to the traffic associated with the node. The device causes performance of a mitigation action in the network based on the identified deviation in the behavior of the node from the class behavioral model. |
| US11909739B2 |
Industrial security model as a SASE service
A method includes determining a corresponding level of a security model associated with each device of a plurality of devices connected to a network, each level of the security model having a corresponding tag; applying, to each of the plurality of devices, the corresponding tag based on the corresponding level of the security model with which each of the plurality of devices are associated; receiving, over a network connection, network traffic from at least one of the plurality of devices and the corresponding tag; analyzing the corresponding tag associated with the network traffic; determining a destination for the network traffic; applying one or more security measures to the network traffic based on the corresponding tag for the at least one device and a corresponding tag of the destination for the network traffic; and sending the network traffic to the destination with the corresponding tag of the destination. |
| US11909738B2 |
Network access control method and device
This application provides a network access control method. Before a second device accesses a target to-be-accessed device in an internal network, authentication is first performed on the second device by using a local domain name carried in a domain name request packet. Only when the local domain name is authenticated, an IP address of the second device and an IP address of the target device to be accessed by the second device are recorded in forwarding information. Therefore, when a data request packet is received, it may be determined, based on a source IP address, a destination IP address, and the forwarding information that are carried in the data request packet, whether to forward the data request packet. |
| US11909735B2 |
Multi-cloud framework for authentication of data requests
Techniques are provided for multi-cloud authentication of data requests. One method comprises obtaining, by a first authentication entity of a first cloud environment, from a service on the first cloud environment, a request for data stored by a second cloud environment; determining a signature for the service; verifying the determined signature for the service by requesting a signature for the service registered with a second authentication entity of the second cloud environment; requesting the data from the second authentication entity of the second cloud environment in response to the determined signature being verified; and providing the requested data to the service. The requested data from the second cloud environment may be encrypted with an encryption key, and the method may further comprise decrypting the requested data with a decryption key obtained from the second cloud environment. The signature for the service may be registered as part of a deployment of the service. |
| US11909734B2 |
Methods and systems for authenticating identity
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for secure communications between a user device and an authentication system. The systems and methods create a dynamic identification for the device that is stored in both the device and authentication system. |
| US11909731B1 |
Dynamic and least-privilege access to secure network resources using ephemeral credentials
Disclosed embodiments relate to providing dynamic and least-privilege access to network resources. Techniques include receiving a request from a network identity to access a network resource, authenticating the network identity using a native client and communication protocol, authorizing the network identity based on one or more access policy, generating a least privilege ephemeral account having ephemeral credentials, accessing the network resource using the ephemeral credentials, and enabling the network identity to access the network resource using the least-privilege ephemeral account using the native client and communication protocol. The techniques may further include matching an existing account to the network identity based on the one or more access policy and enabling the network identity to access the network resource using the matched existing account using the native client and communication protocol. |
| US11909730B2 |
Authentication of networked devices having low computational capacity
Authentication of a networked device with limited computational resources for secure communications over a network. Authentication of the device begins with the supplicant node transmitting a signed digital certificate with its authentication credentials to a proxy node. Upon verifying the certificate, the proxy node then authenticates the supplicant's credentials with an authentication server accessible over the network, acting as a proxy for the supplicant node. Typically, this verification includes decryption according to a public/private key scheme. Upon successful authentication, the authentication server creates a session key for the supplicant node and communicates it to the proxy node. The proxy node encrypts the session key with a symmetric key, and transmits the encrypted session key to the supplicant node which, after decryption, uses the session key for secure communications. In some embodiments, the authentication server encrypts the session key with the symmetric key. |
| US11909729B2 |
Auto-form fill based website authentication
A method (400) for a website authentication is provided. The method includes receiving a reference uniform resource locator (URL) (130) at a browser (120) and determining whether the reference URL adheres to an authentication protocol (202) including a credential identifier (132c) and a web authentication host URL (132a). When the reference URL adheres to the authentication protocol, the method also includes extracting the credential identifier and the web authentication host URL from the reference URL. The method further includes obtaining credential data (160) from a remote service (150) using the credential identifier and sending web authentication instructions (170) to the browser. The web authentication instructions include the web authentication host URL and the credential data. |
| US11909728B2 |
Network resource access control methods and systems using transactional artifacts
Methods and systems are provided for use with digital data processing systems to control or otherwise limit access to networked resources based, at least in part, on transactional artifacts and/or derived artifacts. |
| US11909727B2 |
Network configuration and management
An Internet-connected device, such as a car, refrigerator, or even a laptop can use a second device, such as a cell phone, to support cryptographic operations and communication with token service providers or other processing services requiring pre-provisioned capabilities that may include cryptographic secrets. By removing the need to store personally sensitive data in “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, a user's personal information and other sensitive financial information may be contained to a relatively small number of devices. This may help prevent theft of goods or services by IoT devices that are not always under the close control of the user. |
| US11909726B2 |
Method for controlling a vehicle
A method for applying control to a vehicle. The method includes: receiving, by way of a second control unit of a second vehicle to which control is to be applied, a signal encompassing a message encrypted using a valid symmetrical key of a first control unit of a first vehicle; ascertaining, by way of the second control unit, a decryptability of the encrypted message using a valid symmetrical key of the second control unit or a symmetrical reserve key of the second control unit ascertained by way of the second control unit; ecrypting the encrypted message, depending on the ascertained decryptability, by way of the second control unit using the valid symmetrical key of the second control unit or the symmetrical reserve key of the second control unit; and applying control, based on the decrypted message, to the second vehicle to which control is to be applied. |
| US11909723B2 |
Mobile VPN autostart through app-only management
Techniques for auto-starting a VPN in a MAM environment are disclosed. A MAM-controlled application is launched on a computer system. Policy is queried and a determination is made as to whether to auto-start a VPN application based on the policy. Based on the policy, the VPN application is auto-started, and the VPN application initiates a VPN tunnel that is usable by at least the MAM-controlled application. Network communications transmitted to or from the MAM-controlled application then pass through the VPN tunnel. |
| US11909721B2 |
Systems and methods for automated firewall provisioning for virtual machines
A firewall configuration server includes a processor in communication with a memory device. The processor is configured to: receive, from an admin computer device, group-based firewall rules, wherein the group-based firewall rules identify a plurality of groups of virtual machines (VMs) executable on a VM server system and a respective set of firewall policies to be applied to the VMs in each group; receive, from a virtual machine (VM) server system, group membership data, the group membership data identifying the plurality of groups and a respective list of VMs associated with each group; parse the group membership data according to the group-based firewall rules to generate VM-specific firewall rules; and transmit the VM-specific firewall rules to a firewall, wherein each VM-specific firewall rule is configured for application by the firewall to communication requests identifying an IP address of one of the VMs. |
| US11909716B1 |
Locator lookup-based, low-latency, multi-access IP mobility
Leaf nodes of a tree structure, also having a root node and intermediate nodes, communicate with endpoints via access networks and store mappings from permanent virtual IP (VIP) addresses for the endpoints to physical IP (PIP) addresses for the endpoints on the access networks. The root node and intermediate nodes store pointers for the endpoints' leaf nodes and associated access networks. When a connection setup request (CSR) for a destination endpoint is received from a corresponding node, the receiving leaf node passes the CSR up through the tree structure to a lowest common ancestor (LCA) node for the receiving leaf node and one or more destination leaf nodes associated with the destination endpoint. The LCA node uses its pointers to pass the CSR down towards the one or more destination leaf nodes, which use the corresponding VIP-to-PIP mappings to forward the CSR to the destination endpoint. |
| US11909712B2 |
Network address translation for virtual machines
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a packet from a client, the packet having header information including a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, a destination port, a source IP address, and a source port, and wherein the source IP address and source port are associated with the client; selecting a destination virtual machine based on the destination port; modifying the packet by replacing the destination IP address in the header information with an IP address of the selected destination virtual machine; and sending the modified packet to the destination virtual machine. |
| US11909703B2 |
Live chat stream comment management
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for processing comments provided to a live chat stream. By way of example, embodiments obviate or mitigate problems associated with conventional live chat streams by assessing semantic uniqueness of collections of comments in a live chat stream and then determining a final importance score for each collection based on its semantic-uniqueness and activity score. The display of each collection can then be controlled based on its final importance score. |
| US11909701B2 |
Dynamic content delivery via email
Dynamic content can be delivered via email. Email messages include HTML content with one or more hyperlinks referring to a network-connected dynamic content server. The hyperlinks are accessed upon rendering of the email on a client device, triggering a request to a dynamic content server. The dynamic content server determines a content item to be served in response to the request. The dynamic content item determination may be based on factors including the identity of the requester, the email communication in which the hyperlink is embedded, recent activities or behavior on the part of the requester, and/or known preference or demographic information associated with the requester. The request can be directed to a selected content item stored within a content delivery network, for transmission back to the requester and display to the user within the email. |
| US11909700B1 |
Enterprise micro-forum network
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an enterprise micro-forum network receiving a request message to subscribe to an originating node of a first enterprise micro-forum operative within an organization's enterprise micro-forum network configured with a first topic, wherein the first enterprise micro-forum is configured with one or more rules to at least process the request message to subscribe. The embodiment further operates by receiving a topic message to be transmitted to a subscriber recipient node within a second enterprise micro-forum operative within the enterprise micro-forum network. The topic message comprises modified content from the first topic and is transmitted based on transmission parameters for the originating node to transmit the topic message to the recipient node and acceptance parameters of the subscriber recipient node. The topic message is retained in the second topic of the subscriber recipient node. |
| US11909697B2 |
Remote interference management reference signal
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for remote interference management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim radio access network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also flexibly configured. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US11909695B2 |
Repeater and method of operation thereof
Provided is a method of operating a repeater operating in a time division duplex (TDD) mode which comprises detecting a synchronization signal from a received signal, determining a type of a communication period based on the detected synchronization signal and controlling an operation of a signal linearizer based on the determined type of the communication period. |
| US11909691B2 |
On-demand negative acknowledgment resource request
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for reducing the overhead associated with reporting feedback, such as hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration message from a base station indicating that the UE is to request resources for transmitting negative acknowledgment (NACK) feedback for a downlink transmission. If the UE fails to receive or decode the downlink transmission, the UE may request resources from the base station on which to transmit the NACK feedback for the downlink transmission. Because the UE may be configured to request resources on which to transmit the NACK feedback, the UE may avoid transmitting HARQ feedback for every downlink transmission from the base station. Thus, the base station may avoid allocating resources for HARQ feedback from the UE for every downlink transmission, and the overhead of reporting HARQ feedback is reduced. |
| US11909688B2 |
Apparatus and method in wireless communication system, and computer-readable storage medium
An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium The method comprises: determining, based on at least one or more of resource set configuration information, physical channel information, and service type information, configuration information of one or more parameter sets for a sidelink communication; and controlling a base station to send the determined configuration information of the one or more parameter sets to a user equipment so that the user equipment performs sidelink communication on the basis of the one or more parameter sets, the parameter set comprising at least a subcarrier interval and a cyclic prefix type. The method can flexibly configure the parameter set used for the sidelink communication in NR so as to improve the communication performance of the sidelink communication and meet higher requirements on a series of indicators in an NR scene such as the delay and the system stability. |
| US11909685B2 |
Signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements for round-trip-time (RTT)-based positioning
Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE. |
| US11909684B2 |
Signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements for round-trip-time (RTT)-based positioning
Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE. |
| US11909683B2 |
Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling; and transmits a first signal. The first signaling indicates scheduling information for the first signal; a linear value of transmit power for the first signal is equal to a product of a linear value of a second power and a first coefficient; the first signaling is used to determine a first reference signal resource and a first matrix; the first reference signal resource belongs to a first reference signal resource set of S reference signal resource sets; S matrix sets respectively correspond to the S reference signal resource sets. The above method optimizes the transmit power on each panel in the multi-panel-based uplink transmission. |
| US11909679B2 |
Method and device for transmitting/receiving signals in wireless communication system
A terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure can encode a plurality of UCIs comprising a first UCI and a second UCI which have different priorities, 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. |
| US11909678B2 |
Determination method and device for size of downlink control information format
The present invention relates to a determination method and device for the size of a downlink control information format. The method includes: determining, according to a length of information bits carried by a downlink control information (DCI) format, a size of the DCI format that needs to be detected by a terminal; and sending the size of the DCI format to the terminal. According to the technical solution, the size of the DCI format is determined by means of the length of the information bits actually to be carried by the DCI format, and the size of the DCI format is related to the length of the information bits actually to be carried by the DCI format, which can prevent the problem of resource waste caused by a DCI format with fixed length in the related art and increase resource utilization. |
| US11909673B2 |
Method and device for transmitting uplink control channel in wireless cellular communication system
Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. The present invention discloses various methods and devices for transmitting a long PUCCH. |
| US11909672B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing signaling for reserved sub-band in wireless communication system
A wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method for performing efficient signaling for a reserved sub-band in a wireless LAN system, and a method and an apparatus for signal transmission using the same. To this end, an STA provides resource allocation information for transmitting data to a plurality of STAs using an orthogonal frequency divisional multiple access (OFDMA) or multiple user MIMO (MU-MIMO) method; transmits the resource allocation information to the plurality of STAs; and transmits data to the plurality of STAs according to the resource allocation information. The entire frequency band may include a sub-band which is not used for the data transmission, and it is preferable that the resource allocation information includes a resource allocation bitmap having a form common to the plurality of STAs and indication information which informs a sub-band, from among the entire frequency band, which is not used for the data transmission. |
| US11909671B1 |
Efficient port reconfiguration
A system for facilitating efficient port reconfiguration at a switch is provided. During operation, the system can identify a target port of the switch for reconfiguration based on one or more reconfiguration parameters indicating how a set of logical ports are generated from the target port. The system can disable the target port at the control plane of the switch, which disables features provided to the target port from the control plane. The control plane can provide a set of features supported by the switch at a port-level granularity for facilitating operations of the switch. The system can then configure the forwarding hardware based on the reconfiguration parameters to accommodate the set of logical ports. When the reconfiguration of the target port is complete, the system can enable a respective logical port at the control plane, which enables one or more features for the logical port from the control plane. |
| US11909670B2 |
Power throttle for network switches
The disclosed systems and methods provide methods and systems for providing power throttling adapted for high performance network switches. A method includes determining, for each of a plurality of measurement periods within a thermal average period, an energy usage estimate for a packet processing block configured to process ingress packets at a power gated clock rate. The method includes determining, for each of the plurality of measurement periods, a target clock rate for the packet processing block based on the determined energy usage estimates to meet a target energy value that is averaged for the thermal average period. The method includes adjusting, for each of the plurality of measurement periods, the power gated clock rate towards the target clock rate, wherein the adjusting causes the packet processing block to process the ingress packets at the adjusted power gated clock rate. |
| US11909667B2 |
Unified vehicle network frame protocol
A vehicle control module includes a vehicle device and a vehicle network interface. The vehicle device is operable to perform a vehicle function. The vehicle network interface facilitates communication regarding the vehicle function between the vehicle device and a vehicle network fabric in accordance with a global vehicle network communication protocol. |
| US11909666B2 |
Methods and systems for resource optimization
A method for optimizing network device resources that includes receiving, by an optimizer, first resource utilization data, making a first determination, based on the first resource utilization data, that resource utilization exceeds an upper threshold, starting, based on the first determination, an optimization process, that includes identifying a resource optimization entry of a resource class optimization queue, and initiating optimization of a resource fragment specified by the resource optimization entry. After initiating optimization of the region of the memory, the method additionally includes receiving second resource utilization data, making a second determination, based on the second resource utilization data, that the resource utilization is below a lower threshold, and halting, based on the second determination, the optimization process. |
| US11909664B2 |
SID allocation
A segment identifier (SID) manager interfaces with clients by way of a library. Clients implementing network services and needing SIDs according to internet SRv6, are allocated blocks by the SID manager using the library. Clients assign SIDs from the block independent of the SID manager using the library. Where a threshold portion of the block is assigned, the library requests an additional block of SIDs from the SID manager. Clients transmit context mappings of assigned SIDs to the SID manager for use by administrators and to enable recovery in the event of failure. |
| US11909663B1 |
Methods and apparatus for efficient use of link aggregation groups
A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor can cause the processor to receive an indication to load balance a group of sessions associated with a network node and a switch across a group of links between a gateway device and the switch at a first time. The code causes the processor to calculate at a second time, a load based on the group of sessions and associated with a first set of links in an active configuration before the first time. The code causes the processor to send a signal to cause a set of sessions from the group of sessions to re-establish themselves at a third time based on a threshold value calculated based on the load such that the set of sessions are load balanced across a second set of links in the active configuration at the third time. |
| US11909662B2 |
Reservation-based resource configuration for dynamic workspaces
Reservations of resources within a dynamic workspace are made and facilitated including by pushing configurations specific to a worker for whom a reservation is made to the resource for a limited time period for the reservation. When the worker arrives for the reservation and checks in, configurations associated with the worker are obtained and pushed to the resource to configure the resource for use by the worker for a time period of the reservation. In some cases, an identity of the worker may be verified to complete the check in process for the reservation. In response to an end time of the reservation being determined, such as based on a scheduled end time for the reservation or based on a determination that the resource has gone unused for some amount of time, the configurations are removed from the resource to prepare the resource for use by a next worker. |
| US11909657B2 |
Route processing method, device, and system
A route processing method includes obtaining, by a first network device, a flow effective time parameter and a route related to the flow effective time parameter, processing, by the first network device in the specified time interval, service traffic corresponding to the route related to the flow effective time parameter, generating a route control message, where the route control message carries the flow effective time parameter and the route, and sending, by the first network device, the route control message to a second network device. |
| US11909655B1 |
Systems and methods for selective deployment of experimental configurations to mutually exclusive groups
Computer-implemented systems and methods for selective deployment of experimental configurations are disclosed The systems and methods may include performing steps of deploying a webpage comprising a plurality of configurations, wherein the plurality of configurations exhibit different behaviors; configuring a traffic container comprising a first bucket and a second bucket based on user input; assigning one or more experiments to the traffic container based on the user input, wherein the one or more experiments determine appropriate configurations for the first bucket and the second bucket; accepting incoming traffic for accessing the webpage; randomly assigning a first subset of the incoming traffic to the first bucket and a second subset of the incoming traffic to the second bucket; transmitting the webpage in appropriate configurations based on the random assignments; and obtaining one or more measurements indicative of relative performances of the appropriate configurations. |
| US11909652B2 |
Method, device and storage medium for quality of service (QoS) flow management of time sensitive data for transmission of ethernet packet filter sets
A method for data transmission, performed by a first device, such as a User Equipment (UE) or a User Plane Function (UPF) network element, is provided. The method includes: obtaining transmission data; determining, according to network type information included in an extended Ethernet packet filter set, that the transmission data is Time Sensitive Communication (TSC) data; determining a transmission characteristic of the TSC data according to the extended Ethernet packet filter set; and mapping, according to the transmission characteristic, the TSC data to a Quality of Service (QoS) flow corresponding to the transmission characteristic for transmission; and transmitting the TSC data based on the QoS flow. |
| US11909650B2 |
Internet protocol operations and management option
A network device may receive an internet protocol (IP) packet that includes an IP packet header. The IP packet may include at least one extension header, which includes at least one of: a hop-by-hop options header, a first destination options header that precedes a routing header, or a second destination options header that precedes an upper-layer header. The network device may determine that: the hop-by-hop options header includes an Operations and Management capabilities (OAM) option, the first destination options header includes the OAM option and an IP address of the network device matches a destination IP address or a routing IP address identified in the routing header, or the second destination options header includes the OAM option and the IP address of the network device matches the destination IP address. The network device may perform one or more actions indicated by the OAM option. |
| US11909649B2 |
Efficiently managing network traffic
Described herein is a system and method for a microservices architecture for dynamic channel migration based on real time traffic load. Traffic loads on a first and second radio frequency (RF) channels used by a transceiver to communicate with a plurality of modem devices may be monitored, where the first RF channel is transmitted at a higher frequency than the second RF channel. Based on the monitored traffic loads of the RF channels, data traffic may be migrated from the first RF channel to the second RF channel. Finally, the plurality of modem devices may be notified of the migration. |
| US11909643B2 |
Efficient progression management in a tracker with multiple sources
A system for facilitating efficient progression management in a multi-source tracker of a responder device is provided. During operation, the system can maintain, in a memory device of the responder device, a first tracker for all requests and a second tracker for a privileged group of requests. The system can select a first group from a set of groups as the privileged group. If a request from a requesting device cannot be accepted into the first tracker, the system can determine whether the request belongs to the first group based on a header field of the request. If the request belongs to the first group, the system can select the request for accepting into the second tracker. Subsequently, when a respective request belonging to the first group has been accepted, the system can select a second group from the set of groups as the privileged group. |
| US11909640B2 |
Creating endpoints
A device receives a configuration file that includes an object concerning a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) route. The object includes a parameter, related to the HTTP route, that includes one or more elements related to the HTTP route, and includes an attribute related to an HTTP action. The device parses the configuration file to recognize the object, and parses the object to recognize the parameter. The device creates the HTTP route based on the parameter. The HTTP route includes information concerning the one or more elements related to the HTTP route and the attribute related to the HTTP action, and sends the HTTP route to a server, causing the server to perform an operation based on the HTTP route. |
| US11909632B2 |
Distributed label assignment for labeled routing protocol routes
In general, various aspects of the techniques are described in this disclosure for distributed label assignment for labeled routes. In one example, a method includes obtaining, by a first thread of a plurality of execution threads for at least one routing protocol process executing on processing circuitry of a network device, an allocation of first labels drawn from a label space for a network service; adding, by the first thread, the first labels to a first local label pool for the first thread; generating, by the first thread, after obtaining the allocation of the first labels, a labeled route comprising a route for the network service and a label assigned by the first thread from the first local label pool; and outputting, by the network device, the labeled route. |
| US11909631B1 |
Identifying application QoE changes due to application location migration
In one embodiment, a device generates an application map for an online application accessed via a network that indicates a set of network addresses at which the online application was accessed, client information for clients that accessed the online application via the network, and quality of experience metrics for the online application. The device identifies a location change of the online application by tracking changes to the application map. The device determines a correlation between the location change and a degradation in the quality of experience metrics. The device adjusts, based on the correlation, routing of traffic associated with the online application in the network. |
| US11909630B1 |
Hitless migration of interconnected data center networks for network virtualization overlay using gateways
Hitless migration of network devices for communication between two data centers using a dual IP stack mode is provided herein. In a first data center, a first gateway receives first routing information from an edge device regarding a first set of routes associated with a first host device in the first data center. The first gateway device generates a second set of routes that include a first address of the edge device formatted according to a first communication protocol. The second set of routes is exported to a second gateway device in a second data center. The first gateway device receives an encapsulated data packet having a first overlay that includes the first address from the second gateway device. The first gateway device decapsulates and re-encapsulates the data packet and a re-encapsulated data packet is sent to the edge device, the re-encapsulated data packet having a second overlay that includes the second address. The first address is formatted according to a first communication protocol and the second address is formatted according to a second communication protocol. |
| US11909627B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing network status information using multiple degree of precision graph
A method and apparatus for routing packets in a network, such as a satellite mesh network. Network nodes maintain network status information (e.g. link availability information) for the entire network. However, the information is maintained to a higher level of precision for some network regions than for others. For example, the network node can be informed of network events in some regions with lower latency than in other regions. Routing information is generated based on the network status information. Multiple different mechanisms can be used to provide network status updates at different levels of precisions. Nodes which generate or relay network status updates can inhibit (e.g. block or delay) passing the updates toward a target node in order to reduce the level of precision of network status information at that target node. |
| US11909626B1 |
Identifying switchable elements to isolate a location from sources
In example embodiments, a shortest path first-based isolation trace function is provided to determines what switchable elements need to be closed to stop flow of a quality to a location in an infrastructure model arranged as a network. The shortest path first-based isolation trace function may perform shortest-path traces from the location to each source. For each successful shortest-path trace finding one or more switchable elements, the first switchable element encountered on the path of the trace is added to a solution set, and marked as active to prevent further traversal in subsequent shortest-path traces. When all the shortest-path traces are complete, the solution set may be returned as a result. If no switchable element is found on a path of one of the shortest-path traces, it may be concluded that the location cannot be isolated and such conclusion returned as the result instead of the solution set. |
| US11909621B2 |
Systems and methods for implementing a network resiliency testbed emulator
A method for network resiliency testing comprising: executing a resiliency testbed application at a plurality of virtual machines; accessing, by the plurality of virtual machines, network configuration data stored in a configuration database, the configuration data corresponding to a topology of a network to be emulated; configuring at least a portion of the virtual machines, according to the network configuration data, to emulate a plurality of nodes of the network to be emulated; automatically determining least cost paths between the plurality of nodes; simulating communications between the plurality of nodes based on the determined least cost paths; and determining one or more metrics of the network to be emulated based on the simulation. |
| US11909619B2 |
Estimation device, estimation method and estimation program
An aggregation unit (15a) aggregates an input pulse train signal including a time-series pulse corresponding to a predetermined observation time into pulses for respective unit times. A calculation unit (15b) calculates a time shift amount of an autocorrelation function using the aggregated pulse train signal. A detection unit (15c) calculates an autocorrelation value and a threshold with respect to each of time shift amounts selected in ascending order from the calculated time shift amount and detects the time shift amount as a period of the aggregated pulse train signal when the autocorrelation value exceeds the threshold. A conversion unit (15d) converts the detected period to a period of the input pulse train signal using the unit time. An exclusion unit (15e) excludes the pulse train signal having the converted period from the input pulse train signal. |
| US11909617B2 |
Method and apparatus for continuous access network monitoring and packet loss estimation
Described is a method for estimating throughput between first and second communication devices, the method comprising: determining maximum bottleneck throughput of a communication link between the first communication device and a third communication device, wherein the communication link between the first and third communication devices applies a common access network as between a communication link between the first and second communication devices; determining Round Trip Time (RTT) between the first and second communication devices; transmitting packet by applying User Datagram Protocol (UDP) from the third communication device to the first communication device; measuring packet loss rate associated with the transmitted packet by monitoring sequence number of the packet; and translating measured packet loss rate to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) throughput according to maximum bottleneck throughput and RTT. |
| US11909612B2 |
Partitioning health monitoring in a global server load balancing system
Some embodiments provide a novel method of performing health monitoring for resources associated with a global server load balancing (GSLB) system. This system is implemented by several domain name system (DNS) servers that perform DNS services for resources located at several geographically separate sites. The method identifies several different groupings of the resources. It then assigns the health monitoring of the different resource groups to different DNS servers. The method then configures each particular DNS server (1) to send health monitoring messages to the particular group of resources assigned to the particular DNS server, (2) to generate data by analyzing responses to the sent health monitoring messages, and (3) to distribute the generated data to the other DNS servers. The method in some embodiments is performed by a set of one or more controllers. |
| US11909607B1 |
Maintaining consistent measurement intervals of MEF 35.1 performance monitoring (PM) sessions in a history database
Systems and methods are provided for addressing issues caused by interruptions that may occur while operating under the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 35.1 standard. A method, according to one implementation, includes obtaining PM data during a current Measurement Interval of an ongoing PM session in accordance with MEF 35.1. The PM data can be locally stored as a current dataset and reported at the end of the current Measurement Interval for storage in a history database. Following an interruption event that interrupts at least the current Measurement Interval, the method detects a recommencement event that clears the interruption event and allows a PM session to resume. The method further includes determining a number of Measurement Intervals affected by the interruption event based on an end time of a last-reported Measurement Interval and then inserting the number of affected Measurement Intervals into the history database after the last-reported Measurement Interval. |
| US11909605B1 |
Speed boost for eligible user equipment on a local area network
A method for providing a differentiated feature to a first user equipment (UE) connected to a local area network (LAN) implemented by a router connected to a customer premises equipment (CPE) provisioned with a default feature associated with a first service tier of a plurality of service tiers provided by an internet service provider includes obtaining data indicating the first UE has connected to the LAN and determining the first UE is eligible for a second service tier of the different tiers. In response to determining the first UE is eligible for the second service tier, the method includes causing the CPE to be dynamically provisioned for a differentiated service associated with the second service tier. The method includes sending a message to the router to configure the router to provide the differentiated feature to the first UE. |
| US11909603B2 |
Priority based resource management in a network functions virtualization (NFV) environment
A virtual network function (VNF) controller (or module) instantiates two or more VNFs in a communication network to support a network service where the two or more VNFs include at least a first VNF and a second VNF. The VNF controller assigns a priority value to each VNF base on an overall network impact, a physical location of at least one network resource allocated to the respective VNF, a type of service to be implemented by the respective VNF and a customer impact based on how many customers would be using the respective VNF. The VNF controller monitors network resources allocated to each VNF. The VNF controller further determines the first VNF requires additional network resources and releases the network resources allocated to the second VNF based on respective priority values. The VNF controller further allocates the network resources released by the second VNF to the first VNF. |
| US11909601B1 |
Implementing a scalable 3D simulation using a distributed 3D keyspace
A simulation environment (e.g., multi-player game) may be hosted by multiple nodes of a provider network. The number of nodes may increase or decrease, depending on the load on the simulation. Each node may be assigned a root key that includes 3D coordinates. The nodes may maintain a circular keyspace that includes the x-axis coordinates, the y-axis coordinates, and the z-axis coordinates, according to a consistent hashing algorithm. A given node may have any number of successor or predecessor nodes along each axis keyspace. If load on a particular node increases above a threshold amount, a new node may be allocated and insert itself into the 3D keyspace, taking over authority for any entities that are located within a portion of the volume that was previously managed by the particular node. |
| US11909593B2 |
System and method for assessing communication resources
In some embodiments, a computer implemented method for assessing network bandwidth availability in a network connection having unknown excess capacity beyond an initial network capacity is provided. There are two cases to be considered: (1) the network has a given capacity and the system doesn't know what it is (e.g., on a cellular network) this capacity may change over time as more users use the network and/or a user is mobile, and (2) the system is assigned capacity but by pushing the network, the system may be able to get more capacity (e.g., on a satellite hub). The excess capacity may be quantified for future potential opportunistic, emergency or priority usage, or in some embodiments, utilized periodically or continuously. |
| US11909590B2 |
Configuring a network interface card
Examples described herein relate to configuring a Network Interface Card (NIC) of a compute node, such as a server. The NIC may receive an LLDP frame with a first configuration for the NIC. The first configuration is compared with a second configuration. The second configuration corresponds to an existing configuration of the NIC. In response to determining that the second configuration does not match the first configuration, the NIC is configured with the first configuration during a boot-up of the compute node. |
| US11909588B2 |
Wireless device connection
A first computing device is configured to (i) detect a triggering event that causes the first computing device to transmit a first set of one or more messages collectively indicating that the first computing device is available for setup, (ii) establish an initial wireless communication path with a second computing device, (iii) receive, from the second computing device via the initial wireless communication path, a second set of one or more messages including security information for a secure wireless network that is defined by one or more network devices, where the initial wireless communication path with the second computing device does not traverse any of the one or more network devices, (iv) use the security information to connect to the secure wireless network, and (v) transition from communicating with the second computing device via the initial wireless communication path to communicating with the second computing device via the secure wireless network. |
| US11909587B2 |
Management services for 5G networks and network functions
Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured. |
| US11909585B2 |
System for configuring Wi-Fi access points
A system for configuring a Wi-Fi access point for communication with the Internet includes a Wi-Fi access point configuration system connected with one or more cellular networks and being configured to receive information from at least one of the one or more cellular networks. The Wi-Fi access point configuration system is connected with the Wi-Fi access point to configure the Wi-Fi access point according to the information received from the at least one of the one or more cellular networks. |
| US11909579B2 |
Autonomous auditing and remediation of it asset records
Embodiments relate to the autonomous remediation of IT asset records in accordance with rules-based asset management policies. An IT asset record associated with an IT asset and having a first piece of IT asset information is received and evaluated for compliance in accordance with defined asset management rules. The asset management rules require the IT asset record to include both the first piece and a second piece of IT asset information. In view of the rules, a determination is made that the IT asset record requires remediation. Based on a determination that the IT asset record requires remediation, a decision-tree machine learning model is utilized to infer, based on IT asset information available in the IT asset record, at least the second piece of IT asset information to place the IT asset record in compliance with the asset management rules. |
| US11909576B2 |
Robotic surgical devices, systems, and related methods
Various medical devices and related systems, including robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and various robotic surgical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a robotic surgical system having a support beam positionable through an incision, and a robotic device having a device body, first and second rotating shoulder components coupled to the device body, and first and second robotic arms coupled to the first and second shoulder components, respectively. |
| US11909573B2 |
Computer-generated sequence design for binary phase shift keying modulation data
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device (e.g., a base station or a user equipment (UE)) may identify a sequence length corresponding to a number of resource blocks, and select a modulation scheme based on the sequence length. The device may select, from a set of sequences associated with the modulation scheme, a sequence having the sequence length. In some examples, the set of sequences may include at least one of a set of time domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences or a set of frequency domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences. The device may generate a reference signal for a data transmission based on the sequence and transmit the reference signal within the number of resource blocks. |
| US11909560B2 |
Switching between channel estimation modes at a user equipment
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an actual power delay profile (PDP) associated with a channel between the UE and a base station, wherein the actual PDP indicates an averaged power level of the channel over a period of time. The UE may determine whether a channel estimation mode switching event is satisfied. The UE may switch, based at least in part on the channel estimation mode switching event being satisfied, between a first channel estimation mode based at least in part on the actual PDP and a second channel estimation mode based at least in part on a template PDP. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11909557B2 |
Secure ethernet and transmission control protocol
Methods and systems are provided for providing secure Ethernet transmissions. In some aspects, an autonomous vehicle system is provided and can include a first system-on-chip being configured to provide data to a second system-on-chip via an Ethernet harness, a first switch being configured to: receive the data from the first system-on-chip, and provide the data to a first transceiver for transmission to the second system-on-chip, the first switch being configured to provide first transmission data to the first transceiver and to prohibit receipt of retrieval data from the second system-on-chip, and the first transceiver configured to communicate with the second system-on-chip via the Ethernet harness. |
| US11909553B2 |
Frame screening unit, user station for a serial bus system, and method for communicating in a serial bus system
A frame screening unit for a user station of a serial bus system, a user station for a serial bus system, and a method for communicating in a serial bus system. The frame screening unit includes a screen block for generating a select signal that selects whether or not a communication control device of the user station is allowed to receive a reception signal that has been generated from a frame received serially at that time from the bus for a message, and a reception signal selection block for screening the reception signal, as a function of the select signal generated by the screen block, so that the reception signal is not transmitted to the communication control device of the user station. |
| US11909547B2 |
System and method for improving content fetching by selecting tunnel devices
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme. |
| US11909545B2 |
Localized multicast in a low power and lossy network based on rank-based distance
In one embodiment, a method comprises: identifying, by a low power and lossy network (LLN) device in a low power and lossy network, a minimum distance value and a distance limit value for limiting multicast propagation, initiated at the LLN device, of a multicast data message in the LLN; and multicast transmitting, by the LLN device, the multicast data message with a current distance field specifying the minimum distance value and a distance limit field specifying the distance limit value, the multicast transmitting causing a receiving LLN device having a corresponding rank in the LLN to respond to the multicast data message by: (1) determining an updated distance based on adding to the current distance field a rank difference between the receiving LLN device and the LLN device, and (2) selectively retransmitting the multicast data message if the updated distance is less than the distance limit value. |
| US11909542B2 |
EVPN PIM neighborship
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) uses PIM hello messages to maintain neighborship information. PIM may be implemented in an Ethernet VPN (EVPN) providing Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM). Techniques are disclosed for improving PIM neighborship efficiency and speed in an EVPN. An Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag (IMET) may be used to set PIM neighborship instead of using PIM hello messages and TCP may be used to determine if the neighbor is disconnected instead of tracking PIM timers. |
| US11909541B1 |
Management method, management device, and recording medium
A management device executes an acquisition process of acquiring configuration management information including at least the first storage region and the second storage region; an extraction process of extracting, from the cost calculation rule table, the cost calculation formula in the second storage region included in the configuration management information acquired in the acquisition process; a first calculation process of calculating a cost estimate value by the cost calculation formula by acquiring, from the performance/capacity history table, a value to be substituted in as a variable of the cost calculation formula; a creation process of creating a cost estimate result including a cost estimate value calculated in the first calculation process, the first storage region, the second storage region, and the type of the usage configuration using the second storage region; and an output process of outputting the cost estimate result created in the creation process. |
| US11909539B2 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for improving robustness of data transmission
Embodiments of this application disclose a wireless communication method and an apparatus, to improve robustness of data transmission between a terminal device and a node device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: A terminal device incorrectly receives first data in a first cell, where the first cell is a first primary cell. The terminal device sends first indication information in a second cell, where the second cell is a secondary cell or a second primary cell, and the first indication information is used to indicate that the first data is incorrectly received in the first cell, or is used to request transmission of the first data in the second cell. The terminal device receives the first data in the second cell. |
| US11909536B2 |
Communication method, terminal device and network device
Provided by the implementations of the present application are a communication method and terminal, which may achieve reliability of system transmission by using a terminal-to-terminal mode to carry out communication. The method comprises: a first terminal device receiving a first sidelink transmission channel sent by a second terminal device, the first sidelink transmission channel being used to transmit a first message; in response to the first message, the first terminal device sending a second sidelink transmission channel to the second terminal device, the second sidelink transmission channel being used to transmit a second message, and the second message being a feedback message for the first message. |
| US11909531B2 |
Method, user equipment, device, and storage medium for transmitting uplink, and method and base station for receiving uplink
Provided is a user equipment that: receives resource allocation; determines N transmission occasions on the basis of the resource allocation, where N is an integer greater than 1; determines a redundancy version (RV) value for each of the N transmission occasions on the basis of an RV sequence of length M; and transmits uplink in at least one transmission occasion from among the N transmission occasions on the basis of the RV value for the at least one transmission occasion. An RV value for an n-th transmission occasion from among the N transmission occasions is n mod M=K-th RV value, from among values in the RV sequence, where n=1, . . . , N. |
| US11909528B2 |
Safely overwriting decided slots
Techniques are described for safely overwriting decided slots and in-order fault tolerant consensus logs for replicated services. Using techniques described herein, a broad class of already-existing consensus log protocols may be enhanced/extended to safely overwrite decided slots and provide in-order fault tolerant consensus logs. When changing to a different epoch of a consensus log, slots determined to be unreachable may be changed/deleted even if slots after the gap were decided. A sequencer protocol establishes distributed consensus among a group of services. The sequencer protocol provides in-order execution of messages from multiple clients, and flow control from within the sequencer protocol, without offloading de-duplicate and reorder (DDRO) logic to the application layer. Fault tolerance is provided by egress cursors and ingress cursors, which provide awareness of which specific messages from each client sender should be executed next, even if those messages are not presently in the consensus log. |
| US11909526B2 |
Methods for communication, terminal device, network device, and computer readable medium
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for multi-TRP transmissions. In a method for communication, a terminal device receives from a network device coupled with a plurality of TRPs, control information associated with a transmission of data from the network device to the terminal device. The terminal device determines, from the control information, a repetition scheme to be used by the network device to transmit the data to the terminal device via the plurality of TRPs. The terminal device receives the data from the network device based on the repetition scheme. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, only one DCI can schedule repeated data for multi-TRP transmission without increasing the DCI payload relative to a Rel.15 DCI. Also, the repetition scheme for transmitting data can be indicated by a same DCI more dynamically. |
| US11909525B2 |
Communication system, communication method, and communication apparatus
There is provided a communication system for performing communication by flooding using concurrent transmission among a plurality of communication nodes including a transmission node, a relay node, and a destination node. The transmission node generates and transmits the packet including predetermined transmission data, a first error detection code for the transmission data, and a second error detection code for the transmission data, timing information corresponding to a transmission timing of the packet, and the first error detection code. The relay node receives the packet, performs error detection based on the second error detection code, and updates the second error detection code and reconstructs and transmits the packet if no error is detected. The destination node receives the packet, and performs error detection based on the first error detection code. |
| US11909524B2 |
Coded radio link control retransmission
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently retransmitting radio link control (RLC) protocol data units (PDUs) to one or more UEs. When a user equipment (UE) fails to receive or decode an RLC PDU transmitted by a base station, the UE may transmit a status PDU to the base station indicating that the UE failed to receive or decode the RLC PDU. The base station may receive the status PDU from the UE, and the base station may generate a repair PDU that includes redundant bits of the lost PDU (e.g., the PDU that the UE failed to receive or decode). The base station may then transmit the repair PDU to the UE, and the UE may use the redundant bits in the repair PDU (e.g., in combination with buffered PDUs) to attempt to correctly decode the lost PDU. |
| US11909521B2 |
Method for reducing false detection of successful decoding of cyclic redundancy check codes
A network testing device may receive, from a base station, an encoded physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) payload and decode the encoded PDCCH payload to obtain candidate PDCCH payloads and to generate path metrics (PMs), wherein each PM of the PMs corresponds to one candidate PDCCH payload of the candidate PDCCH payloads. The network testing device may perform a cyclic redundancy check on each of the candidate PDCCH payloads to determine, from the PMs, a passing PM, and may determine, based on the PMs, a confidence value associated with the passing PM. The network testing device may discard, based on determining that the confidence value does not satisfy a threshold, the passing PM, or may output, based on determining that the confidence value satisfies the threshold, a candidate PDCCH payload corresponding to the passing PM. The network testing device may transmit, based on the candidate PDCCH payload, data to the base station. |
| US11909518B2 |
Method for securing a communication user equipment from a jamming attack
A method for a user equipment operating in a cellular network having a plurality of base stations, the user equipment operating on at least one of the base stations, hereinafter the serving base station, for the case of a communication loss to its serving base station, whereby the conditions relating to the serving base station or the corresponding frequency fulfills the criteria concerning jamming. The method includes the steps of: scanning for accessible base stations of the cellular network, examining the at least one base station being identified through the scanning step, by means of signalling message, evaluating the response behavior of the at least one base station, wherein in consideration of the response behavior of at least one of said base station if said base station is rated as suspicious: indicating a jamming situation, otherwise camping on at least one of the base stations. |
| US11909516B2 |
Reconfigurable optical router
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths. |
| US11909513B2 |
Spectrum processing apparatus and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
Embodiments of this application disclose a spectrum processing apparatus, which includes: a port assembly, a lens assembly, a dispersive assembly, a spatial light modulator (SLM), and a reflective element. Each port in the port assembly is configured to transmit an input first light beam to a lens corresponding to the port. Each lens in the lens assembly is configured to adjust a width of the first light beam to obtain a second light beam. The reflective element is configured to reflect the second light beam to the dispersive assembly. The dispersive assembly is configured to decompose the second light beam into a plurality of sub-wavelength light beams. The reflective element is further configured to reflect the plurality of sub-wavelength light beams to the SLM. The SLM is configured to modulate the plurality of sub-wavelength light beams, and reflect at least one modulated sub-wavelength light beam to the reflective element. |
| US11909509B2 |
Distributed audio mixing
Distributed audio mixing may include transmitting a set of parameters from a local location to one or more remote locations at least multiple miles away from the local location for, at each of the one or more remote locations, one or more remote audio sources to be processed according to the parameters to produce respective one or more remote audio mixes; processing one or more local audio sources according to the parameters to produce a local audio mix; receiving the one or more remote audio mixes; and locally summing the one or more remote audio mixes to the local audio mix to obtain a final audio mix. |
| US11909505B2 |
User equipment parameter determination method and apparatus, and storage medium and base station
UE parameter determination method and apparatus, storage medium and base station are provided. The method includes: determining a minimum round trip time between each UE in a cell and a satellite; determining frame information of a network-side uplink radio frame based on the minimum round trip time and frame information of a network-side downlink radio frame, where the minimum round trip time is a timing difference by which the network-side uplink radio frame lags behind the network-side downlink radio frame; and determining a UE parameter of each UE based on the network-side uplink radio frame and the network-side downlink radio frame, where UE parameter includes at least one of TA or K2. By the method, an NTN network can be supported on the premise that modification of software and hardware of a terrestrial network UE is minimized, thereby effectively avoiding extra maintenance cost of software and hardware. |
| US11909504B1 |
Communication with multiple satellite networks
Techniques for leveraging information from a first satellite network to improve communications with a second satellite network are described. According to some embodiments, an endpoint device in an LPWAN communicates with satellites in a GNSS as well as with satellites in another satellite network (e.g., an LPWAN satellite network). By communicating with the GNSS satellites, the endpoint device is able to determine one or more locations in the sky overhead that provide favorable (e.g., unobstructed) communication paths between the endpoint device and satellites in those locations. Then, using ephemeris data for both satellite constellations, the endpoint device determines a time when one or more satellites of the LPWAN satellite network will be in (or near to) one or more of those same locations. At the determined time, the endpoint device transmits data to be received by the one or more satellites of the LPWAN satellite network. |
| US11909501B2 |
Enhanced LDACS system having roaming agreements and associated methods
An enhanced L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS) may include LDACS ground stations assigned to respective different ground communication networks; and LDACS airborne stations configured to communicate with selected ones of the LDACS ground stations based upon respective roaming agreements for the different ground communication networks. In addition, the system may include a network broker configured to authorize a connection between an LDACS airborne station and an LDACS ground station based upon a corresponding roaming agreement. |
| US11909497B2 |
Indicating user equipment (UE) polorization tracking capacity
A method (20) performed by a wireless terminal (10) in a wireless communication network (10, 30) is provided. In the method (20), based on a (fundamental) polarization tracking capability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one downlink polarization of at least one downlink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and an access node (30) of the wireless communication network (10, 30) is determined (204). A reference polarization from the at least one downlink polarization is selected (207). Based on the reference polarization and a (momentary) polarization tracking ability of the wireless terminal (10), at least one uplink polarization of at least one uplink communication between the wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30) is configured (210). A corresponding method (40) performed by the access node (30) is also provided, as well as the mentioned wireless terminal (10) and the access node (30). |
| US11909496B2 |
Beam switching in near-field operations
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). For example, the UE receives a first indication indicating a same quasi co-location (QCL) mapping for multiple receive beams corresponding to a group of transmit and receive beam pairs from a network entity. Transmit and receive beam pairs are different from each other and grouping of the transmit and receive beam pairs is based on a distance between the UE and the network entity. The UE selects one of the multiple receive beams corresponding to the group of transmit and receive beam pairs, based on the distance between the UE and the network entity. |
| US11909490B2 |
Scheduling request transmitting method, scheduling request receiving method, terminal, and network device
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a scheduling request transmitting method, a scheduling request receiving method, a terminal, and a network device. The scheduling request transmitting method includes: in a case that a first trigger condition is met, transmit a scheduling request SR to a network device; and in a case that a second trigger condition is met, cancel transmission of the SR, or skip transmission of the SR for N times, where N is an integer greater than 1. |
| US11909489B2 |
System and method for beam management with emissions limitations
A computer-implemented method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes measuring beamformed reference signals, selecting one or more beams in accordance with the measured beamformed reference signals, and determining, by the UE, that an uplink transmit power of the UE on a subset of the one or more beams is limited by emission criteria, and based thereon, transmitting, by the UE, a beam report indicating the one or more beams and an uplink transmit power limitation. |
| US11909488B2 |
SCell beam failure recovery
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for SCell Beam Failure recovery. One apparatus includes a transceiver that communicates with a SCell in a wireless communication network. The apparatus includes a processor that receives a SR configuration from a wireless communication network, the SR configuration comprising a set of PUCCH resources, where the SR configuration corresponds to one or more logical channels. The processor detects that beam failure procedure has been triggered for the SCell. The processor triggers a scheduling request for SCell beam failure recovery in response to determining that there are no UL-SCH resources available for a new transmission for the transmission of a beam failure MAC CE. The processor transmits SR on the PUCCH resources of the SR configuration in response to triggering the scheduling request for SCell beam failure recovery. |
| US11909484B2 |
Uplink control information
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for Uplink Control Information (UCI) design. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, a matrix comprising a set of non-zero linear combination coefficients for quantizing a channel between the terminal device and a network device, the matrix having spatial components and frequency components; shifting the frequency components of the matrix circularly, such that a target coefficient of the set of non-zero linear combination coefficients is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index of the frequency components in a shifted matrix; generating a first indication indicating the spatial component associated with the target coefficient in the matrix; and transmitting, to the network device, uplink control information comprising the first indication. In this way, a new solution for designing the UCI may reduce the overhead for reporting the parameters in the UCI. |
| US11909481B2 |
Default channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) beam
Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining whether a plurality of beam configurations configured for processing one or more downlink (DL) signals are different than a first beam configuration for processing at least one CSI-RS, the one or more DL signals to be received in the same symbol as the at least one CSI-RS; selecting a second beam configuration for processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the determination; receiving the at least one CSI-RS; and processing the at least one CSI-RS based on the selected second beam configuration. |
| US11909480B2 |
Method and apparatus for non-codebook based UL transmission
Method and apparatus for reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL are disclosed. One method of a UE for the reduction of the signaling/resource overhead caused by SRS transmission in UL includes performing precoding on UL transmission with a precoding matrix corresponding to a CRI, in the case of a frequency of UL and DL being in a same band and Tx/Rx beam correspondence, wherein, the CRI corresponding to the precoding matrix is determined according to a measurement on DL channel quality; and transmitting a report of the measurement on DL channel quality to a base station. |
| US11909479B2 |
Shaping mmWave wireless channel via multi-beam design using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
A method for shaping a mmWave wireless channel in a wireless network is presented. The method includes enabling communication between a multi-antenna transmitter and a multi-antenna receiver, positioning a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a vicinity of the multi-antenna transmitter and the multi-antenna receiver, constructing the RIS as a uniform planar array (UPA) structure forming a multi-beamforming framework, a surface of the UPA defining an array of discrete elements arranged in a grid pattern, wherein parameters of the discrete elements of the UPA are controllable to achieve multiple disjoint beams covering different solid angles, and enabling the plurality of users of the plurality of mobile devices positioned in blind spots of a coverage map to communicate with the multi-antenna transmitter by employing the MS to generate sharp and effective beams having almost uniform gain in a desired angular coverage interval (ACI). |
| US11909476B2 |
Device, network, and method for receiving data transmission under scheduling decoding delay in mmWave communication
In a first example embodiment, a control transmission portion of a mmWave communication is received at a user equipment. The control transmission portion is divided into a plurality of control transmission portion sub-regions, each sub-region scheduling a data transmission for a corresponding sub-region of a data transmission portion of the mmWave communication. Then a first of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded. A receive analog antenna beamforming is armed according to the demodulated and decoded first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. Beamforming is performed on a first sub-region of the data transmission portion of the mmWave communication, the first sub-region of the data transmission portion corresponding to the first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. During the arming and performing, a second of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded. |
| US11909470B2 |
Joint broadcast and unicast design for multiple-input multiple-output systems
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit an encoded transmission via a broadcast to multiple user equipment (UE). Subsequently, the multiple UEs may transmit assistance information to the base station based on attempting to decode the broadcasted encoded transmission. If the decoding is unsuccessful for at least one UE, the base station may then transmit an additional encoded transmission via a unicast or multicast message to the UEs that were unsuccessful. Additionally, the base station may transmit configuration information for the multiple UEs to receive the encoded transmissions and to transmit the assistance information. For example, the configuration information may include portion information for how long the encoded transmission is transmitted via the broadcast, via the unicast, when to transmit the assistance information, etc. In some cases, the configuration information may be based on UE metrics of the multiple UEs. |
| US11909469B2 |
Method and apparatus for uplink multi-user transmission in a high efficiency wireless LAN
Methods and apparatus for transmission opportunity limits, backoff procedures, uplink random access related to uplink multi-user transmission in a High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) are described. An embodiment is a method for performing a frame exchange sequence including an uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area, the method including acquiring a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for initiating the frame exchange sequence; determining if a time required for the frame exchange sequence not including a control response frame exceeds a TXOP limit; and transmitting a trigger frame to one or more stations (STAs) when the time required for the frame exchange sequence not including the control response frame does not exceed the TXOP limit. |
| US11909465B2 |
Terminal and radio communication method
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives one piece of downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a plurality of downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and a control section that determines either a single TCI state or a plurality of TCI states for the plurality of PDSCHs in at least one of a first case and a second case, the first case being a case that a time offset from the DCI to the plurality of PDSCHs is shorter than a threshold, the second case being a case that a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field is not configured. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, QCL parameters for multi-panel/TRP can be appropriately determined. |
| US11909461B2 |
Information transmission method and communication apparatus
A communication apparatus acting as a baseband unit (BBU) or being applicable to a BBU, and having instructions for obtaining first coordination information to be sent to a second BBU, determining, based on preset link information, a transmission link corresponding to the second BBU, the transmission link including a first remote radio unit (RRU) and a second RRU, the first RRU belonging to the BBU, the second RRU belonging to the second BBU, and the first RRU and the second RRU being connected through a wired link, sending the first coordination information to the first RRU, sending indication information to the first RRU, the indication information indicating to the first RRU to send the first coordination information to the second RRU through the wired link, the indication information having an identifier of the second RRU. |
| US11909458B2 |
Method for antenna calibration and active antenna system for use in antenna calibration
A method for antenna calibration for an active antenna system is disclosed. According to an embodiment, test signals are generated for multiple antennas of the active antenna system. The test signals are transmitted via the multiple antennas. A first signal that results from the transmission of the test signals is received over the air. A second signal is received from a coupler network of the active antenna system. The coupler network is configured to generate coupled signals of the test signals and combine the coupled signals into the second signal. Calibration information for compensating an influence of the coupler network is determined based on the first and second signals. An active antenna system is also disclosed for use in antenna calibration. |
| US11909454B2 |
Method for validating a transaction during a radio communication
A method for receiving a signal during an intrabody communication via a user carrying a terminal. The method is performed by the terminal and includes: receiving a signal from a communication device, indicating that the user moved closer to the device between two instants; detecting, in the signal received, a first radio frame generated between the two instants, the first frame being at the same frequency as that of the signal received; detecting, in the signal received, a second radio frame generated between the two instants, the second frame being at a different frequency to that of the signal received; comparing the first frame to the second frame; and validating a transaction based on the presence or absence of information common to the first and second compared frames. |
| US11909453B2 |
Acquisition of a temporary right via transmission of a near-field radio wave
The disclosed technology relates to a method for receiving a near-field radio wave, the wave being received using electromagnetic-wave conduction capacities of the body of a user who is able to make a validation gesture that modifies characteristics of the radio wave. The method includes detecting a first modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the first modification being resultant from a start of the gesture, and detecting a second modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the second modification being resultant from an end of the gesture, where the acquisition of a right for the user is dependent on the first modification and the second modification. |
| US11909452B2 |
Optical amplifier burst mode communication with variable duty cycle
An optical communication system includes an optical transmitter and one or more processors. The optical transmitter is configured to output an optical signal, and includes an average-power-limited optical amplifier, such as an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The one or more processors are configured to receive optical signal data related to a received power for a communication link from a remote communication system and determine that the optical signal data is likely to fall below a minimum received power within a time interval. In response to the determination, the one or more processors are configured to determine a duty cycle of the optical transmitter based on a minimum on-cycle length and a predicted EDFA output power and operate the optical transmitter using the determined duty cycle to transmit an on-cycle power that is no less than the minimum required receiver power for error-free operation of the communication link. |
| US11909450B1 |
Communication system and method for cloud-assisted free-space optical backhaul
A communication system that includes a cloud server that obtains first sensor data associated with a defined indoor area and second sensor data associated with each of a plurality of optical nodes in defined indoor area. The plurality of optical nodes includes a master communication device, a plurality of optical routing devices, and one or more service communication devices. The cloud server further obtains location coordinates of each of the plurality of optical nodes. The cloud server then causes the master communication device to form a laser beam-based wireless communication network in the defined indoor area. A free-space optical backhaul is constructed by establishing a point-to-point free-space laser link between each pair of optical nodes of the plurality of optical nodes and a RF supervisory link is established between each pair of optical nodes of the plurality of optical nodes for a network monitoring and control function. |
| US11909444B2 |
Method for an all fiber optic, polarization insensitive, etalon based optical receiver for coherent signals
An optical signal receivers, systems including the optical signal receivers, and methods of operating the same include a multimode fiber circulator including a first port, a second port, and a third port, a first multimode fiber cable coupled to the first port and having an input configured to receive a complex modulated optical signal and provide the complex modulated optical signal to the first port of the multimode fiber circulator, a second multimode fiber cable including a low Q optical resonator coupled to the second port of the multimode fiber circulator that is configured to receive the complex modulated optical signal from the second port of the multimode circulator, and a third multimode fiber cable coupled to the third port of the multimode fiber circulator that is configured to receive a reflected optical signal from the third port of the multimode circulator, the reflected optical signal being reflected from the low Q optical resonator. |
| US11909440B2 |
Visible light communication system with adaptive dimming and modulation and demodulation method
The invention provides a visible light communication system with adaptive dimming and a modulation and demodulation method. The system includes: a source; an adaptive M-PAM modulator, separately modulating a signal transmitted by the signal source into a first and a second electrical signal; and a dual-path pulse generator, alternately generating a first and a second pulse control signal, where the first and the second pulse control signal are both periodic signals, where when a remaining operating duration of a high level of the first pulse control signal equals to a time of a rising edge of the second pulse control signal, the second pulse control signal starts to be generated, and when a remaining operating duration of a high level of the second pulse control signal is equal to a time of a rising edge of the first pulse control signal, the first pulse control signal starts to be generated. |
| US11909438B2 |
Digital beacon for free-space optical communication
A transmitter may include a digital signal processor (DSP) to generate an electrical signal associated with a beacon and a data signal. The transmitter may include an electro-optical component to convert the electrical signal to an optical signal to be transmitted by the transmitter. The beacon and the data signal may be on a common wavelength in the optical signal. A power of the beacon within the optical signal may be based on a value of an amplitude modulation factor applied to the beacon by the DSP in association with generating the electrical signal. |
| US11909436B1 |
Methods and tunable apparatuses for dynamic dispersion compensation of electromagnetic signals
In ultra-wideband or impulse radio terahertz wireless communication, the electromagnetic signal may experience group delay dispersion (GDD). Without correction, this can degrade the achievable data transmission rate. An apparatus comprising a stratified structure having a front portion and a back portion is disclosed. The structure comprises a plurality of adjacent layers of differing refractive indices, wherein each layer has a refractive index different from an immediately adjacent layer. The structure further includes a backing layer at the back portion. The structure defines a GDD, which can be adjusted, and the structure is configured to introduce the GDD to an incident electromagnetic signal and thereby produce a dispersion-compensated electromagnetic signal when the incident signal is reflected by the structure. The GDD of the structure is configured to substantially cancel out the dispersive effects experienced by the electromagnetic signal in the signal path. |
| US11909425B2 |
Front end module for supporting multiple communications and electronic device having same
In an electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device according to various embodiments, a front end module of the electronic device comprises: a first terminal connected to a transmission port for a first communication; a second terminal connected to a reception port for the first communication; a first amplifier connected to the first terminal; an amplifier circuit including a second amplifier and a bypass line connected in parallel with the second amplifier; a first switch connecting the amplifier circuit to one from among the second terminal, a third terminal connected to one of a reception port for a second communication or a transmission port for the second communication, and a fourth terminal connected to one of the reception port for the second communication or the transmission port for the second communication; and a second switch connecting an antenna to one of the amplifier circuit and the first amplifier, wherein a transmission signal of the second communication may be configured to be transmitted to the antenna through the bypass line connected in parallel with the second amplifier included in the amplifier circuit, a reception signal of the second communication may be configured to be transmitted to the reception port for the second communication through the second amplifier. |
| US11909423B2 |
Compression circuit, storage system, and compression method
According to one embodiment, a compression circuit generates substrings from input data for (3+M) cycles, the input data being N bytes per cycle, a byte length of each substring being greater than or equal to (N×(1+M)+1); obtains a set of matches, each of the matches including at least one past input data which input past and corresponds to at least a part of each of the substrings; selects a subset of matches from the set of matches including the input data of one cycle; and outputs the subset of matches. M is zero or a natural number. N is a positive integer which is two or more. |
| US11909422B2 |
Neural network processor using compression and decompression of activation data to reduce memory bandwidth utilization
A deep neural network (“DNN”) module compresses and decompresses neuron-generated activation data to reduce the utilization of memory bus bandwidth. The compression unit receives an uncompressed chunk of data generated by a neuron in the DNN module. The compression unit generates a mask portion and a data portion of a compressed output chunk. The mask portion encodes the presence and location of the zero and non-zero bytes in the uncompressed chunk of data. The data portion stores truncated non-zero bytes from the uncompressed chunk of data. A decompression unit receives a compressed chunk of data from memory in the DNN processor or memory of an application host. The decompression unit decompresses the compressed chunk of data using the mask portion and the data portion. |
| US11909421B2 |
Multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operator
A MAC operator includes a plurality of data type converters and a plurality of multipliers. Each of the plurality of data type converters may receive 16-bit input data of one of first to fourth data types of a floating-point format to convert into L-bit output data of the floating-point format. Each of the plurality of multipliers may perform a multiplication on the “L”-bit output data of the floating-point format outputted from two of the plurality of data type converters to output multiplication result data of the floating-point format. |
| US11909418B1 |
Access authentication in a dispersed storage network
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. The computing device is operable to receive a memory access request for a data object stored within the DSN, determine a realm for the memory access request, determine an authorization service for the realm and generate an authorization request for the memory access request. The computing device is further operable to transmit the authorization request to an authorization service, receive an authorization request response from the authorization service, determine whether the memory access request is authorized and process the memory access request. |
| US11909414B2 |
Control of analogue to digital converters
A circuit portion comprising a clock domain is disclosed. A first clock is arranged to clock components in the clock domain. An analogue to digital converter is clocked by a second clock with a duty cycle. The second clock is derived from the first clock. The analogue to digital converter is arranged to output a feedback signal upon finishing a conversion of a sample, and the feedback signal is arranged to control the duty cycle. |
| US11909411B2 |
Reducing spurs in analog to digital and digital to analog conversions
Embodiments disclosed herein may reduce or even eliminate spurs introduced into the signals during analog to digital or digital to analog conversions. The spurs may be introduced by components such as clocks of the converter circuits. In an analog to digital conversion, the input signal may be split into two parts: the first portion passing through a first analog to digital converter (ADC) and an inverted second portion passing through a second ADC. A digital subtractor may subtract the output of the second ADC from the output of the first ADC converter thereby reducing the spurs. In digital to analog conversion, a digital input is passed through a first digital to analog converter (DAC) and an inverted digital input is passed through a second DAC. The output of the second DAC is inverted and combined with the output of the first DAC to reduce the spurs. |
| US11909410B2 |
Sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter circuit with real time correction for digital-to-analog converter mismatch error
An estimate of unit current element mismatch error in a digital to analog converter circuit is obtained through a correlation process. Unit current elements of the digital to analog converter circuit are actuated by bits of a thermometer coded signal generated in response to a quantization output signal. A correlation circuit generates the estimates of the unit current element mismatch error from a correlation of a first signal derived from the thermometer coded signal and a second signal derived from the quantization output signal. |
| US11909406B1 |
Ring oscillator phase-locked loop with digital phase noise suppression
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having mixer circuitry configured to receive an oscillator signal from phase-locked loop circuitry. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include a digital or analog phase-locked loop having a first frequency divider, a ring oscillator, and an auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop coupled to the ring oscillator. The auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop may include at least a time-to-digital converter, a second frequency divider, an amplifier, and a bandpass filter configured to reject thermal and quantization noise associated with the time-to-digital converter. The first frequency divider may have a first division ratio, whereas the second frequency divider may have a second division ratio that is less than the first division ratio to provide faster phase noise correction. |
| US11909405B1 |
Digital coarse locking in digital phase-locked loops
A digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) circuit includes: a first time-to-digital converter (TDC) and a first digital loop filter (DLF) that are configured to be coupled between a reference clock source and a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), where the first TDC is configured to, during an acquisition mode, generate a phase error by: receiving a reference clock signal from the reference clock source; receiving a clock signal that is based on an output of the DCO divided by a dividing factor, computing a phase error using the reference clock signal and the clock signal; detecting cycle slipping in the computed phase error; and in response to detecting the cycle slipping, modifying the computed phase error to reduce the impact of cycle slipping on the DPLL circuit; and a first frequency divider circuit configured to generate the clock signal by dividing the output of the DCO by the dividing factor. |
| US11909404B1 |
Delay-locked loop offset calibration and correction
A clocking circuit is provided using a master delay-locked loop (DLL) and a slave DLL. A master DLL code indicates a delay adjustment made at a master DLL. A delay of a slave DLL is adjusted based on the master DLL code. A replica phase detector at the slave DLL is temporarily enabled during an interface idle period. A slave DLL code is determined, and a configuration value is determined based on the slave DLL code to the master DLL code. The replica phase detector is then disabled. |
| US11909402B2 |
Semiconductor device including a pulse amplitude modulation driver
Devices and methods are described herein for a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) driver. In one embodiment, the PAM driver includes a first high-speed buffer configured to output a first voltage, a second high-speed buffer configured to output a second voltage, and a plurality of transistors coupled to the first high-speed buffer and the second high-speed buffer. At least one of the first voltage or the second voltage facilitates selective operation of a transistor of the plurality of transistors to output a third voltage. |
| US11909389B2 |
Input device and input system
An input device includes a detection surface configured to be operated by an operation body, a first fixed electrode, a movable electrode, first and second terminals configured to be connected to an outside of the input device, and a direct-connection line electrically connecting the movable electrode to the second terminal via no capacitor. The movable electrode has a lower surface facing an upper surface of the first fixed electrode to be capacitively coupled to the first fixed electrode. The movable contact is displaceable to approach the first fixed electrode in response to a pressing of the detection surface by the operation body. The first terminal is configured to output, to the outside of the input device, a first electric signal containing a change in a capacitance between the first fixed electrode and the movable electrode. The second terminal is configured to output, from the movable electrode to the outside of the input device, a second electric signal containing a change in a capacitance between the operation body and the movable electrode. This input device improves the detection sensitivity to detect approximating or contacting the input device by the operation body. |
| US11909385B2 |
Fast-switching power management circuit and related apparatus
A fast-switching power management circuit is provided. The fast-switching power management circuit is configured to generate an output voltage(s) based on an output voltage target that may change on a per-frame or per-symbol basis. In embodiments disclosed herein, the fast-switching power management circuit can be configured to adapt (increase or decrease) the output voltage(s) within a very short switching interval (e.g., less than one microsecond). As a result, when the fast-switching power management circuit is employed in a wireless communication apparatus to supply the output voltage(s) to a power amplifier circuit(s), the fast-switching power management circuit can quickly adapt the output voltage(s) to help improve operating efficiency and linearity of the power amplifier circuit(s). |
| US11909383B2 |
Electrical circuit for transmitting a useful analogue signal, with a switch and a compensation circuit for compensating signal distortions when the switch is switched off
The invention relates to an electrical circuit (1) for transmitting a useful analogue signal, which has a signal transmission path (16) with an input path (2) and an output path (3) and at least one switch (6), with which the useful signal which is carried on the input path (2) can be connected through to the output path (3) or the signal transmission path (16) can be interrupted. According to the invention, a compensation circuit (4) which substantially compensates for a distortion of the useful analogue useful signal generated by the at least one switch (6) when it is switched off (OFF) is provided, wherein the compensation circuit (4) is connected to a control terminal (G) of the at least one switch (6) and comprises at least one non-linear capacitance. |
| US11909382B2 |
Multiplexer, front-end module, and communication device
A multiplexer includes a common terminal, a first reception output terminal, a second reception output terminal, a first filter that is connected between the common terminal and the first reception output terminal, a second filter that is connected between the common terminal and the second reception output terminal and that has a passband different from that of the first filter, and an impedance matching circuit that is disposed between the common terminal and the second filter. The impedance matching circuit includes a serial arm resonator disposed in series on a path connecting the common terminal to the second filter. |
| US11909381B2 |
Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with two-layer electrodes having a narrower top layer
An acoustic resonator device, filter devices, and methods of making the same. An acoustic resonator device includes a substrate having a surface and a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, where the back surface is attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. The device further includes an interdigital transducer formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, where interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on the diaphragm are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a primary shear acoustic mode in the diaphragm. The interleaved fingers include a first layer adjacent the diaphragm and a second layer over the first layer, the second layer having a narrower width than the first layer. |
| US11909380B2 |
Acoustic resonator and method of manufacturing the same
An acoustic resonator and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The acoustic resonator includes a resonating part including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer; and a plurality of seed layers disposed on one side of the resonating part. |
| US11909379B2 |
MEMS device having a connection portion formed of a eutectic alloy
A MEMS device that includes a substrate including an element and a connection wiring electrically connected to the element, and a connection portion electrically connected to the connection wiring. The connection portion is formed of a eutectic alloy of a first metal and a second metal. A line width of the connection wiring is smaller than a width of the connection portion when a main surface of the substrate is viewed in a plan view. |
| US11909375B2 |
Resonance device
A resonance device is provided for reducing the influence on the resonant frequency of the resonance device of the electric charge borne by an insulating film of a frame. The resonance device includes a resonator including a vibration portion and a frame disposed in at least a part of a vicinity of the vibration portion. The frame includes a holding body and an insulating film, with the holding body holding the vibration portion to vibrate and the insulating film being formed above the holding body. A lower cover is provided having a recess forming at least a part of a space in which the vibration portion vibrates. An inner side surface of the insulating film is disposed at a first distance from an inner surface of a side wall defining the recess. |
| US11909369B2 |
Low-pass filter circuit
A low-pass filter circuit is provided. The low-pass filter circuit includes a low-pass filter and a discharging circuit. The low-pass filter receives an input voltage signal through an input terminal of the low-pass filter circuit during a first period, performs a low-pass filter operation on the input voltage signal to generate a filtered voltage signal, and provides the filtered voltage signal to an output terminal of the low-pass filter circuit. The discharging circuit suppresses a leakage current flowing between the output terminal and a reference low voltage in response to the input voltage signal during the first period. |
| US11909367B2 |
Broadband filter
The present disclosure relates to a broadband filter for confining or attenuating electromagnetic interference noise from one or more electrical signal sources, In an embodiment, the broadband filter comprises one or more filter stages electrically coupled by galvanic or by electromagnetic means to the one or more electrical signal sources for confining or attenuating conducted electromagnetic interference noise; one or more conductive shields electrically coupled by galvanic or by electromagnetic means to the electrical signal sources wherein the shields encapsulate the filter stages for confining or attenuating conducted and/or radiated electromagnetic interference noise; and one or more conductive partition layers to encapsulate the one or more filter stages such that the partition layers electromagnetically couple adjacent filter stages for a selected frequency range of the electromagnetic interference noise. The thickness of the conductive partition layers is chosen to control the degree of coupling. |
| US11909366B2 |
Multistage variable gain amplifier for sensor application
Various technologies described herein pertain to variable gain amplification for a sensor application. A multistage variable gain amplifier system provides variable gain amplification of an input signal. The multistage variable gain amplifier system includes a plurality of amplification stages. The multistage variable gain amplifier system further includes a power detector configured to detect a power level of an input signal received by the multistage variable gain amplifier system. The multistage variable gain amplifier system also includes a controller configured to control the amplification stages based on the power level of the input signal. The multistage variable gain amplifier system can output an output signal such that the amplification stages are controlled to adjust a gain applied to the input signal by the multistage variable gain amplifier system to output the output signal. |
| US11909363B2 |
RF power amplifier with balun transformer
A radiofrequency power amplifier includes a balun transformer and a plurality of power transistor pairs arranged in a push-pull configuration. The balun transformer has an unbalanced coil extending between a first single-ended signal terminal and a first reference, and a balanced coil extending between a first balanced signal terminal and a second balanced signal terminal. The balun transformer also includes an auxiliary coil electrically isolated from the unbalanced coil and the balanced coil. The auxiliary coil is inductively coupled to the unbalanced coil and extends between a third balanced signal terminal and a fourth balanced signal terminal forming a balanced combiner-divider. An output of a first one of the power transistor pairs is coupled to the first and second balanced signal terminals and an output of a second one of the power transistor pairs is coupled to the third and fourth balanced signal terminals. |
| US11909362B2 |
Amplifier circuitry
This application relates to amplifier circuitry, in particular class-D amplifiers, operable in open-loop and closed-loop modes. An amplifier (300) has a forward signal path for receiving an input signal (SIN) and outputting an output signal (SOUT) and a feedback path operable to provide a feedback signal (SFB) from the output. A feedforward path provide a feedforward signal (SFF) from the input and a combiner (105) is operable to determine an error signal (ε) based on a difference between the feedback signal and the feedforward signal. The feedforward comprises a compensation module (201) configured to apply a controlled transfer function to the feedforward signal in the closed-loop mode of operation, such that an overall transfer function for the amplifier is substantially the same in the closed-loop mode of operation and the open-loop mode of operation. |
| US11909361B2 |
Broadband logarithmic detector with high dynamic range
The invention discloses a broadband logarithmic detector with high dynamic range, comprising a low noise amplifier, a compensate detection unit, a current summation and driving unit, an N-stage clipper amplifier and an N-stage detection unit. The invention improves the detection sensibility of the overall detector by adding a low noise amplifier before the first-stage clipper amplifier and extends the dynamic detection range of the overall detector through combination of the low noise amplifier and the compensate detection unit. |
| US11909358B1 |
Multilevel amplifier systems and related techniques
Described is a system for modulating power to one or more radio frequency (RF) amplifiers to suppress undesired output signal components, improve linearity and reduce noise. The described systems and techniques enable shaping of spectral components introduced via an amplifier bias voltage owing to transitions among bias discrete states. The systems and techniques facilitate operation of multilevel, RF amplifiers under a wider range of operating conditions. In embodiments, the system includes modulators coupled to a supply terminal port of each of the one or more amplifiers to modulate the voltage levels supplied to the one or more amplifiers. The outputs of the modulators may be combined to provide a combined signal coupled to the amplifiers. A delay circuit delays switching of at least one of the power modulators relative to other modulator, by a variable time delay. This results in suppression of undesired output signal components of the amplifier output. |
| US11909356B2 |
Tunable distributed oscillator
An integrated circuit transceiver device includes a plurality of functional circuits, and clock circuitry for distributing synchronous, in-phase, phase-locked clock signals to all transceiver circuits. The clock circuitry includes a frequency-controllable distributed oscillator including at least one coupled pair of transmission line oscillators having a respective oscillator core, and at least one respective transmission line segment. At least one impedance element couples the at least one respective transmission line segment of a first transmission line oscillator to the at least one respective transmission line segment of a second transmission line oscillator. Impedance of the impedance element is different from impedance of each respective transmission line segment to cause reflection at the at least one impedance element. At least one tap corresponding to each respective one of the transmission line oscillators outputs synchronous, in-phase, phase-locked clock signals for the functional circuits at points along the distributed oscillator. |
| US11909354B2 |
Ovenized MEMS
One or more heating elements are provided to heat a MEMS component (such as a resonator) to a temperature higher than an ambient temperature range in which the MEMS component is intended to operate—in effect, heating the MEMS component and optionally related circuitry to a steady-state “oven” temperature above that which would occur naturally during component operation and thereby avoiding temperature-dependent performance variance/instability (frequency, voltage, propagation delay, etc.). In a number of embodiments, an IC package is implemented with distinct temperature-isolated and temperature-interfaced regions, the former bearing or housing the MEMS component and subject to heating (i.e., to oven temperature) by the one or more heating elements while the latter is provided with (e.g., disposed adjacent) one or more heat dissipation paths to discharge heat generated by transistor circuitry (i.e., expel heat from the integrated circuit package). |
| US11909346B2 |
Electric motor system
An electric motor system includes a drive shaft, a first electric motor, a second electric motor, a first inverter, a second inverter and a control unit. The drive shaft is rotatable around an axis. The first electric motor and the second electric motor rotate the drive shaft. The first inverter supplies power in order to generate a torque to the first electric motor. The second inverter supplies power in order to generate a torque to the second electric motor. The control unit controls the first inverter and the second inverter. The controller is configured to be able to change a ratio between an output torque of the first electric motor and an output torque of the second electric motor. |
| US11909342B2 |
Rotating electrical machine control device
Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle. |
| US11909339B2 |
Resonance suppression control device
In a resonance suppression control device that controls suppression of vibrations in a resonance frequency in each vibration mode of a control target having a plurality of vibration modes, a configuration that is simple, and can suppress vibrations in a resonance frequency in the plurality of vibration modes is provided. A control device is a resonance suppression control device that controls suppression of vibrations in a resonance frequency in each vibration mode of a control target having a plurality of vibration modes. The control device includes a plurality of feedback loops that provide negative feedback of output of the control target corresponding to the plurality of vibration modes to an input side. The plurality of feedback loops respectively include band-pass filters that extract one or more vibration modes from the plurality of vibration modes, phase compensators, and amplitude adjusters. The band-pass filters and the phase compensators function as differentiators. |
| US11909336B2 |
Multi degree of freedom magnetic levitation system by single body actuator
The present disclosure relates to an actuator. The actuator includes at least two iron cores, each iron core including a pole extending in a first direction parallel to a direction of gravity; a permanent magnet disposed between the at least two iron cores so as to generate a magnetic field along a shape of a combination of the at least two iron cores arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in a direction not parallel to the first direction; and a winding wound around the pole of each of the at least two iron cores. |
| US11909335B2 |
Electrostatic chuck and substrate fixing device
An electrostatic chuck includes a base body having a placement surface on which a suction target object is placed, and an electrode embedded in the base body. The base body is provided with a groove that opens to the placement surface-side and does not reach the electrode. Aloes-resistance region made of ceramics and a high-resistance region made of ceramics having a volume resistivity higher than the low-resistance region are sequentially arranged from a side close to the groove between a bottom surface of the groove and the electrode, in a thickness direction of the base body. |
| US11909333B1 |
Propulsion system using shape-shifting member
A propulsion system includes a uniform shape-shifting rotating disc member that changes its mass distribution at particular angular arc segment in a radial direction due to an electromagnetic field acting upon that angular arc segment, with no eccentric mechanical trajectory to guide a mass being required. The disc member has a multiplicity of shape-shifting arc segments that can respond to electromagnetic fields acting on them. Each shape-shifting arc segment passes a shape-shifting region of the apparatus at a frequency of rotation of the encoded motor multiplied by the number of such arc segment. |
| US11909331B2 |
Power supply and method of supplying power to load
A power supply includes an inverter configured to direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power, an impedance matching circuit configured to supply the AC power to a load; and a controller configured to adjust disposition of a powering period, in which the AC power is output, and a freewheeling period, in which the AC power is not output, to adjust a power amount of the power supplied to the load through the impedance matching circuit by the inverter. |
| US11909329B2 |
Semiconductor unit, semiconductor device, battery unit, and vehicle
A semiconductor unit includes a semiconductor device, a controller, and a resistor. The semiconductor device includes a transistor arranged between a positive electrode of a battery and an inverter circuit electrically connected to the battery. The controller is connected to a control terminal of the transistor and configured to control the transistor. The resistor arranged between the control terminal and the controller. The controller controls the transistor so that when a current flowing to the transistor is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the transistor is deactivated. The resistor has a resistance value that is greater than or equal to 100 Ω. |
| US11909319B2 |
Method for operating voltage converters connected in parallel
The present invention relates to methods (100) and to a device (200) for operating voltage transformers (210, 220) connected in parallel, wherein the voltage transformers (210, 220) are operated in different operating modes (120, 130) as a function of a determined temperature (Tist) in order to avoid overheating of an individual voltage transformer. |
| US11909317B2 |
Efficient use of energy in a switching power converter
A system may include a power converter having a maximum allowable input power drawn from a power source, an energy storage element coupled to an output of the power converter at a top plate of the energy storage element, wherein the energy storage element is configured to store excess energy, and control circuitry configured to, when an input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power, cause excess energy stored in the energy storage element to be consumed by circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, and in order to maintain positive voltage headroom for the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, selectively couple a bottom plate of the energy storage element to the power source such that excess energy stored by the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter is consumed from the energy storage device when the input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power. |
| US11909316B2 |
In-rush current protected power converter
Circuits and methods for protecting the switches of charge pump-based power converters from damage if a VOUT short circuit event occurs and/or if VIN falls rapidly with respect to VX or VOUT. A general embodiment includes a VX Detection Block coupled to the core block of a power converter. The VX Detection Block is coupled to VX and to a control circuit that disables operations of an associated converter circuit upon detection of large, rapid falls in VX during the dead time between clock phase signals, thereby prevent damaging current spikes. Some embodiments include a VIN Detection Block configured to detect and prevent excessive in-rush current due to rapidly falling values of VIN to the power converter. The VIN Detection Block is coupled to VIN, and to VX or VOUT in some embodiments, and to a control circuit to that disables operation of an associated converter circuit. |
| US11909307B2 |
Power conversion device
A power conversion device includes a power converter including a plurality of arms and a control device to control voltages of a plurality of sub modules by PWM control using a carrier signal for each sub module. The sub module includes a plurality of switching elements, a power storage element, a pair of output terminals, and a bypass switch. When the control device detects failure of a sub module in an arm, it performs stop processing for stopping a switching operation of the plurality of switching elements included in at least one sub module of the plurality of sub modules in the arm and has the sub module failure of which was detected bypassed. After the control device performs the stop processing, it equalizes intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal sub modules in the arm caused by failure of the sub module. |
| US11909299B2 |
Power converting apparatus, motor driving apparatus, and air conditioner
A power converting apparatus includes a first arm including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a second arm connected in parallel with the first arm and including a switching element and a switching element connected in series, a reactor having one end connected to the switching element and the switching element and the other end connected to a single-phase alternating-current power supply, and a smoothing capacitor connected in parallel with the first arm and the second arm. The power converting apparatus includes a driving circuit driving the switching element, a bootstrap circuit, and a diode adjusting a power supply voltage, wherein a first voltage at which a forward current starts to flow to the diode is lower than a second voltage at which a forward current starts to flow in a body diode formed in the second switching element. |
| US11909296B2 |
Magnetic bearing and compressor having the same
A magnetic bearing is provided. The magnetic according to the present disclosure includes: a stator core disposed to surround a central axis; a plurality of bobbins coupled to the stator core; a coil wound around the bobbin; and a positioning member coupled to the plurality of bobbins and determining positions of the plurality of bobbins, and the positioning member has a circular shape centered on a central point. |
| US11909292B2 |
Moving coil brushless motor
A moving coil brushless motor including an actuator having a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical array of permanent magnets. The rotor includes a coil assembly having a plurality of coils interposed between a stator back plate and the permanent magnet array. The coil assembly rotates relative to the array of permanent magnets. A center shaft is disposed to rotate about a longitudinal axis. A cylindrical transformer is disposed within an interior space circumscribed by the stator back plate and includes a primary side and a secondary side. The primary side includes a primary coil and the secondary side includes a secondary coil magnetically coupled to the primary coil. Primary electronics are in communication with secondary electronics attached to the center shaft. The secondary electronics are configured to receive power from the secondary coil and to provide current to the actuator. |
| US11909291B2 |
Rotary reciprocating drive actuator with movable element and magnets and rotating mirror
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator reciprocally and rotationally driving the movable body about the shaft part in relation to the fixed body by the electromagnetic mutual effect of the coil and the movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet is magnetized in the radial direction of the shaft part, the two magnetic poles are disposed facing each other across an air gap in the radial direction of the movable magnet and the shaft part, and the fixed body has a rotation-angle-holding part disposed facing the movable magnet across the air gap, the rotation-angle-holding part holding the rotation angle position of the movable magnet by the magnetic attraction force generated with the movable magnet. |
| US11909290B2 |
Electromagnetic drive device and operation device
An electromagnetic drive device includes a permanent magnet attached to a surface of a first yoke facing a second yoke; and first and second excitation coils to generate magnetic flux when being energized. The second yoke includes a base, and a first protruding part protruding from the base toward the first yoke, between the first and second excitation coils. The permanent magnet includes a first region; and second and third regions positioned on respective sides of the first region. The first region is magnetized to be a first pole, and the second region and the third region are magnetized to be second poles. The first region is opposite to the first protruding part, a boundary between the first and second regions is opposite to the first excitation coil, and a boundary between the first and third regions is opposite to the second excitation coil. |
| US11909288B2 |
Stator of an electric machine
A stator of an electric machine is already known, comprising stator teeth and grooves formed between the stator teeth, in which electrical conductor elements of an electrical individual coil winding are provided as individual coils, wherein an interconnection is provided on at least one end side of the stator, which has a ring section and multiple, in particular a number corresponding to the number of stator teeth, tooth sections protruding from the ring section in the radial direction. The interconnection ring comprises multiple bus bars for interconnecting the electrical individual coils of the electrical winding. The individual coils are produced from a conventional conductor material, e.g. copper. In the stator according to the invention, an electrical winding made of CNT conductor elements is provided. According to the invention: the conductor elements (4) of the electrical winding are configured as insertable conductor elements (4) of the electrical winding designed as a plug-in winding; the conductor elements (4) are each formed of a combination of carbon nanotubes and/or graphene fibres; and at least one electrically non-conductive conductor joining device (12) is provided on at least one of the tooth sections (10) of the interconnection ring (5), to which two respective conductor ends of two different conductor elements (4) are electrically connected by means of an electrically conductive joining means. |
| US11909287B2 |
Insulator and motor comprising same
A motor has: a housing; a stator disposed inside the housing; a rotor disposed inside the stator; and a shaft coupled to the rotor. The stator has a stator core, an insulator disposed on the stator core, and a coil wound around the insulator. The insulator has: a first body; an inside guide protruding from the inside of the first body; an outside guide protruding from the outside of the first body; a first blade portion disposed to be spaced apart from one side of the first body and to protrude from the outside guide in the radial direction; a second blade portion disposed to be spaced apart from the other side of the first body and to protrude from the outside guide in the radial direction; and a protruding portion extending from one radial side of the first blade portion. |
| US11909284B2 |
Flat-type stator with multilayer coils for disc-type motor
A flat-type stator with multilayer coils for a disc-type motor is provided with a stator coil and a flat stator base, wherein a coil assembly is arranged in the stator coil, and a plurality of coil assemblies are arranged in a ring or in a straight line on the stator base; the coil assembly is formed by stacking even-numbered layers of single coils overlapped with the stator base in a vertical direction, each single coil is composed of even-numbered layers of single-layer coils wound by a single wire, and the single-layer coil is provided with a single axial wire; metal wires are sequentially connected in series among the plurality of coil assemblies to form a coil unit, the single coils in the coil unit have a same structure and a same shape and are not overlapped axially. |
| US11909281B2 |
Stator-based permanent magnet field-enhanced hybrid-excitation motor capable of operating under multiple working conditions and drive control method thereof
A stator-based permanent magnet field-enhanced hybrid-excitation motor capable of operating under multiple operating conditions and a driving control method thereof are provided. The motor includes a stator, excitation windings, permanent magnets, a rotor, armature windings, and an air gap. The stator is a structure with double-cross-shaped stator modules. A power converter of the motor by four H-bridges is formed. Incoming and outgoing ends of the excitation winding are each connected with a center point of one H-bridge arm, and incoming and outgoing ends of a three-phase winding are each connected with a center point of one H-bridge arm to form an open winding structure; the H-bridge of the excitation winding is connected in series with a bus of the open winding structure of the three-phase winding; every three bridge arms of the open winding structure form a group; and a switch transistor is arranged between each two groups. |
| US11909279B1 |
Prime mover with integral drivers for providing multiple modes of locomotion
Apparatus for a motive device that combines a prime mover integrated with one or more drivers for multimodal locomotion. The motive device has an axle configured to connect to a vehicle and has a ground configuration for land travel and a fan configuration for lift and flight. The motive device includes a prime mover integrated with a ground driver and a fan driver. The motive device includes a multitude of stator windings attached to the axle and a multitude of magnets attached to rotors. The ground driver includes a wheel with the spokes extending from at least one rotor. The wheel rotates for land-based locomotion when in the ground configuration. The fan driver includes blades extending from another rotor. The blades rotate for lift and flight when in the fan configuration. |
| US11909278B2 |
Production apparatus of motor laminated core and method for producing the same
Disclosed herein are a production apparatus of a motor laminated core and a method for producing the same, the production apparatus comprises an upper die assembly, a lower die assembly and an adhesive spraying device, the adhesive spraying device comprises an adhesive spraying plate, a first die plate and a second die plate successively from top to bottom, and channels are disposed between the plates, and respective channels communicate with first adhesive spraying openings and second adhesive spraying openings so as to coat an adhesive on a portion of a metal strip used for forming an core sheet, and after the core sheet is formed, a plurality of core sheets are cured and bonded at normal temperature in the production apparatus with the aid of a hydraulic cylinder so as to form a motor laminated core. |
| US11909276B2 |
Electric motor with cover plate having insertion holes
An electric motor includes a rotor assembly rotatable about a vertical center axis, a stator assembly around the rotor assembly, a housing inside of which the stator assembly is fixed, and a bearing mechanism rotatably supporting the rotor assembly. The housing includes a cylindrical wall portion inside of which the stator assembly is located, a bottom at a bottom vertical end of the cylindrical wall portion and extending radially outward, and a cover plate on one side of the stator assembly opposite to the bottom. The cover plate includes electrically conductive elements and at least one columnar projection protruding away from the stator assembly so that the at least one projection contacts at least one grounding contact of a controller on one side of the cover plate, the controller being electrically connected to a ground potential through the housing. |
| US11909270B2 |
Electric motor with permanent magnets abutted by tabs in lamination cavities
A hybrid rotor assembly is provided. The assembly utilizes two different types of magnets within the lamination cavities of the lamination stack: sintered permanent magnets and bonded magnets. |
| US11909269B2 |
Combined fixed fan for disc-type motor
A combined fixed fan for a disc-type motor includes a front fixing sheet (1), a fan (2) and a rear fixing sheet (3) in sequence in an axial direction, wherein the front fixing sheet and the rear fixing sheet are both circular sheets with a central hole (10), and are provided with magnet fixing holes (4) evenly arranged in a circle, the fan (2) is integrally provided with an annular column-shaped spacing frame (11), a center of the fan (2) is axially provided with a shaft hole (15) for a motor rotating shaft to pass through, and a plurality of fan blades (13) arranged around the shaft hole (15) are arranged in the spacing frame (11); and a side surface of the spacing frame is provided with a plurality of air outlet channels (16) evenly arranged in a circle. |
| US11909265B2 |
Multi-component rotor for an electric motor of an appliance
A motor for a laundry appliance includes a drive shaft coupled to a drum at a first end. The rotor frame is coupled proximate the second end of the drive shaft, where the rotor frame includes at least one polymeric material. A central hub includes a core and a perimetrical ring that extends circumferentially around the core. A plurality of recesses are defined within a planar surface of the perimetrical ring, wherein a portion of the polymeric material is received within the plurality of recesses to secure the rotor frame to the central hub. |
| US11909262B2 |
Thermal management for generator/ motor stators
An electrical machine assembly includes a stator. The stator includes a core, windings assembled into the core, and a back iron heat exchanger mounted to the core. A first end plate is mounted at a first end of the core and back iron heat exchanger. A second end plate is mounted at a second end of the core and back iron heat exchanger opposite the first end plate. A coolant circuit passes from a coolant inlet in the back iron heat exchanger, through the back iron heat exchanger, into the first end plate, out of the first end plate, through the core, into the second end plate, and out of the second end plate. |
| US11909258B2 |
Method to detect back-feed and mis-wiring events by a UPS system
Power supplies and methods of use thereof are provided, where a power supply includes an input configured to receive input AC power an output configured to provide output AC power to a load, at least one power converter coupled to the input and configured to convert the input AC power into the output AC power, a controller coupled the at least one power converter. The controller is configured to adjust at least one parameter of the output AC power provided by the at least one power converter, detect, in response to adjusting the at least one parameter of the output AC power, at least one of an adjusted input AC power or an adjusted output AC power, and determine that a fault has occurred based on the at least one of the adjusted input AC power or the adjusted output AC power. |
| US11909254B2 |
Motor vehicle control device having a switch-on and switch-off function for at least one electrical consumer that is to be controlled by the motor vehicle control device
A motor vehicle control device may have a switch-on and switch-off function for at least one electrical load to be controlled by the motor vehicle control device. The motor vehicle control device may include an electronic switching element for arrangement in a supply voltage path of the electrical load and a control unit for controlling the electronic switching element. The control unit is designed to provide a control signal for switching the electronic switching element based on at least one input signal. The control unit may include a resistor connected to the supply voltage path and a current control means connected in series therewith for generating a predefinable voltage difference at the resistor as the control signal for the electronic switching element. |
| US11909253B2 |
Power supply circuit
A power supply circuit supplies power from a first battery to a first load. The first load includes a capacitor that needs to be charged before activation. The power supply circuit includes: a main circuit that supplies power from the first battery to the first load; and a backup circuit having a precharge circuit for charging the capacitor and that supplies power from the first battery to the first load. When charging the capacitor, power is supplied from the first battery to the first load by using the backup circuit. After charging of the capacitor is completed, power is supplied from the first battery to the first load by using the main circuit. |
| US11909249B2 |
Power feeding system
A power feeding system of the present disclosure includes a control unit. In a case where a magnitude of supply destination power is smaller than an upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source, the control unit controls the charge/discharge control circuit so as to meet the supply destination power based on power output from the power source, and to charge the storage battery with power which is a difference obtained by subtracting the supply destination power from the upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source. In a case where the magnitude of the supply destination power is more than or equal to the upper limit value of the power supply capability of the power source, the control unit controls the charge/discharge control circuit so as to meet the supply destination power by both the power source and the storage battery. |
| US11909244B2 |
Battery controller and method for suppression of lithium plating during charging
Disclosed are a battery charging method, a controller, a battery management system, a battery, and an electric device, aimed to suppress lithium plating of the battery. The battery charging method includes: obtaining an electrical parameter of a battery; determining whether the electrical parameter of the battery reaches a preset threshold, where a value range of the preset threshold meets the following condition: a battery state of charge (SOC) corresponding to the preset threshold is 70% to 80%; suspending, when the electrical parameter of the battery reaches the preset threshold, charging of the battery and discharging the battery for a duration of t; and continuing to charge the battery when the discharge is completed. |
| US11909241B2 |
Electronic device receiving battery control information via management server
An electronic device to which a drive power is supplied from a battery is provided. The electronic device includes a control circuit that acquires battery information including information related to a status of the battery, a storage that stores the acquired battery information, and an interface circuit that communicates with a management server via a network. The control circuit transmits the battery information stored in the storage to the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit receives control information related to control of the battery from the management server via the interface circuit. The control circuit controls the battery according to the received control information. |
| US11909239B2 |
Wireless charging dock
A method and system for a headset wireless charging dock, where the charging dock comprises a radio, a coil, and a proximity sensor. The method may comprise sensing a presence of a headset using the proximity sensor, wirelessly charging a battery in the headset utilizing the coil, and wirelessly communicating commands, using the radio, to the headset to power down when fully charged. The command may be communicated to the headset utilizing a protocol and a RF radio used by the headset to receive audio signals. The command communicated to the headset may power down audio processing circuitry in the headset. The charging induction coil may be inductively coupled to a coil in the headset to wirelessly charge the battery in the headset. The proximity sensor may comprise a Hall sensor. |
| US11909237B2 |
Reverse polarity protected battery module
The present disclosure relates to a battery module (300) comprising a first charging terminal (203) and a second charging terminal (204) for connecting the battery module to an external power source (250) or a load (350). The battery module includes a battery cell arrangement (210) which has a maximum charge voltage and has a first terminal (201) and a second terminal (202). The first terminal (201) is connected to the first charging terminal (203). The battery module includes also a switch arrangement including at least a first switching device (240) connected between the second terminal (202) of the battery cell arrangement and the second charging terminal (204). The first switching device is operable to switch to a current passing state for discharging the battery module. The battery module also includes a controller (220) configured to control operation of the switch arrangement. Upon detection of a reverse polarity connection of the external power source at the first and second charging terminals, the controller is configured to operate the first switching device to switch to a current blocking state. The first switching device has a blocking voltage equal or higher than at least twice the maximum charge voltage of the battery cell arrangement. |
| US11909236B2 |
Electric tool powered by a plurality of battery packs and adapter therefor
An electrical apparatus includes first and second battery interfaces disposed on a housing for electrically and mechanically connecting first and second battery packs in series. A controller is disposed within the housing and includes an apparatus microprocessor that receives first and second communication signals respectively outputted from respective microprocessors of the first and second battery packs. A first signal communication path communicates the first communication signal from the first battery pack microprocessor to the apparatus microprocessor by shifting a first voltage range of the first communication signal to a second voltage range that is suitable for inputting into the apparatus microprocessor. A second signal communication path communicates a third communication signal from the apparatus microprocessor to the first battery pack microprocessor by shifting the second voltage range of the third communication signal to a first voltage range that is suitable for inputting into the first battery pack microprocessor. |
| US11909232B2 |
Smart charging system
Disclosed herein is a system comprising: a power source apparatus; a first device and a second device associated with a user; and a server computer. The second device couples to the power source apparatus. The power source provides status information to the first device. The first device sends a communication to the power source apparatus via an application operating on the first device, wherein the communication provides a charging instruction to the power source device and the instruction is based on the status information received from the power source. The power source apparatus charges the second device based on the charging instruction received at the power source apparatus from the first device. The server communicates with the first device to maintain a database relating to at least one of the power source apparatus and the second device and comprising status information. |
| US11909231B2 |
Charging pad
A charging pad includes a side surface on which a charged terminal device is to be placed face to face. The side surface includes a protruding flat surface portion that is raised from a peripheral edge portion, a power transfer coil that is incorporated in a raised region of the protruding flat surface portion, and a holding mechanism that allows the charged terminal device at a predetermined position with respect to the power transfer coil. |
| US11909230B2 |
Wearable article and electronics arrangement for transferring power
The wearable article (11) comprises a power source (111) and a processor (112). The processor (112) determines whether a power transfer condition is satisfied. In response, the processor (112) is arranged to control the wearable article (11) to transfer power from the power source (111) to an electrical load of an external apparatus. The wearable article (11) may comprise an interface element (114) for forming an electrical connection with the externa apparatus. The wearable article (11) may comprise a power transmitter (113) for beaming electromagnetic energy to the external apparatus. The wearable article (11) may be a garment. |
| US11909228B2 |
Foreign object detection method and apparatus, and wireless charging system
This application provides a foreign object detection method and apparatus, and a wireless charging system. The foreign object detection apparatus includes a coil array and a foreign object detection circuit. The coil array includes at least one coil group, and each coil group includes four detection coils whose locations are symmetrical to each other. The foreign object detection circuit determine an abnormal-value threshold of each coil group based on induction signals of each coil group and that are obtained in a first time period, and detect, based on the abnormal-value threshold and the induction signals of each coil group, whether there is a foreign object; when it is determined that there is no foreign object, detect, based on the signal threshold of each coil group and induction signals that are of each coil group and that are obtained in a second time period, whether there is a foreign object. |
| US11909227B2 |
Power transmitting apparatus, power receiving apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium
A power transmitting apparatus sets, on the basis of transmission power set with the power receiving apparatus, a first threshold for determining whether or not a foreign object exist, and a second threshold lower than the first threshold. The first and second threshold are set so that the difference between the first and second threshold values becomes larger as the set transmission power becomes larger. The power transmitting apparatus determines: that a foreign object exists in a case where the power loss is greater than the first threshold; that a foreign object does not exist in a case where the power loss is less than the second threshold; and that there is a possibility of a foreign object existing in a case where the power loss is between the first threshold and the second threshold. |
| US11909225B2 |
Wireless charging transmitter and wireless charger
A wireless charging transmitter includes at least two transmit coils and at least two transmit circuit units; wherein the at least two transmit coils are configured to simultaneously transmit electric energy to an external receive coil, the at least two transmit coils are coupled such that orientations of magnetic fields generated by currents on the at least two transmit coils are not parallel and form a first angle, a coupling coefficient between the at least two transmit coils is less than a predetermined threshold and each of the transmit circuit units is electrically connected to each of the transmit coils and configured to supply a current to the transmit coil. Therefore, the current on each of the transmit coils in the wireless charging transmitter generates a corresponding magnetic field. |
| US11909224B2 |
Photovoltaic cell for laser beam power detection
A wireless optical power transmission system comprising a transmitter and receiver, the transmitter comprising a laser emitting a beam, a scanning mirror for steering the beam towards said receiver and a control unit receiving signals from a detection unit on the receiver and controlling the beam power and the scanning mirror. The receiver has a photovoltaic cell having a bandgap energy of 0.75-1.2 e V, with a plurality of conductors on abeam receiving surface. A cover layer of material blocking illumination of wavelengths outside that of the laser, is disposed on the photovoltaic cell. The cover layer may have anti-reflective coatings on its top and bottom surfaces. The detection unit thus generates a signal representing the power of the laser beam impinging upon the receiver, independent of illuminations other than that of said laser beam. The control unit thus can maintain the laser power impinging on the receiver. |
| US11909223B2 |
HW and methods for improving safety protocol in wireless chargers
An over-voltage protection circuit and methods of operation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring a voltage at an output of a rectifier, a voltage at an output of a voltage regulator, or a combination thereof. The method further includes determining the over-voltage condition based on the monitoring; and in response to determining the over-voltage condition, regulating the voltage at the output of the rectifier in accordance with a voltage difference between the voltage at the output of the rectifier and the voltage at the output of the voltage regulator. |
| US11909220B2 |
Wireless power Tx to Tx conflict and protection
A wireless power device is presented that avoids transmit conflicts. The device can include a rectifier circuit coupled to a coil; a transmit driver coupled to the rectifier circuit; a transmit detect circuit configured to detect receipt of transmitted wireless power at the coil; and a controller coupled to the transmit driver and the transmit detect circuit, the controller receiving a signal from the transmit detect circuit and providing an alert of the presence of the transmitted wireless power, the controller activating the transmit driver to transmit wireless power in absence of the signal. The wireless device can determine an operating mode and in a transmit mode determine presence of a received power. If received power is detected an alert can be provided and an off state initiated. If transmit power is not detected the transmit driver can be activated. |
| US11909218B1 |
Energy management of distribution-level integrated electric-gas systems with fast frequency reserve
In this disclosure, the energy management problem of the D-IEGS with FFR is analyzed, so as to enhance the frequency stability of the main grid. The post-disturbance frequency response behaviors of both the main grid and the D-IEGS are precisely depicted, where the dead zones, limiting ranges and time constant of the governors are considered. The frequency regulation units of the D-IEGS include GTs and P2G units, whose impacts of providing frequency regulation service on the gas networks are quantified. Considering the time-scale similarity of the frequency dynamics and the dynamics of the GDN, the gas flow dynamics model is adopted. The frequency response dynamics of the GTs and P2G units, and the gas flow dynamics of the GDN, a variable-step difference scheme and a binary variable reduction method are devised. |
| US11909214B2 |
Topology of series-connected MMC with a small number of modules
The present disclosure relates to the field of electric power system, and more particularly to a topology of a series-connected MMC with a small number of modules, where the topology is composed of a three-phase bridge circuit, half-bridge valve strings, a three-phase filter inductor, and a three-phase grid frequency transformer. The topology of a series-connected MMC with a small number of modules in the present disclosure needs only two half-bridge valve strings, thus greatly reducing the number of the submodules as compared with the conventional MMC structure. When achieving the same high DC voltage output, the present disclosure can improve the power density of the MMC, realize stable three-phase AC output voltage, and further achieve balance of capacitor voltages in the two half-bridge valve strings. Compared to the conventional MMC topology, the topology in the present disclosure can reduce the number of submodules by nearly ⅔, and has a greater AC-DC voltage transfer ratio, thus reducing the cost of the MMC converter, reducing the device size, and improving the power density. |
| US11909204B2 |
Direct-current power distribution in a control system
A control system may include a direct-current (DC) power bus for charging (e.g., trickle charging) internal energy storage elements in control devices of the control system. For example, the control devices may be motorized window treatments configured to adjust a position of a covering material to control the amount of daylight entering a space. The system may include a DC power supply that may generate a DC voltage on the DC power bus. For example, the DC power bus may extend from the DC power supply around the perimeter of a floor of the building and may be connected to all of the motorized window treatments on the floor (e.g., in a daisy-chain configuration). Wiring the DC power bus in such a manner may dramatically reduce the installation labor and wiring costs of an installation, as well as decreasing the chance of a miswire. |
| US11909203B2 |
DC power distribution architecture and method applicable to data centers
Some embodiments provide a DC power distribution system that includes a plurality of DC sources coupled to a plurality of DC buses via respective protection devices that are configured to selectively cause an open-circuit between the DC source and the respective DC bus in the event of a fault or overload condition on the respective DC bus. The plurality of DC buses are coupled to a load combiner, and the system is configured to supply power in parallel from the DC sources via the plurality of DC buses to at least one DC/DC step-down converter via the load combiner, which combines the power supplied via the plurality of DC buses. The DC buses, load combiner, and the DC power sources are configured such that the total maximum load current is capable of being supplied via less than all of the plurality of DC buses in the event that any one of the DC buses is non-operational. |
| US11909196B2 |
Solid state circuit interrupter
A circuit interrupter including a current sensor having a normal sensor output and an over current detection output, a solid state switch module structured to have a closed state to allow current to flow through the circuit interrupter and an open state to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter, a gate driver structured to control the solid state switch module including a desaturation function output, wherein the gate driver is structured to cause the solid state switch module to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter when the DESAT function output changes to the on state, and an electronic trip circuit structured to output a trip signal to the gate driver when the normal sensor output reaches a first threshold level or the overcurrent detection output changes to the on state. |
| US11909194B2 |
Differential protection device and protection system for monitoring objects to be protected in a power supply network
A differential protection device monitors a first object to be protected in an electrical energy supply network. The differential protection device has a measuring unit configured to acquire measurement values at one end of the first object to be protected, a communication unit configured to exchange measurement values with a differential protection device arranged at another end of the first object to be protected, the communication unit has a physical interface for transmitting and receiving the measurement values, and an evaluation unit configured to form a differential value and to generate a fault signal indicating a fault with regard to the first object to be protected if the differential value exceeds a predefined threshold value. Ideally, the differential protection device is configured to monitor further objects to be protected and to exchange respective further measurement values with regard to each further object to be protected. |
| US11909191B1 |
Electrical junction apparatus with sliding sleeve containment
An electrical junction apparatus for accessing and sealing electrical connections comprising a housing, a removeable sleeve, and a fastener removably secured to a first portion of the housing that secures the outer sleeve to the housing. A method for accessing electrical connections in an electrical junction apparatus involves loosening a first and second fastener from a first and second portion of a housing respectively, removing a tightener from the first portion of the housing, and removing the sleeve from the housing. A method for sealing electrical connections involves installing a sleeve around a housing, positioning a tightener against the sleeve and the first portion of the housing, engaging a first fastener against the tightener and engaging a second fastener with the second portion of the housing and the sleeve. |
| US11909190B2 |
Low profile raceway
In various implementations, a raceway may include a housing with walls and arms extending from the housing. A cavity may be disposed in the housing and cables may reside in the cavity, during use. The cables may provide connectivity to receptacles of the raceway and thus a variety of devices. A cover may be utilized with the housing to facilitate access to the cables in the cavity of the housing. In some implementations, the cover may be retained by flexible arms of the housing. The raceway may be configured to receive wire clips to retain cables and/or conduit disposed in a cavity of the raceway. |
| US11909188B2 |
Cable sealing device and cable sealing system
The invention relates to a cable sealing device comprising: a first plate having a group of first holes and configured to be mounted to a first side of a housing wall; a second plate having a group of second holes and configured to be mounted to a second side of a housing wall; and a soft elastic sealing element configured to be mounted between one of the first and second plates and the housing wall. The group of first holes and the group of second holes and the sealing element are configured to receive a group of cables, and the first and the second plate can be biased toward each other, so that the sealing element can be pressed and elastically deformed. The sealing element can seal and fix the group of cables in the housing wall in a pressed and elastically deformed status. The invention also relates to a cable sealing system comprising a housing wall and the cable sealing device. The cable sealing device is simple in structure and easy to assemble, and can ensure good sealing and fixing of the cables. |
| US11909187B2 |
Aerial station power tether with unipolar current flow
A power tether for aerial devices such as balloons or drones operates with as few as a single conductor, providing a ground return by capacitive coupling between the aerial device and a ground plane at a base station. High-frequency, high-voltage power allows significant power transfer through the low capacitance between the aerial station and the ground minimizing the necessary current flow. |
| US11909183B2 |
Roller unit for laying cables in a plant for laying cables and plant for laying cables comprising the roller unit
Roller unit for laying cables (11, 12, 13) that comprises a frame (23, 23′) where at least one pair of sliders (25, 25′) are positioned aligned parallel to a laying direction (S1, S2) of the cables (11, 12, 13) and each provided with at least one pair of wheels (28, 28a, 28b) to support a cable (11, 12, 13) to be laid; the sliders (25, 25′) are hinged to the frame (23, 25′) and rotatable around respective axes of rotation (A, A′) in order to vary the inclination thereof with respect to the frame (23, 23′) and therefore to vary the radius of curvature (R, R1, R2, R3) of the supported cable (11, 12, 13); at least one of the sliders (25, 25′) comprises an oscillation limiting tooth (30, 30′) provided in at least one portion (32, 32′) of the slider (25, 25′) protruding from the frame (23, 23′) and configured to abut against a lateral wall (31, 31) of the frame (23, 23′) when the slider (25, 25′), rotating around the respective axis of rotation (A, A′), exceeds a certain inclination, so as to prevent an excessive reduction of the radius of curvature (R, R1, R2, R3) of the cable (11, 12, 13) supported by the slider (25, 25′). |
| US11909180B2 |
Gas insulated switchgear
A hermetic portion on the side of a main body portion of a gas insulated switchgear and a hermetic portion of a bushing tank which has polymer bushings connected to the main body portion are configured separately, and electrical connection between the main body portion side and the bushing tank is carried out in an open portion. A mid tank is provided in the rear of the main body portion in which a switching apparatus is housed, and conductor portions which are horizontally led out from the main body portion are led into the mid tank, bent upward, and connected to bushings on the top of the mid tank. Cables are extended downward from the bottom of the bushing tank disposed above the mid tank via a support panel, and in the open portion, the cables are connected to the bushings. |
| US11909176B2 |
Nanocrystal surface-emitting lasers
An all-epitaxial, electrically injected surface-emitting green laser operates in a range of about 520-560 nanometers (nm). At 523 nm, for example, the device exhibits a threshold current density of approximately 0.4 kilo-amperes per square centimeter (kA/cm2), which is over one order of magnitude lower than that of previously reported blue laser diodes. |
| US11909175B2 |
Horizontal cavity surface-emitting laser (HCSEL) monolithically integrated with a photodetector
An optoelectronic device includes an off-cut III-V semiconductor substrate, a set of epitaxial layers formed on the off-cut III-V semiconductor substrate, and a horizontal cavity surface-emitting laser (HCSEL) having a laser resonant cavity formed in the set of epitaxial layers. The same or another optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate; a laser, epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate and having a laser resonant cavity; a semiconductor device, epitaxially grown on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the laser by a single trench having a first vertical wall abutting the laser and a second vertical wall abutting the semiconductor device; and at least one coating on at least one of the first vertical wall or the second vertical wall. The laser resonant cavity of the laser has a horizontal portion parallel to the semiconductor substrate, and each of the first vertical wall and the second vertical wall is oriented perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11909174B2 |
Reflection filter device and wavelength-tunable laser device
A reflection filter device includes: a ring resonator filter including a ring-shaped waveguide and two arms, each of the two arms being optically coupled to the ring-shaped waveguide; and a dual-branch portion including a light input/output port and two branch ports, the light input/output port being configured to allow input and output of light, the two branch ports being configured to allow output of the light input from the light input/output port, the light being split into two, the two arms being connected to the two branch ports, respectively, at least one of the two arms being equipped with a phase adjuster. |
| US11909172B2 |
Method for manufacturing optical device and optical device
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing an optical device having a laser diode, which method is suitable for mass production, and an optical device having a laser diode which allows accurate property evaluations thereof with small measurement errors. Specifically, the method includes: an etching process of etching a semiconductor lamination unit to form a mesa structure having a resonator end face, thereby forming a laser diode; and a reflecting layer forming process of forming a light reflecting layer such that the light reflecting layer covers entire side surfaces of the mesa structure, wherein the semiconductor lamination unit has a substate, a n-type clad layer including a nitride semiconductor layer having n-type conductivity, a light-emitting layer including at least one quantum well, and a p-type clad layer including a nitride semiconductor layer having p-type conductivity, laminated in this order. |
| US11909170B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting device and optical subassembly
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a microstrip substrate with a single-ended transmission line on a top surface, wherein the single-ended transmission line extends from a first end portion to a second end portion, the microstrip substrate has a ground plane on a bottom surface, and the ground plane is opposed and bonded to the conductive pattern. The single-ended transmission line includes a first section and a second section, wherein the second section extends from the first section and includes the second end portion. The second section is lower in characteristic impedance than the first section. A load circuit that includes the wire, the optical modulator, and the termination resistor is electrically connected between the second end portion and the conductive pattern. The load circuit is equal to or lower in the characteristic impedance than the second section. |
| US11909163B1 |
Radio frequency laser
A radio frequency laser includes: a power box, a radio frequency cavity, an electrode, and a first metal blocking ring. A bottom plate of the power box is provided with a first installation hole and a first installation groove, and the first installation groove is arranged around the first installation hole. A top plate of the radio frequency cavity is provided with a second installation hole and a second installation groove, and the second installation groove is arranged around the second installation hole. When the power box is assembled with the radio frequency cavity, the second installation hole corresponds to the first installation hole, and the second installation groove corresponds to the first installation groove. |
| US11909161B2 |
Power cable end treatment device
A cable treatment device including: an affixing device for reversibly securing to a circumference of a power cable a kinematic device having attachment structure for attaching to the affixing member, the kinematic device adapted to provide kinematic motion relative to the attachment structure, the kinematic motion being fully controllable through a plurality of force input connections, and a tooling device attached to the kinematic device, the tooling device adapted to receive said kinematic motion, wherein the kinematic device allows the tooling to move cross-sectionally relative to the extension of a power cable secured by the affixing device. Thereby, a well-controlled and reproducible process is achieved, employing a portable device being user friendly, while simultaneously reducing technician exposure to toxic particulates. |
| US11909160B2 |
Crimping hand tool
A crimping hand tool, including a first clamp body and a second clamp body pivotally connected to each other, a driving member, a crimping assembly, and a cable stripping assembly, is provided. The driving member is movably disposed in the second clamp body, with one end pivotally connected to the first clamp body, and another end pivotally connected to the crimping assembly that is movably disposed in the second clamp body. The cable stripping assembly is movably disposed in the second clamp body and is pivotally connected to the crimping assembly. A pivotal axial direction of the first clamp body and the second clamp body, a pivotal axial direction of the driving member and the first clamp body, a pivotal axial direction of the crimping assembly and the driving member, and a connection axial direction of the cable stripping assembly and the crimping assembly are parallel to each other. |
| US11909156B2 |
Connection structure for connecting power cable and conductor lead-out rod, and connection device for connecting power cable and conductor lead-out rod
A connection structure for connecting a power cable and a conductor lead-out rod to minimize electrical resistance of a contact surface, and conductor connection device of a power cable may be provided with at least one conducting bolt configured to be fastened into a fastening hole to apply pressure to conductive particles injected into an accommodation space so as to electrically connect a conductor part and a conductor lead-out rod; and a fixing bolt configured to be fastened into the fastening hole to fix the conductor part inserted into an accommodation groove of the conductor lead-out rod. |
| US11909147B2 |
Cable connector assembly
A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts. |
| US11909139B2 |
Electrical connector
Housings have blade receiving portions for blade insertion formed in a peripheral wall by two side walls facing each other in the through-thickness direction of the blades and two end walls; the multiple connecting units include end connecting units located at the opposite ends in the through-thickness direction of the blades and intermediate connecting units located between the end connecting units; engagement grooves engaging with counterpart connect bodies formed in the intermediate connecting units between the side walls and the end walls of the housing to extend in the through-thickness direction of the blades and be open toward the counterpart connect bodies; and no grooves are formed in end connecting units to an extent equal to or greater than the depth of the engagement grooves of the intermediate connecting units between the end walls and the outer side walls located on the outside in the through-thickness direction of the blades. |
| US11909138B2 |
Terminal assembly including flat surface formed and aligned for achieving flat contact with mating tab
A terminal includes a male terminal and a female terminal to be connected to each other. The male terminal includes a tab having a circular cross-section. The female terminal includes a body portion having a connecting space S formed inside, the tab being arranged in the connecting space S. The body portion includes a resiliently deformable resilient contact piece and a pair of receiving portions. The resilient contact piece has a variable connection surface arranged toward a center SO of the connecting space S when viewed from a connecting direction. The pair of receiving portions are arranged on a side opposite to the resilient contact piece across the connection space S and have a pair of flat fixed connection surfaces inclined to spread toward the variable connection surface. An opening angle of the pair of fixed connection surfaces is constant in the connecting direction. |
| US11909137B2 |
Spring clip header for flat flexible cable
A connector for a flat flexible cable includes a housing defining a receptacle receiving the flat flexible cable, and an actuator movably mounted to the housing. A conductive terminal is positioned within the receptacle and includes a first portion arranged in contact with the actuator, and a surface mounting tab extending through the housing and having an end positioned on an exterior surface of the housing. The first portion of the terminal is biased between an open position and a clamping position by the actuator. |
| US11909133B2 |
Dielectrically loaded printed dipole antenna
A dielectrically loaded printed antenna element is described. The antenna element includes at least one conductive arm supported on a substrate. The conductive arm is dielectrically loaded with at least one high dielectric material that is configured to provide spatial coverage of the conductive arm. An antenna array structure is also described that includes at least a first dielectrically loaded antenna element for transmitting and a second dielectrically loaded antenna element for receiving. The transmitting antenna element is aligned orthogonal to the receiving antenna element to further reduce interference. |
| US11909132B2 |
PCB having edge antenna, and battery including PCB having edge antenna
A printed circuit board (PCB) adopting an edge antenna which designs an antenna pattern in an edge region of the PCB to generate a beam pattern generated from the antenna pattern not in a vertical direction to an antenna plane but in a lateral direction of the PCB, thereby enabling face-to-face communication between large-area battery packs laterally adjacent to each other, and a battery including battery packs having the PCB. |
| US11909125B2 |
Wireless networks with antenna array scaling capabilities
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may communicate with a wireless base station using a 5G New Radio (NR) communications protocol. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array. The electronic device may perform antenna scaling operations in which the active antennas in the phased antenna array change over time to optimize wireless performance and power consumption. The electronic device may inform the base station when antenna scaling operations have occurred. This may allow the base station to compensate for power density discontinuities associated with the antenna scaling operations. If desired, the base station may break transmit and receive signal beam correspondence and the electronic device may use different antenna scaling settings for transmitting and receiving signals. |
| US11909119B2 |
Circular polarization array antenna device
An antenna device is formed by arranging radiation elements each radiating a circularly polarized wave in a matrix of three rows and four columns. The radiation elements include three sets of radiation elements of four types having a positional relationship rotationally symmetric with each other. The radiation elements are arranged such that adjacent elements are of different types. |
| US11909118B2 |
Antenna
Provided is an antenna. The antenna includes a first metal electrode, a second metal electrode, and a dielectric functional layer. The first metal electrode and the second metal electrode are located on two opposite sides of the dielectric functional layer, respectively; and the first metal electrode includes a plurality of transmission electrodes. The antenna further includes a flexible coplanar waveguide and a feed network. The flexible coplanar waveguide is electrically connected to the feed network and configured to feed an electrical signal to the feed network. |
| US11909115B2 |
3-D focus-steering lens antenna
The present invention relates to a novel lens antenna with a 3D near-field focus-steering capability that operates at gigahertz and terahertz frequencies. The novel antenna includes a pair of discrete dielectric lenses fed by a stationary horn source. In-plane synchronous counter-rotation and co-rotation of the lens pair steers its near-field focus radially and azimuthally, respectively, while linear translation of the upper lens moves the focal point longitudinally. The steering focus beam enables fast imaging. In imaging applications, the radiated beam from the novel lens antenna focused in the target area can reduce undesired interference from neighboring structures and increase the system dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio. |
| US11909111B2 |
Small cell base station integrated with storefront sign
An assembly includes: a) a housing comprising a floor, a ceiling, a rear wall, a front wall, and opposed side walls that define a cavity, wherein the side walls include illuminable informational markings; an antenna; c) a radio residing in the cavity of the housing connected with the antenna; and d) a power source attached to the radio; wherein the power source is employed to illuminate the informational markings. |
| US11909108B2 |
Switch circuit, control method, control device, radio frequency switch and readable storage medium
A switch circuit includes an antenna port and at least one switch branch. Each branch includes a first, a second, and a third switches. The antenna port has one end connected with an antenna, and another end electrically connected with one end of the first switch of each branch respectively. The other end of the first switch of each branch is electrically connected with one end of the second switch corresponding to each branch and one end of the third switch corresponding to each branch respectively; the other end of each of the second switch corresponding to each branch is connected with a ground terminal; the other end of each of the third switch corresponding to each branch is electrically connected with one end of a load corresponding to each branch; and the other end of the load corresponding to each branch is connected with the ground terminal. |
| US11909107B2 |
Gradient permittivity film
A gradient permittivity film comprises (a) a first permittivity layer comprising a first continuous matrix of a first material having a first relative permittivity (εr1) and a second component having a second relative permittivity (εr2) dispersed in the first continuous matrix, the first permittivity layer having a first effective layer relative permittivity (ε1) and a thickness (T1); And (b) a second permittivity layer having a second effective layer relative permittivity (ε2) and a thickness (T2) disposed on the first permittivity layer. T1=0.8(t1) to 1.2(t1), where t 1 = c 4 f ε 1 ; T 2 = 0.8 ( t 2 ) to 1.2 ( t 2 ) , where t 2 = c 4 f ε 2 . |
| US11909105B2 |
Antenna for improving influence of surface waves and increasing beamwidth
An antenna for improving an influence of surface waves and increasing a beamwidth includes: a substrate, a first metal ground, a second metal ground, an emitting end and a receiving module. The first metal ground and the second metal ground are disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The second metal ground is completely separated from the first metal ground by a first gap. The emitting end is disposed on the first metal ground and includes a transmission line and a plurality of radiating elements. The receiving module is disposed on the second metal ground and includes a first receiving end and a second receiving end. The first receiving end includes a transmission line and a plurality of radiating elements. The second receiving end includes a transmission line and a plurality of radiating elements. |
| US11909103B2 |
Base station antennas having staggered linear arrays with improved phase center alignment between adjacent arrays
A base station antenna includes first and second arrays that include respective pluralities of first and second radiating elements arranged along the longitudinal direction of the base station antenna, the second array transversely adjacent the first array. A longitudinal position of each second radiating element is staggered from that of the corresponding first radiating element. The first array comprises first and second sub-arrays, each of which comprises one or a plurality of adjacent first radiating elements. A phase center of the combination of the first and second subarrays is basically aligned with a sub-phase center of the second array. |
| US11909100B2 |
Systems and methods for the analysis of user experience testing with AI acceleration
Systems and methods for AI assisted analysis of a user experience study are provided. A study objective (a goal of the study) and data relating to all possible navigation routes within a digital interface are received. Simulated clickstreams for navigating from any state of the digital interface to the study objective are generated. This simulated clickstream data is then used to train one or more machine learning models to determine a most efficient path to achieve the study objective from any state of the digital interface. Subsequently, study results from many different participants is received. Key events are then identified within the study results. Additionally, the likelihood of failure for each of the plurality of study results is predicted using the machine learning model, and information density of the plurality of study results is determined. |
| US11909098B2 |
Antenna structure and high-frequency wireless communications terminal
An antenna structure includes: a metal plate disposed with a first accommodating groove; an antenna unit including a radiation piece and a coupling piece; and a radio frequency module disposed on a first side of the metal plate and electrically connected to the radiation piece. At least one of the radiation piece and the coupling piece is disposed in the first accommodating groove. The radiation piece is insulated from the metal plate, the coupling piece is insulated from the metal plate, the radiation piece is disposed opposite to the coupling piece and insulated from the coupling piece. The radiation piece is located between the coupling piece and the radio frequency module. The radiation piece is configured to generate a resonance in a first preset band, and the coupling piece is configured to expand the bandwidth of the resonance in the first preset band. |
| US11909096B2 |
Mechanically adjustable antenna positioning system
An adjustable antenna positioning system feed is disclosed herein. The adjustable antenna positioning system feed includes a feed base, a splash plate assembly, and a feed insert. The feed base is configured to be coupled to a reflector. The splash plate assembly is configured to be removably coupled to the feed base. The adjustable antenna positioning system feed is in a primary arrangement when directly coupled. The feed insert is positioned between the feed base and the splash plate. The adjustable antenna positioning system feed is in a secondary arrangement when the feed insert is coupled with the feed base and the splash plate. |
| US11909088B2 |
Transmission line member including first and third transmission line portions connected by a second coplanar waveguide portion of reduced thickness and greater width
A transmission line member includes a base body extending along a transmission direction of a high-frequency signal, and a first transmission line, a second transmission line, and a third transmission line. The base body includes a first portion including the first transmission line, a second portion including the second transmission line, and a third portion including the third transmission line. The second portion is connected between the first and third portions. A thickness of the second portion is smaller than a thickness of the first and third portions. The second transmission line includes only a conductor pattern extending more in the transmission direction than in a direction of the thickness. |
| US11909087B2 |
Coaxial RF dual-polarized waveguide filter and method
Polarization-preserving microwave RF filters having multiple resonators that are each operable for different Q factors for setting overall bandwidth. A coaxial dual-polarized waveguide filter may include a cable having a hollow circular body with ends formed by copper plates that each includes at least one iris. The irises may control the energy transfer into and out of the cavity and therefore set the Q factor for the body. The shape of the internal diameter of the body and the irises may provide for reception and propagation of differently polarized signals. Multiple segments may be cascaded in series to effect higher order filtering. Also described are methods of transmitting signals using these filters. |
| US11909085B2 |
Air electrodes of solid oxide electrochemical cells
Disclosed are air electrode materials suitable for use in solid oxide electrochemical cells (SOCs). The disclosed cells can operate in a dual function modes, i.e., as a fuel cell and as an electrolysis cell. In both cases, chemical energy and electrical energy can be directly convert from one mode to the other; thereby providing a highly efficient energy conversion process that can be used as a sustainable energy source. |
| US11909083B2 |
Apparatus and method for forming a multilayer extrusion comprising component layers of an electrochemical cell
A co-extrusion die is configured to produce a multilayer extrusion comprising component layers of an electrochemical cell. The die comprises a plurality of inlet ports configured to receive a plurality of pressurized fluids comprising at least a first metallic ink, a second metallic ink, and a polymeric ink. A plurality of channels are configured to separately transport and shape the plurality of fluids from the plurality of inlet ports to a merge section, such that the plurality of fluids flow together in the merge section to form the multilayer extrusion comprising a polymeric membrane layer disposed between and in contact with a first metallic layer and a second metallic layer. A thickness of each layer within the merge section is controllable by adjustment of a pressure of the plurality of pressurized fluids. An outlet port is configured to output the multilayer extrusion onto a substrate. |
| US11909080B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method of fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a gas supply unit, an electric power storage device, a remaining capacity monitor, and a control unit. The control unit determines whether the temperature conditions are met, wherein the low temperature conditions include temperature related to a state of the fuel cell being equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value set, when the control unit determines that the low temperature conditions are met, the control unit executes the purging process so as to discharge more of moisture stored in the fuel cell to an outside of the fuel cell, as compared with when the control unit determines that the low temperature conditions are not met, and the control unit executes the charging process with target remaining capacity of the electric power storage device set to a smaller value, as compared with when the control unit determines that the low temperature conditions are not met. |
| US11909077B2 |
High energy density redox flow device
Redox flow devices are described including a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, and an ion-permeable membrane separating said positive and negative current collectors, positioned and arranged to define a positive electroactive zone and a negative electroactive zone; wherein at least one of said positive and negative electroactive zone comprises a flowable semi-solid composition comprising ion storage compound particles capable of taking up or releasing said ions during operation of the cell, and wherein the ion storage compound particles have a polydisperse size distribution in which the finest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume, is at least a factor of 5 smaller than the largest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume. |
| US11909072B2 |
Electrode assembly and battery
An electrode assembly, including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator. The electrode assembly is formed by winding the first electrode plate, the separator, and the second electrode plate. A first tab formed by a plurality of first tab units and a second tab formed by a plurality of second tab units are disposed on the first electrode plate, and a third tab formed by a plurality of third tab units is disposed on the second electrode plate. The electrode assembly is provided with a multi-tab structure to achieve purposes of enhancing a current-carrying capacity of the battery and reducing a temperature rise. |
| US11909070B2 |
Ceramic nanowire battery separators
This invention relates to novel battery separators comprising ceramic nanowires, more specifically, inorganic carbonate nanowires. The novel ceramic nanowire separators are suited for use in lithium batteries, such as lithium ion rechargeable, lithium metal rechargeable and lithium sulfur rechargeable batteries, and provide high safety, high power density, and long cycle life to the fabricated rechargeable batteries. The battery separators comprise ceramic nanowires that may be optionally bonded together by organic polymer binders and/or may further comprise organic nanofibers. |
| US11909069B2 |
Energy storage apparatus
An energy storage apparatus includes one or more energy storage devices and an outer housing that houses the one or more energy storage devices. The outer housing includes an opening that allows communication between an interior and an exterior of the outer housing. The opening is sealed by a first pressure adjuster and a second pressure adjuster arranged complementary to each other. The first pressure adjuster allows passage of gas and prohibits passage of liquid. The second pressure adjuster prohibits passage of the gas and the liquid, and releases an internal pressure in the interior of the outer housing when the internal pressure exceeds a predetermined pressure. |
| US11909064B2 |
Pressure control valve structure and power storage module
A pressure control valve structure includes a wall portion having a plurality of communication holes communicating with their associated internal spaces, a plurality of projections protruding outwardly from a wall surface of the wall portion so as to surround their associated communication holes, a plurality of elastic valve bodies closing their associated communication holes in contact with the projections, an outer peripheral wall portion protruding from the wall surface so as to surround the plurality of projections collectively, and a cover made of a resin and fixed to the outer peripheral wall portion, the cover compressing the elastic valve bodies towards their associated projections. The cover has a thick-walled portion where the cover is made partially thick in an outer surface of the cover. |
| US11909063B2 |
Battery adhesive structure and electronic device comprising same
An electronic device, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, may comprise: a housing including a seating groove therein; a battery seated in the seating groove, at least a partial area of which includes a curved surface; and an adhesive member disposed between the battery and the seating groove and formed along at least a portion of an edge of the battery. The adhesive member may be formed having varied predetermined thicknesses, corresponding to a position of the battery. |
| US11909062B2 |
Battery pack comprising battery pack frame capable of preventing welding defect and pressing jig for preparing the same
A battery pack is provided including a battery module having a plurality of battery cells or a unit module having the plurality of battery cells; a battery pack frame body including a base plate on which the battery module or the unit module is mounted, and a first side plate and a second side plate connected to the base plate and disposed to face each other; a top frame coupled to an upper portion of the battery pack frame body; and a first end plate and a second end plate electrically connected to electrode terminals of the battery module or the unit module, wherein at least one of the first end plate and the second end plate is configured to include slits. |
| US11909061B2 |
Modular approach for advanced battery modules having different electrical characteristics
Present embodiments include a series of lithium battery modules having a plurality of electrochemical cells having different electrical characteristics such as voltages and/or capacities. The battery modules are each constructed using components, architectures, production methods, among other things, in common with each other. The lithium ion battery modules may include a first battery module type having a first capacity and a first voltage, a second battery module type having a second capacity and a second voltage, and, in some embodiments, additional battery module types (e.g., a third battery module type having a third capacity and a third voltage) having different voltages and/or capacities. The lithium ion battery modules may all have the same footprint. |
| US11909060B2 |
Taping apparatus and method for secondary battery
A taping apparatus for a secondary battery, configured to adhere an adhesive member cut and provided as a single sheet to a secondary battery cell including an accommodating portion in which an electrode assembly is accommodated and a sealing portion folded in a direction of the accommodating portion and sealing an edge of the accommodating portion, includes a support unit supporting a portion of the adhesive member; and a roller unit continuously moving in at least one direction of the accommodating portion and the sealing portion and adhering the adhesive member supported by the support unit to the secondary battery cell. |
| US11909055B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes an electrode body that includes a positive and a negative electrode plate, a battery case that has an opening in which the electrode body is accommodated, a sealing body that seals the opening, an internal terminal that is disposed on an inner side of the sealing body and connected to the positive or the negative electrode plate, and an external terminal that is disposed on an outer side of the sealing body and connected to the internal terminal. The external terminal includes a rivet that is formed in such a manner as to extend through the sealing body, and the internal terminal includes a first portion made of a first metal and a second portion made of a second metal. The external terminal is made of the second metal, and the rivet of the external terminal is joined to the second portion of the internal terminal. |
| US11909054B2 |
Aluminum pouch film for secondary battery, and manufacturing method therefor
An aluminum pouch film for a secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the aluminum pouch film are disclosed. The aluminum pouch film includes an aluminum layer; an outer resin layer formed on a first surface of the aluminum layer; an inner resin layer formed on a second surface of the aluminum layer; and an adhesive layer for adhering the aluminum layer to the inner resin layer, wherein the outer resin layer includes a copolymer of polyamide and polyimide. |
| US11909048B2 |
Positive electrode slurry, positive electrode plate, and secondary battery including such positive electrode plate
The present disclosure provides a positive electrode slurry containing polyether polyol, where the polyether polyol has the following constitutional formula: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined in the specification. |
| US11909047B2 |
Oligomer of N,N′-di(hetero)aryl-5,10-dihydrophenazine, cathode active material, cathode, battery thereof, and process for preparing same
The present invention relates to an oligomer-based organic battery materials, cathode active material, cathode and secondary battery comprising such material, and a process for preparing such materials. |
| US11909045B2 |
Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery and preparation method thereof
Exemplary embodiments of positive electrode active materials in the form of single particles, and a method of preparing each of them, are provided. The single particles of the exemplary embodiments include single particles of a nickel-based lithium composite metal oxide, having a plurality of crystal grains, each having a size of 180 nm to 300 nm, as analyzed by a Cu Kα X-ray (X-rα). The single particles include a metal doped in the crystal lattice thereof. One embodiment includes a surface coating. The total content of the metal doped in the crystal lattice thereof and the metal of the metal oxide coated on the surface thereof is controlled in the range of 2500 ppm to 6000 ppm. |
| US11909042B2 |
Positive electrode enabling fast charging
A rechargeable lithium-ion battery includes a positive electrode enabling fast charging. A negative electrode has a first active material including Li4Ti5O12. A positive electrode includes a second active material including LiCoO2. The positive electrode further includes a carbon conductive agent and a binder. A weight ratio of the carbon conductive agent to the binder is in a range of about 2:3 to about 3:2. |
| US11909037B2 |
Positive electrode and lithium battery including the same
A positive electrode includes a composite material including a positive active material and a coating layer on a surface of the positive active material, wherein the coating layer includes a copolymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1 below and a second repeating unit represented by Formula 2 below: wherein Ar1, R1 to R6, A, A1, Y−, m, and n are the same as defined in the specification. |
| US11909036B2 |
Silicon/carbon composite material with highly compact structure, method for preparing same, and use thereof
The present invention relates to the field of anode materials of lithium batteries, and in particular, relates to a silicon/carbon composite material with a highly compact structure. The silicon/carbon composite material with the highly compact structure includes silicon particles and a carbon coating layer, and further includes a highly compact carbon matrix, wherein the silicon particles are distributed inside the highly compact carbon matrix evenly and dispersively and forms an inner core; and the silicon/carbon composite with the highly compact structure is compact inside without voids or has few closed voids inside. The present invention provides the silicon/carbon composite material with the highly compact structure with a reduced volumetric expansion effect and an improved cycle performance, a method for preparing the same, and a use thereof. |
| US11909031B2 |
Film electrode, resin layer forming ink, inorganic layer forming ink, and electrode printing apparatus
A disclosed film electrode includes an electrode base, and an active material layer formed on the electrode base, and a resin layer adhering to at least one of a peripheral portion of the active material layer and a surface of the active material layer in a direction extending along a plane of the electrode base. |
| US11909020B2 |
Battery packs with reduced weight and improved thermal performance
A support structure for a battery pack and a battery pack including the support structure and battery cells, the support structure including a base plate; a thermal plate positioned between the battery cell and the base plate; a thermally conductive material between the battery cell and the thermal plate; and a compressible support between the thermal plate and the base plate. |
| US11909018B2 |
Battery pack
The present disclosure provides a battery pack, comprising: battery cells; a coolant tank for storing a coolant; a cooling circuit in communication with the coolant tank; a driving device for driving the coolant to flow; and a fire extinguishing pipeline connected to the cooling circuit; wherein, the fire extinguishing pipeline includes: a spraying pipe extending above the battery cells and forming an opening after being heated. |
| US11909016B2 |
Recycling process for isolating and recovering rare earth metals and nickel hydroxide from nickel metal hydride batteries
A hydrometallurgical process is described that can isolate and recover NIMH battery constituents in high-value form: the nickel and cobalt hydroxides (cathode) as nickel and cobalt hydroxides; elemental nickel and cobalt (metallic anode) as nickel and cobalt hydroxides; rare earth metals (metallic anode) as oxides of rare earth metals, conductive carbon (electrodes) as conductive carbon, and the magnetic nickel-plated steel grids (electrodes) and battery cases in a relatively clean and directly smeltable form. The isolation portion of the process isolates the rare earth metals in oxide form from the nickel hydroxide and the cobalt hydroxide. If present, titanium, aluminum, and yttrium are isolated as oxides with the rare earth metal oxides. |
| US11909015B2 |
Battery status indication method, battery status indication apparatus, and mobile device
A battery status indication method, A battery status indication apparatus, and a mobile device are provided. The battery status indication method includes: obtaining a power level and a heat state of a battery, the heat state including an unheated state and a heating state; determining a display mode of indicator lights according to the power level and the heat state of the battery; and controlling the indicator lights to display according to the display mode to indicate the power level and the heat state of the battery. |
| US11909014B2 |
High voltage battery rack
The present invention provides a high voltage battery rack, including: a plurality of battery modules electrically connected with each other; and a rack controller configured to control the plurality of battery modules, wherein each of the plurality of battery modules comprises: external terminals; and an MSD module configured to determine whether a voltage is applied to the external terminals during operation. |
| US11909011B2 |
Vehicular battery charger, charging system, and method displaying charge information
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors. |
| US11909010B2 |
Vehicular battery charger, charging system, and method with in-vehicle display of charge time
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors. |